[users] stop

2005-12-04 Thread Susanne Fuchs
hi, i don´t want to recieve emails from users@openoffice.org anymore. but i deleted the mail with the link. could anyone help me out? thanks

[users] Re: Getting Cell Value in a Macro

2005-12-04 Thread Terry North
Terry North yahoo.com.au> writes: ... > Loop until lVolume > 0 > On further reflection this could lead to a never-ending loop if you have a row with a minus value. Should therefore be Loop until lVolume <> 0 - To unsu

[users] Re: Getting Cell Value in a Macro

2005-12-04 Thread Terry North
Russell King bluebottle.com> writes: What I need is a function for my macro that will go > through the top of the sheet, leaving the header row alone, and delete > the rows that have a value (not content) of zero. ... > rk > I composed this before the master (Andrew P.) posted. No liabil

Re: [users] Getting Cell Value in a Macro

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Russell King wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a macro that will build a synopsis sheet from the other sheets in a spreadsheet. The synopsis is over 1600 rows long, so it is a bit tedious to do it by hand and since each sheet changes not just the data, but the amount of data, the macro ends up

[users] Drawing/Creating tables

2005-12-04 Thread jay andrews
A newbie here. In Word I would draw a table using the little pencil and eraser in the Table part of the toolbar, into which I could insert text or graphics. I can't seem to get a handle on the best way to do this in Writer. I am inserting a table in a document, a table I can draw and divide up t

[users] Re: Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul_B
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:02:33 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > G'day Paul, > > You could also try: > > format|cells|tick 'wrap text' > > On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 08:51:07 -0500 Paul_B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any way to insert a soft return within a cell? I want to >> create paragraphs

[users] Re: Getting Cell Value in a Macro

2005-12-04 Thread David Chapman
Russell, My data input wizard includes some code that deletes rows and shifts remaining data up. You might be able to reuse some of it. In fact - there may be other code in there that may be useful to you. http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2005/10/updated_data_en.html Dave On 11/29/05

Re: [users] Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 04 December 2005 07:02 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > G'day Paul, > > You could also try: > > format|cells|tick 'wrap text' It is located on the Alignment tab window. Dan > > On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 08:51:07 -0500 Paul_B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any way to insert a soft r

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Fisk
Take a look at http://www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus/ cpw_translist.html -- Dataviz does MS Works to Word/Excel translations -- it will cost a few $$ but if you have a large Number of docs it's probably worth while. Thanks Andy Spitfire Computer Services 441 Beaver Street Suite 2

Re: [users] bad conversion of Table of Contents to html for OO 2.0

2005-12-04 Thread Albert Steiner
I still get bad formating of TOC to html. I looked at all the FAQ about styles. I could not find a way to set styles that worked both for a document I printed and I exported as .html. When the styles are right for printing, they come out double spaced in the .html document. Exporting to .xml did

Re: [users] Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Paul, You could also try: format|cells|tick 'wrap text' On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 08:51:07 -0500 Paul_B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to insert a soft return within a cell? I want to > create paragraphs at times, but shift-Return only closes a cell's > editing and advances the fo

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Seb et al, Remember that some M$Word formats will not open in different versions of M$Word. On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 08:25:37 +1300 Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Open the document in OOo and select 'save as' from the file menu. Then > select the 'word' file type and select 'save'. > > /pau

Re: [users] version question

2005-12-04 Thread John R. Sowden
On Sun December 4 2005 10:54, Paul wrote: > 1/ I think this may just be an oversight in not updating the 'about > box'. The numbering convention, eg, 1.9.X..., will probably remain to > keep a track of what releases the developers are working on, but there > should be no 'pre' label. > > If you dow

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Andrew, Alternatively, just copy/paste the text from .wps I used Works for a while and nothing I found would open its files - not even M$Word. It is worth the effort in the long run. The same will happen with works sheets and dbases - just copy/paste (paste-special will probably bring

[users] Re: spell check

2005-12-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Susanne Fuchs wrote: > i´m not able to do a spell check. the moment ´i cklick on F7 i´ll get > spell check completet without finding one mistake. i´m using an englisch > version (2). it does neither find englisch mistakes nor german one´s. What is your operating system? What version of OOo you hav

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
The version that can be run on win95 = 1.0.3. It can be downloaded from here : http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.3/index.html Note the caution about non-default printer support. /paul On 12/5/05, Brad Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As recently as this last spring, I was told th

Re: [users] photos

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
So you have photoshop installed still. And you want to 'view' > details, and have the list produced in writer (as it used to do in word). I don't think that there is that level of integration. One suggestion may be to see if the list can be produced in some other format, other than .doc (eg, rtf,

Re: [users] uninstalling openoffice org 2

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
You can safely delete the folder if the program has been uninstalled. Have a look at : http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html regarding how to reset your file associations (so that .doc files open in word). /paul On 12/5/05, Daniel Da Cunha Blaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to

Re: [users] Campus Life

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun December 4 2005 21:14, + Mr J Hope wrote: > Hello, > > We have been thinking of including you in the new campus magazine in an > article headed "Campus Life". Can you approve the photo and article for us > before we go to printing please. Drat. Sorry this is spam and slipped thru the net.

[users] Viewing PPS files in Open Office

2005-12-04 Thread Val
When I open an emailed PPS file, Open Office autimatically opens. I find that I needed to click on View then slideshow to view it. The problem is, that the music which accompanies the PPS file, plays for maybe 1 second then stops. How do I either return to MS Word being my default PPS viewer

[users] uninstalling openoffice org 2

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Da Cunha Blaker
i want to uninstall openoffice.org 2 from my computer. I have uninstalled it on the add/remove programs, but there is still a folder on my desktop (which I think automatically appeared there) - is not a shortcut. It has a couple of 'install' folders in it, but I cant find a way to uninstall it.

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Brad Edwards
As recently as this last spring, I was told that a version of OpenOffice was still available for download, which was supportable by Windows 95b. But during my tour of the OpenOffice.org download link and associated pages, all I found was a version which requires Windows 98 or more recent versions.

[users] photos

2005-12-04 Thread Jenny Mackintosh
I am not sure if you can help but here goes! I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 ( no longer supported) and I used to have Microsoft Office on Win 98. I was able to go to "View" in Photoshop then "details" and print the list without the pictures in Office. I now have Win XP home and Open Office,

[users] Getting Cell Value in a Macro

2005-12-04 Thread Russell King
Hi, I am trying to build a macro that will build a synopsis sheet from the other sheets in a spreadsheet. The synopsis is over 1600 rows long, so it is a bit tedious to do it by hand and since each sheet changes not just the data, but the amount of data, the macro ends up putting in a lot of

[users] Re: [moderated] Opening Works files

2005-12-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Unfortunately not. The files need to be opened in Works and "saved as" a > format that OO can open. The same goes for WordPro files. (Although OO > will open 123 files..strangely) Because 123 is super-successful (or better to say "was supersuccessful" :-)) progr

[users] Re: Searching for content in OpenOffice.org 2.0 Documents

2005-12-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Bob Coleman wrote: > Is there any way to search for content in OpenOffice 2.0 (odt) documents? Yeah, the same -- they are zip-files again and if you are able to work with XML in sxw, then XML in odt is not that different. :-) Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89

Re: [users] Spellchecker problem

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 3 2005 16:06, + Daniel Elnegaard wrote: > thanks, but isn't there a menu where I can select the spellchecker? As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sat December 3 2005 17:55, Trevor Farlow wrote: > Try going to Tools > Options, then in the Language Settings secti

Re: [users] help with user of open office

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed November 30 2005 18:45, + Julie DeMattia wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Thanks for responding. Sorry if I hurt your ear drums with my capital > letters in former e-mail. I did what you suggested in opening up my > printer. I took one of my documents in my personal folder t

Re: [users] [moderated] After the installation !!

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue November 29 2005 12:58, + Colin wrote: > Hello Openoffice, > I have a big problem with my m/s Office Word programme. I can not find > anyone to fix it, so I was advised to download your programme. I did this ( > for about 2 1/2 hours!) > I was asked if I wanted to have it in three differ

Re: [users] Crashrep OpenOffice

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed November 30 2005 19:16, + Mike wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Hi, > Only 96MB. But it has workd some days. > Mike > > > - Original Message - > From: "CPHennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ; "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:54 AM > S

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed November 30 2005 08:52, + J.W.H. Holstege BME wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Dear Sir and or Madam, > > I'd like to be able to use the openoffice spelling checker. > Now I am compelled to change the layout style type back to normal manually > since after the copying performed

Re: [users] Can not set default language for document

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 1 2005 18:12, Jules Colding wrote: > Hi, > > The ">Tools >Options >Language Settings >Languages >Default languages > for documents" is disabled. The message is that "This setting is > protected by the Administrator". > > I do not recall setting anything to that effect. How do I enab

Re: [users] Drawing/Creating Tables

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 3 2005 03:30, + jay andrews wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Hi, > > I'm new to Open Office and Writer and so far I've only found one thing that > I routinely do with Word documents that I can't figure out exactly how to > do with Writer. In Word I could click and d

Re: [users] Dicionário de sinônimos!

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 3 2005 13:57, Márcio Fleury wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Olá, > Instalei o OpenOffice 2.o, porém não consegui fazer com que o dicionário > de sinônimos em português funcionasse e/ou fosse instalado. > Segui os passos descritos na página oficial do projeto, porém

Re: [users] Template licence +

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun December 4 2005 01:31, Jonathon Blake wrote: > All: > > I have an OOo template that I'd like to put in one of the usual OOo > repositories for templates. > I'm perfectly willing to release it under the appropriate licence. > > However, it also needs to include a notice that using it in certa

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun December 4 2005 12:13, + Ralf Herbst wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Hallo > > gibt es für Oppen Office ein Programm das Von Deutsch in Englisch und von > Englisch ins Deutsche übersetzt. No, but I'm sure that writing a macro to use babblefish (or similar) web services would

Re: [users] spam to OOo users?

2005-12-04 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 3 2005 22:11, mike scott wrote: > I've just received some spam sent to the address I used to register on > the OOo web site, for bugzilla access, if I recall. > > As this address was unique, and afaik never used anywhere else, I > assume there must have been some sort of leakage of

Re: [users] Campus Life

2005-12-04 Thread Anthony Chilco
Mr Hope, Attachments are stripped on this list. In order for anyone to comment on your article, you will have to post it on the web and send a link. It may be better to contact the marketing division of OOo. I'm sure you will find the appropriate link on the openoffice.org web site. This is a

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Silvio sauro
Two problems. I have created forms for relative and acquaintance addresses. When I bring them up, they are read only so that I am not able to custimize or use the forms. Secondly, 3 times I have tried to order the 2 books from Lulu and each time, as I get to the end, my computer freezes or I

[users] Campus Life

2005-12-04 Thread Mr J Hope
Hello, We have been thinking of including you in the new campus magazine in an article headed "Campus Life". Can you approve the photo and article for us before we go to printing please. If any details are wrong then we can amend before printing on Friday the 9th of December so please get bac

Fwd: Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-12-04 Thread TERRY WAREING
Note: forwarded message attached. Yahoo! Personals Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet. Lots of someones, actually. Yahoo! Personals--- Begin Message --- Dear support team,i am the administrator and the only user.Have tried to load again making use only for T Wareing,now receive ERRO

Re: [users] Re: Getting Cell value in macros

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Terry North wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak pitonyak.org> writes: Can you email me a Calc document with the macro that demonstrates the problem? For example, create a document that has a value in one cell that is not properly returned by getValue(). Can you then write the simple macro tha

Re: [users] Data loss when saving as .csv

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
When saving as .csv there is a warning that is popped (if there are multiple sheets) that only the current sheet was saved. This is normal behaviour CSV format is a flat file format and therefore cannot handle more than one sheet of data. M$ Excel does exactly the same thing. You cannot 'expo

Re: [users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread David King
> Just to make sure that I understand what you are trying to draw -- a > regular Hexagon would be one will all sides and angles being equal? > -- if that is what you are looking for holding the shift key works. That's what I'm looking for. It does not work for me - it looks wrong, and when

Re: [users] Where are backups and recovery info stored in XP?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
Backup's are stored commonly here: C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\backup You can of course elect to have a different location for backup's. If there is a crash, the recovery file will normally be found here, but the crash data is stored (temporarily) here : C:\Do

[users] Searching for content in OpenOffice.org 2.0 Documents

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Coleman
I used to use ZipHunter to search for content in OpenOffice 1.0 (sxw) documents. Is there any way to search for content in OpenOffice 2.0 (odt) documents? Bob Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

[users] Where are backups and recovery info stored in XP?

2005-12-04 Thread Bryn Evans
Having problems with opening a Writer document and Document Recovery (see issues 58823 and 58824 I raised yesterday.) The document is attached to 58823. However, people who have looked at those two issues have had no problems with the document. Eg - the following comment was added to issue 5

Re: [users] Re: Referencing a range of cells... seems overly but is this impossible?

2005-12-04 Thread Arjun
Hey Trevor, I think that what you have described is pretty much what Joe Conner mentioned... which is to copy the first cell into all the other cells and what will happen is you will essentially end up with a block of links back to the original, which pretty much does what I was looking for.

Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] Filters

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
You'll have to describe what format you saved the files in. What do the file end with - is it a .odt, or .doc What type of Operating System are you using? Little more info required before assistance can be given.. /paul On 12/3/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, >

[users] Data loss when saving as .csv

2005-12-04 Thread Jacek
Have you noticed that using option save as .csv file may cause a possible data loss? If you save to .csv format (which I have to do since most data analysis programs don't work with .ods format, but all of them can import .csv). Only the current sheet is saved (and you may have more than one sheet

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 22:19 +1030, Sebastian wrote: > Hi > > How can I convert openoffice documents back to windows .doc > > Thank you. > Seb. Have you tried File > Save as and selecting the output format you want? -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http:

Re: [users] version question

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
1/ I think this may just be an oversight in not updating the 'about box'. The numbering convention, eg, 1.9.X..., will probably remain to keep a track of what releases the developers are working on, but there should be no 'pre' label. If you downloaded 2.0 from www.openoffice.org and have done the

Re: [users] using site for email resume applications

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
www.openoffice.org is not a recruitment site. It offers and application similar (and better in many ways) to that of M$ Office. You can use openoffice to create resume's, edit them, you can save them onto your own PC's hard drive. I think there has been some confusion about what you were asking yo

Re: [users] spell check

2005-12-04 Thread Susanne Fuchs
i´ve tried this. i have language german (austria) selected. and now? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [users] spell check This could happen if you have no language specified. To find out if this is the case, high

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread David Chapman
Open the document in OOo Writer. Then File - Save-As ... In the Save-As-Type option list, select Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (doc) On 12/4/05, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > How can I convert openoffice documents back to windows .doc > > Thank you. > Seb. > -- My OpenOffice Calc

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Spilleboudt
There is one common format : rtf Robert On Sunday 04 December 2005 15:33, Andrew Bullock wrote: > I have just loaded Open Office for someone who used Microsoft Works. It > seems that *.wps files are not openable in anything. I use Lotus Word which > will not open them either. Is is possible

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
It doesn't matter which region you select. Since your in the UK, any one of the mirrors that are in the UK will do fine. MD5 calculations are a way of confirming that you downloaded the file accurately. I wouldn't worry about this in the first instance. You save the file to a location on your har

Re: [users] Drawing/Creating Tables

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
I don't believe there is a comparable feature in writer. If however you explain what you are trying to achieve, I'm sure there will be a way to get this done using writer.. /paul On 12/3/05, jay andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Open Office and Writer and so far I've only fo

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
Open the document in OOo and select 'save as' from the file menu. Then select the 'word' file type and select 'save'. /paul On 12/5/05, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > How can I convert openoffice documents back to windows .doc > > Thank you. > Seb. > --

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Paul
Currently OOo doesn't open M$ works files... In some cases M$ products won't open them either. Your best bet is to get these files saved in a generic format (eg, rtf) and then import them into OOo. /paul On 12/5/05, Andrew Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just loaded Open Office for s

[users] Re: regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread Andy Lewis
David King wrote: Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw, without resorting to a calculator? Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square. Thanks One way to get not only a regular hexagon or pentagon but any regular polygon, along with a variety of other

Re: [users] Actual Line on Statur-Bar

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Fisk
If you go to format and line numbering you will get the line number along side the line you are typing on -- not sure that is the same thing but it might help. I think the question you need to ask yourself is if this feature is worth several hundred euro's or dollars or whatever you need to

[users] version question

2005-12-04 Thread John R. Sowden
Last night I downloaded a win and lin copy of ooo. The Lin filename had 2.0.0 in the name. The green box on bootup said 2.0, without the 'beta', but in the 'about' box, it said the build was 1.9.79.2.3 and there it was described as '2.0-pre'. Do I have version 2.0? Is there a menu selectio

Re: [users] Creating custom paper formats in Writer

2005-12-04 Thread Wangshanpo
What about a template? (Probably a transatlantic thing but what I use for booklets is A5, half-size to A4.) W Rob Tanner wrote: Interesting idea -- tabloid and half size are proportionally the same size. But there are also some downsides. In my mind at least, your suggestion is very good f

[users] using site for email resume applications

2005-12-04 Thread me
I had posted a question about email resumes on a different website forum, and someone suggested your site. I browsed your instruction pages of how to use this site, more than I usually do of such type sites, and inquire if your site offers application aid for email resumes: creating, stori

Re: [users] [moderated] Opening Works files

2005-12-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Andrew Bullock wrote: >I have just loaded Open Office for someone who used Microsoft Works. It seems >that *.wps files are not openable in anything. I use Lotus Word which will >not open them either. Is is possible to open either Works or LPS files with >Open Office? > >I would love to be ab

[users] Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.0 Spell checker does not work on a Word document

2005-12-04 Thread Pierre_Rouleau
The Word document I imported used US English dictionnary and my OpenOffice has US and British Englisg (as well as French) dictionnaries installed. Pierre CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/03/2005 07:33:32 AM Please respond to discuss@openoffice.org To: discuss@openoffice.org cc: Pier

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Linda Wright
To whom it may concern. I am attempting to download Office, from the www.openoffice.org However I am having difficulties understanding some of the tasks. Which region do I click :UK JISCor UK-UK MIRROR SERVICE hat is this? :

Re: [users] Actual Line on Statur-Bar

2005-12-04 Thread selcuk . ertunc
Dear OpenOffice Support Team, in Open Office Writer - there is a status-bar at the bottom in Winword of Microsoft Office i can see there the "actual-line" i am writing on -> Line 12 for example is it possible to activate that in Writer as well? i am not talking about STD or HYP thank you for yo

Re: [users] [moderated] not able to install

2005-12-04 Thread Pam Taylor, ND
Dear Andy, Thank you for the detailed, and useful, information. I installed the X11 software and was able to download and use the 2.0 version. I'll be checking it out over the next few days. With thanks to all who have put the time and work into developing some great software! Pam Taylor

[users] Base

2005-12-04 Thread Barry & Diana
Hello I have just installed Open Office 2.0 which I purchased from your Adelaide (Australia.) distributor. I use windows 98 Se on Pentium III I have had 2 crashes: 1.. Trying to make a justified form from a table using Date fields - I had no problem if the form style was a table, but the other

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Sebastian
Hi How can I convert openoffice documents back to windows .doc Thank you. Seb.

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Ralf Herbst
Hallo gibt es für Oppen Office ein Programm das Von Deutsch in Englisch und von Englisch ins Deutsche übersetzt. mfg Ralf Herbst

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Bullock
I have just loaded Open Office for someone who used Microsoft Works. It seems that *.wps files are not openable in anything. I use Lotus Word which will not open them either. Is is possible to open either Works or LPS files with Open Office? I would love to be able to get her away from Micro

[users] Re: Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul_B
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:05:15 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:51 -0500, Paul_B wrote: >> Is there any way to insert a soft return within a cell? I want to >> create paragraphs at times, but shift-Return only closes a cell's >> editing and advances the focus upwards. >

Re: [users] Re: Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Fisk
Adobe has a font called sonata (for $29.00) -- which would let you type the notes -- I would guess that, with a little googling, that you could find an Open Source version -- unfortunately looking for typefaces is like looking for clip art and you have to wade through a bunch of junk to fi

Re: [users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Fisk
Just to make sure that I understand what you are trying to draw -- a regular Hexagon would be one will all sides and angles being equal? -- if that is what you are looking for holding the shift key works. The only thing I can see that I did differently was to select the Hexagon from the Pa

Re: [users] RE: Tessek mosolyogni!!!

2005-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 December 2005 03:24, Wesley Parish wrote: >On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:27, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: >> The original message is obviously spam, with the faked sender being >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] The content is in Hungarian, the subject says >> "Let's Smile!", the body "If even this picture can't ma

Re: [users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:02 +, David King wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 +, David King wrote: > > > Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw, without > > > resorting > > > to a calculator? > > > > > > Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square.

Re: [users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread David King
> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 +, David King wrote: > > Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw, without resorting > > to a calculator? > > > > Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square. > > > > These are basic shapes in the current release. Perhaps if

Re: [users] Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:51 -0500, Paul_B wrote: > Is there any way to insert a soft return within a cell? I want to > create paragraphs at times, but shift-Return only closes a cell's > editing and advances the focus upwards. > > Thanks, > Paul Paul, I can use Ctrl-Enter to do this as explained

[users] Calc: soft returns?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul_B
Is there any way to insert a soft return within a cell? I want to create paragraphs at times, but shift-Return only closes a cell's editing and advances the focus upwards. Thanks, Paul -- Using OOo 2.0 on Win XP sp2. - To unsu

Re: [users] question...Erin Giove

2005-12-04 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Honesty forces me tu say that you dont need to download OpenOffice to be able to produce a text that she is able to open: In WordPerfect you can save as Microsoft format without any problem. Just click File -> Save as and in the drop-down menu "Files of type" (or something similar) you can c

Re: [users] Re: Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Randomthots, Thanks What was your search question? I tried for 'music staves' and 'treble clef' and didn't find anything helpful. On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:12:59 -0600 Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > G'day RLShadow, > > > > Thanks. > > > > 'draw'

Re: [users] Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Mike, Thanks for teh idea. I'm hoping this will be a oncer, so a new program is beyond me for now. On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:44:42 - "mike scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23 Nov 2005 at 14:25, g.overbosch wrote: > > > Hi Keith, > > > > Maybe a musical font (like Anastasia) would

Re: [users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 +, David King wrote: > Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw, without resorting > to a calculator? > > Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square. > These are basic shapes in the current release. Perhaps if you tell us the

Re: [users] Re: Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Trevor, Thanks for the idea, but the files only on your site have a link to the .png rather than have the image imported (or even pasted?) You did well to get the blanksheetmusic site to produce something for you. I couldn't make much of it. But I'll have to go look again, I see. On Thu

Re: [users] Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Chris, Yes there are many images. But every one I tried had a white back ground the hid the staff lines, so wasn't very clear to look at. On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:26:08 -0800 "Chris BONDE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you not use a picture format of the stave or staff that you want and

Re: [users] Music staves in Presenter

2005-12-04 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Adrian, Thanks, but for the couple of times I plan to use this process a new program is beyond me. On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:37:04 +0200 Adrian Snyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 15:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > G'day Folk, > > > > I am looking for clues on h

Re: [users] spell check

2005-12-04 Thread RLShadow
This could happen if you have no language specified. To find out if this is the case, highlight some text and go to Format > Character > Font. There will be a dropdown list for "Language". See what you have selected. If it is "None" then that is definitely your problem. Click the arrow on t

[users] spell check

2005-12-04 Thread Susanne Fuchs
i´m not able to do a spell check. the moment ´i cklick on F7 i´ll get spell check completet without finding one mistake. i´m using an englisch version (2). it does neither find englisch mistakes nor german one´s. thanks

[users] regular hexagon in Draw

2005-12-04 Thread David King
Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw, without resorting to a calculator? Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square. Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: [users] question...

2005-12-04 Thread Wesley Parish
If you want to always save in a particular file format, go to the Tools menu, go to the very bottom of the menu, click on Options... , then open the Load/Save and click on the General option, then go to the lower right hand corner, and click on the Always save as list. This will give you whatev

Re: [users] RE: Tessek mosolyogni!!!

2005-12-04 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:27, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > The original message is obviously spam, with the faked sender being > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The content is in Hungarian, the subject says > "Let's Smile!", the body "If even this picture can't make you happy, > I give up! Kisses, Minoirette". The recipie

[users] Re: Getting Cell value in macros

2005-12-04 Thread Terry North
Terry North yahoo.com.au> writes: ...For what it's worth, I'll send the document. ... The macro resulted in the value 0.000 in cell B1. ... Of course, this would happen. After my previous post, I closed the IDE, saved the file and (I don't know why) ran the macro again. It worked! And I ca