Missing commands and weird behavior under Hoary Openoffice

[Ari Torhamo]

ma, 2005-01-24 kello 00:34 -0600, Kent Frazier kirjoitti:

> OK, don't you hate when you try and try to get something to work, then
> finally give up and ask for help, and then realize you were making a
> stupid mistake to begin with?
> 
> Well I am a moron, cause the reason the insert menu was different and
> the layout was screwed up was because I had opened the Writer/Web
> component and not the Word Processor component.  Furthermore, I had
> closed and opened the program multiple times, and I never realized I
> was doing this.  For some reason I could have sworn that Word
> Processor was the bottommost entry in the menu, but I was wrong.
> 
> Sorry for wasting your time and bandwidth.
> 
> Contritely,
> Kent


Yes, I hate it too :-) I did exactly the same mistake as you and also
asked for help on this list (the thread: A bug in OpenOffice? Not able
to set tab stops :) ...well, it wasnt much of a thread, I got only one
reply - people propably just thought that this can't be true. And it
wasn't, because I was using the Writer/Web component. I started it over
and over again, went through the menus countless times and klicked on
every pixel on the screen with the first and second mouse button to be
able to set tab stops (which I had succesfully done before :) It took a
few days for me to see my mistake and I never announced it on the list -
I thought that everybody forgot already anyway (or I'm a coward :)

BTW, I too could have sworn that the Writer used to be the bottommost
entry in the menu - maybe they changed it? The OpenOffice components in
the menu seem to be in alphabetical order now, but maybe they used to be
arranged differently. Well, funny anyway :-)

Regards,
Ari