Struggling with Open Office Draw
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From: JV on 15 Jun 2010 00:45 Has anyone noticed something wierd about this program? If there are nine easy ways and one hard way of doing something, they will find the hard way. As an example, you have a rectangle and you want to rotate it 90 degrees. One might think that a right click with the mouse on the rectangle would bring up a small menu and you could select the 90 degrees left or right. No such luck. It seems like this program took a lot of effort to put together but the intelligence that went into the assembly was ggggaaarrrbbbaaagggeee. Does anyone have an intelligent guide to the program? TIA PS I have their "Getting started with Draw" and it's equally poor.
From: rich on 15 Jun 2010 03:35 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:45:23 -0700, JV wrote: > Has anyone noticed something wierd about this program? > > If there are nine easy ways and one hard way of doing something, they > will find the hard way. As an example, you have a rectangle and you want > to rotate it 90 degrees. One might > think that a right click with the mouse on the rectangle would bring up > a small menu and you could select the 90 degrees left or right. No such > luck. Not defending it, but the alternative is a full blown vector graphics application which will be 10 times more difficult. Anyway it is right-click -> 'position and size' -> rotation -- rich
From: Craig on 15 Jun 2010 08:19 On 06/15/2010 12:17 AM, VanguardLH wrote: > I did a very quick scan of their site looking for forums. Guess whoever > set up their "community" decided to go extremely archaic and use a > mailing list instead of operating a forum or newsgroup server. Yet they > do list an "unofficial" forum athttp://www.oooforum.org/ Just an fyi; The "official" forum is here: > User community support forum for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and NeoOffice > Address : <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/> hth, -- -Craig
From: Caesar Romano on 15 Jun 2010 09:11 On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:19:01 -0700, Craig <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote Re Re: Struggling with Open Office Draw: >On 06/15/2010 12:17 AM, VanguardLH wrote: >> I did a very quick scan of their site looking for forums. Guess whoever >> set up their "community" decided to go extremely archaic and use a >> mailing list instead of operating a forum or newsgroup server. Yet they >> do list an "unofficial" forum athttp://www.oooforum.org/ > >Just an fyi; > >The "official" forum is here: > >> User community support forum for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and NeoOffice >> Address : <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/> > >hth, There is also an email list server: Welcome to users(a)openoffice.org Please save this message so that you know the address you are subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or change your subscription address. --- Administrative commands for the users list --- I can handle administrative requests automatically. Please do not send them to the list address! Instead, send your message to the correct command address: To subscribe to the list, send a message to: <users-subscribe(a)openoffice.org> To remove your address from the list, send a message to: <users-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org> -- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
From: JV on 15 Jun 2010 14:24
Thank you, thank you --- VanguardLH, Craig, Caesar and Rich. You have given me enough info to get a good start. Have a great week :-) |