Open Office 2.1 ?'s

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I recently installed OpenOffice 2.1 on a computer (WinXP, SP2). After installing, I was of course playing in all the option.s I seem to remember a choice to Enable the splash screen when opening. Unfortunately, the computer dies (guessing HD problem, a lot of Error 51's lately) I reinstalled everything, but my most recent image was without OpenOffice. Once up and running again, I reinstalled Open Office. Now to my questions. 1.) I cannot find an option to enable / disable the splash screen. Was I mistaken when I thought I saw that option somewhere? 2.) How do I clear recent history in Open Office?

lydthekid · Answer

hrova, If you use Quick Starter, the splash screen is not displayed. You could also open OO, Help and search for 'splash screen.' That will lead you to a section on opening OpenOffice with Parameters and you can see the allowable parameters. Some will open the program without the splash screen. I use a neat freebie program ccleaner (found here) fairly regularly. That can be set to clean OO. I think that must do it, because my recent document history is usually empty. OpenOffice also has a support forum with folks who know a lot more about it than I do. You can find it here. I hope this helps. --Lydia

hrova · Answer

If you use Quick Starter....   That explains it, thanks.   I was  hoping not to have to use an add on to clear the recent documents, but I guess I can't be too picky.... Can't get much of a refund on a free item... :smileyvery-happy:

chast · Answer

Download 'History Manager' from OpenOffice. Open Office extensions development has a download to solve this problem. Download the extension 'History Manager' to your desktop. from either of these pages. Just scroll and look. http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_repository Then open writer and click on tools > extension manager> click on add, and direct the manager to the extension you downloaded on the desktop. It will add this option to OO. You must close OO down including Quick launch, and reopen for it to take effect. When you open writer there will be a new entry in tools called 'add ons' which will have a sub folder History Manager. You can control the document history record there. 2.1 has been a good product for me. Good luck. http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_repository Message Edited by chast on 02-07-2007 09:01 PM

hrova · Answer

Thanks for the tip. I tried, but was not able to get it to work. I got it in to where it showed the Add-Ons in the menu, but when I selected History manager, nothing happened. When I go to extensions and Add, what particular file do I point it to to get it to install correctly? (the other addons look pretty cool, too... but I guess I need to learn how to install them, first)

lydthekid · Answer

chast, I was glad to read your information about History Manager. I downloaded it and installed according to your directions. It worked perfectly. Thanks. --Lydia

chast · Answer

hrova,

Not sure I understand understand where your installation failed, but maybe this will clarify some. The Closing down and Opening up of OO is a bit different than I am use to, but it is the way these Macros are presently designed.

When you click on "add", a window should open "add extentions". use the drop down box to select the location where you downloaded the "History manager" extention (make sure the "files of type" is set to "All files(*.*)". click on (select) the downloaded file and click "Open". oOO will Installed it and it will now be listed in the Extentions Manager window. It is now Installed but you must Close "Extension Manager", then You must now Close all oOO programs including "Quickstarter". When your next Open Writer, the Tools menue will have a new entry at the bottom of the dropdown called "add ons". Put your pointer on the this new entry to display the sub-menue item titled "OOo History Manger". Click on this and a window will open with History Options.

Note: Any change made in the History Manager Option window will only take effect if you Close all OO programs including Quickstarter and then reopen Writer. This Closing down and Opening Up proceedure is necessay every time you make a change.

Hope you can get it to work, It is a good feature.

Just an afterthought... after installation is complete, go to tools> Click on " Extensions Manager". You shoud have the following entries in the extension window.

Extension Status

My Extensions
x/- histmgr0.2.uno.zip Enabled
Addons.xcu Enabled
HistoryManager Enabled
StringsLocal.xcs Enabled
StringsLocal.xcu Enabled
OpenOffice.org Extensions

Message Edited by chast on 02-08-2007 03:43 PM

hrova · Answer

Hmmm... When I get the file, it is zipped... Are you saying just to point it at the zipped file? If I unzip (that's what I did - is that my error?) it will not allow me to select the folder, nor any subfolders. I can select individual files.   By the way, does History Manager clear ALL recent documents (word processor, spreadsheet, etc...) in OO or just in Write?   I was able to add the Calendrier extension.... It is nice...

chast · Answer

Do not unzip the file. OO will unzip the file. OO will do its own thing. just follow the instructions and let extension manager take care of it. OO will add the extention to all elements of 2.1 (ie. spreadsheets.)

hrova · Answer

chast:   I guess I was too quick to Unzip... When I tried without unzipping, it installed fine. Thanks.   I really love that site with all the Add-ons - it is the Add-ons that I love about Firefox, which got me to try other open source software (like OO).   (On the Firefox note, I wish they'd make these Forums more Firefox friendly....

chast · Answer

hrova,

Glad it worked for you. I agree with you concerning Firefox...nice extensions like "no script" etc. Opera is not bad either.

In case you are interested, there are several Instruction Manuals for OOo on this web page

http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/

Another Open Source flavor is “Portable Programs”. You might find this interesting also. Take a look at

http://portableapps.com/

Have a good day

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