1st Time -- Help Find Things

Tickledivory · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: 1st Time -- Help Find Things

I just installed OO from a disk. In the templates section there's a choice for samples. Under that it says more are available on line. But there aren't any samples in the sample section. What's up with that? Also in the word processor, I don't see any choice for envelopes. Where are those hiding?

Did a tutorial come with the disk. If so, where is that?

thomasjk · Super User Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2308

What exact version of OOo are you running? Use Help about. What OS and where did you get the disk from? Templates are here http://templates.services.openoffice.org/
From the main menu: Insert--->Envelope

Tickledivory · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:42 pm Post subject:

I've got OO 3.2 from DGrffith82 at Amazon.com. I've got a new HP desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium. I got the disk because my dial-up service is not great for downloading large files. So I'm sorry I didn't get any templates with the disk -- I checked again using help. Help sent me to the same empty template sample icon.

Also, do I need to do something with the data base wizard? It's asking if I want to open a new data base or an existing data base. I don't know the answer.

thanks for your help.

Tickledivory · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:08 pm Post subject:

I went to the template download site and that's got problems too. If I choose use it, the template appears hidden behind a lower toolbar that takes up half my monitor screen. If I download it, all I get is the use it button -- a PNG file -- and no template.

The good news is I figured out how to make an envelope. I haven't tried it yet, though. Wish me luck.

thomasjk · Super User Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2308

You missed this at the Template download link "To download: Press right mouse button and choose: Save target as...". You other option to download is P2P. It should work well with dial up http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/

Tickledivory · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks again for the help. Instead of choosing "save target as," I was choosing "save picture as." Now I'm having trouble getting envelopes printed. After I format for an envelope, when I view what is to be printed, its envelope info on a letter sized format. So of course it doesn't print right.

This time I'm going to sleep on it. That might solve the problem.

thomasjk · Super User Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2308

See http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/envelopes/ . Scroll down the page to see the envelope sections.

Tickledivory · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tips. After I got a night of sleep, I clicked help in the top toolbar, scrolled down the index to envelope, selected envelope and carefully followed the directions. The only tricky thing was all the experimenting and adjusting I had to do to format the envelope so it worked with my printer.

On the envelope window, clicking insert -- on the bottom toolbar -- instead of new doc, got my envelope info printed on an envelope instead of an 8"x11" sized format. I think because I'm skipping a document printing, my printer is confused. It spits out my envelope blank, the first time, and prints it when I send it through the 2nd time.

I'm happy with that, but I'll check out that bonanza of envelope tips you've linked me to.