[users] Printing

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Dear All,

I am new in using open office. When I was using Microsoft office, I can print 2 
pages per sheet (it looks like a book).

When I was going to print. I filled out the page on printer 32,1 ---> the print 
out will be page 32 and page 1

How can I do that in Open office???

Plese Help

Rgds,
-MJ-

Re: [users] Printing

[Michael Adams]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I am new in using open office. When I was using Microsoft office, I
> can print 2 pages per sheet (it looks like a book).
> 
> When I was going to print. I filled out the page on printer 32,1 --->
> the print out will be page 32 and page 1
> 
> How can I do that in Open office???
> 

I think it is called booklet printing.

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[users] Re: Troubles installing

[Russell Butler]

Sorin Schwimmer wrote:

Harold,

I'm afraid we're not talking the same here. My issue
is about installing OpenOffice. I'm not a Java expert,
but it looks like the install is not able to use its
own packed VM, nor the one I emerged for it, and
doesn't let me do anything (the "Back" and "Next"
buttons are grayed out, only "Cancel" and "Help" are
available).

It has nothing to do with an existing OOo.

Thanks anyway for spending time to try to help me.
SxN


Hi again Sorin,

I just installed 2.4 from the OOo tarball on my system and used the 
script here:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=26173

Note that it expects to be run from / and of course the package address 
will have to be adjusted for your version


See if it helps you.

Russell

I note you are still unsubscribed, so just as well Harold and I check. 
At least you are decent enough not to send replies to personal accounts ;-)

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Re: [users] Printing

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Dear Michael

And how can  I do that??

-MJ-

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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dear All,

I am new in using open office. When I was using Microsoft office, I
can print 2 pages per sheet (it looks like a book).

When I was going to print. I filled out the page on printer 32,1 --->
the print out will be page 32 and page 1

How can I do that in Open office???



I think it is called booklet printing.

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[users] Re: modification of dictionary

[Russell Butler]

:
Hi Russell,
Thanks for the answer. Now, what you mean by 'munched'?
  1.. If you mean format of the .dic and .aff files (there are ASCII files):

Format is documented and rather easy to understand. Each basic form is in
its own line, along with several flags. So it is very easy to remove word
from .dic file. But I cannot see result of this.

2.  If you mean translating ASCII file to some internal format:

Yes, I would like to know when it is done. If after each modification I have
to reinstall dictionary again. Is it straightforward process or I need to
know something.




Regards

Kris


I am not sure of the details of the process, I have a list I am about to 
deal with, but there is lots of information here:


http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/

IIUC "munching" uses the word list and the affix list to make a usable 
dictionary under hunspell. I have done it personally only once, but the 
list runs happily (it is a medical word list). I'll have to go back to 
the hunspell documentation again.


It isn't trivial, but not a very complex task, either. It helps if you 
have access to a linux machine, though you could probably use it under 
cygwin.


I have just been having a look and there are hunspell-unmunch and 
hunspell-munch functions. I haven't used the former at all.


Searching the lingucomponent mail list archives will probably be helpful 
to you..


Russell


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Re: [users] Printing

[Harold Fuchs]

On 08/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dear Michael
>
> And how can  I do that??
>
> -MJ-


Help>Booklet Printing and/or
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Printing_a_brochure

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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Scott Meyers wrote:
...

and replace it with a different character style.  My sense is that the 
best you can do if you want to modify character style X that's been 
applied is:


  1.  Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X.
  2.  Manually go through your document looking for places where 
characters have had style X applied.  Change the text to the default, 
then apply style Y.

  3.  Delete style X and hope you didn't miss anything in step 2.

Am I overlooking a better approach?



you can search and replace styles in the Find & Replace dialog. Click 
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.


To add a style that changes text color to Red,
1. Press F11 for Styles & Formatting window
2. Click the Character Styles icon
3. Right-click the Default style and choose New
4. Enter "Red" or something as a name
5. Go to Font Effects tab and select red color.
6. Click OK.
7. See the new Red style in the list.
8. Select the text that should be painted with the Red style.
9. Double-click the Red entry in Styles & Formatting window.

Looks difficult at first sight, but once you get it it is really easy.

Uwe
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[users] problem caused by rescaling

[Bernard Beatty]

I bought an ASUS EEE last week with Open office installed. In options view I
rescaled the view from the given 80% to 100% in order for the font to be
bigger in viewing but not in printing. It all worked fine. But then I exited
the system (to get out of a Touch Typing Game) abruptly with an office
writer screen also open. When I turned the computer on again, it had a
document recovery screen but the button for start recovery was below the
edge of my screen (presumably because I had rescaled it from 80% to 100%).
As a result it freezes on this. If I try to minimise the screen, a huge
Office writer icon comes up and blocks everything and cannot be shifted. Is
there anything that can be done about this. I can't use open office or any
of the systems that depend on it as a result.
If the cause of the mistake is my rescaling, should there not be a warning
about the consequences of this in the options panel?
Bernard Beatty (Chester UK)

RE: [users] Do you have a product to replace the use of MS Outlook?

[Mario]

thanks

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On 07/04/2008 09:55, Mario wrote:
> If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like your other products
so
> it would be nice to be free of MS.
>
>
>   
No. OpenOffice does not include an e-mail client or a web browser. Many 
people who use OpenOffice also use Thunderbird for e-mail and Lightning 
for calendars. Both are free at www.mozilla.org from where you can also 
get Firefox, the free web browser that many people think knocks spots of 
Internet Explorer. OpenOffice can easily use Thunderbird's address book 
for mail merge; Thunderbird can easily import messages, address books 
etc. from Outlook or Outlook Express.


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RE: [users] Do you have a product to replace the use of MS Outlook?

[Mario]

thanks

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Mario wrote:
> If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like your other products
so
> it would be nice to be free of MS.

OpenOffice does not include an email application.  However, many people 
find Thunderbird works well, along with the Lightning calendar 
extension.  Both are available from www.mozilla.org and while you're 
there, you might also want to get Firefox, so you can stop using 
Internet Explorer.  To really be free of Microsoft, try running Linux.


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[users] adding words, names

[lotten säfström]

Hello. I am new to open office and I want to know if it is possible to add 
words and names to the auto spelling feature in the program?
Yours sincerely Lotten, Malmoe, Sweden.

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[users] I am using OpenOffice v2.1, open or import CorelDraw files

[Geoff]

Hello,

I am wondering whether any of the OpenOffice suite programs will import 
or open CorelDraw files (extention .cdr)?


I have many such files from years ago and I don't want to purchase the 
latest CorelDraw program as it is too expensive. I have looked around 
and can't see any program that will open CorelDraw files. I am not 
interested in editing such files, just opening them and perhaps printing 
them out.


Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Geoff Pelly
Bendigo Australia

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[users] "Command timed out"

[Mischa Frusztajer]

Dear Users,

Version: Open Office 2.4
OS: Leopard
Problem description: Every time I launch OO (whether directly by  
trying to launch from the dock or by clicking an appropriate  
document), X11 loads, and then I get the beach ball for 30-40 seconds,  
and an error dialog that reads "Command timed out."  I hit "OK," and  
then whatever application is appropriate launches beautifully.  I  
could really do without the 30 to 40 second delay every time.  Already  
tried re-installing.  Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance,

-Mischa

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

[Gary Goodfellow]

Are you planning a Visio like product and a Project type product?

 

Gary

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

[Karel]

How do i remove saved documents listed in the saved doucments of open office. 
thanks

[users] Date formatting in writer

[Joe Hopkins]

How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my documents with 
the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as "January 1, 2008" 
instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the date format that is 
automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.  Can I change some option to 
accomplish this?
  Thanks...
  Joe
   

[users] [moderated] Can I distribute open office with my application, because it has word document templates

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Gang,
 
I am working on a commercial product called ALogic L&H for the financial
industry.  We have included a number of .DOC, .XLS, and .PPT templates for
our customers to utilize as part of the ALogic L&H product.  Is it legal to
distribute Open Office with our program?  We make no implications whatsoever
that Open Office is our product, we just want to know if we can bundle it.
Open Office will only be installed, if they don't have at least Microsoft
Office 97 installed.  
 
Thanks,
Christian Blackburn
ALogic US

[users] Trouble with .rtf or .doc when opening in Microsoft Office

[Pak-Kei Wong]

Hello everyone,
I am using OpenOffice 2.4 (but this problem also happened in previous 
versions),  and my problem is that I can format a document very nicely using 
tables or whatever.  However, when I save it as a .doc or as a .rtf, it'll open 
fine on my computer, but when I send that file to someone, and they open it 
using Microsoft Office, they get a document with lots of pages, and each 
section of the table on a separate page.  Therefore, a document of 3 pages with 
tables and headings becomes one of 21 pages with one sentence each at the 
beginning of the page.
 
This makes things very difficult, since if I format a CV, and then I send it as 
a job application to a prospective employer, they open up a jibberish document 
and end up trashing my CV because it is not formatted properly.
 
Thanks.
 
Pak-Kei

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[users] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.4 now available

[A Schurink]

Introducing the OpenOffice.org 4 ReleaseMijne heren,

  Deze  mail ontving ik op 3 april jl. Wilt u mij svp   laten weten of hij van  
U  afkomstig is? Het bevreemdt mij, dat ik per mail een update mogelijkheid 
ontvang.
  graag verwacht ik uw commentaar.

  Met vriendelijke groet,
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Subject: OpenOffice.org 2.4 now available


 OPENOFFICE.ORG POST
 
  March 2008  

 
   
  Get the latest OpenOffice.org
  Download OpenOffice.org 2.4! 
  Download the latest version and enjoy the many new features of 
OpenOffice.org 2.4. The new chart engine introduced with OpenOffice.org 2.3 has 
been improved even further. For example, it is now possible to display the 
equations of trendlines, optimize the placing of labels, assign number formats 
to data labels, display each part of a data label in a separate line, reverse 
axes and more. In addition, OpenOffice.org can now export to PDF/A which is a 
popular ISO standard for archiving read-only documents. The enhanced extension 
framework enables extensions to automatically check for updates. Finally, 
OpenOffice.org 2.4 introduces VBA support allowing a number of existing VBA 
macros to be run unmodified. A full list of all the new features including a 
few screen shots can be found in the OpenOffice.org 2.4 Release Notes.

  Please help Sun estimate OpenOffice.org's global market share! 
  Since OpenOffice.org is available for free and can be downloaded and 
distributed by anybody, it is very difficult to reliably estimate the size of 
the OpenOffice.org user base and thus OpenOffice.org's market share. So far we 
can only guess. We have some vague numbers, but if you agree to register, you 
will help us to get more accurate numbers which can be used with skeptical 
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OpenOffice.org related tips and tricks as well as special Sun offers and 
discounts.

  Registering is very easy and straight forward. After installing 
OpenOffice.org simply agree to register when the initial startup dialog asks 
you to or go to "Help - Registration" some time later. The dialog will open a 
browser window which will introduce the OpenOffice.org survey as well as the 
Sun registration. Just follow the instructions for the Sun registration on the 
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  Add More Features - Get Extensions! 
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of the more than 70 available extensions are: 

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3.. eFax for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

4.. OxygenOffice Extras - Gallery

5.. Writer's Tools

6.. OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs

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9.. Pagination

10.. LanguageTool

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Through the add-on it is easy to find downloads, support forums, mailing lists, 
documentation, etc.

  Stuck with a problem? - Check out our forum! 
  If you don't know how to do something or if you're stuck with a 
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has already found the solution to your problem and can help you right away. If 
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solutions. Also, feel free to add your own solution to the wiki page.

  Doing a mail merge using SugarCRM data? 
  A first developer build of the OpenOffice.org Extension for SugarCRM 
has been released. The extensi

[users] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.4 now available

[A Schurink]

Introducing the OpenOffice.org 4 ReleaseDear gentlemen,

  I wonder if undermentioned mail is correct?? 
  I doubt i t, for I never got  an information about a new version by mail.
  I do not trust their e-mail address  either: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  Please let me know.
  Kind regards,
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  Subject: OpenOffice.org 2.4 now available


   OPENOFFICE.ORG POST
   
March 2008  
  
   
 
Get the latest OpenOffice.org
Download OpenOffice.org 2.4! 
Download the latest version and enjoy the many new features of 
OpenOffice.org 2.4. The new chart engine introduced with OpenOffice.org 2.3 has 
been improved even further. For example, it is now possible to display the 
equations of trendlines, optimize the placing of labels, assign number formats 
to data labels, display each part of a data label in a separate line, reverse 
axes and more. In addition, OpenOffice.org can now export to PDF/A which is a 
popular ISO standard for archiving read-only documents. The enhanced extension 
framework enables extensions to automatically check for updates. Finally, 
OpenOffice.org 2.4 introduces VBA support allowing a number of existing VBA 
macros to be run unmodified. A full list of all the new features including a 
few screen shots can be found in the OpenOffice.org 2.4 Release Notes.

Please help Sun estimate OpenOffice.org's global market share! 
Since OpenOffice.org is available for free and can be 
downloaded and distributed by anybody, it is very difficult to reliably 
estimate the size of the OpenOffice.org user base and thus OpenOffice.org's 
market share. So far we can only guess. We have some vague numbers, but if you 
agree to register, you will help us to get more accurate numbers which can be 
used with skeptical users, software and hardware vendors interested in 
supporting OpenOffice.org as well as press and analysts. People who register 
with Sun also benefit from OpenOffice.org related tips and tricks as well as 
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Registering is very easy and straight forward. After installing 
OpenOffice.org simply agree to register when the initial startup dialog asks 
you to or go to "Help - Registration" some time later. The dialog will open a 
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Sun registration. Just follow the instructions for the Sun registration on the 
web pages. Thank you very much for your support in advance! 

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of the more than 70 available extensions are: 

  1.. Professional Template Pack - English

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  3.. eFax for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

  4.. OxygenOffice Extras - Gallery

  5.. Writer's Tools

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  10.. LanguageTool

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website. Through the add-on it is easy to find downloads, support forums, 
mailing lists, documentation, etc.

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other support options.

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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[Dave Caudle]

Thanks for your recommendations.  I will keep that in mind as I install the 
package.

Regards,

Dave Caudle
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  Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine


  On 07/04/2008 18:52, M Henri Day wrote:
  > 2008/4/7 Dave Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
  >
  >   
  >> Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on
  >> a computer that already has a version of MS Office running?  MS Office 2003
  >> to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook.
  >>
  >> I'd like to take a look at some of the other parts of OpenOffice - Impress
  >> and Draw in particular - for which I don't have a comparable MS Office
  >> component installed.
  >>
  >> Thank you.
  >>
  >> Dave Caudle
  >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  >> 
  >
  >
  > In my experience, there is no problem with interference between OpenOffice
  > and MS Office on the same computer. Remember, however, that if you do not
  > wish MS Office files to be automatically opened in the corresponding
  > standard formats used in Open Office, you should refrain from ticking the
  > relevant boxes on the settings page that you see immediately after
  > installing the OOo package
  >
  > Henri
  >
  >   
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[David Jack]

Hello.
 I am trying to get power point 11.pps to open my email. Could you please tell 
me how to download this pps.
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[users] office 2007 format

[John Ferguon]

Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format 
yet?


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[users] Need clarification

[Lynnettte Edic]

Dear Sirs, 
   
  Seven times I have downloaded the 2.4 program and each time I get a message 
report that says that the files are corrupt and my HP Pavillion Notebook will 
not allow them to be loaded and used.  Mr. Ted Gangi is a personal friend of 
mine and he applauds your site.  Please advise.  
   
  Most respectfully, 
   
  Lynnette Edic 

Re: [users] problems downloading since upgrading to 2.4

[Cynthia Barnett]

James Kott wrote: 
I'm confused.  OpenOffice is an office suite that's used to work with 
various documents.  It doesn't have anything to do with downloading 
files from anywhere.  Perhaps you could provide a better description of 
exactly what you're doing and what happens.--Use OpenOffice.org 


Mr. Kott, 

Hello from Texas. :D I have used OpenOffice since version 2.1 and like it very 
much, which is why I was perplexed when it would not let me download my online 
audio books from the library (this uses a Microsoft developed program called 
Overdrive). It is an audio file that reads over Windows Media Player and 
OpenOffice continued to ask me to "choose language" offering a dialogue box 
filled with some languages I did not know existed. :) 

When I, after several tries at closing the box, chose one, it downloaded the 
text file associated with the audio file and opened it in the chosen language. 
However, it would not let me download the audio file. 

I finally found that removing OpenOffice v.2.4, reloading Overdrive, 
associating the audio file in folders, then reloading OpenOffice was effective. 
I thought to let you know about this as it may be something you had not 
encountered previously. What a "headhitter!" :D 

I do not use MSOffice, though I have the professional version. I like Open 
Office. Thank you for listening...

Sincerely, 
Cynthia Barnett


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have been if the democracies had shed their illusions that they could temporize 
with evil. -- Mortimer B. Zuckerman, "It's time to fight back", US News & World 
Report,September 7,1998
 
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06:39 AM CDT
 
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downloading since upgrading to 2.4
Cynthia Barnett wrote:
> Dear Sir or Ms.,
> I downloaded Open Office 2.4 and, since I never had problems with 2.3, was 
> surprised to find it will not let me download books(audio files) from the 
> local library. It keeps asking me which language to print them incan you 
> assist?

Re: [users] Date formatting in writer

[mike scott]

On 7 Apr 2008 at 17:56, Joe Hopkins wrote:

> How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my documents with 
> the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as "January 1, 2008" 
> instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the date format that is 
> automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.  Can I change some option to 
> accomplish this?
>   Thanks...
>   Joe
>
> 

Insert | Fields | Other... and pick what you need. Note in particular 
"additional formats" under 'date'.


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Re: [users] "Command timed out"

[ccornell - OpenOffice.org]

Mischa Frusztajer wrote:

Dear Users,

Version: Open Office 2.4
OS: Leopard
Problem description: Every time I launch OO (whether directly by trying 
to launch from the dock or by clicking an appropriate document), X11 
loads, and then I get the beach ball for 30-40 seconds, and an error 
dialog that reads "Command timed out."  I hit "OK," and then whatever 
application is appropriate launches beautifully.  I could really do 
without the 30 to 40 second delay every time.  Already tried 
re-installing.  Any suggestions?


The problem was introduced because a change in the way X11 works in OSX 
Leopard.


There is a fix described here:
http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html

You can also just launch X11 first, then launch OpenOffice.org.

This will not be a problem once the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org is 
released (because X11 will no longer be required).


There is a fair bit of discussion about this on the OpenOffice.org 
forum... for example, here:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1868&p=11352

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Re: [users] [moderated] Can I distribute open office with my application, because it has word document templates

[Richard Detwiler]

Christian Blackburn wrote:

Hi Gang,
 
I am working on a commercial product called ALogic L&H for the financial

industry.  We have included a number of .DOC, .XLS, and .PPT templates for
our customers to utilize as part of the ALogic L&H product.  Is it legal to
distribute Open Office with our program?  We make no implications whatsoever
that Open Office is our product, we just want to know if we can bundle it.
Open Office will only be installed, if they don't have at least Microsoft
Office 97 installed.  
 
Thanks,

Christian Blackburn
ALogic US


Yes, it is legal.

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Re: [users] problem caused by rescaling

[Adrian Try]

Hi Bernard

I bought an ASUS EEE last week with Open office installed.
> When I turned the computer on again, it had a
> document recovery screen but the button for start recovery was below the
> edge of my screen (presumably because I had rescaled it from 80% to 100%).


Your problem has nothing to do with  OpenOffice's zoom factor, and
everything to do with the tiny (but handy) size of the eee's screen.

If you hold down the Fn and Alt keys, you can drag the dialogue box up the
screen until you can see the buttons.

Hope this helps.

Adrian

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 alpha in same machine

[Fábio Emilio Costa]

Thanks:

I want to try OOo 3.0 Snapshot (as I made with Lotus Symphony) but I
want also to have a production OOo (2.4) running Okay, like I'm using
Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 3.0 beta 5.

PS: Sorry about my poor English.

2008/4/7, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 04/07/2008 12:19 PM, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote:
>  > Hi!
>  >
>  > It's possible to install OOo 2.4 and 3.0 snapshot in the same machine
>  > at the same time? How? I use Debian GNU/Linux.
>  >
>
>
> Yes. OOo 3.0dev will install as /opt/ooo-dev3.0 and will not interfere
>  with 2.4 or even a distro specific install.
>
>  Download the deb files from:
>
> closetoyou>/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/developer/DEV300_m3/OOo-Dev_DEV300_m3_LinuxIntel_install_deb.tar.gz>
>
>  Extract as normal and install from the DEB directory (sudo dpkg -i
>  *.deb). Then from a terminal, cd to /opt/ooo-dev3.0/program and:
>
>  ./soffice
>
>  Your user profile will be created and located at:
>
>  /home//.ooo-dev3
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Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/8, Karel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> How do i remove saved documents listed in the saved doucments of open
> office. thanks


Hello,

Removing saved documents is business of your operating system (Windows?)
However, in a save (as) dialog that lists the file you want to delete, you
can try a right-click

If you mean the list of Recently Opened Files, there is an extension that
helps you customize this list
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/histmngr

HTH
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Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 alpha in same machine

[Fábio Emilio Costa]

Sorry, but I forgot to question:

In Debian Lenny, OOo Snapshot has GNOME integration? It brokes OOo 2.4
integration? I need to know that so I could make the correct
installation of OOo Snapshot.

2008/4/8, Fábio Emilio Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks:
>
>  I want to try OOo 3.0 Snapshot (as I made with Lotus Symphony) but I
>  want also to have a production OOo (2.4) running Okay, like I'm using
>  Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 3.0 beta 5.
>
>  PS: Sorry about my poor English.
>
>  2008/4/7, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On 04/07/2008 12:19 PM, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote:
>  >  > Hi!
>  >  >
>  >  > It's possible to install OOo 2.4 and 3.0 snapshot in the same machine
>  >  > at the same time? How? I use Debian GNU/Linux.
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Yes. OOo 3.0dev will install as /opt/ooo-dev3.0 and will not interfere
>  >  with 2.4 or even a distro specific install.
>  >
>  >  Download the deb files from:
>  >>  
> closetoyou>/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/developer/DEV300_m3/OOo-Dev_DEV300_m3_LinuxIntel_install_deb.tar.gz>
>  >
>  >  Extract as normal and install from the DEB directory (sudo dpkg -i
>  >  *.deb). Then from a terminal, cd to /opt/ooo-dev3.0/program and:
>  >
>  >  ./soffice
>  >
>  >  Your user profile will be created and located at:
>  >
>  >  /home//.ooo-dev3
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Re: [users] problems downloading since upgrading to 2.4

[Adrian Try]

Hi Cynthia

Hello from Texas. :D I have used OpenOffice since version 2.1 and like it
> very much, which is why I was perplexed when it would not let me download my
> online audio books from the library (this uses a Microsoft developed program
> called Overdrive). It is an audio file that reads over Windows Media Player
> and OpenOffice continued to ask me to "choose language" offering a dialogue
> box filled with some languages I did not know existed. :)


Your mention of "Overdrive" helps solve the puzzle.

Overdrive files use the file extension .odm. That file extension is also
used by OpenOffice.org for master documents.

Windows decides which program to open a file with solely based on the file
extension. When Windows sees a .odm file, it doesn't know whether it is an
Overdrive file or an OpenOffice.org master document. When you install
Overdrive or OpenOffice.org, the .odm extension is "associated" with that
program. Whichever program was installed last is the program Windows
remembers, and opens the file with when you double click its icon.

But all is not lost. If you right click the file (rather than double click
it), you are able to select "Open With", which lists all programs that are
able to open a file with that extension. That way, you can decide whether to
open the file with Windows Media Player, or OpenOffice.org, or something
else.

I hope my explanation has been clear enough!

Adrian

Re: [users] [moderated] Simple question you do not appear to answer

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/8, Paul Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Do you have an equivalent of publisher??
> --
>
> *Paul Wilkinson*
>

Hello Paul,

Maybe the question got lost in all the blurb that your mail is carrying
along?

No, AFAIK the OpenOffice.org developers aren't thinking of making a
Publisher-like component.
MS Publisher is a dead-end street because only MS Publisher can read MS
Publisher.

Inside OOo you can use (html-) Writer that offers many possibilities.
In the Open Source world, there is Scribus.
-- 
Guy
using dutch OOo SRC680 m248 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
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Dodoes can't afford to have headaches

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.4 now available

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/7, A Schurink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>  Dear gentlemen,
>
>
>  I wonder if undermentioned mail is correct??
> I doubt i t, for I never got  an information about a new version by mail.
> I do not trust their e-mail address  either: *
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *.*
>
> Please let me know.
> Kind regards,
> A Schurink
>
> I trust it comes from OpenOffice.org.
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and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
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Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/7, David Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello.
>   I am trying to get power point 11.pps to open my email. Could you please
> tell me how to download this pps.
>   Thank you.
>   Dave Jack.
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hello,

This is the users list of OpenOffice.org. We don't have any pps here...
How could PowerPoint open your email? What is 11.pps?
What exactly do you want?
OpenOffice.org contains a component, Impress, that will read, edit and save
presentations.

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Re: [users] office 2007 format

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/7, John Ferguon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format
> yet?
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No, not yet.
Better stay clear from these x-files!

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Re: [users] Need clarification

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/7, Lynnettte Edic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
>   Seven times I have downloaded the 2.4 program and each time I get a
> message report that says that the files are corrupt and my HP Pavillion
> Notebook will not allow them to be loaded and used.  Mr. Ted Gangi is a
> personal friend of mine and he applauds your site.  Please advise.
>
>   Most respectfully,
>
>   Lynnette Edic
>

Hello Lynnette,

I don't know who Mr. Gangi is... This is the users list of OpenOffice.org
(and we don't have a website...)

Maybe the problem is not on the OpenOffice.org download side (it doesn't
make much sense to download the same file more than twice), bit rather on
the side of your computer, HP, or your version of Windows and the install
manager of Windows. Do you get any error number? 1935? 1704? 1304?

-- 
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and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
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[users] Re: OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 alpha in same machine

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2008 06:32 AM, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote:
> Sorry, but I forgot to question:
> 
> In Debian Lenny, OOo Snapshot has GNOME integration? It brokes OOo 2.4
> integration? I need to know that so I could make the correct
> installation of OOo Snapshot.

I'll repeat:

OOo 3.0dev will install as /opt/ooo-dev3.0 and *will not* interfere
with 2.4 or even a distro specific install.


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Re: [users] [moderated] Can I distribute open office with my application, because it has word document templates

[Mike]

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Richard Detwiler wrote:
| Christian Blackburn wrote:
|> Hi Gang,
|>
|> I am working on a commercial product called ALogic L&H for the financial
|> industry.  We have included a number of .DOC, .XLS, and .PPT templates
|> for
|> our customers to utilize as part of the ALogic L&H product.  Is it
|> legal to
|> distribute Open Office with our program?  We make no implications
|> whatsoever
|> that Open Office is our product, we just want to know if we can bundle
|> it.
|> Open Office will only be installed, if they don't have at least Microsoft
|> Office 97 installed.
|> Thanks,
|> Christian Blackburn
|> ALogic US
|
| Yes, it is legal.

It's also a very good idea.  It might encourage its recipients to start
using OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office.

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RE: [users] problem caused by rescaling

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From: Adrian Try [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [users] problem caused by rescaling

If you hold down the Fn and Alt keys, you can drag the dialogue box up the
screen until you can see the buttons.

Hope this helps.

Adrian
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True in general, or just OO. And platforms?
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Re: [users] [moderated] History Manager (Recently Opened Documents)

[Guy Voets]

2008/4/8, Karel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>  Forgive me for being so stupid but i cant grasp open office even
> microsoft word when I want to delete the recent documents list, for instance
> when i click on one it says file doesnt exist yet i cant delete it from the
> recent documents list. i downloaded the history manager, how do i delete
> that file doesnt exist or any other recent documents i once saved.  forgive
> me but i need idiot directions.  thanks
>
> 2008/4/8, Karel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > How do i remove saved documents listed in the saved doucments of open
> > office. thanks
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Removing saved documents is business of your operating system (Windows?)
> However, in a save (as) dialog that lists the file you want to delete, you
> can try a right-click
>
> If you mean the list of Recently Opened Files, there is an extension that
> helps you customize this list
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/histmngr
>
> HTH
> --
> Guy
>
> Hallo Karel,

I know, files stay in the History List (File>Recently Opened Documents) even
if they don't exist anymore on your computer.
With the History Manager you can make the list longer, clear its contents
etc.

To install this extension in OpenOffice.org:
1. download from the web: go to
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/histmngr
and click on Get it!
Save the file (HistoryManager.oxt) on your desktop.

2. install the extension in OpenOffice.org
Open OOo, go to Tools > Extension Manager
In the Extension Manager window, click on My Extensions
Then click on Add, and find the HistoryManager.oxt file and click Open
OOo will now add/install the extension (maybe you have to read and accept
the licence first).

3. restart OpenOffice.org to make the extension active
Close and reopen OOo.
Your extension now sits in Tools > Extensions (last item on the droplist) >
History Manager
You can clear the History List or change the number of files it contains.

HTH
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Re: [users] office 2007 format

[James Knott]

John Ferguon wrote:
Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format 
yet?


No.  I believe that's due in version 3.


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Re: [users] Trouble with .rtf or .doc when opening in Microsoft Office

[James Knott]

Pak-Kei Wong wrote:

Hello everyone,
I am using OpenOffice 2.4 (but this problem also happened in previous 
versions),  and my problem is that I can format a document very nicely using 
tables or whatever.  However, when I save it as a .doc or as a .rtf, it'll open 
fine on my computer, but when I send that file to someone, and they open it 
using Microsoft Office, they get a document with lots of pages, and each 
section of the table on a separate page.  Therefore, a document of 3 pages with 
tables and headings becomes one of 21 pages with one sentence each at the 
beginning of the page.
 
This makes things very difficult, since if I format a CV, and then I send it as a job application to a prospective employer, they open up a jibberish document and end up trashing my CV because it is not formatted properly.
 


Assuming you're running Windows, you might want to install the free 
Microsoft Word Viewer, so you can see how your documents will look in Word.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD102258581033.aspx

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Re: [users] office 2007 format

[Fred A. Miller]

John Ferguon wrote:
Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format 
yet?


No, but version 3, which should release this Sept. will.import only, 
no export.


Fred

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[users] Re: adding words, names

[Jonathan Kaye]

lotten säfström wrote:

> Hello. I am new to open office and I want to know if it is possible to add
> words and names to the auto spelling feature in the program? Yours
> sincerely Lotten, Malmoe, Sweden.
Hi Lotten,
Yes, you can add words, names, etc. to the spellchecker. When something is
underlined by the spellchecker as misspelled, just right-click on it and a
menu will appear. You will see the item "add" (if you're using the English
language version of OOo). Just click on "add" and your word will be added
to the spellchecker.
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Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

[web at work]

I have tired Oxygen. . .  a few months ago and it did not
read/write them well.  Also when you try to read the resulting
"word" document into the Word 2007 trial, it caused an error.

I hope it is fixed now.  It would be great if you could have both
installed at the same time.

I switched back from Oxygen. . . to OpenOffice.org

If you have kept up with the MS ISO stuff, you may have read
something about MS may not support their own creation of
their "ISO standard" format.  The same with the .docx format
with other programs.  6000+ pages of format definitions are
really hard to comply to.  600+ for the ODF standard is much better.

It will be great to get .docx and the "x" formats to be read/written
by Oxygen and OOo.  OOo should have that done for version
3.0, but I do not know how well OxygenOffice is doing it currently.

Next year, MS may have some other format(s) as their defaults.
It was announced that Microsoft 7 OS will be out several years
early - NEXT YEAR.  So Vista (MS 6) is being replaced next year.
Here we go again. . . .     ..  .

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Larry wrote:


and OpenOffice does not appear to recognize the extentions created


OxygenOffice Professional can open text documents created with MSO 2007.
You can download it from Sourceforge.

xan

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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[web at work]

From: "Dave Caudle"
Subject: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine



Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a 
computer that already has >a version of MS Office running?  MS Office 2003 
to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook.


I'd like to take a look at some of the other parts of OpenOffice - Impress 
and Draw in particular - for >which I don't have a comparable MS Office 
component installed.



Thank you.



Dave Caudle



I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo.  I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.

There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer.  The only problem I have found is when you
have the MS update run on the computer, if it involved
with Office, then it may try to change the file assignments.

I have .doc and such defaulted to OpenOffice.org, but after
the MS updates, the software tries to switch it back.  I have
WinPatrol (Scotty dog icon) on my laptop so it warns me of the
wanted change, and I "refuse" the changes.  That works well
as to stop the problem.

SO
having Office 2003 Pro and OpenOffice.org on the same computer.
Works well.  I use OOo 96% to 99% of the time.

The only thing I see is MS Office 2003 takes a lot of drive space
on a 80 gig laptop drive.  Oh Well. . . . .

long winded . . . . . .but true-ish?
TL in New York, USA



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[users] PowerPoint text problem - shadowed text

[web at work]

I was given a PowerPoint presentation that has a
colored text that has a built in shadow.  No built in
the font, but in the presentation.

When I view it in MS PP, then the shadowed text looks
correct.  Whe I view it in Impress, then there is no shadowed
text and the text is just plain bad looking.

I am to add to this presentation and use it for a auto repeating
information presentation.  I got the repeating working ok, BUT
it is the shadowed text that was created in PP that needs to be
kept.

I will run it in PP for the display, but since Impress is faster to load
and run, I would rather "convert" it to Impress.  So the decorated
text that the original presentation, written by one of the heads of
the organization that the display is for.  So the original visuals need
to be saved. .. ...  .

Can any one help?
Can we save the shadowed text?

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Re: [users] problems downloading since upgrading to 2.4

[Harold Fuchs]

On 08/04/2008 14:34, Adrian Try wrote:

Hi Cynthia

Hello from Texas. :D I have used OpenOffice since version 2.1 and like it
  

very much, which is why I was perplexed when it would not let me download my
online audio books from the library (this uses a Microsoft developed program
called Overdrive). It is an audio file that reads over Windows Media Player
and OpenOffice continued to ask me to "choose language" offering a dialogue
box filled with some languages I did not know existed. :)




Your mention of "Overdrive" helps solve the puzzle.

Overdrive files use the file extension .odm. That file extension is also
used by OpenOffice.org for master documents.

Windows decides which program to open a file with solely based on the file
extension. When Windows sees a .odm file, it doesn't know whether it is an
Overdrive file or an OpenOffice.org master document. When you install
Overdrive or OpenOffice.org, the .odm extension is "associated" with that
program. Whichever program was installed last is the program Windows
remembers, and opens the file with when you double click its icon.

But all is not lost. If you right click the file (rather than double click
it), you are able to select "Open With", which lists all programs that are
able to open a file with that extension. That way, you can decide whether to
open the file with Windows Media Player, or OpenOffice.org, or something
else.

I hope my explanation has been clear enough!

Adrian

  
In addition, if you think you'll never (or only rarely) need OpenOffice 
Master Documents then you can change the association permanently:

1. Right click one of the files
2. Select Properties
3. Near the top you'll see "Open with" followed by the icon and name of 
a program which, in turn, is followed by a button labelled "Change".

4. Click this button and browse to Windows Media Player.
5. Tick (check) the box labelled "Always use this program ..." before 
clicking OK.


Now when you double click a .odm file it will open automatically in 
Windows Media Player. If it really is a Master Document you can open it 
in OpenOffice by right clicking on it and choosing OpenOffice from the 
list of available programs. Just make sure that this time you *don't* 
tick the "Always use ..." box ;-)


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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[James Knott]

web at work wrote:


I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo.  I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.

There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer.  The only problem I have found is when you
have the MS update run on the computer, if it involved
with Office, then it may try to change the file assignments.

I have .doc and such defaulted to OpenOffice.org, but after
the MS updates, the software tries to switch it back.  I have
WinPatrol (Scotty dog icon) on my laptop so it warns me of the
wanted change, and I "refuse" the changes.  That works well
as to stop the problem.

SO
having Office 2003 Pro and OpenOffice.org on the same computer.
Works well.  I use OOo 96% to 99% of the time.


It's easy enough to change the default back to OO, by following these 
directions.


Changing file associations

Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and 
choose the desired application.

If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859


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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[web at work]

From: "James Knott" 
web at work wrote:



I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo.  I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.

There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer.  The only problem I have found is when you
have the MS update run on the computer, if it involved
with Office, then it may try to change the file assignments.

I have .doc and such defaulted to OpenOffice.org, but after
the MS updates, the software tries to switch it back.  I have
WinPatrol (Scotty dog icon) on my laptop so it warns me of the
wanted change, and I "refuse" the changes.  That works well
as to stop the problem.

SO
having Office 2003 Pro and OpenOffice.org on the same computer.
Works well.  I use OOo 96% to 99% of the time.


It's easy enough to change the default back to OO, by following these 
directions.


Changing file associations

Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and 
choose the desired application.

If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859



I have had so much trouble with what MS states is "so simple".
The last time I fell for it, I had to reformat the drive fix the 
major ^##%%*((*&&  error.


I like it when a non-MS software will stop MS from changing
things to their own way.  




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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Scott Meyers]

Uwe Fischer wrote:
you can search and replace styles in the Find & Replace dialog. Click 
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.


Unfortunately, that works only for paragraph styles.  I sent the following post 
on April 3, but now I can't find it, so maybe it got lost somewhere between here 
and there.  If you've already seen this, I apologize for the duplication:


I know how to search for paragraph styles, but how can I search for character 
styles?  For example, I have a character style called "Publication Title," and I 
want to find all text in my document where that style is applied.  How can I do 
that?


From Googling around, I get the impression that I can achieve this effect by 
searching for formats or attributes, but that's a really roundabout way to 
achieve what I want.  If my character style sets color, size, background, font, 
etc., I don't want to have to specify all those things individually to search 
for.  I just want to search for the style.  Doable?


Thanks,

Scott


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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[Harold Fuchs]

On 08/04/2008 18:51, web at work wrote:




From: "James Knott" web at work wrote:


I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo.  I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.

There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer.  The only problem I have found is when you
have the MS update run on the computer, if it involved
with Office, then it may try to change the file assignments.

I have .doc and such defaulted to OpenOffice.org, but after
the MS updates, the software tries to switch it back.  I have
WinPatrol (Scotty dog icon) on my laptop so it warns me of the
wanted change, and I "refuse" the changes.  That works well
as to stop the problem.

SO
having Office 2003 Pro and OpenOffice.org on the same computer.
Works well.  I use OOo 96% to 99% of the time.


It's easy enough to change the default back to OO, by following these 
directions.


Changing file associations

Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and 
choose the desired application.

If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859



I have had so much trouble with what MS states is "so simple".
The last time I fell for it, I had to reformat the drive fix the major 
^##%%*((*&&  error.


I like it when a non-MS software will stop MS from changing
things to their own way. 



Ah, but this isn't MS stating "it's so simple". This is an illustrious 
member of the OOo users' support group stating it. So ... ;-)


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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Jim Allan]

Scott Meyers wrote:
I know how to search for paragraph styles, but how can I search for 
character styles?  For example, I have a character style called 
"Publication Title," and I want to find all text in my document where 
that style is applied.  How can I do that?


 From Googling around, I get the impression that I can achieve this 
effect by searching for formats or attributes, but that's a really 
roundabout way to achieve what I want.  If my character style sets 
color, size, background, font, etc., I don't want to have to specify all 
those things individually to search for.  I just want to search for the 
style.  Doable?


It’s a little messy, but quite easy to do. Change the color in your 
“Publication Title” to some color not used elsewhere in your text or 
apply some effect like shadowing which is not used elsewhere in your 
text. Then search for all text with that attribute.


This method has the advantage of making your style stand out when you 
are searching for it.


Once you’ve found whatever you were searching for, or fixed whatever you 
wanted to fix, then change the style back again.


Jim Allan



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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[web at work]

On 08/04/2008 18:51, web at work wrote:




From: "James Knott" web at work wrote:


I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo.  I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.

There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer.  The only problem I have found is when you
have the MS update run on the computer, if it involved
with Office, then it may try to change the file assignments.

I have .doc and such defaulted to OpenOffice.org, but after
the MS updates, the software tries to switch it back.  I have
WinPatrol (Scotty dog icon) on my laptop so it warns me of the
wanted change, and I "refuse" the changes.  That works well
as to stop the problem.

SO
having Office 2003 Pro and OpenOffice.org on the same computer.
Works well.  I use OOo 96% to 99% of the time.


It's easy enough to change the default back to OO, by following these 
directions.


Changing file associations

Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and 
choose the desired application.

If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859



I have had so much trouble with what MS states is "so simple".
The last time I fell for it, I had to reformat the drive fix the major 
^##%%*((*&&  error.


I like it when a non-MS software will stop MS from changing
things to their own way. 



Ah, but this isn't MS stating "it's so simple". This is an illustrious 
member of the OOo users' support group stating it. So ... ;-)


--
Harold Fuchs
London, England


I know what is what, but anything that involves MS's OS is not simple

Harold is a great help on this list.

MS tends to make everything complex that should be simple.

I wonder how simple MS's newest OS, Microsoft 7 is?
They are taking a lot of underlying code out of Vista
to make #7.  Well that is another fine mess that MS has/will
get us into.

Thanks Harold.




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Re: [users] Date formatting in writer

[mike scott]

(Top-posting continued; sorry all)

Sorry for the misunderstanding. A quick search on  google came up 
with
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=40666
which may offer ideas - particularly, you could record a macro, save 
it, and assign to a key sequence. Not tidy, but the best solution 
I've seen.

By the way, please honour requests for "response to list only" in 
future. It was pure luck I spotted your mail - yahoo is blacklisted 
here because of spamming activity based on it. I'd recommend 
subscribing. Thank you.



On 8 Apr 2008 at 9:58, Joe Hopkins wrote:

> Mike,
>   Thanks for the quick reply.  Perhaps I did not explain my situation 
> clearly.  I know about going as you suggested to insert--fields--date--other 
> and then selecting the format that I want.  What I was trying to ask is 
> whether there is a method to make the default date insertion always be the 
> "January 1, 2008" format instead of the "1-1-2008" format.   I thought that 
> perhaps I could make this change by going to "additional formats" and 
> selecting the " D,YY" format.  However, the next time I insert the date, 
> the format goes back to "MM/DD/YY".  I am trying to roll out OpenOffice 2.4 
> to some school children who always need the date shown as " D,YY", and I 
> believe that the fewer keystrokes they have to make is better and safer.
>   Thanks...
>   Joe
>   
> 
> mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   On 7 Apr 2008 at 17:56, Joe Hopkins wrote:
> 
> > How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my documents 
> > with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as "January 1, 
> > 2008" instead of "1/1/2008". No matter what I try, the date format that is 
> > automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format. Can I change some option 
> > to accomplish this?
> > Thanks...
> > Joe
> > 
> > 
> 
> Insert | Fields | Other... and pick what you need. Note in particular 
> "additional formats" under 'date'.
> 
> 
> You are not subscribed to this list and therefore may miss replies. 
> http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for more information.
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[users] Re: OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[Jim Allan]

web at work wrote:


I know what is what, but anything that involves MS's OS is not simple

Harold is a great help on this list.

MS tends to make everything complex that should be simple.

I wonder how simple MS's newest OS, Microsoft 7 is?
They are taking a lot of underlying code out of Vista
to make #7.  Well that is another fine mess that MS has/will
get us into.


Please!

It is not only Microsoft who on occasion overcomplicates. Try the mail 
merge wizard in OpenOffice.org that does nothing useful and actually 
complicates the task of mail merging by sticking in an intermediate 
layer which corresponds to almost no-one’s actual address 
specifications. Fortunately you can mail merge excellently in 
OpenOffice.org Writer without every using it. It is one of the most 
worthless things I’ve seen in any application. Unfortuanately newbies 
wiil assume, wrongly, that the Wizard will make things easier and will 
try using it.


Try the Mule on Emacs, an attempt to use old, out-of-date code pages 
instead of using Unicode; and it did a far worse job than Microsoft Word 
did back when Microsoft Word was using multiple code pages.


I am tired of both Nix weenies and MS weenies who both seem to have 
missed hearing about the pot calling the kettle black.


Jim Allan


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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Scott Meyers]

Jim Allan wrote:
 Once you’ve found whatever you were searching for, or fixed whatever you

wanted to fix, then change the style back again.


The problem is that the only way (I know of) to "change the style back again" is 
to edit the XML file describing the style.  As has been discussed here already, 
OO has no mechanism within the program to "remove" characteristics from a 
character style.  Once you've added a color, for example, you can never get rid 
of the fact that your style specifies a color.  You can change the color to 
whatever you want, but if the purpose of the original character style was to, 
say, italicize something without affecting any other characteristic of the text, 
  adding a color to the style is in contradiction to the purpose of the style.


What's needed is a way to search for character styles as it is now possible to 
search for paragraph styles.  It's unfortunate that this feature is not present.


Scott


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Re: [users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[Michael Adams]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:06:41 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I
> got no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
> 

I have absolutely no idea where you are getting the ezw attachments
from. This list should not be generating them, all i get are normal
emails from the list. AFAIK OpenOffice does not create EZW attachments.


You probably got no reply to your post because, if you couldn't read it,
how can you expect someone else to.

Where are your ezw attachments coming from?

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Re: [users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[Anthony Chilco]

Hi Phil,
I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw and what 
does it have to do with open office?

tc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I got 
no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the 
ones that I am getting via this newsletter - here's the link, 
http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~msng/EZW.html. This provides the C source code 
which you'll have to build to test it.
As a near convert to OOo this issue is making me wonder if we'd be 
better off sticking with MS Office, at least the support material is 
available in human readable form rather than some obscure image format.

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Re: [users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[Scott Castaline]

Anthony Chilco wrote:

Hi Phil,
I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw 
and what does it have to do with open office?

tc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I 
got no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the 
ones that I am getting via this newsletter - here's the link, 
http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~msng/EZW.html. This provides the C source 
code which you'll have to build to test it.
As a near convert to OOo this issue is making me wonder if we'd be 
better off sticking with MS Office, at least the support material is 
available in human readable form rather than some obscure image format.

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I just googled "ezw" and ran into this def. ; Embedded Zerotree Wavelet 
encoder. Being that I'm not a programmer I have no idea what that is, 
and I am too dumbfounded as to what it has to do with OOo.


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[users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[pjd1001]

I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I got no 
response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!

I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the ones that 
I am getting via this newsletter - here's the link, 
http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~msng/EZW.html.  This provides the C source code which 
you'll have to build to test it.

As a near convert  to OOo this issue is making me wonder if we'd be better off 
sticking with MS Office, at least the support material is available in human 
readable form rather than some obscure image format.

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[users] Visio et Project (Was: YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE)

[jonathon]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Gary Goodfellow  wrote:

> Are you planning a Visio like product and a Project type product?


In general, Draw provides all of the functionality of Visio.  The
critical issue is getting the appropriate shapes.

Potential sources of shapes are:
* http://www.lautman.net/mark/coo/tutorial.html;
* http://www.openclipart.org/  (This focuses more on clipart, than shapes.)

There was a proposal for a Visio import filter for OOo as a Google
Summer of Code project.  However, it isn't mentioned on that page on
the OOo wiki.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006#OpenOffice.org_Summer_of_Code_Projects

Macros that may increase Visio-like functionality are:
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#115800   Shape duplicator;
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#226070   JackCAD;
* http://gerard.deneux.free.fr/ CADOOo;
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/OOoSVN  Subversion storage;
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/svgimport SVG Import;


http://oopm.openoffice.org/ is the page for the OOo project to create
MS Project functionality in OOo.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions#Project_Management_.26_Note_Taking
is a list of known opensource programs that provide project-like
functionality.

OOo macros and extensions that provide Project functionality include:
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#125136  Box Plots and Histograms
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#175388  Gannt Chart
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#184651  PERT Chart
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#188207  Reference Manager
* http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#192746  PJM Calc
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/OOoSVN  OOoSVN;

Mising in action:
* Project macro that uses the built in dBase 3 clone;
* Materials macro that uses the built in dBase 3 clone;
(The above two were available for OOo 1.0.)

xan

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Re: [users] [moderated] Simple question you do not appear to answer

[jonathon]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Paul Wilkinson wrote:

> Do you have an equivalent of publisher??

It all depends upon what type of publishing you are trying to do.

OOo can do most of the things that Word can do, and some things that
are impossible to do with MSWord.

OOo can do most of the things that MS Publisher can do.

Since you are asking for a comparison with Microsoft Office, and/or
Microsoft Publisher, OOo will probably be more than adequate for your
needs. However, OOo is not a substitute for a professional quality
Desktop Publishing Program. If you need a professional quality Desktop
Publishing program, then Scribus is the FLOSS tool of choice.

Note: MS Publisher files are incompatible with all other programs.

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp will convert most publisher
files to PDF format.

xan

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[users] PDF Online - Safe?

[TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries]

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp will convert most publisher files
to PDF format.
__
Jonathan,
I've seen the PDF Online link published here before. But they convert the
file on their system, then email it out ... the file is on their system.
What do they do with it, who are they ... do you (does anyone here) know? 

Thanks,
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:43 PM, web at work  wrote:

>  If you have kept up with the MS ISO stuff, you may have read  something 
> about MS may not support their own creation of  their "ISO standard" format.

May not?   How about will not?

One factor that the ISO seems to be overlooking, is that there is no
referemnce implementation of OOXML, as currently defined in the 7,500
page specifications that are the proposed standard. (When going thru
ECMA, roughly 1,500 pages were added, to address various technical
failures and issues in the original 6.000 page specification. )

>The same with the .docx format

Didn't they already announce that they were dropping that for the
release of MSO on Apple?  And the release after that for windows would
be compatible with what was released for Apple.

xan

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[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Joe Smith]

Scott Meyers wrote:

...  To save time, I just typed
"Lbegin" everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to the 
clipboard, then sat down to search for "Lbegin" and replace it with the 
contents of the clipboard.  Except that this does not seem to be a valid 
replacement option.  ...


You're right. OOo does not handle this kind of situation very well. I've 
often wanted an abbreviation that I can type easily, can be replaced by 
text with arbitrary formatting, and can be changed after the fact. 
Nothing Writer provides will do all that. About the best you can do use 
use Autotext, which is not convenient to type (requires F3) and cannot 
be changed later.


I would tackle your problem using Find & Replace, in two steps:

1) Find all "Lbegin"
2) Find all "begin" (option: current selection only)

That will select only the appropriate "begin"s and then you can apply 
formatting however you want. I recommend a character style, so you can 
tweak the formatting without having to do all that F&R over again.

Re: [users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[jonathon]

Scott wrote:

> > I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw and
what does it have to do with open office?

It has nothing to do with OOo.

The original poster either screwed up their email client, or their
newsreader, or installed an archiver that automatically converted some
(most?) files that use ZIP compression to ezw.

xan

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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Jim Allan]

Scott Meyers wrote:

The problem is that the only way (I know of) to "change the style back 
again" is to edit the XML file describing the style.  As has been 
discussed here already, OO has no mechanism within the program to 
"remove" characteristics from a character style.  Once you've added a 
color, for example, you can never get rid of the fact that your style 
specifies a color.  You can change the color to whatever you want, but 
if the purpose of the original character style was to, say, italicize 
something without affecting any other characteristic of the text,   
adding a color to the style is in contradiction to the purpose of the 
style.


My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally 
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from 
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic, without it making 
a practical difference because I normally don’t use color in my 
documents. (Now if I were to change the color of its linked-with style 
to “green”, that would create a difficulty, as the style wouldn't flow 
through to any lower style that was linked to it.)


You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable 
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as 
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you 
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.


What's needed is a way to search for character styles as it is now 
possible to search for paragraph styles.  It's unfortunate that this 
feature is not present.


I totally agree. That would be the “right” way to do it. But until that 
is provided, I will continue to do what works for me, and I think would 
work for you, if you choose a feature which you won’t otherwise use in 
your document.


Jim Allan



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[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[NoOp]

On 04/07/2008 09:25 PM, Scott Meyers wrote:
> I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a
> pain to type and format.  One is "Lbegin" where the "L" is normal
> text and the "begin" is subscripted and italicized.  To save time, I
> just typed "Lbegin" everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to
> the clipboard, then sat down to search for "Lbegin" and replace it
> with the contents of the clipboard.  Except that this does not seem
> to be a valid replacement option.  I also tried pasting the formatted
> "Lbegin" into the replacement box, but that lost all the formatting,
>  i.e., "begin" was neither subscripted nor italicized after
> replacement.
> 
> I tried the Find/Replace extension at 
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AltSearch , because
> it claims to support replacing found text with the contents of the
> clipboard, but when I tried it, the "Lbegin" that was inserted was
> entirely subscripted and italicized, i.e., the inserted "L" was
> incorrectly formatted.
> 

Search for: .begin/>
Replace with: begin
More Options:
Regular expressions is ticked
With the cursor in the "Replace with" select the replacement work
(begin) and then "Format". Format to subscript and italic.

Now click "Find" and replace as necessary. Note: the above will not find
 the whole word "Begin" at the start of a sentence, but it will find "
begin" and " Begin" so you'll need to watch what you are replacing, i.e,
you can't just do a "Replace All".


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Re: [users] why i am unsubscribing from this list

[Jack D. Lewis]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/8/2008 1:06 PM:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I 
got no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
 
I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the 
ones that I am getting via this newsletter - here's the link, 
http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~msng/EZW.html 
.  This provides the C 
source code which you'll have to build to test it.
 
As a near convert  to OOo this issue is making me wonder if we'd be 
better off sticking with MS Office, at least the support material is 
available in human readable form rather than some obscure image format.
 
PhilD


PhilD,

The ezw attachments that are found in the discuss digest emails that are 
sent are simple eml files. I have no idea where they came up with that 
extension. Thunderbird automatically displays them as they should be - 
email files, no need to find a special program to view them. If you are 
using another email program, simply save the attachments as 
'whatever.eml' instead of 'whatever.ezw'


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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Scott Meyers]

Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally 
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from 
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic


My point is that you can't do this.  Once you've selected something, there's no 
way (short of editing an XML file) to reset that character feature to automatic. 
 The best you can do is set it to whatever the default currently is and then 
hope you never decide to change the default.


You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable 
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as 
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you 
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.


I agree that this is a decent workaround.  It just chafes.

Scott


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[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Scott Meyers]

Joe Smith wrote:

I would tackle your problem using Find & Replace, in two steps:

1) Find all "Lbegin"
2) Find all "begin" (option: current selection only)


Nifty idea, thanks very much.  I was not aware you could do this.  Cool, cool, 
cool!

That will select only the appropriate "begin"s and then you can apply 
formatting however you want. I recommend a character style, so you can 
tweak the formatting without having to do all that F&R over again.


Alas, see my post 'Writer: "Subscript" character style doesn't work' (no 
followups so far) about how trying to create a character style for subscripting 
does not seem to work.  (Subscripting+italics might work, I haven't tried.)


Scott


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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Harold Fuchs]

On 08/04/2008 23:27, Scott Meyers wrote:
Alas, see my post 'Writer: "Subscript" character style doesn't work' 
(no followups so far) about how trying to create a character style for 
subscripting does not seem to work.  (Subscripting+italics might work, 
I haven't tried.)


H. Perhaps I don't understand but I *seem* to have managed to create 
a subscript *character* style which, when applied, turns the selected 
text to subscript but leaves other attributes alone. For example, I 
selected one word in a sentence in red text and set it to my subscript 
character style. It became subscripted but stayed red. Ditto with a few 
characters within a "Heading 1". Ditto with italic text - a few 
characters can be set to subscript by applying the style without 
affecting the "italicness". This using Writer in OOo2.4 on Win XP Pro. 
Is this a version specific or OS specific issue?


All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character 
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave the 
new style a name ("SubscriptChar") and set its "Position" to Subscript. 
The new style now appears in the list of available character styles and 
can be applied, like any other, to a selected sequence of characters.


Please tell me what I'm missing; I won't take umbrage ;-)


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[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Scott Meyers]

Harold Fuchs wrote:
All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character 
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave the 
new style a name ("SubscriptChar") and set its "Position" to Subscript. 
The new style now appears in the list of available character styles and 
can be applied, like any other, to a selected sequence of characters.


Interesting.  I did exactly the same thing with both OO 2.3.1 and 2.4, and when 
I apply the character format, the text does not change in any visible way. 
Printing as PDF and viewing that shows also no visible change.  Trying the same 
thing in multiple documents yields the same behavior.


Note that after applying the character style, all the text to which it was 
applied shows that it's been subscripted (e.g., by selecting the text, 
right-clicking, choosing "Style" and noticing the check mark next to "Subscript").


I'm running Windows XP SP2.  How about you?

What behavior do others get when they try the above?

Scott


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Re: [users] Mail merge - started from another thread

[web at work]

Web said

I wonder how simple MS's newest OS, Microsoft 7 is?
They are taking a lot of underlying code out of Vista
to make #7.  Well that is another fine mess that MS has/will
get us into.



Jim Said..

Please!

It is not only Microsoft who on occasion overcomplicates. Try the mail 
merge wizard in OpenOffice.org that does nothing useful and actually 
complicates the task of mail merging by sticking in an intermediate layer 
which corresponds to almost no-one’s actual address specifications. 
Fortunately you can mail merge excellently in OpenOffice.org Writer 
without every using it. It is one of the most worthless things I’ve seen 
in any application. Unfortuanately newbies wiil assume, wrongly, that the 
Wizard will make things easier and will try using it.


Try the Mule on Emacs, an attempt to use old, out-of-date code pages 
instead of using Unicode; and it did a far worse job than Microsoft Word 
did back when Microsoft Word was using multiple code pages.


I am tired of both Nix weenies and MS weenies who both seem to have missed 
hearing about the pot calling the kettle black.


Jim Allan


I have always hated mail merge, since Word 95 days.
I do not remember how to do it, and one day will need
to re-learn how to do it.

I know it is "bad" of me but I have forgot almost everything
that is not part of what I do on a "monthly" basis.  Some people
know that I had a stroke last year, so I just do what I need to
do, spelling/grammar errors and all.  One day I will have the
ambition to re-learn how to do all of the stuff I use to do in
the past.  Oh well . . . .  Just like the PowerPoint/Impress conversion
problem in the thread I started for it.

from:: Web at Work. . . .  although I do not work for pay anymore.




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Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

[web at work]

Thanks for the added info to my statement

MS is not . . . .
and will not . . . .
lets hope we will not be forced to  . . . . .

"bleep"

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:43 PM, web at work  wrote:

 If you have kept up with the MS ISO stuff, you may have read  something 
about MS may not support their own creation of  their "ISO standard" 
format.


May not?   How about will not?

One factor that the ISO seems to be overlooking, is that there is no
referemnce implementation of OOXML, as currently defined in the 7,500
page specifications that are the proposed standard. (When going thru
ECMA, roughly 1,500 pages were added, to address various technical
failures and issues in the original 6.000 page specification. )


The same with the .docx format


Didn't they already announce that they were dropping that for the
release of MSO on Apple?  And the release after that for windows would
be compatible with what was released for Apple.

xan

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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Harold Fuchs]

On 09/04/2008 00:14, Scott Meyers wrote:

Harold Fuchs wrote:
All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character 
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave 
the new style a name ("SubscriptChar") and set its "Position" to 
Subscript. The new style now appears in the list of available 
character styles and can be applied, like any other, to a selected 
sequence of characters.


Interesting.  I did exactly the same thing with both OO 2.3.1 and 2.4, 
and when I apply the character format, the text does not change in any 
visible way. Printing as PDF and viewing that shows also no visible 
change.  Trying the same thing in multiple documents yields the same 
behavior.


Note that after applying the character style, all the text to which it 
was applied shows that it's been subscripted (e.g., by selecting the 
text, right-clicking, choosing "Style" and noticing the check mark 
next to "Subscript").


I'm running Windows XP SP2.  How about you?

What behavior do others get when they try the above?

Scott


Same - Win XP Pro SP2 and I'm up to date with updates. The selected text 
visibly changes when I apply the style. In the Position section of your 
style's definition, what are the settings apart from "Subscript" - what 
values do you have for Relative Font Size & Raise/Lower by? If I set the 
Relative Font Size to 100% I get the effect you describe - no visible 
change to the text but a tick against Subscript in the Style context menu.



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[users] Re: Date formatting in writer

[NoOp]

On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
> How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
> documents with the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as
> "January 1, 2008" instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the
> date format that is automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.
> Can I change some option to accomplish this? Thanks... Joe
> 
> 

Yes. Insert|Fields|Other|Document|Date|Date (not Date (fixed))|Format

Then select December 31, 1999 and click the "Insert" button. That will
use your format and automatically update the date. If you want a fixed
date in that format, then select "Date (fixed)" instead.

>From there on out, that _document_ will have that date format in _that_
field - even if you open on another system.

What I don't know how to do is to set that date format as the default.
It was discussed on the list sometime back, but I can't recall if anyone
ever figured it out.

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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Michele Zarri]

Hello,

A collection of issues related to this discussion:
Switching automatically to the character style page in the styles and
formatting when text is highlighted
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15332

Strange behaviour when creating a new character style from selection
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15570

Hierarchical character styles not working properly
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37246

And of course the subject of this discussion: search for character
style. a 4 digits bug opened Mon Feb 4 08:17:00 + 2002, six
duplicates and 10 votes:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2997
Note also this comment:
cloph on Dec 8 2004:
" 
You can search for the formatting of the character style, not for the
style
itself.racter styles from the "Find and Replace" dialog

Also you cannot assign a character style using find and replace (You can use
"Find All" and then applying the style as a workaround).
"

If you are interested in any of those issues please vote for them (I
already used up my allowance a long time ago.

Cheers,

Michele


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Re: [users] Re: Date formatting in writer

[Harold Fuchs]

On 09/04/2008 00:50, NoOp wrote:

On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
  

How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
documents with the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as
"January 1, 2008" instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the
date format that is automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.
Can I change some option to accomplish this? Thanks... Joe





Yes. Insert|Fields|Other|Document|Date|Date (not Date (fixed))|Format

Then select December 31, 1999 and click the "Insert" button. That will
use your format and automatically update the date. If you want a fixed
date in that format, then select "Date (fixed)" instead.

>From there on out, that _document_ will have that date format in _that_
field - even if you open on another system.

What I don't know how to do is to set that date format as the default.
It was discussed on the list sometime back, but I can't recall if anyone
ever figured it out.

  
I think the default date format is taken from your Locale settings 
(attribute defined within the Operating System).
On Windows: Control Panel>Regional and Language Options>Regional 
Options>Short Date.



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Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

[Fred A. Miller]

web at work wrote:

I have tired Oxygen. . .  a few months ago and it did not
read/write them well.  Also when you try to read the resulting
"word" document into the Word 2007 trial, it caused an error.

I hope it is fixed now.  It would be great if you could have both
installed at the same time.

I switched back from Oxygen. . . to OpenOffice.org


So did I..last night. 'Doesn't play well with openSUSE 10.3 64-bit. 
They do have some nice ideas, however. By the way, there IS an import 
filter designed by Novell that IS usable on OO from an article I read. 
It's not perfect yet, but getting there. It should be "good to go" by 
this fall when OO 3.0 is to be released. That filter is supposed to ship 
WITH OO 3.0.



If you have kept up with the MS ISO stuff, you may have read
something about MS may not support their own creation of
their "ISO standard" format.  The same with the .docx format
with other programs.  6000+ pages of format definitions are
really hard to comply to.  600+ for the ODF standard is much better.


Yes. Further, there's several investigations going on presently, so 
MickySoft MIGHT NOT get their fast track ISO approval after all.



It will be great to get .docx and the "x" formats to be read/written
by Oxygen and OOo.  OOo should have that done for version
3.0, but I do not know how well OxygenOffice is doing it currently.


If I read between the lines correctly, they will use the filter Novell 
is working on.



Next year, MS may have some other format(s) as their defaults.
It was announced that Microsoft 7 OS will be out several years
early - NEXT YEAR.  So Vista (MS 6) is being replaced next year.
Here we go again. . . .     ..  .


No..the time table is BETWEEN 1 and 2 years, so that means in 
MickySoftSpeak, 1.5 yrs. minimum. ;) It also APPEARS that they will use 
the 2008 server kernel to build on.


Fred

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Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

[Fred A. Miller]

web at work wrote:

[snip]


The only thing I see is MS Office 2003 takes a lot of drive space
on a 80 gig laptop drive.  Oh Well. . . . .

long winded . . . . . .but true-ish?
TL in New York, USA


Where in NY? ;)

Fred

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

[Scott Meyers]

Harold Fuchs wrote:
Same - Win XP Pro SP2 and I'm up to date with updates. The selected text 
visibly changes when I apply the style. In the Position section of your 
style's definition, what are the settings apart from "Subscript" - what 
values do you have for Relative Font Size & Raise/Lower by? If I set the 
Relative Font Size to 100% I get the effect you describe - no visible 
change to the text but a tick against Subscript in the Style context menu.


Okay, that's the problem.  When creating the character style, the only thing I 
specified was that the position should be Subscript.  The font size remained at 
100%.  Setting it to 58% (the value it gets when I right-click on text and 
specify the Subscript style should be used) yielded the behavior I expected and 
that you reported.


Interestingly (or alarmingly, depending on your point of view), once I saw your 
posting above, I fired up OO again and went through the same exercise I had 
before, and this time when I set the "Subscript" field in the character style I 
was creating, the relative font size was automatically set to 58%.  I *know* 
that this did not happen when I tried my other experiments.  Sigh.  I've 
rebooted in the interim, so maybe that had something to do with it.


Thanks for your help with this.  I feared I had found a bug in OO, but now I 
realize it was just another manifestation of nondeterministic life with computers.


Scott


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Re: [users] Re: Date formatting in writer

[Michele Zarri]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:01 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> On 09/04/2008 00:50, NoOp wrote:
> > On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
> >   
> >> How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
> >> documents with the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as
> >> "January 1, 2008" instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the
> >> date format that is automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.
> >> Can I change some option to accomplish this? Thanks... Joe

Hello Joe,

This is another of those "historical" issues opened in 2004:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30216

which in fact is a "child" of this issue opened in 2002:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6180

Issue 30216 has got 20 votes (not bad) but of course if you could add
your vote it has a better chance of getting in the top 100 (or whatever
number) issues and grab the developers' attention.

Cheers,

Michele



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[users] Re: Date formatting in writer

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2008 04:50 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
>> How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
>> documents with the desired format.  I want the date to be inserted as
>> "January 1, 2008" instead of "1/1/2008".  No matter what I try, the
>> date format that is automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format.
>> Can I change some option to accomplish this? Thanks... Joe
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yes. Insert|Fields|Other|Document|Date|Date (not Date (fixed))|Format
> 
> Then select December 31, 1999 and click the "Insert" button. That will
> use your format and automatically update the date. If you want a fixed
> date in that format, then select "Date (fixed)" instead.
> 
> From there on out, that _document_ will have that date format in _that_
> field - even if you open on another system.
> 
> What I don't know how to do is to set that date format as the default.
> It was discussed on the list sometime back, but I can't recall if anyone
> ever figured it out.
> 

Sorry - I missed Mike Scott's msgs before I replied. Also Michele Zarri
has pointed to the bug/Feature enhancements that have been around for
several years...

However, to take this a step further, you can use the Autotext feature
in OOo to do this:

Once you've inserted your date field with the format using
Insert|Fields|Other|Document|Date| (use Date(fixed) for this example),
select the field with the mouse and then:

Edit|Autotext

That will open a window for the Autotext dialog & should open to "My
AutoText".

- Give it a Name: Today's Date
- Give it a shortcut: today
- Click "AutoText" and "New"
- Click "Close"

That will save that autotext format to your autotext path/folder, and it
will be available for as long as you have that profile on your computer.
So that you don't have to replicate on multiple computers, you can copy
the mytexts.bau file in your profile to the other computers as well.

Now, let's test it out:

- in the doc type: today - and then press F3

You'll see that today's date with the correct format is inserted as a field.

Now let's test it in a new doc:

- Close the existing document, and if you wish, OOo. Open OOo and open
up a new, or any existing document you have handy.

- in the doc type: today - and then press F3

The date gets inserted in the format you wish.

You can adjust according to what you are comfortable with and also
create one for Date (fixed) and Date auto. You can also shorten the
shortcut to 't' for today's date, and 'd' for auto date etc. Whatever
you think your students will be comfortable with.

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[users] Re: [moderated] Simple question you do not appear to answer

[NoOp]

On 04/07/2008 04:08 PM, Paul Wilkinson wrote:
> Do you have an equivalent of publisher??

Yes. Writer and Draw.

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Re: [users] PowerPoint text problem - shadowed text - more info

[web at work]

additional info about this problem.
The text that is the problem was created
using the PP's "word art" options.

Impress seems not to like "word art" text.
Any help?
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  To: users@openoffice.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:11 PM
  Subject: [users] PowerPoint text problem - shadowed text


  I was given a PowerPoint presentation that has a
  colored text that has a built in shadow.  No built in
  the font, but in the presentation.

  When I view it in MS PP, then the shadowed text looks
  correct.  Whe I view it in Impress, then there is no shadowed
  text and the text is just plain bad looking.

  I am to add to this presentation and use it for a auto repeating
  information presentation.  I got the repeating working ok, BUT
  it is the shadowed text that was created in PP that needs to be
  kept.

  I will run it in PP for the display, but since Impress is faster to load
  and run, I would rather "convert" it to Impress.  So the decorated
  text that the original presentation, written by one of the heads of
  the organization that the display is for.  So the original visuals need
  to be saved. .. ...  .

  Can any one help?
  Can we save the shadowed text?




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[users] Re: PowerPoint text problem - shadowed text - more info

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2008 06:29 PM, web at work wrote:
> additional info about this problem.

Please start a new thread.


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[users] OT: OO password restriction [was: Writer: Character Style Questions]

[Scott Meyers]

If you are interested in any of those issues please vote for them (I
already used up my allowance a long time ago.


I wanted to do this, but during the registration process, I ran into this 
password restriction:


  Up to 32 characters in length; valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and
  non-alphanumeric characters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]()-_=+[]{};:'"`,.|/?~). Spaces 
are not
  permitted, and an underline may not be the first character.

So I didn't register and hence can't vote.

I know my protest is futile, but I just can't cope with places that won't let me 
use whatever I want as a password.  There's no technical justification for it -- 
it's just bad design.  It also compromises security, because the more 
restrictions imposed on the password, the harder it is to come up with one 
that's easy to remember and hard to guess.


Sigh.

Scott



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[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Scott Meyers]

Jim Allan wrote:
You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable 
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as 
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you 
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.


I went to delete my "Subscript" character style, which I did not think I was 
using.  OO warned me:  "You are deleting an applied style!"  Okay, I'll have to 
find where I'm using it.  I went to Font Effects for the style and added 
Blinking, then scrolled through the document.  Nothing seemed to blink.  Fine, 
I'll just search for it.  I went to the Find/Replace dialog, clicked on 
Attributes under More Options, checked "Blinking," clicked OK, then "Find All". 
   I was rewarded with "Search key not found."


OO still says the style is applied (somewhere).  The style still has Blinking 
checked. I still see nothing blinking, and searching as above finds nothing.


Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Scott



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Re: [users] problem caused by rescaling

[Adrian Try]

Hi Elchanan

If you hold down the Fn and Alt keys, you can drag the dialogue box up the
> screen until you can see the buttons.
> _
> True in general, or just OO. And platforms?
> Elchanan


True on the Asus eeePC (http://eeepc.asus.com). It's a tiny computer whose
screen is smaller than some dialogue boxes. It's a handy keyboard/mouse
combination to have on that computer.

It may be true elsewhere, but I don't know about that.

Adrian

Re: [users] problem caused by rescaling

[Adrian Try]

Hi Bernard

Dear Adrian,
> Thanks. I can drag the box up but there is no Start Recovery box visible
> still.


Maybe you can try just using the keyboard. Pressing Enter may start the
recovery process for you.

Hope it works!

Adrian

[users] Impress - use videoclip

[Peter Schramm]

Hello everybody,

I want to inlcude an .mpg-Videoclip into an impress-presentation. OO
2.1. Windows XP.
The presentation was made with powerpoint and on one page I want to
include now the videoclip and then play the presentation with impress.
The page shows a black rectangle and the videoclip starts for half a
second
and then stops - black rectangle. Going forward backwards one page
doesn't
help also not clicking the rectangle. How to deal with that? Thanks.

Best regards

Peter Schramm


Peter Schramm
IT-Abteilung
Tel. 0931 - 393 -1561
Fax 0931 -393 - 1554


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