[discuss] Re: Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel
Daniel Carrera wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: agreed, such an "Extras" would be nice to have. i have one concern: once installed, it should be integrated in OOo - images should be put in galleries, templates in the right place, not requiring the user to hunt for them in a directory tree.

[discuss] Re: Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel
Daniel Carrera wrote: Could someone help me put together a set of Extras? This is my plan: * Grab photos from BurningWell.org * Grab clip art from OpenClipArt.org * Grab templates from ooextras.sf.net and the Docs site. I'll pick images that are safe (no people, no flags, no logos) and

[discuss] Special Characters between MSWord and OOoWrite

2005-03-15 Thread Daniel
as other characters. When I corrected the characters in MSWord and reopened the document in OOo, the characters again showed up incorrectly. Is this a known issue? Thanks Daniel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[discuss] Re: a couple of user friendly ideas

2005-03-16 Thread Daniel
cuments for me. http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/thessalonica-ooo.html Daniel -=-=- The quickest way to get back on your feet is to get down on your knees. Vern McLellan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional c

[discuss] open office user

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel*********
I'm having luck whit your program so far .the question I had is are going to make a program like outlook or is it in the making. thank you for your time [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] ADA Accessibility For Text Readers

2005-03-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
ut usability in OpenOffice.ort 2.0 Hope that helps. Cheers, Daniel Carrera. On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:53:51AM -0500, Bogus wrote: > I would like to know if Open Office 2.0 is compatible with voice > reading programs for the blind such as "JAWS" or "Win Eyes". > > I g

[discuss] IRC logs are up.

2005-03-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
in to OOo. The tentative time for the next talk is 15:00 UTC on April 02. I'll talk to Alexandro and I'll post again when we decide on a time. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it

[discuss] UPDATE: Get Started with IRC

2005-03-21 Thread Daniel Carrera
s. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Speed of OOo beta

2005-03-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
For me it's all over the place. Most pre-release versions have been slow as a glacier. It's been frustrating. But the one I have running right now is actually faster than 1.x. So I can hope that it's some sort of debugging code that is slowing it down. Cheers, Daniel. On Mo

Re: [discuss] RPMs?

2005-03-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
I can't promise to work much on the project, but I'll try to help. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscrib

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
ere, all the Solaris workstations are running StarOffice. The Windows PCs are running MS Office. We are planning to switch the Solaris boxes to Linux over the next year or two. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
ause it's cheaper. Since we're already replacing computers, the relative effort of a Linux migration is much lower. Besides, where do get a free Solaris distro anyways? Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesda

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
ering that code". That's a very important clause, in the spirit of the GPL, which has become necessary in recent years. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --

Re: [discuss] Re: Engineering mode in calc ?

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Rod Engelsman wrote: > Sorry, Daniel, that doesn't do it. In engineering mode the exponent is > always a multiple of 3. Dummy engineers... I didn't know that. Heck, the thing worked for the examples he gave... Oh well. > That's been the standard in engineering school

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
nything > that got feedback as bad in the usabilty labs as the castrated quickstarter > did. Also remember that it took 200 votes to have it changed. It became the single most requested feature in IZ before a developer did what ammounted to less than an hour's work. I think w

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Mathias Bauer wrote: > Sorry, but why do you think that it was less than an hour's work (what > is in fact wrong)? I'm so sorry. It was judging from when the issue was approved, and when it was fixed. I apologize if I misunderstood that. Best, -- Daniel Carrera |

Re: [discuss] Recommendation for Open Office 2.0

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
TECH wrote: > Can you add a feature in Open Office to Compress images inside of a > document? Images don't compress well, unless you are willing to use a lossy format like JPEG. If you go that route, you will be losing image quality, and if we do that we'll get hate-mail. Ch

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
t that I am in more OOo lists than 90% of the active contributors. > Sorry for the rant. I don't want to offend anyone. Thank you for the rant. It sets the stage for correcting a problem. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I wa

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
OOo lists are too deeply hidden, and they got worse recently. It used to be that you could find the marketing, documentation, api, etc after one click from the home page. Now it's harder. Finding the native-lang lists now is nearly impossible. The way I find them is: (1) I find the lists fro

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
e on SC, regardless of SC's inability to perform. And I'll probably have to put up with some verbal abuse before giving up in frustration. Sigh... -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today!

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
y way I can find them. :-( > > I think I may have made some head way into finding lists. If you go to > the project's page and then click mailing lists, you can subscribe. This > is how I found the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Yeah, but the native-lang project doesn't have a &

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
e company that hosts our website. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
ack involving CSS and an to make it look like it's inside the OOo website. Here are other examples you might find amusing: http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/authors.html http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/forum.html http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/I

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
t is not decided yet. Maybe you need to lobby some more or > get people to vote for the issue to convince the responsible people that > this really should be fixed in 2.0.1. A moment ago you were saying voting didn't help and the votes didn't mean much anyways. Cheers, -- Danie

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Peter Kupfer wrote: > So can you actually make it work even though it doesn't use SorceCast Yes, I can. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://o

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
e it used to. > This is where the allfeatures@openoffice.org is listed that you were > looking for. Okay, I see it. The description doesn't say that it's supposed to be for coordinating how a specification gets implemented. It says that it's for announcing new features. So I

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: > > So can you actually make it work even though it doesn't use SorceCast > > Yes, I can. ... provided that nothing unexpected happens... Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday.

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
discuss list. :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
these will lower the barrier for people wanting to participate in the IRC talks. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
lot of options. It only includes a subset, and leaves the others for the "advanced" form. Like Joerg said, too many options confuse users. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | ---

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
g done, etc. That could be useful. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [discuss] Using IssueTracker/IssueZilla

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jacqueline McNally wrote: > First of all, I would like you to think of submitting a bug or > enhancement request using IssueTracker as simply filling in a form. Well, doing my taxes is also filling out a form. I still think it's hard. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I do

Re: [discuss] Using IssueTracker/IssueZilla

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
are, how many of them there are, if they are asked in a way that the reader understands, how often the reader fills in this form, etc. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today!

Re: [discuss] Using IssueTracker/IssueZilla

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
ria Fernandez Both forms are comparable in that they serve the exact same purpose: federal elections. I was amused by this. So were my parents. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
What operating system do you have? Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:37:24PM -0800, Chris BONDE wrote: > Daniel: > Your set up looks great! > However, to me, the Gaim site is daunting, it frightens me, what all do I > need to > download? > > Chris >

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chris, Tell me if you find things easier now. http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/instructions/ Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:37:24PM -0800, Chris BONDE wrote: > Daniel: > Your set up looks great! > However, to me, the Gaim site is daunting, it frightens me, what

Re: [discuss] Recommendation for Open Office 2.0

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
27;m being clear. I am not saying that this feature is not useful. I'm saying that OOo's superior design make it much less important than it is when you have to put up with a crappy format like PowerPoint does. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OO

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
* My contributions are appreciated. * The website is dynamic and changes often. * The website is clear and easy to use. Please, do go ahead and make that poll (off-list). And please post the results. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it per

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
a particular project was when Sam Hiser was removed as marketing lead. And I think it's fair to say it was ugly. Given this, what do you suggest? Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |

Re: [discuss] Using IssueTracker/IssueZilla

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Now that OO.o has XForms support built-in, maybe using it as a IZ client > might also make some sense ? Can XForms do that? Cool! Do you know how? Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tu

Re: [discuss] Using IssueTracker/IssueZilla

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
for filing issues. Let's test it, show it to people, see what they think. It if looks good, then we add it to the next release and see how users respond. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! |

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jacqueline McNally wrote: > As to doing it in a week, some of us have a life outside the hours > freely given to OpenOffice.org. That was a reference to the original set of changes being minor and simple. > Enjoy your Easter and don't eat too many easter eggs. Ditto. Chee

Re: [discuss] Re: OT: Bill Gates... Good or Evil?

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
lex ;-) Except Robin Hood kept less than 80% of the funds to himself. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe,

Re: [discuss] Re: OT: Bill Gates... Good or Evil?

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
> 83.3% Reckon he's Evil so far George W. Bush made the top 10 list, with 90% saying he's evil. He beat Adolf Hitler. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. htt

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
at's the one I link to. The safer one. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [discuss] Re: OT: Bill Gates... Good or Evil?

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chuck wrote: > It's not stealing when people give it up voluntarily. > > Bill is a successful entrepreneur and there are a lot of jealous people > in the world. That's what Al Capone said. :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOo

Re: [discuss] Re: OT: Bill Gates... Good or Evil?

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chuck wrote: > In what poll? The only one that counts had him with 53% saying they > thought he was doing a pretty good job. AFAIK, the poll question was not "is George W Bush doing a pretty good job?" :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect,

Re: [discuss] Netiquette & contributing to OO.o, was : shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
anged the thread. As it was, I was just responding to Ian really. :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
pt, Beanshell, C and C++ :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Well, go for Chatzilla then. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:53:30PM -0800, Chris BONDE wrote: > 98se not completely updated > Chris > > > What operating system do you have? > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel. -- Daniel Carrera | I don't

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
instructions. One of the reasons why I decided to add them is that Chatzilla should work for most people. If you have Firefox (and who doesn't ;) you can install Chatzilla with one click. > I think that your instructions are good, though. IMHO, we need more > dirt simple instru

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Mathias Bauer wrote: > Please remember: only people that don't do anything don't make errors. A very important reminder indeed. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. htt

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Gregg Van De Mark wrote: > How do I get off of this list. Please help. > Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be sure to reply to the confirmation email. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://ooo

Re: [discuss] IRC Instructions.

2005-03-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Gregg Van De Mark wrote: > I have a Mac PowerBook using OSX 10.3.8 with a G4 1.33 GHz and 1.5 GB > of RAM. No need to brag... ;-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://ooo

Re: [discuss] Novell and OOo for slick new Novell desktop

2005-03-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Christian Einfeldt wrote: > Linspire is the slickest GNU/Linux desktop that I have seen so far, > but now here comes Novell with some slick new stuff that it claims > will be slicker than Microsoft. Since when is Microsoft "slick" ? Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera

Re: [discuss] How stable is OpenOffice 2.0 Beta?

2005-03-29 Thread Daniel Kasak
ng / reinstalling Office no longer makes things work properly. In this case, you have to reinstall the OS. But I've never seen that with OOo. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-

Re: [discuss] Engineering mode works in Calc

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
d to do. Btw, thank you for our work Niklas. :-) OOoAuthors is making the Calc Guide, and we're all very happy with Calc 2.0 Good work! Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors tod

Re: [discuss] Open-Source Future For Java Enterprise System?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
randing reasons. Sun seems to use the word "Java" on every other product. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To u

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
ort for it. But we had to wait a lot because developers were not sure that they'd manage to do it without breaking anything. There is a lot of QA involved in UI changes. This is not the time to suggest such a UI change for 2.0. I'm sorry. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
for OOo 2.0 *is* past. You are suggesting a UI change. Don't get your hopes up. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | -

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
al, be postponed until the next release. Now, if you can bring down this UI change to just changing a string, that has a better chance of success. If you can do that, please file an issue. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don&#x

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Rod Engelsman wrote: > This has been an issue for a *l* time, Daniel. My understanding is that the UI has already changed, and now, weeks before the final release, there is a suggestion for another change. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfe

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Enrique wrote: > I posted here, not in IZ, to avoid developer "distraction". You said you were proposing something. I responded to the proposal. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. htt

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
is clear. Let's stick to that. > this is issue 4414, has been around since like 2002 but very few votes. Uhmm... Issue 4414 says "Allow for MSOffice file associations post-install". It sounds like a nice idea, but it is completely unrelated to the text string used in the ini

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
're really overstating the extent of the effort required to > bring about this change. With the QS I really understated the extent of effort required. The fact is, I don't know. This change, to me, seems bigger than the QS. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
the UI freeze and I thought the problem had been fixed. The time to test the UI and request changes is before the freeze. Jut a few weeks before the final release. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesda

Re: [discuss] No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
ld have spoken before the UI freeze. I saw the snapshots before the UI freeze and it looked fine to me. > and is a simple text change, not a code change. Can you provide a patch? > And nothing has been done, and nothing will be. I've seen this dialog change more than once. So your premi

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
h. And let's take it from there. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Rod Engelsman wrote: > That is *really* disingenuous, Daniel. This problem has been discussed > for *over three years*. UI freeze, my ass! That was before the UI freeze > for 1.1 for God's sake!! 1) Rod, please calm down. 2) Please read what I've said again. People complain

Re: [discuss] updates

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
sequence at some point as with OOo.1 ? I guess so. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

[discuss] REMINDER: IRC Talk this Saturday.

2005-03-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
normally meet each other, to meet in a friendly environment. You can see the logs for last week's talk on the IRC conf web page: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/ Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today!

Re: [discuss] Re: REMINDER: IRC Talk this Saturday.

2005-03-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
Yeah. For other times, see here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=4&day=2&year=2005&p1=0&p2=179&p3=195&p4=248 Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:05:18AM -0500, Gregory J. Neumann wrote: > EST = -05:00 UTC, IIRC. That's 07:00

[discuss] File association dialog: Issue 46347

2005-03-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
issue attention. Ok, votes don't mean that the issue will be addressed. There will always be other factors. But there is a positive correlation. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http:/

[discuss] Daniel is hired by Microsoft

2005-03-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
s of next week, the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work. You can reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Daniel Carrera Technical Writer -- Microsoft Office division. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] m84 & m87 .odt format changes?

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Carrera
or m87. > It seems very strange to me that the .odt format has changed so > radically over 3 minor releases. I didn't notice anything in the > release notes about format changes. Bugs. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today!

[discuss] REMINDER: IRC Talk in 1 hour.

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
/ If you are new at IRC, try it out. It is a great way to discuss ideas. If you need help, let me know. I'll try to help you get setup. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http:/

Re: [discuss] IRC Talk in 1 hour.

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
ke Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror... you get it. IRC is a 'chat' protocol. Kind of like the grand daddy of ICQ and AIM. I wrote instructions using two popular chat programs (Chatzilla and Gaim): http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/instructions/

[discuss] IRC logs posted.

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
been following the issue closely, and he has been quoted on Dutch newspapers about this. So be sure to attend. Simon's talk will be two weeks from today, on April 16. The tentative time is 15:00 UTC. But we'll see if Simon decides to change the time. I'll keep you informed. Chee

Re: [discuss] databases with OOo

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
using is beta). Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

[discuss] Excel row limit?

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
Could someone confirm the row limit of Excel? Is it 64,000 rows or 65,536 rows? Thanks! Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | ---

Re: [discuss] Excel row limit?

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
Laurent Godard wrote: > >Could someone confirm the row limit of Excel? Is it 64,000 rows or 65,536 > >rows? > > 65536 on excel2k Thanks. -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday

Re: [discuss] Re: Java fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS community

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel Kasak
hile Sun might be leveraging open source to it's advantage now, that I would certainly not see this as a life-long committment. They're happy enough with they way things are currently. If the open source community identifies threats such as this 'minor impurity' and acts up

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
nged in social. But that is very different. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] Competition is Good!

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
to focus on more pressing issues like bug hunting or writing documentation (http://oooauthors.org). Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | ---

Re: [discuss] Re: Java fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS community

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Kasak
it? > I can't tell you how physically *ILL* it makes me to see people BITCHING No kidding > I think my already trunctated interaction with this mailing list may > need to end. I have wasted too much of my own life on something that > in all honesty doesn't matter one little

Re: [discuss] Open Office Templates

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi Bill, Talk to the people at [EMAIL PROTECTED] They have the biggest collection of OOo templates. Thank you for your contribution! Cheers, Daniel. On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:52:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I have some templates for MS

Re: [discuss] data base in OOo2?

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
s. But if you wish for a different tradeoff (e.g. MySQL) you can do that. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | - To unsubscribe,

Re: [discuss] Re: data base in OOo2?

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
bealach wrote: > I was only reporting what PC World said, wasn't I? Yes. The point I was trying to make is that we can't fix it if we don't know what the problem is. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! |

Re: [discuss] Export of charts

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi Martin, Yes, there is a round-about way to do that. You can paste the chart on an OOoDraw document, and /then/ export it to PNG. Make sure the graph is selected when you do the export (so you don't export the entire page by mistake). Cheers, Daniel. On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:31

Re: [discuss] stacked bar charts?

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel Rentz
-> AutoFormat -> change orientation of series (e.g. rows instead of columns). This makes 3 data series with one point each, instead of one series with three points. 2) Right-click -> ChartType -> Sub type Stacked. Best re

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
I can't reproduce this bug. OOo 2.0 beta works well for me. That is, paragraphs /do/ split between pages, as they should. Could you tell me how you make a paragraph /not/ split? FYI: I'm not a developer, just a concerned citizen :-) Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:52:

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
roStyles.sxw/file_view http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/draft_pub/IntroStyles.pdf/file_view Understanding styles will make you inmensely more efficient with OOo. Especially if you deal with large documents. If you like this chapter, I hope you will consider helping out at

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
I'm sorry, but Windows Longhorm doesn't exist. It is "vaporware". We can only test our software on operating systems that exist. Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:40:57AM -0700, nebu rajan wrote: > Hi, > > When ur Open Office 2.0 stable version launch

Re: [discuss] Hausa localized?

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Christian, I'm copying this message to the Native-Lang list. You might want to tell this young man to subscrive to that list and discuss the idea with Charles. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone kno

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
se copies for some time, and I've always had that box un-checked. So has, AFAICT, everyone else in the OOoAuthors team who has been writing the user guide for OOo 2.0. The problem seems to have been in your installation. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Jo

Re: [discuss] Mono and OOo

2005-04-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
Do you have a link to Miguel's blog? Cheers, Daniel. On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:56:59PM +0300, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Reading Miguel's blog I came to the note where he mentions the progress that > is > happening in the Mono/OpenOffice.org front. It seems the Novell

Re: [discuss] Remarques pour améloirer Open office 2 version beta

2005-04-10 Thread Daniel Carrera
Bonjour Jacques, Je ne parle pas français, mais nous avons une liste en français: users@fr.openoffice.org, ils vont t'aider. Salut, Daniel. On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:39:02PM +0200, Jacques Réau wrote: > Open office 1.9.91 Non encore traduit en fançais !? > Remarques (en français

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Support on the Users List

2005-04-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
ail the appropriate list, CC the user, and add the user's email to the 'Reply-To' field. Okay, this doesn't address the "recognition" part. But it would address the volume problem. It could also, potentially, improve the over-all atmosphere of the list, by ma

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Support on the Users List

2005-04-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
t 100 hours on community development work qualifies for the > Gold INGOT with distinction. So if you work on the users list and can > provide the right evidence I can arrange your certification. > > You could then put this in your sig. Now that's an idea. -- Daniel Carrera |

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Support on the Users List

2005-04-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
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