Hi folks.
I've got one tiny question (maybe this is not the proper mailinglist to
do so)... anyway, here it goes.
I wanted to use the context menu key of my keyboad to show me the
context menu, where the cursor is, in OpenOffice, but it just does not
work as expected (on other kde apps and
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:59:40AM +, Darren Forster wrote:
Hi
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a list of properties and
functions that can be applied to various items in OpenOffice basic. Is
there a book or website available?
An an entry point i recommend
Just over a week ago, I lodged a couple of queries, but there's been no
reply. Any thoughts?
For the record, these are they:
1. On several occasions, I've reset my single-quotes to be automatically
replaced via Tools AutoCorrect only to find that this has been
countermanded next time I open
My brother downloaded openoffice 2.0 onto his Dell computer. He is able to
get attachments when I send them from my Apple iBook G4, but not pictures.
What can I do to help him get pictures.
Nancy J. Steffan
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Have just replaced a hard drive; used to have OO writer 1. I now have 2. I
managed to set the keyboard to US-Intl previously, but can't seem to do it
with the new system. (I mean the keyboard where single/double quote, `/~ and
^ (6-shift) become dead keys that place accents over the relevant
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From: Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: [users] Re: Re: Database Error
Max Haltermann wrote:
I too am missing Java for O.O. had a look at URL you advised, could not
find JRE
or anything similar
Hello Nancy,
Nancy Steffan wrote:
My brother downloaded openoffice 2.0 onto his Dell computer. He is able to
get attachments when I send them from my Apple iBook G4, but not pictures.
What can I do to help him get pictures.
Nancy J. Steffan
Pictures cannot be opened direcly in OpenOffice.org
On Sat January 14 2006 15:10, + Annie Crawford wrote:
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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 Sat January 14 2006 16:14, wbg wrote:
CP, you didn't read her question with much care - she already
acknowledged that she knew how to pop the ruler into view,
but I think what she's after (not being an MSWord user I can't
say for certain) is a tiny dialog containing a live readout
of the
Max Haltermann wrote:
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?
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_05/index.html (and you want
just JRE, not full JDK).
Matej
--
Matej
On Sat January 14 2006 15:03, + Les wrote:
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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:-
On Sat January 14 2006 13:23, + U. George Consuegra wrote:
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
Hi
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a list of properties and
functions that can be applied to various items in OpenOffice basic. Is
there a book or website available?
e.g. I'm guessing that a table in OpenOffice must have loads of
properties such as Visible, ReadOnly, Text,
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:36 +, CPHennessy wrote:
CP, you didn't read her question with much care ...
Thanks for that Brewster. Yes I did miss it.
For anyone who answers as many list questions as CPH does, it's not
surprising that they might be a bit off-target with the odd one here
and
On Sun January 15 2006 11:36, Dave Barton wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:36 +, CPHennessy wrote:
CP, you didn't read her question with much care ...
Thanks for that Brewster. Yes I did miss it.
For anyone who answers as many list questions as CPH does, it's not
surprising that they
On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP.
I doubt if I'm the only person in this world who can remember the Alt
numbers of some of the more common special characters, especially those
with accents and umlauts. Besides, using these is often quicker than
On Fri January 6 2006 13:50, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP...
On several occasions, I've reset my single-quotes to be automatically
replaced via Tools AutoCorrect only to find that this has been
countermanded next time I open the programme. The same thing happens,
when I
On Sat December 3 2005 10:35, Wangshanpo wrote:
I've been trying to have continued sound for yonks now. The closest I
can get is using Tools... Media Player. it works except that the media
Player can not be hidden, (rather spoils my presentation, I'd say ;-) .)
This has cropped up here and on
Hello;
I'm using Oo 2.0 and want to install a flash player I downloaded. I
using Suse 9.3, the player has a gz file extention.
all help appreciated;
William
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Hi Nancy,
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:43 -0700, Nancy Steffan wrote:
My brother downloaded openoffice 2.0 onto his Dell computer.
He is able to get attachments when I send them from my Apple iBook G4,
but not pictures. What can I do to help him get pictures.
Nancy J. Steffan
I am not sure I
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 07:00 -0500, vze2wdxd wrote:
Hello;
I'm using Oo 2.0 and want to install a flash player I downloaded. I
using Suse 9.3, the player has a gz file extention.
all help appreciated;
William
Sorry William, no offence intended, but what has this to do with OOo?
Impress
These are some of the shortcuts I can remember:
é = Atl+130 Capital E accentuated = Alt+144
ç = Alt+135 Capital C with tiny thingy underneath = Alt+128
à = Alt+133 î = Alt+140
è = Alt+138 ô = Alt+147
ê = Alt+138 â = Alt+131
û = Alt+150
Good morning!
Please give me advice on how to convert files produced on my old notebook
(Windows 95) in Works 3.0 into OpenOffice files (Windows XP).
Thank you very much in advance for your kind help!
Best regards,
Günter Langenberg
I have just installed OO 2.0.
Can I use the dictioraries I had for OO 1.0? If so: How can I have OO 2.0
recognizing them?.
On the other hand: is it there any system for using the oficcial dictionaries
like Oxford or the one from the Real Academia Española de la Lengua
Un
From within Works, you'll need to save the files in a format that OOo can
read, such as RTF. OOo cannot read Works files directly. (For that matter, MS
Office also cannot read Works files directly.)
In a message dated 1/15/2006 8:01:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 15 January 2006 11:56, CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri January 6 2006 13:50, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP...
On several occasions, I've reset my single-quotes to be automatically
replaced via Tools AutoCorrect only to find that this has been
countermanded next time
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 01:50 -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
Have just replaced a hard drive; used to have OO writer 1. I now have 2. I
managed to set the keyboard to US-Intl previously, but can't seem to do it
with the new system. (I mean the keyboard where single/double quote, `/~ and
^
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 11:55 +, CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP.
I doubt if I'm the only person in this world who can remember the Alt
numbers of some of the more common special characters, especially those
with accents and
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:10 +0100, Javier Enríquez de Salamanca wrote:
I have just installed OO 2.0.
Can I use the dictioraries I had for OO 1.0? If so: How can I have OO 2.0
recognizing them?.
On the other hand: is it there any system for using the oficcial
dictionaries like
Hello,
I have Fedora Core 4 Linux on my computer for some moons. This distribution
of linux have OpenOffice.org 2.0.0 Beta.
Recently, I download the OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz from your site
and remove the OpenOffice.org 2.0.0 Beta from my computer. but I don,t install
Hi,
Please can you tell me how to safely remove the Openoffice software.
Thanks,
Stewart
I have a music clip that I want to embed in a slide show. If I embed the
clip in the second slide, it stops when the third slide appears. How do
I get the music to continue until the the last slide has finished being
displayed?
TIA
On Wed January 4 2006 17:14, + Tom Judd wrote:
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That's just the problem...when I try to uninstall, it
says it cannot find that file
(openofficeorg19104.msi). It will not not complete
the uninstallation.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you Tom,
On Sat January 14 2006 16:56, + 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
As you are not subscribed you may
On Sat January 14 2006 21:48, + WILLIAM SHOWERS wrote:
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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
On Sat January 14 2006 04:20, + Christopher Mayes wrote:
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
Not quite sure how, but...OK, got it! Thanks.
Roger
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From: G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Cc: Roger Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 15, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] US-International keyboard--How to??
I think
Hi !
Save as *.rtf perhaps, if that is possible in that version of Works. It
worked from version 7.0 for me, anyway.
//Per
Guenter Langenberg skrev:
Good morning!
Please give me advice on how to convert files produced on my old
notebook (Windows 95) in Works 3.0 into OpenOffice files
Hi, I am trying to create a link to external data with a CSV (tab
delimitted file). Here is what I do and get from each after I've loaded
the spreadsheet program and clicked on Link to External Data:
1) Enter the URL to file.
I then get a dialogue box asking me how I want this file to be
...and similarly with other common special characters, of course. Many
thanks - though I'm still intrigued about why Alt-148 behaves so strangely!
Gareth Curtis
CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP.
I doubt if I'm the only person
I just tried Alt-148 with OOo Writer 1.1.5 and the ö was inserted
exactly where it should be. Seems like your problem is not a OOo bug or
maybe there is a setting somewhere... I use a Swedish keyboard and Alt-148
gives me exactly the same result as the ö key.
An easier way to insert
Yes - I rather think it was with only one or two documents. (Actually, I
hadn't realised that you could associate autocorrect with an individual
document - sorry about my ignorance!) But this still leaves one obvious
question in my mind - why did I find the order countermanded on the
second,
Thanks for this. Oddly enough, I used an old version of AllChars on my
previous set-up, and found it ideal for the job (very easy to
remember!). Trouble was, it wouldn't work when I changed to WinXP.
Should have downloaded an updated one - silly me...
Gareth Curtis
Johnny Andersson wrote:
I
I have a document that uses color on some of the words.
Is there a way to use Find Replace to change the color on all such
words?
Windows XP/OOo v2.0.1
Thanks.
--
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
Treat everyone the way you want to be treated.
Pete Holsberg wrote:
I have a document that uses color on some of the words.
Is there a way to use Find Replace to change the color on all such
words?
Well, perform the search: Enter the search pattern and press Find All. You
will get all occurences of that word selected. Simply go to the
Hi. I recently downloaded OpenOffice and would like to use it primarily
for writing letters, making fliers, etc. How do I simply open a blank
document that I can use for my letter template? Also, is there a source
for inserting pictures or graphics?
Thanks for your help.
OpenOffice.org version other on Windows XP.
In area Other, Missing help file
Nissing help file
On Sun January 15 2006 15:33, + stewart hanson wrote:
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Hi,
Please can you tell me how to safely remove the Openoffice software.
Hi Stewart,
If you installed OpenOffice.org 1.1 then you can simply delete the
OpenOffice.org folder. If you are using
How can I remove myself from your mailing list?
Thanks, Mike
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where can I download the actual PROGRAMMING CODE for OpenOffice?
Thanks, Mike
Start here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_source.html
It's big and it's complex, so if you intend to work on it you would be
wise to
I am using OpenOffice 2.0 on a Sun SPARC system running Solaris 9 and
have had this problem with all versions of OpenOffice (and StarOffice) up
through 2.0. When I perform certain operations such as setting tab stops,
as you drag the tab marker along the ruler you get an alignment guide line
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Darren Forster wrote,
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a list of properties and
functions that can be applied to various items in OpenOffice basic. Is
there a book or website available?
e.g. I'm guessing that a table in OpenOffice must have loads of
properties such as
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:21 +0100, maxweber wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:59:40AM +, Darren Forster wrote:
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a list of properties and
functions that can be applied to various items in OpenOffice basic. Is
there a book or website
Max Haltermann wrote,
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
Where can I download the actual PROGRAMMING CODE for OpenOffice?
Thanks, Mike
I have a difficult time adjusting the horizontal positions of margins,
tabs. etc. in Writer 2.0. This is because the stop positions are so
numerous. Is there a way to set the resolution so that this adjustment is
easier? In Word there are typically 16 stops per inch which I think is
just about
CPHennessy wrote:
On Thu January 12 2006 19:59, Leslie Danks wrote:
Hi all,
I like to work with 10 different KDE virtual desktops with particular
programs on specific desktops. With KDE programs (and also Firefox) I can
save the KDE session, close down with programs still running or not and
Enrique Castro wrote:
Pete Holsberg wrote:
I have a document that uses color on some of the words.
Is there a way to use Find Replace to change the color on all such
words?
Well, perform the search: Enter the search pattern and press Find All. You
will get all occurences of that word
Andrew Towers wrote:
Just wanted to take a minute to tell you how truely horrible OpenOffice is.
I have found that a tools' worth is only equal to the person's worth
using ( or attempting to use ) that tool.
--
Daniel Kasak
IT Developer
NUS Consulting Group
Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway
On Sun January 15 2006 21:00, Per wrote:
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Andrew Towers wrote:
Just wanted to take a minute to tell you how truely horrible OpenOffice is.
I am running Debian Linux, not by choice, but because my office requires it.
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
My operating System is Windows XP and I have 512 meg of ram, 60 gig hard
drive.
I have check the FAQ but there no question associated with this problem.
Thank you for you response,
George
U. George Consuegra
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From:
Hi -
Help?
Can my Access files be converted/opened in Open Office Base? I haven't had
any luck doing that so far. All I get is a few lines of ASCII.
I just download Open Office 2 this afternoon. The 60-day trial version of
Microsoft Office on my new computer expires in a month.
Hi Jonathon,
An Acorn platform application called !Impression.
It not only did most routine jobs but also was the
most user friendly writing program. One had access
to all the formatting codes in a plain text editor as well.
It had not only styles you could create but also
effects, which allowed
Hi again,
I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
names and relevant page numbers. This was
created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
foolishly I
On Sunday 15 January 2006 10:41 am, Troy wrote:
So far, Microsoft Access has the Service Call Management template that
sufficiently does everything I need to do (with the exception of the notes
field being much too short, I can see myself needing more than 250
characters for this field).
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:30 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jean,
Thanks for your reply. The methode you described worked
fine on my 10 year old word processor but is tedious to use.
With some experimenting I found that by using
Shift/Enter a new line is entered, already lined up with the
Kim Fournier wrote:
Can my Access files be converted/opened in Open Office Base?
I haven't had any luck doing that so far. All I get is a few
lines of ASCII
Any and all advice is welcomed.
If you are using OOo2.0. you should be able to do this using the
Database Wizard.
To start the
Thank you, Jean.
k
. . . . .
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From: Jean Hollis Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Microsoft Access
Kim Fournier wrote:
Can my Access files be converted/opened in Open Office Base?
I
Hi Fred, yes I got the full URL and correct item to
download, is all done and working fine.
Thanks,
Max.
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From: Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Database Error
Problem Statement #1 looks like: The problem I have is that when I make
a CD copy from my main computer of the new version, and I try to install
it to my lap top it locks up the system until I take out the CD.
This sounds like a corollary to Problem Statement #2
Problem Statement #2 looks like:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:09 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jonathon,
An Acorn platform application called !Impression.
It not only did most routine jobs but also was the
most user friendly writing program. One had access
to all the formatting codes in a plain text editor as well.
By
It sounds like the use of paragraph styles would help significantly in what
you're trying to do. If you're not familiar with styles, take a look at the
users guide for OOo 2.0, which you can find at
_http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html_
Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi again,
I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
names and relevant page numbers. This was
created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
- Original Message -
From: Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Hanging indent: How to avoid
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:09 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jonathon,
An Acorn platform application
Hi Jean,
Yes, I have tried to set tabs in paragraph style, but
I'm not sure if I did it right, but whatever I did, the
moment I highlighted the raw text all tabs would
disappear from the ruler. And yes, I also turned
on non-printing characters.
I found, if I removed all tabs manually from a
It's really difficult to diagnose what's going wrong when
something doesn't work the way it should. Sometimes these things
turn out to be bugs and not anything you're doing wrong.
If you want to send me the file (offlist) I'll take a quick look
and see if I can spot anything immediately.
Hi Jonathon again,
The document is a long list of ancestors. There
is a family name, then one or more given names
with a page number associated with each given name
or names on the extreme right. The chap worked
at it for some 15 years and wants to get it cleaned
up ready for printing and
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:53 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
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From: Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Hanging indent: How to avoid
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:09 +1100, Max
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:18:26 +1100
Max Haltermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jean,
Yes, I have tried to set tabs in paragraph style, but
I'm not sure if I did it right, but whatever I did, the
moment I highlighted the raw text all tabs would
disappear from the ruler. And yes, I also turned
I'm sure this is all very straightforward and it's just me not seeing the
forest for the trees, but looking at page 1 of the Getting Started document,
why don't I have an Open Office icon anywhere that opens to a nice window
with a menu and toolbars like the graphic shown?
I've looked through
Kim Fournier wrote:
I'm sure this is all very straightforward and it's just me not seeing
the forest for the trees, but looking at page 1 of the Getting Started
document, why don't I have an Open Office icon anywhere that opens to a
nice window with a menu and toolbars like the graphic shown?
No, no and no again. I was so happy to find help
on 'special characters' that I missed the reference
to special characters to be ticked. So now there is
a new world of OO opening up for me.
Thanks very much Keith for leading me to the
right path.
- Original Message -
From: Keith Bates
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:32 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jonathon again,
The document is a long list of ancestors. There
is a family name, then one or more given names
with a page number associated with each given name
or names on the extreme right. The chap worked
at it for some 15 years
Actually they were an unholy mess of both
Max.
- Original Message -
From: Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [users] 2 hours to set tabs :-((
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:32 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi
Suddenly the day doesn't look quite as gloomy.
I now have full control over tabs, as well as being
able to bypass hanging indents when not needed,
without having to change paragraph styles.
What more could one expect in this world?
Thanks to Jean, Fred, Jonathon, Keith, 'RLShadow',
and other I
Max:
Could you write up, copy paste, the lesson on using tabs as by Max and 2 hours
to
go.
To me this was a remarkable response to a final solution.
Chris
Suddenly the day doesn't look quite as gloomy.
I now have full control over tabs, as well as being
able to bypass hanging indents when
Ali Farzin farzinltd at yahoo.com writes:
Hello,
I have Fedora Core 4 Linux on my computer for some moons. ... I don,t
install OOo 2.0.0 successfully. ... I do these:
1. I went to Add or Remove Applications in Desktop Menu and UnChecked all
programs related to Office category.
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