Re: [users] Moving tables
If you reveal codes can you cut and paste the whole table? Shawn [users] Moving tables John Jason Jordan to: OpenOffice.org Users 03/02/2009 01:17 PM Please respond to users This has driven me nuts for all the years I have used OOo and it's time I figured it out. When I create a table I need to be sure there is at least one carriage return before and one after the point where I am going to insert the table, else I will never be able to select the table. Just now I have a table that has no carriage return after it. I can select the entire table, but all I get is the data in the cells - I don't get the structure of the table. And Ctrl-X just deletes the data from the table, leaving the structure on the page. If I want to select the entire thing I have to select from carriage return before to carriage return after. I know that I can enter a carriage return before the table by inserting the cursor into the first cell and pressing Enter. But putting the cursor in the last cell and hitting Enter just inserts a carriage return within the cell. How do I get a carriage return after the table? I've looked all over the Help and can't find the answer. -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users][OT] What will happen if i try it?
Try it!
It won't hurt ...
:)
Shawn
Re: [users][OT] What will happen if i try it?
Michael Adams
to:
users
02/26/2009 03:42 PM
Please respond to users
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:28:24 -0600 (CST)
Came this utterance fomulated by Jeremy C. Reed to my mailbox:
Jeremy C. Reed
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Saw your sig- was tempted to try it on my Linux CLI, but chickened out
because i don't understand it. Is it for linux or PHP or what?
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Michael
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well
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RE: [users] Re: sole purpose of o o org. snippets.:
Can we filter all mail that contains anything offensive so things like below never get distributed? It's a waste of time, energy and bandwidth. Shawn -Original Message- From: Guy Voets [mailto:nimant...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:42 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: sole purpose of o o org. snippets.: 2009/2/18 stewart hawley sdhaw...@eatel.net fuck all you mother fucking ass holes Interesting that Paul Jannu found his way to this mailing list, yet doesn't know what OOo does... Perhaps he is a troll, or perhaps he is related to Steward Hawley. -- Stewart Hawley 1-207-441-7148 sdhaw...@eatel.net Did you know that there now exists a treatment for the ilness of Tourette (compulsive swearing) ? HTH -- Guy -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] Re: Download Problem -- Too Many Connections
When I use a command line session this works fine. I would try that. Or alternatively try another FTP service. Shawn -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org]on Behalf Of Tamblyne Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:03 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Download Problem -- Too Many Connections On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:55:19 -0600, Tamblyne tambl...@gmail.com wrote: I like to use FileZilla to download OOo from the server at ftp.ussg.iu.edu. Since I got DSL (YAY!) I consistently get an error message that there are too many connections from my internet address and it disconnects me. I never had this problem with dial-up, though it did take about ten hours to download. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Further information: I have the same problem if I try to download OOo from the same site using FF. I don't use IE. I have FileZilla set to only ONE connection. I'm reading the group through gmane. TIA Tam - 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] font size
Sarah, Google 'OoO Line spacing' Shawn Sarah Wrote: Now.I have another frustrating problem which I'm sure someone can help me to solve. There again, in working on a document I have inadvertantly done something that caused the line spacing to jump from single to 1 1/2 spacing. I haven't found out how to change it back. Can you give me a solution? Thanks again. Sarah - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] Print contents of a folder
If you register the file type in windows, this should solve your problem no? Shawn Harold Wrote: Hmmm. On my system if I drag to the printer a file whose type (extension) isn't known to Windows I get an error message. Choosing Print from the context (right click) menu is exactly the same. Similarly, if the file type *is* known, dragging to the printer and right click + print are exactly the same. What am I doing wrong? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Re: Please reconsider.
Nancy, When you unsubscribe, you will be sent a confirmation email. Did you receive that email and click the 'confirm' link? Shawn -Original Message- From: Nancy Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 9:34 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: Please reconsider. I Have asked to be unsubscribed at the unsubscribe link but am still getting email. Am wondering how long it takes to get off the list. It has been three days already. Guyess I will try again. - Original Message - From: John Jason Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: Please reconsider. On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:34:23 -0500 Nancy Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: I have reconsidered and still think it best for me to unsubscribe. Will you take care of that for rme? Activity on the mailing list is password protected. Otherwise, anyone could subscribe/unsubscribe you to the list. In other words, no one here can unsubscribe you. You have to do that yourself. But please do subscribe to the digest. You'll find it profitable in helping you learn about OOo. And occasionally you may be able to post back and help someone else. That's what open source software is all about. -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Marketing OOo
The problem becomes distribution. It's not profitable to mail a CD for .25 cents and you are not accounting for the printing costs. The better approach in my opinion is send them here, let them see the OOo user community, the site, show them the list off OOo books available: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Conceptual-Guide-to-OpenOffice-Org-3/R-Ga briel-Gurley/e/9780977899166/?itm=3 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beginning-OpenOffice-3-0/Andy-Channelle/e/9 781430215905/?itm=5 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Openoffice-Org-2-Firefox-and-Thunderbird/Gr eg-Perry/e/9780672328084/?itm=8 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Learn-OpenOfficeorg-Spreadsheet-Macro-Progr amming/Mark-Alexander-Bain/e/9781847190970/?itm=3 Part of the fear of the web is in being able to establish something is legitimate. Lend OOo your credibility on top of it's own... Shawn -Original Message- From: John Jason Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:53 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Marketing OOo NoOp suggested: http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/galleries/cdart/index.html [I'm still waiting for the 3.0 cdart...] Indeed, what I need is 3.0 art, or better, the ability to purchase OOo 3.0 on CD with 3.0 artwork on the CD. A problem I have is that people take my CD with OOo on it and are scared to install it for fear of all the horrible things they have heard about viruses and the net and such. A official looking CD would eliminate this problem. I could download appropriate artwork (modify the 2.0 artwork or wait for the 3.0 artwork), but I do not have a printer than can print on CDs. Even if I did, I would like to be able to distribute hundreds of such CDs. My university has 27,000 students and actively supports OOo. OOo is installed on all university computers in all student computer labs. The help desks would be happy to put up a cardboard display with OOo if only I had CDs to put in the display. I can buy CDs on eBay and elsewhere, but the vendors think their CDs are worth $5 and up. That is prohibitive for me. A blank CD costs 25 cents US or so, so I figure 50 cents apiece is a fair price. I wish CDs at such a price were available on the OOo website. In quantity OOo could produce the CDs and sell them at a fair profit at that price. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Re: Saving Files with a colon in name
Hey everyone, I love discussions like this very one. It always serves as a reminder to me that a community of any type (computers, family, friends, church members) all may have lots of things in common, but are still very unique and different in their own way. I also grow to appreciate that being a part of a community helps me to be a better 'something'. In the case of this discussion, it helps me to be a better computer user! As far as the error message goes. I have to agree with Harold, the OS should throw an error and the application should handle that error and/or display a relevant meaningful message to the user about what has gone wrong, or what the user(s) are doing wrong. As we all know, OOo runs on several OS's and there are several versions of OOo. That being said with each cycle of software release we hope OOo gets better. Same goes with the OS!! (Keep in mind, not all OS' are created equal) :-' If you send or receive a file and that file has illegal characters in the name when you try to use or manipulate that file, you should receive an error (Which you are). So that is a good first start. The OS throws the error and OO displays it. The message should be meaningful and help you resolve the issue. Which it sounds like it does, you know if you remove the colon then you resolve your issue. Now, since we know that the first statements are true about multi-platform, free software etc, etc. We really can not expect anything more out of the application. (A free application at that) I would suggest you revisit WHY (I may have missed this in the thread) you need the colon in the filename?? Can the desired goal/outcome be achieved in a different way? Shawn -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Allan Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:31 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Saving Files with a colon in name Grover Blue wrote: I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the file name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message You cannot save in the URL location you specified. Please choose another location. This implies something completely different, in that OOo seems to think I'm specifying a location that is inaccessible or not understood. If that is not the intention of the message, then it should be changed to better reflex it's meaning. I'm trying too understand what's going that leads to that message. Presumably OpenOffice.org thinks that the colon has its usual meaning of terminating a device name. As it does not find a device or folder with the name preceding the colon, it tells you that you cannot save to that location. Jim Allan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Can not setup openoffice
That DLL is part of the MS C runtime library. It should be there and be registered. The advice to repair windows is good if you have your install CD. Otherwise if you can find the DLL on your PC try to register the DLL and see if that helps: You do that like this : regsvr32 msvcr71.dll If you can't find this DLL on your system, check any other system that you trust. Get it from a friend or family member who runs anti-virus and whose PC is working fine then perform the step above. GL, Shawn -Original Message- From: Brian Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:13 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Vu Anh Hung Subject: Re: [users] Can not setup openoffice At 23:19 07/09/2008 +0700, Vu Anh Hung wrote: I installed openoffice succesfully. But I can not open it. And error as image attach. [ Transcribed error message: quickstart.exe - Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. ] MSVCR71.dll is a part of Windows, not of OpenOffice - though it is evidently needed by OpenOffice. It must either be missing from your system, or in the wrong place, or not properly registered, or there may be a wrong version of it on your system. Here are some suggestions: o The error message refers to the Quickstarter, which is only one way of starting OpenOffice. If it is only the Quickstarter that will not start, you may prefer just to disable it. To do this, start OpenOffice from the All Programs menu instead, go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org | Memory | OpenOffice.org Quickstarter, and remove the tick from Load OpenOffice.org during system start-up. But it may well be that you cannot start OpenOffice that way either: I'm guessing that that is so. o As the error message suggests, try reinstalling OpenOffice. Find the setup file within the files which unpacked from the download and double-click it to run it. Take the option to reinstall the product. o Is your Windows installation up to date? Run Windows Update (or Microsoft Update) to ensure that it is. o Try repairing your Windows installation. Find the original Windows CD and run it. Accept the offer to repair your installation. Remember that you will need to run Windows Update again afterwards to update everything. If necessary, reinstall OpenOffice after you have done this. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Re: Database troubles
What if you rename the database to current_name.broken and start over. Does it work then? Shawn -Original Message- From: Rev. Charles Lehmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: Database troubles It really looks like OpenOffice created a database that can't be used. I can't even view the data in it outside of the Mail Merge Wizard. Rev. Charles R. Lehmann Pastor, Saint John's Lutheran Church, Accident, MD http://chaz-lehmann.livejournal.com - Original Message From: Rev. Charles Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, September 5, 2008 11:16:35 AM Subject: Re: [users] Re: Database troubles I've already done it. It changes nothing in terms of functionality on this point. Rev. Charles R. Lehmann Pastor, Saint John's Lutheran Church, Accident, MD http://chaz-lehmann.livejournal.com - Original Message From: Barbara Duprey To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, September 5, 2008 11:13:24 AM Subject: Re: [users] Re: Database troubles Have you checked under Tools Options, in the OpenOffice.org section under Java? It can take a bit to fill, but that should list any Java version available on your computer, with a radio button to select the one to use. I'm not sure this helps, but it's worth checking, I think. Good luck. Rev. Charles Lehmann wrote: I've tried every version of OO Beta 3.0.0 I can find. I've reinstalled java runtime. I've rebooted the computer countless times (Vista). I've now reinstalled OO 2.4.1. No luck there either. I created the database within the mail merge wizard. In the dialog boxes associated with it I can see all the address data, and in the right places. But the mail merge wizard won't let me use the list I created within it. I'm at my wits end. I just can't understand why it won't use the file that I created IN MAIL MERGE. Rev. Charles R. Lehmann Pastor, Saint John's Lutheran Church, Accident, MD http://chaz-lehmann.livejournal.com - Original Message From: NoOp To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:30:27 PM Subject: [users] Re: Database troubles On 09/04/2008 05:35 PM, Rev. Charles Lehmann wrote: apparently Java wasn't installed. It is now, but no help. OS is XP. Version is 3.0.0 Beta. I suspect that's the problem. It's the first issue I've had with Beta. Rev. Charles R. Lehmann Pastor, Saint John's Lutheran Church, Accident, MD http://chaz-lehmann.livejournal.com I presume that you restarted OOo after enabling Java. I seldom run Windows, but seem to recall that rebooting sometimes helped. Also check to ensure that your Java is up-to-date: http://java.com/en/ If all that fails, try with 2.4.1 or the OOo-dev m4 version: http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461 Note: you do not need to uninstall OOo3 beta to run the dev version, they will happily run side-by-side. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] database query
Can you email the query you are using and what the results you expect are? Thanks, Shawn -Original Message- From: Joe Grech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:40 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] database query Hi, does the wild card work in queries? Cos I am not getting any results. Single items are displayed but not a whole list. Tks _ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-ussource=w lmailtagline - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] MAC Printing help
Doug, Can you print from other applications? Shawn -Original Message- From: MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:08 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] MAC Printing help I posted the attachment below and have not received any feedback. Are there any other avenues for support? I thought I would give this a try but it looks like I need to go back to the evil empire and by Office for MAC. Thanks Doug Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:17:12 -0400 From: MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C90CFE.36519AB1 Subject: Print problems on Mac My daughter just headed off to school with a new Mac book. I downloaded Open Office 2.4.1 and it is working fine except that it does not print to her new Epson printer. The printer installed fine and the test page worked. If I have the Writer and print queue windows open I can see the job move to the queue but the job does not print. Any recommendations? Thanks Doug - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] MAC Printing help
That is a good workaround. If the printer is new you usually get 30-90 days of support. You may try the manufacturer? Shawn -Original Message- From: MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:47 PM To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [users] MAC Printing help Shawn, we were able to print the printer test page and a couple of photos from a MAC program. I am waiting to hear back if she was able to save the Writer docs in PDF format and then use Adobe to print them out. Doug -Original Message- From: Shawn Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:39 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: RE: [users] MAC Printing help Doug, Can you print from other applications? Shawn -Original Message- From: MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:08 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] MAC Printing help I posted the attachment below and have not received any feedback. Are there any other avenues for support? I thought I would give this a try but it looks like I need to go back to the evil empire and by Office for MAC. Thanks Doug Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:17:12 -0400 From: MacPherson, Doug E. (CA - Toronto) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C90CFE.36519AB1 Subject: Print problems on Mac My daughter just headed off to school with a new Mac book. I downloaded Open Office 2.4.1 and it is working fine except that it does not print to her new Epson printer. The printer installed fine and the test page worked. If I have the Writer and print queue windows open I can see the job move to the queue but the job does not print. Any recommendations? Thanks Doug - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Base books or tutorials?
Try this. I never got it to work beyond the samples but also didn't put a lot of effort into it. http://www.hsqldb.org/ Shawn -Original Message- From: Skip Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:01 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Base books or tutorials? Hey all, I'm a PHP/MySQL programmer by trade, so I'm not new to relational databases, etc, and I'm trying to get a handle on building a solid application with ooBase for a community television station here in Madison, Wisconsin. I've been able to use the forms wizard for a basic master and detail record but I need now to get into more complex application modules like a search form, multiple detail records, etc. I'm starting to get tempted to just chuck base and write a PHP/MySQL app, but I don't really want to get into something so time consuming when I'm sure Base can do what I want. I've Googled for tutorials and searched Amazon for books, but I can't find much Base specific stuff out there. Any recommendations for books or web sites to get up to speed on base stuff would be greatly appreciated. I'm now trying to figure out how to do what I need to do in design mode, but it's slow going. Thanks much, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, WI 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Check out PHPenguin, a lightweight and versatile PHP/MySQL, AJAX DHTML development framework. http://phpenguin.bigskypenguin.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Base books or tutorials?
You might also consider javaDB. (Apache Derby) Shawn -Original Message- From: Skip Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:01 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Base books or tutorials? Hey all, I'm a PHP/MySQL programmer by trade, so I'm not new to relational databases, etc, and I'm trying to get a handle on building a solid application with ooBase for a community television station here in Madison, Wisconsin. I've been able to use the forms wizard for a basic master and detail record but I need now to get into more complex application modules like a search form, multiple detail records, etc. I'm starting to get tempted to just chuck base and write a PHP/MySQL app, but I don't really want to get into something so time consuming when I'm sure Base can do what I want. I've Googled for tutorials and searched Amazon for books, but I can't find much Base specific stuff out there. Any recommendations for books or web sites to get up to speed on base stuff would be greatly appreciated. I'm now trying to figure out how to do what I need to do in design mode, but it's slow going. Thanks much, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, WI 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Check out PHPenguin, a lightweight and versatile PHP/MySQL, AJAX DHTML development framework. http://phpenguin.bigskypenguin.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs
I am not THAT old and I still have some of these... printed-on-paper technical books... :-) Now, that being said, yes I do know what you are talking about and it is a handy feature. No I am not sure how you would do it any word processor... I might be inclined to try a 1cm x 1cm .jpg file that I embed at the far left with zero margin and give it a CRLF or two for each chapter?? Just a shot in the 'dark' though... Sorry, I couldn't resist! :) GL Shawn -Original Message- From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:51 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs Bucking the trend to everything electronic (PDF or html or Flash or...), a client has requested printed docs for a project. Moreover, they've requested a specific, tricky page feature that I don't know how (or if) I can do in OOo Writer. If you are old enough, you might remember printed-on-paper technical books... :-) Some of them had color blocks printed right to the outside edge of the pages, so that they'd show (vaguely) when you viewed the closed book from the side, or when you had the book open with a mass of pages on one side of the spine. The color blocks were maybe a centimeter in height, and their position changed from chapter to chapter. So, viewed from the edge of the closed book, you'd see staggered steps from the beginning of the book to end. Big chapters made for thick steps. These blocks of color were called thumbtabs and were a visual aid to quickly finding a given chapter without doing a lot of physical paging. Some old (expensive) dictionaries had actual physical cutouts in the page edges to correspond with the color blocks, so you'd insert the edge of your thumb into the indentation and break the book open at that section. From there, any desired page in that section was only a few page-flips away. I'm not interested in the physical cutouts (very expensive), just the to-the-edge printing of the carefully-placed color blocks. Aside from seeing the ghost of the edge-bleed steps when you viewed the closed book, you could hold the book spine in one hand and fan the pages rapidly with the other hand, stopping when the large, obvious numbered blocks for chapter 7 (or whichever one you wanted) flashed by. Note, I'm not talking about printing on the actual edges of pages. I'm talking about printing on the face of each page that goes all the way TO the edge. It's called edge-bleed. . . similar to when you get borderless photo-prints. The ink or dye goes all the way to the edge. To make a long story longer, I had a way to do it in FrameMaker such that each chapter would have a one-centimeter-tall block of ink at the outside edge of each page, with a large white numeral (the chapter number) in the color block. Then the color blocks for the next chapter would be slightly lower on the side of the page, and the next chapter slightly lower again. It was pretty-much automatic, including starting at the top of the page once the previous chapter's markers had reached page-bottom. For me, chapter 1 had its edge-bleed markers near the top of the page, then they stepped down with each chapter through chapter 10. If there was a chapter 11, it's marker block was back near the top of the page again, and so on. TWO QUESTIONS: Does anybody understand what I'm talking about? Has anybody done it, in OOo Writer? (bonus question How?) Cruddy ascii sketch follows (best viewed in mono-spaced font. All pages in chapter 1 would have this arrangement. __ | || | | Ch | | | 1 | | || || | Text text text text text | | text text text text text | | and more text and more| | text and more text and| | so on and so on and so on | | and so forth and yet more | | text | || || __ While the second chapter would be like this: __ || || | || | Text and headings and all | Ch | | sorts of other nice stuff | 2 | | and notice that the edge- || | bleed tab is a little | | lower on the page for | | this chapter...| || | And more text and more | | and yadda yadda yadda | || || || || __ And the third... getting the idea?
RE: [users] email problem
You need to register that file type to OOo. You can do this by following these steps. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859 Shawn -Original Message- From: Gene Presta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:20 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] email problem Hi, I use Outlook Express for email. When I recieve email with a .doc extension, I would like for openoffice Write to automatically open and down load the email. Does any ony have a solution? Thanks, in advance Gene - Original Message - From: Graeme Pyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:02 PM Subject: [users] How do I hide that annoying little hourglass that flickers between slide transitions? Hello, I tried everything I can think of, but can't figure out how to hide it. I want to run a slide show for public display and that hourglass just looks unprofessional. Thanks, Graeme -- Graeme Pyle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 083 415 1642 Fax: 086 653 1774 -- Graeme Pyle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 083 415 1642 Fax: 086 653 1774 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ This message was scanned and certified Virus Free by Alexssa | HNet. www.alexssa.net www.hnet.net www.neverlosedata.com ___ This message was scanned and certified Virus Free by Alexssa | HNet. www.alexssa.net www.hnet.net www.neverlosedata.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [users] Help!
1 CURSOR == You should be able to change the justification from left to right or centered using the Toolbar. 2 LANGUAGE == You may need to change your language settings in Windows Control Panel (If you are running windows) 3 PRINTING == Did you print the same document on the same printer? Shawn -Original Message- From: Huguette Avila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Help! Dear Sir/Madam I should be most grateful for your kind assistance regarding the highlighted points below. I am not technically minded and therefore I would like a simple explanation to a difficult question in a layman’s term. 1 CURSOR 1.1 How does one change the position of the cursor from right to left if one needs to type Arabic and Latin letterings at the same time i.e. in the same document. 2 KEYBOARD 2.1 I have a QWERTY keyboard and when I change from English to Arabic language and type the Arabic letterings it gives me a different letter from the requested letter shown on the keyboard. 3 PRINTING 3.1 I printed the first Arabic document without no problem but the next day it would not print and the following message appeared on the paper Thank you so much in advance Look forward to hear from you at your earliest convenience Yours faithfully H
RE: [users] [moderated]
Doug, Follow the directions here to compare the MD5sum of your downloaded file with the MD5 of the copy on the server. If the MD5's are not identical you have not downloaded the complete file and that is the problem. http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html If you are downloading the file from the same place, try using a different mirror. The one you are pulling down may have an issue. Shawn -Original Message- From: Douglas B Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] [moderated] Hi, I have downloaded OpenOffice (x2 times) and when I go to install it gives Internal Error 2731.0 and will not proceed. Regards, Doug Smith Douglas B. Smith 613 Old Healesville Road, Healesville. Vic. 3777 Tel. 03 5962 5900 Fax. 03 5962 5406 Mobile 0427 555 121 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: This e-mail, including all attachments, is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. Any personal or sensitive information contained in this e-mail and/or attachments must be handled in accordance with Commonwealth and/or State privacy laws as applicable. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and you must not disclose, distribute, copy or use the information contained in this e-mail or attachments. Please delete it from your system. Thank you. P please consider the environment before printing this email E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.362) Database version: 5.10450 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
