Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2009-12-19 Thread Mary Compton
- Original Message - From: William W. Austin waus...@speakeasy.net To: discuss@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0 On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge jbk4

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge jbk4...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read

[discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0 Calc - compatibility bug reading .XLS files in HTML format

2007-10-30 Thread Verre Carlo
If I create with Notepad a file named EXAMPLE.XLS with the following content: HTMLBODYTABLE BORDER=1 TRTHATHBTHC/TR TRTD1TD2TD3/TR TRTD4TD5TD6/TR TRTD7TD8TD9/TR /TABLE/BODY/HTML and I open it by MS.Excel, the file is regularly processed as a normal spreadsheet. By contrast, if I

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Adrian Try wrote: You can download StarOffice for free from Google. At www.google.com click on More then Pack (at the bottom of the screen). You will see the option to download StarOffice. Be aware that you need to buy a activation key from sun in order to fully use star office Thanks

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-04 Thread Adrian Try
Hi John I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read Lotus WordPro documents. That's the lesson the world is learning: storing documents in a closed proprietry file format is a dead end

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-04 Thread Lars Noodén
John B Kittredge wrote: I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files... Who is our contact at IBM and will any of the new developers be set on working out import of IBM's legacy formats? Regards -Lars

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-04 Thread Adrian Try
You can download StarOffice for free from Google. At www.google.com click on More then Pack (at the bottom of the screen). You will see the option to download StarOffice. Be aware that you need to buy a activation key from sun in order to fully use star office Thanks Chris, I hadn't

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Monahan
Adrian Ty said: You can download StarOffice for free from Google. At www.google.com click on More then Pack (at the bottom of the screen). You will see the option to download StarOffice. I hope this helps. Be aware that you need to buy a activation key from sun in order to fully use star

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-04 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read Lotus WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
John B Kittredge a écrit : I just saw on your website that IBM is adopting much of OpenOffice and coming out with it's Symphony. Symphony is available now but Symphony is an Openoffice fork so it likely uses the ODF formats which have nothing in common with the old lotus formats --

[discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-03 Thread John B Kittredge
I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read Lotus WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just started up a new computer (my 5th) with Vista and can't seem to load my old

[discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2007-10-03 Thread John B Kittredge
I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read Lotus WordPro documents. This is a killer for me as I've just started up a new computer (my 5th) with Vista and can't seem to load my old