Re: [users] Forms of .doc documents are not modificable in oo2 beta2 (m125) (fwd)

2005-09-13 Thread Pere Castañer Sarda
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:29:55 +0100 Manuel Carrusca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pere, After installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 (1.9.125) and J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4, I opened in Writer a form created in Microsoft Word 2000 and saved it in OpenDocument Text format (ODT).

Re: [users] text to columns (fwd) (fwd) (fwd)

2005-09-13 Thread Pere Castañer Sarda
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:32:08 +0200 Eike Rathke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pere, On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 15:44:36 +0200, Pere Castañer Sarda wrote: No. I need to convert the exported cells (from a closed source software) plenty of char text representing numbers with the format

[users] please help

2005-09-13 Thread Shani McFadyen
Hi! I just purchased a new iBook G4 and attempted to download OpenOffice. I have X11 on my laptop and was under the impression that I could run OpenOffice through this, but I obviously can't because when I had finished installing the program, it told me that I needed Xdarwin and XFree86

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2005-09-13 Thread Lisa Shiro \(Atlas Plumbers Builders\(K\) Ltd.
Where do i get the java runtime programe

[users] Downloading

2005-09-13 Thread Frank Beckendorf Jr.
Apparently I can download but it won't open with WinZip. I need help in getting this to work. FrankBeckendorf Thought for the day: Some people choose the road less traveled, I'd rather cut through the woods. ---Joyce, Oregon Now doing cruises and other travel. Call us at (504) 279-9968.

[users] installing openoffice

2005-09-13 Thread Jai K
hi, i've just installed Fedora core 4 onto my computer, which comes bundled with openoffice 1.1.2 but as version 1.1.4 is available, i would like to upgrade but each time i try to remove ver 1.1.2 from the add/remove programmes it tells me that it isn't currently installed and would first need

[users] Question about Launching Open Office

2005-09-13 Thread werdnak84
I just downloaded OOo for Mac OS X under X11. After the splash screen is gone, and everything set, I try to open it by clicking Starting Open Office, but a window pops up that tells me to choose my X server amonst the applications I have. I try different ones, but they only open that

Re: [users] cross platform

2005-09-13 Thread Pablo Lachmann
Am 12.09.2005 um 17:21 schrieb Dale Erwin: All I have read so far about NeoOffice/J says it is for Mac OSX, but if it is written in Java wouldn't it be platform independent? That is, couldn't it run on any platform with a JVM? I would like to try it. Hi Dale and a hello to the list, I

[users] Blank areas when printing Draw document

2005-09-13 Thread The Willow Warren at West Wales Willows
Hi there! I am using the current beta version, having just upgraded from the previous one. I have several documents created in Draw with graphics throughout. The problem is that I can create these documents, print them without problems, not change anything on them, but the next time I open the

Re: [users] does version 2 open office read latest powerpoints

2005-09-13 Thread Jack L.
I can check for you if you send me a sample of recent powerpoint slides, but I would think the beta version would work with the more recent powerpoint slides. On 9/12/05, sarah dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Open Office People, I have the rock solid stable version of Open Office but

[users] How to arrange windows

2005-09-13 Thread Djoko Harijanto
Dear all, How can I arrange several spread sheet windows in one Calc session ? I use this function before in XL by clicking 'window', ' arrange' then either horizontal or vertical . This feature is usefull when I compare several sheet all together in a single display session Than you verymuch

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread mike scott
On 12 Sep 2005 at 17:55, Dan Lewis wrote: ... Part of the problem may be that most people do not read the setup guide first. As I pointed out above, page 27 in the 1.1.4 setup guide discusses this issue as well as tells how to solve the problem. Is there something that you would like

[users] OOo Printing on Dot-Matrix printers prob

2005-09-13 Thread Kurniawan (EDP)
Dear all, Printing from OOo using a dot-matrix printer (in our case, Epson LQ-2180), either using the Windows or Linux version of OOo, only gives a partial output (only around 3/4 part from the left margin is printed, a quarter of the page on the right side is blank). I've been searching

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2005-09-13 Thread Alister
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Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread john geldman
From my extensive magazine reading about UI's, I'd claim that blaming stupid users is stupid (or some sage advice like that from Mr. Gump). Nothing will be damn-fool-proof, and even fool-proof doesn't always work with me as a user. The goal should be reducing the amount of similar traffic on this

Re: [users] OOo Printing on Dot-Matrix printers prob

2005-09-13 Thread john geldman
Unfortunetly, I think you hit it when you said simple text editors. Try printing a pdf (the adobe reader is free). For instance save one of your OOo documents as a pdf, and print that pdf from adobe. Most of the printing heavy lifting is in the printer driver, not applications like OOo. Of

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-13 Thread Marcus Ilgner
Hi Rod, On 9/12/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what you can do is go to File - New - Labels and let the Wizard walk you through it. You can either use one of a few hundred pre-defined label formats (Avery, mostly) or you can define your own either from scratch or by modifying an

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread RLShadow
I've been following this thread, from the first very rude posting, which eventually led to some discussion about the issue at hand (if it indeed is an issue). My 2 cents, from someone who is a computer user as opposed to a computer hobbiest or computer guru, is that the OpenOffice

Re: [users] installing openoffice

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:14:50 +0100 (BST) Jai K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i've just installed Fedora core 4 onto my computer, which comes bundled with openoffice 1.1.2 but as version 1.1.4 is available, i would like to upgrade but each time i try to remove ver 1.1.2 from the add/remove

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:47:23 +0300 Lisa Shiro \(Atlas Plumbers Builders\(K\) Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do i get the java runtime programe Google for J2RE download - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users]

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:00:36 +0200 Patricia Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone. I sorted out the read problem, but didn't see that tiny icon for conversion to pdf. Blush. snip You'll be pleased to learn the icons on version 2 are bigger. Wait for it to be released as a final

Re: [users] does version 2 open office read latest powerpoints

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 12 September 2005 12:44 pm, sarah dienes wrote: Hi Open Office People, I have the rock solid stable version of Open Office but it will not let me read recent powerpoints with it - it seems to have been set up with that file association. If i download the beta version will it read

Re: [users] installing openoffice

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:14 pm, Jai K wrote: hi, i've just installed Fedora core 4 onto my computer, which comes bundled with openoffice 1.1.2 but as version 1.1.4 is available, i would like to upgrade but each time i try to remove ver 1.1.2 from the add/remove programmes it tells me

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Samuel Murray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skryf om 5:56 AM op 13/09/2005: However, if I had had MS Office, I do think I would have been a bit miffed if this new program took over the file associations that had previously been MS Office ones. Even if it had been my ignorant mistake during the installation. I

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Alister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2005 10:56:40: I think there may be some people who have the opinion that OpenOffice was developed by computer geeks, more or less FOR computer geeks, and not for a fairly typical user who just wants the computer to be a handy tool,and not something

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Replying to list

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:13:53 +0100 CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 03:50, Russell Butler wrote: ken green wrote: This is not OOo-specific, but a question about this particular list. I notice a lot of reminders to keep replies on the list (both in

[users] Context and drop down menus

2005-09-13 Thread Wang
Hi everyone I can't find where this has been discussed before apart from one unsettled question in the Forums, so I'm sorry if it's an old poser. I'm currently using OOo Beta 2 but the problem has been ongoing since my first OOo install. Win XP SR2. Java runtime enabled. When I open context

Re: [users] Question about Launching Open Office

2005-09-13 Thread Marcus Ilgner
Hi Andrew, On 9/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the X server? Better yet, WHAT is it? I guess there is something I need to understand about running under X11. You may contact me through this email. though there are several X servers available for OS X, you are

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 05:29 am, Samuel Murray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skryf om 5:56 AM op 13/09/2005: However, if I had had MS Office, I do think I would have been a bit miffed if this new program took over the file associations that had previously been MS Office ones. Even if it

[users] Data Recovery Tools?

2005-09-13 Thread Don Guy
Hi, Is there any such animal as a tool which will attempt to recover data from a corrupted spreadsheet? A glitch of unknown origin produced a variety of invalid file format errors when I saved a file last night, and now neither OO nor Star Office will open it. No, I wasn't smart enough to

Re: [users] please help

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Belec
Shani, have you installed the developer tools from the CD, they are not installed by default! Tiger OS, right? Let me know, even off list, it's pretty easy to install. However if you really want it easy, grab NeoOffice/J, a derivative of OO for OSX, it has a DMG and install interface, and

[users] Installing new fonts

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
I have a Linux system which does not contain Times New Roman. I need this font for some work I am doing. When using the Install fonts from the web, I got to the download stage. But the file to download was an *.exe. That is not the file extension I need for Linux. Where can I go to

Re: [users] How to recovery damage file

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:01 +0800, Wan Mohd Hafizi wrote: Good afternoon, I'm using Oo Calc. during save the program I'm not so sure how come its damage. When I try to open cannot open. Any where to recovery the damage file. No tool as such. However, you may able to recover the data.

Re: [users] Installing new fonts

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 08:13 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: I have a Linux system which does not contain Times New Roman. I need this font for some work I am doing. When using the Install fonts from the web, I got to the download stage. But the file to download was an *.exe. That is not the

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread ken green
On 2005-09-12 9:22 PM, Randomthots wrote: Actually, THE problem is that OOo shouldn't be re-associating MS file types in the first place. I can see some justification for making the association IF the computer doesn't have MSO already installed, but otherwise just leave it alone. I would

Re: [users] Cross platform compatiblilty

2005-09-13 Thread Robin Laing
Paul Genereux wrote: Good Morning, Can Open Office worksheets and documents compiled on a Windows based computer be open and used by Mac computers? And, vice vesa? Thanks, Paul Genereux Yes, My wife does it all the time between Linux, Windows and her Mac notebook. Note, you can

Re: [users] Downloading

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
Frank Beckendorf Jr. wrote: Apparently I can download but it won't open with WinZip. I need help in getting this to work. FrankBeckendorf 1. Verify the MD5 checksums of your download. That will tell you if your download came through OK. See the download page for more info. 2. What

Re: [users] How to arrange windows

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
Djoko Harijanto wrote: Dear all, How can I arrange several spread sheet windows in one Calc session ? I use this function before in XL by clicking 'window', ' arrange' then either horizontal or vertical . This feature is usefull when I compare several sheet all together in a single

Re: [users] OOo Printing on Dot-Matrix printers prob

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
John, You are partially correct. The printing problems with OOo tend to be the result of incorrectly implementing the printer driver APIs in many cases, or so I've been told by the developers in response to filed issues. I have encountered and written up numerous problems, the most exciting

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Kopischke
on 09/13/05 09:21 'ken green' wrote: On 2005-09-12 9:22 PM, Randomthots wrote: Actually, THE problem is that OOo shouldn't be re-associating MS file types in the first place. I can see some justification for making the association IF the computer doesn't have MSO already installed, but

Re: [users] does version 2 open office read latest powerpoints

2005-09-13 Thread Gregory Forster
I use OO 1.9.122BETA 2 and have absolutly no problem exchanging between .ppt 2003 files. Some governmental web sites, i.e. VA Dept. of Taxation has a 2004LegislativeAndOtherChanges.ppt file for download that works fine with OO. My wife has MSO 2003 at her work and I have no problem exchanging

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread Dale Erwin
Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:47:23 +0300 Lisa Shiro \(Atlas Plumbers Builders\(K\) Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do i get the java runtime programe Google for J2RE download Or point your browser to: http://java.sun.com -- Dale Erwin Salamanca 116 Pueblo

Re: [users] Installing new fonts

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:26 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 08:13 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: I have a Linux system which does not contain Times New Roman. I need this font for some work I am doing. When using the Install fonts from the web, I got to the

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2005 10:56:40: (snip) For what it's worth, I thought the explanation in the Beta2 installer was quite clear -- and as far as I recall the default is that OOo does *not* associate with Office documents. I have observed that the

Re: [users] Installing new fonts

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:48 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:26 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 08:13 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: I have a Linux system which does not contain Times New Roman. I need this font for some work I am doing. When

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
I was interrupted by a phone call and failed to complete this earlier post. First, Beta release = TEST release. How can you test what you don't understand? (Hint: That's a rhetorical question.) Second, you won't be allowed to install a beta (candidate) release until you pass the quiz.

Re: [users] Context and drop down menus

2005-09-13 Thread Doug Thompson
Your installation has a problem. Don't know if it's in the OS or OOo. The behavior of the context menus is as it should be here in SuSE9.3 and Win98 and not at all like you describe. DT Wang wrote: Hi everyone I can't find where this has been discussed before apart from one unsettled

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Pete Holsberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed OpenOffice on my computer around 3 years ago, it's because I didn't want to pay the price for MS Office. Since I didn't have MS Office on my computer, having OpenOffice be the default file association for .doc, .xls, etc. wasn't an issue. However,

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Simon Hogg
On 9/13/05, Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed OpenOffice on my computer around 3 years ago, it's because I didn't want to pay the price for MS Office. Since I didn't have MS Office on my computer, having OpenOffice be the default file

Re: [users] Context and drop down menus

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
Bottom post: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:20 am, Doug Thompson wrote: Your installation has a problem. Don't know if it's in the OS or OOo. The behavior of the context menus is as it should be here in SuSE9.3 and Win98 and not at all like you describe. DT Wang wrote: Hi everyone I

Re: [users] Context and drop down menus

2005-09-13 Thread Alister
Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2005 17:41:03: I have to concur that I have no problem with this on my OOo Beta2 installation. When I access a context menu on the right side of OOo and access a submenu, the submenu opens to the left of the main context menu. My O/S is

[users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Randomthots
ken green wrote: How about something that simply states: By checking these boxes, OOo will open these files when double-clicked. If you plan on continuing to use MS Office to open these file types, consider leaving the checkboxes alone. OOo will still work fine leaving these checkboxes

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Pete Holsberg
Simon Hogg wrote: On 9/13/05, Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed OpenOffice on my computer around 3 years ago, it's because I didn't want to pay the price for MS Office. Since I didn't have MS Office on my computer, having OpenOffice be

Re: [users] BOOLEAN field in Database

2005-09-13 Thread James E. Lang
Dale Erwin wrote at 13:12 on 12 Sep 2005: James E. Lang wrote: Oh, dear! I just read elsewhere that OOo does not include a database engine but rather that OOo uses a standard interface to an external database engine. I was assuming that there was a database engine within OOo. This

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread John Viestenz
comments are getting off the topic of this thread, but my two pence are bottom posted. - Original Message - From: Simon Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Re: bad programming On 9/13/05, Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Jim Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2005 10:56:40: I think there may be some people who have the opinion that OpenOffice was developed by computer geeks, more or less FOR computer geeks, and not for a fairly typical user who just wants the computer to be a handy

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Pete Holsberg
Randomthots wrote: I think the core of the problem (i.e. freaked out naive users) is attributable to the manner in which Windows assigns icons to file types. I'm NOT a naive user; I've been computing for about 25 years now. I've sat through hundreds of program and OS installs. I'm currently

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Dale Erwin
Pete Holsberg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed OpenOffice on my computer around 3 years ago, it's because I didn't want to pay the price for MS Office. Since I didn't have MS Office on my computer, having OpenOffice be the default file association for .doc, .xls, etc.

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread RDMcBride
Randomthots said: She is constantly asking me if I saved something IN OpenOffice or IN Microsoft Word as if the program itself is a container for documents in some way. You mean it isn't the container? I also thought it was. Richard

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Pete Holsberg
Jim Wagner wrote: I would suggest that this step be put in at the very last. A note saying Congratulations! You have installed OpenOffice, and are now ready to use it. Would you like all your .doc files which presently have the windows icon to be marked with the OO icon instead? Yes/No.

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread RDMcBride
This from Rod fits my experience: When I installed OOo for the first time in January '04, I thought the question meant Do want OOo to BE ABLE TO open MSO files? So I thought, Yes. Install the appropriate filters, please. I really did NOT expect the file associations to change. I didn't freak

[users] Bullet size problem

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Mead
I am having trouble with the Linux, but not the Windows, version of OOo defaulting to ungainly, large circular bullets. Details: When I create an un-numbered list using the Windows version the round bullets have a pleasingly small radius. On Linux, this document style is displayed perfectly and

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:45 pm, Pete Holsberg wrote: Jim Wagner wrote: I would suggest that this step be put in at the very last. A note saying Congratulations! You have installed OpenOffice, and are now ready to use it. Would you like all your .doc files which presently have the

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread Pete Holsberg
Dan Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:45 pm, Pete Holsberg wrote: Jim Wagner wrote: I would suggest that this step be put in at the very last. A note saying Congratulations! You have installed OpenOffice, and are now ready to use it. Would you like all your .doc files

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-13 Thread David Offill
Marcus Ilgner wrote: Hi Rod, On 9/12/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what you can do is go to File - New - Labels and let the Wizard walk you through it. You can either use one of a few hundred pre-defined label formats (Avery, mostly) or you can define your own either from

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:31 -0400, David Offill wrote: Marcus Ilgner wrote: Hi Rod, On 9/12/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Follow-up question on labels - when I go the FileNewLabels, I only get a list of eight label options, rather than one of a few hundred

[users] FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks

2005-09-13 Thread Bell, Rinzai
Title: FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks All, I saved this file to an excel extension, but it will not open in excel? Thanks, Rinzai J. Bell Manager of R D (Electrical) Engineering Tomorrow's Solutions Today Andros 870 Harbour Way South Richmond CA, 94804 USA

[users] OOPS

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Coffee
This morning I submitted an issue report 54555 and attached a file. Will someone please remove the attached file as it contains some sensitive information. I did not think of the consequences of this attachment when I made it. Keep up the good work! Regards, Michael Coffee

[users] [moderated]How to open odg file

2005-09-13 Thread Richard Hilary Dickinson
Dear Sir, I have been sent an ODG document (openoffice) tried opening it with MS Word but this didn't work.How can I open it (do I need the Open office program installed?)? Hope you can help, thanks, Richard Dickinson

[users] Blank areas when printing Draw document

2005-09-13 Thread The Willow Warren at West Wales Willows
Original message: I am using the current beta version, having just upgraded from the previous one. I have several documents created in Draw with graphics throughout. The problem is that I can create these documents, print them without problems, not change anything on them, but the next time I

[users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread ognimod olemrac
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[users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread seymour pomerantz
I just downloaded OpenOffice 1.1.4 but I cannot find it on my computer (Windows XP). I hope someone can help me. Seymour Pomerantz

[users] Re: [Marketing] Access to language packs not available.

2005-09-13 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Thanks. I've forwarded it to the NLC list. Charles. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread detlef.jung
Kann leider nur in deutscher Sprache an Euch schreiben. Habe seit geraumer Zeit OpenOffice. org genuzt, habe aber leider nun keine Möglichkeit mehr das Programm zu starten. Mein Fehlerbericht ist bereits auch schon an Euch gegangen. Wäre es vielleicht möglich, eine CD mit dem OpenOffice.org

[users] Openoffice 2 bug??

2005-09-13 Thread David Duarte
Hello, i've being using open office 1.4 on my company for a year. Now I installed version 2 but when i try to open a document that is on another pc on the lan it shows a error message document do not exist. Is it a bug? Best Regards David Duarte

[users] Manuals

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Campion
I see that there is an online help for version 1.1 but I would like to know if you have a printed user manual that I can purchase. Thank you Carol Campion

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
OK. This is no longer a question to be answered, but a discussion. Please move it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ

[users] Re: OOPS

2005-09-13 Thread David Chapman
Michael, I directly emailed the qa person assigned. Hopefully he/she will take care of it. Dave On 9/13/05, Michael Coffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I submitted an issue report 54555 and attached a file. Will someone please remove the attached file as it contains some

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Replying to list

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:39, Michael Adams wrote: Ah-ha... Hence the two reply to's in your headers. Note that mails with the header Delivered=to: and the value moderator means that the user is not subscribed and therefore to further the OOo cause it's a really good idea to CC: that

Re: [users] BOOLEAN field in Database

2005-09-13 Thread Dale Erwin
James E. Lang wrote: Dale Erwin wrote at 13:12 on 12 Sep 2005: James E. Lang wrote: Oh, dear! I just read elsewhere that OOo does not include a database engine but rather that OOo uses a standard interface to an external database engine. I was assuming that there was a database engine

Re: [users] Spelling in Swedish

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 12 September 2005 07:43, + Mikael Boman wrote: Is there a possibility to run a spell check in the Swedish language? I have only found the English and Italian language. File - Autopilot - Install Dictionary ? Please reply to users@openoffice.org only -- CPH : openoffice.org

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 12 September 2005 17:14, + Bullock, Charlton (Mission Systems) wrote: [ MODERATED ] Greetings, Could some please advise if Openoffice is capable of running In Farsi? And if so, could you guide me to a reference? I do not think that this is possible just yet,

Re: [users] RPM install?!

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 12 September 2005 18:02, + Anton Solovyev wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Where the heck is real distro for 2.0 beta that runs installer and installs where I told it to, not that RPM stuff?! Like a tgz or a deb or compile from source ? What platform are you using ?

Re: [users] [moderated]How to open odg file

2005-09-13 Thread phantom21
-Original Message- From: Richard Hilary Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 13, 2005 12:48 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] [moderated]How to open odg file Dear Sir, I have been sent an ODG document (openoffice) tried opening it with MS Word but this didn't

Re: [users] Calc as address book for email?

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon September 12 2005 19:34, CarlP wrote: OO 1.1.4, XPsp2, Thunderbird email I'm wondering if there is a way to use a Calc spreadsheet as an email address source for a broadcast message. I have a small spreadsheet with 20-30 email addresses I'd like to include in a broadcast email. I can

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-13 Thread Dale Erwin
David Offill wrote: Marcus Ilgner wrote: Hi Rod, On 9/12/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what you can do is go to File - New - Labels and let the Wizard walk you through it. You can either use one of a few hundred pre-defined label formats (Avery, mostly) or you can define

Re: [users] Data Recovery Tools?

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue September 13 2005 13:55, Don Guy wrote: Hi, Is there any such animal as a tool which will attempt to recover data from a corrupted spreadsheet? A glitch of unknown origin produced a variety of invalid file format errors when I saved a file last night, and now neither OO nor Star

Re: [users] Downloading

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue September 13 2005 04:10, + Frank Beckendorf Jr. wrote: Apparently I can download but it won't open with WinZip. I need help in getting this to work. You never mentioned which version you tried to download from, but I suspect that you have a corrupted download. Please either download

[users] document protection

2005-09-13 Thread Jan van Aar
I think this is strange! I made a spreadsheet in CALC (Ooo2.0.0beta2), protected the cells, protected the sheet and the document with a password an saved it as an Ooo document. I closed it, opened it again, saved is as a MS Excel 97/200 document, closed it and opened the Excel document again

Re: Fw: [users] Spread Sheet

2005-09-13 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon September 12 2005 18:16, + Arnold Klausner wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** - Original Message - From: Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arnold Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [users] Spread Sheet Would you

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-13 Thread David Offill
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:31 -0400, David Offill wrote: Marcus Ilgner wrote: Hi Rod, On 9/12/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Follow-up question on labels - when I go the FileNewLabels, I only get a list of eight label

[users] Change installation settings

2005-09-13 Thread Joe Marks
In 2.0, how can the setting be changed, if at installaton, check marks are placed in the boxes to select Microsoft file types, then later, you do not want Microsoft files to open in the OpenOffice format? Joe __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: [users] Manuals

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:22 -0600, Carol Campion wrote: I see that there is an online help for version 1.1 but I would like to know if you have a printed user manual that I can purchase. Thank you Carol Campion You sure can. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ for a selection

[users] Re: [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:14:55 -0400, Bullock, Charlton (Mission Systems) wrote: Greetings, Could some please advise if Openoffice is capable of running In Farsi? And if so, could you guide me to a reference? Respectfully Submitted CLB Please see http://fa.openoffice.org/ and help where

[users] add strikethru to toolbar

2005-09-13 Thread Joe Halloran
I am using the new beta. I cant find a way to add the strike thru function to the format toolbar. In the previous version I could do this. Any help appreciated - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 09:01 am, seymour pomerantz wrote: I just downloaded OpenOffice 1.1.4 but I cannot find it on my computer (Windows XP). I hope someone can help me. Seymour Pomerantz Do a search for this file: OOo_1.1.4_Win32Intel_install.zip. This is the file you

[users] Page numbering - two pages on one A4 sheet

2005-09-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I print out sermons on landscape A4 sheets, using two columns on each sheet - effectively an A5 double page. In Microsoft Outlook there was a method (by formatting Two Pages on one sheet) to enable a page number at the bottom of each A5 page. Is there a similar way to put a Page Number at the

Re: [users] [moderated]How to open odg file

2005-09-13 Thread cono
Dear Sir, Richard, Richard Hilary Dickinson wrote: Dear Sir, I have been sent an ODG document (openoffice) tried opening it with MS Word but this didn't work.How can I open it (do I need the Open office program installed?)? Hope you can help, thanks, Two choises: A - ask

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-13 Thread Paul
You have to look in the folder to which you saved the document. Sometimes downloads are automatically saved to the desktop - have a look there. Once you find it following the setup instructions that are contained within the .zip file (the one you downloaded). /paul On 9/14/05, seymour

Re: [users] add strikethru to toolbar

2005-09-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:01 -0400, Joe Halloran wrote: I am using the new beta. I cant find a way to add the strike thru function to the format toolbar. In the previous version I could do this. Any help appreciated Add via Tools Customize. Choose the Formatting bar and add. --

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