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HELP!!
I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!! [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search. I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I do not want or need to get to this????
You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what that is?]
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Re: HELP!!
Posted by Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de>.
Hi Rory,
it's my experience that it's better to provide direct help to a person
who isn't used to a specific software. I taught using software to
several people, including my mother who had never used a computer until
she was 69. Today, at 81, she's fit at it. And as I understood his
request, he wanted help to disable AutoText and not to be directed to
someplace in the help menue. :) But I guess there's more than one way to
help.
By the way, arent' too many of these auto things enabled by default?
They're bound to confuse beginners.
Max
Am 12/1/2014 um 7:39 PM schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:20:27 +0100
> Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Actually it's Format - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options. Remove the
>> checks from the little boxes next to Autonumbering and others which may
>> have bothered you. It' not got anything to do with the help menu.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>> Am 12/1/2014 um 7:08 PM schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
>>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:38:23 -0600
>>> <js...@windstream.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!! [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
>>>>
>>>> I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
>>>>
>>>> HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search. I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
>>>>
>>>> Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I do not want or need to get to this????
>>>>
>>>> You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what that is?]
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In OpenOffice use /Help /OpenOffice Help, Index tab, Numbering.
> He claimed he couldn't find any help on the subject - I directed him to it, My practice is always to direct a querist to the source of relevant information, so that he can learn and sort the problem out for himself. He is, after all, a teacher, and should appreciate being directed to information.
>
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Re: HELP!!
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:20:27 +0100
Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Actually it's Format - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options. Remove the
> checks from the little boxes next to Autonumbering and others which may
> have bothered you. It' not got anything to do with the help menu.
>
> Max
>
>
> Am 12/1/2014 um 7:08 PM schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:38:23 -0600
> > <js...@windstream.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!! [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
> >>
> >> I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
> >>
> >> HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search. I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
> >>
> >> Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I do not want or need to get to this????
> >>
> >> You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what that is?]
> >>
> >>
> > In OpenOffice use /Help /OpenOffice Help, Index tab, Numbering.
He claimed he couldn't find any help on the subject - I directed him to it, My practice is always to direct a querist to the source of relevant information, so that he can learn and sort the problem out for himself. He is, after all, a teacher, and should appreciate being directed to information.
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Re: HELP!!
Posted by Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de>.
ah, I should have said, on AutoCorrect Options chose the options tab,
That's where the checkbox for autonumbering is.
Am 12/1/2014 um 7:20 PM schrieb Max Merbald:
> Actually it's Format - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options. Remove the
> checks from the little boxes next to Autonumbering and others which
> may have bothered you. It' not got anything to do with the help menu.
>
> Max
>
>
> Am 12/1/2014 um 7:08 PM schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:38:23 -0600
>> <js...@windstream.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!!
>>> [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
>>>
>>> I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to
>>> pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
>>>
>>> HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not
>>> doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search.
>>> I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not
>>> mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
>>>
>>> Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your
>>> info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I
>>> do not want or need to get to this????
>>>
>>> You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what
>>> that is?]
>>>
>> In OpenOffice use /Help /OpenOffice Help, Index tab, Numbering.
>>
>>
>
>
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Re: HELP!!
Posted by Max Merbald <ma...@gmx.de>.
Actually it's Format - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options. Remove the
checks from the little boxes next to Autonumbering and others which may
have bothered you. It' not got anything to do with the help menu.
Max
Am 12/1/2014 um 7:08 PM schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:38:23 -0600
> <js...@windstream.net> wrote:
>
>> I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!! [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
>>
>> I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
>>
>> HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search. I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
>>
>> Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I do not want or need to get to this????
>>
>> You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what that is?]
>>
>>
> In OpenOffice use /Help /OpenOffice Help, Index tab, Numbering.
>
>
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Re: HELP!!
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:38:23 -0600
<js...@windstream.net> wrote:
> I need to avoid TMI that send my 72 year old brain into melt down!!! [My name is NOT Beatrice!!]
>
> I work with math students at elementary level -- grades 3 to pre-calculus, and often NEED to write up a custom work sheet.
>
> HOW DO I KILL AUTO NUMBERING???? and auto formatting? I am not doing 500 pages that need help with some esoteric insert or search. I just want numbers and paragraphs to stay WERE I PUT THEM and not mover to some spot where the notation does NOT belong!!!
>
> Would you believe that I can't see how to do this amongst all your info? How long would it take me to wade through volumes of stuff I do not want or need to get to this????
>
> You yunguns drive us old folks to the DT's!! [Do you remember what that is?]
>
>
In OpenOffice use /Help /OpenOffice Help, Index tab, Numbering.
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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
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