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related to OpenOffice.org Writer, a word processing application which is similar to Microsoft Word.

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Pixelwise scrolling for LO/OO Writer

In LO/OO Writer vertical scrolling can be done e.g. by moving the text cursor up/down, using the mouse wheel, clicking the up/down arrows on the vertical scrolling bar, etc. Touch scrolling (on touch screens) is not supported, unfortunately.…
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How to export text document containing astral Unicode characters to PDF

I regularly create documents that need Unicode characters above U+FFFF. Unfortunately, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are both unable to correctly export these characters when creating a PDF. The actual data gets mangled by a completely asinine…
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LibreOffice Writer — a way to protect a shape from deleting

Is there a way to protect (to lock) a shape not just from resizing or moving but from deleting too? The shape should be visible, but not movable, resizable or deletable. I need something like Object ⟶ Lock from InDesign to "lock" the postcard shape…
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OpenOffice dynamically resized texbox

I am creating template of PDF file that consists of key-value data. This data is inserted via Java-application. I am creating this template using OpenOffice. There are textbox elements located in table cells. Looks like this: I faced problem with…
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UNO classes to VB .NET

I've found some samples of OpenOffice UNO dll to try out with VB.NET, but I'm still having issues with it: It doesn't want to compile with any version of .NET Framework over 2.0 (Which is at least 7 years old!) Sample is very poor in…
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Create a document from an XML-file in Word 2007 or OpenOffice/LibreOffice

Does someone know (and can guide me to) an (relativly) easy way to 'convert' a XML-file into a document in Word 2007 or OO/LO. I am looking for something like drag-n-drop, similar to Excel. And the result shall be editable. Basically create a…
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How to check when a bookmark placed inside a cell?

Is there any way to check if a bookmark placed inside a table cell? If so, how could I also get the cell's indices (row and column)? Thought about using something like XTextViewCursor, but I don't know how to get a cell cursor in order to compare…
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Writing an XSLT to synthetize OpenOffice documents from some database

So I have this legacy proprietory database that can spew some well-formed XML. I'd like to XSLT the shit out of some records to obtain OpenOffice documents nice enough to please a secretary, be signed by the big boss and sent out as official…
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Open Office: How to automate address in letter to post to envelope?

Say I have a letter with an address in the body. How can I make it so an envelope is linked to the document and automatically feeds in the address. Ideally, I'd love to know how to take a list of addresses and names as variables and create letters…
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open office java extension undo and onStartApp method

I'm creating a java extension for open office and I need it to use the open office undo method. I've found the documentation about XUndoManager but since I'm quite unexperienced with the API I don't know how to use it in my code. Furthermore, I want…
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how to navigate through each character in Open Office

I'm making an extension in java for OpenOffice and I need to do something on each character. On word I've been able to do it using : foreach item in doc.characters Is there something similar in OpenOffice Java API?
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Create a table without border

I've managed to create a table: //I create the table here and the default name is table1 XTextTable xTT = (XTextTable) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextTable.class, oInt); xTT.initialize(1, 1); However, this create the table with a default border. I…
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How to check if a bookmark contains a table?

Is it possible to determine when a Bookmark contains a TextTable? I thought about looking through XTextRange objects, however, the documentation does not specify anything about comparing ranges.
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how to create table of contents - specific numeration in open office

How to create table of contents in OpenOffice/Word in this way: Table of contents...... 2 Begin......4 Chapter 1......5 3.1 Subchapter1...7 and so on. I need to number only subchapter (Header 2 in hierarchy, eq 3.1), but i don't want number…
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Start a openoffice template from command prompt

I made a Template with some macro's in OpenOffice Writer. For these macro's I need the TemplateURL. I write macros in Openoffice Basic. When I start (for example) TemplateDossierNew.ott by double-clicking it (then it generates a new document named…
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