Re: open office 4-1-14

2023-03-20 Thread Brian Barker

At 19:52 20/03/2023 +, Bob Gibbens wrote:
I have opened a text document today and typed half a page of text. I 
looked down to write a couple more words, looked back at my screen 
to see only the last two words I had typed the rest of the text had 
disappeared ...


Oh, and here's how you might have achieved this. Did your extra 
couple of words perhaps start with a capital "A"? Your typing finger 
may have slipped slightly, so that instead of Shift+A you actually 
typed Ctrl+A (easily done). This is the keyboard shortcut for Select 
All (otherwise Edit | Select All), and this would have selected all 
the existing material before immediately replacing it with what you 
continued to type.


I trust this helps.

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Re: open office 4-1-14

2023-03-20 Thread Brian Barker

At 19:52 20/03/2023 +, Bob Gibbens wrote:
I download successfully 4-1-14 2 days ago I have opened a text 
document today and typed half a page of text. I looked down to write 
a couple more words, looked back at my screen to see only the last 
two words I had typed the rest of the text had disappeared ...


What almost certainly happened is that you somehow managed to select 
(highlight) all of the existing text before you looked down to type 
the extra words. If you have any part of your text selected when you 
type, what you type simply replaces the selected material - in this 
case, all of your text. That is not a bug, but instead the way all 
such applications work.



... and I have tried to restore the missing text with out success


There is a simple way: just use Edit | Undo: Typing (or Ctrl+Z) to 
undo those two words and recover your previous text. But it may be 
too late to do this if you have performed other actions in your 
attempt to recover the earlier material. If you had typed more than a 
couple of words you might want to copy that first, before undoing the 
typing, so that you could then paste the additional text back where 
it should have been.



is there a problem with the new up grade ?


No - at least, not as simple a bug as your description would suggest!

I trust this helps.

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open office 4-1-14

2023-03-20 Thread bob gibbens
Hello  I download  successfully 4-1-14  2 days ago I have opened a text 
document today  and  typed half a page of text . I looked down to write 
a couple  more words ,looked back at my screen to see only the last two 
words I had typed the rest of the text had disappeared and I have tried 
to restore the missing text with out success  is there a problem with 
the new up grade ?


 Regards Bob Gibbens


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Re: open office 4

2022-08-03 Thread Steven Ahlers
Iain,

Had the same issue with the last two updates of OpenOffice on Windows. It 
resolved itself after either starting and closing AOO or after rebooting 
Windows or after doing both, I don’t remember which resolved it.

Steve,

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 3, 2022, at 4:06 AM, Dave  wrote:
> 
> Hi Iain,
> 
> What you have actually done is not to have updated your installed
> edition of Apache OpenOffice, but you have downloaded and installed a
> very closely related program called LibreOffice.
> 
> Follow this link if you want to update Apache OpenOffice:
> https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
> I would recommend you first read the installation instructions:
> https://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html
> 
> Regards
> Dave
> 
>  Original Message 
> From: Iain Wylie [mailto:whiskey9...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 08:25 UTC
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: open office 4
> 
>> Madam/Sir,
>> 
>> I have recently updated your programme having used it for many years. Now,
>> instead of the "little bird" symbol on my task bar I have a small icon of a
>> page. I contacted Dell Technical to try to resolve this but they could not
>> get this symbol back. They checked social media  which I dio not use and
>> there seems to be many comments about this.
>> 
>> Can you please tell me how I return the little symbol to my task bar?
>> 
>> Appreciate your assistance.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> 
>> Iain
>> (Wylie
>> Northern Ireland U.K.)
>> 
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Re: open office 4

2022-08-03 Thread Dave
Hi Iain,

What you have actually done is not to have updated your installed
edition of Apache OpenOffice, but you have downloaded and installed a
very closely related program called LibreOffice.

Follow this link if you want to update Apache OpenOffice:
https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
I would recommend you first read the installation instructions:
https://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html

Regards
Dave

 Original Message 
From: Iain Wylie [mailto:whiskey9...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 08:25 UTC
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: open office 4

> Madam/Sir,
> 
>  I have recently updated your programme having used it for many years. Now,
> instead of the "little bird" symbol on my task bar I have a small icon of a
> page. I contacted Dell Technical to try to resolve this but they could not
> get this symbol back. They checked social media  which I dio not use and
> there seems to be many comments about this.
> 
>  Can you please tell me how I return the little symbol to my task bar?
> 
> Appreciate your assistance.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Iain
> (Wylie
> Northern Ireland U.K.)
> 

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open office 4

2022-08-03 Thread Iain Wylie
Madam/Sir,

 I have recently updated your programme having used it for many years. Now,
instead of the "little bird" symbol on my task bar I have a small icon of a
page. I contacted Dell Technical to try to resolve this but they could not
get this symbol back. They checked social media  which I dio not use and
there seems to be many comments about this.

 Can you please tell me how I return the little symbol to my task bar?

Appreciate your assistance.

Kind Regards,

Iain
(Wylie
Northern Ireland U.K.)


Re: Open Office 4

2022-07-20 Thread David Robley
See Spell Check Not Working (words red underlined) 
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=&t=89052


Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the 
replies to your query. To subscribe to Apache OpenOffice mailing lists 
go to http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html


As a courtesy I have forwarded a copy of this reply to you as well as to 
the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at 
 - replies to my personal email address 
will be ignored.


On 20/7/22 20:20, O'Brien Craig Mark wrote:

Good day.

Hope you can help with my problem, issue?

For no apparent reason Office 4 is requesting me to do a spell check on ALL 
documents I open.

Every word is checked. This has never happened before.

I did a repair and it has not helped.

Hoping for a favorable response.



Cheers
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Open Office 4

2022-07-20 Thread O'Brien Craig Mark
Good day.

Hope you can help with my problem, issue?

For no apparent reason Office 4 is requesting me to do a spell check on ALL 
documents I open.

Every word is checked. This has never happened before.

I did a repair and it has not helped.

Hoping for a favorable response.

Re: Impossibilité de désactiver le correcteur d'orthographe sur OPEN OFFICE [4].1.11.

2021-11-09 Thread Brian Barker

At 23:00 09/11/2021 +, Hugo Costa wrote:
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 02:26:25 PM GMT-3, 
Michelle Desire PIRIOU wrote:
Jusqu’à ce jour, je n’avais aucun problème avec 
l’utilisation du correcteur d’orthographe, or 
depuis quelques temps, il est inopérant, de 
plus tous les mots inscrits sont considérés 
comme des fautes ou tous les mots inscrits sont soulignés en rouge.

Quel est le moyen pour remettre le système en fonctionnement.


Have you upgrade from older version of OpenOffice? cette votre problem.

avez-vous fait une mise niveau partir d'une 
ancienne version d'open office? ce etait une BUG 
toute le fois vous upgrade.. procurai dans le forum.


There is a bug every time you upgrade your version. Is better not to upgrade.


The user's problem is corruption of the 
OpenOffice user profile. If you think this is a 
bug with upgrading in OpenOffice, you need to 
explain why it doesn't occur for me and for 
millions of other users. There must be something 
wrong with how you upgrade. I'm guessing, but is 
the problem that you have the Quickstarter 
running whilst you attempt to upgrade?


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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Hagar Delest wrote:
There IS an issue somewhere. I do not doubt that this is a weird issue 
but it happens, period.


It is very hard to get a copy of a broken profile to study. When the 
report was more frequent, years ago, we asked for broken profiles and I 
think we even built a survey to help identifying the cause; but that 
didn't help (honestly, many users are even unable to fix it with the 
instructions we give them).



then they may have found something, then there may be something to be found.


At a point it was believed that the original problem was the decision to 
migrate 3.x profiles over to 4.x; "sometimes" this would result in 
damaging the profile; it would be interesting to know whether this is 
still reasonable or whether people manage to get this error even if they 
install a fresh 4.1.7 and keep using it.


This would also explain why other programs don't have the issue, if they 
really don't.


Focusing on what we can do now, I'd say the easiest thing to do is a 
"Tools - Reset profile" menu item, or alternatively a "Start with a 
fresh profile" option at install time. Volunteers welcome etc... but 
this would probably be helpful to users beyond the specific issue.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Hagar Delest



Le 13/10/2020 à 18:31, Brian Barker a écrit :
Aha! But this problem is not a matter of "the spell checker doesn't 
work", so we don't know - indeed you don't know - that this is what 
the original questioner is experiencing. And you didn't indicate that 
this different problem - that spelling checking works until you 
mishandle your computer but then doesn't - is what you were talking about.

What makes you think that the user mishandled his computer?
This has been a recurring issue in the forum as well. I can't believe 
that all these users do mishandle their computer.


Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these 
two office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution 
would be to apply the same solution.


Yes, I agree that this later problem should be prevented, but we 
should not give users generally the untrue idea that "the spell 
checker doesn't work". Meanwhile we should encourage them into the 
good practice that avoids it anyway.

What kind of best practice do you have in mind?

There IS an issue somewhere. I do not doubt that this is a weird issue 
but it happens, period. If LO has fixed the problem, then they may have 
found something, then there may be something to be found.


Hagar

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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/13/2020 11:00 AM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> 
> On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:
>> At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
>>> On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
>>>> When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work on
>>>> Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell
>>>> checker doesn't work.
>>>
>>> A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?
>>
>> Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for
>> millions of others. Why not for you?
>>
>> Brian Barker
> 
>    For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by
> some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more.
> Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you
> already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these two
> office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution would
> be to apply the same solution.
> 
>    I also know that this affect very few people, but it is a consistent
> problem that appears in this mailing list.
> 
> 
> Dan
Dan;

Just because LO fixed it does not mean that AOO can apply that patch. In
general LO is duel licensed under Mozilla Public License v2 and the GNU
Lesser GPL v3+ licenses which are incompatible with the Apache License
version 2.0 (ALV2) and cannot be used unless the developer also
licensees it under the ALV2[1].

[1] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x



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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Dan Lewis



On 10/13/20 12:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 11:00 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work 
on Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by 
some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more.


Aha! But this problem is not a matter of "the spell checker doesn't 
work", so we don't know - indeed you don't know - that this is what 
the original questioner is experiencing. And you didn't indicate that 
this different problem - that spelling checking works until you 
mishandle your computer but then doesn't - is what you were talking 
about.


Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these 
two office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution 
would be to apply the same solution.


Yes, I agree that this later problem should be prevented, but we 
should not give users generally the untrue idea that "the spell 
checker doesn't work". Meanwhile we should encourage them into the 
good practice that avoids it anyway.


Brian Barker


I agree with you. What I should have pointed out as to what the likely 
problem is that the user was having which I did not. Instead I assumed 
that everyone would know what has been obvious on so many computers 
running OOo: the configuration folder has become corrupt. It has become 
a reflex action.


Dan

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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Brian Barker

At 11:00 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work 
on Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by 
some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more.


Aha! But this problem is not a matter of "the spell checker doesn't 
work", so we don't know - indeed you don't know - that this is what 
the original questioner is experiencing. And you didn't indicate that 
this different problem - that spelling checking works until you 
mishandle your computer but then doesn't - is what you were talking about.


Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these 
two office programs are very similar, I would think that the 
solution would be to apply the same solution.


Yes, I agree that this later problem should be prevented, but we 
should not give users generally the untrue idea that "the spell 
checker doesn't work". Meanwhile we should encourage them into the 
good practice that avoids it anyway.


Brian Barker  



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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Dan Lewis



On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work on 
Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


Brian Barker


   For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by 
some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more. 
Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these two 
office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution would 
be to apply the same solution.


   I also know that this affect very few people, but it is a consistent 
problem that appears in this mailing list.



Dan


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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

2020-10-13 Thread Brian Barker

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work 
on Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


Brian Barker 



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Re: open office 4

2017-04-08 Thread Julian Thomas

> On Apr 8, 2017, at 13:54, patricia  wrote:
> 
> I have been using this program for a long time and 4 months ago I reinstalled 
> it just yesterday it “not responding” so I uninstalled, empty bin, restarted 
> system, reinstalled and started using it and same thing, ran kasppersky, 
> malawarebytes all is good. reinstalled, unplugged system took out battery 
> restarte system reinstalled ran scan all night started using today started 
> fine and then boom “not responding”

You don't tell us what operating system you are using. Is this the only 
application with this problem?  Also, where did you download from?


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Re: open office 4

2017-04-08 Thread JD

It is NOT true that antivirus software will detect and remove ALL viruses.

If you have access to another computer that does NOT have openoffice, 
install it on that computer and run it there to see if the behaviour is 
the same.


PS: Which release version of OO 4 are you using?
I am at Apache 4.1.3


On 04/08/2017 11:54 AM, patricia wrote:

I have been using this program for a long time and 4 months ago I reinstalled 
it just yesterday it “not responding” so I uninstalled, empty bin, restarted 
system, reinstalled and started using it and same thing, ran kasppersky, 
malawarebytes all is good. reinstalled, unplugged system took out battery 
restarte system reinstalled ran scan all night started using today started fine 
and then boom “not responding”
do you have a solution
patricia barrett

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open office 4

2017-04-08 Thread patricia
I have been using this program for a long time and 4 months ago I reinstalled 
it just yesterday it “not responding” so I uninstalled, empty bin, restarted 
system, reinstalled and started using it and same thing, ran kasppersky, 
malawarebytes all is good. reinstalled, unplugged system took out battery 
restarte system reinstalled ran scan all night started using today started fine 
and then boom “not responding”
do you have a solution
patricia barrett

Sent from Windows Mail



Re: cannot download [open?]office 4...

2016-10-15 Thread Brian Barker

At 08:25 15/10/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

Yes Brian I noticed. No it was not Sourceforge.


Strange, then, that you didn't notice what site it was!

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RE: Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Assuming you want the recipient to have an email with your document file 
attached, use the following steps:

 1. Save the study document to your file system.

 2. When you open Windows Live Mail and address a new message to be sent, 
attach the document.  (This might be an Insert option depending on your 
version.) Then send the message.

Alternative: If you have the Windows PC desktop application for Windows Live 
Mail, see if you can set it as your default email application.  Then the Send 
to Email from Apache OpenOffice 4 might work.  If it doesn't, use the above 
procedure.

 - Dennis

If this is unclear, please reply to users@openoffice.apache.org with 
information about the version of Windows you are using.


> -Original Message-
> From: travel...@yahoo.com.au.INVALID
> [mailto:travel...@yahoo.com.au.INVALID]
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 14:38
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Cc: travel...@yahoo.com.au
> Subject: Open Office 4 Email Problems
> 
> Hello  Open Office Support
> 
> My name is GeraldW
> from Melbourne , Australia
> 
> Subject : Email problems via windows live mail .
> 
> Recently downloaded Apache Open Office 4
> 
> Have typed written study documents in Open Office  file  about 5-6
> pages, but cannot email the documents out via windows live mail
> 
> Could you please offer me tech support advice
> 
> 
> Thank you


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Re: Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread Tina
First off, I always save my documents in word sot that people opening them 
won't have any problems. You could also export them as pdfs by the way. I don't 
use that e-mail server. I prefer yahoo and gmail for they present fewer 
problems. But, in general, you shouldn't have problems attaching the document 
in question. Or, if you want to send what you have typed as part of your 
e-mail, select the words in question, copy, and then paste them to your e-mail 
normally as if you had typed it there on the e-mail itself. Hope this helps 
somewhat.
Cheers and God bless,
 
Tina

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El Domingo, 31 de julio, 2016 16:57:19, "travel...@yahoo.com.au.INVALID" 
 escribió:
 

 Hello  Open Office Support 

My name is GeraldW
from Melbourne , Australia 

Subject : Email problems via windows live mail .

Recently downloaded Apache Open Office 4 

Have typed written study documents in Open Office  file  about 5-6 pages, but 
cannot email the documents out via windows live mail  

Could you please offer me tech support advice 


Thank you

  

Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread travel4wd
Hello  Open Office Support 

My name is GeraldW
from Melbourne , Australia 

Subject : Email problems via windows live mail .

Recently downloaded Apache Open Office 4 

Have typed written study documents in Open Office  file  about 5-6 pages, but 
cannot email the documents out via windows live mail  

Could you please offer me tech support advice 


Thank you 

AYUDA OPEN OFFICE 4-1-2

2016-07-09 Thread Salvador Jorba Quer
Mi Open Office ha perdido las pàginas de ayuda.
He hecho unas nuevas descargas e instalaciones pero no se recuperan
Que debo hacer para recuperarlo.
Espero sus indicaciones. Muchas gracias
Salvador
,


Re: Spell Checking on Open Office 4

2016-07-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
hendryshan...@aol.com wrote:
> Sunday, July 2, 2016
>  
> Dear Open Office, 
>  
> I am not sure what is happening, but it seems that there is a problem with  
> the spell checker on my Apache Open Office 4. I have no idea if it is 
> working or  not and nothing I do show that it is. 
>  
> Is there anything you can do to help me?
>  
> George Pierson
> 
George;

You really do not give us much to go on so I am going to suggest suggest
the normal first course for spell check problems.

The usual starting point for spellcheck problems is to delete or rename
the OpenOffice user profile. Doing this sorts out a very large
proportion [read: most] of OpenOffice stability problems. Details of how
to do this are given in
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Handling_the_OpenOffice.org_User_Profile

If this does not resolve your problem please post back to the list with
more details of what t he problem seems to be.

Regards
Keith

PS as you are not subscribed to the list I have cc'd your e-mail account
as a courtesy. Please reply ONLY to the list and not to my e-mail.
Replies to my personal e-mail will be taken as permission to forward
them to the list.
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Spell Checking on Open Office 4

2016-07-03 Thread HENDRYSHANNON
Sunday, July 2, 2016
 
Dear Open Office, 
 
I am not sure what is happening, but it seems that there is a problem with  
the spell checker on my Apache Open Office 4. I have no idea if it is 
working or  not and nothing I do show that it is. 
 
Is there anything you can do to help me?
 
George Pierson

Re: would like to know how to address envelopes and do labels with open office 4

2016-03-08 Thread Martin Groenescheij
If you like to know how to address envelopes go to the wiki 
 page and type 
envelopes

in the search field.

On 08-Mar-16 01:53, ted pittinaro wrote:

Also is there someone that I can talk to??


We are users like you who are willing to answer questions on this 
mailing list and/or the

OpenOffice Forum site.


Thank you
ted

Sent from Mail for Windows 10






would like to know how to address envelopes and do labels with open office 4

2016-03-07 Thread ted pittinaro
Also is there someone that I can talk to??
Thank you
ted

Sent from Mail for Windows 10



Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-22 Thread Lucetta
Possible the third most used shortcut. After Cmd-c & Cmd-v. Which are 
respectively copy and paste. 

A complete list for Mac can be found here with some of the differences between 
windows & Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201236

Lucetta

> On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:20 PM, Julian Thomas  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 18:24, Johnny Rosenberg  wrote:
>> 
>> And yes, Ctrl+z is ”undo” in most applications and most operating systems.
> 
> Cmd Z in the Mac world.
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> Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers 
> come out?"'...I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of 
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Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-21 Thread Julian Thomas

> On Jan 21, 2016, at 18:24, Johnny Rosenberg  wrote:
> 
> And yes, Ctrl+z is ”undo” in most applications and most operating systems.

Cmd Z in the Mac world.

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Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come 
out?"'...I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that 
could provoke such a question. -Charles Babbage 





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Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2016-01-21 5:56 GMT+01:00 Dale Erwin :

> On 1/19/2016 3:13 PM, Don Daugherty wrote:
>
>> On 1/10/2016 12:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>> 2016-01-10 16:49 GMT+01:00 Roy Noble :
>>>
>>> I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my
 realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared.

>>>
>>> It's too late now (I'm guessing) but if this sort of thing happens
>> again, try pressing (and holding) Ctrl and then Z to undo whatever caused
>> the problem.
>>
>
> That also happened to me once not too long ago.  Is Ctrl Z the keyboard
> shortcut for Undo?


Well, I guess it should be Ctrl+z rather than Ctrl+Z (the ”+” indicates
that both keys are pressed simultaneously):
Z=Shift+z ⇒ Ctrl+Z=Shift+Ctrl+z…



And yes, Ctrl+z is ”undo” in most applications and most operating systems.

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg



>   If so, I doubt it will work.  When it happened to me, I clicked on the
> Edit menu and instead of Undo, it said Can't Undo and it was greyed out.  I
> had to re-key the entire document.  Fortunately, it hasn't happened
> again... yet.
>
> Dale Erwin
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Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-20 Thread Dale Erwin

On 1/19/2016 3:13 PM, Don Daugherty wrote:

On 1/10/2016 12:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2016-01-10 16:49 GMT+01:00 Roy Noble :


I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my
realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared.


It's too late now (I'm guessing) but if this sort of thing happens 
again, try pressing (and holding) Ctrl and then Z to undo whatever 
caused the problem.


That also happened to me once not too long ago.  Is Ctrl Z the keyboard 
shortcut for Undo?  If so, I doubt it will work.  When it happened to 
me, I clicked on the Edit menu and instead of Undo, it said Can't Undo 
and it was greyed out.  I had to re-key the entire document.  
Fortunately, it hasn't happened again... yet.


Dale Erwin

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Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-19 Thread Don Daugherty

On 1/10/2016 12:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

2016-01-10 16:49 GMT+01:00 Roy Noble :


I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my
realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared.


It's too late now (I'm guessing) but if this sort of thing happens 
again, try pressing (and holding) Ctrl and then Z to undo whatever 
caused the problem.



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Re: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2016-01-10 16:49 GMT+01:00 Roy Noble :

> I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my
> realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared.


What disappeared? Only the text or the whole window? Or something else?

I assume you are running Apache OpenOffice Writer, as you say ”word
program”, which perhaps refers to MS Office Word. Writer is however not an
MS Word clone or anything like that.
It's also not ”our” program. I'm just a user like you, so this list is just
people using Apache OpenOffice, helping each other out; it's not like
professional support or something.
Just saying, in case you don't know.


> This has happened to me maybe 3 times over a period of time.

I am not able to undo this change and get my text back. Please send me a
> possible solution to this problem that keeps occurring.
>

Do the file still exist? If so, what size is it?


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RE: Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Roy,

There is not enough information to be able to reproduce your difficulty and 
identify the particular problem.

Without knowing more, here are a number of things to try,

It may be that a Zoom or Scroll function moved your view so that the text was 
not visible.  

Open the document and look at the lower right corner of the OpenOffice Text 
window where there is a slider and a % value.  Move the slider to 100% and see 
if that helps.  You can also use Ctrl-Home to get to the top of the first page 
and see if the text is there.

Also check the lower left corner where it says Page m/n.  That should tell you 
how much material the document may have, assuming you typed more than a page's 
worth.

If you don't find your text that way, try going to the View menu and click the 
"Hidden Paragraphs" option.

And one more trick.  Positioned at the top of the document, click the "Edit > 
Select all" and see whether there is any portion of the document that is 
selected.  If you see text in the selection area, this may reveal that a font 
color has been changed.  You can use the font color button in the bar that has 
font and style information to change the font to a visible color different than 
the background color of the document.

If this does not recover what appears to be suddenly-missing text, the best 
workaround is to save your document regularly.  When something like this 
happens on a document that has previously been saved (so it has a file name), 
do not close or save the document.  Instead, use the File > Save As ... menu 
option to save the file under a new name so that you don't lose previously 
saved material while you see if you can recover your latest work.

Also, if the material is not private, you can create a bug report and add the 
failed document as an attachment.  That way, someone who understand the file 
format can examine your document to see if there is any way to tell what 
happened.  Let us know if you have captured a document that you want to do that 
with.

- Dennis

PS: Please reply to users@openoffice.apache.org so other users can follow and 
add their suggestions.  If you reply directly to me, I will assume you are 
giving me permission to post your message to this list as I see fit.



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> to me maybe 3 times over a period of time.
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Open Office 4 text problem

2016-01-10 Thread Roy Noble
I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my 
realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared. This has happened 
to me maybe 3 times over a period of time.
I am not able to undo this change and get my text back. Please send me a 
possible solution to this problem that keeps occurring.


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Re: Fwd: Open Office 4

2015-12-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:35:40 -0500
Linda Hull  wrote:

> That got it! Thank you very much!
> 
> Linda

I'm glad that worked for you. Be aware that after any crash, be it of 
OpenOffice or of the computer while OpenOffice is open, there may be such 
left-over processes.  If, after a crash, OpenOffice does not start up, you may 
need to repeat the TaskManager delete of soffice processes to enable it 
startup.  I strongly advise finding out why your computer crashes and fixing it.

Rory


> 
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:01:01 +
> > Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:20:25 -0500
> > > Linda Hull  wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have the same problem but it's not going away.
> > > >
> > > > In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to
> > open
> > > > my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' -
> > and
> > > > it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> > > > freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again,
> > three
> > > > times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
> > > >
> > > > Got ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Linda
> > > >
> > >
> > > If your laptop has been shutting down unexpectedly there are possibly
> > left-over OpenOffice processes running; these can remain even after a
> > computer restart.  So start up TaskManager and kill any soffice (note:
> > soffice, with a leading 's')
> > > processes shown as running on TaskManager's Processes tab.
> >
> > I'm at the end of my day, so am fatigued.  I forgot  to say how to start
> > TaskManager - use Ctrl Shift Esc.
> >
> > Rory
> >
> > > Then, because the OpenOffice user profile may be damaged, continue by
> > deleting or renaming your OpenOffice User profile.  As you are using
> > Windows do this by:
> > > 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. Start OpenOffice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Re: Fwd: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Linda Hull
That got it! Thank you very much!

Linda

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:01:01 +
> Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:20:25 -0500
> > Linda Hull  wrote:
> >
> > > I have the same problem but it's not going away.
> > >
> > > In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
> > >
> > >
> > > My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to
> open
> > > my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' -
> and
> > > it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> > > freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again,
> three
> > > times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
> > >
> > > Got ideas?
> > >
> > > Linda
> > >
> >
> > If your laptop has been shutting down unexpectedly there are possibly
> left-over OpenOffice processes running; these can remain even after a
> computer restart.  So start up TaskManager and kill any soffice (note:
> soffice, with a leading 's')
> > processes shown as running on TaskManager's Processes tab.
>
> I'm at the end of my day, so am fatigued.  I forgot  to say how to start
> TaskManager - use Ctrl Shift Esc.
>
> Rory
>
> > Then, because the OpenOffice user profile may be damaged, continue by
> deleting or renaming your OpenOffice User profile.  As you are using
> Windows do this by:
> > 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. Start OpenOffice.
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Fwd: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:01:01 +
Rory O'Farrell  wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:20:25 -0500
> Linda Hull  wrote:
> 
> > I have the same problem but it's not going away.
> > 
> > In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
> > 
> > 
> > My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to open
> > my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' - and
> > it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> > freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again, three
> > times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
> > 
> > Got ideas?
> > 
> > Linda
> > 
> 
> If your laptop has been shutting down unexpectedly there are possibly 
> left-over OpenOffice processes running; these can remain even after a 
> computer restart.  So start up TaskManager and kill any soffice (note: 
> soffice, with a leading 's')
> processes shown as running on TaskManager's Processes tab.  

I'm at the end of my day, so am fatigued.  I forgot  to say how to start 
TaskManager - use Ctrl Shift Esc.

Rory
 
> Then, because the OpenOffice user profile may be damaged, continue by 
> deleting or renaming your OpenOffice User profile.  As you are using Windows 
> do this by:
> 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. Start OpenOffice.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Fwd: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:20:25 -0500
Linda Hull  wrote:

> I have the same problem but it's not going away.
> 
> In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
> 
> 
> My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to open
> my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' - and
> it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again, three
> times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
> 
> Got ideas?
> 
> Linda
> 

If your laptop has been shutting down unexpectedly there are possibly left-over 
OpenOffice processes running; these can remain even after a computer restart.  
So start up TaskManager and kill any soffice (note: soffice, with a leading 's')
processes shown as running on TaskManager's Processes tab.  

Then, because the OpenOffice user profile may be damaged, continue by deleting 
or renaming your OpenOffice User profile.  As you are using Windows do this by:
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. Start OpenOffice.



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Re: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Linda Hull
Jim,

Thanks a lot! I have a cooler under the laptop, but it's not very
effective. I'll probably build one using real case fans and some wood. HP
also gives directions for cleaning the fans and remounting the cooler.
Would be nice to have a backup computer first.

In the meantime, I tried downloading Apache Open Office 4.1.2, from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/?source=typ_redirect

It has failed to download twice. I speak English, didn't bother with the
language packs, just clicked download. Must be my lucky day/bad internet?

Linda

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Jim McLaughlin 
wrote:

> Though nothing to do with the software issues, which are probably the
> resuly of a too fast shutdown of the machine before buffers can write to
> the hard drive, you might want to look into an "iron lung" for the laptop.
> A base about yhe size of the laptop base, runs 2, 3, 4, 6 fans, powers
> through a USB port, and cools the laptop somewhat effectively.   Make sure
> that you avoid the overheating process, as it can eventually damage
> hardware.
>
> I hope that Brian or Rory or Dennis or one of the other very experienced
> users will chime in here soon to offer suggestions as to the software
> issues,
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Linda Hull 
> wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem but it's not going away.
> >
> > In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
> >
> >
> > My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to
> open
> > my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' - and
> > it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> > freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again, three
> > times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
> >
> > Got ideas?
> >
> > Linda
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Martin Groenescheij <
> > mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10-Nov-15 17:03, Dave Barton wrote:
> > >
> > >>  Original Message  
> > >> From: Martin Groenescheij
> > >> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:07 +1100
> > >>
> > >> The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to
> > >>> "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
> > >>> your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way
> > >>> this setting has been removed in 4.1.2
> > >>>
> > >> I have a "Full" install of 4.1.2 (AOO412m3(Build:9782) - Rev. 1709696
> > >> 2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)) installed on Windows and "Load
> > >> OpenOffice during system start-up" is definitely still an option.
> > >>
> > >> If the "Quickstarter" option is omitted during a "Custom"
> installation,
> > >> then the "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" does not appear in
> the
> > >> Memory settings. I haven't checked, but it might be that the
> "Standard"
> > >> installation does not include the "Quickstarter" component.
> > >>
> > >
> > > You're right Dave, I have deselected that option during installation
> and
> > > forgot this when I answered the email.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> Dave
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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Re: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Though nothing to do with the software issues, which are probably the
resuly of a too fast shutdown of the machine before buffers can write to
the hard drive, you might want to look into an "iron lung" for the laptop.
A base about yhe size of the laptop base, runs 2, 3, 4, 6 fans, powers
through a USB port, and cools the laptop somewhat effectively.   Make sure
that you avoid the overheating process, as it can eventually damage
hardware.

I hope that Brian or Rory or Dennis or one of the other very experienced
users will chime in here soon to offer suggestions as to the software
issues,

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Linda Hull 
wrote:

> I have the same problem but it's not going away.
>
> In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.
>
>
> My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to open
> my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' - and
> it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
> freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again, three
> times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.
>
> Got ideas?
>
> Linda
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Martin Groenescheij <
> mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 10-Nov-15 17:03, Dave Barton wrote:
> >
> >>  Original Message  
> >> From: Martin Groenescheij
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:07 +1100
> >>
> >> The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to
> >>> "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
> >>> your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way
> >>> this setting has been removed in 4.1.2
> >>>
> >> I have a "Full" install of 4.1.2 (AOO412m3(Build:9782) - Rev. 1709696
> >> 2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)) installed on Windows and "Load
> >> OpenOffice during system start-up" is definitely still an option.
> >>
> >> If the "Quickstarter" option is omitted during a "Custom" installation,
> >> then the "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" does not appear in the
> >> Memory settings. I haven't checked, but it might be that the "Standard"
> >> installation does not include the "Quickstarter" component.
> >>
> >
> > You're right Dave, I have deselected that option during installation and
> > forgot this when I answered the email.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Fwd: Open Office 4

2015-12-20 Thread Linda Hull
I have the same problem but it's not going away.

In Windows 7 and OpenOffice 4.1.1.


My laptop has been shutting itself down due to overheating. I want to open
my OpenOffice files, however - I've clicked on 'open office writer' - and
it gives me the Recovery screen, but it struggles to open things and
freezes. Then I've used Task Manager,  and tried to open it again, three
times now, and it's still locking up, with the white screen.

Got ideas?

Linda

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Martin Groenescheij <
mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 10-Nov-15 17:03, Dave Barton wrote:
>
>>  Original Message  
>> From: Martin Groenescheij
>> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:07 +1100
>>
>> The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to
>>> "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
>>> your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way
>>> this setting has been removed in 4.1.2
>>>
>> I have a "Full" install of 4.1.2 (AOO412m3(Build:9782) - Rev. 1709696
>> 2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)) installed on Windows and "Load
>> OpenOffice during system start-up" is definitely still an option.
>>
>> If the "Quickstarter" option is omitted during a "Custom" installation,
>> then the "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" does not appear in the
>> Memory settings. I haven't checked, but it might be that the "Standard"
>> installation does not include the "Quickstarter" component.
>>
>
> You're right Dave, I have deselected that option during installation and
> forgot this when I answered the email.
>
>
>
>> Dave
>>
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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Martin Groenescheij



On 10-Nov-15 17:03, Dave Barton wrote:

 Original Message  
From: Martin Groenescheij
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:07 +1100


The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to
"Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way
this setting has been removed in 4.1.2

I have a "Full" install of 4.1.2 (AOO412m3(Build:9782) - Rev. 1709696
2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)) installed on Windows and "Load
OpenOffice during system start-up" is definitely still an option.

If the "Quickstarter" option is omitted during a "Custom" installation,
then the "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" does not appear in the
Memory settings. I haven't checked, but it might be that the "Standard"
installation does not include the "Quickstarter" component.


You're right Dave, I have deselected that option during installation and 
forgot this when I answered the email.




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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Dave Barton
 Original Message  
From: Martin Groenescheij
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:07 +1100

> The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to
> "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
> your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way
> this setting has been removed in 4.1.2

I have a "Full" install of 4.1.2 (AOO412m3(Build:9782) - Rev. 1709696
2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)) installed on Windows and "Load
OpenOffice during system start-up" is definitely still an option.

If the "Quickstarter" option is omitted during a "Custom" installation,
then the "Load OpenOffice during system start-up" does not appear in the
Memory settings. I haven't checked, but it might be that the "Standard"
installation does not include the "Quickstarter" component.

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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Elaine
Thank you Martin for the information.  :)


The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or 
coming back with excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill



-Original Message-
From: Martin Groenescheij 
To: users 
Cc: Martin 
Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 7:23 pm
Subject: Re: Open Office 4




On 10-Nov-15 11:22, Elaine wrote:
> Dennis,
>
>
> I've tried that but
not all will be in the list.  It's just easier for me to do this through task
manager.  I'm still using 4.1.1.

The only reason you have to use the Task
Manager is if you have set to 
"Load OpenOffice during system start-up"
in
your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way 
this
setting has been removed in 4.1.2

>
>
> Elaine
>
>
> The best job goes
to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with
excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Dennis
E. Hamilton 
> To: users

> Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 4:51 pm
> Subject: RE:
Open Office 4
>
>
> Elaine,
>
> That is the first time I have heard of Task
Manager shutdown of
> OpenOffice as a features.
>
> If it could work for you,
the recently-opened
> documents list might be a much better way to have a safe
restart of a
> previously-worked-on document.
>
>> -Original
Message-
>> From: Elaine
> [mailto:safire...@aol.com]
>> Sent: Monday,
November 9, 2015 12:36
>> To:
> users@openoffice.apache.org
>> Subject: Re:
Open Office 4
>>
>> I always use
> the task manager to shut Open Office down.
This way, after
>> I reboot, I can
> have all my files open using the recovery
window which
>> opens immediately
> after clicking on the pinned icon on my
taskbar.
>>
>> The best job goes to
> the person who can get it done without
passing the
>> buck or coming back with
> excuses. ~~ Napoleon
>
Hill
>
>
>
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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Martin Groenescheij



On 10-Nov-15 11:22, Elaine wrote:

Dennis,


I've tried that but not all will be in the list.  It's just easier for me to do 
this through task manager.  I'm still using 4.1.1.


The only reason you have to use the Task Manager is if you have set to 
"Load OpenOffice during system start-up" in
your Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice --> Memory settings. By the way 
this setting has been removed in 4.1.2





Elaine


The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or 
coming back with excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill



-Original Message-
From: Dennis E. Hamilton 
To: users 
Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 4:51 pm
Subject: RE: Open Office 4


Elaine,

That is the first time I have heard of Task Manager shutdown of
OpenOffice as a features.

If it could work for you, the recently-opened
documents list might be a much better way to have a safe restart of a
previously-worked-on document.


-Original Message-
From: Elaine

[mailto:safire...@aol.com]

Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 12:36
To:

users@openoffice.apache.org

Subject: Re: Open Office 4

I always use

the task manager to shut Open Office down.  This way, after

I reboot, I can

have all my files open using the recovery window which

opens immediately

after clicking on the pinned icon on my taskbar.


The best job goes to

the person who can get it done without passing the

buck or coming back with

excuses. ~~ Napoleon
Hill


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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Elaine
Dennis,


I've tried that but not all will be in the list.  It's just easier for me to do 
this through task manager.  I'm still using 4.1.1.


Elaine


The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or 
coming back with excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill



-Original Message-
From: Dennis E. Hamilton 
To: users 
Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 4:51 pm
Subject: RE: Open Office 4


Elaine,

That is the first time I have heard of Task Manager shutdown of
OpenOffice as a features.

If it could work for you, the recently-opened
documents list might be a much better way to have a safe restart of a
previously-worked-on document.

> -Original Message-
> From: Elaine
[mailto:safire...@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 12:36
> To:
users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Open Office 4
> 
> I always use
the task manager to shut Open Office down.  This way, after
> I reboot, I can
have all my files open using the recovery window which
> opens immediately
after clicking on the pinned icon on my taskbar.
> 
> 
> The best job goes to
the person who can get it done without passing the
> buck or coming back with
excuses. ~~ Napoleon
Hill


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RE: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Elaine,

That is the first time I have heard of Task Manager shutdown of OpenOffice as a 
features.

If it could work for you, the recently-opened documents list might be a much 
better way to have a safe restart of a previously-worked-on document.

> -Original Message-
> From: Elaine [mailto:safire...@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 12:36
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Open Office 4
> 
> I always use the task manager to shut Open Office down.  This way, after
> I reboot, I can have all my files open using the recovery window which
> opens immediately after clicking on the pinned icon on my taskbar.
> 
> 
> The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the
> buck or coming back with excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill


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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Elaine
I always use the task manager to shut Open Office down.  This way, after I 
reboot, I can have all my files open using the recovery window which opens 
immediately after clicking on the pinned icon on my taskbar.


The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or 
coming back with excuses. ~~ Napoleon Hill



-Original Message-
From: Rory O'Farrell 
To: users 
Cc: Michelle Trumps 
Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 12:31 pm
Subject: Re: Open Office 4


On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 13:00:29 -0500
Michelle Trumps 
wrote:

> I use it - I donate and Suddenly - can't open any files
> 
> I
hate forums to try to fish around to find a solution to a problem
> 
> Yes I
will un-install and re-install,
> but I want to lodge my complaint about
it

un/re install will possibly (probably) not work.  If you are using
Windows, start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and kill any "soffice" processes
shown as running on TM's Processes tab.  Such processes can be left over if you
close (powerdown) your computer too quickly after using OO, or if you have had a
program or computer crash.


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Re: Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 13:00:29 -0500
Michelle Trumps  wrote:

> I use it - I donate and Suddenly - can't open any files
> 
> I hate forums to try to fish around to find a solution to a problem
> 
> Yes I will un-install and re-install,
> but I want to lodge my complaint about it

un/re install will possibly (probably) not work.  If you are using Windows, 
start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and kill any "soffice" processes shown as 
running on TM's Processes tab.  Such processes can be left over if you close 
(powerdown) your computer too quickly after using OO, or if you have had a 
program or computer crash.


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Open Office 4

2015-11-09 Thread Michelle Trumps
I use it - I donate and Suddenly - can't open any files

I hate forums to try to fish around to find a solution to a problem

Yes I will un-install and re-install,
but I want to lodge my complaint about it


Re: Problems opening Open Office 4

2015-05-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 29 May 2015 22:54:14 +0100
Jean Boyle  wrote:

> Hi, thank you for your prompt response. Seems to be working OK now but 
> extremely slow

It may be worth running indepth antivirus and malware scans.



> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> > On 29 May 2015, at 18:53, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 May 2015 17:29:31 +0100
> > Jean Boyle  wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> I have the above installed on my desktop PC running windows 8.1
> >> It has been operating successfully for about four months and I have 
> >> several files saved in both Writer and spreadsheet. 
> >> Today I cannot get these file to open nor can I open the program to start 
> >> new documents. I keep getting the message "requires elevation"
> >> 
> >> Can you help me please
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Jean Boyle
> > 
> > 
> > Start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and Kill any soffice processes shown as 
> > running on TaskManager's Processes tab. That should cure the problem.
> > -- 
> > Rory O'Farrell 
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Re: Problems opening Open Office 4

2015-05-29 Thread Jean Boyle
Hi, thank you for your prompt response. Seems to be working OK now but 
extremely slow


Sent from my iPad

> On 29 May 2015, at 18:53, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 May 2015 17:29:31 +0100
> Jean Boyle  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have the above installed on my desktop PC running windows 8.1
>> It has been operating successfully for about four months and I have several 
>> files saved in both Writer and spreadsheet. 
>> Today I cannot get these file to open nor can I open the program to start 
>> new documents. I keep getting the message "requires elevation"
>> 
>> Can you help me please
>> 
>> Regards
>> Jean Boyle
> 
> 
> Start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and Kill any soffice processes shown as 
> running on TaskManager's Processes tab. That should cure the problem.
> -- 
> Rory O'Farrell 

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Re: Problems opening Open Office 4

2015-05-29 Thread Jim
V8.1 continues the "user is not the administrator" security model 
Microsoft started with the release of Vista. Navigate to the .EXE files. 
Right-Click the application and enable the "Run as Administrator". You 
can also right click the shortcut and temporarily run the application 
with administrator access.


On 5/29/2015 12:53 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Fri, 29 May 2015 17:29:31 +0100
Jean Boyle  wrote:


I have the above installed on my desktop PC running windows 8.1
It has been operating successfully for about four months and I have several 
files saved in both Writer and spreadsheet.
Today I cannot get these file to open nor can I open the program to start new documents. 
I keep getting the message "requires elevation"

Can you help me please

Regards
Jean Boyle


Start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and Kill any soffice processes shown as 
running on TaskManager's Processes tab. That should cure the problem.


--
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." 
Futurama, Godfellas (2002)



Re: Problems opening Open Office 4

2015-05-29 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 29 May 2015 17:29:31 +0100
Jean Boyle  wrote:

> 
> I have the above installed on my desktop PC running windows 8.1
> It has been operating successfully for about four months and I have several 
> files saved in both Writer and spreadsheet. 
> Today I cannot get these file to open nor can I open the program to start new 
> documents. I keep getting the message "requires elevation"
> 
> Can you help me please
> 
> Regards
> Jean Boyle


Start TaskManager (Ctrl Shift Esc) and Kill any soffice processes shown as 
running on TaskManager's Processes tab. That should cure the problem.
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Problems opening Open Office 4

2015-05-29 Thread Jean Boyle

I have the above installed on my desktop PC running windows 8.1
It has been operating successfully for about four months and I have several 
files saved in both Writer and spreadsheet. 
Today I cannot get these file to open nor can I open the program to start new 
documents. I keep getting the message "requires elevation"

Can you help me please

Regards
Jean Boyle

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Re: open office 4 database Bugg?

2015-05-22 Thread Martin Groenescheij



On 23-May-15 03:39, philip wrote:

Hello
I have built a really simple database to store some very important 
records. every 3 rd record on inserting the record I get the following 
message, see 1st screenshot below. if I shut the form and reopen , or 
if I try and open anything in the database I get the next message, 
screenshot 2.
I have definitely not entered any data incorrectly, this is so 
tedious. is there anything to be done ? or must I buy another 
database, if so which would be compatible with the data already entered?


I don't know which database you are using, but the embedded database is 
not the best solution.
Reason is not the database but because it's inside the OpenOffice file 
you loose everything when your odb file get corrupted.
There are many free databases available I personally use MySQL not 
because it's the best but it's the one I'm familiar with.



thanks in advance
P.Marshall.  PS if there is a paid version which works better I am 
more than happy to buy it .
Running open office 4 on macbook pro with yosemite all java files 
updated to latest.


Never pay if you can get it for free








Re: open office 4 for mac keep deleting my files

2015-03-20 Thread jd1008



On 03/20/2015 06:41 PM, Luca Dario wrote:

Hello, my name is Luca

I’m writing to you because since i’ve downloaded the latest version of 
openoffice(4) on my mac, every now and then, while working on my document, 
openoffice keep deleting them. I lost twice documents really important to me 
for this issue. It all happen while working on spreadsheet, the program seem to 
freeze ( everywhere i point the cursor, the window appear empty ) so basically, 
the toolbar looks like a grey bar with no options on it and the File/Edit/View 
etc.. bar is not available. When i try to close the document (prompting the 
system asking me if i want to save my work) the system says that is impossible 
to complete the operation because the file i’m working on it does not exist, 
forcing me to check the folder and realising that the actual document is 
disappeared. It is not in the bin or any other folder on my mac, it does appear 
on the history of recent opened document and on a recovering program but the 
file it says to be corrupted.

How can i fix this problem? I already set openoffice to make backup of my 
documents, but i don’t want one day to find out that even this option is no 
longer a choice.

Regards

Luca


Can you tell the list where you downloaded latest AOO from?



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open office 4 for mac keep deleting my files

2015-03-20 Thread Luca Dario
Hello, my name is Luca

I’m writing to you because since i’ve downloaded the latest version of 
openoffice(4) on my mac, every now and then, while working on my document, 
openoffice keep deleting them. I lost twice documents really important to me 
for this issue. It all happen while working on spreadsheet, the program seem to 
freeze ( everywhere i point the cursor, the window appear empty ) so basically, 
the toolbar looks like a grey bar with no options on it and the File/Edit/View 
etc.. bar is not available. When i try to close the document (prompting the 
system asking me if i want to save my work) the system says that is impossible 
to complete the operation because the file i’m working on it does not exist, 
forcing me to check the folder and realising that the actual document is 
disappeared. It is not in the bin or any other folder on my mac, it does appear 
on the history of recent opened document and on a recovering program but the 
file it says to be corrupted.

How can i fix this problem? I already set openoffice to make backup of my 
documents, but i don’t want one day to find out that even this option is no 
longer a choice.

Regards

Luca 



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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Pip Woodcock
Brilliant!   I found default program at bottom of popup window and it
worked.   Thank you so much!


On 21 August 2014 00:51, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:20:59 -0700
> Pip Woodcock  wrote:
>
> > The documents show as orange icons (if that is the right terminology) on
> > desktop or in my documents and when I try to open them a box comes up
> > headed Microsoft Office and says "this program is unable to run because
> of
> > missing or corrupted files.   Contact your computer manufacturer"
> >
> > When using Open Office 3 before if I wanted to send an attached piece of
> > writing I had to change the file from Microsoft 95 to Microsoft
> 97/2000/XP
> > so that the recipient could read it.
> >
> > Some have the Open Office icon next to them and open perfectly.
>
>
> Right click on one of these "orange" icons and select "Open With" from the
> popup menu. If OpenOffice is offered from the dropdown select that,
> otherwise go to the bottom of the popup window where there should be an
> offering of "Select other program" and navigate to /Programs /Files(x86)
> /OpenOffice and choose soffice.exe. There should also be a checkbox (or
> something) to "Always use this program to open these files". Now the
> "orange" icons should open by double clicking on them.
>
> Note that I'm not on a Windows machine, so cannot check exact wording or
> paths.
> >
> >
> > On 21 August 2014 00:01, Alexandro Colorado  wrote:
> >
> > > Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this
> > > go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments.
> > >
> > > Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from
> > > there.
> > >
> > > On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> > > > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I
> > > reinstall
> > > > Open Office 3 or what do I do?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Pip Woodcock,
> > > > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> > > > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> > > > 250-701-9166
> > > > pipwoodc...@gmail.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alexandro Colorado
> > > Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> > > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pip Woodcock,
> > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> > 250-701-9166
> > pipwoodc...@gmail.com
>
>
> --
> Rory O'Farrell 
>



-- 
Pip Woodcock,
2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
250-701-9166
pipwoodc...@gmail.com


[Solved] Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:52:12 +0100
Rory O'Farrell  wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:27:22 -0700
> Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> 
> > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I reinstall
> > Open Office 3 or what do I do?
> > 
> > Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pip Woodcock,
> > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> > 250-701-9166
> > pipwoodc...@gmail.com


I'm informed by the User that she had to remake File Associations for MS files 
and reopen old documents for them to reappear in "Recent Documents".  All is 
now well!

> 
> Your documents are still on your computer. The new version of OpenOffice has 
> not opened any "Recent Documents", so it doesn't list any. What you need to 
> do is open the documents by using /File /Open and navigating to the directory 
> in which they are stored. When you have opened and closed each of these, the 
> new version of OpenOffice will know to display their names in "Recent 
> Documents"/
> 
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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:20:59 -0700
Pip Woodcock  wrote:

> The documents show as orange icons (if that is the right terminology) on
> desktop or in my documents and when I try to open them a box comes up
> headed Microsoft Office and says "this program is unable to run because of
> missing or corrupted files.   Contact your computer manufacturer"
> 
> When using Open Office 3 before if I wanted to send an attached piece of
> writing I had to change the file from Microsoft 95 to Microsoft 97/2000/XP
> so that the recipient could read it.
> 
> Some have the Open Office icon next to them and open perfectly.


Right click on one of these "orange" icons and select "Open With" from the 
popup menu. If OpenOffice is offered from the dropdown select that, otherwise 
go to the bottom of the popup window where there should be an offering of 
"Select other program" and navigate to /Programs /Files(x86) /OpenOffice and 
choose soffice.exe. There should also be a checkbox (or something) to "Always 
use this program to open these files". Now the "orange" icons should open by 
double clicking on them.

Note that I'm not on a Windows machine, so cannot check exact wording or paths.
> 
> 
> On 21 August 2014 00:01, Alexandro Colorado  wrote:
> 
> > Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this
> > go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments.
> >
> > Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from
> > there.
> >
> > On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> > > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I
> > reinstall
> > > Open Office 3 or what do I do?
> > >
> > > Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pip Woodcock,
> > > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> > > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> > > 250-701-9166
> > > pipwoodc...@gmail.com
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Apache OpenOffice Contributor
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> >
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This seems to be some issues on the operating system side, as the
files aren't really associated with the correct program.

Since we don't have "orange icons" except for impress is hard to know
what kind of presumption is your operating system doing for you. I
suggest to do a screenshot of the icons and put them on
http://imgur.com or similar site, and paste the link back. However to
fix any file association on your OS please read this tutorial from
Microsoft.

I assume you are using Windows 7/8:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-file-open-program#1TC=windows-7

On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> The documents show as orange icons (if that is the right terminology) on
> desktop or in my documents and when I try to open them a box comes up
> headed Microsoft Office and says "this program is unable to run because of
> missing or corrupted files.   Contact your computer manufacturer"
>
> When using Open Office 3 before if I wanted to send an attached piece of
> writing I had to change the file from Microsoft 95 to Microsoft 97/2000/XP
> so that the recipient could read it.
>
> Some have the Open Office icon next to them and open perfectly.
>
>
> On 21 August 2014 00:01, Alexandro Colorado  wrote:
>
>> Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this
>> go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments.
>>
>> Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from
>> there.
>>
>> On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
>> > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I
>> reinstall
>> > Open Office 3 or what do I do?
>> >
>> > Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
>> >
>> > --
>> > Pip Woodcock,
>> > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
>> > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
>> > 250-701-9166
>> > pipwoodc...@gmail.com
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexandro Colorado
>> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
>> 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Pip Woodcock,
> 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> 250-701-9166
> pipwoodc...@gmail.com
>


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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Pip Woodcock
The documents show as orange icons (if that is the right terminology) on
desktop or in my documents and when I try to open them a box comes up
headed Microsoft Office and says "this program is unable to run because of
missing or corrupted files.   Contact your computer manufacturer"

When using Open Office 3 before if I wanted to send an attached piece of
writing I had to change the file from Microsoft 95 to Microsoft 97/2000/XP
so that the recipient could read it.

Some have the Open Office icon next to them and open perfectly.


On 21 August 2014 00:01, Alexandro Colorado  wrote:

> Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this
> go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments.
>
> Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from
> there.
>
> On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I
> reinstall
> > Open Office 3 or what do I do?
> >
> > Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
> >
> > --
> > Pip Woodcock,
> > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> > COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> > 250-701-9166
> > pipwoodc...@gmail.com
> >
>
>
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
>



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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this
go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments.

Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from there.

On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock  wrote:
> Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I reinstall
> Open Office 3 or what do I do?
>
> Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
>
> --
> Pip Woodcock,
> 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> 250-701-9166
> pipwoodc...@gmail.com
>


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Re: Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:27:22 -0700
Pip Woodcock  wrote:

> Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I reinstall
> Open Office 3 or what do I do?
> 
> Thanks,   Pip Woodcock
> 
> -- 
> Pip Woodcock,
> 2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
> COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
> 250-701-9166
> pipwoodc...@gmail.com

Your documents are still on your computer. The new version of OpenOffice has 
not opened any "Recent Documents", so it doesn't list any. What you need to do 
is open the documents by using /File /Open and navigating to the directory in 
which they are stored. When you have opened and closed each of these, the new 
version of OpenOffice will know to display their names in "Recent Documents"/

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Downloaded Open Office 4:10 and lost all my documents when Open Office 3 was replaced

2014-08-20 Thread Pip Woodcock
Please help me retrieve these as they are very important.   Do I reinstall
Open Office 3 or what do I do?

Thanks,   Pip Woodcock

-- 
Pip Woodcock,
2049 Cowichan Bay Road,
COWICHAN BAY,  B.C. V0R 1N1.
250-701-9166
pipwoodc...@gmail.com


Re: Open Office 4

2013-11-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:25:20 -0700
John Meyer  wrote:

> On 11/21/2013 10:09 PM, Jim & Shirley wrote:
> > I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4.  To change the entire 
> > screen to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the 
> > installation and the close of the program.  It is pretty but not useful.  
> > Please change it back to its prior screen.
> >
> > JNGreene
> Don't these people seem the type that would ask you to change the MOTD 
> back in the day because they didn't like it?
> 
> 
When I see someone say that he has been using OpenOffice for n years and this, 
that, or the other is wrong, I'm reminded of Talleyrand's assessment of the 
Bourbon Dynasty "They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing".


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Re: Open Office 4

2013-11-22 Thread John Meyer

On 11/21/2013 10:09 PM, Jim & Shirley wrote:

I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4.  To change the entire screen 
to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the installation and the 
close of the program.  It is pretty but not useful.  Please change it back to 
its prior screen.

JNGreene
Don't these people seem the type that would ask you to change the MOTD 
back in the day because they didn't like it?




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Re: Open Office 4

2013-11-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:09:37 -0600
"Jim & Shirley"  wrote:

> I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4.  To change the entire 
> screen to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the installation 
> and the close of the program.  It is pretty but not useful.  Please change it 
> back to its prior screen.
>
 
Please ensure that you are downloading only from 
www.openoffice.org (which redirects to Sourceforge). "Out of the box" 
OpenOffice4 looks very much as previous versions; if there are changes to the 
default screens these may be caused by whatever theme is set on your computer.


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Open Office 4

2013-11-22 Thread Jim & Shirley
I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4.  To change the entire screen 
to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the installation and the 
close of the program.  It is pretty but not useful.  Please change it back to 
its prior screen.

JNGreene

Re: open office 4

2013-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Rachel Smith wrote:

hi i have a huge problem with open office. I'm using it on a mac and
i downloaded the v4 but its not compatible with anything. please
help. the word 97 version was far better.


One of the new features/bugfixes of OpenOffice 4.0.1, released today, is 
an improved compatibility with the iWork suite (such as .DOC files 
exported from Pages and .PPT file exported from Keynote).


So I recommend that you try with that one. Download it from the official 
site:

http://www.openoffice.org

Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: open office 4

2013-10-01 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:26:47 +0100
Rachel Smith  wrote:

> hi i have a huge problem with open office. I'm using it on a mac and i 
> downloaded the v4 but its not compatible with anything. please help. the word 
> 97 version was far better. 
> 
> 
> Rachel Smith
> DMA, MA, BMus (Hons), FTCL
> www.rachelsmithflute.co.uk
> rachelsmithfl...@ntlworld.com

If you do not wish to save in .odt format (OpenOffice's native format), you can 
change the .doc format you save in by using the dropdown on the /File /Save As 
screen. It offers three .doc formats. of which MS Office 97/2000/XP is usually 
the most interchangeable.
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Re: open office 4

2013-10-01 Thread Gary Frost
I'm not sure what issues you're having other than what you've mentioned with 
Word 97.  I don't remember if that version of Word supports RTF files? That may 
be an option. I'm using it on a MacBook Air I recently purchased and I'm not 
having any issues. Another project I'm working on is making AOO documents 
editable between my iPhone, iPad and Air. I've just never been all that happy 
with MS Office to use any of it for the last 10 years unless for some reason I 
had to.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 1, 2013, at 1:26 AM, Rachel Smith  
> wrote:
> 
> hi i have a huge problem with open office. I'm using it on a mac and i 
> downloaded the v4 but its not compatible with anything. please help. the word 
> 97 version was far better. 
> 
> 
> Rachel Smith
> DMA, MA, BMus (Hons), FTCL
> www.rachelsmithflute.co.uk
> rachelsmithfl...@ntlworld.com
> 
> 
> 
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open office 4

2013-10-01 Thread Rachel Smith
hi i have a huge problem with open office. I'm using it on a mac and i 
downloaded the v4 but its not compatible with anything. please help. the word 
97 version was far better. 


Rachel Smith
DMA, MA, BMus (Hons), FTCL
www.rachelsmithflute.co.uk
rachelsmithfl...@ntlworld.com






Re: Mac Open Office 4 Installation Problem

2013-08-06 Thread Larry Gusaas

On 2013-08-06 12:09 AM Ravi Modani wrote concerning "Mac Open Office 4 Installation 
Problem":

Hi,

I am using Mac OSX 10.8.4, on my Mac book Air and had been using OpenOffice for many years. 
Recently when I upgraded it to Open Office 4.0, I cannot run the programme. The screenshot of 
error is enclosed.


I uninstalled, reinstalled but nothing has happened.


Attachments are not allowed on this list. Please describe the error message.

Is it the first item in the known issues from the release notes?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes#AOO4.0ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues

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Mac Open Office 4 Installation Problem

2013-08-06 Thread Ravi Modani
Hi,

I am using Mac OSX 10.8.4, on my Mac book Air and had been using OpenOffice
for many years. Recently when I upgraded it to Open Office 4.0, I cannot
run the programme. The screenshot of error is enclosed.

I uninstalled, reinstalled but nothing has happened.


Kindly guide.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Ravi

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