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. Select the text to which you want to apply a language.I carefully read and followed the instructions found on the page, "Selecting the Document Language", specifically obeying the section titled, "Applying a language directly to selected text", whose instructions were as follows: Even more, I actually attempted to select the document language, against my better judgment. Rather, I searched the Open Office 2.3 "Help" information, and printed out quite a few pages with titles like, "Selecting the Document Language", "Languages Using Complex Text Layout", "Font", "Languages", "Font Name", and "Installing Fonts". No, I did not give up, however much I might have wanted to do so. Blimey, I sobbed to myself upon confronting what had happened. The Greek characters remained, but not the Hebrew characters (which had morphed into English characters). The problem was that now all the Hebrew characters had been "converted" to some "flowery" English characters. Although all that converting was getting irritating, it was not the problem. Well, it did do this, but apparently also converted all those recently converted files to Open Office 2.3 files. 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.
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