Re: Now Microsoft has taken over my Dell laptop and blocks printing Open Office docs on default printer
Attention Steven Ahlers (you answered my desperate plea and it almost worked.) My problem is that I cannot open .odt files in Windows 11 on my new HP laptop. So I went to my older Dell with Windows 11 and altlhough it opened and let me edit and save a document I need, it will not print to my default printer. This is constantly getting worse! grandmajoan On Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 03:34:45 PM MDT, Steven Ahlers wrote: If you go to https://www.zamzar.com/ you can get the file(s) converted to .odt format. I believe they have a limit to how many files that they will convert at a time. I did this several years ago with M$ Works files and Word Perfect files on my parents’ computers to be able to archive the information for my siblings and myself. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 9, 2023, at 3:56 PM, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. > wrote: > > Joe - > According to > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/DocumentManagement/How_can_I_open_Microsoft_Works_wordprocessor_files_(.wps)%3F, > OpenOffice cannot open .wps files but LibreOffice can. Both of them use .odt > files as their native format and that is what I would recommend. > - Robert > > > From: Clement Cervenka > Sent: April 9, 2023 15:34 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Att: Open WPS In Openoffice > > Hello Openoffice, > I currently have a Windows 10 laptop, with documents saved in Microsoft Works > or .wps (2007) onto a flash drive. > Using your openoffice, can I, and how do I convertthose old WPS documents > into a more current type of format for these documents? > What current format(s) of those documents would you recommend? > Any assistance and your timely response in greatly appreciated. > Sincerely, > Joe cervenkacjcerve...@yahoo.com >
Re: OO Writer dictionary
KV, First, I hope you have created your own dictionary containing your words, not just add your words to the OpenOffice dictionary distributed with OpenOffice. The latter stands a good chance of losing your words at the next update. Creating your own dictionary should prevent such loss. I did some checking and discovered my dictionary was not enabled. You may check if yours is enabled by: Tools > Spelling and Grammar... > Options Ensure your dictionary is in the list and if not checked, then click on the box and enable it. It could be that updates to not carry over the check, for I had my dictionary enabled at some time in the past and now it was not. Select Edit and verify your words are in your dictionary selected. This should prove your dictionary is still present in OpenOffice. If not there, then it must be reinstalled. My dictionary is in: ~/.openoffice/4/user/wordbook This is under Linux, of course. YMMV. It may be a good idea to back up this directory before updating, so you can restore your dictionary after the update if it goes missing. In fact, it may be even better to back up the whole */4/ directory. HTH. Girvin On 4/12/23 9:24 AM, K V wrote: Hopefully this will reach someone. I find that in each update to Open Office that my dictionary rarely migrates all my specific spellings, in both place names and surnames. This is quite aggravating since I am a historian and author working on numerous history projects and several books. It would be very helpful if in the system updates one's dictionary was extracted and migrated to the new update dictionary so that we don't have to teach/correct the Open Office Writer dictionary each and every time. Thanks in advance for your attention to this. Kevin V. Bunker (longtime OpenOffice user) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
OO Writer dictionary
Hopefully this will reach someone. I find that in each update to Open Office that my dictionary rarely migrates all my specific spellings, in both place names and surnames. This is quite aggravating since I am a historian and author working on numerous history projects and several books. It would be very helpful if in the system updates one's dictionary was extracted and migrated to the new update dictionary so that we don't have to teach/correct the Open Office Writer dictionary each and every time. Thanks in advance for your attention to this. Kevin V. Bunker (longtime OpenOffice user)
Brand New to Open Office and have a question re Date Formatting
Hi there I have looked in documentation and on the web in general, but don't seem to be able to find what I am after. Please forgive IF this is such a newbie dumb question.. I am inserting the date into a template (ready Made) to show date document printed or created. I would like the dates to look like Friday, 21st or Sat, 2nd, Sun 3rd Mon 4th . Is there a way to have this happen within the date formatting?? Also I would like the time to show say 2345 hrs. So with Hours as text after the time.. Is there a way to have this happen within the time formatting?? Many Thanks Rick M New Zealand
