Category Archives: OO Writer

AltSearch for OpenOffice Writer

Posted on September 29, 2010 by admin

In using OpenOffice Writer for preliminary work on manuscripts I often need to replace large amounts of formatting, mainly eliminating areas in which writers have used character formatting and replacing them with consistent use of styles.  The native search/replace is … Continue reading →

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Change Endnotes to Footnotes in OO Writer

Posted on August 19, 2010 by admin

It’s easy to change the position of footnotes and treat them as endnotes using the dialog at Tools->Footnotes/Endnotes, but if they are endnotes, it’s a bit more difficult.  There are a couple of options given on the OpenOffice forum.  I … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice Writer Hyperlinked TOC

Posted on March 31, 2010 by admin

There’s a good article on this at OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas.  It’s probably just my style, but I find the entry editor harder to use than creating macros, so I like to find these good point by point directions.

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Illustrated Call-Outs in OpenOffice

Posted on January 29, 2009 by admin

Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.

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Updating my HTML Export

Posted on November 10, 2007 by admin

In a previous post I provided code for a simple macro I wrote to export text from an Office Writer document that was suitable to paste in the non-visual WordPress editor. The reason I wrote this was to produce the … Continue reading →

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Exporting Partial HTML for WordPress Posts

Posted on July 2, 2007 by admin

I’m a bit eccentric and don’t use the visual editor with WordPress on this blog and several others that I maintain. For a number of posts I write my basic material in OpenOffice Writer and then post it. Up to … Continue reading →

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In which I confess to stupidity

Posted on June 11, 2007 by admin

In my previous post on sorting a scripture index, I used a rather lousy way of telling where the index was in the document. This came back to bite me today when I changed the number of references to a … Continue reading →

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Listing Tables and Indexes

Posted on May 1, 2007 by admin

Here’s a piece of code I adapted from the “Programming Guide to BASIC.” It didn’t actually prove to get me anywhere I wanted to go, but it might help in some other effort. This one simply iterates all indexes and … Continue reading →

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Sorting a Scriptural Index – Take I

Posted on May 1, 2007 by admin

Update: Please see my next try at this. If you mess up the count of instances of “scripture index” in the rather unhandy way I found the scripture index you could get some nasty results. The new one fixes that. … Continue reading →

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New Version Booklet Template for OO Writer

Posted on April 23, 2007 by admin

I’ve uploaded a new version of the 6×9 booklet template (previously here) set up for table of contents, index, and various headers and footers. I’ve used more variables to reduce the amount of user input. You should plan to edit … Continue reading →

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