On <a href=" http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-120187-02-1, " target="_blank"> http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21 -120187-02-1,</a> advise is toPatch Installation Instructions: --1) Exit all StarOffice applications.2) Execute the ...

I've downloaded 120187-02.zip and run so-8-pp2-bin-windows.exe. Everything seemed to go okay, but--looking at the dates on the files--I can't see any evidence that my installation of StarOffice 8 has been updated. When I repeat the procedure, after okaying the legal statement, I get a ...

Hi,I'm trying to setup WinME (no choice) to print cyrillic letters.We're using the german ME version with multilingual support.Changing the keyboard to RU produces cyrillic characters onscreen - but fat black dots in print.Since a simple test using Wordpad worked well I assume, it'san OOo/SO ...

How do I delete the MRU files within StarOffice 6.0? Is there a way to configure the program so that a file's location and file is not displayed under the "Files" menu?

Does StarOffice support POSTNET bar codes on envelopes? I've been unable to find out how to do this. If it doesn't it would be nice if this feature was included as soon as possible.

Hi,I have a problem formation my footnotes with StarWriter 7 (also 6).Formating footnotes has the <b>Before</b> and <b>After</b> option. That works fine, I齦l see the text I need, [ ], in front and behind.But I need this format also within the document. Anyone ...

With more documents sent as attachments to e-mail, one wants to digital sign the documents. Does anybody know of a program that integrate into SO, that makes it possible to digital sign SO-documents?e-lockś ProSigner integrates into MS Office

Anybody know where to finda writer template for filing aPUC brief in California? Or for otherlegal filings, eg. with line numbering?Thanks for any help...- Tod Landis

I have a question regarding adjusting page numbering in the table of contents. I have manually adjusted my page numbering to start at page 3, which is now called page 1. But my table of contents still show this page as page 3, while I want it to be shown as page 1.How do I do this?I tried to ...

Hi,I am using a Pentium 4 with XP Home PC and have been for many years a MS Office user. In Word I can use a blank page and produce a letter and have it printed on my HP PhotoSmart 7550 printer and its produced as it is on the screen.Having recently migrated to SO 7 (3) and producing a non ...

I have to send out ~400 faxes each month that need to be customised for each recipient. Is there any way to make SO/OO do mail merge to fax in a similar way to Fax4Office (a plugin for ms office that outputs the fax number in the mail merge document straight to the fax software)? Thanks in ...

According to the help file there exists an StarOffice Migration Guide with more specific information ragarding to conversion of/to MS Office documents.Couldn't find this document.Hint's are highly welcome!

I edited a MS Word document with StarOffice.When opened in Word again the background color and the text of a table was completely different (which lead to an unreadable document!).Moreover this change was not removeable in Word.In Word it looks like the complete table is selected (=black).Do ...

When receiving a MS Word .doc in Outlook Express, SunOffice Writer grabs the file and displays it instead of MS Word which is also on my Windows XP machine. Usually, it doesn't present the document as the sender had intended.How can I make MS Word the default so that I can view the file ...

Version 1.1.4 of OOo Writer was working properly with the attached file.Version 1.9.125 of OOo Writer crashes with the attached file. I have to kill OOo Writer and open another document.Am I doing anything wrong or what?What can I do to work normally in that document?Thank you for your ...

It would like to use my Outlook conatcts ( not Outlook Express !). How do I do this.Very likely it's something very simple, but I am st........Thanks in advanceMichael

Ok.......I started over. The only thing I have on my computer is 1.1.4--1.1.5and 2.rcHave run into a problem.... been trying to create web pages with hyperlinks to other pages. Can get internet on line but can't pic up other pages on my own hard drive.Keep getting the same old ...

How do I ensure that each line in a paragraph will end near the right boundary of the paragraph? In other words, how do I make the spacing between words and characters adjust dynamically to ensure the line ends in the same place?

ODTs authored on a Linux box lose some images when opened on a windows box. It seems some images are imbedded into the odt file and have "none" for the picture link file name, while other images link to their home directory under "documents and settings," where, of course, ...

There was a download in S.O. 7 for additional spelling dictionaries to install. I found none for Star Office 8. Can anyone please tell me where and or how to get that download?I am looking specifically for the Greek spelling dictionaries.ThanksHarry

I've got a letter I send out about once a month, just changing dates in the contents for each edition. It has a linked .jpg file as background.In StarOffice 7 the .sxw file size is 8 Kb.In StarOffice 8 the size has leapt to 44 Kb, whether I save it in .sxw or .odt format.Why? ...

I like the convenience & simplicity of the Page X of Y auto text feature in Microsoft Word, but have not been able to find an equivalent in Star Office Writer 8. Does anyone know if one exists?The workaround I have been using is to type "Page", then insert the page number field, ...

After testing SO 8, I find that the Norwegian spell checker doesn't react on compounded words as:Akkuratsomfinnefredkjrebilsammetanke gjreslutt derforvilThe problem is that these words are not compounded. In the same time I will mention that the Norwegian thesaurus is very limited. Any hope ...

Every often I am getting the following error when I open any type of document. I am attaching the error report as the only message that is shown is "Unrecoverable error".Anyone has a clueThanks

Note: This post probably has to do with issues of incompatibility which go beyond Writer.For a long while, I have used SO 7 on both Windows 98 SE and Mandrake Linux 10.1. No trouble, in either, reading files written on the other: except that some founts behaved differently in the two and ...

The mail merge wizard in SO8 seems much less flexible that in SO7.In SO7 I could insert any fields from a Calc spreadsheet into the Address locations in a letter: getting rid of blank lines was clumsy but it worked.SO8 seems to want to force me into using a set of predefined address formats, ...

If I open with SO8 a text file (*.sxw) SO7 document when I save the document keeping the sxw format I get twice this error message. Translated it is approximately:Error loading BASIC of document<a href="File:///opt/staroffice7/share/basic/WebWizard/script.xlb/" ...

Does SO8 import WordPerfect files including figures and equations?

Is it possible to add dictionaries to StarOffice 8? If so, how? I'm especially interested in Spanish (Mexico). Also, I heard that if you are a student you can get SO for free, is that correct?

Hi,I have StarOffice 8 on my Windows XP Home SP2 PC.I am trying to write a document with preliminary pages numbered with Roman Numerals, and the main document with normal Numbers starting from 1. I also want the title page to show the total number of pages, including preliminaries.So, ...

SO8, Linux: If I open a new text document, Insert|Fields |Page Number, gives a "1" as expected. But if I'm starting a new chapter and want it to be, say, 79, a right-click, selection of Fields, and editing of Offset to "+78" and "OK" simply leaves a gray-shaded ...

The SO7 spellchecker recognizes "dependance" as a correct spelling of "dependence." Are there other spelling errors in the dictionary? How can it be corrected?

How can I achieve a "continuous" page (i.e., without the large spaces separating the pages). In MSWord, this continuous page effect is called "Normal View".ThanksMo

Dirk, there is an old bug that is in StarOffice 8. I don't know how to file a bug report so you might want to confirm this and do it. OpenOffice fixed this bug during the beta/RC time-period, and since they took the snapshot for StarOffice before that was done, it's in the StarOffice ...

When I want to insert page numbers in a footer, I now get the text: "page numbers" instead of the number of the page.In all my previous made documents I find the same thing has happenedSome where I think I have done something wrong. Has anybody got an idea, and do you know how I could ...

Hello!The enclosed document is written with Word. When I open it with SO8 it gets mixed up. I think the problem is the tab-stops. It seems the original has a tabstop at 13.5 and a second userdefined (?) at 14. It also seems that on some lines blanks are used instead of tabstop, so it could be ...

Hiif a start up staroffice 8.0 on linux with a word file, with no .doc extension it's not working.soffice file (works on solaris, does not work on linux)soffice file.doc ( works on both platforms)It looks like the soffice solaris version loads the word filter but the linuxversion loads a ...

Is it possible to include a page break character in the replace part of a find and replace action?For instance suppose I have a document containing a lot of items starting with the word "Wibble" and I want each item to start on a new page.One obvious way would be to repalce all ...

Hi,I'm trying the master document capability for the 1st time and the results are not as expected. I first created subdocuments that save the page and paragraph layout that I want. Then, I open a new master document, insert the files, and load the styles from the subdocs, with the following ...

Hi Guys,I need a urgent help!I've installed StarOffice8.0 free trail version, and played with so well, one template file *.swt was created, but this file was corrupt for somereason, it's very important file to me. anyone has any idea of how to recover it?I attached this corrupt file. ...

hello there, if i write at a particular position in the text and the text i write goes from one line to the next the document (270 pp., only text and simple tables) crashes the program. does anybody have experience how can i go on writing into that line and stop th crashing of the program? ...

hi.My office got me a new pc, and it had open office installed instead of word. To save time, and since it looked similar, i just did my work in that, and everytime i tried to save it as a word file, it would say any changes would not be saved and i kept losing work. so i just saved both my ...

For the good of me, I can't understand, why Sun can't come up with better process of printing envelopes. The designers of this wonderfull package, seem to have gone out of their way to make it complicated to perform a simple task of printing enevelopes.For starters, the preview itself ...

I just imported a document from the Web into SO8 Writer. It looked to have double line spacing, when a change to single spacing did nothing, I discovered ("view hidden characters") that there are two paragraph breaks after each line of text. So... after each line, there's a blank ...

Running StarOffice 8 (Solaris 10/Sparc).How can I remove some unwanted hyperlinks? Some of my content has been cut-n-paste from an HTML page (a private database application) which nicely imports any hyperlinks. I want to be able to remove the hyperlink leaving the text. Opening the hyperlink ...

Hi there,I'm trying to configure the mail megre email client (SO8 on Win2k prof.) but I'm constantly receiving the following error message when testing the settings: "Establish network connection failed; find outgoing mailserver failed". The setting under ...

Hi,I am trying to find out if staroffice can be set to use an external clipboard i.e. can you tell staroffice to use the OS clipboard instread of its own. At present if I close staroffice and open it again the clipboard content has disappeared. I assume that this is because staroffice is using ...

Hi all,Apologies if this has been asked before - I've searched but to no avail.Can one, in a text document, have a bulleted list in a text box? I've tried, but when the text to be bulleted in the text box is selected, the toolbar and the 'Format' drop-down menu changes and the 'Bullets ...

Why is it that no matter which insertion option I choose for envelopes, the envelope prints on the left side of the printer instead of the right which is where my envelope insertion is on my printer. In order to print where writer is printing the enfelopes I have to empty my paper tray before ...

I do not have MS Office installed, only StarOffice 8. When opening an MS Office document, I would like the appropriate StarOffice application to open the file automatically.