Re: [users] Open Office data sheet
RA Brown wrote: On Tue Dec 21 2010 11:20:23 GMT-0800 (PST) Richard Broersma Jr wrote: --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Jérôme DUBOIS jerome.dub...@com6.fr wrote: Do you a data sheet of open office ? I respond to customer and I need these informations.Here is what I found after a quick google search: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/060551.pdf Better information on OpenOffice.org can be found at http://why.openoffice.org/ . Your link refers to Oracle Open Office, a renaming of Sun's Start Office. Some propose that the naming is to confuse people and get them to buy OOO instead of just downloading OOo. :( Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Database
Denise wrote: How do I open program? I'm not sure what you mean by open program. If you are using a Windows operating system (XP, VISTA, etc.), you should find the OpenOffice.org folder in All Programs. (It may be near the bottom of this list if you have installed OpenOffice.org recently.) Within that folder should be the Base icon. (Base is OOo's database component. Click it to open Base. You may not be well acquainted with Base. If so, I suggest you get the Getting Started with Base chapter from the Getting Started Guide. (You might want to get the entire Getting Started Guide if you are going to use other parts of OOo. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters is the link to the complete Getting Started Guide as well as the individual chapters. The Getting Started with Base chapter begins with how to open the Base component of OOo and the basics of how to use Base. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Link to External Data *.csv file?
Raul I. Sais wrote: Unsubscribe me. Thank you. /---Original Message---/ /*From:*/ Brian Barker mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com /*Date:*/ 12/19/2010 9:47:56 AM /*To:*/ users@openoffice.org mailto:users@openoffice.org /*Subject:*/ Re: [users] Re: Link to External Data *.csv file? At 03:38 19/12/2010 +, Mark Knecht wrote: Brian Barker b.m.barker at btinternet.com writes: At 20:11 18/12/2010 +, Mark Knecht wrote: Is it possible to link two Sheets in a Calc spreadsheet to two external CSV files? [SNIP] Is there a way to do this? Yes. Use Insert | Sheet from File..., browse to the .csv file, and tick the Link box in the Insert Sheet dialogue. You'll want two sheets linked to your two data files and a third sheet (probably in front) in which to perform the comparison. I trust this helps. I think it does. I'll try it when I get back to that machine tomorrow. Let me double check one thing. If I use Insert | Sheet from File as you suggest, then is this spreadsheet updated with new data from the file anytime this spreadsheet is opened? Er, yes. If not, it wouldn't help with your problem! When you open the spreadsheet, you will see a dialogue asking if links to other files should be updated. If you wish to perform the update with the spreadsheet open, you can go to File | Reload (after saving any changes to the spreadsheet, of course) - which will stimulate the same dialogue. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org mailto:users-h...@openoffice.org Just above my comment is a link to click to unsubscribe yourself. Send the email created without adding anything. When you receive an email verifying that you wish to unsubscribe, reply to it without adding anything. Dan
Re: [users] vote for issue 116073 - OOW 3.2.1 crashing when Opening/Saving docs to different than default directory.
Rogier van Vlissingen wrote: I'm assuming I cannot be the only person to whom this happens? It's been with me since v 3.0 and continues to not get fixed, crashreports notwithstanding. I guess it happens to me a lot as I have a habit of grouping files by projects. Which language do you use? What operating system? I use the English (US) versions. I regularly save and open files from a large number of folders other than the Default folder. I do this on the following operating systems: Mac OS X, and Ubuntu (both 32 bit and 64 bit). All of these versions of OOo have been downloaded from the OOo website. I do not use any of the windows OS's. Perhaps this will help reduce the number of things that might be the cause. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
Perhaps this will help: The color table is stored in /home/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/ in the standard .soc file. This is using the OOo version downloaded from the OOo website. The Mac version is home/Library/Application Support/openoffice.org/3/user/config. Again it is the standard .soc file. Before copying the standard.soc file from another location, you might consider renaming the standard.soc file you want to replace. Then copy the desired standard.soc file into the same folder. Close OOo if it is running. Open it to see if you now have the color table that you want. NOTICE: The locations are accurate. The suggestions are what I think, but I have never tried to do this. They may not work even if I think they should. Dan James Greenidge wrote: Bruce, thank you for your suggestions and we'll take it under serious consideration. It's just a shame that users and beta testers have to go it alone with complicated ad hoc remedies like this on issues which are basic programming knowledge to OOo programmers and writers. But by God, isn't there a member of the OOo crew here who can suggest less jump-thru-hoops suggestions than this when laypeople and schools and companies are changing platforms and wish to take OOo along with them? Surely a method to semi-painlessly transfer configs and defaults between OOo variants would better grease the way to attract more users! Exasperated JIm in NYC On 12/12/10 9:00 PM, Bruce_Martin wrote: Dear James and all: My experience is that Oo stores color codes, hatches and gradients all in the same place relative to itself. This alone does not give you the exact path, as that can vary in relation to the different platforms. However there is a simple procedure I use to load, store and migrate this data between Fedora, Win XP etc on my network, and carry it physically to friend's machines (as I have created a number of custom colours and gradients.) *_Procedure:_* In whatever installation of Oo you are using... 1)Open a blank Oo Draw file. 2)Draw a rectangle (size is minimally important, as long as it fits the page and is big enough to see the fill colour.) 3 ) Right click (PC) on the fill. 4)From the menu that appears, choose area. 5)Then choose the colours tab. 6)Close to the right side of the colour choice window, look for 2 icons, One usually a blue floppy, (to save as the colour palette), the other one above it to load a colour palette. 7)Open either one of these, and you will get the contents of the default folder that holds the color palette (usual extension: .SOC) The default file name is Standard.SOC, and the size will depend on the number of colours it contains at the time. (Mine, with added colours is only about 12 Kb.) 8)In the usual manner for navigating, start to navigate - more to see where the default folder is located than to actually do anything. 9)If you want to export a colour palette, load it into Oo, then save it with the other icon, navigating to your desired new location. Then you will end up saving a copy of it in that location, which can be a USB stick, and external or network drive or whatever you have. 10)Likewise, using the load icon, you can load a file from any other location, then save it as the Standard.SOC file, overwriting the one in the default folder and, providing the new file is a legitimate SOC, it will be the default colour palette once you close and restart Open office - no need to reboot as a rule. 11)All the preceding stuff repeats for Gradients (Default Standard.SOG) and Hatches - Default Standard.SOG 12)If the installation were on a MAC, either the HFS or HFS+ file system would likely generate the usual mac fork, or that might be done by the underlying Java runtime used with the MAC (Tiger and up.) 12a)When exporting from a MAC to a PC environment, it is normal to end up with 3 files for each part of the MAC fork: The Data Resource is the one you need for the PC, the Resource and other forks should be saved aside, so that when you need to re-import the file back from the PC world to the MAC world, you simply copy the modified PC file back into the folder where the other 2 files were kept, making sure the filenames (aside from the extensions) are identical, then, in the MAC environment, the re-integration of the 3 files back into the MAC fork is normally done automatically when you copy the file back into the MAC environment. On the older MACS, this was done with a PC formatted floppy used in the MAC floppy drive, as on either the 1.44Mb PC floppy and the same physical floppy, formatted as HFS (MAC) 900 Kb. were actually encoded MFM. On USB Sticks, the file system should be FAT16, but Likely could work with ext2 or ext3, providing the MAC OS is capable of reading those systems currently. In the case of an External HD (USB of IEEE1394/Firewire) the likely system would
Re: [users] Where does Linux/Mint OOo Store RGB Color Codes?
James Greenidge wrote: On 12/13/10 10:53 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Perhaps this will help: The color table is stored in /home/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/ in the standard .soc file. This is using the OOo version downloaded from the OOo website. The Mac version is home/Library/Application Support/openoffice.org/3/user/config. Again it is the standard .soc file. Before copying the standard.soc file from another location, you might consider renaming the standard.soc file you want to replace. Then copy the desired standard.soc file into the same folder. Close OOo if it is running. Open it to see if you now have the color table that you want. NOTICE: The locations are accurate. The suggestions are what I think, but I have never tried to do this. They may not work even if I think they should. Dan Seasons Greetings Dan and thanks, however as far I could find, the directory structure of Mint is a morass of branches and duplicated folders. A file search for OpenOffice and standard.soc came up readily enough in Mac, but in Mint a file search popped up nothing less than three separate OpenOffice folders in threads raging from /etc/ to /init/ and some were alias dead-ends or plain empty. I'm no hacker and I really don't want to play Indiana Jones delving our hard drives just to transfer color and address and default info from Mac OOo into Mint OOo. I wonder how many perspective users OOo lost because people couldn't transfer their personal Mac or PC or Linux Ooo defaults between another. Surely there's a simple script that can swing this, and I'd really be nice if the brains in the know could lend a hint. Jim in NYC If you are using the version of OOo provided by Mint, the preset parts of OOo are probably located within the /etc/ folder. That is not what you want. You mentioned three locations for the standard.soc file, but you did not mention where the third location was. If you look at my earlier reply, I mentioned a location: /home/.openoffice.org/. What I should have written /home/user/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/ as the folder containing the file you need. The user in the address is the name of the folder which contains all of your personal folders. For example, on my Linux box, my user name is dan. So, this file is located at /home/dan/.openoffice.org/3/user/config/. Another thing: the period in front of openoffice.org is used by Linux to identify a hidden folder or file. I'm not sure how you searched for the standard.soc file. Did you use the command line or something else. This might help some. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] animated PNG format used in OpenOffice?
Rupert Brooks wrote: Hi, I took apart an ooimpress file the other day that contained an animation. The image content was stored in Pictures/somelongnumber.png. This appears to be a regular PNG, except its much too big. The animation seems to be stored in it, as it is properly kept and handled in the impress file. However, the manifest for the document just describes the content as media-type=image/png In principle though, png does not support multiframe to my knowledge. So I wondered, what format is being used by openoffice to store animated images? Are there tools outside of openoffice that can read it? Could someone point me to documentation? Thanks Rupert Brooks -- Rupert Brooks rupert.bro...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org The animated images are APNG files (animated PNG). It is an extension of the PNG files we have known. Search the Web using this phrase: animated png (without the parentheses). This extension has been around since 2004. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] PDF Conversion
Douglas Hinds wrote: OO's ability to create pdf files is a valuable asset. However, the need frequently arises to convert pdf files to a editable format. I installed the extension OO offers for doing that but the results were not adequate. I no longer use Windows. Can anyone suggest a Linux Application (I'm running Mint - a version of Ubuntu) that would allow me to convert PDF files to a format editable in OO? Thanks in advance for your suggestions. It might help if you had stated what you meant by the results were not adequate. What type of editing do you want to do? Where does OOo fail to do what you want? Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Change to style does not have full effect
James Wilde wrote: Mac OSX 10.6.5 OOo 3.2.1 I have a Writer style called Chapter_default which, amongst other features, specifies 12 pt font. In one very long document, ca 500 pages, I changed this to 10.5 pt, and now I am going through the entire document changing odd phrases, and sometimes whole paragraphs which have not been changed. I wonder whether anyone else has had a similar experience that a change to a style is not reflected in the whole document. Very often - but not universally - the failure is in connection with a word or phrase in italics in a foreign language. If by any chance, were these problem areas quotes from another source such as the foreign language? If you have pasted anything into your document from another document, the styles of the original document comes with it. Changing the Chapter_default style only changes that style. It does not change the style of the pasted text. If you are going to use styles in a document, you would be well served to use Paste Special choosing Unformatted text instead of Paste. Using Paste Special this way, what you paste will use the Chapter_default style. You can also add some character styles from the Styles and Formatting dialog. One other item that many people do not recognize: The formatting toolbar contains the font name, font size, and these icons: bold, italic, and underlined. If you use any of these in a document, you have hard wired it into that part of the document. You can only change any of these settings by highlighting the area to be changed and then change it. You can not change it using the Styles and Formatting dialog (F11 key). I personally don't use the formatting toolbar for that reason. So, if you are going to use styles, the best way is to use the Styles and Formatting dialog exclusively. Use Paste Special - Unformatted text for pasting any text from another document. HTH Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] openoffice for macosx10.5.6
HERZFELD UTE wrote: Hi there, which version of openoffice is the newest one that is compatible with MAC OSX 10.5.6, and how can i donwload it? Thanks, Ute - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Go to www.openoffice.org on your MAC. Click I want to download OpenOffice.org. A box opens below what you just clicked. Click anywhere in the box begin the downloading process. You will be taken to another page and then the download window opens. You will be downloading a .dmg file. Double click it to install it. A window opens with three folders and the OOo.app file. Drag this file to the Applications folder in this window to install the program. Icon also appear labeled OpenOffice.org on the desktop. When you are finished installing the program, drag the icon to the Trash to eject it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Returned mail: User unknown
I have been getting the same emails. It only happens when I send a reply to the mailing list. This leads me to think that the person with this email address has closed this email account but has not unsubscribed from this mailing list. So, if someone who has the authority to remove this email address from our list, please remove dloveless...@clearwire.net from the mailing list. (Even as I send this, I know I will get another email mentioning a permanent fatal error: user unknown.) Dan webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Do any of you know why I got 25 of the following emails? I know that this thread was seen on the list back in September. I did not send it to dloveless@ but only to the users@ list address. I have been getting a lot of fatal errors from posts I send to the list. I see them on the list's emails sent to my inbox but some of them come back to me as User Unknown. This is just a pain. The trouble really is not the one or two coming back, but 25 of the same one. When I see my posts on the list and then weeks later I get an Unknown User fatal error, it is just strange On 11/29/10 18:24, postoffice wrote: The original message was received at 2010-11-29 18:20:38 -0500 from postoffice.(null) [10.0.0.1] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - dloveles...@clearwire.net -Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to postoffice.(null).: RCPT To:dloveles...@clearwire.net 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: dloveles...@clearwire.net 550dloveles...@clearwire.net... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; postoffice.(null) Received-From-MTA: DNS; postoffice.(null) Arrival-Date: 2010-11-29 18:20:39 -0500 Final-Recipient: RFC822; dloveles...@clearwire.net Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; postoffice.(null) Diagnostic-Code: SMTP;550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: dloveles...@clearwire.net Last-Attempt-Date: 2010-11-29 18:20:39 -0500 Part 1.2 Subject: Re: [users] Cassette Sleeve Template? From: webmas...@krackedpress.comwebmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:49:24 -0400 To: users@openoffice.org On 09/16/2010 11:22 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 09:21 16/09/2010 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... old fashioned audio cassette - you know, the ones that came* in c60 (1 hour, 1/2 hour per side), c90 and c120 for recording from one's radio? [...] * I use the past tense because I can't find anywhere in London that still sells them ... Charity shops are reputed to have these available - presumably often used ones. Perhaps unsurprisingly, blind people apparently retain a need for them. The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) will sell you C60s and C90s by post. They appear to have a shop at their premises in Judd Street - http://tinyurl.com/RNIBJuddSt - where you may be able to obtain them over the counter. I trust this helps. Brian Barker Over here in the USA, only the large chain retail stores seems to carry these cassettes, usually next to the micro cassette for business micro-cassette recorders. So maybe they could be found in a business supply shop/store as well. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
James Greenidge wrote: On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? They are real images. I save an embedded picture (JPEG file) in a Writer document. When I unzipped the document, the file in the Picture folder contained a JPEG file. When I did the same thing when embedding a PNG picture in a Writer document, the Picture folder contained a PNG file. My conclusion: the image files in the Picture folder are the image formats as the image format of the image embedded in the Writer document. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
RA Brown wrote: On Sun Nov 28 2010 13:28:16 GMT-0800 (PST) Guy Voets wrote: The pictures are stored in the format/ext they were imported in. You are saying cut and pasted it seem that is dependent on the native format of where they were cut from. Are you not seeing a file extension? You can extract the picture folder from the archive and rename the files with a shorter name to see if your viewer will recognize them. Use your archive tool to extract them. If all else fails you can send me a copy and I will extract them for you. Andy Hello, Did a quick test: - a cut and pasted picture doesn't seem to trigger a folder 'Pictures' in the odt folder - an inserted picture (Insert Picture From File) appears in the 'Pictures' folder in the odt zip That is strange as here it does. I opened a jpg in gimp, cut and pasted it into a new Writer document. Saved the doc then closed Writer open the ODT with Archive Manager and the directory is there with the picture, in PNG format. This all done under Ubuntu and Go-oo v 3.2 will test with OOo 3.3RC6. Andy Since the question involved Mac OS X, I created a writer document and saved it using my MacBook (10.4) with OOo from the OOo website. Then I cut an paste a PNG file into the document and saved it again. I do not have Stuffit on my MacBook. (Both saves was to my thumb drive (flash drive). I then opened the writer document on my Ubuntu 10.4 LST so that I could use my archive manager. The Picture folder was present with one file: the same PNG file that I had pasted into the writer document with a very long file name. While I do not have Stuffit, when a compressed file is opened in Stuffit; can you Control+Click on the file in the Picture folder and open it with Preview? (For people who do not use a Mac, Control+Click does the same thing that a right click does on Linux and Windows versions.) Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] [calc] Date question
Eustace wrote: Is there a way to set my own day of week abbreviation? Instead of Mon Tue... I would rather have MO TU... -emf Yes there is. You first need a spreadsheet open in OpenOffice.org. Then open Help using the F1 key. Click the Index tab near the top. Enter sort lists in the Search term box without the double quotes. Click the Display button at the bottom. The instructions needed to create a new list containing your day of the week abbreviations will appear on the right side of the Help window. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Parts Alignment
anand warik wrote: I want chapter names to be aligned to the left page numbers to the right is their a way to do it. Are you aware that there are user guides available for the components of OOo? (Calc Guide for Calc, Writer Guide for Write, Impress Guide for Impress) They are located in the OOo Wiki. Or you could do a Internet search for the name of the guide. It will give you links to the guide you want. The Writer guide contains information on headers and footers. By adding a header or footer to each page, you can have the chapter name and page number on each page in the order you want it in the header or footer. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] [moderated]
PEP PETROCINE wrote: Does OpenOffice.org allow access to WORD documents previously written and saved in WORD?? Word or MS OFFICE is not on the computer in question. Thanks, PepPetrocine npetroc...@comcast.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Yes, OOo will open and edit Word documents except documents that are read only. Even then, OOo will open them. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer problem
rsbtho...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Hi. Guys, I have a problem with printing envelopes. I have read how to do it but it does not want to print envelopes from the address on a letter i have typed. I don't need a mail merge type address list as most of my letters are once only. In MS Word you just highlight the address on your letter and go into envelope printing and the address appears automatically. Can I do this and if not what a great update it would make as many people have this need. I hope it is there and I just can't find it. Regards, RSBT ** From another member of this mailing list: In the New / Templates and Documents , there are envelope templates. Then you can got to Format / Page and then choose an envelope style you want to use. I know that Word has the envelope labels are automated, but with automation you get limitation on how it looks. I never liked MSO's version of this process. When I use to need to print envelopes, I made a template from the Page formatting options with everything created except the address to where it is going. All I have to do is cut/paste the address in the letter and then paste it to the envelope template, and print it. Mail-merge options fail me for printing envelopes, so I use #10 windowed versions. For me, the best option still it making a template of the standard #10 envelope and then add the addressed from the letters when needed. * If you have other questions or comments, please send them to the same email address as you sent this one: us...@openopenoffice.org. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.2 Printer Administration?
webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 11/12/10 04:23, Clayton wrote: On 11/08/10 23:44, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: When I moved from Ubuntu's Go-oo version to Oracle's version on the OOo web site, I noticed that there is a new listing on the Gnome Panel Applications Office called OpenOffice.org 3.2 Printer Administration. What is it used for? The Help section inside OOo 3.2.1 does not have any listing for it. I checked the Document Project linked from the OOo site and I did not find a reference for it either, or at least my searches did not find any. What did you search on? When I open the help and search (using the Find tab in the application help) on printer administration I get a result, a help page titled: Setting up Printer, Fax and Fonts Under UNIX Based Platforms This page describes spadmin. Do you see this page when you search the application help? I typed in Printer Administration in the help option of OOo 64-bit Debain 3.2.1. I got nothing. For whatever reasons you got answers and I did not, it is not the issue at this time. In the help option, there are four tabs: Contents, Index, Find, Bookmarks. You must click the Find tab before entering Print Administration in the Search term. Click the Find button and then click the Display button at the bottom. The page mentioned will appear. It does in mine, and I use the same OOo version you do (Deb 64 bit) Dan Another posting tells me that there are many executable installed with OOo, and some are not included as menu items. Then there is the wonder why P.A. is placed in the menu with one version and not the other. Why Go-OO does not think it is needed and Oracle's OOo does. I do wonder why OOo needs a Setting up Printer, Fax and Fonts Under UNIX Based Platforms. Is this not a function of System / Administration / Printing? The real thing is that the OOo web site 64-bit Debian 3.2.1 version has it while the Go-oo version in Ubuntu's system does not. Why is it there for one and not there for the other? Go-OO and OO.o are not identical. There are many differences. C. As I wondered a few months back, is there a listing of the differenced between the various branches of OOo. When I asked about why I should use Go-OO instead of OOo, from Go-OO's people, I got the answer that it is better than OOo but no concrete info why. Do any of you know of a web page that gives a side by side account on what this other OOo based packages have that OOo does not? It would be something to see. Also, there was an article a few days ago, will have to find it again, that Lotus 123 is claiming that they are out shining OOo and will be the version to beat. They want to be the one people turn to when they dump MSO. They are also claiming to be better than OOo, but I do not remember reading any differences there either. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] AutoText
Luciano Pinheiro wrote: Hello, In my job, a user has a bau file that OpenOffice can't open, saying file corrupted. Exists some way to rescue the data in this bau file ? Regards, Luciano Pinheiro. Extract the file (it's a zip file). The data should be in the content.xml file. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Paste without formatting
James Wilde wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 02:51 , Daniel Lewis wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 19:59 08/11/2010 +0100, James Wilde wrote: Mac OSX 10.6.4 OOo 3.2.1 I can paste with the format applicable at the point of entry if I use Cmd+Alt+Shift+V, as opposed to Cmd+V which pastes the incoming text in the format from which it came. I'm slightly surprised by this. The Windows keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+V, so I'd imagine the Mac one would be Cmd+Shift+V - with no Alt. I doubt that Cmd + Alt + Shift + V is the proper combination also. On my MacBook, I use Cmd + Shift + V and then U to select Unformatted text from a list which includes up to several choices. Well, test it, Daniel, and see if you get the same effect. As I said in my reply to Brian, I got the tip either from OOo or LibO several weeks ago. I use it for pasting Mandarin and PinYin from various on-line dictionaries, like Google Translate, to some tables showing Mandarin, PinYin and English. The Mandarin symbols are nearly always about 24pt, and my table stores them as 14pt. The PinYin is grey Times New Roman and I want it in black Courier. You say up to several choices. What choices do you have other than Formatted Text (RTF) and Unformatted Text? //James The choices with Cmd + Shift + V depend upon the format of the copied material in Writer. When I copied this email into a Writer document, I had two choices: HTML and Unformatted Text. When I copied material from one Writer document to another, I had four choices: OpenOffice.org, Formatted Text (RTF), HTML, Unformatted Text, and DDE link. I tried the Cmd + Alt + Shift + V on my MacBook. It does work as you described using OOo from the OOo website. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Subscription Query
Bob Sugar wrote: Thank your for all the past info. I would like to unsubscribe. rsu...@verizon.net -Original Message- From: Barbara Duprey [mailto:b...@onr.com] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:56 PM To: users@openoffice.org; ce...@aol.com Subject: Re: [users] Subscription Query On 11/4/2010 12:50 PM, ce...@aol.com wrote: How do I join this mailing list? Thank you. The best way is to send a message to users-subscribe-cei76=aol@openoffice.org. The subject and content don't matter, just the To address. You will very soon get a confirmation message. Replying to that should complete the subscription, and you will get a Welcome message. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org It appears that you have two ways to unsubscribe: both of them are listed directly above this comment. The quickest is to use the bottome choice: To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org. As when subscribing, the subject and content don't matter, only the To Address matters. When unsubscribing, you will also receive a confirmation message. Reply to it. That is all there is to it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Paste without formatting
Brian Barker wrote: At 19:59 08/11/2010 +0100, James Wilde wrote: Mac OSX 10.6.4 OOo 3.2.1 I can paste with the format applicable at the point of entry if I use Cmd+Alt+Shift+V, as opposed to Cmd+V which pastes the incoming text in the format from which it came. I'm slightly surprised by this. The Windows keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+V, so I'd imagine the Mac one would be Cmd+Shift+V - with no Alt. I doubt that Cmd + Alt + Shift + V is the proper combination also. On my MacBook, I use Cmd + Shift + V and then U to select Unformatted text from a list which includes up to several choices. I'd like to make the pasting of unformatted text the default, and either reverse the system so that Cmd+Alt+Shift+V uses the formatting at the origin, ... I have version 3.1.1 for Windows XP, so you may have to work out how all this applies to your Mac version. You can change the effect of keyboard shortcuts at Tools | Customize... | Keyboard. Under Functions | Category, select Edit. Under Functions | Function, select Paste or Paste Special, as the case may be. Under Shortcut keys, now select the key combination you wish to be assigned to this function. Click Modify to make the change. Note that at the top right of the Customize panel you can choose whether you wish the shortcut to apply to OpenOffice generally or only in Writer, Calc, and so on. (You get to see only the component for the type of document you currently have open.) You will see that Ctrl+V is defined for OpenOffice generally but that Ctrl+Shift+V is defined separately for Writer and Calc (and others?). You will have to decide exactly how you want to reconfigure this. Note also that Paste Special does not paste unformatted, but merely gives you this choice as a separate step in its dialogue box. I don't know any way to avoid that. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
Maria de las Mercedes wrote: Hello: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Thanks a lot. María de las Mercedes What you want to use is OpenOffice.org Writer. Specifically, you need to use Master Document. First you need to get the Writer Guide v3.2 from this web page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters. Chapter 13 discusses Master Documents that you can use to do what you want with your document. However, the rest of the Writer Guide has information you will likely need as well. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Desperate! Upgrade to Fedora 13 killed OOo
John Jason Jordan wrote: I need OOo working by tomorrow evening when I have a presentation to deliver. I had OOo 3.2.1 from openoffice.org installed and running fine on Fedora 11 x86_64. I upgraded to Fedora 13. Afterwards none of the OOo applications will launch. I can't find the executables. Previous versions of OOo were in /opt, but I have scoured the folder and its subfolders with no luck. I installed using the setup script as root. I tried reinstalling but all I get is error messages that the packages are already installed. But where in the heck are they? Fedora 13 should have its variation of OOo listed in the K Menu. But if you are looking for the OOo executables, they are probably in a bin folder in /etc. Search for soffice.bin using locate in a console. Did you keep a copy of OOo 3.2.1 when you upgraded to 13 from 11? If so, reinstall it. (You probably did not save a copy on a CD or flash drive.) Other choice: download the OOo 3.2.1 file from the OOo website. It is still available. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Combining Mathematical Functions in a Spreadsheet
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, I am trying to create a spreadsheet to keep track of my work ours. This is what I have: Column A - Number of hours I've worked that day - X Column B - The amount I get paid per hour - Y Column C - The amount I get for bus fair per day - Z Column G - Should be the result (in currency format) of X multiplied by Y plus Z equals T. I was able to enter the following in column G: =PRODUCT(A2:A30,B2:B30) to get the result of money I get paid for the number of hours I worked. My problem is: What do I have to write to add the amount I get for a round trip by bus for that day. G has to be the final gross amount of money I get paid for that month. Thanks! Why not write the formula just as you stated it? Enter this in G1: = A1*B1+C1 Copy this formula in G2 through G31. To do this, click cell G1. A little square appears at the bottom right of that cell. Move the cursor over this little square. The cursor should become a +. Drag the little square down to cell G31. Finally, in H1 write this formula: = SUM(G1:G31) H1 will not have the final gross amount of money you get paid for a given month. (Remember that sometimes the 31st of a month is a work day.) Or if you want G1 to have the final gross amount, try this: = SUMPRODUCT(A1:A31;B1:B31) + SUM(C1:C31) SUMPRODUCT gives you the sum of all the products for X*Y, SUM gives the sum of all the Z. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Upgrade 3.1.1 to 3.2.1 (Fedora)
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-11-02 1:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: 3) I have a ton of personal settings and extensions in ~/.openoffice.org. Are there any issues with 3.2.1? The biggest reason for me not to upgrade was the loss of the colored document icons (they are all greyscale in 3.2.1)... I understand this huge (but admittedly only a cosmetic) bug is fixed in LibreOffice, Go-OO, and other alternatives... Tools Options OpenOffice.org View. Look in the Icon size and style section, right dropdown list. I'm not sure what your selection is (Automatic Galaxy, Galaxy (Default), High Contrast, Industrial, Crystal, Tango, Oxygen, or Classic). But try some other selections. Some of them will be colored icons. I use Galaxy (Default). Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Attached tables in Base on OpenOffice
pro...@team2i.fr wrote: Est il possible d'attacher des tables dans le module Base d'OpenOffice et comment ? Is it possible attaching tables in the module Base of OpenOffice and How? Cordialement. Philippe ROCHE - Team2i - 01 45 67 84 94 http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html If you want to get information in your native language, use this link to locate a list of the languages. Click on your language, and the OOo website will appear in your language. You will also find a mailing list similar to this one in your language. Someone should be able to answer your question there. There are at least a couple of ways to attach tables to an open Base file. Tables can be copied from one open base file to another open base file. Right click on the table in the one Base file, and select Copy from the context menu. Right click in the same area of the second Base file, and select Paste from the context menu. Is this what you wanted? Did you want to create a table from a spreadsheet? You have sent your question to a mailing list. I am one of thousands who have received your email. If you could be a little clearer in how you want to attach a table, please send another email to this mailing list again (users@ openoffice.org) if you want the answer in English. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] intel iMac JRE
Guy Martin wrote: Hello there, I've just loaded OO.o on my iMac with i3 dual core. When I attemp to invoke any of the wizards (letter, spreadsheet, etc.) I receive an error message: Java Runtime Environment is required for this action. Please install a version of JRE. I have a JRE installed as part of Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? Regards, G+M Le présent message électronique est confidentiel et peut être couvert par le secret professionnel. Il est à l'usage exclusif du destinataire. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur ou si vous n'en êtes pas le destinataire prévu, vous devez détruire le message et toute pièce jointe ou copie et vous êtes tenu de ne pas conserver, distribuer, divulguer ni utiliser tout renseignement qu'il contient. Veuillez nous informer de toute erreur d'envoi en répondant à ce message. Merci de votre collaboration. Open OOo on your iMac. What you need is found in OpenOffice.org (top left of screen) Preferences OpenOffice.org JAVA. When you go to this location, wait a little while OOo locates the JRE and enters the version in the window. Click OK. Close OOo. When you reopen OOo, you should be able to use the wizards. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:07:28 -0700 John Jason Jordanjohnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. I have discovered that the problem is apparently in OOo. Scribus, for example, is happy to embed the fonts in a PDF. The Bitstream Vera family apparently came with the Gnome desktop, at least reading the license leads to this conclusion. There is no prohibition on embedding, or just about anything else for that matter. It is a very open license. As a workaround I changed the entire document to DejaVu. It took an hour because you can't change a font globally. And I have a couple of tables of five columns and 15 rows. You can't even change a font for an entire table - you have to select the text in each cell individually and apply the new font. It could be that the problem with OOo 3.1.1 is due to a setting somewhere in OOo. However, I couldn't find any place in Preferences or Options to change font behavior. If there is a place to change the embedding of a font, someone please tell me where it is. You did not mention what you did in Impress to create the PDF document. Did you use the PDF icon? Or, did you use the File Export as PDF? The easiest way to change font families (Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold to DejaVu) is to change the font in the Styles and Formatting dialog (F11 key). With your presentation opened in Impress, type the F11 key to open this dialog. At the top of this dialog are two icons on the left side: Graphics Styles and Presentations Styles. Make sure the Presentation Styles is selected. The styles you must concern yourself are the ones you used (perhaps without knowing it) among these: Notes, Outline 1, , Outline 9, Subtitle, and Title. Right click the style whose font you want to change and click Modify. Select the font you want from the list. Click OK. I'm fairly certain that directions as to how to modify any of these styles are found in the Impress Guide. (The latest version should be available through the OOo website (Wiki section) in the next week or so.) This guide contains quite a bit of information about how to use Impress if you want much more information. The chapter Getting Started with Impress from the Getting Started Guide will likely give you all the information you need about modifying a Presentation Style in Impress. It may be all you need. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Help! Export to PDF not embedding fonts
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:07:28 -0700 John Jason Jordanjohnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I created a presentation in Impress (3.1.1 from OOo, not from the repositories, on Fedora 11, x86_64) in which I used the fonts Bitstream Vera Sans Regular and Bold. When I export to PDF all text appears as just blank boxes for the letters. I get the same view of the PDF with Adobe Reader, Okular, Evince, and a couple other PDF viewers that I have installed. I have discovered that the problem is apparently in OOo. Scribus, for example, is happy to embed the fonts in a PDF. The Bitstream Vera family apparently came with the Gnome desktop, at least reading the license leads to this conclusion. There is no prohibition on embedding, or just about anything else for that matter. It is a very open license. As a workaround I changed the entire document to DejaVu. It took an hour because you can't change a font globally. And I have a couple of tables of five columns and 15 rows. You can't even change a font for an entire table - you have to select the text in each cell individually and apply the new font. It could be that the problem with OOo 3.1.1 is due to a setting somewhere in OOo. However, I couldn't find any place in Preferences or Options to change font behavior. If there is a place to change the embedding of a font, someone please tell me where it is. Where did these tables come from? Did you create them on the slide using the Table icon in the Standard toolbar? I'm using OOo 3.3.0 RC2, so there may be some improvements since 3.1.1. I created a new presentation and created a table of 5 columns and 15 rows using the Table icon in the Standard toolbar. Then I clicked the left top cell. The Table toolbar opened. The Table Properties icon is on the right end of the bottom row of this toolbar. Using this icon, I can set or modify the font for a single cell if only one cell is highlighted. When I select two or more adjacent cells, I can set or modify the font for all of the selected cells. Since then I have created a PDF file using File Export as PDF. When I opened the PDF Preview (MAC PDF and image program), the fonts in the table look very much like the fonts in the table on the slide. (I used two different fonts in the table.) So, perhaps, what you found is a bug that has been corrected. (I do know that there have been several changes made in the Impress module for the 3.3.0 version due out soon: enough so that several changes needed to be made in the Impress Guide to keep it up to date.) Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] columns and footnotes
Guy Voets wrote: Hello, I have a section with 2 equal-length columns. I type text in the columns, and this text is equally spread over both columns. So far so good. Then I make a footnote. Now, the word with the (1) passes to the next page, leaving the second column empty. The text of the note is too long to fit at the bottom of the first column, but I would expect that the note text would be split over both columns (continue from the first into the second, as happens with the text in the columns - or with a footnote in a text without columns). Is this a bug, or is there a solution? -- Guy using LibO 3.3.0 and OOo 3.2.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard -- please reply only to us...@libreoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches Perhaps it is a bug, perhaps not. I do have a suggestion. It appears you have formatted the section so that the text is equally spread over both columns. Then you added a footnote. Perhaps you have the wrong order for these operations. From my testing of this, it appears that the footnote is a part of the section. This is what I tried. I created a section and formatted it. (Format Sections Options) Evenly distribute content to all columns was not checked (not ticked). I copied a little less than 2 pages of text into the section. Then I added a footnote in the first column of the first page. Finally, I formatted the section by checking (ticking) Evenly distribute content to all columns. The footnote was still at the bottom of column 1 of page 1. Even though I then added 8 more lines to the footnote, the footnote remained where it was. At this point, the footnote was 20 lines long! Again, it may be a bug, but the solution may be to leave Evenly distribute content to all columns unchecked (not ticked) until after you have all of the text AND footnote in the section. Then check (tick) this selection. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] openoffice
saskia shoshana cohen wrote: Shalom When I receive documents PdF or MHTLM doc It is impossible to open them to download them Thank you to help me quickly to resolve this problem From another member of this mailing list: * PDF's are better opened with Document Viewer or Adobe Reader or similar. You don't need OpenOffice.org for that. * Now, for my own comments. MHTML is Microsoft's version of HTML. If you are using windows, you can use Internet Explorer to view the MHTML document. If you are receiving these documents as email attachments, you should be able to view anyone of them by double clicking the name of the file in the attachment list. If you are using Windows, it will open the files with the correct program. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open Offfice as replacement for Microsoft Office
I noticed several replies to this subject, but none of them were sent to Vito Minni. His email address is below. This gentleman may not be subscribed to this list since one of his email headers contains: Delivered-to: moderator for u...@openoffice.org. This indicates the person is not subscribed unless they are using a reader service. Would someone like to email him a copy of what you wrote to the list? Dan James Knott wrote: Den 2010-10-25 02:55:11 skrev VITO MINNI vmi...@yahoo.com: Gentlemen I am looking to use open office as a replacement for microsoft office is this possible In general, yes, in that they're both office suites. OpenOffice.org can work very well with MS Office documents, as well as ODF. However, there may be some issues, if you're doing more advanced stuff. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] User defined date field in Base not enforcing format
Michael Adams wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2010 06:59, AG wrote: Question about Base. In table I defined a field date to take year only (I don't want days or months) for article publications. I selected user defined in the field properties and stipulated . The example shows up as 1903 and the format field shows 1900. Now into the user form input, I enter 1991 into the date field and tab to the next field and the date converts into today's date with the format 23/10/10. How do I stop Base doing what it wants to do and make it to do what I want it to do? Irrespective of the format it is viewed in, a date is stored in full format. You have two options: * format your input field. * store the year as a number (Integer). HTH Most likely you only have one option: * store the year as an Integer. The properties dialog (Properties: Date Field) controls how dates are displayed in a Base Form. There are thirteen formats to choose from, but is not one of them. My conclusion: a date field cannot display a date in the format. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Transferring templates to another computer.?
James Elliott wrote: I have a lot of business document templates on my old Win XP computer and wish to transfer most, but not all, to my new Win 7 computer. Is it just a matter of finding the template folder and copying them across, or is there more than one folder involved? I look forward to your advice Many thanks, James Search for all files using this format: *.ot? All templates have a file extension that begins with ot. The question mark in searches tells the computer to look for all file extensions whose first two letters is ot. Included will be ott (Writer), oth (Writer HTML), ots (Calc), otp (Impress), and otg (Draw). (You probably will not have all of these file extensions.) These files may or may not be in one folder. Copy the template files you want to transfer and paste them to your Win 7 computer. Suggestion: if they were not in a single folder on the Win XP computer, create a template folder and paste the templates into this folder. The Standard toobar contains an icon labeled New Document from Template. If you make this icon visible, you can use this icon to access, organize, or add templates. File New Documents and Templates menu path will open the same dialog as when you click this icon. When I am transferring templates from one computer to another, I place the templates in a single folder. Then I open the Templates and Documents dialog. Then I click the Organize button. Then I click My Templates to highlight it. Then I click the Commands button, and then click Import Template from context menu. I browse to the templates in the template folder I created. I highlight all of the templates and then click the Open button. All of the templates will now be listed in My Templates. I added the last paragraph because you might not know how to organize all of the templates at the same time. In the past, I have used this process one template at a time. It is much quicker to highlight all the templates when organizing them than to highlight one template at a time. HTH Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Formatting inherited from previous character
Phil Hibbs wrote: If I highlight an entire line and set it to italics, then when I start typing at the start of the next line, it starts typing in italics. I assume that this is because font characteristics are picked up from the previous character. It would be more logical to pick it up from the next character, so if I set a word to italics and then add a character to the front of the word, e.g. changing *available* to *unavailable*, then it would work as expected. Does anyone know if this has been raised as an issue before? Phil Hibbs. Writer uses XML to format text documents. When you set the font to italics at a given place, the italics begins at that point and does not end until you tell it to end. Entering text anywhere between the starting and ending points produces italic letters. Entering text before the start of the italics will produce the type of letters according to the font style defined for the place where you enter the text. The logic of XML is that the format given each letter is determined by what format has been defined for the place where the letter is placed. The format is defined and inserted where you want to use the format. In other words, you have to tell XML what styles you want to appear in the text and the places where you want them to appear. For example: isly red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.i This produces /sly red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog/. If The were inserted before /sly/, the results would be The isly red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.i The word inserted falls before the i and is therefore is in italics. (The i is not XML, but I used it to show the importance of the placement of the XML formatting which is enclosed within: . If you want to set the same font for a new character in front of a present word, click the place where you want to place the new character or characters. Apply the font for that location that you want to use. Then type the characters. Dan
Re: [users] Text wrap in Impress
Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/2010 23:43, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:37:18 -0700 John Jason Jordanjohnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I only ever used Impress once several years ago. Now I need to use it again, but I am far from an expert. I placed a PNG graphic on a slide. There is also a text frame on the slide, and I want the text to wrap around the graphic. I have scoured though the Help file and it appears to be Adjust to contour. But when I select that checkbox the text still does not wrap around the graphic. No ideas here on that one; sorry. AFAIK only Writer has a proper wrap facility. This might work: 1.) Move the graphic to where you want it on the slide. Also make sure the graphic is the size you want. 2.) Move the text frame to where you want it to be. Adjust the frame size as well. You will be able to see the graphic inside the text frame. 3.) Double click inside the text frame to place the flashing cursor at the top left of the frame. Enter the text using spaces so that the text appears only to the left and right of the graphic. As you add each line of text, the graphic will move down by the height of the line. 4.) Click the graphic and drag it back to where you want it to be. Dan Also, how do I select the graphic when it is underneath the text frame? The 'tab' key will select each object in turn (shift-tab iirc to go the other way). Long-winded if there are a lot of objects. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Text wrap in Impress
Mike Scott wrote: On 10/10/10 13:55, Daniel Lewis wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/2010 23:43, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:37:18 -0700 John Jason Jordanjohnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I only ever used Impress once several years ago. Now I need to use it again, but I am far from an expert. I placed a PNG graphic on a slide. There is also a text frame on the slide, and I want the text to wrap around the graphic. I have scoured though the Help file and it appears to be Adjust to contour. But when I select that checkbox the text still does not wrap around the graphic. No ideas here on that one; sorry. AFAIK only Writer has a proper wrap facility. This might work: 1.) Move the graphic to where you want it on the slide. Also make sure the graphic is the size you want. 2.) Move the text frame to where you want it to be. Adjust the frame size as well. You will be able to see the graphic inside the text frame. 3.) Double click inside the text frame to place the flashing cursor at the top left of the frame. Enter the text using spaces so that the text appears only to the left and right of the graphic. As you add each line of text, the graphic will move down by the height of the line. 4.) Click the graphic and drag it back to where you want it to be. Or there again, might not :-) Doesn't behave like that when I try it. I just get a graphic with text superimposed. You're not, I hope, suggesting one might pad the text with spaces to give a wrap effect That is exactly what I am suggestion. Leave spaces in lines of the text frame where the graphic will be placed later. The styles for text and graphics do not include a wrap feature, so this can not be done using styles. The only other solution I see is to modify OOo which is far more difficult than what it would be worth. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Calc malfunction - won't recalculate
John Bowling wrote: OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.4 On openSUSE 11.3 Work fine until an update in the last few days. Now simple calculations such as =A15+1 (in A16) will not change if the value in A15 changes. A16 remains the old value. It does effect other calculations also, but that's the simplest to describe. It does the calculation if you are entering new calculations into a spread sheet, but will not anytime after that. Closing and reopening the file or Calc will not make it recalculate. John Did you get the latest version from openSUSE or from the OOo website? If you got it from SUSE, that might be the problem. Seems that every Linux distribution modifies OOo is some way. It might be a bug in the SUSE flavor of OOo. I download my version of OOo from the OOo website, and I don't have that problem. When I change the value in A15, the value in A16 changes as soon as I use the Enter key or any other method to move from A15 to another cell. To recalculate, use the F9 key. (Unless SUSE has changed that option.) Dan
Re: [users] Cannot open any Open Office Files
r...@interopag.com wrote: Sir/Madam: I can not open any Open Office files held on my HP G60 Laptop, Windows 7, Open Office 3.2.1. Everything ran beautifully for 6 months, and now, total devastation - NO FILES WILL OPEN. WHAT IS MY FIX? I tried to reinstall 3.2.1, but that will not work either. Many thanks Robert S. Stewart Tel: +41 (0)78 718 7499 r...@interopag.com http://www.interopag.com Switzerland Hi, have you tried to right-click on an OOo file, then select Open with and manually selecting Open Office from the program list ? HTH -- Marcello Romani - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Difficulty with open office (text)
terrier.franc...@sapo.pt wrote: I have the followint bug. When I try to work with TEXT, in the toolbar (barre d'outils) the icons (boutons) CUT (couper), COPY (copier) and PASTE (coller) are not active. If I call Edit (édition), the lines cut, copy and paste are not activ too (written in light grey instead of black). I had already that phenomen once, but by starting the computer, it disappeared. But now, I cannot get it right, starting the computer does not help. Do you know some help ? Thank you in advance François Terrier Tél. 0033-558892418 0033-667491760 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Do you have any text selected? If not the Cut and Copy functions are disabled. As for Paste if there is nothing in the Clipboard it is disabled as well. Hope this helps. Andy OP seems to need a CC. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Math: how to slash a symbol?
Let me see if I understand what you want to do. You are use to
writing xRy to mean that the ordered pair (x,y) is a member of the
relation R. For example, let the relationship R be the square function:
y=x². Then (2,4), (3,9), and (4,16) are all members of this relation. In
OOo's Math this would be written as (2,4) in R, (3,9) in R, and (4,16)
in R. Math replaces the in with an epsilon. Similarly, (5,21) notin R
states that the ordered pair (5,21) is not in the relationship defined.
Math replaces the notin with an epsilon having a forward slash through it.
If I understand the use of xRy in MS Word, it refers only to
relations that are binary. Math on the other hand allows for relations
which includes three or more variables as in (x,y,z) in R, (w,x,y,z) in
R, etc.
Perhaps this will help. Otherwise, you need to be very specific as
to what xRy means in MS Word.
Dan
openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
That makes sense, although if it is possible I don't know how. The
best I can find is overstrike{R} which does a horizontal line. Perhaps
someone else here might know for sure?
Mark.
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wrote:
Thanks for the quick response.
I'll try to clarify. R stands for any relation, not the set for reals.
It could be S or any other letter. See below:
x in y
x notin y
The difference between the two lines is that the last shows a slash over
the in (or belongs?) symbol. Similarly:
x=y
xy
The second line shows a slashed equal sign, which means unequal.
I'd like the same effect:
xRy
xnot Ry
Of course, the last line doesn't work, but what I need a slashed R
between x and y.
Is it possible?
Thanks again.
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Not having access to MS software to check your examples, I'm not
entirely sure what you're after, but do any of these help?
(x,y) in setR
newline
newline
(x,y) notin setR
newline
newline
overline{(x,y)} in setR
newline
newline
(x,y) in bar setR
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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Bullets' custom character disappearing when I reopen file
NoOp wrote: On 06/23/2010 01:45 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi all, I have a file with some lists that have custom bullet characters (the Unicode gear character: ⚙). Often when I open the file some or all of the bullets show as squares, but when I open the Bullets properties I see that the gear is still there. Worse, cutting then pasting the gear character back in place fixes the problem! But then I save, close, reopen and some of the gears are missing again. The file is attached. Note that in the sections with dates, the format is a table and not a list. The last two sections are in fact lists. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. All the bullets are showing as ⚙ here. OOo 3.2.0 (ubuntu) and OOo 3.2.1 (standard) - both linux of course. Perhaps you have a font problem? Perhaps you could create a new paragraph style instead of using Default. While you have the Paragraph Style dialog open to define your custom paragraph style, define the Numbering style (choices: Lists 1 through 5 and Numbering 1 through 5) you want to use with this custom paragraph style. Close that dialog. Click the Numbering styles icon and modify the style you just chose in the Paragraph Style dialog so that the bullet used is the Unicode gear character. Close this dialog. Then use this custom paragraph style each time you want to use this bullet. Dan --- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] bug in OO-impress, OO versio 3.2.1
Karsten Burger wrote: Hallo, if I add a rectangle filled with color, then select area from context menu and switch to slider hatching (in German Schraffuren), and then select button OK, then the hatching is applied although I have done nothing to activate this feature. See attached example. Regards, Karsten When you selected Area from the context menu and switch to slider hatching (in English the slider is called a Tab), the default hatching pattern was automatically activated. When you clicked OK, the default hatching pattern was applied to the rectangle. If you were to select one of the other sliders (Tabs) such as Gradient and click OK, does it also change the rectangle? Dan Please reply only to users@openoffice.org: do not reply to my personal email address. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Update OO 3.2.1 question
Barbara Duprey wrote: Pat wrote: New to OO so this is probably a dumb question to the rest of you - I run Secunia which goes through my computer and notifies me which programs can/should be updated. This week it said OO should be updated. So I wnet to www.openoffice.org but didn't, and still don't see any indication on that screen that there is an update to be installed. Went back to Secunia and used it to download the update. So why couldn't I find it on the OO site? I did notice that through the Secunia site, the version of OO I had, 3.2.1 was deleted and a new version, 3.2.1 build 9502 was installed. OR - does OO, on the www.openoffice.org site use the I want to download OO to mean that there is an update? If that is so, where on that page does it tell you that there is an update? dmean Not a dumb question at all! For OOo, update means download the whole package, there are no incremental updates. (The main reason seems to be that it gets too messy trying to support the incremental updates on all the different platforms.) In general any fixes to 3.2.1 would be incorporated into a new point level (like 3.2.2) or more important level release (like 3.3.x). So I'm not sure why Seconia told you to update, but I'd recommend that you not update at least until a new stable release is announced. That tends to get talked about here, as well as other places. I can think of a couple of reasons for this happening. If you had installed RC1 (release candidate version 1), then you would have OOo 3.2.1 on your hard drive. But it would not be the latest version: the build for it would have been 94xx. If this is the case, then you should have downloaded and installed build 9502 as recommended by secunia. However, if you had installed 3.2.1 as either RC2 or the stable release, you installed 18m build 9502. (There is no difference between RC2 and the stable release as far as 3.2.1 is concerned.) There would have been no need to download and install OOo 3.2.1 as you already had the latest stable release. Perhaps some of the mystery would disappear if we knew what the build number is for your earlier version of 3.2.1. Otherwise it is a matter of conjecture. The next scheduled release is for 3.3.0 due out this fall so relax until then as far a new version of OOo. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Is there an open office comparable product to MS Outlook?
webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 06/19/2010 01:33 PM, Clayton wrote: On 06/19/2010 05:57 PM, James Wilde wrote: On Jun 19, 2010, at 13:13 , webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I would like lightning as well, but I run 64-bit Linux and lightning will only run on 32-bit versions. There are a lot of 32-bit only version I have found when I tried to install Linux versions of Open source software I have running on Windows Vista 32-bit. Strange. I thought 32 bit programs would run on 64 bit OS's, just not as well as 64 bit versions. So it is with my wife's Windows 7. Haven't thought about linux, which I believe I always ran as 32 bit, or OSX, which I believe I'm running as a 64 bit OS. Running 32 bit apps in a 64 bit Linux will only work if the various things the app depends on are either also 32 bit or have 32 bit compatibility libraries. You cannot simply fire up a 64 bit parent application and expect 32 bit sub components to just work. There is a 64 bit version of Lightning (Linux) available here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning1.0b1.html#linux-x86-64-builds which is the current release. C. Thanks for the link. I used the default links with Mozilla and got only the 32-bit version. Some of the 32-bit will work on 64-bit IF you have the 32-bit libraries installed, while other see the 64-bit and will bot look any father to see if there is the proper libraries there. KDE also has a PIM program called Kontact that I used in the past with Mandrake and later Mandriva. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] NIGHTMARE!!!
Claus Fuetterer wrote: Fill out windows forms with openoffice writer IS A SHEER NIGHTMARE!!! I risk to fail a project submission with deadline midnight (in one hour!!!) because of this trash software full of errors and inconsistencies. I swear you that tomorrow I will install windows and MS-Word. Sorry but I liked reliability and reproducibility of linux software but openoffice writer is everything but that. Its the worst software I ever used. Let me know once it is really working at at least 99%... Best, Dr. Claus Fütterer, Leipzig, Germany PS: I attached you the form, try it!!! From another of this mailing list: ** It works fine here (OOo 3.2 on Mac OS X 10.6). What is the specific problem you are having with the document? jomalie ** Also make any replies to the same email address as you did the first time: us...@openoffice.org. I know you are very frustrated, but you did not really give any specifics that was causing you problems. That would have helped just as the other person replying to your email. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Flash Cards
Mark C. Miller wrote: I've checked the extensions repository without any luck; I's hoping that one of you may have had cause to build something like this. I'm preparing a study program for High School Juniors covering the top 100 vocabulary words. The recommended way to study vocab is the good old fashioned flash card. I'd like to come up with an electronic version. I had a MS Power Point template back when that was my software of choice but nothing for Impress. The computer I use for presentations is Ubuntu, so I need something for OOo Impress. I'm not smart enough to build such a thing on my own. It would be one 3X5 slide with the vocab word; when you click on it, it would move to a second 3X5 slide with the definition and example sentence. Anyone have such a thing or perhaps can point me toward a site tht would help me? I've looked through the documentation book I have and didn't have any success. I'm running 3.2 on Ubuntu UNR 10.04. Thanks for any help you can provide. It sounds like you need to work with custom animation. Other than this statement, I don't know much more about it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1
Rob Clement wrote: On 05/06/2010 19:36, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/06/05 10:37 AM Rob Clement wrote: Are the new icons for the files created by OOo 3.2.1 simply confusing. For example I have some .doc files sent by fiends and the icon clearly shows the letters ODF on the icon. Should that not be OOo? Thanks Rob File a bug report. http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html The ODF cabal seems to have seized control of the icons and insist that files be identified as document type rather than the program that reads them. M$ Windoze thinks the applications icons refer to the program that opens that file, thus you get an ODF icon for a .doc file. On my Mac I get a blank white icon for .doc files. Larry I have submitted the bug report and it is number 112256. I can find nowhere to submit my jpg of some example icons. Rob You need to sign back into the OOo website and go to your bug report. Now you should see a new link to the right of Attachment that you can now use to submit your JPG file. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Word Counts
Paul wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Richard Traversri...@uwclub.net wrote: I do a lot of my writing in a DTP package on a rather obscure operating system - purely because it is a package that I have used for many years and am very familiar with. Often, though, I need to share my work with third parties, which means transferring my work, using text files, into OOo, formatting, and saving out in a standard format (depending on the intended recipient). So far so good. What I have noticed, though, is that if I do a word count in my DTP package, and then in OOo, the results come out differently. At first I thought that was because the two programs were handling, for example, hyphenated words, differently. But a little investigation has shown this not to be the case. Try this: Turn off 'Custom Quotes' in ToolsAutocorrect, and type: 'word' word (with the quotes) Now turn on custom quotes, and repeat the exercise. Now highlight each word in turn and do a word count. With custom quotes turned off, the word count is, as expected, one in each case. However, with custom quotes turned on, the word count in each case becomes two. This applies also to a sentence between custom quotes - one extra word is added to the word count. This can, of course, add a lot of notional extra words to a piece of work containing dialogue, for example. As I write short stories, usually containing dialogue, for competitions where word counts are important, this is not just a trivial curiosity! Feature or bug? Open Office 3.2.0 on Windows XP. Interesting. I would think definitely a bug. If someone could try this in the latest release (3.2.1) to confirm, then we should lodge a bug request for the developers to review. Good pickup. /paul I can confirm this behavior on OOo 3.2.1 using OS X 10.4 and Ubuntu 10.4 AMD64. Both OOo versions were downloaded from the OOo website. I typed a 10 word sentence. Then I entered one set of custom quotes, and Word count reported 11 words. I then added a second set of custom quotes, and Word count reported 12 words. Dan --- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Calc - real relative addressing
william drescher wrote: On 6/8/2010 7:11 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-08 6:55 AM, william drescher wrote: I am computing a moving average and comparing it to a current value (looking at the current weights of dogs compared to their average over the prior 3 months). So my cell formula is (in column I): =h2 - ((e2 + f2 + g2)/3) Each month I insert a new column just before the average column, then I need to redo this formula. How can I write the formula so that it uses = 1_cell_to_the_left - (4_cells_to_the_left + 3_cells_to_the_left + 2_cell_to_the_left)/3) I think you only need to change the option: Tools Options Openoffice.org Calc General and check Expand references when new columns/rows are inserted ? no, that won't do it as: 1: I don't have a range defined in the formula (which I could fix by using SUM), and 2: I don't want to increase the number of columns in the moving avarage, I want it to stay at 3. Thanks for the idea though. bill Perhaps you might consider setting up a fairly simple database. Then a query could easily produce the information you want. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-07 11:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: 3. Uninstalling OOo 3.2.1 and reinstalling 3.2.0 does *not* restore the old icons - really, really, *really* BAD More whackiness... .ppt and .odp files *do* have the old/original icons... but *only* the presentation files. *Some* of the shortcuts to MS files have the original empty rectangular box, but most have ODF on them now. I'll check on a VM later and see if this is reproducible... I'm *not* a happy camper. I use MacBook for my WiFi access. I have .docx, .doc and .ppt files on my hard drive. I am also using OOo 3.2.1. While these are all associated with OOo 3.2.1, none of them have any of the OOo icons. My tower's OS is Ubuntu with OOo3.2.1 (Deb from the OOo website). It does not show the things you report. A *.doc file has the familiar blue icon with a large W. Perhaps this is a Windows problem? Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] RTL text in LTR document's table of contents
Dotan Cohen wrote: Attached is an odt document that has the Table Of Contents header as RTL, despite the page being LTR. How to fix this? While we're on the subject, how does one make the ToC links to the relevant sections? Thanks! When I opened your odt document, I also opened Styles and Formating (F11 key). Then I clicked the TOC heading. By right clicking the TOC heading, I was able to select Modify. from the context menu. Then I clicked the Alignment tab. Sure enough, Right was selected. I clicked Left (option choice) and clicked OK. Problem solved. The Writer Guide has a section on how to set up a TOC to your specifications. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How to set default font for new docs.
Erik P. Olsen wrote: Whenever I open a new document an untitled document is displayed with a default font set to Arial. How do I change this default to my favourite font? Every computer except Mac: Tools Options OpenOffice.org Writer Basic Fonts (Western). The Mac uses OpenOffice.org Preferences OpenOffice.org Writer Basic Fonts (Western). Or with Mac you can use The Apple key plus the comma key together. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How to set default font for new docs.
Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 07/06/10 22:22, Daniel Lewis wrote: Erik P. Olsen wrote: Whenever I open a new document an untitled document is displayed with a default font set to Arial. How do I change this default to my favourite font? Every computer except Mac: Tools Options OpenOffice.org Writer Basic Fonts (Western). The Mac uses OpenOffice.org Preferences OpenOffice.org Writer Basic Fonts (Western). Or with Mac you can use The Apple key plus the comma key together. I don't see this on my linux based version 3.1.1 At the top of OOo 3.1.1 is a row of menus. Among them is Tools. 1) Click Tools to open its menu. 2) Click Options. (This opens the Options dialog. The complete name for this dialog depends upon which part of the dialog is selected.) 3) Click the arrow in front of OpenOffice.org Writer to open a sublist below it. 4) Click Basic Fonts (Western). The fonts are listed on the right. 5) Make the changes you want. 6) Click OK to apply your changes and close the dialog. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Multiple sheets in Writer
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 6 June 2010 12:59, Brian Barkerb.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Yes, it's very easy: o Create your second document to follow on from your first. (You can change page styles and so on, so there need be no similarity between them, in fact.) o Ensure your second document starts on an odd-numbered page (whether or not page numbers appear). o Print the entire file. o Now divide the print-out so that one document is in your left hand and the other in your right. (It doesn't matter which is where.) Than you, Brian, but I am not referring to files to print. I need to have several Writer documents together, but each is in fact a separate document. I can put them together in a zip file, but then I need to open up four OOo Writer instances to open them. Much easier would be to have sheets like Calc has: all the documents in a single Write file. Perhaps master documents is what you need. IIRC, the Writer Guide has a chapter devoted to master documents which is available as a separate document or as part of the Writer Guide. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mid-page sytle switch? Writer
Twayne wrote: XP Pro and NOF 11 Is there a way to set a new Style other than Next Page. e.g. how do you switch styles in mid-page and then back again? I'm probably not well caffiene injected yet, but I can't seem to do it. TIA, Twayne` - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Insert Manual break. Select Page break Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] mid-page sytle switch? Writer
Twayne wrote: XP Pro and NOF 11 Is there a way to set a new Style other than Next Page. e.g. how do you switch styles in mid-page and then back again? I'm probably not well caffiene injected yet, but I can't seem to do it. TIA, Twayne` Second suggestion: Read the two chapters on styles in the Writer guide. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] What was the install [terminal] commands needed for Ubuntu/DEB?
webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I forgot the need command to install the new release of OOo on Ubuntu/DEB systems. Could someone let me know, again. . . . . Thanks hopefully the update will correct the toolbar viewing problems that I had with Ubuntu/DEB but not on Windows. I have created a shell script file so that I will not forget how to do this. Then I run the script file. Here is the file I used to install the latest OOo release for DEB: #!/bin/sh cd /home/dan/Downloads/OOo/OOO320_m18_native_packed-1_en-US.9502/DEBS sudo dpkg -i *.deb cd desktop-integration/ sudo dpkg -i *.deb Notes: 1) First I download the file into /home/dan/Downloads/OOo. Then I extract it. Then I run the script file. 2) The last two lines of the script file installs the latest OOo into the Menu. 3) The real answer to your question is: In a file browser window, locate the OOo downloaded file. Double click this file to begin the extraction process. (I find this easier than the command line. Using the command line, enter the DEBS folder. Then use the following commands sudo dpkg -i *.deb cd desktop-integration/ sudo dpkg -i *.deb 4) By having a shell script file, I find I only have to change some of the numbers on line 2 to install the latest version. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Windows 7?
Ed Underwood wrote: Is the latest build / release of Open Office compatible with Windows 7? Thanks Ed - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Yes - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Outline 2 in Impress
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 3 June 2010 16:05, John Kaufmannkaufm...@nb.net wrote: In a message dated 2010.06.02 03:24 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: Some Impress templates have outlines, for instance in OOo 3.2 the third default layout. In these outlines, how does one configure some bullet points as second- or third-level outlines? The style Outline 2 exists in Impress, so how does one use it? For Impress, Outline 2 is Level 2 of Outline 1, and vice-versa. So demote/promote to move between them. John Yes, that is the question: how to promote / demote in Impress? It does not work as in Writer. There are three ways to do this. 1) Double click the outline level style you want to use. 2) Place the cursor at the beginning of the line you want to promote/demote. Use the Tab key each time you want to demote the outline level. Or, use Shift+Tab key combination each time you want to promote the outline level. 3) The Text Formatting toolbar has a Promote and a Demote arrow. Use one of them. Observations of Impress vs Writer: 1) This is not used in Writer that I know of. 2) I have used Tab and Shift+Tab in both Impress and Writer to promote/demote. 3) Impress uses the Text Formatting toolbar while Writer uses Bullets and Numbering toolbar to house the promote/demote icons. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] RE: track changes
Kathleen Zengolewicz wrote: I need to accept or reject track changes on a MS word document and was wondering how I can do that with Open Office. I am using Open Office 3.2.0. Thanks, Kathy Zengolewicz Kathy Zengolewicz: KathyZengolewicz.com contact | kkem...@comcast.net Edit Changes Accept or Reject (click Edit, click Changes, click Accept or Reject. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Remove outline from textbox
Dotan Cohen wrote: I apologize for the late reply, I have been absolutely swamped! By outline Dotan means [I think] that the text in the box is all of Presentation Style Outline 1. Ah. I suspect you are correct. The style gets applied as soon as he adds bullets to the text. You can of course use custom settings for the bullets (right click on the text and select Edit Style, then Customize). However, to keep it free text I _think_ you'd need to simply insert a bullet character (Insert|Special Character) before the text rather than apply bullet formating to the paragraph. The bulleting is the problem: I had intended for there to be no bullets at all! Just a regular paragraph. I cannot change that textbox to allowing regular text as opposed to an outline. I know that I could delete the textbox and add a new textbox, but surely there must be a way to _not_ have an outline there. You can customize the Outline Styles. Click the Customize tab. Among the choices in the Numbering dropdown list is None. Change the Numbering selection to None for the Outline Style you want to use. The present bullet for that style is removed. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] downloading openoffice
dennis fitzgerald wrote: I would like use the product,but when I downloaded the program. I found that it went too a temp file, and not the hard drive. How do I download the program to my hard drive? Thank You Dennis Fitzgerald E-mail: leo...@yahoo.com What is the name of the file that you downloaded? Did you double click this file? If so, what happened? Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] downloading openoffice
dennis fitzgerald wrote: --- On Tue, 6/1/10, Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: From: Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [users] downloading openoffice To: users@openoffice.org Cc: dennis fitzgeraldleo...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 4:19 PM dennis fitzgerald wrote: I would like use the product,but when I downloaded the program. I found that it went too a temp file, and not the hard drive. How do I download the program to my hard drive? Thank You Dennis Fitzgerald E-mail: leo...@yahoo.com What is the name of the file that you downloaded? Did you double click this file? If so, what happened? Dan The file that I downloaded, was openoffice.org. When I downloaded this file, it went to a temp file. Dennis What do you mean it went to a temp file? Again, what is the name of this temp file? The name should be OOo_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe if you are downloading the English (US) version to be used on Windows (XP, VISTA, Windows 7). Even if you are downloading to use with another language on Windows, the downloaded file begins with OOo_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_ in most cases. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How to inset a quote?
My suggestions are at the bottom. Carlos Martinez wrote: Hi Linda, you could use a table an insert the quotation in there. After that, you can give the format you would like. As you write in the e-mail you use to do this many times, to simplify your work you could save this stile (for the table) giving the name you like to this stile and use it when you need it. Bäst regards Carlos. Linda L. Hull skrev 2010-05-30 23:08: I'm typing documents and letters. S sometimes I need to quote from a court case or another document. I know to make these more narrow, but not how to get them to be in the center and not 'centered' if you follow me? How can I do this and go back to the normal margin width after the quoted part? This can be done with styles. First suggestion: Download the Writer Guide. Using this guide, you will be able to use Writer to do many things you could not do before. Link for downloading: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters. Specifically, chapters 6 and 7 are the ones discussing styles. 1) Use the F11 key to open the Styles and Formatting dialog (window). 2) Right click the Text body indent style. (You might have to scroll down the list to find it.) 3) Click the Organizer tab if it is not already selected. 4) Open the dropdown box labeled Next style. 5) Scroll to Default and click to select Default. 6) Click the Indent Spacing tab. 7) Change the Before text value to what you want to be the left margin for your quotation. 8) Change the After text value to the same value as your Before text value. 9) If you want to indent the first line of your quote, enter the value of this indentation as the First line value. 10) Click OK at the bottom of the Styles and Formatting dialog (window). This paragraph style will now allow you to type a single paragraph as a quote with margins that are more narrow. When you finish typing the quote, use the Enter Key to take you to the next paragraph. This new paragraph will have the normal margins. The Writer Guide will explain all of this and much more with illustrations as well. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open Office won't open.
Charles Garten wrote: At times, when double clicking on the desktop shortcut, or even directly on the application in the program files, open office fails to open. There is no message given. When I restart the computer, it will usually open then but may fail to open later on in the same session. Do you have an idea as to what may be causing this and if it can be fixed? Thanks. If you are using a windows machine then probably the soffice.bin has not closed probably from the last session. Use the taskmaster to see if this process is still active, and if it is then kill it. OpenOffice.org should open normally the next time you try to launch it. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Date format in template
James Wilde wrote: I'm using 3.2.0 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.3 I have created a letterhead template which includes the date. When I inserted the date field I got 5/30/10, i.e. the US standard, notwithstandning that my locale is Swedish and my preferred language order in OOo is UK English followed by Swedish. Neither of these uses the US standard. After inserting the date field, I marked it, right-clicked and selected Fields, and changed the format to 2010-05-30, and resaved my template. However, whenever I call up the template, I get the date in the 5/30/10 format. What am I missing? TIA for any help. //James 1) Delete the date field that you have in your template first. 2) Insert Fields Other (opens the Fields dialog.) 3) Document tab 4) Type: Date Select Date(Fixed) Format1999-12-31 5) Click Insert and then click Close. You do want the date to remain the same as when the letter is written don't you? (That is why I mentioned the Date(Fixed) in the Select column. HTH - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Pls Help
Vipin N R wrote: Dear Team Pls find the attached calc file.I can't open the file,while i trying to open it the following error message showing.Please help urgent data *Thanks Regards Vipin N R* *Kerala,India Mob-+919961233314* All OpenOffice.org files including calc files are compressed zip files. The file you attached is not. It might be a binary file. There is no way of opening this file without having the program which created it. Dan
Re: [users] open office 2.4 to 3.2
pjotr dominicus wrote: Hello open office. I got a few qeustions. 1.must i uninstall open office 2.4 for install 3.2? 2.how must i uninstall 2.4 when i must to do that? Greetings, Pjotr. No, you do not have to uninstall OOo 2.4 to install 3.2. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem
The Attwoods - BT wrote: had microsft office publisher which i used to do birthday cards /invite etc on. computer crashed when got back had openoffice .org i am a techno thicko - how do i convert publisher files to openoffice.org??? You don't. You have to have a working version of Publisher in order to open publisher files. No other known program will open these files. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice
David H. Lipman wrote: From: Jerry Clancyjcla...@billtrak.com | Dave, | Go to Explorer (or My Computer -- NOT IE), Go to Tools | Folder Options | | File Types. Slide down to DOC. Highlight it (click) and click on Change. Set | the opening process to OpenOffice.org x.x Writer (swriter). | If, subsequently, IE tries to open a .doc file directly in IE (rather than | in Writer in a separate tab or window, then unregister the plugin by Running | (from the Start menu) this: | regsvr32.exe /u C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org | 3\Basis\program\so_activex.dll | Change your install path/version accordingly. I like that ActiveX un-registration process if the association goes to IE. But is there a DLL or OCX file that I can Register to set all the File Assocaitions to the various OpenOffice programs ? This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four checkboxes labeled with four of the MS Office programs. If they are checked during installation, the MS Office files are associated with OOo. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice
David H. Lipman wrote: From: NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net | On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com | This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when | installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four | checkboxes labeled with four of the MS Office programs. If they are | checked during installation, the MS Office files are associated with OOo. | Dan I didn't see that on some PCs where MS Office had been installed but removed prior to installing OO. I need an after installation option. | Long read... but looks like it's being worked on: | http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96594 |http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/index.php?option=com_tcstask=tcs_showtcsid= | 3112 | You could try aqabill's msi: |http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11386#p61937 | Warning: read both pages of the forum posts try on a test machine | first if you have one available. Also note that I have *not* tried this | yet as I only have Win2K installed in a virtual machine haven't booted | the test WinXP machine today. When I tried it in Win2K it warned me that | it could not be installed on machines earlier than WinXP. A... Thank you. So I am not alone in this :-) And I made the mistake of thinking the dialog used to change the file associtaions was still part of the Windows installer. Sorry about that. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Styles in Impress
Dotan Cohen wrote: I cannot figure out how to set Styles for text in Impress. There is no Styles dropdown box on the toolbar, nor does changing any of the Styles listed in Format - Styles and Formatting do anything. I have read the Working with styles [1] page from the OpenOffice Impress User Guide but it does not address the issue of figuring out what Style a particular part of a Layout is assigned to. Thanks. [1] http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/office_guides/openoffice_impress_guide/openoffice_impress_Working_with_styles.html What is it that you want to do with Styles? Please be specific. What text in a slide do you want to format? Do you know what the Presentation Styles control? (Specifically, Background, Background objects, Outline 1 etc., Title, Subtitle?) What about the Graphics Styles? Do you want to modify the styles used within a particular Outline level Style? With some answers to these questions, perhaps I or someone else can help you. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Styles in Impress
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23 May 2010 13:38, Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: What is it that you want to do with Styles? Please be specific. I want to change the properties of text in a Layout, which will then affect all current and new slides. Additionally, these slides have excerpts of Linux commands, which I would prefer to be in their own in-line style if possible. What text in a slide do you want to format? It turns out that it is Outline 1, as I found out from Brian Barker's post. Do you know what the Presentation Styles control? (Specifically, Background, Background objects, Outline 1 etc., Title, Subtitle?) Actually, I see nothing that goes by the name Presentation Styles in my version 3.2 on Kubuntu 9.10. I will google it some more (I just got frustrated at some video that _could_ have been simply text), thanks for the keyword. What about the Graphics Styles? I'll google that after Presentation Styles! Do you want to modify the styles used within a particular Outline level Style? Yes, I was able to find them by the way Brian suggested. Now, I can modify them too. With some answers to these questions, perhaps I or someone else can help you. Thanks, Dan. The F11 key opens the Styles and Formatting dialog. There are icons across the top of this dialog. The one on the left is the Graphics Styles icon. The one to the right of Graphics Styles icon is the Presentation Styles. There are three more icons to the right of these two, but I don't use any of them. A few years ago using OOo 2.0, I created a slide presentation describing how to use Impress to create a slide show. If you would like to have a copy, download it from www.delewis.com/Simple_Presentation.odp. It may answer some other questions you have about Impress. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Impress: Custom Animation style for all slides?
Dotan Cohen wrote: All my slides have the same layout. Once I have defined a Custom Animation sequence, how can I set it as a style so that it will affect all slides, and if I change a parameter it will be changed for all slides? Thanks! According to what I read in the Impress Guide, the answer is no. These effects are applied to a particular element of a given slide. There is an exception or sorts to this. For example, if you define a custom animation sequence to a textbox, you can get the same effects on the same slide or different slide by copying your textbox to another area of the same slide or to a different slide. But if you change a parameter for the original textbox, it will not change for the copied textboxes. Here is where I am over my head so to speak. Perhaps this could be done with a macro? You can run macros in Impress. Seems possible to me, but I have no idea of how to go about doing it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Want to know about licensing issues..?
Karthikeyan Krishnamurthi wrote: Hi all i am newbie to the mailing list i want to know is there any licensing issues to provide openoffice as a cloud service. and also i want to know is it possible to provide openoffice from the local server to all the nodes connected with the lan.. [like google-docs which support throught the internet] will anyone please help me in this regard I'm not sure what a cloud service is, but I doubt that there is any licensing issues with OpenOffice.org being used in this fashion. OpenOffice.org is the name of the office suite as well as the main part of the web address. It is distributed free to all. Anyone is permitted to download a copy of it, make as many copies of it, give copies of it to as many people as he or she wants, and install a copy of it on as many computers as he or she wants. All of this is contained in the license. (http://www.openoffice.org/license.html) There are other things you can do with OpenOffice.org spelled out on this web page. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Z-axis ordering in Impress
Dotan Cohen wrote: I am having a hard time with the Z-axis ordering of items in Impress. For instance, if I have a photo on a slide and a textbox on the same slide, which is completely within the boundaries of the photo, how do I set the textbox as being above the photo? Thanks. Is the photo and textbox inside a frame? Or, is the textbox layered on top of the photo? Where is the textbox in relation with the boundaries of the photo? (At the bottom, on the right, on the left, or in the middle?) Do you want the top of the textbox to be lined up with the top of the photo? Or, is this photo and textbox layered, and you want to arrange the textbox to be in front of the photo (lays on top of the photo)? I'm just not sure what you want to do. Right off the top of my head, I would click the textbox to select it. Its border should appear with the handles. Then I use the arrow keys to move it where I want it to appear. (The cursor could be used to move the textbox as well.) This may or may not work depending upon the answer to my questions above. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Z-axis ordering in Impress
Dotan Cohen wrote: Is the photo and textbox inside a frame? The photo got there via Insert - Picture - From File. The textbox was part of the Slide Layout. I dragged the photo to the dimensions that I wanted (centered in the slide, about 80% of the slide's area) and I tried dragging the textbox over it, but the textbox is stubbornly remaining beneath the photo. Or, is the textbox layered on top of the photo? The textbox seems to be in a layer below the photo. Where is the textbox in relation with the boundaries of the photo? (At the bottom, on the right, on the left, or in the middle?) At the bottom. Do you want the top of the textbox to be lined up with the top of the photo? Or, is this photo and textbox layered, and you want to arrange the textbox to be in front of the photo (lays on top of the photo)? I wish to arrange the textbox to be in front of (on top of) the photo. I'm just not sure what you want to do. Right off the top of my head, I would click the textbox to select it. Its border should appear with the handles. Then I use the arrow keys to move it where I want it to appear. I do that, and it works. However, when I release all selections, the photo obscures the textbox. (The cursor could be used to move the textbox as well.) This may or may not work depending upon the answer to my questions above. Dan A sample file is here: http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/test-layering.odp In the sample file, the textbox is slightly to the left, and the photo is slightly to the right, so that they do not overlap. This is the only way to arrange the slide such that the textbox is accessible (can be focused with the mouse). Thanks. Right click the photo to open a context menu. Click Arrange to open another context menu, and click Send to Back. The Hello World should now be on top. Arrange is what is used when you have more than one layer and you want to change how the layers are placed on each other. Dan It is a very nice slide, by the way. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Z-axis ordering in Impress
Mark Miller wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.comwrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Is the photo and textbox inside a frame? The photo got there via Insert - Picture - From File. The textbox was part of the Slide Layout. I dragged the photo to the dimensions that I wanted (centered in the slide, about 80% of the slide's area) and I tried dragging the textbox over it, but the textbox is stubbornly remaining beneath the photo. Or, is the textbox layered on top of the photo? The textbox seems to be in a layer below the photo. Where is the textbox in relation with the boundaries of the photo? (At the bottom, on the right, on the left, or in the middle?) At the bottom. Do you want the top of the textbox to be lined up with the top of the photo? Or, is this photo and textbox layered, and you want to arrange the textbox to be in front of the photo (lays on top of the photo)? I wish to arrange the textbox to be in front of (on top of) the photo. I'm just not sure what you want to do. Right off the top of my head, I would click the textbox to select it. Its border should appear with the handles. Then I use the arrow keys to move it where I want it to appear. I do that, and it works. However, when I release all selections, the photo obscures the textbox. (The cursor could be used to move the textbox as well.) This may or may not work depending upon the answer to my questions above. Dan A sample file is here: http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/test-layering.odp In the sample file, the textbox is slightly to the left, and the photo is slightly to the right, so that they do not overlap. This is the only way to arrange the slide such that the textbox is accessible (can be focused with the mouse). Thanks. Right click the photo to open a context menu. Click Arrange to open another context menu, and click Send to Back. The Hello World should now be on top. Arrange is what is used when you have more than one layer and you want to change how the layers are placed on each other. Dan It is a very nice slide, by the way. I tried it out, just for my own edification, and I can't make it work. I right click the photo and get the dialogue box, but when I go to arrange I get No selection possible. What am I doing wrong? I'm not sure. Is it possible that you opened the presentation in Read Only? The instructions I gave were the ones I used to arrange the textbox over the photo instead of under it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Unsuscribe
gch...@aol.com wrote: Second request. Plz unsuscribe me. Thanks, gch...@aol.com You sent this email to the wrong place. You should have sent your request to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org. When you do so, you will receive a confirmation email. Reply to the confirmation email to complete the unsubscribe request. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] sort on date
James Knott wrote: JOE Conner wrote: Not at all, because the same number is also be used for date AND time. Both date and time are normally integers. Like with money, you wouldn't normally use floating point because you can't be guaranteed a correct result. With FP, you can get round off errors. 40308.817361 is May 10,2010 at 7:37 PM. This is sufficient to describe todays date and time. Dan
Re: [users] commercial use
Robert Weitzel wrote: Hello, can i use the Open Office Suite for commercial purpose? Regards Robert Weitzel Yes, you may. Some large companies are doing so already. http://www.openoffice.org/license.html has a list of the licenses that cover the use of OpenOffice.org (OOo). OOo can be used for any legal purpose on as many computers as you want. You can read all of this in the license. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Base wizard: Business or Personal?!?
Dotan Cohen wrote: When using the Base Table Wizard, the very first question is Category: Business or Personal. This is very confusing to users, who don't want to answer wrong. If the only difference is in the Sample Tables, then maybe all the sample tables should be together anyway. If the difference is more than that, then there should be an explanation. Thoughts on improvement? What is confusing? The sample tables in the Business category contain fields to be used in a business database. The sample tables in the Personal category contain fields to be used in a personal database. To me, this is obvious when you look at the names of the suggested tables. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Excel problem
Abdul Hai wrote: I have been sent an Excel document but I could not find anyway of editing it. I have sent this message last night it does not appear to have got through. Support solar power in the developing world. http://www.everyclick.com/solaraid http://www.solar-aid.org/ You did not mention what version of Excel created it. Is it possibly because the attribute of the file is Read Only? If you are using a Windows O/S, do you know how to change this attribute in Windows Explorer? You might request the person resend the document using the Excel 97/2000/XP format. Then you should be able to edit it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Comma separator in numbers
Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: I have a simple table in Openoffice.org Writer with 9 rows. One column contains numbers. 37,543.19 4,376.52 18,210.37 53,082.91 53,923.61 161,595.39 146065 4760.32 479557.31 For some wacky reason the last three rows will not allow me to insert a comma in the thousandths place, as in the first six rows. I can type it in, but as soon as I move my cursor to a different cell, the comma disappears. Also, in row 7 it will not allow me to add the .00 at the end. The number should read146,065.00 I can not figure out what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help? Your problem is the formatting of the rows. Click in the seventh row. Then hold the Shift key while using the Down Arrow to highlight rows seven through nine. Right click in any one of these bottom rows. Select Number format, and select the number properties you want to use. Click OK. That should do it. HTH Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Uninstall
Twayne wrote: In news:901248.8569...@web82203.mail.mud.yahoo.com, Barb Griffithgriffith7...@sbcglobal.net typed: I want to uninstall OpenOffice. But my computer will not do it. What can I do? Please help! Thank you, Barbara What have you tried so far? Add or Remove should do it AFAIK. HTH, Twayne` Make sure you close the Quick Starter among the icons next to the computer clock (bottom right of screen). Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Uninstall
Barb Griffith wrote: I want to uninstall OpenOffice. But my computer will not do it. What can I do? Please help! Thank you, Barbara What have you tried so far? Add or Remove should do it AFAIK. HTH, Twayne` In addition if you use Windows, You need to close the Quick Starter located among the icons just to the left of the clock. The Quick Starter icon has birds flying on a blue and white background. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] When creating a Form it's opening Base:Form Design, I'd like it to open in Writer
Marie Doran wrote: Hi, Very new to OpenOffice. I am using OpenOffice.org 3.2 Windows XP. Try to create forms using wizard /or Design view. They are both opening Base: Form Design. Any of the Tutorials I have look at seem to open in Writer. How can I set this up? can I change Form Design form to Writer ? I am not subscribed, please cc me. Thanks for any help! Mass Since you are very new to OpenOffice.org, I recommend you download a copy of the Getting Started Guide v3.2. Use this link to download it: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters. It contains a chapter about Base describing how to use it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Starting page numbering on page 2 of a document
Mark C. Miller wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:46:54 -0400, Daniel Lewis wrote: If you do this, you will also want to add the Templates and Documents icon to the Standard toolbar. This makes it easy to access the template. Dan I've spent the last few minutes going through all the options I can find for visible buttons in OOo 3.1 running on Ubuntu 9.10. I can't find an option anywhere for Templates and Documents anyplace. It's probably right underneath my nose, but if someone can point me towards where I can specify the icon, I'd appreciate it. mcm From Help in OOo: toolbars; add buttons To add a button to a toolbar: Click the arrow icon at the end of a toolbar and choose *Visible Buttons* and then select the button you want to display. There are at least two toolbars in the top of OOo. The Standard toolbar is the top one. The Save and AutoSpellcheck icons are in it. The arrow icon looks like a rectangle with a down pointing arrow near its bottom. When you follow these instructions, you will see the New Document from Template icon as the third icon from the top. Dan
Re: [users] Starting page numbering on page 2 of a document
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: This is, perhaps, one of the main areas where OO could outdo MS Office. I would assume that this function is fairly commonly required, when you have a document with a cover for example, and yet it is DIABOLICALLY difficult in MS Word and not much easier in OO. Would it be beyond the bounds of possibility for a developer to write some code so that you could insert the footer on page 2, click in it, and choose insert page number-start at no1, instead of having to muck about with page breaks and styles and all the rest of the difficult stuff? There is a reason why OOo and other programs have templates: when you use the same layout time after time, you use a template. So, create a template with these things in it. Then when you need it, use it. If you do this, you will also want to add the Templates and Documents icon to the Standard toolbar. This makes it easy to access the template. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Hyperlinks
Floyd Noel wrote: Can a data field in a Base table be converted to a hyperlink? FP You need to be clearer in your question. What is the data field? What is the hyperlink to which you want to convert it? The answer to your question should be yes, but this does not answer what you should do to make the conversion. So, be more specific, someone will be able to tell you how to do it. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Which OOo version in Ubuntu 10.04 ?
fred juan diaz wrote: --- En date de : Sam 10.4.10, Séamas Ó Brógáins...@iol.ie a écrit : [...] I should probably reserve judgement until 29 April, when (I hope) the latest version of Openoffice will be provided with Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks to all for help. Hi do you know if the version provided with Ubuntu 10.04 will be the 3.2.1 Oracle ugly icons Version ? http://www.cijoint.fr/cj201004/cijoYn5muI.png I was very happy to learn that Oracle had CREATED a 3.2.1 version based on OOo great moment of humor . . . http://www.patentpending.co.nz/soapbox/?p=3 and, as written under the About window, I'm very excited to see what is happening with the Branding project here :-( Will Ubuntu include this version as it ? best regards Fred JD In a word, no, OOo 3.2.1 will not be included in Ubuntu 10.04. It will have their modified 3.2.0 OOo version. Besides, 3.2.1 is not due out until next fall with 3.3.0 due out next spring. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Reports using parameter queries
Floyd Noel wrote: How do I get a report to give current results after I've modified the parameters of it's query input? It is giving me results from the previous parameters in effect in the query. FP You have to recreate the report. A dynamic report will only update based upon additional data that has been added. It will not update a change in the query. Note: this is when you are using the Report Wizard to create the report. I have not worked with the Sun Report Builder Extension to know whether you can use that to modify a report when the query structure has been changed. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Squiggly lines under all words
Barbara Duprey wrote: Horace Greely wrote: I am sorry if this has been addressed but I can not find the fix here. Also difficult to use spell check. I have attached a screen grab. Thanks for any assistance here. Horace and I have been looking at this off-list, and it now appears that for some reason the standard dictionary (from an en-us installation) is being applied, but is empty. Almost every word in his documents is identified as misspelled (although spellcheck appears satisfied with all-caps words, in this case ACE and FAX, and with digits), and right-clicking provides no words as suggestions, just the other options about ignoring and so on. When he adds a word to the standard [ALL] dictionary via the Add option of the spellchecker, it is recognized for that session, but closing OOo and opening another document with the same word it is again unrecognized. (At least, this seems to have happened once.) I'm not really familiar with dictionary management, can anybody suggest what might be happening? He's tried reinstalling several times, but so far no luck. I seem to remember this being a problem with the Standard[ALL] dictionary before, but I am not sure what the final disposition of it was. Perhaps this is a reversion back to that earlier time. I have my own way of getting around this potential problem. With the Spelling dialog open, click the Options button to open the Options dialog. I then create a personal dictionary and click the checkbox in front of the new dictionary. Then I add the words that to the new dictionary. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer: do not show =2 lines of text body at end of page
Dotan Cohen wrote: I think the issue is that there are both true paragraphs and paragraphs chopped apart by line wrapping into multiple pseudo-paragraphs when the text was copied from the web. The object is to remove the odd breakage points so that the text can flow normally, obeying widow and orphan settings. The extra paragraph breaks (but not the true ones), then, should be replaced with blanks. I can see how to do this, except it involves an Edit-Replace on a selection of the text that excludes replacement of the true paragraph breaks, which would be a real pain. But if I'm reading this right, there would be no way to distinguish the two kinds of breaks automatically. Hi Barbara. All of thebr were converted into paragraph breaks in OOo. In my opinion, that is a bug. HTML specifiesp/p as paragraph breaks andbr as line breaks, so pasted text should follow this convention. I will file an issue. There might be something more to this than meets the eye. Did you look at the original HTML of the text that you copied into Writer? I used SeaMonkey's Compose to create an HTML document with a paragraph containing line breaks: body p The sly red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. /pbr pMary had a little lambbr Whose fleece was white as snowbr And everywhere that Mary wentbr The lamb was sure to go./p /body I then copied it into Writer (3.2), saved it, and extracted Content XML. The corresponding paragraph is: text:p text:style-name=Text_20_bodyThe sly red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. /text:ptext:p text:style-name=Text_20_body/text:p text:style-name=Text_20_body Mary had a little lambtext:line-break/Whose fleece was white as snowtext:line-break/ And everywhere that Mary wenttext:line-break/The lamb was sure to go./text:p In this case, every br was converted to text:line-break/ which is what I think is suppose to happen. The paragraph breaks also were converted properly as well. This does not show the bug you seemed to have found. This is why I'm wondering about the HTML of the web page. In creating it, did someone use /p for each line instead of br perhaps? I don't have the URL of the web page you copied, so I can not say for sure. Dan
Re: [users] Scrolling Presentation
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: How do I set a presentation so that it scrolls round and round until I stop it? I've found the time for each slide in Slideshow-Transition but it stops after the last slide. How do I get it to start at the beginning again automatically? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org This can be done in the Slide Show menu: Slide Show Slide Show Settings. In the Type section, click the Auto option button and select the time you want to pause between showing the last slide and the first slide. You can also set this when you create the presentation. In Presentation Wizard, window #3, Select a slide transition type: click the Automatic option button. Set Duration of pause to the value you want for time between last slide and first slide. Just make sure that you set the time between slides in the Task section in the Slide Transition section. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: Re: [CALC] How to add a variable formula?
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Brian, Am 2010-04-07 00:00:01, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Then you haven't looked: o Put the cursor into your result cell. o Click the sigma symbol to the left of the Input Line. (Sigma is mathematics for sum.) o Adjust the range of cells that Calc offers if it is incorrect: drag it to position the top left corner and drag the bottom right corner to position that. o Press Enter or click the green tick. Oh, and you won't find that in Excel, I believe! Yes and Excel 2.0+ has saved me headaches because it. When using Calc, I had tonns of errors because it has changed the ROW NUMBERS in calculatins and when I found out that it adapt it t the new ROW, I had to change all back by hand. Is there an option to stop this? In my case, it is a VERY annoying feature-bug. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant I believe this feature is similar to Excel. If you want to keep the same row when pasting as it was when copying, use $ in front of the row number. EX: B2= A$2 + $C2 + $D$2 When pasted into B4 you get B4 = A$2 +$C4 + $D$2. When pasted into E6, you get E6= D$2 + $C6+ $D$2. I learned this from someone who was taking a course in Excel 2007. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer: do not show =2 lines of text body at end of page
Michael Adams wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2010 06:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: Every line in your example document is a new paragraph. To see that more clearly, click open the View and choose Non-printing Characters. New paragraphs are then marked with a symbol which looks like a backwards P (also spaces show as a dot, and tabs as a right-pointing arrow). To start a new line without starting a new paragraph, hold the Shift key when pressing Enter, instead of just pressing Enter (with Non-printing Characters shown, you see an arrow pointing down then left as is common on the Enter key). The options for widow and orphan control or keep paragraphs together then work. You might then want to change the Indents and Spacing paragraph options to remove the indent. You can set different options for different paragraphs, so changing them at one point in the document won't affect the whole document. To save having to change every individual paragraph's options (once you've replaced new paragraph marks with new lines) you can modify the Text body style - from the Format menu choose Styles and Formatting, right-click Text body and select Modify... and set whatever text flow, indent and other options you want for the style. Hope that helps. Mark. Thanks, Mark. That text was copied and pasted from a website. Is there a way to convert all the New Paragraph marks to New Line marks? I tried to do the same conversion once and failed to find a way, but maybe it does exist. I think this is bad advice, effectively changing the document to one paragraph just does not sound right to me. Did you select all and then make the change? Were the affected paragraphs definitely selected? Select all does not work well after copy and paste from the net where DIV's get converted to sections and the sections get selected individually. In this case i usually click on the offending paragraph, then select all and make my change. You may as a last resort need to copy the data out of the sections and from navigator then delete the sections. It is a worry if paragraphs that were changed later revert. I have not seen this specific behaviour. HTH Suggestion for converting the each line is a paragraph into the original paragraph setup: 1) Go through the text placing a # after the punctuation mark at the end of each paragraph. 2) Open Find (Control+F). 3) Enter $ in the Search box and # in the Replace box. 4) Click More options button. 5) Click the Regular Expression box. 6) Click the Replace all. Now you have one paragraph with the #'s showing where each paragraph ends. 7) Replace $ with # in the Search box and replace # with \n in the Replace box. 8) The Regular Expression box should be checked (ticked). 9) Click Replace all. Now you should have your paragraphs looking like they did on the web page. The suggestions about orphan and widow paragarphs should no work as well. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
