Issue 65184 - Text direction buttons (vertical/horizontal) always stay greyed-out
Summary: Text direction buttons (vertical/horizontal) always stay greyed-out
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.2
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-05-09 02:34 UTC by dulwithe
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2006-05-09 02:42 UTC, dulwithe 		no flags Details
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Description dulwithe 2006-05-09 02:34:45 UTC 
Hi There,

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

I am bilingual - English and Japanese.

I love OpenOffice (especially since version 2 was released), but I am having a
problem with Japanese text formatting.

Going to Format (menu), Page, Page tab, allows a user to select text direction -
Left to right (horizontal), or Right to left (vertical).  These same buttons are
available to be put on a toolbar as desired (selecting content from the
formatting toolbar when in the "Customize Toolbar" dialogue), but are named
slightly differently - "Text direction from top to bottom" and "Text direction
from left to right".  Neither of these buttons, however, works.  (Other users
have verified this problem.)

This is very frustrating, because it is very convenient for formatting
newsletters and whatnot to have these formatting buttons just one click away,
rather than buried within the Format Page dialogue.

I seem to remember that these buttons worked in version 1.9, but I can't
remember exactly.

I think it should be fairly easy to repair the functionality of these buttons.  

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or feedback.

Thanks.

Ned Milburn.

dulwithe@myrealbox.com
Comment 1 dulwithe 2006-05-09 02:42:34 UTC 
Created attachment 36325 [details]
Screenshots of text direction dialogue and broken buttons
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2006-05-09 07:59:53 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 3 lars 2006-05-09 13:16:42 UTC 
confirmed with 680_m166 on WinXP Pro SP2; the icons stay greyed out and cannot 
be used
Comment 4 stefan.baltzer 2006-05-10 15:16:46 UTC 
SBA: Same problem in 680m106 (1.9xx), 680m124, 680m145, 680m167. 
And: Same in SO 7 PU6. Sadly, it looks like these never worked.

SBA->OS: The buttons do appear but they stay greyed-out.
I am not sure if you or CD is the winner. Please proceed.
Comment 5 Regina Henschel 2010-07-03 10:31:42 UTC 
I think, that it is the same problem as in issue 54423 and it should be solved
there.
Comment 6 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:19:57 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".