NeoOffice Tips and Hints

From NeoWiki

Contents 1 About the Different Components of NeoOffice 2 Improving the Mac OS X Experience 3 Databases 4 Alternative Fonts 5 Printing and Exporting to PDF 6 Miscellaneous Tips

About the Different Components of NeoOffice

The items in this section are currently under development

• NeoOffice Writer
• NeoOffice Calc
• NeoOffice Impress
• NeoOffice Draw
• NeoOffice File Formats - file formats supported by each component

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.)

Databases

• How to enable MySQL with NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org/X11
• How to create a simple database with NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org/X11

Alternative Fonts

• How to get alternative fonts to expand the range of languages you can use

Printing and Exporting to PDF

• Using the extendedPDF macro with NeoOffice
• Methods of exporting PDF compared

Miscellaneous Tips

• How to edit the default styles present in all new documents
• How do I turn off word auto-complete and other automatic formatting?
• Tips on using Find and Replace
• Activating the dictionary for your language and using more than one language's dictionary
• Using NeoOffice in a different language from the system language
• How to dock the Stylist and other palettes, and how to detach toolbars
• How to use LATEX equations in your documents
• How to remove marked sections of text