Re: [users] [moderated] Something like MS Outlook ?

[Andis]

Thunderbird + Calendar both on linux and windows (much better than 
outlook e-mail client and quite poor calendar application). Other 
alternative - Evolution (from gnome project), there are also attempt to 
port it to windows, but still in pre alpha stage (about the same quality 
as outlook e-mail client and good calendar application).


Andis

Arthimon wrote:
OpenOffice is new for me. 
Is it something similar with MS Oulook ?


Regards
Arthimon
  

[users] bulk conversion of documents using OOo 2.0.2

[Francis Jones]

Hi All,

I have a lot of OOo documents that I want to convert into PDF.

They are all in a directory, and I would like OOo to cycle through all
the .odt files in that directory and then create .pdf files (with the
same root name).

I used to be able to do this, using 1.9.x I think.

There are a number of tutorials out there which show how to do this, and
this is what I had followed previously.  e.g., DannyB on oooforum had a
macro that worked, and you can find a similar one in Andrew Pitonyak's
macro document.  There's also a really nice gui document created by
Laurent GOdard (http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_fr.html) 
which does exactly what I want.


But... in every case, I get an error, even with the macros that used to
work.


Here is the typical code:


Sub ConvertWordToPDF( cFile )
   cURL = ConvertToURL( cFile )
   
   ' Open the document.

   ' Just blindly assume that the document is of a type that OOo will
   '  correctly recognize and open -- without specifying an import filter.
   oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL( cURL, "_blank", 0, Array(_
MakePropertyValue( "Hidden", True ),_
) )


   cFile = Left( cFile, Len( cFile ) - 4 ) + ".pdf"
   cURL = ConvertToURL( cFile )
   
   ' Save the document using a filter.   
   oDoc.storeToURL( cURL, Array(_

MakePropertyValue( "FilterName", "writer_pdf_Export" ),_
)
   
   oDoc.close( True )

End Sub


Function MakePropertyValue( Optional cName As String, Optional uValue ) As 
com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
   Dim oPropertyValue As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
   If Not IsMissing( cName ) Then
  oPropertyValue.Name = cName
   EndIf
   If Not IsMissing( uValue ) Then
  oPropertyValue.Value = uValue
   EndIf
   MakePropertyValue() = oPropertyValue
End Function 


This always seems to fail with storeToURL() failing, saying that the URL 
is of an unsupported form.


But the URLs for the incoming and outgoing files seem OK: something like

file:///C:/tmp/convOO/UW/file.odt

is an example of the incoming file.  The outgoing file would be the same 
except suffixed with .pdf instead of .odt


There seems to be something I'm missing here.  Can anybody help, or 
point out a resource for doing this?


By the Way: All of these macros which I lifted seem to have had their 
genesis in OOo 1.1 .  Does anybody know if perhaps something has changed 
in 2.0.2 that breaks things?


Thanks,

Frank Jones

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Re: [users] [moderated] Something like MS Outlook ?

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On Monday 03 April 2006 15:10, Arthimon wrote:
> OpenOffice is new for me.
> Is it something similar with MS Oulook ?
>
> Regards
> Arthimon

The current version of Open Office is broadly equivalent (IMHO) to MS Office 
2002 but does NOT contain an equivalent to MS Outlook.

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Re: [users] Windows 98

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 20:47 -0700, Joe Marks wrote:
> I am using Windows 98   When I try to open OpenOffice 2.0 text files I
> get the following messages
>   
>   1.  An API call exited abnormally   or   2. The page can not be
> found. 
>   
>   I know the page exists.
>   
>   Please give some suggestions on solving the problem   

It's difficult to know exactly what the problem is. It could be either,
something adrift in OOo (OpenOffice.org) configuration, or a Windows
issue.

Which version of OOo have you installed?

Does the error occur for all OOo text files or just one?

Can you open OOo Writer with a new blank document?

If you have a document which doesn't contain any confidential
information, post it to me directly (off-list) and I will try to open it
in a known working installation of OOo Version 2.0.2 on a Win98 machine.
This may help us isolate the cause of your problem.

Hope this helps.

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RE: [users] Document as Email Problem

[Craig Stevens]

Thanks for the suggest Paul, but the Admin guy is confident its not a
config with outlook, he suggests registry setting and that outlook has a
bug which wont set the default hence the form re-appears. I don't know,
its easy for someone to speculate but I would prefer something more
tangible to an answer. If any thoughts still happy to hear them.

Craig

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To: users@openoffice.org; Craig Stevens
Subject: Re: [users] Document as Email Problem


I had similar issue when I was working for another company, but with the
existing company I don't have that issue. Both companies were using
Outlook, and I used OOo with both.  It probably has something to do with
the way Outlook (from an admin) perspective is configured.

Sorry couldn't be of more assistance.

/paul

On 3/30/06, Craig Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In  OOo i send a document as an email and the "Choose Profile" dialog 
> box always appears, i select OPTIONS and SET AS DEFAULT PROFILE but 
> each time i send a new document as an email the dialog box re-appears 
> wihtout the SET DEFAULT PROFILE checked. I am using OOo 2.0 and 
> Outlook 2000 with SR-1, SP2, SP3 installed on Windows XP. My issue is 
> i cant determine if this is a problem with OOo or the outlook mail 
> settings. Has anyone experienced this issue and have solution to it?
>
> Craig
>
>

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Re: [users] Windows with and without JRE

[Dave Barton]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 03:40 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please tell me what JRE is.  How would I find out if my version of Windows 
> has this?
> 
> My OS is Windows XP Professional with the current recommended updates 
> (Express).  
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Charles Smart

"Start" menu, select "Run", then in the dialog box type "cmd" (without
quotation marks) and click "OK" button. In the window that opens type
"java -version" (without quotation marks). If you see something that
includes the phrase "Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment", you have a version
of Java installed. Ideally, you should have Java version 1.5.0_06
installed. If not, then download the version of OOo (OpenOffice.org)
with JRE.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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Re: [users] [moderated]

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:03 -0800, randi wrote:
> I am having problems downloading the program.  What can I do?
> 
> Randi 

What sort of problems are you having? Can you give more details?

Maybe a download manager will help. Check out this page:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

Hope this helps.

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[users] Windows with and without JRE

[s4125]

Please tell me what JRE is.  How would I find out if my version of Windows has 
this?

My OS is Windows XP Professional with the current recommended updates 
(Express).  

Thanks for your help.

Charles Smart

[users] Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org! Is this true?

[Luke Murray]

I was going through webpages and saw this article:

http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_Buys_OpenOffice.org_

is it true or is it really a April Fools joke? Also would Microsoft even be
capable of buying Openoffice.org?


Luke

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[randi]

I am having problems downloading the program.  What can I do?

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[users] Windows 98

[Joe Marks]

I am using Windows 98   When I try to open OpenOffice 2.0 text files I get the 
following messages
  
  1.  An API call exited abnormally   or   2. The page can not be found. 
  
  I know the page exists.
  
  Please give some suggestions on solving the problem   


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RE: [users] Re: RE: Re: Will OpenOffice run on a Palm TX?

[rmilby]

System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP (OpenOffice.org does not support 
Windows 95) 
For the portable OpenOffice

  
  
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Dnia 02-04-2006, nie o godzinie 05:32 -0400, Kira napisał(a):
> Too bad they don't make it for PalmOS. It looks good.
> Kira
> 

Hey Kira!

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice

You might try the above link, but I haven't tried it as I haven't got any 
portable device :)

Regards,
Konrad

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[users] Re: Reveal Codes

[Rod Engelsman]

klaus schmirler wrote:



But from your description, I would expect the opposite behaviour of WP 
and OOo in this experiment:


Write two lines of anything, bolden one of them (whether by defining a 
character style or with the button up on the menu doesn't make a 
difference). Now select a couple of letters from one line; push them 
into the other. And vice versa.


Wordperfect behaves symmetrically: the new letters in the normal line 
are bold, and the new letters in the bold line are normal. In OOo, both 
end up bold, which tells me that only Bold is an attribute, and that 
there is simply nothing set in the normal line: not every character has 
the full set of attributes.


My thinking or OOo's way of working, which is wrong?

klaus


Honestly, I think I would call this a bug. In fact I'm going to file an 
issue on it if there isn't one already and see what the developers have 
to say about it.


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[users] Re: Reveal Codes

[Jallan]

klaus schmirler wrote:
I appreciate your efforts trying to explain the difference - and making 
a comment re further ahead in the discussion, I can very well imagine 
e.g. a tree opening from the context menu, starting with the names of 
page, paragraph, character &c. styles and then branching out to the 
nitty gritty, as long as it shows _everything_.



But from your description, I would expect the opposite behaviour of WP 
and OOo in this experiment:


Write two lines of anything, bolden one of them (whether by defining a 
character style or with the button up on the menu doesn't make a 
difference). Now select a couple of letters from one line; push them 
into the other. And vice versa.


Wordperfect behaves symmetrically: the new letters in the normal line 
are bold, and the new letters in the bold line are normal. In OOo, both 
end up bold, which tells me that only Bold is an attribute, and that 
there is simply nothing set in the normal line: not every character has 
the full set of attributes.


My thinking or OOo's way of working, which is wrong?


Let's assume that your original paragraph is in the Default paragraph 
style. Select the entire paragraph and press Ctrl-Shift-Space to remove 
all direct formatting.


Now press F11, select the "Default" paragraph style, right-click, select 
"Modify", and under the fonts tab change the style of the paragraph font 
to bold.


The entire paragraph now becomes bold.

Try the experiment again. The opposite now occurs. A bit of normal text 
copied and pasted into the middle of some bold text retains its normal 
attribute, but a bit of bold text pasted into the middle of the normal 
text loses its boldness. Now the results of both pastings end up normal.


So by your logic Normal weight is now an attribute and Bold is not.

It seems that what happens in both cases, when two sets of attributes 
collide on pasting, the underlying paragraph set of attributes is the 
one that yields.


I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not ... but it is certainly not 
intuitive, at least not to me. I don't like it.


I notice that more special attributes like color are retained, as I 
would expect. It looks like it is only bold and italic that act strangely.


However, I don't have much trouble with it, probably because I've gotten 
used to using Paste Special when attempting to paste formatted text, and 
so have ceased to notice this weird behavior.


I have memories of OOo Writer acting weirdly in the past when I was 
first using it and sometimes attempted to paste formatted text. But I 
just cursed it, fixed the problem manually, and moved on, having no time 
to consider carefully what was wrong.


Probably it is from such incidents that I've picked up the habit of 
using Paste Special and specifically choosing whether I want the text to 
be pasted with its formatting or to take on the formatting of the text 
into which it is pasted.


Jallan

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Re: [users] Need some help

[Dan Lewis]

On Monday April 3 2006 01:56 pm, Alexi Sanders wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been using Open Office for some time, but had to reinstall it
> recently and now am not happy with the text part of the program and I do
> not want it to be my default any longer. Not only is it EXTREMELY slow
> to open up, but I do not like the default options and have been unable
> to change them, ie stop it from completing my words before they are
> typed.
>
> So my question is how do I turn it off from being my default text
> program?
>
> Thank you,
> Alexa Sanders

 You have already received at least one reply as to how to change your 
file associations back to MSO.
 As to OOo completing words before they are typed, the solution is:
Tools > AutoCorrect > Word Completion (tab). Uncheck Enable word 
completion. Perhaps the Getting Started Guide available from 
http://documentation.openoffice.org would help you change the default 
options to ones more to your liking.

Dan

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Re: [users] [moderated] IS THERE A WAY?

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:48 -0700, JOHN HOLLIDAY wrote:
> IS THERE A WAY I CAN BUY OPENOFFICE ON A DVD?? I'M IN PROCESS OF
> REPAIR.. THANKS

This page http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ lists distributors
of OOo (OpenOffice.org) on CD (maybe DVD). Choose one that is local to
you. The cost should be around US$10.

Please note the following extract from the above page:

"OpenOffice.org does not endorse any of them [distributors] nor do we
guarantee the contents of the CDs they [distributors] sell."

BTW Please do not type messages in uppercase (capital) letters, as this
is considered to be shouting and very rude to people from whom you are
requesting assistance.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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[users] Re: Removing a checkbox from a Writer document

[Laurent Duperval]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:34:16 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:

> Choose View|Toolbars|Form design.
> There's the button Design on/of.

Aarrgh! On/Off! That's what it was! Thanks!

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Re: [users] [moderated]

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:11 -0400, Jackie_in_the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> How do I install SunJVM or Scripting of Java applets

If you do not have Java installed already, go to:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp and take the
"Download JRE 5.0 Update 6" link (Note: JRE not JDK). Follow the
download instructions and when the download is complete, double click on
the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

To register Java with OOo (OpenOffice.org) open an OOo component
(eg. Writer) then from the menu select
"Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Java" tick the "Use a Java
Runtime Environment" box (if not already ticked) and wait (may take
10-15 seconds) until your version of Java appears in the box. Click OK
and your done.

Hope this helps.

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Re: [users] Goldmine software compatibility

[Keith Bates]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:02:23 +0200
"Kris Romans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if Golmine software is compatible with Openoffice
> TEXT. I'm starting a business and find open office a great tool and
> free but I also need to have my sales guy use goldmine. I was told
> that it may not work with OO.org.
> 
> Thanks for the reply..I'd hate to give Bill another $800 for two sets
> of MS Office!
> 
> Kris  
> 
Well it's free to download and test it. You're not going to lose out
any by giving it a go. :-)

You might like to update the list on what you find out.

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Re: [users] Need some help

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:56 -0700, Alexi Sanders wrote:
> Hello. 
> 
> I have been using Open Office for some time, but had to reinstall it
> recently and now am not happy with the text part of the program and I
> do not want it to be my default any longer. Not only is it EXTREMELY
> slow to open up, but I do not like the default options and have been
> unable to change them, ie stop it from completing my words before they
> are typed. 
> 
> So my question is how do I turn it off from being my default text
> program?
> 
> Thank you, 
> Alexa Sanders

If you didn't want OOo (OpenOffice.org) Writer to be the default program
for your (assume Word docs), you should not have ticked the check boxes
to make it the default during installation.

To change the Windows file associations, follow the instructions given
here: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS

The following is an extract from the OOo help:

Switching off the word completion
1. Choose Tools - AutoCorrect - Word Completion.
2. Clear Enable word completion.

Hope this helps.

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[users] Re: Reveal Codes

[klaus schmirler]

Rod Engelsman wrote:


Direct formatting with Wordperfect-style tokens is like typing with the 
Shift key. You're typing along and then you hit the Caps-lock key and 
that tells the machine to create upper-case letters until you release 
the Caps-lock and then you are creating lower-case letters again.


On the other hand, Styles are like a control panel full of buttons, 
knobs, and switches and a particular style is just a snapshot of the 
position of all those controls. Every paragraph has a style associated 
with it and that style completely describes the formatting for that 
paragraph. Similarly, every character has a style as well. 


I appreciate your efforts trying to explain the difference - and making 
a comment re further ahead in the discussion, I can very well imagine 
e.g. a tree opening from the context menu, starting with the names of 
page, paragraph, character &c. styles and then branching out to the 
nitty gritty, as long as it shows _everything_.



But from your description, I would expect the opposite behaviour of WP 
and OOo in this experiment:


Write two lines of anything, bolden one of them (whether by defining a 
character style or with the button up on the menu doesn't make a 
difference). Now select a couple of letters from one line; push them 
into the other. And vice versa.


Wordperfect behaves symmetrically: the new letters in the normal line 
are bold, and the new letters in the bold line are normal. In OOo, both 
end up bold, which tells me that only Bold is an attribute, and that 
there is simply nothing set in the normal line: not every character has 
the full set of attributes.


My thinking or OOo's way of working, which is wrong?

klaus

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Re: [users] Separate Program Download

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:24 -0500, The Arling & Mehrhoff Team wrote:
> To Whom it May Concern,
> 
> Is there an option to only download, let's say only 1 or 2 of the
> programs instead of the whole suite?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Megan

No, there is no such option, because OOo (OpenOffice.org) is not
structured as a group of separate programs. The individual components
(eg. Writer, Calc, etc.) are built around a large common core.

Using the "Custom Install" option you can can choose not to install one
or more components, but the space savings are minimal.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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Re: [users] Spreadsheet 'Help"

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 15:02 -0700, Andrew Nickerson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I am in the spreadsheet and click on help it tells me it can't find the
> files. I have tried reloading the software, but it didn't help. Help works
> fine in all the other parts of OpenOffice.
> 
> Help!
> 
> Andrew Nickerson

Please upgrade to 2.0.2 which does not have this problem.
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Re: [users] Problem opening MS spreadsheet

[CPHennessy]

On Mon April 3 2006 04:24, + Dieter Hoppe wrote:
> I am using version 2.02 with Win XP pro service patch 2. One PC with
> P3/376MB mem, the other with AMD 3000/64- 1GB mem
> Today I installed OO1.1 and the same spread sheet comes up OK. I
> strongly believe it happened when upgrading from OO2.0.1 to 2.02
> Thank you again.
> Dieter Hoppe
>
> CPHennessy wrote:
> >On Thu March 30 2006 12:13, + Dieter Hoppe wrote:
> >>Hi to all,
> >>I have come across an strange problem when opening a specific MS
> >>spreadsheet. It worked fine up to about two weeks ago and I checked with
> >>the creator if he had changed anything, which he did not. There is no
> >>information in any of the help files in relation to this problem nor is
> >>it different on a complete different PC.
> >>Now the problem: The spread sheet contains 16 graphs on separate sheets
> >>and the data sheet which is linked to another document which is not
> >>needed. When I open the spreadsheet the first two graphs, the data sheet
> >>and the last graph with data shows up correctly. All other graphs in
> >>between don't show up because the columns now start from the right with
> >>'A' going to the left (see attachment). I believe this switching is the
> >>reason they don't show. I have used MS excel and saved it in different
> >>formats to no avail.
> >
> >Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using ? (2.0.2 is the latest)
> >What OS are you using ?
> >Does anyone else using OpenOffice.org have this problem ?

This sounds like a serious regression. Can you please report this in 
issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when 
you receive a confirmation email, "Login" and "File an issue" )
In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report / suggestion and 
you will also see the progress of this feature / bug report if it is 
accepted.

Please attach an example file to your bug report and also mention that it is a 
regression. This means that this problem *may* get fixed for 2.0.3.

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Re: [users] [moderated] Scanning with Lexmark X73

[CPHennessy]

Does the software which come with the scanner work ?


On Sat April 1 2006 11:56, + Kenneth Bradley wrote:
>  [ MODERATED ] 
> Yes to all your questions. Version 2.02
>
> Please excuse mistake on original email. It is a X73 Lexmark.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Ken
>
> ---Original Message---
>
> From: CPHennessy
> Date: 04/01/06 11:11:18
> To: users@openoffice.org; Kenneth Bradley
> Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Scanning with Lexmark X37
>
> On Fri March 31 2006 12:55, + Kenneth Bradley wrote:
> >  [ MODERATED ] 
> > In Writer I cannot get any image on page although programme seems to
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[users] [moderated] IS THERE A WAY?

[JOHN HOLLIDAY]

IS THERE A WAY I CAN BUY OPENOFFICE ON A DVD?? I'M IN PROCESS OF
REPAIR.. THANKS

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[users] Spreadsheet 'Help"

[Andrew Nickerson]

Hi,

When I am in the spreadsheet and click on help it tells me it can't find the
files. I have tried reloading the software, but it didn't help. Help works
fine in all the other parts of OpenOffice.

Help!

Andrew Nickerson

Re: [users] [moderated]

[Dave Barton]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 23:26 -0700, Jeff Minier wrote:
> I need to know how to use the 'clone' of Microsoft PowerPoint that I
> read about that you offer.  Help!  Thanks.

The OOo (OpenOffice.org) component you are referring to is called
"Impress", which is NOT a Powerpoint "clone". However, it can read and
write files in Microsoft's closed ppt format.

If you have some knowledge of how to use Powerpoint, it should not be
difficult for you to adapt to Impress. Lots of documentation here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org

An Impress specific guide can be found here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0501IG-QuickstartGuideForImpress.pdf

Alternative link: http://tinyurl.com/hzavw

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Re: [users] Re: [api-dev] Character cells in Calc formulas: OOo_1.1.4 v/ 2.0.1-4bpo1

[Ennio-Sr]

Hi Niklas!
* Niklas Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030406, 12:56]:
> Ennio-Sr wrote:
> >trying to read  some .sxc files with OOo_2.0.1 Calc I found they are full
> >of _#VALUE_ errors, as a consequence of formulas implying numeric and
> >non-numeric cells. AAMOF these formulas work perfectly under old 1.1.4 
> >Calc.
> >
> >Can any of you confirm this is a _feature_ of the new Calc?
> 
> Use the version from the OpenOffice.org website. There was a patch with 
> such a change (for improved Excel interoperability) that we didn't 
> integrate, exactly because it breaks old documents. If you use the 
> version that came with your Linux distribution, it might have that 
> change (and other incompatibilities).
> 

Thanks for your answer, Niklas. 
AAMOF, after getting rid of all my previous OOo versions (except 1.1.4)
and installing from the *.debs packages (obtained alien-izing the *.rpms
from 
_OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install_JRE.tar.gz_
I ended up with a brand-new OOo_2.0.2 (OOB680_m5...) that was able to,
at least, read correctly my old Calc *.sxc files: still unable to have
the keyboard-cfg (previously saved in a file) working as before, nut
this seems to be a minor issue and I may possibly re-do it.
Thanks again.
Best regards,
Ennio.


PS: I wonder where the 'patch' issue was revealed, as I didn't find any
clue before your message ... ;-)

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Re: [users] [moderated]

[Dave Barton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 00:56 -0400, J Hornback wrote:
> Hi been using since Nov. 05 and today I get Getstorage "No Comment"
> What am I doing wrong It never done this before?

This may be the answer to your problem:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/various_topics/019.html

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Re: [users] UPDATES

[Dave Barton]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 19:23 -0700, ONIT99 wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm using version 2.0. Will version 2.02 write over my version or
> merely update it? I mean will I lose all the documents I have created
> if I upgrade?
>   Thanks,
>   Emma

Version 2.0.2 will only update the program files.
The update installation will NOT remove, damage or change any documents
created with the previous 2.0 version.

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[users] OOo 2.0.2

[FIZAINE Pierre]

J'ai la version OOo 2.0 installée - je viens de recevoir le cd de la 
version 2.0.2 (pas d'adsl pour le téléchargement !!) - faut-il que je 
désinsinstalle la version précédente ou bien la mise à jour se fera 
automatiquement ? Merci d'avance de votre réponse - Fizaine


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Re: [users] I have OpenOffice 2.0 and a small problem

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Cor Nouws wrote:


Hi Linda,

Linda Karen wrote:

I have a speadsheet that I need to turn the other way.  In Microsoft 
Office they call it Portrait or Cascade and I need my spreadsheet to 
print in the other directions...cascade.




Select what needed, Copy,
and then *Paste Special*, and choose Transpone.



Or was it page-orientation that you are looking for?
Choose Format|Page tab Page and choose Landscape.

Greetings,
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Re: [users] Open Office Problem - Page numbering.

[Cor Nouws]

Hi LIndy,

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Please help me! I am a fiction writer, and I have to have my pages numbered. I 
can't, for the life of me, figure out how to number the pages. My editor is 
very specific, and the page numbers have to be in the upper right corner. 
Please, if anybody can let me know how to do this, please email me:



Choose Insert|Header|...
Place cursor in the header area.
Type two tabs.
Insert|Fields|Pagenumber

And pls ta a look in the Help on pages, numbering and so.

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Re: [users] trying to open it.

[Andrew Fisk]

When you want to take a document to school, select save as and pick  
MS word for the file format.  You could also ask the techies folks at  
your school to install NeoOffice on the Macs for for you -- It free  
and won't mess anything else up.




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On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Emm nelson-white wrote:


Hello my name is emma n-w

I have open office on my computer aat home and i did some school  
work on it and then saved it to my flash disk so i could put it on  
the school computer. It will not open the document and at school  
they have Mac computers and the have word on them which is all i  
needed really so is there any way i can so how open my school work  
on the computers at school without downloading open office?


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Re: [users] [moderated]

[Steven Cox]

Hi Melody,

You do have to download the entire thing. If you select a "Custom"  
installation, you can choose to only install Impress if you wish, but I'd  
do the entire thing, it's not a bad suite.


Impress does usually work with Powerpoint. You have to be sure and save  
your presentation as a Powerpoint (.ppt) file though, as Powerpoint can't  
read Open Office file formats, even though Open Office reads Microsoft  
very well.


I hope this helps.

Steven

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Hi,
I am sorry, but I am really confused about what I am looking for here. I  
am a masters student and am trying to write my presentation in  
powerpoint format. I don't have powerpoint on my computer. A friend told  
me about your site and said that she uses it to do powerpoint  
presentations. I was searching around and found the program Impress. Do  
I have to download the entire openoffice program, or can I just do the  
impress program separate? And am I correct in assuming that this is what  
works with powerpoint and is interchangable with it? Please let me know  
if this is correct. Thank you for your time.

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[Melody Rhodes]

Hi,
I am sorry, but I am really confused about what I am looking for here. I am a 
masters student and am trying to write my presentation in powerpoint format. I 
don't have powerpoint on my computer. A friend told me about your site and said 
that she uses it to do powerpoint presentations. I was searching around and 
found the program Impress. Do I have to download the entire openoffice program, 
or can I just do the impress program separate? And am I correct in assuming 
that this is what works with powerpoint and is interchangable with it? Please 
let me know if this is correct. Thank you for your time.
Melody

[users] Open Office Problem - Page numbering.

[lindyscribe]

Please help me! I am a fiction writer, and I have to have my pages numbered. I 
can't, for the life of me, figure out how to number the pages. My editor is 
very specific, and the page numbers have to be in the upper right corner. 
Please, if anybody can let me know how to do this, please email me:

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Re: [users] OOO 2.0.2 Writer

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On Fri March 31 2006 14:16, + Jean-Pierre MARTIN - MDBA wrote:
>  [ MODERATED ] 
> Hello
>
> I've tried 2.0.2 version and i notice a problem reading RTF documents.
> in fact no font name appers in my text font properties
> the same RTF is ok when read by MS Word 97

Did you see the same problem with 2.0.1 or 1.1.x ?

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Re: [users] thesaurus (Italian)

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On Fri March 31 2006 16:44, + Valeriano Tora wrote:
>  [ MODERATED ] ***
>
>
> Hi, I'm a professional translator (English/Italian/English), and I'm
> trying out Open Office Writer as an alternative to MS Word 2003
>
> One of the most used feature in MS Word is the synonyms check in a text
> (i.e. right click on a particular word in a text will open a cascade
> window with, amongst other formatting choices, the synonym sub-window
> with a list of synonyms for that particular word) this feature is not
> present in Open Office.
>
> Which other way can I use to open thesaurus for a synonym list of a
> particular word in an Italian language text?

Hi Valeriano,
This list is generally an English only mailing list. If you would like to 
communicate in your own language then please have a look at 
http://it.openoffice.org -> "Mailing list". The Italian community is very 
strong and I'm sure that they will have a solution for you.

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Re: [users] i have downloaded OO Tamil 1.1.4. Before installing , where do i get the tamil fonts?

[CPHennessy]

On Sat April 1 2006 15:08, + Rajarajan wrote:
>  [ MODERATED ] 
> i have downloaded open office Tamil 1.1.4.
> i want to install.
> before installing where do i get the tamil fonts to be used in open office
> tamil 1.1.4?

I', not 100% sure but you may find it in "File" -> Wizards -> Install Fonts.

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Re: [users] SDK

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On Mon April 3 2006 12:54, Mac McClain wrote:
> I downloaded and unpacked what I believe to be the Open Office SDK. I now
> have a folder called OpenOffice2.0_sdk When I open that folder I have 8
> more folders and 6 files. I don't know how to proceed. Can someone help?

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Re: [users] la correction d'orthographe

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On Mon April 3 2006 09:27, + oubiri Abdelali wrote:
> Bonjour , mon logiciel writer ne fait pas la correction d'orthographe , je
> vous prie d'accepter mes meilleurs salutations

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[users] Re: calc - trimming extremes from a data set

[RLShadow]

 
I used to do things like screening for outliers all the time, but it's been  
a couple of years. I did a quick search and I found the following description 
of  a fairly well-accepted technique for outlier detection:
 
_http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52794.html_ 
(http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52794.html) 
 
This is based on the "inner quartile range" (IQR) which is the difference  
between the top of the 3rd quartile (the 75th percentile) and the bottom of the 
 
2nd quartile (the 25th percentile). Calc does have a useful function for  
implementing this algorithm (QUARTILE). 
 
For the heck of it, I used the IQR test on the numbers you gave as an  
example. It confirmed that the value of 98 is in fact a suspected outlier; 44 
is  
just inside of the criteria for a suspected outlier.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Dick Detwiler
 
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Date:  Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:51:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: calc - trimming  extremes from a data set



How would I go about using Calc's  statistical functions to identify 
extreme values in a data set ?   e.g. in the following set, '98' is way out 
of line with the other  points.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 15 16 18 21 29 34 36 44  98

It's been longer than I'm willing to admit since I've done any  statistics 
and never had any formal instruction.  Would standard  deviation be useful 
for that?  If so, how do I find the deviation for  individual points rather 
than the avg for the whole  set?

-Lars

Re: [users] Goldmine software compatibility

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:02 +0200, Kris Romans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if Golmine software is compatible with Openoffice TEXT.
> I'm starting a business and find open office a great tool and free but I
> also need to have my sales guy use goldmine. I was told that it may not work
> with OO.org.
> 
> Thanks for the reply..I'd hate to give Bill another $800 for two sets of MS
> Office!
> 
> Kris  
> 

Goldmine is not the only datamining tool. You could try Sugar or other
similar CRM solutions.
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Re: [users] document problems

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:05 -0700, Teleki Paul wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am from Ottawa, Canada and really enjoy your product.  I have
> attached an important file which I cannot open.  I saved it in the
> last version of open office 1.9.2 (I think).  It will not open because
> of some error.
> 
> Please see what you can do for me and send it back in a format which I
> can open. 
> 
> Hope to hear from you soon.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

If you are right about the release then I think this faq item will help:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/027.html


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Re: [users] Calc Basic Problem

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Bernie,

(cc as you are not subcribed, pls keep mailings on the list)


Bernie McAuliffe wrote:


I have just installed OpenOffice 2.0,  with OS being XP. On the
toolbar there is no button for doing basic maths (multiply, add,
subtract, divide etc) and despite searching the user guides and help
files these things just don't feature.  Obviously they must be there
somewhere.  I have searched the Customize options but still there are
no symbols for these.  In Excel I always had my toolbars customized
with these but it seems with Calc it is necessary to use the keyboard
... that's a real nuisance as I use different keyboard layouts, in
different languages, on different computers. Is there a way to put
the basic maths buttons into the toolbar please?


On the Formula-bar (right on top of the sheet) there's a icon that will 
open the function-Wizard.

Right of that, is the Sum-sign.

Resolves part of your problem?

Greetings,
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Re: [users] open office writer to microsoft word

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Raymond,

Raymond Anthony wrote:


If I attached an open office writer file to an e-mail can it be opened by a 
user of microsoft wod, by clicking file and open commands only?


People that do not (yet) have OOo, you'll have to send .doc (File|Save 
as) or pdf-files (File|Export to PDF).


Greetings,
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Re: [users] Removing a checkbox from a Writer document

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Hi Laurent,

Laurent Duperval wrote:


I have another weird problem: I have a Writer document which contains a
checkbox control in it. If I click it, a check mark appears. If I click it
again, it disappears. I would like to know a couple of things:

- How did I get it in there to begin with? I tried making a form for a
Writer document earlier this week and I couldn't figure out how to do it.

- How do I remove it? I am unable to select it. When I select everything
around it (the check box is selected also) and press delete, it still
remains in the page.



Choose View|Toolbars|Form design.
There's the button Design on/of.
When it's on, you can remove the button.
Will guide you to enter the checkbox as well??

Greetings,
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Re: [users] I have OpenOffice 2.0 and a small problem

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Hi Linda,

Linda Karen wrote:


I have a speadsheet that I need to turn the other way.  In Microsoft Office 
they call it Portrait or Cascade and I need my spreadsheet to print in the 
other directions...cascade.



Select what needed, Copy,
and then *Paste Special*, and choose Transpone.

Greetings,
Cor


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[users] Re: Problem to assign page numbers to a text document

[Rod Engelsman]

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Just hit Cntl-F9. You have Writer set to display field names. FWIW, the 
document would print out okay with the actual page numbers in any case. 
Try a print preview to see!


Rod

Marc wrote:

Dear people

I possess OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 with operating system windows xp and this is
my problem: 


Unintentionally, I did an alteration in formatting my text document, and I
do not know how to undo it.
When I want to create a text document, I cannot assign the page numbers
(1,2,3 etc) anymore. Before the problem I did apply the normal procedure:
setting up a footer for the page and then I went on insert>fields>page
number (or page count) and then  it was fine. But when I apply the same
procedure now, instead of the page number(1), there is "page number" itself
standing there. 


You get me?

I am a writer and I need to get this right. Can you help me, please?

Marc





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Re: [users] Problem to assign page numbers to a text document

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Marc,

Marc wrote:


procedure now, instead of the page number(1), there is "page number" itself
standing there. 


Type Ctrl-F9, or choose View|Field names.

Greetings,
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[users] Re: calc - trimming extremes from a data set

[Rod Engelsman]

Lars D. Noodén wrote:
How would I go about using Calc's statistical functions to identify 
extreme values in a data set ?  e.g. in the following set, '98' is way 
out of line with the other points.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 15 16 18 21 29 34 36 44 98

It's been longer than I'm willing to admit since I've done any 
statistics and never had any formal instruction.  Would standard 
deviation be useful for that?  If so, how do I find the deviation for 
individual points rather than the avg for the whole set?


-Lars

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Depends on what statistics you're trying to glean. There is a function 
called trimmean() that lops off the bottom and top 5% of values before 
calculating a mean. Also, in general, sometimes the median (the middle 
value when the values are ranked) can be a more useful indicator of 
central tendency than a straight mean. Economists use that a lot to keep 
somebody like Bill Gates or John Rockefeller from screwing up the 
average when looking at incomes or wealth.


Hmmm... reading your post again, I'm not exactly sure I understand what 
you are asking. Do you want to calculate statistics in such a way that 
the oddball values don't skew the results or are you looking for a way 
to find the oddball values themselves to pinpoint anomalies?


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[users] Need some help

[Alexi Sanders]

Hello. 

I have been using Open Office for some time, but had to reinstall it recently 
and now am not happy with the text part of the program and I do not want it to 
be my default any longer. Not only is it EXTREMELY slow to open up, but I do 
not like the default options and have been unable to change them, ie stop it 
from completing my words before they are typed. 

So my question is how do I turn it off from being my default text program?

Thank you, 
Alexa Sanders 

[users] Separate Program Download

[The Arling & Mehrhoff Team]

To Whom it May Concern,

Is there an option to only download, let's say only 1 or 2 of the programs
instead of the whole suite?

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Re: [users] Clip Art

[KAMI]

Edi Puspa írta:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm really enjoy working with OOo 2.0.1. I'm an computer instructor at a
junior high school in Batam, Indonesia. Starting 2005 we have been using OOo
replace Microsoft Office XP.

Generally OOo 2.0.1 is excellent even better than Microsoft Office.
Unfortunately OOo 2.0.1 is poor in Clip Arts or pictures features. We hope
for the next update OOo enriches with more clip arts like Microsoft Office.

Thank you very much...

This World is Open Source...

Best Regards,

www.freewebs.com/edipuspa

  
And If you want something fantastic :o) You might download 
OpenOffice.org Premium.


Here is a little information about it:

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OpenOffice.org Premium is a free and open source enhancement of official 
OpenOffice.org. The Hungarian Native Language Team has modified the 
source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it. Here are 
just a few of the extras you get with OpenOffice.org Premium:



* Clip Art (currently more than 2,400 objects)

* Templates (number varies by language)

* Samples (number varies by language)

* Documentation (if available)

* Fonts (more than 90 fonts)


OpenOffice.org Premium is based on the latest and greatest version of 
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Current language versions:

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Current platforms:

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The modified source code can be downloaded here:

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[users] open office writer to microsoft word

[Raymond Anthony]

If I attached an open office writer file to an e-mail can it be opened by a 
user of microsoft wod, by clicking file and open commands only?

[users] I have OpenOffice 2.0 and a small problem

[Linda Karen]

Hi,

I am using version 2.0

I have a speadsheet that I need to turn the other way.  In Microsoft Office 
they call it Portrait or Cascade and I need my spreadsheet to print in the 
other directions...cascade.

Please advise how to make this happen.

Linda Gersic
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[users] Goldmine software compatibility

[Kris Romans]

Hi,

Does anyone know if Golmine software is compatible with Openoffice TEXT.
I'm starting a business and find open office a great tool and free but I
also need to have my sales guy use goldmine. I was told that it may not work
with OO.org.

Thanks for the reply..I'd hate to give Bill another $800 for two sets of MS
Office!

Kris  

[users] [moderated] Something like MS Outlook ?

[Arthimon]

OpenOffice is new for me. 
Is it something similar with MS Oulook ?

Regards
Arthimon

[users] Problem to assign page numbers to a text document

[Marc]

Dear people

I possess OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 with operating system windows xp and this is
my problem: 

Unintentionally, I did an alteration in formatting my text document, and I
do not know how to undo it.
When I want to create a text document, I cannot assign the page numbers
(1,2,3 etc) anymore. Before the problem I did apply the normal procedure:
setting up a footer for the page and then I went on insert>fields>page
number (or page count) and then  it was fine. But when I apply the same
procedure now, instead of the page number(1), there is "page number" itself
standing there. 

You get me?

I am a writer and I need to get this right. Can you help me, please?

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[users] la correction d'orthographe

[oubiri Abdelali]

Bonjour , mon logiciel writer ne fait pas la correction d'orthographe , je vous 
prie d'accepter mes meilleurs salutations 
   


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[users] [moderated]

[Jeff Minier]

I need to know how to use the 'clone' of Microsoft PowerPoint that I read about 
that you offer.  Help!  Thanks.

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Re: [users] Clip Art

[Edi Puspa]

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your very quick respond. I have downloaded the file
at http://freshmeat.net/projects/openclipart.org/.

2006/4/1, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:26 +0700, Edi Puspa wrote:
> > Dear Sir/Madam,
> >
> > I'm really enjoy working with OOo 2.0.1. I'm an computer instructor at a
> > junior high school in Batam, Indonesia. Starting 2005 we have been using
> OOo
> > replace Microsoft Office XP.
> >
> > Generally OOo 2.0.1 is excellent even better than Microsoft Office.
> > Unfortunately OOo 2.0.1 is poor in Clip Arts or pictures features. We
> hope
> > for the next update OOo enriches with more clip arts like Microsoft
> Office.
> >
>
> Nice words.  I think that you should have a look at
> http://documentation.openoffice.org/ before you do anything else.
> Particularly the Third Party section for clipart. I think you will find
> a rather good collection. If you add the SVG import module to you
> installation the selection is even richer.
>
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[users] Calc Basic Problem

[Bernie McAuliffe]

Hi
I have just installed OpenOffice 2.0,  with OS being XP.
On the toolbar there is no button for doing basic maths (multiply, add, 
subtract, divide etc) and despite searching the user guides and help files 
these things just don't feature.  Obviously they must be there somewhere.  I 
have searched the Customize options but still there are no symbols for these.  
In Excel I always had my toolbars customized with these but it seems with Calc 
it is necessary to use the keyboard ... that's a real nuisance as I use 
different keyboard layouts, in different languages, on different computers.  
Is there a way to put the basic maths buttons into the toolbar please?
Best wishes
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[users] [moderated]

[J Hornback]

Hi been using since Nov. 05 and today I get Getstorage "No Comment" What am I 
doing wrong It never done this before?

Re: [users] Problem opening MS spreadsheet

[Dieter Hoppe]

I am using version 2.02 with Win XP pro service patch 2. One PC with 
P3/376MB mem, the other with AMD 3000/64- 1GB mem
Today I installed OO1.1 and the same spread sheet comes up OK. I 
strongly believe it happened when upgrading from OO2.0.1 to 2.02

Thank you again.
Dieter Hoppe

CPHennessy wrote:


On Thu March 30 2006 12:13, + Dieter Hoppe wrote:
 


Hi to all,
I have come across an strange problem when opening a specific MS
spreadsheet. It worked fine up to about two weeks ago and I checked with
the creator if he had changed anything, which he did not. There is no
information in any of the help files in relation to this problem nor is
it different on a complete different PC.
Now the problem: The spread sheet contains 16 graphs on separate sheets
and the data sheet which is linked to another document which is not
needed. When I open the spreadsheet the first two graphs, the data sheet
and the last graph with data shows up correctly. All other graphs in
between don't show up because the columns now start from the right with
'A' going to the left (see attachment). I believe this switching is the
reason they don't show. I have used MS excel and saved it in different
formats to no avail.
   



Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using ? (2.0.2 is the latest)
What OS are you using ?
Does anyone else using OpenOffice.org have this problem ?

Please reply to users@openoffice.org only

 

[users] document problems

[Teleki Paul]

Hello,I am from Ottawa, Canada and really enjoy your product.  I have attached an important file which I cannot open.  I saved it in the last version of open office 1.9.2 (I think).  It will not open because of some error.Please see what you can do for me and send it back in a format which I can open. Hope to hear from you soon.Paul
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[users] UPDATES

[ONIT99]

Hi,
  I'm using version 2.0. Will version 2.02 write over my version or merely 
update it? I mean will I lose all the documents I have created if I upgrade?
  Thanks,
  Emma


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[users] Can't install version 2.0.2

[Ken Sebryk]

I had version 1.988 on my computer.
I used windows remove programs utility and removed this program.
I then tried to install version 2.0.2.
The installer got to the part where it could not find 
"openoffice1988.mrl" and stopped.

No matter what I did I still cannot get the new program loaded!
I even went back to system restore for an earlier date and saw that 
1.988 was installed again

but the new installer won't go past the error report.
HELP!

Ken Sebryk

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[users] trying to open it.

[Emm nelson-white]

Hello my name is emma n-w

I have open office on my computer aat home and i did some school work on it 
and then saved it to my flash disk so i could put it on the school computer. 
It will not open the document and at school they have Mac computers and the 
have word on them which is all i needed really so is there any way i can so 
how open my school work on the computers at school without downloading open 
office?


From
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[users] swriter spellcheck and date default setting

[Michael Pott]

Sorry

Spellcheck problem solved.

Default date format remains an issue.

Thank you

Michael Pott

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[users] swriter spellcheck and date default setting

[Michael Pott]

Hello:

I have recently installed open office 2.0.2 and found that I was unable
to implement the spellcheck or thesaurus function.  When the icon is
activated to check a word it simply comes up and the dialog box says
"Spellcheck Complete".  All boxes in the dialog box show up as empty.
Following the Tools>Options>WritersAids settings makes no difference.
As well all the required dictionaries are installed. It works fine in scalc.

In addition I have not been able to change the default date format from
say 4/2/06 to April 2, 2006.  I have however written a macro that will
do so but  as far as I can tell that should not have been necessary.  MS
Office allows you to select the default format from a relatively lengthy
list of options.

If you have any ideas on how to fix these issues I would certainly
appreciate it.

Thank you for your courtesy.

Michael Pott

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[users] calc - trimming extremes from a data set

[Lars D . Noodén]

How would I go about using Calc's statistical functions to identify 
extreme values in a data set ?  e.g. in the following set, '98' is way out 
of line with the other points.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 15 16 18 21 29 34 36 44 98

It's been longer than I'm willing to admit since I've done any statistics 
and never had any formal instruction.  Would standard deviation be useful 
for that?  If so, how do I find the deviation for individual points rather 
than the avg for the whole set?


-Lars

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Re: [users] OO again blows away MS

[Gregory Forster]

Grant it. As a text saved as a pdf, but saving a picture saved in pdf is not 
that easy to edit, especially pictures of documents. 
   
  Greg

"web.kracked" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  The only way I know to make the file uneditable
is to use Acrobat Professional or maybe try to find
a password adding program. If you give the file a 
password to be entered for edit, then do not give
the password to anyone.


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> When you first scan it into OpenOffice, it scans as a
> picture. You can add text to the document and save it
> as a pdf. When you scan original documents, you don't
> want them to be editable, or at least very difficult. 
> Much as photographs from a film camera with negatives
> is permissable in court as evidence. However,
> pictures from a digital camera are not. 
> 
> If I scan a clients divorce decree and save it as a
> pdf, I don't want it to be easily editable, however,
> still accessible.
> 
> Greg
> 
> --- Chad Smith wrote:
> 
>> But is it text (editable / copyable) - or just a big
>> picture?
>> 
>> On 3/31/06, Gregory Forster
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I use OpenOffice 2.0.2 on my business computer at
>> my home office. During
>> > this time of year, I am also an employee and have
>> another office which has
>> > MSO 2003 on that computer. My boss uses another
>> program (which he paid
>> > dearly for) to scan documents into pdf files for
>> clients.
>> >
>> > At my home office, I can scan the same type
>> documents directly into OO
>> > Writer, then save them as pdf files. I tried it,
>> and it works slick!
>> >
>> > Go into OO Writer. Put your document in your
>> printer. In OO, click
>> > Insert/Picture/Scan. First make sure the right
>> scan driver is
>> > selected. Then scan the document. It pops right
>> in OpenOffice
>> > Writer. Then click the pdf icon to save it as a
>> pdf file.
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> http://www.gimpshop.net/
>> http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/
>> Because everyone loves free software!
>> http://www.chadwsmith.com/
>> Because, admit it, you've got nothing better to do
>> right now...
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[users] Removing a checkbox from a Writer document

[Laurent Duperval]

Hi,

I have another weird problem: I have a Writer document which contains a
checkbox control in it. If I click it, a check mark appears. If I click it
again, it disappears. I would like to know a couple of things:

- How did I get it in there to begin with? I tried making a form for a
Writer document earlier this week and I couldn't figure out how to do it.

- How do I remove it? I am unable to select it. When I select everything
around it (the check box is selected also) and press delete, it still
remains in the page.

Help!

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[users] Re: OO again blows away MS

[Rod Engelsman]

Chad Smith wrote:

So I still don't see how this is any different than MS Office.  You can scan
something and have it go into MS Word.  And there are plenty of free "Print
to PDF" program out there.  It's true that MS O doesn't come with any PDF
stuff - and it's good that OOo does - but I wouldnt say that being able to
scan something "blows MS away".

What am I missing?



I'll tell you what does work better in OOo than MSO in this regard. I 
have had occasion to do this, so I know.


Using Draw you can create a multiple page document out of scans and then 
print it all out as a single document. I've used this to fax stuff when 
all I had was a single-sheet flatbed scanner (print to fax-modem). You 
could use the same technique to create a multi-page pdf out of several 
scanned documents.


Now maybe you could do the same thing in Word, but it seems more 
straight-forward using Draw because it is designed from the outset to 
deal with images so you don't have to screw around with page margins and 
such.


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[users] Re: Lotus-Smartsuite-Files

[Andrew Brown]

Peter Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
online.de:

> I'm using Open Office Org 2.0 with Windows and Linux. Before I used 
> Lotus Smartsuite with Windows. Can you tell me if there exists any 
> import filters for importing Lotus-1-2-3, Lotus-Freelance and 
> Lotus-Wordpro files into Open Office Org. If there exists any would you 
> please tell me where I can find them.
> 

Yes, but you have to pay for them: Star office, Sun's own version of 
OpenOffice, comes with filters for lots of old Lutus formats. It is not 
expensive, but the filters only work on Windows, which I assume you're 
using, since you have all these Smartsuite cdocuments in the first place. 


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Re: [users] OO again blows away MS

[Chad Smith]

So I still don't see how this is any different than MS Office.  You can scan
something and have it go into MS Word.  And there are plenty of free "Print
to PDF" program out there.  It's true that MS O doesn't come with any PDF
stuff - and it's good that OOo does - but I wouldnt say that being able to
scan something "blows MS away".

What am I missing?

On 3/31/06, Gregory Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I use OpenOffice 2.0.2 on my business computer at my home office.  During
> this time of year, I am also an employee and have another office which has
> MSO 2003 on that computer.  My boss uses another program (which he paid
> dearly for) to scan documents into pdf files for clients.
>
>   At my home office, I can scan the same type documents directly into OO
> Writer, then save them as pdf files. I tried it, and it works slick!
>
>   Go into OO Writer.  Put your document in your printer.  In OO, click
> Insert/Picture/Scan. First make sure the right scan driver is
> selected.  Then scan the document.  It pops right in OpenOffice
> Writer.  Then click the pdf icon to save it as a pdf file.
>
>   Greg
>
>
>
>


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Rod Engelsman]

Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:
It's even worse than that with gmane. They're just broken and judging from 
your other post they have no intention of fixing it.




Who is "they" ? Gmane ? Lars ? Mozilla ?

Gmane only mirrors the OO mailing lists. X-Gmane-Expiry tag is added because 
of OO mailing lists' administrator.





Gmane is broken apparently. If you subcribe to a group and tell it to 
download all headers you get thousands of headers for posts going back 
years. But any article older than a couple weeks is expired. So Gmane is 
broken for keeping all those headers for expired articles.


And I'm not sure, but TB may also be broken because I've never seen that 
"Click Here to Remove All Expired Articles" thing work the way I expect 
it to work.


As far as I know, Lars is doing fine :)

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

>
> It's even worse than that with gmane. They're just broken and judging from 
> your other post they have no intention of fixing it.
>

Who is "they" ? Gmane ? Lars ? Mozilla ?

Gmane only mirrors the OO mailing lists. X-Gmane-Expiry tag is added because 
of OO mailing lists' administrator.

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 15:04 UK Time, Rod Engelsman wrote:

Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:
Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the 
properties of

g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than [7]
days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove expired
article."


You've never noticed this problem becuse we are taking about 2 different
things.

A few word of explanation. There are newsserver that remove messages 
on the

server side, for example MS msnews.microsoft.com keeps 60 days. After 60
days the MS newsserverremoves the expired message and notifies the
newsreader to remove the same message from the local base. IBM newsserver
news.software.ibm.com keeps 500 days. An some newservers are set to 
keep all

messages the while life.

When you set "Delete messages more than [7] days old" in Thunderbird, it
removes messages 7 days old only from the local base. But there is no 
real

synchronization between the newsserver and the newsreader.



It's even worse than that with gmane. They're just broken and judging 
from your other post they have no intention of fixing it.


 From what I can tell, they keep about 14 days worth of posts on their 
server. The problem is that they keep _all_ their old headers active. So 
just tell TB to delete all posts older than 14 days. If you really want 
older posts than that, then:


1. Subscribe, download the newest 500 or so posts.
2. Set TB to delete posts older than 14 days.
3. Shut down and restart. This will get rid of the older "empty" posts.
4. Now set TB to never delete old posts (or whatever time span you wish) 
*and* to download posts for offline use.


Basically, you just create your own local mirror.



Hi Rod,

thanks for your detailed advice.

I keep my own local mirror for the secure Mozilla support groups (which 
aren't archived online), but since the OOo newsgroup archives are 
searchable online, I don't necessarily want to create my own local 
mirror, and I am happy with the workaround of setting a retention time 
limit in Thunderbird, although in the long term it would, of course, be 
nice if the problem could be fixed at the Gmane end.


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Rod Engelsman]

Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:

Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the properties of
g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than [7]
days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove expired
article."


You've never noticed this problem becuse we are taking about 2 different
things.

A few word of explanation. There are newsserver that remove messages on the
server side, for example MS msnews.microsoft.com keeps 60 days. After 60
days the MS newsserverremoves the expired message and notifies the
newsreader to remove the same message from the local base. IBM newsserver
news.software.ibm.com keeps 500 days. An some newservers are set to keep all
messages the while life.

When you set "Delete messages more than [7] days old" in Thunderbird, it
removes messages 7 days old only from the local base. But there is no real
synchronization between the newsserver and the newsreader.



It's even worse than that with gmane. They're just broken and judging 
from your other post they have no intention of fixing it.


From what I can tell, they keep about 14 days worth of posts on their 
server. The problem is that they keep _all_ their old headers active. So 
just tell TB to delete all posts older than 14 days. If you really want 
older posts than that, then:


1. Subscribe, download the newest 500 or so posts.
2. Set TB to delete posts older than 14 days.
3. Shut down and restart. This will get rid of the older "empty" posts.
4. Now set TB to never delete old posts (or whatever time span you wish) 
*and* to download posts for offline use.


Basically, you just create your own local mirror.

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 14:18 UK Time, Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:
I use Thunderbird and I'm not sure whay you mean by resetting - even if I 
unsubscribe and resubscribe to OOogroups, the massive index files are 
automatically recreated. This is quite a nuisance really.




In OE you can right-click on the group, choose "Local file tab" and click 
"Reset" button. All messages are removed and next time you open the group, 
only limited number (default is 300) of headers is downloaded. As far as I 
remember there is no GUI to do the same in Thunderbird. You have to 
unsubcribe / resubscribe. Why it downloads all header, I don't know. I'm not 
an expert in Thunderbird. Once I tried Thunderbird but I can't accept how it 
handles expired messages so I removed Thunderbird from my disk. Thunderbird 
as *a newsreader is* useless for me.




Apart from the minor issue we have discussed here (which would appear 
not to be Thunderbird's fault), Thunderbird works very well for me as a 
newsreader, and I find it far from useless - on the contrary!


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 14:22 UK Time, Jallan wrote:

Herbert Eppel wrote:

On 03.04.2006 05:14 UK Time, Rod Engelsman wrote:

Herbert Eppel wrote:





Am I the only person with this problem?



No, you aren't alone. I have never been able to get the "remove 
expired article" thing to work either.


You might try running "Compact Folders" and if that doesn't help, 
exit TB completely, delete the .msf file and restart.


Thanks, I tried all that, but sadly the massive .msf file is simply 
recreated :-(


I don't think it is a Thunderbird problem, because it works alright 
with  other newsgroups, and as I said, one of the Mozilla Champion 
confirmed that it appears to be a particular issue with the OOo 
newsgroups (or possibly the gmane server).


It is turning into a little more than just a minor annoyance - any 
further comments?


Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the properties 
of g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than 
[7] days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove 
expired article."


Splendid, setting a retention time limit in Thunderbird works as a 
workaround - thanks a lot! Why didn't I think of it myself? :-[


By the way, it isn't odd that you don't see an option to "Remove expired 
article", because it only shows, for expired articles. With your 7-day 
time limit, Thunderbird removes articles before they expire, which is 
why you don't see it :-)


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Re: [users] Re: Bullets problems

[J. Magalhães Cruz]

Dizia Laurent Duperval em Segunda 03 Abril 2006 13:19:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:28:59 -0400, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> > Both tabs and Increase Indent show the same behaviour.
>
> Ok, in the end, I decided to go through my document and insert styles
> because it became much easier than trying to figure out what the problem
> was.
>
> L

One point to the people in favor of styles! :-) ;-) 

I am also in favor of styles, but the problem you described had no need for 
them, and exactly reveals an issue that I tried to raise some time ago:
 
"Why are list/numbering formatting and styles separated from paragraph 
formatting and styles?"

Your problem was that "bullet/list formatting" _interferes_ with "paragraph 
formatting", and there is no _easy_ way to handle them separately!

(ok!, I am not trying to start a flame war... My issue with OOo -or 
staroffice- which I have been using for more than 5 years now, but with which 
I have never grown satisfied, is just this:
 «If the usage of a GUI needs much explanation - such as frequent consultation 
of "help docs" - it is not a very good GUY at all.»)

josé


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

> Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the properties of
> g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than [7]
> days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove expired
> article."

You've never noticed this problem becuse we are taking about 2 different
things.

A few word of explanation. There are newsserver that remove messages on the
server side, for example MS msnews.microsoft.com keeps 60 days. After 60
days the MS newsserverremoves the expired message and notifies the
newsreader to remove the same message from the local base. IBM newsserver
news.software.ibm.com keeps 500 days. An some newservers are set to keep all
messages the while life.

When you set "Delete messages more than [7] days old" in Thunderbird, it
removes messages 7 days old only from the local base. But there is no real
synchronization between the newsserver and the newsreader.

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Jallan]

Herbert Eppel wrote:

On 03.04.2006 05:14 UK Time, Rod Engelsman wrote:

Herbert Eppel wrote:





Am I the only person with this problem?



No, you aren't alone. I have never been able to get the "remove 
expired article" thing to work either.


You might try running "Compact Folders" and if that doesn't help, exit 
TB completely, delete the .msf file and restart.


Thanks, I tried all that, but sadly the massive .msf file is simply 
recreated :-(


I don't think it is a Thunderbird problem, because it works alright with 
 other newsgroups, and as I said, one of the Mozilla Champion confirmed 
that it appears to be a particular issue with the OOo newsgroups (or 
possibly the gmane server).


It is turning into a little more than just a minor annoyance - any 
further comments?


Personally, I've never noticed this problem, as I've set the properties 
of g.c.o. questions under news.gmaine,org to "Delete messages more than 
[7] days old", which works. Oddly, I don't find any option "Remove 
expired article."


Jallan




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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

>
> I use Thunderbird and I'm not sure whay you mean by resetting - even if I 
> unsubscribe and resubscribe to OOogroups, the massive index files are 
> automatically recreated. This is quite a nuisance really.
>

In OE you can right-click on the group, choose "Local file tab" and click 
"Reset" button. All messages are removed and next time you open the group, 
only limited number (default is 300) of headers is downloaded. As far as I 
remember there is no GUI to do the same in Thunderbird. You have to 
unsubcribe / resubscribe. Why it downloads all header, I don't know. I'm not 
an expert in Thunderbird. Once I tried Thunderbird but I can't accept how it 
handles expired messages so I removed Thunderbird from my disk. Thunderbird 
as *a newsreader is* useless for me.

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 13:52 UK Time, Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:

I'm not subscribed to gmane.discuss - are you able to provide a link to
Lars's explanation?


Sure. But what a problem to subcribe to gmane.discuss group in the
newsreader ? gmane.discuss is placed on the same server as OO groups:
news.gmane.org.

The link is:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/7760


Thank you - I'm not sure I understand the explanation though.




Is the problem likely to be resolved at some stage?



No, I'm afraid. In OE from time to time I reset OO groups.



I use Thunderbird and I'm not sure whay you mean by resetting - even if 
I unsubscribe and resubscribe to OOogroups, the massive index files are 
automatically recreated. This is quite a nuisance really.


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

> I'm not subscribed to gmane.discuss - are you able to provide a link to
> Lars's explanation?

Sure. But what a problem to subcribe to gmane.discuss group in the
newsreader ? gmane.discuss is placed on the same server as OO groups:
news.gmane.org.

The link is:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/7760

> Is the problem likely to be resolved at some stage?
>

No, I'm afraid. In OE from time to time I reset OO groups.

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 13:14 UK Time, Frits van der Vorst wrote:

Herbert Eppel wrote:

On 30.03.2006 06:51 UK Time, Herbert Eppel wrote:
The message count indicated by Thunderbird for 
gmane.comp.openoffice.questions is more than 65,000.


Most of the 'articles' are expired.

When I click on "Click here to remove all expired articles" at the 
bottom of a message that has expired, Thunderbird thinks about for a 
couple of seconds, but nothing actually happens, i.e. the message 
count remains the same.


This isn't really a big problem, but it is nevertheless somewhat 
inconvenient, because my Thunderbird index file 
(gmane.comp.openoffice.questions.msf) has grown to more than 20 MB, 
which makes this group relatively slow to load/display.


A Mozilla Champion has confirmed that this appear to be a particular 
issue with the OOo newsgroups (or possibly the gmane server), 
although the outcome of the discussion was not conclusive when I 
brought the issue up a while ago at mozilla.support.thunderbird


Any comments/suggestions?



Am I the only person with this problem?

A suggestion that works for me is to mark the messages of the openoffice 
list as Junk mail (sorry it's just a way to avoid the problem no 
offence) and to store them in their own Junk mail directory (See Junk 
mail settings in Thunderbird). No you can set the settings for the 
complete directory. Hope this works for you.


Hi Frits,

thanks for your suggestion, but I'm following this forum in newsgroup 
mode, not mail mode, and the Junk function only works for mail.


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Re: [users] Instalation of open office

[Andrew Fisk]

If you have not already done so, you need to install X11 from your OS  
X install DVD.



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On Apr 1, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Matt Embleton wrote:

Hi guys, I have a new Mac Book Pro (the new intel Mac) have  
downloaded the US version but when i click on the icon it doesn't  
install.  Could someone help me with this please or when is the  
release for a version that will be compatible? As currently i have  
to rely on my Windows pc instead.  As i think the the Microsoft  
version for Mac's is a rip off


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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Herbert Eppel]

On 03.04.2006 13:30 UK Time, Grzegorz Wiktorowski wrote:

The message count indicated by Thunderbird for
gmane.comp.openoffice.questions is more than 65,000.

Most of the 'articles' are expired.

When I click on "Click here to remove all expired articles" at the bottom
of a message that has expired, Thunderbird thinks about for a couple of
seconds, but nothing actually happens, i.e. the message count remains the
same.

This isn't really a big problem, but it is nevertheless somewhat
inconvenient, because my Thunderbird index file
(gmane.comp.openoffice.questions.msf) has grown to more than 20 MB, which
makes this group relatively slow to load/display.

A Mozilla Champion has confirmed that this appear to be a particular issue
with the OOo newsgroups (or possibly the gmane server), although the
outcome of the discussion was not conclusive when I brought the issue up a
while ago at mozilla.support.thunderbird

Any comments/suggestions?




I use OE 6 and see the same behaviour. The problem is how Gmane newsserver
keeps expired messages. Your post has a tag:

X-Gmane-Expiry: 2006-04-13

That means that the message body will be removed in 2 weeks. But message
header is still on Gmane server. FYI I asked about the issue in
gmane.discuss in the thread "X-No-Archive working again". You can find
Lars's explanation there.



Hi Grzegorz,

thanks for confirming that it is a Gmane newsserver problem.

I'm not subscribed to gmane.discuss - are you able to provide a link to 
Lars's explanation?


Is the problem likely to be resolved at some stage?

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[users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

> The message count indicated by Thunderbird for
> gmane.comp.openoffice.questions is more than 65,000.
>
> Most of the 'articles' are expired.
>
> When I click on "Click here to remove all expired articles" at the bottom
> of a message that has expired, Thunderbird thinks about for a couple of
> seconds, but nothing actually happens, i.e. the message count remains the
> same.
>
> This isn't really a big problem, but it is nevertheless somewhat
> inconvenient, because my Thunderbird index file
> (gmane.comp.openoffice.questions.msf) has grown to more than 20 MB, which
> makes this group relatively slow to load/display.
>
> A Mozilla Champion has confirmed that this appear to be a particular issue
> with the OOo newsgroups (or possibly the gmane server), although the
> outcome of the discussion was not conclusive when I brought the issue up a
> while ago at mozilla.support.thunderbird
>
> Any comments/suggestions?
>


I use OE 6 and see the same behaviour. The problem is how Gmane newsserver
keeps expired messages. Your post has a tag:

X-Gmane-Expiry: 2006-04-13

That means that the message body will be removed in 2 weeks. But message
header is still on Gmane server. FYI I asked about the issue in
gmane.discuss in the thread "X-No-Archive working again". You can find
Lars's explanation there.

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[users] Re: Bullets problems

[Laurent Duperval]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:28:59 -0400, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Both tabs and Increase Indent show the same behaviour.
> 

Ok, in the end, I decided to go through my document and insert styles
because it became much easier than trying to figure out what the problem
was.

L

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Re: [users] Selecting text vertically

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:52 +0900, Dann and Miyako wrote:
> Hello.  I'm a reasonably new user of Open Office and a brand-new member of
> this list.  I have the following question:
> 
> How does one go about selecting text in a vertically oriented block?
> Specifically, I'm opening some old text files which all contain a bunch of
> space separated data.  I'd like to delete the first 20 characters of each
> line of data.  I can't seem to find the correct key sequence for performing
> that operation.  In MSWord, I use Alt-N along with the mouse, but that
> doesn't work here.  Help, please.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Dann,

I suggest using the regular expression feature of Find and Replace.
Simply highlight the text you wish to manipulate and put the regex in
the Find field and nothing is the Replace field and either use Replace
All or manually use Find and Replace sequentially to get the job done.
Use of regular expressions is in Help and in 
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf

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Re: [users] Re: Thunderbird doesn't remove expired articles for this newsgroup

[Frits van der Vorst]

Herbert Eppel wrote:

On 30.03.2006 06:51 UK Time, Herbert Eppel wrote:
The message count indicated by Thunderbird for 
gmane.comp.openoffice.questions is more than 65,000.


Most of the 'articles' are expired.

When I click on "Click here to remove all expired articles" at the 
bottom of a message that has expired, Thunderbird thinks about for a 
couple of seconds, but nothing actually happens, i.e. the message 
count remains the same.


This isn't really a big problem, but it is nevertheless somewhat 
inconvenient, because my Thunderbird index file 
(gmane.comp.openoffice.questions.msf) has grown to more than 20 MB, 
which makes this group relatively slow to load/display.


A Mozilla Champion has confirmed that this appear to be a particular 
issue with the OOo newsgroups (or possibly the gmane server), 
although the outcome of the discussion was not conclusive when I 
brought the issue up a while ago at mozilla.support.thunderbird


Any comments/suggestions?



Am I the only person with this problem?

A suggestion that works for me is to mark the messages of the openoffice 
list as Junk mail (sorry it's just a way to avoid the problem no 
offence) and to store them in their own Junk mail directory (See Junk 
mail settings in Thunderbird). No you can set the settings for the 
complete directory. Hope this works for you.


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Re: [users] Re: Bullets problems

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Laurent,

Laurent Duperval wrote:


Maybe -B and -C are in the same paragraph on a different line (Shift-Enter
and not Enter)?


Nope, they are different paragraphs (I can see that by using the
Non-Printing Characters button).


Using Tab in stead of Increase indent will work then.


Both tabs and Increase Indent show the same behaviour.



Hmm, I can't reproduce what you experience.
Is it a fresh document?
Which OS, OOo?

Maybe others can notice the same behaviour?

Greetings,
Cor

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