2005/11/18, Craig Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm not necessarily trying to be a censor. What I was really concerned
about
was being forced to remove OpenOffice.org from the computers in my
classroom
because of those words. I looked them up in a school dictionary and they
were there also, so
2005/11/18, Wangshanpo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Martin S wrote:
2005/11/18, Craig Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The word f**k and the expression f**k up are in the dictionary and
thesaurus. Is it possible to remove these? I have tried, but I have
been unsuccessful. I would like to use these at
Craig wrote:
write a script or a program to re-write the text file with the offensive
thesaurus synonyms omitted.
Suggestions:
i) Make it easy for users to add/delete words using your script.
For example, somebody might want to add scat to the thesaurus
example you used.
Somebody else might
Steve Kopischke wrote:
What I am finding interestingly curious about this thread is the lack of
sensitivity to others. Some are censoring the potentially offending
word(s) and others are brazenly typing it as though without a care or
concern in the world, even considering the originating post.
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:07 -0600, Craig Herman wrote:
OK. I'll try. But I don't have any estimate of when I will finish.
Craig
Thanks.
In the meantime I have asked the project which maintains the thesaurus
the following:
Any chance a bowlderized or
Frank wrote:
And OOo should not teach how to censure.
Every organization has different standards/requirements. As such, a
script that would enable them to easily modify all of their
dictionaries and thesauri would be of benefit to them.
A related, and equally useful script, would be one for
Hi,
what's the sense behind the capability of Draw objects like Freeform Lines
to hold text? E.g. in Calc: open Calc, open the Draw functions, select the
Freeform Line tool, draw a freeform line, type some text: the freeform line
object (background) holds text. What is this for?
greets, Lars
It is one issue if someone feels enough moral strength to decide what
words can be used and what not. For those poeple there really should
be a mechanism to delete entries from the dictionary/thesaurus.
OT rant
However, since those naughty words are part of the language, it would
be nice if they
I am trying to create a legal contract with numbered paragraphs. In the
definitions section, I have text that should be laid out as follows
1 Definitions
...
1.n DefinitionExplanations of definition
and second line etc
2 Clauses
2.1 This
Thanks for the response.
1. OpenOffice.org never did work.
2. Writer doesn't work.
3. No problems with other applications. Probably because I just started
from scratch from this used computer (reformatted the hard disk, installed
Windows 98 and Linux. Haven't actually used any of these much,
I am using openoffice 2.0 in a multiuser environment in fedora core 4. Most
often it fails to start up. When I look at the process table I find many
soffice processes (soffice and soffice.bin) for each user although the program
is not running at that time. I have to kill these processes
I am using OOo 2.0.
I am unable to use it at all now. I have un-installed it and reinstalled it,
but I can't even get into it now.
---Original Message---
From: CPHennessy
Date: 11/18/05 16:08:43
To: users@openoffice.org; Sandi Snyder
Subject: Re: [users] Open Office 2.0 Freezing up
Hi
I have a question. I am total novice. Can open office2 convert a PDF file to
a Micro Soft Word file?
Thanks
Chris
I ordered OpenOffice.org 2.0 on CD from a distributor. I was sent version
1.9.125. Is that a pre-release of version 2.0? Did I get the latest
version? I looked on the OOo web site and couldn't find any reference to
version 1.9.x
Thanks,
Rob Morgan
Greetings,
With respect to the following instructions:
Java
The minimum JDK/JRE version required to use OpenOffice.org features that
require java is JDK/JRE version 1.3.1.
To use the XSLT filters with JDK 1.3.1 you should download the files xalan.jar
and xml-apis.jar from Xalan website
I'm much delighted to express my sincere interest in installing your open
office software in my system. after several attampts to download online
failed because of poor bandwith constraint. I will grateful if you can send
as an email attachment to my mailbox. This is the surest way to have it
If you can't download the file because of bandwidth limits, you'll be even
worse off trying to get it sent to you by email. Most mail providers will not
allow messages larger than 10 MB..., and appart from that these servers are
slower than if you download the file directly from the site.
As
On Saturday 19 Nov 2005 08:59, AKAN UDOAKA wrote:
I'm much delighted to express my sincere interest in installing your open
office software in my system. after several attampts to download online
failed because of poor bandwith constraint. I will grateful if you can send
as an email attachment
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:14:54 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have a question. I am total novice. Can open office2 convert a PDF
file to a Micro Soft Word file?
Thanks
Chris
No OO2 cannot yet edit or open PDF files. But if you do a google on
pdf2doc there will be zillions of apps
Martin S wrote:
2005/11/18, Wangshanpo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Martin S wrote:
2005/11/18, Craig Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The word f**k and the expression f**k up are in the dictionary and
thesaurus. Is it possible to remove these? I have tried, but I have
been unsuccessful. I
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:14:54 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have a question. I am total novice. Can open office2 convert a PDF
file to a Micro Soft Word file?
Thanks
Chris
No, it will not read PDF's only write them. Though not totally correct,
PDF's should be seen as a read
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:21:38 -0500
Rob Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ordered OpenOffice.org 2.0 on CD from a distributor. I was sent
version 1.9.125. Is that a pre-release of version 2.0? Did I get
the latest version? I looked on the OOo web site and couldn't find
any reference to
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:53:34 -0600
Douglas M. Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
With respect to the following instructions:
Java
The minimum JDK/JRE version required to use OpenOffice.org features
that require java is JDK/JRE version 1.3.1.
To use the XSLT filters with
Lars Hansen wrote:
Hi,
what's the sense behind the capability of Draw objects like Freeform Lines
to hold text? E.g. in Calc: open Calc, open the Draw functions, select the
Freeform Line tool, draw a freeform line, type some text: the freeform line
object (background) holds text. What is this
Steve Kopischke wrote:
What I am finding interestingly curious about this thread is the lack of
sensitivity to others. Some are censoring the potentially offending
word(s) and others are brazenly typing it as though without a care or
concern in the world, even considering the originating
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 03:23 schrieb Gracia M. Littauer:
using Linux SUSE 10- Scribus 2
^
I made a poster 13 X 19...I now see I need it to be 11 X 17. How
(where?) can I change the page size?
Well I don't know about Scribus. If you mean Openoffice, then go
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 20:20 -0500, George Knapp wrote:
Thanks for the response.
1. OpenOffice.org never did work.
2. Writer doesn't work.
3. No problems with other applications. Probably because I just started
from scratch from this used computer (reformatted the hard disk, installed
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 18:22 -0700, Sandi Snyder wrote:
I am using OOo 2.0.
I am unable to use it at all now. I have un-installed it and reinstalled it,
but I can't even get into it now.
Have you deleted all the lock files? Failing to do so will produce
symptoms like yours.
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 18:50 -0800, Naveen Agarawal wrote:
I am using openoffice 2.0 in a multiuser environment in fedora core 4. Most
often it fails to start up. When I look at the process table I find many
soffice processes (soffice and soffice.bin) for each user although the
program is
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:06 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I am trying to create a legal contract with numbered paragraphs. In the
definitions section, I have text that should be laid out as follows
1 Definitions
...
1.n DefinitionExplanations of definition
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 11:32 +, Graham Davis wrote:
Steve Kopischke wrote:
What I am finding interestingly curious about this thread is the lack of
sensitivity to others. Some are censoring the potentially offending
word(s) and others are brazenly typing it as though without a care or
Thanks, but the problem is which files to download from the developer's site,
the ones to use for the XSLT filters.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Adams
To: users@openoffice.org ; Douglas M. Elliott
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: [users]
Pleasure for your quick response opinion
If you can, still send it to my mailbox
VERSION:
English Language; Windows (2000 and/or XP )
Thanks have a nice weekend
On 19/11/05, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:59:04 +0100
AKAN UDOAKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm
If you have 2.0, you only need the JRE/JDK that is recommended. The rest
is built-in if you installed everything otherwise you will have to
modify your installation (custom). For some ideas on using the built-in
tools see Chapter 13 of
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:12 +0100, AKAN UDOAKA wrote:
Pleasure for your quick response opinion
If you can, still send it to my mailbox
VERSION:
English Language; Windows (2000 and/or XP )
Thanks have a nice weekend
Sorry. I do not believe your request can be fulfilled in the manner.
I agree, and there are other aspects to consider in a school setting. It's
not so much that students will find words that they have never heard before.
But there's definitely a high potential for distraction, like: Hey, I just
typed in motherf* and look what words the thesarus came
I recently downloaded and am using OpenOffice version 2, which I love,
but I am unable to uninstall version 1.1.4 How can this be resolved?
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Santiago de Cali, Noviembre 18 de 2005
Mr.
OpenOffice.Org
By means of the present one I go to you to presguntar the following
thing to them, is form to give a certificate to the employees of a
company to which I am going to dictate the basico to them of
openoffice CALC. And like the haria.
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:53 -0500, REHIMAC wrote:
Santiago de Cali, Noviembre 18 de 2005
Mr.
OpenOffice.Org
By means of the present one I go to you to presguntar the following
thing to them, is form to give a certificate to the employees of a
company to which I am going to dictate
If you select the freeform line object and type sth on your keyboard, the
freeform line object behaves like a text box: it contains the text you
typed.
Lars
Wangshanpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Lars
I use freeform lines but I cannot quite
On Saturday 19 Nov 2005 12:52, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Each of the styles has indentation. Please try modifying the current
style's indentation to do what you want. I also recommend that you save
the changes as a new style for use later. See the User Guides and
HOW-TOs at
Thank you Michael, for your quick response.
Rob Morgan
-Original Message-
From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 5:48 AM
To: users@openoffice.org; Rob Morgan
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:21:38 -0500
Rob Morgan [EMAIL
Wangshanpo wrote:
Lars Hansen wrote:
Hi,
what's the sense behind the capability of Draw objects like Freeform
Lines
to hold text? E.g. in Calc: open Calc, open the Draw functions,
select the
Freeform Line tool, draw a freeform line, type some text: the
freeform line
object (background)
Gary Husband wrote:
I am trying to convince my place of work to offer Open Office as an
alternative to Microsoft office but at present I am getting my companies
standard reply of it is Open Source and that is issued under GPL which
usually costs businesses money and will not be free for us to
This is something I've been doing for years with WordPerfect for Linux
Server Edition:
# ./wpmerge
Usage: wpmerge [-c] form_file data_file output_file
Use -c to convert the data_file to WordPerfect format before merging.
Note: The output_file will be overwritten if it exists.
Users design
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:46 -0500, John W. Kennedy wrote:
Gary Husband wrote:
I am trying to convince my place of work to offer Open Office as an
alternative to Microsoft office but at present I am getting my companies
standard reply of it is Open Source and that is issued under GPL which
Truman Mason, 19-11-2005 11:38:
I recently downloaded and am using OpenOffice version 2, which I love,
but I am unable to uninstall version 1.1.4 How can this be resolved?
What operating system are you using?
What error messages do you get?
How are you trying to uninstall it?
Naveen Agarawal, 19-11-2005 07:15:
I am using openoffice 2.0 in a multiuser environment in fedora core
4. Most often it fails to start up. When I look at the process table
I find many soffice processes (soffice and soffice.bin) for each user
although the program is not running at that time. I
Nicu Buculei wrote:
Thomas Lange wrote:
Hi Frank,
Questions :
Is UK the country code, or GB ? In the example given in
dictionary.lst GB is used.
Isn't the name for the thesaurus file th_en_US_v2 ? I downloaded the
thesaurus some days ago, with DicOOo, and I got this new name.
A good
Thanks a lot for your reply!
I am using OO directly obtained directly from openoffice.org. So I don't think
there should be any issues.
Regards!
Naveen
Every body has his shares of ups and downs but one should never say no to life.
-
Yes - that's exactly what I was saying. Thanks for directing me to Issue
Tracker, where I found the appropriate documentation. I do hope that
someone sorts this out soon - in practice, it may only be a silly
irritation, but it gives an unfortunate impression to what is otherwise
an amazingly
Jekke Bladt wrote:
The language/country codes are part of an ISO standard which designates
the English of Great Britain as en-UK.
No.
1) The two-part language/country code is IETF RFC 1766, not an ISO standard.
2) IETF RFC 1766 specifies the use of ISO 639 for the language part and
ISO 3166
When will Open Office 2.0 be translated to Swedish?
Regards
Kjell Claësson
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I have downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and installed it on an XP system, and I
know where the files are. However, unlike the system on Linux [SuSE
9.0], I cannot determine how to open it for use. Must I open a
browser? I am lost. Luther Randerson
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 12:19 -0600, Luther W Randerson wrote:
I have downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and installed it on an XP system, and I
know where the files are. However, unlike the system on Linux [SuSE
9.0], I cannot determine how to open it for use. Must I open a
browser? I am lost.
Makro wrote:
it comes a window asking me for the character set of the document..i try
every set..and nothing work!!!, so now i got a document full of weird
symbols, i can`t read it, so i dunno what to do, other documents seems not
altered...so now the big question...how can i recover my
Start/Programs - When you see the programs you want,
right click/send to/desktop as shortcut. That way,
you'll have them right on your desktop and can double
click them anytime you want.
Greg
--- Luther W Randerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and installed it on
Good afternoon!
Click on the green Start button in the lower left of the screen.
Then hover the mouse pointer on All programs (has an arrow pointing to the
right)
A listing of programs will open up. One entry will say Openoffice2.0.
Hover over this and a final menu will open giving you choice
Thomas Lange wrote:
Hi Frank,
Questions :
Is UK the country code, or GB ? In the example given in
dictionary.lst GB is used. Isn't the name for the thesaurus file
th_en_US_v2 ? I downloaded the thesaurus some days ago, with
DicOOo, and I got this new name.
A good answer
I fully agree with the ability to add and remove words/phrases should be there.
The
tool OpenOffice.org is to be used by as many people as possible. The shape and
content might be changed slightly for the individual user.
One could say that if it there is no way of changing the words are in
Good afternoon!
But if one looks at the origin of the word fuck, then one will wonder why
we even
use it.
Guess it depends on which origin you're referring to.
Fokken: to hit OR the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
It doesn't matter, though. In the end Weird Al Jankovic was
Chris BONDE wrote:
And I think that if you ask a patriotic Scots, that he will not allow Great Britain to
include Scotland. This is accepted more now that Scotland has its own parliament.
Not if he's sensible. The new Scottish Parliament has no power in
military or foreign affairs, and, on
Hodgins Family wrote:
Guess it depends on which origin you're referring to.
Fokken: to hit
Fact.
OR the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
Garbage.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true
On the offchance that I'm not the only one who did not already know these
things, I thought I'd share some discoveries.
Until changing to OOo, I used a software with a very simple method for linking
conditions in IF formulas, i.e. #AND# and #OR#. For example: IF (condition1
#AND#condition2;
Hodgins Family wrote:
Guess it depends on which origin you're referring to.
Fokken: to hit
Fact.
OR the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
Garbage.
--
John W. Kennedy
I have not heard of 'fokken' to hit. I have heard of the acronym, but from the
little
research that
On 20/11/2005, at 2:31 PM, Terry North wrote:
On the offchance that I'm not the only one who did not already know
these
things, I thought I'd share some discoveries.
Until changing to OOo, I used a software with a very simple method
for linking
conditions in IF formulas, i.e. #AND# and
In the following paragraph of my previous post in which case should read
otherwise
3. I want a formula that returns the value in L8 if it is greater than
zero and lower than 7.1 (in which case it returns the value 7.1). The
following did not work: =IF(AND(L87.1;L80)=TRUE;L8;7.1).
Operating System Windoze 98SE
Application OOo Writer 2
I am trying to build a table or reference that I may be able to use to classify
my data
file. I have decided that Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is the best for
me.
I have been trying to set up a table in Writer.
Problem 1. I donot
Chris BONDE wrote:
Hodgins Family wrote:
Guess it depends on which origin you're referring to.
Fokken: to hit
Fact.
OR the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
Garbage.
--
John W. Kennedy
I have not heard of 'fokken' to hit.
It's an old Germanic root, almost certainly the origin of
I have an existing template file for labels and an extant data file on a
spreadsheet in OpenOffice 2.0.
I have been unable to get them to work together to print labels. Can you help?
Thanks,
Don Sestrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mm unzip the file with unzip??? that not make sense...the file is not zipped
- Original Message -
From: Makro
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: problems opening oo document
Hello
I got this weird problem:
I got a document
Since I do not have an OpenOffice entry on my Start page, I lhave
probably made an error in the installation. Thank you for the help.
Luther Randerson
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hi,
i've been using openoffice for a couple of months.. i had a problem when
making a school project in openoffice.org http://openoffice.org writer, i
wanted to make a index about my work, so.. i wrote the titles, and then i
selected all the titles click format-paragraph-numbering-numbering
I followed the usual process of going to Start/All
Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer/then the drive, then click on
properties of the file, uncheck the box and check apply, but it goes right
back to read only. I can't get rid of it. Do you have any suggestions? Rick
Thank you for the information. I only recently registered--hence your
failure to recognize me.Luther Randerson
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Hi there,
I have installed OOo 2.0 along with
openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm on both Fedora Core 3 4.
No problem on FC3 (gnome 2.8.0) but the icons dont show up in the menu on
FC4 (gnome 2.10.0), although they are actually installed (just like in
FC3) in
Your last email told me to delete the folder in the Programs file. I
did and have not had the problem since. Thanks anyhow
Asrail wrote:
Truman Mason, 19-11-2005 11:38:
I recently downloaded and am using OpenOffice version 2, which I
love, but I am unable to uninstall version 1.1.4 How
Just did a bit of pokin' (fikkin'?) around about this.
OR the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
Garbage.
I am corrected. Thank you.
Fokken: to hit
Fact.
Fact, yes, in a narrow sense, since it also could mean bang, rub, penetrate,
copulate, be OR become refering to procreation.
Firstly, congratulations on OOo 2.0I have been an OOo user from the
first release (1.0), and a great advocate of it, but only recently
downloaded version 2.0 (stable), and I must say that it is fantastic -
something to be very proud of and definitely the world's best office suite.
I was
I am using OpenOffice 2.0 on a SPARC system running Solaris 9 with an HP
LaserJet 4M PostScript printer attached. I create a document in Writer
and can print it just fine. I export the document to PDF and look at it
just fine with either acroread(1) or xpdf(1). However, when I attempt to
print
Operating System Windoze 98SE
Application OOo Writer 2
I am trying to build a table or reference that I may be able to use to
classify my data file. I have decided that Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC) is the best for me.
I have been trying to set up a table in Writer.
Problem 1.
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