On 2010-10-15, RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote:
On Thu Oct 14 2010 22:14:38 GMT-0700 (PDT) Marius Popa wrote:
Is OpenOffice.org a dead project?
Not at this time. See http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/177158 .
As Frank Zappa quipped about jazz: it's not dead -- it just
On 2010-09-29, Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Phil Hibbs wrote:
Harold Fuchs:
So, am I being
paranoid in thinking that the choice of the name LibreOffice suggests that
at some stage it will no longer be Gratis?
Yup.
This does seem a bit paranoid.
On 2010-08-27, Ruud(ino) ruud...@gmail.com wrote:
I have or want to download Open Office 3.21 x64 because I have also a
64-bits motherboard (Intel i 7 @ 920 Core)
Every software-company made a lot of 32-bit software but forgot to make and
to test the 64-bit. 64-bit computers started
On 2010-05-01, Don Stowell dnswor...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know how to configure OpenOffice.org writer for email?
I am having trouble getting it to find the smtp(outgoing server).
OpenOffice.org does not have an email module but instead uses the
default email client on your computer
On 2009-12-31, Deborah Rucco dru...@yahoo.com wrote:
I made an Invoice in OpenOffice Writer. To save time in making the
other invoices I was doing that day I pasted the info that was
identical for all invoices. Now, whenever I hit Paste it pastes
that same info into ALL documents, even
On 2009-12-15, elisa bucci ebuc...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have had OpenOffice for four months. I would like to know if Open
Office is compatible with Microsoft concerning security. If not how do
I make it secure.
What manner of security are are referring to? If password-protected
documents,
On 2009-09-17, taj dahele tajdah...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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wizard however the anti-virus programe norton 360 deleted office and left =
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On 2009-02-18, Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com wrote:
Okay, so: What can I do to make it a workable situation for Writer at V
3? Any suggestions at all? I'm not stealing copyright material; I just
want to assemble some Support paperwork on disk for future Dell TSing.
Am I stuck with Word
On 2009-02-17, Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com wrote:
John Thompson wrote:
Are the pages you are pasting into OOo W3C compliant, or do they
contain proprietary markup of some kind?
No idea. I doubt many sites are W3C compliant actually. What's the
point?
Perhaps the OOo rendering engine
On 2009-02-16, Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com wrote:
I'm using copy/paste. If it weren't that Word did such a good job
(which I want to wean myself from) and OO.o such a bad job, I guess I'd
just shrug it off. I was hoping this would be one of those Just go to
... and ... and you'll be
On 2009-02-03, q10 q101100111...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a suggestion - maybe include at least LaTeX input support, if not
output support also (OOoLatex has become old). Make it integrateable with a
LaTeX backend like MikTeX.
Something like this, maybe:
http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/
On 2009-01-10, Lloyd Lecuona lloyd.lecu...@gmail.com wrote:
LOVE OpenOffice BUT and its a HUGE but!! You are going to have to work a
plan to allow Microsoft Word to open the ODT documents automatically. I
sent out 200 emails to employees with OpenOffice attachments and only 3
could open
On 2008-03-20, Defiant1337 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks but I'm using Windows XP 64 bit
You can vote for this to be developed:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46594
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John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On 2008-03-19, Defiant1337 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First can I say I know 32 bit Openoffice works on 64 bit Windows but does
OpenOffice plan on making a 64 bit version ?. I know this would be a major
coupe for OpenOffice to have a 64 Bit version out before Microsoft Office
but both seem to
On 2008-01-25, Henning Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lars Noodén wrote:
Using .docx before the specification is finished *will* eventually lead
to data loss. Please consider using instead OpenDocument (ISO/IEC
26300) which is what industry is backing.
Nevertheless, filters for .docx
On 2007-11-02, Miguel Montenegro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm very interested in the Open Office project and, like many others, I
would like to change to a completely non-proprietary set of software.
However, I write in three different languages and must have linguistic
software compatible
On 2007-05-24, Robert Derman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pierre wrote:
Daniel Kasak wrote:
OK. Take your bat and ball and go home. I won't loose any sleep over it.
Daniel, you disappoint me ;-) The original poster does a dummy spit
and you follow with another.
I think those of us who are
On 2007-04-07, Alvin Lim Liangce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, what did MS do as a corporation that is morally wrong?
Where to begin? Remember when they stole Stacker's disk compression
technology for their drivespace feature in MS-DOS v6.2? The courts
ruled MS had to issue a new version
On 2007-04-02, Muhammad Fahd Waseem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used OpenOffice.org ever since it was launched, and I always thought
of it as a better product than the otherwise prevalent Microsoft Office
series. Version 2 was what should have been a nail in the Microsoft coffin
in terms
On 2007-03-14, Aurelio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 2007-02-09, Robert Funnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May I suggest that the removal not be done without user input, but
rather that the user be asked if the file should be removed? There may
be times, when the file has been moved, that the user would prefer to
move the file back to its
On 2006-07-17, Siddharth Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In your next releases, replace support for Zip with 7-Zip ODF compression.
It is free and open-source, and the compression rates are generally better.
It performs better than Zip.
Zip (from InfoZip) is also free and open source, and more
On 2006-04-19, Rean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you would implement an eMail client with the same functionality as
Outlook, I would never use the MS Office Suite again and use OpenOffice.
Keep up the great work!
Why not just use e.g. Thunderbird? Works fine here...
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John ([EMAIL
On 2006-03-09, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Windows XP is not Unix based - and OOo runs on it. Windows 98 isn't Unix
based *or* NT based - and OOo runs on it.
Windows NT/2k/XP and OS/2 have a degree of Posix compliance that may be
lacking in Mac OS9. Perhaps that's the issue.
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On 2006-01-12, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it worth while pointing out that the favourite word processor of Legal
Offices seems to be WordPerfect, and WordPerfect 5.1 had Long Document Names
piggybacking Short File Names in 1990, whereas MS Win95, the first Windows to
my
On 2006-01-07, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html#top
This bulletin provides a year-end summary of software vulnerabilities that
were identified between January 2005 and December 2005. The information i=
s
presented only as a index with
On 2005-12-26, madman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually this is part complaint (beef) and major part correction.
What is this yellow box that keeps overlaying itself with the page
number on it? If I want this information it is located in the lower
left part of the Xwindow that openoffice
On 2005-12-22, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was looking hi and low as to any site that would have a comparison of
StarOffice OpenOffice
So far all I can tell is that they are virtually the same program.
Except for some minor changes.
Any help would be great and thanks.
Did you look
On 2005-12-13, Hans Borchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many adults trying to expand their involvement with computers are
overwhelmed by OO -- in my opinion. A word processor as a stand-alone
product which handles .doc files, has a spelling checker and is free of
the aggravating automation
On 2005-12-14, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/14/05, Jeff Causey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you saying that Writer has a lot of features that beginners might
get confused with or OO as a suite? Could you expand upon that and
provide some info on what features you think would be
On 2005-12-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what do you all think?
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174402121
It doesn't appear that Massachusetts has sided with Microsoft; the quote
in the article is qualified: *IF* (emphasis added) Microsoft
On 2005-12-04, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/3/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed, a simple viewer would be nice. But installing OOo to view .odt
files is no worse than having to install MS-Office to view .doc, .xls, and
.ppt files -- cheaper too!
You can
On 2005-12-02, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Thompson wrote:
The linux version at least comes with Mozilla plugins for this (they work
with Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape -- not sure if the Win version has these,
or if IE plugins are available).
The Windows version has both
On 2005-11-19, Terri Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a user, I hate online only apps. In fact, I think they are becoming
more and more popular because they are being offered at less cost that
the offline versions.
I think they're becoming more popular because vendors see them as a more
On 2005-11-19, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus
Grisoft predicts Linux virus plague
Kind of reminds me of the dire warnings regarding the Y2K debacle.
Somebody smells a gravy train hyping up a potential threat. If exploit
On 2005-11-15, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/14/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MSOffice will likely still be bound to the Windows platform and Microsoft
file formats, both of which are significant concerns for many people.
MSOffice is not bound to the Windows platform
On 2005-11-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This ZDNN (http://news.zdnet.com/) story has been sent to you from [EMAIL
PROTECTED], who added this comment:
This could be bad for OOo.
Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
Why would this be bad for OOo? I can understand why MS
On 2005-11-14, Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 14:34 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
I would hate to be that student working on my term paper that needs to
be handed in tomorrow when the network connection goes down due to a
problem with one of the many hops that I have
On 2005-11-13, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
If there are web browser
viewers, editors, utilities galore in the next couple of years it will
make a compelling case for adoption of OOo too.
Which is when marketing OOo as the ODF reference app will be really
On 2005-11-11, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mark wrote:
snip
Actually, let me go on with something more relevant: does *anyone* know
just what they're doing, or looking for, that lets them reject a
perfectly good OO.o file saved as .doc?
Well, since I just had to re-install
On 2005-11-11, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/10/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Development, implementation and training concerning the use of
new, [Office12]-compatible technologies to aid the disabled --once
again, this will all be completely new.
No, it won't
On 2005-11-10, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1884775,00.asp?kc=3DEWRSS03129TX1K=
616
This will be no simple switch, said Melanie Wyne, executive director of
the Initiative for Software Choice, based in suburban Washington D.C. The
free licenses
On 2005-11-09, Kelvin Davis-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Got a fun one- when i install OpenOffice 2 on an NT4 workstation it has
a 70% chance of messing up the icons on the PC - seems to superimpose
another icon over the standard one - any other icon (eg recycle bin
icon, Novell Icon, Quake
On 2005-11-07, Robbie Darrell Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I also use Thunderbird. But I would like to use something that was
integrated into open office like Outlook is in Microsoft Office.
I've never used Outlook to any great extent. What sort of integration are
you missing in OOo?
On 2005-11-08, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I agree. OOo needs to improve based on what the users want.
Sure, but in today's environment it's a pretty safe bet that the majority
of users want something that reminds them of MS-Office. One can hope that
when alternative office
On 2005-11-08, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Outlook has an option to let you use MS Word as your email editor.
I've often wondered why people like doing that -- it strikes me as rather
like using bulldozer to replant your petunias.
Does anyone know if it's possible to make it use OOo Writer
On Wed October 12 2005 20:39, + Jim wrote:
I use a Palm PDA, and would like to use a small spreadsheet application on
it. There are a number of these available, but all seem to require Excel
on the main computer to sync. Since I use OpenOffice.org on my computer, I
would like to know if
On 2005-11-03, Jeffrey W. Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really love the idea of OpenOffice and so far I love using the
software. Here is one thing that concerns me: In order to use certain
features, such as hyperlinks to other documents on my hard disk (which I
use extensively with
On 2005-11-02, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Thompson wrote:
I run OOo-2.0 om linux as well -- on an old Thinkpad-240 (400mHz Celron,
192MB RAM) and yes, it is slow to start but once it is running it works
fine, thank you. Abiword is somewhat faster, but I still prefer OOo.
Is 2.0
On 2005-11-01, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running Linux, so I can't really compare, but... if, when I upgrade
my o/s, I can get Abiword running, I may skip OO.dog most of the time.
900MHz, 192M RAM, RH 9 (upgraded), and it takes around 30 sec. or more
*just* to get where I can click
This may not affect many people these days, but the linux Mozilla plugin
depends on libgcc3.3 and would not load on one of my systems until I
updated gcc from 3.2.3 to 3.3.4
The rest of OOo-2.0 worked fine with the old libraries.
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John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On 2005-10-10, Brian Coulam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a bunch of server space and I have recently been interested in
hosting downloads of open source software. Really I have unlimited
bandwidth and unlimited space when it all comes down to it, as long as
i am not doing anything illegal
On 2005-10-08, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I RTFM'd the directions for 2.0 RC2 (Linux, x86). It said that there
will be a program/script called setup. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do I want
to install a test release to locations fixed in an RPM,
You can use the --prefix or --relocate
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