Re: [users] Saving writer file as Word file

2005-05-13 Thread Joe
What does linked to the frame mean? They have to be stored or linked to somewhere. Does this mean don't use OOo frames for graphics when the file has to be exported to Word? Joe Johnny Andersson wrote: OOo is not fully compatible with word, so this kinds of things is expected. Pictures are

[users] InstallOOoWikipedia macro

2005-05-13 Thread Lewis Brunton
Hi, has anyone had any luck installing the InstallOOoWikipedia macro with OOo2? thanks Lewis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] InstallOOoWikipedia macro

2005-05-13 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi Lewis, has anyone had any luck installing the InstallOOoWikipedia macro with OOo2? i have to package it as a legal addon for OOo 2 plus some minor adjustments regarding http parameter Thanks for the reminder I'll do it asap Laurent -- Laurent Godard [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ingénierie OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Saving writer file as Word file

2005-05-13 Thread Paul
There are typically two methods of dealing with graphics in a document. You can embed them or link them. Embedding increases the file size but the graphics are stored within the document. Linking graphics's means smaller file sizes and that the person viewing the document must be able to 'see' the

[users] macros in native lang

2005-05-13 Thread Saulius Gedgaudas
Hi, Im doing macro for replacing some sentenses from en to my native lang, but when i save the source of it i get some ? (in some, not all) in places of some letters. I tried to edit and save it as unicode, utf-8, but macro editor dont understand it as i noticed. Is there any way to make it work

Re: [users] Re: Your help please

2005-05-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 05:36 +, Andrew Brown wrote: David Garson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). However, some of my articles have to be americanised and however much I try to change the language

[users] Re: Your help please

2005-05-13 Thread Paul B.
David Garson wrote: It is very urgent and your help would be very much appreciated! I am a travel writer, writing my articles in English (GreatBritain). However, some of my articles have to be americanised and however much I try to change the language under Extra-Options-Languages etc. it always

Re: [users] Re: Irregular line spacing in 1.1.4

2005-05-13 Thread Rogier van Vlissingen
On Fri, 13 May 2005 01:19:38 -0400, kb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rogier van Vlissingen wrote: After importing a doc into another doc, I'm having tremendous challenges with irregular line spacing -- the original was imported from an msword doc, and looks fine, but after making some formatting

Re: [users] macros in native lang

2005-05-13 Thread Saulius Gedgaudas
OOo 1.1.4, winxp sp1, its not specifies any font. ill just put little fragment from want i want to say. Its code from OO's native macros editor: args6(10).Name = SearchItem.SearchString args6(10).Value = BRT P-band args6(11).Name = SearchItem.ReplaceString args6(11).Value = Grtanios temp.

Re: [users] Re: Your help please

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Fisk
Coming from a background in the publishing industry -- my guess would be that anything you write will be funneled into some kind of (editorial) content management system, that will be localized, although this is not really an Open Office fix -- why not let the copy editors fix the issues

[users] Extracting text strings from an Impress document

2005-05-13 Thread suzume
Hello everybody, I need to extract all the strings from an Impress document. I got the contents.xml file but displaying it in a browser removes all line breaks and I need to have one string per line (the order does not matter, I can fix it later). There are no save to .txt under Impress. Any

Re: [users] macros in native lang

2005-05-13 Thread Elsasser
It seems that some Lithuanian characters interfere with the system. But exists in several languages. Could somebody ask the real specialists (of the system, not of languages) ? Saulius Gedgaudas a crit : OOo 1.1.4, winxp sp1, its not specifies any font. ill just put little fragment from want i

[users] More to do with Base

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Adkins
Hey All, I am working with Base, seeing if I can create a fairly simple configuration for initial testing. At the start, I want to use the built-in Base Open Data Base file, but with the data I am going to be putting into the DB, I will eventually switching over to MySQL. For now, I just

[users] Frames and Nudging Elements Within Frame Problem

2005-05-13 Thread operationsengineer1
hi, i inserted a frame and inserted some elements inside the frame. specifically, i inserted a rectangle and i want to put circles inside to designate an area where foam is to be applied. when i nudge the circles within the frame (using alt), the frame nudges, not the circles. the arrow key

[users] Paste Element Location

2005-05-13 Thread operationsengineer1
when i paste objects they often end up on the bottom of the page. why is this? also, i notice when i pick up the element and move it into place, the screen often makes abrupt changes to the viewing area. is there any way to get some control over this behvaior or eliminate it entirely? tia...

Re: [users] Extracting text strings from an Impress document

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
If you wanted, you could copy and paste the text. It might take a bit of time though. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I need to extract all the strings from an Impress document. I got the contents.xml file but displaying it in a browser removes all line breaks and I need to have one

[users] My 4Mb+ (90+ pp) Writer file displays empty

2005-05-13 Thread Bryce L Nordgren
I just posted this to users@sw.openoffice.org, but that might have been a mistake. In any case, here's the situation: Last November, with OOo 1.1.2 on Linux x86 RH7.2, I formatted a *.sxw document which had been scanned in and OCR'ed. I didn't convert it from anything, just copy and paste from

Re: [users] My 4Mb+ (90+ pp) Writer file displays empty

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
Hmm, it looks like it's lost. Try upgrading to 1.1.4. Bryce L Nordgren wrote: I just posted this to users@sw.openoffice.org, but that might have been a mistake. In any case, here's the situation: Last November, with OOo 1.1.2 on Linux x86 RH7.2, I formatted a *.sxw document which had been scanned

[users] Saving in different file formats

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Sutton
It seems that this has come up a few times recently I have therefore written a document that explains how to do this, It's currently saved on my HDD, in open office 1.1.x format, even though I actually wrote it in 1.9.75 or 79, anyway. I would like to donate this to the open office.org

[users] Importing AutoText from MS Word Template

2005-05-13 Thread Roger
I am running Open Office 1.1.4 under Windows 98 with Sun Java 1.4.2-06. I am trying to import AutoText from a Word template designed to produce instructions for Scottish Country Dances. The template and instructions for Open Office are to be found here:

[users] Re: Help agent duration 1.9.100

2005-05-13 Thread Russell Butler
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:38 +1000, Russell Butler wrote: I have just set up 1.9.100 on my Mandrake Linux machine. I note that there is no option to adjust the time that the Help agent Entered as http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49192 Please consider

[users] Datapivot - horizontal organization of data fields

2005-05-13 Thread =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ji=F8=ED_Hlad=F9vka?=
When creating Datapivot the fields I want to sumarize are presented in 1 column. How to get the dat fields into separate columns ? example : region A | article_1 | sold pcs | purchase value| sales value region A | article_2 | ... ... region A total | sum sold pcs |sum purchase value

[users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I am not sure if this is just me, or a bug in the software. I am currently working on my ECA (End of Course Assesment) for the open university, part of this is to answer a question in 60 - 100 words. If I goto statistics it seems to give me the same word count, regardless of the fact that

Re: [users] More to do with Base

2005-05-13 Thread David
Rather than use a query as the 'source' for the data of the form, use a form based upon Images with a subform based upon Cameras. when you set images.Camid, Cameras fields will show the linked camera info. The Help files contain enough info to tell you how to do this. Robert Adkins wrote: Hey

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread Mika-Petri Lauronen
I am not sure if this is just me, or a bug in the software. Just thought I would ask, am I doing the word count correctly, I probably need to update my software, as 1.1.79 is slightly out of date, but I am not really using this for production use, and would rather wait until 2.0 comes out.

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread =?UTF-8?B?IkVsw61kaWVyIE1veWEgUi4i?=
As I understand with this option it is possible to see just the whole file statistic. So, it is useless to highlighted some part of the text. Regards, Eldier Moya R. Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am not sure if this is just me, or a bug in the software. I am currently working on my ECA (End of Course

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread =?UTF-8?B?IkVsw61kaWVyIE1veWEgUi4i?=
I forgot to say... Open Office 1.1.4 Eldier Moya R. wrote: As I understand with this option it is possible to see just the whole file statistic. So, it is useless to highlighted some part of the text. Regards, Eldier Moya R. Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I am not sure if this is just me, or a bug in the

Re: [users] LOST FILE

2005-05-13 Thread Shelley Cryer
XP Home Edition; version 2002 Service pack 2 Open office.org 1.9.69 Thanks Shell G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 01:06 -0600, Shelley Cryer wrote: I was updating a file in open office draw. The system crashed and all data was lost. The system did not attempt to retrieve

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2005-05-13 Thread Joao Ricardo
When I open a template that is in /mnt/...( by nfs ) the openOffice gives the message that is in the picture I send to you. But if I copy the template to my hard disk Openoffice can read it. How can I solve this? CaracterĂ­stics: Mandrake Linux 10.2 (It gives the same error with 10.1);

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2005-05-13 Thread Deborah Bradley
I have an iMac, Mac OS 9. Can I use your Mac downloads to open Microsoft Word documents? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Book/Instruction Guide Question

2005-05-13 Thread Chip Taylor
Dear Open Office, I am a high school teacher in Bar Harbor, Maine and one of the courses which I teach is a Word Processing I class to mostly 9th grade students. Within this class we have covered a variety of topics in the past which include, but are not limited to, basic keyboarding

[users] Installing OpenOffice to Windows 2000 for multiple users

2005-05-13 Thread Tom Hook
The SetupGuide recommends that Windows 2000 installations run setup -net from the zip extracted files folder to create a workstation setup folder on a server. Then run setup.exe from that new folder on the server to install on a workstation. Doing so gives the window with a choice of Network or

[users] Document type defaults

2005-05-13 Thread Gary Ellis
Hello, I am interested in trying your new beta that includes the database module. I currently use Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office 2003. The last time I tried your package it changed my system program extension defaults so that Open Office would be the default program to open files. If I

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2005-05-13 Thread jasondbruce
1. Can I use Openoffice.org to open all MICROSOFT WORD and MICROSOFT OFFICE documents.. 2. Also, Can documents I send be opened with MICROSOFT WORD or MICROSOFT OFFICE (by my teachers)..., I am a new online college student ...and my school says Microsoft WORD and OFFICE are

[users] Impress default template

2005-05-13 Thread Noel Bray-Browning
Hi, I'm having trouble getting OpenOffice 1.1.4 to work as expected with a default Impress template. I've got a default template for Writer for Calc they both work as expected. File/New/Text Document File/New/Spreadsheet bring up the templates that I have designated as defaults with no trouble.

Re: [users] Saving in different file formats

2005-05-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:53 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: It seems that this has come up a few times recently I have therefore written a document that explains how to do this, It's currently saved on my HDD, in open office 1.1.x format, even though I actually wrote it in 1.9.75 or 79, anyway.

Re: [users] Extracting text strings from an Impress document

2005-05-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 13 May 2005 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I need to extract all the strings from an Impress document. I got the contents.xml file but displaying it in a browser removes all line breaks and I need to have one string per line (the order does not matter, I can fix

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
In that case, use Andrew Brown's macro. See http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 15:24 -0600, Eldier Moya R. wrote: I forgot to say... Open Office 1.1.4 Eldier Moya R. wrote: As I understand with this option it is possible to see just the whole

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 May 2005 08:15 am, Deborah Bradley wrote: I have an iMac, Mac OS 9. Can I use your Mac downloads to open Microsoft Word documents? Our Mac version is designed for OSX only. It does not work on the earlier version. On OSX Macs, OOo (OpenOffice.org office suite) will open

Re: [users] Document type defaults

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 May 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Ellis wrote: Hello, I am interested in trying your new beta that includes the database module. I currently use Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office 2003. The last time I tried your package it changed my system program extension defaults so that Open

Re: [users] Document type defaults

2005-05-13 Thread Dave Barton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:31 -0400, Gary Ellis wrote: Hello, I am interested in trying your new beta that includes the database module. I currently use Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office 2003. The last time I tried your package it changed my system program extension defaults so that

Re: [users] Installing OpenOffice to Windows 2000 for multiple users

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 May 2005 01:46 pm, Tom Hook wrote: The SetupGuide recommends that Windows 2000 installations run setup -net from the zip extracted files folder to create a workstation setup folder on a server. Then run setup.exe from that new folder on the server to install on a workstation.

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-13 Thread Dave Barton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:04 -0700, jasondbruce wrote: 1. Can I use Openoffice.org to open all MICROSOFT WORD and MICROSOFT OFFICE documents.. 2. Also, Can documents I send be opened with MICROSOFT WORD or MICROSOFT OFFICE (by my teachers)..., I am a new online college student ...and

Re: [users] Extracting text strings from an Impress document

2005-05-13 Thread suzume
View - Workspace - Outline and then you can copy and paste the text. For some reason this does not work. I have the slide icon on the left a small preview in a separate window on the right but no text to select anywhere in sight. I used NO/J (RC with patch3) and OOo 1.93 with exactly the same

[users] Text Colors and Styles

2005-05-13 Thread Joe
How do I tell what color some text is? I need to know so I can use the same color somewhere else. When I set the color in a style (e.g. Internet Link), How do I get all Internet links to be that color. Do I have to highlight each one? I don't think so, but I haven't hit on the magic to do

[users] Text Colors and Styles

2005-05-13 Thread Joe
OOo 1.1.4 Writer Linux How do I tell what color some text is? I need to know so I can use the same color somewhere else. When I set the color in a style (e.g. Internet Link), How do I get all Internet links to be that color. Do I have to highlight each one? I don't think so, but I haven't

Re: [users] Document type defaults

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
When I installed, the default was to associate files. Dave Barton wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:31 -0400, Gary Ellis wrote: Hello, I am interested in trying your new beta that includes the database module. I currently use Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Office 2003. The last time I tried

Re: [users] Book/Instruction Guide Question

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
First, we are not OpenOffice. We are OpenOffice.org users who are helping other users. Second, I believe there are books on OpenOffice.org out there, but I think you will find it very similar to Microsoft Word. You can give it a try for free on your own computer to figure out the basics.

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
The beta version of OpenOffice.org has functionality to count the words in a selection. However, it is not reccomended that you use this for important documents until it is released as OpenOffice.org 2.0, because it may freeze or lose data. I hope this information helped. G. Roderick

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
You can, although Microsoft makes a version of Microsoft Office for the Macintosh. I reccomend using OpenOffice.org, because it is free. I hope this helps. Deborah Bradley wrote: I have an iMac, Mac OS 9. Can I use your Mac downloads to open Microsoft Word documents?

Re: [users] Text Colors and Styles

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 May 2005 08:15 pm, Joe wrote: OOo 1.1.4 Writer Linux How do I tell what color some text is? I need to know so I can use the same color somewhere else. When I set the color in a style (e.g. Internet Link), How do I get all Internet links to be that color. Do I have to

Re: [users] WORD COUNT

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
You probably mean 1.9.79. You should upgrade to 1.9.100, it will be more stable, as well as faster. The QuickStarter is now quicker and easier to use. Did you download via BitTorrent? I believe that the BitTorrent versions are a bit out of date, but the standard downloads are pretty fast. I

Re: [users] LOST FILE

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
I don't know if you can get the data back. First, I would reccomend upgrading to the latest beta, 1.9.100, as it is more stable, as well as more functional. Second, go to ToolsOptionsLoad/SaveGeneral and making sure that OpenOffice.org is set to save at some reasonable frequency. I hope this

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-13 Thread Caleb Marcus
Here are some answers: 1. Yes, you can, but there may be some minor incompatibility. 2. Yes, as long as you save the files as Microsoft Word (.doc) files. You can set this as a default under options, or you can do this in the Save dialogue. 3. I don't know. I don't think it matters, because

[users] Un-formatted text

2005-05-13 Thread Joe Marks
What is un-formatted text? What is Formatted text? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] Book/Instruction Guide Question

2005-05-13 Thread Geoff Thomas
Hi Chip, There is an Open Office Mannual of some 400 plus pages available for free download in PDF format. I have just switched to Open Office and have downloaded but not read the manual at this time. From a teaching perspective, as a teacher, I think you will have to devise your own scheme

Re: [users] Document type defaults

2005-05-13 Thread Mixu Lauronen
On Fri, 13 May 2005 23:31:49 +0300, Gary Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: defaults so that Open Office would be the default program to open files. If I try beta 2.0, is there a way to load it so as not to change these defaults? The installation program actually asks you whether or not you want

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-13 Thread Mixu Lauronen
On Sat, 14 May 2005 02:04:47 +0300, jasondbruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Can I use Openoffice.org to open all MICROSOFT WORD and MICROSOFT OFFICE documents.. At least in theory. The conversation is almost 100%, so unless your documents are very, very complicated it should be okay.