Re: [users] Cyrillic inpot

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Jim wrote: > I have some documents I want to type in Cyrillic. i) Change your keyboard layout to Cyrillic. ii) Create language specific paragraph, character, and numbering styles. > However, typing that ttf font only shows up as Times. Sounds like you entering characters in the Latin sub-range

Re: [users] Reasons to Switch to OpenOffice.org for a Chain Store

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
George wrote: >7. M$ Office files contain a lot of "hidden" information that could > compromise company security; That can also happen with OOo. [Reading "deleted" data in OOo documents can be as interesting as reading the same data in MSO documents.] xan jonathon -- Does your Office Su

[users] Cyrillic inpot

2005-08-24 Thread Jim Wagner
I think I have missed something very important somewhere. I have some documents I want to type in Cyrillic. I have various Unicode fonts on my machine, and also one ttf font in the desired language. However, typing that ttf font only shows up as Times. I have checked the Help, but can find n

Re: [users] Captions in Openoffice 2.0

2005-08-24 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:55 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > While trying to use Captions in an openoffice 2.0 document, I realised that > openoffice allows you to place caption of a picture only below the > picture. Unlike in case of say Tables, you cannot choose to place captions > to a picture above

Re: [users] Captions in Openoffice 2.0

2005-08-24 Thread Naomi Kramer
Add a caption, which should automatically create a frame for the picture. Move the picture down (in the frame) 0.5cm or so. Voila - caption above picture. -Naomi While trying to use Captions in an openoffice 2.0 document, I realised that openoffice allows you to place caption of a picture o

[users] Captions in Openoffice 2.0

2005-08-24 Thread Vikas Rawal
While trying to use Captions in an openoffice 2.0 document, I realised that openoffice allows you to place caption of a picture only below the picture. Unlike in case of say Tables, you cannot choose to place captions to a picture above the picture. It is silly to put such a restriction (even if a

[users] Join two tables on printed report?

2005-08-24 Thread Val Kaliszewski
I have created 2 tables in OpenOffice, one is a Parent table (Name, address, phone, email), the second is a Student table (name, grade&teacher). Both tables also have a "FamilyID" field to join them. I have created a data entry form with a Parent form and a Sub form to enter the data. Now I

Re: [users] Installation of OOo_1.1.4_win32intel_install open office.zip\

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Barton
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 19:22 -0400, herbert binder wrote: > I successfully downloaded the subject program while I was sleeping. > This morning I tried too install it,but neither the installation > guide, or the tutorial was any help.I have windows xp and though I > designated drive C for the downlo

[users] Using bibliographic DB in beta2

2005-08-24 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Hi all, I have recently been attempting to use the Bibliographic tool in OO (using latest beta2 milestone on *nix). I have amassed a good size reference DB, after tweaking default field lengths (this should be changed, espeically title, author and book title fields... need to be varchar(255) or t

[users] Installation of OOo_1.1.4_win32intel_install open office.zip\

2005-08-24 Thread herbert binder
I successfully downloaded the subject program while I was sleeping. This morning I tried too install it,but neither the installation guide, or the tutorial was any help.I have windows xp and though I designated drive C for the download. a program calledPower desk 5.0 picked it up, unzipped it ,

Re: [users] Loading time suggestion

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:49, + Roma Verzub wrote: > Hi, I would just like to tell you about a small suggestion I have for > Openoffice. I mean it's a great program, and I like where it's going, but > generally what turns me off about it is the loading time. For even the > fastest computers ou

Re: [users] Changing text to date

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 22 August 2005 09:26, + Oh Chye Yong wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Hi > > I have a spreadsheet that has several columns of dates but entered as > text/strings (eg. '24/07/2005). How do I convert these strings to dates, so > that I can do sorting? As you are not subscr

Re: [users] Converting cell content

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 August 2005 07:29, + Djoko Harijanto wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Dear Support, > > I have a calc document that have text content, let say '123 and would like > to convert it to numeric content 123 . I tried to use copy and paste > special function as it worked bef

Re: [users] Text Boxes

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 22 August 2005 17:55, + Dick & Barbara Green wrote: > I’m trying to use a text box. I’ve finally created the box but there is a > line that says, “label field”. I think it is asking for a name but I can’t > find out how to do that. Can you help? Thanks. As you are not subscribed you

Re: [users] Openoffice and Tiger

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 18 August 2005 16:09, + PATRICK KEANE wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > I'm fairly new to a Mac and struggle with the > limitations of appleworks. A friend recommended > openoffice but the version I downloaded from the > openoffice site seems to run only in panther. > >

Re: [users] Openoffice Writer 1.9.122 outline question

2005-08-24 Thread Andrzej Sawula
Ave, my question is relatively simple: Is it possible to have in outline numbers and letters or even whole words mixed together? I'm writing thesis, containing a lot of sections/chapters which are normally numbered (this works fine!) but at the end I must add some appendixes. These appendixes sh

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:38, + seymour pomerantz wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > We are considering downloading openoffice.org 1.1. Will this product allow > us to open and read documents written in WordPerfect 6.0a? Thank you, Hi, Seymour, Try the new beta's of what will

Re: [users] Hidden text in Writer

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 12 August 2005 22:15, Samuel Murray wrote: > G'day everyone! > > I have been told that OOo 2 supports hidden text. I'd like to highlight a > paragraph and mark the text as "hidden", but the OOo help files are so > confusing. The help files seem to tell me how to create an insertion poin

Re: [users] Customizations of beta releases

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:26, Michele Zarri wrote: > CPHennessy wrote: > >On Thursday 18 August 2005 21:51, Michele Zarri wrote: > >>Hello there, > >> > >> > >> > >>Hopefully you can help: > >> > >>I created a number of customised settings in OOo 2 build 1.9.118 under > >> Win XP. > >> > >> > >

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 August 2005 10:41, + ORTS-INFORMATIONEN wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > > OpenOffice and iMAC 17", G5/1.8 GHz, 512 MB DDR-SDRAM: does it work > together ? As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Friday 19 August 2005 21:25, Andrew Fisk wrote: > Should

Re: [users] unknown symbol

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 August 2005 19:40, + michael france wrote: > Dear sir, a symbol just appeared on my documents. > It looks like a backward P with a straight line after the P, The top part > of the P is filled in. What is it and how do I remove it? > > Also, i have several documents , that have been

Re: [users] Additional Items required

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:19, + John McCreadie wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Dear Sirs, > > I have been trying to find out how to acquire standard programmes to be > compatable with Open Office such as a record for my DVD's, Standard > letters, Family trees, etc. As you are

Re: [users] FAQ

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 21 August 2005 08:05, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > I would like to ask how to sum up a few numbers in different > spreadsheets, e.g. I want to sum up "soffice;filepath;MySheet.A1" > "soffice;filepath;MySheet1.A7" and "soffice;filepth;MySheet2.A9" >

Re: [users] Timestamp

2005-08-24 Thread John Viestenz
- Original Message - From: "Guy Larssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [users] Timestamp I don't seem to find how to put a fixed timestamp in Calc. Guy Hi Guy; I'm not sure how you are planning to use a "timestamp", so maybe if you could explain a little more, someone will have a

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 22 August 2005 16:26, + Kathy wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > hello I just installed open office I live in Ky and installed first USA. I > would like to know where is the spell check option after installing it came > up win32Intel Mirrors.isc org pub open office I am comp

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 22 August 2005 15:25, + Robert Martin wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Hi, > > > I'm interested in contributing to open office but waiting for the release > of 1.1.5. Do you have a release date yet? (approx) 1.1.5 will be released when it is ready. This should be in the nex

Re: [users] Presentation

2005-08-24 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 22 August 2005 14:09, Guadalupe Becker wrote: > Hello All, > > I opened a .PPT presentation with Open Office, but in some slides > "the text were converted to Image". > > Explain better: In the power point the text was in text box, but in > the Open Office, the text wasn´t in there. I

Re: [users] Openoffice Writer 1.9.122 outline question

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Herring
Go to Tools---> Outline numbering. From here, you can set each heading style any way you want. I learned the hard way not to set up outline numbering any other way--even though OOo has commands that invite you to do that.--Mark Natalia Wolyczko wrote: Hello, I want to achive sth like that:

Re: [users] Large Writer document with images takes forever to open, save, etc

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
It may make things quicker to export the graphic's to a compressed format (eg, jpg, png, etc...) and then to insert into the document (as opposed to copying and pasting from mspaint). The load time would of course be very quick if you only linked the graphics instead of inserting but there may be

Re: [users] Printing from Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Herring
If I print a simple document, I can set the print range and the page format and then everythin proceeds the way one would expect. I see no way to set the print range after issuing a print command. You can specify a selection (which you would make before saying print---or you can specify the PAG

Re: [users] Large Writer document with images takes forever to open, save, etc

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:08 -0500, Robert Volke wrote: > I am using OpenOffice version 109 on an NT box. I have a 6 MB file with > images in it and it takes forever (1.5 minutes) to open, save, etc. I'm > asking if anyone knows if there is some way to speed up this process. > > More Background

Re: [users] Openoffice Writer 1.9.122 outline question

2005-08-24 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:00 +0200, Natalia Wolyczko wrote: > Hello, > I want to achive sth like that: > > 1 > 2.1 > 2.2 > 3 > foobar > A > B > > but I have sth like that (due to heading autonumbering feature) > 1 > 2.1 > 2.2 > 3 > 4 foobar > 5 A > 6 B > > for 1,3,foobar,A,B heading1 is used,

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
I would suggest that you make not have the option to print charts selected. Select tools > options, then have a look at the various options under calc. Make sure that in the 'print' section all the options are selected and try again. (I don't have OOo running at the moment, so apologies if I canno

Re: [users] Open Office Crash Report

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
Was that a windows crash report or OOo crash report. Was it just that the crash happened when you were using OOo or definitely a OOo crash.. I've never had any problems in submitting crash reports through to OOo... /paul On 8/23/05, Roy Dyton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I periodically obtain t

Re: [users] Please help!

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
Have a look at : http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_source.html /paul On 8/24/05, Hong Phuoc Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mr./Mrs. > I'm diong survey of OpenOffice.org applications, especially IMPRESS > application. I would like to get a any source code version of your en

Re: [users] [moderated] I want to update from OOO 1.0

2005-08-24 Thread Paul
Updating to a new version of OOo will not make you loose your files. There is a different format used by OOo version 2.0 (currently in beta releases) but version 2.0 can still read and write the old file format (used by versions 1.1.X) The best way that I have found of updating to a new versi

[users] Open Office Crash Report

2005-08-24 Thread Roy Dyton
I periodically obtain the automatic crash report screen but I have never succeeded in sending this to you. It reports as shown below. I have received this only on the WP program and the last time, I was attempting to install an upgrade to my Zone Alarm Firewall. Rgds Roy Dyton CRASHREP cause

[users] Openoffice Writer 1.9.122 outline question

2005-08-24 Thread Natalia Wolyczko
Hello, I want to achive sth like that: 1 2.1 2.2 3 foobar A B but I have sth like that (due to heading autonumbering feature) 1 2.1 2.2 3 4 foobar 5 A 6 B for 1,3,foobar,A,B heading1 is used, for 2.1,2.2 heading2 my question is relatively simple: Is it possible to have in outline numbers and

[users] Loading time suggestion

2005-08-24 Thread Roma Verzub
Hi, I would just like to tell you about a small suggestion I have for Openoffice. I mean it's a great program, and I like where it's going, but generally what turns me off about it is the loading time. For even the fastest computers out there, it takes 14 seconds on average from the time you dou

[users] [moderated]

2005-08-24 Thread John
Sir/Madam: First of all let me say that I may send two letters a year and only use a few spreadsheets. Therefore I am not a big user of office utilities. I usually just entertain myself with the variety of things you can do with them. Having said that I have a spreadsheet from which I have cre

Re: [users] Printing from Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2005 22:22 schrieb Mark Herring: > Before I file an issue on this, please tell me if I am missing something > obvious. > > Printing a large Excel file--many worksheets > Open file > Set page format to tabloid, landscape > Set print range to a desired portion of one sheet > O

Re: [users] Loading time suggestion

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Kopischke
Which version are you using? Do you have the Quickstarter running? on 08/24/05 11:49 'Roma Verzub' wrote: Hi, I would just like to tell you about a small suggestion I have for Openoffice. I mean it's a great program, and I like where it's going, but generally what turns me off about it is th

[users] [moderated] I want to update from OOO 1.0

2005-08-24 Thread Ladyn71887
I am wanting to update to the new version of OOO. How do I do this? My main concern is losing all my files saved on the old version. Thank you very much for your help. Nichole Keel Have a blessed day!

[users] Timestamp

2005-08-24 Thread Guy Larssen
I don't seem to find how to put a fixed timestamp in Calc. Guy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Please help!

2005-08-24 Thread Hong Phuoc Nguyen
Hello Mr./Mrs. I'm diong survey of OpenOffice.org applications, especially IMPRESS application. I would like to get a any source code version of your entire product or just of IMPRESS. Would you pls tell me where to get them? Thanks a lot. My best regard. Phuoc Nguyen Hong Phuoc Nguyen.T Hong

[users] Printing from Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Mark Herring
Before I file an issue on this, please tell me if I am missing something obvious. Printing a large Excel file--many worksheets Open file Set page format to tabloid, landscape Set print range to a desired portion of one sheet Open page preview. At this point it seems to want to print the **e

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org writer fails to start after changing username

2005-08-24 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:43 -0500, Daniel Smith wrote: > I am running SUSE Linux 9.2 on a Dell, with KDE 3.3.0, > and OpenOffice.org 1.1. It was all working fine until > I changed my username in Linux. Now openoffice.org > fails with a segmentation fault. Office will start and > I can create HTML

[users] OpenOffice.org writer fails to start after changing username

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Smith
I am running SUSE Linux 9.2 on a Dell, with KDE 3.3.0, and OpenOffice.org 1.1. It was all working fine until I changed my username in Linux. Now openoffice.org fails with a segmentation fault. Office will start and I can create HTML files, but not text documents. So the OpenOffice.org Writer app

[users] Large Writer document with images takes forever to open, save, etc

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Volke
I am using OpenOffice version 109 on an NT box. I have a 6 MB file with images in it and it takes forever (1.5 minutes) to open, save, etc. I'm asking if anyone knows if there is some way to speed up this process. More Background: I am saving the document as a .doc and the images were cut and

Re: [users] [1.1.4] Date entry formats in Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Don Guy
> It is not as hard as you might think. However, the month, day, and > year that you enter probably needs to be in the same order as the > format for that cell or column. As in your example, having the year > formated last and the entering the year first will not work. > However,

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Trevor Hughes
Trevor Hughes wrote: Thomas Blanchin wrote: Thanks. Andrzej, your solution is pretty good. But the problem is that it doesn't work if I add pages to my document (we could say it's not dynamic). I'll try some manipulations with variables. I followed that example and then read the help - yo

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Trevor Hughes
Thomas Blanchin wrote: Thanks. Andrzej, your solution is pretty good. But the problem is that it doesn't work if I add pages to my document (we could say it's not dynamic). I'll try some manipulations with variables. I followed that example and then read the help - you dont wnat a variable y

Re: [users] [1.1.4] Date entry formats in Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:20 pm, Don Guy wrote: > Hi, > > What (if anything) can I do to cause a spreadsheet to display > date-formatted cells in one format, yet accept data entry in another? > > In my old copy of Star Office I can set up a column to display dates > as "MMM DD, ", yet succ

[users] [1.1.4] Date entry formats in Calc

2005-08-24 Thread Don Guy
Hi, What (if anything) can I do to cause a spreadsheet to display date-formatted cells in one format, yet accept data entry in another? In my old copy of Star Office I can set up a column to display dates as "MMM DD, ", yet successfully enter date values as /MM/DD. Fired up OO for the

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Andrzej Sawula
Ave, Andrzej, your solution is pretty good. But the problem is that it doesn't work if I add pages to my document (we could say it's not dynamic). I'll try some manipulations with variables. Select the page count field (or all the document with Ctrl-A, for that matter) and press F9. This updat

[users] ODBC for OpenOffice Base (Vers. 2)

2005-08-24 Thread Roland Brembeck
Hello, can I link from an another frontend (necessary for linking my dates with my pocketpc) with an odbc-driver to an .odb file in openoffice vers. 2? Where can I find this driver? Thank You, Roland - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Blanchin
Thanks. Andrzej, your solution is pretty good. But the problem is that it doesn't work if I add pages to my document (we could say it's not dynamic). I'll try some manipulations with variables. Thanks. Good By - Original Message - From: "Andrzej Sawula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@open

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Andrzej Sawula
Ave, I need an other help about page count. Now, the numbering begins at the real page n° 3. (so the third page has number 1). That's good. But when I insert the page count, oo displays the total of all the pages in the document. It doesn't start from the page with number 1. What you need is

Re: [users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 11:33 am, Thomas Blanchin wrote: > hello again. > Thank you for the first reply. oo mailing list is really quick and > usefull. I need an other help about page count. > Now, the numbering begins at the real page n° 3. (so the third page > has number 1). That's good. But

[users] page count

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Blanchin
hello again. Thank you for the first reply. oo mailing list is really quick and usefull. I need an other help about page count. Now, the numbering begins at the real page n° 3. (so the third page has number 1). That's good. But when I insert the page count, oo displays the total of all the pages i

Re: [users] index table pages number

2005-08-24 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:13 +0100, Thomas Blanchin wrote: > Hi. > I have a problem with pages numbers displayed in the index table. > Simply, I just would like an offset to be applyed on the pages numbers in the > index table, so that the number in front of a chapter in the index table be > the s

[users] index table pages number

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Blanchin
Hi. I have a problem with pages numbers displayed in the index table. Simply, I just would like an offset to be applyed on the pages numbers in the index table, so that the number in front of a chapter in the index table be the same that the number of the page of this chapter(which has an offset

[users] Multiple Selection Copy & Paste in Calc2 not implemented for a non contiguous rows (OO 1.9.m122)

2005-08-24 Thread Pere Castañer Sarda
I'm testing latest snapshoot builds of OO2 (122 now) and I receive a message like this: "This function can't be aplied with multiples selections" This happens in calc when I select two rows throught control pressed's method and the two rows are not contiguous. Is a known issue? (I've checked bu

[users] Multiple Selection Copy & Paste in Calc2 not implemented for a Contiguous rows (OO 1.9.m122)

2005-08-24 Thread Pere Castañer Sarda
I'm testing latest snapshoot builds of OO2 (122 now) and I receive a message like this: "This function can't be aplied with multiples selections" This happens in calc when I select two rows throught control pressed's method and the two rows are not contiguous. Is a known issue? (I've checked bu

Re: [users] Preview Screen on other Sheet

2005-08-24 Thread John Viestenz
- Original Message - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [users] Preview Screen on other Sheet Hi, I created a file in open office. I have 3 sheets in one file. How can i open the preview screen on sheet 2? The purpose is i want to check my work is in one full pa

Re: [users] [1.1.4] Save Window Position?

2005-08-24 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:37 +0200, tobias wrote: > Is it possible to save the window posistion in OpenOffice 1.1.4? And, > the position of the paragraphtemplate window? And, to set the default > zoom-level? > > I have a big display, and so I don't wan't to change the settings after > every star

Re: [users] Re: [website-feedback] Configuration data

2005-08-24 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 00:19 -0400, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > Hello, > > On Aug 23, 2005, at 7:35 AM, DAVID NEL wrote: > > > Sir > > I have Openoffice on my computer but have this problem know. I > > can't open the program at all. It gives me the following. > > Openoffice.org configuration dat

Re: [users] Preview Screen on other Sheet

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I created a file in open office. I have 3 sheets in one file. How can > i open the preview screen on sheet 2? The purpose is i want to check > my work is in one full page. > > Please advise > > Thanks. > > Cheers.. > > Warmest

[users] [1.1.4] Save Window Position?

2005-08-24 Thread tobias
Is it possible to save the window posistion in OpenOffice 1.1.4? And, the position of the paragraphtemplate window? And, to set the default zoom-level? I have a big display, and so I don't wan't to change the settings after every start of OpenOffice 1.1.4... Thanks. tobi -

[users] Migration of Lotus smartsuite to Open Office

2005-08-24 Thread abhishekyadav
Hi, i have some query related with Open-Office. I will be very thankful to you, if you can provide me the solution of following queries. We are using Lotus Smartsuite on large quantity.Now we are planning to shift on Open Office. So, please Can you send me some procedure for migration of L

[users] Preview Screen on other Sheet

2005-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I created a file in open office. I have 3 sheets in one file. How can i open the preview screen on sheet 2? The purpose is i want to check my work is in one full page. Please advise Thanks. Cheers.. Warmest regards Ivory Tan

[users] Re: Table of Content Problem

2005-08-24 Thread tobias
If I right click on the TOC -> Edit Table/Index -> Outline [...] -> Tab "Numbering" then I see the List on the right side: Line 1: Line 2: Line 3: Line 4: Line 5: Heading 5 Line 6: Heading 6 Line 7: Heading 7 Line 8: Heading 8 Line 9: Heading 9 Line 10: Heading 10 Could this be the reason? G