Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:29 18/02/2015 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote: I run for example clean(C2) and it returns Err:522. C is the column with the problems That means that your formula is circular. I'm guessing that you have tried putting =CLEAN(C2) into C2 itself. Apart from the fact that this deletes that value to

Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-18 Thread Manuel Andres Ramirez
(generated by Office 2010 I think, but saved in the old binary format). Some of these columns cause me problems, since they seem to contain spaces and even newlines. I could correct that manually, but since the file contains hundred of lines this is cumbersome. So the question is whether

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-18 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 18/02/2015 01:06, Martin Groenescheij a écrit : On 18-Feb-15 09:47, Hagar Delest wrote: Top posting. For the record, OP is not subscribed so he has missed almost all the replies. For the record, OP was subscribed at the moment he raised the question. Hmm, how do you see that? I checked

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-18 Thread Martin Groenescheij
Hi Hagar, You're correct. I use a filter to mark all emails Delivered-To: moderator This one was not marked (no idea why not), I should have checked before I replied. Sorry, I will check next time. Martin On 19-Feb-15 07:47, Hagar Delest wrote: Le 18/02/2015 01:06, Martin Groenescheij a

Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-18 Thread Manuel Andres Ramirez
problems, since they seem to contain spaces and even newlines. I could correct that manually, but since the file contains hundred of lines this is cumbersome. So the question is whether there exist any formatting function which could resolve the issue. You can use TRIM() or LIMPIAR() in spanish

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-18 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/15 16:19, tom cuypers wrote: I've received some other answers that convince me my specific problem is unsolvable so it's no use answering your questions. I trust that you understand that you _FAILED_ to provide enough data for anybody

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 18-Feb-15 13:24, Julian Thomas wrote: On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:19, tom cuypers tomcu...@hotmail.com wrote: I've received some other answers that convince me my specific problem is unsolvable so it's no use answering your questions. Have you tried: Saving as a csv file Using a good text

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Martin Groenescheij
and backup. Tom From: dennis.hamil...@acm.org To: users@openoffice.apache.org CC: tomcu...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:37:07 -0800 Tom, I am very sorry that you have had a serious difficulty. Unfortunately

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Hagar Delest
doesn't help. I can't understand how a program is allowed to ruin people's life by letting them work for weeks on documents. Comments on the forum say when a file is corrupted, the problem is unfixable. BUT IF A FILE IS SAVED ONCE ELECTRONICALLY, HOW CAN IT DISAPPEAR? I won't be using your program

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Julian Thomas
On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:19, tom cuypers tomcu...@hotmail.com wrote: I've received some other answers that convince me my specific problem is unsolvable so it's no use answering your questions. Have you tried: Saving as a csv file Using a good text editor on that file to fix the issues

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Martin Groenescheij
solve this well-known problem? I've seen a series of suggestions, but none will fix the problem. Renaming and Unzipping doesn't help. I can't understand how a program is allowed to ruin people's life by letting them work for weeks on documents. Comments on the forum say when a file is corrupted

Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-17 Thread Brian Barker
the file contains hundred of lines this is cumbersome. So the question is whether there exist any formatting function which could resolve the issue. I attach an (shorted) example of the problem and would appreciate any help. Using Linux and OO 4.1. Your rogue cells appear to contain the data

Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-17 Thread Manuel Andres Ramirez
the file contains hundred of lines this is cumbersome. So the question is whether there exist any formating function which could resolve the issue. I attach an (shorted) example of the problem and would appreciate any help. Using Linux and OO 4.1. Regards Uwe Brauer Uwe and List friends, Good

Re: problem with import of excel file, cells contain new lines

2015-02-17 Thread Brian Barker
newlines. I could correct that manually, but since the file contains hundred of lines this is cumbersome. So the question is whether there exist any formatting function which could resolve the issue. You can use TRIM() or LIMPIAR() in spanish function over the column C and correct the spaces

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Josiane (telenet)
Hello Mr Cuypers You must be carefull to blame OO. Because I had a similar problem once, and I was convinced that I did everythin good. But it turned out that I saved a file without an extention! And then ofcourse one can not find this file anywhere again. So please, look carefully! Kind

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
a series of suggestions, but none will fix the problem. Renaming and Unzipping doesn't help. I can't understand how a program is allowed to ruin people's life by letting them work for weeks on documents. Comments on the forum say when a file is corrupted, the problem is unfixable. BUT IF A FILE

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
by letting them work for weeks on documents. I can't understand how anyone can work for weeks on a document without taking one single backup (which seems to be the case in this case, since you simply just didn't recover your file to solve your problem). Comments on the forum say when a file

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:18 15/02/2015 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I can't understand how anyone can work for weeks on a document without taking one single backup ... Then you don't understand how half the world works! Perhaps those who understand little about computers also understand little about their

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
How does a file disappear? That is an easy one. If you always save the file to the same file name, and something then happens to that one file, then there are no other copies. I have seen this as follows: Click on Save, and something goes wrong while saving, which corrupts the file (say

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Lucetta
I save my document files using save as on the drop down menu and adding the current date at the end of the file name whenever I open and amend a document. It is then easy to go back to any the earlier versions. There are more sophisticated methods but this is simple and relatively idiot

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Doug
On 02/15/2015 02:25 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 19:18 15/02/2015 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I can't understand how anyone can work for weeks on a document without taking one single backup ... Then you don't understand how half the world works! Perhaps those who understand little about

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-14 Thread Doug
for weeks on documents. Comments on the forum say when a file is corrupted, the problem is unfixable. BUT IF A FILE IS SAVED ONCE ELECTRONICALLY, HOW CAN IT DISAPPEAR? I won't be using your program again untill this problem is fixed. I'm even thinking about buying a typewriter again, that will cost me less

odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-14 Thread tom cuypers
when a file is corrupted, the problem is unfixable. BUT IF A FILE IS SAVED ONCE ELECTRONICALLY, HOW CAN IT DISAPPEAR? I won't be using your program again untill this problem is fixed. I'm even thinking about buying a typewriter again, that will cost me less time. Regards Tom Cuypers

RE: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
of Apache OpenOffice you were running, and on what operating system. And what was the name of the file? - Dennis PS: You have reached a public mailing list on which volunteers contribute to questions from other users like themselves. For any follow-up, please reply to users

File retrieval

2015-01-21 Thread Delores Anderson
Hi, can you please advise me how to locate a file that I was working on in Spreadsheet. It was last worked on on 9th January and now I am unable to find it. I would appreciate your help. Thank you

Re: File retrieval

2015-01-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:27:43 + Delores Anderson delores0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, can you please advise me how to locate a file that I was working on in Spreadsheet. It was last worked on on 9th January and now I am unable to find it. I would appreciate your help. Thank you Use your

Re: Reading a .wpd file in OO Writer.

2014-12-06 Thread Ernie Kurtz
Fred: Open Office won't do it, but the also free Libre Office will. ek On 12/5/14 11:15 PM, FC wrote: I use Win 7 Home Premium and OO 3.4.1 How do I open and read a .wpd file using OO Writer? Thanks in advance to any kind knowledgeable person. Fred

Re: Reading a .wpd file in OO Writer.

2014-12-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
One can convert the file to OpenOffice formats by using www.zamzar.com online service. On 6 December 2014 04:15:23 GMT+00:00, FC fc...@cox.net wrote: I use Win 7 Home Premium and OO 3.4.1 How do I open and read a .wpd file using OO Writer? Thanks in advance to any kind

Reading a .wpd file in OO Writer.

2014-12-05 Thread FC
I use Win 7 Home Premium and OO 3.4.1 How do I open and read a .wpd file using OO Writer? Thanks in advance to any kind knowledgeable person. Fred

What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread jupiter
Hi, I am running openoffice in a CentOS 6, it tried to create a configuration directory .openoffice/4 under the binary source directory and got permission issues as I cannot access /usr/lib64/openoffice.org4/program/.openoffice/4. It should be in $HOME/.openoffice/4, how can I set the

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread Urmas
jupiter: What is the UserInstallation value from .../program/bootstraprc ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jupiter wrote: It should be in $HOME/.openoffice/4, how can I set the environment value to let the program create the configuration directory under the user home directory? Is this with the official version or with the version you built? With the official version you need to edit the file

Re: What is environment variable to set openoffice user config file in $HOME/.openoffice/4?

2014-11-16 Thread jupiter
directory under the user home directory? Is this with the official version or with the version you built? With the official version you need to edit the file .../openoffice4/program/bootstraprc ; with a self-built version it is similar except for those built with the installed configure

Is there any way to retrieve a file after its been deleted off front box that opens when you use OO? Or a way to retrieve files that were written over with another file?

2014-11-02 Thread dks71364
Thanks Deb S. Sent from Windows Mail

Re: Is there any way to retrieve a file after its been deleted off front box that opens when you use OO? Or a way to retrieve files that were written over with another file?

2014-11-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 12:07:38 -0600, dks71...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote: Thanks Deb S. Sent from Windows Mail Whats going on with this '.invalid' on the emails. Is this a mailing list feature? or is it coming from yahoo? -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Committer

Re: Is there any way to retrieve a file after its been deleted off front box that opens when you use OO? Or a way to retrieve files that were written over with another file?

2014-11-02 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:07:38 + dks71...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: Thanks Deb S. You need to use an Undelete utility sch as PhotoRec (for all platforms) or Recuva (for Windows only). This may or may not be successful. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie

Re: Auto Spell Check--it's how you create, open, or access your file

2014-09-17 Thread Anthony J. Rudgers
Greetings, Back when I was attempting to get some useful results using OpenOffice Writer, I had a number of experiences similar to your present one. Sometimes the OOo spellcheck worked just fine for American English. Other times it didn't work at all, failing to redline obvious misspellings

cant open file

2014-07-29 Thread rwonderly
I had my computer shut down incorrectly, and when i restarted it and tried to open a spreadsheet (which was saved several times prior to the crash) it attempted to recover the document, but was unsuccessful. After the unsuccessful recovery, when i first double click the file it opens a window

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-10 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:29:20 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Maybe I'm being dense here - if I go to print from Impress, I get an OO dialog that allows me to select which view I want to print. If in that dialog I select Presets, current, orientation is set to portrait. is it

Re: Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 4 Jul 2014, at 14:34, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:35:16 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step by step? I'm on OO 4.1.0 that depends on the model of your printer. the settings are those of the printer, not of openoffice.

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 9 Jul 2014, at 17:58, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step by step? I'm on OO 4.1.0 that depends on the model of your printer.

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 9 Jul 2014, at 22:27, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: On 9 Jul 2014, at 17:58, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step by

Microsoft Is Blocking Access to My Open Office File

2014-07-08 Thread Patricia Ring
I had a free trial offer from Microsoft nearly a year ago. I never created one document on it. My then, very old Windows XP couldn’t support it. I just finally managed to convert my WPS file to a doc file, using Apache Open Office. Now, when I attempt to open the file – a message from

Re: Microsoft Is Blocking Access to My Open Office File

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Groenescheij
In the *Control**Panel* select *Default Programs* and then *Set your default programs* or*Associate a file type or protocol with a program*. On 21-6-2014 5:30, Patricia Ring wrote: I had a free trial offer from Microsoft nearly a year ago. I never created one document on it. My then, very

Re: How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send as a file

2014-07-08 Thread Doug
On 07/08/2014 03:26 PM, Justyna K. wrote: Hi, How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send as a file. Thanks. Sent from my iPad Not sure why you're having a problem. Just highlite the entire resume and paste it into OO or any word processor. You

Re: How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send as a file

2014-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
and for all. We just need to learn how to program the COM instructions and internal application messaging. On 7/8/14, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 07/08/2014 03:26 PM, Justyna K. wrote: Hi, How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send

Re: How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send as a file

2014-07-08 Thread Doug
On 07/08/2014 09:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 7/8/14, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 07/08/2014 03:26 PM, Justyna K. wrote: Hi, How to put my resume file from email into the open office application and then send as a file. Thanks. Sent from my iPad Not sure why you're

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-04 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:35:16 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes run off the bottom of the page. i was able to solve this by

Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-01 Thread Julian Thomas
I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes run off the bottom of the page. It grates my teeth to have to convert to ppt and use PPT to do the print job :-{{ -- -- -- jt

Re: Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-06-04 Thread 許哲崇
:01 AM, ennio nasr.la...@tin.it wrote: is there any way to change the default field and text delimiters proposed by Ooo when saving a tabular file as a text.csv? (File/Sava as/Text CSV/Keep current format...) I would always like to use '|' as field delimiter and nothing as text dlimiter

Re: Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-06-04 Thread johnny smith
, then save your file with the required settings and stop recording. after that you may assign a keyboard shortcut or a button on a toolbar to it. however, when i tried it, everything worked perfectly except the fact that there was no dialogue to enter a name to save the file with. it is certainly

Re: Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-06-03 Thread ennio
* Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com [030614, 14:50]: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:01 AM, ennio nasr.la...@tin.it wrote: is there any way to change the default field and text delimiters proposed by Ooo when saving a tabular file as a text.csv? (File/Sava as/Text CSV/Keep current format

Re: Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-06-03 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/03/2014 04:29 PM, ennio wrote: * Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com [030614, 14:50]: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:01 AM, ennio nasr.la...@tin.it wrote: is there any way to change the default field and text delimiters proposed by Ooo when saving a tabular file as a text.csv? (File/Sava

Re: Guidelines for file size for Calc

2014-06-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Louis B Bushard lbush...@comcast.net wrote: Are there any limits on the size of .ods files. OpenOffice calc? 4.1.0 seems to be slower and more likely to go 'belly up', especially on my biggest .ods files. Thanks, Lou Bushard

Guidelines for file size for Calc

2014-05-31 Thread Louis B Bushard
Are there any limits on the size of .ods files. OpenOffice calc? 4.1.0 seems to be slower and more likely to go 'belly up', especially on my biggest .ods files. Thanks, Lou Bushard --- List Conduct Guidelines:

Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-05-27 Thread ennio
Hi all, is there any way to change the default field and text delimiters proposed by Ooo when saving a tabular file as a text.csv? (File/Sava as/Text CSV/Keep current format...) I would always like to use '|' as field delimiter and nothing as text dlimiter without being obliged to change

Crashing of Open Office 4.1.0 version File

2014-05-14 Thread Shanthi-Si
Hi, I am currently using Open Office 4.1.0. I work on spreadsheets extensively. However, I have noticed that while working on a file (be it a small sized or a big sized one, but both with lot of links and usage of formulae within the file), it goes into Not Responding mode. It takes nearly 5

Re: Crashing of Open Office 4.1.0 version File

2014-05-14 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:59 14/05/2014 +0530, Shanthi Sonly wrote: I am currently using Open Office 4.1.0. I work on spreadsheets extensively. However, I have noticed that while working on a file (be it a small sized or a big sized one, but both with lot of links and usage of formulae within the file), it goes

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-29 Thread Julian Thomas
on this and I went over to the dark side long enough to sort the file. thanks. jt --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-28 Thread d a n i e l h u c h e r o t
an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only entries needing processing? I'm reasonably sure that you cannot do this: OpenOffice

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-28 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:20:36 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I have an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only

need help with excel file

2014-04-27 Thread Julian Thomas
I have an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only entries needing processing? Conversely, if I save in excel as CSV

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:20 27/04/2014 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote: I have an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only entries needing processing

help! unlock my file

2014-04-03 Thread Sumera Shakir
Hello, I don’t know what to do. This is the second time I am writing a paper and when I go to open it. It won’t open in OpenOffice. It will open in TextEditor but it only shows part of it. I don’t know whats going on. I have a Mac. Please help me. thank you Sumera Shakir

unlock my file part 2

2014-04-03 Thread Sumera Shakir
Hello again, I wrote earlier about my paper not opening. It is an .rtf file. When I go to open it, it says there is a General input/output error. I tried a Command -I and it shows that the file is not locked. Please respond as soon as possible.. Thank you very much again Sumera Shakir 201

Re: unlock my file part 2

2014-04-03 Thread Tubular
) then renamed via an Explorer type program? As you can tell, I am a Windows user. Sorry, I could not be more helpful . . . Sumera Shakir wrote: Hello again, I wrote earlier about my paper not opening. It is an .rtf file. When I go to open it, it says there is a General input/output error. I tried

4.1 Writer list of r latst opened file

2014-03-30 Thread Claus Thøgersen
Hi, This may not be a bug, but when I open .doc files in Writer they do not show up in the list of lats opened files in the file menu. Only the odt documents I have used show up in the list. Is this the intended behavior? Claus

Re: file opening

2014-03-26 Thread Doug
On 03/26/2014 07:15 PM, Greg Madden wrote: /snip/ I have an archive of old WP docs, Libreoffice opens them. For work I run WP* in a Windows vm, AOO for the rest. LO uses: Inst libwpd-0.9-9 (0.9.4-3 Debian:7.4/stable [amd64]) Inst libwpg-0.2-2 (0.2.1-1 Debian:7.4/stable [amd64]) Inst

OpenOffice 4.0.1 / Problem with xlsx file

2014-03-21 Thread INDAG GmbH Co Betriebs KG
Hallo, we are using OpenOffice 4.0.1 With Calc we can open xlsx files generated by Excel 2010. But when we generate a xlsx file with TIA Portal from Siemens, we cannot open it with OpenOffice. It works with Excel 2010. Thank you for any advice.

file opening

2014-03-16 Thread Herb Swift
Using Open Office Writer version 4.0.1, how can I open a file created by Word Perfect 6.1, file extension wpd? --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: file opening

2014-03-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 15 March 2014 22:33:24 you wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:07:39 -0400 Herb Swift hswi...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Using Open Office Writer version 4.0.1, how can I open a file created by Word Perfect 6.1, file extension wpd? --- List

How to cover an unwanted object on a JPEG file

2014-01-29 Thread Marvin Sampson
Dear sirs: Does OpenOffice have a way to select an area in a JPEG (photo) file like a portion of sky, and then paste that area over an unwanted object in the photo, in order to delete that object? I suspect that this can be done using OpenOffice Draw. Where can I find the instruction

Re: How to cover an unwanted object on a JPEG file

2014-01-29 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Marvin, On 29.01.2014 14:43, Marvin Sampson wrote: Dear sirs: Does OpenOffice have a way to select an area in a JPEG (photo) file like a portion of sky, and then paste that area over an unwanted object in the photo, in order to delete that object? I suspect that this can be done

Re: Opening an OpenOffice file.

2014-01-23 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Thanks for the response. It worked! Tom On 22. Jan 2014, at 21:33 , Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-22, 2:16 PM Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: Recently. when I try to open an OpenOffice file, a window from OpenOffice appears with the text: The last time you opened

Opening an OpenOffice file.

2014-01-22 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Recently. when I try to open an OpenOffice file, a window from OpenOffice appears with the text: The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?”. In this window there are two buttons, one with “Don’t Reopen

Re: Opening an OpenOffice file.

2014-01-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2014-01-22, 2:16 PM Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: Recently. when I try to open an OpenOffice file, a window from OpenOffice appears with the text: The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again

Re: Opening a Text file with a null end

2014-01-20 Thread 許哲崇
We can do it automatically, as much as manually, as much as you. Maybe perl will be fun to you. 2014/1/20 Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net Everyone, I am using openoffice writer to open up a text file that is being created with a null octal \000\ as the end of file marker. When openoffice

Re: File formats for the Draw program

2014-01-20 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
in a LaTex document, but as far as I can see, none of the file formats offered in that programs are used in Latex. Are there (a) some kind of addition to OpenOffice that can offer something like .png to .tif files to be exported, or (b) some other drawing program to be recommended? You

Re: Opening a Text file with a null end

2014-01-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Dear Fideric, Perl certainly allowed me to solve the problem, but it would have been nice to do it with openoffice. I am not certain that I understand your note. Were you able to get openoffice to ignore nulls at the end of a text file? -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.Net We can

File formats for the Draw program

2014-01-19 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
I would like to draw some figures using Draw to be used in a LaTex document, but as far as I can see, none of the file formats offered in that programs are used in Latex. Are there (a) some kind of addition to OpenOffice that can offer something like .png to .tif files to be exported, or (b

Re: File formats for the Draw program

2014-01-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen bac...@psych.uib.no wrote: I would like to draw some figures using Draw to be used in a LaTex document, but as far as I can see, none of the file formats offered in that programs are used in Latex. Are there (a) some kind of addition

Opening a Text file with a null end

2014-01-19 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I am using openoffice writer to open up a text file that is being created with a null octal \000\ as the end of file marker. When openoffice opens the file it replaces the null with a # character. The software I am using to create the text file is unable to create the text file

Re: Opening a Text file with a null end

2014-01-19 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I am using openoffice writer to open up a text file that is being created with a null octal \000\ as the end of file marker. When openoffice opens the file it replaces the null with a # character. The software I am using to create the text file is unable to create the text file

Re: autocorrect file

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Sandra Clark sclark5...@mchsi.com wrote: I used Open Office 4 on a Vista computer. I now have another computer with Windows8. Where is my autocorrect file on the Vista computer and where do I copy it to my Windows 8 computer? Hi Sandra, On your old computer

Fw: autocorrect file

2014-01-17 Thread Gerry Dutchie
On Friday, 17 January 2014, 16:55, Gerry Dutchie wingb...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Sandra, It may be a little complicated but the information you want is in a hidden folder on your harddisc. 1. First make the hidden folders visible. 2. Then locate the file(s) you seek and... 3. Copy

autocorrect file

2014-01-16 Thread Sandra Clark
I used Open Office 4 on a Vista computer. I now have another computer with Windows8. Where is my autocorrect file on the Vista computer and where do I copy it to my Windows 8 computer? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr

cannot open lock file

2013-12-11 Thread vdven
hi My stick crashed. I got the files of. but now i cannot open them i have the following files .~lock.name and name.doc iif i open the name.doc, i have the useless codeselection thing, after which i get a page with weird symbols. The lock file is blanc. Is there a way to retrieve my file

Re: cannot open lock file

2013-12-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Sadly, using AOO on a stick directly is a very bad idea. If there is a crash there is nothing to be done. Better copy the file on the HD and once the work is done, move it back to the stick (and delete the file of the HD afterward if necessary). If the transfer fails, you still have the file

Thanks on infor about Sudden? Conversion of a file to a read only file

2013-12-06 Thread Janis Langins
Thanks to all who responded with advice about my problem below. I managed to solve it by saving the blocked file to another computer (office computer from home computer) where the blocking came off and I was able to transfer it back to my original computer. Many thanks again. Janis Langins

Re: Sudden? Conversion of a file to a read only file

2013-12-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:27:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: On 12/03/2013 10:21 PM, Janis Langins wrote: A file I have updating daily (quite long, about 340 pages) has inexplicably for reasons I cannot understand converted to a Read Only file. I have tried to get around this by copy the file

Sudden? Conversion of a file to a read only file

2013-12-03 Thread Janis Langins
A file I have updating daily (quite long, about 340 pages) has inexplicably for reasons I cannot understand converted to a Read Only file. I have tried to get around this by copy the file from another folder where did not convert to a Read Only to overwrite this file. It stays Read Only. I

Re: Sudden? Conversion of a file to a read only file

2013-12-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:21:06 -0500 Janis Langins j.lang...@utoronto.ca wrote: A file I have updating daily (quite long, about 340 pages) has inexplicably for reasons I cannot understand converted to a Read Only file. I have tried to get around this by copy the file from another folder

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-26 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
and it worked fine), I don't need this code, but SimpleFileAccess and TextOutputStream seems interesting! Based on my testing while writing the first edition of OOME, I decided that the general file reading and writing capabilities in StarBasic are very poor. Yes, and I think there are some nasty

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/11/24 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org On 11/22/2013 06:41 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Dim iNumber As Integer iNumber = Freefile Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber Print #iNumber, Line 1 Print #iNumber, Line 2 Close #iNumber The file now looks like this (in hex

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/22/2013 06:41 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Dim iNumber As Integer iNumber = Freefile Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber Print #iNumber, Line 1 Print #iNumber, Line 2 Close #iNumber The file now looks like this (in hex values): 4C 69 6E 65 20 31 0A 4C 69 6E 65 20 32 0A So every line

Re: File problem

2013-11-22 Thread Urmas
You could try RTF or legacy DOC format. OpenOffice is virtually unusable with the newer OpenXML formats due to political reasons. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands,

Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Dim iNumber As Integer iNumber = Freefile Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber Print #iNumber, Line 1 Print #iNumber, Line 2 Close #iNumber The file now looks like this (in hex values): 4C 69 6E 65 20 31 0A 4C 69 6E 65 20 32 0A So every line ends with 0A (Chr(10)). The file is going

Re: Problem with a docx file

2013-11-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
file, AOO will crash trying to open it. This is worth investigating too. Is it possible that we have a problem similar to the one already solved in 4.0.1, where we couldn't properly decode doc/xls/ppt files created with Pages? Regards, Andrea

File problem

2013-11-21 Thread Doug
Sent a file edited in OO to a Mac. Origin of file--what word-processor wrote it--is unknown. File was edited to Times Roman 14 point, double spaced, justified. When the Mac owner opened the file, it was unusable. He sent me this: On closer examination and trying to import the ISGA article

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