[discuss] suggestions for improvements

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Conrad
Hello, As a big fan and user of OO-Writer I wrote down some things that could be improved in the next versions of OO-Writer (hopefully even in OO-Writer 2.x) It would be good if there the spell-checker would not mark words which are written correctly but are saved wrong in the dictionary. I mean

[discuss] Mail Merge thoughts

2005-08-30 Thread Carl Paulsen
OO 1.1.4 on WinXP (I use it at home through NeoOfficeJ on Mac OS 10.3.9) Sorry for this long post, but I've wrestled with the mail merge functions of OO for a while, it being one of the most important features of an office suite that we use (I work with a non-profit that relies heavily on

[discuss] Macro language

2005-08-30 Thread Marcio Carneiro
Hi, Congratulations on your work, you are greate. I just read an article about macros and forms, from* Creating interactive forms with OOo Writer, *Tuesday August 02, 2005 (07:00 PM GMT) By: Dmitri Popov. http://www.nothickmanuals.info It is interesting how basic remains in use. I sugest you a

Re: [discuss] Opening and saving files in OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Steve McMillan
CPHennessy wrote: As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Monday 25 July 2005 12:20, Andreas Schlüns wrote: Hello Steve ! The file open dialog isnt bound to the current active document. And so it does not provide the feature to show the path, where the current document

[discuss] Tecnology like InfoPath by OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Marcelo Pellicano de Oliveira
Hi. I would like to know if you have some Project that focus MS InfoPath 2003 for OpenOffice. How can I contribute with my programming notions to develop one? Thanks, Pellicano.

[discuss] FireFox plugins for OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress

2005-08-30 Thread Dmitry Makhno
Hello, FireFox and OpenOffice have the same goal make real crossplatform free and easy to use tools. My imagine drawing me an operation system based on browser... May be I wrong about it... So I have a suggestion make communication plugins. Plugin 1: My suggestion is make possible to press

Re: [discuss] suggestions for improvements

2005-08-30 Thread Paul
All good suggestions. I would suggest however that you check the 'enhancement' log/list to see if any of these have been suggested before. If not, you can create them and put the unique number generated back to this list for people to vote for it. /paul On 8/30/05, Robert Conrad [EMAIL

Re: [discuss] Mail Merge thoughts

2005-08-30 Thread Paul
I would really suggest that in order to improve the user experience that you have had, so that other do not, that you file an enhancement request for those issues that you feel strongly about. Posting the numbers back here, people can vote for them if they also think that they are important

Re: [discuss] Tecnology like InfoPath by OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Paul
Put a request for enhancement though and then put the unique number back to the list for people to vote for it. I don't however know of any plans to do a 'info path' type thing for OOo... /paul On 8/30/05, Marcelo Pellicano de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I would like to know if

Re: [discuss] FireFox plugins for OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress

2005-08-30 Thread Paul
I would suggest that you file a request for enhancement and then put the unique numbers back to the list for people to vote on. /paul On 8/30/05, Dmitry Makhno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, FireFox and OpenOffice have the same goal make real crossplatform free and easy to use tools.

Re: [discuss] Opening and saving files in OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Steve I use OpenOffice all the time and, despite its quirks, like it a lot. But one feature that constantly bugs me is the default location for finding files to open or save, which as far as I can tell, is the last place I did that operation (regardless of Office application).

Re: [discuss] Mail Merge thoughts

2005-08-30 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Carl OO 1.1.4 on WinXP (I use it at home through NeoOfficeJ on Mac OS 10.3.9) Sorry for this long post, but I've wrestled with the mail merge functions of OO for a while, it being one of the most important features Mail merge in the upcoming version 2 is much improved. Read about it

[discuss] Re: Tecnology like InfoPath by OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Everitt
Marcelo Pellicano de Oliveira wrote: Hi. I would like to know if you have some Project that focus MS InfoPath 2003 for OpenOffice. How can I contribute with my programming notions to develop one? I believe that the form builder:

[discuss] Windows Registry Keys - Are they important ?

2005-08-30 Thread Mike Petersen
I am in the process of creating a Network Install Script for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and I just finished capturing all of the settings a new install makes to a Windows Machine. There are a *lot* of registry entries created by the installer, however, OOo 2.0 Beta2 works just fine if I simply copy the

Re: [discuss] FireFox plugins for OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress

2005-08-30 Thread Alexandro
Please read a document to submit a issue, mark it as enhacement. Another option is really understanding the UnO framework and start some hacking it seems that xpcom are binded to UNO now and that means that it is easier to make cross-applications extensions. On 8/30/05, Paul [EMAIL

Re: [discuss] Re: Tecnology like InfoPath by OpenOffice

2005-08-30 Thread Sweet Coffee
Hello Everyone! I may sound totally uninformed but (1) What is MS InfoPath? (2) Why would it be good to have something like it in OOo? If it take a long time to explain or respond to the questions. Links would be fine. :) Thanks in advance for anyone's response to this. Paul Everitt

[discuss] Fading toolbars

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Leal Werneck
Dear people, I have always been a huge fan of OpenOffice and I always encourage everyone to do the same. But testing 2.0ß I found a major problem that is ruining it to me: PLEASE, DON'T MAKE THESE FADE-LOOKING TOOLBARS! It makes the software look cheap. Please, at least incude an option to

Re: [discuss] suggestions for improvements

2005-08-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Robert Conrad wrote: Navigator and Outline Numbering should be integrated in the desktop like in WORD. I don't like them in separate windows. You can dock them on every side as you like. Just do it. :-) It would also be good if OO-Writer would recognize the language in which one is writing.

[discuss] Empty file upon reopening

2005-08-30 Thread Delmar
I had a bunch of stuff saved as OpenOffice files. I then reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled OpenOffice. But now when I open the file, it just brings me a blank template with nothing in there. Thats useless for me. I need my information back. Please help me out in this. Thanks.

[discuss] Re: Empty file upon reopening

2005-08-30 Thread Randomthots
Delmar wrote: I had a bunch of stuff saved as OpenOffice files. I then reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled OpenOffice. But now when I open the file, it just brings me a blank template with nothing in there. That’s useless for me. I need my information back. Please help me out in this.

Re: [discuss] Fading toolbars

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Kasak
Daniel Leal Werneck wrote: Dear people, I have always been a huge fan of OpenOffice and I always encourage everyone to do the same. But testing 2.0ß I found a major problem that is ruining it to me: PLEASE, DON'T MAKE THESE FADE-LOOKING TOOLBARS! WHAT FADING TOOLBARS? I DON'T SEE ANY

Re: [discuss] Fading toolbars

2005-08-30 Thread William W. Austin
On 2005-08-30 21:24:11, Daniel Kasak wrote: Daniel Leal Werneck wrote: Dear people, I have always been a huge fan of OpenOffice and I always encourage everyone to do the same. But testing 2.0ß I found a major problem that is ruining it to me: PLEASE, DON'T MAKE THESE FADE-LOOKING

Re: [discuss] Windows Registry Keys - Are they important ?

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Kasak
Mike Petersen wrote: I am in the process of creating a Network Install Script for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and I just finished capturing all of the settings a new install makes to a Windows Machine. There are a *lot* of registry entries created by the installer, however, OOo 2.0 Beta2 works just

[discuss] Re: Mailmerge Howto

2005-08-30 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On 26 Aug 2005 Lars D. Noodén wrote, I notice that the list of HOWTOs for the Database Access section is missing a Mail Merge howto: http://dba.openoffice.org/howto/index.html I'm sure that a clever and motivated person could figure it out from the existing documents, but mail merge is