[users] Re: Calc: null toolbar that will not go away

[Kenn Goutal]

Manfred J. Krause wrote:


Please have a look at
...user\config\soffice.cfg\modules\scalc\toolbar

May be there is something like 'custom_toolbar_1.xml' ...


Sure enough!  There are:
custom_toolbar_1.xml
custom_toolbar_3.xml
formtextobjectbar.xml
standardbar.xml
The first two seem to describe two toolbars that I created for myself.
The 3rd and 4th I am guessing are my *modified* versions
of the "formtextobject" toolbar and the "standard" toolbar.

I find it interesting that there is a custom...1 and a custom...3,
but no custom...2.  Perhaps OOo is inferring that there *should* be
a custom...2, and displays it as empty, lacking any information for it.
I will investigate.

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[users] Re: Calc: null toolbar that will not go away

[Kenn Goutal]

Anthony Chilco wrote:


That's the settings for that particular (3d settings) toolbar.

> Click the picklist arrow and look for a toolbar with no name.

There is no toolbar in that list with no name.


> There are thirty-three in my list.

Yes, that's the count I have as well.


> You should see one blank line... that will be the empty, unnamed toolbar.

But, again, there is no blank line.


p.s. I tried looking for a config file by adding a toolbar and searching 
for a modified file in the install directory. No luck.


Drat!  Well, thanks for thinking of that, and trying it.  :-)

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Re: [users] Welcome message to Open Office 2.2 won't go away

[Manfred J. Krause]

Hi,

Peter Watney wrote:

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:07:31 -0700, Joe Conner  wrote:

Try killing the quickstarter (uncheck the autolaunch upon boot up).  
Sometimes this is keeping the file open and thus the changes to the 
registration do not "take."


That stops the 'Welcome' and registration happening on the next boot,
but also stops Quickstart from appearing, and on the first attempt to
use any of the OO modules, back it comes, still failing to display the
License agreement, and still asking me to accept the unshown agreement.

Whatever I then reply, Quickstart reappears with the autolaunch again
ticked.

Perhaps the only way to return to sanity is to download version 2.2
Install again, uninstall the present offender holus bolus, reinstall and
reregister.

Pain!

Peter Watney


You may try it this way (no guarantee):

Which are the values of 'Setup.xcu' in your user-directory?
[...\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Setup.xcu]

Is it similar to

  
   true
  
  
   2007-06-08T15:44:47
  
  
   true
  
?

And in FirstStartWizard you had input your name and finished the
registration dialog with 'OK'?
If you are sure, all was completed, and one of these values in 
'Setup.xcu' is 'false', rename 'false' to 'true' and restart OOo 
(closing quickstart.exe, too) ...


Manfred

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Re: [users] Welcome message to Open Office 2.2 won't go away

[Peter Watney]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:07:31 -0700, Joe Conner  wrote:

>Try killing the quickstarter (uncheck the autolaunch upon boot up).  
>Sometimes this is keeping the file open and thus the changes to the 
>registration do not "take."

That stops the 'Welcome' and registration happening on the next boot,
but also stops Quickstart from appearing, and on the first attempt to
use any of the OO modules, back it comes, still failing to display the
License agreement, and still asking me to accept the unshown agreement.

Whatever I then reply, Quickstart reappears with the autolaunch again
ticked.

Perhaps the only way to return to sanity is to download version 2.2
Install again, uninstall the present offender holus bolus, reinstall and
reregister.

Pain!

Peter Watney

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RE: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[Kirill S. Palagin]

(Some clarification in addition to all good advice you already received)

Outlook never was part of Windows, so Vista can't lack it. And this is
not because of disk space, but because it is separate product, that is
sold separately.
Outlook _Express_ was part of Windows and still is under name of Windows
Mail in Vista.

Regards,
K. Palagin

And thanks to BBC for promoting us!

> -Original Message-
> From: Alan .bonney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:52 PM
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subject: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook
> 
> Dear sir or Madam
> 
> Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have 
> searched for your site for the first time.
> 
> I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this 
> word advisedly) to Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft 
> Outlook programme that did enable me to diarize future 
> projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. Gates 
> due (I am told) because it takes up too much hard drive space?
> 
> I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and 
> I am endeavoring to resume a computer based consultancy 
> service in the UK Construction Industry. I have limited 
> search abilities - (due I have to say; to a lack of 
> confidence arising from some disastrous forays in this field) 
> Do you offer a similar programme?
> 
> Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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RE: [users] Problem with OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge

[Kirill S. Palagin]

 
Please provide sample file.
You also can join Russian-language community at 
http://community.i-rs.ru/index.php and ask for help in our forum.

Regards,
Kirill Palagin.

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> From: Адам Владимир [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:18 PM
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subject: [users] Problem with OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian 
> languadge
> 
> We use the OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge.
> We have a problem with OpenOffice.org Calc. Our problem is:  
> If the cell of the table  includes a hyperlink or an e-mail 
> address, then OpenOffice.org Calc shows not all cells data, 
> but a part of it. In the formul cell all is all right. What 
> we can do  to erase this problem?
> Thankful in advance,
> Adam Vladimir.
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Re: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[James Knott]

Alan .bonney wrote:
> Dear sir or Madam
>
> Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have searched for your site 
> for the first time.
>
> I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this word advisedly) 
> to Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft Outlook programme that did enable 
> me to diarize future projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. 
> Gates due (I am told) because it takes up
> too much hard drive space?
>
> I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and I am 
> endeavoring to resume a computer based consultancy service in the UK 
> Construction Industry. I have limited search abilities - (due I have to say; 
> to a lack of confidence arising from some disastrous forays in this field) Do 
> you offer a similar programme?
>
> Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>   
There isn't one within OpenOffice, but a good email program is Thunderbird.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird

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Re: [users] Read-Only

[Joe Conner]

Copied to Tan.

Look at the icons at the top, approximately midway under the words 
INSERT and FORMAT is an icon that resembles a ruled paper with a pencil 
on it.  Click that, and you can edit the read-only document.


If your source is a CD, then you cannot edit the document but you will 
have to "save as" and resave it to your hard disk or to a re-writable 
media if you intend to keep the modified document.


Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA

Tan Godfrey wrote:

Hi,
   
  I am using Windows XP and OpenOffice 2.2.
   
  I created a word document some time ago.  Now I need to edit it but its read-only and I can't find where to change this.
   
  Appreciate if you can help me.
   
  Thanks and Regards,

  Godfrey

   
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Re: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[Pueblo Native]

Gregory Forster wrote:
> I use Thunderbird, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/.  Thunderbird 
> integrates excellent with OpenOfffice.  However, Thunderbird does not 
> initially have a calendar.  If you need a calendar, you can either add a 
> calendar extension to Thunderbird (if you want the calendar built in.  Or, 
> you can download the standalone, "Sunbird."  I have the standalone, Sunbird. 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
>   

The extension is named Lightning, by the way.   What sunbirds and
lightning have in common I really do not know.

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Re: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[Gregory Forster]

I use Thunderbird, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/.  Thunderbird 
integrates excellent with OpenOfffice.  However, Thunderbird does not initially 
have a calendar.  If you need a calendar, you can either add a calendar 
extension to Thunderbird (if you want the calendar built in.  Or, you can 
download the standalone, "Sunbird."  I have the standalone, Sunbird. 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

Besides being an excellent database integrating with OpenOffice,  Thunderbird 
is an excellent e-mail client.

Greg

"Alan .bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear sir or Madam

Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have searched for your site 
for the first time.

I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this word advisedly) to 
Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft Outlook programme that did enable me to 
diarize future projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. Gates 
due (I am told) because it takes up
too much hard drive space?

I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and I am endeavoring 
to resume a computer based consultancy service in the UK Construction Industry. 
I have limited search abilities - (due I have to say; to a lack of confidence 
arising from some disastrous forays in this field) Do you offer a similar 
programme?

Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[Pueblo Native]

Alan .bonney wrote:
> Dear sir or Madam
>
> Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have searched for your site 
> for the first time.
>
> I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this word advisedly) 
> to Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft Outlook programme that did enable 
> me to diarize future projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. 
> Gates due (I am told) because it takes up
> too much hard drive space?
>
> I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and I am 
> endeavoring to resume a computer based consultancy service in the UK 
> Construction Industry. I have limited search abilities - (due I have to say; 
> to a lack of confidence arising from some disastrous forays in this field) Do 
> you offer a similar programme?
>
> Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>   
As of this point, OpenOffice.org does not have nor are there any plans
that I am aware of to create an Outlook equivalent.  There are numerous
reasons for this, but in any event there are suitable alternatives that
you can use that are not directly associated with OpenOffice. 
Thunderbird is one of them (you can download it here
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) and another is Evolution
depending upon your operating system (the Windows version at
http://www.go-evolution.org/Building_Evolution_on_Windows is not as
advanced).   I try to think of the lack of an outlook client as a good
thing.  After all, one of the motivations from switching from MS Office
to OpenOffice was that I was tired of the monopoly Microsoft has on the
desktop.

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Re: [users] Read-Only

[Pueblo Native]

Tan Godfrey wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I am using Windows XP and OpenOffice 2.2.
>
>   I created a word document some time ago.  Now I need to edit it but its 
> read-only and I can't find where to change this.
>
>   Appreciate if you can help me.
>
>   Thanks and Regards,
>   Godfrey
>
>
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>   

Open up the folder where the document is and right-click on its
properties.  If you see that it has been marked as read only, unmark
that and you should be able to open it up and modify it.  The other
solution is to use the "Save As. . ." menu command and change the name
slightly.  At that point, as long as the underlying directory and media
are read-write, the file should be too.

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Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.0, concern

[Pueblo Native]

andrew wilson wrote:
> I thank you in advance for your attention to this.
> After loading the OpenOffice 2.0 software that my wife purchased for
> $19.99,
> I noticed on your website that a Free download is offered.  Since the
> software
> was already opened, it was now nonreturnable to the retailer.  The
> issue may
> be obvious:
> why should I buy it if you offer your product for free?  I am more than
> willing
> to send you, the manufacturer,  the opened software along with the sales
> receipt in order to
> get my money back.  Again, I appreciate your prompt attention to this
> matter.
> Thank you,
> Andrew k. Wilson
Okay, let's go over this one step at a time.
1.  As it has been pointed out, we are not the people who actually
charged you for the product, so your concern is with the company that
sold you the product to see if you can get your money back or not.  I'd
think it's a long shot, but you always have that option.   Go back to
that store and see what they could do.
2.  There are a couple of reasons why you would pay for "free" software,
and this happens more often than you think.  OpenOffice is routinely
included on software discs distributed by magazine publishers.  In
addition, several people may not have a high speed internet connection. 
Some may be even at places where they are charged by the hour.  Given
that, it may make more sense to get a physical copy that you can load
off line than it is to rack charges up online.
Also, several companies offer "support" in addition to the physical
media and bundling.  Again, you would have to check with whomever your
wife purchased the software from to see what your support is.  Now, we
will help you on this list, but it's no more or no less than the support
we would offer anybody who downloaded the software free from our web site.
Finally, I would direct your attention to the license,
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html  Anybody is free to take the
software, copy, modify and even distribute it for charge without any
approval from the OpenOffice.org committee so long as they adhere to the
GNU Lesser General Public License.

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[users] Re: Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[John Rotomano]

Open Office does not offer a calndar,

but you can use the open source sunbird one, to be downloaded from:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/






Alan .bonney wrote:

Dear sir or Madam

Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have searched for your site 
for the first time.

I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this word advisedly) to 
Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft Outlook programme that did enable me to 
diarize future projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. Gates 
due (I am told) because it takes up
too much hard drive space?

I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and I am endeavoring 
to resume a computer based consultancy service in the UK Construction Industry. 
I have limited search abilities - (due I have to say; to a lack of confidence 
arising from some disastrous forays in this field) Do you offer a similar 
programme?

Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  


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Re: [users] Read-Only

[Richard Detwiler]

Tan Godfrey wrote:

Hi,
   
  I am using Windows XP and OpenOffice 2.2.
   
  I created a word document some time ago.  Now I need to edit it but its read-only and I can't find where to change this.
   
  Appreciate if you can help me.
   
  Thanks and Regards,
  Godfrey

  


The mysterious "read only" syndrome is at play ... I don't know the 
reason, but I've encountered this, both with my self (rarely) and with 
people whom I'm instructing. A document will be opened, and for some 
reason, it is opened as "read only".


The most certain solution that I have found is to simply do a File > 
Save As, and save it as a slightly different name as the original. Then 
you should be able to edit it.


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[users] not subscribed to the list

[Mike Distefano]

Thanks to Dave Barton and Harold Fuchs for their response to my  
question.



Mike Distefano

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[users] application not open from the server

[ZAKIA SALMAN]

Dear,

I install the open office free 2.2

on some PC's to test the open office. I found it works nice localy but when try 
to open document from the Server It does nothing, I mean it does not open. I 
try writer and calcu. I got the same, Not open.

please will you advice what to do so I can open document from the PC C: or from 
the server.

I normal use   MS Office !

Regards


Zakia Salman Ahmed 
Mohammed Jalal & Sons WLL
(Engineering & Technology Division)
P.O. Box 747
Kingdom of Bahrain
Office Tel: +973-17252606 (Ext. 227)
Office Fax: +973-17254638

[users] Equivalent to microsoft outlook

[Alan .bonney]

Dear sir or Madam

Following this mornings edition of `bbc.click` I have searched for your site 
for the first time.

I have been severely disadvantaged by an upgrade (I use this word advisedly) to 
Microsoft Vista that lacks a Microsoft Outlook programme that did enable me to 
diarize future projects actions. This facility has been abanded by Mr. Gates 
due (I am told) because it takes up
too much hard drive space?

I am 67 years of age and disabled thro. a leg amputation; and I am endeavoring 
to resume a computer based consultancy service in the UK Construction Industry. 
I have limited search abilities - (due I have to say; to a lack of confidence 
arising from some disastrous forays in this field) Do you offer a similar 
programme?

Alan Bonney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Read-Only

[Tan Godfrey]

Hi,
   
  I am using Windows XP and OpenOffice 2.2.
   
  I created a word document some time ago.  Now I need to edit it but its 
read-only and I can't find where to change this.
   
  Appreciate if you can help me.
   
  Thanks and Regards,
  Godfrey

   
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[users] [moderated]

[Kumarasamy]

Dear sir,

I had used microsoft Excel.

Now a days, I prefered to use Calc for One Concept in All Plan. 
When I press Enter Key on Hyperlinked text contained cell, the linked page will 
be Open.
and also I need more enhanced facility in Hyperlink Object.
Please do needful.



Thank You
Kumarasamy.R
Mothankal Pudur
Mathur Post
Bhavani Taluk 
Erode Dist
Tamil Nadu
India.

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.0, concern

[James Knott]

andrew wilson wrote:
> I thank you in advance for your attention to this.
> After loading the OpenOffice 2.0 software that my wife purchased for
> $19.99,
> I noticed on your website that a Free download is offered.  Since the
> software
> was already opened, it was now nonreturnable to the retailer.  The
> issue may
> be obvious:
> why should I buy it if you offer your product for free?  I am more than
> willing
> to send you, the manufacturer,  the opened software along with the sales
> receipt in order to
> get my money back.  Again, I appreciate your prompt attention to this
> matter.
> Thank you,
> Andrew k. Wilson
>
That CD your wife purchased did not come from OpenOffice.  It was
produced by someone who decided to package and sell OpenOffice.  It is
entirely legal for them to do so and they provide a service for those
who do not have broadband internet access.  You should be discussing
this with whoever the CD was purchased from.


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Re: [users] years in months

[James Lockie]

Ahromi Irawan wrote:


How about use formula
=CONCATENATE((ROUNDDOWN(25/12));".";MOD(25;12))


Thanks for the replies.

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Re: [users] Problem with OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge

[Dan Lewis]

On Saturday June  09 2007 5:44 am, Johnny Andersson wrote:
> Can you please provide us with an example file? Upload it somewhere
> (a place like http://www.yousendit.com/ will do and there are many
> alternatives as well) and give us the link. INcluding it as an
> attachment on this list may or may not work. Sometimes attachments
> are stripped off.
>
> Johnny Andersson
>
> 2007/6/8, Адам Владимир <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > We use the OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge.
> > We have a problem with OpenOffice.org Calc. Our problem is:  If
> > the cell of the table  includes a hyperlink or an e-mail address,
> > then OpenOffice.org Calc shows not all cells data, but a part of
> > it. In the formul cell all is all right. What we can do
> > to erase this problem?
> > Thankful in advance,
> > Adam Vladimir.

Copy to OP.

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Re: [users] Problem with OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge

[Johnny Andersson]

Can you please provide us with an example file? Upload it somewhere (a place
like http://www.yousendit.com/ will do and there are many alternatives as
well) and give us the link. INcluding it as an attachment on this list may
or may not work. Sometimes attachments are stripped off.

Johnny Andersson

2007/6/8, Адам Владимир <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


We use the OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge.
We have a problem with OpenOffice.org Calc. Our problem is:  If the cell
of the table  includes a hyperlink or an e-mail address,
then OpenOffice.org Calc shows not all cells data, but a part of it. In
the formul cell all is all right. What we can do
to erase this problem?
Thankful in advance,
Adam Vladimir.

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Re: [users] Email

[Johnny Andersson]

Can you please tell us more about the error message? Exactly what did it
say? Reply in English please.

Johnny Andersson

2007/6/8, hb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


-Germany-

Ich bin gerade so am herum stöbern in OpenOffice da bin ich über die
Email Funktion gestolpert (siehe Anhang) doch leider konnte ich sie
nicht nutzen obwohl ich die richtigen Daten eingegeben habe bekomme ich
nur eine Fehlermeldung. Aus der Online Hilfe ist auch nichts heraus zu
bekommen




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Re: [users] years in months

[Johnny Andersson]

2007/6/9, Dave Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


 Original Message 
From: James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2007 14:43:48 EST

> I have a spreadsheet that has a number (25) that is the number of
> months. I want to display the number of years and months, like 2.1
> (24 months=2 years and 1 month remaining).

Would =INT(A1/12)+(MOD(A1;12)/10) work for you?

Dave



That only works if your standard decimal character is set to ".". If it's
not, you can set it to "." for that cell or range of cells if you like. If
you don't want to do that, try:

=INT(A1/12)&"."&(MOD(A1;12))

This does the same thing as "=CONCATENATE((ROUNDDOWN(25/12));".";MOD(25;12))",
suggested by Ahromi, but is a bit shorter to type... (the "&" characters is
instead of CONCATENATE).

The difference between INT and ROUNDDOWN is that the INT function rounds
towards -∞ ("minus eternity", in case you can't see unicode characters
properly in your email) while ROUNDDOWN rounds towards 0 (zero). That means
that INT(-3.6) = -4 and ROUNDDOWN(-3.6) = -3.


Johnny Andersson

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.0, concern

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: andrew wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri 08 Jun 2007 11:42:33 EST

> I thank you in advance for your attention to this. After loading the
> OpenOffice 2.0 software that my wife purchased for $19.99, I noticed
> on your website that a Free download is offered.  Since the software 
> was already opened, it was now nonreturnable to the retailer.  The
> issue may be obvious: why should I buy it if you offer your product
> for free?  I am more than willing to send you, the manufacturer,  the
> opened software along with the sales receipt in order to get my money
> back.  Again, I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter. 
> Thank you, Andrew k. Wilson

Firstly, you need to understand that OOo (OpenOffice.org) is not a
company, it is a community open source software development project. For
an explanation about the general principals of "open source" see this
page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

Details about the LGPL licence under which OOo is distributed can be
found here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html which links to
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html

As you will see from this licence, anyone can freely download and
distribute the software, even sell it. In fact there is a page on the
OOo website  http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.htm which
provides links to a number of suggested "distributors" who can provide
the software on CD. This is intended as a service for those people who
have a slow or expensive Internet connection. Normally, these
"distributors" charge a nominal fee to cover cost of materials and
distribution. Some even make a small "profit", which they donate to
charity or contribute to "open source" development projects such as OOo.

From the above you will understand that the OOo project has no direct
control over who or how the software is redistributed. Ignoring the fact
that the OOo project did not receive any revenue from your purchase, no
mechanism exists by which your money could be refunded. This is an issue
you will have to pursue with the organisation/individual who sold you
the media containing this software.

It is unfortunate that you didn't search the Internet for information
about OpenOffice, before you made your purchase. As a small consolation,
you now know that the OOo software can be downloaded for free and you
will never have to pay anyone for future upgrades.

Please note: This is my own personal view on this matter and does not
represent any formal or official statement by or for the OOo project.

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[users] Re: OpenOffice 2.0, concern

[Jonathan Kaye]

andrew wilson wrote:

> I thank you in advance for your attention to this.
> After loading the OpenOffice 2.0 software that my wife purchased for
> $19.99,
> I noticed on your website that a Free download is offered.  Since the
> software
> was already opened, it was now nonreturnable to the retailer.  The issue
> may be obvious:
> why should I buy it if you offer your product for free?  I am more than
> willing
> to send you, the manufacturer,  the opened software along with the sales
> receipt in order to
> get my money back.  Again, I appreciate your prompt attention to this
> matter.
> Thank you,
> Andrew k. Wilson
Dear Andrew,
You are addressing the wrong people. "We" are not the manufacturer. We are a
group of users (with some developers) and are all volunteers. We form a
community and help eachother out. I don't think there is much that can be
done to get your money back other than by going back to the place where you
purchased it. It always worth taking a few minutes to investigate when you
are buying some software. There is a lot of stuff that is free, in all the
senses of the term. In many cases it is as good as or better than the
commercial versions.
Please remember who you are talking to here and adjust your tone
accordingly.
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Re: [users] How to search for the "TAB" character

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: Mike Distefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2007 03:02:34 EST

> How can I place the TAB character in the search box of the FIND command
> in the word processor?
> 
> Mike

Look in in the help function under "Regular Expressions" and you will
find that "\t" represents the tab character.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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Re: [users] Email

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: hb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2007 01:09:55 EST

> -Germany-
> 
> Ich bin gerade so am herum stöbern in OpenOffice da bin ich über die
> Email Funktion gestolpert (siehe Anhang) doch leider konnte ich sie
> nicht nutzen obwohl ich die richtigen Daten eingegeben habe bekomme ich
> nur eine Fehlermeldung. Aus der Online Hilfe ist auch nichts heraus zu
> bekommen

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Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2007 02:29:47 EST

> I have Win. VISTA and cannot find out how to finish the install of
> open office 2.2
> 
> Annie Lambourg

Can you please tell us how far you have gone with the install and give
more details about what you mean by "finish"? If you mean that you do
not see any icons on the desktop to start the program modules (eg.
Writer, Calc, etc.) you will not find any. Look under the "Start" menu.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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Re: [users] Problem beim Sortieren in einer Text-Tabelle

[Dave Barton]

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Subject: [users] Problem beim Sortieren in einer Text-Tabelle
From: Monika Zimmermann HP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: users@openoffice.org
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2007 06:09:52 EST

> Ich habe eine Text-Tabelle erstellt mit 4 Spalten. In der 1. Spalte
> sollen Begriffe alphabetisch sortiert werden (in den anderen Spalten
> stehen die Erklärungen dazu). Ich habe mich genau an ds Hilfeprogramm
> gehalten, aber die am Ende neu eingefügten Begriffe werden nicht in die
> richtige alphabetische Reihenfolge gebracht, sondern bleiben, wo sie sind.

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Re: [users] [moderated] open office free, it's legal for enterprise?

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: Antonio Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri 08 Jun 2007 18:19:22 EST

> Hello,
> 
> I ask for excuse in you to be to problems, but it needed to know if I can
> use, open office level enterprise ,without problems?
> 
> I intended if the use in companies of open office is legal free?
> 
> Debtor for your cooperation
> 
> Best regards  
> 
> ANTÓNIO ANTUNES

Yes it is perfectly legal to use OOo (OpenOffice.org) in companies. You
can legally make as many copies as you wish and install OOo on any
number of computers without limitation.

You can read the licence conditions here:
http://www.openoffice.org/license.html

Since your message appears to originate from a Portuguese address this
link may be of interest to you: http://ooo.paradigma.pt

Hope this helps.

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Re: [users] Installation Folder

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message 
From: Glen Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri 08 Jun 2007 22:19:11 EST

> I installed OpenOffice 2.2 yesterday.  It seems to work fine. My
> question is:  Can I now delete the OpenOffice 2.2 Installation File 
> folder that it created on my desktop?
> 
> Thank you. Glen

Yes

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[users] OpenOffice 2.0, concern

[andrew wilson]

I thank you in advance for your attention to this.
After loading the OpenOffice 2.0 software that my wife purchased for
$19.99,
I noticed on your website that a Free download is offered.  Since the
software
was already opened, it was now nonreturnable to the retailer.  The issue may
be obvious:
why should I buy it if you offer your product for free?  I am more than
willing
to send you, the manufacturer,  the opened software along with the sales
receipt in order to
get my money back.  Again, I appreciate your prompt attention to this
matter.
Thank you,
Andrew k. Wilson

Re: [users] regarding usage of openoffice

[Pradeep SP]

Since i requested is to communication between VB6 and OpenOffice Calc , i
didn't found any useful info related to my concept.I am not satisfied 

On 6/8/07, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Friday 01 June 2007, + Pradeep SP wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I want to open OpenOfficeCalc from VB.
> Is there any way to open or save content from Pl/Sql into the Calc
file.?
> Pl guide me for this.

Have a look at the http://api.openoffice.org project.

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[users] RE: OpenOffice and MSoffice

[Cliff Payne]

Russell, thank you for your prompt and helpful reply.

The download starts now!

Clifford Payne

-Original Message-
From: Russell Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:18 PM
Cc: Cliff Payne
Subject: Re: OpenOffice and MSoffice

Clifford Payne wrote:
> I was getting ready to download OpenOffice for installation on my
> home computer, as a way of test driving it prior to installing on my
> daughters new computer.  Then I thought,  are they compatible on the
> same system?  Would I have to create an OpenOffice partition or
> anything like that?
> 
> Thank you for your time and attention.
> 
> Clifford Payne

Hi Cliff

Yes, they can live together very happily on the same drive.

A couple of points:

When installing OOo you will be asked if you want it to be the default 
program for .doc, .xls etc. files. You may want to leave those boxes 
unchecked.

OOo cannot work on the docx format files of MSOffice2007, so you will 
need to use one of the earlier formats (XP, 97) if you are wanting to 
exchange documents between the programs.

HTH

Russell

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[users] XSLT to XSL-FO Filter?

[Ramon Sole]

Hello,

I'm involved in a project where we need to transform ODT files to XSL-FO.

The easiest way, AFAIK, would be to use a XSLT filter designed to do
that in OpenOffice.

I would appreciate very much any information of such a filter exists.

TIA

Best Regards,

Ramon

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[users] templates disappeared

[rfjones]

I had 2.2 running on fc6; upgraded to fc7; the upgrade installed OO2.2
and put an icon on my gnome toolbar
after the upgrade, I cannot open an odt file with either program
my old custom templates in ../user/templates are not applied to new text
documents
I still have my custom templates, but when I access
file/template/mytemplate/default and exec open, I get a dialog offering
me various templates database, chart etc but not a text doc template
what to do?
TIA
rfjones


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[users] How to search for the "TAB" character

[Mike Distefano]

How can I place the TAB character in the search box of the FIND  
command in the word processor?


Mike

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[users] Email

[hb]

-Germany-

Ich bin gerade so am herum stöbern in OpenOffice da bin ich über die
Email Funktion gestolpert (siehe Anhang) doch leider konnte ich sie
nicht nutzen obwohl ich die richtigen Daten eingegeben habe bekomme ich
nur eine Fehlermeldung. Aus der Online Hilfe ist auch nichts heraus zu
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[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

[Lambourgannie]

I have Win. VISTA and cannot findout how to finish the install of open  
office 2.2
 
Annie Lambourg



   

[users] Problem beim Sortieren in einer Text-Tabelle

[Monika Zimmermann HP]

Ich habe eine Text-Tabelle erstellt mit 4 Spalten. In der 1. Spalte 
sollen Begriffe alphabetisch sortiert werden (in den anderen Spalten 
stehen die Erklärungen dazu). Ich habe mich genau an ds Hilfeprogramm 
gehalten, aber die am Ende neu eingefügten Begriffe werden nicht in die 
richtige alphabetische Reihenfolge gebracht, sondern bleiben, wo sie sind.


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[users] [moderated] open office free, it's legal for ente rprise?

[Antonio Antunes]

Hello,

 

I ask for excuse in you to be to problems, but it needed to know if I can
use, open office level enterprise

,without problems?

 

I intended if the use in companies of open office is legal free?

 

Debtor for your cooperation

 

 

 

 

Best regards

 

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[users] Problem with OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge

[Адам Владимир]

We use the OpenOffice.org 2.1 Calc Russian languadge.
We have a problem with OpenOffice.org Calc. Our problem is:  If the cell 
of the table  includes a hyperlink or an e-mail address,
then OpenOffice.org Calc shows not all cells data, but a part of it. In 
the formul cell all is all right. What we can do

to erase this problem?
Thankful in advance, 
Adam Vladimir.


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[users] Installation Folder

[Glen Curtis]

I installed OpenOffice 2.2 yesterday.  It seems to work fine.
My question is:  Can I now delete the OpenOffice 2.2 Installation File
folder that it created on my desktop?

Thank you.
Glen

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