Re: Open Office Crashes

2023-04-19 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Pam, Have you followed these steps: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426#p58403 Are you running the lasted version 4.1.14? https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html I know you said you removed it, but make sure you're also installing the latest version.

Re: Fwd: Printing on an envelope

2023-03-07 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Paul, Please join the OpenOffice mailing list so you can /*reply directly*/, and see all the responses: https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-mailing-list-public Can you let us know what you are trying to do exactly? Does you printer allow you to print directly on to the

Re: copy - paste problem

2023-03-07 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Gil, Have you updated to the newest version? You might want to try that and see if it fixes your problem. If it doesn't, could you share what type of system you're on, and the exact steps you're taking to copy. Shari On 3/6/2023 6:25 PM, gil clampett wrote: All was working for several

Re: move to a new laptop

2023-03-06 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
If you need to make edits that both computers need to have access to, I'd suggest getting setup with a cloud drive. Google, Microsoft, Dropbox all have free accounts that give you limited space. Once the documents have been uploaded to the cloud drive you would then have access from any machine

Re: problems with spreadsheet

2020-09-10 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Are you saying the program closes by itself? Without you clicking the X? Are you seeing an error message when it does that? On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 10:09 AM casey rost wrote: > 1. I really need to be able to use the spreadsheet. I entered everything > individually. While typing it would just close.

Re: Open Office Excel

2020-08-26 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Great! Glad the ending was a happy one. Shari On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 1:13 AM wrote: > Thanks Shari for responding, > > I was able to sort it out with the help of RoryOF on the forum. Take a > look for more details: > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=102846&p=497589#p497

Re: sorting in spreadsheet

2020-04-26 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Have you check to see if you set some sort of protection on the area? On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 2:19 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > I have used Open Office for decades. I have used it for my finances. I > have many tabs and have always moved thing around – deleted – copied – > pasted - and sorted. > > >

Re: Windows 10 compatibility

2019-09-02 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
I am using it on my Windows 10 PC's. Nothing special needed, other then if you want to use the database/label printing you do still need java. You will want to download from openoffice.org Congrats on the new laptop & good luck! Shari -

Re: Unfound file extension.

2019-06-20 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
If it was me, I would just change the extension after I saved it as an xls file. :) I would bet it will be opened on the other end fine. Shari On 6/19/2019 10:51 PM, Diana Allen wrote: I have an Excel document from a state revenue department that is in .xlsx format.OO opens it correctly and

Re: Apache OpenOffice Facebook page

2018-10-22 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Is there a group? The page is great for announcements, however it's much easier to help people via a group. You have to come at it from the backend, as with a group you get notifications. You can set the page to not allow posts from others and have a button at the top of the page that says visit gr

Re: Font query.

2018-08-05 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Try downloading and installing the font you need, any font on your computer will be accessible in open office. fontspace.com/category/elven Shari On 8/5/2018 12:27 PM, Chris Howard wrote: Hi, my name is Chris, an authoring hopeful. And currently I am in the midst of writing a book, a fantasy

Re: Pictures rotating in Writer then disappearing after pasting from Draw

2018-07-05 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Kristine, I would suggest you use an image editor and do the edit in that then save it before inserting it into writer. Some image editors "auto rotate" and image but it doesn't actually replace the image with the image rotated. My favorite image editor is Irfanview I've been using it for ye

Re: editing entries on calendars

2018-05-04 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Barbara, I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here. Can you share a bit more information. What is it you are actually trying to do, and can you link to the calendar you downloaded? What exactly do you want to delete? Maybe with a bit more information to understand what is wrong someone

Re: RUDE

2018-04-30 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Dear Dennis, I'm not sure where you received your copy of OpenOffice, it's a free OpenSource program, so there isn't really a company you're dealing with. You received responses from people just like you. Your initial email was kinda rude itself, so you received kinda rude responses. OpenSourc

Re: HOW TO EASILY ACCESS SOFTWARE ELEMENTS

2018-04-15 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Try saving them as a new document. That normally works for me. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Opening docx files

2016-06-29 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Ian, I open them with OOa 4, with no problem. I'm on Windows 10 and also Windows 7. Shari On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Ian Juniper wrote: > Is it possible to open .docx files with the version 4 of Open Office? I > have been using version 3 successfully for many years for all other > corre

Re: Problems with files

2014-04-04 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Phillip if you already have AOO & your saying that Word keeps trying to open files you've created in AOO, it sounds like the program association has been switched. Find a odt file and right click and select "open with" locate the writer exe and make sure that "always open with" is ticked. I'm not a

Re: Sort Numeric ?

2014-03-28 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi Troy, it worked for me after I highlighted the "time" column right-clicked and unchecked "Number Recognition". I then right-clicked again and selected "Number Format" under the Category I then selected "Text" and clicked ok. When I sorted the table I made sure that it said Alphanumeric in the ke

Re: OpenOffice Word Spacing

2014-03-28 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Slick idea Martin! Shari On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Martin Groenescheij < mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote: > First the good news in OpenOffice you can use many different spaces by > Inserting Special Characters for example U+2004 (scroll 4/5 down to the > bottom) is probably what the user w

Re: MS Outlook

2014-03-09 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
I myself use Thunderbird. I don't think AOO itself has this. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ Shari powered by android On Mar 9, 2014 2:42 PM, "Patrick Smith" wrote: > Hi, > Do you have a program similar to MS Outlook for E-mail, scheduling and > contact list? > Thank you, > Pat Smith

Re: Problem with OpenOffice path

2014-03-09 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
I believe this is either related to windows or the browser. I have the same thing happen when opening files online. I found this on Firefox but haven't yet found a way to change it. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10025 I have just learned to save as when I see its happened. S

Re: AOO on a Mac

2014-02-25 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
nn > > > ----- Original Message - From: "Shari Lynn Smith" < > webweave...@gmail.com> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:54 PM > Subject: AOO on a Mac > > > Hi, I am a PC user and have been an OO user for a long time, and have >> converted mo

AOO on a Mac

2014-02-25 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
Hi, I am a PC user and have been an OO user for a long time, and have converted most of my family... however my nephew is now looking to purchase a Mac and has gotten conflicting information about running AOO on a Mac (at the store & from others), from what I've seen in forums, and online I think i

Re: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

2014-01-05 Thread Shari Lynn Smith
I think this is a good idea. For reasons already outlined. It would also give people a place to find honorable ways to get a copy instead of a cheap CD with a 3 yo version. I do think maintaining the list may be difficult. Maybe allow some type of rating? I also think some type of revoking policy