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In open office I am trying to find where I can reverse my text so that I can print it out on an iron on page, I can't find the thingy to do that, I am pretty frustrated with it, it won't bring up any topics when I click help, I went to the open office page and it doesn't help me any......did I mention I have a migraine and probably shouldn't be doing this?!


HELP!!!!!!!

anyone?

Use Microsoft Mirror under Accessories>System Tools

uh, I found a way, but it was in printing preferences, so that's likely to be specific to my printer.

Print Properties -> page layout

I'm so hopeless I can't even figure out what it is that you want help with.

In open office I am trying to find where I can reverse my text so that I can print it out on an iron on page, I can't find the thingy to do that, I am pretty frustrated with it, it won't bring up any topics when I click help, I went to the open office page and it doesn't help me any......did I mention I have a migraine and probably shouldn't be doing this?!


HELP!!!!!!!

anyone?
Select the AutoShape, picture, clip art, or WordArt that you want to flip.

On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and then click Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical .


you are using Word right?

I'm so hopeless I can't even figure out what it is that you want help with.
*joins you in hopelessness*

no luck with any of that. I so want to throw this computer out the window......

no luck with any of that. I so want to throw this computer out the window......
Oh, well, with that I can help.

I'm an expert in wanting to throw computers out of windows, if I say so myself. http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/basic2/yes.gif

[...]print it out on an iron on page, [...]?

The rest I get, but what's that? What exacty do you want to do there?

*goes back to writing her NaNo in OpenOfiice without any irons on it, thankyouverymuch*

*joins you in hopelessness*I think she wants to print a mirror image of the page onto a special t-shirt-iron-on-thing so that she can can the image right way round when it's ironed onto the t-shirt. I think.

The rest I get, but what's that? What exacty do you want to do there?

*goes back to writing her NaNo in OpenOfiice without any irons on it, thankyouverymuch*

sorry, it's a page that you can print things on your computer on and then you can iron on those things to a t-shirt or whatever. I am trying to help someone do it, but they don't have word, they have open office and I can't remember how to do it so I have them bitching over my shoulder and whining and bitching and I have a headache and I am about to snap if you guys don't help me.......

*snap*

I think she wants to print a mirror image of the page onto a special t-shirt-iron-on-thing so that she can can the image right way round when it's ironed onto the t-shirt. I think.

Oh, oh, oh!
I'm so helpless with the English language (and it's so damn late) that I never got that.. an iron-on page? Okay... *goes off to find that*

sorry, it's a page that you can print things on your computer on and then you can iron on those things to a t-shirt or whatever. I am trying to help someone do it, but they don't have word, they have open office and I can't remember how to do it so I have them bitching over my shoulder and whining and bitching and I have a headache and I am about to snap if you guys don't help me.......

*snap*open office...

what about wordperfect, works wordpad...

can you save the file as a picture? then use paint or other graphic programs to flip it?

you could try copy and pasting the text into paint. then go to the 'image' drop down menu and click on 'flip/rotate', then click on flip horizontally.

you should find the reverse command somewhere in the print settings.

I think she wants to print a mirror image of the page onto a special t-shirt-iron-on-thing so that she can can the image right way round when it's ironed onto the t-shirt. I think.
Wow, I didn't even know one could make computers mirror/reverse text in the first place.

*runs along, skipping*

I was just about to write exactly what IR just wrote. It's quick and it's dirty, but it'll work. And quick'n'dirty ain't always bad.

/me returns to his dinner.

Edit: Pah, Fass deleted his post before I could reply "Wouldn't an iron be better?". Ho hum.

should be a printersetting for it. If your printer can print those iron onthings, it will have a setting to reverse the image(it will probablybe called image). Or there will be a setting to print for an iron on logo (possibly called press-print or something stupid like that).

*off-topic: Witt-Witt, I found a function in OpenOffice that's called Schusterjungenregelung, and the oher one's Hurenkinderregelung...:schock:*

I was about to suggest converting it to an image and then re-import and rotate it, too.. I found how to spin it around and do all sorts of other tricks, but I don't get the mirror reverse ... yet.

Smunkee, I found an 'mirror reverse' (either vertically or horizontally) on my 'format' menue thingy (or whatever it is called in English), but it doesn't seem to want to become available..for my text..

*off-topic: Witt-Witt, I found a function in OpenOffice that's called Schusterjungenregelung, and the oher one's Jurenkinderregelung...:schock:*
Judging from the shock, I'm guessing the "J" should be an "H", eh? Then again, lawyers do have a bad reputation. :p[/off-topic]

you could try copy and pasting the text into paint. then go to the 'image' drop down menu and click on 'flip/rotate', then click on flip horizontally.

perfectness! And if there's more than just text or you're using word art of some sort then you could use the printscreen function, and then paste into paint.

you should find the reverse command somewhere in the print settings.

it's not working.....there are no printer settings other than the usual stuff.

I think I am going to leave, go home, do it right on my computer, export it as a pdf, and email it to them......getting tired of the whining. :(

Judging from the shock, I'm guessing the "J" should be an "H", eh? Then again, lawyers do have a bad reputation. :p[/off-topic]

I edited as you typed..Hurenkinder indeed. What.the.hell of a text edit function is that?!

ETA: "Schusterjungen und Hurenkinder sind historische Begriffe aus der Typographie, die seit langem benutzt werden. Ein Hurenkind ist die letzte Zeile eines Absatzes, die alleine am oberen Rand der nächsten Seite steht. Ein Schusterjunge ist dagegen die erste Zeile eines Absatzes, die alleine am unteren Rand der Vorseite steht. Mit einem Textdokument von StarOffice können Sie diese unschönen Erscheinungen automatisch für die gewünschte Absatzvorlage vermeiden. Dabei können Sie sogar wählen, wie viele Zeilen mindestens immer zusammen auf einer Seite gehalten werden sollen."

it's not working.....there are no printer settings other than the usual stuff.

I think I am going to leave, go home, do it right on my computer, export it as a pdf, and email it to them......getting tired of the whining. :(

Have you tried the converting to image / import / mirror thing? I'd say it's bound to work, just like all the others?

it's not working.....there are no printer settings other than the usual stuff.

I think I am going to leave, go home, do it right on my computer, export it as a pdf, and email it to them......getting tired of the whining. :(Look at IR's idea. That really should work, and easily.

it's not working.....there are no printer settings other than the usual stuff.

I think I am going to leave, go home, do it right on my computer, export it as a pdf, and email it to them......getting tired of the whining. :(

can you save it as a graphic and open it up in Paint... you can then flip it using the IMAGE then FLIP/ROTATE command.

Smunkee: tell the person to stop whining - you're doing them a favour, for crying out loud! Go home, wait out your migraine, and get back to them when it suits you.


I edited as you typed..Hurenkinder indeed. What.the.hell of a text edit function is that?! http://www.typolexikon.de/h/hurenkind.html

Have you tried downloading word can make it a whole lot esier and your freind will have more fun with the real thing. you should have goten a word thingy with any of your computers so you can do it with yours.

Oh here is an idea kind of expensive if you do it a lot but you could print it on a transperensy. Then flip it upside down on the copier and copy onto the iron-on or scan it then print.

Smunkee: tell the person to stop whining - you're doing them a favour, for crying out loud! Go home, wait out your migraine, and get back to them when it suits you.


http://www.typolexikon.de/h/hurenkind.html

Kindly quit posting while I edit, sweet thing. :)

Piekrom;11893065']Have you tried downloading word can make it a whole lot esier and your freind will have more fun with the real thing. you should have goten a word thingy with any of your computers so you can do it with yours.
And where, pray tell, does one 'download' Word? And I reject the notion that you get Word aka the Microsoft Office package with *every* computer. They're trying, and hard, but it's not a 100% monopoly yet.. and *gasp* there are people who enjoy, even prefer, OO...

Kindly quit posting while I edit, sweet thing. :)


And where, pray, does one 'download' Word? And I reject the notion that you get Word aka the Microsoft Office package with *every* computer. They're trying, and hard, but it's not a 100% monopoly yet.. and *gasp* there's people who enjoy, even prefer, OO...

OOo FTW!

OOo FTW!

*inclines her head at you in a somewhat amicable manner*

*inclines her head at you in a somewhat amicable manner*

I mean odt files are about 1/10th the size of doc files.

I mean odt files are about 1/10th the size of doc files.

That, too, although things tend to matter to me more when it comes to presentations/Impress. Here at uni people tend to send their presentations round via email and PP majorly sucks in that respect.

hey guys, I figured out how to save it as a jpg and then opened her image software and flipped it, thanks!

oh, and I told her that this is the last thing I am ever doing on her computer, from now on I will use one of mine and email her if she needs favors.

thanks again guys!

hey guys, I figured out how to save it as a jpg and then opened her image software and flipped it, thanks!

oh, and I told her that this is the last thing I am ever doing on her computer, from now on I will use one of mine and email her if she needs favors.

thanks again guys!great!

I was going to suggest sending to me and I'ld do it. :fluffle:

you could try copy and pasting the text into paint. then go to the 'image' drop down menu and click on 'flip/rotate', then click on flip horizontally.

I was gonna say that.

sorry, it's a page that you can print things on your computer on and then you can iron on those things to a t-shirt or whatever. I am trying to help someone do it, but they don't have word, they have open office and I can't remember how to do it so I have them bitching over my shoulder and whining and bitching and I have a headache and I am about to snap if you guys don't help me.......

*snap*

If you are helping, and they are complaining, tell them to figure it out for themselves and leave them to it.