[discuss] Re: [marketing] use OO through the net

2010-01-14 Thread ian . lynch
Hi Folks, I am wondering that providing openoffice through the internet. My idea is that - OO will be distributed to the user through syncing, such as dropbox, ubuntu one, etc. - The user will not be necessary to install it. - They just click on it and use it. (like USB portable

Re: [discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:22 -0400, Twayne wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:14 +0100, Ron wrote: I use and prefer Openoffice.Org . Its an excellent program. However my correspondents use only MS Word and the command open with , does not work. How do we get around

Re: [discuss] ms word

2009-04-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:55 +0200, Ian Samson wrote: I never have this problem. I save the document to disc as is, double click on it and voila, OO3 opens the document perfectly. No problems experienced thus far. I don't right-click and select the Open With command. Just double-click works.

Re: [discuss] speech-unsubscribe

2009-03-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:02 -0700, j gleefeld wrote: The right to speak freely belongs only to those who accept the responsabilities therein. I am sorry that the administrarers allow the foul mouthed and immature to contribute to this or any blog. I am unsubscribing. Please don't judge

Re: [discuss] Re: background page color

2009-03-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 18:08 +0200, Rick wrote: Robert Derman wrote: Rick wrote: Using OOo 3.1 [Format - Page - Background] provides the means for putting color on a page, but only within the margins. How can I color the entire page, outside the margins as well? Thanks in advance.

Re: [discuss] questions

2009-01-25 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 22:23 -0500, 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

Re: [discuss] Open Office.org trouble

2009-01-23 Thread ian . lynch
Yes this is the wrong place to send your message. I am another person in trouble with this load of garbage. It would not do anything I wanted so I have got rid of it and gone back to microsoft word 2003. Hooray Regards Eric One side of me says let's get everyone using OOo and Linux,

Re: [discuss] Re: Fw:

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 01:25 -0500, Douglas St.Clair wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Robert Derman wrote: Rather than PDF, you might want to use Word's native DOC format if those who you send documents to might need to be able to edit those documents. You might also think about

Re: [discuss] Fw:

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:24 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: If you're not sure what your enduser has in terms of software then simply use the Export to PDF option. Its interesting that people will download acrobat reader and install it without complaint but that they won't do the same with OOo -

Re: [discuss] Virus

2009-01-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 15:25 +0800, Rob Clement wrote: Terry Wright wrote: I have used Open Office but I have some type of undetected virus on my computer that first got rid of my virus protection and then, without warning, got rid of my Open Office program. I have no idea what it is but

Re: [discuss] Performance project - becoming an incubator project

2009-01-09 Thread ian . lynch
[...] We would like to ask all of you to support and to vote for this new project. +1 +1 -- Ian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org

Re: [discuss] Performance project - becoming an incubator project

2009-01-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 13:11 +0100, Niklas Nebel wrote: On 01/06/09 12:49, Dieter Loeschky wrote: For this reason Li Heng from RedOffice and I want to set up a new incubator project which takes care of the Performance of OOo. We would like to ask all of you to support and to vote for this

Re: [discuss] Performance project - becoming an incubator project

2009-01-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:17 -0500, Riley wrote: Re: MISSION STATEMENT I'm +1 for the project so long as it includes the setting up of multiple save-to directories, so that when work is saved it routes to multiple locations at the same time (somewhere besides onto the hard drive and

[discuss] Re: [marketing] Problem in using open office

2009-01-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:23 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: Hi, while using openoffice.org 3.0 on windows platform, some problems are being faced: 1.When two persons are opening same document in network both gets the document in writable mode. 2.In Calc filter utility doesn't allow

Re: [discuss] Re: [marketing] [OT] Merry Xmass

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 17:26 +0700, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Ian Lynch ian.ly...@zmsl.com wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 21:26 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi Community, Want to congratulate the community for their long efforts and wish them a merry xmass

Re: [discuss] Why not an equivilant to OneNote?

2008-12-21 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 20:53 -0600, acolor...@gmail.com wrote: by the way there is an online solution called evernote I use Tomboy on Linux. Not sure if it is available for Windows. On 12/20/08, Ahmed Khalil ahmedakha...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I suggest that you add an equivalent to

Re: [discuss] Why not an equivilant to OneNote?

2008-12-21 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 15:02 -0500, Sweet Coffee wrote: Hello All! Isn't one of the features of One Note the ability to write directly on the screen. How would this be accomplished with OpenOffice.org? he way to do that is to get a handwriting recognition program that diverts the input as

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:46 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: ** We now need to conduct a plebiscite on this list, the primary discuss list for OpenOffice.org. A plebiscite here means a referendum on the merits of the proposal. Serious objections to the proposal at hand will stop its

Re: [discuss] AutoRecover option

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 04:57 +1030, Daniel Raca wrote: As a big supporter of open office I was dismayed to find out that such an auto recover feature is not present. Autorecover is implemented and working in OOo. Why do you think it isn't? Go to tools - options - Load/Save - general - Save

Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-12 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:42 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: On 2008-11-10, at 08:48 , Ian Lynch wrote: Go back a stage and I'd agree. You need strategies to enable users to become producers and education is the key. I quite agree, and that was a recurrent theme in my presentations

Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:43 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: On 2008-11-09, at 18:40 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: Beside the RedFlag people, how strong is the independent community of Chineese project? That's a fair question, and one whose answer will change as the new year begins.

Re: [discuss] My recommends to improve Ooo

2008-11-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 23:41 -0400, Huan Mo wrote: Hi! I am a graduate student on biology/biomedicine/bioinformatic field. Since I am using a Ubuntu (linux) system, openoffice.org 2.4 is the only productive software in my system. I very appreciate robust function of Openoffice.org, but

Re: [discuss] My recommends to improve Ooo

2008-11-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 16:15 +, Matt Sturgeon wrote: If the cloud and the internet is the future and many think it is, smaller applets that work cooperatively together will be the norm, not megalithic applications with high level of proprietary integration. I do think your mention of the

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am only interested in the calc application by open office but yet I had to download the entire package. That's because of the way Openoffice is designed to share code between apps. Changing it would be a very big

Re: [discuss] open WPS files

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:06 +1000, marty wrote: Is there a way to open WPS (MS Works) files in OOo? Open them in MS Office and save them as Word or Excel files then when you have converted all your Works files to OOo ditch works and use OOo. OOo is more compatible with MS Office than works is

Re: [discuss] Re: open WPS files

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:07 -0400, Ed Jones wrote: On or about 10/13/2008 9:30 AM, Ian Lynch typed the following: On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:06 +1000, marty wrote: Is there a way to open WPS (MS Works) files in OOo? Open them in MS Office and save them as Word or Excel files then when

Re: [discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Becoming an (Incubator) Project

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:28 +0200, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Hi Ian, Ian Lynch wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 17:52 +0200, sophie gautier wrote: This is not the same support, in that case, it's about supporting OOo as a wysiwyg editor for web services, odf being

Re: [discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Becoming an (Incubator) Project

2008-10-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 17:52 +0200, sophie gautier wrote: This is not the same support, in that case, it's about supporting OOo as a wysiwyg editor for web services, odf being the native file format of OOo. There are members of the odfellowship who would probably not ever become members

Re: [discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Becoming an (Incubator) Project

2008-10-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:53 +0200, Martin Hollmichel wrote: all, Let me do some additional comments regarding our current project setup since this is a project which not necessarily has to do with OpenOffice.org core technology or native lang projects. Currently the Incubator category

Re: [discuss] Re: sWriter

2008-10-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:04 -0400, Douglas St.Clair wrote: If you are going to share documents with others as part of a team development effort i.e. where more than one person is responsible for content then it is best to share them as plain text (ASCII) documents and add formating

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Outlook equivalent?

2008-09-15 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:36 -0500, Tim wrote: I almost switched to OpenOffice just now, but then I noticed that there is no equivalent to Microsoft Outlook. So, are there plans on creating something that's just like Outlook, but of course with a clever OpenOffice name? For the sake of

Re: [discuss] information

2008-09-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:34 +0100, Prem Kumar wrote: Hi I want just know this open office its free for business around 100 users ya we will buy license . And how much per license. Zero. You can use OpenOffice.org on as many computers as you like entirely free of any license fees. There

Re: [discuss] Marius Popa has invited you to open a Google mail account

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Lynch
Isn't that part of the company that is the spy agency - the one that goes around filming people without their consent, on the streets and in their yards at their houses, and, publishing its illegal spy films on the Internet, so as to increase crime and paranoia? I should think that if

Re: [discuss] Proposal on a different structure for the community council

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:38 +1200, Michael Adams wrote: Even if this sort of thing was rare, the fact that it can happen shows that something is broken. So to me, there is not much point in fiddling around with the balance of code contributors vs project leads when the fundamental power

Re: [discuss] Replacement of microsoft outlook

2008-08-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:38 +0530, jithin wrote: We were using Microsoft Office for the last several years. Now we downloaded Open office and we are comfortable with that. But there is no Email Facility(Outlook) in there. If you can provide, email system also, that will be helpful to many

Re: [discuss] My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise everything - completely.

2008-07-21 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 08:23 +0100, Ben Dare wrote: I'm finding this whole idea very interesting. One concern, not all of us run slick, up-to-date, computers; would this integrated approach vastly increase the memory/processor use? Of course that's no excuse for programing to not move with

Re: [discuss] My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise everything - completely.

2008-07-21 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:31 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: Ben Dare wrote: I'm finding this whole idea very interesting. One concern, not all of us run slick, up-to-date, computers; would this integrated approach vastly increase the memory/processor use? Of course that's no excuse for

Re: [discuss] Re: Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-12 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 21:18 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 07/10/2008 12:36 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 22:23 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote: The e-mail client like the svg issue in Draw have been among the hottest topics over the last few years so it is a bit surprising that they seem

Re: [discuss] Proposal on a different structure for the community council

2008-07-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:07 +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Cor, Andre, Sophie and the list, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:36 AM, André Schnabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As said - there for I'd like to see that all community members are eligible +1 +1 and Hirano, your proposal seems the most

Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:20 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:12:14 -0500, jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: This is a marketing/sales issue. If a sales objection is There is no e-mail client ... If we don't

Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:41 -0700, Kurt Semler wrote: For the people wanting an eMail client with OpenOffice.org, what about bundling Evolution with the office suite? http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/ Or at least put a link from the OOo download page for to the site. It is one of the

Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 10:01 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:41:39 -0700 Kurt Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kurt, For the people wanting an eMail client with OpenOffice.org, what about bundling Evolution with the office suite?

Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:38 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Ian Lynch wrote: Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:29:53 +0100 From: Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: discuss@openoffice.org To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice

Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice?

2008-07-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:29:54 +0100 Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ian, Hi I just installed OOo and it hasn't installed the email package, why? Because you need to go to a different site and download and install what

Re: [discuss] dictionary needs updated

2008-06-15 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:52 -0500, Daniel Eells wrote: Hey, So I'm a college student and I'm taking an online summer class and i have noticed that your .dic files are note as good as they should be. So i am just suggesting that you guys take a little time to update those files. I mean i

Re: [discuss] Re: [council-discuss] Re: [discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure

2008-06-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 00:16 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Ian Lynch wrote (9-6-2008 22:02) I wish you the best of luck in getting a more democratic and participative Community Council. If you look back over the archives for the last 4 years you will see quite a few people who committed a lot

Re: [discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure

2008-06-09 Thread Ian Lynch
So before we do not have a strong interest from the community to change the councils charter, we will not see any change. Catch 22. Probably suits the leadership to maintain the status quo so no energy comes from the leaders to change. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications

Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:22 -0700, snookerss wrote: i love open office but it needs to put in FRONT PAGE for web designs like ms office has or something close to it thats compatible! Ahrrg no!. If you want to design a website use the right tools for that job. Few people design a serious web

Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 13:41 -0700, snookerss wrote: i mentioned similar! doesn't have to be front page! besides having a WEBTOOL built into open office would be a nice thing to have!! AND YES i am designing a website but without a proper web design tool its a hassle! But don't you think it

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2008-05-29 Thread ian . lynch
Try CTRL and Enter to force to the top of a new page. You can start new page styles in different document sections. Have a look in help. open office has that! i use it all the time! when you reach the bottom and keep going it sets a new page. some of my documents are ten pages long and have

Re: [discuss] Publisher feature?

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:01 -0500, Jeff H. wrote: How about including a Publisher-like feature in a future release? One that would import/export .pub files, of course. .Pub files would take a huge amount of work to reverse engineer. There are likely better ways of spending that resource. Most

Re: [discuss] Link to Site

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:19 -0700, Tom Burgdorf wrote: I run a small computer repair business, but always like to recommend sites. I would like to link the OpenOffice.org site on my Business Site for all. I would like permission to add it my site. I don't think there are any problems making

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2008-04-28 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 16:15 +0900, Bob Hattendorf wrote: I tried using your Open Office software, and did not care for it. I guess maybe I am too used to the Microsoft forms. I tried transferring the forms I made from Microsoft Excel and could not get your form to perform as I wanted. For

Re: [discuss] Typo...

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 12:51 -0700, Stephen Johnson wrote: I came across an article that discussed Microsoft SaaS (Software as a Service) and read some comments about the article. At least one person who commented mentioned OpenOffice.org and I thought I would have a look. The OpenOffice.org

Re: [discuss] Typo...

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:38 +0100, mike scott wrote: On 23 Apr 2008 at 10:11, Ian Lynch wrote: ... Depends on whether you think US or UK English. Here, standardisation is correct in UK English. We had a bit of a discussion about standardisation of spelling to consistent use of US English

Re: [discuss] Contacts

2008-04-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:13 -0600, JamesWilburn wrote: I have difficulty finding any good Open Office contacts. My questions about donating go unanswered. Donations can be made through the web site at www.openoffice.org What was your specific question? Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT

Re: [discuss] Using Color Font within rhe text

2008-04-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 11:16 -0700, hs wrote: There should be an easier way to change color for a singly word on the Vista program on Open Office.org. Vista has nothing to do with it. Vista is an operating system. All it needs to do is run OOo. Once running colour is entirely an OOo issue. To

Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 16:38 -0700, John Boyle wrote: To Sophie and Cor: I cannot believe you people support this decision as the benefit definitely goes to the Communists and NOT to the OO community! I am a Vietnam vet and cannot see any benefit to any one else! You idiots cannot seen

Re: [discuss] You guys made a major error

2008-04-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:45 -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:04 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughout your whole web site you guys misspelled license, kind of a big thing if you are trying to promote LGPL licensing. licence is a perfectly acceptable spelling. In

Re: [discuss] Some comments about OOo

2008-04-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:14 -0600, tupalmsoft wrote: OpenOffice is such a nice piece of software, but there are some points in which it is a bit underpowered, like in the interface aspect, and the Impress application (I don't say that you should make a rival for Keynote, but at least

Re: [discuss] ubuntu

2008-03-29 Thread Ian Lynch
You get from us open source, or Free Software, which is in stark contrast to freeware where you get only a binary: the program, to use for any purpose the source code, to study or modify the permission to re-distribute the changes, under the same conditions.

Re: [discuss] New Website

2008-03-25 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 11:35 -0600, Szymon Kiedyk wrote: To whom it may concern: I am interested in having my company participate or lead the re-design of the OpenOffice.org website — free of charge. I believe that creating a more professional look for the site would substantially

Re: [discuss] Re: Advertising Strategy

2008-03-25 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:07 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 03/24/2008 10:25 AM, Tony Pursell wrote: On 24 Mar 2008 at 6:46, Kim Garback wrote: Hi, Open Office team. Well, thanks for the educational lesson, but here's the thing: My opportunity cost is too high to take the time to learn all

RE: [discuss] Advertising Strategy

2008-03-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 06:46 -0700, Kim Garback wrote: Hi, Open Office team. Well, thanks for the educational lesson, but here's the thing: My opportunity cost is too high to take the time to learn all the twists to using your product. Get a clue: if my whole college uses Microsoft Office,

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice Verson of Outlook?

2008-03-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:01 -0400, Bob Foxworth wrote: Just behind MS Word and just ahead of MS Excel, I use MS Outlook most of any MS Office app. I do not see an equivalent among your modules. However, I use Outlook only for email connecting to ACT! for addresses and updating notes of email

Re: [discuss] [moderated]

2008-03-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 14:27 -0400, Mike Thomas wrote: For something that is updated as often as OpenOffice, it would be nice if updates were cumulative rather than waste time with complete reinstalls. People using word processing software are usually under time constraints, and it is not

Re: [discuss] Please help

2008-03-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 00:36 +0200, Marianne Smith wrote: I had Open Office on my other PC and now I have a Microsoft Office etc. - I have a document I compiled in Open Office- How can I convert this document? Open it in OpenOffice and use save as.. to save it in the MS proprietary format.

[discuss] Another UK school taking up OOo

2008-03-07 Thread Ian Lynch
I was doing some initial INGOT training at Sandwich Technology College UK (place where sandwiches were invented :-) ) that has 1000 computers. They intend to migrate 1000 seats to OOo imminently. Just thought that another success is nice to know about :-) I think quite a lot more schools are

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:30 +, Chris Monahan wrote: One has to wonder if any of the people who talk about the woes of finding controls in menus have experiences the joys of using the Alt + XYZ method of navigating menus, this is just as easy as learning a set of commands surely? Whenever I

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 21:08 -0700, Benjamin Huot wrote: I agree that each is best for different uses. Using a graphical interface to run daemons would be asinine. And when you want to process multiple files, sometimes the command line is the only way. There is also the issue that most

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 15:54 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: A GUI also slows down the 20 word per minute typist. Not this one. If you asked me to copy a selection of drawing and or text objects from point a to point b I could definitely do it quicker with a GUI. Drag select CTRL C, click CTRL V.

Re: [discuss] Suggestions for OpenOffice Org- THANK YOU

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:21 -0500, Ryan T wrote: First, I would like to thank you for the incredible job you have done in organizing and implementing this free source program. I know the amount of work and time is extreme. I have suggested your products to my college professors and fellow

Re: [discuss] WTFOMGBBQ! Sum1'z saleing OpinOphrice!!!!1!2!1!!!One!!1!eleven!!two!1!11!?

2007-02-21 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:39 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: Chad Smith wrote: Dear OpenOffice.org community, For the love of Tux! Can we PLEASE do something to stop all this BS noise about Somebody's selling Open Office! WE MUST STOP THEM! Great idea, but I don't think most people

Re: [discuss] Open Office and Win CE

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 07:12 -0500, Paul C. Ross wrote: Dear Sir: I am a recent user of Open Office and find it to be a rather excellent set of applications. In addition to using the desktop computer with WinXP, I use a NEC MobilePro 900C with Win CE4.2 as the OS. The writing and spreadsheet

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-02-15 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:06 -0500, William Baric wrote: Le Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:30:19 -0500, Lars D. Noodén a écrit : Also, I'd like to think that OOo is about making a useful productivity suite and *not* about copying MS Office, especially the interface mistakes. I didn't use Office

Re: [discuss] Slight Problems...

2007-02-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:31 -0800, Jason Thompson wrote: Ok I use Open Office Draw I like it. But how do you change the grid to other than Inches?? The ruler changes from different units...Or different grid formats or colors .. Or a snap to point function?.. Intersection points.. Mid

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice Shapes

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:11 -0800, Metal Rat wrote: Custom OO Shapes: http://www.lautman.net/mark/coo/index.html Good work! Have you thought about linking to OpenClipArt.org? Might make it easier to find if graphics libraries are linked to a single place. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org

Re: [discuss] Re: Opening WPS files in OO

2007-02-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:34 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: b) That Microsoft provides a wps2doc filter is relevant only to users of their products. It is irrelevant to users of PerfectOffice, or users of OOo, or other ODF aware programs. Well not entirely since a wps2doc filter would allow a

Re: [discuss] Re: Opening WPS files in OO

2007-02-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 13:50 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Ian Lynch schrieb: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:34 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: b) That Microsoft provides a wps2doc filter is relevant only to users of their products. It is irrelevant to users of PerfectOffice, or users of OOo

Re: [discuss] Re: Opening WPS files in OO

2007-02-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:00 +1300, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:25:33 + Ian Lynch wrote: [snip] I wasn't able to find a standalone wps2doc filter on the Microsoft download pages (perhaps there might be one, description not entirely clear), but the link Ain

Re: [discuss] Issuezilla and simple users

2007-01-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:55 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: Maybe it's just me - but I think it would be better to get a bunch of junk entries (duplicates, spam, incomplete issues, idiots who don't know how to run spell check and calling it a bug, etc.) and get some good feedback with it than not

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:08 +, Julia Chantrell wrote: Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does everything else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not publisher. That is because even MS Word can't open Publisher files! The time and effort to reverse

Re: [discuss] Project Proposal : ODF Toolkit

2007-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote: This project will increase the visibility of OOo through the ODF and will strengthen the position of the OOo community as the experts in ODF. Thus, a big +1 from me. There is also a

Re: [discuss] Project Proposal : ODF Toolkit

2007-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:57 +, Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:19 +0100, Michael Brauer wrote: Ian, Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote: This project will increase the visibility

Re: [discuss] Proposing a new User Experience project on OOo

2007-01-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 15:42 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: Lutz Hoeger wrote: Hi, This message is cross-posted to discuss@, users@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to reach a broad audience. However, I would be happy if most of the comments / discussion / etc. could be sent to

Re: [discuss] File Format support...

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:42 -0500, Eric G Rothoff wrote: Dear Sirs, I really like Open Office, but on some of my older computers, Open Office uses to much resources, so on those computers I have started to use Abiword. (Another opensource word processor.) Abiword has a plugin for

Re: [discuss] Open Office XML

2006-12-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 11:18 -0800, John Boyle wrote: discuss: If open office xml is ever used in accompaniment to Open Office, it will spell the death of OOo! WHy? Using .doc hasn't killed OOo. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org

Re: [discuss] IMPRESS

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:42 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We have been using the Open Office software at our training centres for supporting our 16 - 19 yrs students but have found a slight problem with the Impress presentation application. We run OCR CLAIT courses as part of our

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Office 2007

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:15 +1100, Terry wrote: That's what you get from a largely volunteer-based effort. It's no good complaining from the sidelines. Offer to help. As I said, I've been looking for a way to help. That's made more difficult than it needs to be. Its more important to

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice set Qualifications

2006-11-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 08:19 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 11:45:20 AM +, Chris Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was wondering if somewhere in the pipeline you have thought about having a Qualification that States that you Are able to Use, Install and troubleshoot

Re: [discuss] [moderated] First Experience with OpenOffice

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:00 +1300, Paul wrote: I've run OOo for many years (a variety of versions) on many different PC's using different installs of XP. I've also used it on linux and nonXP environments. As with all software bugs, I'm not going to say there are no bugs - however you can be

Re: [discuss] How do you export a Table in Writer as an EPS?

2006-10-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:23 -0700, Stu77000 wrote: Here's the thing. I would create the table in Scribus but it doesn't allow you to adjust the thickness or put a border on the individual text boxes (a Scribus table is simply a number of boxes grouped). From what I've tried, you copy the

Re: [discuss] How do you export a Table in Writer as an EPS?

2006-10-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 01:23 -0700, Stu77000 wrote: Would be nice, and I started out this way. However there are a lot of pictures and the layout of some of the pages and text will be different which will require a level of flexibility OO doesn't offer. Draw might do it. You could use

Re: [discuss] How do you export a Table in Writer as an EPS?

2006-10-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:57 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Stu77000 wrote: I can do it in Draw but not in Writer. I am only offered two options to export in Writer which is a PDF and *.xhtml I need to export a table in writer so I can import it into Scribus. Thanks Wouldn't

Re: [discuss] How do you export a Table in Writer as an EPS?

2006-10-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:12 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:57 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Stu77000 wrote: I can do it in Draw but not in Writer. I am only offered two options to export in Writer which is a PDF and *.xhtml I need

Re: [discuss] Writing a MSc, PhD, DSc or a text book in Open office - P1 for Issuezilla

2006-09-26 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 08:29 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote The problem is known but wasn't seen as a major problem (YMMV). Again: it doesn't influence load or save performance, it only hits the scrolling performance if you have a lot of images and you scroll back and forth a lot. And of course

Re: [discuss] Writing a MSc, PhD, DSc or a text book in Open office - P1 for Issuezilla

2006-09-26 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:56 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 26 septembre 2006 08:29, Mathias Bauer a écrit : The problem is known but wasn't seen as a major problem (YMMV). Again: it doesn't influence load or save performance, it only hits the scrolling performance if you have a lot

Re: [discuss] Writing a MSc, PhD, DSc or a text book in Open office - P1 for Issuezilla

2006-09-26 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:30 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I either don't have control over my diagram sources, or they use objects like visio shapes, which can only be exported in a semi-standard way using svg (and draw svg import/export sucks big time Agree. - never manage to have a

Re: [discuss] Rotate a object in OOo

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:18 +0200, Jan Bassez wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me how I can rotate an object in OOo Writer. (A selection from Calc is pasted in the Writer) I assume you mean a table of figures? You can paste into draw, select the object then go to Modify and convert to

RE: [discuss] SourceForge jobs

2006-09-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 03:19 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: So called e-commerce is simply a continuation of traditional mail order. It's neither new nor antiquated. In fact it's increasing in importance. However, to get an idea about how well established an important mail order has been in

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