date:20050418

Taken from  http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_2_x.html

February 2005: OOo 2.0 Beta
Februray/March 2005 : OOo 2.0 changes will be done on separated
branch, the trunk (HEAD) will then be used for the next OOo major (3.0
?) release.
April 2005: OOo 2.0 rc
May/June 2005 : OOo 2.0
Q3 2005: OOo 2.0.1


HTH, Paul

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Re: [users] I am trying (and failing) to open a .dat file in Calc

2005-04-18 Thread Charles Fenwick

That works!

Thank you Marc and Paul for the quick responses.   

Glad to see that nothing has changed since I last subscribed to the Users list.

Regards,

Charles

On 4/18/05, Marc DVer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try opening up calc through the start menu or however you normally start
> it up when ready to do something on a new file.  Click on file, open.
> Go to the file and click on it once.  Then in the File of Type box,
> select Text CSV.  Then hit open.  You should then get a box that lets
> you select how the document should be formatted.  The defaults should
> work for you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Marc DVer
> 
> Charles Fenwick wrote:
> 
> >Hello all.
> >
> >After using OpenOffice for more than two years, I've come across a
> >task that I can't figure out on my own, so I am turn to the fine
> >subscribers of this list for help.
> >
> >The Florida Division of Elections provides election downloadable
> >election results in the form of .dat files
> >
> >(http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/4/80&DATAMODE=
> >, for example)
> >
> >The download page offers this description:
> >
> >"When selecting the 'Download' button below, a tab-delimited file of
> >election results will be downloaded to your machine. The format of
> >this file can be opened and further processed in most spreadsheet and
> >database programs."
> >
> >So on my first try I downloaded the file to Desktop and double clicked
> >on it.  Since it was an unregistered extension, I was asked which
> >program I wanted to open the file with.  I selected OpenOffice and the
> >file proceeded to open in Writer.  Not what I was hoping for.
> >
> >My second try involved going into Control Panel to register the .dat
> >extension to open in Calc.  After doing that, I tried opening the file
> >again.  Same results.
> >
> >Those were my best ideas, I've tried a couple of things that I thought
> >were long-shots and indeed they did not work either.
> >
> >Assistance, of course, would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Charles Fenwick
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Re: [users] I am trying (and failing) to open a .dat file in Calc

Try changing the file extension to .txt or .csv and then try it.
Alternatively in Calc select open and then select the file.

I'm assuming that the file is simply a delimited file of X rows of data...

Paul

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> Hello all.
> 
> After using OpenOffice for more than two years, I've come across a
> task that I can't figure out on my own, so I am turn to the fine
> subscribers of this list for help.
> 
> The Florida Division of Elections provides election downloadable
> election results in the form of .dat files
> 
> (http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/4/80&DATAMODE=
> , for example)
> 
> The download page offers this description:
> 
> "When selecting the 'Download' button below, a tab-delimited file of
> election results will be downloaded to your machine. The format of
> this file can be opened and further processed in most spreadsheet and
> database programs."
> 
> So on my first try I downloaded the file to Desktop and double clicked
> on it.  Since it was an unregistered extension, I was asked which
> program I wanted to open the file with.  I selected OpenOffice and the
> file proceeded to open in Writer.  Not what I was hoping for.
> 
> My second try involved going into Control Panel to register the .dat
> extension to open in Calc.  After doing that, I tried opening the file
> again.  Same results.
> 
> Those were my best ideas, I've tried a couple of things that I thought
> were long-shots and indeed they did not work either.
> 
> Assistance, of course, would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charles Fenwick
> using OpenOffice 1.1.4 on Windows XP
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Re: [users] I am trying (and failing) to open a .dat file in Calc

2005-04-18 Thread Marc DVer

Try opening up calc through the start menu or however you normally start
it up when ready to do something on a new file. Click on file, open.
Go to the file and click on it once. Then in the File of Type box,
select Text CSV. Then hit open. You should then get a box that lets
you select how the document should be formatted. The defaults should
work for you.

Sincerely,
Marc DVer
Charles Fenwick wrote:
Hello all.
After using OpenOffice for more than two years, I've come across a
task that I can't figure out on my own, so I am turn to the fine
subscribers of this list for help.
The Florida Division of Elections provides election downloadable
election results in the form of .dat files
(http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/4/80&DATAMODE=
, for example)
The download page offers this description:
"When selecting the 'Download' button below, a tab-delimited file of
election results will be downloaded to your machine. The format of
this file can be opened and further processed in most spreadsheet and
database programs."
So on my first try I downloaded the file to Desktop and double clicked
on it. Since it was an unregistered extension, I was asked which
program I wanted to open the file with. I selected OpenOffice and the
file proceeded to open in Writer. Not what I was hoping for.
My second try involved going into Control Panel to register the .dat
extension to open in Calc. After doing that, I tried opening the file
again. Same results.
Those were my best ideas, I've tried a couple of things that I thought
were long-shots and indeed they did not work either.
Assistance, of course, would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Charles Fenwick
using OpenOffice 1.1.4 on Windows XP
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[users] Deleting filepaths / URL's in OO1.1.4

2005-04-18 Thread Charles Murphy

Hi Everyone,

 

Open Office automatically turns file paths into URL's (Cool Feature).

These are displayed and can be accessed when you are in a document in the 

"Pull down window" in the upper left of the screen. It looks as though you
get every

document you have worked on to date.

 

Question: How do you "Clear any or all of the entries" from that window or
does

   Open Office automatically do that after a time or a certain
number of

   files have been accessed?

 

Question: Can you inactivate or turn off this action?

 

Please answer, I'd really like to know. 

 

THANKS!!!

[users] I am trying (and failing) to open a .dat file in Calc

2005-04-18 Thread Charles Fenwick

Hello all.

After using OpenOffice for more than two years, I've come across a
task that I can't figure out on my own, so I am turn to the fine
subscribers of this list for help.

The Florida Division of Elections provides election downloadable
election results in the form of .dat files

(http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/4/80&DATAMODE=
, for example)

The download page offers this description:

"When selecting the 'Download' button below, a tab-delimited file of
election results will be downloaded to your machine. The format of
this file can be opened and further processed in most spreadsheet and
database programs."

So on my first try I downloaded the file to Desktop and double clicked
on it.  Since it was an unregistered extension, I was asked which
program I wanted to open the file with.  I selected OpenOffice and the
file proceeded to open in Writer.  Not what I was hoping for.

My second try involved going into Control Panel to register the .dat
extension to open in Calc.  After doing that, I tried opening the file
again.  Same results.

Those were my best ideas, I've tried a couple of things that I thought
were long-shots and indeed they did not work either.

Assistance, of course, would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Charles Fenwick
using OpenOffice 1.1.4 on Windows XP

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[users] estimated date of 2.0 release

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Marks

A company plans to migrate to OpenOffice and wants to
wait until the stable 2.0 becomes available.  What is
the estimated date for the public 2.0?



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Re: [users] Re: Regex for paragraph find

2005-04-18 Thread John D. Toppins

Paul B. wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday, 18 April 2005 23:02, Paul B. wrote:
I think this was mentioned fairly recently, but in case not, is
there a regex for finding a new paragraph? I see /n, but its
specced only for soft returns, in the Find field anyway. Unless
I'm missing it, that seems a strange priority, as I use far more
hard than soft paragraph returns.
Thanks,
Paul

Hi Paul,
Try using $ - end of a paragrph. For some strange reason it won't 
find the last para in a doc though

Alan

I did try that: '$-' did not pick up:
... but others from good will.
- Phi 1:15
I'm trying to replace '^-' (or, using more conventional new line 
notation, '\n-') with ' -' - that is, I'm trying to collapse 
paragraphs - but tying the search string to the end of the previous 
paragraph doesn't do it. That's probably because a multiline marker 
would be needed - another thing I didn't see listed in Help.

Thanks,
Paul
Someone else explained that SEARCH and REPLACE doesn't look across 
paragraphs - it only looks a paragraph at a time. To collapse them, you 
have to fool it. i do that by replacing the paragraph marker with a 
symbol (like %%), then doing your global replace, then replacing %% with 
new paragraphs.

I use this when I inherit a document with paragraph markers at the end 
of each line and double-spaced paragraph markers between paragraphs.

Try replacing $ (the paragraph marker) with %. Then replacing %% 
(double-spaced lines) with \n (new paragraph marker).

John T.
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[users] Re: Regex for paragraph find

2005-04-18 Thread Matt Needles

Paul B. wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday, 18 April 2005 23:02, Paul B. wrote:
I think this was mentioned fairly recently, but in case not, is
there a regex for finding a new paragraph? I see /n, but its
specced only for soft returns, in the Find field anyway. Unless
I'm missing it, that seems a strange priority, as I use far more
hard than soft paragraph returns.
Thanks,
Paul

Hi Paul,
Try using $ - end of a paragrph. For some strange reason it won't find 
the last para in a doc though

Alan

I did try that: '$-' did not pick up:
... but others from good will.
- Phi 1:15
I'm trying to replace '^-' (or, using more conventional new line 
notation, '\n-') with ' -' - that is, I'm trying to collapse paragraphs 
- but tying the search string to the end of the previous paragraph 
doesn't do it. That's probably because a multiline marker would be 
needed - another thing I didn't see listed in Help.

Thanks,
Paul
Not sure why you're using the "-" in your search string.  The right one 
is "$" for end-of-paragraph marker, "^" for start-of-paragraph.  To find 
blank lines, use "$^", or "^$".

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Re: [users] [Scripting] possible to modify a database form field?

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

Jens Ansorg wrote:
Hi all,
Using m92
I have set up a database that connects to a table in mysql.
I have created a form in that database that allows me to edit records.
I'd like to extend this form a little:
I'd like to add a button that executes a function/macro that
 - gets the currently selected text in a multi-line textbox
 - asks me (input dialog) for a string, i.e "foo.jpg"
 - adds some generated text around the selected text in the textbox, 
i.e. [img=foo.jpg]selected_text[/img]

is this possible with scripting in OOo?
Which language would I need?
I played around with Basic and I got so far that I get some 
information about the form (like what database, what query etc) but 
found no way to access the form fields and modify the content

any ideas?
thanks
Jens Ansorg
A "Form" in a database document is really a Write document.
Forms and controls are contained in the draw page. Your first step, 
therefore, is to obtain the draw page.

Sub Main
 Dim oForms
 oForms = ThisComponent.getDrawPage().getForms()
 MsgBox FormsHeirarchy(oForms, "")
End Sub
Function FormsHeirarchy(oForms, sLead$) As String
 Dim s$
 Dim i%
 Dim oForm
 Dim x
 GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("Tools")
 For i = 0 to oForms.getCount()-1
   oForm = oForms.getByIndex(i)
   s = s & sLead & FormHeirarchy(oForm, sLead)
 Next
 FormsHeirarchy = s
End Function
Function FormHeirarchy(oForm, sLead$) As String
 Dim s$
 Dim i%
 Dim x
 s = s & sLead & "+" & _
 GetFileNameExtension(oForm.getImplementationName()) & _
 ":" & oForm.getName() & CHR$(10)
 For i = 0 to oForm.getCount()-1
   x = oForm.getByIndex(i)
   If x.supportsService("com.sun.star.form.component.Form") Then
 s = s & FormHeirarchy(x, sLead & "+")
   Else
 s = s & sLead & "++" & _
 GetFileNameExtension(x.getImplementationName()) & _
 ":" & x.getName() & CHR$(10)
   End If
 Next
 FormHeirarchy = s
End Function
Now, you can see how things are embedded.  Each form and forms object 
should support getByName(), so if you know the name and the name of each 
parent item, you should be able to get what you want. For example.

Function getFromForm(oDoc, sNames())
 Dim x
 Dim i%
 x = oDoc.getDrawPage().getForms()
 For i = LBound(sNames()) To UBound(sNames())
   If x.hasByName(sNames(i)) Then
 x = x.getByName(sNames(i))
   Else
 Print "Warning, object named " & sNames(i) & " does not exist"
 Exit Function
   End If
 Next
 getFromForm = x
End Function
The following code works for me... I have a form called Standard, which 
contains a form called Catalog, which contains a form called Country, 
which contains a control called "TextBox_Country". The second example, 
returns the Dealer form, which is contained in the Standard form.

Sub Main
 Dim x
 x = getFromForm(ThisComponent, _
 Array("Standard", "Catalog", "Country", "TextBox_Country"))
 x = getFromForm(ThisComponent, Array("Standard", "Dealer"))
End Sub
Finally, I noticed that you cross posted to the users, dev, and dba 
mailing lists. Wow, that is a lot of mailing lists. Of course, I might 
not see your answer if you do not reply to the correct one. H

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[users] Re: Regex for paragraph find

2005-04-18 Thread Paul B.

Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday, 18 April 2005 23:02, Paul B. wrote:
I think this was mentioned fairly recently, but in case not, is
there a regex for finding a new paragraph? I see /n, but its
specced only for soft returns, in the Find field anyway. Unless
I'm missing it, that seems a strange priority, as I use far more
hard than soft paragraph returns.
Thanks,
Paul

Hi Paul,
Try using $ - end of a paragrph. For some strange reason it won't find 
the last para in a doc though

Alan
I did try that: '$-' did not pick up:
... but others from good will.
- Phi 1:15
I'm trying to replace '^-' (or, using more conventional new line 
notation, '\n-') with ' -' - that is, I'm trying to collapse 
paragraphs - but tying the search string to the end of the 
previous paragraph doesn't do it. That's probably because a 
multiline marker would be needed - another thing I didn't see 
listed in Help.

Thanks,
Paul
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Re: [users] user defined date format switch day and month automatically

2005-04-18 Thread Yong Bong Fong

Hi Mr Kupfer,
 Thanks for your help,
I am using calc Ooo 2.0 Beta version.
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Yong Bong Fong wrote:
Dear friends,
  One of my staffs has a weird problem. It only happen in her 
computer not on mine.
What she did was, she user defined a date format as DD-MM-YY.

then whenshe type a date such as 30-04-05, Ooo automatically switch 
the DD and MM around producing a date as 04-30-05.

I tried user defined the same date format on my computer, it works 
fine. BUt not on her computer. Is there somewhere in the setting we 
need to set to correct her error?

Thanks for taking time reading my mail,

Are you using Writer or Calc?
What version?

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Re: [users] OOo-1.9.82 Debian packages

2005-04-18 Thread Richard

On Monday 18 April 2005 01:14 pm, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> Hi all,
> I downloaded the deb pckgs from the site suggested a few posts ago
> 
(ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/Beta)
> untar-zipped them and then ran dpkg -i *1.9.82*deb.
> OOo-1.9.82 was installed alongsize the older 1.9.79 and seemed to 
work.
> Afterwards I removed 1.9.79 and it still seems to work (apart from 
a
> particular for which I'm posting separately).
> Now:
> In the README file it is recommended to "call the installation 
program
> of the newer version and choose 'Repair'" when you remove the 
older
> installation.
> The point is that I can't see any 'install' or 'setup' file in 
those
> packages. How can I observe the recommendation?

My personal opinion is that this is just a hold-over from the 
OOo1.1.x documentation.  To the best of my knowledge, the latest  
OOo2 betas are in rpm and now in deb format and therefore the old 
install or setup file information is not germane, just hasn't been 
updated.  

regards,
Richard.

> Thanks for your attention.
> Regards,
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Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] please help!

If you have a look at the following installation guide it should
answer all your queries :
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html

You specific problem however is that once you have downloaded the file
you need to unzip the contents of the file into a spare directory.
Once that is done, you can run the setup.exe file...

HTH, Paul

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> 
> >
> >Hello!
> >
> >I am hoping that you can help me.  I am having a hard time installing
> >my openoffice software.  I am a computer novice, so forgive me if the
> >question I am about to ask is something I should be able to figure out
> >myself. The download is complete. When I click on the icon and try to
> >install the program, I get almost all the way through the installation
> >and then an error sign pops up.  It reads "Error 1311.  Source file
> >not found C:\Documents or Settings\jaime\Local
> >settings\Temp\openofficeorg1.cab"
> >
> >I don't know what to do.  I've searched the site to try and find any
> >detailed instructions about the installation process that might
> >discuss potential errors, but I can't find any.  Please let me know if
> >you can help me, or if you have any suggestions for what I might try
> >and do.
> >
> >Thank you thank you thank you!
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Jaime Bardacke
> 
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Re: [users] fonts

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How can I get Open Office to use a font that I have installed in  
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[users] Re: counting cells that are blank or empty

2005-04-18 Thread Rod Engelsman

Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I am trying to use the countif() statement to count which how many 
cells are blank in a defined range, I just don't know how to define a 
blank cell.

Any ideas
TIA Chad

Try the isblank() function.

Brilliant!
< Blush >
Your welcome!!
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[users] Re: [webmasters] please help!

2005-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts

HI

>
>Hello!
>
>I am hoping that you can help me.  I am having a hard time installing
>my openoffice software.  I am a computer novice, so forgive me if the
>question I am about to ask is something I should be able to figure out
>myself. The download is complete. When I click on the icon and try to
>install the program, I get almost all the way through the installation
>and then an error sign pops up.  It reads "Error 1311.  Source file
>not found C:\Documents or Settings\jaime\Local
>settings\Temp\openofficeorg1.cab"
>
>I don't know what to do.  I've searched the site to try and find any
>detailed instructions about the installation process that might
>discuss potential errors, but I can't find any.  Please let me know if
>you can help me, or if you have any suggestions for what I might try
>and do.  
>
>Thank you thank you thank you!
>
>Sincerely,
>Jaime Bardacke

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And, try our instructions page, 


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Re: [users] OO 2.0 Beta on Gentoo

2005-04-18 Thread Daniel Kasak

smoke3 wrote:

>I dowloaded OO 2.0 Beta for Linux, to install it onto my Gentoo...
>I unpacked the tar.gz and tried to install the RPMS with 
>
>  
>
>>rpm -Uvih *rpm
>>
>>
>
>but it failed giving me some errors such as these:
>
>  
>
>>/bin/sh needed for...
>>gnome-n2fs needed for...
>>
>>
>
>I've got a Gnome desktop and i deleted two packets for Suse and Redhat...
>
>Any idea about?
>
>Smoke3
>  
>
There's an ebuild for the binaries in portage now.

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Re: [users] Calc - Options

John Barman wrote:
I omitted to say in my last posting, that I now have OO2 Beta and use 
WinXP SP2
John B
There are many "beta" of 2.0. You should download the latest once, 
1.9.93 and see if the problem still exists. I can not replicate in 1.9.92.

If it still persist...
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is important that you file
the issue to ensure reproducibility with your examples.
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Re: [users] Re: counting cells that are blank or empty

Rod Engelsman wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I am trying to use the countif() statement to count which how many 
cells are blank in a defined range, I just don't know how to define a 
blank cell.

Any ideas
TIA Chad

Try the isblank() function.
Brilliant!
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Re: [users] when will open office beta2.0 become 2.0

tarry wrote:
 
 Can I  be notiifed when Open Office v2.0  becomes officially stable.
 Mr Mintz
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You can follow this yourself.
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_2_x.html
I bet you could also sign up for announce list. For instructions you can 
go here: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html.

I would doubt, though some people here are awful nice, that you will get 
a personal e-mail about it.

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Re: [users] Problem with auto recovery screen in 2.0 beta

TANYANIKA LEWIS wrote:
Hello,

I am having a serious problem with the document auto recovery screen in OpenOffice 2.0 beta. The screen comes up for you to choose the document to recover and it tells you to click on the start recovery button. The problem is that I don't see the start recovery button at the bottom of the screen because it is hidden below the bottom bar. When I slide the bottom bar futher down, and try to move the box up so I can see it, it only goes up a little-still not enough to reveal the buttons. This screen has now prevented me from opening any other document or program linked to OpenOffice until I can recover the document. Do you have any suggestions?

I am currently using Operating System 98 SE. If there is any other information that you may need that I haven't thought of, please do not hesitate to let me know. I am trying to get this resolved as quickly as possible.
This is not the first time I have heard this concern. I would check for
an issue about it or file one. It think it is particular to Win 98.

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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is important that you file
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Re: [users] counting cells that are blank or empty

Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I am trying to use the countif() statement to count which how many cells are 
blank in a defined
What have you tried?
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Re: [users] LINKS INSIDE SPREADSHEETS

Ramon Sole wrote:
Hello,
I'm working with a spreadsheet in which some cells are dinamically 
linked to other spreadsheets.

Everything is going fine, but when I want to save te file its size is 
huge (a sheet with just 5 cells linked is 14 MB). That's making the 
loading process very slow. Just for comparison, the Excel equivalent is 
about 5 times smaller.

Any hint about what's happening, pls?
Is that the ordinary behaviour of OpenOffice with links?
TIA
Ramon
No ideas off the top of my head. Do you have any way to post it on line 
so someone could download it and look at it?

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[users] Re: Saving problems openoffice 2.0

2005-04-18 Thread Russell Butler

Heinz-Dieter Bender wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately it is not possible to save 
documents  that I created or that I opened from version 1.1 in the 
correct way. All  documents that I opened will be saved as "zip file", 
but can no more be  opened out of konquerer. If I open 2.0 first, I can 
open also the  documents again. I'm using Linux Mandrake 10.0 as OS. 
What must be done to  open the documents also from konquerer?

Hello Heinz
Are you aware that the 2.0 Beta uses a different default file structure 
from the 1.1.x series? If KDE associates (say) .sxw files with OOo1.1.0 
(which is fairly old, by the way) then the .odt files produced by 2.0 
will not be associated. You may need to look at File Associations in KDE.
I presume you use KDE if you are using konqueror.

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HTH
Russell
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

2005-04-18 Thread Dean

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Subject: Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:47:28 +0200
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On Monday, 18 April 2005 21:33, DC Parris wrote:
> I have written a book that I plan to publish on Lulu.com. 
> According to Lulu's help info, OOo should convert to PDF pretty
> well.  However, I have a symbol font that does not get embedded
> into the PDF file.  Since I used paragraph styles for my text (and
> never set anything to use the symbol font) I am not sure what is
> using the symbol font.  I do see that I need to change the font
> settings in a few places, but I don't know about the symbol font.
>
> Acrobat Reader 7.0 reveals all the fonts, and shows their status as
> either embedded, embedded subset, or not embedded.  How can I find
> what's using the (or a) symbol font? Or how can I be sure it gets
> embedded?
>
> I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright
> symbol, and it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer
> font-related attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search
> for the instances of a given font.  Since I don't know what words
> might be using the symbol font, I cannot search on the words,
> either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don

Don,

Select Edit -> Find & Replace -> Format...

select Symbol font in dialog, click OK, click Find

will find all instances in the doc that use the font

Alan


Thanks.  I'll try that when I get back to my box.  I didn't understand that 
feature of the find dialog very well.
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Re: [users] python23.dll error message

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 07:56 +1200, Paul wrote:
> Have a look at : http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=18791
> for the answer.
> 
> Paul

Good thought. I am wondering if Roger has python installed. It would
seem to me that python.exe would need to be installed before that
python23.dll would be useful. 

> 
> On 4/17/05, Roger Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I.m using open office 1.9.79 and having no problems with the
> application.Norton Windoctor tells me,however,that python.exe cannot
> access python23.dll.
> > Any Ideas
> > Thanks Roger Davies
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Re: [users] Regex for paragraph find

On Monday, 18 April 2005 23:02, Paul B. wrote:
> I think this was mentioned fairly recently, but in case not, is
> there a regex for finding a new paragraph? I see /n, but its
> specced only for soft returns, in the Find field anyway. Unless
> I'm missing it, that seems a strange priority, as I use far more
> hard than soft paragraph returns.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul

Hi Paul,

Try using $ - end of a paragrph. For some strange reason it won't find 
the last para in a doc though

Alan

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Re: [users] [moderated]

On Monday, 18 April 2005 21:27, Urska Colner wrote:
> hi orjan
>
> why not also download and use the canadian spellchecker? actually,
> i was wondering: is there one?

If there isn't one, the spellchecker for UK English is probably closer 
to a Canadian user's needs than US English.

Not that I've tried it myself, I do know a few Canadians and their 
language usage is close to UK English

Alan

>
> urska
>
> > Finally!  An e-mail address where I can send my issue.  I just
> > downloaded the latest version and found that I cannot use it. 
> > The developers seem to believe that the English speaking
> > population of the world is American only.  I am Canadian and do
> > not subscribe to the US version of the English language.  The
> > thesaurus is for Americans only.  Too bad.  OpenOffice is a very
> > good idea and some day I hope to be able to use it.
> >
> > Orjan Henningson, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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[users] Regex for paragraph find

2005-04-18 Thread Paul B.

I think this was mentioned fairly recently, but in case not, is 
there a regex for finding a new paragraph? I see /n, but its 
specced only for soft returns, in the Find field anyway. Unless 
I'm missing it, that seems a strange priority, as I use far more 
hard than soft paragraph returns.

Thanks,
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Re: [users] when will open office beta2.0 become 2.0

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 07:51 +1200, Paul wrote:
> Email alerts is not set up for OOo. However if you subscribe to one of
> the OOo lists I'm sure there will be a post that will alert everyone
> to this event.
> 
> Paul

join the announce list for htis info.



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[users] [Scripting] possible to modify a database form field?

2005-04-18 Thread Jens Ansorg

Hi all,
Using m92
I have set up a database that connects to a table in mysql.
I have created a form in that database that allows me to edit records.
I'd like to extend this form a little:
I'd like to add a button that executes a function/macro that
 - gets the currently selected text in a multi-line textbox
 - asks me (input dialog) for a string, i.e "foo.jpg"
 - adds some generated text around the selected text in the textbox, 
i.e. [img=foo.jpg]selected_text[/img]

is this possible with scripting in OOo?
Which language would I need?
I played around with Basic and I got so far that I get some information 
about the form (like what database, what query etc) but found no way to 
access the form fields and modify the content

any ideas?
thanks
Jens Ansorg
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

> On 4/19/05, Urska Colner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> hi don
>>
>> [snip]
>> > I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright symbol,
>> and
>> > it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer font-related
>> > attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search for the
>> instances of
>> > a
>> > given font.  Since I don't know what words might be using the symbol
>> font,
>> > I
>> > cannot search on the words, either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>> >
>>
>> try this:
>> 1. Ctrl-F to open the Find&replace dialog.
>> 2. leave the Find and Replace with fields empty.
>> 3. click Attributes. find and check Font. click OK.
>> 4. click Format... and select Georgia from the list of available fonts.
>> click OK.
>> 5. click Find or Find all.
>>
>> this should find all words which use the Georgia font.
>>
>> urska
>
> This will not answer the question of the OP. If you try what you
> suggested it comes back with zero search results since the 'search
> for' is blank (at least it did when I tried this on OOo1.1.4 on
> WinXP). I also tried entering only a wild card '*' but again no
> results.
>
> Paul

but it worked with me on 1.1.2, that's why i wrote it. of course, i didn't
have anything else checked in the Find&replace dialog.
just tried it again and it worked like a charm.

urska
Win XP, OOo 1.1.2

>
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Don
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

On 4/19/05, Urska Colner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi don
> 
> [snip]
> > I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright symbol, and
> > it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer font-related
> > attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search for the instances of
> > a
> > given font.  Since I don't know what words might be using the symbol font,
> > I
> > cannot search on the words, either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
> >
> 
> try this:
> 1. Ctrl-F to open the Find&replace dialog.
> 2. leave the Find and Replace with fields empty.
> 3. click Attributes. find and check Font. click OK.
> 4. click Format... and select Georgia from the list of available fonts.
> click OK.
> 5. click Find or Find all.
> 
> this should find all words which use the Georgia font.
> 
> urska

This will not answer the question of the OP. If you try what you
suggested it comes back with zero search results since the 'search
for' is blank (at least it did when I tried this on OOo1.1.4 on
WinXP). I also tried entering only a wild card '*' but again no
results.

Paul

> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Don
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Re: [users] [moderated]

hi orjan

why not also download and use the canadian spellchecker? actually, i was
wondering: is there one?

urska


> Finally!  An e-mail address where I can send my issue.  I just downloaded
> the latest version and found that I cannot use it.  The developers seem to
> believe that the English speaking population of the world is American
> only.  I am Canadian and do not subscribe to the US version of the English
> language.  The thesaurus is for Americans only.  Too bad.  OpenOffice is a
> very good idea and some day I hope to be able to use it.
>
> Orjan Henningson, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Re: [users] [moderated]

hi kathryn

1. to create new documents as A4, you can do one of the following:
a) go to Tools - Settings - Locale and set the locale to something other
than en_US (which uses Letter as default, if i'm not mistaking) or
whatever you're using. but this might also influence some other behaviour.
b) open a new file, go to Format - Page, on Page tab select A4 as Format
and click OK. then (do not change anything else in the document!) go to
File - Templates - Save and name the file DefaultA4. save it with OK. then
go to File - Templates again and select Organize. in the dialog, find
DefaultA4 template and click on Commands button. when it opens a drop-down
list, select the 'Use this one as default' command. click OK again. and
close OpenOffice. when you open it again and select a new text document,
it should open an empty A4 page.

2. the spellchecker will work if you have the following: you must have set
up the correct language for your documents. if you're writing your
documents in german, the english spellchecker will not work :) so: go to
Tools - Options - Language settings and check what you have for Western
and for Locale. select the langauge you are using. if you see a blue
checkmark next to its name, this means that the spellchecker for it is
installed. now, in a new document, also check which language the Default
paragraph style is using: open Stylist (F11), right-click on Default and
select Modify. under the Font tab you should find the list of languages.
make sure it is the one you need.

urska

urska

> Hey hey
>
> I think Open Office is great, but I've had a few difficulties. I'm not an
> IT wizz, so bear with me please.
>
>> I want to set up my text documents so that they are created A4 by
>> default each time I open a new file.
>
>> I can't get the language set up to work so that I can use the spell
>> check. I have managed to do this in one document, but can't get it
>> working for any other documents, even if I do the same thing. I've been
>> pasting all my completed documents in this original one, just so I can
>> check the spelling!
>
> Thanks,
> Kathryn


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Re: [users] simplex solver?

Have a look at : http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s06.html#id2874819

Paul

On 4/19/05, kb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in Excel there is a solver that can be used to solve LP problems.
> i quess that it uses the simplex method.
> 
> is there any equivalent solver in openoffice?
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Re: [users] LINKS INSIDE SPREADSHEETS

Doesn't sound right. How are you linking the cells? Are all the
spreadsheets in .sxc format?

Paul

On 4/18/05, Ramon Sole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with a spreadsheet in which some cells are dinamically
> linked to other spreadsheets.
> 
> Everything is going fine, but when I want to save te file its size is
> huge (a sheet with just 5 cells linked is 14 MB). That's making the
> loading process very slow. Just for comparison, the Excel equivalent is
> about 5 times smaller.
> 
> Any hint about what's happening, pls?
> Is that the ordinary behaviour of OpenOffice with links?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ramon
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Re: [users] [moderated]

hi gary

thanks for testing OOo, since it's not stable yet. to make sure developers
get your issue information, you should sign in to issue tracker and file a
report. for that, you'll have to register on the OOo website.

if you need help, don't be afraid to ask.

urska
ps: since attachments aren't allowed on the list, i see nothing below on
the screen. :)

> I'm new to this so excuse my comments.  I have MS Office XP and I
> installed OO 1.1.m93 and while trying to read a somewhat elaborate (for
> me) Excel sheet with macros, OO crashed and left the message shown below
> on my screen.
>
> While it is meaningless to me, it may assist your programmers (?) in
> developing what I think, (as a daily user of XP), is an excelent product
> that I assure you will become my upgrade from XP.
>
> D. Gary Jones
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Re: [users] [moderated]

I can't seem to replicate your issue. My table columns stay where they
are.  You may have been advised of this in the past, but OOo isn't
really the best for creating web sites.

My recommendation has always been Nvu (www.nvu.com) for that type of thing.

Paul

On 4/16/05, jodi jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when i am creating html documents using openoffice 2.0 i use the tables, and 
> after i save it and open it later for editing, etc the column widths change, 
> why is that? or how can i avoid that?  as i am trying to make a website, 
> differeing pages are not an option, i want a clean transfer from one page to 
> another.
> 
> thanks for your help, as this is a pressing issue, i was hoping it would be 
> fixed when you introduced 2.0, but i am still having this problem.
> 
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Re: [users] Header and footer text removed when reloading custom

On Monday, 18 April 2005 20:36, Urska Colner wrote:
> hi alan, cor
>
> if i remember correctly, the styles will be saved with the template
> only if you have used them. i'm not sure if it's enough to just
> define them. but i could be mistaking.
>
> urska

Hi Urska and Cor,

Yes you are both right, once I defined blank pages and used the header 
styles in the template they were correctly imported into the 
documents each time I reloaded it.

So defining them isn't enough, they have to be used in the template to 
be used in the document. Once again, it's a case of the most obvious 
thing possible is the way it works.

Thanks to both of you for the pointers and help

Alan

>
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a long document in Writer 1.1.3. I use a custom template
> >> with 9 custom page styles, and also use Left Page and Right Page
> >> styles. Some of the custom page styles have header and footer
> >> text, some don't. Where headers are present, they are defined as
> >> using Header Left or Header Right para styles as appropriate
> >>
> >> When I update the template and reload the document, all header
> >> and footer text on custom page styles is removed, and the para
> >> style is reset to plain Header. Pages that use the standard Left
> >> and Right Page styles are left intact and not changed.
> >>
> >> The template is a blank document, containing no text, it only
> >> defines styles.
> >>
> >> How do I fix this behaviour?
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > The 'blank' template contains information about page styles as
> > well. Did you also define those?
> > (Re-)applying the template, make headers and footers change as
> > well. Or disapear, if not defined in your template...
> > You might also want to look in Format |Styles |Load. There you
> > can choose to load for example, only paragraph styles.
> >
> > Does this solve your problem?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Cor
> >
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Re: [users] [moderated]

I'm assuming that you are using file > wizards > install new dictionaries ...
 The folder that the dictionaries are installed into is something like
/share/dict/ooo as opposed to 'dictinstaller' you mention.

Have a check on this directory and advise the list.

Paul

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> Ladies and Gentlemen
> The other day I learned about Open Office through a mailing list.
> Since I do not like (hate) Microsoft Office, yet have to use it for my job,
> I would really like to try Open Office.
> 
> Downloaded several files already and installed (as a test) Version 2 (beta
> version).
> Also downloaded several dictionary files.
> Yet, the folder "dictinstaller" contains only 3 gif images, but no exe file.
> the link found on the website: http://www.ooodocs.org/dictinstall/
> does not lead anywhere (dnserror)
> 
> Question:
> How/where do I get the dictionary installer?
> Do I need that for Version 2 (it says it works only for Version 1)
> If not, how do I install the dictionaries?
> Without dictionaries the "Writer" would be close to useless.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> 
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Re: [users] python23.dll error message

Have a look at : http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=18791
for the answer.

Paul

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> I.m using open office 1.9.79 and having no problems with the 
> application.Norton Windoctor tells me,however,that python.exe cannot access 
> python23.dll.
> Any Ideas
> Thanks Roger Davies
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Re: [users] Spellcheck Problem

Check out : http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s05.html#id2874381

If problem still occurs, reply back to the list.

Paul

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> I have Openoffice 1.1.4. My auto-spellcheck is turned on but it will not work 
> on new documents I create. It only works on MS Word documents I import from 
> other sources or authors. Can you suggest a fix or setup change to correct 
> this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Helmut Kron
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Re: [users] [moderated]

i suggest you go find and download the unicows.dll again, because this one
is obviously corrupted. copy it over the existing file to overwrite it.
maybe it will work.

urska

> Dear Sir,
>
> I've been using OpenOffice (1.1.0) very happily for a couple of years.
>
> Today, I have been using some clean-up software to remove unused DLLs.
>  Afterwards, I tried to use OpenOffice, but it came up with an error
> message saying that "unicows.dll" could not be found.
>
> When I checked the backup directory into which the unused DLLs were
> placed, this particular DLL was not there.
>
> A quick search found it in the OpenOffice\program directory - presumably
> just where it should be.
>
> Not knowing what else to do, I downloaded the latest version (1.1.4)
> from your website.  Then, before installing this, I tried to uninstall
> the version already in place (using the Windows 98 uninstall facility).
>  No joy - it told me that it couldn't do the job since "unicows.dll"
>  was missing!
>
> So I then tried to install the new version, but came up with the same
> error message about "unicows".
>
> Any thoughts from anyone?
>
> Many thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Steve
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Re: [users] [moderated]

On 4/17/05, kathryn voutier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey hey
> 
> I think Open Office is great, but I've had a few difficulties. I'm not an IT 
> wizz, so bear with me please.
> 
> > I want to set up my text documents so that they are created A4 by default 
> > each time I open a new file.

Have a look at : http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s05.html#id2811932
 
> > I can't get the language set up to work so that I can use the spell check. 
> > I have managed to do this in one document, but can't get it working for any 
> > other documents, even if I do the same thing. I've been pasting all my 
> > completed documents in this original one, just so I can check the spelling!

Have a look at : http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s05.html#id2874381

> Thanks,
> Kathryn
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

On Monday, 18 April 2005 21:33, DC Parris wrote:
> I have written a book that I plan to publish on Lulu.com. 
> According to Lulu's help info, OOo should convert to PDF pretty
> well.  However, I have a symbol font that does not get embedded
> into the PDF file.  Since I used paragraph styles for my text (and
> never set anything to use the symbol font) I am not sure what is
> using the symbol font.  I do see that I need to change the font
> settings in a few places, but I don't know about the symbol font.
>
> Acrobat Reader 7.0 reveals all the fonts, and shows their status as
> either embedded, embedded subset, or not embedded.  How can I find
> what's using the (or a) symbol font? Or how can I be sure it gets
> embedded?
>
> I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright
> symbol, and it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer
> font-related attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search
> for the instances of a given font.  Since I don't know what words
> might be using the symbol font, I cannot search on the words,
> either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don

Don,

Select Edit -> Find & Replace -> Format...

select Symbol font in dialog, click OK, click Find

will find all instances in the doc that use the font

Alan

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Re: [users] Spellcheck Problem

hi helmut

this will seem a bit obvious, but what is the language you use to create
your documents in? maybe you have the spellchecker set up for say German
and all the documents you receive are in German, but you use English for
your documents. happened to me before, too.

go to Tools - Options... - Language settings. check the default Western
language and the locale. if you have it both set for the correct language
(=the one you use to write your documents), then it should work.

urska

> I have Openoffice 1.1.4. My auto-spellcheck is turned on but it will not
> work on new documents I create. It only works on MS Word documents I
> import from other sources or authors. Can you suggest a fix or setup
> change to correct this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: [users] when will open office beta2.0 become 2.0

Email alerts is not set up for OOo. However if you subscribe to one of
the OOo lists I'm sure there will be a post that will alert everyone
to this event.

Paul

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> 
>  Can I  be notiifed when Open Office v2.0  becomes officially stable.
>  Mr Mintz
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Re: [users] mail merge more than 1 page of labels

hi

NOTE: after you do mail merges, that is after you click Print, OOo will
only display one page of the document - the last one that will be printed.

is this what you're seeing? because if it is, OOo will still print the
rest of the labels, but it will only show you the last page so you can see
where you left off.

or, did it only print 14 labels instead of 5 pages?

urska

> I am merging labels. I have successfully set up a label merge document
> but it will only merge with the first 14 addresses. The list needs 5
> pages of labels. Will I have to set up a new document for each 14 names
> (the number of labels on an A4 sheet) or is there a way of getting the
> merge to add enough pages to complete the task?
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

The only thing I can think of is to reapply all the styles. If you are
sure that you have used no symbol styles, then reapplying the styles
that you have used should not effect anything but that font which has
creeped in.

I would recommend that you do this on a _copy_ of your original to
ensure that nothing gets ruined...  Select format > autoformat > apply
.

Paul

On 4/19/05, DC Parris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have written a book that I plan to publish on Lulu.com.  According to
> Lulu's help info, OOo should convert to PDF pretty well.  However, I have a
> symbol font that does not get embedded into the PDF file.  Since I used
> paragraph styles for my text (and never set anything to use the symbol font)
> I am not sure what is using the symbol font.  I do see that I need to change
> the font settings in a few places, but I don't know about the symbol font.
> 
> Acrobat Reader 7.0 reveals all the fonts, and shows their status as
> either embedded, embedded subset, or not embedded.  How can I find what's
> using the (or a) symbol font? Or how can I be sure it gets embedded?
> 
> I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright symbol, and
> it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer font-related
> attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search for the instances of a
> given font.  Since I don't know what words might be using the symbol font, I
> cannot search on the words, either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Don
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Re: [users] Finding an Instance of a Font

hi don

[snip]
> I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright symbol, and
> it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer font-related
> attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search for the instances of
> a
> given font.  Since I don't know what words might be using the symbol font,
> I
> cannot search on the words, either.  Is there an easy way to do this?
>

try this:
1. Ctrl-F to open the Find&replace dialog.
2. leave the Find and Replace with fields empty.
3. click Attributes. find and check Font. click OK.
4. click Format... and select Georgia from the list of available fonts.
click OK.
5. click Find or Find all.

this should find all words which use the Georgia font.

urska

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don
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Re: [users] A few questions

> Dear sirs,
>
> Since a few weeks I am getting myself familiar with Open Office.org 2.0
> beta to see if I can changeover complete from MS office.
> Results so fat have been very positive so far.
>
> But a few "stupid" questions still have to be answered and I hope you
> can help me with that.
> 1) My Word program seems not to open Writer documents and Writer does
> not open all the word files (all made in the same way), is this because
> of the fact that it is a beta version?, or am I doing something wrong?

as alan already said, you have to save documents in .doc format to be able
to use them in word. word doesn't read .sxw format. you can even set OOo
to always save the files in .doc format, if you wish.

> 2) maybe the most important question:
> Prefered language is Dutch, when I download the language is asked for,
> the programme however stays in English.
> Is it possible to convert, or to download a full Dutch version yet?

you should check http://www.openoffice.org to see if there's a dutch
version of OOo ready. it should be called something like
OOo_1.1.4_Win32Intel_install_nl.zip (for Windows). this one should contain
a dutch interface and a spellchecker. if you got an english interface, you
must have downloaded the wrong version. OOo2.0 beta probably isn't
localized into dutch yet and is only available in english for the time
being.

urska

> (would be easier to work with, also regarding the spelling control etc.)
> Maybe you can recommend the 1.1.4 version in this case? or is the
> language issue the same there?
>
> Hopefully you can help me a bit further in this matter for which I thank
> you in advance, hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Best regards
> Jim Suurland


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Re: [users] Header and footer text removed when reloading custom

hi alan, cor

if i remember correctly, the styles will be saved with the template only
if you have used them. i'm not sure if it's enough to just define them.
but i could be mistaking.

urska

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a long document in Writer 1.1.3. I use a custom template with 9
>> custom page styles, and also use Left Page and Right Page styles.
>> Some of the custom page styles have header and footer text, some
>> don't. Where headers are present, they are defined as using Header
>> Left or Header Right para styles as appropriate
>>
>> When I update the template and reload the document, all header and
>> footer text on custom page styles is removed, and the para style is
>> reset to plain Header. Pages that use the standard Left and Right
>> Page styles are left intact and not changed.
>>
>> The template is a blank document, containing no text, it only defines
>> styles.
>>
>> How do I fix this behaviour?
>>
> Hi Alan,
>
> The 'blank' template contains information about page styles as well. Did
> you also define those?
> (Re-)applying the template, make headers and footers change as well. Or
> disapear, if not defined in your template...
> You might also want to look in Format |Styles |Load. There you can
> choose to load for example, only paragraph styles.
>
> Does this solve your problem?
>
> Kind regards,
> Cor
>
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Re: [users] Presentations

hi vicki

there are two options as i see it:
1. either you were inserting graphics as links instead of embedding them:
when you select Insert - Graphic, you get a dialog for selecting the
graphic. in the lower left-hand corner of the dialog you should see a
field called Link. if this is selected, impress will only put links to
graphics into the file, which means that Impress will only display these
graphics as long as they are still saved in the same location as they were
before. as soon as you move the impress presentation or the graphics to
another location, it will lose them and no longer display them

or
2. you disabled graphics view: in OOo 1.1.x version, this was controlled
by a button on the object toolbar in the left-hand side of the document.
it look something like different shapes and a red cross over them. you
might have clicked it accidentally. if you did, then the graphics are
still there, but impress won't display them (the viewing of the slides is
usually much faster this way, i always use it)

hope this helped
urska

> I was putting together an open office presentation, inserting graphics
> (photos) on slides.  Somehow the computer automatically closed? the
> graphics,
> leaving blank slides, and in the upper left hand corner is a box on each
> page with
> colored shapes on it.  It got saved that way.  How can I get the photos
> back?
> Text is still present as I wanted, but pictures are gone.
> Thank you for your help.
> Vicki Gatchell
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[users] simplex solver?

2005-04-18 Thread kb

in Excel there is a solver that can be used to solve LP problems.
i quess that it uses the simplex method.
is there any equivalent solver in openoffice?
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[users] Finding an Instance of a Font

2005-04-18 Thread DC Parris

I have written a book that I plan to publish on Lulu.com.  According to
Lulu's help info, OOo should convert to PDF pretty well.  However, I have a
symbol font that does not get embedded into the PDF file.  Since I used
paragraph styles for my text (and never set anything to use the symbol font)
I am not sure what is using the symbol font.  I do see that I need to change
the font settings in a few places, but I don't know about the symbol font.

Acrobat Reader 7.0 reveals all the fonts, and shows their status as
either embedded, embedded subset, or not embedded.  How can I find what's
using the (or a) symbol font? Or how can I be sure it gets embedded?

I'm using OOo 1.1.3 on SUSE Linux 9.2.  I checked my copyright symbol, and
it's Georgia.  The find/replace dialog seems to offer font-related
attributes, but I am not sure that means I can search for the instances of a
given font.  Since I don't know what words might be using the symbol font, I
cannot search on the words, either.  Is there an easy way to do this?


Thanks in advance,
Don
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Re: [users] How do I turn of number recognition in calc?

2005-04-18 Thread Eike Rathke

Hi Niels,

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 15:58:23 +0200, Niels Rikze wrote:

> I know how it works in writer, but can't get it done in cacl. I use 
> version 1.1.4.

Either assign the text number format to the cells prior to input, or
precede the input value with a single quote '

  Eike

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Re: [users] Protected cells within a sheet/s

2005-04-18 Thread Eike Rathke

Hi Chadley,

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 13:07:27 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:

> I would like to know why it is that when I protect a sheet the whole document 
> goes grey, i.e all sheets,

Under Tools.Options.Calc.View "Value highlighting" is checked.

> Is there a way to keep all the colour formatting and protect the cells 
> containing the formulas?

Should work if you switch the highlighting off.

  Eike

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Re: [users] Header and footer text removed when reloading custom template

2005-04-18 Thread Cor Nouws

Alan McKinnon wrote:
Hi,
I have a long document in Writer 1.1.3. I use a custom template with 9 
custom page styles, and also use Left Page and Right Page styles. 
Some of the custom page styles have header and footer text, some 
don't. Where headers are present, they are defined as using Header 
Left or Header Right para styles as appropriate

When I update the template and reload the document, all header and 
footer text on custom page styles is removed, and the para style is 
reset to plain Header. Pages that use the standard Left and Right 
Page styles are left intact and not changed.

The template is a blank document, containing no text, it only defines 
styles.

How do I fix this behaviour?
Hi Alan,
The 'blank' template contains information about page styles as well. Did 
you also define those?
(Re-)applying the template, make headers and footers change as well. Or 
disapear, if not defined in your template...
You might also want to look in Format |Styles |Load. There you can 
choose to load for example, only paragraph styles.

Does this solve your problem?
Kind regards,
Cor

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Re: [users] Associate XML Schema with XForms Document in Writer

2005-04-18 Thread rolf.bertschi

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Subject: [users] Associate XML Schema with XForms Document in Writer


Hi,
I'm using OpenOffice 1.9.93 (OO beta 2).  How can I associate an XForms 
document in the Writer with an XML schema file instead of a MySQL 
database?

Thanks,
Anna
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[users] OOo-1.9.82: loading a Calc kbd-conf-file saved in an OOo-1.1.4 file

2005-04-18 Thread Ennio-Sr

I started trying OOo-Beta(1.9.82) ;)
Opened a Calc file previously saved in 1.1.4: in this file I saved the
keyboard configuration (i.e. CTRL+keys association to a few macros) to a
file, that can be re-loaded with Tools > Configure > Keyboard > Load.

If I try to do the same from 1.9.82 nothing happens; or, better, the
same steps do not raise any error but, at the end, the CTRL+keys do not
work ;(

Am I missing something?

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Ennio.


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[users] OOo-1.9.82 Debian packages

2005-04-18 Thread Ennio-Sr

Hi all,
I downloaded the deb pckgs from the site suggested a few posts ago
(ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/Beta)
untar-zipped them and then ran dpkg -i *1.9.82*deb.
OOo-1.9.82 was installed alongsize the older 1.9.79 and seemed to work.
Afterwards I removed 1.9.79 and it still seems to work (apart from a
particular for which I'm posting separately).
Now:
In the README file it is recommended to "call the installation program
of the newer version and choose 'Repair'" when you remove the older
installation.
The point is that I can't see any 'install' or 'setup' file in those
packages. How can I observe the recommendation?

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Ennio.

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Re: [users] Problem with opening documents created in Word.

2005-04-18 Thread Doug Thompson

Sandy Thomson wrote:
I am trying to use OpenOffice version 1.9.93 to open reports created in
Microsoft Word 2000. In Word, there are page borders which are measured
from text and do not surround the header and footer. 
 
When I "file" "open" these documents in Word, the page borders move to
below the header and footer. How can I avoid this happening? If it is
impossible to avoid this problem at this stage of development, how can I
correct the page borders so they show correctly?
 
I don't know how to correct the problem automatically on import.  That 
being said:

1.  Menu > Format > Page
2.  Select the Header Tab.
3.  At the bottom left, click on More...
4.  In the box labelled "User-defined",  I suspect you will see a 
horizontal line above the gray area in the center of the box.
Click on the visible line to remove it.  Click just to the bottom of the 
gray area to add a line below the header.
5.  Go to the Footer tab and repeat the process for the desired results.

Doug
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Re: [users] Getting rid of a macro

Hi Bill,
Te get rid of that message you'll have to load the file, 
select 'tools / macro / macro', in the left pane, select the 
file, click 'organizer' and delete all the modules attached 
to your file. Save it, close it and try re-loading. The 
message should not appear.
tc

Bill wrote:
Hi
I was doing some experimenting with a macro in oocalc and it
didn't come out the way I wanted, I then tried to remove it via
"tools->macro->macro  (The area that I was experimenting in was
"tools->macro->record macro")
now when I load this file (flash: any oocalc file) I get an error
message:
This document cotains macros. According to the security settings,
the macros in this document should not be run. Do you want to
run them anyway. (choices: run   don't run) Don't run is chosen>
Then I get another error message: Error loading basic of
document file  ~/.openoffice/user/basic/dialog.xlc/:General
Error 
General input/output error
This error message seems to be there 2 (or 3) times;
I seem to remember a "Main" macro listed but I don't see it any
more.
Anyone hazard an answer?
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Re: [users] Help Please

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:24 +0200, Quirec Chantraine wrote:
> 
> Mr Roderick Singleton
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks for your answer. Nervertheless I must tell you that even 
> selecting Tools/Options and French Language for correction trying to write 
> some words with errorson purpose the system always answer "Correction already 
> done" but without discovering any error !
> 
> I would appreciate you to give me a phone or mail contact to go ahead in the 
> solution of this problem.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
>  
> 

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En Anglais (si mon FranÃais n'est pas bon.)

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call.  However, you might be able to get assistance and in French from
the French users list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken the
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[users] Associate XML Schema with XForms Document in Writer

2005-04-18 Thread Anna Fowles-Winkler

Hi,
I'm using OpenOffice 1.9.93 (OO beta 2).  How can I associate an XForms 
document in the Writer with an XML schema file instead of a MySQL database?

Thanks,
Anna
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Re: [users] Calc cell protection

Hi Doug,
Much more concise answer than mine but one part is not true. 
Open a blank sheet - all cells have protection enabled by 
default.

Doug Thompson wrote:

Only cells you have formatted with Cell Protection (Step 3) will be 
restricted.

I hope this is the information you were seeking,
Doug
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Re: [users] References

2005-04-18 Thread Howard Burford

Thanks for the reply.  BTW, there were two identical copies of it.

It's the second action in your reply that I want to do. However, following
the trail I found about a dozen references to stuff I've never ever heard
of, which I have deleted, but no sign of my references at all, either
correct or incorect.

Further comments below.

Howard
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [users] References

Do you mean you want to remove the entries from the bibliography database?
If so, select F4 which brings up the data source manager. Select
bibliography > tables >  biblio. You will be presented with a table
like structure listing the individual entries that are in the
bibliography database. You can delete rows from there.

I would suggest however removing them from the text body is easier.

The ones in the text body are OK. It's incorrect unused ones I want to
delete.

I've assumed that you are using OOo1.X.X since it is a little
different in OOo2.X

yes, 1.1.4.

Paul

On 4/18/05, Howard Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm slowly mastering the peculiarities of the Insert>Reference procedures,
> which I must say I find somewhat complex.
>
> One thing I want to master fairly urgently is how to get incorrect ones
out
> of the system. In other words, I can delete them OK from the text, no
> problem, but how do I get them out of the Reference system? Is there an
> "Organise References" or similar option somewhere?
>
> Howard
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Re: [users] JRE

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Forster

Dear Oliver

Check out this link.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

HTH

Stephen Forster

On 4/17/05, Oliver Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear madam, dear sir,
> I am having a problem getting a "java runtime environment" downloaded as 
> freeware as I had it before my computer broke down and I had to completely 
> reinstall all the programs. Does this software still exist as freeware and 
> where can I get it?
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Oliver Lermen
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Re: [users] DicOOo Problems

2005-04-18 Thread Laurent Godard

Hi
I am using OO 1.9.79 and I am having trouble installing additional 
spellbooks. The DicOOo.swx doesn't function. I can click on the button 
but nothing happens.
Is there another way to install additional language packs?

this is a know problem of the launcher in the beta 1.9.79
you can launch /share/dict/ooo/dicooo.sxw directly
it should work
Laurent
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Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Forster

Dear Orjan

You can download various options of the English language from the "add
new dictionaries" featurePlease also note that negativity is not a
welcome addition on this forum.

We are here to help not take criticism!

We are all volunteers and for your information, the bulk of Open
Office users are not located in the US.

My gripe is over. enjoy the software, and contribute...don't spoil
the party. (Or spend a fortune on MS Office)

Stephen Forster

On 4/18/05, Orjan Henningson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally!  An e-mail address where I can send my issue.  I just downloaded the 
> latest version and found that I cannot use it.  The developers seem to 
> believe that the English speaking population of the world is American only.  
> I am Canadian and do not subscribe to the US version of the English language. 
>  The thesaurus is for Americans only.  Too bad.  OpenOffice is a very good 
> idea and some day I hope to be able to use it.
> 
> Orjan Henningson, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
> 
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Re: [users] Envelopes in ver. 2.0

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook

Ed wrote:
I am having trouble printing business envelopes (No 10) in version
2.0. The same envelope prints fine in ver. 1.1.3. I have tried
recreating it, have change orientation settings and printer settings
to no avail. Is there a problem in ver. 2.0 printing envelopes or am
I overlooking some setting? I am using an HP 932C printer and Windows
XP Professional. I have figured out most changes I use from ver 1.1.3
to 2.0, this one has me stumped. Thanks for any help. Ed
There's a bug, described in Issue 46093 (and others) that is presently 
outstanding. A very similar bug (Issue 25342) occurred in 1.1.1 and was 
fixed fairly quickly - in 1.1.2 - , so we live in hope:-)

Peter HB
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Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis

On Sunday 17 April 2005 04:52 pm, Charles Boehm wrote:
> Not certain I "understand" OpenSource. Can I use "OpenOffice" on my
> Mac?
>
> CBoehm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
 The simple answer is yes. If you want detailed information about 
where and how "OpenOffice" can be used, find the license for it on the 
www.openoffice.org web site.
 If you are using a Mac, may I suggest you consider NeoOffice/J 
instead. Many of the people using Mac's on this mailing list prefer 
NeoOffice/J. It is the same program except it is based upon Sun's Java 
software. Below are the links you need courtesy of another member of 
this mailing list.

You download it from the NeoOffice/J download page:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/download.php

After you install it, download and install the latest update patch from:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/patch.php

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Re: [users] A few questions

On Monday, 18 April 2005 09:19, Suurland, Jim wrote:
> Dear sirs,
>  
> Since a few weeks I am getting myself familiar with Open Office.org
> 2.0 beta to see if I can changeover complete from MS office.
> Results so fat have been very positive so far.
>  
> But a few "stupid" questions still have to be answered and I hope
> you can help me with that.
> 1) My Word program seems not to open Writer documents and Writer
> does not open all the word files (all made in the same way), is
> this because of the fact that it is a beta version?, or am I doing
> something wrong?

Open Office can use the MS Office document formats, but MS Office 
cannot use Open Office document formats.

Writer by default saves documents in the .sxw format. To get a file 
that Word can read you have to select the correct MS format in the 
file type field of the Save As... dialog box

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Re: [users] JRE

2005-04-18 Thread Mixu Lauronen

Oliver Lermen kirjoitti:
Dear madam, dear sir,
I am having a problem getting a "java runtime environment" downloaded as freeware as I had it before my computer broke down and I had to completely reinstall all the programs. Does this software still exist as freeware and where can I get it?
 

Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp and choose "Download 
JRE 5.0 Update 2".

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[users] Re: Table cells larger than a page. How to manage?

2005-04-18 Thread Don Vaillancourt

G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 11:18 -0400, Don Vaillancourt wrote:
Brian wrote:
Don Vaillancourt wrote:

I am receiving documents written in Word from a client where table 
cells are taller than the page height so a good portion of it gets 
chopped off at the bottom.  Is there a way to be able to manage this 
properlly.

Split cell doesn't allow me to select at which point the split should 
occur.  And if you have multiple columns it is much more difficult.

What are the possible solution outside of having to cut and paste the 
content into a new row?

You could make the client aware of the situation, or ask him to put very 
large cell contents in separate files and a link to them in the cell.

Brian

I thought about this, but Word handles this issue easily and thought 
that perhaps there was a way with OOo.  As for asking the client, I 
could, but this is not the first time I've run into this problem and I 
cannot ask every client to learn to use a word processor properly.


By way of an experiment, get the latest 2.0 beta candidate and try that
with your Word doc. According to the the Guide to New Features on
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html the cell should split in a
similar manner to that of Word.

I have.  Will take a look at that today sometime.
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[users] Problem with opening documents created in Word.

2005-04-18 Thread Sandy Thomson

I am trying to use OpenOffice version 1.9.93 to open reports created in
Microsoft Word 2000. In Word, there are page borders which are measured
from text and do not surround the header and footer. 
 
When I "file" "open" these documents in Word, the page borders move to
below the header and footer. How can I avoid this happening? If it is
impossible to avoid this problem at this stage of development, how can I
correct the page borders so they show correctly?
 
Thanks,
 
Alex

Re: [users] JRE

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis

On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:45 pm, Oliver Lermen wrote:
> Dear madam, dear sir,
> I am having a problem getting a "java runtime environment" downloaded
> as freeware as I had it before my computer broke down and I had to
> completely reinstall all the programs. Does this software still exist
> as freeware and where can I get it?
>
> With best regards,
>
> Oliver Lermen
>
 www.java.com

Dan

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Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-18 Thread Shoshannah Forbes

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:52:10 -0400, Charles Boehm  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Not certain I "understand" OpenSource. Can I use "OpenOffice" on my Mac?
Yes, if you install the Mac version. Althugh IMO NeoOffice/J (which is  
based on OpenOffice) is better on the Mac.
You can get NeoOffice/J from here:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php

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Re: [users] fonts

2005-04-18 Thread Shoshannah Forbes

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:16:32 -0400, Leon Gunther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

How can I get Open Office to use a font that I have installed in  
Windows_Fonts?
Open Office by default uses the the fonts installed in Windows- you  
shouldn't need to do anything.
What exactly is the problem you are seeing?


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Re: [users] Calc cell protection

2005-04-18 Thread Doug Thompson

Boross Péter wrote:
Hello!
I'm Peter Boross from Hungary, I use OO.o 2.0 beta (1.9.91) under Linux.
I have a question:
How can I set, that in OO.o Calc, a set of cells (for example: result 
field for a complex calculation) were no editable?
If I changed the input values in an 'input' cell, the content of 
'result' cell could change with the pre-programmed way, but the direct 
overwriting of the 'result' cell with a numerical data should be 
impossible (=should be available only with password)?

Sincerely,
Peter
The help file, at least the English version, gives good instructions for 
this under "protecting; cells and sheets".  However,

1.  Select the cell or range of cells you want to protect.
2.  Right click on one of the selected cells.
3.  Select Format Cells > Cell Protection
4.  Select the options you wish to set and click on OK
5.  Menu > Tools > Protect Document
6.  Select either Protect Sheet or Protect Document.
7.  Enter your password twice.
Only cells you have formatted with Cell Protection (Step 3) will be 
restricted.

I hope this is the information you were seeking,
Doug
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Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] OpenOffice would not install to my computer

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis

On Saturday 16 April 2005 11:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, you were right that OpenOffice was in Start>Programs, I found
> it  there all right, but when I tried to install and run it I STILL
> had problems:  Now I keep getting a message that I have to install
> Java Runtime Environment (JRE) first, before I can finish installing
> OpenOffice. How do I get (and install) JRE?

 Perhaps you misread the JRE requirement window. You do have a 
choice on that page to not use JRE. OOo (OpenOffice) will work in most 
cases without JRE being installed. There are only a few parts of OOo 
that require JRE among them being the auto pilots.
 JRE is available at www.java.com.
 OP is CC.
Dan

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Re: [users] Re: OOo 2 Candidates Crash When Saving

2005-04-18 Thread hackmiester

All I can say is don't use beta releases.
Zdzislaw A. Kaleta wrote:
Dnia piÄtek, 15 kwietnia 2005 04:28, Apollyon napisaÅ:
I'm using a Mandrake-Linux system running the Limited Edition 2005
(development) release.
Almost every build of OOo 2.0 I've used crashes when saving (no
problem with 1.1.4).
Originally I noticed that OOo 2.0 switched File dialogues to the GTK
gnome file dialogue and thought that was the problem; however in
build
1.93 I noticed it had been replaced with OOo generic file dialogue
box, much like the one common to 1.1.4.  While I used Save As...
without error, when I later clicked the "Save" icon the entire
document crashed and I lost all data.
I'm wondering if this problem is specific to me, or Gnome users, or
Linux users in general etc.
Thanks.
I have the same situation in KDE on Debian testing in editions of ooo
above
1.9.79.
-hackmiester
This is a test of the Really Sucky Email Client system. Again, this is
only a test. (Outlook is the only client that will sync with my Palm...) 

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Re: [users] [moderated] downloading patch for 1.1.4

Hi Sixshoes,
I can't help with the download problem other than to say 
that you may not want to download at all. I'm using Win2000 
as well. I installed the patch last week and have had 
constant unrecoverable errors since. This morning I couldn't 
even run OOo. I ran setup and repaired the installation and 
all is well again. I'm going to try once more to install the 
patch. I'll let you know what happens.
tc

sixshoes wrote:
Hello, I need to download the patch.  Is the sot645mi.dll the one?  I have Windows 2000.  When I went to download, the website was openofficeorg-mirrors.  I don't want to download harmful files, so I need to know if this is the correct site that I should download your security patch from.  Unfortunately, I got the message about the security breach, after, I think, someone infiltrated my browser.  It is acting odd since the 13th of April.  

Thanks so much for your much needed advice on this matter.  S.S.
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Re: [users] Re: about DicOOo page

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:54 +0200, Laurent Godard wrote:
> Hi G. Roderick (what is your first name ?)
> 

Gerry or Rod as you like.


> > I will beta test the new FontOOo for you, if you like. I REALLY want
> > those Chinese fonts and I cannot find them in the regular mirrors
> > mentioned in code. (At least as far as I can tell. Me not being a macro
> > wizard :-( )
> 
> There is an indirection in the lst file on the server :)
> That allow to balance the chareg of servers
> 
> You'll find a pack containing them
> http://ooo.lab-project.net/~lgodard/packs/FontOOo/AvecChinois/
> 
> Be carefull 137 Mb
> 
> Thanks or your help
> 
> Laurent
> 

This is great.

Much obliged.
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Re: [users] Calc cell protection