[users] Datasources and MySQL

2005-01-21 Thread Bill Dika
I am using Mandrake 10.1, MySQL 4.0.20 and unixODBC 2.2.10 which I just compiled from source without any options. I have everything set up so that I can successfully connect to the MySQL-test database using isql. However when I start calc and try to set up a MySQL datasource, I run into proble

Re: [users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar

2005-01-21 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Walt Foster wrote: -Original Message- From: Jacqueline McNally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:22 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar Peter Kupfer wrote: I think I already know the answer to my question, but it makes me

RE: [users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar

2005-01-21 Thread Walt Foster
-Original Message- From: Jacqueline McNally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:22 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar Peter Kupfer wrote: > I think I already know the answer to my question, but it makes me sad > so I am a

Re: [users] How do I - - -

2005-01-21 Thread Balwant Singh
Go to DATA menu then select SORT. with best wishes balwant On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 06:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It works! > Select all, data, Sort, etc. Thank you all! Evidently I should have read > how to do this somewhere, but where? Please answer this last question. > Thanks again. >

Re: [users] OpenOffice

2005-01-21 Thread Balwant Singh
yes it has in writer - go to INSERT then in TABLE. with best wishes balwant On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:40, Julian Brown wrote: > Does OpenOffice have the facility to create Tables? > > Regards > > Julian Brown > > > - > To uns

Re: [users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar

2005-01-21 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Peter Kupfer wrote: I think I already know the answer to my question, but it makes me sad so I am asking to verify, hoping that I am wrong. It appears to me that in OOo 2.0 the file name will be displayed in the title bar, with no option to show the document title instead. Is this accurate? Af

[users] File name in 2.0 Title Bar

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Kupfer
I think I already know the answer to my question, but it makes me sad so I am asking to verify, hoping that I am wrong. It appears to me that in OOo 2.0 the file name will be displayed in the title bar, with no option to show the document title instead. Is this accurate? After searching the li

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-01-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andrew wrote: > I did not realize that. Is that because the macro access some of those > special features? I have no idea. For all I know, the authors didn't realize that Java was required. I didn't keep a list of them. I'm guessing that they were either related to data/language input/display

Re: [users] Digest Version of This List (Is there One?)

2005-01-21 Thread Joe Marks
--- "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:25 -0600, Saint Vincent > Depaul Owensboro Ky > wrote: > > I would like one single email of this enire list > sent to my e-mail > > inbox; is this possible. Also, I had a friend tell > me that RSS was the > > way

Re: [users] How to install Quickstart menu & icon on Win XP taskbar?

2005-01-21 Thread Crystle Numan
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:12 +0100, Dick Kraaij wrote: > Hi, > > I had OO 1.1.3 installed on my Windows XP Professional desktop. > Yesterday I installed 1.1.4 on both my pc and my laptop (also WinXP > Pro). Somehow I lost the Quickstart icon on my taskbar. How can I > install this menu manually? >

[users] Re: Mixed OS Lan Linux/XP/Win98 and network OOo install?

2005-01-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:18:01 -0800, Ken Walker wrote: > I would consider installing the shared version of OOo on one of the > Windows computers, but since they all run XPHome, I think the limit on the > number of active network connections XPHome will permit would be a > problem. There shouldn't

Re: [users] Re: Pasting from email

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Blandford
Diane Mackay wrote: Brian Blandford wrote: Thanks for the info. The odd thing is that sometimes pasting from email or web pge works, and sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't the very same clipboard contents pastes into Kword without any trouble. [...] You're welcome. I've seen this too, alth

Re: [users] Re: Pasting from email

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Blandford
Diane Mackay wrote: Brian Blandford wrote: Thanks for the info. The odd thing is that sometimes pasting from email or web pge works, and sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't the very same clipboard contents pastes into Kword without any trouble. [...] You're welcome. I've seen this too, alth

[users] Re: Pasting from email

2005-01-21 Thread Diane Mackay
Brian Blandford wrote: Thanks for the info. The odd thing is that sometimes pasting from email or web pge works, and sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't the very same clipboard contents pastes into Kword without any trouble. [...] You're welcome. I've seen this too, although I haven't seen

[users] Document Assembly

2005-01-21 Thread Ken Walker
We want to start using OOo in our law firm and I have the job of showing that it can work. In this instance, I am hoping to be able to show that it works better than Word. A couple of people here use their word processor to do real estate conveyance documents. Those documents include a. corr

Re: [users] Digest Version of This List (Is there One?)

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:25 -0600, Saint Vincent Depaul Owensboro Ky wrote: > I would like one single email of this enire list sent to my e-mail > inbox; is this possible. Also, I had a friend tell me that RSS was the > way to go for list like this. Any info. would be appreciated. > > Thank You

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 350MB!

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 21:39 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:38 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > > > > >>Jonathon Blake wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Duncan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > hi there, you can see from my a

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 350MB!

2005-01-21 Thread Duncan Lithgow
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:38 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: Jonathon Blake wrote: Duncan wrote: hi there, you can see from my altered subject that after editing dictionary.lst my soffice.bin it's still too big. I saw that after I posted my resp

[users] Digest Version of This List (Is there One?)

2005-01-21 Thread Saint Vincent Depaul Owensboro Ky
I would like one single email of this enire list sent to my e-mail inbox; is this possible. Also, I had a friend tell me that RSS was the way to go for list like this. Any info. would be appreciated. Thank You Jimmy Kamuf - To u

[users] Re: Attn: G Roderick Singleton - Calc Hyperlink challenge

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:01 +0800, James Elliott wrote: I have discovered something with regard to my problem with having two hyperlinks in once Calc cell - please refer to previous posts while reading this. If I have "272" and "273" in the one cell, separated by a c

[users] Mixed OS Lan Linux/XP/Win98 and network OOo install?

2005-01-21 Thread Ken Walker
Our Lan has a file and print server running Mandrake Linux, and a half dozen workstations running Windows (some Win98, some XPhome). We want to move from MSWord on the workstations to OOo. Can we do a network install of OOo on the Linux server that will be used by the workstations running Win

[users] Re: Attn: G Roderick Singleton - Calc Hyperlink challenge

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:01 +0800, James Elliott wrote: I have discovered something with regard to my problem with having two hyperlinks in once Calc cell - please refer to previous posts while reading this. If I have "272" and "273" in the one cell, separated by a c

Re: [users] Base and jdbc

2005-01-21 Thread Martin Fox
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:25:15 +0100 (CET) "Alexander Broekhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the snapshot build for 2.0. This works great, but > somehow I can't use Base with firebird as database. I'm using JDBC to > connect to the database. > > Someone in here know abou

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 712MB!

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 13:27 -0500, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > Now that i've got my swap working I have to ask, is it normal that after > > right clicking a few mispelled works the memory load from soffice.bin is > > 712MB? That's huge! As soon as I stop the app my mem and swap usage drops > > by

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 712MB!

2005-01-21 Thread Adam Sulmicki
Now that i've got my swap working I have to ask, is it normal that after right clicking a few mispelled works the memory load from soffice.bin is 712MB? That's huge! As soon as I stop the app my mem and swap usage drops by two thirds... just another data point I have seen my office to run out of

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 350MB!

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:38 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Jonathon Blake wrote: > > >Duncan wrote: > > > > > > > >>hi there, you can see from my altered subject that after editing > >> > >> > > dictionary.lst my soffice.bin it's still too big. > > > >I saw that after I posted my response.

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 350MB!

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:38 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Jonathon Blake wrote: > > >Duncan wrote: > > > > > > > >>hi there, you can see from my altered subject that after editing > >> > >> > > dictionary.lst my soffice.bin it's still too big. > > > >I saw that after I posted my response.

Re: [users] [OOwriter 1.1.4] Graphics...

2005-01-21 Thread Duncan Lithgow
Daniel Courivaud wrote: Hello, I use OO Writer and Draw to produce scientific documents with figures and equations. My goal is to export them in xhtml format. I'm facing many difficulties. 1. When I insert a png figure (created with Draw) and add a caption, a frame with dimensions corresponding

Re: [users] soffice mem usage 350MB!

2005-01-21 Thread Duncan Lithgow
Jonathon Blake wrote: Duncan wrote: hi there, you can see from my altered subject that after editing dictionary.lst my soffice.bin it's still too big. I saw that after I posted my response. What macros have you added? [Some of them suck up RAM and CPU time like nobody's business. ] I h

[users] [OOwriter 1.1.4] Graphics...

2005-01-21 Thread Daniel Courivaud
Hello, I use OO Writer and Draw to produce scientific documents with figures and equations. My goal is to export them in xhtml format. I'm facing many difficulties. 1. When I insert a png figure (created with Draw) and add a caption, a frame with dimensions corresponding to figure is created an

Re: [users] Text along draw objects?

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 08:59 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > Can't find a way to do this anywhere in the help, but I'm probably > missing something obvious... > > I want to be able to add some text that flows (follows) the lines in a > draw object - whether it is a circle, box, or free-form curved

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:09 -0500, Richard Mercer wrote: > Does Open Office interface with Corel or WordPerfect/Quattro Pro formats? > I am not aware of any conflicts. OOo Writer does not natively handle wp files without a special addon and OOo Calc does not natively open Quattro files. -- Docu

Re: [users] problem

2005-01-21 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:00 +, john woolford wrote: > I was using OpenOffice 1.1.1 when it began refusing to > open, with the error message 'Get Storage, name: "No > Content!'. I tried downloading version 1.1.3, but this > made no difference. Help! John > You problem is described and a workar

Re: [users] Re: Pasting from email

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Blandford
Thanks for the info. The odd thing is that sometimes pasting from email or web pge works, and sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't the very same clipboard contents pastes into Kword without any trouble. I think I will leave it now; apart from my pasting from emails being rare, I'm waiting w

Re: [users] [moderated] using cam

2005-01-21 Thread Brian Blandford
Nicu Buculei wrote: *i apologize, just frustrated a web cam, what do you mean Twain Drivers?* TWAIN is, in it's own definition "a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices" - in simple word: the software which should came on CD with your camera.

Re: [users] OOo m71 or greater?

2005-01-21 Thread Martin Fox
On Friday 21 January 2005 00:54, Daniel Kasak wrote: > But I need: > > - the new database module support for the connection setup - I'm talking > to MySQL via StarBasic > - some fixes that went in after m69 - mainly selecting a default > dictionary - it causes us no end of trouble when people creat

[users] Text along draw objects?

2005-01-21 Thread Charles Marcus
Can't find a way to do this anywhere in the help, but I'm probably missing something obvious... I want to be able to add some text that flows (follows) the lines in a draw object - whether it is a circle, box, or free-form curved line. Is this possible? Many thanks, -- Charles -

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Jonathon Blake wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: to use some very special features, Some macros also require Java to run. Unfortunately, the creators of those macros don't always bother to write that in their "read me" file. xan jonathon I did not realize that. Is that because the mac

Re: [users] Unwanted "field" spontaneously attatched to many of my footers (OO1.9.71.1)

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Hello, Everyone :) First of all, OpenOffice.org is getting to be more of a pleasure all the time, not only to work with, but to reccomend to others. On our home system (Fedora Core Linux 3) everything is wonderful, even startup times :) But I am having this wierd proble

Re: [users] problem

2005-01-21 Thread Cyrille Moureaux
Hi John, I was using OpenOffice 1.1.1 when it began refusing to open, with the error message 'Get Storage, name: "No Content!'. I tried downloading version 1.1.3, but this made no difference. Help! John This is unfortunately a problem that sometimes occurs where one of your settings file becomes c

Re: [users] problem

2005-01-21 Thread Martin Deppe
john woolford wrote: I was using OpenOffice 1.1.1 when it began refusing to open, with the error message 'Get Storage, name: "No Content!'. I tried downloading version 1.1.3, but this made no difference. Help! John = Professor John Woolford English Dept., U. of Manchester, Oxford Rd., M13 9PL 0

[users] Fwd: Re: Open Office

2005-01-21 Thread Bill Gardner
--- Original Message --- From: "Colin Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bill Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:29:58 +0800 Subject: Re: Open Office > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:56 +0100, Bill Gardner wrote: > >> Hi Colin, >> Can you help me? I downloaded Open Office,which too

[users] [moderated]

2005-01-21 Thread Richard Mercer
Does Open Office interface with Corel or WordPerfect/Quattro Pro formats? Rich Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph/fax: 403-287-2604 Richard F. Mercer P. Geol. 5012-15th Street SW Calgary Alberta Canada T2T 4B6 - To unsubscribe, e-m

[users] help, writer program

2005-01-21 Thread Cere Caudill
Help, open office was set up for me by "Cheap Guys computers" and I do not have the writer program or the calc and many other features I saw on your home page. How do I check this out? or download again? thank you, Mrs. Cere Caudill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[users] problem

2005-01-21 Thread john woolford
I was using OpenOffice 1.1.1 when it began refusing to open, with the error message 'Get Storage, name: "No Content!'. I tried downloading version 1.1.3, but this made no difference. Help! John = Professor John Woolford English Dept., U. of Manchester, Oxford Rd., M13 9PL 0161-275-7973 tel.:

Re: [users] Can't switch to US keyboard on X11 (stays on Greek)

2005-01-21 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
Thanks, for some reason after a few attempts my US keyboard capability loads up once again, although I don't know what will happen the next time I fire up X11. I will guess that something has changed in your X11 setup or you have changed Locales in OOo. For OOo check Tools > Options > OpenOffic

Re: [Fwd: [users] OpenOffice Filter for Word?]

2005-01-21 Thread Urska Colner
hi guy don't think there is one. why not send them the file in both formats, so they can also compare the size of it. urska hrgresham wrote: hey, is there an oppenOffice filter i can send along with my documents so that MS users can read them? i know i can export to word, but i'd like to let