[users] Re: users Digest 30 Dec 2008 14:03:55 -0000 Issue 6884
On 2008/12/31 12:35 AM Michael Reich wrote: Bob: We had a discussion of OSX issues with Ver. 3 in early December, including the freezing and inability to force close. OOO Ver.3 for the Mac does not appear to be completely ready for primetime yet. I'm sticking with NeoOffice I've had very few problems using OO.o 3, very few crashes and always able to force quit if necessary (very rare occurrence). I also used the development version for several months before the final release and found it very reliable. It is definitely ready for prime time. As for NeoOffice, they take the code from OO.o, modify it and release it using a different license that prevents OO.o using any of their code. They contribute nothing back to the OO.o project or to its future development. They only take and give nothing back. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Some issues with Option buttons, OpenOffice.org Calc 3.0.0.
View → Toolbars → Form controls Design mode on Draw a couple of Option buttons. I tried this with two different versions of OpenOffice.org, with different kinds of failure… Version a: 3.0.0 OOO300m7 (Build:9354), OS=Mandriva Linux Free 2009.0 Version b: 3.0.0 OOO300m9 (Build:9358), OS=Ubuntu 8.10 First version a: Create an option button, place it in a cell. Copy it to a couple of more cells in one row and then copy all of them to cells in another row. Right click a option button, select Control… Edit some fields, like the Linked cell field in the Data tab and some fields in the General field. There is a field called Group name. Make sure the option buttons in the same row has the same Group name, for example 1. Then set the Group name to 2 for the other row. If you don't do this, only ONE option button can be selected. What you probably want to do is to select one button for EACH ROW, right? THat's probably what the Group names are for, at least it seems to work that way. When you verified that this actually works, save the spreadsheet. Then shut down OpenOffice.org and then open the spreadsheet again. What happened to the Group names? In my case they disappeared, which made my spreadsheet unusable! And I had a LOT of option buttons on it! 8 rows, five in each row. I certainly don't want to redo that job each time I open the spreadsheet. Now version b: When I try to do the same thing on my Ubuntu machine, OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 installed from the OpenOffice.org official web site, not from the repositories, the Group name option is MISSING! So how am I supposed to be able to use option buttons at all then? Maybe I just missed something important, that's why I write to the list before writing a bug report. So, to make this a question: How can I create a couple of rows with a few option buttons on each row, letting me select ONE option PER ROW? Not only one option per spreadsheet. Thanks Johnny Rosenberg
[users] File Picker: How to show hidden directories/files?
On Kubuntu Linux with Open Office 3.0 from OOo how can I have the FIle Chooser show hidden directories and files when saving a file? OOo does not use the KDE File Chooser, and the built-in File Chooser does not seem to have the ability to show hidden files. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
[users] Re: Is there a way to copy tabs?
In article 21610.7586784803$1230706...@news.gmane.org, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 23:24 30/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: I often need to copy tabbed tables from one doc to another. It would be helpful if I could take the tab stops along, but I can't figure out how to do it. I also can't figure out how, for example, to stick a line in a table and have it use the same tab stop as the other lines. I'm guessing that by tabbed tables you mean those created not using what OpenOffice calls a table, but just aligning material in columns using tabs. And you are talking about a text (Writer) document - right? I find tabs normally being carried over, in fact. But I think I see one problem. Tabs are a paragraph (and paragraph style) property, not a character property. Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format-Paragraph-Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Is there a way to copy tabs?
Robert Peirce wrote: In article 21610.7586784803$1230706...@news.gmane.org, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 23:24 30/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: I often need to copy tabbed tables from one doc to another. It would be helpful if I could take the tab stops along, but I can't figure out how to do it. I also can't figure out how, for example, to stick a line in a table and have it use the same tab stop as the other lines. I'm guessing that by tabbed tables you mean those created not using what OpenOffice calls a table, but just aligning material in columns using tabs. And you are talking about a text (Writer) document - right? I find tabs normally being carried over, in fact. But I think I see one problem. Tabs are a paragraph (and paragraph style) property, not a character property. Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format-Paragraph-Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. There's a much easier way to copy tab stops and other paragraph formatting from one paragraph to another. Go to where you want to copy the tabs (and other formatting) from. Click on the Format Paintbrush icon on the toolbar (in my fairly standard configuration, it is near the middle of the top toolbar; it looks like a paintbrush). Then go to where you want to copy the formatting to, and click anywhere in that paragraph. That should do it! (I just verified on my system that it works as described.)
Re: [users] Re: Is there a way to copy tabs?
At 09:10 31/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format-Paragraph-Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. There's a less tedious way to do that: o Put the cursor into a correct line. o Double-click the Format Paintbrush button in the Standard toolbar. The cursor changes to a paint bucket. o Click once in each line (paragraph) you wish to correct. This pastes the paragraph formatting. o To cancel the paint bucket, either click the Format Paintbrush button again or just press Esc. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Is there a way to copy tabs?
Brian Barker wrote: At 09:10 31/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format-Paragraph-Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. There's a less tedious way to do that: o Put the cursor into a correct line. o Double-click the Format Paintbrush button in the Standard toolbar. The cursor changes to a paint bucket. o Click once in each line (paragraph) you wish to correct. This pastes the paragraph formatting. Actually, a single click only applies the formatting to the word you click on. To apply to the entire paragraph you have to double click to select the entire paragraph. I do not know if there is a setting to change this behavior. -- Gene Y. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Is there a way to copy tabs?
Gene Young wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 09:10 31/12/2008 -0500, Robert Peirce wrote: Yes, the tabbed tables are created by aligning data in columns, and you provided the clue to solve the problem. Format-Paragraph-Tabs lists all the tabs and their type. Writing this information down for the correct lines and creating a new list for the full table aligns everything properly. It is a bit tedious but only has to be done once. There's a less tedious way to do that: o Put the cursor into a correct line. o Double-click the Format Paintbrush button in the Standard toolbar. The cursor changes to a paint bucket. o Click once in each line (paragraph) you wish to correct. This pastes the paragraph formatting. Actually, a single click only applies the formatting to the word you click on. To apply to the entire paragraph you have to double click to select the entire paragraph. I do not know if there is a setting to change this behavior. Correction, I have played with this some more and see that a single click copies the PARAGRAPH format but not the CHARACTER format. The double click copies everything. -- Gene Y. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] File Picker: How to show hidden directories/files?
2008/12/31 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On Kubuntu Linux with Open Office 3.0 from OOo how can I have the FIle Chooser show hidden directories and files when saving a file? OOo does not use the KDE File Chooser, and the built-in File Chooser does not seem to have the ability to show hidden files. In OOo on Windows, at ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.orgGeneral there's a check box under the heading Open/Save dialogs. It is labelled Use OpenOffice.org dialogs. If this option exists in your Kubuntu version of OOo then I think unchecking it will cause OOo to use the system dialogs which ... -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] PC Pitstop has some graphs about OOo usage/users
Web Kracked wrote (24-12-2008 18:11) I am not sure how they got their data, but here are some graphs on the usage and users of OpenOffice.org This may or not be useful to you, but it looks pretty. I do not know what they mean by attach rate but this site My wild guess would be a counting of attachment types send via e-mail.. indicates OOo went from 5 to over 15 in one year. Check it out and see what you think. http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/software-trends/openofficeorg-trends/ -- Cor Nouws-nl.OpenOffice.org marketing contact = 2008: The Year of 3 = www.nieuwsteoffice.nl = - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Newbie questions
I have recently installed OpenOffice 3 on Windows XP and am in the process of porting templates across from MS Office. Most of these have some VBA, and some have a LOT! I've read and re-read whatever documentation I can find, but there seems to be a lot of necessary information missing. E.g. In VBA, to access the contents of a form field in a Word document, one would do something like:- bidValue - ActiveDocument.FormFields(BidValue).Result How would I do it in OpenOffice Basic? Is there a comprehensive, detailed list of the objects in OpenOffice anywhere? Then there are events, most of the information of which is in the documentation, except - what are the properties of the Event object for the Text modified event of a TextBox? And is there a property or method to cancel the event? Is there no code completion at all in the Basic editor? I really miss that. Thanks for your attention, folks.
Re: [users] File Picker: How to show hidden directories/files?
2008/12/31 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com: In OOo on Windows, at ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.orgGeneral there's a check box under the heading Open/Save dialogs. It is labelled Use OpenOffice.org dialogs. If this option exists in your Kubuntu version of OOo then I think unchecking it will cause OOo to use the system dialogs which ... Thanks, Harold. If that is the dialog with Help, Document status, and Year, then in Kubuntu there is no Open/Save Dialogs heading. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
Re: [users] PC Pitstop has some graphs about OOo usage/users
I saw a reference to them looking on the user's PC for programs installed, as they test the systems for errors, bugs, viruses, etc. Then they collect that info from peeking into other systems and us it in their own fashion. But, who knows, it may be from another source. Tim L. Web Kracked Cor Nouws wrote: Web Kracked wrote (24-12-2008 18:11) I am not sure how they got their data, but here are some graphs on the usage and users of OpenOffice.org This may or not be useful to you, but it looks pretty. I do not know what they mean by attach rate but this site My wild guess would be a counting of attachment types send via e-mail.. indicates OOo went from 5 to over 15 in one year. Check it out and see what you think. http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/software-trends/openofficeorg-trends/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Is there a way to copy tabs?
I don't understand why one would want to use tabbed tables at all. What are the disadvantages of using real tables, which can be copied from one place to another without all the formatting gymnastics? John On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Robert Peirce b...@peirce-family.comwrote: I often need to copy tabbed tables from one doc to another. It would be helpful if I could take the tab stops along, but I can't figure out how to do it. I also can't figure out how, for example, to stick a line in a table and have it use the same tab stop as the other lines. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Quick Slideshow Creation
I'd like to create an Openoffice.org slideshow presentation with about 100+ jpg images. Is there a quick and easy way to do this, or do I have to manually create each slide and place each image into it? I'd love to find a way to automatically create a sideshow with all the images in a particular directory. Better yet, if there was an open source image viewer (similar to Google's Picasa) that exported a slideshow in openoffice.org format, that would be great. -- by grace alone, Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr. Lakeshore Baptist Church http://lakeshorebaptist.net Rebuilding Lakeshore to the glory of God http://rebuildlakeshore.com Pastor's blog: Locusts Wild Honey http://elbourne.org Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Don_Elbourne/561625833 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation
Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: I'd like to create an Openoffice.org slideshow presentation with about 100+ jpg images. Is there a quick and easy way to do this, or do I have to manually create each slide and place each image into it? I'd love to find a way to automatically create a sideshow with all the images in a particular directory. Better yet, if there was an open source image viewer (similar to Google's Picasa) that exported a slideshow in openoffice.org format, that would be great. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PhotoAlbum ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] File Picker: How to show hidden directories/files?
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 19:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/12/31 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com: In OOo on Windows, at ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.orgGeneral there's a check box under the heading Open/Save dialogs. It is labelled Use OpenOffice.org dialogs. If this option exists in your Kubuntu version of OOo then I think unchecking it will cause OOo to use the system dialogs which ... Thanks, Harold. If that is the dialog with Help, Document status, and Year, then in Kubuntu there is no Open/Save Dialogs heading. In my standard linux version of OOo the option is there so it looks like the Ubuntu people have removed it from the version they distribute, probably to ensure that it has better integration with the desktop. What I do on the (rare) occasions I want to save to a hidden directory is to enter the name of the directory in the file name box then press enter. Of course if you don't know the name of the directory that's a pain. I tried Ctl-H but that just opens the Help window. -- God bless you, Keith Bates www.new-life.org.au If you don't have a reason to live JESUS IS THE ANSWER! Ask him into your life today... He really does make a difference
Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation : plus some OT
Philip Goodfellow wrote: Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: I'd like to create an Openoffice.org slideshow presentation with about 100+ jpg images. Is there a quick and easy way to do this, or do I have to manually create each slide and place each image into it? I'd love to find a way to automatically create a sideshow with all the images in a particular directory. Better yet, if there was an open source image viewer (similar to Google's Picasa) that exported a slideshow in openoffice.org format, that would be great. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PhotoAlbum ? Here is the text from the above link - Create with Photo Album, using just four clicks, a slideshow from a folder of pictures with random fades automatically applied between slides, and the slideshow set to loop continuously. This Photo Album extension is based on the original Photo Album Creator http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718package_id=95976 by Russ Phillips, modified to be suitable as an extension among other improvements. How to install: in menu Tools-Extension Manager just add the whole unpacked zip archive and then you should see a new menu-item in Tools-Add-Ons-Create Photo Album. - Do you need the slide show to be in a OpenOffice.org's format? What are you going to use it for? There are free programs that create slide shows and photo albums. I use one that creates a photo album in an HTML format, and there is a slide show option. Then you can publish it online. [ http://jalbum.net/software/ ] So, again, do you need it to be in OOo's Presentation format? Are you going to add text to each of the slides? So if the extension does not work for you, try the one I use for HTML photo albums. I will try the extension myself. OT: sort of OpenOffice.org is a great product, but it is not a do all product. I do not want to see it go the way of MS Office. MS has tried to make their office suite do everything. Create a web page in Word, but then you would have a web page that is 4 or 5 times the size then the software that was created to write web pages. Then you get to create spreadsheets within Word. They want Word to do Excel's job. Of course there are so many thousands of options in Word, 99% of the users never have seen or used them. I remember when Word went to Word 97 and the selling point was they added over 250 new options and functions for Word alone. Now it does everything except what it was created for. Also it takes a 2 gig processor to run the thing without seeing any working delays (in my opinion). Unlike Word, OpenOffice.org's Writer was developed as a word processor and not everything but as Word is now. OpenOffice.org has many parts to it, like Writer, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Draw, etc.. Spreadsheet was not developed to do Writer's job and or Writer to do Draw's job. I do not know if I like the one opening screen, then you choose which part you want to use. It is convenient to have one icon to open OOo though. Yet, I feel that you need to use the best software to do the job. Hopefully it will be a free or open source package, like OpenOffice.org. Do not ask the teams of programmers to make extensions and other add ons that turns OOo into another bloated MS Office suite or Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, or other software that need several gigs of hard drive to install and heavy processor speeds to use. I now run a 2 gig dual core processor and 3 gig of ram on my Vista laptop and it does a worse job with most of my work than my XP laptop that had a single core 2 gig processor with 1.25 gig of ram. Last night the dual core went to 171 degrees running a simple virus checking software. I never had my single core processor go above 150 degrees in core temperature. I was told by DELL that the Vista laptop that had twice the number of processors (cores) and twice the ram, that is was an entry level laptop so it was not meant to do what I was doing. It is more powerful than my old laptop and cannot do what the do what that old laptop could do. The example above is the bigger is not always better. OpenOffice.org is not as big (and bloated) as MS Office, but it is better than MS's product. Find the best software for the job you need to do. OOo does a lot of good things, but it is not a do all package. Well, ooops, I rambled on and on and on. Just use OOo and its the extensions. If it does not work for your needs, find a free or an open source product to do the work for you. Tim L. retired and tired of MS. Got any good open source software links to share with me? I have some at www.lungstrom.com/list/ and I would love to double the number of good open source programs listed there. Send them to me at webmas...@krackedpress.com (off the list) OpenOffice.org 3 is there and was there with a link before its official rollout. No
Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation
Philip Goodfellow wrote: Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: I'd like to create an Openoffice.org slideshow presentation with about 100+ jpg images. Is there a quick and easy way to do this, or do I have to manually create each slide and place each image into it? I'd love to find a way to automatically create a sideshow with all the images in a particular directory. Better yet, if there was an open source image viewer (similar to Google's Picasa) that exported a slideshow in openoffice.org format, that would be great. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PhotoAlbum ? Tried it. Seems Easy, but the Random nature of the transitions needs modification. Does exports to an auto play HTML file slide show. Well, if you want simple slide show stuff from Impress/Presentation, use this extension to make a test of your slide show. If you want to do more complex stuff, try this extension and work with Presentation's transitions and other options to modify the slides. Most of my slide show stuff that ends up in HTML format, I need more complex background and linking stuff. BUT, it seems to be a good option. As I said with my OT reply, find the best program for your needs. OOo is what I use for most of my word processor, spreadsheet, presentation stuff. Then I use other open source software to do what OOo cannot do. We got to than those unsong programmers that make OOo better every week, month, year, etc.. Keep up the good work people. Tim L. retired and tired of MS and paying for software you can get legally free. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation
Philip Goodfellow wrote: ttp://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PhotoAlbum ? That looks like it will work. Thanks! -- by grace alone, Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr. Lakeshore Baptist Church http://lakeshorebaptist.net Rebuilding Lakeshore to the glory of God http://rebuildlakeshore.com Pastor's blog: Locusts Wild Honey http://elbourne.org Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Don_Elbourne/561625833 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation : plus some OT
Web Kracked wrote: Do you need the slide show to be in a OpenOffice.org's format? What are you going to use it for? Find the best software for the job you need to do. OOo does a lot of good things, but it is not a do all package. I'm doing a talk before a large group chronicling our relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina. I want to accompany the talk with images of the progress. I'll import all the jpg images into my presentation and then add a few text slides here and there as I move through the timeline and add our future plans and ongoing needs at the end. I'll plug a projector into my laptop to show the slides. I guess there are other ways I could present the information, but Openoffice.org presentation seems a suitable format. I just was hoping for an easier way to add all the images and it looks like I found it in this extension. Thanks. -- by grace alone, Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr. Lakeshore Baptist Church http://lakeshorebaptist.net Rebuilding Lakeshore to the glory of God http://rebuildlakeshore.com Pastor's blog: Locusts Wild Honey http://elbourne.org Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Don_Elbourne/561625833 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] I a trying to unsubscribe from here using the unsub email below and still
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Re: [users] Quick Slideshow Creation : plus some OT
Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: Web Kracked wrote: Do you need the slide show to be in a OpenOffice.org's format? What are you going to use it for? Find the best software for the job you need to do. OOo does a lot of good things, but it is not a do all package. I'm doing a talk before a large group chronicling our relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina. I want to accompany the talk with images of the progress. I'll import all the jpg images into my presentation and then add a few text slides here and there as I move through the timeline and add our future plans and ongoing needs at the end. I'll plug a projector into my laptop to show the slides. I guess there are other ways I could present the information, but Openoffice.org presentation seems a suitable format. I just was hoping for an easier way to add all the images and it looks like I found it in this extension. Thanks. This gives more info. A standard presentation going on in the background. The slide show extension did create a 51 image folder to a slide show. I would go to the slide transition option and use the same, simple, transition for the photos. Of course you can make part of the presentation flow automatically and have it stop a one point, then use the mouse click or enter button to page through the text/image slides that has focusable information. I am glad there is someone who it talking about the slow process of getting my wife's brother's birth place back to something that may look like what it was. How many homes were never either fixed up or replaced? Not many as I am told. Too few promises for money for the insurance companies and the government never got into the hands of the poor and too much got into the hands of the rip-off artist who called themselves contractors. We, in Elmira NY, had our big flood in 1972. There was a song called It Sprinkled, it Rained, and it Poured about the hurricane that stalled out over the state and cause so much flooding and destruction that the Pennsylvania Railroad lost so many bridges that the company went out of business. So, I know what a flood can do for our county seat ( Elmira) and the surrounding areas. Multiply that by 20, 50, 100, 1000, and you get Katrina. By the way, Mark Twain may be associated with the Mississippi, but his wife was born and raised in the Elmira and he wrote some of his books here. We have his river-boat pilot house shaped study near the pond at Elmira College. Good Luck. People have Greensburg Kansas on the Green Channel. We need the same recovery show about the rebuilding after Katrina's devastation. Tim L. retired and tired of MS. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Question about the name of . . . .
Here is a question. On the Quickstarter and the opening screen, there is listed Presentation. In the Extension respiratory there it is listed as Impress. Why is Impress called Presentation instead of Impress for these links? It seems to me a confusing thing to me. I just noticed that today, or it just clicked in my head that Impress was not listed in the program's links. but Presentation is. Any comment? Tim L. retired and tired of MS. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] I a trying to unsubscribe from here using the unsub email below and still
Beth Cornell wrote: I AM TRYING TO UNSUB FROM THIS LIST USING THE EMAIL BELOW AND STILL GETTING EMAILS EVEN AFTER I CONFIRMED. PLEASE HELP. SORRY FOR THE CAPS I AM VISUALLY IMPAIRED. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org BETH AS YOU ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED I WILL USE CAPS TO UNSUBSCRIBE PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL TO users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org YOU WILL THEN RECEIVE AND E-MAIL ASKING YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR UNSUBSCRIBE AND THEN WHEN YOU HAVE CONFIRMED YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE LIST. PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR THE CONFIRMATION E-MAIL. I HOPE THAT HELPS ROB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: OO 3 crashes and can't be killed
I guess I'm not all that concerned about who's giving what to whom. I find NeoOffice to be very stable and integrated in the OSX environment and OOO (pre-version 3) required use of the klunky X11 system. I tried OOO ver. 3 and found it buggy, prone to crashes, and worse, unkillable crashes. I also didn't find the differences between ver. 2 and ver. 3 on the Mac version to be all that compelling. That's why I'm not going to wrestle with OOO3. As stated earlier, I have neither the time or energy to wrestle with the flaws in the Mac OOO3. Needing to use a variety of ways to kill a program/process smacks of Microsoft, not GNU and open source. As usual, your mileage may vary. On 12/31/08 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: Subject: Re: users Digest 30 Dec 2008 14:03:55 - Issue 6884 From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:12:45 -0600 To: users@openoffice.org On 2008/12/31 12:35 AM Michael Reich wrote: Bob: We had a discussion of OSX issues with Ver. 3 in early December, including the freezing and inability to force close. OOO Ver.3 for the Mac does not appear to be completely ready for primetime yet. I'm sticking with NeoOffice I've had very few problems using OO.o 3, very few crashes and always able to force quit if necessary (very rare occurrence). I also used the development version for several months before the final release and found it very reliable. It is definitely ready for prime time. As for NeoOffice, they take the code from OO.o, modify it and release it using a different license that prevents OO.o using any of their code. They contribute nothing back to the OO.o project or to its future development. They only take and give nothing back. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: OO 3 crashes and can't be killed
On 2008/12/31 10:20 PM Michael Reich wrote: I guess I'm not all that concerned about who's giving what to whom. I find NeoOffice to be very stable and integrated in the OSX environment and OOO (pre-version 3) required use of the klunky X11 system. I tried out NeoOffice and much preferred OO.o 3. I still find it reprehensible for them to build on top of OO.o code and not allow their code to be used by OO.o. I tried OOO ver. 3 and found it buggy, prone to crashes, and worse, unkillable crashes. I also didn't find the differences between ver. 2 and ver. 3 on the Mac version to be all that compelling. That's why I'm not going to wrestle with OOO3. As stated earlier, I have neither the time or energy to wrestle with the flaws in the Mac OOO3. Needing to use a variety of ways to kill a program/process smacks of Microsoft, not GNU and open source. As I said before, I have had none of your problems. Neither have a huge number of other users. Did you try using a new profile? Profile corruption, especially if using one from an older version of OO.o. As usual, your mileage may vary. True. And that is why I am pointing out that for the vast majority of users, OO.o 3 is working well. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
