[discuss] Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Reaper
Adrian Try wrote on 02.04.2007 23:03: Hi Peter Is it possible to make the "Page Pane" *not* appear by default when an OpenOffice Draw file is loaded? My drawing usually have only *one* page, and find it annoying to have to turn the pane off *every* time I open a Draw file. I can't find a w

[discuss] Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread André Wyrwa
Hi, is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? I'm using it for work, so reduced the color palette to the corporate colors of my company. But when i'm doing other work, i'd like to have different colors available. Is there a way to have some kind of profiles for the colors? If no

Re: [discuss] Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default

2007-04-03 Thread Adrian Try
Hi again BTW: Your signature is missing a comma before the "and": --> Computer software should be affordable, effective, and safe. ^ http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#26 - see "2)" Thanks very much for the correction. I wonder if the grammar

Re: [discuss] HSSF Problem

2007-04-03 Thread Daniel Rentz
Lucille DJARA schrieb: I am trying to use the HSSF API to: 1. load a template contaning a chart sheet 2. write data 3. save the new file with the data It is OK when the chart sheet is the last sheet of my workbook, but when there are other sheets after the chart sheet I get the message "Unable

[discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Muhammad Fahd Waseem
OpenOffice.org better than MS Office? Sorry, but that made me LOL. :-D MS Office < 2003 better than OOo? That made me LOL. It isn't. Perhaps it is opinion, perhaps it is the consensus of almost all who use it...my teachers, my fellows, my friends... You did say you were a "student of computer

[discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Gordon
Muhammad Fahd Waseem wrote: > > I've been using Office 2007. Let me tell you that it is fully backwards > compatible. Sorry it is NOT. the *DEFAULT* document type of Office 2007 is .docx which is NOT readable by previous versions of Office without installing an add-in.

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
The usability reviews of MSO 2007 place it well below OpenOffice.org, though that does not mean there isn't room for improvement. The price point for MS Office 2007 isn't so good either. It comes with more baggage than MS Office 2003, and that has seen record low uptake. Some of the main dis

Re: [interface-discuss] New URLHandler interface

2007-04-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Mathias, > >>> Hi Mathias, >>> > Of course, the advantage of using exceptions is that they can transport > additional (polymorphic) information about what went wrong... And its biggest disadvantage is that it breaks the code in

[discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Smith
André Wyrwa wrote: Hi, is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? ... Easy? No. Possible? Yes. You can load color palette files (*.soc) from *some* of the area fill dialogs--look on the "Colors" tab for a little file folder icon. In Writer and Calc, the only such dialog requ

[discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Reaper
Lars D. Noodén wrote on 03.04.2007 16:25: The usability reviews of MSO 2007 place it well below OpenOffice.org, though that does not mean there isn't room for improvement. The price point for MS Office 2007 isn't so good either. It comes with more baggage than MS Office 2003, and that has see

[discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Gordon
Peter Reaper wrote: > Isn't it able to save to DOC for the rare cases when that's needed? yes - but the problem is, most users won't even realise that Office 2007 uses a different format - and the format .docx is NOT readable in any previous version of Office without installing an add-in.

Re: [discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread André Wyrwa
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:13 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > André Wyrwa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? > > ... > > Easy? No. Possible? Yes. > > You can load color palette files (*.soc) from *some* of the area fill > dialogs--look on the "Colors" tab

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread André Wyrwa
Hi, On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:25 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > The usability reviews of MSO 2007 place it well below OpenOffice.org, Any pointers? André. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Then do as you are doing, follow the bug reports, get other people to comment and vote for them. -Lars On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Peter Reaper wrote: [snip] IMO it would be to dramatically improve the usability: Zoom should align to center, not left (*not* fixed, IMO) http://qa.openoffice.org/issues

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Yes, the disadvantage that MS Office 2007 has an extremely restricted, basically non-existent, choice of platforms also applies to earlier versions. That doesn't make the further reduction any more acceptable or helpful. That is one of the reasons why MSO is no longer suitable for business en

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andr� Wyrwa wrote: Any pointers? Here's just two I recall: "Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12" http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=2742&pubid=3&issueid=66 "Why Office 2007 won't sell"

Re: [discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 3 avril 2007 17:13, Joe Smith a écrit : > André Wyrwa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? >> ... > > Easy? No. Possible? Yes. ... > Many requests for enhancement have been filed, but I know of no activity > in this area. Add your votes there: h

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread André Wyrwa
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 12:16 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andr Wyrwa wrote: > > Any pointers? > > Here's just two I recall: > > "Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper > than to Microsoft Office 12" > > http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andr� Wyrwa wrote: Both links are far away from being usability reviews. You won't find any true usability reviews. Nor is it likely that you will find any reviews, period. The days of a real product shootout are over a decade past. Recall that MS started a policy of pr

Re: [discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread jonathon
Joe Smith wrote: OOo comes with 5/6 such palette files; there are dozens more for downloading around the web. But no centralized listing of them---unless you consider Issuezilla to be centralized. Many requests for enhancement have been filed, but I know of no activity in this area. The

Re: [discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread André Wyrwa
Hi Jonathan, > > Many requests for enhancement have been filed, but I know of no activity in > > this area. > > The only improvement I can see, would be for the colour set for Write > and Calc to be changeable on the fly, without inserting a graphics object. > > But creating colour palaettes i

Re: [discuss] Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:35:13 -0500, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? I'm using it for work, so reduced the color palette to the corporate colors of my company. But when i'm doing other work, i'd like to have different colors