So if your documents have changed, it wasn't OOo that did it. You have to open a document and then save it as a different file type in order to convert anything. Installing OOo never changes any of your documents-there's not even an option to do so. Let's concentrate on getting the use of your old documents.įirst off, OOo never converts documents unless you ask it to. I'm also having a lot of trouble getting a bearing on where to start. The fourth step is simply to click "OK", and hope for the best. For the "CTL font", the language box reads "Hebrew". For the "Western text font", the "language" box is blank, though there is a list of languages from which to choose - however, Hebrew is not listed. Under both of these are four "features": font, typeface, size, and language.
At the third step, in the "Character" box, under the "Font" tab, I see two options: "Western text font" and "CTL font". I found that after all those steps, there is no box in the toolbar from which to select Hebrew - even if I highlight a particular segment of text, then manually go through those four steps, I'm not sure I ever reach a point where I've actually "told" the program I want the text in Hebrew. Even so, I still could not use Hebrew, not even once again trying the four steps involving "Format, character, etc.". And, I just double-checked that I had actually and correctly done what you mentioned, and simply repeated the steps just to be sure. Thanks for offering your advice, but I had done all that already. Which ultimately brings me to my question: Can anyone help me figure out how to get Hebrew and Greek fonts working with Open Office 2.3? (I also have a "Cardo98" folder sitting on my desktop, waiting to be used.)Īny help would be much appreciated, and would likely prevent any further long-winded and self-pitying posts from me. Instead, my "Times New Roman" English characters remained "Times New Roman" English characters. Having done all this, and selecting the Hebrew language, I expected miraculous results - which were not forthcoming.
Doing so, I was told, would allow me to not only read, but also edit and copy-and-paste the Office Word 2003 documents. So, I called my ISP's help desk, and received the helpful advice to download the free Open Office 2.3 package, which I did.all 124MB of it. Buggers, I thought to myself upon realizing what had happened. I found that almost all the files I had created with some Microsoft word processor (Works, primarily, plus something else not equivalent to and not as powerful as Word) since the Word 2003 free trial had expired were now converted to Word 2003 files - as such, I could only read them, not edit them or even copy-and-paste them. I regretfully declined, and canceled the process. At a certain point in the process, the "system" making the offer finally recognized me as someone who had already had such a free trial, and it instead told me I'd have to pay in order to have the use of Office Word 2003. I thought to myself, "That's odd but very generous", and so I proceeded to attempt to "apply" for that free trial. It so happens that, a couple of days ago, I had a pop-up or something rear its ugly head in full view on my screen, offering me a 60-day Free Trial of Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Even so, I have still been able to read, edit, and copy-and-paste files I had created which contained Hebrew and/or Greek script. I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll start with the fact that my 60-day Free Trial of Microsoft Office Word 2003 ended in April of 2006. Prepare for a tale of woe unlike any other, I hope.