Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
On 18 Apr 2008 at 15:47, Adrian Try wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:58 AM, John Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Mike Scott, et al: Has no one heard of Seamonkey, which is a browser and email package all in one? Yes. IIRC seamonkey has the same browser engine as firefox. But I have the same objection to integrating email browser that I have to integrating OOo and email. They're different beasts. (And I loathe html email, btw!) By all means make applications compatible, but don't glue them together into some monolithic monster! -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED]Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
sniplots of stuff where people talk about their favourite email client/snip Isn't this *exactly* the reason why OOo should *not* have a bundled email client? I use TB, someone else uses Pegasus, someone else might use Seamonkey, Spicemonkey, Zimbra, Evolution and this list continues... I can't believe how many times this question comes up. It is based on users' assumption that Outlook/Outlook Express is part of Office. Technically it is just another standalone application that has some integration hooks to their office applications. The real answer should be to continue to promote OOo and increase it's adoption and publicise the fact that is has a very nice and *open* API (Java?) to which *any* email client could interface if the developer and users so wished. To the chap who suggested Pegasus: I have never even heard of it and do not want to use non-open source products, so why should your preference impact me? Send the Pegasus developer a link to the OOo developer site and ask him - nicely - to take a look at providing some integration hooks in his application. Do you know what it is you want it to do BTW? Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] styles for Calc ?
2008/4/18, Kenn Goutal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nearly always, I like to have my spreadsheets look a certain way. I like to have all the cells have top-left alignment, with no wrapping, no borders, default colours, default font, etc -- *except* the column headers (cells in the first row that are not empty) in which case I want them to have bottom-left alignment, with no wrapping 1pt (?) black borders around each cell, boldface, nd a special background colour. On one hand, I'd like to have every new sheet be created with these characteristics, by default. I'd like these formats to be associated either with the row or the column, *and* be conditional on whether there's a value in the cell. I really don't want to specify that the entire first row be populated by cells that look like blank column headers -- especially given that (I believe) this would make the sheet infinitely wide, making it hard to print. But on any given sheet, I could override these formats. Anybody have any ideas how to accomplish anything like this? Hello, What about making a template of this set-up and saving it as .ots? You can make it the standard or whatever you want in the File Templates Organize window HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua Beta 3.0.0 (and older) on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
[users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:11 +0100 (BST) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02 +0100 (BST) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ahromi Irawan) wrote: *From:* Ahromi Irawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:11 +0700 Pada Tanggal 04/14/2008 09:26 PM, R N D Martin Menulis: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using cop and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Niall Martin Edit | Paste Special | Formatted Text HTH -- Ahromi Irawan Cirebon Thanks. I'll try that again, but my memory is that it pasted an image of the bit of the spreadsheet rather than distributing the items over the fields. Niall Martin I repeated the operation, and found it pasted everything in column 1 of the table I created, definitely not what I wanted. Niall Martin I've had some off list correspondence with Barbara Duprey which I'm pasting below, as it seems to add something to the discussion. her second last sentence seems to enlighten. Niall Martin Thanks, Niall. Yes, it does, and I think we may be getting closer here. If you click *below* the table you're working with (I generally add an empty paragraph before my paste point), rather than inside the table, then do the Paste Special for formatted text, you should get an independent table that looks pretty much like what you had in Calc. If you want to append the data from that copy to your existing, nicely formatted table, just add an empty row at the bottom of the formatted one. Then click somewhere in the copied table, Table Select Table, and Ctrl-C. Now you have all your spreadsheet data in a good form for normal pasting. Click in the first cell (or whichever one is to be the top left of the appended data) of the empty new row of the formatted table, then Ctrl-V. Your data should populate the formatted table in the appropriate columns, adding all the rows it needs. Now you can delete the copied temporary table. That should do it, I hope, though you may have to do a little more to get the copied data to match the existing table's format. I do a very similar thing getting data from Base tables and queries into Writer tables. Unfortunately, the clipboard formats for Writer, Calc, and Base seem to be incompatible without the intermediate step. (By the way, let's keep all this on the list so others can help, too.) Niall Martin wrote: Thanks for your message.. Initially I created my table, then did paste special on to it. No go. I then explored the other options. DDE seemed to give the wrong answer. Paste special taking the formatted text option put everything in a single column of the table, instead of distributing the items in the appropriate columns. What succeeded was paste special, taking the unformatted text option, highlighting the pasted text, followed by table/convert to table. It does seem a roundabout way of doing things, particularly if having set up the table you then want to add more data to it. I hope this clarifies the process. On 16 Apr 2008 at 14:20, Barbara Duprey wrote: Date sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:20:01 -0500 From:Barbara Duprey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: * *Re: [users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table* R N D Martin wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Barker) wrote: *From:* Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:54 +0100 At 15:26 14/04/2008 +0100, Niall Martin wrote: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using copy and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Possibly. I think that, in Writer, this is even easier than you hope. Don't create any table first. Instead, copy the cells from your spreadsheet and then use Edit | Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Shift+V), selecting DDE link from the options. This creates a table with your imported values, which you can then format as you require. Note that
[users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:37 -0700, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/16/2008 03:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See this OOo bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88366 And how long do you figure that it would take David Harris to port to Linux Mac OS X? That is of course once the proprietary third-party core editor issue is resolved... Thunderbird currently supports Windows, Linux Mac OS X, is opensource (with Mozilla restrictions that are already acknowledged and used in OOo - see the OOo THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html), and localised for many languages: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html Further, Thunderbird already has several million users, a vast support network, and a considerable amount of add-in's/extensions (to include Calendar/PIM). Sorry, but I'd not vote for 88366. It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client schema. I've never used MS Office and Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only post so far that has made sense to me was on of mike scott's as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail client writers who should adopt the OOo Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as should NNTP client writers and anyone else wanting a text based composer. To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would point out that OOo has already done so; times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were discrete products, Then MS bundled them into Office, I believe it was then that Star (hence OOo) slavishly followed suite (sic). Sofware that could benefit from using an external composer (e.g. Mail/NNTP/Blog Writers etc) are not going to invest in such unless MS Word is available as a composer; i.e.Word is must have, OOo is should have and the rest are nice to have. There is also the issue of MS having just ditched toolstrips in favor of ribbons - no matter what you may think they are not the same, at least not under the covers, Ribbon integration is not the same as ToolStrip integration. The change is more significant than the change from Toolbars to Toolstrips. And like it or not people are going to ask, does it have ribbons, toolstrips are so yesterday. By way of illustration only I would point out that the major online office suites (ThinkFree, Google Docs Spreadsheets, Zoho and Ajax13) all target MS Office, I think two also target openoffice (Google Zoho), one I'm not sure of, and one does not. The one that doesn't (ThinkFree) is highly regarded by some - it is offered in Oz by Telstra (largest telco 85%, largest ISP 50%+) mind you Telstra and MS are bosom buddies. It occurs to me that ThinkFree would a natural aquisition for MS, rebranded as Live Office. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Re:Trouble with Outlook Express since downloading OOo2.4
On 18/04/2008 01:32, NoOp wrote: On 04/17/2008 09:41 AM, Bud Oliver wrote: I do hope that I am doing this correctly. I had a reply from NoOp as well with about the same info as Twayne and I thank them both. I will go into the situation in as much detail as I can but will not know all of the proper terminology. After installing OOo2.4 which replaced 2.3, I noticed that the icon on my saved emails had changed to the OOo Writer icon but the icon was not as sharp. When I tried to open a saved email a ASCII Filter Options opened, Character set is Western Europe, clicking OK opens a Writer document with many pages of letters and numbers (a short email message come out as four pages) Again, no clue as to OE as I've never used it. However, it appears that OE 5 and above use .dbx file format. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Express Some of these may, or may not help: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069/en-us http://www.mailnavigator.com/read_outlook_express_dbx_files.html http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpresstid=63c2c708-fe0d-4c10-8e35-c5a8d259c8d0cat=lang=cr=sloc=p=1 Good luck. Once you do get that sorted out, it would be interesting to find out why/how your OE messages became associated with OOo in the first place. What is the file extension on the messages that you are trying to open? If you *save* a message from Outlook Express (OE) you get a file with a .eml extension; OE uses the .dbx extension for its *folders* - files containing several messages which have been filed within OE's own filing system. But I don't begin to understand how either of those extensions could have become associated to OpenOffice. It certainly isn't part of the OOo installation procedure. Also, if you double click on a .eml file, that file opens in OE - always assuming the file associations are correct. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
On 18/04/2008 15:37, Urbane Tiger wrote: snip It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client schema. I've never used MS Office and Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only post so far that has made sense to me was on of mike scott's as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail client writers who should adopt the OOo Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as should NNTP client writers and anyone else wanting a text based composer. I think the main things expected from an integated OOo/mail client schema are: 1. Ability to use Writer to compose (including Forward and Reply [all]) e-mail and news (NNTP) messages. Note that this should be an *option*, even if all the necessary components are installed. 2. Ability, while doing #1, to *share* (as opposed to using copies of) spell checking dictionaries. 3. Ability to use the mail client's address book from within Writer and/or Calc and/or Base for things like mail merge or the generation of lists or tables (in the English *and* Database senses of that word) sorted by, say, post code (ZIP code) or city or surname or ... 4. Similar to #3 but for the purpose of writing an individual letter (to be sent by snail mail) to someone whose address is in the e-mail client's address book. It should be possible, within Writer for example to grab (Insert Field?) a *complete* name/address from the address book without having to specify many separate pieces (Title, Initial, Surname, Street address, City, Post code, Country, etc.). The definition of complete name/address should be easily specifiable by the user with sensible defaults based on Locale. Any more, anyone ??? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: OOXML
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:05:58 +1000, Lindsay Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- From: Urbane Tiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:21 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: OOXML On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:33:52 -0400, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Urbane Tiger wrote: Now that OOXML has been accepted by the ISO as a standard can we expect OOo will adopt it its the preferred format. Please no rants - there are plenty of soapboxes that are very much more visble to the world at large than is this mailing list. This is no rant, but anyone who knows anything about OOXML would never suggest such a thing. From a technical perspective, it's an absolute disaster, the sole purpose of which, is to further MS lockin. Same goes for USB v Firewire. Can you buy a 500G WD Firewire hard disk at the Post Office for $AU179 -- no. Can you buy a 500G WD USB hard disk at the Post Office for $AU179 -- yes. Can someone help me understand this comment? What is the significance of one, and not the other, being available at the Post Office? There's obviously something here that I do not know, but probably ought to, so be kind to me vbg. $179 is a good price for a 500GB Western Digital external hard disk, and being available at the post office means it is widely available (unlike lots of cheap stuff, just ask anyone outside of metro areas). One would prefer it come with the far superior Firewire interface, but it comes with the vastly inferior USB interface. I would guess fewer than 10% of new desktop systems have a Firewire (IEEE1394) socket whereas 99.5% have several USB sockets. This was illustration of the best is not necessarily the winner. It was also a way of letting folks know that the Aussie post office is a place where bargains are often to be had. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Urbane Tiger wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:37 -0700, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/16/2008 03:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See this OOo bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88366 And how long do you figure that it would take David Harris to port to Linux Mac OS X? That is of course once the proprietary third-party core editor issue is resolved... Thunderbird currently supports Windows, Linux Mac OS X, is opensource (with Mozilla restrictions that are already acknowledged and used in OOo - see the OOo THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html), and localised for many languages: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html Further, Thunderbird already has several million users, a vast support network, and a considerable amount of add-in's/extensions (to include Calendar/PIM). Sorry, but I'd not vote for 88366. It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client schema. I've never used MS Office and Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only post so far that has made sense to me was on of mike scott's as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail client writers who should adopt the OOo Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as should NNTP client writers and anyone else wanting a text based composer. To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would point out that OOo has already done so; times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were discrete products, Then MS bundled them into Office, I believe it was then that Star (hence OOo) slavishly followed suite (sic). I think you'll find they're still discrete products, that just happen to come in the same box. They are not integrated the way OpenOffice is. You can see this, by opening text documents and spreadsheets at the same time in both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. If you open the task manager, you'll see both Word Excel, but only one instance of OpenOffice. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: OOXML
Urbane Tiger wrote: $179 is a good price for a 500GB Western Digital external hard disk, and being available at the post office means it is widely available (unlike lots of cheap stuff, just ask anyone outside of metro areas). One would prefer it come with the far superior Firewire interface, but it comes with the vastly inferior USB interface. I would guess fewer than 10% of new desktop systems have a Firewire (IEEE1394) socket whereas 99.5% have several USB sockets. This was illustration of the best is not necessarily the winner. It was also a way of letting folks know that the Aussie post office is a place where bargains are often to be had. Define best. USB has the advantage that it can be used with so many other devices. I don't recall ever seeing a firewire mouse, printer or keyboard. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] convert in calc
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[users] Re: Forced to install MS office so boss can sync phone, any alternative?
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:19:38 +1200, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:44:05 +1000 Urbane Tiger wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:36:03 -0400, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Urbane Tiger wrote: Unfortunately, many consider Outlook to be the only email app. However, depending on where the calendar is located, you may be able to use Thunderbird Lightning, both of which can be found at www.mozilla.org. I sync my Nokia N800 Thunderbird with Google Calendar. cool - has Google lost your Calendar yet like it loses folks mail. Not that I've noticed. Then again, it's easy enough to lose email and calendars in Outlook too. The same goes for T'bird, Eudora, IncrediMail etc. The difference is that in any one instance of losing mail or calendars, only one person is impacted, not everyone! Love 'em or hate 'em - I can't recall MS Hotmail losing significant amounts of data. Then your memory is not that long! http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/20/2132207.shtml I stand corrected - but how much mail was actually lost via the hack. I had an hotmail account back then don't recall losing any mail, however I did lose mail in the Great Mail Crash at Google as did several other people I know. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Hi, OOo Productivity Suite is great!! and is the choice of many all over the globe but let us not bury our heads in the sand.Email has become an integral part of our daily economic and personal communication and actually the issue here is whether OOo can address a missing need highlighted by users. CONSIDER THIS-Would TB be a default choice for many OOo users if the calendering was absent?So moving forward what can be done or not needs to be addressed. Sammy. On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:37 -0700, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/16/2008 03:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See this OOo bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88366 And how long do you figure that it would take David Harris to port to Linux Mac OS X? That is of course once the proprietary third-party core editor issue is resolved... Thunderbird currently supports Windows, Linux Mac OS X, is opensource (with Mozilla restrictions that are already acknowledged and used in OOo - see the OOo THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html), and localised for many languages: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html Further, Thunderbird already has several million users, a vast support network, and a considerable amount of add-in's/extensions (to include Calendar/PIM). Sorry, but I'd not vote for 88366. It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client schema. I've never used MS Office and Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only post so far that has made sense to me was on of mike scott's as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail client writers who should adopt the OOo Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as should NNTP client writers and anyone else wanting a text based composer. To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would point out that OOo has already done so; times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were discrete products, Then MS bundled them into Office, I believe it was then that Star (hence OOo) slavishly followed suite (sic). Sofware that could benefit from using an external composer (e.g. Mail/NNTP/Blog Writers etc) are not going to invest in such unless MS Word is available as a composer; i.e.Word is must have, OOo is should have and the rest are nice to have. There is also the issue of MS having just ditched toolstrips in favor of ribbons - no matter what you may think they are not the same, at least not under the covers, Ribbon integration is not the same as ToolStrip integration. The change is more significant than the change from Toolbars to Toolstrips. And like it or not people are going to ask, does it have ribbons, toolstrips are so yesterday. By way of illustration only I would point out that the major online office suites (ThinkFree, Google Docs Spreadsheets, Zoho and Ajax13) all target MS Office, I think two also target openoffice (Google Zoho), one I'm not sure of, and one does not. The one that doesn't (ThinkFree) is highly regarded by some - it is offered in Oz by Telstra (largest telco 85%, largest ISP 50%+) mind you Telstra and MS are bosom buddies. It occurs to me that ThinkFree would a natural aquisition for MS, rebranded as Live Office. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 18/04/2008 15:37, Urbane Tiger wrote: snip It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client schema. I've never used MS Office and Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only post so far that has made sense to me was on of mike scott's as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail client writers who should adopt the OOo Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as should NNTP client writers and anyone else wanting a text based composer. I think the main things expected from an integated OOo/mail client schema are: 1. Ability to use Writer to compose (including Forward and Reply [all]) e-mail and news (NNTP) messages. Note that this should be an *option*, even if all the necessary components are installed. We have people at work that do this. It is crap. Unless configured properly, all messages are *.doc attachments. 2. Ability, while doing #1, to *share* (as opposed to using copies of) spell checking dictionaries. This I agree with. I would like to integrate everything and use StarDict myself. 3. Ability to use the mail client's address book from within Writer and/or Calc and/or Base for things like mail merge or the generation of lists or tables (in the English *and* Database senses of that word) sorted by, say, post code (ZIP code) or city or surname or ... Not much use for me but for some, I agree. Of course, I would also look at integrating with customers data bases as well. 4. Similar to #3 but for the purpose of writing an individual letter (to be sent by snail mail) to someone whose address is in the e-mail client's address book. It should be possible, within Writer for example to grab (Insert Field?) a *complete* name/address from the address book without having to specify many separate pieces (Title, Initial, Surname, Street address, City, Post code, Country, etc.). The definition of complete name/address should be easily specifiable by the user with sensible defaults based on Locale. Again, not much use to me but as with 3, access to a customer relation package would also be useful. Any more, anyone ??? I think there are enough open API's to allow someone to make any application work with OOo, if vender's want to. I would hate it if OOo decided to use a specific email client or data base. I hated it (like others) when we were moved to exchange server at work. As a Linux users, Evolution was the only option. (no imap or pop) so I was forced to use an OE clone package that I found awkward and an interface I got rid of 6 years earlier when I had a chance. Now that I have a way to use Thunderbird with Exchange server, I am much happier. -- Robin Laing - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Sammy Njuguna wrote: Hi, OOo Productivity Suite is great!! and is the choice of many all over the globe but let us not bury our heads in the sand.Email has become an integral part of our daily economic and personal communication and actually the issue here is whether OOo can address a missing need highlighted by users. CONSIDER THIS-Would TB be a default choice for many OOo users if the calendering was absent?So moving forward what can be done or not needs to be addressed. Consider this. The email app that's bundled with Microsoft Office is one of the worst going. Given that most people have favourite applications, why should OpenOffice dictate the email app they can use with it? -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Fonts Lost in Upgrade
Recently I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.4 on my Slackware workstation/server. Now all the installed fonts are no longer accessible. In ~/.openoffice2/users/fonts/ there are no files. How do I re-install all fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/? Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] setting primary key in Base
I copied some tables from MS Access and tried to set the primary key and when saving get the following msg. SQL Status: 23000 Error code: -10 Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column: column: LastName table: Student Information in statement [ALTER TABLE Student Information ALTER COLUMN LastName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL] I would like to know why this is happening and how can I set whatever field as primary key - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] setting primary key in Base
There are no records in the table yet Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:53 -0700, David Bowman wrote: I copied some tables from MS Access and tried to set the primary key and when saving get the following msg. SQL Status: 23000 Error code: -10 Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column: column: LastName table: Student Information in statement [ALTER TABLE Student Information ALTER COLUMN LastName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL] I would like to know why this is happening and how can I set whatever field as primary key it thinks you've got one or more records with a null entry for last name and therefore can't set the primary key. Craig - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
James Knott wrote: Sammy Njuguna wrote: Hi, OOo Productivity Suite is great!! and is the choice of many all over the globe but let us not bury our heads in the sand.Email has become an integral part of our daily economic and personal communication and actually the issue here is whether OOo can address a missing need highlighted by users. CONSIDER THIS-Would TB be a default choice for many OOo users if the calendering was absent?So moving forward what can be done or not needs to be addressed. Consider this. The email app that's bundled with Microsoft Office is one of the worst going. Given that most people have favourite applications, why should OpenOffice dictate the email app they can use with it? Who said anything about dictating a choice... With that rational an install of Kubuntu should have no applications by default...after all it is just an OS right. -- OpenOffice.org User Community Forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] setting primary key in Base
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:53 -0700, David Bowman wrote: I copied some tables from MS Access and tried to set the primary key and when saving get the following msg. SQL Status: 23000 Error code: -10 Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column: column: LastName table: Student Information in statement [ALTER TABLE Student Information ALTER COLUMN LastName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL] I would like to know why this is happening and how can I set whatever field as primary key it thinks you've got one or more records with a null entry for last name and therefore can't set the primary key. Craig - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Drew Jensen wrote: James Knott wrote: Sammy Njuguna wrote: Hi, OOo Productivity Suite is great!! and is the choice of many all over the globe but let us not bury our heads in the sand.Email has become an integral part of our daily economic and personal communication and actually the issue here is whether OOo can address a missing need highlighted by users. CONSIDER THIS-Would TB be a default choice for many OOo users if the calendering was absent?So moving forward what can be done or not needs to be addressed. Consider this. The email app that's bundled with Microsoft Office is one of the worst going. Given that most people have favourite applications, why should OpenOffice dictate the email app they can use with it? Who said anything about dictating a choice... With that rational an install of Kubuntu should have no applications by default...after all it is just an OS right. Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote: Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and everything else, use Emacs. Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Fonts Lost in Upgrade -- RESOLVED
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: How do I re-install all fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/? Never mind. I remembered the 'spadmin' program and fixed the problem. Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote: Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and everything else, use Emacs. I hear it's also a text editor! ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] setting primary key in Base
David Bowman wrote: I copied some tables from MS Access and tried to set the primary key and when saving get the following msg. SQL Status: 23000 Error code: -10 Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column: column: LastName table: Student Information in statement [ALTER TABLE Student Information ALTER COLUMN LastName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL] I would like to know why this is happening and how can I set whatever field as primary key When you copy in the data to a new table in a Base file you are given the option of declaring fields as 'required' or 'not required'. A primary key field field must be a 'required field' or NOT NULL in it's definition. So - if you have moved your data already and have not done this, don't worry you can fix the problem. Let's say my import table is called 'access_data' and it has a field 'CustNo' that I want to make the primary key, but I failed to define the field as NOT NULL - here is what you do. Open the database, Open the table definition for edit. In the field select Entry Required = True and save the table definition. Assuming there are no null values in the column this will save without a problem. Now you can set the field to be the primary key. (note if there are any NULL values in that column you will need to fix that before you can proceed ) -- OpenOffice.org User Community Forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Chart data labels
I have a data set that has positive and negative numbers. I want to apply a power regression curve fit to my data. In order to do that I have to transpose the numbers so that all of the data are 0 or a positive number. My question is how do I plot the graph so that I show the original data labels before the transformation? TIA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
2008/4/18, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote: Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and everything else, use Emacs. I hear it's also a text editor! ;-) Not everybody has the same taste, obviously. I love the Opera M2 email client, but everybody else seems to hate it. These days I don't use it anyway since I have GMail and since I also have Evolution, which includes a lot more than just email. I also love Emacs, but using it as a email client? No, not really. Having an email + PIM built into OpenOffice.org? Well, I wouldn't hate it but I would certainly wonder why... J.R.
[users] auto filter enabled excel sheet in Calc
Once in a week our firm gets a big excel file with auto filter enabled. If we open this file with calc then only the second row is always for auto filter enabled not the whole sheet. This is reported as an issue in issuedatabase. And now my question: Is anyone out there who can built me a macro to set a range for autofiltering a whole sheet, except the first row? Thank you in advance. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.1/1384 - Release Date: 17.04.2008 15:47 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote: Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and everything else, use Emacs. Rich And who is the target audience for that solution? -- OpenOffice.org User Community Forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: style organizer in separate window?
Dave Barton wrote: Yes I am afraid you are missing the obvious ;) With the Stylist panel open, just left click in a space around the icons at the top of the panel, then drag it away from the side of the main window. Hey Presto! You have a floating window. ((( oh ))) Well, I'm glad I asked. I feel a little silly, but I would never have guessed it on my own. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2303tag=nl.e539 -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, I don't have to support your Windows anymore. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] automatic blank pages always generated, bug?
Hello, No matter how I choose the options in Options-Writer-Print regarding printing of automatically generated pages, the output always has them -- I just cannot suppress their printing. I am trying to print single page documents using mail merge when this keeps on happening. This is on OOo 2.4, Debian Sid Linux and Windows. Is this a bug? -HS - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
