Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread David
The 'shrinking page size' puzzled me for a long time. I created an 'A5' page size. to print a brochure on A4 paper. I find it is necessary to set the printer paper to A4 landscape THEN click options / brochure. It is really irritating to have to set these options each time I print what I would

Re: [users] Reformatting a document

2005-05-23 Thread David O Smith
At 9:37 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Roderick Singleton) said: The User Guide, http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html explains this somewhat better than Help. Please see around page 39. I'm sorry to be so stupid, but the list of regular expessions in the

Re: [users] OOo Knowledgebase being used!

2005-05-23 Thread Hazel Grant
Jonathon Coombes wrote: Hi All, Just thought I would let everyone know that people are starting to contribute to the OOo Knowledgebase. It has been only a couple of questions so far, but at least it is a start :) Regards Jonathon Just opened new RSS subscription in Thunderbird for tips. It

[users] Re: new font spadmin

2005-05-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Fred Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install a new font using spadmin but no font button appears (just a button to replace). If you press Add, you can select the directory where the fonts to be added reside. Also, the list of installed fonts doesn't appear. Spadmin is for

[users] Basic

2005-05-23 Thread Stefan Balzter
Hallo, ist mir so bei den jüngsten Makro-Programmier-Diskussionen aufgefallen: wo bekomme ich eigentlich eine gute Dokumentation über OOo Basic und dessen Verwendung? -- Viele Grüße, Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] CMYK

2005-05-23 Thread Stefan Balzter
Hallo, kann ich eigentlich CMYK-Bilder in ein Dokument einfügen, dieses als PDF für Druckvorstufe exportieren und das Ergebnis an eine Druckerei übermitteln? Als ich das ausprobiert habe, sahen die Bilder plötzlich sehr verändert aus, viel dunkler und blaulastiger. Hat OOo ein Problem mit

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread =?UTF-8?B?TG/Dr2MgVElTT04=?=
CPHennessy wrote: On Monday 16 May 2005 14:04, Loc TISON wrote: [ MODERATED ] When I use the spreadsheet, with an autofilter. If I copy over a range of rows the same value, the lines in between the selected lines are also modified. It does not with MS-XL. regards

[users] Opening of the Azeri Native-Lang Project

2005-05-23 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
OpenOffice.org welcomes a new member in its family, the Azeri native-lang project. Led by Emin Huseynov, this project is very active in Azerbaidjan, working with several organizations and NGOs and spreading OpenOffice.org in several administrations. We wish good luck to the Azeri Native-Lang

[users] downloading vers 1.14

2005-05-23 Thread Gil Johnson
As of Sunday, May 22, it was impossible to download a version of Open Office 1.14 from your web site. The link to the stable version 1.14) just went to a page touting the beta version. I don't want to mess with the beta version yet. School of Traditional Taekwon-do

[users] open office for domain user

2005-05-23 Thread Rajendra Shah
Dear Sir/Madam, I want to use open office for windows with my domain users, Will you please let me know setting for the same? Open office will work find with local computer Aministrator user. Please advise. Rajendra Shah __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: [users] downloading vers 1.14

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:54 pm, Gil Johnson wrote: As of Sunday, May 22, it was impossible to download a version of Open Office 1.14 from your web site. The link to the stable version 1.14) just went to a page touting the beta version. I don't want to mess with the beta version yet. School

Re: [users] Mac OSX

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Johnson
Does anyone know of an email client that will work on Apple MAc OS10x that can talk to Microsoft Exchange particularly with shared calendar and contacts. Regards On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 01:52, Dan Lewis wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2005 07:36 pm, Sherry Landsman wrote: Can I use openoffice on my

Re: [users] Reformatting a document

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:23 +0100, David O Smith wrote: At 9:37 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Roderick Singleton) said: The User Guide, http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html explains this somewhat better than Help. Please see around page 39. I'm

Re: [users] Basic

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:10 +0200, Stefan Balzter wrote: Hallo, ist mir so bei den jngsten Makro-Programmier-Diskussionen aufgefallen: wo bekomme ich eigentlich eine gute Dokumentation ber OOo Basic und dessen Verwendung? This list is mostly English so if you wish to communicate in

Re: [users] CMYK

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:26 +0200, Stefan Balzter wrote: kann ich eigentlich CMYK-Bilder in ein Dokument einfgen, dieses als PDF fr Druckvorstufe exportieren und das Ergebnis an eine Druckerei bermitteln? Als ich das ausprobiert habe, sahen die Bilder pltzlich sehr verndert aus, viel

Re: [users] Excel export replaces formulas with NA()

2005-05-23 Thread Daniel Rentz
Hi, Michael Crawford schrieb: Greetings, I have a problem with export to Excel. Many of my formulas are changed to NA() when I open the Excel format version back into OpenOffice again. Can someone help me export my spreadsheet? I might actually have a bug in my spreadsheet that's my own

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 21:34 +0100, David wrote: The 'shrinking page size' puzzled me for a long time. I created an 'A5' page size. to print a brochure on A4 paper. I find it is necessary to set the printer paper to A4 landscape THEN click options / brochure. It is really irritating to

Re: [users] Calc - Grid Lines

2005-05-23 Thread Daniel Rentz
Hello John, John Barman schrieb: As far as I can see, the only way to choose to show or hide spreadsheet grid lines, is globally in the Options/View choices. I suppose it is not essential, but it would be useful to be able to make the choice on individual spreadsheets (as in 1-2-3 and Excel.)

Re: [users] where is it?

2005-05-23 Thread Jim Means
Windows XP. Searched for both suggestions, found neither. Went into my browser history and found Open Office mirrors and inside it ftp://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1.4/OOo_1.1.4_Win32Intel_install.zip. Clicked it and it downloaded itself. Winzip came back and I

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Doug Thompson
Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 08:08 am, Doug Thompson wrote: David Brenda Wilkinson wrote: I tried to download the security patch for Open Office.org 1.1.4 and I was instructed that if I were to proceed that I might damage my system. I would like layman step by step instructions

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Brian
Dan Lewis said the following on 5/23/2005 11:33 PM: On Monday 23 May 2005 08:08 am, Doug Thompson wrote: David Brenda Wilkinson wrote: I tried to download the security patch for Open Office.org 1.1.4 and I was instructed that if I were to proceed that I might damage my system. I

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 May 2005 07:30, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 21:34 +0100, David wrote: The 'shrinking page size' puzzled me for a long time. I created an 'A5' page size. to print a brochure on A4 paper. I find it is necessary to set the printer paper to A4 landscape THEN

[users] Fwd: [announce] Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard

2005-05-23 Thread suzume
(B (BBegin forwarded message: (B (B From: "Carol Geyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B Date: 2005$BG/(B5$B7n(B23$BF|(B 22:35:37:JST (B To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B Subject: [announce] Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard (B (B Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard (B (B

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread ETM
There are free spell checkers available for downloading for OE. One does not have to live with Microsoft's demands. I use a mail program that has a built in dictionary. One of many dictionaries that work with OE is: http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/ Elaine On Monday, May 23, 2005, you wrote

Re: [users] Reformatting a document

2005-05-23 Thread Vizion
On Monday 23 May 2005 04:35, the author G. Roderick Singleton contributed to the dialogue on Re: [users] Reformatting a document: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:23 +0100, David O Smith wrote: At 9:37 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Roderick Singleton) said: I thought of

Re: [users] Bug confirmation - versions - 1.9.95

2005-05-23 Thread Klaus Schneider
Paul wrote: I've been trying out the version control in 1.9.95 (on winxp) but I think the 'save new version on closing' is not working. I want to get someone else to try it out prior to submitting a bug for it. Basically under file versions (using a file in the .odt format in writer) I select

Re: [users] Seting pdf properties (Linux)

2005-05-23 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:06 pm, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: tip author=Paul subject=Setting PDF export optionsTo set PDF export options select *File Export as PDF... Here you can choose which pages are outputted and also the quality of the file.*/tip Paul wrote: Depending on the version of

[users] Installing UK Dictionary

2005-05-23 Thread Brian E. Blandford
Had to do a clean install of my whole system, so had also to re-install OOo 1.1.4. Got it all working OK according to my preferences, except that I can't make the UK Dictionary work, though selected. Presumably the US Dictionary is there by default, and the UK dictionary needs to be added

[users] Re: how to plot thi graph?

2005-05-23 Thread Randomthots
niv wrote: Thanks Ran, I now understand how I may plot it. however this kind of feature is usefull, how may one suggest putting it in the wanted feature list? Niv Since you're the 2nd person to ask about this in as many weeks, I think it should be filed as an RFE if it isn't already. I

[users] PDF print on Linux

2005-05-23 Thread Thomas Spuhler
In version 1.1.x you could print the documents to a pdf printer. It probably was set up this way by the packager of Mandrake How would I set this up in 2.0 Yes, I know you can export it in pdf, but that uses the pdfwrite (using Adobe expressions) What I need is a print to a ps file and convert

[users] HTML document query.?

2005-05-23 Thread James Elliott
If you will be kind enough to have a look at: http://www.lilachilldorpers.com.au/ you will see what I am trying to do - that is, giving the user the option of looking at graphical Web pages or text only pages (all customers of this sheep stud farm are farmers themselves and many of them are

[users] Converter - from (password protected) MS Office files to OO.o files?

2005-05-23 Thread Hsuan-Yeh Chang
It is known that the password protected MS Office files are copyright protected. However, since copyright protects expression, not ideas, is it possible for OO.o developers to write a converter, such that password protected MS office files can be import to OO.o. In this way, there will be more

[users] printing lables Help please

2005-05-23 Thread gail miller-lee
I am having a terribly difficult time to create some lables by AverY specifically, product number:Divider Tab Inserts 5-Tabs. The instructions in Open Office Help will not allow me to adjust the height of the label which needs to be 0.5 Please help me to find how to make Open Office work for

[users] Downloads

2005-05-23 Thread Jojosadi
Good morning! I am trying to download microsoft and excel to my new computer, because I have some files that I had saved to my internet files but my new computer does not have excel therefore does not allow me to open the files. Is it possible for someone to help and email back with

[users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Sheila Teel Robinson
Need help downloading and using the office software.

[users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Ufficio Studi
Hi, I only to know which is the maximum number of column in OpenOffice Calc, because I have some problems in Excel with my database that has more than 256 columns. Thnaks Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate ed a uso esclusivo

[users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread K M Dueck
Hello. My question is: How can I get the text editor to spell check my writing in other languages like German or French. I am presently using Open Office 1.1.4 on an XP system. Thank you. KDueck

[users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Gregorio Martinez
I installed the upgraded version 1.1.4. Now, when I try to get HELP I only have a Help Agent with a question mark in the left side and it do not open the Help section. It was working fine with the 1.1.1.v. What I did wrong? Gregorio

[users] Arabic Language support

2005-05-23 Thread paul
Hello, Does Open Office have Arabic language support? Thanks, Paul. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Converter - from (password protected) MS Office files to OO.o files?

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:58 am, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: It is known that the password protected MS Office files are copyright protected. However, since copyright protects expression, not ideas, is it possible for OO.o developers to write a converter, such that password protected MS office

Re: [users] [moderated] Network Workstation

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 10:32 am, A Fuller wrote: I purchased two disks and neither would setup a network version. I tried to download the program from two different locations, and got a corrupt zip file both times. How free is this program? We need more information. What is your OS?

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 11:26 am, Sheila Teel Robinson wrote: Need help downloading and using the office software. Go to www.openoffice.org. In the green rectangle, click on The stable version (1.1.4) (Make sure you do not click on The Beta version as you do not want this one. It is for

Re: [users] Arabic Language support

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 12:53 pm, paul wrote: Hello, Does Open Office have Arabic language support? Thanks, Paul. Yes. On the OOo home page (www.openoffice.org), click on the rectangle with Native language in it. This takes you to a page with a listing of languages supported.

Re: [users] [moderated] Network Workstation

2005-05-23 Thread Almon C. Turner
A. Fuller forgot to mention which OS he was using. I've done silly stuff such as downloading a program meant for one OS and then trying to install it on another. Didn't work for me! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:50 am, Ufficio Studi wrote: Hi, I only to know which is the maximum number of column in OpenOffice Calc, because I have some problems in Excel with my database that has more than 256 columns. Thnaks Sorry, but Calc seems to have the same limit as Excel: 256

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 07:30, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 21:34 +0100, David wrote: The 'shrinking page size' puzzled me for a long time. I created an 'A5' page size. to print a brochure on A4 paper. I find it

[users] MySQL - updateString

2005-05-23 Thread Georg Salvenmoser
Hallo, I have an MySQL DB and have connect it with JDBC to OOo1.9.104 When I make and updatable ResultSet I can write Data to the DB with updateBoolean and updateDouble but when I try to write Data to an Varchar with updateString it dosn't work. The Macro con you see here

[users] printing lables Help please

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Aitken
gail miller-lee wrote: I am having a terribly difficult time to create some lables by AverY specifically, product number:Divider Tab Inserts 5-Tabs. The instructions in Open Office Help will not allow me to adjust the height of the label which needs to be 0.5 Please help me to find how to

Re: [users] Downloads

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 23 May 2005 11:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am trying to download microsoft and excel to my new computer, because I have some files that I had saved to my internet files but my new computer does not have excel therefore does not allow me to open the files. Is it

[users] Downloads

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Aitken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am trying to download microsoft and excel to my new computer, because I have some files that I had saved to my internet files but my new computer does not have excel therefore does not allow me to open the files. Is it possible for someone to help

Re: [users] Downloads moderated

2005-05-23 Thread Elsasser
Microsoft Office (including Excel and Word) must be paid if you want to have it. But you can download OpenOffice. If you use OpenOffice and need to send Word or Excel files to someone, you have to save your documents in MS Office format. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Good morning! I am

[users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Ron Bushman
am trying to install 1.0.3 Legacy version on a laptop with win95 installed in the compact configuration during installation I get the massage the ucpchelp1.dll component was unable to be registered , after installation help files are not available every thing else seem to be OK. Can someone

Re: [users] Reformatting a document

2005-05-23 Thread Janet M. Swisher
David O Smith wrote: To do this I wish to do the following: 1. Find all instances of 2 successive newlines and replace them with a tab. 2. Now find all other instances of a newline and replace them with a space. 3. Finally replace the tab stops with 2 newlines. Simple enough under (pardon my

Re: [users] Regarding Open Office

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
On 5/24/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not too sure where you got the .std from in relation to installing openoffice. In OOo (pre 2.0 versions) .std was the extension used to denote a OpenOffice draw template file. Is this what you are referring to? The linux install comes tarred zipped

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
Typically master documents are for ensuring that there is a consistent page style, headers, footers, and not for ensuring the same style is applied to the body of the document. As you would have seen the file contents are protected once they have been inserted and therefore the styles/formatting

Re: [users] Installing UK Dictionary

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
I've always found file auto pilot install new dictionaries works fine. /paul On 5/24/05, Brian E. Blandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had to do a clean install of my whole system, so had also to re-install OOo 1.1.4. Got it all working OK according to my preferences, except that I can't make

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
If there is a dictionary for the language then OOo can spell check it. Try file auto pilot install new dictionaries to install the dictionaries that you want to have. Ensure that your language settings are updated once you have installed the correct dictionary and away you go. /paul On

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
Unsure what went wrong - however to rectify I would suggest that you run the setup.exe again and select 'repair'. This should correct any issues that have arisen. /paul On 5/24/05, Gregorio Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the upgraded version 1.1.4. Now, when I try to get HELP I

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
This error has something to do with method of implementing the help system in OOo. Have a look at : http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=1761 /paul On 5/24/05, Ron Bushman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am trying to install 1.0.3 Legacy version on a laptop with win95 installed in the

Re: [users] Downloads moderated

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
You can download OpenOffice from : www.openoffice.org /paul On 5/24/05, Elsasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft Office (including Excel and Word) must be paid if you want to have it. But you can download OpenOffice. If you use OpenOffice and need to send Word or Excel files to someone,

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread cono
Pierre wrote: I am working on a master document that is drawing sub documents from a variety of sources. Many of the sub documents are badly formatted. Is there a way to reformat existing (imported) sub-documents according to the styles in the master-document? Using OOo 1.9.104 - Hello

Re: [users] Bug confirmation - versions - 1.9.95

2005-05-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Klaus Schneider wrote: Paul wrote: I've been trying out the version control in 1.9.95 (on winxp) but I think the 'save new version on closing' is not working. I want to get someone else to try it out prior to submitting a bug for it. Basically under file versions (using a file in the .odt

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 May 2005 14:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 07:30, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] Please vote for http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 which addresses your problem. Well, I

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:52 +1000, Pierre wrote: I am working on a master document that is drawing sub documents from a variety of sources. Many of the sub documents are badly formatted. Is there a way to reformat existing (imported) sub-documents according to the styles in the

Re: [users] [moderated] Network Workstation

2005-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 May 2005 11:32, A Fuller wrote: I purchased two disks and neither would setup a network version. I tried to download the program from two different locations, and got a corrupt zip file both times. How free is this program? The program as others willt ell is, is free of any costs

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread Pierre
cono wrote: Is there a way to reformat existing (imported) sub-documents according to the styles in the master-document? One way to achieve this, is loading styles in the existing document. Thanks. I had tried that but found the results mixed. Outline numbering on headings turned into a

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 14:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 07:30, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] Please vote for

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 07:09 +1000, Pierre wrote: cono wrote: Is there a way to reformat existing (imported) sub-documents according to the styles in the master-document? One way to achieve this, is loading styles in the existing document. Thanks. I had tried that but found the

[users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Hi; Since 2.0 connects so nicely to MySql, and since 2.0 also reads a spreadsheet as a 'database', it seems logical that you should be able to save a spreadsheet to a database, with the sheets being the tables. But, I can't find this functionality from the menus. Is this possible 'outta the

Re: [users] Website Design

2005-05-23 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 23 May 2005 01:56, Dan Lewis wrote: I hate to burst your bubble so to speak, but the vast majority of the people at this website are volunteers. There is not very much money if any for doing the things you are suggesting. If you would care to volunteer in this area with

Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents

2005-05-23 Thread Vizion
On Monday 23 May 2005 14:19, the author G. Roderick Singleton contributed to the dialogue on Re: [users] Reformatting sub-documents: On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 07:09 +1000, Pierre wrote: cono wrote: Is there a way to reformat existing (imported) sub-documents according to the styles in the

[users] Exporting to PDF

2005-05-23 Thread Ron Salt
I have an Athlon based PC. I use both OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 and StarOffice 5 for writing text documents, spreadsheets and HTML documents. Can you advise the best image format to use for inserting screen captures made with Paintshop Pro 8.1 into .sxc documents destined for export as PDFs? I

Re: [users] [moderated] Network Workstation

2005-05-23 Thread Richard/g
On Monday 23 May 2005 11:32 am, A Fuller wrote: I purchased two disks and neither would setup a network version. I tried to download the program from two different locations, and got a corrupt zip file both times. How free is this program? The program is free as in beer and free as in speech.

Re: [users] Downloads

2005-05-23 Thread Richard/g
On Monday 23 May 2005 12:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am trying to download microsoft and excel to my new computer, because I have some files that I had saved to my internet files but my new computer does not have excel therefore does not allow me to open the files.

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Richard/g
On Monday 23 May 2005 12:26 pm, Sheila Teel Robinson wrote: Need help downloading and using the office software. Go here and read instructions on downloading and installing: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html Richard.

[users] Important

2005-05-23 Thread Cheri
I have downloaded openoffice twice and I still cannot open it and or install...any suggestions? Thanks, Cheri

RE: [users] Activesync problems

2005-05-23 Thread GC Fraser
On Monday, May 23, 2005 12:07 AM Peter Kupfer OOo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: [users] Activesync problems Georg Schmidt wrote: Hello Everybody, I have searched for this on google, however, found no solution. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4 and would like to sync

Re: [users] OOo Knowledgebase being used!

2005-05-23 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:18 +0100, Hazel Grant wrote: Jonathon Coombes wrote: Hi All, Just thought I would let everyone know that people are starting to contribute to the OOo Knowledgebase. It has been only a couple of questions so far, but at least it is a start :) Regards Jonathon

[users] Moderated email

2005-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
For those who are fairly new to this mailing list and want to help: Any time you see [moderated] as a part of the subject, you need to do a reply to all instead of just reply. The person sending that email is not subscribed to this list. They will not see you helpful suggestions unless

Re: [users] Fw: Exporting to PDF

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
Greater flexibility in handling the compression ratio of images when exporting to pdf is provided in Version 2.0... Not currently available in 1.1.4. All I can suggest is that when you export from paintshop you ensure that quality setting is at its highest. /paul On 5/24/05, Ron Salt [EMAIL

Re: [users] Important

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
What error message are you getting. Does the download complete successfully? Do you have winzip (or some other decompression software) installed to read the file? Little more information required. /paul On 5/24/05, Cheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded openoffice twice and I still

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Paul
As far as I'm aware (someone on the list will correct if I'm wrong) you cannot do this in either 1.1.4 or 2.0Beta releases. One thing you can do is save the spreadsheet file as a delimited file then import into mysql using sql statements. Data entry is easier if a form is constructed, but don't

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-23 Thread Chris BONDE
On Monday 23 May 2005 08:08 am, Doug Thompson wrote: David Brenda Wilkinson wrote: I tried to download the security patch for Open Office.org 1.1.4 and I was instructed that if I were to proceed that I might damage my system. I would like layman step by step instructions on how

Re: [users] [moderated] Network Workstation

2005-05-23 Thread Chris BONDE
I suggest that you use a download manager. I was having many difficulties, especially since I am on dial-up. The only problem I have had since using LeechGet download manager is the the Avery Pro 5 just doesnot want to go that way. So, you might want to try the download manager. (It is also

Re: [users] printing lables Help please

2005-05-23 Thread Chris BONDE
I was having trouble like-wise. It was suggested that I try the Avery free program. But it is just as convoluted and I could not download the most recent Avery software. Have you looked at how the Print Page is when you do what you can. Also, what measurements are default or set for your

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Brian
Nat Gross said the following on 5/24/2005 7:28 AM: Hi; Since 2.0 connects so nicely to MySql, and since 2.0 also reads a spreadsheet as a 'database', it seems logical that you should be able to save a spreadsheet to a database, with the sheets being the tables. But, I can't find this

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Paul wrote: As far as I'm aware (someone on the list will correct if I'm wrong) you cannot do this in either 1.1.4 or 2.0Beta releases. One thing you can do is save the spreadsheet file as a delimited file then import into mysql using sql statements. Problem is that the spreadsheets have

Re: [users] Question

2005-05-23 Thread Sheila Teel Robinson
I do not see your reply. - Original Message - From: help hints for unsubscribed users [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [users] Question Sheila Teel Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --=_NextPart_000_003C_01C55FCD.4105A2F0

Re: [users] Basic

2005-05-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
This is very out of date, but... http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacroGerman.sxw The english versions on my web site are far more current. Stefan Balzter wrote: Hallo, ist mir so bei den jüngsten Makro-Programmier-Diskussionen aufgefallen: wo bekomme ich eigentlich eine gute Dokumentation

Re: [users] PDF print on Linux

2005-05-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I configured this using directions found here: http://www.jdisoftware.co.uk/pages/epdf-home.php Thomas Spuhler wrote: In version 1.1.x you could print the documents to a pdf printer. It probably was set up this way by the packager of Mandrake How would I set this up in 2.0 Yes, I know you

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 17:15, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 14:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] So maybe I'm just venting. Gotta do that once a month

[users] Publisher

2005-05-23 Thread michael grace
I have been trying to convert a Publisher doc to pdf but it doesn't let me. I can convert word, excel with no problem. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your prompt response.

Re: [users] Converter - from (password protected) MS Office files to OO.o files?

2005-05-23 Thread Doug Thompson
Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: It is known that the password protected MS Office files are copyright protected. However, since copyright protects expression, not ideas, is it possible for OO.o developers to write a converter, such that password protected MS office files can be import to OO.o. In this

[users] drawing/Publisher

2005-05-23 Thread michael grace
I am not able to convert my publisher doc to a pdf. Everytime I try, a menu appears which list a bunch of different protocols but publisher is not one of them. Please help. I can convert other word and excel docs but not publisher. Thanks,

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Brian wrote: Nat Gross said the following on 5/24/2005 7:28 AM: Hi; Since 2.0 connects so nicely to MySql, and since 2.0 also reads a spreadsheet as a 'database', it seems logical that you should be able to save a spreadsheet to a database, with the sheets being the tables. But, I can't

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 May 2005 21:24, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 17:15, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 14:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...]

Re: [users] Publisher

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Gramer
On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:02:58 -0700 (PDT), michael grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have been trying to convert a Publisher doc to pdf but it doesn't let me. I can convert word, excel with no problem. What am I doing wrong? Hi, Michael. This list is for help with OpenOffice.org, not Microsoft

Re: [users] Macro for setting the language

2005-05-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Herbert Eppel wrote: On 20.05.2005 13:06 UK Time, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Read the section titled Setting The Locale in my free macro document... The code looks like this: Andrew, once again many thanks for your reply. I am pleased to report that I can now set the

[users] I can't find some of the features

2005-05-23 Thread David and Cathy Collins
I recently downloaded Open Office 1.1.4 onto a Windows XP, SP1 computer. I used the standard install option and it seemed to go fine. When I looked for the program in the programs list I couldn't find such programs as Math, Impress, Writer, or any other's by name. The names that were there

[users] Open Appleworks files in Openoffice

2005-05-23 Thread TIM WINFIELD
Can I open Appleworks documents in the Windows version of Open Office? Thanks, Tim Winfield

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