Open Office - can't enter text into Writer, can't see help

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:29:47AM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:56:09PM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >   
> >> Chris G wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:54:46AM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Chris G wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:28:04AM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> Chris G wrote:
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>>>> I'm trying to enter text into a new document! :-)
> >>>>>>>               
> >>>>>> Okay, if I understand where you are, click Text Document (should be
> >>>>>> top), then click Open.  Screenshot at
> >>>>>> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~mflaschen3/Screenshots/OpenOffice%202.4%20Templates%20and%20Documents.png
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> Ah! There's the problem then, Open is greyed out so I *can't* open a document.
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Can you send a screenshot?  Are you sure you have selected Text Document
> >>>> on the left?
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> See http://www.isbd.net/images/oo2.png
> >>>       
> >> Okay, your install is seriously messed up (but not because you use
> >> KDE...).  To start with, close OOo, then run:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall
> >> openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org
> >>
> >>     
> > That's fixed it, thank you!  I wonder how it got so messed up and, for
> > that matter, what messed it up.
> >
> >   
>     This IS amazing. I have never heard of OO being disabled by loading 
> something else.
> 
>     I made a html file from what I put in a normal OO Writer page. And I 
> put a picture and a lot of words on the Writer page. Then I did the 
> conversion which is easy, and the html page looks fine on Firefox. I see 
> no reason your boxes can't be put on the Writer page like this:
> 
Yes, my first quick play with tables built using OpenOffice and saved
as HTML seems to work well and it's easy to do row and column spans etc.

-- 
Chris Green