Re: [users] Re: OO writer, spell check doesn't work

2009-12-27 Thread David B Teague
If I recall correctly, the spell check in versions of OO.o Writer worked out of the box. Do I recall correctly? If so, why was that changed? --David On 12/27/2009 2:33 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/12/27 1:05 AM John Palmisano wrote: As per instructions here, I am emailing support:

[users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread John Meyer
On 12/27/2009 8:19 AM, M Henri Day wrote: I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri The link is slightly broken: *http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958*

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread James Knott
M Henri Day wrote: I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri That's old news and simply more of the same old, same old. More recently, they've been trying to move that OOXML standard closer to

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/27 John Meyer pueblonat...@opensuse.us On 12/27/2009 8:19 AM, M Henri Day wrote: I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri The link is slightly broken:

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/27 James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com M Henri Day wrote: I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri That's old news and simply more of the same old, same old. More recently, they've been

Re: [users] Re: Sophisticated help needed on lists, apologies for cross-posting, but am not getting through

2009-12-27 Thread Barbara Duprey
Twayne wrote: Behold the writings of Barbara Duprey from b...@onr.com who wrote: Dwight Hines wrote: Dear OpenOffice User'sGroup, Digest and Non-Digest Divisions: I like using OpenOffice. I like the philosophy. I like the style of most of the people who use it. I like knowing that there

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods

2009-12-27 Thread James Knott
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/12/27 James Knottjames.kn...@rogers.com M Henri Day wrote: I hope and trust that many OOo users will find this article ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzx8ok3 ) relevant and of interest Henri That's old news and simply more of the same old,

Re: [users] turn off Taskbar buttons for each open window

2009-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
I know that most windows managers can handle this. Which windows manager are you using (Gnome, KDE, Windows)? I'm using WindowsXP with SP3, and OOo 3.1.1. Check grouping in the taskbar options. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

[users] Re: OO writer, spell check doesn't work

2009-12-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/27 7:27 AM David B Teague wrote: If I recall correctly, the spell check in versions of OO.o Writer worked out of the box. It usually does. Do I recall correctly? Yes If so, why was that changed? It hasn't. No software works perfectly for everyone. -- Larry I. Gusaas

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Nooden
Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the scam links nor to tolerate people that, for whatever reason, send scam links to a public mailing lists.

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread John Meyer
Scam links? Are you talking about URL shortening sites? On 12/27/2009 11:19 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/27 Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the scam links nor to tolerate people that, for

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Nooden
John Meyer wrote: Scam links? Are you talking about URL shortening sites? Tom-A-to, To-MAH-to. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/08/25/short-url-spam-a-big-threat-in-august http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10281599-83.html

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread John Meyer
While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. They have their time and place, notably in portable communications. I would wish that more clients would include software to automatically lengthen out

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Nooden
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/12/27 Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the scam links nor to tolerate

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/27 Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org M Henri Day wrote: 2009/12/27 Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Nooden
John Meyer wrote: While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. Close enough for government work. The Groklaw article is good and very relevant to OOo use. Linking to it via a scam site may have

[users] General note about URL shorteners, was: Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:53:46 AM -0700, John Meyer wrote: While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. They are not always spam, far from it, but create several problems it would be bad to ignore:

Re: [users] General note about URL shorteners, was: Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Nooden
M. Fioretti wrote: ...create several problems it would be bad to ignore: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html http://blog.grumet.net/2009/04/03/url-shorteners-are-bad-for-the-web http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/19/howtofixurlshorteners.html so the less

[users] Re: Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/27 12:59 PM Lars Nooden wrote: M Henri Day wrote: Sure you can ask. Here is the offending message. It's not hard to read in the header who sent it: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=usersmsgNo=201476 There is nothing offensive about that message. It goes

[users] Base: Dropdown suggestions for existing data on condition?

2009-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
In Base, how can text fields have a dropdown box showing existing data if a certain condition is met? At a lab I work at, we process requests from different local companies. The first field is for the area, and the second field is for the company name. I want only the companies shown that are

Re: [users] General note about URL shorteners, was: Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/27 M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:53:46 AM -0700, John Meyer wrote: While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. They are not always spam, far from it, but

[users] Re: OO writer, spell check doesn't work

2009-12-27 Thread Andreas Saeger
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/12/27 7:27 AM David B Teague wrote: If I recall correctly, the spell check in versions of OO.o Writer worked out of the box. It usually does. Do I recall correctly? Yes If so, why was that changed? It hasn't. No software works perfectly for everyone.

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 1:15 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: John Meyer wrote: While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. Close enough for government work. The Groklaw article is good and very relevant to OOo

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread RA Brown
Lars Nooden wrote: Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the scam links nor to tolerate people that, for whatever reason, send scam links to

Re: [users] Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread James Knott
Lars Nooden wrote: Here is the correct link to the article, one that does not go to a scam site: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929 It's not very smart to either send or follow the scam links nor to tolerate people that, for whatever reason, send scam links to a

[users] template directory problems...

2009-12-27 Thread Rogier van Vlissingen
Some time ago I upgraded to versions 3.0 and beyond and I tried to change the directory for the templates. I have changed the Paths information pointing to the templates, but still it keeps reporting to me that it cannot find the templates, and give me error messages saying: quote Error

[users] scalc feature request

2009-12-27 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
scalc does not understand any Date pasted as DDMMAA even though it is able to represent =TODAY() using this format. Often I need to paste dates as Text and calculate days by head. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] scalc feature request

2009-12-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 02:04 28/12/2009 -0200, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: []calc does not understand any Date pasted as DDMMAA even though it is able to represent =TODAY() using this format. As so often, Paste Special is your friend. Instead of using ordinary Paste: o Go to Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click |