Re: [users] How to make a letterhead?
Linda L. Hull escribiu: Could someone help me with some very simple instructions? If I have understand you right, it's quite easy. Add a header to the document (Insert - Header - Default). Inside the header add a frame. Move the frame the way that you like. Put whatever you like inside the frame. Usually when you want to change the normal flow of the text in a document, you use frames. I have made a quick example, you can check it here: http://www.castroparga.com/pdf/example.odt Hope that it helps. Javier. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] uninstall
2009/8/11 alisdair butler alisdairbut...@yahoo.co.uk: Hello I downloaded the open office product but it would not complete. I cannot now get rid of the file on my desktop. Everything except the java file in the open office will delete or uninstall. How do I get rid of it or get a working copy of open office please (I have repeatedly tried to download again but the installation bar does not progress) Cheers Al Hello Al, We could probably help you a lot better if you gave us some information: what kind of computer, what operating system where did you try to download from (www.openoffice.org) millions of people use OpenOffice.org on all kinds of computers, so it must be possoble for you too! -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.1.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Leopard and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.1.1 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Conditional Formatting
Hi everyone I have a problem with conditional formatting in Calc. I want to apply a style to a cell if the value in another cell meets a certain criteria. For example, I want the style in cell A1 to change if A2 is greater than 100. As far as I can see, it is only possible to apply the condition to the same cell. Have I missed something, or does anyone know a workaround for this? Thanks in advance Andy -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] Conditional Formatting
In A1, Conditional formating.. Select 'Formula is' (default is 'cell value is') Enter condition as A2100. Select the required cell type format. Hope this will work for you. I tried this with OOo 3.1 Windows XP is working. Ashish -Original Message- From: Andy Chaplin [mailto:perfect-engl...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:44 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Conditional Formatting Hi everyone I have a problem with conditional formatting in Calc. I want to apply a style to a cell if the value in another cell meets a certain criteria. For example, I want the style in cell A1 to change if A2 is greater than 100. As far as I can see, it is only possible to apply the condition to the same cell. Have I missed something, or does anyone know a workaround for this? Thanks in advance Andy -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Standard Disclaimer Conditions as per Tatachemicals Ltd Email Security Policy apply - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open Office 3.1(en-US)
Ah, that helps. Why you couldn't find Writer in your initial installation, I don't know, but you're apparently now betwixt and between for having an installed copy. Things might have straightened out if you'd chosen the Repair option when it was offered, but at this point, we need to get to some baseline position -- either finding the installed copy, or getting rid of it completely for a fresh start. The folder on your desktop is/was the installation package, and it doesn't serve any purpose after installation. The message to close OOo is not referring to it, nor to the message box, but to a running copy of OOo. This is usually because Quickstarter is in the Startup folder, but that would leave an icon in your task bar, so maybe there's an orphaned soffice.bin process that is running and needs to be closed. Try using the Task Manager, and if that process is there, end that task. Now look in Start All Programs. Is there a folder there for Openoffice.org 3.1? If so, it should have a submenu with all the OOo applications, including Writer. If that's there, give it a try and see what happens. Also, from Start Computer open the C: drive and check the Program Files folder for an OpenOffice.org 3 folder -- that's where the actual code would be after installation, in the OOo program folder. Is any of that there? Writer is swriter.exe in that. Please let us know what this shows (on the list, please, so we can all help) and we should be able to get you somewhere reasonable from there. ray hawes wrote: Dear Barbara, Thank you for your email.You may well be only volunteers,but your knowledge leaves mine a long way behind. I am using Windows Vista,and when I started the un-packed program it seemed to recognise an earlier copy of Open Office3.1 as the options were to modify,repair or remove.There was a folder on my desktop,and I think that the original folder did contain Writer,but subsequent ones do not.There is not a Quickstart on the task bar.I suspected that Writer did not work for me so I tried to run Setup,but this resulted in being required to close Open Office, which was open only in the message box.When I clicked OK it went to Finish,and if I deleted the folder on the desktop first it went to Finish.We seem to be in a loop!It was not properly installed in the fist place,and now I cannot repair,modify or remove it. I downloaded version 3.1 from your own website. Yours Faithfully, Ray Hawes. 2009/8/12 Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com ray hawes wrote: Dear Sirs, You misunderstood my last email.I downloaded Open Office expecting to find a word prossessing facility,but I can't,and your reply, consequently,was of no help. My problem with the download is that appeared to instal,but when I tried to use it a message box telling me to close Open Office,which I did and I was returned to opening the application again ad infinitum.The same happened when I tried to run Set-up or to un-instal. Help,please Yours Faithfully, Ray Hawes. What operating system are you using? Where did you get the openoffice.org http://openoffice.org/ download file, and what is the version? The installation steps are first to download the appropriate file from www.openoffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/, then to double-click the downloaded file, then to follow the instructions in the installation dialog. After that, you should have an icon on your desktop (and in your Start menu, for Windows) that provides access to the OpenOffice.org applications, including Writer (the text document -- AKA word processing -- component). What exactly happened that you are seeing as appeared to install? How did you close OpenOffice.org if you never opened it? If you opened it, what exactly did you see? Did you install a version that added the Quickstarter to your task bar? If so, what happens when you right click on that? By the way, we are not a formal support organization, just other users of OOo who volunteer some time here to help each other. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
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[users] Re: Unicode hex values not working
On 08/11/2009 08:25 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I have received a support question from someone using OOo on Ubuntu 8.0.4. The computer is a Dell Netbook. The version of OOo is the default that is installed with Ubuntu 8.0.4 - OOo 2.4 if I recall correctly. The problem is that the Ctrl-Shift-u keyboard shortcut is not working. However, the keyboard shortcut does work system-wide in all other applications (Firefox, Gedit). At first I suspected that someone had co-opted Ctrl-Shift-u for something else in the user's OOo. However, she checked for me in Tools Customize Keyboard and Ctrl-Shift-u is unassigned. Since it works in other applications the problem has to be in OOo, not in Ubuntu, but I'm out of ideas. I need suggestions. Any suggestions welcome! I just tested on my 8.04 test system w/(U)OOo2.4.1; works for me. Nothing special has been set as the test system is a clean install with no modifications made to (U)OOo2.4.1. Did Ctrl-Shift-u, entered 157 and got ŗ. I will note however that the complete OOo is _not_ installed - only the basic bits installed from the initial distribution installation. That means that it doesn't have the (U) openoffice.org or openoffice.org-evolution packages installed - i.e., no java in (U)OOo. So let me install those, enable java in (U)OOo and test again... Done. And Ctrl-Shift-u still works fine. Not an default (U)OOo problem - perhaps something in the user profile or an extension? I'd recommend temporarily renaming ~/.openoffice.org2 to ~/x-.openoffice.org-x, restarting (U)OOo and see if the problem still occurs in the new profile. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Unicode hex values not working
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:55:42 -0700 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 08/11/2009 08:25 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I have received a support question from someone using OOo on Ubuntu 8.0.4. The computer is a Dell Netbook. The version of OOo is the default that is installed with Ubuntu 8.0.4 - OOo 2.4 if I recall correctly. The problem is that the Ctrl-Shift-u keyboard shortcut is not working. However, the keyboard shortcut does work system-wide in all other applications (Firefox, Gedit). Not an default (U)OOo problem - perhaps something in the user profile or an extension? I'd recommend temporarily renaming ~/.openoffice.org2 to ~/x-.openoffice.org-x, restarting (U)OOo and see if the problem still occurs in the new profile. Thanks for the idea. It did not occur to me to tell the user to rename her /.openoffice.org2 file. The user did further inform me that she has another computer with Ubuntu 8.0.4, and Ctrl-Shift-u works perfectly in OOo. Therefore, it just has to be something in how OOo is configured on her Netbook. I am curious what it could be, because I am in charge of a site used by students and professors of linguistics to learn how to use IPA on their computers (http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com). I am the one who has to respond to support questions relating to Linux and OOo. I've never had this question before, so I want to figure it out so next time I'll be ready with the answer. -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp To know Edina is to reject it. -- Dudley Riggs, The Year the Grinch Stole the Election - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Unicode hex values not working
On my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 it works perfectly, and so does the compose key. On my Eee PC 900 I have Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, and neither Ctrl+Shift+u nor the compose key works. I don't know if this can be of any kind of clue to anyone… Well, I did some more experiments, and the reason for why it didn't work on my Eee was that Num Lock was on, so the u key wasn't u anymore, but 4, and Ctrl+Shift+4 doesn't mean anything particular, at it seems… Now I turned Num Lock off, and it works as expected, except that I get different characters with my compose key on Ubuntu 9.04 than on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine, for example Compose c o gives © and so does Compose o c on Ubuntu 9.04. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get © and ǒ respecively, but I guess that's another issue… Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? As OO.o is free, how can they stop it from being sold? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? According to what I read on groklaw.net, it's the custom XML that causes the problem and that's apparently not in OOo. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
Keith Clark wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? As OO.o is free, how can they stop it from being sold? I'm not a lawyer but simple logic suggests that if OOo is proved to have infringed a valid patent, the fact that it's free should not make any difference. Morally, perhaps. Legally, no. Otherwise some charitable institution could, with complete impunity, make patented drugs and give them away to third world countries. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Keith Clark wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? As OO.o is free, how can they stop it from being sold? Distribution is probably the key word. I don't know how they think in a legal world, but what the judge meant was to stop the patent violation. IMO this patent will not, cannot stand. There is much prior art, some of it has to be prior to the patent application. I can recall back in RH9 days getting exasperated and freezing my own libxml version because every update brought new problems, breaking seemingly unrelated apps just because the tool they parsed their nameofprogram.rc file with was broken yet again. IMO, there should be the possibility of suitable very punitive fines being levied by the courts whose job it is to sort this crap out, when it is obvious the patent application filer did _not_ do due diligence in searching for prior art, and therefore has wasted the USPTO's time with what will be a frivolous application when somebody with deep enough pockets to protest, and a big enough dog in the fight, finally succeeds in getting such patents set aside as null void. And these fines need to be punitive enough to convince the patent trolls of this world to do the due diligence searches cuz its cheaper to do the search, find you have no chance, than it is to file, get a nuisance patent, have it set aside eventually and pay the substantial fine. That is the only way we'll ever get rid of the majority of this crap. Make it highly unprofitable and they will find another line of work. Who knows, it might even be honest work. :) -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. -- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? According to what I read on groklaw.net, it's the custom XML that causes the problem and that's apparently not in OOo. Good for OOo. IMO its a fine bit of work and the world would be poorer without it. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Harold Fuchs wrote: Keith Clark wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the hit list? As OO.o is free, how can they stop it from being sold? I'm not a lawyer but simple logic suggests that if OOo is proved to have infringed a valid patent, the fact that it's free should not make any difference. Morally, perhaps. Legally, no. Otherwise some charitable institution could, with complete impunity, make patented drugs and give them away to third world countries. Which I might remind this list has in fact been done with at least one of the HIV drugs. Not given away, but priced at a very small fraction of the cost of the big name branded drug, cheap enough to be used by the millions of doses by public health bodies in both South America and Africa. Big US Pharma used their patents on it to extract profits far beyond just recovering their RD. The violating maker, in South America, effectively told our Ambassador they would not honor any patents granted by the USPTO as it was badly broken and regulated. And their government confirmed it. All quietly swept under the rug in terms of publicity because it sets a very bad example. How much one could find with a google search today I have NDI, I just recall reading about it at the time, now about half a decade or so back up the log. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Web Publishing
Open Office... I am trying to find a good web publishing software, and so far I am not coming up with very good options. I noticed that your word software has an html editor, but I have tried to upload a Microsoft Word html file to my website, but the images are not showing. And I have tried some of the canned software like Joomla, but their editor option are very limited to just what they offer. So, if Open Office has software, or a referral, that can publish web pages that would be awesome! Thanks, Rod GeilMoorcroft, Wyoming
[users] Re: Get a text from another text document
JSz. wrote: In Writer: Is it possible to insert into a text document a reference to a text in another document? I need to work with a couple of documents taht share the same information. I'd like to put some data into the first document only, so that other documents get the data from the first one. If I change a text in the first document other documents should display the modified text. Something similar to External data function in Calc. J. Szymona You can do this using 'Sections'. Essentially, you set up your document with the text that you want shared in sections which you then link to from the destination document. Any changes you make to the first document are reflected in the destination document when you update the links. See the Help under Links - Inserting sections - inserting sections as a link. -- John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] open office
Dear Sir, Have downloaded the new Open Office version 3 replaceing older 2.4. I had Shortcuts for french characters eg a, e ,i , o, u with accents etc. How do I re-set these shortcuts in version 3? Thanks Phil - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Microsoft 2007 and their docx xml file creation/abortion
For all of the users out there who want to keep using OpenOffice but are receiving .docx files. Please send a message back to the sender to inform them that they should use an Open Standard product like OpenOffice or request them to send in MS 2003 .doc format or .rtf format as you cant read their docx file. Why? Because - my understanding is that the specification for docx released by MS is so big it will take a team of 6 to convert OpenOffice or any other document create/read app to get it right and keep it maintained. This is not going to happen in any short time frame. This is a blatant MS ransoming all MS users to get locked into their product and document formating. Just ask yourself the question - Was there something wrong with .odt format or .doc format for 98% of the users in the world who want to produce a reasonable formated document that convey information that others need to read and understand and make decisions on. No! In fact 100% of the time simple text (a' la email) will suffice for the average Joe out there. Fight for open standards and freedom. GaryC -- Jengar Consultants Business Development Project Management PO BOX 1014, Nightcliff, NT 0814 Australia email: jen...@internode.on.net cell: +61 424044847 tel; +61 89855253 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] op off download..
HI dear team thank you for your services.. and help i had been using op offic ewhen i had my computer in 2006.. then i got a old given sony now.. and tru to download open office i got a brasilian version and still trt to get the US version but always came not runing.. also i was register at teh email adress myriammyr...@yahoo.com i like to know if i still register or will need to register me as new when i install it - hope soon! merci thanks a lot i hope tp get teh dowload ok now... *Myriam Dipanjali*---skype myriammyrrha-- cell+55 21 8261 1915 cell1 +599 554 3038 cell2 +590 690 227 448 san martin
Re: [users] Microsoft 2007 and their docx xml file creation/abortion
2009/8/12 Gary Copcutt jen...@internode.on.net For all of the users out there who want to keep using OpenOffice but are receiving .docx files. Please send a message back to the sender to inform them that they should use an Open Standard product like OpenOffice or request them to send in MS 2003 .doc format or .rtf format as you cant read their docx file. Why? Because - my understanding is that the specification for docx released by MS is so big it will take a team of 6 to convert OpenOffice or any other document create/read app to get it right and keep it maintained. This is not going to happen in any short time frame. This is a blatant MS ransoming all MS users to get locked into their product and document formating. Just ask yourself the question - Was there something wrong with .odt format or .doc format for 98% of the users in the world who want to produce a reasonable formated document that convey information that others need to read and understand and make decisions on. No! In fact 100% of the time simple text (a' la email) will suffice for the average Joe out there. Fight for open standards and freedom. GaryC Gary, you may not have seen the news that a US District Court has ruled in favour of a small Canadian firm known as i4i, that sued Microsoft for patent infringement with regard to XML. Naturally enough, given the depth of Microsoft's pockets, the case is far from over, but I can't help thinking that «'tis the sport to have the enginer hoist with his owne petar» For more on this matter, check out this Seattlepi blog* *( http://preview.tinyurl.com/npmmlc ) Henri
Re: [users] Web Publishing
2009/8/12 Rod Geil rcg...@mail.com Open Office... I am trying to find a good web publishing software, and so far I am not coming up with very good options. I noticed that your word software has an html editor, but I have tried to upload a Microsoft Word html file to my website, but the images are not showing. And I have tried some of the canned software like Joomla, but their editor option are very limited to just what they offer. So, if Open Office has software, or a referral, that can publish web pages that would be awesome! Thanks, Rod GeilMoorcroft, Wyoming Rod, some knowledgeable list users have previously recommended Scribus ( http://www.scribus.net/) Henri
Re: [users] Re: Unicode hex values not working
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:34:30 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo: On my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 it works perfectly, and so does the compose key. On my Eee PC 900 I have Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, and neither Ctrl+Shift+u nor the compose key works. I don't know if this can be of any kind of clue to anyone… Well, I did some more experiments, and the reason for why it didn't work on my Eee was that Num Lock was on, so the u key wasn't u anymore, but 4, and Ctrl+Shift+4 doesn't mean anything particular, at it seems… Now I turned Num Lock off, and it works as expected, except that I get different characters with my compose key on Ubuntu 9.04 than on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine, for example Compose c o gives © and so does Compose o c on Ubuntu 9.04. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get © and ǒ respecively, but I guess that's another issue… Wow! So apparently it was just the stupid num lock key! Now I feel like a real dumbass. :( I have advised my user to check the num lock key Thanks a million for figuring it out! -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Microsoft 2007 and their docx xml file creation/abortion
Some more information about the issue. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssSoftware/idUSBNG53920620090812 The judgment also permanently enjoins Microsoft from selling any products that can open a .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM file containing custom XML. http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE54J72V20090520 Marcus 2009/8/12 M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com: 2009/8/12 Gary Copcutt jen...@internode.on.net For all of the users out there who want to keep using OpenOffice but are receiving .docx files. Please send a message back to the sender to inform them that they should use an Open Standard product like OpenOffice or request them to send in MS 2003 .doc format or .rtf format as you cant read their docx file. Why? Because - my understanding is that the specification for docx released by MS is so big it will take a team of 6 to convert OpenOffice or any other document create/read app to get it right and keep it maintained. This is not going to happen in any short time frame. This is a blatant MS ransoming all MS users to get locked into their product and document formating. Just ask yourself the question - Was there something wrong with .odt format or .doc format for 98% of the users in the world who want to produce a reasonable formated document that convey information that others need to read and understand and make decisions on. No! In fact 100% of the time simple text (a' la email) will suffice for the average Joe out there. Fight for open standards and freedom. GaryC Gary, you may not have seen the news that a US District Court has ruled in favour of a small Canadian firm known as i4i, that sued Microsoft for patent infringement with regard to XML. Naturally enough, given the depth of Microsoft's pockets, the case is far from over, but I can't help thinking that «'tis the sport to have the enginer hoist with his owne petar» For more on this matter, check out this Seattlepi blog* *( http://preview.tinyurl.com/npmmlc ) Henri -- Marcus de Vasconcelos Diogo da Silva BrOffice.orgGubro-CE cel: 85 88777045 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Web Publishing
Rod Geil wrote: Open Office... I am trying to find a good web publishing software, and so far I am not coming up with very good options. I noticed that your word software has an html editor, but I have tried to upload a Microsoft Word html file to my website, but the images are not showing. And I have tried some of the canned software like Joomla, but their editor option are very limited to just what they offer. So, if Open Office has software, or a referral, that can publish web pages that would be awesome! Thanks, Rod GeilMoorcroft, Wyoming First it is going do depend on your idea of good. I use a free program called Alleycode. It has features that I like. But then I like coding the material. I have never tried using OpenOffice.org to do web design. -- Andy Brown La Mesa, CA 91942 www.the-martin-byrd.net/openoffice.org.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OpenOffice Base... Using Search Boxes to Generate Queries...
Hi everyone, I've been using OpenOffice for a few years now. But recently took on a project to help build a database for a mobile home park... Basically, they are storing tenant information, emergency contacts, etc. Basically, I'm trying to achieve two results at the moment... 1. To create dynamic reports based off of different search queries. It's hard for me to put into words what I'm attempting to achieve. But, let's say the owner is wanting to find every tenant with the last name of Jones... I'd like to be able to be able to implement a search feature that would pop up a text box. He types the name, Jones in the box. And then a report is generated with the list of everybody with the same last name... I'm sure this would be query based, however, I'm not sure how to implement the search, direct it to the particular field, and then generate the report. 2. I'm also trying to create a Switchboard as I've seen it called in Access... Where when the database is opened, he can simply click on the function he's attempting to perform... Let's say, Tenant Maintenance button would take him to the form where he can add or edit tenant information... If anyone has any suggestions for this techie trying to wear a development hat (which is not working so well), I would greatly appreciate ANY advice. Thanks,
Re: [users] Web Publishing
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Rod Geil rcg...@mail.com wrote: Open Office... I am trying to find a good web publishing software, and so far I am not coming up with very good options. I noticed that your word software has an html editor, but I have tried to upload a Microsoft Word html file to my website, but the images are not showing. And I have tried some of the canned software like Joomla, but their editor option are very limited to just what they offer. So, if Open Office has software, or a referral, that can publish web pages that would be awesome! Thanks, Rod GeilMoorcroft, Wyoming Which editor are you using in Joomla!. Tiny MCE doesn't offer much, but there are other editors. I use JCE 154 and it has all the features of a regular WP program. I don't know that OOo would really be suited for developing a full-blown web page. There are other F/OSS choices (Like Kompozer) that are probably better suited. mcm -- -- Mark C. Miller mr.mcmil...@gmail.com [home] mcmil...@ologn.net [church] mark_mil...@mail.nobl.k12.in.us [school] mmil...@millermc.net
[users] CLI Uno MS visual basic 2005 - cannot format cell programatically
The following code does almost all I want it to:
Starts OOoCalc
Inserts spreadsheet named test
Inserts many values into cells
etc.
But I cannot get it to format cell A7 in sheet names test - it fails at
runtime with error at line 80
All of this is because I cannot create a Locale, which is needed to format
First the code, followed by error detail.
Code:
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.lang
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.uno
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.bridge
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.frame
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.container
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.beans
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.table
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.util
Imports unoidl.com.sun.star.reflection
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'Call the bootstrap method to get a new ComponentContext
'object. If OpenOffice isn't already started this will
'start it and then return the ComponentContext.
'Dim FileName As String = F:\odtfiles est.odt
Dim FileName As String = C:\testCLIOO.ods
'oDoc = unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.XSpreadsheetDocument
'oDoc.getSheets()
Dim localContext As unoidl.com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext =
uno.util.Bootstrap.bootstrap()
'Get a new service manager of the MultiServiceFactory type
'we need this to get a desktop object and create new CLI
'objects.
Dim multiServiceFactory As
unoidl.com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory =
DirectCast(localContext.getServiceManager(),
unoidl.com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory)
'Create a new Desktop instance using our service manager
'Notice: We cast our desktop object to XComponent loader
'so that we could load or create new documents.
Dim componentLoader As XComponentLoader =
DirectCast(multiServiceFactory.createInstance(com.sun.star.frame.Desktop),
XComponentLoader)
'Create a new blank writer document using our component
'loader object.
Dim xComponent As XComponent =
componentLoader.loadComponentFromURL(private:factory/scalc, _blank, 0,
New unoidl.com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue(-1) {})
Dim oDoc As unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.XSpreadsheetDocument
oDoc = xComponent
Dim oSheets As unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.XSpreadsheets
'Dim oSheet As unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.XSpreadsheet
Dim oSheet As XSpreadsheet
Dim oSheetsIA As XIndexAccess
Dim oCell As XCell
oSheets = oDoc.getSheets
oSheetsIA = oSheets
Dim Sheet1 As XSpreadsheet
Dim Sheet2 As XSpreadsheet
Dim cSeries As unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.XCellSeries
oSheets.insertNewByName(test, 0)
oSheet = oSheetsIA.getByIndex(0).Value
' Now using sheet: test
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 0)
oCell.setFormula(Test)
oSheet.getCellByPosition(1, 0).setFormula(Sales)
oSheet.getCellByPosition(2, 0).setFormula(Month)
oSheet.getCellByPosition(3, 0).setFormula(Year)
cSeries = oSheet.getCellRangeByPosition(3, 3, 5, 3)
cSeries.fillSeries(unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.FillDirection.TO_RIGHT,
unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.FillMode.LINEAR,
unoidl.com.sun.star.sheet.FillDateMode.FILL_DATE_DAY, 2.0, 6.0)
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 1)
oCell.setValue(54321.0)
oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 2).setValue(625.0)
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 3)
oCell.setFormula(=SUM(A1:A3)
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 5)
oCell.setFormula(=DATE(2009;8;10))
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 6) ' cell A7
oCell.setFormula(=40035) ' numerical value for 08/10/2009 in A7
'Dim oFormatter As unoidl.com.sun.star.util.XNumberFormatter
Dim oFormatter As XNumberFormatter
'Dim oFormat As
unoidl.com.sun.star.util.XNumberFormatsSupplier
Dim oFormatSupp As XNumberFormatsSupplier
oFormatSupp = oDoc
Dim oTypes As XNumberFormatTypes
Dim oLocale As unoidl.com.sun.star.lang.Locale
oTypes = oFormatSupp.getNumberFormats()
Dim nFormat As uno.Any
Dim oFormat As NumberFormat
Const dateFormat = unoidl.com.sun.star.util.NumberFormat.DATE
oLocale.Language = en ' this is the line 80 referred to in error
detail
oLocale.Country = US
oLocale.Variant = Traditional_WIN
' Now using sheet: Sheet3
Sheet1 = oSheetsIA.getByIndex(3).Value
'Sheet1 = oSheets.getByName(SheetName)
Sheet1.getCellByPosition(0, 1).setValue(9876)
' Now using sheet: Sheet1
oSheet = oSheetsIA.getByIndex(1).Value
oCell = oSheet.getCellByPosition(0, 4)
oCell.setValue(2.0)
oCell =
Re: [users] Open Office 3.1(en-US)
OK, the installer now should recognize that OOo is not installed, and you should be able to go through the download and installation. Just in case, you should make sure that there's nothing about it in your Startup folder, and go through the Start Control Program Programs and Features uninstall a program and make sure there's nothing there, either. Then download and install (just double-clicking should work). If that doesn't get you out of the problem, you'll need help from somebody else, I think. But tell us what happens, in as much detail as you can. Writer is *always* included in the installation (though not directly in the downloaded file) -- there's no way to get just part of OOo, it's a highly-integrated suite that shares a lot of code among the applications. And you can indeed use it to write letters, or pretty much anything else. The Getting Started guide I referenced before should help.once you get the installation problem solved. What were you looking for as evidence that you could write letters? I'm suspecting that you were looking for a letter template, and the vanilla version of OOo doesn't come with built-in templates the way Word does. The file is pretty big already, so those are stored elsewhere. You'll find lots at templates.services.openoffice.org if you are curious, and there are plenty of others out in the world, too. ray hawes wrote: Dear Barbara, Thank you for your email.Writer was in the original instalation and there were a lot of specific application details in it but no evidence that it could be used for writing letters. Open Office is not in Startup, Program Files or Task manager.So what do I do now? Yours Faithfully, Ray 2009/8/12 Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com Ah, that helps. Why you couldn't find Writer in your initial installation, I don't know, but you're apparently now betwixt and between for having an installed copy. Things might have straightened out if you'd chosen the Repair option when it was offered, but at this point, we need to get to some baseline position -- either finding the installed copy, or getting rid of it completely for a fresh start. The folder on your desktop is/was the installation package, and it doesn't serve any purpose after installation. The message to close OOo is not referring to it, nor to the message box, but to a running copy of OOo. This is usually because Quickstarter is in the Startup folder, but that would leave an icon in your task bar, so maybe there's an orphaned soffice.bin process that is running and needs to be closed. Try using the Task Manager, and if that process is there, end that task. Now look in Start All Programs. Is there a folder there for Openoffice.org 3.1? If so, it should have a submenu with all the OOo applications, including Writer. If that's there, give it a try and see what happens. Also, from Start Computer open the C: drive and check the Program Files folder for an OpenOffice.org 3 folder -- that's where the actual code would be after installation, in the OOo program folder. Is any of that there? Writer is swriter.exe in that. Please let us know what this shows (on the list, please, so we can all help) and we should be able to get you somewhere reasonable from there. ray hawes wrote: Dear Barbara, Thank you for your email.You may well be only volunteers,but your knowledge leaves mine a long way behind. I am using Windows Vista,and when I started the un-packed program it seemed to recognise an earlier copy of Open Office3.1 as the options were to modify,repair or remove.There was a folder on my desktop,and I think that the original folder did contain Writer,but subsequent ones do not.There is not a Quickstart on the task bar.I suspected that Writer did not work for me so I tried to run Setup,but this resulted in being required to close Open Office, which was open only in the message box.When I clicked OK it went to Finish,and if I deleted the folder on the desktop first it went to Finish.We seem to be in a loop!It was not properly installed in the fist place,and now I cannot repair,modify or remove it. I downloaded version 3.1 from your own website. Yours Faithfully, Ray Hawes. 2009/8/12 Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com mailto:b...@onr.com ray hawes wrote: Dear Sirs, You misunderstood my last email.I downloaded Open Office expecting to find a word prossessing facility,but I can't,and your reply, consequently,was of no help.
RE: [users] Re: Get a text from another text document
I have one problem with section or Object-OLE, In Writer, If I Enter a section with Link or Object with linking, I am able to Edit- link-Update as many times till the document is open. But if I save close the document, then after reopening the document Edit-Link option is disabled. So, I am not able to update the changes made in source document. Any settings?? I am working with OOo3.1 on Windows XP. Thanks, Ashish -Original Message- From: John King [mailto:kingjo...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of John King Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:51 PM To: Openoffice users list Cc: jszym...@lublin.eu Subject: [users] Re: Get a text from another text document JSz. wrote: In Writer: Is it possible to insert into a text document a reference to a text in another document? I need to work with a couple of documents taht share the same information. I'd like to put some data into the first document only, so that other documents get the data from the first one. If I change a text in the first document other documents should display the modified text. Something similar to External data function in Calc. J. Szymona You can do this using 'Sections'. Essentially, you set up your document with the text that you want shared in sections which you then link to from the destination document. Any changes you make to the first document are reflected in the destination document when you update the links. See the Help under Links - Inserting sections - inserting sections as a link. -- John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Standard Disclaimer Conditions as per Tatachemicals Ltd Email Security Policy apply - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] op off download..
Miriam No one is required to register OpenOffice.org in order to install or use it. I believe that this answers your question. By the way, you are not registered as a member of the users@openoffice.org mailing list so you will not see responses that are addressed only to that list. -- Jim --On Tuesday, August 11, 2009 02:51:08 PM -0700 Myriam Dipanjali MataJi myriamdipanj...@yahoo.com wrote: HI dear team thank you for your services.. and help i had been using op offic ewhen i had my computer in 2006.. then i got a old given sony now.. and tru to download open office i got a brasilian version and still trt to get the US version but always came not runing.. also i was register at teh email adress myriammyr...@yahoo.com i like to know if i still register or will need to register me as new when i install it - hope soon! merci thanks a lot i hope tp get teh dowload ok now... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore
I am writing to you because I am hope you can help me. At some stage, I must have contacted OpenOffice.org Since doing that, I am inundated with emails from all your users and I don't know how to stop them coming through to my mail box. Can you help please. Jackie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
