Help


Help!

Under the Help heading on the menu bar, you'll find plenty of information. By default, tooltips are activated so that when you pause your mouse cursor over an item, a small tooltip will be shown. These tips are terse, usually no more than a couple of words. It's also possible to get a little more information by turning on Extended tips. Before I tell you how to do that, take a look at Figure 13-7 for a sample of the difference. The upper image shows the default tip for the Paste icon, while the lower image shows the extended tip for the same function.

Figure 13-7. What a difference extended tips makes.


For that little extra help, click Tools and select Options. Under the OpenOffice.org menu on the right, you'll find a subsection labeled General. Click there and then look over on the right. You'll see a checkbox for Extended tips right near the top. Turning that on will give you slightly more detailed tooltips.

If you are looking for help on a specific topic, there's always the included manual. Click Help on the menu bar and select OpenOffice.org Help (you can also press <F1>). The various tabs at the top left of the help screen let you search for topics by application with the Contents tab, alphabetically using the Index tab, and by keyword using the Find tab. You can even set bookmarks under the Bookmarks tab for those topics you regularly access.



Moving to Linux(c) Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
ISBN: 0321159985
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 247

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