Re: Crashing - Text Documents & Spreadsheets
Correct link: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 !-) Hagar Le 31/01/2017 à 08:45, Rory O'Farrell a écrit : On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:34:30 -0500 M B wrote: I am using Open Office on a Windows 10 machine (word processing and spreadsheets). It constantly crashes and I often lose information. I am going to have to go back to Microsoft it is so problematic. Please advise what the problem might be. mb It can happen that an installation of OpenOffice "out-of-the-box" produces a corrupt user profile, which can cause instability. The cure for this is to delete or rename the old user profile; OO will then generate a new profile on next startup. Details of the User Profile for various operating systems are given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=12426 If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a good choice. Start OpenOffice. If that does not improve stability, start Windows in Safe Mode. If OO runs stable in Windows safe mode the culprit is some program or driver that runs in Windows normal mode, which program or driver is interfering with OpenOffice. Common culprits are Skype, Anti virus, continuous backup programs ad utilities which monitor the Clipboard. To locate the culprit needs systematic detective work on the affected computer. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Drag and Drop in a Spreadsheet
Original Message From: Martin Groenescheij To: users@openoffice.apache.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:40:26 +1100 > On 31/01/17 9:37 PM, Alan Pearce wrote: >> Something seems to have changed in recent times. I can no longer click >> on a cell and simply drag the contents to a new cell. If I play around >> long enough I can sometimes make it work. It has become quicker to cut >> and paste. Please can someone tell me the correct procedure? > > Step 1: Select the Cell(s) > Step 2: Left click in on of the cells and drag to wherever you want. > Step 3: save your work >> >> Thanks, >> Alan. I might be wrong (very possible), but I suspect Alan is missing the little trick in step 1. for selecting a single cell which is: o Left click and hold down the mouse button inside the cell to be moved. o Drag the mouse pointer to an adjacent cell and back to the original cell before releasing the mouse button. Easier to do than to describe. HTH Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Drag and Drop in a Spreadsheet
At 10:37 31/01/2017 +, Alan Pearce wrote: Something seems to have changed in recent times. Possibly not. I can no longer click on a cell and simply drag the contents to a new cell. [...] Please can someone tell me the correct procedure? You will know that you can do this very easily for a range of more than one cell, but the technique does not lend itself to a single cell. Note that if you select multiple cells, the range ends up highlighted and it is this highlighted range that is moved or copied by drag and drop. The problem is that if you click on a single cell, you move focus to that cell but do not highlight it. You need to find a way to highlight a single cell and your problem will be solved. Here are some techniques: o Click the cell to move focus to it. Shift+click the cell to highlight it. Drag and drop. o Click the cell to move focus to it. Ctrl+click the cell to highlight it. Drag and drop. o Click the cell to move focus to it. Drag the mouse to a neighbouring cell until both are highlighted. Without releasing the mouse, drag back to the original, single cell - leaving it alone highlighted. Release the mouse. Drag and drop. This last technique sounds complicated but is probably the easiest to use. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Drag and Drop in a Spreadsheet
On 31/01/17 9:37 PM, Alan Pearce wrote: Something seems to have changed in recent times. I can no longer click on a cell and simply drag the contents to a new cell. If I play around long enough I can sometimes make it work. It has become quicker to cut and paste. Please can someone tell me the correct procedure? Step 1: Select the Cell(s) Step 2: Left click in on of the cells and drag to wherever you want. Step 3: save your work Thanks, Alan. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Drag and Drop in a Spreadsheet
Something seems to have changed in recent times. I can no longer click on a cell and simply drag the contents to a new cell. If I play around long enough I can sometimes make it work. It has become quicker to cut and paste. Please can someone tell me the correct procedure? Thanks, Alan.
Re: pdf and word document doesnt look like it should
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:11:09 +1100 Martin Groenescheij wrote: > > > On 31/01/17 4:22 AM, Christian Dahlberg wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > > > As seen on the title I have a problem when I open a pdf or word program in > > open office. I have your latest product and the pdf extension. > > A PDF file looks the best in a PDF viewer, a word document looks the > best in the program which created the > original document. Opening it in any other program requires a conversion > which is never 100% > > > > > > What shall I do. Please help me, I want the document to look exactly like > > the original´. > > See > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4053&start=30#p338562 > and https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=29251#p369286 > > > > > > > Best regards, Christian Dahlberg In addition to what Martin has said about using a dedicated PDF viewer, the pdf file should be made using the PDF/A-1a option, so that the exact fonts are embedded in the pdf file. Otherwise the pdf viewer, if it cannot find the exact fonts needed, will substitute closest fit fonts, which are not the fonts used in the original. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: pdf and word document doesnt look like it should
On 31/01/17 4:22 AM, Christian Dahlberg wrote: Greetings. As seen on the title I have a problem when I open a pdf or word program in open office. I have your latest product and the pdf extension. A PDF file looks the best in a PDF viewer, a word document looks the best in the program which created the original document. Opening it in any other program requires a conversion which is never 100% What shall I do. Please help me, I want the document to look exactly like the original´. See https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4053&start=30#p338562 and https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=29251#p369286 Best regards, Christian Dahlberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: -----HEEEELLLLLLLP ...
Copy to OP On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:20:08 -0800 cor ses wrote: > It appears the other guy didn't even comprehend my email--I DID REGISTER. > But what's the point if there's no way to post a question? You didn't inform Hagar of your registration name, so it wasn't possible to check if you had activated the account; non-activation is possibly a reason why you cannot post a question. > *HOW DO WE POST A QUESTION* after we've logged in (as I wasted time doing > and searched EVERYWHERE IN THE FORUM)? > > It seems each year OO collapses more easily. > If i paste even more than 1 screenshot, i'm never sure if it will save or > freeze up. > That's tough. > I'm using Windows 10 and the newest OO and the McAfee that comes with a > computer. It can happen that the OpenOffice user profile becomes corrupt, which can cause instability. The cure for this is to delete or rename the old user profile; OO will then generate a new profile on next startup. Details of the User Profile for various operating systems are given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=12426 If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a good choice. Start OpenOffice. If that does not improve stability, start Windows in Safe Mode. If OO runs stable in Windows safe mode the culprit is some program or driver that runs in Windows normal mode, which program or driver is interfering with OpenOffice. Common culprits are Skype, Anti virus, continuous backup programs and utilities which monitor the Clipboard. To locate the culprit needs systematic detective work on the affected computer. > > Also I've had docs I AM SURE I SAVED PROPERLY turn into # the next time i > open them. If one is over-hasty in powering down or sleeping the computer after OO has been closed, this interrupts OO's internal housekeeping and causes file corruption. One should go through the operating system's power down procedure and wait some few extra seconds for the software/hardware data buffers to flush. Hardware databuffers are in the hard disk drives - if power is removed from these (by computer power down), such data may not be written to disk, hence the display of the blank area prepared for, but not used by, the data. > I read your answers when I Googled solutions but it was meaningless > gibberish--total waste of time along with being frazzling. I wouldn't > expect you to know ANY of the terms used in my fields of expertise. If I needed to know such terms I'd find out. > > Sure would appreciate knowing how to rectify these w/o having to become an > expert in YOUR tech area. > > Thank you for any help that really HELPS. > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Forum administration < > aoo.forum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry, this is an address for issues with the forum software. > > Either post a message in the forum after registering or use the user > > mailing list: users@openoffice.apache.org (note that you need to register > > also to the list if you want to get all the replies. See: > > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public > > > > Kind regards > > Hagar > > Admin team > > > > Le 30/01/2017 à 22:32, cor ses a écrit : > > > >> When I googled my problem with oo writer, it didnt' show answers I needed > >> so I wasted time registering in Open Office. > >> > >> Then I wasted time searching circuitously for a way to enter a post > >> but found nothing. > >> > >> So trust this at least gets a human. > >> > >> I read replies equal to ostrich reactions that thousands of people were > >> NOT having the problem someone posted. > >> What hubris. Of COURSE we were. We simply had lost SOmuch due TO the > >> problem that we didn't have time to also waste in a forum getting belittled > >> AND the circuitous answer that was gobbly-gook tech--of no help anyway. > >> > >> FYI: I have for YEARS had docs freeze. I've also had docs properly saved > >> that next opened as only #. > >> I've noted that "usually" docs don't freeze unless normal typing also > >> includes a few screenshots pasted in. > >> HOW > >> IS > >> ANYONE > >> To > >> WORK > >> ON > >> A > >> Doc > >> Thus? > >> > >> I open a doc with screenshots and do one word change and try to save and > >> it already freezes. _ _ _ _ ! > >> > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: -----HEEEELLLLLLLP ...
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:20:08 -0800 cor ses wrote: > It appears the other guy didn't even comprehend my email--I DID REGISTER. > But what's the point if there's no way to post a question? You didn't inform Hagar of your registration name, so it wasn't possible to check if you had activated the account; non-activation is possibly a reason why you cannot post a question. > *HOW DO WE POST A QUESTION* after we've logged in (as I wasted time doing > and searched EVERYWHERE IN THE FORUM)? > > It seems each year OO collapses more easily. > If i paste even more than 1 screenshot, i'm never sure if it will save or > freeze up. > That's tough. > I'm using Windows 10 and the newest OO and the McAfee that comes with a > computer. It can happen that the OpenOffice user profile becomes corrupt, which can cause instability. The cure for this is to delete or rename the old user profile; OO will then generate a new profile on next startup. Details of the User Profile for various operating systems are given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=12426 If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a good choice. Start OpenOffice. If that does not improve stability, start Windows in Safe Mode. If OO runs stable in Windows safe mode the culprit is some program or driver that runs in Windows normal mode, which program or driver is interfering with OpenOffice. Common culprits are Skype, Anti virus, continuous backup programs and utilities which monitor the Clipboard. To locate the culprit needs systematic detective work on the affected computer. > > Also I've had docs I AM SURE I SAVED PROPERLY turn into # the next time i > open them. If one is over-hasty in powering down or sleeping the computer after OO has been closed, this interrupts OO's internal housekeeping and causes file corruption. One should go through the operating system's power down procedure and wait some few extra seconds for the software/hardware data buffers to flush. Hardware databuffers are in the hard disk drives - if power is removed from these (by computer power down), such data may not be written to disk, hence the display of the blank area prepared for, but not used by, the data. > I read your answers when I Googled solutions but it was meaningless > gibberish--total waste of time along with being frazzling. I wouldn't > expect you to know ANY of the terms used in my fields of expertise. If I needed to know such terms I'd find out. > > Sure would appreciate knowing how to rectify these w/o having to become an > expert in YOUR tech area. > > Thank you for any help that really HELPS. > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Forum administration < > aoo.forum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry, this is an address for issues with the forum software. > > Either post a message in the forum after registering or use the user > > mailing list: users@openoffice.apache.org (note that you need to register > > also to the list if you want to get all the replies. See: > > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public > > > > Kind regards > > Hagar > > Admin team > > > > Le 30/01/2017 à 22:32, cor ses a écrit : > > > >> When I googled my problem with oo writer, it didnt' show answers I needed > >> so I wasted time registering in Open Office. > >> > >> Then I wasted time searching circuitously for a way to enter a post > >> but found nothing. > >> > >> So trust this at least gets a human. > >> > >> I read replies equal to ostrich reactions that thousands of people were > >> NOT having the problem someone posted. > >> What hubris. Of COURSE we were. We simply had lost SOmuch due TO the > >> problem that we didn't have time to also waste in a forum getting belittled > >> AND the circuitous answer that was gobbly-gook tech--of no help anyway. > >> > >> FYI: I have for YEARS had docs freeze. I've also had docs properly saved > >> that next opened as only #. > >> I've noted that "usually" docs don't freeze unless normal typing also > >> includes a few screenshots pasted in. > >> HOW > >> IS > >> ANYONE > >> To > >> WORK > >> ON > >> A > >> Doc > >> Thus? > >> > >> I open a doc with screenshots and do one word change and try to save and > >> it already freezes. _ _ _ _ ! > >> > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: -----HEEEELLLLLLLP ...
It appears the other guy didn't even comprehend my email--I DID REGISTER. But what's the point if there's no way to post a question? *HOW DO WE POST A QUESTION* after we've logged in (as I wasted time doing and searched EVERYWHERE IN THE FORUM)? It seems each year OO collapses more easily. If i paste even more than 1 screenshot, i'm never sure if it will save or freeze up. That's tough. I'm using Windows 10 and the newest OO and the McAfee that comes with a computer. Also I've had docs I AM SURE I SAVED PROPERLY turn into # the next time i open them. I read your answers when I Googled solutions but it was meaningless gibberish--total waste of time along with being frazzling. I wouldn't expect you to know ANY of the terms used in my fields of expertise. Sure would appreciate knowing how to rectify these w/o having to become an expert in YOUR tech area. Thank you for any help that really HELPS. On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Forum administration < aoo.forum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, this is an address for issues with the forum software. > Either post a message in the forum after registering or use the user > mailing list: users@openoffice.apache.org (note that you need to register > also to the list if you want to get all the replies. See: > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public > > Kind regards > Hagar > Admin team > > Le 30/01/2017 à 22:32, cor ses a écrit : > >> When I googled my problem with oo writer, it didnt' show answers I needed >> so I wasted time registering in Open Office. >> >> Then I wasted time searching circuitously for a way to enter a post >> but found nothing. >> >> So trust this at least gets a human. >> >> I read replies equal to ostrich reactions that thousands of people were >> NOT having the problem someone posted. >> What hubris. Of COURSE we were. We simply had lost SOmuch due TO the >> problem that we didn't have time to also waste in a forum getting belittled >> AND the circuitous answer that was gobbly-gook tech--of no help anyway. >> >> FYI: I have for YEARS had docs freeze. I've also had docs properly saved >> that next opened as only #. >> I've noted that "usually" docs don't freeze unless normal typing also >> includes a few screenshots pasted in. >> HOW >> IS >> ANYONE >> To >> WORK >> ON >> A >> Doc >> Thus? >> >> I open a doc with screenshots and do one word change and try to save and >> it already freezes. _ _ _ _ ! >> > >
