[discuss] Table selection problem on Writer

2005-04-04 Thread Edward Hew
Dear OO team, Just downloaded he latest 1.9.79, really like the changes. But I find that it is quite difficult to select a table in Writer. The problems is, I wanted to select the entire table so that I could insert something before the table - I created the table as the first item on the page

Re: [discuss] Table selection problem on Writer

2005-04-04 Thread Rich
to select all table : position cursor in the table press ctrl+a twice (first time will select current cell, second - whole table); to move table down, position the cursor at the beginning of the table (upper left cell, beginning of the first line) and press enter. (ctrl+home will move you to

[discuss] Re: Table selection problem on Writer

2005-04-04 Thread blabla
Edward Hew wrote: Dear OO team, Just downloaded he latest 1.9.79, really like the changes. But I find that it is quite difficult to select a table in Writer. The problems is, I wanted to select the entire table so that I could insert something before the table - I created the table as the first

Re: [discuss] Table selection problem on Writer

2005-04-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Edward Hew wrote: Dear OO team, Just downloaded he latest 1.9.79, really like the changes. But I find that it is quite difficult to select a table in Writer. The problems is, I wanted to select the entire table so that I could insert something before the table - I created the table as the first

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-04-04 Thread Mathias Bauer
Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: My OS is Windows XP Home, fully updated with SP 2 and some post SP 2 updates. I have and use OOo 1.1.4 and I downloaded and installed the official beta. on 3-31 I downloaded and installed 1.9.87. All three of these versions of OOo are

[discuss] Re: Daniel is hired by Microsoft

2005-04-04 Thread Chuck
Bob Holtzman wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Chuck wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: Joseph Bessimer is surely smiling on this one. (Hint: Joseph Bessimer was a con-artist who once said there's a sucker born every minute) I always thought it was P.T. Barnum who said it. So did I, until I

Re: [discuss] Re: Java fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS community

2005-04-04 Thread Chad Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't be so quick to paint a picture of Sun as a champion of all that is good. Sun is a company - a commercial entity - and as such, thinks in the same terms as all other companies, eg How do I make more money? How do I destroy the competition? How do I create a need

Re: [discuss] logic symbols for discrete mathematics

2005-04-04 Thread Claus Agerskov
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi all, Where can I find the logic symbols for logical equivalence, conjunction, disjunction, etc in oo so I can insert into a document? Try Insert - Special Character and then select the font OpenSymbol and maybe also one of the different subsets.

Re: [discuss] Culling duplicates in Calc

2005-04-04 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Lars, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:01:56 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: 1. Sort the rows. This may or may not be an option for you with the way your data is arranged. You might have to concatenate the data from multiple cells to get this to work. 2. Use a filter. DataFilter from the menu

[discuss] Re: Wordperfect import/export

2005-04-04 Thread Chuck
Bob Long wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I don't see any option for opening or saving Wordperfect Suite's .wpd (Word Perfect) or .wps (Quattro) format files in either OOo 1.1.4 or 1.9.87 beta. Is there a way to do it apart from using WP to open every document I

Re: [discuss] Culling duplicates in Calc

2005-04-04 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks Steve and Eike, From the prompting from the two of you, I have the method I wanted: Data-Filter-Standard Filter (= not empty ) - More - No Duplication, Copy results to... -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents harm all Net-based business, write

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Alex
Isn't this list not to be used for advertising like this? - Alex Chad Smith wrote: Hello Everybody, I think that probably everyone on this list knows what Paypal is and how it works. Well, in the Open Source world, the phrase Competition is a good thing is very familiar - so I wanted to let

Re: [discuss] Re: Java fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS community

2005-04-04 Thread Rigel
ROTFLMAO!! This is way better than reality TV! More more more! *takes a deep breath!* Okay. I'm done. BTW: Good on ya Chad! I like your vigor, and passion. Just be keen to not let it get too impulsive :) Don't want to hurt yourself. BTW: I think they're hiring master debaters on the mars colony

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Alex wrote: Isn't this list not to be used for advertising like this? As long as it's not Chad's product, I'm not sure I'd agree. I have often seen people mentioning products or services that they think are neat or interesting. You could argue that this post belonged in social. But that is

Re: [discuss] More compatibility

2005-04-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 03 April 2005 05:04, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about adding some compatibility with Word Perfect Office???You'd then be living up to your claim of compatibility with all major office productivity suites You will see better support in OpenOffice.org 2.0. You can download it

[discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Gauss
We just attempted an install on our Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Servers with MS Office 2000 and Open Office 2.0 Beta. With 1.1.4 you could associate either program with xls, doc, etc With 2.0 it takes MS Office completely out of the picture.

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-04-04 Thread Peter Kupfer
Craig Gauss wrote: We just attempted an install on our Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Servers with MS Office 2000 and Open Office 2.0 Beta. With 1.1.4 you could associate either program with xls, doc, etc With 2.0 it takes MS Office completely out of the picture.

[discuss] spading slides in draw.

2005-04-04 Thread spencer
Hi, I'm making a large chart that requires several slides in draw.Is it possible to have an edge go from one node on slide 1 to a node on slide 2? If so, how do you do it? Thanks. Wayne - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[discuss] A good idea

2005-04-04 Thread Pedro Martins
Hi, my name is Pedro Martins Add this feature to openoffice: Convert a pdf file to spreadsheet Convert a pdf file to text document Thanks Bye

Re: [discuss] Re: Java fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS community

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Kasak
Chad Smith wrote: snipped That is pure FUD - and BS. If you don't like Sun - then stop using their gift. If you don't trust them, then stop using their code. Use KOffice or AbiWord, and shut the FUD up. snipped Oh dear God. It's been discussed to death. Try to be a little more

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Peter Kupfer
Chad Smith wrote: And I know it seems crazy that a company would give away money - but Paypal did it when they got started. And so did X.com (which failed miserably after a while - but I had already spent my $5) ;-). I loved X.COM what a great bank! -- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Peter Kupfer
Alex wrote: Isn't this list not to be used for advertising like this? - Alex He was just telling us about a good service and way for use to make money. We should be thanking him for the free $25. Thanks Chad! -- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4

[discuss] Hey Chad....

2005-04-04 Thread Steve Kopischke
Chad - I misplaced the message from earlier today about greenzap or was it zapgreen...(and can't find your e-mail adress). Could you send me the link? Many thanks! oldgnome - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [discuss] hi, a little suggestion

2005-04-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:05, + Kaspar Kevvai wrote: Hello, I'm not sure whether this is the right way to say this, but why not make a language box to the bottom bar of the program (the one where there currently are the page indicator, the magnification level etc.). I think it would be

Re: [discuss] A good idea

2005-04-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:23, + Pedro Martins wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi, my name is Pedro Martins Add this feature to openoffice: Convert a pdf file to spreadsheet Convert a pdf file to text document PDF is really not for editing. Please reply to

Re: [discuss] Table floating toolbar position

2005-04-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 04 April 2005 12:06, + Edward Hew wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Dear OO team, After a few hours of using version 1.9.79, I can say it is behaving very well, very quick responses. I am doing some tables on Writer, and so far I find the the Table floating toolbar a

Re: [discuss] spading slides in draw.

2005-04-04 Thread spencer
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:18 -0400, spencer wrote: Hi, I'm making a large chart that requires several slides in draw.Is it possible to have an edge go from one node on slide 1 to a node on slide 2? If so, how do you do it? Thanks. Wayne sorry for the subject line s/spading/spanning

[discuss] Power Mac G5 donation

2005-04-04 Thread NAKATA Maho
Mr. MIYAHARA, Toru, CEO of Bigi.net(*), donated a Power Mac G5 for me. o 1.6GHz PowerG5 processor o 1G Bytes of memory o 80Gbytes of SATA HDD o DVD-RW/CD-R o mouse / keyboard And this is a good news for freesoftware/opensoftware community, and a very good example of a company can help an

[discuss] Re: [porting-dev] Power Mac G5 donation

2005-04-04 Thread NAKATA Maho
Mr. MIYAHARA, Toru, CEO of Bigi.net(*), donated a Power Mac G5 for me. I'm very sorry that I forgot say thank you to him. Thank you very much Miyahara-san! -- NAKATA, Maho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [discuss] A good idea

2005-04-04 Thread Rigel
--- CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 20:23, + Pedro Martins wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi, my name is Pedro Martins Add this feature to openoffice: Convert a pdf file to spreadsheet Convert a pdf file to text document PDF is really not

[discuss] Re: Flickering icons

2005-04-04 Thread Rod Engelsman
Rod Engelsman wrote: Group, I have recently played with the 1.9.79 and now the 1.9.87 releases. I've noticed something (actually it's very hard *not* to notice) that I would like to pin down. When I pass the mouse over the icons in the toolbar and over buttons in dialogs, the icons and