- How do I open a tab-delimited file in OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet? What if I have a different type of delimiter?
- My formula from an Excel worksheet doesn’t work!
- Is it possible to open a Microsoft Excel file that is protected by a password in Calc?
- How do I insert external data into an existing Calc spreadsheet file?
- Why does Calc refuse to open my .txt file?
- How do I output my spreadsheet data as an ASCII, delimited text file?
- A large Calc spreadsheet was converted from another application. Some of my rows are missing! What happened?
Category Archives: Open Office Suite
OpenOffice Calc FAQ – Printing Spreadsheets
- How do I print my spreadsheets?
- How do I get Sheet1 to print as portrait and Sheet2 to print as landscape?
- Why does Calc print out all the sheets in the file?
- How I do select a row (or rows) in my spreadsheet to repeat on every page when printed?
- How can I print some, but not all, of the cells on a sheet?
OpenOffice Calc FAQ – Charts
- How do I compute or plot trend lines?
- How do I extend the range of data shown in my chart after I add new data to my spreadsheet?
- How do I create a chart in a spreadsheet that is automatically updated when the data is changed?
OpenOffice Calc FAQ – Error handling
- Why do I see the formula text and not the result of the formula?
- Why does deleting filtered rows remove other rows too?
- I see three hash signs in a cell that formerly held data. How can I see my data again?
OpenOffice Writer FAQ – Formatting Text
- My spell-checker does not seem to work?
- How do I change the default font?
- How do I create a hanging indent in my document?
- I want to insert special characters with keyboard shortcuts. How do I do this?
- How do I insert a trademark symbol?
- How do I create a simple outline-style numbered list?
- How do I remove a large number of hard returns from text that were pasted into my document?
- I change the font color, but it still looks black. Why?
- How do I insert a special character?
- The space between the letters in a word seems just a bit too wide. It would look better if that space is being reduced. How can I achieve this?
- How do I protect (lock) a section of text so that the content cannot be changed?
- How do I insert a ‘Euro’ character?
- How to select multiple parts of the text?
- How do I insert an unbreakable space?
- Is there something like a Format Painter feature that copies the formats of one part of the text to other parts?
- How do I setup the spell-checker to be the correct default for my language?
- How do I insert a line break or soft return in a cell?
OpenOffice Writer FAQ – Formatting Pages and Documents
- How do I perform a word count of my document?
- How do I make my first page a cover or title page and start page numbering (Page 1) on the second page of my document?
- How do I change the page layout from Portrait to Landscape for an entire document?
- How do I make a header appear on only the first page of my document?
- How do I insert a Landscape page into my (portrait) document?
- I have a blank page in my word processing document. How do I get rid of this extra page?
- How can I change the default Page Style margins, so that when I start a new document the margins will be 1 inch?
- How to delete a table?
- How do I make a table heading row repeat on each page of my word processing document that the table appears on?
- How do I get my page count to not count my title page? (How do I offset the page count?)
- How can I change the page number of the first page of my document to something other than ‘1’?
- How do I add my own templates?
- How do I do revision marking (redlining) in OpenOffice.org?
- How do I make page numbers alternate?
- How do I insert a variable for the current date into the footer of my document?
- How do I change the default page size?
- What is the best way to format my documents?
- What is the equivalent of MSO outline mode in OpenOffice.org?
- What is a Master Document?
- How do I insert a page number of the form ‘Page 1 of N’?
- How do I join two adjacent tables?
- How do I get a word count for a selected part of the text within a document?
OpenOffice Writer FAQ – Graphics, Frames and Objects
- How do I crop a graphic
- How do I get my scanner working under OpenOfficeorg
- How can I rotate a graphic with a given angle
- How do I change the colors in an image before I use it in an Openofficeorg file
- How do I insert a screenshot or other image into my OpenOffice.org file
- How do I size a graphic proportionally
OpenOffice Writer FAQ – Indexes, Tables of Contents
- How do I insert a Table of Contents into my document
- How do I make my Table of Contents be hyperlinks to the relevant part of the document
- How do I update my table of contents
- How to omit a heading style from a table of contents
OpenOffice Writer FAQ – Printing
- How do I create labels in OpenOffice.org
- How to print an envelope with OpenOffice.org
- How do I setup mail merge
- How do I hide a blank address line when doing a mail merge
- How do I remove an envelope from a document
- Why does my document get marked as modified when I print it Continue reading
Open Office Writer FAQ – Document Management
- How can I open Microsoft Works wordprocessor files (.wps)?
- Can I edit PDF files?
- How to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents?
- How do I convert multiple OpenOffice.org documents to PDF?
- Export
- Can I publish my Writer text as a Blog?
- How can I do a batch conversion of my MSOffice files into OpenOffice.org file formats?
- Can multiple users edit a file concurrently?
- Files created in other applications do not always display in OOo exactly as they did when they were created. What can be done about it?
- Why does OpenOffice not support the file format my application uses?