Re: [discuss] soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.07 16:38 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this process seem to hang around in my system and my wife's after open office file's have been closed. If this happens several times in the course of a session it becomes impossible to open a new file without first

Re: [discuss] Re: Question

2010-06-08 Thread Marius Popa
May I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 7 June 2010 13:04, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Hi Marius, Marius Popa schrieb: I have taken OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Portable from

Re: [discuss] Re: Question

2010-06-08 Thread Marius Popa
How can I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 8 June 2010 12:45, Marius Popa marius.mar...@gmail.com wrote: May I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 7 June 2010 13:04, Bernhard Dippold

Re: [discuss] webOS App

2010-06-08 Thread jonathon
On 06/06/2010 11:41 PM, Jake Morrison wrote: Is it possible for the development of an app for Palm webOS to happen? Porting OOo to Palm WebOS is possible, but not commercially viable. jonathon -- Non-list email sent to this email address is forwarded to Dave Null, unread. attachment:

Re: [discuss] webOS App

2010-06-08 Thread David Evans
It seems that there is demand for ooo on small devices such as phones, palmtops, the internet but due to the size of ooo this is not practicable. Perhaps there could be a place for popular aspects to be tailored to these devices if a concensus of users came up with a sensible list eg *

Re: [discuss] Re: fixes needed

2010-06-08 Thread jonathon
On 06/07/2010 10:55 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote: reference I can find that brings this up, http://www.helpdesk.ilstu.edu/kb/index.phtml?kbid=1205 describes one of the workarounds for some known incompatibilities between office versions. there is another saying that there is no problem. As a

Re: [discuss] Re: Question

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.08 05:56 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: How can I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 8 June 2010 12:45, Marius Popa marius.mar...@gmail.com wrote: May I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before?

[discuss] finding text (was: Re: [discuss] Re: Question)

2010-06-08 Thread Mike Scott
John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.06.08 05:56 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: How can I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 8 June 2010 12:45, Marius Popa marius.mar...@gmail.com wrote: May I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I

Re: [discuss] finding text (was: Re: [discuss] Re: Question)

2010-06-08 Thread Marius Popa
I referred to how can I find some sentenced during I type text, to see whether I type the same sentence before? On 8 June 2010 18:04, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.06.08 05:56 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: How can I look for a text

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread Marius Popa
Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. Is that an option through which I can check that? On 8 June 2010 18:37, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: Marius Popa wrote: I referred to how can I find some

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread Mike Scott
Marius Popa wrote: Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. Is that an option through which I can check that? Now you've changed the question. You asked before firstly if, and secondly how, you could search for

[discuss] Re: [dev] Community Council Elections 2010-06: Announcement and Nomination

2010-06-08 Thread Frank Loehmann
Hi Christoph, Please let me nominate Andreas Bartel as a Product Development Representative. Andreas is a user experience engineer and is the lead of project Renaissance[1]. I am sure that OpenOffice.org and our users will strongly benefit from his broad knowledge, his deep user experience

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Marius, In a message dated 2010.06.08 11:40 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. You mean like a redundancy alarm? Where have you seen such an option? John

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread Marius Popa
I did not see the option anywhere, but I thought that such an option could be useful for any user because it could save any user's time by warning him if a sentence is repeated. On 8 June 2010 20:10, John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net wrote: Hi Marius, In a message dated 2010.06.08 11:40 -0500,

[discuss] Re: soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread R N D Martin
In article 4c0ddcf0.1010...@nb.net, kaufm...@nb.net (John Kaufmann) wrote: *From:* John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net *To:* discuss@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:02:24 -0400 In a message dated 2010.06.07 16:38 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this process seem to hang

[discuss] Question About OO

2010-06-08 Thread Mauricio Rubio Parra
Hello, I wanted to know why it isn't possible to save files in the latest Microsoft Office version (xlsx, pptx, docx) from openoffice? And whether this feature will or will not be available soon? Thank you for your time. Best regards, Mauricio Rubio P.

[discuss] Feature request

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Hall
Hi,   I have had a few friends suggest that use Open Office instead of Excel 97.  I am trying to find the Accounting function that is in Excel but not in Calc. I have done numerous web searches for this feature in OO, but the User defined characters never work.  Can you please include the

[discuss] Re: Suggestions for keyboard shortcuts

2010-06-08 Thread Feitosa Gonçalves
First of all, sorry for my bad english... Hi, I’m an brazilian user and enthusiast of OpenOffice, I’ve started in BrOffice for windows some years ago, and now I’m using Ubuntu’s normal OpenOffice, a suite that I guess is superior than MsOffice. I’ve contributed with some words to VerO (portuguese

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.08 13:14 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. You mean like a redundancy alarm? Where have you seen such an option? I did not see the option anywhere,

Re: [discuss] Re: soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
Niall, In a message dated 2010.06.08 14:15 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this process seem to hang around in my system and my wife's after open office file's have been closed. If this happens several times in the course of a session it becomes impossible to open a new file without

Re: [discuss] Re: soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
R N D Martin wrote: In article 4c0ddcf0.1010...@nb.net, kaufm...@nb.net (John Kaufmann) wrote: *From:* John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net *To:* discuss@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:02:24 -0400 In a message dated 2010.06.07 16:38 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this

Re: [discuss] Question About OO

2010-06-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
Mauricio Rubio Parra wrote: Hello, I wanted to know why it isn't possible to save files in the latest Microsoft Office version (xlsx, pptx, docx) from openoffice? And whether this feature will or will not be available soon? Thank you for your time. Best regards, Mauricio Rubio P. There

Re: [discuss] Question About OO

2010-06-08 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Open Source Confrères: It seems to me that there may be some who prefer Microsoft because it costs money. The tacit effect being to create an effect of exclusivity amongst themselves. Of course this would serve Microsoft's interests inauspiciously well. Rhetorically I ask: does this

Re: [discuss] Question About OO

2010-06-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mauricio Rubio Parra mauriciorubio...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I wanted to know why it isn't possible to save files in the latest Microsoft Office version (xlsx, pptx, docx) from openoffice? And whether this feature will or will not be available soon? Because