Re: [users] Help!

2006-01-14 Thread RLShadow
Janine -- not quite sure what you're asking. You have Word, and you're asking how to uninstall Microsoft Word? That's what you asked but I'm not sure it's what you meant. If it is, it doesn't seem like it should be hard to uninstall MS Word using the standard Add/remove programs assuming

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread RLShadow
Yes, there IS a book titled OpenOffice.org for Dummies. In a message dated 1/13/2006 11:18:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately I'm guessing there isn't even a Dummies book on Open Office. May be there is?

Re: [users] Help!

2006-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:32:05 -0600 (Central Standard Time) Janine Goettsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can someone tell me how to uninstall the Microsoft Word feature. I already have Word on my computer. THanks! Open office is one integrated program. Many elements are common to the

Re: [users] Installation

2006-01-14 Thread Ian
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:34 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 22:57 +1100, Ian wrote: G'day So I install the latest OpenOffice.org. When I try and start the thing I get the following bash-3.00$ /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice

[users] MS Access

2006-01-14 Thread Mike
Hello I just installed Open Office on my wife's laptop. Very impressed so far :-) Is it able to open MS Access data base files? Cheers Mike in the UK - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:57:21 -0800 (PST) Deb L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can your templates for design with word processing be used on business newsletters? Yes, and modified to your hearts content. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.

Re: [users] [moderated] Problem printing envelope

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 08:40, + Axel Barbara Oxholm wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi, I'm trying to print a #10 envelope, and it won't work. I used to do it all the time in MS Word. I'd select the paper type (number 10 envelope), type in the return address and the address, feed

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 06:42, + Francis VERHAEGHE wrote: I need some help in use of HTLM writer. All in runing smooth to make a simple website. I have already builded my personnal website and actually putting one on line for my club. I went to the forum and I was so surprise that not any

Re: [users] import filters for Writer

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu January 12 2006 17:55, + MARTIN GRAETZ wrote: [ MODERATED ] I've just installed OpenOffice 2.0, and had hoped to find an import filter for Lotus Word Pro (.lwp) files. Is there such a thing out there? I'd really like to convert these files without having to go thru

Re: [users] Open Office - Spell Check and Language Settings

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon January 9 2006 11:47, + Chris Bogusz wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello, I am using Open Office 2.0 and I am having the following problems which I do not seem to be able to resolve through the help facility. 1. Each document I open loses the ability to spellcheck. I

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon January 9 2006 09:17, + DUPIN.Joel wrote: [ MODERATED ] bonjour, je suis français, j'utilise depuis quelques jours openoffice je n'arrive pas a activer le controle orthographique sur le traitement de texte (il apparait immédiatement la fenêtre avec la mention

Re: [users] Opening OpenOffice docs with MS Word

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon January 9 2006 20:06, + info wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hello, First of all, thank you for OpenOffice! I want to send OpenOffice documents to people that email me. But, they would have to be able to open the documents in MS Word if they do not have OpenOffice. What

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 17:37, + Annie Crawford wrote: [ MODERATED ] Help! I'm using Open Office and I'm trying to figure out how I can enable the function that allows you to see the position of your curser. For example: I have to start a document at 2.75. I can use

Re: [users] Spreadsheet features

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed January 11 2006 03:26, + Jim Andrews wrote: First let me say that I have been using Open Office for several years now and I have been completely happy with it, but I do have a question. Recently, I had an opportunity to open a spreadsheet that had been created with Microsoft Excel. I

Re: [users] Lost all my files

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 13:39, + Frank Brebels wrote: [ MODERATED ] Early november2005 i installed the english version of Open Office.org 2.0.1 because the dutch version wasn't available at that time.Now January8 2006 i installed the dutch version. But now i lost all my

Re: [users] Help for spreadsheet / del. column

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 22:38, + Reiner wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** 09.01.2006 Dear Sir, I have installed your latest product Open Office 2.0 and have trouble with your spreadsheet. How do I delete a column ? The help in your program tells me some numbers but i can't access

Re: [users] [moderated] / single-line-csv-data-Import

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun January 8 2006 11:15, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi, I've downloaded OO2.01 yesterday ... and all *.doc and *.xls conversions (even of complex files) I've tried are EXCELLENT! But I'm used to import single-line-csv-data in MS-Excel by copypaste. For

[users] Why bother to answer on mail from people with an alternative way to communicate

2006-01-14 Thread Per
Howdy ! Sometimes there are a lot of mails with a lot of comments to/about/over - peoples questions/companies and so on... :-( Why don´t we all ignore these guys instead of answering the mail. By doing that we get down to there poor level... And it´s to low for me. I made a rule in

Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] Page Numbering

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On 1/10/06 12:46 AM C Hwee Toh wrote: Good day. Need to consult your expertise on the page numbering format. I have used the Openoffice to label my page at B-1 level. is there any other means to insert the page number to B1-1 level without affecting the autonumber function? Hi

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 January 2006 07:37 pm, Cary Howe wrote: One massive problem with every spreedsheet software I've ever seen including the one in Open Office is they assume you already know how to use them. Even the help assumes you already know their naming conventions and how their command

Re: [users] Problems with numbering and indentation between MS Word 97 and OOo 2.0 fr

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue January 10 2006 13:12, Olivier Gaspard wrote: Hi all, I found a serious problem of compatibility between MS Word 97 and OOo 2.0 fr with indentation of paragraph (with bulleted list). I describe. Under MS Word 97, I wrote a indented bulleted list in a new paragraph, this

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

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 30 2005 08:24, DANET Teddy wrote: 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

[users] Language problem!

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Mayes
Greetings! My name is Christopher Mayes and I have just recently started using OpenOffice.org Everything with the program is awesome, amazing stuff...just one problem - somehow the language changed! I opened OpenOffice.org and it was no longer in english. I don't know what I did...or what

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Cary Howe
Thanks so much. I've stubbornly spent hours today trying to find that one command. It's easy once you know and seems obvious. I hadn't quite tried that but I was also working in the wrong direction. Since I wanted info from cell A to update in cell B I kept trying things A to B where as it

Re: [users] [moderated] Install using active directory; upgrade package?

2006-01-14 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed January 11 2006 01:49, + Mitch Kato wrote: [ MODERATED ] I'm wondering if there is a way to deploy version 2.0.x onto multiple systems across a network using the active directory. Sorry but I've no idea of Active Directories capabilities. Also, we're currently

Re: [users] Background-Color and Background-Image

2006-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 January 2006 12:59 pm, Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, why isn't it possible to set a custom background-color in Spreadsheets or a Background-Image. In Writer-Documents one can at least assign a background-image. Is this to stay as compatible with MS-Excel as possible, ODF can not be

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:42 am, Georges Madore wrote: I had been using OpenOffice version 1, and I just downloaded version 2. Thank you for such a marvelous instrument. One question: I want to build a few databases (for our community library, addresses). Does there exist somewhere a guide

Re: [users] Calc help error

2006-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 January 2006 09:19 am, Leonard Emerson wrote: My OpenOffice seems to work okay. I downloaded and installed it as directed. The Writer works fine. I tried to use Help in Calc. I got an error message that said: Could not find Help page.Unfortunately the Help page you selected was

[users] Error when downloading a document

2006-01-14 Thread Johnny Andersson
OOo 1.1.5. Downloaded and installed 2.0, but it was so slow (yes, even slower than 1.1.5) that it was totally unusable. So I uninstalled 2.0 and since then I have had this problem: Whenever I click a OOo 1.1-file (sxc and so on) with a name containing spaces, I get the error message (in

Re: [users] Language problem!

2006-01-14 Thread Markus Frei
Are you using linux as OS? If so, which distro and which GUI (KDE or gnome)? With KDE you can change the language settings of the interface, and if there are more than one languages installed, OpenOffice (if installed via the distribution's tools), will also be installed in those different

Re: [users] Opening OpenOffice docs with MS Word

2006-01-14 Thread Markus Frei
Or use the RTF format, it is a standard you should be able to use with most word processors, including the one from m$! Am Samstag, 14. Januar 2006 13.02 schrieb CPHennessy: On Mon January 9 2006 20:06, + info wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hello, First of all, thank you for

Re: [users] Lost all my files

2006-01-14 Thread Markus Frei
Did you save those files in the installation directory where you had installed the english version of openoffice, and when you deleted that installation you possibly deleted your work too? Am Samstag, 14. Januar 2006 13.28 schrieb CPHennessy: On Sun January 8 2006 13:39, + Frank Brebels wrote:

Re: [users] Error when downloading a document

2006-01-14 Thread Per
Har du avinstallerat OOo 1.1.5 och sen installerat på nytt ? Verkar som om OOo 2.0 har spökat till det på något sätt med filerna eller så.. jag är inte helt säker.. men testa med en ominstallation av 1.1.5. / Per Johnny Andersson skrev: OOo 1.1.5. Downloaded and installed 2.0, but it was

Re: [users] Background-Color and Background-Image

2006-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 13 January 2006 12:59 pm, Tom Schindl wrote: Hi, why isn't it possible to set a custom background-color in Spreadsheets or a Background-Image. In Writer-Documents one can at least assign a background-image. Is this to stay as compatible with MS-Excel as possible, ODF can not be

[users] Re: [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Cary Howe wrote: If it was a graphics software I could probably select Cell A then holding down the shift key drag it to Cell B and they'd be linked. You use formulas for that. You didn't say which direction you want the propagation to go, so let's assume it's from A to B (i.e., B will get

Re: [users] MS Access

2006-01-14 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 09:46 +, Mike wrote: Hello I just installed Open Office on my wife's laptop. Very impressed so far :-) Is it able to open MS Access data base files? The quick answer is yes. However, depending on what tools are installed, you may have to use ADO, Jet, ODBC or

Re: [users] [moderated]hennessy

2006-01-14 Thread wbg
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 04:27, CPHennessy wrote: On Sun January 8 2006 17:37, + Annie Crawford wrote: [ MODERATED ] Help! I'm using Open Office and I'm trying to figure out how I can enable the function that allows you to see the position of your curser. For

[users] Re: Selected Record Totals

2006-01-14 Thread Dennis Marks
Thanks for everyone's help. I will use datapilot. I have payroll records by employee. There is one record per pay period, and one record for each quarter for each employee. I did not want to sort the table since I wanted everything to happen automatically without macros. The datapilot gives me

Re: [users] change sheet name?

2006-01-14 Thread John R. Sowden
On Wed January 11 2006 06:25, Jeff Causey wrote: John, Is it possible you still have multiple sheets selected? Jeff Causey John R. Sowden wrote: I am using v2.0. I have changed the sheet names on the tab at the bottom, but now, after trying to make all of the sheets in a document,

Re: [users] Error when downloading a document

2006-01-14 Thread Johnny Andersson
Jag kommer att prova att installera om, om inget annat hjälper. Hade ju hoppats slippa det... Just in case someone non Swedish person reads this and wants to know what we are talking about: Per suggested a reinstallation of OOo 1.1.5 and he guessed that OOo 2.0 did something funny to my

Re: [users] Error when downloading a document

2006-01-14 Thread Per
Okidoki... That´s great that you fixed it. // Per Johnny Andersson skrev: I found it. It was a file association problem in Windows rather than something wrong with OpenOffice. Start - Settings - Folder Options (Mappalternativ in Swedish, I don'tknow the exact translation) - File types -

Re: [users] MS Access

2006-01-14 Thread G Stansfield
Mike wrote: Hello I just installed Open Office on my wife's laptop. Very impressed so far :-) Is it able to open MS Access data base files? Cheers Mike in the UK - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users] change sheet name?

2006-01-14 Thread Jeff Causey
John, Glad I was able to help. I did do some poking around with sheet selections and offer the following. Selecting the sheet tabs (down at the bottom - Sheet1, Sheet2, etc. or whatever you have them named) works much like selecting cells. Use the Ctrl-click to select non-contiguous

Re: [users] Error when downloading a document

2006-01-14 Thread Johnny Andersson
I found it. It was a file association problem in Windows rather than something wrong with OpenOffice. Start - Settings - Folder Options (Mappalternativ in Swedish, I don'tknow the exact translation) - File types - Look for OpenOffice Spreadsheet - Edit - Open - Edit - Application to run

[users] Problems using an existing MySQL database for the bibliography

2006-01-14 Thread Kaushik Ghose
Hi All, I am trying to use an existing MySQL database as my bibliography database. I am using OO2.0, MySQL 5.0 server with the MySQL ODBC 3.51 driver on a WinXP machine I am working on the assumption that OO2 bibliography widget can do the following 1. Access a registered data source 2.

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Anthony Chilco
Glad I could help. A good friend once told me that if you're doing something on a computer and find that it's difficult, you're probably going about it the wrong way. I'm not sure what they would call what you wanted to do in the help file, but I'm sure it's there somewhere. I have the same

Re: [users] Selected Record Totals

2006-01-14 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:52 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Dennis, Dennis Marks wrote: Is this possible with a function or a feature of Calc. I have a spreadsheet as follows: COL1 COL2 A value Bvalue C

[users] Re: Selected Record Totals

2006-01-14 Thread Dennis Marks
After further research I got rid of the datapilot table and used the following: {=SUM((A2:A512=A520)*B2:B512)} It checks the value of each date in the aray A2:A512 against the date in A520. If they are equal it multiplies 1 by the values that I am summing in B2:B512. If the dates are not equal

Re: [users] Re: Selected Record Totals

2006-01-14 Thread Fred Grant
The sumif function is a little simpler: =sumif(A2:A512;A520;B2:B512) where A520 contains the criterion to determine what to sum. Range names would make it more readable. But if you're happy, I'm happy. On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:54, Dennis Marks wrote: After further research I got rid of the

[users] Re: Worthless

2006-01-14 Thread Jim Parkhurst
Actually, I didn't say that. You merged me with the original, um, post. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/2006 20:07 Jim Parkhurst wrote: I attempted to apt-get the new OpenOffice but it wanted me to updated my kernel which isn't broken.. so no, I will not update it. What version of kernel you have? I

[users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread U. George Consuegra
I have been using Open Office 1. and I noticed that there was a never version. I deleted the old version and downloaded and installed the 2.v without any problems, which I am using and always talk to other people about it how great it is. The problem I have is that when I make a CD copy from

[users] Should I uninstall OO.o 1.15?

2006-01-14 Thread Ben Larrick
I have installed and used both OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 on my (Windows XP) computer. If I go to Control Panel and uninstall OpenOffice.org 1.1.5, will I still be able to open and edit the *.sx? data files that were created under OpenOffice.org 1.1.5? Can I save them in

[users] Getting the open office to print

2006-01-14 Thread Edmond Ray Broussard Sr
I have open office #2 and I just installed a new printer and they don't seem to communicate. It's a hp 5610 and it works in other programs but it won't print anyting from Open office. Ray Broussard [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Yahoo! Photos Ring in

Re: [users] Open Office 1.1

2006-01-14 Thread Gil Weber
Thanks for your reply. Looks like I have all solved with one exception. When I try to down load a PDF get a blinking small screen that says file down load. It keeps blinking until I completely shut the computer off. Have no clue where to change settings to correct this. I know I am

Re: [users] [moderated] Problem printing envelope

2006-01-14 Thread Axel Barbara Oxholm
Hi Everyone, Yes, printing a #10 envelope works beautifully. At first I didn't understand the directions (I was very dense at the time), but when the light came on, everything was fine. Thanks for the help. Barbara - Original Message - From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread WILLIAM SHOWERS
I install openoffice in its intirety. I set up and am using the data base program. However when I go toFile, I found no Print command and the Save as is dim therefore not usable. I tried the tool bar, custimize, event, Print Doc. and that did not work. So I went to Help menu and they said

[users] Hanging indent: How to avoid

2006-01-14 Thread Max Haltermann
Hi all, Using Openoffice I often start with a date followed by 2-3 lines of text reporting about events past. Formatted as hanging indent the date is as intended on the extreme left of the page as desired. But when I type the rest of the text I would like the text to line up with the

Re: [users] Conversion to Microsoft?

2006-01-14 Thread Keith Bates
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:55:33 -0700 Christina Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if I typed something into the OpenOffice spreadsheet and saved my work to a floppy disk, could I open my work at a different computer that has Microsoft Excel onto the Excel spreadsheet? Does

Re: [users] Getting the open office to print

2006-01-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:56, Edmond Ray Broussard Sr wrote: I have open office #2 and I just installed a new printer and they don't seem to communicate. It's a hp 5610 and it works in other programs but it won't print anyting from Open office. Ray Broussard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-14 Thread Annie Crawford
No. I've enabled the rulers. I want to see that position of my curser in comparison to the ruler without have to look at the ruler and look at my cursor. In Word, the position of your cursor shows on the bottom of the screen... usually next to Page 1/1...somewhere in that area. -

[users] Database Error

2006-01-14 Thread Les
I have installed OpenOffice.org which was offered as a full programme in the Feb 2006 edition of 'PC ADVISOR'. When I try to open the Form Wizard or Create Form in Form View the following error message appears:- 'OpenOffive.org requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this

Re: [users] [moderated] Problème withDictionnary

2006-01-14 Thread leabouraly
- Original Message - From: G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Cc: leabouraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Problème withDictionnary On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 21:34 +0100, leabouraly wrote:

[users] Conversion to Microsoft?

2006-01-14 Thread Christina Whitehead
I was just wondering if I typed something into the OpenOffice spreadsheet and saved my work to a floppy disk, could I open my work at a different computer that has Microsoft Excel onto the Excel spreadsheet? Does the work I do on my downloaded OpenOffice go to Microsoft if I opened my saved

Re: [users] Database Error

2006-01-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Saturday 14 January 2006 10:03 am, Les wrote: I have installed OpenOffice.org which was offered as a full programme in the Feb 2006 edition of 'PC ADVISOR'. When I try to open the Form Wizard or Create Form in Form View the following error message appears:- 'OpenOffive.org requires a Java

Re: [users] Should I uninstall OO.o 1.15?

2006-01-14 Thread Dave Barton
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:52 -0500, Ben Larrick wrote: I have installed and used both OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 on my (Windows XP) computer. If I go to Control Panel and uninstall OpenOffice.org 1.1.5, will I still be able to open and edit the *.sx? data files that were

[users] Re: Conversion to Microsoft?

2006-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Christina Whitehead wrote: I was just wondering if I typed something into the OpenOffice spreadsheet and saved my work to a floppy disk, could I open my work at a different computer that has Microsoft Excel onto the Excel spreadsheet? Does the work I do on my downloaded OpenOffice go to

[users] Re: Database Error

2006-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Les wrote: Should JRE have been intalled with OpenOffice.org?, if not how do I aquire it?. OOo generally works with some limitations but OOBase doesn't work at all (database engine is written in Java). So, go to http://java.sun.com and download JRE appropriate for your operating system. Matej

[users] Re: Should I uninstall OO.o 1.15?

2006-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Ben Larrick wrote: I have installed and used both OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 on my (Windows XP) computer. If I go to Control Panel and uninstall OpenOffice.org 1.1.5, will I still be able to open and edit the *.sx? data files that were created under OpenOffice.org 1.1.5?

[users] Re: Getting the open office to print

2006-01-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Edmond Ray Broussard Sr wrote: I have open office #2 and I just installed a new printer and they don't seem to communicate. It's a hp 5610 and it works in other programs but it won't print anyting from Open office. Which operating system and which other programs print OK? Matej -- Matej

Re: [users] Re: Database Error

2006-01-14 Thread Max Haltermann
I too am missing Java for O.O. had a look at URL you advised, could not find JRE or anything similar on http://java.sun.com. Perhaps JRE has a full name? Max. - Original Message - From: Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:05 PM