[discuss] Re: New Writer interface

2010-08-16 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 13/08/10 22:51, C Drini wrote: I've been working on a new, easier to use, and simpler interface for Writer. I can't program, so all I have is an image of what I wanted it to look like. Take note of the "Search Features" in the top-right-corner. This virtually eliminates the need for any menus.

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice is 99% open

2010-02-04 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 04/02/10 13:11, Wm Stewart wrote: If there is a forum for focusing on this last 1% of interoperability issues that I'm not aware of, please let me know. Otherwise, I recommend we establish one as a key initiative required to realize OpenOffice widespread use. 99% is so close. OpenOffice can w

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice is closed

2010-02-03 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/02/10 20:08, Wm Stewart wrote: (Please don't respond to this post by trashing MS formats, the process by which they achieved ISO approval, or lauding the technical superiority of ODF as a standard. That is all old news, and agreed, but misses the reality of today, the opportunity at hand f

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice for Android

2009-08-18 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 16/08/09 19:22, Daniel Lambertsen wrote: Dear OpenOffice team I'm happy user of OpenOffice for my pc, and I want to use OpenOffice for my android phone so I can write on my homework in school while I'm on the move. If you could do that I and other users would be very happy. Sincerely, Daniel L

[discuss] Re: Hijacked thread. Was "how about a note taking program?", originally "symbols option"

2009-03-18 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Larry Gusaas wrote: He didn't hijack the thread. He made some suggestions for alternative note taking solutions. This thread was hijacked by Johnny II G. Pamintuan. He replied to a email with the subject "symbols option" and changed the subject to "how about a note taking program?" instead o

[discuss] Re: how about a note taking program?

2009-03-18 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Twayne wrote: jonathon wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:41, Johnny II G. Pamintuan wrote: Microsoft's OneNote 2007. a) EverNote; b)TikiWiki or TomBoy; (These are available for Linux, BSD, Windows,and Mac. Functionality on the latter two is not guaranteed. ) c)Exactly what functionality do

[discuss] Re: questions

2009-01-24 Thread Alan Lord (News)
jlast1...@aol.com wrote: Hi, I downloaded your program openoffice And I like it alot but I was sending my resume to someone that didnt have it and their computer told them they needed to download it. They have microsoft office and that is suppose to be compatible with openoffice. Do you know

[discuss] Re: XPS support in OpenOffice

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Lord
bryan rasmussen wrote: What exactly is needed for specification aside from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx ? As far as I can recall the first release of XPS had all the specs. I agree it is a shot at Adobe but that doesn't make it a bad thing. Not necessarily, but the ownershi

[discuss] Re: Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice? / Need for Free/Busy

2008-07-06 Thread Alan Lord
Alan Lord wrote: If you are looking for really Open Source Groupware apps, there are quite a few out there that are actually very comprehensively featured. A bit of judicious Googling will locate them. (Open Groupware, The Horde, Citadel, SOGo...) And of course - Zimbra... Cheers Al

[discuss] Re: Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice? / Need for Free/Busy

2008-07-06 Thread Alan Lord
Wm Stewart wrote: What FOSS needs is an analogue for Exchange, a back-end calendar server with a nice open API supporting free/busy, including to native user interface applications like Evolution. There are many attempts at this with eGroupWare listed on their site, making it a nice candida

[discuss] Re: What I would like to see in Oo 3.0

2008-04-05 Thread Alan Lord
Ron Howard wrote: I would like to see a desktop publisher application that would be able to read and write Microsoft Publisher files. I love open office, but need to be able to load and modify our church's brochure that is in .pub format. Start again and use Scribus. I can't afford Microsof

[discuss] Re: we need an "outlook" component to the suite

2008-04-04 Thread Alan Lord
Robert Derman wrote: ... I would like to be able to answer emails like this using Writer rather than Thunderbird simply because I am so used to Writer that I am much more comfortable writing with it than any other text editing program. The same applies to writing HTML for my web page, I use Nv

[discuss] Re: we need an "outlook" component to the suite

2008-04-03 Thread Alan Lord
Daniel Kasak wrote: Let me give an example. I just sent an email to a friend with an attachment that I produced in OpenOffice. I exported it to PDF, then switched to Evolution, and attached the PDF I just created. This my friend is why so many unskilled users give up on OpenOffice. You find it

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice and Sharepoint

2008-04-02 Thread Alan Lord
Alexandro Colorado wrote: O3spaces and WebDav had proven to be great soutions. On 4/2/08, Kazunari Hirano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, And I have found an issue :) http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87550 Thanks, khirano You could also take a look at Alfresco. It is GPL, an

[discuss] Re: Becta concerned about Microsoft school deals

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Lord
Tony Pursell wrote: Take a look at this http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer- world/news/2202298/becta-complains-microsoft (the link is too long for my mailer - sorry!) BECTA is the government body that advises UK schools on IT. Interesting for us is they say "Some progress has been made,

[discuss] Re: paste unspecial

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Lord
Datatude wrote: Jonas Svensson wrote: One thing I find very annoying in both MS Office/Word and OpenOffice.org is that paste always keeps formatting when pasting from another program. Is there a way to reverse the paste setting so that regular paste removes formatting and only special paste ke

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice and Sharepoint

2007-10-09 Thread Alan Lord
James M. Rawlyk wrote: Hello, > I work for a fairly large school district. We will be implementing Microsoft SharePoint over the next several months. I personally love Open Office but unfortunately it appears that there is no connector so that Open Office will integrate with SharePoint the s

[discuss] Re: feature suggestion

2007-10-05 Thread Alan Lord
Graham Lauder wrote: Actually Sean is talking about something entirely different than and separate from the whole tabbed interface/MDI thing. I agree with him and have thought about this quite a lot for over a year. It is a function that is lacking in most document producing applications.

[discuss] Re: Request: Focus on "Custom Animation" in impress.

2007-09-30 Thread Alan Lord
Mark wrote: (Currently Using: Open Office Version 2.3.0) Hi, I've been using Open Office (abb. OO from now on) for a while now (I'ts my main Office software) and I'd like to congratulate you on just how good its become. Its a replacement for MS office in many ways, but one area where is still

[discuss] Re: Why is it free? Explanation leads to expansion?

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Lord
Hi Ash, that is a REALLY good question. To understand the answer however - you need to do quite a bit of reading. OpenOffice.org is something called "Open Source" Software (OSS, or FOSS or FLOSS). OOo is not unique. There are literally hundreds of thousands of Open Source software applicati

[discuss] Re: Why is it free? Explanation leads to expansion?

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Ash Roskell, Please get in touch, God bless. Ash Hi Ash, that is a REALLY good question. To understand the answer however - you need to do quite a bit of reading. OpenOffice.org is something called "Open Source" Software (OSS, or FOSS or FLOSS).

[discuss] Re: Internet Slide Shows

2007-07-26 Thread Alan Lord
Do a google for CSS slide show - I read somewhere a while ago about making a proper slide show (on the 'net) using pure CSS. I just did it and there are quite a few useful links, just like this one: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html HTH Alan ---