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Help with Open Office: changing fonts after typing.

Help with Open Office: changing fonts after typing.

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Does anyone know in OO if you can type a page in one font and change your mind about the font later and change the whole page to a new font? I don't want to type a whole page over just to change the font if there is a way to change it after the fact! Thanks.

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Never mind, I fingered it out🙂 You have to highlight the paragraph or whatever and then change the font. That was getting frigging annoying retyping stuff just to change the font!

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Never mind, I fingered it out🙂 You have to highlight the paragraph or whatever and then change the font. That was getting frigging annoying retyping stuff just to change the font!
Glad we could help!

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ack!!!
i don't know how to read chinese!!!

reformat!!!


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Originally posted by pawnhandler
Glad we could help!
Man, you were a lifesaver🙂

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Man, you were a lifesaver🙂
I live to serve! 😀

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Does anyone know in OO if you can type a page in one font and change your mind about the font later and change the whole page to a new font? I don't want to type a whole page over just to change the font if there is a way to change it after the fact! Thanks.
If you're not sure what to do in Open Office, then reformatting the hard drive is a sure way to correct the problem.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Never mind, I fingered it out
Open Office sure is a weird application.

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It does everything MS Office does, just not in the same way. There is a period of adjustment, but once you get used to it, it's a pretty good program. Trouble is most of us were spoon fed MS Office our whole typing lives, so it's a hard thing to break.

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Originally posted by Starrman
It does everything MS Office does, just not in the same way. There is a period of adjustment, but once you get used to it, it's a pretty good program. Trouble is most of us were spoon fed MS Office our whole typing lives, so it's a hard thing to break.
Yeah I agree, I have OO too. It basically does everything MSO does and is not that different - some settings are on different places but the rest is just the same. Once you get used to it you want nothing else... definitely worth not spending money on MSO.

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Originally posted by orion25
Once you get used to it you want nothing else... definitely worth not spending money on MSO.
Absolutely, except when you start using the VBA - then there is nothing like MSOffice. I just have Home and Student installed and it is more than affordable - R700 here, about $90 or EUR60.

I'm actually using Google Docs alot at the moment, OpenOffice for the database when I need it, and Office H&S for actual work.
OO is fine for normal run of the mill stuff, but almost every document I use has VBA embedded, so OO falls flat on its face.

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Originally posted by Crowley
Absolutely, except when you start using the VBA - then there is nothing like MSOffice. I just have Home and Student installed and it is more than affordable - R700 here, about $90 or EUR60.

I'm actually using Google Docs alot at the moment, OpenOffice for the database when I need it, and Office H&S for actual work.
OO is fine for normal run of the mill stuff, but almost every document I use has VBA embedded, so OO falls flat on its face.
Here is a tutorial for VBA:
http://www.vbtutor.net/VBA/vba_tutorial.html

Can you show me some specific examples where VBA is needed and that function cannot be done in OO?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Can you show me some specific examples where VBA is needed and that function cannot be done in OO?
No. I don't know what is supported in the newest version. I think I checked out OO 2.3 and even their macros were buggy at best.