If you try and follow the instructions for creating a "form letter" in the open office help, none of the templates (or sections of templates) it describes are present. To see this, select File->New->Tempates and Documents You'll get an error message saying samples are missing, then the usual window. The only tempate available is default, and if you click on Samples you will get the same error message again. It appears some of the default and sample templates Open Office expects to have installed aren't being installed by the OpenOffice-bin ebuild, and possibly not by the openoffice (compiled-from-source) ebuild, though I haven't checked the latter. In any event, it makes putting together a form letter rather difficult without the sample to start from, and I suspect other common tasks are likewise more difficult for unfamiliar users to learn without these samples present.
not really sure how to respond to this bug. The windows 643 build only includes 4 templates, and none of them pertain to things like form letters or the like. They actually are for presentations. I have installed 1.0.1 for windows, and i see no templates included on there. I'll leave this open, and if you guys have any ideas let me know. If not, i'll close it in a couple of weeks, becuase its an OOo thing, not a gentoo ebuild thing... If someone wants to write an OOo-templates ebuild, i'll be more than happy to put that in portage... seth
Not a gentoo thing, general to OOo
