Chad Smith said the following on 11/09/2005 11:31 AM:
Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5940792.html?tag=nl.e589
In a memo to top company executives, the software giant's chairman ponders
the challenges posed by a host of online competitors.
It seems
Robbie Darrell Graham said the following on 11/06/2005 06:59 PM:
Let me first said I love what is happen in Open office.org. It about
time some one took on Microsoft the right way. But there needs to be
some more work done. I think for some one who works in an office you
need complete office
Robbie Darrell Graham said the following on 11/06/2005 06:59 PM:
Let me first said I love what is happen in Open office.org. It about
time some one took on Microsoft the right way. But there needs to be
some more work done. I think for some one who works in an office you
need complete office
Mathias Bauer said the following on 11/08/2005 05:46 PM:
Alex Janssen wrote:
Maybe if ...
* OOo could link to T-bird's address book with the database
functionality
It can already.
* T-bird could use OOo's dictionary
It does already.
* OOo could
Randomthots said the following on 11/04/2005 11:12 PM:
Alex Janssen wrote:
a long and cogent account of frustration
Note to Daniel C.: I would suggest that before we indulge in any more
serious discussion (argument ;) ) over added functions, features,
etc., and at least concurrent
Alex Janssen said the following on 11/04/2005 10:20 PM:
I wanted to discuss the labels aspect of OOo 2.0 to possibly improve
the documentation ...
Here's a good article on doing a mail merge/labels:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8238
The issue of the blank pages is not addressed
Alexandro Colorado said the following on 11/05/2005 07:51 AM:
Please use Draw instead
I think Bill would like to have snap points on the ruler for setting
paragraph indents and margins. ;-)
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I have been trying to
B Terramorse said the following on 11/04/2005 10:20 PM:
I have been trying to use 2.0, and there is a really big hurdle or missing
feature for me (or is it a bug?):
When using the sliders to change paragraph indents or margins, they do not
snap to a grid or increment and are therefore
I wanted to discuss the labels aspect of OOo 2.0 to possibly improve the
documentation or come up with possible improvements to the program.
Although, it does work, it is a little hard to figure out for the first
time and the docs don't put it all together for you, at least in my mind.
After
Sophie Gautier said the following on 11/01/2005 12:53 PM:
Hi Rob,
RobinH wrote:
There is an article today on ZDnet describing a test which
purports to show that Open Office 2.0 is a memory hog compared
with MS Office.
Can anyone comment? It sound like another put-up job. My experience
with
WRW-FC4-1 said the following on 10/17/2005 10:29 PM:
OpenOffice Personnel,
After conversation with my OO 1.4.x (GNU/Linux) associate, I was duly
informed (ribbed) that 'Envelope' is an available option contained
within the 'Insert' menu.
My problem alleviated!
Thankfully, clientele can now
WRW-FC4-1 said the following on 10/17/2005 07:56 PM:
OpenOffice Personnel,
During daily OO use I find that no 'envelope' related capability
exists.
This is not typically an issue as I employ 'print to .pdf' function to
send most documentation.
However, the inability to create, address and print
the right version of the program, and see if that works.
Thanks.
In Christ,
Delmar Penner
Box 4123 Arborg MB, R0C 0A0
Phone: (204) 376-2844
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To: discuss
files or something. What ever, let me know what you can
do. Thanks a lot!
In Christ,
Delmar Penner
Box 4123 Arborg MB, R0C 0A0
Phone: (204) 376-2844
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To: discuss
did not save a backup to a disk, but I did save
it to another computer. So that's not the problem. I have copies of the
original files.
In Christ,
Delmar Penner
Box 4123 Arborg MB, R0C 0A0
Phone: (204) 376-2844
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Delmar wrote on 08/30/2005 at 07:12 PM:
I had a bunch of stuff saved as OpenOffice files. I then reformatted
my hard drive, and reinstalled OpenOffice. But now when I open the
file, it just brings me a blank template with nothing in there. That’s
useless for me. I need my information back.
Alejandro Jiménez wrote:
Hello,
I am working with your Open Office 2.0 Beta. I tried 1.9.122 and an older
version.
I have a Freehand design, that I exported as an eps file. I can insert this in a document with Microsoft Word, but with Open Office I cannot do the same.
So bad! :(
Colin J. Williams wrote:
Alex Janssen wrote:
Jay Lauer wrote:
I would like to see a synonym finder in openoffice. So that you can
search a word or phrase and find synonyms for that word or phrase.
I also think that speech and handwriting recognition would be
beneficial.
I don't know
David Challener wrote:
Bug 1: This is minor - documentation bug. In the Forumla Reference Table in OpenOffice.org Math,
it lists not instead of neg for the Boolean NOT operator
Bug 2: I have a document that is 700 pages. When I save the document, some of
the pictures and math formulae
I answered David off list as well. Forgot to do cc in original message.
David Challener wrote:
Bug 1: This is minor - documentation bug. In the Forumla Reference Table in OpenOffice.org Math,
it lists not instead of neg for the Boolean NOT operator
snip
Andrew Brown wrote:
More sefully:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/draft_pub/0213WG-
WorkingWithMasterDocuments.sxw
Andrew,
Thanks for the pointer. This is very similar to Corel Ventura Publisher
I used to use. I have just the application for this feature. I have
Eike Rathke wrote:
But only documented in Excel 2000, not in earlier (though around since
Excel 5 it seems) and not in later versions. See also
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/odd/odd03.htm
Microsoft knowledge base does not know anything about this function. I
searched with :
Oliver Braun wrote:
the problem seems to be the tar file. I have submitted
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52600
for this.
Oh yeh, I for got to say, a few more votes from you other Linux users
for this issue wouldn't hurt. :-)
Of course, once you get bitten by this and
Jay Lauer wrote:
I would like to see a synonym finder in openoffice. So that you can
search a word or phrase and find synonyms for that word or phrase. I
also think that speech and handwriting recognition would be beneficial.
I don't know if version 1.1.4 has a thesaurus, but the latest
Oliver Braun wrote:
Hi Alex et al.,
Alex Janssen wrote:
If it is then, shouldn't the developers be notified? Maybe they
could change the packaging to prevent this in the future.
the problem seems to be the tar file. I have submitted
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52600
Alex Janssen wrote:
When I tried to login again, I got a message that my session lasted
less than 10 seconds and to login in a failsafe session to fix the
problem.
I can login to X as root and see the menus and run everything but no
normal user can do this. I tested by creating a new user
Jonathan Hudson wrote:
Let me guess; you ran alien on the RPM in /tmp and alien evily changed
the permission of /tmp?
That's bitten me and I alway now run alien in a sub-directory of /tmp.
Jonathan,
I googled alien and found out what it is. During the install with
rpm, does alien run at
Jonathan Hudson wrote:
You're right; it must be rpm that does the damage (as I run that on my
Gentoo box to install OO.o 1.9.x), not alien. And it did the same to
me a month or two ago; took a while to work out what caused the
collateral.
I was wondering if this is something controlled by
Bernd Eilers wrote:
Hi Alex,
Well, I don´t have a Fedore Core 3 here but from general Unix
knowlegde this looks like a problem with the global XSession script (
usually in /etc/X11/xdm, if you don´t find it there look up the
location in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config ) or with the users
I know this isn't really a subject for this forum so if you want it
moved to another, I'll take it there. I just don't know where.
I'm running Fedora Core 3 and had beta m113 installed. Everything
working fine. I wanted to install the latest beta, m118. After doing a
dl, I started a
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Any plans to incorporate a calendar program in OOo suite? I actually prefer
OOo but I need the calendar program MS has.
Have you looked at the calendar program available from Mozilla.org on
the products page? I use Mozilla Thunderbird with the calendar
Michael Marking wrote:
Three different times I have tried to register as an OOO member, using
the form on the web site. The result from last time was typical: I
received the first of what should have been two e-mails, and never
received the second.
Here is a portion of the e-mail I received
Jacqueline McNally wrote:
All,
OpenOffice.org 1.1.5rc is ready for you to download now. It's a
release candidate, meaning that it has bugs, and we would like for
you to work with us in finding them and reporting them. It's easy
and even fun. :-)
What's important about 1.1.5rc? It includes
Richard/g wrote:
El Thu 14 Jul 2005 21:12, Alex Janssen escribió:
Jacqueline McNally wrote:
All,
OpenOffice.org 1.1.5rc is ready for you to download now.
I'm confused. I mean, really confused, now!
There are two branches:
The old, stable branch: OOo11x has had
Oliver Braun wrote:
Hi Alex,
try
rpm -e `rpm -qa openofficeorg\*`
or
rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep openofficeorg`
Thanks for the help. I got it installed and it's working. I even
figured out installing the menu links. :-)
Now I'll know how to uninstall the beta when the stable version is
I don't know if this is the right list, but what's the proper way to
install from OOo_1.9.113_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz.
I un-tar'd it but there is no setup script like on Windows, just a bunch
of RPM files. Do I rpm -i *rpm?
I'm running Fedora Core 3 on a Dell Inspiron 1100.
My apologies if
Eric Hines wrote:
I've had success with rpm -Uvh complete list of RPMs, space
delimited. -U works with plain installs, too; vh gives you verbose
listings of what's going on and a series of # stretching across the
screen as progress is made on each rpm, and doing them all at once
maximizes
Mara Robert wrote:
can anyone tell me where or how to get the manual and CD? for the
openoffice program??
Try http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html
Alex
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Mara Robert wrote:
can anyone tell me where or how to get the manual and CD? for the
openoffice program??
You could also search ebay.com for openoffice.org
Alex
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William W. Austin wrote:
I really hope it gets fixed in the final 2.0 release.
Please create an issue report on this. That is how the developers will
find out about it.
You have to be registered and log in to file an issue. Registering is
simple. Just follow the prompts from the home
Matt Needles wrote:
Issue has been filed for several months; your vote might help.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47142
Now, this issue has 1 vote. I'm surprised. I guess there's not very
many people trying to use fractional sizes of fonts or that care.
Your vote would
Greg Bulmash wrote:
Open Office and I were getting along swimmingly, then two things
happened that made me dump it.
Search and Replace: Word has support for special characters (i.e.
line breaks, paragraph breaks, page breaks, etc.) When you're trying
to convert an e-mail full of broekn
Ray Would wrote:
One of the major restrictions that I find on spreadsheets is the small
number of columns that are used.
I am not likely to ever need to use 65K rows, but I do need to user more
than 256 columns.
For instance, if time based columns are used it is not possible to complete
a
Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
OOBasic as a programming language is quite simple and similar to VB.
What you mean is the API which of course is completely different than
the API from MS. I agree that we can make things easier, we have
learned a lot and we will address these things in the future. Even
Alex Janssen wrote:
Could you reverse the roll of the rows and columns? Then, you would
have 65k days.
Opps. I meant role not roll.
Alex
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I was thinking a method of saving the current state OOo, that is, saving
the status of all of the currently open OOo application windows would be
a handy feature. Quite often I'll have 2 or 3 spreadsheets open along
with 2 or 3 writer files. I'll get interrupted and have to close them
all.
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