[users] Question

2005-12-29 Thread PATRICIA STEMARIE
Dear Friends, I downloaded open office and somehow all my microsoft word 2003 documents changed over to open soft format. I did not want this to happen. Is there any way to fix this so that my microsoft word documents stay mircosoft word documents and at the same time I can access them

[users] LXer: Is Microsoft's XML Format About Openness or Control?

2005-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
This is AWESOME from my friend, Don Parris. Fred http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/50754/index.html -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[users] Associate .doc .xls... with registry to OOo per users

2005-12-29 Thread DANET Teddy
Hello, On a Citrix server ( W2K with Citrix XP FR3), I had install MS Office + OOo 2.0. I search to associate the extensions .xls, .doc, .ppt... for some users to OOo. The others continue to open automaticaly with MS Office. I had read some posts, I search with the KB 257592... so I try

RE: [users] ERRORS IN Oo.org

2005-12-29 Thread David Shanks
Hello again, I seemed to have solved the problem with the Calc Help files on OOo on my computer here, through some help on the OOo discussion board. The solution can be found here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29297 It basically has a quick fix, which is done by replacing the

Re: [users] ERRORS IN Oo.org

2005-12-29 Thread Wangshanpo
David Shanks wrote: Hello again, snip... As a side note, is there a reason that when I hit reply and created this message, a second recipient was automatically included other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The second address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi Yes the reason is that you replied to my

[users] Re: Base error report.

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Lewis
Problem: When creating a table in Base using the wizard, an error occurs in step #4. Column size is required in statement [CREATE TABLE Address] Note that this particular error comes from selecting the Personal Address table in the Wizard. This was done on a SuSE Linux system. I

[users] OOo Install Problem

2005-12-29 Thread Terry Carruthers (Home)
I corrected the problem, there was a corrupted object type for the %USERPROFILE%\Templates\ entry in my registry. Everything installed fine after that. Thanks Terry - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Turner, Christopher A. [C]
Last night I emailed myself a document I created using the open office word processor. I thought I saved it as a Word doc so I could read/edit it here at work, but apparently I didn't, since it is now completely garbled! How do I unscramble it so I can read it here today without going home,

Re: [users] ERRORS IN Oo.org

2005-12-29 Thread Wangshanpo
David Shanks wrote: Hello again, I seemed to have solved the problem with the Calc Help files on OOo on my computer here, through some help on the OOo discussion board. The solution can be found here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29297 It basically has a quick fix, which is

Re: [users] naive question

2005-12-29 Thread Richard N. Fell
Thank you very much for this information. It was most helpful. However, one problem remains. With gnome, I cannot start openoffice from an icon. I get a panel with the error message Details: Failed to execute child process oocalc (No such file or directory) Rebooting the machine made no

Re: [users] How to force to use calc instead of writer for .csv files

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 29 2005 03:18, mesa rit wrote: I have some csv files (comma separated values files, which are generated from the server) and I wish to open with OpenOffice calc. But when I clicked the link to open from the browser, it always come out an ASCII filter and OpenOffice writer is

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Lorrie Pinkley wrote: I have a spreadsheet we created in openoffice Calc, it has our clients names address' type of loan, interest rate etc I would like to print labels with only their name and address on the envelope and also would like to do a mail merge and be able to have each of our

[users] CALC HELP

2005-12-29 Thread Siva Moodley
Thank you Sir you are correct, therefore you help will be great. Regards and safe and happy N Year Siva - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Cross-reference style ?

2005-12-29 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 09:55 +0100, Pavel Duda wrote: Thanks, I will check it. My main intention is to make all cross references more visible for readers when i'm converting document to PDF. I thought that there should be some default style for crosrefs :( Wildam Martin wrote: Maybe

[users] Subtotales desaparecen al cerrar Hoja de Cálculo

2005-12-29 Thread Terry Antonio Ayala Leyva
Un saludo a los que estan haciendo posible el mejoramiento de open office 2.0, tengo un problema cuando hago subtotalizaciones por columas con opcion de suma, ya que cuando las realizo, grabo el archivo con formato .XLS y luego cierro el programa de hoja de cálculo, estas subtotalizaciones

[users] Dictionary problem

2005-12-29 Thread tchon
Hello !!! My PC have XP SP1 (updated) but most of Microsoft products are off (I.E, Outlook WMP etc.) After OpenOffice 1.4, I'm using OOo 2.0. in french version, but I've the same problem : my on-line dictionary and corrector isn't operative. The directory OpenOfficesharedict ooo contains

Re: [users] Version 2.0.1

2005-12-29 Thread Paul
It probably doesn't show minor releases. If you have uninstalled the previous version and installed 2.0.1, then I'll probably say its safe to say that your using the latest version. /paul On 12/29/05, Don Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded and installed the most recent version

Re: [users] naive question

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 29 2005 19:17, + Richard N. Fell wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Thank you very much for this information. It was most helpful. However, one problem remains. With gnome, I cannot start openoffice from an icon. I get a panel with the error message Details: Failed

Re: [users] can't save correctly

2005-12-29 Thread Paul
This list is for OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). If you've brought something that uses open office and has been repackaged, then you probably need to go back to the vendors for questions. Its hard to tell what modifications have been done in the repackaging. /paul On 12/29/05, Kelly Masters

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Chris, The quickest solution may be to download and install Open Office at work. If that's not possible, you can get the text out of your document by renaming it to *.zip and opening with a decompression utility like winzip or ultimatezip. Extract 'content.xml' and drag and drop it onto an

Re: [users] Version 2.0.1

2005-12-29 Thread Henrik Sundberg
In another thread, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote: Go to Help About OOo press Ctrl and S D T you'll see the build number for the 2.0.1 it's [680m1(Build:8990)] /$ 2005/12/28, Don Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have downloaded and installed the most recent version 2.0.1, having been a user of

Re: [users] Re: How does the Shift+F5 feature work in OO 2.01?

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 24 2005 16:34, elgimpo wrote: Either I don't understand what you mean or it doesn't work. The specs (Open Document Behavior) for 2.01 say : A keyboard shortcut provides the function to restore the saved document view. This shortcut can be called at any time, even if the

Re: [users] [moderated] XP Install Fails

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 21 2005 03:34, Dave Barton wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:59 +1100, autoresponse:help hints for unsubscribed users wrote: [THIS IS AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE THAT *MAY* HELP YOU UNTIL OTHER REAL LIFE VOLUNTEERS RESPOND TO YOU] 8-- SNIP --8 THIS EMAIL WAS AUTOMATICALLY

Re: [users] Fehler 1935

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 28 2005 13:12, + Freenet wrote: [ MODERATED ] Auf unerklärliche Weise ist mein OO 2.0 zerstört worden. Bei einer Reparatur oder auch Änderung erhalte ich die Meldung: Fehler 1935 während der Installation der Assemblierung.

Re: [users] All files have become read only.

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 28 2005 01:01, + Wm L Hall Jr wrote: For reasons unknown to me all the files in the Open Office files are now read only. How do I get rid of this restriction? Hi Bill, Is OpenOffice.org the only application affected ? What version of OpenOffice.org are you using ? What

Re: [users] Single Line Spacing

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 8 2005 00:53, + robert raga wrote: Per your suggestion, I went to Format, Paragraph, Indent Spacing. On that page, I went to Line Spacing and it shows single line, however, when I try to type a letter, everything is double spacing. I also went to Format, Character but was

[users] Top Posting especially [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
I'm far from being a netiquette nazi, but there have been a couple of posts I've just come across where people have replied to a thread that just has the [moderated] subject line and nothing else. Because they posted their reply at the top of the message, it was impossible to guess what was being

[users] Deutsches Sprachmodul

2005-12-29 Thread H. J. Marek
Es gelingt mir nicht, auch nicht, nachdem ich Oo 2 auf einem neu in Betrieb genommenen PC installierte, einen Thesaurus und eine Rechtschreibung einzurichten. Die Hilfetexte sind für Leute wie michnicht ausreichend! (Da ist WORD wirklich einfacher, jedenfalls auf diesenbeiden Gebieten!!) Falls

Re: [users] Version 2.0.1

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 02:42 pm, Don Turner wrote: I have downloaded and installed the most recent version 2.0.1, having been a user of version 2.0. How can I tell that the new version is actually installed? When I go on Help and About it list the version as 2.0 not 2.0.1. Does this

Re: [users] date problem

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 16 2005 12:35, + fabienne giuliani wrote: Hi, I don't manage to use your data base property : indeed, I can't enter dates before 01/01/1900 in openoffice base 2.0 (in unbuntu/gnome last version). Could you help me solve this problem? best regards, thank you You you please

[users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Knight, Jon
Using OO 2.0.1 on Windows ... In Writer, I'd like to Search Replace all occurrences of data enclosed in parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using \(*\) as a regular expression, without the double-quotes of course. I have read the regular expression section in the OO help, but nothing

[users] table structure edit

2005-12-29 Thread minhphuong . dang
Return Receipt Your [users] table structure edit document :

Re: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:30:13 -0600 Knight, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using OO 2.0.1 on Windows ... In Writer, I'd like to Search Replace all occurrences of data enclosed in parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using \(*\) as a regular expression, without the double-quotes of

Re: [users] Re: Migrating to OOo

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 28 2005 15:59, Paul Aviles wrote: Hmm.. Still many issues IMHO. Here are some interesting things I found out. I called Sun to find more information about best practices, etc. etc. I spoke to like 3 different receptionist. Not 1 knew anything about OpenO. I finally left a

Re: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread JC Helary
In Writer, I'd like to Search Replace all occurrences of data enclosed in parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using \(*\) as a regular expression, without the double-quotes of course. I have read the regular expression section in the OO help, but nothing I try is successful. I

Re: [users] calc page preview and print prob

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 28 2005 15:08, Adam Lafayette wrote: Here is my problem: I have done something that has made my calc sheet so that it is not shown in the page preview or printed page. All that shows up is the sheet name at the top of the page and 1 box near the upper left corner with a zero

Re: [users] OpenType fonts with Mac OS X OOo 2.0?

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 15 2005 21:12, Benjamin Esham wrote: I'm using the X11 version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.3. Is there any way I can easily use OpenType fonts in OOo? I tried putting the files in .../openoffice.org2.0/share/fonts/truetype [1], but they were not recognized in

[users] Re: Deutsches Sprachmodul

2005-12-29 Thread Matej Cepl
H. J. Marek wrote: Es gelingt mir nicht, auch nicht, nachdem ich Oo 2 auf einem neu in Betrieb genommenen PC installierte, einen Thesaurus und eine Rechtschreibung einzurichten. Die Hilfetexte sind für Leute wie michnicht ausreichend! (Da ist WORD wirklich einfacher, jedenfalls auf

Re: [users] Top Posting especially [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread RLShadow
The only guidelines I could find did not say anything about top vs bottom posting. In a message dated 12/29/2005 5:59:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recall correctly, the guidelines for this list do ask that you write your reply after the quotation of the

[users] Re: Copying text to Writer

2005-12-29 Thread OsakaWebbie
Have you tried pasting the text as unformatted text? I don't know about Paul, but I also want to do this, and in my case, pasting as unformatted text defeats the purpose. I was just about to write my own question, when I saw this. In my case, I don't get a table (of course, I am pasting

RE: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Knight, Jon
Alright, that works! (Thanks for steering me.) Is there anyway to turn off the longest match rule? When I've got something like (data) text (data), the whole bit is matched when I'd rather get two separate matches. ?? Thanks, Jon Knight -Original Message- From: Keith Bates

Re: [users] Deutsches Sprachmodul

2005-12-29 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 29 2005 12:19, + H. J. Marek wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Es gelingt mir nicht, auch nicht, nachdem ich Oo 2 auf einem neu in Betrieb genommenen PC installierte, einen Thesaurus und eine Rechtschreibung einzurichten. Die Hilfetexte sind für Leute wie michnicht

Re: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:27:01 -0600 Knight, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, that works! (Thanks for steering me.) Is there anyway to turn off the longest match rule? When I've got something like (data) text (data), the whole bit is matched when I'd rather get two separate matches. ??

Re: [users] Top Posting especially [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:59:32 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only guidelines I could find did not say anything about top vs bottom posting. In a message dated 12/29/2005 5:59:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recall correctly, the guidelines for this

RE: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Knight, Jon
Well, thanks for the help (Keith JC). At least, I'm one step closer! Jon -Original Message- From: Keith Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:45 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject:Re: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

Re: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:30 -0600, Knight, Jon wrote: In Writer, I'd like to Search Replace all occurrences of data enclosed in parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using \(*\) as a regular expression, without the double-quotes of course. I have read the regular expression section

Re: [users] Improving OO performance

2005-12-29 Thread PeterInMn
Wildam Martin wrote: For the java thing: Tools-Options-Java-Uncheck Use a Java runtime environment I also enabled the quickstart at Tools-Options-Memory-OpenOffice.org Quickstarter (enable checkbox). - Not only because of startup time, even because if you don't check it then when closing OO

[users] Re: OOo 2.0 saving is slow when you have \\ or file:// in body

2005-12-29 Thread Rey Lamuri
Thanks for the testing. I did some more of my own. Windows 2000 SP4 (fresh install on VMWARE) Openoffice 2.0.1 It's much worse (around 10 secs) when you have names that can be resolved by NETBIOS or DNS. eg try \\localhost\asdf Windows XP SP2 (brand new Dell laptop) Openoffice 2.0.1 I tried

[users] Installing Openoffice2.0 on Linux for multiple users

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Corti
Openoffice2.0 is already installed on my Fedora 4 system, but it will only start when I am root. Otherwise it does not start (only the OpenOffice logo window appears). The user-faq (http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#id2811091), suggest running ./setup -net so that when others use

[users] [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread harle
Hello I'm using OPEN OFFICE 2, great program. Am I correct in understanding there is no THESAURUS available if I select ENGLISH (Australian). Is it possible to download or install AUSTRALIAN English language modules for spell check and thesaurus. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Rob. Rob Harle

[users] Download just the spreadsheet software?

2005-12-29 Thread Axel Barbara Oxholm
Hi, Would it be possible to download just the spreadsheet software? I think it's called CALC? I don't have enough disk space for the entire Open Office application, I'm afraid. Thanks a million trillions. Barbara

RE: [users] Regular Expression for data in parentheses

2005-12-29 Thread Knight, Jon
Ian ... that did it. And thanks to your explanation, I understand why. ¡Muchas gracias! Jon -Original Message- From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:12 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject:Re: [users] Regular Expression for

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:53:14 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm using OPEN OFFICE 2, great program. Am I correct in understanding there is no THESAURUS available if I select ENGLISH (Australian). Is it possible to download or install AUSTRALIAN English language modules for spell

Re: [users] Why do images open square?

2005-12-29 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Richard Cleaveland wrote: When a WORD document is opened in OOo writer the images appear square and of uniform size. To get them to be properly sized it's necessary to, one by one, do a four-click procedure to achieve original size. First , why is this - perhaps there's something I'm

[users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread wbg
In a message dated 12/29/2005 5:59:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recall correctly, the guidelines for this list do ask that you write your reply after the quotation of the mail that you are replying to. On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 17:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Download just the spreadsheet software?

2005-12-29 Thread Paul
It is not possible to just download just the calc portion of the application, but you can choose to install only that portion (once it is all downloaded). There will not be a large difference, on your hard disk, between the full installation and only calc installation since they use alot of

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Friday 30 December 2005 1:09 am, wbg wrote: It may be that we're just expected to know. I do. Most do. Or used to. Top-posting is a fairly recent aberration perpetrated largely by NetNewbies who have never grasped why it is that when they reply to an email, their editor places their

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread John Meyer
On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:31 pm, ETM wrote: I don't recall such guidelines though I am aware that people outside the US prefer bottom and intersticed posting. I do not because I don't like to drag through old material to get to the current post. Elaine I've never heard of any sort

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Friday 30 December 2005 12:31 am, ETM wrote: I don't recall such guidelines though I am aware that people outside the US prefer bottom and intersticed posting. I do not because I don't like to drag through old material to get to the current post. Some lists, and a couple of newsgroups as

[users] macro command storeToUrl not working

2005-12-29 Thread Terry North
I devised this for someone on one of the forums. It was producing the desired result but now results in an exception message: An exception occurred Type:com. sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException Message:. I can find nothing wrong and have run out of ideas. Can anyone help? Sub makePPT Dim oDoc

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread JC Helary
Some lists, and a couple of newsgroups as well, users either post properly (interspersed and bottom) or they don't post (rules) or they don't get answers. And some other lists don't behave like that and let writers write the way they want and answerers answer to the people they want. And in

[users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Randomthots
Fred A. Miller wrote: Yes, be default many if not all 'Bloze mailers do that..stupidly. It's simply common sense that one reads mail from top to bottom, as you would a book or magazine. Fred In all fairness, Fred, top-posting is more natural when replying to a personal e-mail. In

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Keith Bates
The reason that I raised this in the first place was to raise awareness of the problem. The problem is this: Suppose you have a thread whose heading is simply [users][moderated] which is not that uncommon. A problem is posed then someone makes a statement like Why don't you try such and such

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Friday 30 December 2005 1:29 am, Randomthots wrote: In all fairness, Fred, top-posting is more natural when replying to a personal e-mail. In such cases, you know what you're talking about and replying to, etc.  It only becomes an issue on newsgroups and mailing lists where you find

Re: [users] Re: Top Posting especially

2005-12-29 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Friday 30 December 2005 1:36 am, Keith Bates wrote: So, in a sense top posting becomes very counter-productive, especially on high volume lists such as this. On some less tolerant lists than this one, people who top post are given very terse reminders of what the rules are. Quite right!