Questions tagged [openoffice-writer]

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

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Trying to add icon to tool-bar crashes OpenOffice Writer

I added insert horizontal line to OpenOffice Writer 3.3.0 tool-bar. It was added as text - without an icon, viz: I want to change the text to an icon, but when I go to the change tool-bar drop-down OpenOffice Writer crashes! Can you suggest a way…
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Multi table programmatic merge to ODF document file

I had built a custom XML merge with Microsoft Word 2007 using the docx format, allowing the user to access fields expressed in a schema and include them in a Word DocX. I then opened the file, did the search/replace throughout the document, closed…
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Using a C# winform with Access to fill a template and convert it to PDF

Im working on adding an estimating feature to my business productivity software and was looking for some general ideas. I currently hand type the estimates into a template I made in an Open Office Document. I would like the template to be filled in…
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Is there a way to programmatically construct an Open Office document from two existing documents?

I have two documents, one in Spanish and one in English (the English is a translated version of the original in Spanish). I am creating a third document from the two, which includes the Spanish on each evenly numbered page, and the corresponding…
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XStorable storeToURL and WebDav

I have seen multiple threads regarding the use of XStorable.storeToURL and vnd.sun.star.webdav://domain:8080//path/to/document_library to save OO documents to a webdav library folder. However, I have not seen a posting where someone has successfully…
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RegEx: match digits from a comma-seperated number

I want to only match the digits from a comma seperated number. Example: 123,456 should match 123 and 456 75,432,444 should match 75 and 432 and 444 My expression currently looks like this \b[0-9]+(!\,)?+\b. It matches numbers that are NOT seperated…
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How do I set the properties for an XTextTable in OpenOffice.org uno using C#?

Discussion on OOoForum.org In python, I can do something like this: table.BreakType = PAGE_BEFORE table.HoriOrient = 0 table.RightMargin = 6.93 * 2540 - table_width In C#, I can't find a way to set properties. XTableTable only has a few methods…
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Manipulating text of a document while it's open

Is it possible to extract, modify or simply read text in an Office while user types in words? It it possible through OpenXML SDK & InterOp library? Thanks.
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Using pyUno to write text into Libre/OpenOffice Writer

I am trying to export some text from Python into a Libre/OpenOffice Writer document which I created according to these instructions. For example, using cursor.setPropertyValue("CharHeight", 20) cursor.setPropertyValue("CharWeight",…
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getting the first table of a odt document

In my Java application I have to read in data from an .odt document. Can somebody tell me how to get a reference to the first table in such a document? I wanted to use the Apache odf toolkit, but there I only found a method to get the table by…
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Count charactes in cells (OpenOffice Writer)

There's a function called LEN in OpenOffice Calc, which calculates a number of characters in a cell. Unfortunately, a list of Calc functions in OpenOffice Writer is very limited. Is there something similar that I can do in the table cells of…
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How to insert Excel table in openoffice doc table?

I have table in oneoffice (5*6). How can i insert data from excel sheet? Regards
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OpenOffice add entry in one index and not in another

There are two indexes in an OpenOffice document (Writter): one is for all contents and another is for only tables of document. When I added an entry in an Index (e.g. Revision History which is above main Index) with these steps: Select heading,…
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HTML to ODT – XSLT?

I'm trying to convert single pieces of HTML code to the XML Format the *.odt format (Open Office) is using. For example,

This is some text

should be translated to This is some text. Of course, this should also work with lists…
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Running oowriter headless command using php exec() not executing

I'm having issues using oowriter to convert a doc to a pdf using php exec(). The line i'm running below works fine in CLI, just not in php using exec(). $stdin = "/usr/bin/oowriter --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir /var/data/uploads/…
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