[ale] OpenOffice Expertise sought

[Geoffrey]

tom wrote:
> I'm starting a new gig (Yeah!), and promptly ran into a challenge. I'm 
> using OpenOffice because in theory I can run that between the employer's 
> MS Word and my own linux systems, and I've run into two places of 
> ignorance.
> 
> First - and probably more crucial for me right now - I need the ability to 
> put a superscript and subscript one over the other (Its chemisty in case 
> that helps). I haven't chased down how to do this as an inline graphic or 
> math formula yet, but I'd really like to be able to just type it straight 
> off as text. Ideas?? Clues? Tossed Bricks?

RTFM, I simply searched for subscript from OO help:

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to make the text superscript, and Ctrl+Shift+B to 
make the text subscript.

Not pretty, but it works.

> 
> Second - I'd like to install OpenOffice.org to a thumb drive such that I 
> can use it on one of several XP and Vista machines available to me at 
> work. This might not work if the IT people have properly locked up the 
> machines, but I figure I might as well find out how to do it. (They have 
> locked up the network so I cann't ssh home and convert stuff to a word 
> format there. Clever bastards, but they have students to deal with.)

Haven't done it, so I don't know if it's possible.

> 
> Thanks in advance.
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