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NeoOffice Tips and Hints
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About the Different Components of NeoOffice
- NeoOffice Writer
- NeoOffice Calc
- NeoOffice Impress
- NeoOffice Draw
- NeoOffice Base
- NeoOffice Math
- NeoOffice File Formats - file formats supported by each component
- NeoOffice Error Messages
Note: The tips and hints specific to a particular component have been moved to the component pages above. If you don't see the tips you are looking for, try the component pages.
Tips from Trinity
The forums at http://trinity.neooffice.org/ contain many tips, hints, and answers to frequently asked questions. The New Articles Needed page in this wiki contains links to some of the most helpful threads at trinity.
Note that the predominant language of the trinity forums is English, so most if not all of these threads will be in English. At the time of this writing (September 2007), there were French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Dutch speakers among the "regulars" at trinity. If you are in need of a summary or explanation of a tip in one of these languages, post a request in the appropriate thread, and someone may be able to help you.
Improving the Mac OS X Experience
- Customizing Menu & Keyboard shortcuts to be more Mac-like
- Customizing the UI font and background color to be more Mac-like
- Searching contents of NeoOffice files
- How to use NeoOffice from somewhere other than your /Applications folder
- Setting the default application for opening OpenOffice.org, Microsoftâ„¢ Officeâ„¢, and other file types
- How to launch directly into particular applications (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.)
- How to use data from the Mac OS X Address Book (for NeoOffice versions prior to 2.2.1 EAP)
- How to use data from the Mac OS X Address Book (starting with NeoOffice 2.2.1 EAP)
- How to use Eudora or Entourage with NeoOffice 2.0
- How to get NeoOffice and QuickTime to play more media formats (starting with NeoOffice 2.2.3)
- How to deploy NeoOffice on PPC and Intel Macs using a single image
Compatibility and Document Exchange
- Improving Compatibility with Microsoft Office
- Setting the default file format for saving your work
- Using PDF to preserve exact layout, fonts and formatting
- Opening AppleWorks documents
- Converting non-UTF-8 text files
- Using NeoOffice with QuarkXPress and InDesign
- Accessing MS Publisher documents
- Applications and tools which support OpenDocument
Fonts & Languages
- Problems with Fonts
- Line spacing and ligature changes in NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch-7 and newer
- How to get alternative fonts to expand the range of languages you can use
- Accessing Helvetica Oblique and Courier Oblique (Italic)
- Problems with the Symbol font, Greek text, or bullets in Word documents
- Setting the default font in Calc, Impress, or Draw
- Converting Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text between single-byte and double-byte
- Using Right-to-Left, Complex Text Layout, and Vertical Text
- Activating the dictionary for your language and using more than one language's dictionary
- Changing the language of the user interface and using a different language from the system language
Printing and Exporting to PDF
- Using the extendedPDF macro with NeoOffice
- Methods of exporting PDF compared
- How to create brochures
Styles and Templates
- Using Page Styles
- Using Character Styles
- Using Paragraph Styles
- How to edit the default styles present in all new documents (as well as tips on styles and templates)
- How do I change the style of the footnote number (and other footnote/endnote style questions)?
Customizing NeoOffice
- How to dock the Stylist and other palettes, and how to detach toolbars
- How to close palettes and floating windows
- Disabling Patch Checking
- Modifying or Creating a Color Palette
- How do I turn off word auto-completion and other automatic formatting?
- Customizing Menu & Keyboard shortcuts to be more Mac-like
- Customizing the UI font and background color to be more Mac-like
- Customizing the Toolbars
Miscellaneous Tips
- Using clipart or photos in NeoOffice
- Tips on using Find and Replace
- How to remove marked sections of text
- Using EndNote and other citation or bibliographic software
- How to use equations (including LATEX) in your documents
- How to Add Page Numbers
- The Navigator
- Inserting a relative hyperlink in a document
- Inserting an Image Behind Text
- Formatting Hyperlinks
- Templates, Clip Art and Macros
- How to install or remove an extension for all users
