[Puritan]

I posted these questions in other forums with little success, but I figured Linux users would use these programs more and therefore maybe be more like to know the answers?



OpenOffice (original thread): Just some 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...



Mozilla (original thread): Traditionally in my IE settings, I allowed session cookies, but my default setting was to disable permanent cookies for all sites. I had a handful of sites, however, which I wanted to enable cookies for. Now I'm trying to replicate that setup in Mozilla, but (and I apologize if this is a newbie question) I can't seem to do it. I can disable all cookies, or enable cookies that get sent back to their originating server, but I can't disable all cookies and then enter in my select list of sites. The Cookie Manager has no feature to enter in a list of trusted sites the way IE does, and the Cookie Manager block this site/unblock this site always has "unblock" disabled. I figure from that the unblock setting only unblocks a site that you had previously blocked specifically, but you can't use it to "unblock" a site in my model, where the default is to block all cookies except for certain sites. If Cookie Manager would just let me type in my sites, this would be easier. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advance.

[lynch]

This how I do it on Mozilla 0.9.4:
Go to edit>preferences>privacy and security>cookies>click "View Stored Cookies"
Check the"Dont allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later"box.Do this when you remove cookies you never want.
Check out the tab"Cookie Sites" to see sites that can and cannot drop
cookies.
If that doesnt work,I'll try it on Mozilla 1.0 later.
HTH
lynch

[Puritan]

I suppose I could do that, but that solution is a little gauche... I want to block all cookies except for cookies from some ten "trusted" sites or so, so I'd end up having to manually block cookies from every site I go to except those ten; I'd end up with a blocked list a mile long, and every time I go to a new site, I'd have to reblock. (Plus, would I be allowed to accept session cookies with that model, or wouldn't they be blocked as well?) Thanks for your suggestion, but if you know a solution that more closely mirrors IE's privacy tab, I'd appreciate it.

[evilmrhenry]

OpenOffice:

To change the view to resemble Word's normal, try View->Online Layout. To get rid of the gray border around the text, use View->Text boundries.

I could find nothing about the recently used file list, so you may be stuck with it.

[Puritan]

Originally posted by evilmrhenry:
OpenOffice:

To change the view to resemble Word's normal, try View->Online Layout. To get rid of the gray border around the text, use View->Text boundries.

I could find nothing about the recently used file list, so you may be stuck with it.

I got rid of the text boundaries, but Online Layout doesn't really solve the problem. I thought OL worked at first too, but upon closer examination, it makes your document appear as it would as a web page, blowing things like page margins and stuff that would appear on a printed page. (My documents' type-space went from 6 inches to over 10 when I switched to OL.)

[evilmrhenry]

Well, if Online Layout messes documents up, it appears that OpenOffice lacks the two features you want.