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- 001 - How do I do revision marking (redlining) in OpenOffice.org?
- 002 - How do I make my first page a cover/title page and start page numbering (Page 1) on the second page of my document?
- 003 - How do I make a header appear on only the first page of my document?
- 004 - How do I make a logo appear on the top of every page of my document?
- 005 - How do you turn off the automatic word completion behavior?
- 006 - How do I create a simple outline-style numbered list?
- 007 - How do I join two adjacent tables?
- 008 - How do I create a hanging indent in my document?
- 009 - How do I perform a word count of my document?
- 010 - How do I insert 'dummy text' into my document?
- 011 - How do I create labels in OpenOffice.org?
- 012 - How do I insert a Landscape page into my (portrait) document?
- 013 - I have a blank page in my word processing document. All of my content seems to fit on the previous page. How do I get rid of this extra page?
- 014 - How do I make a table heading row repeat on each page of my word processing document that the table appears on?
- 015 - How do I perform a spellcheck in a multilingual text?
- 016 - How do I remove a large number of hard returns from text that were pasted into my document (for example, from an email message)?
- 017 - How do I protect (lock) a section of text so that the content cannot be changed?
- 018 - I have some text that I want to appear with the first character of each word in uppercase and the rest of the word in lowercase (initial uppercase). How do I do this automatically?
- 019 - In my document, how do I repeat more than one table row when the table breaks across pages?
- 020 - How do I insert a Table of Contents (TOC) into my document?
- 021 - How do I update my Table of Contents (TOC)? I've added more data and it does not reflect my new headings.
- 022 - How do I insert a variable for the current date into the footer of my document?
- 023 - Trying to use the version control features for my word processing document, but some of the menu choices I've seen before do not appear. What's wrong?
- 024 - If I click in the middle of a table cell or in an empty paragraph, OpenOffice.org insert tabs in front of the cursor position. How do I stop this?
- 025 - These automatisms suck!!
- 026 - How to easily come back to the default character format while typing when I just wanted to format one word?
- 027 - How to format a piece of text (not a whole page) in columns?
- 028 - How to correct the text of an hyperlink? (if I click on the text the target document loads)
- 029 - How to move paragraphs with the keyboard?
- 030 - How to select multiple parts of the text?
- 031 - A series of '#' characters on a line by themselves has generated a bold black double line. How can I remove this line?
- 032 - URLs (Uniform Reference Locators) appear underlined and in a different color from the rest of my text. How do I reverse this setting?
- 033 - OpenOffice.org is changing my decimals into fractions. How do I reverse this setting?
- 034 - When lower case text is typed, OpenOffice.org changes the first letter to uppercase. How do reverse this setting?
- 035 - When using asterisks [ asterisk = * ], OpenOffice.org removes the asterisks [ * ] and presents the text in bold. How do reverse this setting?
- 036 - How do I insert a page number of the form 'Page 1 of N'?
- 037 - How do I insert a special character?
- 038 - How do I insert a trademark symbol?
- 039 - How do I remove an envelope from a document?
- 040 - How do I change the default settings of a writer doc for good?
- 041 - How to delete a table?
- 042 - I want to insert special characters with keyboard shortcuts. How do I do this?
- 043 - How can I rotate a graphic with a given angle?
- 044 - How can change the page number of the first page of my document to something other than "1"?
- 045 - 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?
- 046 - Is there something like a Format Painter feature that copies the formats of one part of the text to other parts?
- 047 - How can I place a time/date variable (or field) that updates automatically into a document?
- 048 - How to print an envelope in OpenOffice.org?
- 049 - How do I make page numbers alternate oneven pages and odd pages.
- 050 - How to re-enable update of template style in OpenOffice.org 2.0.2?
- 051 - How to open Works .wps file in OpenOffice.org 2.x?
- 052 - What is the equivalent of MSO outline mode in OpenOffice.org?
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