Re: [users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to print Christmas Cards on open office2.0 can anyone can help please Kevin Hi Kevin, Better people than I can probably help you better, so I will see if I can simply get a few things started. Be very very specific in your setup, how far you managed

Re: [users] Macro needed

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: Occasionally, I want to save a spreadsheet or other document to my hard drive and to a usb device. I find it tedious to save periodically to both devices. Is there "out there" a macro that saves a document to two different places? This macro would be TRIVIAL to wri

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread Joe Conner
Interesting.  Thanks. I input into a cell "  =pi()  " and formatted as #???/??? and it fed out 355/113.  This is accurate to about 1 part in 3.75 million. Joe Chris BONDE wrote: Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2005 18:26 schrieb Joe Conner: It is unreliable. :-( For example, put in a

Re: [users] Editing labels created from a database?

2005-12-17 Thread Keith Bates
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:53:28 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me look into this later today and get back to you, and to > Keith Bates and anyone else who has been having trouble with > labels, either creating them or printing them or editing them. > I'm working on a r

Re: [users] Re: Re: Re: Best Spell Checker?

2005-12-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:15 pm, elgimpo wrote: > Thank you Malcolm. > > I think the problem is in this case "u" is not a word, but a > letter, whereas "I" is a word. Perhaps it is not worth the > coding effort to only parse the single letters that are really > words such as "a" and "I". I think it i

Re: [users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread kevinlis
I am running window xp i have oo v2 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread kevinlis
Warick I have this problem, the instructions on my christmas card says this top margin 5.25 side margin 0.25 label height 5.25 label width 8.00 number acros

Re: [users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:32 -0500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to print Christmas Cards on open office2.0 can anyone can > help please Kevin What Warwick so subtly put was. Please detail your problem. We know you are running windows, but not if it is W98, XP, or other? Which version

[users] Re: Re: Re: Best Spell Checker?

2005-12-17 Thread elgimpo
Thank you Malcolm. I think the problem is in this case "u" is not a word, but a letter, whereas "I" is a word. Perhaps it is not worth the coding effort to only parse the single letters that are really words such as "a" and "I". I read so many reviews which state that the spell checker in StarO

Re: [users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread Warwick Taylor
Yes On 12/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to print Christmas Cards on open office2.0 can anyone can help > please > Kevin >

[users] christmas Cards

2005-12-17 Thread kevinlis
I am trying to print Christmas Cards on open office2.0 can anyone can help please Kevin

Re: [users] Re: Re: Best Spell Checker?

2005-12-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:40 am, elgimpo wrote: > Malcolm, > > Sorry, if you took it the wrong way. I'm not meaning to > denigrate anything, least of all the spell checker. I'm just > trying to understand why the checker suggests " u necessary" > as a replacement word. To the best of my knowledge, " u

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread Chris BONDE
Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2005 18:26 schrieb Joe Conner: > It is unreliable. :-( > For example, put in a cell "=5/17" > then format the cell as a fraction. > It will give you 2/7. This is > close, but no cigar! It's all a matter of formatting, i.e. display. Put more "?" in > Format > Cell > For

[users] Re: Re: Best Spell Checker?

2005-12-17 Thread elgimpo
Malcolm, Sorry, if you took it the wrong way. I'm not meaning to denigrate anything, least of all the spell checker. I'm just trying to understand why the checker suggests " u necessary" as a replacement word. To the best of my knowledge, " u necessary" is not a word. The OpenOffice.org spell c

[users] Macro needed

2005-12-17 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
Occasionally, I want to save a spreadsheet or other document to my hard drive and to a usb device. I find it tedious to save periodically to both devices. Is there "out there" a macro that saves a document to two different places? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri

Re: [users] Index and Match functions (Calc)

2005-12-17 Thread Eug�nio Varejao
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:34:00 +, Eugénio Varejao wrote: >In a spreadsheet A > > A B C D >1 ATa1ATb1ATc1BTd1 >n ATanATbnATcnBTdn > >In a spreadsheet B > > A B C D >1 BTa1BTb1BTc1BTd1 >n BTan

[users] Index and Match functions (Calc)

2005-12-17 Thread Eug�nio Varejao
Hello All! This is my first post in this list. Let me introduce myself: I'm a former user of OS/2 Warp (since version 2.0 until Warp) where I learn and use Lotus SmartSuite applications. Now I'm using M$ Windows 2000, but still using Lotus aplications. Now I want move to Open Office (in OS/2 I

Re: [users] Editing labels created from a database?

2005-12-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
AAW wrote: CPHennessy wrote: I'm not sure if it helps, but have a look at recent postings on this list. Also if that does not help then dev@dba.openoffice.org may be able to help you. Thanks for responding. I've been following the various threads dealing with labels but haven't seen anythin

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 09:26 -0800, Joe Conner wrote: > It is unreliable. :-( > For example, put in a cell "=5/17" > then format the cell as a fraction. > It will give you 2/7. This is > close, but no cigar! > > Joe > Try the expanded format. Worksforme. [snipped] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES O

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2005 18:26 schrieb Joe Conner: > It is unreliable. :-( > For example, put in a cell "=5/17" > then format the cell as a fraction. > It will give you 2/7. This is > close, but no cigar! It's all a matter of formatting, i.e. display. Put more "?" in > Format > Cell > Form

[users] Re: export XHTML with iso-8859-1 encoding

2005-12-17 Thread Enrique Castro
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:49 +, Enrique Castro wrote: Hi, I work in spanish, with lots of ñ, accented vowels (á, ó) etc. I used to export OOo Writer text into XHTML using iso-8859-1 encoding. To do that I edited manually the XHTML filter /share/xslt/export/xjtm

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread Joe Conner
It is unreliable. :-( For example, put in a cell "=5/17" then format the cell as a fraction. It will give you 2/7.  This is close, but no cigar! Joe G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 09:33 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: klaus schmirler wrote:

[users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread klaus schmirler
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: If you need to display a number as a fraction, I have a macro that will convert to and from fraction formats. Klaus, are you saying that there is a number format to display a decimal number as a fraction. I think that the answer is no, but would be very happy

Re: [users] export XHTML with iso-8859-1 encoding

2005-12-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:49 +, Enrique Castro wrote: > Hi, > I work in spanish, with lots of ñ, accented vowels (á, ó) etc. > I used to export OOo Writer text into XHTML using iso-8859-1 encoding. > To do that I edited manually the XHTML filter > /share/xslt/export/xjtml/ooo2xhtml.xsl, changi

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 09:33 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > klaus schmirler wrote: > > > Terry North wrote: > > > >> I think people may be talking about different subjects. > > > > > > Obviously. Going back to the original posting, he talks about a > > "quotient function", but he also wa

RE: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-17 Thread Sal
Thank you. I will look for the next versions as well as the FAQ's Regards, Sal -Original Message- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:52 AM To: users@openoffice.org; Sal Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] On Tue December 13 2005 23:02, + Sal wro

Re: [users] [moderated] - user's guide for OpenOffice.org 2.x ?

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
a wrote: Guide per OpenOffice.org 2.x Le seguenti guide si riferiscono alle versioni 2.x di OpenOffice.org Please, on the internet is available any user's guide for OpenOffice.org 2.x ? In particular about Org.BASE. Alessandro Nardi Oboe, Oboe d'amore, Corno inglese. Via Alberi

Re: [users] Editing labels created from a database?

2005-12-17 Thread AAW
On Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:34am, CPHennessy wrote: > I'm not sure if it helps, but have a look at recent postings on this > list. Also if that does not help then dev@dba.openoffice.org may be > able to help you. Thanks for responding. I've been following the various threads dealing with la

Re: [users] Access files

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Patrick Mcgee wrote: I am struggling to use my access database with base I can see the the table but I cannot add new data to the table. I am trying to set up with mysql instead of access. I have set read and write properties on the conection page. Also I use a back end front end system so that

Re: [users] formating of URLs

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Martin S wrote: How do I remove formating of URLs (http://www.bollmora.org). If I simply enter the URL then it becomes a live link. I don't want that. Regards, Martin S If you want to keep auto-formatting on, and only want to disable it for a few URLs, then I would usually enter the url,

Re: [users] Re: decimal fraction in calc

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
klaus schmirler wrote: Terry North wrote: I think people may be talking about different subjects. Obviously. Going back to the original posting, he talks about a "quotient function", but he also wants a "simple fraction", which is not what the quotient function does. Fractions are just

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 2-beta files fail to attach to Sylpheed-Claws-GTK2 email

2005-12-17 Thread Denis Prost
Hi Matej, Thanks for your reply. Le vendredi 16 décembre 2005 à  17:05:49 Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > Denis Prost wrote: > > the workaround I found is to put somewhere in my path the following > > shell script, called sylpheed-claws_for_oo.sh > > > > #!/bin/sh > > args="$*" > >

Re: [users] Re: Best Spell Checker?

2005-12-17 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:09 am, elgimpo wrote: > I've noticed that the spell checker in OpenOffice will often > suggest words that are not words. For example: > > u nessary > Are you sure? Mine suggests "u necessary"; and whether this is a valid response is matter of opinion. All single letter words

Re: [users] shortcuts that replace missing excel shortcuts

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 14 2005 14:21, + Gerri Belsito wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for sharing Openoffice with us. > I'm used to excel and am just getting used to Openoffice. > In Excel I'm used to typing in Ctrl: to get today's date. Is there an > Openoffice shortcut to replace this? > Also Ctrl" copied t

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 13 2005 23:02, + Sal wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Why is it so slow to open? Can't anything be done to speed it up? > Thanks Hi Sal, Thinks are being done. It is hoped that Ooo2.0.1 will be faster and that future versions will be faster again. Also it really

[users] export XHTML with iso-8859-1 encoding

2005-12-17 Thread Enrique Castro
Hi, I work in spanish, with lots of ñ, accented vowels (á, ó) etc. I used to export OOo Writer text into XHTML using iso-8859-1 encoding. To do that I edited manually the XHTML filter /share/xslt/export/xjtml/ooo2xhtml.xsl, changing the encoding of the output stream:

Re: [users] open office

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 13 2005 18:25, + Tim Lauschner wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Betriebssystem: Windows XP Sp 2 > open office Version: 2.0 > > Hallo habe ein Problem mit der Installation von Open Office. Sobald mein PC > laut Anzeige alles installiert hat zeigt er ein kleines Fenster

Re: [users] Problema con OpenOffice 2.0

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 14 2005 17:25, + Alfons Romeu wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > Hola, > No se donde se crean los origenes de datos (Data Sources) en Calc ??? > > Quiero crear un nuevo origen de datos y no se como se hace. No encuentro la > opcion para hacerlo. > > Me pueden ayudar? T

Re: [users] OOoMath, no italic

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 14 2005 11:31, + Steven Smethurst wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Hello all, > > I am accessing OOoMath from within OOoWriter, but it is the same in the > non-embedded OOoMath, I think. Documentation indicates that symbols should > be automatically formatted italic

Re: [users] Base and Lotus Approach

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 15 2005 15:32, + James Walker wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Has anybody had any success in getting the forms and reports from an > Approach database copy over to base? > > If there is a quick and easy way to do this I would love to have that > information. As yo

Re: [users] RE: install issue

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 16 2005 06:58, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Dear support team > > I got a problem to install OpenOfficeorg 2.0 on my DELL Dimension > 5000(win xp),Error code is "The package requires a newer version of windows > installer.Do you want to u

Re: [users] [moderated] problem with attachments

2005-12-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 17 December 2005 12:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed Open Office a few months ago to be able to read more programs > on my PC, and everything worked fine until last month. (I use AOL) But > since then, I have not been able to read any attachments at all, which is > a b

Re: [users] Error loading converter

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 2 2005 03:47, + Patrick Slayton wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > I just installed OO 2.0. I had been using 1.9.something, which worked > fine. The only changes I made to the standard install was to install to > C:\openoffice, and I added the imports for mobile docu

Re: [users] Editing labels created from a database?

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 12 2005 13:34, AAW wrote: > On Thursday, December 1, 2005 6:12pm, AAW wrote: > > How do you edit labels created from a database? After creating them, I > > can only edit the first label on each page. The rest are read-only. I > > can't even cut an individual field and "Paste Special

Re: [users] [moderated] Spreadshet chart problem

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat November 26 2005 22:03, + Hugh Wilkinson wrote: > [ MODERATED ] > I developed the chart below in various stages (Open Office 1.1.5) and do > not see how to get the 'Values' display (Fonts attributes) in the bottom > section of the chart to match the top section. The to

Re: [users] Spellchecker

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 16 2005 10:48, Agusrin Capra wrote: > Hello, I have a problem with the spellchecker. This doesn't work correctly > when I tipping some phrases in different languages and execute it. The > spellchecker don't recognise any word written no matter if it right or not. > When started, it'

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 13 2005 07:55, + Joacim Bülow wrote: > Hello! I have recently installed open office 2.0 but when I log in to my > computer, a blank "word" document opens. What can I do to solve this > problem? there should be a folder to "AutoStart" applications. There must be a link in there to

Re: [users] Diagramme - Données négatives

2005-12-17 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 13 2005 07:45, + Roman ZARAGOCI wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *** > Bonjour, > > J'ai a ma disposition un diagramme provenant de m$ €xcel qui affiche un > axe Y positif et négatif. Les valeurs négatives s'affichent sous les > barres alors que les valeurs positives s'af

[users] [moderated] problem with attachments

2005-12-17 Thread Crowsonguy
I installed Open Office a few months ago to be able to read more programs on my PC, and everything worked fine until last month. (I use AOL) But since then, I have not been able to read any attachments at all, which is a big problem. The attachment downloads, but will not open. sometime

[users] The Definitive Guide to Printing Your Christmas Address Labels in OO 2.0

2005-12-17 Thread Keith Bates
Here is how to do it, combining wisdom from Jean Hollis-Webber and others. 1. The first step is to create your address data base. If starting from scratch go to File- New- Database and use the wizard to create a database and new table. If using a pre-existing table, then in Writer, go to File >