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Cannot paste URL
When I middle-paste into the URL box in the Hyperlink toolbar, nothing happens. -
Misleading support link
The support link in Help/Support shows the general Novell support page. It is not clear how to get support for OpenOffice from there (especially for openSuSE). -
Hyperlink toolbar button performs no action
In order to place a hyperlink at the cursor, you have to click the pull-down menu by the hyperlink button on the toolbar. Clicking on the button has no effect. I think it should be equivalent to inserting the hyperlink as text. -
Persistent extending hyperlink mode
When you place the insertion point immediately following a hyperlink and start typing, the hyperlink text extends; there is no way to cancel that effect.
In particular, in the situation when a new document contains only a hyperlink, everything you type, either in front or at the end, becomes a part of it. The only way out of this situtation is to clear the hyperlink text and press Enter; the hyperlink is then replaced with an explicit URL and you can type further without extending the hyperlink. -
No apply on Close
There is another undocumented button in the Standard Toolbar that opens the Hyperlink dialog box. This box behaves in a very peculiar way: when you click on the button [Close], the box closes without updating anything. In order to apply the changes you have to press [Apply] and only then [Close]. This is rather surprising (at least for me), although it is better understandable when you consider that the Hyperlink dialog box is modeless. -
Travelling paste
Steps to reproduce: -
Edit a long document (containing several pages).
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Mark some text on Page 1.
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Middle-paste the text on Page 3.
Observe how you get transferred back to Page 1.
Sounds like something that should be reported as a bug at openoffice.org.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
#2 is a Novell thing. I hoped to get the directions how to report these things but #2 got in the way.
#5 is invalid; it turns out it works as documented, so my surprise is my problem 
Did you install the help package. AFAIK help is not installed by default. Most likely because of limited space on the install media and a bunch of potential languages. Check in Yast
As to copy and paste if you run KDE check the settings in Klipper. In my opinion the defaults are weird. For Gnome I don’t know.
#1: It turns out that middle-paste is undocumented and probably unsupported. This leaves the question open how to officially paste marked text into OO. I tried xcutsel but it does not seem to work either way.
Yes, OO online help is installed, only it was sort of hard to find the right page.
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:16:02 +0000, yecril71pl wrote:
> hendersj;2171625 Wrote:
>> Sounds like something that should be reported as a bug at
>> openoffice.org.
>>
>>
> #2 is a Novell thing. I hoped to get the directions how to report these
> things but #2 got in the way.
I see - you didn’t ask about how to report these things, so it wasn’t
clear what you were asking.
bugzilla.novell.com tracks bugs in openSUSE.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Of course, xcutsel is a tool for converting between X11R2 and X11R3. However, as described there, xclipboard does the trick. Equivalent functionality is available as Klipper: in order to be able to paste into OO, it suffices to click on the text in the Klipper. Problem solved.
Ouch! An attempt to add a comment to Novel Documentation produces the following error, exposing the internals of the Novell server:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://doccomments.provo.novell.com/maintenance/incoming) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in /inet/developer/docroot/docadd/add.php on line 22
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /inet/developer/docroot/docadd/add.php:22) in /inet/developer/docroot/docadd/add.php on line 23
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:06:02 +0000, yecril71pl wrote:
> Ouch! An attempt to add a comment to ‘Novel Documentation’
> (http://tinyurl.com/27v8aw6) produces the following error, exposing the
> internals of the Novell server:
On the page where you saw that, please submit feedback - that’ll ensure
that it goes to the right person to be fixed.
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
In order to shorten the hyperlink, select the appended text and tell character style to clear formatting.
> Ouch! An attempt to add a comment to ‘Novel Documentation’
> (http://tinyurl.com/27v8aw6) produces the following error, exposing the
> internals of the Novell server:
On the page where you saw that, please submit feedback - that’ll ensure
that it goes to the right person to be fixed.
There is a page for submitting feedback but it does not work either. When I press [Submit] I get a dialog box from Firefox that says ‘"’ (literally) — and then nothing happens.
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:46:01 +0000, yecril71pl wrote:
>> > Ouch! An attempt to add a comment to ‘Novel Documentation’
>> > (http://tinyurl.com/27v8aw6) produces the following error, exposing
>> the
>> > internals of the Novell server:
>>
>> On the page where you saw that, please submit feedback - that’ll ensure
>> that it goes to the right person to be fixed.
>>
>>
> There is a page for ‘submitting feedback’
> (http://www.novell.com/inc/feedback/feedback.jsp) but it does not work
> either. When I press [Submit] I get a dialog box from Firefox that says
> ‘"’ (literally) — and then nothing happens.
At the bottom of the page in question, there should also be a feedback
link - is that the link you followed? (And if so, what’s the URL of the
page you’re having the problem at?)
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
I am glad to say that the comment problem has been fixed so the feedback issue is moot.