Re: [users] Re: document file '' is locked for editing

[Steve Smith]

It seems the drive is write-protected. To make it writeable I checked the
drive for a switch, but
found it does not have one.  Any suggestions (fedora os)?  FYI I don't know
the manufactorer but
I do know it was purchased at Staples.

henry

Re: [users] Help Needed to Convert Hotmail Messages to CSV File Via Open Office

[RA Brown]

David Middlekauff wrote:

Dear Users:

I need help in converting Hotmail messages to a CSV (comma separated value)
flat file for database importing.  Can this be done using any Open Office
software?  I believe it can be done by importing into Outlook and then to a
CSV file, but I am looking for other solutions.



Hi David,

I am not sure of the "How to" but it would seem that importing into Calc 
then exporting as CSV would be the bet way.  Not sure how Outlook would 
do exporting the text though.


Could you give a bit more on the format used?

Andy


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[users] Help Needed to Convert Hotmail Messages to CSV File Via Open Office

[David Middlekauff]

Dear Users:

I need help in converting Hotmail messages to a CSV (comma separated value)
flat file for database importing.  Can this be done using any Open Office
software?  I believe it can be done by importing into Outlook and then to a
CSV file, but I am looking for other solutions.

-- 
Sincerely,

David I. Middlekauff

Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

[RA Brown]

christina vincent wrote:

Mr. Adams -
I am not sure I am going to receive an answer to my question from these users.
I tried to call the 800 # and was cut off.
I simply need to know if Open Office 3.2.1 can be used with Windows 7.
Can you help, or refer me to the right person?
 Christina 


Hi Christina,

First, yes OpenOffice.org v3.2.1 will run under Windows 7.

Second, where did you get an 800 # for OpenOffice.org?  I personally 
have never see any phone numbers on any of the web pages.


Andy

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[users] Re: OPEN OFFICE WRITER TEXT BEST FIT

[NoOp]

On 07/27/2010 04:45 AM, Jean Lear wrote:
> I cannot send a copy in the body of this e mail but will try to
> describe the layout.
> In the top left hand corner of the (business size) card is a logo which is
> approx two and a half cm wide by three cm high.
> Below that in size 10 font are two lines of words -
> 'MEMBER
> Membership Expires 2 April 2011'
> This leaves the upper right hand part of the card where the mail merge
> inserts the members first name on one line and second name on the next line.
> With Publisher the text entered with 'Text Best Fit' would allow the
> name to be entered to fill the space.  The font size would vary according to
> the number of letters in the name could be from 48 down to 24.
> In OO Writer the font size depends on the longest name in the
> merge which applies then to all cards.
> Hope you can understand all that.
> meld...@gmail.com

Please bottom post on this list; meaning in gmail just move your cursor
to the bottom of this and then reply - thanks :-)

I'm not sure, but I _think_ you may be able to do this by using a frame
where the member name is inserted.


I know you can autosize the frame to the object, but do not know if you
can autosize the object/text to the frame in Writer (you can do this in
Impress).

If you can send the basic .odt template then I/we can experiment with
the mailmerge name section & possibly provide you with a solution. The
list will accept small .odt's, or you can send it to me directly.

Gary



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RE: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

[Bernard Head]

Simple answer to simple question, YES.

-Original Message-
From: christina vincent [mailto:panamano...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 8:20 AM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

Mr. Adams -
I am not sure I am going to receive an answer to my question from
these users.
I tried to call the 800 # and was cut off.
I simply need to know if Open Office 3.2.1 can be used with Windows 7.
Can you help, or refer me to the right person?
 Christina 





From: Michael Adams 
To: users@openoffice.org
Cc: Joyce McPherson 
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 2:18:15 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

Two more things.

You have managed to join the "users" mailing list which is where users come 
for help with issues they have with the program. Sort of a help each other 
community - with a usually friendly spirit. What this does mean however is 
that you will receive all emails sent to this list. Those from people
wanting 
help, those from others offering help and the emails discussing the help 
offered. You can in the future ask questions here without being a member of 
this email mailing list. Information on how to unsubscribe is at the bottom 
of most emails.

The other thing is that I will see about getting more information about how
to 
apply the copyright software for different purposes onto the website. 
Copyright does work differently from country to country but information on 
how to contact the copyright holder should be on there.

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 23:25, Joyce McPherson wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for the info its a sci fi show that is based a bit on true history
-
> its sort the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the lost arc,  so I think
> it would be fine. It was very difficult to get in touch with anyone so
> thank you for all this information. Joyce McPherson
> Art Department Coordinator
> "Warehouse 13" Season II

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Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

[christina vincent]

Mr. Adams -
I am not sure I am going to receive an answer to my question from these users.
I tried to call the 800 # and was cut off.
I simply need to know if Open Office 3.2.1 can be used with Windows 7.
Can you help, or refer me to the right person?
 Christina 





From: Michael Adams 
To: users@openoffice.org
Cc: Joyce McPherson 
Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 2:18:15 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

Two more things.

You have managed to join the "users" mailing list which is where users come 
for help with issues they have with the program. Sort of a help each other 
community - with a usually friendly spirit. What this does mean however is 
that you will receive all emails sent to this list. Those from people wanting 
help, those from others offering help and the emails discussing the help 
offered. You can in the future ask questions here without being a member of 
this email mailing list. Information on how to unsubscribe is at the bottom 
of most emails.

The other thing is that I will see about getting more information about how to 
apply the copyright software for different purposes onto the website. 
Copyright does work differently from country to country but information on 
how to contact the copyright holder should be on there.

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 23:25, Joyce McPherson wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for the info its a sci fi show that is based a bit on true history -
> its sort the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the lost arc,  so I think
> it would be fine. It was very difficult to get in touch with anyone so
> thank you for all this information. Joyce McPherson
> Art Department Coordinator
> "Warehouse 13" Season II

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Re: [users] Re: document file '' is locked for editing

[James Knott]

NoOp wrote:

Win doesn't like ext4
You can add ext 3 or 4 support though.  I've used that on my notebook to 
share a partition ("My Documents" folder) between XP & Linux.




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Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

[Michael Adams]

Two more things.

You have managed to join the "users" mailing list which is where users come 
for help with issues they have with the program. Sort of a help each other 
community - with a usually friendly spirit. What this does mean however is 
that you will receive all emails sent to this list. Those from people wanting 
help, those from others offering help and the emails discussing the help 
offered. You can in the future ask questions here without being a member of 
this email mailing list. Information on how to unsubscribe is at the bottom 
of most emails.

The other thing is that I will see about getting more information about how to 
apply the copyright software for different purposes onto the website. 
Copyright does work differently from country to country but information on 
how to contact the copyright holder should be on there.

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 23:25, Joyce McPherson wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for the info its a sci fi show that is based a bit on true history -
> its sort the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the lost arc,  so I think
> it would be fine. It was very difficult to get in touch with anyone so
> thank you for all this information. Joyce McPherson
> Art Department Coordinator
> "Warehouse 13" Season II

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[users] PDF Export 3.2.1 - no cross-references, no hyperlinks within document

[John Murphy]

Hi,

Using 3.2.1 on opensuse 11.3 / KDE 4.4.95

Cross-reference and hyperlinks within the same document work as they should 
with the odt file, but when the file is exported to PDF both vanish.

It seems hyperlinks to external sites (such as websites) work fine when 
exported.

The PDF export works fine in windows XP (at least for the couple of files I 
tried).

Please help, I have to use cross-references and hyperlinks quite a lot right 
now, and my only solution is to move the file to windows before exporting it.

Thanks,

johnM

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Re: [users] HELP!! :)

[Michael Adams]

The terms of the OpenSource license that Openoffice.org is released under 
means it can pretty much be used on any computer for any purpose. The 
restrictions in the license apply more to programmers than users. 
Documentation on the website is released under a different license - both are 
discussed here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html

The copyright for the program is vested with Oracle (many webpages and 
documents online still say Sun Microsystems - Sun was bought by Oracle). 
Every programmer has given joint copyright of their individual contribution 
to Oracle under the terms of the Sun Contributor Agreement.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Sun_Contributor_Agreement
http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html
So if it is a copyright issue talk to Oracle. Their website www.oracle.com is 
down as i write but states:
"To contact Oracle Corporate Headquarters from anywhere in the world: 
1.650.506.7000."

Effectively we (as users) like the advertising you would bring as long as your 
TV program isn't porn or anything else that may bring OpenOffice.org or major 
sponsoring companies (Oracle) into disrepute. The website project would 
probably love to hear of its use for the news webpage. 
http://website.openoffice.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/news/

Hope that helps

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:30, Joyce McPherson wrote:
> Thanks James, I was having trouble locating someone at OpenOffice to speak
> to so I thought I would try this.
>
> Thanks again.
> Joyce
>
> On 2010-07-26, at 9:18 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > Joyce McPherson wrote:
> >> We would like to use your software on a computer on our series
> >> "warehouse 13" please let me know asap if this will be possible. I need
> >> a release signed to be able to show the software on camera. Let me know
> >> if you are interested.
> >
> > The people on this list are just users of OpenOffice.org, here to help
> > others.  However, as an open source project, I don't think you need
> > anyone's permission to use it on a TV show, as you are free to use it in
> > any way you wish.
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[users] Re: Re: Re: Return Receipts.

[Twayne]

In news:aanlktindk1tce5s7x2rqxvk5xi90w32psgvzmero7...@mail.gmail.com,
Harold Fuchs  typed:
> On 24 July 2010 00:20, Twayne 
> wrote:
>
> 
>
>  Is there some sort of issue where some newsreaders don't
> have the ability
>> to control receipts & reactions to them? I've never heard
>> any client that didn't make it easy to handle.
>>
>> 
>
> I don't think *newsreaders* ever see requests for return
> receipts, do they? I *think* it's only *mail* readers.So,
> according to my theory, if you read this list via Gmane
> you'd never notice the problem.
>
> Similarly I don't think you can request a receipt for a
> *news* post, only for a *mail* message.
>
> Or ???

Dunno, that's a good question. I've never seen one in a ng, but i suppose 
different clients might. Seems like it'd be a waste of time to look for them 
with nntp. I can see it being silly for lists, as this discussion is mostly 
about, but I thnk there's a lot of guessing and mis-understanding about how 
easy it is to just ignore them and any code they send.

HTH,

Twayne`




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Re: [users] Re: OPEN OFFICE WRITER TEXT BEST FIT

[JOE Conner]

 On 7/27/2010 9:38 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:45:16 +1000
Jean Lear  dijo:


I cannot send a copy in the body of this e mail but will try to
describe the layout.
In the top left hand corner of the (business size) card is a logo
which is approx two and a half cm wide by three cm high.
Below that in size 10 font are two lines of words -
'MEMBER
Membership Expires 2 April 2011'
This leaves the upper right hand part of the card where the mail merge
inserts the members first name on one line and second name on the next
line. With Publisher the text entered with 'Text Best Fit' would allow
the name to be entered to fill the space.  The font size would vary
according to the number of letters in the name could be from 48 down
to 24. In OO Writer the font size depends on the longest name in the
merge which applies then to all cards.
Hope you can understand all that.

As far as I know, the feature you need does not exist in OOo. However,
I thought of a workaround.

You could create styles that differ only in the point size of the
font. For example, if the font needs to vary from 10 points (for the
long names) to 15 points (for the short names), and you want it to vary
by half-point increments, you could create ten styles.

OOo Writer allows setting styles to different fields during a merge.
However, getting it to understand the length of the text in the field
it is merging, and applying the correct style for text of that length,
might be possible, but the code to get it to work would take a lot of
effort.

Instead, I would let the merge finish, and then apply the styles with
Writer's Find and Replace function. This can be done globally for the
entire document, and can be recorded as a macro, so that all you have
to do is run the macro each time after the merge.

The problem still remains of how to get Writer to recognize the length
of the names so the Find and Replace function will apply the correct
style. Perhaps someone has a better solution, but I would do it by
inserting a number in front of the name in the database. You can
probably do this with an SQL statement in the database. For example, my
name (John Jordan) is relatively short, so you might want to use the
largest font style for my name. If you have defined ten styles, and
numbered them 0-9, then I would be a 9. In the database I would appear
as 9John and 9Jordan. After the merge your Writer macro would search
for "9" and, upon finding it, change the style to "9." At the end of
the macro you can do a global Find and Replace to delete all the
numbers.

As a point of curiosity, what do you do with people who have three or
more names? E.g., there are thousands of John Jordans, so I usually use
my middle name as well. There are also lots of married people who
append their spouse's name, sometimes with a hyphen. And there are
other cultures where naming systems are completely different from the
traditions of northern Europe.

I wonder, since Calc merged cells can offer to shrink text if the 
entered typeface/text too big. can this feature be incorporated somehow 
to adjust the size of the business card text?


Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA

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[users] Re: document file '' is locked for editing

[NoOp]

On 07/27/2010 05:07 AM, James Knott wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/26/2010 08:55 AM, James Knott wrote:
>>
>>> FAT32 shouldn't be a problem, but write support for NTFS might not be
>>> enabled.  I don't use Ubuntu, so I can't give specifics, but there
>>> should be something that shows mounted drives&  partitions which will
>>> list the file system type.  I find that for USB drives that will be used
>>> with both Linux&  Windows systems, FAT32 works fine.  I also have some
>>> Linux only ones that are formated with ext2.
>>>  
>> Ubuntu/linux can r/w to ntfs w/o issue. However if the usb is write
>> protected then he will need to modify the usb and/or copy the file to
>> his system to open in write mode.
>>
>>
> Are permissions preserved with NTFS?  When I use a USB drive with ext2, 
> I have to create a folder with my ID, so that I can write to it.  Does 
> the same occur with NTFS?  This doesn't happen with FAT32, which is why 
> I use it for drives that will also be used with Windows.

Does for me. I stopped using FAT32 years ago as it has a 4G file
limitation & you can't save a movie DVD file to it. Just to test a usb
stick again, I put in a 512Mb stick (freebie), formated the volume to
ntfs, r/w files just fine.

My other hard drive is partitioned as ntfs so that I can easily share
w/the other dual-boot systems (Win doesn't like ext4 :-).





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Re: [users] Re: OPEN OFFICE WRITER TEXT BEST FIT

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:45:16 +1000
Jean Lear  dijo:

>I cannot send a copy in the body of this e mail but will try to
>describe the layout.
>In the top left hand corner of the (business size) card is a logo
>which is approx two and a half cm wide by three cm high.
>Below that in size 10 font are two lines of words -
>'MEMBER
>Membership Expires 2 April 2011'
>This leaves the upper right hand part of the card where the mail merge
>inserts the members first name on one line and second name on the next
>line. With Publisher the text entered with 'Text Best Fit' would allow
>the name to be entered to fill the space.  The font size would vary
>according to the number of letters in the name could be from 48 down
>to 24. In OO Writer the font size depends on the longest name in the
>merge which applies then to all cards.
>Hope you can understand all that.

As far as I know, the feature you need does not exist in OOo. However,
I thought of a workaround.

You could create styles that differ only in the point size of the
font. For example, if the font needs to vary from 10 points (for the
long names) to 15 points (for the short names), and you want it to vary
by half-point increments, you could create ten styles.

OOo Writer allows setting styles to different fields during a merge.
However, getting it to understand the length of the text in the field
it is merging, and applying the correct style for text of that length,
might be possible, but the code to get it to work would take a lot of
effort.

Instead, I would let the merge finish, and then apply the styles with
Writer's Find and Replace function. This can be done globally for the
entire document, and can be recorded as a macro, so that all you have
to do is run the macro each time after the merge.

The problem still remains of how to get Writer to recognize the length
of the names so the Find and Replace function will apply the correct
style. Perhaps someone has a better solution, but I would do it by
inserting a number in front of the name in the database. You can
probably do this with an SQL statement in the database. For example, my
name (John Jordan) is relatively short, so you might want to use the
largest font style for my name. If you have defined ten styles, and
numbered them 0-9, then I would be a 9. In the database I would appear
as 9John and 9Jordan. After the merge your Writer macro would search
for "9" and, upon finding it, change the style to "9." At the end of
the macro you can do a global Find and Replace to delete all the
numbers.

As a point of curiosity, what do you do with people who have three or
more names? E.g., there are thousands of John Jordans, so I usually use
my middle name as well. There are also lots of married people who
append their spouse's name, sometimes with a hyphen. And there are
other cultures where naming systems are completely different from the
traditions of northern Europe.

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Re: [users] Re: document file '' is locked for editing

[James Knott]

NoOp wrote:

On 07/26/2010 08:55 AM, James Knott wrote:
   

FAT32 shouldn't be a problem, but write support for NTFS might not be
enabled.  I don't use Ubuntu, so I can't give specifics, but there
should be something that shows mounted drives&  partitions which will
list the file system type.  I find that for USB drives that will be used
with both Linux&  Windows systems, FAT32 works fine.  I also have some
Linux only ones that are formated with ext2.
 

Ubuntu/linux can r/w to ntfs w/o issue. However if the usb is write
protected then he will need to modify the usb and/or copy the file to
his system to open in write mode.

   
Are permissions preserved with NTFS?  When I use a USB drive with ext2, 
I have to create a folder with my ID, so that I can write to it.  Does 
the same occur with NTFS?  This doesn't happen with FAT32, which is why 
I use it for drives that will also be used with Windows.


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Re: [users] [OT - warehouse 13] Re: HELP!! :)

[James Knott]

Joyce McPherson wrote:

sorry about that I was totally confused about the contact info for opensource 
and somehow ended up here. Thanks for some direction!!!
   

Please let us know when it's on TV.  :-)


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Re: [users] Re: OPEN OFFICE WRITER TEXT BEST FIT

[Jean Lear]

I cannot send a copy in the body of this e mail but will try to
describe the layout.
In the top left hand corner of the (business size) card is a logo which is
approx two and a half cm wide by three cm high.
Below that in size 10 font are two lines of words -
'MEMBER
Membership Expires 2 April 2011'
This leaves the upper right hand part of the card where the mail merge
inserts the members first name on one line and second name on the next line.
With Publisher the text entered with 'Text Best Fit' would allow the
name to be entered to fill the space.  The font size would vary according to
the number of letters in the name could be from 48 down to 24.
In OO Writer the font size depends on the longest name in the
merge which applies then to all cards.
Hope you can understand all that.
meld...@gmail.com

On 7/26/10, NoOp  wrote:
> On 07/25/2010 04:32 AM, Jean Lear wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The Club I belong to is moving from using Publisher for a mail merge
>> for membership cards to Open Office Writer. (using WIndows 7) With
>> varying numbers of letters in members names, previously in Publisher
>> it was possible to use 'Text Best Fit' to have the names in the
>> largest possible font to take up the space beside the Club Logo on
>> each card.  Both first and second names are used in the merge.
>> Does Open Office Writer have an equivalent to 'Text Best Fit'?  At
>> present all names appear in a font size depending on the number of
>> letters of the longest name in all of the names in the merge list.
>> Help would be appreciated.
>> Thank you.
>> meld...@gmail.com
>
> Do you have a sample by chance?
>
>
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