Re: Is their a conflict with MS Wordstarter 10

2015-01-19 Thread Carson Chittom
Mark Hornstein writes: > My question is; Is it necessary to UNINSTALL MS Word Wordstarter > 10 on my laptopand only have Apache 4.1.1 only? It is not necessary to uninstall the Word Starter Edition, no. However, since you said you'd only be using OpenOffice, is there a reason to keep Word insta

Re: Open Works files

2015-01-03 Thread Carson Chittom
"Tom Crocker" writes: > How can I get your product to open old Microsoft works files? .wdb > files and .wps files HELP! You may find this document interesting: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/DocumentManagement/How_can_I_open_Microsoft_Works_wordprocessor_files_%28.wps%

Re: Latest Version.

2014-12-31 Thread Carson Chittom
FC writes: > I use OO 3.4.1 with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. > > The site openoffice.org/download doesn't seem to offer > a version for my operating system. > > Any suggestions? 1. Go to http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html 2. Select "Windows (EXE)" from the dropdown. 3. Sele

Re: Should I Upgrade?

2014-12-30 Thread Carson Chittom
FC writes: > I use OO 3.4.1 with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. > > I'm an ordinary user; nothing exotic. > > Should I upgrade and why? Probably you should. There were 89 bug reports resolved in 4.1.1, 314 resolved in 4.1.0, 90 in 4.0.1, and over 500 in 4.0.0--that's a lot of resolved b

Re: Second attempt to send

2014-05-17 Thread Carson Chittom
art...@aol.com writes: > Dear Ms/Mr? Carson, (at car...@wistly.net) It's mister, for the record. "Carson" is a name of Norse origin from the words for "marsh" and "son." You'd think that with the word "son" actually in it, people would only use it for boys, but this turns out not to be the case

Re: Neophyte's questoon

2014-05-15 Thread Carson Chittom
art...@aol.com writes: > 1. I am not yet using Writer because I'm afraid of it (I'm an 84 year old > klutzy neophyte). If I choose to use Writer as my word processor, will that > use automatically result in the "commandeering" of "txt" (see above)? No. Writer should not change your preferenc

Re: not working version of OO4.1.0

2014-05-15 Thread Carson Chittom
Maurice Dorscheidt writes: > I am getting a bit >:o . I downloaded the newest version of OO 4.1.0 > because the older version said: new update available. since I have > downloaded the new file NOTHING works any more. I understand that you're frustrated, but "NOTHING works" is not a summary of yo

Re: selecting more sheets to print on MS Office spreadsheet

2014-05-14 Thread Carson Chittom
Girvin Herr writes: > Have you checked Print Ranges? Thanks, got it squared away. I appreciate the assistance. --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org Fo

selecting more sheets to print on MS Office spreadsheet

2014-05-06 Thread Carson Chittom
I'm using Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 (on Slackware, if it matters). I have a Microsoft Office spreadsheet (xlsx) with multiple sheets that I'm trying to print. However, when I look under "Page Break Preview", only the first sheet has "Page 1," "Page 2," etc. And in fact, when I hit print, only the