[plug] An OpenOffice question

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Fri May 9 08:59:38 WST 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 08:32 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >Not really a Linux question, but still Free Software.
> 
> >I create a new document in OO writer and when I type the double quote
> >(") sign it puts it at the bottom of the line on the open quote. Any
> >idea how to change this behaviour to the normal top of the line?
> 
> Check your Language setting and fonts.
> 
> The standard opening quote is usually U+201C and the closing one
> U+201D (Unicode characters).
> 
> According to the Help (eek!)
> 	Choose Tools - AutoCorrect- Custom Quotes tab 
> 
> You can customise the opening and close-quote marks there.
> If the fonts have them, use smiley and frown faces, if you like.
> :-)


That's it, thank you very much. Fixes it exactly.

The language was also defaulting to Czech, but after changing it to
English the quotes stayed broken.

Ta again.
-- 
Richard Meyer
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It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
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