Re: [discuss] Re: Interesting news: Microsoft to standardize Office formats

2005-11-25 Thread Claus Agerskov
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Bob Long wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Interesting news indeed. http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1012_3-5965443.html OOo 2 has a Save as... as Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml) option. Is this the same as what is

Re: [discuss] OOo

2005-11-25 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
On 11/22/05, Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, firstly I would just like to say thank you for developing a great office suite! I was wondering if the idea of developing OOo for Symbian UIQ devices has been considered as I spend a lot of time away from my computer and feel it would be

[discuss] increasing OOo's install base over the holidays

2005-11-25 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
hi, Just an idea for increasing our install base: burn a free liveCD with Linux on it, or the Open CD. I'm sure that this is not a revolutionary idea and also not new, but it bears repeating at this time of year. Also, on another discuss list that I have been on, they were discussing the great

Re: [discuss] Free OOo training videos

2005-11-25 Thread Takamichi Akiyama
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Generating Video tutorials are easy for Linux users and I guess we can also host new array of video tutorials for linux thanks to wink. Wink is a free screem capture application that will run on linux, windows and you can generate the flash output necesary. The only

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-25 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/25/05, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shouldn't be too hard. It's in Google's interest to do so as they have contributed to the cause and they are a Microsoft competitor. A simple heads up to the right person might help. I don't think this is something that Google has any

Re: [discuss] Envelopes

2005-11-25 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
hi, On 11/22/05, Jack Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little better support for printing envelopes would make a fine program a lot better. There are no instructions for setting up envelopes for printing. I'm not sure if you know this, but there are lots and lots of user manuals available

[discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-25 Thread Randomthots
Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi all, Excellent article at Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051125144611543 It's a technical comparison between OpenDocument and Microsoft's XML format. It's intended to be suitable for a semi-technical audience (ie. people who know a bit of HTML)

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
Lars wrote: I get the distinct feeling that its marketing or lobbying team is trying to dilute or confuse the phrase open office in the same way they tried with the initials RMS For people on Gmail, take look at the sponsored links (right hand side of the page) for the OOo lists. [I've