Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-10-23 Thread Paul
Have a look at : http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html Supports OSX10.2 and greater. /paul On 10/23/05, Memory Hughes Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this software compatible with Mac X10 Dr. Memory H. Seaman PO Box 731462 Fairland 2030, Johannesburg, South Africa Tel:

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-10-23 Thread Paul
Insert envelope will bring up the necessary items that you need to complete for an envelope. Then you have two options 1/ insert into a new doc 2/ insert into an existing doc. Either one completed, you will then be able to print as you would a normal document inclusive of the envelope. Reply to

[users] Writer: Zoom in/out toolbar buttons not working

2005-10-23 Thread Jeffery Small
Can anyone explain why, while working in Writer, the Zoom In and Zoom Out toolbar buttons work in preview mode but do not work (are greyed out) in standard mode within a document? They did not work in 1.4.1 and still do not work in 2.0. Also, is there any good reason why in 2.0 you can no

[users] Bibliography Question

2005-10-23 Thread Grady Weyenberg
I am fiddling with all the new features and layout in OO.org 2, and I have a question about the bibliography feature. There is an option in the bibliography index options called number entries. This changes all the citation refrences from using the short name of the bib item to a numerical

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here

2005-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Chad Smith wrote: On 10/22/05, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.lotus.com/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/workplacehome Lotus = IBM Workplace Big difference between Lotus and IBM Workplace IBM Workplace is just a repackaged OOo - of course it will use ODF Workplace is a

Re: [users] Writer: Zoom in/out toolbar buttons not working

2005-10-23 Thread Paul
Does on mine. You'll have to be a little more specific to get further assistance. /paul On 10/23/05, Jeffery Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Writer: Zoom in/out toolbar buttons not working

2005-10-23 Thread Mixu Lauronen
Jeffery Small wrote: Can anyone explain why, while working in Writer, the Zoom In and Zoom Out toolbar buttons work in preview mode but do not work (are greyed out) in standard mode within a document? They did not work in 1.4.1 and still do not work in 2.0. It works at least for me. I have

[users] correcting bad variables (number range)

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi, I've received a lengthy article which was written in MSWord (unfortunately). Using OO2.0 I can open the document and most of the formatting is ok. The problem is that example numbers along with their targets and cross-referencing has not come through the conversion too well. The example

[users] Re: Importing high quality ps images to Writer

2005-10-23 Thread Bill Morrow
Ruben Roa wrote: I produce high quality plots in ps format from I can't say in this case and sometimes shooting in the dark will look foolish, but I have found degraded graphics imported to OO.o (Linux), when saved is due to the fact it is saved in 75 dpi (screen standard). If you can find

Re: [users] Re: bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:15 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:14:17 -0500 John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-10-22, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I know alien works, but. with the original installer, the user had control

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 00:22 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:41:29AM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 08:13 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:57:45AM -0400, Wesley Allen wrote: 1. download package 2. tar zxvf

Re: [users] Translating Help Files of OpenOffice

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 20:15 +0100, Duarte M. Costa wrote: Sorry, but I always get an Error message when trying to make the registration and log in. I am not able to pass beyond. Where am I doing wrong? Someone could tell me how I can surpass this obstacle? Duarte M. Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Music on OO 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 15:54 -0700, Buddy wrote: Hi Rod I'm already registered with OO and I've sent you the sample file.' BFN On 10/22/05, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 18:59 -0700, Buddy wrote: I have a PowerPoint presentation which has music

Re: [users] Base is too slow

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Merkley
Paul Smith wrote: On 10/22/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that Base is quite slow when, for instance, I click on the button Tables by the first time. Is there some way of improving that? (I am using OOo 1.9.125 on Fedora Core 4.) I would recommend that you

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Scott
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:36 -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote: Apt-get calls on dpkg for installing and removing programs, so using dpkg is the same as using apt-get. apt-get is also available for Linux and uses rpm in the same manner as you describe. Problem is

[users] Re: Table's border: Not visible

2005-10-23 Thread Ain Vagula
Hardeep Singh Rai wrote: I used to have everything right. But, now, if I want to have Table with borders not to be printed on paper, it shows also no border on screen. which earlier used to be light gray lines. Which is the option which change such setting. If I use Table with borer, then it

Re: [users] Base is too slow

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/23/05, Steve Merkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that Base is quite slow when, for instance, I click on the button Tables by the first time. Is there some way of improving that? (I am using OOo 1.9.125 on Fedora Core 4.) I would recommend that you upgrade to 2.0Final as

[users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Gillis
I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting comfortable enough to make the day to day switch to OOo. Would someone please tell me what the difference is between 1.9x and 2.0. Any new features? Thank you.

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Thomas Miller
You are using a Beta or Release candidate for 2.0. Jack Gillis wrote: I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting comfortable enough to make the day to day switch to OOo. Would someone please tell me what the difference is between 1.9x and 2.0. Any

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jack Gillis wrote: I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting comfortable enough to make the day to day switch to OOo. Would someone please tell me what the difference is between 1.9x and 2.0. Any new features? 1.9.95 is a several months old

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Use Tools Options Openoffice.org Java to set your JRE. You mean, set the path to it? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users] Writer: Zoom in/out toolbar buttons not working

2005-10-23 Thread Jeffery Small
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does on mine. You'll have to be a little more specific to get further assistance. I'm using version 2.0 on a Solaris/SPARC system. In Page Preview mode the Zoom In/Out buttons (magnifying glasses with the + and -) which I have placed on my Standard toolbar, are

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Wesley Allen
Thomas Miller wrote: You are using a Beta or Release candidate for 2.0. Jack Gillis wrote: Yah, the upgrade will be more stable, go ahead and do it. Wes I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting comfortable enough to make the day to day switch

Re: [users] Base is too slow

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/23/05, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that Base is quite slow when, for instance, I click on the button Tables by the first time. Is there some way of improving that? (I am using OOo 1.9.125 on Fedora Core 4.) I would recommend that you upgrade

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 13:09 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Use Tools Options Openoffice.org Java to set your JRE. You mean, set the path to it? I am not certain I understand. Do you mean the Add button is

Re: [users] datasources and forms (myref: rl3-21oct)

2005-10-23 Thread rich lott
Nope, using 1.4 Anyone know where the queries (etc) are stored? On Saturday 22 October 2005 21:59, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: rich lott wrote: Hi Dan, Andrew and others, Yes, thank you. I decided to go for dbase not calc as Andrew posted that calc data sources are

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Gillis
Sorry I forgot to mention it is the release candidate I think. The file I downloaded is OOo_2.0.9_Win32Intel_install.exe dated 10/21/2005 an is 74.9M. Thank you. - Original Message - From: Thomas Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 12:42

Re: [users] Will OpenOffice do this for me?

2005-10-23 Thread K Hindall
Thanks. The boss just nixed the OO idea, though: she says its user base is too small so it will probably go away. I hope not. The world needs things like OO, even if it can't do the particular task I need. Thanks again! K On 10/23/05 12:52 PM, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread David Teague(T-bird acct)
Jack Gillis wrote: I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting comfortable enough to make the day to day switch to OOo. Would someone please tell me what the difference is between 1.9x and 2.0. Any new features? Thank you.

RE: [users] Table of contents; shortcut to repeat action

2005-10-23 Thread Manuel Carrusca
Hi Solveig, Thanks a lot for your precious and quick help. 1. About TOCs: it was very easy to hyperlink them following your instructions. 2. About keyboard shortcuts: in my opinion, the problem about setting up such shortcuts is to find a combination of keys that isn't used by any of the

Re: [users] Re: Will OpenOffice do this for me?

2005-10-23 Thread James White
On October 23, 2005 06:12 pm, paul sutton wrote: Also ask your boss what to compare these numbers with those on the free Microsoft support site (a small joke at Microsoft's expense). -- James White ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no

Re: [users] A question about animations

2005-10-23 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2005 02:31 schrieb Madhusudan Singh: Hi I have used openoffice for at least 2 years, and was wondering if there is a scripting language in which one can code animations for Impress ? I have no idea. You might be more successful with asking the developers directly, at

RE: [users] Table of contents; shortcut to repeat action

2005-10-23 Thread Manuel Carrusca
Hi Brian, Thanks a lot for your quick help. As you say, it was easy to assign a keyboard shorcut to repeat an action. Sorry for the delay in my reply... Best regards, Manuel Carrusca De: Brian Carey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: qua 19-10-2005

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Dark Shadow
OKay I am working through the dependancies and I am still at the ./configure part and it is looking for rpm but I will not install it and stuff like --without-rpm and --disable-rpm doesn't work and no help with ./configure --help so what is the right command On 10/22/05, Asrail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Crash while creating a Form

2005-10-23 Thread Serge Ratke
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:06:01 +0200, CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version of Java are you using ? If it is not Java 5 (or 1.5) then please upgrade and try again. i either checked the global variables ($JAVA_HOME, $JRE_HOME, ...), all are set propperly, so i'm lost here.

Re: [users] Re: bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:35:55 -0400 G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:15 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:14:17 -0500 John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-10-22, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Dark Shadow
ok I just realized which one and I used --with-package-format=native which work now I just have to find the mozilla libraries which is nice enough to give a internet link On 10/23/05, Dark Shadow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OKay I am working through the dependancies and I am still at the

[users] Parameters when faxing directly

2005-10-23 Thread Robert W March
OpenOffice will output directly to a fax device when configured to do so through spadmin. The commandline is configured in spadmin to parametize the destination phone number and the filename for use by the fax program. If mgetty+sendfax is used as the fax program, then faxspool can also use

RE: [users] Table of contents; shortcut to repeat action

2005-10-23 Thread Manuel Carrusca
Hi Roderick, Thanks a lot for your quick help. 1. About TOCs: You were right. After setting the hyperlinks correctly, the TOC began behaving as expected. 2. About keyboard shortcuts: it seems that the Repeat function is not assigned a shortcut by default. So, I had to assign my own. Sorry

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Asrail
Dark Shadow, 23-10-2005 16:23: ok I just realized which one and I used --with-package-format=native which work now I just have to find the mozilla libraries which is nice enough to give a internet link --with-system-mozilla is supposed to work, if you already have it.

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Dark Shadow
I actually made it up to the dmake part but I am confused now as I get this output ^ Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. 20 errors 12 warnings BUILD FAILED

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:55:24PM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 13:09 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Use Tools Options Openoffice.org Java to set your JRE. You mean, set the

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Asrail
Dark Shadow, 23-10-2005 16:50: I actually made it up to the dmake part but I am confused now as I get this output ^ Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. 20 errors 12 warnings BUILD FAILED

Re: [users] Base is too slow

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Merkley
Paul Smith wrote: On 10/23/05, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that Base is quite slow when, for instance, I click on the button Tables by the first time. Is there some way of improving that? (I am using OOo 1.9.125 on Fedora Core 4.) I would

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Gillis
- Original Message - From: David Teague(T-bird acct) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0 Jack Gillis wrote: I have been running 1.9.95 under Windows XP for a few months and am just now getting

[users] Version 2.0 RC and Java is a dissappointment

2005-10-23 Thread Jack Gillis
I was about to install version 2.0 under Windows XP SP2 (no Java Runtime) after a few months work converting my macro from Excel to Calc under 1.9.95. In spite of the work it was kind of a fun if, not always, successful exercise. Now I find those macros wont run under 2.0 unless I install

Re: [users] Version 2.0 RC and Java is a dissappointment

2005-10-23 Thread Tina Krogull
Hi Jack, if I understand correctly you don't want to buy Java Runtime Environment. You don't have to. Here (http://java.com/en/download/windows_xpi.jsp) you can download JRE 5.0 for free. Regards, Tina Krogull Jack Gillis wrote: I was about to install version 2.0 under Windows XP SP2 (no

[users] Open Office for Apple Computers?

2005-10-23 Thread Philip Kramer
Will there be an Open Office version for the MAC OS? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: Bibliographies

2005-10-23 Thread Grady Weyenberg
The tutorial describes how to add the short name to the beginning of the bibliography entry. e.g. --- blah blah blah[ABOK1944]. blah blah BIBLIOGRAPHY [ABOK1944] Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, Doubleday and Company, 1944

RE: [users] Version 2.0 RC and Java is a dissappointment

2005-10-23 Thread GC Fraser
1) Sun's JRE is a free download from http://www.sun.com/java/ just click the link to Get Java. 2) I don't know about Base, but I understand the database function is included in Ooo since the 1.9.x series was introduced. HTH, MM -Original Message- From: Jack Gillis [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [users] Need a cvs howto since I can't use any package management

2005-10-23 Thread Dark Shadow
Well it compiled for about 20 minutes then stopped with this output. I will also look into joining the dev list since my problem has turned more technical ../unxlngi6.pro/slo/process.o(.text+0x4a8): In function `ChildStatusProc': : undefined reference to `pthread_kill_other_threads_np' collect2:

Re: [users] Open Office for Apple Computers?

2005-10-23 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2005 19:58 schrieb Philip Kramer: Will there be an Open Office version for the MAC OS? There is: http://www.neooffice.org/ Guido - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[users] Re: Version 2.0 RC and Java is a dissappointment

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:37:17 -0400, Jack Gillis wrote: I was about to install version 2.0 under Windows XP SP2 (no Java Runtime) after a few months work converting my macro from Excel to Calc under 1.9.95. In spite of the work it was kind of a fun if, not always, successful exercise. Now I

Re: [users] Open Office for Apple Computers?

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:58 -0600, Philip Kramer wrote: Will there be an Open Office version for the MAC OS? Are you looking for 2.0? If yes and you are willing to work with the beta then try http://ooofr.org/telechargement/macosx/2.0/m133/ -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Uninstall rel 1.9.109

2005-10-23 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat October 22 2005 15:20, + Tadeusz Senn wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello, OOo version: 1.9.109 (Beta 2) in English Windows XP Pro SP2 in English I want to install the new 2.0 version, but the installer wants to uninstall the previous beta version and it does not

Re: [users] OOo will not install

2005-10-23 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat October 22 2005 23:57, + David Vallier wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am trying to install Openoffice to my win 98 machine, but it keeps saying it wants to update the installer. BS, the windows installer is updated. thus oo gives an error. What is the work around or

[users] TECHNICAL PROBLEM WITH OPEN OFFICE

2005-10-23 Thread salaambay
Dear OpenOffice Programmer: I need immediate help. 1. I don't know how Open Office got on my computer. I think it was bundled with a website development progam disk that I purchased and attempted unsuccessfully to load. I do not want the Open Office program and need immediate help in

Re: [users] OO2.0 Manual?

2005-10-23 Thread Gregory Forster
I think this string is getting so long, people are confusing who said what. First off, I never really invited anyone else to help rewrite the manual. I was asked to join and mentioned that I did not know how to put screen shots in the manual. I downloaded GIMPshop, I thiink, but that isn't the

[users] OO 2.0: Java and Dual-Screen Questions

2005-10-23 Thread Jeffery Small
This is OpenOffice 2.0 on a SunFire V250 Solaris/SPARC System. 1: I notice that from the Options menu, when I select the Java entry the Java Options screen appears and then OO completely hangs for about 25 seconds as it apparently searches for the Java Runtime. It then correctly reports:

[users] [moderated] How to decide weather to use Openoffice or MS Office to open a file written in a MS office format

2005-10-23 Thread JOSE RUIZ HUIDOBRO
Dear Sirs: I have installed Openoffice in my computer. When I try yo open a file which is in any MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint, etc) format it will be opened directly by OpenOffice without giving me the chance to decide if I want to open ot in OpenOffice or in a MS Office

Re: [users] TECHNICAL PROBLEM WITH OPEN OFFICE

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Chilco
Sorry, pasted the wrong data. Here's the link: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS Anthony Chilco wrote: Hi salaambay, Relax. None of your files have changed in any way. What has changed is the program that Windows will use to open them by default. Go to the

Re: [users] OOo 1.9.95 vs 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread John Batt
Jack, I have used most of the beta 2.0 and pre-beta 2.0 versions of OO.o, and I used two of the release candidates. I have notices an almost unbroken string of increases in functionality and stability, and, occasionally, a decrease in load time. I have found 2.0 to be better than its

[users] Help with Open Office Database

2005-10-23 Thread Starr Paul
HELP! I'm working with the new database in OpenOffice and I'm hitting some snags. I'm trying to adapt the database to power a desk-top EMR that we can use to assist the Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans; I want to offer an open EMR to area physicians that we can coordinate with the local

Re: [users] [moderated] How to decide weather to use Openoffice or MS Office to open a file written in a MS office format

2005-10-23 Thread Asrail
JOSE RUIZ HUIDOBRO, 23-10-2005 18:57: Dear Sirs: I have installed Openoffice in my computer. When I try yo open a file which is in any MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint, etc) format it will be opened directly by OpenOffice without giving me the chance to decide if I want to open ot

Re: [users] Base is too slow

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/23/05, Steve Merkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that Base is quite slow when, for instance, I click on the button Tables by the first time. Is there some way of improving that? (I am using OOo 1.9.125 on Fedora Core 4.) I would recommend that you upgrade to 2.0Final as

Re: [users] [moderated] How to decide weather to use Openoffice or MS Office to open a file written in a MS office format

2005-10-23 Thread Dave Barton
Answers in-line. On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:56 -0500, JOSE RUIZ HUIDOBRO wrote: Dear Sirs: I have installed Openoffice in my computer. When I try yo open a file which is in any MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint, etc) format it will be opened directly by OpenOffice When you

[users] 2,0 errors when exiting

2005-10-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Debian etch/testing When I exit OO 2.0, I get a bunch of pop requesters with only this visible; Error saving the document file:///opt/OpenOffice.org/share/basic/Standard/scripts.xlb/:[can't see this] General Error. General input/output error. Funny thing. This subdirectory does no exist. I've

Re: [users] The package management choice does not make sense ...

2005-10-23 Thread Daniel Kasak
Madhusudan Singh wrote: It is not my intention to start a distro war here but one could be forgiven for guessing that anyone packaging programs for Linux would target the Debian debs first, and anything else later. But the packaging in the default download is in the RH rpm format. When are you

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Sun, 2005-23-10 at 16:10 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:12 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:55:24PM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 13:09 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0400,

[users] MS Access to Openoffice

2005-10-23 Thread Stew Schneider
I am pretty charged up to hear that v 2.0 BASE supports many popular databases database natively (Adabas D, ADO, Microsoft Access, MySQL). That's precisely what I need to do to easily migrate from Microsoft Access to an open source project. How do I do it? I've googled all over, and find an awful

Re: [users] MS Access to Openoffice

2005-10-23 Thread Paul
Start here : http://dba.openoffice.org/ and see if that has what your after. /paul On 10/24/05, Stew Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty charged up to hear that v 2.0 BASE supports many popular databases database natively (Adabas D, ADO, Microsoft Access, MySQL). That's precisely

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Sat, 2005-22-10 at 22:35 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Apt-get calls on dpkg for installing and removing programs, so using dpkg is the same as using apt-get. Not quite. dpkg allows me to install packages that weren't found through sources.list like the packages mentioned at the

Re: [users] correcting bad variables (number range)

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi, I've received a lengthy article which was written in MSWord (unfortunately). Using OO2.0 I can open the document and most of the formatting is ok. The problem is that example numbers along with their targets and cross-referencing has not come through the conversion too

[users] sending pdf files with multiple users

2005-10-23 Thread Edward Parker
We have two users on our computer: one for daily use and the other for an accounting package for our business, which we acquired from the former treasurer who had Microsoft Word. My question is: we can create and send pdf files on our main user, but on the other user (accounting) we cannot.

Re: [users] sending pdf files with multiple users

2005-10-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 18:39 -0700, Edward Parker wrote: We have two users on our computer: one for daily use and the other for an accounting package for our business, which we acquired from the former treasurer who had Microsoft Word. My question is: we can create and send pdf files on

[users] odt file format.

2005-10-23 Thread wayne
My son has OO 2.0 and I have 1.1.3 - when I receive email with an attach OO writer document I can't open it in my OO writer.His documents have a suffix odt and mind is swx. How do I open his document in my writer? Thanks - To

Re: [users] odt file format.

2005-10-23 Thread Naomi Kramer
There's a few different options I can think of: * You could update to OOo 2.0, which will mean you can share documents very easily * You could update to OOo 1.1.5, which can read .odt files (right, people? but if he's using features not available in 1.1.5, his documents

Re: [users] odt file format.

2005-10-23 Thread wayne
We have figured it out. thanks for all your time. Wayne On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 21:55 -0400, wayne wrote: My son has OO 2.0 and I have 1.1.3 - when I receive email with an attach OO writer document I can't open it in my OO writer.His documents have a suffix odt and mind is swx. How do I open

Re: [users] odt file format.

2005-10-23 Thread Asrail
Naomi Kramer, 23-10-2005 22:59: There's a few different options I can think of: * You could update to OOo 2.0, which will mean you can share documents very easily * You could update to OOo 1.1.5, which can read .odt files (right, people? but if he's using features not available

[users] Re: bloody rpm's only

2005-10-23 Thread Randomthots
Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:35:55 -0400 G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:15 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:14:17 -0500 John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-10-22, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Movie/animation in Presentation...

2005-10-23 Thread Rob
Hi, I have now OpenOffice.Org-2.0RC3, on Unix (FreeBSD 5.4). In my work, including movie/animations (e.g. mpeg files) into a presentation is essential. So far OOO was inable of doing so, and I had switch to a Windows PC with MS-Powerpoint for my presentations. With version 2.0, there seems to

[users] Re: Migration Of MS Word Custom Dic Into Writer

2005-10-23 Thread Rich
Thanks. - Original Message - From: Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.comp.openoffice.questions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:39 PM Subject: Re: Migration Of MS Word Custom Dic Into Writer Rich wrote: Thanks Russ. I can extract the words

Re: [users] users guide

2005-10-23 Thread Paul
You can download it from here : http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ /paul On 10/24/05, rica reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i have users guide of open office thx - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.