I am using Debian testing and my openoffice 1.1
has no help.  Can someone be so kind as to
explain how to get help for Openoffice?

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:07:21 -0600, Tom wrote:

> I am using Debian testing and my openoffice 1.1
> has no help.  Can someone be so kind as to
> explain how to get help for Openoffice?

There are packages called openoffice.org-help-NN (NN as in language
code) which you need to install separately.

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Tom wrote:
> I am using Debian testing and my openoffice 1.1
> has no help.  Can someone be so kind as to
> explain how to get help for Openoffice?
>
>

wouldn't it be more reasonable to switch to openoffice 2.0 than using 1.1?

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Not really. A bright example of Oo 2.0 behaviour: it couldn't open a
pretty important ppt presentation today - no it wasn't garbled text or
whatever junk Oo 1.1 managed to display, it simply threw an error
message and died. Bad, bad OpenOffice... or is that the ppt format who
is bad? 

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dperry.cham@gmail.com wrote:
> Not really. A bright example of Oo 2.0 behaviour: it couldn't open a
> pretty important ppt presentation today - no it wasn't garbled text or
> whatever junk Oo 1.1 managed to display, it simply threw an error
> message and died. Bad, bad OpenOffice... or is that the ppt format who
> is bad? 
>

I think so.
I can't imagine ppts being not opened w/ the newer version. OOo did
*really* improve itself from 1.1 to 2.0. It's like a completely new
application. I love it and can open every single Word-Document.
Well sometimes the text is somewhat messed up, but readable everytime...

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Imagine or not, it did. I wasn't quite happy as a result; neither was
my supervisor of studies who needed me to work on it asap. And in
general, I prefer to write HTML when I need rich text formatting and
such. When I say "write", I mean that I really create it all by myself
- partly because all the HTML code generators I have seen, including
the OOo one, are really *awful* .
Actually, I'm not assaulting OOo - I still have it installed for "just
in case", because for my rare uses of office tools it is more than
sufficient [this recent case omitted...]. However, it is not perfect -
and we have to admit that. And as always, there is Microsoft to blame ;)

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I am using testing, as soon as I do apt-get upgrade
and OO 2.0 is there, I will be using it.


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