Re: [discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite

2007-04-06 Thread Peter Junge
Hi Girish, read Sun VP Jim Parkinson on this: http://blogs.sun.com/jpblog/entry/blog_1_0 Best regards Peter Girish Vedpathak wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for developing fantastic office suite. Are you planning to add a > tool for emailing, similar to Outlook in your suite as well? > > Thank yo

Re: [discuss] Re: Howto create a style like this?

2007-04-06 Thread André Wyrwa
Hei, > So you don't think there's a way for defining a field whos content will be > underlined and ended by a colon followed in line by a "normal" paragraph? if you can live with adding the colon yourself, i think there should be a solution to do what you want in styles. Not 100% sure and can't

Re: [discuss] Re: Howto create a style like this?

2007-04-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:07:40 -0500, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: I dont think you are no longer talking about style but content. I guess the way to go is through a macro that read and replace the content and insert the custom style. So you don

Re: [discuss] Please, were are the portable versions of OpenOffice?

2007-04-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:28:53 -0500, paulus1 @gmail.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Always when there is a newer version of OpenOffice it is a horror to find the portable version in my own language. I don't understand why this is made so extremely difficult to find. Couldn't you centralize the p

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:49:59 -0500, Peter Reaper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To get market share, OOo must continue supporting the DOC(x) format and must *dramatically* reduce the suckyness of its interface. I don't care how many geeks and fanboys claim how superior OOo's UI is - it's not.

Re: [discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite

2007-04-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:59:28 -0500, Girish Vedpathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thank you for developing fantastic office suite. Are you planning to add a tool for emailing, similar to Outlook in your suite as well? Thank you, Girish Not really, there is also great email client like

Re: [discuss] Question

2007-04-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-04-04, at 15:41 , Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400 edward vergnaud wrote: Hi, I have paid $ 11.99 for the version 2.1. After I upgrade this version to 2.2 I got the feeling that this is a free software and I was not supposed to pay anything. It is free so

Re: [discuss] Please, were are the portable versions of OpenOffice?

2007-04-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-04-05, at 12:28 , paulus1 @gmail.com wrote: Always when there is a newer version of OpenOffice it is a horror to find the portable version in my own language. I don't understand why this is made so extremely difficult to find. Couldn't you centralize the portable (native) versions l

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread jonathon
Chad Smith wrote: >in fact, have some version of MS Office already installed and running on them. Either MS Office, MS Word, or MS Works (Suite). MS Works is incompatible with MS Office. [Not that thast excludes it from being described as MSO. I've come to the conclusion that MSO is specifi

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Chad Smith
So Microsoft controls the media now? Get out the tin foil hats, ladies and gentlemen! It's crazy time with Lars! On 4/3/07, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, André Wyrwa wrote: > Both links are far away from being usability reviews. You won't find any true usabili

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Chad Smith
On 4/5/07, Peter Reaper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: People and businesses don't care (enough) about interoperability (yet). +1 To get market share, OOo must continue supporting the DOC(x) format and must *dramatically* reduce the suckyness of its interface. I don't care how many geeks and f

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Chad Smith
On 4/3/07, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 r

Re: [discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite

2007-04-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Girish, Girish Vedpathak wrote: Thank you for developing fantastic office suite. Are you planning to add a tool for emailing, similar to Outlook in your suite as well? Thanks for your enthousiasm. Yes, a PIM will be integrated in 3.0 Pls see OpenOffice.org 2.x and beyond ( 16:15 – 17:00 )

[discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite

2007-04-06 Thread Girish Vedpathak
Hi, Thank you for developing fantastic office suite. Are you planning to add a tool for emailing, similar to Outlook in your suite as well? Thank you, Girish Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hun

[discuss] Please, were are the portable versions of OpenOffice?

2007-04-06 Thread paulus1 @gmail.com
Always when there is a newer version of OpenOffice it is a horror to find the portable version in my own language. I don't understand why this is made so extremely difficult to find. Couldn't you centralize the portable (native) versions like the installable ones? The group op people using a porta

[discuss] Calc spreadsheets in Impress

2007-04-06 Thread Jorge Sampaio
Hi, I am aassociate professor of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Australia) In all my courses I use Impress in my lectures, and some of the presentations have embedded Calc objects where calculations are presented. Although I can change cel values and get the calcu

[discuss] Insert Special Character Keyboard Assignments

2007-04-06 Thread Dustin Paddock
OpenOffice, Suggestion: "Insert Special Character" Keyboard Assignments There is one feature that Word has and OOo Writer doesn't which keeps me from dropping Word altogether. In Writer, I go to "Insert Special Character", but there is no way to assign keyboard combos to type certain characters

Re: [discuss] Question

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Adams
Apologies to list, resent to OP On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400 edward vergnaud wrote: > Hi, > > I have paid $ 11.99 for the version 2.1. After I upgrade this version > to 2.2 I got the feeling that this is a free software and I was not > supposed to pay anything. > It is free software. Tha

Re: [discuss] Question

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400 edward vergnaud wrote: > Hi, > > I have paid $ 11.99 for the version 2.1. After I upgrade this version > to 2.2 I got the feeling that this is a free software and I was not > supposed to pay anything. > It is free software. That freedom includes the right to s

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Gordon wrote: Peter Reaper wrote: I don't care how many geeks and fanboys claim how superior OOo's UI is - it's not. In *YOUR* opinion. I am a Management and Systems Accountant, and have worked in several Public Quoted companies in the UK as Group Management Accountant and desktop support

[discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Gordon
Peter Reaper wrote: > I don't care how many geeks and fanboys claim how superior OOo's UI is - > it's not. In *YOUR* opinion. I am a Management and Systems Accountant, and have worked in several Public Quoted companies in the UK as Group Management Accountant and desktop support, and in my *PROF