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julianbury
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 Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject: Trying to set the default font to Georgia |
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OS: Windows XP pro
OO: OOo_1.9.122
I have searched menus and help files and .css files and .xml files and all the other sorts of text files in the OO directory and whenever I found Times New Roman I changed it to Georgia.
And still, every time I start Writer, the font is Times New Roman.
Is changing the default font actually impossible?
The settings are so numerous and baffling and placed in such obscure sub-sub-sub menus that it could take me five more years to discover that it can't be done.
Does anyone know?
Frustrated ... |
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helmerj
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to set the default font to Georgia |
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| julianbury wrote: | OS: Windows XP pro
OO: OOo_1.9.122
I have searched menus and help files and .css files and .xml files and all the other sorts of text files in the OO directory and whenever I found Times New Roman I changed it to Georgia.
And still, every time I start Writer, the font is Times New Roman.
Is changing the default font actually impossible?
The settings are so numerous and baffling and placed in such obscure sub-sub-sub menus that it could take me five more years to discover that it can't be done.
Does anyone know?
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It doesn't work like that in OO. Open a writer document in which the default font is set to Times New Roman. Press F11 to bring up the style editor. The style assigned to normal text is "default". Right click on the default style in the style listing and choose modify. Go to the font tab and choose Georgia as the font for this style. Close the dialog.
NOw when you type, the font to be used (only when you are using the style default that is), should be Georgia. To make this true for every writer document that you will create from scratch, you will have to make this writer doc the default template.
Go File -> templates -> save and save teh document as a template in your template folder. Next step is to chose File -> template -> administer (I suppose, the top item ist should be). In the dialog that opens, navigate to the templarted you just save and right click on it. Then chose set default and this template will be used for every writer doc you create from then on.
Hope this helps.
Juergen
PS: THis works for all types of OO docs btw... |
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8daysaweek.co.uk
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julianbury
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to Juergen and James
Thank you very much 
Managed to get through that and have learned a little too.
Alltogether, OO is a wonderfull demonstration of 'non-intuivity'.
Yuda thunk that sticking a Writer template file in the Templates directory would have been enough.
Er, maybe I'm speaking out of turn - sorry 
Julian |
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