Re: [discuss] What do you think about following proposal?

2007-03-19 Thread Schuster Gerhard
Hi Christoph, it is a joy to read your email!!! At work I have to cope with requirements and their specification, too. We also use DOORS [1] which - in my opinion - is no masterpiece in user interaction (okay, sometimes its not far from being horrible). But is has some advantages in

[discuss] Fwd: Re: What do you think about following proposal?

2007-03-19 Thread Schuster Gerhard
Sorry, I did not send this to [discuss] here it is. Hi Vic, thank you very much for your quick response. Actually you are the first one. I thought of usinf Subversion for the development but I haven't any chance to work with it jet. I know CVS though. What I have in mind is not a revision

[discuss] hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread open officecanada
Hi folks, I am a Canadian speaking and writing 4 languages and upon trying to install a german language pack I realised that parts of it got called hun-spell. I wonder who the idiot was who came up with hun-spell for the german language pack in the first place. I guess its the same type of

[discuss] hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread open officecanada
Hi folks, I am a Canadian speaking and writing 4 languages and upon trying to install a german language pack I realised that parts of it got called hun-spell. I wonder who the idiot was who came up with hun-spell for the german language pack in the first place. I guess its the same type of

Re: [discuss] Feature request: save at multiple locations

2007-03-19 Thread sophie gautier
Hi Auke, Auke Booij wrote: Hey, great development team of OpenOffice.org! I'm using openoffice and like it :). Openoffice is a damn good alternative for microsoft office (which I can't use anyway, since I use linux). But some friends do use /\/\$ office. Therefor, when i want to send them

Re: [discuss] Writer always starts at beginning.

2007-03-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hello Charles, Chavik wrote: [...] Writer always starts at the beginning and I have to scroll down to where I was. Not a huge problem but annoying. Especially if this thing gets bigger. Could you make it so the document opens with the cursor where it last was when the doc was saved? Kinda

Re: [discuss] Office add-on

2007-03-19 Thread Paul
We are trying to get more offices to to to Open Office and have the following issue / question. We can not sent Open office files (.ods and .odt) to MSoffice users. Your correct, MS Office users cannot open (easily) these types of files. OOo can save files in many formats including that of

Re: [discuss] hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread Bernd Eilers
open officecanada wrote: Hi folks, I am a Canadian speaking and writing 4 languages and upon trying to install a german language pack I realised that parts of it got called hun-spell. I wonder who the idiot was who came up with hun-spell for the german language pack in the first place. I

Re: [discuss] Office add-on

2007-03-19 Thread Bernd Eilers
Hi Dennis, Dennis Bouwers wrote: We are trying to get more offices to to to Open Office and have the following issue / question. We can not sent Open office files (.ods and .odt) to MSoffice users. If we can sent our contacts this add-on we can sent them Open Office files and they can

Re: [discuss] hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread open officecanada
Thank you, Russel, KAMI and Bernd. I am very much relieved! Since I am new to openoffice I had come to believe that some terribly biased and germanophobe premature idiot was at work, so, eventually I was getting so upset last night that I needed to create this issue. I stand corrected, bow my

Re: [discuss] Office add-on

2007-03-19 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Hi, Dennis, In addition to the add-on from Sun, the OpenDocument Foundation has been working on one. That one is the one being tested by Massachusetts, if I recall correctly. -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ensure access to your data now and in the future

[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
Bernd Eilers wrote: Don´t get upset about the name it´s just the name of the spell checker software and name for the related format of the dictonary files and has nothing to do with the language being checked. And the hun in it is an abbreviation for hungaria. ... You know, Jaques may have

Re: [discuss] hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread John W. Kennedy
open officecanada wrote: Thank you, Russel, KAMI and Bernd. I am very much relieved! Since I am new to openoffice I had come to believe that some terribly biased and germanophobe premature idiot was at work, so, eventually I was getting so upset last night that I needed to create this issue. I

Re: [discuss] Feature request: save at multiple locations

2007-03-19 Thread joseph jordan
HUH??? - Original Message - From: sophie gautier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [discuss] Feature request: save at multiple locations Hi Auke, Auke Booij wrote: Hey, great development team of OpenOffice.org! I'm

Re: [discuss] Feature request: save at multiple locations

2007-03-19 Thread Richard/g
On Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:29, sophie gautier wrote: Hi Auke, Auke Booij wrote: Hey, great development team of OpenOffice.org! I'm using openoffice and like it :). Openoffice is a damn good alternative for microsoft office (which I can't use anyway, since I use linux). But some

[discuss] Send your open letter to Apple too.

2007-03-19 Thread Ren Blevins
The Open Letter to Dell is a great idea. Please forward it to Apple for them to consider as well. To that end I hope its included in all the distributions its ported too. Take a page from the AOL marketing engine and put a pile of CD's on every check stand of all the retail stores.. Right

[discuss] OOo Suggestion

2007-03-19 Thread Rob Marriner
Hi, I'm so glad there's an alternative to MSOffice which doesn't crash eveyr 5 minutes! However, I think OOo writer really does need to be able to reference headings without having to insert set references to the headings manaully before making cross-references. I found a page saying that this

Re: [discuss] What do you think about following proposal?

2007-03-19 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Gerhard and [discuss] list members! I'm neither an OOo developer nor a programmer, but I like to comment your suggestions and - maybe more important to me - ask some questions to better understand your proposal. Am Samstag, den 17.03.2007, 01:22 +0100 schrieb Schuster Gerhard: [...] I've

Re: [discuss] Feature request: save at multiple locations

2007-03-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:08:32 -0600, Auke Booij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, great development team of OpenOffice.org! I'm using openoffice and like it :). Openoffice is a damn good alternative for microsoft office (which I can't use anyway, since I use linux). But some friends do use

RE: [discuss] A idea to improve impress

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Huckabay
Yeah I Think That Is a good idea. That would be a very handy feature. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Eduardo Davo Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 19, 2007 4:17 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] A idea to improve impress Hello First of all

Re: [discuss] A idea to improve impress

2007-03-19 Thread Jonathon Coombes
It looks like you are referring to printing multiple slides per page. Is this different to your request? Regards Jonathon On 20/03/2007, at 11:47 AM, Alex Huckabay wrote: Yeah I Think That Is a good idea. That would be a very handy feature. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: [discuss] OOo Suggestion

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Huckabay
Yeah I have open office and Microsoft Office 2007 Basic and Microsoft office 2007 has an awesome interface. I would Love to see open office get an interface like MS 2007. Also I Think Open Office Should Make A program like Microsoft outlook 2007 because that would be awesome. Alex Huckabay

RE: [discuss] Send your open letter to Apple too.

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Huckabay
That's a great idea!!! That could put MS Office out of business. And if they got in danger of going out of business it would force them to put there prices down. I would love to see MS office go open source like open office. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ren Blevins