Re: [discuss] Oracle [NOT!] dropping OO.org

2010-10-15 Thread James
On 10/15/10 19:11, jonathon wrote: > Historically, Sun has rejected the overwhelming majority of > contributions from others. Why would Sun do that? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional comm

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format

2010-04-20 Thread James E. Lang
Top posted as in _this_ instance that is more appropriate. My first reaction while still reading this proposal was the same as Noop's. That is because I had not read the whole proposal yet. Jean-Baptiste's proposal has great merit. My experience with files that needed to be available for a Wi

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-17 Thread James E. Lang
I am a big fan of OOo. My remarks below are not intended to be an attack on anyone. I have included personal examples of problems I have had with the OOo documentation. I suppose I am straying from the original topic. If so, I'm truly sorry. --On Monday, October 05, 2009 09:25:54 AM +0200 Uwe

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-14 Thread James E. Lang
I am a big fan of OOo. My remarks below are not intended to be an attack on anyone. I have included personal examples of problems I have had with the OOo documentation. I suppose I am straying from the original topic. If so, I'm truly sorry. --On Monday, October 05, 2009 09:25:54 AM +0200 Uwe Fis

[discuss] Open Office Registration

2008-12-13 Thread James Page
First of all, let me express my enthusiasm and joy regarding Open Office.  I believe it to be the finest office suite I've ever used, free or not.  It beats Microsoft hands down. I am having a small problem, nothing inherent to the product or its usability.  I can't seem to register the produc

Re: [discuss] Request: Dynamic Updates

2007-12-27 Thread James Barnett
Michael, Thanks for the update. I'll pass this on and see what our committee comes up with. James On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:39:46 +1300 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:07:33 -0800 James Barnett wrote: I am a teacher and I am proposing using Ope

[discuss] Request: Dynamic Updates

2007-12-26 Thread James Barnett
all a new version every time? Thanks, James Barnett Teacher, 5th Grade Longview Elementary Moses Lake, WA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] online survey

2007-10-17 Thread James Sas
on" should read "mainly use a competitive database". 3. Question 54 could be updated to include popular PHP IDEs (Zend Studio/NuSphere PHPEd) please feel free to contact me. ta, james - To unsubscribe, e-ma

[discuss] OpenOffice and Sharepoint

2007-10-09 Thread James M. Rawlyk
re is an almost seamless integration between Office and Sharepoint now. Have a good day, James Rawlyk Duluth Public Schools Confidentiality Notice: This E-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged i

RE: [discuss] wish it worked better on Mac

2007-07-30 Thread Carruthers, James
Thanks. I will try this, it looks promising. James Carruthers Director of Development BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation 4500 Oak Street, Room 1U64 Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3N1 604-875-2798 www.bcwomensfoundation.org -Original Message- From: Guy Voets [mail

[discuss] wish it worked better on Mac

2007-07-29 Thread Carruthers, James
thing just doesn't integrate well on my Mac. What with needing X11 and all that. I wish it could integrate and function as a normal Mac application. James Carruthers Director of Development BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation 4500 Oak Street, Room 1U64 Vancouver, B.C. V

[discuss] Introduction

2007-06-06 Thread James E. Pearman, P.E.
I am a long time Office Suite user including MS, WP & Lotus. I just discovered Open Office and put it on my new machine build at home (XP Pro 64 bit running on an ASUS Crosshair MB with an AMD Opteron 1218 Dual Core 2.6 MHZ Direct Connect Hypertransport CPU) ... RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE ... AWESO

[discuss] Looking for someone good with OOo Base.

2006-10-31 Thread James Walker
I am looking for some that is good with base, their is a company contacting me from Athens GA, USA please email me if you would be interested in writing a database for them, I will get additional details if anyone is interested. James Walker Central US MarCon

Re: [discuss] Referendum on changing length of CC service

2006-10-31 Thread James Walker
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[discuss] Calc suggestion/question...

2006-10-24 Thread James Baker
!       Best regards,   James Baker Operations Analyst Big Dog Motorcycles, LLC   ph: 316.219.7031 fx: 316.219.7131      

[discuss] .png format

2006-10-17 Thread james kniskern
various graphics formats. Thank you for listening, James Kniskern

[discuss] SQL query problem

2006-07-19 Thread James Lemon
Hi again, My first message on this topic doesn't seem to have made it through to the mailing list. So I'll try again. I've installed OOv2.0.3 on XP and Write and Calc work okay as they have done in the past. I've never been able to get Base to work properly, but I have to now if I am to continue u

[discuss] SQL won't work

2006-07-14 Thread James Lemon
Hi all, I know I'm probably doing something very stupid, but after scanning quite a few messages on "SQL errors" I can't figure it out. I installed OpenOffice 2.0.3 and Writer and Calc work fine as usual. However, I can't get any SQL queries to work in Base. Everything gives the same error message

Re: [discuss] alleged OOo virus

2006-06-01 Thread James Walker
Bruce, Please see the homepage for OpenOffice.org 's statement on the matter for the moment, I am sure there will be more to follow shortly. James Walker Central US Marketing Contact OpenOffice.org Bruce Byfield wrote: Anybody care to comment on this story: http://news.zdne

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread James Walker
Let's remember that this is a family friendly email list and watch the language. James Walker Central US MarCon Chad Smith wrote: On 3/16/06, Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - if you are going to participate in this form of communication you HAVE TO F'ING READ

[discuss] Impress

2006-02-14 Thread Lane, James (Jim)
People This stuff looks great...however. I took the guided tour and at the first step where it showed how the master slide thingy worked, the sample slide's test started to interfer (overlay) with the footer or spill clear off the bottom of the slide altogether. Not real impressive on the whole.

Re: [discuss] very disappointed to see "easter-egg" in a free-software

2006-02-07 Thread James Walker
Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:06 -0500, James Walker wrote: With all the discussions on "code bloat" wouldn't all of these Easter Eggs add to that problem. How much code do these things add to the overall size of OOo and will removing them help bring that

Re: [discuss] very disappointed to see "easter-egg" in a free-software

2006-02-07 Thread James Walker
e Easter Eggs add to that problem. How much code do these things add to the overall size of OOo and will removing them help bring that down just a bit. Maybe we should ask the developers what they think and then see where it goes from there. James

[discuss] Ribbons in OOo?

2006-01-30 Thread James . Mehl
cross that bridge when we get there") or has this question been previously asked (I searched but I could not find anything) and, if so, where? Thanks James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Separability

2006-01-09 Thread James E. Lang
I have no desire to start a flame war over this issue. The OOo Users list gets a lot of messages of the type, "I only want the part of OOo that supplies Word (or Excel, or Access, or PowerPoint etc). functionality." In other words, they are asking for a separable OOo. I was wondering how much o

Re: [discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-12 Thread James Walker
(Multi-platform software will have different issues for each platform) How many are Linus build related issues, (something that is unique to Linux software, I do not build my own copy of MSO.) 700 bugs seems like a small number when you consider all that OOo does and all the platforms that it does it on. James Walker

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread James Walker
s and beleive me, Chad is a lost cause. Anything beyond the immediate and concrete is a mystery to him. Let's not waste time responding. I, for one, am going to have to agree with you on this, it seems a waste to even read any of his posts anymore, they all seem to say the same thing.

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread James Walker
see what you would do to make all office program files work together. James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-26 Thread James Walker
ODF in their next release to show them that it is MS that is not playing nicely with everyone else. James Walker Central US MarCon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-07 Thread James Walker
Chad Smith wrote: Yeah, exactly. How can OpenOffice.org be based on OpenOffice.org? I can't believe it took James explaining it for y'all to get it. -Chad Smith Thank You Chad, I was starting to think no one was going to get it. As I said, I am not trying to take away from wh

Re: [discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-07 Thread James Walker
Richard/g wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:17, James Walker wrote: Has anyone else noticed the about box for OpenOffice.org This product has been created by Sun Microsystems, based on OpenOffice.org I could see this being included in StarOffice, but since this is the

[discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-06 Thread James Walker
wrong? (no this is not a Sun bash, but something that struck me as odd.) James Walker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Read Microsoft PowerPoint and Word documents

2005-10-05 Thread James Colin
inserts some office information, which seems to be font information or a look up table of some sort. I know that OpenOffice can open Microsoft Office documents to 96% successful. Any relevant information in this regard is appreciated. James Colin

[discuss] Sun/Google announcement

2005-10-04 Thread James Walker
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/04/1234229&from=rss If this is true, Talk about a major boost for OOo. James Walker Central US MarCon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

[discuss] Open Office Question

2005-08-25 Thread James A Tindall
uot; that allows and creates various fitting parameters. Does "Calc" of Open Office have a similar feature? Thank you for you help. Jim ------- James A. Tindall, Ph.D. National Research Program United

Re: [discuss] Need copy of Linux 1.9.109 build

2005-08-03 Thread James Walker
William W. Austin wrote: On 2005-08-02 12:59:13, James Walker wrote: Does anyone know where I can download this version? I have it and can put it on a web page if you haven't found it anywhere else. The link is *not* fast (128K upload to you), but if you can't find it any

[discuss] Need copy of Linux 1.9.109 build

2005-08-02 Thread James Walker
Does anyone know where I can download this version? Thanks James Walker Central US MarCon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Database Tools

2005-07-22 Thread Delia, James
I am looking for some dBase tools. The Database User Tools has the features of interest to me. Is there a separate download of the Database User Tools? James G. Delia Engineering Technician Atlas America, Inc. 311 Rouser Road Moon Township, PA 15108 Phone: 1-412-262-2830 ext. 147 Fax

[discuss] Open Office 2.0 Stable Schedule

2005-07-13 Thread James A Boundey
Hey, I was just wondering if anybody has any good estimate as to when Open Office 2.0 might be complete (Stable) Thanks!! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.13/47 - Release Date: 7/12/2005

Re: [discuss] Re: Reason corporates won't touch OO.o

2005-05-20 Thread James Walker
oes not do near the automatic stuff that I was able to make this one do. Sure I can open the file, but if I try to do certain things with it it actually reboots my computer, which is better than what it was doing before, which was rebooting the server. James On 5/20/05, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL

[discuss] Open office icons.

2005-05-15 Thread James Bach
Open office is great. I've had a few minor problems with word file but thats O.K. Do you have an Folder Icon or Task Launch program so I can place the entire OpenOffice Suite on my desktop under one icon. Thanks...James Bach ___

[discuss] Impress autocomplete

2005-05-10 Thread James . Mehl
in Writer and then copy it into Impress but I would like to know if it would not be possible to incorporate the option for autocomplete into the build for Impress as well (or maybe it's already been incorporated in 1.1.4 - don't know because I'm usin

[discuss] Re: Bibliographic entries

2005-05-08 Thread James . Mehl
into Writer that would immediately note when a reference number, as in the example above, changes, and make all the necessary changes in the text. I look forward to possibly seeing this development in OOo 2.0. Keep up the great work. Kind regards James

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

2005-04-12 Thread James Walker
evidence I can arrange your certification. You could then put this in your sig. Regards, Now I feel left out, I never even thought of becoming an INGOT assessor. I think it is time I went to the INGOT website and checked that out. I want my Gold INGOT with distinction. :) James Walker

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

2005-03-31 Thread James Walker
t fix it so that there is not 2 issues for the same thing.) sorry. should have kept reading before filing. James Walker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-31 Thread James Walker
ed under an issue? If so which one and has it many votes? If not file the issue. The issue has been filed.. #46397. hopefully I did this correctly, it is the first one I have actually done. James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

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

2005-03-31 Thread James Walker
Cor Nouws wrote: Tony Pursell wrote: But on a more constructive note, my suggestion for the wording would be: OOo 1.9.79 can be made the default application for opening the following file types. This means that if you click on one of these files, OOo will open it, not the Microsoft progam that o

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

2005-03-30 Thread James Walker
Daniel Carrera wrote: James Walker wrote: This is saying that OOo can open files of type No, it does not say "OOo can open these file types". What kind of a question would that be? It says that those file types will be opened *automatically* in OOo. But it does not sa

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

2005-03-30 Thread James Walker
Daniel Carrera wrote: James Walker wrote: Line #1: Select the file types that are to be opened with OpenOffice.org 1.9.79 Line #2: OOo 1.9.79 will automatically open the following file types This is what the dialog says now,Now no where in this does it say that it is taking over from

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

2005-03-30 Thread James Walker
Daniel Carrera wrote: James Walker wrote: Leave the dialog there, but make the text more understandable. This was discussed before and an Issue was filed, I do believe. but I cannot find it now. If you feel this is important, please do find that issue. Or file a new one. However, the UI

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

2005-03-30 Thread James Walker
ot want it to take over and then make me figure out how to get it to stop. At that point I would just uninstall and stick with MSO. Leave the dialog there, but make the text more understandable. This was discussed before and an Issue was filed, I do believe. but I cannot find it now. Ja

[discuss] Release of Open Office 2.0 Stable

2005-03-18 Thread James A Boundey
h for your time. Have a great day! Sincerely, James -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005

Re: [discuss] OOo mentioned in computer user mag

2005-02-24 Thread James Walker
Christian Einfeldt wrote: Here are a couple of quotes from the Feb issue of Computer user mag. FLOSS is their cover story. Their server is down now, so go to this sister site: http://www.kccomputeruser.com/ Here's a quote from "into the Great wide open" by Keith Mansfield: "The most potentiall

[discuss] Ideas

2005-02-14 Thread James Walsh
Hello...see my first OO letter, thanks.I'm on OSX.2.8 James = The Creative Studio Graphic Design, Web Design Storyboards, Model Design __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yaho

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo Install Program Text

2005-02-11 Thread James Walker
Mathias Bauer wrote: James Walker wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: I called the attention of our user experience specialists to this thread. It's pretty late in the release cycle now, but let's see if the text can be improved a bit (but don't expect us to explain how

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo Install Program Text

2005-02-11 Thread James Walker
Mathias Bauer wrote: Harald Schilly wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:55:00 -0500, James Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The dialog box is big enough to make the comment more verbose so that is the option that I think we should go with and it should not take someone very long to do it

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo Install Program Text

2005-02-10 Thread James Walker
og or just make it more clear. but one of the two things needs to be done. The dialog box is big enough to make the comment more verbose so that is the option that I think we should go with and it should not take someone very long to do it

Re: [discuss] New download page. OOoExtras site

2005-02-04 Thread James Walker
n rejected. :-( Best, Is there something that needs to be done to get OOoExtras going again. Maybe some one needs to check and see who was doing this and find out what is up. James Walker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

[discuss] Enhancement: portable OpenOffice

2005-02-02 Thread James Brown
stallation drive designations, etc.) to be overcome but I think it can be done. Thanks, - James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Horrendous Changes to v2.0

2005-01-25 Thread James Walker
Chad Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd like to ask a second time : don't cut things out until we have understanding about a way to make them available for those who wish them. This, I believe, is the gist of your argument, so I will respond to that directly. Someone in this thread said t