[users] Re: Languages

2011-08-29 Thread Tom Bell
On 8/29/2011 4:43 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 8/29/2011 1:53 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hello Erwin, On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:14:10 -0500 Dale Erwind...@casaerwin.org wrote: If this is not the proper forum, perhaps someone could point me to the proper one, but I am trying to find out what is

[users] Re: Moving table to different part of document.

2011-08-06 Thread Tom Bell
On 8/4/2011 6:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: In Writer, when inserting a new table it takes the width of the page. I have three different situations that I cannot make my table fit: 1) Place the table in the upper right corner of the page and have the text flow around it. 2) Place the table in the

[users] Re: Problem inserting graphics into a Writer document

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 4/28/2011 11:29 AM, Rick Genter wrote: I'm writing a development guide and I use a lot of screenshots. I use Insert-Picture- From File... to insert these screenshots. Often when I do so I get multiple blank pages before the screenshot, and sometimes the screenshot ends up appearing on top

[users] Re: Problem inserting graphics into a Writer document

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 4/28/2011 12:27 PM, Rick Genter wrote: On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Tom Bell wrote: Check the anchoring for each picture. Change the anchoring to get the setup you need. Look in 'HELP' and type 'anchors' in search term, then choose 'options'. Good luck! Hi Tom, Thanks. Each picture

[users] Re: Small page

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 4/28/2011 12:48 PM, Peter Howatson wrote: I used OpenOffice 3.2 after installing 3.3 and writhing several pages. The screen shows all pages at once. I have only one hand so it is slow to write. I have searched to try and find out why it dose this. I would like it to show only the page I am

[users] Re: [moderated]

2011-03-07 Thread Tom Bell
On 3/4/2011 10:55 AM, Maurice Mercier wrote: Bonjour ,je suis utilisateur de OpenOffice Org depuis plus d'un an,très utile pour ouvrir ;pièces jointes,diaporama, documents etc... Depuis trois jours,je ne peux plus rien ouvrir,et quand j'essaye de réinstaller,j'ai le message :impossible

Re: [users] Re: How to underline a blank line of text, such that it could be typed?

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 1/28/2011 9:04 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Sorry for the late reply, I am in the middle of too many things! Start with a new document and type in the necessary boilerplate. Check. Insert the fill-in fields with the desired formatting and default answers. (i.e. underlining, etc.) Here I

Re: [users] Basic help with the Open Office Mathematics program.

2011-01-23 Thread Tom Bell
On 1/21/2011 12:45 PM, Michael Adams wrote: There are actually two programs built in. Some of these questions seem to relate to one (Calc) and other questions seem to relate to the other program (Math). On Friday 21 January 2011 01:11, FRANCES MICHAEL wrote: Hi there forum members! I am a

Re: [users] Re-installation Problems

2010-12-06 Thread Tom Bell
On 12/6/2010 3:29 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 12/4/2010 11:06 PM, Sabrina Cabanlig wrote: Hi i recently want to re-install open Office but Open Office says that I got to exit OpenOffice.org 3.1 and OpenOffice.org 3.1 Quickstarter. Before installing the Open Office I deleted every Open Office

[users] Re: printing a book

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Bell
On 11/5/2010 5:26 AM, Maria de las Mercedes wrote: Hello: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Thanks a lot. María de las Mercedes If nothing in OOo pleases

Re: [users] Re: Unsub

2010-11-06 Thread Tom Bell
On 11/6/2010 2:05 PM, Twayne wrote: The nixes of this world are currently sub-par for anything but a newbie who doesn't yet know what he wants and thus doesn't know what he's missing. As one who uses Linux exclusively without any trouble whatsoever, I find your tone patronizing and

Re: [users] view with grid?

2010-10-21 Thread Tom Bell
On 10/21/2010 9:16 AM, Helen wrote: In Open Office 3.0, is there a way to divide my page into quarters, a grid that will not show when printed but that help me to know where the horizontal (especially) and vertical (nice but not necessary) folds will be when the page is printed and folded?

Re: [users] drawing arc with defined angle (was Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar)

2010-09-26 Thread Tom Bell
On 09/26/2010 03:13 PM, Mike Scott wrote: On 26/09/2010 16:43, TomW wrote: On 2010-09-26 09:36, Mike Scott wrote: A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown in the toolbars customise menu

Re: [users] Continuous sound

2010-09-25 Thread Tom Bell
On 09/25/2010 05:04 PM, Manuel Barros wrote: Dear users, I will try to explain my problem in a few words: I have made a slide presentation and I am not able to insert on it a continuous sound from a CD. The best I've got is the beginning of the same music every time the slide changes.

Re: [users] Re: Opening and referring to a Calc file online

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Bell
On 09/20/2010 01:53 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-09-19 21:13:05 skrev Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com: In news:aanlkti=kizvgjbsm8dn=bkhrjduxa=w7vn74=a=ng...@mail.gmail.com, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com typed: Does the lack of replies mean that this isn't really possible or

Re: [users] Running OpenOffice On a Remote System

2010-09-16 Thread Tom Bell
On 09/15/2010 12:53 PM, James Knott wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I want to put an embedded system in someone's office. Embedded because I don't want them trying to log on or mess with it in any way. And the idea is that on that system I'd like to have OOo so when someone is using Windows or OS

Re: [users] [moderated]

2010-08-29 Thread Tom Bell
On 08/26/2010 03:17 AM, Clayton wrote: On 08/26/10 05:23, Varun Mittal wrote: Hi Barbara, I believe there are multiple moderators.I am not sure about the ownership :) As for allowing subsequent e-mails from the same address for the same thread, I think that is a feasible and practical

[users] OT: Return Receipts

2010-07-21 Thread Tom Bell
For those who don't like return receipts: I use Thunderbird and in the Edit menu I open Preferences - Advanced tab - General - Return Receipts - check (tick) Leave it in my inbox and check (tick) Never send a return receipt - Okay. Surely other email clients have the same options. I never see a

Re: [users] Oxygen Office

2010-07-06 Thread Tom Bell
On 07/05/2010 05:14 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Snip! same version number [ like version 3.2.1 ]? I run 64-bit Linux. Is there any difference with the 32-bit and/or 64-bit Linux versions? How about 32/64-bit Windows versions? Yes, the 64-bit version will not run on a 32-bit

Re: [users] Fwd: Cannot install Open office 3.2.1. on MS Windows 7 64-bit

2010-07-04 Thread Tom Bell
On 07/02/2010 06:00 AM, Goran Antončič wrote: Hello, I have tried three times to install Open office 3.2.1 (Slovenian version) on my computer with Microsoft Windows 7 home premium 64-bit. Three times only first installation Window appeared and then nothing. Computer has operated suddenly

[users] Engineering Notation

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Bell
Dean, This is now where I think it will work, at least in Python. Now I have to get it into the addon API and test it. If you check the attachment and run it, you will see what I am referring to about the notation format. I next will look into adding the alpha characters, but that will require

Re: [users] Re: Engineering Notation update

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/29/2010 05:35 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Dean, Tom, everyone interesting in Engineering Notation, Please remember at least to vote for the official bug report: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 /Lars

Re: [users] Installing O.o.3.2

2010-06-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/28/2010 02:52 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: James Knott ha scritto: Sambhu Banerjee wrote: Dear Sirs/Madams, Thanks for the immediate response from your team members, Brian Barker and Barbara Duprey; I was able to solve my installation problem with an older version of O.o.2.3. The

Re: [users] Re: Engineering Notation update

2010-06-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/28/2010 09:38 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: Tom: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 04:05:20AM -0400, Tom Bell wrote: Dean, Yes, I would like a copy of your code snippet, if only to see what it is doing. I find it hard to believe there is no way to implement this using Decimal

Re: [users] Re: Engineering Notation update

2010-06-28 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/28/2010 08:15 PM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: Tom: The file is attached. Place it in a suitable directory with the name 'eng.py' and try 'python eng.py' again. It should print the results of the tests. When you are happy with it, add it to your python Calc macro. Let me

Re: [users] Writer: Erasing triple-dash lines after paragraphs

2010-06-23 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/23/2010 11:17 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, all, for the answers. So it is not a bug after all, but it sure is a gotcha! I found that if you go to the top and do not delete it but next to it hit delete the line will disappear. Possibly a shorter method to use that all the others.

Re: [users] Impress: pasting Writer formulae

2010-06-21 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/21/2010 08:07 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: The user has a text that was written in OOo Writer to be inserted into an Impress presentation. The text contains inline formulae, which are not pasted into the Impress document! How does one get these formulae into Impress, short of exporting to an

Re: [users] little help with some numbers in calc.

2010-06-18 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/18/2010 06:29 PM, Wade Smart wrote: Im working on updating some forms and Im having trouble with one of the cells. =IF(AT238-AT196=0,, AT238-AT196) If this cell has a value of 0 then print nothing, else, print the value. = IF(AU2381, 1) + IF(AV2381, 1) + IF(AW2381, 1) + IF(AX2381,

Re: [users] Help needed asap

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/17/2010 12:27 PM, Jay Ramona Cramer wrote: Greetings, I have created a document with openoffice.org writer it is an applications with fields to enter info from applicant. I have been trying an trying to figure out how to save this so no one can change the application but the

[users] Re: Formating cells in Calc

2010-06-13 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/12/2010 01:39 PM, William Case wrote: Hi; I am probably double thinking myself making things more difficult than they really are - but I can't seem to get the right cell formatting formula. I have imported a set of financial data such that: $10,623,900 (millions) really equals

Re: [users] Multiple sheets in Writer

2010-06-12 Thread Tom Bell
On 06/12/2010 07:53 AM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: I don't see any technical reason that several ODF documents couldn't be stored within a single file. It could perhaps be as simple as a new document type which is a zip file (as other ODF files are) within which is a directory

[users] Engineering Notation

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Bell
Can someone familiar with Python programming explain whether or not the code snippet at: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2007-03/msg01958.html works in a Python macro for OOo Calc??? Thank you! Tom -- PC, Where would you like to go today? ... Mac, Where would you

Re: [users] [moderated]Accessing math in writer

2010-05-11 Thread Tom Bell
On 05/11/2010 01:06 PM, Neville wrote: OpenOffice.org version other on Windows XP. In area Math, Accessing math in writer I need to make documents using chemical equations in writer. This involves using super and sub-scripts, parentheses, arrows (forward, reverse and biderectional), placing

Re: [users] OOo3.2: Impress can not rotate a metafile(EMF/WMF) correctly

2010-05-09 Thread Tom Bell
On 05/07/2010 06:21 AM, wrote: Hi OOo team, as a developer base on OO I have a trouble now, this is a defect in OO3.2. I expect to fix it in my software as soon as possible, so, could you help me?could you transpond this mail to your related developer if I made the wrong target mail.

Re: [users] OOo3.2: Impress can not rotate a metafile(EMF/WMF) correctly

2010-05-09 Thread Tom Bell
On 05/07/2010 06:21 AM, wrote: Hi OOo team, as a developer base on OO I have a trouble now, this is a defect in OO3.2. I expect to fix it in my software as soon as possible, so, could you help me?could you transpond this mail to your related developer if I made the wrong target mail.

[users] OT: MS admits difference

2010-04-29 Thread Tom Bell
I saved a Calc spreadsheet I had created. When I opened it in Excel I lost all the formulas, however, and saved it with new formulas in the Excel format. When I went to open one of the files, Windows 7 identified the Excel file as Microsoft Excel and the Calc file as OpenDocument Spreadsheet. I

Re: [users] anti-logs

2010-04-19 Thread Tom Bell
On 04/19/2010 04:27 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:08 19/04/2010 -0700, Arthur Bryant wrote: Where do I get the input for the symbol between the 3 and 4. I do not find it on my computer so how do I get it into a program? It will be on your keyboard - as others have already explained. Also

Re: [users] anti-logs

2010-04-18 Thread Tom Bell
On 04/18/2010 05:26 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 14:04 18/04/2010 -0700, Arthur Bryant wrote: A spreadsheet has a number raised to a specified power. Thus 3 to the fourth power would be 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 equals 81. If there are many such multiplications it is better to use logs. Thus the log of 3

Re: [users] math, equations with numbers, oolatex

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Bell
On 04/16/2010 12:56 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: Hello Although I like OO, I must say that the math equations generated by OO are not very aesthetic I found oolatex which gives nice results, alas it seems impossible to have equations with numbers. Can somebody please point me out if I am correct

Re: [users] Stopping Outline Formatting

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Bell
On 04/05/2010 07:35 PM, jl snurr wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: jl snurr wrote: Daniel Lewis wrote: jl snurr wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 10:50 05/04/2010 -0500, Joseph Snurr wrote: I have been trying to a long time to stop the automatic outline formatting of my documents. I'm using OOo

Re: [users] Re: Questions

2010-03-14 Thread Tom Bell
On 03/12/2010 10:42 AM, Yachoved wrote: I'm new to Openoffice software and would like to create a database, but can't find how to do this in Openoffice. I'm not sure I have the latest version. The version I am using is 2.4.1. The problem I'm having is I don't know what type or version

Re: [users] Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Tom Bell
Harold Fuchs wrote: In Writer (3.1.1 currently), how can I bracket two or more list-items together with a large curly brace placed at the *right* of the longest item? Thus: List item 1) List Item Number 2 ) This text refers to all three items This is list item number

Re: [users] Difference between default, text body and text body indent para styles

2010-02-28 Thread Tom Bell
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:54:36 +0700 Ken Heard k...@heard.name dijo: * * * SNIP * * * A hanging indent is a different sort of style. In this case you want the first line flush left, but the remaining lines indented. This is common when making a list of points. If

Re: [users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-13 Thread Tom Bell
M Henri Day wrote: 2010/2/12 Tom Bell cbel...@cfl.rr.com M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder

Re: [users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-13 Thread Tom Bell
M Henri Day wrote: 2010/2/13 Tom Bell cbel...@cfl.rr.com M Henri Day wrote: 2010/2/12 Tom Bell cbel...@cfl.rr.com M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic

Re: [users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Tom Bell
M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder, it still opens by default in 3.1.0 ! I've looked in the help files - perhaps

[users] Thunderbird 3.1a1PRE

2010-02-06 Thread Tom Bell
I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way of sabotaging users of Thunderbird. When I try to check on addons it takes me to the normal

Re: [users] Re: Thunderbird 3.1a1PRE: Apologies, please ignore!

2010-02-06 Thread Tom Bell
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/02/06 1:49 PM Tom Bell wrote: Suggestions??? Ask on the appropriate list. This list is for OpenOffice.org questions and has nothing to do with Thunderbird or KDE My apologies, I was in such a rush to ask the kubuntu users list that I did not carefully check

Re: [users] Music and Impress

2010-02-04 Thread Tom Bell
Michael D. Roush wrote: John Kennedy wrote: He has done presentations in MS Office that have the hymn in the background and the slides change with the lyrics but I have not found a way to do this in OOo and we have not tried to combine manual and automatic slide advancement in either. Is

[users] Extension for auto form filling data fields

2009-03-01 Thread tom bell
Has anyone used the extension called fastNAW? It appears to answer the question that a lawyer asked about using forms and data fields. Tom Bell -- “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” - Juvenal, Roman poet, circa late 1st and late 2nd centuries

Re: [users] Problems Inserting graphic cartoons in to book.?

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Bell
DeWayne McCarty wrote: I am starting a small book covering 10 years of weekly cartoons from a local news paper. I have about 150 (JPG) cartoons scanned into my computer and would like to create a book. The page lay out would place one cartoon on the upper half on the right side of

Re: [users] Re: What's Holding OpenOffice Back?

2008-07-09 Thread Tom Bell
James Knott wrote: Girard Aquino wrote: is there like a counter on the number of downloads from OOo's homepage? i know they could get it from elsewhere, but that's a start. If there is a counter, it would be way low. Many people, such as myself, download one copy and install on many

Re: [users] Emailing: 7 years

2008-02-10 Thread Tom Bell
John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: This is a hash sign: # I believe that you may call this a number sign, but the technical name for it is hash. Actually, it's called an octothorpe. Hash is food (at least it pretends to be g). It has several names. Its