[Puritan]

Hi, I'm trying out OpenOffice for the first time, and I had a few newbie questions...

How do you get the view to get rid of those gray page boundaries and margins and all that stuff (in other words, to get to a view analogous to MS Word's "Normal", not "Page Layout", which a lot of people use for their Word docs but I can't stand myself...)

How do you disable the recently used file list from showing up in the File Menu? I don't see an option for that anywhere, but there are a number of entries under Options, so I might have missed it...

Thanks.

[rkselby98]

To change the view, at the bottom left end of the scroll bar are 4 little buttons, click on them. On is print preview, one is normal one is web and one is outline.

For the other problem you can change your settings by clicking on Tools at the top, Options and then in the next window that opens you will see all kinds of options.

Make your changes to MRU list there. IT will be on the General Tab.

[Puritan]

Hi, maybe I'm not seeing it, but I don't see four buttons at the lower-left corner or any settings about the MRU list in the Tools/Options/General tab (just interpret year, help agent, open/save dialogs, and document status). Would those buttons and stuff be there under a fresh install with default options, or do you have to change some settings to get them to appear?

[rkselby98]

Okay go to my site, I have a picture there on this page that will show you these button and also if you look over this site it will tell you a lot about how to use word. It is about word 97, 2000 but most of XP is the same including these buttons.


http://www.rselby.com/Word.html#im

Hope this helps you, if not post back and we will continute to work on this.

[Puritan]

Originally posted by rkselby98:
Okay go to my site, I have a picture there on this page that will show you these button and also if you look over this site it will tell you a lot about how to use word. It is about word 97, 2000 but most of XP is the same including these buttons.


http://www.rselby.com/Word.html#im

Hope this helps you, if not post back and we will continute to work on this.

Oh wait, are you talking about MS Word? I was talking about the free OpenOffice suite, previously StarOffice. The reason I ask about OpenOffice is I use MS Word currently and am quite used to it, but I was thinking about dual-booting my computer and running Linux, where there is no MS Office. I'd use OpenOffice there, so I'm just playing around with it for now on my MS partition to get its settings the way I like my MS Word settings, but not getting them perfect yet. Thanks anyway. Do you know how to get these settings working in OpenOffice, by any chance?

[rkselby98]

Oh, sorry about that, never heard of that program. I am so used to people on this forum asking about word or works or word perfect and just never gave a thougth about another program.

I am sorry but you probably know more about that one than I do.