Re: [discuss] Small adoption issue

2007-05-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Doug, Doug Koup wrote: When they went to save for the first time, they informed Open Office they wanted to use the .doc format, because it was the only one they recognized. What scared them into switching was the very large, very confusing message telling them that making this choice

Re: [discuss] Small adoption issue

2007-05-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Tue, 8 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: [snip] Just out of curiosity, have you already tried to explain them that sending their words as email body, rather than as an attachment (Word or OpenDocument doesn't matter) is much better for lots of reasons? It costs less if one is on a metered

Re: [discuss] Website creation/mgmt app.

2007-05-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Hi, Edward, ... that I think would contribute to its use: More wizards/supplied templates ... Could you suggest some possible templates? Regards, -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ensure access to your data now and in the future

Re: [discuss] Praise and a suggestion

2007-05-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks. It's good to hear that you find the program useful. On Fri, 4 May 2007, Charles B wrote: ... In the word processing program the Text frame was a full 360 box, but rather two side bars that extended the length of the text body and it had little two little sidebars on the header and

Re: [discuss] Small adoption issue

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Doug, Doug Koup wrote: When they went to save for the first time, they informed Open Office they wanted to use the .doc format, because it was the only one they recognized. What scared them into switching was the very large, very confusing message telling them

[discuss] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread Tinel Drugan
Hello, Frist of all I would like to congratulate you for your great work and the good things you are doing. I am using openoffice at home and I am very satisfied whit it. I'm a system administrator to a company and we are intrested in installing and using your office distribution as a total

[discuss] OpenOffice 2.2 on Windows - Buttons/Layout

2007-05-08 Thread Mattias Andersson
Hello, I tried Ubuntu on a friends computer and the buttons in OpenOffice looked really great there, soft and nice but in OpenOffice for Windows they are dull and boring... they actually look like they come from Windows 3.11 if you know what I mean. My question/suggestion is that you implement

[discuss] Open Office Problem, Please read!

2007-05-08 Thread arl120384
Hi there, I recently bought open office and I had a problem when I tried to re-open it with Excel. All my Excel files converted ok to open office but I tried to convert back for use on another computer and it didnt work. 2 of my files did but the other just opened in excel with a bunck of

[discuss] Mac OS X 10.4.8 Openoffice shuts down

2007-05-08 Thread mo loeem
Hello, I can't find the answer to my question, hopefully you can help: I have a new MacBook running OS X 10.4.8. I have the 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I manually installed X11 and then double clicked on Openoffice 2.2 application. X11 launched and Openoffice tried to. The splash

Re: [discuss] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Derman
Tinel Drugan wrote: Hello, Frist of all I would like to congratulate you for your great work and the good things you are doing. I am using openoffice at home and I am very satisfied whit it. I'm a system administrator to a company and we are intrested in installing and using your office

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.2 on Windows - Buttons/Layout

2007-05-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Mattias, Mattias Andersson wrote: I tried Ubuntu on a friends computer and the buttons in OpenOffice looked really great there, soft and nice but in OpenOffice for Windows they are dull and boring... they actually look like they come from Windows 3.11 if you know what I mean. My

Re: [discuss] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread André Wyrwa
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:20 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: Tinel Drugan wrote: Hello, Frist of all I would like to congratulate you for your great work and the good things you are doing. I am using openoffice at home and I am very satisfied whit it. I'm a system administrator to a

Re: [discuss] Open Office Problem, Please read!

2007-05-08 Thread Paul
Hi there, I recently bought open office and I had a problem when I tried to re-open it with Excel. All my Excel files converted ok to open office but I tried to convert back for use on another computer and it didnt work. 2 of my files did but the other just opened in excel with a bunck of

[discuss] Re: [users] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday May 08 2007 12:33 pm, Tinel Drugan wrote: Hello, Frist of all I would like to congratulate you for your great work and the good things you are doing. I am using openoffice at home and I am very satisfied whit it. I'm a system administrator to a company and we are intrested in

Re: [discuss] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Hi Cristi, OpenOffice.org is commonly used across many Romanian companies that develop software. This is because as opposed to local businesses, international companies do have to pay for license. For this reason they can get a full backup of using a free software license office suite. free