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Hi Sigrid, Having tried around, but found it tricky to download the program of Open Office 3; I decided to pop out to a shop and bought ' Beginning OpenOffice 3 from Novice to Professional' and it looks good *ONCE YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN DOWNLOADING THE THE PROGRAMME!* * * Now I shall unload what I started with, and will begin again. I have also converted some of my Templates to rich template format (rtf) in hope they'll work when Open Office opens its arms to me. As ever - Ron. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Ronald, On Fri, 13 May 2011 02:13:59 +0100 RONALD LAW ronl...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo Sigrid, Oh dear, I have a problem. Using OpenOffice.org.3.3 - Installation Wizard. I got this message: Error 1311. Source file not found. C:\users\Ron\Desktop\OpenOffice.org3.3(en-GB) Installation Files\openofficeorg1.cab. Very that the file exists and that you can access it. Retry Cancel. But none of this worked. Should I remove what I have received and start again. I am crying into my soup! HELP!! I am not a well versed Windows user (I run Linux as my operating system), so I'm not sure what to suggest. I think, I would delete your first download and redownload the file again, to see if this changes something. I did a quick search for you on the OpenOffice.org website and I found a forum entry asking about the same error message. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=4853 Maybe you can try to follow the steps that are mentioned in this thread. I am also forwarding this mail to the users-list, so that other users with more experience on Windows can try to help. Please check the archive for possible responses. (In my experience most people just click on reply, so that replies go only to the list, but not to the unsubscribed poster). You can find the maillist archive here: http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/users/archive I hope, that I was of some help for you. Sigrid -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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Hello Ronald, On Fri, 13 May 2011 02:13:59 +0100 RONALD LAW ronl...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo Sigrid, Oh dear, I have a problem. Using OpenOffice.org.3.3 - Installation Wizard. I got this message: Error 1311. Source file not found. C:\users\Ron\Desktop\OpenOffice.org3.3(en-GB) Installation Files\openofficeorg1.cab. Very that the file exists and that you can access it. Retry Cancel. But none of this worked. Should I remove what I have received and start again. I am crying into my soup! HELP!! I am not a well versed Windows user (I run Linux as my operating system), so I'm not sure what to suggest. I think, I would delete your first download and redownload the file again, to see if this changes something. I did a quick search for you on the OpenOffice.org website and I found a forum entry asking about the same error message. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=4853 Maybe you can try to follow the steps that are mentioned in this thread. I am also forwarding this mail to the users-list, so that other users with more experience on Windows can try to help. Please check the archive for possible responses. (In my experience most people just click on reply, so that replies go only to the list, but not to the unsubscribed poster). You can find the maillist archive here: http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/users/archive I hope, that I was of some help for you. Sigrid -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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The basic OpenOffice.org does not support Microsoft Works, so you should convert a .wps file to a file compatible with OpenOffice.org. The following list provides ways to convert .wps files to compatible OpenOffice.org files: If you have Microsoft Works, open the .wps file in Microsoft Works and resave it as rich text format (.rtf) file. Use Microsoft Word, resave it as .doc file. Use an online converter service such as Zamzar. Use any of these OpenOffice.org variants which include libwps (see note below): OxygenOffice Professional, NeoOffice, Ubuntu, Your Office Suite, LibreOffice, or any other variant based on ooo-build Use the libwps command-line wps2html or wps2sxw converters. (OpenOffice.org can open either .html or .sxw.) RONALD LAW has written on 5/11/2011 1:14 AM: Dear Reader, I have just joined OPEN OFFICE, and at present I use Microsoft Works for windows as word processor, spreadsheet and database. How can I get Open Office to work with these, including opening them. �I see one can do all that stuff with Microsoft Office, but I found that too vast an undertaking to use at age 83, and for my relatively simple needs. Thank you for your help, and as an old walker over hills, I look forwards to opening your map! Yours sincerely, Ron Law -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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Hello Ronald, On Wed, 11 May 2011 06:14:42 +0100 RONALD LAW ronl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Reader, I have just joined OPEN OFFICE, and at present I use Microsoft Works for windows as word processor, spreadsheet and database. Great! How can I get Open Office to work with these, including opening them. I see one can do all that stuff with Microsoft Office, but I found that too vast an undertaking to use at age 83, and for my relatively simple needs. That is impressive! Have you downloaded the program already? If not, you can get it here: http://www.openoffice.org/ and click on I want to download OpenOffice.org. The following site will offer you the version that is appropriate for your operating system. Click on Download now and the download will start immediately. Once you've downloaded the software, do a double click on the file and the installer will start. It will first extract the files into a folder that you can specify and automatically continue to install the software. Once this is done, you should have an entry in your start menu labeled OpenOffice.org and you can click on this to start the program. If you need more help, don't hesitate to come back and ask again here on the list. Thank you for your help, and as an old walker over hills, I look forwards to opening your map! You're welcome! Best regards, Sigrid -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hello Ronald, On Wed, 11 May 2011 06:14:42 +0100 RONALD LAW ronl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Reader, I have just joined OPEN OFFICE, and at present I use Microsoft Works for windows as word processor, spreadsheet and database. Great! How can I get Open Office to work with these, including opening them. I see one can do all that stuff with Microsoft Office, but I found that too vast an undertaking to use at age 83, and for my relatively simple needs. That is impressive! Have you downloaded the program already? If not, you can get it here: http://www.openoffice.org/ and click on I want to download OpenOffice.org. The following site will offer you the version that is appropriate for your operating system. Click on Download now and the download will start immediately. Once you've downloaded the software, do a double click on the file and the installer will start. It will first extract the files into a folder that you can specify and automatically continue to install the software. Once this is done, you should have an entry in your start menu labeled OpenOffice.org and you can click on this to start the program. If you need more help, don't hesitate to come back and ask again here on the list. UUhhh...I believe the OP asked how to get OOo to work with MS Works files, not how to obtain and install it. I'm using 3.2. Does 3.3 handle these files automatically or is there a plugin? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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ROWENA NEWBERRY wrote: I have a desktop icon for Openoffice installation files, have done the installation wizard, but don't know how to access the actual programmes, I just get lists and lists of file, what else do I need to do? I completed the survey. I assume you're running Windows. If it installed properly, you should have a folder in your Start menu that contains icons for the various components (Writer, Calc, etc.). You can use those icons to start whatever application you wish. Also, if you have some document already, just double click on it to start the appropriate application. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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I forgot to mention, you should check your computer clock. It appears you sent your message on Feb. 11, 2008. ROWENA NEWBERRY wrote: I have a desktop icon for Openoffice installation files, have done the installation wizard, but don't know how to access the actual programmes, I just get lists and lists of file, what else do I need to do? I completed the survey. I assume you're running Windows. If it installed properly, you should have a folder in your Start menu that contains icons for the various components (Writer, Calc, etc.). You can use those icons to start whatever application you wish. Also, if you have some document already, just double click on it to start the appropriate application. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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On 2/11/2008 4:04 PM, ROWENA NEWBERRY wrote: I have a desktop icon for Openoffice installation files, have done the installation wizard, but don't know how to access the actual programmes, I just get lists and lists of file, what else do I need to do? I completed the survey. [Rowena (rowenanewbe...@btinternet.com) is not subscribed and will probably not see any responses unless directly copied.] First, it would be good to set your computer clock -- it's more than three years out of date! If you have run the installation wizard, you should have a number of ways to access the programs. If you are using a Windows system, for example, you should have at least a folder in your Start menu that conatins icons for the various components, like Writer and Calc. Also, depending on what you did during installation, you may have a icon for the OOo Quickstarter in your system tray (bottom right of your screen) and/or a desktop icon for the applications, in addition to the one for the downloaded installer file. If this doesn't get you going, please tell us what operating system and version you are using, what version of OOo you downloaded, and where you got the downloaded file if it wasn't www.openoffice.org or one of its official mirrors. In addition, if you changed anything from the defaults during installation, what changes did you make? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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2011/3/6 Maurice Mercier simau.merc...@free.fr Bonjour,je ne peux plus rien ouvrir avec OpenOffice.org, pourquoi,merci de me répondre Vous n'avez pas fourni suffisamment d'informations pour nous de vous aider. Peut-être qu'il serait plus facile pour vous d'en discuter en français à l' adresse suivante: http://fr.openoffice.org/ Merci, / paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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Ceci est une liste pour usagers de langue anglaise. Pour avoir de l'aide en français, tu trouves le forum sur _fr.openoffice.org_ Marcel says he has been using OO for more than one year. For three days ago he's been unable to open anything, and when he tries to re-install he gets a message /impossible, please close OpenOffice and make sure that.../ etc. He's a layman and not proficient in tech lingo. Requests help in recovering the functionality of OO. Thanks even now. On 03/04/2011 04:55 PM, Maurice Mercier wrote: Bonjour ,je suis utilisateur de OpenOffice Org depuis plus d'un an,très utile pour ouvrir ;pièces jointes,diaporama, documents etc... Depuis trois jours,je ne peux plus rien ouvrir,et quand j'essaye de réinstaller,j'ai le message :impossible ,veuillez fermer Open Office et vous assurer etc..j'ai tout essayer...mais je suis profane et sans vocabulaire technique. pouvez vous m'aider à retrouver la fonctionnalité de OpenOffice ? Merci d'avance. S.Mercier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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The most likely cause here is that there is an old soffice.bin process running on his (presumably) Windows system. A restart should allow the files to open normally, or he can use the Task Manager (whatever that is in French) to stop any soffice.bin process that shows as active. That will also stop any associated soffice.exe processes. Reinstalling should not be needed. Would you copy him, please? I don't have his address handy. Thanks! This problem sometimes occurs when something goes wrong that causes OOo not to end normally. On 3/9/2011 10:44 AM, john d. herron wrote: Ceci est une liste pour usagers de langue anglaise. Pour avoir de l'aide en français, tu trouves le forum sur _fr.openoffice.org_ Marcel says he has been using OO for more than one year. For three days ago he's been unable to open anything, and when he tries to re-install he gets a message /impossible, please close OpenOffice and make sure that.../ etc. He's a layman and not proficient in tech lingo. Requests help in recovering the functionality of OO. Thanks even now. On 03/04/2011 04:55 PM, Maurice Mercier wrote: Bonjour ,je suis utilisateur de OpenOffice Org depuis plus d'un an,très utile pour ouvrir ;pièces jointes,diaporama, documents etc... Depuis trois jours,je ne peux plus rien ouvrir,et quand j'essaye de réinstaller,j'ai le message :impossible ,veuillez fermer Open Office et vous assurer etc..j'ai tout essayer...mais je suis profane et sans vocabulaire technique. pouvez vous m'aider à retrouver la fonctionnalité de OpenOffice ? Merci d'avance. S.Mercier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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On 3/4/2011 10:55 AM, Maurice Mercier wrote: Bonjour ,je suis utilisateur de OpenOffice Org depuis plus d'un an,très utile pour ouvrir ;pièces jointes,diaporama, documents etc... Depuis trois jours,je ne peux plus rien ouvrir,et quand j'essaye de réinstaller,j'ai le message :impossible ,veuillez fermer Open Office et vous assurer etc..j'ai tout essayer...mais je suis profane et sans vocabulaire technique. pouvez vous m'aider à retrouver la fonctionnalité de OpenOffice ? Merci d'avance. S.Mercier http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr/forum/ -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), Roman Poet, late 1st, early 2nd century AD (Who will protect us from the protectors?) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: [moderated] Error 126
On 03/02/2011 01:39 AM, Mike Scott wrote: On 21/02/11 13:36, PAUL LANG wrote: error 126 Cannot load library LXBZPRP.DLL (3.3) New installation of Version 3.3 is displaying this error in Calc and writer. Any advice? PL I looked on google, which came up with http://www.spydig.com/file-diagnosis/LXBZPRP-DLL.html saying The LXBZPRP.DLL file is a malicious file related to spyware. I _think_ that should be LXBCPRP.DLL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=encomplete=0q=openoffice+%2BLXBCPRP.DLLbtnG=Search http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115210 printing (CTRL+P) error 126, can not load library lxbcprp.dll, using defaults -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: [moderated] Error 126
On 21/02/11 13:36, PAUL LANG wrote: error 126 Cannot load library LXBZPRP.DLL (3.3) New installation of Version 3.3 is displaying this error in Calc and writer. Any advice? PL I looked on google, which came up with http://www.spydig.com/file-diagnosis/LXBZPRP-DLL.html saying The LXBZPRP.DLL file is a malicious file related to spyware. Whether that's true or not is another matter but it might be worth doing a thorough scan for malware. (And I'd avoid theirs - use something well-known!) FWIW my XP/SP2 system doesn't seem to have that file under /windows. (IIRC that's got OOo 3.0 on it, but as I'm dual-booted into ubuntu presently, I can't check) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
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On 01/28/2011 12:55 PM, bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3. When I attempt to use Office Writer it will let me start then freeze and say, Not Responding. What can I do short of starting all over? Please respond. Bob firewall? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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jeff g. wrote: On 01/28/2011 12:55 PM, bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3. When I attempt to use Office Writer it will let me start then freeze and say, Not Responding. What can I do short of starting all over? Please respond. Bob firewall? What would the firewall have to do with this? For some reason the app is locking up and failing to respond to the OS. It has nothing to do with any network access. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 01/30/2011 06:41 AM, James Knott wrote: jeff g. wrote: On 01/28/2011 12:55 PM, bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded from 3.2 to 3.3. When I attempt to use Office Writer it will let me start then freeze and say, Not Responding. What can I do short of starting all over? Please respond. Bob firewall? What would the firewall have to do with this? For some reason the app is locking up and failing to respond to the OS. It has nothing to do with any network access. I put a question mark in there - it was just a stab. Since an upgrade was just done, I was thinking OO might phone home for some non-obvious reason - software does do that occasionally - and OO has internet functions. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] OT: Sending Email on Sundays (was [users] Re: [moderated])
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 03/11/2010 14:54, James Knott wrote: Harold, you might want to check your computer clock. It appears you sent this message on Sunday. One thing I recommend is to configure computers to use NTP, which sets the clock very accurately. Errm. Yes, I did send it on Sunday. At about twenty to eight in the evening my time. Why do you feel it necessary to comment or to think that my computer clock may be wrong? I use NIST's time server. My apologies. I was surprise to see email that took 3 days to arrive. It's almost as though you sent it via the post office. ;-) Generally, when there's a significant discrepancy between post and arrival times, it's due to a mis-configured clock. According to the message headers, you sent it on Oct 31 @ 14:35and was received by the list on Nov 3 @ 19:37 or 3 days and 5 hours later. I wonder where it was for all that time? Generally, this list is quick to forward messages. Delivered-To: mailing list users@openoffice.org Received: (qmail 26109 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2010 14:35:22 - X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkoEAGsQ0UxQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACIfIpkAY4DFQEBFiIirWGHay6IXYVGBIpV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i=4.58,289,1286175600; d=scan'208;a=10220205 X-IRONPORT: SCANNED X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: users@openoffice.org From: Harold Fuchshwfa.gmanen...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:37:35 - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: OT: Sending Email on Sundays (was [users] Re: [moderated])
James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote in message news:4cd2da12.7090...@rogers.com... Harold Fuchs wrote: On 03/11/2010 14:54, James Knott wrote: Harold, you might want to check your computer clock. It appears you sent this message on Sunday. One thing I recommend is to configure computers to use NTP, which sets the clock very accurately. Errm. Yes, I did send it on Sunday. At about twenty to eight in the evening my time. Why do you feel it necessary to comment or to think that my computer clock may be wrong? I use NIST's time server. My apologies. I was surprise to see email that took 3 days to arrive. It's almost as though you sent it via the post office. ;-) Generally, when there's a significant discrepancy between post and arrival times, it's due to a mis-configured clock. According to the message headers, you sent it on Oct 31 @ 14:35and was received by the list on Nov 3 @ 19:37 or 3 days and 5 hours later. I wonder where it was for all that time? Generally, this list is quick to forward messages. Yes, I think my ISP must have been playing silly beggars. Regards, Harold - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: OT: Sending Email on Sundays (was [users] Re: [moderated])
Harold Fuchs wrote: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote in message news:4cd2da12.7090...@rogers.com... Harold Fuchs wrote: On 03/11/2010 14:54, James Knott wrote: Harold, you might want to check your computer clock. It appears you sent this message on Sunday. One thing I recommend is to configure computers to use NTP, which sets the clock very accurately. Errm. Yes, I did send it on Sunday. At about twenty to eight in the evening my time. Why do you feel it necessary to comment or to think that my computer clock may be wrong? I use NIST's time server. My apologies. I was surprise to see email that took 3 days to arrive. It's almost as though you sent it via the post office. ;-) Generally, when there's a significant discrepancy between post and arrival times, it's due to a mis-configured clock. According to the message headers, you sent it on Oct 31 @ 14:35and was received by the list on Nov 3 @ 19:37 or 3 days and 5 hours later. I wonder where it was for all that time? Generally, this list is quick to forward messages. Yes, I think my ISP must have been playing silly beggars. In this case the round trip from me to you and then receiving your reply was about 10 minutes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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william lepage william.lepage...@sympatico.ca wrote in message news:blu0-smtp91020e4c830c5b583be22bcc...@phx.gbl... How do I open ppp power point presentations I think you mean ppt. You can either associate .ppt files to OpenOffice.org after which a double click will invoke Impress, or just right click on one of the files in question and choose Open with The former is permanent (till you change the association). The latter needs doing every time unless you choose the always open with ... option. Please note that strictly speaking this is a Windows question, not an OpenOffice.org question. Using File Associations is a fundamental part of using Windows. See the Windows Help for more details. -- Harold Fuchs London, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Harold, you might want to check your computer clock. It appears you sent this message on Sunday. One thing I recommend is to configure computers to use NTP, which sets the clock very accurately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol Harold Fuchs wrote: william lepage william.lepage...@sympatico.ca wrote in message news:blu0-smtp91020e4c830c5b583be22bcc...@phx.gbl... How do I open ppp power point presentations I think you mean ppt. You can either associate .ppt files to OpenOffice.org after which a double click will invoke Impress, or just right click on one of the files in question and choose Open with The former is permanent (till you change the association). The latter needs doing every time unless you choose the always open with ... option. Please note that strictly speaking this is a Windows question, not an OpenOffice.org question. Using File Associations is a fundamental part of using Windows. See the Windows Help for more details. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OT: Sending Email on Sundays (was [users] Re: [moderated])
On 03/11/2010 14:54, James Knott wrote: Harold, you might want to check your computer clock. It appears you sent this message on Sunday. One thing I recommend is to configure computers to use NTP, which sets the clock very accurately. Errm. Yes, I did send it on Sunday. At about twenty to eight in the evening my time. Why do you feel it necessary to comment or to think that my computer clock may be wrong? I use NIST's time server. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 01/11/2010 05:39, Russell Butler wrote: On 31/10/10 21:32, Keith Hartley wrote: I want to open a microsoft wps file but do not seem to have the right filter, can you help? many thanks, Keith Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using, Keith? and on what platform (operating system)? I recently received a .wps file which opened happily in OOo 3.2 on my Ubuntu machine, but I think this has some of the go-oo developments: http://go-oo.org/ Russell Keith I think you may be using the OOo that we get from Openoffice.org and that does not have a way to import wordprocessing files from MS Works Russell I think that the Ubuntu version has an extra feature to read these files. Thanks Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] (Opening Microsoft Works file still only with LibreOffice/Go-OO)
Il 01/11/2010 10:25, Rob Clement ha scritto: On 01/11/2010 05:39, Russell Butler wrote: On 31/10/10 21:32, Keith Hartley wrote: I want to open a microsoft wps file but do not seem to have the right filter, can you help? many thanks, Keith Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using, Keith? and on what platform (operating system)? I recently received a .wps file which opened happily in OOo 3.2 on my Ubuntu machine, but I think this has some of the go-oo developments: http://go-oo.org/ Russell Keith I think you may be using the OOo that we get from Openoffice.org and that does not have a way to import wordprocessing files from MS Works Russell I think that the Ubuntu version has an extra feature to read these files. Thanks Rob Yes! Ubuntu OOo is from Go-OO! And in the near future (11.04) from LibreOffice (Libò/LO) / The Document Foundation (TDF). Here you can see, at a glance, what Go-oo has (had) to offer in addition to the features you expect in up-stream (vanilla said) OpenOffice.org http://go-oo.org/discover/ among which you could also find MS-Works import: Go-oo supports MS-Works files; you can also find there e test .wps file http://go-oo.org/discover/msworks.wps But now Go-oo has been made obsolete http://planet.go-oo.org/ by the exciting new LibreOffice project http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ http://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice is now at 3.3beta2 stage (you could download it for Windows, MacOSX, linux) and I just test it to read the above .wps file. I just test the same .wps file on OOo 3.3rc3 vanilla but it doesn't read it (it doesn't understand file type and open the choose filter/file type window...)... So if you want to adopt an application that does read those file (Microsoft Works ones) and that is growing now on, I suggest you to choose LibreOffice (Libò/LO) that is usable enough despite his beta state at the moment (we expect the final one within december 2010). Finally I suggest you to subscribe these two mailing list at least: users@openoffice.org us...@libreoffice.org you could find the correct instructions respectively here http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/#lists If you subscribe you will not be moderated any more. Hope that help, Carlo - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 31/10/10 21:32, Keith Hartley wrote: I want to open a microsoft wps file but do not seem to have the right filter, can you help? many thanks, Keith Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using, Keith? and on what platform (operating system)? I recently received a .wps file which opened happily in OOo 3.2 on my Ubuntu machine, but I think this has some of the go-oo developments: http://go-oo.org/ Russell -- You have posted to an OpenOffice.org mailing list. See: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details on how to subscribe so that you can see responses provided by other users. Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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In news:20100825213013.owzc29852.fed1rmmtao104.cox@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net, Norman Henke normhe...@cox.net typed: I am perplexed. All I want to do is open some WKS spreadsheets so I can use them. I get a display in arabic with no menu option to change the display. All this and 30 minutes to download everthing after paying $29.95. What would be your solution to my problem? Norm Henke Did this poor guy ever get a response from anyone? He seems to have been ignored but I hesitate to respond because I don't know fi he's hjacked a thread or what. HTH, Twayne` - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Twayne wrote: In news:20100825213013.owzc29852.fed1rmmtao104.cox@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net, Norman Henke normhe...@cox.net typed: I am perplexed. All I want to do is open some WKS spreadsheets so I can use them. I get a display in arabic with no menu option to change the display. All this and 30 minutes to download everthing after paying $29.95. What would be your solution to my problem? Norm Henke Did this poor guy ever get a response from anyone? He seems to have been ignored but I hesitate to respond because I don't know fi he's hjacked a thread or what. HTH, Twayne` Replies have been made, though I have not seen any thing from the OP to know if any thing is getting through. He did not hijack the thread, just did not put in a subject, which did not help. :( Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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2010/8/23 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 08/22/2010 02:52 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2010/8/20 Sam spalazz...@si.rr.com Good day folks, I have recently downloaded openoffice after seeing an artilcle while looking at some stories in Yahoo. I am not very computer literate, not in the technical sense. My main reason for downloading the software was to be able to open some powerpoint files that a friend sends. I have an old version of a suite of products from the makers of wordperfect and cannot open many of Microsoft office products. If you could tell me how to utilize the applications, I would be very appreciative. Thank you, Sam Palazzolo Sam, you might find the tutorials available here ( http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/) of help. If not, other list members will certainly be able to provide other suggestions Henri Henri, Sam can't hear you - the [moderated] tag means that he's unsubscribed, so you'll need to CC him. Gary Thanks, Gary - I really should have been more observant ! In any event, I've now forwarded my message to Sam Henri
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On 08/22/2010 02:52 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2010/8/20 Sam spalazz...@si.rr.com Good day folks, I have recently downloaded openoffice after seeing an artilcle while looking at some stories in Yahoo. I am not very computer literate, not in the technical sense. My main reason for downloading the software was to be able to open some powerpoint files that a friend sends. I have an old version of a suite of products from the makers of wordperfect and cannot open many of Microsoft office products. If you could tell me how to utilize the applications, I would be very appreciative. Thank you, Sam Palazzolo Sam, you might find the tutorials available here ( http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/) of help. If not, other list members will certainly be able to provide other suggestions Henri Henri, Sam can't hear you - the [moderated] tag means that he's unsubscribed, so you'll need to CC him. Gary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated]how do i spell check
denis mannell dmannel...@bigpond.com wrote in message news:663f67712cc544e58f327cc73dd7f...@vehicle... I am a new user , pIease advise how i do i add spell checker to my email. thanks dmannell 39 Depends on what application you are using for email... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 06/06/2010 06:26 PM, jamescarson wrote: Does it support a compatible FrontPage or similar? for my web editing. JJC There's a nice little program call KompoZer. I know if from Ubuntu, but I seem to remember there is also a windows version. -- Mark C. Miller eyor...@comcast.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 2010/06/07 5:12 PM Mark C. Miller wrote concerning Re: [moderated]: On 06/06/2010 06:26 PM, jamescarson wrote: Does it support a compatible FrontPage or similar? for my web editing. JJC There's a nice little program call KompoZer. I know if from Ubuntu, but I seem to remember there is also a windows version. Available at http://www.kompozer.net/ There is also a version for Macs -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 4/23/2010 4:42 PM, FISHER II, WILLIAM wrote: Hi all, We are a school District and have the same economic woes as everyone else. We need to trim some of the fat from our licensing of another office product. To satisfy the licensing coordinator for our school district, what copy of a license can I show her to satisfy the licensing requirements to load OpenOffice 3.2 to 37 school sites. Can anyone help me in this endeavor? http://www.openoffice.org/license.html bill - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] Scribus and OpenOffiece.org
NoOp wrote, Interestingly enough, on a WinXP machine that I just upgraded the Sun (oragle) java on, the splash screen during the upgrade provides an ad for OOo. On it is a bullet point about 'import and export pdf's with a single click. Forgot to take a screenshot, but it's apparent that Sun/oragle is promoting this as a feature for OOo. Anyone else seen this? Yes. I was upgrading a Vista machine. I installed JRE 6 Update 18 and the splash mentioned both import and export. Then the system prompted for an update to Update 19. It didn't actually work (it complained of needing elevation). So I went back to the Oracle Web site and there Update 19 was available. This was all in the space of half an hour. So I installed Update 19 from scratch and this time the splash screen omitted reference to PDF import. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 04/07/2010 05:58 AM, Clayton wrote: On 07-Apr-10 14:43, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Yes, there should be some free [and easy] methods of converting PDF back to an editable document. MS Word 2000/2003 .doc format would be OK since OOo reads/writes that format very well, and MS users will have no troubles excepting it as well. It would be nice to see converters go directly to ODF formats instead of MS ones, since ODF is the International default, while MS is just a want-to-be. In a sense, what you're wishing for already exists. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport is not just for importing PDF into Draw fro minor editing. This extension also adds in the Hybrid PDF functionality. A hybrid PDF/ODF file is a PDF file that contains an embedded ODF source file. Hybrid PDF/ODF files will be opened in OpenOffice.org as an ODF file without any layout changes. So, if you use OpenOffice.org plus this extension, and create Hybrid PDFs, you will be able to open the PDF and edit the embedded ODF file and export it again as a Hybrid PDF. C. Interestingly enough, on a WinXP machine that I just upgraded the Sun (oragle) java on, the splash screen during the upgrade provides an ad for OOo. On it is a bullet point about 'import and export pdf's with a single click. Forgot to take a screenshot, but it's apparent that Sun/oragle is promoting this as a feature for OOo. Anyone else seen this? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] Database dosen't open
Joana Villas-Boas wrote: I just installed Open Office for the first time. I did a custom instalation because I just want to use the Database application. When I clic the openoffie Icon I can’t open the Dabase application! Nothing happends. I tried registering the product, reparing, unistalling, installing again, in a different computer and it is always the same! Am I missing something Thanks Joana Joana Villas-Boas Programação, Consultoria e Formação Informática Rua José Falcão, 4-2º 2780-334 OEIRAS Tlm: + 351 91 451 13 40 Tel: + 351 21 441 64 27 OpenOffice.org has no database application. OpenOffice.org is one large application to open office documents. The same program loads text documents, spreasheets, presentations, vector graphics. The Base component provides a set of built-in drivers as well as ODBC/JDBC connectivity in order to connect office documents with database content. Base is nothing without office documents. As an additional (not very useful) gimmick, OpenOffice.org installs a Java driven database engine http://hsqldb.org and wraps a newly created HSQL-database into a jar archive which looks like single-user database in a kind of document. Forms and Reports are Writer documents embedded in the same jar as the configuration. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 11/07/2009 06:58 AM, Lisa McCormack wrote: I've tried several times to download Open Office. It downloads but then aborts with the message Windows has found a problem with this file. Name OOo_3.1.1_win32Intel_install_wJRE-en-US.exe. Publisher: Unknown Publisher. This file was blocked because it does not have a valid digital signature that verifies its publisher. What should I do? The same will occur if you update a Microsoft Works program - see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933744 [Error message when you click Office Update in Works on a Windows Vista-based computer: ident.cab file does not have a valid digital signature - user cannot proceed] and http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-is-User-Account-Control You'll need to log in and install using an administrator account. Please see: http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html for OpenOffice.org installation instructions. === Note: You have posted to a public OpenOffice.org mailing list. Please reply *only* to us...@openoffice.org. Replies to my personal email address will be discarded. For further information regarding the list, please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html You can review postings to the list at: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] Change case
Monty Armstrong wrote: Hi As a tech writer I find the toggle Shift-F3 in Word a wonderful tool and the OO equivalent Alt O C L or U with no option for initial Caps (first letter Upper, rest lower) a major drawback to an otherwise generally superior program. I find Styles in OO a hassle also but using them more (or a better tutorial) would fix that problem. I tend to use Word for most work but always swap to OO for tables and whenever word is being obnoxious (therefore several times a day) Is there a way I can add this Shift-F3 function to OO? Is it planned for the near future as a standard shortcut? Regards Monty Armstrong Monty The choices you are looking for are in Format - Character - Effects. You can use Tools - Customize - Keyboard to set Shift-F3 to open that dialogue box. -- John johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:06:14 -0400, vendplus wrote: I think I have installed Open Office, but I can't be sure. The installation was interrupted and I tried to start over (Took about 2 hrs.) but I don't have any iconsa on my Desktop to open referring me to Opal Office Writer, but I still have my Word file. What can I do? -Lou Johnson What operating system are you using/what version? Not sure what you mean when you say I still have my Word file. Are you referring to a specific word processing file or do you mean that Microsoft Office is still installed (it should be unless you uninstalled it first. Open Office has no impact on already installed programs. Where were you downloading from. My search of opal office (at the following address: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php? f=49t=846p=3519hilit=Opal suggests Opal Office is a scam some outfit is running where they have rebranded Open Office. You should be downloading directly from the Open Office site (download.openoffice.org) Did you get any error messages when you downloaded either time? regards mcm -- Mark C. Miller - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated]Need English version
On 2009/07/16 4:30 PM Terri wrote: Hi. I have recently down loaded Open-Office and it is in Spanish or some other Latin language. How do I convert it to English? It looks good. I have an Apple Mac G$ 1.42 with OSX 10.4.11 computer. I do not speak Spanish. Here is a link to download OO.o 3.1.0 in US English for PPC Macs. http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.1.0rc2_20090424/OOo_3.1.0rc2_20090424_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 2009/06/14 6:22 PM Andy wrote: timele...@peoplepc.com wrote: What is the approximate time to download this software? It will depend on your connection to the internet. With a cable broadband connection it take over 30 minutes. That is using Firefox on an XPsp3 machine. You have a very slow connection. My last download took 3 minutes (7.5 Mb connection). With a 1.5 Mb connection in the past, it took 18 minutes. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] - OOo User Survey
On 06/05/2009 06:08 PM, Ian Darby wrote: I have just installed OpenOffice for the first time. I would like to complete the Survey, but it is in German, not English. Regards, Enthusiastic new user Ian Welcome to OpenOffice.org! You've posted to the users@openoffice.org mailing list. See: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for additional information regarding this list (users@openoffice.org). Regarding the survey: It does still have a few bugs: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_user_survey_2009 However, you can get to the English pages by: http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/surveys/index.php?sid=69531lang=en Click on '[Exit and Clear Survey] answer OK Click on 'Restart this Survey' Click 'next' and the survey should be in English. If it is not, please post back to users@openoffice.org - emails to my personal address will be ignored. Note: if you'd prefer a standard online forum rather than a mailing list please see: http://user.services.openoffice.org/ http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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NoOp wrote: On 05/06/2009 05:28 PM, Rob Clement wrote: Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Maxine I assume the flash card is an sd memory card or similar. Reading the flash card either requires a slot in your pc or an adaptor to read it. When the flash card is in the slot or the adaptor you should be able to use the My Computer in XP or Computer in Vista to view the files on the flash card. The card should show as an extra disk. You can then copy the files from the flash card to the computer. If you have any other questions or you are not on Windows please reply to the list and not to me Rob Rob, Good catch. I think you may have hit the nail on the head... Perhaps the deacon gave her a flash card with OOo on it to install on her computer and she's trying to figure out how to install it. The way I read her message was that she had downloaded OOo and perhaps she was given a bulletin template or example. However, one thing that's clear is her message isn't. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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James Knott wrote: NoOp wrote: On 05/06/2009 05:28 PM, Rob Clement wrote: Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Maxine I assume the flash card is an sd memory card or similar. Reading the flash card either requires a slot in your pc or an adaptor to read it. When the flash card is in the slot or the adaptor you should be able to use the My Computer in XP or Computer in Vista to view the files on the flash card. The card should show as an extra disk. You can then copy the files from the flash card to the computer. If you have any other questions or you are not on Windows please reply to the list and not to me Rob Rob, Good catch. I think you may have hit the nail on the head... Perhaps the deacon gave her a flash card with OOo on it to install on her computer and she's trying to figure out how to install it. The way I read her message was that she had downloaded OOo and perhaps she was given a bulletin template or example. However, one thing that's clear is her message isn't. ;-) James when I sent the original reply I cc'd her and she thanked me for it. I think explaining how to connect the flash memory to her computer was her original problem. If she has said nothing by tomorrow I will try and follow her up again. Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Rob Clement wrote: James Knott wrote: NoOp wrote: On 05/06/2009 05:28 PM, Rob Clement wrote: Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Maxine I assume the flash card is an sd memory card or similar. Reading the flash card either requires a slot in your pc or an adaptor to read it. When the flash card is in the slot or the adaptor you should be able to use the My Computer in XP or Computer in Vista to view the files on the flash card. The card should show as an extra disk. You can then copy the files from the flash card to the computer. If you have any other questions or you are not on Windows please reply to the list and not to me Rob Rob, Good catch. I think you may have hit the nail on the head... Perhaps the deacon gave her a flash card with OOo on it to install on her computer and she's trying to figure out how to install it. The way I read her message was that she had downloaded OOo and perhaps she was given a bulletin template or example. However, one thing that's clear is her message isn't. ;-) James when I sent the original reply I cc'd her and she thanked me for it. I think explaining how to connect the flash memory to her computer was her original problem. If she has said nothing by tomorrow I will try and follow her up again. Rob She thanked me, too, and said my post was most helpful. Whatever she needs now, I guess we'll hear from her. Clearly she appreciates anybody trying to help, which is a good sign. She did say originally I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. -- so I think she did get OOo from somewhere, but not from the official site. It sounded to me as if she'd tried to access something on the flash card with that other version and was told she was not logged in, which is not what I'd expect from either Windows (for an inaccesssible device) or from vanilla OOo. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 05/06/2009 09:53 AM, Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Purposely not cc'd to the unsubscribed user. I have to wonder... it's Wednesday (my timezone), the poster has just downloaded OOo (I think), maybe even managed to install (?), and is trying to do a church bulletin by Sunday. I've a good amount of patience in trying to assist new OOo users, but this is one that will take some added effort/patience from someone else. Anyone willing to give Maxine a hand? Gary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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NoOp wrote: On 05/06/2009 09:53 AM, Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Purposely not cc'd to the unsubscribed user. I have to wonder... it's Wednesday (my timezone), the poster has just downloaded OOo (I think), maybe even managed to install (?), and is trying to do a church bulletin by Sunday. I've a good amount of patience in trying to assist new OOo users, but this is one that will take some added effort/patience from someone else. Anyone willing to give Maxine a hand? Gary I'm willing to spend some time with her on this -- we'll see how she does with my response to her post. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 05/06/2009 06:33 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: NoOp wrote: = Purposely not cc'd to the unsubscribed user. I have to wonder... it's Wednesday (my timezone), the poster has just downloaded OOo (I think), maybe even managed to install (?), and is trying to do a church bulletin by Sunday. I've a good amount of patience in trying to assist new OOo users, but this is one that will take some added effort/patience from someone else. Anyone willing to give Maxine a hand? Gary I'm willing to spend some time with her on this -- we'll see how she does with my response to her post. Thanks Barbara. Hopefully she'll get the bulletin completed and can brag to all of her flock that OOo saved the day :-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 05/06/2009 05:28 PM, Rob Clement wrote: Maxine and Dennis wrote: HELP! HELP! I am suppose to do the church bulletin for this Sunday. My deacon gave me a flash card. I have downloaded openoffice-I think I have registered. I can not find how to read this flash card. I am getting really frustrated. I log in and go to a different subject and it says I am NOT logged in. I don't know whether to delete this download and start over? or do I try to get HELP! Maxine purdyho...@indytel.com Maxine I assume the flash card is an sd memory card or similar. Reading the flash card either requires a slot in your pc or an adaptor to read it. When the flash card is in the slot or the adaptor you should be able to use the My Computer in XP or Computer in Vista to view the files on the flash card. The card should show as an extra disk. You can then copy the files from the flash card to the computer. If you have any other questions or you are not on Windows please reply to the list and not to me Rob Rob, Good catch. I think you may have hit the nail on the head... Perhaps the deacon gave her a flash card with OOo on it to install on her computer and she's trying to figure out how to install it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 2009/04/19 9:25 PM Brian Barker wrote: At 15:39 19/04/2009 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: On the home page of www.openoffice.org, click on I want to download OpenOffice.org and then (assuming you are using some form of Windows) on the Download now! link. (For other systems, and additional information, there is another link below that. You then would need to find the appropriate Download link in the table it provides.) You seem to think that the web site always offers the Windows version by default. Are you sure? For what it's worth, I assumed that it auto-detects the user's operating system (from information provided by the browser) and offers the *appropriate* version. But I haven't tested this. When you click on I want to download OpenOffice.org on the home page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system you are using. I get the following: Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US English If this is true, there is a potential snag: a user who downloads the product, say, at work or at a friend's or in a library or internet cafe but for use at home is in danger of obtaining an inappropriate version without any explanation. Only for people who don't or can't read. Right below the above message is: Get more _platforms and languages_, _order CD-ROM_, or _P2P downloads _ If the user wants a different platform than is auto-detected, they just have to click on _'platforms and languages_'. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese
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On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/04/19 9:25 PM Brian Barker wrote: At 15:39 19/04/2009 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: On the home page of www.openoffice.org, click on I want to download OpenOffice.org and then (assuming you are using some form of Windows) on the Download now! link. (For other systems, and additional information, there is another link below that. You then would need to find the appropriate Download link in the table it provides.) You seem to think that the web site always offers the Windows version by default. Are you sure? For what it's worth, I assumed that it auto-detects the user's operating system (from information provided by the browser) and offers the *appropriate* version. But I haven't tested this. When you click on I want to download OpenOffice.org on the home page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system you are using. I get the following: Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US English This is true; however, clicking that option produces an error message because the site doesn't have 3..0.1 for OSX. One is directed then to a different page, which gives the impression that 2.4.0 is the latest version for OSX. (And it apparently is, as far as official releases are concerned, but there are later and better rc versions.) Worse, there's no indication of which OSX versions 2.4.0 is compatible with (turns out this is 10.4 and 10.5) so, if you're using an earlier version, you get a download that won't run on your system and no clue where to find one that will. I've been a victim of all these oversights and have seen posts here from others. I reported these problems to the webmaster months ago, yet they remain. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 2009/04/20 5:50 AM Dave Post wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: When you click on I want to download OpenOffice.org on the home page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system you are using. I get the following: Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US English This is true; however, clicking that option produces an error message because the site doesn't have 3..0.1 for OSX. When I click it the download for OO.o 3.0.1 begins. One is directed then to a different page, which gives the impression that 2.4.0 is the latest version for OSX. You must be using language and/or operating system for which the Quality Assurance process has not been completed. (And it apparently is, as far as official releases are concerned, but there are later and better rc versions.) The download page only shows versions that have passed the QA process. There is a lack of people working on this in some languages and some platforms – especially Mac PPCs. Anyone willing to assist should visit the QA site. http://qa.openoffice.org http://qa.openoffice.org/ There is a link for the development and RC versions at the bottom of the page you are referring to. It says Please test also our OpenOffice.org snapshot and release candidates. Worse, there's no indication of which OSX versions 2.4.0 is compatible with (turns out this is 10.4 and 10.5) That is what the System Requirements page is for. It seems some people do not bother to check. That is the first thing I look at, especially if I am using older hardware. so, if you're using an earlier version, you get a download that won't run on your system and no clue where to find one that will. If you are using a Mac PPC computer that is true as there is no link to the good-day site on the download pages. You only find if you manage to fine the Mac porting site http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/04/20 5:50 AM Dave Post wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: When you click on I want to download OpenOffice.org on the home page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system you are using. I get the following: Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX Intel in US English This is true; however, clicking that option produces an error message because the site doesn't have 3..0.1 for OSX. When I click it the download for OO.o 3.0.1 begins. One is directed then to a different page, which gives the impression that 2.4.0 is the latest version for OSX. You must be using language and/or operating system for which the Quality Assurance process has not been completed. Apparently so. I need US English, OSX 10.5.6, PPC. But the process starts off saying Download now! Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 for Mac OSX PPC in US English and then gives an error. That's a bug. Worse, there's no indication of which OSX versions 2.4.0 is compatible with (turns out this is 10.4 and 10.5) That is what the System Requirements page is for. It seems some people do not bother to check. That is the first thing I look at, especially if I am using older hardware. But there's no link to the Systems Requirements page on the page the user is redirected to (http://download.openoffice.org/other.html). Furthermore, clicking the link for one's platform starts an immediate download instead of going next to a page where one might determine that 2.4.0 won't run on pre-10.4 versions of OSX. Both of these problems could be corrected merely by adding something like (10.4+) to the labels for the OSX columns. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Dave Post wrote: Note to list: This user is not subscribed. On Apr 16, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Mike Holmes wrote: I had open office recommended to me by a tech. in the store where I bought my laptop. I have windows 2000, and I am interested in information on open office.org all I want to do is e-mail resumes and open attachments e-mailed to me, I currently have no software installed, only e-mail capacities. any information as to what products and services from open office.org which would allow me to e-mail resumes and open attachments would be most helpful. thank you. michael holmes OpenOffice.org is a full suite of programs (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and more). If you are actually planning on creating and maintaining your resume with it, the Writer (word processor) component is very good for creating files and e- mailing them (in various formats). And OOo is capable of opening a large number of types of files, many of which are no longer supported by their original developers, and that could be very useful to you in dealing with attachments people send to you. OOo is an integrated package, not separate programs, so you basically get everything when you download the program from www.openoffice.org . The software, documentation, and support are all free, with additional materials available elsewhere either free or commercially. You can check the website for more information about what OOo can do and how. Welcome to the open source community! It might be added as an FYI that the suite doesn't include an email application, web browser, or newsreader. Although Michael didn't ask about these things, other queries to this list imply sometimes that people expect it to. Dave But ... since we're in the FYI department: The program will still cleanly open your currently installed email client and allow you to send mails. So no, a mail client isn't integrated into OO.o, but IMO it's no big deal since it can be aware of any currently installed client as near as I can tell. I've only ever used it with OE; the rest is actually just conjecture on my part. AFAIK you can't read e-mails with OO.o, so possibly that is what a lot of people miss, but ... . Personally, due to the number of ymmv issues and opinions over email clients I'd think an integrated email function might not get a lot of use without having a gazillion setup options. HTH, Twayne - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Twayne wrote: But ... since we're in the FYI department: The program will still cleanly open your currently installed email client and allow you to send mails. Good point, and would be worth mentioning in responses to inquiries. Personally, due to the number of ymmv issues and opinions over email clients I'd think an integrated email function might not get a lot of use without having a gazillion setup options. Agree. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Integrated Mail - was Re: [users] Re: [moderated] (UNSUBSCRIBED USER)
On 17/04/2009 17:07, Dave Post wrote: On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Twayne wrote: But ... since we're in the FYI department: The program will still cleanly open your currently installed email client and allow you to send mails. Good point, and would be worth mentioning in responses to inquiries. Personally, due to the number of ymmv issues and opinions over email clients I'd think an integrated email function might not get a lot of use without having a gazillion setup options. Agree. Dave I think there are a few reasons why people, particularly Windows people, want integrated mail: * Windows computers often come with Outlook (or Outlook Express) mail and MS Office pre-installed so people think they belong together. * Many versions of MS Office come with Outlook or Outlook Express so people think ... * Users of Outlook (but not of Outlook Express) have (used to have???) an option to configure Word as their mail editor. If you choose this option then, when you either create a new message or reply to an existing one Outlook invokes some sort of inbuilt version of Word (it probably uses the Word API). You type your message with all (most?) of Word's editing capabilities, including things like tables, but then you just hit Send. No separate document is saved. The Word window is within an Outlook window so things like your address book, Send button, space for Subject etc. are just there. Your mail signature , if defined, is automatically added. * Spell checking is integrated between Outlook (or Outlook Express) and Word. I think it's a shame that OOo's spell checker can't integrate with, say, Thunderbird's. You used to be able to copy TB's dictionary into an OOo directory somewhere (or OOo's dictionary into a TB directory) but even that is no longer possible since the advent of OOo 3.x with its new scheme for handling dictionaries as extensions. Ho hum. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:51:48 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox: I think there are a few reasons why people, particularly Windows people, want integrated mail: * Windows computers often come with Outlook (or Outlook Express) mail and MS Office pre-installed so people think they belong together. * Many versions of MS Office come with Outlook or Outlook Express so people think ... Outlook Express comes with Windows, but not with all versions of windows. Outlook comes with Office. * Users of Outlook (but not of Outlook Express) have (used to have???) an option to configure Word as their mail editor. If you choose this option then, when you either create a new message or reply to an existing one Outlook invokes some sort of inbuilt version of Word (it probably uses the Word API). You type your message with all (most?) of Word's editing capabilities, including things like tables, but then you just hit Send. No separate document is saved. The Word window is within an Outlook window so things like your address book, Send button, space for Subject etc. are just there. Your mail signature , if defined, is automatically added. IMHO this is one of the worst uses possible. This formatted mail exports as an HTML mail. Word is notorious for bad HTML which it seems to have aquired from the equally notorious Frontpage. Non-standard, custom tags galore, bloated HTML mails - grrr. And i am increasingly seeing no quoting of quoted text - whats up with that? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ * Spell checking is integrated between Outlook (or Outlook Express) and Word. And if you uninstall Word, Outlook Express spell checking breaks! I think it's a shame that OOo's spell checker can't integrate with, say, Thunderbird's. You used to be able to copy TB's dictionary into an OOo directory somewhere (or OOo's dictionary into a TB directory) but even that is no longer possible since the advent of OOo 3.x with its new scheme for handling dictionaries as extensions. Ho hum. I like the option to choose my email program seperately from my Office software, it allows mix and match. Thunderbird/lightning integration with OO.o is pretty good. Sun has/had programmers on that. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 17/04/2009 21:12, Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:51:48 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox: I think there are a few reasons why people, particularly Windows people, want integrated mail: * Windows computers often come with Outlook (or Outlook Express) mail and MS Office pre-installed so people think they belong together. * Many versions of MS Office come with Outlook or Outlook Express so people think ... Outlook Express comes with Windows, but not with all versions of windows. Outlook comes with Office. * Users of Outlook (but not of Outlook Express) have (used to have???) an option to configure Word as their mail editor. If you choose this option then, when you either create a new message or reply to an existing one Outlook invokes some sort of inbuilt version of Word (it probably uses the Word API). You type your message with all (most?) of Word's editing capabilities, including things like tables, but then you just hit Send. No separate document is saved. The Word window is within an Outlook window so things like your address book, Send button, space for Subject etc. are just there. Your mail signature , if defined, is automatically added. IMHO this is one of the worst uses possible. This formatted mail exports as an HTML mail. Word is notorious for bad HTML which it seems to have aquired from the equally notorious Frontpage. Non-standard, custom tags galore, bloated HTML mails - grrr. And i am increasingly seeing no quoting of quoted text - whats up with that? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ I didn't say it was good. I didn't say I like it. I said it's what a lot of people have come to expect, partly based on what other people in their company do. And it is convenient because you don't have to learn two separate user interfaces. * Spell checking is integrated between Outlook (or Outlook Express) and Word. And if you uninstall Word, Outlook Express spell checking breaks! Yes. That's one of the reasons people don't uninstall Word. Clever isn't it? I think it's a shame that OOo's spell checker can't integrate with, say, Thunderbird's. You used to be able to copy TB's dictionary into an OOo directory somewhere (or OOo's dictionary into a TB directory) but even that is no longer possible since the advent of OOo 3.x with its new scheme for handling dictionaries as extensions. Ho hum. I like the option to choose my email program seperately from my Office software, it allows mix and match. Mix and match is fine. But mixing and not matching is what we have if we choose OOo and Thunderbird. Or OOo and any mail program - at least as far as spell checking is concerned. Thunderbird/lightning integration with OO.o is pretty good. Sun has/had programmers on that. Thunderbird/OOo integration has got *worse* from 2.4.x to 3.x. As I said you can no longer even use a copy of a TB dictionary in OOo, or a copy of an OOo dictionary in TB. Of course, you should be able to use the *same* dictionary. Why do I have to add the same word twice? Or if not TB, then some other mail program. Sun doesn't have programmers on that. Or if it does then they are travelling backwards. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
2009/3/18 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) And it doesn't mean anything anyway; I could just as easily type that text myself *and* include a virus in the message. If your respondents are reassured by it you are dealing with the wrong sort of people, unless you sell snake oil for a living ;-) -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/3/18 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) And it doesn't mean anything anyway; I could just as easily type that text myself *and* include a virus in the message. If your respondents are reassured by it you are dealing with the wrong sort of people, unless you sell snake oil for a living ;-) That message is not inserted into outgoing messages. It is appended to incoming messages that AVG has scanned. I suppose it is intended to re-assure the recipient that his scanner is working. When you include the entire text of one of your own received messages with out trimming it is only then included in an out going message, as far as I can tell. -- Gene Y. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
2009/3/18 Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/3/18 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) And it doesn't mean anything anyway; I could just as easily type that text myself *and* include a virus in the message. If your respondents are reassured by it you are dealing with the wrong sort of people, unless you sell snake oil for a living ;-) That message is not inserted into outgoing messages. It is appended to incoming messages that AVG has scanned. I suppose it is intended to re-assure the recipient that his scanner is working. When you include the entire text of one of your own received messages with out trimming it is only then included in an out going message, as far as I can tell. The message being complained of was === begin message === No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.18/2008 - Release Date: 03/17/09 16:25:00 === end message === Note the use of the word outgoing. I hope my messages don't include this as I explicitly turned it off in my AVG. Please let me know if my hopes are not being fulfilled. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
NoOp wrote: On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? Do you know how many email people receive each year that has an infection? I get plenty of them. And once from this list. It may be irritating to some, but it is better than getting an infection via email you open. I have Hardware firewall through my router, and software firewall via ZoneAlarm. I have anti-virus via AVG. I have several other security programs running all the time. Since then, I have never got an infection. I can even download an infection and it is automatically cleaned or healed and then I am warned about it. So no one should turn off their computer's security protection. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.18/2008 - Release Date: 03/17/09 16:25:00 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
Web Kracked wrote: NoOp wrote: On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? Do you know how many email people receive each year that has an infection? I get plenty of them. And once from this list. It may be irritating to some, but it is better than getting an infection via email you open. I have Hardware firewall through my router, and software firewall via ZoneAlarm. I have anti-virus via AVG. I have several other security programs running all the time. Since then, I have never got an infection. I can even download an infection and it is automatically cleaned or healed and then I am warned about it. So no one should turn off their computer's security protection. Definitely nobody should turn the protection off! But AVG has some setting options for whether to insert its own messages into incoming and outgoing mail, and for some unknown reason they are both on by default. You can turn them off by deselecting the Certify options under Tools Advanced settings E-mail Scanner, while leaving the Check options selected, and that's what was being recommended. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? Perish the thought! The notice that gets added to your message can be turned off, though. _ Share photos with friends on Windows Live Messenger http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650734
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
2009/3/18 Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com Web Kracked wrote: NoOp wrote: On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? Do you know how many email people receive each year that has an infection? I get plenty of them. And once from this list. It may be irritating to some, but it is better than getting an infection via email you open. I have Hardware firewall through my router, and software firewall via ZoneAlarm. I have anti-virus via AVG. I have several other security programs running all the time. Since then, I have never got an infection. I can even download an infection and it is automatically cleaned or healed and then I am warned about it. So no one should turn off their computer's security protection. Definitely nobody should turn the protection off! But AVG has some setting options for whether to insert its own messages into incoming and outgoing mail, and for some unknown reason they are both on by default. You can turn them off by deselecting the Certify options under Tools Advanced settings E-mail Scanner, while leaving the Check options selected, and that's what was being recommended. Thank you, Barbara. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
On 03/18/2009 05:49 AM, Web Kracked wrote: NoOp wrote: On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? No. I am suggesting that you turn off me AVG msg tag. I think that Google or the AVG forums will assist you in doing that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
Web Kracked wrote: NoOp wrote: On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in are not infected and the email I send are not infected? Do you know how many email people receive each year that has an infection? I get plenty of them. And once from this list. It may be irritating to some, but it is better than getting an infection via email you open. I have Hardware firewall through my router, and software firewall via ZoneAlarm. I have anti-virus via AVG. I have several other security programs running all the time. Since then, I have never got an infection. I can even download an infection and it is automatically cleaned or healed and then I am warned about it. So no one should turn off their computer's security protection. An excellent way to avoid virus problems is to run Linux. There has never been a successful Linux virus. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: [moderated] -- June 2007 dated email received March 17th 2009
On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: Andrew Fisk wrote: user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. The original email did not have any AVG stuff except what my system placed on it. You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Robyn wrote: I thought this was supposed to work without or instead of office works. I refuse to pay such a large sum (on war widow's pension) for a programme that really bugs me ... it takes over everything! I look forward to hearing from you regards, Robyn Jenkins Hello Robyn You are quite right to refuse to pay, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is available *free* from download.openoffice.org If someone has wanted to charge you for it, then you may be being ripped off. There are people who claim to offer extra services for OOo and charge for those, but you certainly don't _have_ to get it from them. OpenOffice.org can work as a replacement for Microsoft Office and has good (but not perfect) interoperability with MS Office. It will not open or save native MS Works documents, however. Have a look around on http://www.openoffice.org/ where you will find lots of good information, and come back to the list if you have any further questions. Russell -- You have posted to an OpenOffice.org mailing list, manned by volunteers. See: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details on how to subscribe so that you can see responses provided by other users. Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Russell Butler wrote: Robyn wrote: I thought this was supposed to work without or instead of office works. I refuse to pay such a large sum (on war widow's pension) for a programme that really bugs me ... it takes over everything! I look forward to hearing from you regards, Robyn Jenkins Hello Robyn You are quite right to refuse to pay, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is available *free* from download.openoffice.org If someone has wanted to charge you for it, then you may be being ripped off. There are people who claim to offer extra services for OOo and charge for those, but you certainly don't _have_ to get it from them. OpenOffice.org can work as a replacement for Microsoft Office and has good (but not perfect) interoperability with MS Office. It will not open or save native MS Works documents, however. Have a look around on http://www.openoffice.org/ where you will find lots of good information, and come back to the list if you have any further questions. Russell To Russell and Users: Have you tried Oxygen Office, the enhanced version by KAMI? If I am not mistaken, and I may be, it may be able to open Microsoft Works, I do not know though! -- Old Sarge-John Boyle - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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John Boyle wrote: Russell Butler wrote: Robyn wrote: I thought this was supposed to work without or instead of office works. I refuse to pay such a large sum (on war widow's pension) for a programme that really bugs me ... it takes over everything! I look forward to hearing from you regards, Robyn Jenkins Hello Robyn You are quite right to refuse to pay, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is available *free* from download.openoffice.org If someone has wanted to charge you for it, then you may be being ripped off. There are people who claim to offer extra services for OOo and charge for those, but you certainly don't _have_ to get it from them. OpenOffice.org can work as a replacement for Microsoft Office and has good (but not perfect) interoperability with MS Office. It will not open or save native MS Works documents, however. Have a look around on http://www.openoffice.org/ where you will find lots of good information, and come back to the list if you have any further questions. Russell To Russell and Users: Have you tried Oxygen Office, the enhanced version by KAMI? If I am not mistaken, and I may be, it may be able to open Microsoft Works, I do not know though! Thanks, John, but I have no personal need to open MS Works files, I just said that in case Robyn needed the functionality. I have had no response from her on or off list, but you could perhaps make the suggestion to her. Regards Russell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Kjell Claësson wrote: Hi! I have downloaded OO 3.0 and when I use swriter and try to save the document it will be saved as a Thunderbird page, Why? with version 2.4 I could make different documents, one for Swedish one for English and one for German and they were all saved as writer-documents. Is that not longer possible and why are the documents saved as Thunderbird pages? Regards a very puzzled OO-fan Kjell Claësson Hi Kjell It seems likely that you have not enabled the Automatic File Name Extension on your save dialogue. Just tick (check) the box. Russell -- You have posted to an OpenOffice.org mailing list. See: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details on how to subscribe so that you can see responses provided by other users. Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Hello Mike and *, Am 2008-11-24 01:08:35, schrieb Mike: OpenOffice.org saves files in the standard Open Document Format. M$ Office doesn't recognize this format but OpenOffice.org (being vastly superior ;-) ) is capable of saving files in a non-standard format that M$ Office can read. To do This is the best phrase I have read this month... Thanks, Greetings and Merry Christmas Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/935194750, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
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On 14/12/2008 02:04, Larry Gusaas wrote: bill wrote: clip / Larry Gusaas wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. I beg to differ. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Tools - Account settings then you select the account in which you are interested and listed between Disk Space and Return Receipts is Junk Settings. Read all of what I said. I replied to a post that said there was a setting mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. I pointed out that there was not such a setting. Mr. Gusaas is right; the setting is Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in The converse of that is *not* mark as junk if the sender is not in ..., which is what I erroneously calculated. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:56 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by John Boyle to my mailbox: Larry Gusaas wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. To ALL: You would be better off getting Seamonkey or even sticking with IE, Heaven forbid the last, but a separate stand alone email program seems to be a waste, to me! Ah the champion of free choice speaks ;-P LOL Funny thing is, i don't remember any mail client called, or abbreviated to, IE! -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:56 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by John Boyle to my mailbox: Larry Gusaas wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. To ALL: You would be better off getting Seamonkey or even sticking with IE, Heaven forbid the last, but a separate stand alone email program seems to be a waste, to me! Ah the champion of free choice speaks ;-P LOL Funny thing is, i don't remember any mail client called, or abbreviated to, IE! To ALL: This one was meant as my opinion, not as anything else, thank you! :-) -- Old Sarge-John Boyle - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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John Boyle wrote:
Michael Adams wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:56 -0800
Came this utterance fomulated by John Boyle to my mailbox:
Larry Gusaas wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote:
My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this
list is spam.
Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen
yesterday or any
other day since I started running Thunderbird.
So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it
will change
back.
Tim L.
Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk
mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally
turned on this option?
The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount
SettingsJunk Settings
There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone
in you addressbook.
I beg to differ. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Tools - Account settings
then you select the account in which you are interested and listed
between Disk Space and Return Receipts is Junk Settings.
There are a few global junk mail options under Tools - Options - Privacy.
I have found the Thunderbird junk mail filter to be very good.
But, it does need to be trained. One trains the filter by manually
marking an email as junk (or if it is already marked as junk, by marking
it as not junk with one click.
BTW, my Thunderbird does not mark Open office user's mail as junk.
--
Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
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bill wrote: There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. I beg to differ. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Tools - Account settings then you select the account in which you are interested and listed between Disk Space and Return Receipts is Junk Settings. You may differ all you want. I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 and the choice, which I have open in front of my eyes now, is clearly to NOT MARK AS JUNK ANYONE IN (here you have the choice of address book or collected addresses) You may wish to revisit your settings to refresh your memory. ;-) Gene - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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bill wrote: clip / Larry Gusaas wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. I beg to differ. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Tools - Account settings then you select the account in which you are interested and listed between Disk Space and Return Receipts is Junk Settings. Read all of what I said. I replied to a post that said there was a setting mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. I pointed out that there was not such a setting. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. -- Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Larry Gusaas wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 12/12/2008 14:38, Web Kracked wrote: My copy of Thunderbird is now asking me if the email from this list is spam. Every email, I am asked if it is spam. This did not happen yesterday or any other day since I started running Thunderbird. So it may not just be you. Something has changed. Hopefully it will change back. Tim L. Thunderbird has a facility whereby you can have it mark as junk mail from anyone not in your address book. Have you accidentally turned on this option? The option is is available in the main window: ToolsAccount SettingsJunk Settings There is no such setting. The setting is to not mark as junk anyone in you addressbook. To ALL: You would be better off getting Seamonkey or even sticking with IE, Heaven forbid the last, but a separate stand alone email program seems to be a waste, to me! -- John Boyle - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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On 12/12/2008 04:54, Jerry Clancy wrote: I'm having trouble even understanding this thread but I have a suspicion that spam and OO 3.0 should perhaps be decoupled. It may be more likely that May-Britt or her host SMTP server has been labelled a spammer and she should perhaps take this up with her email service. This can happen easily if some spammer has been spoofing her email address for junk mail purposes. It can also happen if her host is the source of a lot of spamming by others and the server has been put on lists such as spamhaus, etc. Jerry I think it's probable that May-Britt's respondents' mail programs are marking the attachments as spam because they don't recognise the file type. Several spam filters have this as their default setting. Outlook/Exchange has this facility, for example. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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I'm having trouble even understanding this thread but I have a suspicion that spam and OO 3.0 should perhaps be decoupled. It may be more likely that May-Britt or her host SMTP server has been labelled a spammer and she should perhaps take this up with her email service. This can happen easily if some spammer has been spoofing her email address for junk mail purposes. It can also happen if her host is the source of a lot of spamming by others and the server has been put on lists such as spamhaus, etc. Jerry James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote in message news:4941d8cc.1030...@rogers.com... May-Britt Persson wrote: Hello, I have just downloaded Open Office 3.0 and I have a problem when I attaced a document in a mail. My friends recieve my mail as spam and even if I only send 1 page, they recieve 6-7 mails, which they cant read. Why? Many regards from May-Britt Persson I don't know why they see it as spam, unless they consider attachments to be spam. As for them not being able to open the files, it could be you're sending the default ODF formats and they're running Microsoft Office. Since Microsoft Office can't read ODF files, you'll have to send in Microsoft Office format. You can do this by clicking on File Send E-mail as Microsoft Word etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
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Jeffrey Burke wrote: I have two hopfully easy questions; 1. Will Open Office run on a MAC? Yes 2. What are the system requirements? I have two computers running Windows XP pro and an older machine running Windows 98. I use Wundows Office 2002 so that I remain compatible with the corporation I work and I am concerned about the minimum processor speed. http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_30.html -- As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at users@openoffice.org - replies to my personal email address will be ignored. Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the replies to your query.To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reverend Pennie Mummy CD MS wrote: OK, I downloaded the OpenOffice software to my Mac OS 10.4.11, THEN I noticed your wanting Intel. My Mac is about 15 years old, before the Intel chip was in Mac computers. Will the software still operate? I need PowerPoint, as I was loading the software yesterday I saw a free download, today I can't find it, wondered if you coule please send me a link. My question is this, will OpenOffice work with my Mac that does NOT have Intel, or should I scrap the whole thing as a disaster and forget about it until I have, some day, a newer Mac? You can get OO.o for PPC Macs from the good-day site. Here is a link to the US English version: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg If you require a different lanquage go here: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/ -- As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at users@openoffice.org - replies to my personal email address will be ignored. Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the replies to your query.To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 11/28/2008 12:24 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) Came this utterance fomulated by Bob Cunningham to my mailbox: Could you PLEASE send me instructions on how to uninstall this absolutely useless program that screws up my computer. Thank You. Send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open a command window and type: format c: *** Not sent to OP ;-) *Please* do not post commands potentially destructive commands like this, even as a joke. If you've followed this list for any length of time (even a week or two) you will see that the list get queries from very inexperienced computer users. One may come across your 'advise' and actually try it... Posting such on some lists/forums can/will get you immediately banned from the list/forum. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 12:24 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) Came this utterance fomulated by Bob Cunningham to my mailbox: Could you PLEASE send me instructions on how to uninstall this absolutely useless program that screws up my computer. Thank You. Send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open a command window and type: format c: *** Not sent to OP ;-) *Please* do not post commands potentially destructive commands like this, even as a joke. If you've followed this list for any length of time (even a week or two) you will see that the list get queries from very inexperienced computer users. One may come across your 'advise' and actually try it... Posting such on some lists/forums can/will get you immediately banned from the list/forum. That advice will get rid of the absolutely useless program that screws up computers. Unfortunately it will delete OpenOffice.org and other useful programs too. - -- Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkwl7kACgkQujHvuf9nAVSFIQCdEjvmjmd7+OX9HEbsQ19HWkEd NigAnjIHpmjJIAirhPDFoKFVs9xXKXTi =ytI6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 11/28/2008 05:15 PM, Mike wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 12:24 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) Came this utterance fomulated by Bob Cunningham to my mailbox: Could you PLEASE send me instructions on how to uninstall this absolutely useless program that screws up my computer. Thank You. Send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open a command window and type: format c: *** Not sent to OP ;-) *Please* do not post commands potentially destructive commands like this, even as a joke. If you've followed this list for any length of time (even a week or two) you will see that the list get queries from very inexperienced computer users. One may come across your 'advise' and actually try it... Posting such on some lists/forums can/will get you immediately banned from the list/forum. That advice will get rid of the absolutely useless program that screws up computers. Unfortunately it will delete OpenOffice.org and other useful programs too. - -- Mike And that 'advise' should cause an automatic ban/unsubscribe of users who post such 'advise'. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 05:15 PM, Mike wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 12:24 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) Came this utterance fomulated by Bob Cunningham to my mailbox: Could you PLEASE send me instructions on how to uninstall this absolutely useless program that screws up my computer. Thank You. Send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip *** Not sent to OP ;-) *Please* do not post commands potentially destructive commands like this, even as a joke. If you've followed this list for any length of time (even a week or two) you will see that the list get queries from very inexperienced computer users. One may come across your 'advise' and actually try it... Posting such on some lists/forums can/will get you immediately banned from the list/forum. That advice will get rid of the absolutely useless program that screws up computers. Unfortunately it will delete OpenOffice.org and other useful programs too. - -- Mike And that 'advise' should cause an automatic ban/unsubscribe of users who post such 'advise'. I was thinking of what the moderators at the web forum would do with that post - I'm reasonably certain it would go as follows: a) move it to the quarantine area so that all the other moderators can see the post and who made it. Which also hides it from standard users and from search engine bots, then purges it after 7 days. b) Issue a waring to the user that this is not acceptable and a second such post will result in being banned, for some period of time. The big difference here is that on a web forum the post can be removed - in a mailing list such as this however that is not really an option as this 'little joke' is going to be archived all over the net...and yes there are people just naive enough to do it. So even though you did not send it to the OP, you really have no idea who will actually see it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 11/28/2008 06:37 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 05:15 PM, Mike wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NoOp wrote: On 11/28/2008 12:24 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) Came this utterance fomulated by Bob Cunningham to my mailbox: Could you PLEASE send me instructions on how to uninstall this absolutely useless program that screws up my computer. Thank You. Send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip *** Not sent to OP ;-) *Please* do not post commands potentially destructive commands like this, even as a joke. If you've followed this list for any length of time (even a week or two) you will see that the list get queries from very inexperienced computer users. One may come across your 'advise' and actually try it... Posting such on some lists/forums can/will get you immediately banned from the list/forum. That advice will get rid of the absolutely useless program that screws up computers. Unfortunately it will delete OpenOffice.org and other useful programs too. - -- Mike And that 'advise' should cause an automatic ban/unsubscribe of users who post such 'advise'. I was thinking of what the moderators at the web forum would do with that post - I'm reasonably certain it would go as follows: a) move it to the quarantine area so that all the other moderators can see the post and who made it. Which also hides it from standard users and from search engine bots, then purges it after 7 days. b) Issue a waring to the user that this is not acceptable and a second such post will result in being banned, for some period of time. The big difference here is that on a web forum the post can be removed - in a mailing list such as this however that is not really an option as this 'little joke' is going to be archived all over the net...and yes there are people just naive enough to do it. So even though you did not send it to the OP, you really have no idea who will actually see it. I trust that by 'you', you mean mike. At least I hope so as I prefer not to be associated with providing such 'advise'. An example of intolerance of such 'advise' on another forum is: http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?s=7fef32823bd54511b698776f27ef6017f=326 [ATTENTION ALL USERS: Malicious Commands] quote I'd just like to caution those thinking of doing this that UbuntuForums has a strict zero-tolerance policy when it comes to posting dangerous commands. If you post one of them, particularly in a support thread disguised as advice, expect to be instantly and permanently BANNED, at the account, e-mail, IP, or ISP level. I do not care about intent -- if you mean it as a joke, it is not funny. If you mean it as a lesson, go teach it somewhere else. This behavior is absolutely against the Forum Guidelines and Ubuntu Code of Conduct. /quote - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I trust that by 'you', you mean mike. At least I hope so as I prefer not to be associated with providing such 'advise'. Yes - sorry, I could have been more specific there - I was referring of course to the person offering the ~advice~. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:16:50 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Drew Jensen to my mailbox: I trust that by 'you', you mean mike. At least I hope so as I prefer not to be associated with providing such 'advise'. Yes - sorry, I could have been more specific there - I was referring of course to the person offering the ~advice~. See my other reply, how to uninstall. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jim D wrote: Yes win XP Thank you, I have it up and running now, may I ask you how to address and print an envelope, the directions are confusing? Hi Jim This may help: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Howto-printing-envelopes-diagnostics.html Otherwise do a search on envelope printing on the OOo site. HTH Russell -- You have posted to an OpenOffice.org mailing list. See: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details on how to subscribe so that you can see responses provided by other users. Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Russell Butler wrote: Jim D wrote: Yes win XP Thank you, I have it up and running now, may I ask you how to address and print an envelope, the directions are confusing? Hi Jim This may help: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Howto-printing-envelopes-diagnostics.html Otherwise do a search on envelope printing on the OOo site. HTH Russell And my personal favorite: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1146815,00.html (after you close the opening advertisement splash screen) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: [moderated] Validity
My name is AlanHarkness, I have just downloaded your program, but before I opened it up to run it a notice came up saying the Microsoft system could not identify the authorship of it so warning if I run it there may be a risk. Your office system sounds great. I would like to try it. Just wonder why my system here is not recognizing it. Yours Sincerely \ Alan HarknessScript Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is Microsoft's way of encouraging you to use ONLY software Microsoft has personally qualified as being good software. Almost All non Microsoft installations will bring that up as a rule. As long as you download it from OO.o, you're fine; just go ahead and install it. It's marketing hype, actually and IMO pretty rude. HTH Twayne PS - I know your name somehow; were you around 'T'vle QLD in the 60's? I was at Garbut. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: [moderated] Opening a Works Document
2008/8/27 Gsvrtsn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened up by the works 6.0 text converter). The file I am trying to convert is Gail's Resume.wps to Gail's Resume.doc. Please advise on where or how I convert this over. I have Windows XP. Thank you, Gail I don't think OpenOffice.org will open Works files. Microsoft has a free converter at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf41401e-70fa-465d-ae2e-cf44dbf05297DisplayLang=enwhich will apparently convert a Works file (.wps) to Word (.doc). Once you have a .doc then Openoffice.org will be able to open it. If you have difficulties, come back here with details ... Or just save the Works file in .rtf format? OOo opens .rtf files perfectly near as I can tell. Twayne - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: [moderated] Opening Excel Spreadsheets in OOo
On 07/31/2008 02:48 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Also, OpenOffice can't handle Microsoft's macros so if the spreadsheet has those OpenOffice will open it but the results won't be right. To handle Microsoft macros (written in VBA) you need OxygenOffice from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop. I believe that the software is free, like OpenOffice but, unlike OpenOffice support for OxygenOffice is not free. Perhaps you are referring to Sun's StarOffice instead? Support for OxygenOffice is the same as OOo +KAMI. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Am 2008-07-23 21:32:05, schrieb John Thorn: can you use open office with Vista? John END OF REPLIED MESSAGE No, since I have no Vista. ;-) If you mean yourself, yes, IF you have Vista installed. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/935194750, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
