[users] Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
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 3 ) The three right

[users] Slightly OT: Booklet Printing on Windows

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Over the years we've had several questions about booklet printing in this list. I found this in yesterday's Sunday Times (UK broadsheet). I just thought someone out there might be interested ... quote Is there any Windows software I could use that would enable me to create a folded card with

Re: [users] Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Lars Nooden
You've probably missed the brouchure tutorial: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html Templates for trifolds are also easy. One way is to use guidelines to mark the fold lines and the margins near the fold lines. I prefer to have a *very* thin, very light grey line

Re: [users] Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 08-Mar-10 04:35, Lars Nooden wrote: You've probably missed the brouchure tutorial: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html Templates for trifolds are also easy. One way is to use guidelines to mark the fold lines and the margins near the fold lines. I prefer to

[users] Locking OOo Window Size

2010-03-08 Thread James Greenidge
Greetings: I'd like to lock the size of my OOo windows (both Mail and Browser) so that they won't always cover the entire screen edge to edge to allow a tiny sliver of the desktop on the left side to be exposed where I can drag items off the OOo browser screen onto the desktop without

[users] Re: Resizing OOo screen - Ignore last message. Wrong mail list

2010-03-08 Thread James Greenidge
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[users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-08 Thread James Greenidge
Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth properly hued transition. Is there anyway to imbue a line of

[users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
On 3/8/2010 4:29 AM, 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

Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-08 Thread Guy Voets
2010/3/8 James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth properly hued

Re: [users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Lewis
Gene Kohlenberg wrote: On 3/8/2010 4:29 AM, 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

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

[users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
On 3/8/2010 9:21 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Gene Kohlenberg wrote: On 3/8/2010 4:29 AM, 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 )

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-07 2:50 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Despite earlier campaigns of disinformation, ODF and OpenOffice.org are separate. OpenOffice.org is a program, with development led by Sun/Oracle. ODF is a file format, with development led by OASIS which has around 600 businesses, government

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Joseph Ervin
I can add a couple slides on this, but I wasn't going to go into huge detail ('cause I don't have time). Basically I'll mention that the fan speed control now acts differently based on what's plugged into the chassis, uses a zoned approach, and works to keep everything in the zone just cool

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-8 6:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, but other applications ODF support is often *very* different from Openoffice.org's... meaning, the documents do *not* look the same. If you want documents that render the same, then use PDF/A with embedded fonts. Regarding applications, there is one

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-8 1:16 AM, Richard Detwiler wrote: ... with perfectly acceptable image quality for on-screen viewing (which I think is what the OP needed). There is also the option of doing HTML with thumbnail images for preview, with links to the hi-res images when a closer look is needed. How well

[users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Joe Smith
On 03/08/2010 04:29 AM, 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

Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-08 Thread James Greenidge
Guy Voets wrote: 2010/3/8 James Greenidgeji...@mac.com: Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too imprecise to exact a smooth

[users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Maurice Batey
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: You've probably missed the brouchure tutorial: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html I downloaded and tried the 'brochurewithframes.odt' template from that site, but couldn't see how it worked.

[users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Maurice Batey
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:52:21 +, I wrote: 'brochurewithframes.odt' template via the ...template here for a tri-fold brochure link.. -- /\/\aurice - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

Re: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 08-Mar-10 11:52, Maurice Batey wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: You've probably missed the brouchure tutorial: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html I downloaded and tried the 'brochurewithframes.odt' template from

[users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Twayne
In news:2f0009191003060131y43d70980k3def31d974793...@mail.gmail.com, Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com typed: On 5 March 2010 18:20, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 3 March 2010 19:36, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: JOE

Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Lewis
James Greenidge wrote: Guy Voets wrote: 2010/3/8 James Greenidgeji...@mac.com: Greetings: I've a 18-letter document title that I'd like to color morph from navy blue with the first letter to deep salmon to the last, but choosing apt interval colors from the palette by eye seems too

[users] PS Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Twayne
In news:2f0009191003060131y43d70980k3def31d974793...@mail.gmail.com, Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com typed: ... The formula in #1 above is designed to remove any rounding errors in column A and put the result in column B. If the sum in column B is the same as that in column A and if

[users] Re: Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Maurice Batey
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:37 -0600, Troll/Idiot wrote: The frames are linked so that text will flow naturally to the proper frame. Yes, I see that now - thanks. (But the Second Page header is still misplaced - above the top of the frame, unlike the other 2 headers, and I can't move it.)

RE: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Tanstaafl [mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org] Sent: 08 March 2010 06:42 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Compression of documents On 2010-03-07 2:50 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Despite earlier campaigns of disinformation, ODF and

RE: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: joseph.er...@sun.com [mailto:joseph.er...@sun.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 06:53 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Compression of documents I can add a couple slides on this, but I wasn't going to go into huge detail ('cause I

RE: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Lars Nooden [mailto:larsnoo...@openoffice.org] Sent: 08 March 2010 07:10 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Compression of documents On 2010-3-8 6:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Yes, but other applications ODF support is often *very*

RE: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Lars Nooden [mailto:larsnoo...@openoffice.org] Sent: 08 March 2010 07:15 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Compression of documents On 2010-3-8 1:16 AM, Richard Detwiler wrote: ... with perfectly acceptable image quality for

RE: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Twayne [mailto:twa...@twaynesdomain.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 08:13 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc In news:2f0009191003060131y43d70980k3def31d974793...@mail.gmail.com, Harold Fuchs

RE: [users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org -Original Message- From: Joe Smith [mailto:j...@martnet.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 07:49 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together On 03/08/2010 04:29 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: In Writer (3.1.1 currently), how can I

RE: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Daniel Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 08:20 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing James Greenidge wrote: Guy Voets wrote: 2010/3/8 James Greenidgeji...@mac.com: Greetings:

RE: [users] Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto)
Can someone please remove my address from the subscription list for this forum (dmacpher...@deloitte.ca)! I have tried the auto remove and sent numerous notes to the manual address and still no action. My address has not changed in years so that is not the problem. This is way past ridiculous

Re: [users] repeat column on new page

2010-03-08 Thread Keith R Bainbridge
Good morning James On 7Mar2010, at 3:07 PM, James wrote: I have a table with 2 columns and I allow the row to 'break across pages'. The 2nd column has a lot of text but the 1st column is a category. Can I make the first column repeat when it starts a new page? I have: A 1 2 3 4 B 1

RE: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Maurice Batey [mailto:maur...@bcs.org.uk] Sent: 08 March 2010 08:01 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:52:21 +, I wrote: 'brochurewithframes.odt' template via the

RE: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Troll/Idiot [mailto:poss...@softhome.net] Sent: 08 March 2010 08:14 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing On 08-Mar-10 11:52, Maurice Batey wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0200, Lars Nooden

RE: [users] PS Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Gmail
Unsubscribe please -Original Message- From: Twayne [mailto:twa...@twaynesdomain.com] Sent: 08 March 2010 08:15 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] PS Re: Problem with sum in Calc In news:2f0009191003060131y43d70980k3def31d974793...@mail.gmail.com, Harold Fuchs

Re: [users] Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Paul
dmacpher...@deloitte.ca wrote: Can someone please remove my address from the subscription list for this forum (dmacpher...@deloitte.ca)! I have tried the auto remove and sent numerous notes to the manual address and still no action. My address has not changed in years so that is not the

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Twayne wrote: snip I managed to create a tiny spreadsheet that exhibits the problem: 1.4561.461.46 2.3452.352.35 4.5674.574.57 8.3688.378.38 The first column shows how I entered the data [the last row shows the result of =sum(..)]; the second row shows how it

[users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread NoOp
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Re: [users] Re: Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 08-Mar-10 12:38, Maurice Batey wrote: Yes, I see that now - thanks. (But the Second Page header is still misplaced - above the top of the frame, unlike the other 2 headers, and I can't move it.) But - having done that - and having printed the page out, I was puzzled how to fold the

Re: [users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Gene Kohlenberg wrote: On 3/8/2010 4:29 AM, 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

Re: [users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Joe Smith wrote: On 03/08/2010 04:29 AM, 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

[users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Joe Smith
On 03/08/2010 02:20 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Thanks; where do I get the curly bracket graphics from? Or is there an easy way to make them? How, please? Look on the Drawing toolbar, under Symbol Shapes. You may need to activate the Drawing toolbar in Writer: View Toolbars Drawing. If

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Lewis
Harold Fuchs wrote: Twayne wrote: snip I managed to create a tiny spreadsheet that exhibits the problem: 1.4561.461.46 2.3452.352.35 4.5674.574.57 8.3688.378.38 The first column shows how I entered the data [the last row shows the result of =sum(..)]; the

[users] odt table bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
The file referenced below if saved as .doc (97/2000/XP) does not generate the table it contains: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/ooobug/TableVI-3.odt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

[users] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-08 Thread NoOp
On 03/08/2010 12:25 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: The file referenced below if saved as .doc (97/2000/XP) does not generate the table it contains: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/ooobug/TableVI-3.odt Looks like a bug. When I test in 3.2.0 (linux) it does not preserve the table. When I test in

Re: [users] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Lewis
NoOp wrote: On 03/08/2010 12:25 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: The file referenced below if saved as .doc (97/2000/XP) does not generate the table it contains: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/ooobug/TableVI-3.odt Looks like a bug. When I test in 3.2.0 (linux) it does not preserve the

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Franz Wein
Why that awkward rounds with a formula = INT (( A1+0.005) * 100) /100. It's a function to round ROUND(Value;digits) [I believe this is the English-function name], that are documented adequately in the online-help (F1), to it in CALC. That the function brings the desired result, a formatting

Re: [users] odt table bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-08 3:25 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: The file referenced below if saved as .doc (97/2000/XP) does not generate the table it contains: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/ooobug/TableVI-3.odt As I have said many, many times... openoffice.org really, really needs a simple web page where

Re: [users] Re: Slightly OT: Booklet Printing

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:52 08/03/2010 +, Maurice Batey wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: You've probably missed the brochure tutorial: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html I downloaded and tried the 'brochurewithframes.odt' template from that

Re: [users] odt table bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Franz Wein
Hello all I don't believe that this is a table, that was produced with WRITER. I opened the file with WRITER and stored it as HTML. Immediately after it, I opened the HTML-file with WRITER again and stored it directly as a DOC-file, Word-Viewer 2003/2007 can open the document without

[users] Re: Bracketing List Items Together

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
On 3/8/2010 2:17 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: List item 1) List Item Number 2 ) This text refers to all three items This is list item number 3 ) All of your text is put in quotes: left none stack{List item 1 # List item Number 2 # This is list item number 3} right rbrace

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Franz Wein wrote: Why that awkward rounds with a formula = INT (( A1+0.005) * 100) /100. It's a function to round ROUND(Value;digits) [I believe this is the English-function name], that are documented adequately in the online-help (F1), to it in CALC. That the function brings the desired

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Daniel Lewis wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Twayne wrote: snip I managed to create a tiny spreadsheet that exhibits the problem: 1.4561.461.46 2.3452.352.35 4.5674.574.57 8.3688.378.38 The first column shows how I entered the data [the last row shows the result of

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Lewis
Harold Fuchs wrote: Daniel Lewis wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Twayne wrote: snip I managed to create a tiny spreadsheet that exhibits the problem: 1.4561.461.46 2.3452.352.35 4.5674.574.57 8.3688.378.38 The first column shows how I entered the data [the last

Re: [users] HTML Post Re: Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
Daniel Lewis wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Daniel Lewis wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Twayne wrote: snip I managed to create a tiny spreadsheet that exhibits the problem: 1.4561.461.46 2.3452.352.35 4.5674.574.57 8.3688.378.38 The first column shows how I entered

[users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is this a feature (as a printed document would presumably not be printed there) or a bug (as the user is formatting the Page, not the currently active widget). Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com