Notes in OpenOffice.org 3.0 Writer

Notes are easy to use, easy to format, and really, really easy to read, in 3.0. Printing is the same, so not that great but not less than what we had.

You start out the same way. Choose Insert > Note.

 

You get a box, and you just type. Note two things: first, just the note box there which is just what you'd expect, but also check out the circled icons. Those icons, the enabled ones such as font and bold/italic/underline, are available to use when formatting the note.

 

  

Then you finish formatting, and you could have something plain, or something as silly as this.

 

  

If you click on the little black triangle in the lower right corner you get a few options.

  

  

And you get those options plus formatting options if you just right-click somewhere in the text of the note.

 

 

To print notes, just File > Print, and click the Options button. You can print the notes where you want, at the end or after each page. You can also print only notes.

 

Comments

[Ryan]

There's no way to print the notes in their context, like MS Word does?

[Solveig]

Hi Ryan,

Unfortunately, no. Half a loaf at a time is the approach, I guess.

[Ryan]

This is certainly an improvement, but printing the notes in context would be ideal!

Thanks for the quick response.

[ross mcdonald]

where are the notes on envelope production, when I try to print I get vertical printing on envelope instead of horizontal and yes I have checked and double checked settings

[George Campbell]

Is this the right link for envelopes?
Envelopes can be problematic. Yes. This is primarily because envelopes are not Letter or Legal. Each printer has its own approach to printing, and you'll need to do a little experimenting.

But you can do it. The Envelopes category and the Mail Merge category of my blog each has various approaches.

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/11/notes-in-openofficeorg-30-writer.html

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[Matteo]

Is there a way to change default formatting for all the notes in a document?

thanks

[Svayambhu]

Is there a way to change default formatting for all the notes in a document, ideally by assigning a style??

[Svayambhu]

And is there a way to search notes, either one by one or globally?

[darcy]

darn, i wanted to be able to print them in context as well. But this was pretty informative, thanks!