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

[Karl F. Larsen]

Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:29:47AM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Chris G wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:56:09PM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>>> Chris G wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:54:46AM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>>>>> Chris G wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:28:04AM -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Chris G wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to enter text into a new document! :-)
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>>>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>>> Ah! There's the problem then, Open is greyed out so I *can't* open a document.
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>>>>>> Can you send a screenshot?  Are you sure you have selected Text Document
>>>>>> on the left?
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>>>>> See http://www.isbd.net/images/oo2.png
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>>>> Okay, your install is seriously messed up (but not because you use
>>>> KDE...).  To start with, close OOo, then run:
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>>>> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall
>>>> openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org
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>>> That's fixed it, thank you!  I wonder how it got so messed up and, for
>>> that matter, what messed it up.
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>>     This IS amazing. I have never heard of OO being disabled by loading 
>> something else.
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>>     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:
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> 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.
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>   
Great! I was sure it could be just what you were looking for. Have fun.


Karl


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