Re: Update on logo survey

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk  wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
> >> > A quick update.  We've been running for 18 hours, enough time to get
> >> > around the globe.
> >> >
> >> > So far we have 1712 responses.
> >> >
> >>
> >> 3072 responses now.
> >>
> >> I'd like to run the survey at least through the weekend, so we don't
> >> bias against home users who might only have time to do the survey on
> >> weekends.  But I think we can wrap this up early next week.
> >>
> >> I've started to prototype the analysis scripts, using R, so when the
> >> final data comes in I should be able quickly put out a report.  So far
> >> it looks like there will be around 5 logos that are bunched together
> >> at the top.
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >>
> >
> > I would think running it for at least a week would be good.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > It is probably worth thinking about what we want to do with all the
> >> > data.  I did an analysis of the results so far, and some quick
> >> > thoughts:
> >> >
> >> > 1) The question asking for person's age appears to be useless.  Unless
> >> > we have an unusual number of users in their 70's , 80's and 90's, a
> >> > large number of users are entering their birth year rather than their
> >> > age.  So I'm planning on just ignoring that field.   (This is probably
> >> > why you often see this done as a drop down list of years in other
> >> > surveys, less error prone).
> >> >
> >> > 2) I will be able to produce a list of logos, sorted by average score
> >> > and given the %  breakdown of 1's, 2's, 3's, etc.  Maybe even a
> >> > histogram chart for each.
> >> >
> >> > 3) We're receiving a lot of comments on the individual logos, many
> >> > more than I expected.  So we can expect that for each logo there will
> >> > be 200 or more text comments.  I'm not sure what we want to do with
> >> > these.   Since this is an anonymous survey the users are quite blunt
> >> > with their comments on the logos they did not prefer, using coarse
> >> > language, etc., stuff that would be inappropriate if a list subscriber
> >> > posted.  It is not all constructive criticism.  Some of it is quite
> >> > harsh.  On the other hand, there is a tremendous amount of valuable
> >> > feedback as well, that we and the designers specifically might find
> >> > useful.   So what to do?
> >> >
> >> > a) Post it all, the good the bad and the ugly?
> >> >
> >> > b) Remove or censor only profanity and post the rest?
> >> >
> >> > c) Make feedback available only to the individual designers via email
> >> >
> >> > d) Publicly post the feedback only for the top 5 logos, share the rest
> >> > privately with the individual designers.
> >>
> >
> > I think probably c) and only if the designers request it.
> >
> > But, if we're looking to narrow down choices to 5, those who are more
> > intimately involved in this process (marketing folks?), would probably
> like
> > to see the "constructive" comments for those.
> >
>
> Another approach would be to have some volunteers read through the
> comments and summarize in a paragraph, giving something like:
>
> "12 people thought that the font was too old-fashioned and suggested a
> bolder font.   Two people said that the number 4 was unlucky in
> Chinese culture and should not be featured so predominately in the
> logo.  Four people wondered whether the logo would render well at
> smaller image scales."
>
> In other words, take the raw comments and figure out the prominent
> trends, like someone might do to summarize feedback raised in a
> meeting or focus group.  (Or those in the US might be reminded of
> Zagat restaurant reviews)
>
> Since each logo has 200+ comments we might want to do this only for
> the top 5 or so logos,  I could probably volunteer to do this for one
> of the logos, but not all of the top ones.  But with enough help this
> would be possible.
>
> -Rob
>
I'd be willing to summarize comments and note the main trends. I think that
strikes a good balance between accepting all the input but not asking busy
people to wade through a lot of material.

Francis

Re: Find a better name for "sidebar"?

[F C. Costero]

On 5/23/2013 5:29 PM, Andrew Rist wrote:


On 5/23/2013 3:52 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:

I don't if it's really to late for finding a handy name for the
biggest new feature in AOO. This has to be defined by others. :-)

However, if we have some time, I have to say that "SuperPanel" or
"SmartPanel" are good proposals

and possibly "SmartBar"   (or is that a snack food?)

what can be done by this UI element:

Use the panel to do you work in a super smart and super fast way. It's
better to discover your tools and styles in a single location than to
poke for them in every toolbox and dialog.

My 2 ct.

Marcus



Am 05/23/2013 08:34 PM, schrieb Andrew Rist:

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I understand people thinking it is too late to make a change but I also 
think Jörg has made an excellent point. I see the purpose of the side 
bar as allowing one to work faster by gathering many common functions. I 
haven't been able to think of a name I like that communicates the speed 
aspect. Perhaps Favorites Bar, with its allusion to a browser feature, 
might incline people to try the new tool.

Best regards,
Francis

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Re: Openoffice 4 crashes when copying table in text document

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Max Merbald  wrote:

> Edit: It doesn't only happen when you try to copy a table but always when
> you try to copy by mouse.
>
> Am 22.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Max Merbald:
>
>  Hi there,
>>
>> I've got an error to report, I don't know if you're already working on it.
>>
>> 1.) Open a writer document (.odt) with a table in it.
>> 2.) Select a table in the document, right-click on it to get the the
>> context menu
>> 3.) Click "copy".
>>
>> Whenever I got through this routine the result was a message telling me
>> the the programm had a problem and needed to be closed. And closed it was.
>>
>> Build is 9701.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
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> Hello and thanks for taking the time to report a problem. It would be
helpful to report this in Bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/
Also, I just tried it myself and did not reproduce the problem, so please
be sure to mention your operating system. I'm on XP.
Francis

Re: help me open my files please

[F C. Costero]

Hi! It might be easier to get support from the user forum (
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). Please describe further what
happens when you try to open a file and what operating system you are
using.
I have seen such problems caused by a hung OpenOffice process. The easiest
fix, not knowing your level of expertise, is to shutdown the computer and
restart it.


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:06 PM, kate christmas
wrote:

> Hello, I don't know what has happened but I cant open my ODT files.I am so
> worried as I have all my work in there and I can't print or  access them in
> any way.Why has this happened? I have very important work in them that I
> need to send and its imperative that I can get into them ASAP.Please
> help.Thanks Kate Christmas

Re: Incomplete Answer (from Dr Katherine Phelps)

[F C. Costero]

Hello!! One possible solution - you can hold the shift key while rotating
to limit the movement to 15 degree increments. Also, you can probably get
better support for user questions on the user mailing list or the user
forum (http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/)
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Dr Katherine Phelps
wrote:

> On this page:
>
>
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/GraphicsFramesObjects/How_can_I_rotate_a_graphic_with_a_given_angle
>
> You answer by telling the person how to rotate a graphic. You do not tell
> them how to achieve a specific angle of rotation. If I want to rotate my
> object exactly ninety degrees, the software does not seem to make it
> possible to achieve that level of exactitude. I will carefully move the
> mouse and get 89.95 or 91.20, but never quite ninety on the dot.
>
> So, how can I get ninety?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dr Katherine Phelps
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Re: Continuous crashing of documents and then having to go through the cycle of Document Recovery 2 or 3 times per letter.

[F C. Costero]

Hello! I suggest you try resetting your user profile as explained in this
tutorial:http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
Best regards,
Francis


On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, ian.m...@talktalk.net  wrote:

> Dear Open Office,
>
> Can you please guide me as to how the above problem can be removed ?
> I never had this problem with earlier Open Office versions.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Ian Max.
>

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

[F C. Costero]

The volunteers at the user forum (
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php for support in English)
would be happy to help. You can upload the file there if it is under 128 KB.
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Marco A.G.Pinto <
marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

>  Hello!!!
>
> I have installed version 4.0 selecting the checkbox to remove old versions.
>
> I also installed the Portuguese dictionary, the US dictionary (mini-geek)
> and the LanguageTool (developer) extension.
>
> When I rebooted my Windows 8 Pro x64, when it was reaching the screen
> before the login screen, I got a blue screen saying an error has occurred
> and that Windows needed to restart.
>
> I have tried using the US dictionary, but when I right click in the status
> bar at the bottom of AOO where the language is, there is no "US", only
> "Portuguese (Portugal)", UK and a few choices to not check spelling.
>
> I also tried opening a .RTF file with lots of highlight colours in the
> words and the colours are gone. But I tried this with 3.4.1 and there it
> happened as well. Where can I upload this file? Or can I send it to the
> mailing list?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards from,
> >Marco A.G.Pinto
>   ---
>
>
> --
>

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Marco A.G.Pinto <
marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

>  Yes, I tried to register in the forum but I keep getting that my
> signature is invalid, even with only: "OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows 8"
>
> Meanwhile the file is attached here and I hope it will get through the ML.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>  >Marco A.G.Pinto
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>
>
>
> On 24/07/2013 01:34, F C. Costero wrote:
>
> The volunteers at the user forum (
> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php for support in English)
> would be happy to help. You can upload the file there if it is under 128 KB.
> Best regards,
> Francis
>
>
>
> --
>

Hello Marco,
   I downloaded your document and I see two lines in blue and 13 lines in
red, the remainder are black. Is that right? I am using version 4.0.

For the signature problem on the forum, you might try saying you use
version 3.4.1. I have reported the problem but I'm not sure how long it
will take to fix if it is indeed a general problem.

Finally, there is a tutorial on the forum about fixing spell check
problems. You do not have to be registered to view it. The link is
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512

Best regards,
Francis

Re: [REVIEW] draft blog.

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Donald Whytock 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:59 PM, janI  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> A while ago we discussed to get more bloggers.
> >>
> >> Since I have 1 years birthday in a couple of days, I have made a blog.
> >>
> >> I am not a native speaker, so I assume there are some mistakes in there,
> >> feel free to correct them.
> >>
> >> But more importantly, is this a post we as community would like to make
> >> public ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=developer_in_aoo_1year_celebration
> >>
> >> Please be gentle this is my first blog.
> >>
> >> rgds
> >> jan I.
> >>
> >
> > Sometimes, when I'm proofing material from an EFL speaker, I find myself
> > inclined to not try to fix certain things because they look naturally
> > authentic and sincere.  Excessive proofing runs the risk of editing out
> > some of the raw passion and enthusiasm being expressed.  Especially in
> > cases like this, where passion and enthusiasm are sort of the point of
> the
> > blog post.
> >
>
> +1.  A personal-perspective post should not read like a marketing brochure.
>
> I thought the post was great.  I'd recommend only simple corrections,
> e.g., standardize capitalization.
>
> I think personal posts are enhanced with a photograph, if Jan has a
> suitable one.  But it is fine either way.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> > But I can give it a shot, if you like...?
> >
> > Don
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> This is an excellent blog post. I agree that only a very few changes are
needed for clarity. The "imperfections" are minor and make it authentic.

Re: Updated table: Downloads by Country

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> I just updated the page showing downloads by country.  The last update
> was back in May.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html
>
> The ordering at the top has not changed much, except that Poland has
> overtaken the Netherlands for the #10 spot.
>
> Same number of countries listed as before.  I think we have them all,
> except North Korea, so barring political changes that count will stay
> at 237.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
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> Rob,
  Thanks for the interesting data. I did notice that country 179 is "Ã…land
Islands".  Any idea what the is supposed to be?
Best regards,
Francis

Re: [WWW]Forum not delivering e-mails

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:

> There is a problem with the automated emails on the forums:
>
> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=64264
>
> I checked on the ES forum by sending a PM from a test account to my main
> account and can confirm the problem: no notification arrived. This problem
> seems quite urgent because accounts are activated through confirmation
> email, so no email no new account.
>
> Something changed today, because until yesterday notifications worked
> without problems.
>
> Regards
> Ricardo
>
I note that on the thread "Mails from iss...@openoffice.apache.org" Rob
mentions he turned off email notification in bugzilla. A curious
coincidence though it doesn't seem that should affect the forums.
Francis

Re: Reopening the Vietnamese Forum

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

> We have a Vietnamese volunteer, Mr. Phan Anh (in CC), who recently
> completed the Vietnamese translation and would be interested in reopening
> and moderating the Vietnamese forum at
> http://forum.openoffice.org/**vi/ 
>
> So, a couple of questions for the forum administrators:
> - What are the steps needed to reopen the forum? Are you able to do it?
> (pending consensus of course)
> - And, more important, was the site closed just because of accumulated
> spam due to insufficient moderation, or other reasons that need to be
> addressed before reopening?
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>
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> Addressing the second question, the Vietnamese forum was closed only
because it was full of spam and the original moderators could not be
contacted.
 I'll post a message on the forum advising people of this thread.
Regards,
Francis

Re: Apache OO program crashes

[F C. Costero]

There is some evidence, or suspicion, on the en forum that the
automatic check for updates is involved with the problem. See this
posting and others in the same thread.
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55912&start=30#p253337

Francis

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk  wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti 
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> then I should notify all of you to see if someone
>>> >> else has the problem and possibly a solution.  His tip did
>>> >> not keep AOO from crashing, so here goes...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues:
>>> >
>>> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues
>>> >
>>> > Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 manage the user profile differently
>>> than
>>> > previous versions. The old user profile is automatically converted so
>>> that
>>> > users can keep their extensions and settings. In a minority of cases,
>>> > especially with highly customized profiles (many extensions or
>>> > customizations) the conversion doesn't succeed. Common symptoms are:
>>> > frequent application crashes, problems with dictionaries or thesaurus,
>>> > OpenOffice starting and crashing after a few seconds. To solve this, just
>>> > reset/rename your user profile as explained in the official OpenOffice
>>> > forum.
>>> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12426
>>> >
>>>
>>> So if this is our #1 issue, is there anything we can do to improve it?
>>>   Deleting the profile is really a power-user remedy.  It requires
>>> more OS knowledge than the typical user has, especially on Windows
>>> where folders like this are hidden by default.
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried to figure out exactly what is happening?  Is there
>>> anyway we can finally fix this in AOO 4.0?   We might not be able to
>>> migrate every extension, but at least make it so that if something
>>> cannot be converted we write out some diagnostic info in a text file.
>>> And if something doesn't convert, we skip it entirely?  IMHO, it is
>>> better to require a reinstall of an extension than to create an
>>> unstable profile.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>
>> This has NOT been an issue with Linux (in my experience), even though
>> Hagar's response on the forums gives instructions for how to deal with it:
>>
>> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12426
>>
>> Do we know what OSes are most affected?
>>
>>
>
> I have never seen the issue either, on Windows or Linux.  But I may be
> just missing the combination needed.
>
> What is frustrating is that we don't know the cause.
>
> Is it a problem with a single popular extension? A problem with a
> single setting, or many settings?  All settings of a specific data
> type?  A robustness issue dealing with bad data?  A new bug?  An old
> bug?
>
> Studies have shown that most people don't report problems.  If
> something doesn't work they'll just stop using it.  But they'll tell
> their friends.  So for every person who has reported this issue, we
> should consider that there are many more how are just suffering in
> silence, or have already given up.
>
> On the other hand, if this just goes away in AOO 4.0 then a
> well-publicized , easy to use profile clean-up tool might be the only
> thing we can do for current users.
>
> -Rob
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Regards,
>>> >   Andrea.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 
>> MzK
>>
>> “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world
>>  she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
>>
>> -- Anais Nin

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti  wrote:
>> Rob Weir wrote:
>>>
>>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea.   I
>>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated
>>> questions, some of them quite good.  So I'm thinking -- there must be
>>> a lot of good questions out there.  They could range from "How do
>>> I..." to 'Why did you..." to "What if you did...", etc.
>>> So the proposal is to use Google Moderator
>>
>>
>> Excellent idea. I'd just be careful in telling people that for support they
>> should go to http://forum.openoffice.org to define the kind of questions we
>> want to have (so, for example, "How can I prepare a tri-fold brochure with
>> OpenOffice?" is right; a bug report or enhancement request is not quite
>> right, at least in general).
>>
>
> Good point. Here is what we have now:
> https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2033e8
>
> Note that I added a reminder on where to go for support questions.
>
> Of course, this won't prevent support questions.  Heck, we get support
> questions on blog posts that have nothing to do with support.  But I
> assume no support question will get enough votes to go reach a "top
> 10" position.  And if one did make it through, then it would probably
> be a real interesting one.
>
> In any case, I need some volunteers from the project to help me
> moderate this.  Moderation is mainly two tasks:   1) Responding to
> items that are flagged by other users as "inappropriate".  and 2)
> Weeding out duplicate questions.  (Google tries to identify duplicates
> and when it does the duplicate question is put in the moderation queue
> for us to allow or reject),
>
> Moderation should not be very time consuming, maybe 10 minutes/day .
> If you want to help, let me know your Google ID (usually your Gmail
> address).  Send it to me off-list if you prefer.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
>
>> Regards,
>>   Andrea.

Rob,
   Moderating that list will fit right in with my daily forum tasks,
so you can count on me to help. My Google id is fjcc.apa...@gmail.com.
  I suggest adding to the text of the Call for Questions the
information about duplicate questions being filtered and encouraging
people to scan the list before trying to add to it.
Regards,
Francis

Re: Open Office 3.41

[F C. Costero]

Hi Kevin,
   I'm sorry to hear you are having a problem. There is a tutorial on
the forum about this topic.
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512

There are a few different possible causes and it is probably easier
for you to look there and work through the steps of the tutorial
rather than someone trying to explain it all here. You don't need to
register to look at the tutorial. If your problem isn't solved, I
encourage you to register on the forum and ask there or try the user
mailing list.
Best regards,
Francis

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM, K BAILEY
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently updated open office to the latest version & since doing so a 
> problem with spell check has occurred in that after typing a document or 
> letter & clicking on spell check, it states almost every word is incorrect 
> but makes no suggestions for corrections.
>
> Have other people experienced this problem & is there a solution.
>
> Thank you
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
> Kevin Bailey

Re: Draft blog post: Call for Marketing Volunteers

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:
> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_marketing_volunteers

A minor point about "perhaps second only to Linux and Firefox". Can
OpenOffice be second to two other products? How about "perhaps outdone
only by Linux and Firefox in name recognition"?

Francis

Re: Open Office

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Catherine McNaught
 wrote:
> Hi
> So sorry to email you with this. Please forgive.
> I am teaching technology at an International school in Singapore. About a
> dozen of my students have the OpenOffice Base freezing on them constantly.
> Restart, uninstall and re download have not fixed the problem. I have told
> them to Trash their current build and download an English version from
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html. My installation is fine
> which makes me think it could be a key combination the student is using
> that is causing the problem but I haven't as yet got them to give me their
> machines to check if it freezes for me. We are all using Macbook Pros.
> Any ideas on this freezing issue?
>
> Very much appreciated if you pass this email on to someone who could help.
> Kind Regards
> Catherine
>
>
>
>
>
> *Ms Catherine McNaught*
>

I suggest they try resetting the user profile as explained in the
tutorial on the English forum
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426#p58401

If that does not fix the problem, asking for help on the forum is a
good way to get more help. People can read the forum without
registering but one must register to post questions.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: AOO questions on Google

[F C. Costero]

Since there is some interest in this particular topic, here are the 9
questions I categorized as MS Interoperability with the number of positive
votes appended to each in parentheses.
1. I tryed to save my word processor file as a MS Word file  only
extensions listed in the drop down were for text or Open Office, no Word
option.  Help function said I should have had that option in the drop down
under save as. version 3.4.1.
Could you add a converter for format MS .docx as the actual converter for
.doc does not work proper. It mix up text and drawings and make the whole
page a mess. (1)

2. hello,
How can i open openoffice file with microsoft office?
Gr Sam Esman (5)

3. What kind of OOXML support is intended in AOO?
Transitional (MS Word) version or ISO (does someone really implement it?).
(3)

4. If save filter is implemented, don't you fear a weakening of the ODF
then? (6)

5. allow open office to use ms office defaults (5)

6. can i install openoffice when i have microsoft office on my computer (4)

7. OpenOffice, should be able to open properly all 'Word office' files. (9)

8. Is open office compatible with Office 2010? (8)

9. Open Office doesn't handle tables in Word well - for example re-sizing
of columns, keeping table rows together, inserting page breaks within
tables. Could OO development include a goal of fully matching MS Office
functionality for tables? (13)



On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Drew Jensen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Long time since I said anything and so how about,
> Happy Holidays, to start.
>
> Just to say that the #2 doesn't surprise me at all and yes I would strongly
> suspect it has lots to do with OOXML. Don't forget that this does not
> necessarily mean interoperability with MSO it also
> means interchangeability with GDocs as best as I can tell.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton  >wrote:
>
> > Concerning Microsoft Office interoperability, I suspect the absence of a
> > way to save documents in OOXML formats is a detractor from Apache
> > OpenOffice 3.4.  There are the usual interchange fidelity issues as well,
> > depending on which interchangeable formats are used.
> >
> >  - Dennis
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: janI [mailto:j...@apache.org]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 02:37
> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: AOO questions on Google
> >
> > Thanks for the summary !
> >
> > Personally I asumed that LO would be #1, but I am amazed about #2 (MS
> > Office interoperability  and Other formats) I thought that was one of our
> > very strong sides. I might be worthwhile to look a bit deeper into that,
> > and see if the cause for the questions is in lack of features, lack of
> > documentation or someelse, to give a clue of what to do ? Maybe we can do
> > something with 4.0.
> >
> > Jan I.
> >
> > On 23 December 2012 04:00, F C. Costero  wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > > MS Office interoperability54
> > > Non-English15
> > > Other formats54
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >
>

Re: Symphony code in AOO 4.0

[F C. Costero]

On 1/20/2013 2:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Kay Schenk  wrote:

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Andrea Pescettiwrote:


Rob Weir wrote:


OK.  Here is a draft:
https://blogs.apache.org/**preview/OOo/?previewEntry=**
merging_symphony_allegro_non_**troppo
Note that there are some suggested topics at the end, where I need
detail.  I welcome help from anyone who can help fill in the details.




Highly interesting *and* entertaining!





Thanks! In the draft you ask for the screenshots showing enhancements: I
think it's the same page by Shenfeng Liu we've already shared here,
http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Documentation/Fidelity_**
Improvement_Since_AOO341
(they are not all from Symphony, but the majority are, including all
"OOXML Support" enhancements).

Can the long bullet list be prioritized in some ways? Not all the list,
but at least making sure that the first few items are the most relevant. I
would put issues containing "crash" first, but maybe someone who has better
knowledge of the impact can suggest other issues worth to be listed at the
top.



Yes, it would be good to give category headings for this list.  I
understand the jsutification for length -- what, really, is being
incorporated from Symphony, but if length is an issue, maybe drop some.



OK.  Look now.  I re-ordered the bugs a little to put some of the more
interesting ones first.  I also added a header.  Since an article is
coming out in a couple of days on Lwn.net claiming that we have done
absolutely nothing with the Symphony code, there is value in giving
the full list.  We should leave no doubt that work in this area has
been ongoing.  While some were working on the more publicly visible
AOO 3.4.1 work on a branch, a lot was happening in the trunk.  We
haven't really spoken about that work before.  Now is a good time.




The title "Allegro non troppo" is a clever pun! The expression is clearly
recognizable as international musical jargon and a pun on Symphony, but the
usual meaning of "allegro" in Italian is "happy" which adds an interesting
twist...

Minor typo just before the bullet list: "the fix fro Symphony".

Regards,
   Andrea.



Finally, although I realize that most blog readers will be non-technical, I
think it might be valuable to at least broach the subject of SGA vs
licensing here in some way.  Even if a few sentences could be added under:

"IBM Lotus Symphony is a commercial derivative of OpenOffice which IBM
enhanced  for their
customer and corporate use.Last May IBM contributed the source code for
Symphony to Apache, via a Software Grant Agreement (SGA). "

to address this it would be great. What does it mean to contribute code and
"use" it piecemeal vs re-licensing it , for example.



I added some additional text to explain what an SGA is.  I also
corrected the typo that Andrea pointed out and add the link to the
"before&  after" screen shots that he posted.


So I'm happy to make further changes or content additions. But I'm
generally happy with.

-Rob



This is  a great blog! I'm sure our users and general audience will
appreciate it!

--

MzK

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
  --
Aesop

Rob,
  Thanks for working on this, it is very well done. I noticed a couple 
of typos in the third movement:

"A a modeless property picker" needs only one "A".
"So we're considering at several" drop the "at"
"and we're bring those into OpenOffice. " should be "and we're bringing 
those into OpenOffice".
I'm also not sure "modeless" will be meaningful to regular users. Would 
"continuously available" be better?

Regards,
Francis

Re: Türkçe Yazım Denetimi

[F C. Costero]

Help for the problem can be found on the English forum:
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512


2013/2/18 ANIL KULAKSIZOGLU 

> Merhaba, ben OpenOffice3.3.0 kullanıyorum, fakat Otomatik İmla Denetimi
> düğmesi çalışmıyor ve yanlış kelimenin altında dalgalı kırmızı çizgi
> belirlemiyor(çıkmıyor) ve
> İmla denetimi ve Dilbilgisi (F7)
> düğmesi de çalışmıyor-yanlış kelimeleri görmüyor. Bu düğmeleri nasıl
> çalışır duruma gelir, ne yapmalıyım. Dil paketini indirmem mi gerekiyor?
> Ayarlarını nasıl ayarlarım? Beni bilgilendirmenizi rica ederim.
> Saygılarımla, Anıl Kulaksızoğlu

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

[F C. Costero]

The English forum is back up. I haven't checked any others.
Francis


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:31 AM, RGB ES  wrote:

> 2013/3/19 FR web forum 
>
> > Nagios monitore forums with HTML and SSL services.
> > But it's the MySQL deamon that must be watched.
> >
>
> Indeed: Forums are green on the status page now, but they do not work.
>
> Regards
> Ricardo
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > -
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
> >
> >
>

Re: draft blog post: With Special Guest Star... Apache OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

Very good! I have a couple of editing suggestions, if it is not too late.
The line
"Those with access (and this may has geo-based access restrictions) can see
scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the
episode."
Should be
"Those with access (and this may have geo-based access restrictions) can
see the scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the
episode
."
Francis


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kay Schenk  wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=with_special_guest_star_apache
> >
> > This is time-sensitive, so I'd like to get this out this afternoon.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Rob
> >
>
> Go Tessa! Go AOO! and dang, sorry I missed this episode! :/
> Yep, good to go!
>
>
> --
>
> 
> MzK
>
> "There's no upside in screwing with things you can't explain."
> -- Captain Roy Montgomery, "Castle"
>

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Kay Schenk  wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Hans Palmér  >wrote:
>
> > Whenever I start OpenOffice, it crashes after one minute.
> >
> > I have a Dell Dimension 9200 computer with Windows 7 Home Premium with
> > Asus Geforce GT640
> >
> > Hans Palmér
>
>
> Hans --
>
> 1) what version of Apache OpenOffice are you trying to install? and did you
> get it directly from our download site:
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/
>
> 2) Is this a new install or an update for you?
>
> 3) If it's an update, what version are you updating from?
>
> The reason I ask 3) is that the product underwent a structural change
> affecting your profile settings from version 3.4.x to 4.0.x
>
> In truth, I am not a Windows user but collecting this information for
> others who may further assist you. And, I would recommend that you take a
> look at the Release Notes for 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 for additional information on
> the recent changes.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.1.html
>
> You may also find additional help with our support Forum:
> http://forum.openoffice.org/
>
> Sorry about this problem. Hopefully, it can be resolved soon.
>
> --
>
> -
> MzK
>
> "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged
>  to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
>  -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain
>
Resetting the user profile may solve the problem. There is a tutorial on
the forum explaining the steps.
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426

Regards
Francis

Re: Open Office 4.01

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Slivka wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been a loyal user of Open Office for the past several years.  The
> spreadsheet does a nice job of replacing the basics of Excel.
>
> Two things though that I really would like to see be improved or added for
> future releases:
>
> 1) In a large spreadsheet I block several cells and only want to print
> those cells.  Print Preview and Print wants to print the whole spreadsheet,
> which could be several pages.  But, maybe I only need a half page or about
> one page only.  Maybe there is a way of doing it, but try as I do I can't
> seem to get to print only what I've blocked or highlighted.
>
> 2) Excel has a very nice block and move feature.  You can block or
> highlight  a group of cells and just drag them to a different location and
> keep the formatting of the moved cells.  This is slick and you don't have
> to go thru a copy and paste procedure which is much more cumbersome.
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Jerry [?]
>
Hello Jerry,
   If I understand you correctly, the equivalent actions in Calc are:
1. Highlight the cells you want to print. Select the menu Format -> Print
Ranges -> Define. Selecting File -> Page Preview will then show only the
selected cells.
2. Highlight the cells you want to move. Left click and hold the mouse
button down inside the selected range (not at the edge of the range as in
Excel) and drag to the new location.

I hope that helps.
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I understand the problem to be that OpenOffice will not start on your
computer. If you are getting no error, this can happen because
 an OpenOffice process is stuck. Not knowing what operating system you are
using, the simplest solution is probably to reboot your computer.
Francis


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

> Site is up and running here, maybe he went to a different domain, please go
> to
> http://openoffice.org
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:47 PM,  wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > I am unable to access my open office.
> > Can you please assist me?
> > Thanks for your reply,
> > Ms. Phyllis
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> http://www.openoffice.org
> 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
>

Log in glitch on en forum

[F C. Costero]

I and another moderator have both gotten a message claiming "maximum number
of log in attempts exceeded" when we tried to log into the en forum. I did
not get that message when logging into the es forum. We could log in
successfully after properly entering a Captcha. Perhaps this a a result of
the recent software changes.
Regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Brian Moore
wrote:

> Good afternoon, I have recently downloaded Mac’s OS X Mavericks and it
> refused to open  ‘OpenOffice.!
>
> I went into System Preferences Security & Privacy and instructed it to
> open ‘OpenOffice’ which it now does!
>
> However it now comes up with the following window :-
>
> The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening
> windows. Do you want to try and reopen its windows again?
>
> Having told the computer to accept ‘OpenOffice’ it has reopened it by
> pressing the Reopen button.
>
> The problem is that I cannot delete the little window that comes up and
> can only remove it by shutting the computer off! Any ideas on how to get
> rid of this annoying little window?
>
> Any help would be gratefully received
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian Moore
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> There are several threads on the user forum about this problem. One
example is: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=63965.
You do not need to register on the forum to read the contents.
Regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I'm sorry you are having trouble with Calc. Can you give a specific example
of what is happening? I use Calc all the time and don't encounter such
problems but we may have different uses.
Best regards,
Francis


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert  wrote:

> Your Excel Spreadsheet software needs serious work.
>
> It is constantly changing the format of each box, even when default
> settings were put in place for that particular file and basically chooses
> whatever it wants without any regard to what information it is given.
>
> Even Microsoft is not so stupid to have done a major mistake like that.
> and they are well know for their mistakes
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

There are people who would be happy to help on the user mailing list or on
one of the forums (https://forum.openoffice.org/). Your message was sent to
the developer mailing list. You might get help here, but that is not the
primary purpose of the list. Please describe your problem in detail when
you do post on one of the user support sites.
Best regards,
Francis


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Hitesh kamat wrote:

> Hi i have problem with my mac after i update my iOS . can u help me so i
> don’t have to use microsoft
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>

Re: Printing a database

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was
> fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print.
>
> If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8
>
>
> Regards
> David McGhee
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> Hello David,
  If you want to print the entire contents of a database table, it is
easiest to import the table into Calc or Writer. If you registered your
database when you created it, the process is simple.
1. Open a new Calc or Writer document.
2. Press F4, which will open a pane near the top of the screen showing all
of your registered data sources.
3. Click the + next to the name of your database to show the tables and
queries.
4. Expand the list of tables using the +.
5. Click and drag the name of your table into the new document.
6. Print that document.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Francis

Re: Printing a database

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was
> fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print.
>
> If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8
>
>
> Regards
> David McGhee
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> Another copy in case David isn't registered.
Hello David,
  If you want to print the entire contents of a database table, it is
easiest to import the table into Calc or Writer. If you registered your
database when you created it, the process is simple.
1. Open a new Calc or Writer document.
2. Press F4, which will open a pane near the top of the screen showing all
of your registered data sources.
3. Click the + next to the name of your database to show the tables and
queries.
4. Expand the list of tables using the +.
5. Click and drag the name of your table into the new document.
6. Print that document.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Francis

Re: OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

[F C. Costero]

Your description of the available password protection options is what is
typically said on the en forum. I don't recall anyone ever suggesting that
users avoid password protection, though I don't read every post.
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> I noticed this note, which I thought was odd:
>
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg35699.html
>
> I'm hoping this is just a confusion, but we do need to be careful to
> avoid confusion in this area, since it can cause users to panic.
>
> The facts, as I understand them:
>
> There are two features in OpenOffice (and in LibreOffice and Microsoft
> Office) that users refer to when they talk about passwords:
>
> 1) Password protected encrypted documents
>
> 2) Password protected sections, cells, read-only files, etc.
>
> An encrypted document is as good as your password.  We use good, high
> quality encryption in ODF documents by default.  And we use MS Office
> compatible encryption, which is also good, with Office files.
>
> But in practice most users have far weaker passwords than they should.
>  The context of a password protected file is much more vulnerable than
> a website password.  A typical website will allow you to attempt a log
> in 3 or 5 times before locking you out for an hour or more.  But
> someone who has your encrypted document can attempt to guess the
> password without any such restriction.  They can run sophisticated
> programs, standalone password crackers, with GPU hardware acceleration
> to attempt billions of passwords.  So a casual password of 6
> alphanumeric characters will be quickly broken. So given the context
> users should be using longer, more complex passwords.  Of course, that
> makes it more likely that they will forget the password and show up on
> the forums when they forget.  However you look at it, document-based
> passwords are a 1985 solution to a problem that is better solved today
> in other ways.
>
> As for the protected sections, we should all know that these are
> "honor system" protection mechanisms, essentially child safety locks,
> and offer no real cryptographic protection.  This is true in MS Office
> is well.  The feature is there to help the user define sections that
> they don't want accidentally deleted, but the password protection can
> be trivially defeated in 30 seconds with a text editor and a copy of
> unzip.  This is not a flaw in OpenOffice.  This is not a bug.  This is
> how the feature was designed and has been used in Microsoft Office and
> even 1-2-3 before then.
>
> Hopefully we're telling users something that is consistent with what I
> outlined above.  Of course, it is quite possible that many users will
> not understand this and all they hear is "My password can be broken so
> OpenOffice is bad".
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>

Re: Find and Replace Macro with regex captured groups in replace text

[F C. Costero]

The problem is the line
oFind.setString(FandR.ReplaceString)

The setString() method takes a string input and doesn't know anything about
the search done with oDoc.FindNext() or regular expressions. You can
perform a global replace that implements your regular expression with
oDoc.replaceAll(FandR)
I tried this for the string budh and got

budh 1P = b[guṇa udh]->b[a+udh]->bodh + a->bodha
which is not exactly what you expected.
I don't at the moment see how to do a local replace but I'm no expert in
such things.
Best regards,
Francis

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Harry Spier wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I need to write a macro that tries to match a series of regexs against some
> text I've selected and then replace it with a replacement string that
> contains captured groups.
>
> I've tried the following (borrowed and modified from some on-line code) but
> it doesn't recognise $0,$1,$2,$3 as captured groups and just prints them
> out as literals.
> This is what I've tried:
> ---
> Sub Stem1P()
> Dim oDoc,oText,oVC,oStart,oEnd,oFind,FandR
> oDoc = ThisComponent : oText = oDoc.Text
> oVC = oDoc.CurrentController.getViewCursor
>
>
> aFind = Array(
> "([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo[:space:]])(a)([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo]h{0,1})[:space:]{0,1}",_
> "([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo[:space:]]*)(i)([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo]h{0,1})[:space:]{0,1}",_
> "([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo[:space:]])(u)([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo]h{0,1})[:space:]{0,1}",_
> "([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo[:space:]]*)(ṛ)([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo]h{0,1})[:space:]{0,1}",_
> "([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo[:space:]]*)(ḷ)([^aāiīuūṛṝḷḹeo]h{0,1})[:space:]{0,1}")
>
>
>
>
> aReplace = Array ( "$0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[$2$3]->$1a$3 + a->$1a$3a",_
> "$0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[a+$2$3]->$1e$3 + a->$1e$3a",_
> "$0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[a+$2$3]->$1o$3 + a->$1o$3a",_
> "$0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[a+$2$3]->$1ar$3 + a->$1ar$3a",_
> "$0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[a+$2$3]->$1al$3 + a->$1al$3a")
>
>
> aRayCount = 0
> While aRayCount <= uBound(aFind)
> oStart = oText.createTextCursorByRange(oVC.Start)
> oEnd = oText.createTextCursorByRange(oVC.End)
> FandR = oDoc.createReplaceDescriptor
> With FandR
> .SearchString = aFind(aRayCount)
> .ReplaceString = aReplace(aRayCount)
> .searchCaseSensitive = true
> .SearchWords = false
> .SearchRegularExpression = true
> End With
> Do
> oFind = oDoc.FindNext(oStart.End,FandR)
> If isNull(oFind) then Exit Do
> If oText.compareRegionEnds(oFind,oEnd) < 0 then Exit Do
> oFind.setString(FandR.ReplaceString)
> oFind = oDoc.FindNext(oFind.End,FandR)
> Loop
>
> aRayCount = aRayCount + 1
> Wend
> End Sub
> 
> When I select the text   budhand then run the macro it doesn't
> recognize $0,$1,$2,$3 as captured groups but prints:
>
> $0 1P = $1[guṇa $2$3]->$1[a+$2$3]->$1o$3 + a->$1o$3a
> instead of what I want which is :
>
> budh 1P = b[guṇa udh]->b[a+udh]->bedh + a -> budha
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

[F C. Costero]

Hello Amy,
   If you are interested in helping users, one of the options is to
volunteer on the forum. The English forum is at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php
All you have to do is register and start answering questions. I'm a
moderator there (user FJCC) and would be happy to answer any questions you
have. Of course, there are many ways to help and I encourage you to look
around the whole project to see what interests you.
Best regards,
Francis


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Amy Jo Perreault wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> My name is Amy Jo Perreault and I live in Pleasant Prairie WI. I would
> like to help with the Openoffice program. I will admit that my computer
> tech skills are not really high. but I do use the office program often and
> I would like to help less technical savvy users understand the system more
> if I can. I am not sure if this will be helpful but I thought I would at
> least try to help this way as much as I want to contribute money I just
> don't have it at the time. But I do have time to volunteer.

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

I'm sorry to hear you are having a stability problem. Please try resetting
your user profile as explained in this tutorial on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
You don't need to register on the forum to read it.
Best regards,
Francis


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Richard Tomlinson wrote:

> I have been using OpenOffice for a few years, originally the Sun
> Microsystems official version.
>
> Since installing 4.0.1 I have been unable to get any work done as
> OpenOffice crashes almost immediately no matter what file I open. Proceeds
> to file recovery than crashes again.  I have read everything I can
> understand in the user help section and can not fix the issue. I
> uninstalled 4.0.1 and installed the previous version 3.4.? but now it
> crashes also.
>
> I must abandon use of this product as it prevents me from accomplishing
> useful work.  This is a very large and complex product and would be
> wonderful if it worked.  For future users perhaps you should concentrate on
> the fundamentals, stability and ease of updating.
>
> Richard Tomlinson
>
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>
>

Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain
> who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer.   The
> wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced.
>
> You can read about the study here:
> https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss
>
> Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to
> contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an
> opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested.
> You can see the draft survey here:
>
> http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/
>
> It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and
> then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up
> study.  If they agree then we collect their email address.
>
> If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any
> concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> In the question "Which of these applications do you know how to use?" I'm
not sure what the Other answer is intended to capture. I use several
applications besides word processors, spreadsheets, databases and email.
And leaving out a presentation application as an explicit option seems odd.
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:17 AM,  wrote:

> my spell check doesn't work, am I supposed to download a dictionary?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Windows Mail

Please try the steps in the spell check troubleshooting tutorial on the
user forum
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512
You do not need to register to view the tutorial.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?

[F C. Costero]

Hello!
If you create a Base file using the menu File -> New -> Database -> Create
a New Database, you will get a Base file that runs HSQLDB version 1.8 as an
embedded database. The SQL documentation for that is here:
http://www.hsqldb.org/doc/1.8/guide/ch09.html. I would not recommend using
the embedded mode for critical work because of the possibility of data
loss. The data loss is not due to instability of HSQLDB but to the nature
of the embedded mode.
If you create a Base file using the menu File -> New -> Database -> Connect
to an Existing Database, you can connect to an external database through
JDBC, ODBC or any of the other listed methods. This means you can connect
to any database engine of your choosing and use its version of SQL.
More detailed answers are best provided on the user mailing list or on the
forums at https://forum.openoffice.org/
Best regards,
Francis


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Dima Sidorenko
wrote:

> Hello!.
>
> Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?, What server database used in
> OpenOffice Base?, Dialects which are supported in OpenOffice Base?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sidorenko Dmitriy.
>

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:42 AM, jan i  wrote:

> On 1 June 2014 14:21, Hagar Delest  wrote:
>
> > Le 01/06/2014 13:12, jan i a écrit :
> >
> >  I have noticed the traffic level, but seen from a monitoring POW, there
> >> are
> >> no problems with forum.
> >>
> >
> > Ah, indeed, I let my browser and after about 5 min, it reached the
> > homepage. So not dead at all.
> >
> >
> >
> >  My guess is that forum have been attacked in the same way our wiki was a
> >> year ago.
> >>
> >> To fight that, you need to close for creating accounts, clean the db,
> >> update php2bb, and cross fingers before you open again.
> >>
> >
> > Problem is that there is no admin anymore. So I fear there is no one to
> do
> > that.
> >
> ?? I thought at least you, imacat was admins. At vm level, pescetti, imacat
> have full admin (sudo) rights.
>
> rgds
> jan I.
>
>
> >
> > If the forum is not dead at all, should we anyway take the initiative and
> > upload the code snippets here or wait for an action from the owner (with
> no
> > guaranty on the lead time)?
> >
> >
> > Hagar
> >
> > -
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
> >
> >
>
We have some confusion here. The forum that is dead is not the official AOO
forum but the older unofficial forum at www.oooforum.org. As Hagar says, it
is not completely dead, in the sense that it can be reached sometimes with
sufficient patience, but all of the new posts are spam. I checked in mid
April and there was not a single non-spam post over the previous two weeks.
That situation seems to have continued.
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Roberta Yule Owen  wrote:

> well, sort of -
>
> I have been using OpenOffice for some time and now have version 3.0.  I
> did not know that Apache has taken over OpenOffice, and I have a few
> questions:
>
> Is Apache 4.1.0 the latest version of what I already have?
>
> If I install Apache 4.1.0, will it upgrade my present 3.0 or will it
> install a completely different system, so that I would have to delete the
> 3.0 myself?
>
> I normally save my documents as .doc - is that still possible with 4.1.0?
>
> Is a .doc usable (edit, etc) with 4.1.0?
>
> My OpenOffice documents are .odt - does 4.1.0 still use that extension?
>  If not, is it still usable with 4.1.0?
>
>
>
> In addition, I have a problem with printing envelopes: they print barcodes
> across (up and down) the envelope face.  I have worked with a printer
> technician, and we cannot find any way that the printer could be adding the
> barcodes.  He suggested that I call OpenOffice; that is why I have
> discovered Apache OpenOffice!  If the answers to all my above questions are
> positive, I will download the 4.1.0 and hope that the barcode problem will
> no longer be present.
>
> If the barcodes persist, I will go to Support, but before that happens, I
> need to know the answers to these questions.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Roberta Yule Owen

Hello Roberta,
   Yes. 4.1.0 is the latest version of Apache OpenOffice.
   The 4.1.0 version should install in parallel to your 3.0 version. I
suggest keeping both versions active for a little while until you are sure
that 4.1.0 works well for you. There have been many improvements since 3.0
but it only takes one bug sometimes to cause a big problem.
   The latest version can still save in the .doc format and its native
format is .odt.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo)  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
>
> As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default.
>
> If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue.
> If you think the design could be improved please make a (graphical)
> suggestion.
>
> I'll watch for errors and reports and will be available today and tomorrow
> for any short-term fixes.
>
> A big thank you to all who helped me with opinions & suggestions.
>
> Marcus
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
I'm probably being stupid but I get empty drop down lists from which to
select the OS, language and version. I tried with both FIrefox and IE.
Francis

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

[F C. Costero]

The cache is why I tried IE because I very rarely use it and I didn't think
I had used it at all since I rebuilt my hard drive a while ago. But indeed,
clearing the cache fixed it. Sorry to bother you.
Best regards,
Francis


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Marcus (OOo)  wrote:

> Am 06/06/2014 08:12 PM, schrieb F C. Costero:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo)
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
>>>
>>> As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default.
>>>
>>> If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue.
>>> If you think the design could be improved please make a (graphical)
>>> suggestion.
>>>
>>> I'll watch for errors and reports and will be available today and
>>> tomorrow
>>> for any short-term fixes.
>>>
>>> A big thank you to all who helped me with opinions&  suggestions.
>>>
>>>  I'm probably being stupid but I get empty drop down lists from which to
>> select the OS, language and version. I tried with both FIrefox and IE.
>>
>
> Please delete the browser cache. Or reload the webpage with pressed and
> hold [Shift] key (hopefully working also in browsers other than Firefox).
> Or restart it.
>
> HTH
>
>
> Marcus
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:30 PM, John Jay  wrote:

> Both my ABC with a check mark and my ABC with a squigly line do not work.
>   I CAN NOT use them to check a word spelling.  When using ABC check mark
> it goes to the beginning, I must take one word at a time to be corrected.
>  ABC squigly line put a line under every thing.  Would you please help me
> correct the problem so I can agin enjoy their use.
> John


Hello John,
  Please try resetting your user profile as explained here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
and if spell check still does not work, work through the troubleshooting
tutorial here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426

If you need more help, try asking on the user mailing list or on the user
forum that hosts the links above. Those are better places to get support
than this developers mailing list.
Best regards.
Franics

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Steve Johnson 
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I downloaded openoffice a few years ago and only use it occasionally.
> Each time I use it I am prompted to register it. But when I try, it says it
> needs to be done in a JRE environment.  I have not a clue what that means.
> Would you please explain that for me?
>
> Thanks
> Steve

Hi Steve,
   The registration process is no longer active, so you can just ignore
that. A JRE is a Java Runtime Environment, which is available from
Java.com. It is needed to run a few of the features of OpenOffice. However,
if you haven't run into any other problems, you don't seem to need it. Your
older version of OpenOffice requires and old version of the JRE and I don't
recommend going through the trouble without a reason.
You should consider  getting a more recent version of OpenOffice from
www.openoffice.org. That download process will redirect you to SourceForge
and the download will start automatically. There is no need to click on
anything at SourceForge.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Campbell Bryan  wrote:

> I have open office 4.1 but can't obtain either access to word or
> publisher. Is this possible? If so how?
>
> C J Bryan
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> Hello Cambell,
OpenOffice will open Word documents but not those from Publisher. Do you
find you can't open any Word documents at all or just a particular
document? What steps are you taking to open the document(s)?
Francis

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.1 Install Problem

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Harry Seyfert  wrote:

> Hello,
> I attempted to upgrade my OpenOffice to version 4.1.1 and had a problem.
> While the install was running, I received a message stating that “Object
> already exists” and only one option to reply,“OK”  Clicking this option
> yields the following Installation Wizard message:  “The wizard was
> interrupted before OpenOffice 4.1.1 could be completely installed.  Your
> system has not been modified.  To complete installation at another time,
> please run setup again.  Click Finish to exit the wizard.”
>
> I have done this for 3 times with no difference in response.
>
> How do I go about updating OpenOffice o version 4.1.1?
>
> Harry Seyfert
>
> Sitting in my Shack
> Maybe Mobile
> Perhaps Portable
> but on the air with my FT-817ND!
> There's No Time for QRO!
> QSL? WD9FYF
>
> NAQCC: #6611
> QRP-ARCI: #15023
> BMHA: #386
>
>
> Harry G. Seyfert
> 1477 Sunset Lane
> Kankakee, IL 60901-4542
> 815-928-8918 (Home)
> 815-644-8762 (Cell)
> wd9...@arrl.net
> wd9...@gmail.com
>

Hello,
   There is a thread on the support forum (
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=71726) that I
think will answer your question. You do not need to register on the forum
to read threads. I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Problem with open office

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Juned M.  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have had problem with this msg which has been coming up everytime i
> start openofffice in my computer for the past 8 months. Dosnt help to click
> on it or whatever else i try. I have deleted and reinstalled open office,
> but it still appears again. Hope you guys can help me out. Sending the
> error msg as attachment. I use a Macbook pro.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Juned m@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
Hi,
   Your attachment doesn't appear, so I'm guessing you have the problem
described in this forum thread:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55755&#p244931.
You don't have to register on the forum to view the thread. I hope that
helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Spell check

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Frank  wrote:

> How do I get my spell check to work? I misspell a word, hit the abc and a
> box comes up that says
> nothing is misspelled.
>
>

There is an extensive tutorial about troubleshooting the spell check
function on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512
You do not have to register to view the topics. I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Can open Open office add?

[F C. Costero]

Hi Darren,
   Really, what is the probability that a spreadsheet program that has
roots going back 30 years can't add correctly? Could the program survive
with that kind of flaw? I understand that it isn't doing what you expect
and over at the user forum we would be happy to help straighten out the
problem. The fact that a formula works one way in Excel and another in Calc
is not evidence that either is wrong. For example, the two programs differ
in their willingness to silently convert text to numbers. This commonly
leads to Excel users being surprised by a calculation in Calc and, I
suppose, Calc users being surprised by Excel. Neither approach is "right";
each expresses a choice about balancing user convenience and the risk of
miscalculations. Your problem may be along those lines or may be totally
different. If you post an example on the forum, we can probably quickly
find the problem.
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Darren Myers 
wrote:

> What list? what do you mean by list... a list of numbers, a list of
> programming flaws, pseudo code structure.
>
> There is a significant issue with the basic function which doesn't allow
> me or a few people I have spoken to tonight work for them.
>
> Just admit the sum function doesn't work, it can't add up which I find
> very difficult to understand.
>
> But it doesn't matter, I have found a work around... that's using Excel on
> my Company laptop as that works!!!, and then re-importing my entire spread
> sheet into your backwards program to work at home.
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:55:27 -0700
> Subject: Re: Can open Open office add?
> From: kay.sch...@gmail.com
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; myers_dar...@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Darren Myers 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Nope categorically incorrect, I'm afraid your wrong and you need to look
> at the code again. There are serious bugs within OpenOffice, doesn't anyone
> test the basics?
>
> attached is a screen shot and it clearly shows the issue.  A calculation
> of different numbers showing clearly the formula which in excel WORKS! but
> in OpenOffice doesn't.
>
> Is it a limitation of the program?
>
> The only way I was able to calculate was doing the following formula which
> is medieval   =sum(c5+c9+C11   etc etc   that then produced a total.
>
> Darren --
>
> This list does not allow attachments so your screenshot did not come
> through.
>
> Please make use of the Support Forums -- https://forum.openoffice.org/
>
> where you can provide an attachment of the sheet you're using that is
> returning the incorrect result. Typically a screenshot is not helpful for
> solving problems of this nature.
>
> For the great majority of us, the SUM function works correctly.
>
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:12:20 +0100
> From: j...@juergen-lange.de
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Can open Open office add?
>
> Ok Darren, OpenOffice works fine for me. If I put numbers like 4,5,4,3
> into C5..C8 OpenOffice sums them up - the result is 16. If you put empty
> fields between (why?) you will see, that OpenOffice will mark only the
> last field with a box. Extend the box over all your numbers and you'll
> get 16 again.
>
> Jürgen
>
>
> Am 27.10.2014 um 23:18 schrieb Darren Myers:
> > The reason I ask if it can add is, I don't think it can
> >
> > I found a huge flaw in your program the formulas don't work...
> >
> > Example =sum(C5:C15)   with a list of numbers... 4, 5, 4, 3 which should
> equate to 16  Well in EXCEL it does!!! Your crappy program adds the
> fucking numbers and  comes up with 3...?? WTFserious fix this most
> basic problem.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
>
> -
>
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
> --
>
> -
> MzK
>
> "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth
>  to a dancing star."
>  -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
>

Fwd: Can open Open office add?

[F C. Costero]

Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference
below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years.
That's what I get for reading only the title of a message.
Francis

-- Forwarded message ------
From: F C. Costero 
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Can open Open office add?
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org


Hi Darren,
   Really, what is the probability that a spreadsheet program that has
roots going back 30 years can't add correctly? Could the program survive
with that kind of flaw? I understand that it isn't doing what you expect
and over at the user forum we would be happy to help straighten out the
problem. The fact that a formula works one way in Excel and another in Calc
is not evidence that either is wrong. For example, the two programs differ
in their willingness to silently convert text to numbers. This commonly
leads to Excel users being surprised by a calculation in Calc and, I
suppose, Calc users being surprised by Excel. Neither approach is "right";
each expresses a choice about balancing user convenience and the risk of
miscalculations. Your problem may be along those lines or may be totally
different. If you post an example on the forum, we can probably quickly
find the problem.
Best regards,
Francis


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Darren Myers 
wrote:

> What list? what do you mean by list... a list of numbers, a list of
> programming flaws, pseudo code structure.
>
> There is a significant issue with the basic function which doesn't allow
> me or a few people I have spoken to tonight work for them.
>
> Just admit the sum function doesn't work, it can't add up which I find
> very difficult to understand.
>
> But it doesn't matter, I have found a work around... that's using Excel on
> my Company laptop as that works!!!, and then re-importing my entire spread
> sheet into your backwards program to work at home.
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:55:27 -0700
> Subject: Re: Can open Open office add?
> From: kay.sch...@gmail.com
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; myers_dar...@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Darren Myers 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Nope categorically incorrect, I'm afraid your wrong and you need to look
> at the code again. There are serious bugs within OpenOffice, doesn't anyone
> test the basics?
>
> attached is a screen shot and it clearly shows the issue.  A calculation
> of different numbers showing clearly the formula which in excel WORKS! but
> in OpenOffice doesn't.
>
> Is it a limitation of the program?
>
> The only way I was able to calculate was doing the following formula which
> is medieval   =sum(c5+c9+C11   etc etc   that then produced a total.
>
> Darren --
>
> This list does not allow attachments so your screenshot did not come
> through.
>
> Please make use of the Support Forums -- https://forum.openoffice.org/
>
> where you can provide an attachment of the sheet you're using that is
> returning the incorrect result. Typically a screenshot is not helpful for
> solving problems of this nature.
>
> For the great majority of us, the SUM function works correctly.
>
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:12:20 +0100
> From: j...@juergen-lange.de
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Can open Open office add?
>
> Ok Darren, OpenOffice works fine for me. If I put numbers like 4,5,4,3
> into C5..C8 OpenOffice sums them up - the result is 16. If you put empty
> fields between (why?) you will see, that OpenOffice will mark only the
> last field with a box. Extend the box over all your numbers and you'll
> get 16 again.
>
> Jürgen
>
>
> Am 27.10.2014 um 23:18 schrieb Darren Myers:
> > The reason I ask if it can add is, I don't think it can
> >
> > I found a huge flaw in your program the formulas don't work...
> >
> > Example =sum(C5:C15)   with a list of numbers... 4, 5, 4, 3 which should
> equate to 16  Well in EXCEL it does!!! Your crappy program adds the
> fucking numbers and  comes up with 3...?? WTFserious fix this most
> basic problem.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
>
> -
>
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org
>
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
>
>
> --
>
> -
> MzK
>
> "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth
>  to a dancing star."
>  -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
>

Re: Creating Chart "com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram"

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Semen Gubarev  wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
> I read a lot of documentation about creation charts using macro BASIC
> And I still can't create chart in Writer (almost all documentation describe
> how to create chart in Calc). The problem with inserting series XY data
> into chart (separate X values and separate Y values)
>
> First of all I create a chart object like this:
>
> 'Prepare embedded object
> Dim oEmbeddedObject
> oEmbeddedObject =
> oDoc.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextEmbeddedObject")
> oEmbeddedObject.SetPropertyValue("CLSID",
> "12dcae26-281f-416f-a234-c3086127382e")
> oEmbeddedObject.Name = "ChartID"
>
> 'Insert chart in document
> oCursor.GetText().InsertTextContent(oCursor, oEmbeddedObject, False)
>
> 'The first approach inserting data like this:
> oDocChart.Diagram.DataRowSource =
> com.sun.star.chart.ChartDataRowSource.ROWS
> Dim aData(1, 3)
> aData(0, 0) = 10
> aData(0, 1) = 20
> aData(0, 2) = 30
> aData(1, 0) = 10
> aData(1, 1) = 40
> aData(1, 2) = 90
> Dim oData as Object
> oData = oDocChart.Data
> oData.Data = aData
> for this case I get 2 series Y data, but I need 1 series with data X-Y
>
> 'The second approach inserting data using Writer table as datasource
> 'I'will miss a lot of code
>
> Dim oChartType
> oChartType =
> oDocChart.FirstDiagram.GetCoordinateSystems()(0).GetChartTypes()(0)
>
> Dim oDataProv
> oDataProv = oDoc.createInstance( "com.sun.star.chart2.data.DataProvider" )
>
> Dim oDataSeries
> oDataSeries = CreateDataSeries_XYDiagram(oDataProv, "table1.A1:A10",
> "table1.B1:B10")
>
> Dim oNewDataSeriesList(0) as Object 'new data series
> oNewDataSeriesList(0) = oDataSeries
>
> 'Correspond with last approach I get good chart, but after reopening the
> document Y values become to X values
>
> The question is, how to right create a X-Y chart?
>


Hello Semen,
  I find that the code below, a slight modification of yours, works for me.

oDoc = ThisComponent
oCursor = oDoc.Text.createTextCursor()
oTextObject = oDoc.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.text.TextEmbeddedObject")
oTextObject.SetPropertyValue("CLSID",
"12dcae26-281f-416f-a234-c3086127382e")
oTextObject.Name = "ChartID"

'Insert chart in document
oCursor.GetText().InsertTextContent(oCursor, oTextObject, False)

oDocChart = oTextObject.EmbeddedObject.Component
'The first approach inserting data like this:

oDocChart.Diagram = oDocChart.createInstance("com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram")
oDocChart.Diagram.DataRowSource = com.sun.star.chart.ChartDataRowSource.ROWS

Dim aData(1, 2)
aData(0, 0) = 10
aData(0, 1) = 20
aData(0, 2) = 30
aData(1, 0) = 10
aData(1, 1) = 40
aData(1, 2) = 90

oDocChart.Data.Data = aData

oDocChart.DataSourceLabelsInFirstRow = False

I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Another Basic Function that doesn't Work!!

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Darren Myers 
wrote:

> Didn't take me long, found another basic function that does not work in OO
>
> Who on earth built this program! Seriously... needs to find another
> career, maybe hairdressing or something!
>
> So when you "Find & Replace" select a value , and then replace it with
> another value you get the following error message..
>
> "Search key Not Found"
>
> So I can clearly see on my finance sheet I have "January 2014" to
> December 2014"  very clear, however the Find & replace function !!! THAT
> WORKS IN Microsoft Easily Doesn't work in OO.  Does this mean I have to
> spend more money or a team of Developers to find more code issues with OO ??
>

Hello,
   If you can post a small example document on the user forum (
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php), we can take a look at why
you are not getting the expected result.  Find & Replace in OpenOffice and
MS Office are not identical and you probably just have to change a setting.
Francis

Re: Design change for side bar

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Regina Henschel 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> the pending review request https://issues.apache.org/ooo/
> show_bug.cgi?id=125989 is about a change in the visual style of the side
> bar. We do not have a special "Design" group and I do not want to decide
> alone. So please have a look at screenshots in that issue.
>
> Is this a problem, I should forward to the users mailing list?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
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>
> Hi Regina,
   Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. I'm no UI expert but I
do like the patched version. It feels calmer, if that makes sense. I'll
post a notice on the English forum in an attempt to get more people to
express an opinion.
Best regards,
Francis.

Re: database problem

[F C. Costero]

Can you please ask this question on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/? There are more people available for
user support there. You will need to register to post your question.
Best regards,
Francis

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Mary Lou Trice  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have created 2 tables in design view:  *Basic Table  *and  *Dues Table.*
>
> Please read the attachment to see the tables.  My previous e-mail was not
> so easy to read.
>
> There is a "relationship" between Basic.ID and Dues.ID
>
>
>  I can enter data into the Basic table but cannot enter data into the
> Dues table.
>
>
>  Can anyone help me?
>
> Mary Lou
>
>
>
>
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Re: How can I get a hot key?

[F C. Costero]

2015-06-01 0:34 GMT-06:00 Денис Нилов :

>  1) How can I get a hot key of uppercase?
> 2) How can I change of my hot key?
>
>
>
> Для здоровья,
> Нилов (РАДОМИР) Денис
>
> Добавить в друзья вКОНтакте
> нажать + https://vk.com/denisnilov + нажать
>
> radomir_1...@mail.ru


Hello! Select the menu Tools -> Customize and then the Keyboard tab. From
the Category list select Format and from the Function list select
Uppercase. From the list of Shortcut Keys, choose one that is not assigned
and then click Modify. I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Layout question relating to screen size/open office writer

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Whoojeedoo Monster <
gizzy_biscui...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I used to have a smaller screen, and when I did the OpenOffice writer
> program would display the pages as centered in the middle of the grey space
> with the next page directly beneath the previous, sort of lined up in a
> collumn.  Now that I have a larger screen it displays like this instead -
> not using the centre exactly, either a blank space at the side or two pages
> side by side.  Is it possible to return the layout back to the previous one
> without changing screen sizes?
>

At the bottom of the Writer window near the right corner there are three
small icons for controlling the page layout on the screen. The first is a
single page, the second is two pages side by side and the third is two
pages bound together. Click the first one and you should get the view that
you want.
Regards,
Francis

Re: DATE ISSUE in OpenOffice Spreadsheet

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Oliver Brinzing 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > There seems to be an issue of how some1900 dates are being stored in the
> OpenOffice spreadsheet.
>
>> It is my understanding that dates are stored with spreadsheet as a serial
>> number starting with 01/01/1900
>> being stored as a '1'.
>> When 01/01/1900 is looked at as a general number format in OpenOffice it
>> appears as '2' versus a '1'.
>>
>
> The default starting date is 30 December 1899 = 0
> please see
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Date_%26_Time_functions
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
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> Part of the confusion is that 1900 was not a leap year. Years that are
multiples of 100 are not leap years unless they are also multiples of 400.
That is to account for the actual year being slightly less than 365.25 days
and is the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the earlier Julian
calendar.. Not all spreadsheets get that right.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

[F C. Costero]

I verified the Check for Updates in the Extension Manager on Windows 7 64
bit and it correctly flagged my downlevel extensions.
Clicking the Install button doesn't seem to do anything useful. A progress
window makes it look like a download is underway but afterwards I can't
find any extension files and restarting AOO shows that the old extensions
are still in place. Am I being stupid?
Francis

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Larry Gusaas 
wrote:

> On 2015-10-20, 4:12 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>
>> It would be good to have confirmation with all supported platforms (one
>> confirmation is OK), so:
>>
>> - Windows
>> - Mac OS X
>> - Linux 32
>> - Linux 64 (confirmed OK)
>>
> Works on Mac OS X ver. 10.10.5
>
> --
> _
>
> Larry I. Gusaas
> Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
> Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
> "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind
> theirs." - Edgard Varese
>
>
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Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni  wrote:

> Just wondering …
>
> Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally
> prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively
> small change that I did, and was safe enough to be merged to the release,
> might have had an effect there.
>
> It’s too easy to be biased when you make such changes so it would be
> interesting to get confirmation ;).
>
> Pedro.
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> Hi Pedro,
  It is funny you mention this. Just today I installed 4.1.2 on a Linux
machine. I had not previously used AOO on Linux. I was amazed at the speed
of the start up. MUCH faster than 4.1.2 on Windows. Not having used a Linux
machine in the past, I can't say it is faster than it used to be but it was
impressive.
Francis

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk  wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:
>
> > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired.
> My
> > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in many
> languages
> > and can learn them as needed. My last professional C++ work was in the
> > 1980's.
> >
> > Although I am Chair of the Apache River PMC, the types of work it
> > currently needs, other than the facilitation and reporting I do as Chair,
> > are outside my areas of expertise. I have time to do some programming
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > I have been an OpenOffice user - I started using StarOffice at Sun around
> > 2000 - but more recently I've switched to LibreOffice because of lack of
> > OpenOffice releases. I am now downloading OpenOffice 4.1.2.
> >
> > I have become aware that OpenOffice needs more developers. Despite the
> > rustiness of my C++, I hope I can help. If so, how should I get started?
> >
> >
> ​You have wonderful experience, Patricia! ​Thank you for your interest.
> Stay tuned. We'll be discussing plans and tasks  for the future very soon.
> Meanwhile, we could certainly use some "architect" eyes on our code. Please
> weigh in as you see fit.
>
> --
> --
> MzK
>
> “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
>   --Lao Tzu
>
Hello Patricia,
   You might be interested in the comments in favor of Java use in AOO made
on this list by Damjan Jovanovic on Oct 15. I'm sorry I can't link to them
at the moment.
Francis

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:02 AM, FR web forum  wrote:

> >Possible cross problem with mailmerge function.
> Issue reported: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126623
> Maybe Mac users could be confirm or not?
>
>
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> Here is a report from a user of a problem using 4.1.2 Base on a Mac. I
suggested he go back to 4.1.1 for the time being.

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=80192

Francis

Re: Proposed Calc "Find & Replace" dialog enhancements

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic  wrote:

> Hi
>
> Recently I fixed a bad 9 year old bug #60307 with at least 6 duplicates
> [and still broken in at least LO 4.2.8.2 :-)], now allowing searching for
> cells by the value displayed after formatting (eg. 30/11/2015 formatted
> into "30 November 2015" can be found when you search for "November" with
> "Search in" set to "Values"). Also through repeated failures until I copied
> how Writer already does it, today also fixed #35093, an infamous 11 year
> old 15 vote issue in Calc ("Current selection only" should automatically be
> checked if the "Find & Replace" dialog is opened with cells already
> selected; since users expect this from other spreadsheets and the option is
> invisible by default, it can cause wrong cells to change when doing
> "Replace").
>
> Now I am wondering what other enhancements to that dialog would be good to
> make while it's fresh in my mind. Some ideas from Bugzilla:
>
> Visibility of options. In a comment on #87032 it is suggested the dialog
> should always be expanded so all options are visible, but #39453 is all
> about trying to shrink it as it hides cells under it. #39453 was filed in
> 2004 when monitors were smaller and had lower resolutions, so dialog size
> mattered more, but small devices are becoming ubiquitous today too. If the
> dialog should remain expandable, which options should be visible with it
> contracted? Comments in #35093 propose including "Current selection only"
> and "Regular expressions", although I think the "Search in" is far more
> commonly used than "Regular expressions".
>
> Search in what? #106857 wants the default to be "Values" instead of the
> current "Formulas", but Excel (2007) uses "Formulas", so it might surprise
> users even though it is more natural.
>
> Columns or rows? #106857 again wants "Columns" as default even though Excel
> (2007) has rows.
>
> Use the value of the cell under the cursor as the find text? #73544 asks
> for this. Calc currently uses the last value searched for instead, as does
> Excel (2007). Instead of the cell under the cursor, we could use a single
> selected cell instead: it is rather hard to select only 1 cell by accident
> (with the cursor on it, you have to Ctrl+Click it or Shift+Right+Left), and
> you wouldn't need to search just 1 cell, so I think it's safe to treat a
> single selected cell as the find text. Another AOO innovation?
>
> Selection during the dialog? If cells are selected during the dialog,
> should we automatically check the "Current selection only" box? We
> currently uncheck it and gray it out if cells are deselected during the
> dialog, but only enable it without checking it if cells are selected again.
> Excel (2007) doesn't even have this option: if cells are selected only they
> will be searched/replaced, if no cells are selected all will be. If we want
> to copy Excel's behaviour then we should check it on reselection. But
> Writer doesn't do that for multi-line text selections either, so it should
> probably be changed too (and other apps?).
>
> Any other proposals? Should we ask our current users what they want (how?)?
>
> Thank you
> Damjan
>

Thank you for posting this question. I started a thread on the en user
forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=80312
Regards,
Franics

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I went to open a new document.
> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
>
> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix
> it before people stop using Writer.
>
> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
> calc?) in Writer.
> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
> large capital letter pi, P.
> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the P.
> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
>
> Howard


I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see any
problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:

> On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
>> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I went to open a new document.
>>> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
>>>
>>> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix
>>> it before people stop using Writer.
>>>
>>> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
>>> calc?) in Writer.
>>> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
>>> large capital letter pi, P.
>>> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the P.
>>> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
>>>
>>> Howard
>>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
>> suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
>> forum:
>> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
>> I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see
>> any
>> problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
>> the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.
>>
>>
> I am seeing similar problems with the product formula symbol. Exported as
> PDF, it looks fine. Viewed in Writer, the capital Pi lacks serifs, making
> it look very strange. When I click on it in the formula editor, it is at
> the bottom left of a dotted box, and the limits are aligned relative to the
> box. Not WYSIWYG.
>
> The fonts are:
>
> Variables: Times New roman, Italic
> Functions, Numbers, Text, and Serif: Times New Roman
> Sans: Arial
> Fixed: Courier New
>
> I have uploaded the files to http://www.patriciashanahan.com/OpenOffice.
> product.bmp is a screen shot of the formula editor. product.odt is the
> actual file. product.pdf is the PDF export.
>
> Patricia
>
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Hi Patricia,
   My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal when I
open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted box.
That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux and
had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and
DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has an
idea.

Francis

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan  wrote:
>
> > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
> >> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I went to open a new document.
> >>> I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it.
> >>>
> >>> First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s
> fix
> >>> it before people stop using Writer.
> >>>
> >>> Next thing I noticed was a small change to the formula generator (math
> >>> calc?) in Writer.
> >>> The symbol for product seems to have changed. It should look like the
> >>> large capital letter pi, P.
> >>> Also the ‘from’ and ‘to’ blocks should be centered above and below the
> P.
> >>> This is relatively minor, but thought you should know.
> >>>
> >>> Howard
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I haven't had any problem with the spell check in the latest version. I
> >> suggest you reset your user profile. There is a tutorial on the English
> >> forum:
> >> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
> >> I also did a quick check of the product symbol in Math and I didn't see
> >> any
> >> problem. What font are you using for the formula. You can see that under
> >> the menu Format -> Fonts when the formula editor is active.
> >>
> >>
> > I am seeing similar problems with the product formula symbol. Exported as
> > PDF, it looks fine. Viewed in Writer, the capital Pi lacks serifs, making
> > it look very strange. When I click on it in the formula editor, it is at
> > the bottom left of a dotted box, and the limits are aligned relative to
> the
> > box. Not WYSIWYG.
> >
> > The fonts are:
> >
> > Variables: Times New roman, Italic
> > Functions, Numbers, Text, and Serif: Times New Roman
> > Sans: Arial
> > Fixed: Courier New
> >
> > I have uploaded the files to http://www.patriciashanahan.com/OpenOffice.
> > product.bmp is a screen shot of the formula editor. product.odt is the
> > actual file. product.pdf is the PDF export.
> >
> > Patricia
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> Hi Patricia,
>My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal when I
> open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
> editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted box.
> That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux and
> had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and
> DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
> hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has an
> idea.
>
> Francis
> --
>
> I did not see anywhere in profile to change spell check options.
> If it makes a difference, I am on Windows 10 now.
> All my formula fonts point to Times New Roman.
> I put in spelling errors on purpose and clicked the Spelling and grammar
> icon – no errors found.
>
> Howard


Sorry I was unclear. I meant that you should rename (or delete) the user
folder that contains the profile. This will trigger the creation of a new
folder. OpenOffice has to be shut down to rename the folder.

Regards,
Francis

Re: New release - problems

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton 
wrote:

> Thanks for undertaking this, Francis.
>
> Please open an issue on the bugzilla that links to the user forum thread
> (and vice versa) so that we have a marker for the developers and QA folk to
> track with also.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 20:53
> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: New release - problems
> [ ... ]
> > Hi Patricia,
> >My fonts are set just as yours are but your odt file looks normal
> > when I
> > open it, not at all like your bmp. When I click on the Pi in the formula
> > editor it is centered both vertically and horizontally in the dotted
> > box.
> > That was all on Windows 7. I also looked at a similar formula in Linux
> > and
> > had no problem. The fonts there are Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans
> > and
> > DejaVu Sans Mono.  If no one has a suggestion here in the next several
> > hours, I'll open a thread on the user forum to see if anyone there has
> > an
> > idea.
> >
> > Francis
>
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> I opened a Bugzilla issue:
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12
and a forum thread:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=80398

Re: errors in writer (formula)

[F C. Costero]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) <
howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Gang,
> I have been using the formula in writer lately. For ‘cdot’, a command
> to put a dot between two symbols to indicate multiplication, the dot is not
> showing up in the document. The other multiplication binary operator
> ‘times’ that puts an x between two symbols to indicate multiplication is
> working fine. I have used this before and think it is a new error
> Another minor problem, I am not sure if it is new, is for the plus (+)
> and minus (-) operators there appears to be  a (half?) space after the
> operator, but nor space before the operator. Yes I can force the (half)
> space using the (`) or (~) character. Another words “1 + 2” should be the
> default, not “1+ 2”.
>
> Howard
> 
>
> 
>
> 

 The formula
a cdot b
produces the expected result for me on Windows 7 with AOO 4.1.2. I also
don't see any spacing problem with +.
Francis

Re: installing open office

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:42 AM, jjpurlieu  wrote:

> to open office
>
> I have had open office for years and am very pleased with it ecept that
> occasionally it disappears off the laptop.  I have always reinstalled it
> till today when I just cannot get the instillation to work
> I get so far when a message pops up ans tells me to turn off quickstart
> for 4.1.2 and I do not know what this is   I do not have any part of the
> open office on the laptop that works and till I sort this out I can access
> none of my files.
> I cannot find any other way of contacting you.
> I am like many others and have a limited knowledge of the workings of the
> computer so hope you can advise me.
> Yours
> Jean Jones
>
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> Hello Jean,
  I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. It should not be necessary to
reinstall OpenOffice. The Quickstarter is a feature of OpenOffice that
starts automatically when you start your computer so that launching
OpenOffice will appear to happen more quickly. Since it is running,
OpenOffice is still on your computer. What leads you to think that
OpenOffice has disappeared?

You do not say what operating system you are using, so I will guess it is
Windows. If you have a Windows Start button (typically at the lower left of
your screen), click that and select All Programs. Scroll down the list that
appears until you see a folder called OpenOffice 4.1.2. Click on that and
then click on the component of OpenOffice you want to start.

I hope that helps. A better place to get user support than this mailing
list is the user forum. The English forum is at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php
Best regards,
Francis

Recovering from broken password (bug 125431)

[F C. Costero]

We get questions on the forum about how to access a document that no longer
accepts the encryption password. I assume some of these are due to the
broken NSS issue #125431. I skimmed through the comments on bugzilla and
did not see a definitive way to fix the problem. I"m sorry if I missed it.
What should we tell users to do if we conclude they have this problem?
Thank you!
Francis

Re: Problem with OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Shelagh and Nick Richardson <
richardson...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a problem with Openoffice. It is effectively frozen with this
> message:
>
> *The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening
> windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?*
>
> There are two buttons marked Reopen and Don't Reopen, but neither of them
> will respond to my click.
>
>
> It prevents me from shutting down or restarting my computer.
>
> I cannot print any documents either.
>
> I cannot create a new OpenOffice file
>
> I have done a 'Force quit' , but as soon as I try to shut down or restart
> my laptop the same message returns.
>
>
> When I open any of my OpenOffice files the same message pops up again.
>
>
> My computer is an Apple Macbook Air.
>
> Are you able to advise me what to do?
>
> Nick Richardson
>
Hello. Please take a look at this thread in the support forum. It should
solve your problem. You do not need to register on the forum to read the
thread.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55755#p244931
Francis

Re: creating a spreadsheet (was: new cool feature)

[F C. Costero]

I changed the LOOKUP() function in columns D and E to be a VLOOKUP() with
the fourth parameter set to 0 so the function looks for an exact match. The
LOOKUP() function requires that the lookup vector be ordered. Since column
A of the Database sheet is not ordered, incorrect results were returned.
I fixed the formulas in column I to have the form
=H4-G4 + (G4 >H4)
This accounts for cases where the end time (H4) has a smaller clock value
(e.g. 07:00) than the start time (e.g. 19:00) but is in the next day. Times
are stored in units of days. The time 07:00 has the value 7/24 and the time
19:00 has the value 19/24. You were subtracting
7/24 - 19/24 = -12/24 = -0.5
If a cell is formatted as time, -0.5 is displayed as12:00, but the value is
still -0.5.
I appended
+ (G4 > H4)
which returns FALSE (equal to zero) when H4 is larger than or equal to G4.
When G4 is larger than H4, it returns TRUE (equal to one) that gives
H4-G4 + (G4 >H4) = 7/24 - 19/24 + (19/24 > 7/24) = -0.5 + (TRUE) = -0.5 + 1
= 0.5
The 0.5, when formatted as time, is 12:00 and it is the desired answer.
This is not a bug. All spreadsheets treat times as fractions of a day.

As Peter says, it is better to get help on the forum or the user list.

Francis


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Peter Kovacs  wrote:

> Hi Archie,
>
>
> Welcome to OpenOffice. I whish you a lot of fun with the Software.
>
> There are lots of possible ways to make your live easier.
>
> I would recommend to use our forums or users mailing list to ask questions
> on ways what you want to do.
>
> I think there are all the features you do expect, but it is made
> differently then you might think.
>
>
> I have quickly exchanged the Postcode and the Miles with a lookup
> function, I would use. But there is an issue. Can someone else have a look?
> I do not find what I did wrong.
>
>
> I loop in users for better support. Sorry, got to go. I am late for work
> ... :S
>
>
> HTH
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 8/16/18 5:59 AM, Archie Dyno Wizard wrote:
>
> Dear developers! I'm beginning my experience with OpenOffice Calc, and I'm
> finding a few ugly bugs. First I think I'm too stupid, but then I realize
> it is a bug that doesn't depend on my knowledge. I have made one bug report
> about calculating time consumption and using the result in a formula for
> next cell.. But this mail is not about that. I was trying to find how to
> make my spreadsheet to fill cells according to previous cell, and finally
> I've found, that there is no option for that, so I created a long formula
> based on "IF" logic task. So now when I type a Name in "LOCATION" cell, it
> automatically recognizes it, and fills following cells "MILES", "POSTCODE",
> and "PAYRATE". Makes it so much easier, but makes difficult creating
> and maintaining the formula. So for now my 3-customer formula looks like
> this:
>  =IF(C371="global 
> stansted";"CM235PU";IF(C371="Mojito";"CM235PU";IF(C371="grafton
> cambridge";"CM11HE";"-")))
> And it is only beginning of my Self Employment.
>
>  So my suggestion is to create an additional AutoFill form where user can
> make a list of related data in specific columns or rows to fill up multiple
> cells at the same time.
>
> Thank you very much for such a wonderful opportunity to use a free Office
> Sofware!!! You guys rock!!!
>
> Attaching a piece of my Spreadsheet that shows  bug in calculation of a
> "TOTAL INC" column, and the idea about AutoFill...
>
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Re: License of specific fonts?

[F C. Costero]

Hello Simon,
No one here or on any Apache web site can provide legal advice. See
https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-and-fonts for a layman's
discussion of font licensing. What that article  seems to say is that
whether you can include the font when you distribute a document depends on
the license. For example, this Microsoft site (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-redistribution-licensing)
says you may not copy or redistribute their fonts, though they can be
embedded for certain uses. It seems you will have to think about just how
your writing will be distributed and then read the font licenses and check
with a lawyer if necessary.

Francis

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:35 AM Simon Gottwald
 wrote:

> Hello and sorry to bother you with such a banal question! I couldn't
> find any answer on the web nor in the documentation and none of the
> mailing lists seemed to fit my question.
>
> If I want to create a commercial publication, e.g. a magazine, with
> OpenOffice Writer, do I have to keep anything in mind with regards to
> the fonts contained and their licensing? i.e. do I have to acquire an
> additional license from Microsoft if I want to use Calibri? Or can I
> just use it in OpenOffice Writer as is, even for commercial publications?
>
> Best Regards and sorry again!
>
> Simon
>
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Re: Small website refresh

[F C. Costero]

I like the update. I am puzzled by the three different Download
buttons/links. The one at the top right says Download, there is a central
one for Download For Windows, and a small link under that that says Other
Platforms. All three lead to the standard download page where the OS is
detected automatically. On this Linux Mint system I am using, the Download
For Windows button results in me being offered the Linux 64 bit RPM (RPM is
the wrong choice, but that is a different problem). Why is the button
labeled as a Windows download?
Please keep this effort going!
Francis

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:46 AM George Karalis  wrote:

> https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/ <
> https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/>
>
> This is the updated homepage. I ‘d love to hear your feedback and if you
> feel like it
> we can move it to production.
>
> As for the MSVC I will send sometime next week the work I have done in
> the MSVC thread.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
>
>
> > On 22 Nov 2018, at 11:52, Peter Kovacs  wrote:
> >
> > Nice job.
> >
> > I am not sure if I am fully remeber the Page.
> >
> > We used to use a CMS system from Apache that is unmaintained. Infra
> > recommended that we move away from it.
> >
> > This seems a good point to switch the workflow we use? Maybe trying to
> > move towards static Pages created with Hugo?
> >
> > This would be worth a look.
> >
> >
> > About MSVC, where can I see your work?- Is it maybe possible to create a
> > github repository where you upload your changes?
> >
> > I am curious on the nature of changes needed to be done.
> >
> >
> > Please keep up your engagement. This is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > On 20.11.18 17:59, George Karalis wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have redesigned and implemented the new homepage in code. I have also
> setup the
> >> local web development environment and integrated the code. If anyone
> likes to view
> >> the redesigned homepage I can provide a static html, that you can view
> in your browser,
> >> to be reviewed etc.
> >>
> >> If you are up for a refresh, I want to know how could i send the
> updated repository,
> >> or if I could have commit access to the user end portal.
> >>
> >> Also, having worked with the website's build process, it’s a little bit
> counterintuitive,
> >> especially for modern web development, so I propose to build
> openoffice.org using
> >> a static site generator. I recommend Hugo . I can
> take this as a long project, as in a
> >> few weeks I am probably finishing with the MSVC update.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> George
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 19 Nov 2018, at 14:30, Pedro Lino  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As a user, a Big +1
> >>>
> >>> Very nice layout!
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Pedro
>  On November 19, 2018 at 12:04 PM George Karalis 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hello everyone,
> 
>  Since the 4.1.6 release is out, I was thinking for a small update at
> the openoffice.org  homepage
>  to make the end users onboarding a little bit easier. I ‘ve coded a
> little sample that you can see
>  bellow, so if you are ok with a refresh on the homepage I can
> integrate the code within the
>  current website repository.
> 
>  Regards,
>  George
> 
>  
> >>>
> >>
> >
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Re: Forum Migration Status

[F C. Costero]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has
bee recently
Best regards,
Francis

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM Dave Fisher  wrote:

> Migration has completed.
>
> The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes from now for
> the DNS change to propagate to you.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
> > On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Dave Fisher  wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > Migration is started.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
> >> On Nov 29, 2018, at 6:50 PM, Dave Fisher  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi -
> >>
> >> The forums will be down from 9AM - 11AM PST (17:00-19:00 UTC) for VM
> switchover.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Fisher 
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Hagar and forum users/admins,
> >>>
> >>> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/  >
> >>>
> > (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve
> examined the code and it looks right.
> >>>
> >>> I dug further and language packs for Hungarian and Japanese are not
> available. I think that we need to look into this carefully before we
> migrate to 3.2.4.
> >>>
> >>> Also, new have subsilver2 theme installed. It does not look like we
> use it, but it is not offered for 3.2.4. We will need to do more careful
> testing of all of the language forums.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php 5.
> >>>
> >>> I chose to have Infra downgrade PHP to version 5.6. Thanks Chris
> (fluxo)!
> >>>
> >
> > (3) Sync up from current forums.
> >>>
> >>> Synced up files, avatars and databases. I will need two hours to do
> this either late Thursday or early Friday.
> >>>
> >
> > (4) Add warning about migration downtime to current production.
> >>>
> >>> I think you did this sufficiently.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration for during the migration
> >>>
> >>> I think I will just stop apache httpd.
> >>>
> >>> (6) Community Testing.
> >>>
> >>> Please start testing!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Dave
> >>>
>  On Nov 27, 2018, at 12:15 PM, Hagar Delest  > wrote:
> 
>  Top posting
> 
>  Hi Dave,
> 
>  Thanks, that sounds a good plan, especially providing a plan B!
>  I've added you as admin for both English forums (standard and test
> boards).
>  I've sent you by PM (in the regular forum) the list of the native
> language admins.
> 
>  I'll try to monitor the list and the forum more closely during
> daytime (France time) in the next few days, just in case.
>  Note that acknak has also admin rights on the board, he's in the US.
> 
>  Hagar
> 
>  Le 27/11/2018 à 04:12, Dave Fisher a écrit :
> > Hi -
> >
> > Further status and plan.
> >
> > The remaining issues involve phpBB 3.0.9 use of a function
> deprecated in php 5 and absent in php 7.
> >
> > (0) Given information requested in the last email.
> >
> > Tomorrow -
> >
> > (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve
> examined the code and it looks right.
> >
> > (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php 5.
> >
> > (3) Sync up from current forums.
> >
> > (4) Add warning about migration downtime to current production.
> >
> > (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration for during the migration
> >
> > Wednesday
> >
> > (6) Request community testing
> >
> > Friday
> >
> > (7) Perform migration.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
> >> On Nov 26, 2018, at 4:10 PM, Dave Fisher  >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Hagar / Forum Admins,
> >>
> >> We must do a forum migration to new VMs by Friday, November 30th.
> >>
> >> It turns out that many of the errors we had in June testing are due
> to incompatibilities between PHP 7 and phpBB 3.0.x and 3.1.x. Specifically
> BBCodes use a php method that is no longer supported in PHP 7.
> >>
> >> In order for me to better perform the migration I need you to grant
> my ID (dave2wave) full admin rights on both the current production and also
> forum test.
> >>
> >> Also, please provide to me the email addresses to each forums
> admins so that I can provide any setup instructions.
> >>
> >> I am in the San Francisco area and will be online by 16:00 UTC.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >>
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Re: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status

[F C. Costero]

The en forum is responding very slowly. It took about 5 minutes to load the
page when I tried it just now. All of the other languages responded much
more quickly, loading in a few seconds.
Francis

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:30 PM ca.salva  wrote:

>
>
> Thank you Dave, for your work and for your patient
> answers.Regards charlieInviato da Tablet Samsung.
>
>  Messaggio originale 
> Da: Dave Fisher 
> Data: 30/11/2018  23:03  (GMT+01:00)
> A: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Oggetto: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status
>
> Hi,Yes, 3.2.4 will come in the future. Hungarian and Japanese are not
> available.I can attempt to do these one language at a time, but I’ll need
> to work with each NL administrator.Regards,DaveSent from my iPhone> On Nov
> 30, 2018, at 1:21 PM, ca.salva  wrote:> > > >
> All good for me too. But I thought I would also find an update to the phpBB
> version 3.2.4. Evidently I misunderstood, will it come in the future?> >
>  Messaggio originale > Da: Hagar Delest <
> delest.ha...@gmail.com> > Data: 30/11/2018  21:56  (GMT+01:00) > A:
> dev@openoffice.apache.org > Oggetto: Re: Forum Migration Status > > +1,
> many thanks, that way much better!Did the daily usual things and everything
> went smoothly.HagarLe 30/11/2018 à 20:37, F C. Costero a écrit :> Hi Dave,>
> Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has>
> bee recently> Best regards,> Francis>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM
> Dave Fisher  wrote:>>> Migration has
> completed.>>>> The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes
> from now for>> the DNS change to propagate to you.>>>> Regards,>>
> Dave>>>>>>> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Dave Fisher <
> dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:>>>>>> Hi ->>>>>> Migration is
> started.>>>>>> Regards,>>> Dave>>>>>>> On Nov 29, 2018, at 6:50 PM, Dave
> Fisher  wrote:>>>>>>>> Hi ->>>>>>>> The forums
> will be down from 9AM - 11AM PST (17:00-19:00 UTC) for VM>> switchover.>>>>
> Regards,>>>> Dave>>>>>>>>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Fisher <
> dave2w...@comcast.net>>> wrote:>>>>> Hi Hagar and forum
> users/admins,>>>>>>>>>> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/ <
> https://forum-test.openoffice.org/>>>>>>> (1) Attempt to use newest phpBB
> 3.2.4 which works with php 7. I’ve>> examined the code and it looks
> right.>>>>> I dug further and language packs for Hungarian and Japanese are
> not>> available. I think that we need to look into this carefully before
> we>> migrate to 3.2.4.>>>>> Also, new have subsilver2 theme installed. It
> does not look like we>> use it, but it is not offered for 3.2.4. We will
> need to do more careful>> testing of all of the language
> forums.>>>>>>>>>>>> (2) If (1) is difficult then we will downgrade to php
> 5.>>>>> I chose to have Infra downgrade PHP to version 5.6. Thanks Chris>>
> (fluxo)!>>>>>>> (3) Sync up from current forums.>>>>> Synced up files,
> avatars and databases. I will need two hours to do>> this either late
> Thursday or early Friday.>>>>>>> (4) Add warning about migration downtime
> to current production.>>>>> I think you did this
> sufficiently.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (5) Create a blocking httpd configuration
> for during the migration>>>>> I think I will just stop apache
> httpd.>>>>>>>>>> (6) Community Testing.>>>>>>>>>> Please start
> testing!>>>>>>>>>> Regards,>>>>> Dave>>>>>>>>>>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 12:15
> PM, Hagar Delest > <mailto:delest.ha...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:>>>>>> Top posting>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Dave,>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, that
> sounds a good plan, especially providing a plan B!>>>>>> I've added you as
> admin for both English forums (standard and test>> boards).>>>>>> I've sent
> you by PM (in the regular forum) the list of the native>> language
> admins.>>>>>> I'll try to monitor the list and the forum more closely
> during>> day

Re: branch 4.1.7?

[F C. Costero]

One "regression" that merits immediate attention is crashing on Windows
when trying to edit a macro embedded in a Writer or Calc document ( I
haven't checked Impress or Base yet). If  I open a new document and try to
make an embedded macro (menus Tools -> Macros -> Organize Macros ->
OpenOffice Basic) OpenOffice crashes immediately after I accept the default
module name of Module1. Going through the recovery process, I am asked to
Enable or Disable macros, so the module is created but I cannot get at it.
I can edit the Standard library in My Macros but it is unstable. For
example, if I select two lines of code and press backspace, the program
crashes. This problem started after a Windows update last summer. I thought
a  subsequent update fixed it, but I was wrong.  I have checked 4.1.5,
4.1.6 and 4.2.0 and it affects all of them. It is not really a regression,
since 4.1.5 worked fine until the Windows update, but Windows users cannot
use macros. I looked for a bug report and did not find one but my Bugzilla
skills are poor. Are the devs aware of this problem?

best regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:38 AM Patricia Shanahan  wrote:

> I agree that the focus should be on 4.2.0. However, I strongly favor
> having a ready-to-go 4.1.7. Any day, we could encounter a really
> serious, must-fix-immediately, security bug. Having as much as possible
> done ahead of time will reduce the delay from knowing the fix to end
> users having the fix.
>
> On 1/21/2019 8:36 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > Gotcha. I was just thinking that if we had a 4.1.7 branch in a
> ready-to-go stage, if we needed to do another 4.1.x release it would be
> already there.
> >
> > But agree that the focus should be on 4.2.0
> >
> >> On Jan 21, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:12:12 -0500
> >> Jim Jagielski  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does it make sense to create a branch of 4.1.7 from 4.1.6...?
> >>
> >> No, unless for some urgent fix.  I think better to continue with 4.2.0,
> then on to 5.0
> >>
> >> 4.2.0 editing OK in Writer (60k word file, book format, no
> illustrations/tables).  A simple spreadsheet working OK; existing Impress
> presentations displaying, apart from two where slide backgrounds cause
> crash. Multimedia in new presentations not yet checked.
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Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

[F C. Costero]

Hi Nikhil,
Try purging LibreOffice with
sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice*
I did this before installing OpenOffice on my Linux Mint system and it
installed with no error. I was then able to download LibreOffice from the
LibreOffice site and install that in parallel with OpenOffice. I believe
the error you are encountering is seen with any OpenOffice installation on
Ubuntu and is not a result of your build process. See
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=50119#p228095

Best regards,
Francis



On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:22 PM Nikhil Gupta 
wrote:

> Hi
> I built openoffice on my Ubuntu(14.04)
> The build successfully run with no error message.
> But when i tried to install openoffice debian menus
> Following error shows:
> dpkg: error processing archive /home/nikhil/help/aoo/main/instsetoo_native/
>
> unxlngx6.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice4.2-debian-menus_4.5-9900_all.deb
> (--install
> 
> ):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package
> libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3
> /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
>
> Please help
>

Re: Time for our first 4.2.0 beta?

[F C. Costero]

I am a moderator on the en forum but I am speaking only for myself here. I
think gathering feedback on the forum would be a good solution. The en
forum has a User Experience area that gets very little traffic and could
perhaps be used to gather beta build input. Feedback in languages other
than English could be gathered on the appropriate forums, though they may
need to make a dedicated area. It would be nice to widen the range of
participants beyond people comfortable in English.

I am not sure what the concern is behind the comment "What I mean is, is
there enough coverage of moderators and power users?". On the en forum we
have close to 24 hour coverage of moderators and volunteers and I don't
think an increase in traffic from a beta build would be a problem. The es
forum is the only other one I have experience with and I think there are
plenty of moderators and volunteers there to handle an increase in traffic,
though I obviously have not asked them about this.

I would be happy to make note on this list of interesting or repeated input
about a beta build appearing on the en or es forums.

Stating the correct way to give feedback on the Splash screen should be
considered.

best regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:53 PM Marcus  wrote:

> Am 28.01.19 um 19:39 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> > Perfect, thx.
> >
> > Just so I know, what's the procedure for us doing beta releases? Where
> do they go?
>
> this will be our first beta release here at Apache. So, nobody can tell
> you what to do / where to go and we have to find the way together. ;-)
>
> I would say we should not do things different (at least not too many)
> compared to our normal releases.
>
> After thinking a bit I suggest that we:
>
> - exchange the splash screen with a big and clear hint that it's a beta
> (no production use, no regular support, etc.)
> - prepare the install files as a normal release but with special file names
> - no participation with the update service
> - upload the install files to SourceForge in an own subdir
> - offer them on our download webpage
>
> I don't know how we can to collect the feedback. BZ is not the right
> channel for this. Can we create a special beta area in the forums? What
> I mean is, is there enough coverage of moderators and power users?
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Mechtilde  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Jim,
> >>
> >> the beta version should contain the recent translation, so I will start
> >> to prepare an update of the *.sdf files.
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >>
> >> Am 28.01.19 um 14:20 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
> >>> I think we are at a stage where we should consider doing our
> >>> 1st beta release of 4.2.0... we have successful builds for macOS,
> >>> Linux 32 and 64, and Windows; we have a stable 4.2.0-dev branch,
> >>> and enough changes to warrant a beta release for testing and
> >>> feedback (all IMO ;) ).
> >>>
> >>> Any comments or other thoughts?
>
>
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Re: Transferring Openoffice to new computer

[F C. Costero]

This is not he best place to ask user questions. Please use the users
mailing list or the forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) in the
future.

You can simply download the installation files for Apache OpenOffice from
the web site www.openoffice.org to the new computer and then run the
installation process.  You can transfer your existing files using a USB
drive or by uploading them to a network accessible location like dropbox or
google drive and then downloading them to the new computer. Be sure to
place them on the new computer in a folder intended for user files, such as
the Documents folder or one of its sub folders. If you use a USB drive, be
sure to follow the correct procedure to eject or unload the drive before
physically removing it.
Regards,
Francis

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:56 PM Vermillion  wrote:

> How do I transfer existing Apache Openoffice from Windows 7 to new
> Windows 10?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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Re: Can't download updates

[F C. Costero]

You can go to the web page http://www.openoffice.org/download/, choose the
appropriate operating system and language and then click on Download Full
Installation. You will be redirected to a page on SourceForge where the
download will start automatically. You do not need to click anything on the
SourceForge page.
If you still have problems, it would be best to ask on the users mailing
list or on the forum at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/. This is a list
for developers.
Best regards,
Francis

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:38 AM Alvin Armbruster 
wrote:

> I receive a message that download failed for update for open office. How
> do I receive a current update for Open Office?
>
> Thank you.
>

Re: Letter page size in Writer sidebar

[F C. Costero]

As a native English speaker, I also have no problem with those
abbreviations. In that context, there  are not many other words that could
be there, so it is very easy to understand the meaning.
Francis

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michele Denber  wrote:

> On 02-05-2020 4:03 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While working on the Writer sidebar I discovered that page size "Letter"
> > and "Legal" have no graphic like e.g. "A4".
> > Unfortunately there is not much space, so I would like to abbreviate
> > Letter with Ltr (and Legal with Lgl):
> >
> > https://home.apache.org/~mseidel/Letter%20size.pdf
> >
> > As a non native speaking person I would like to hear some opinions about
> > that.
> As a native English speaking person, I'd have no problem with that. I
> think anyone would understand the intended meaning.
>
>  - Michele
>
>

Re: Facebook comment: It is time for an advanced product. please meet with me.

[F C. Costero]

I went to https://www.facebook.com/pg/ApacheOO/posts/ and found the post by
Thomas Reid from Feb. 1. The message is fully quoted in the title of this
thread, so there is no more to learn from the post.
Francis

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:59 AM Peter Kovacs  wrote:

>
> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2835088696549989&id=185963401462545
>
> Strange through my phone I can link. Facebook is a really strange
> application.
> Please have a go.
>
> All the best
> Peter
>
> Am 7. Februar 2020 18:50:08 MEZ schrieb Patricia Shanahan :
> >How about a link to the group or page?
> >
> >Any idea whereabouts in California? I live in San Diego county, at the
> >south end, and there are places in California that are hundreds of
> >miles
> >from my home.
> >
> >On 2/7/2020 9:00 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> >> I am sorry. Facebook does not allow external links. If you have a
> >> Facebook acount you can see it in the vistor section
> >>
> >> I think it is public. Or I invite you to the facebook site. He posted
> >a
> >> message on our Apache OpenOffice board. People
> >>
> >> usually write how much they love / hate our Software or ask for help.
> >>
> >> The message he has placed is in the subject. I have asked him where
> >he
> >> lives, and he answered CA, but he is flexible. That is all
> >communication
> >> right now.
> >>
> >> Since I answer as AOO, I did not further Chitchat.
> >>
> >> He seems to be a older respectable US Citizen. A patriot to his
> >country.
> >> He seem not to use Facebook a lot. So I would not say he writes
> >random
> >> comments.
> >>
> >> I am curious what his Idea is. But in our definition of serious I
> >would
> >> not expect this will be something major. But you never know. People
> >are
> >> awesome and full of surprises. ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> My Ideas are:
> >>
> >> 1) Dave could arrange for the meeting. Is this interesting enough for
> >you?
> >>
> >> 2) I can chitchat try to get more information, what he wants.
> >>
> >> 3) I could guide him to private or dev for introduction. And then we
> >> take next steps.
> >>
> >> all the best
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07.02.20 17:32, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> >>> Can you post a link or something? I have no context.
> >>>
> >>> On 2/7/2020 7:03 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
>  Hello all,
> 
>  what should I give for an answer?
> 
>  The person lives in california, in case somebody wants to talk.
> 
> 
>  All the Best
> 
>  Peter
> 
> 
> 
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> >>>
> >>>
> >-
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> >>>
> >>
> >> -
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> >
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Re: Ошибки в версии 4.1.2

[F C. Costero]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Marcus  wrote:

> Am 07/27/2016 06:08 AM, schrieb ИКЦ "Просвет":
>
>> Добрый день
>> Рассматриваю ваш продукт как замену Microsoft Ofiice. Но есть ошибки
>> 1. в шаблоне документа (от MS Office) стоит поле сегодняшней даты. При
>> открытии пишется "июль", вместо "июля". "август" вместо "августа". И с
>> большой буквы пишется. Это неправильно. Исправьте пожалуйста
>>
>> Good day
>> Consider your product as a replacement for Microsoft Ofiice. But there
>> are errors
>> 1. in the template document (MS Office) field is today's date. When
>> opening a written "July" is "Jul". "August" instead of "Aug". And
>> written with a capital letter. This is wrong. Please
>>
>
> it's not really clear what you mean by "When opening a written "July" is
> "Jul"". Can you please describe this part in more details? What are you
> doing exactly and when? Is there a chance to rebuild the document to see
> the problem? What has to be done?
>
> PS:
> Your question is best handled in the users@ mailing list. There are much
> more users on the way to help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Marcus
>

I can't help here other than provide a translation by a Russian speaking
friend of the original message. She also provided a little extra
explanation.

"I am considering your product as a replacement for Microsoft Office.  I
found the following errors:
In the MS Office template document, there is a "Today's Date" field.  When
I open it up, it shows the wrong Russian spelling (the ending of the name
for month in Russian is different if it is used in a date format).  Also,
the month in Russian is not capitalized (July is july), but it is in this
case.  Please correct."

Best regards,
Francis


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Re: OpenOffice Guide

[F C. Costero]

Hello Svjariwala!
The documents at the following site are a little old but should still be
very helpful:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

Regards,
Francis

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, sagar jariwala 
wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> Kindly give me the link of guide books for openoffice calc(Excel) tips
>
> Thanking you
> Regards
> Svjariwala
>

Re: Read-only documents in Calc

[F C. Costero]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM, shane gulley 
wrote:

>  I recently updated to ver 4.1.3 and am no longer able to edit
> spreadsheets (haven't tried other document formats) I can open them but I
> cannot edit them. I can still edit documents online but sometimes the
> formatting gets changed and they do not print correctly so I would rather
> edit them offline.
>
>- There is no prompt to select read only or not to when the documents
> open.
>- If I attempt to change the properties of the folder the document is
> in or the document itself to make it editable it makes no difference.
>- I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software but that didn't
> help either.
>
> I have an assignment that is due very soon and don't want to have to
> subscribe to Microsoft's product to finish it, your help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>  Thanks, Shane

 Sorry you are having trouble. I don't have a suggestion to fix the overall
problem but to edit the document you should be able to click the Edit
Document icon on the main tool bar. On my system it is the 5th icon from
the left and looks like a sheet of paper and a pencil.
Regards,
Francis

Re: email will not send

[F C. Costero]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:03 AM, jackie sudron sanderson <
jackie...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I cant email my letter please can you help me
>

I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. Please provide some details. What
have you tried and what happened? Which email program do you use?
Regards,
Francis

Re: Last up-date

[F C. Costero]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Two Rivers Gallery <2rivers...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just up-dated Open Office and now I am having a number of problems? Is
> everyone having an issue? Is there another correction up-date that cleans
> up the cliches? PLEASE HELP ME
>
> --
>
> *Blessings,*
>
> *Judy Pate, Director*
> Direct Line: 541-783-2428
>
> Chiloquin Two Rivers Art Gallery
> 140 South 1st St. PO Box 382
> Chiloquin OR 97624
> Gallery: 541-783-3326
> www.2riversart.com 
> 2rivers...@gmail.com
>

I'm sorry to hear you are having problems. I am not aware of any general
problem with the latest version, so it is likely we can easily fix your
particular problem. To get help, it is best to post on the user mailing
list or at the user forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). This is
the developer mailing list. In any case, please describe the details of
your problems.
Best regards,
Francis

Re: Community in Mexico City

[F C. Costero]

I just copied imacat's message to the Spanish forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=13006#p57499

Best regards,
Francis

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Dave Fisher  wrote:

> Hi imacat,
>
> It’s been awhile. I hope you are well.
>
> For Apache wide community questions try this mailing list -
> d...@community.apache.org
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> > On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:09 PM, imacat  wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> >I'll travel to Mexico from Taiwan on 7/1-10, and stay in Mexico City
> > from 7/5-10.  My main purpose is to attend to WikiWomen Camp 2017 in
> > Mexico City, but I would also like to meet the local OpenOffice/ASF/FOSS
> > community in Mexico City if possible.  Is there any community meetup in
> > Mexico City during 7/5-10?  Is there anyone that I can contact with?
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > imacat ^_*' 
> > PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc
> >
> > <> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/
> > Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/
> > Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://www.wofoss.org/
> > OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/
> > EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/
> > Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/
> >
>
>

Re: Troubles Loading Files with OpenOffice

[F C. Costero]

Hello Emma,
I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. This mailing list is used by
developers and not intended for user support. I suggest you post your
message on the users mailing list or at the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php.
Best regards,
Francis

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:08 PM, QCIT3 MMisonora 
wrote:

>
> Hello there,
>
> Recently the company I am working for has downloaded your program,
> OpenOffice and have tried to open some files we have previously made files
> on Windows Excel with your program. However, it took about twenty minutes
> to load, so I was wondering why is it loading so slow and how can we make
> it load faster. The computers we are using are Windows 7 computers that run
> on a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM and a 32-bit Operating System.
>
> Please help,
>
> Emma
>
> Sent from Outlook
>

Re: open office file and Excel

[F C. Costero]

Hello Ami
The problem is almost certainly that the default program your computer
wants to use is Excel and that the icon displayed for the file is therefore
an Excel icon. The file content is unaffected in this case. There are two
things you can try to open the file. I assume you are using Windows. I am
not on a Windows machine at the moment, so I have to rely on my memory.
Please excuse an errors in my instructions.
Method 1. Start OpenOffice by clicking on the Windows button and searching
through the available programs. Once OpenOffice is running, use the menu
File -> Open to navigate to the file.
Method 2. Right click on the file icon and select Open With. OpenOffice
should be on the list of available programs. Before selecting OpenOffice,
look to see if there is an option something like "Always use this program
for files of this type". Select that option if it is present and then
choose OpenOffice.

If the above does not solve your problem, please ask on the user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/  You will have to register but that
is the more appropriate place to ask questions like this. If you prefer
mailing lists, there is a users mailing list intended for this type of
support. This mailing list is for developers.
Best regards,
Francis

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Ami Watson  wrote:

> My open office file automatically changed over to Excel.  I don't have
> Excel and am now unable to open it.  Do you know what can be done about
> this.
>
> amiwatso...@gmail.com
>