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| − | This is Chapter '''5''' of '''Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.x''' (Third edition), produced by the [http://oooauthors.org/ OOoAuthors group]. A PDF of this chapter is available from the [http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ OOoAuthors Guides page] at OpenOffice.org. | + | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Setting up OpenOffice.org}} |
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| − | | + | This is Chapter '''5''' of '''Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.x''' (Fourth edition), produced by the [http://oooauthors.org/ OOoAuthors group]. A PDF of this chapter is available from the [http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ OOoAuthors Guides page] at OpenOffice.org. |
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| − | =Choosing options that affect all of OOo=
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| − | =Choosing options for loading and saving documents=
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| − | You can set the Load/Save options to suit the way you work.
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| − | ==General Load/Save options==
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| − | # If the Options dialog is not already open, click '''Tools > Options'''. Click the + sign to the left of Load/Save.
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| − | # Choose '''Load/Save > General'''.
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| − | Most of the choices on the Options - Load/Save - General dialog (Figure 14) are familiar to users of other office suites. Some items of interest are described below.
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| − | [[Image:LoadSaveGeneral.png|Figure 14]]<br>Figure 14. Choosing Load and Save options
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| − | '''Load user-specific settings with the document'''
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| − | When you save a document, certain settings are saved with it. For example, your choice (in the options for OOo Writer) of how to update links is affected by the '''Load user-specific settings''' option. Some settings (printer name, data source linked to the document) are always loaded with a document, whether or not this checkbox is selected.
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| − | If you select this option, these document settings are overruled by the user-specific settings of the person who opens it. If you deselect this option, users' personal settings do not overrule the settings in the document.
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| − | '''Edit document properties before saving'''
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| − | When you select this option, the Document Properties dialog pops up to prompt you to enter relevant information the first time you save a new document (or whenever you use Save As).
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| − | '''Save AutoRecovery information every'''
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| − | Note that AutoRecovery in OpenOffice.org overwrites the original file. If you have also chosen '''Always create backup copy''', the original file then overwrites the backup copy. If you have this set, recovering your document after a system crash will be easier; but recovering an earlier version of the document may be harder.
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| − | '''Size optimization for XML format (no pretty printing)'''
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| − | OpenOffice.org documents are XML files. When you select this option, OOo writes the XML data without indents and line breaks. If you want to be able to read the XML files in a text editor in a structured form, deselect this option.
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| − | '''Default file format'''
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| − | If you routinely share documents with users of Microsoft Word, you might want to change the '''Always save as''' attribute for text documents in the Standard file format section to one of the Word document types.
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| − | ==VBA Properties Load/Save options==
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| − | # Choose '''Load/Save > VBA Properties'''.
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| − | # On the Options - Load/Save - VBA Properties dialog (Figure 15), you can whether to keep any macros in MSOffice documents that are opened in OOo.
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| − | ::* If you choose '''Save original Basic code''', the macros will not work in OOo but are retained if you save the file into Microsoft Office format.
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| − | ::* If you choose '''Load Basic code to edit''', the changed code is saved in an OOo document but is not retained if you save into an MSOffice format.
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| − | :[[Image:LoadSaveVBA.png|Figure 15]]<br>Figure 15. Choosing Load/Save VBA Properties
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| − | ==Microsoft Office Load/Save options==
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| − | # Choose '''Load/Save > Microsoft Office'''.
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| − | # On the Options - Load/Save - Microsoft Office dialog (Figure 16), you can choose what to do when importing and exporting Microsoft Office OLE objects (linked or embedded objects or documents such as spreadsheets or equations).
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| − | ::* Select the [L] checkboxes to convert Microsoft OLE objects into the corresponding OpenOffice.org OLE objects when a Microsoft document is loaded into OOo (mnemonic: “L" for “load").
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| − | ::* Select the [S] checkboxes to convert OpenOffice.org OLE objects into the corresponding Microsoft OLE objects when a document is saved in a Microsoft format (mnemonic: “S" for “save").
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| − | :[[Image:LoadSaveMSO.png|Figure 16]]<br>Figure 16. Choosing Load/Save Microsoft Office options
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| − | ==HTML compatibility Load/Save options==
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| − | Choices made on the Load/Save - HTML Compatibility dialog (Figure 17) affect HTML pages imported into OpenOffice.org and those exported from OOo.
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| − | :[[Image:LoadSaveHTML.png|Figure 17]]<br>Figure 17. Choosing HTML compatibility options
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| − | =Choosing language settings=
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| − | =Internet options=
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| − | Use the Internet Options pages to define search engines and save proxy settings for use with OpenOffice.org.
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| − | If you are using a Netscape or Mozilla browser (such as Firefox), you can enable the Mozilla Plug-in so you can open OOo files in your browser, print them, save them, and work with them in other ways.
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| − | If you are using a Unix or Linux based operating system (including Mac OS X), an additional page of E-mail options is available, where you can specify the e-mail program to use when you send the current document as e-mail (Figure 21).
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| − | [[Image:Options-email.png|Figure 21]]<br>Figure 21: Internet options, showing E-mail page available to Linux users
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| − | =Controlling OOo's AutoCorrect functions=
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| − | Some people find some or all of the items in OOo's AutoCorrect function annoying because they change what you type when you do not want it changed. Many people find some of the AutoCorrect functions quite helpful; if you do, then select the relevant checkboxes. But if you find unexplained changes appearing in your document, this is a good place to look to find the cause.
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| − | To open the AutoCorrect dialog, click '''Tools > AutoCorrect'''. (You need to have a document open for this menu item to appear.)
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| − | In Writer, this dialog has five tabs, as shown in Figure 22. In other components of OOo, where the dialog has only four tabs, the contents of the Options tab is as shown in Figure 23.
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| − | [[Image:AutoCorrectWriter.png|Figure 22]]<br>Figure 22. The AutoCorrect dialog in Writer, showing the five tabs and some of the choices
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| − | [[Image:AutoCorrectCalc.png|Figure 23]]<br>Figure 23. The AutoCorrect dialog in Calc, showing four tabs and the Options choices
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