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There is a macro available for counting words in a highlighted area of text. Have a look at the macro from the document http://www.pitonyak.org/ . The documentation project has a good guide . In short no. However there is proposals to implement something similar, check the users or discuss mailing lists for more information. A Master Document is one that is used as a "holder" for smaller documents. You can write the "front matter" in the master document and then add files which are, each, a separate part of the entire document. You can edit the front matter, but not the inserted documents as they are other files. It is best if both the Master Document and the files are based on the same template file. Many different types – the easiest way to see is to use the file dialog ( “File” => “Open” ) and look at the file types listed there. There may be several reasons :
the file formats may not be open and available ; there may not be enough developers available to do the work ( either paid or volunteer ) ; there may not be enough interest in it ; and there may be reasonable, available workarounds. Currently work is ongoing for the WordPerfect filters at the WordPerfect filters project . StarOffice also comes with a WordPerfect filter. MSWorks files have a proprietary format which is being kept secret by Microsoft. However a reasonable workaround is to save your WKS files as RTF files. OpenOffice can read and write RTF files. However there is a Microsoft utility for converting the wks files : go to this Microsoft website and in section 1 for “Product” select “Word” and for “Version” select “All Versions”. Then in section 2 select “Converters and Viewers” and click on the “Update List” link. You should then have listed below a link for the relevant converter. Not yet. StarOffice on Windows does but the filters they use are proprietary from a 3rd party and therefore not available to the open source community. But there is a WordPerfect filter project which has a preliminary version available. Have a look at this document . Or here is another very good introduction to the Stylist . The Stylist is very powerful mechanism to control all of the styles in your document with a simple clear interface. This document has an excellent explanation. If you do a “File” => “New” without specifying a template, your default template will be used to set up the new document. You can change this to suit your preferences for example by changing the attributes of the standard styles or by adding your own custom styles. You then need to save this as a template, by “File” => “Templates” => “Save” to save it with a filename like "MyDefault.stw". Finally, to make this your default “File” => “Templates” => “Organize”, select "MyDefault.stw" and and “Commands” => “Set As Default Template”. No there are built-in styles which cannot be disabled, but you can filter the styles by changing the option at the bottom of the Stylist window from “Automatic” to “Custom Styles” so that you will see only your own styles. To see only the styles used in the document choose the “Applied Styles” option. Not exactly as the mechanism and philosophy behind styles is quite different between OpenOffice.org and MSOffice. Please read the documents mentioned above as they should give you a very good introduction to styles and from there you should be able to see that the Stylist dialog provides something very similar. You need to report the problem so that the developers can hopefully fix it for the next release. To do this, you need to join the OpenOffice.org project, and then file a bug . The project http://api.openoffice.org is where most macro questions should be directed. Also have a look at the excellent StarBasic document on http://www.pitonyak.org/ . Look here . Check your language settings for your document and whether a spellchecker is active for that language. Format|Character and the "Font" tab check "Language", there should be a tick mark beside the relevant language. The documentation project has a site for templates . Also the project http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/ has many templates and clipart. Yes, you can send them to either the ooextras project above or to <dev@documentation.openoffice.org> . An excellent document by Kelvin can be found here here . The documentation project has several “How to” documents available . This is also covered by the www.oodocs.org project with this document .
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