Re: [users] [moderated]Dictionary

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Rivera
Roman Oswald wrote: Hello, I have a computer store in Rotterdam (NL) were i install OpenOffice on new machines in Dutch. But there is no Dutch Dictonary. Is there a posibbility to download a language pack or update? File -> Wizards -> Install New Dictionaries. It will connect to the net, do

Re: [users] After install I get error message when shutting down PC to save work, without any Openoffice program open

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Rivera
John Lamport wrote: When I click Close I get the following error message: on title bar "Dbhelp" This program has performed an illegal operation and will shutdown." After I click Close the PC goes through its normal shutdown. I believe that this problem is unrelated to Openoffice. You can try t

Re: [users] Open Office Base

2006-02-17 Thread Javier Rivera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les agradecemos la información que nos han remitido, pero, no obstante, en la versión de Open Office que tenemos instalada en Guadalinex 2004 NO se incluye la aplicación Open Office Base. ¿Existe la posibilidad de descargar e instalar dicha aplicación? ¿Pueden darnos inst

[users] Base

2006-02-17 Thread James Elliott
Using Base in OOo 2.0 I am experiencing some challenges in editing table layouts. I first tried to insert a row into my table design (in design view) to add another address line to customer data, but the cursor jumped to the end of the list of headings. I then cut and pasted the existing dat

[users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Reto Jann
Hallo I have following problem: I am trying to define the following Outline numbering format Title 1.1 Title 1.2 Title Titel 2.1 Title 2.2 Title (The top level title numbers must not be shown) Everytime I try to change the numbering field to none, the whole numbering in my document gets chang

[users] column GQ limit

2006-02-17 Thread gerald.dunnill
Calc's V.2 only allows sorting up to column GQ when sorting ALL the data (ensuring the row info is tied together). Why will the sort criteria not go to column IV as it does when just sorting a single column? The 2 meg MS Works spreadsheets with only 300 rows were imported & saved as opendocumen

Re: [users] Crashrep...

2006-02-17 Thread Alighero
oh ok thanks On 2/16/06, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:37 +, CPHennessy wrote: > > On Sun February 12 2006 17:46, + Alighero wrote: > > > [ MODERATED ] *** > > > here is the message that im presented with when i try and open OO

Re: [users] Open Office Base

2006-02-17 Thread Derick Centeno
Javier: Puede ser que otro area de Open Office dedicado a español sea mejor para refirir a otros que comunican solo en éspañol: http://es.openoffice.org/ Buena Suerte On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:10 +0100, Javier Rivera wrote: > > You should contact Gualinex people. > > You can download open

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Reto Jann
I just tried your suggestion When I put "number" of "1" to "none". And "number" of "2" and "3" to "1,2,3,.." I get the following result. Title 1 Title 2 Title Titel 3 Title 4 Title and not the desired Title 1.1 Title 1.2 Title Titel 2.1 Title 2.2 Title I'm using OOo 2.01 Greetings -

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:25:01 +0200 Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > interesting. i just did what original poster wanted. > > to do that, choose tools->outline numbering. > select numbering tab and in the level chooser, select "1" > set "number" to 'none' > check that levels 2 and 3 have desired

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Rich
oh. ok, i see :) in that case, use some custom style for 'title' and start using heading at 'title 2' if desired, add that style for contents table generation. though now when i look at this, it is pretty hard to start all numbering ad second level. one silly workaround would be creating char

Re: [users] Adapting Simtools (Monte Carlo analysis) VBA for OOo Calc

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
Niklas, Thanks, I will email the address you provided and see if someone can help. Graham On 17/02/06, Niklas Nebel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham Smith wrote: > > Can someone point me towards the best person/forum to find someone who > might > > be interested in getting SimTools working

Re: [users] Restricting user access and allowing shareed files

2006-02-17 Thread Derick Centeno
Hi Daryl: I recall elsewhere you explained that you didn't want to resort to using permissions as in your scenario, that approach would prove unwieldy. I believe I understand the kind of access/control boundaries you seek to impose for your users in accessing documents. Unfortunately, in my exp

Re: [users] open office

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Barton
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:51 -0800, John Harrison wrote: > I have a question about open office. If I write a letter in the writer > and I want to email it as an attachment can this be done or does the > person that I want to send this to have to have open office on their > computer as well? No they

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Rich
setting paragraphs to headin3 would produce better result, but still not the exact, though :) as i wrote in another message, inserting invisible heading2 after each heading1 helps, but that's pretty ugly. now, if it would be possible to set 'show sublevels' to 0... setting it to 0 for first

Re: [users] Adapting Simtools (Monte Carlo analysis) VBA for OOo Calc

2006-02-17 Thread Niklas Nebel
Graham Smith wrote: Can someone point me towards the best person/forum to find someone who might be interested in getting SimTools working with Open Office Calc. dev@api.openoffice.org might be a good start. This is an addin for Excel to carry out a range of Monte Carlo based models in Excel.

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Johnny Andersson
Like you said, cut and paste (ctrl+x - highlight another cell - ctrl+v) changes the formula in, let's say B1 if B1=A1+A2. I also tried to move the cell (a2 in this case) with the mouse. Same result. However, try this: Highlight A2 - ctrl+c - backspace - highlight another cell - ctrl+v. So

Re: [users] Re: Features Question

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:59 +, Andrew Brown wrote: > > I noticed that the Image editor is gone what happened to that? > > > > There is one of those hidden in impress. I don't know if it the same one, > but it is quite classy. Hey, thanks for that info! I didn't know that was there. It's not

Re: [users] Restricting user access and allowing shareed files

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 07:13 -0500, Derick Centeno wrote: > You may have to consider the > commercial product StarOffice as their internal controls over documents > would address features at the application level which I really don't > believe Open Office as an open source application is designed to

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks. I've tried to describe the enhancement here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62217 -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software. Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.

Re: [users] column GQ limit

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 21:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Calc's V.2 only allows sorting up to column GQ when sorting ALL the > data (ensuring the row info is tied together). You may have caught a bug. Therefore, I suggest that you enter an issue into Issue Tracker as this is the best way t

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Yes. But I am not moving the formula I am moving one of the cells. So if I have, in cell B1, any of these formulas, =A1+A2 or =A$1+A$2 or =$A$1+$A$2 and I move *A2* to A3 using cut and paste, then the formula changes to =A1+A3 or =A$1+A$3 or =$A$1+$A$3 That's

Re: [users] open office

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:47 +0100, Matei Paladi wrote: > Since I registered to openoffice, this is the second mail I receive, > that seems to be related to a question I desperately try to post to > the openoffice community, through e-mail or forum. > I said "seems", because it doesn't answer at

Re: [users] Writer - Labels and database

2006-02-17 Thread pop.wanadoo.fr
Hi again, >>You can also connect to a spreadsheet >>or text file if that's where your data is. How do I tell Writer to connect to a textfile Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks. I'm aware of those work around and should have mentioned them in the original message. I'd still need a way, either simple or complex, to get it to work with ctrl-X (cut). There should be a way to protect the cell or something to be able to cut-n-paste the contents from a cell in a f

Re: [users] Writer - Labels and database

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:58 +0100, pop.wanadoo.fr wrote: > Hi, > > New to OpenOffice.Writer I found out that I can generate labels with data > coming from a database. > But I didn't found out what kind of a database this must be. Which kind of database would you like it to be? OOo has it's own b

[users] [moderated]

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Pedersen
Hello 1.Can I get a plugin for Open Office that can do text-to-speech? 2.Is it possible to save in .lit files in Open Office? 3.If not, then can I get a plugin for doing that? Tom - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:29:30 +0100 "Reto Jann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have following problem: > > I am trying to define the following Outline numbering format > > Title > 1.1 Title > 1.2 Title > Titel > 2.1 Title > 2.2 Title > > (The top level title numbers must not be shown) > > Every

Re: [users] Writer - Labels and database

2006-02-17 Thread pop.wanadoo.fr
Hi, >>OOo has it's own built-in database which is quite adequate, but if you >>have a database server already (provided it has an ODBC or JDBC driver) >>you can most likely connect to it. Yes I guess so, but the data are available in an other software and maintaned in it. >>You can also connect

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
>From Help: "Formulas, however, are always adjusted accordingly." Since you do not want this to happen, I suggest that you enter an Request for Enhancement (RFE) into Issue Tracker as this is the best way to have requests such as this evaluated. If you haven't already registered, do the followin

Re: [users] Restricting user access and allowing shareed files

2006-02-17 Thread Daryl Sayers
> "CPHennessy" == CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed February 15 2006 03:12, Daryl K Sayers wrote: >> We were an Applixware site and have finally biten the bullet and are >> migrating to Open office. We are using FreeBSD 4.11 and so we are using the >> current 1.1 port of Open Of

[users] OO2 Impress: (total) page count

2006-02-17 Thread Joe
Hello Everyone, I have just started using OO2 (2.0, ubuntu breezy version core 2.0.1-0breezy) Impress. I am unfortunately missing a, in my opinion very important feature - an automatically updated "page count" field. Every slide should show something like (current number/total number). After two

Re: [users] Restricting user access and allowing shareed files

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 16:04 +1100, Daryl Sayers wrote: > > "CPHennessy" == CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed February 15 2006 03:12, Daryl K Sayers wrote: > >> We were an Applixware site and have finally biten the bullet and are [snipped] > > I am also concerned about use

Re: [users] Find & replace; Cyrillic

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:17 -0600, Jim Wagner wrote: > When trying to find and replace elements in a Kazakh text, > occasionally the "Find" window messes up the order of the characters. > for instance, the following: > беруді > > Comes out as > > іберуд. > > It will also occasionally show tw

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Much of the time that's a good thing. However, sometimes it will get in the way and there should be a way to turn it off. For example, if you have a form that use formulas using input from what people to fill in, someone using it could mess it up completely by simple ^X ^V -Lars Lars Nooden

Re: [users] Writer - Labels and database

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 16:23 +0100, pop.wanadoo.fr wrote: > Hi again, > > >>You can also connect to a spreadsheet > >>or text file if that's where your data is. > > How do I tell Writer to connect to a textfile > If you're using OOo 2.0.x then go to File > New > Database This starts the da

[users] Find & replace; Cyrillic

2006-02-17 Thread Jim Wagner
When trying to find and replace elements in a Kazakh text, occasionally the "Find" window messes up the order of the characters. for instance, the following: беруді Comes out as іберуд. It will also occasionally show two to three space breaks in a single word. It doesn't seem to interfere w

Re: [users] OOo2.0 General Error

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:48 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:06 -0200, Clovis Tristao wrote: Hi, I installed OOo2.0 in Windows XP, and when I try to open the archives that had been produced by the MSOffice 2000

Re: [users] Converting to HTML using Styles

2006-02-17 Thread Immanuel CRC Office
Pete Holsberg wrote: CPHennessy wrote: On Wed February 15 2006 16:34, Pete Holsberg wrote: I have a "Heading 1" style defined in OO and when I do a "Save As HTML", I get this: H1 { margin-top: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; color: #00; text-align: center; text-decor

Re: [users] problem: link in Table of Contents

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : I can't "jump" to specified Heading in Writer document, by clicking an item in Table of Content. Tried to insert Hyperlink according to instructions in Help, didn't work. As I recall, in ver.1.4 it worked as Ctrl

Re: [users] installing over older versions of openoffice

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
Paul wrote: Thats a fairly old version. I realise that your using windows, are you using a version newer than Win95 (OOo 2.0.1 won't run on win95 machines)?? In my experience I've always uninstalled the old version prior to installing a new version. When I've installed the new verison I've alway

Re: [users] OOo2.0 General Error

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:52 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > > I see no one has bothered to answer you. Probably because the fix is in > > the User Guide at > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf > > > The

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Lars, On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:19:25 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Much of the time that's a good thing. However, sometimes it will get in > the way and there should be a way to turn it off. For those sometimes the already mentioned way to copy and delete exists. > For example, if you h

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:18 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Yes. But I am not moving the formula I am moving one of the cells. > So if I have, in cell B1, any of these formulas, > =A1+A2 > or =A$1+A$2 > or =$A$1+$A$2 > > and I move *A2* to A3 using cut and paste, then the formula chang

[users] Re: Remove line breaks from paragraphs

2006-02-17 Thread Paul_B
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:16:20 -0500, Jaime Torres wrote: > I usually have to copy the text from the bodies of my email messages and > paste them into a OO Writer document. As you should imagine the line > breaks are kept exactly the same as in the email message. Here is an > example: > > This text

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Chilco
Further to this issue. If the formula cells are protected and sheet and/or document protection is turned on, the formula will still change. You don't have to cut and paste to get the effect. Just dragging referenced cells will change a protected cell. The way to 'move' data without changing th

[users] Printing a list of styles

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
Is there a way to get a printout of the definitions of all or a subset of the styles used in a document? Thanks. -- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ Treat everyone the way you want to be treated. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Converting to HTML using Styles

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
CPHennessy wrote: On Wed February 15 2006 16:34, Pete Holsberg wrote: I have a "Heading 1" style defined in OO and when I do a "Save As HTML", I get this: H1 { margin-top: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; color: #00; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; page-brea

[users] Re: OOo2.0 General Error

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:52:24 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >> I see no one has bothered to answer you. Probably because the fix is >> in the User Guide at >> http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf >> > The fix

Re: [users] Outline numbering

2006-02-17 Thread Reto Jann
Thanks for your hacks The one with defining Heading 1 as white and small is good. I don't know if there is a cleaner solution to this problem. OO.org names outline numbering as one of the weaker parts of OO. Cheers - Original Message - From: "Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Fri

[users] Re: Operating system

2006-02-17 Thread Bob Long
[CC'd to user] In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], John Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I am trying to download open office but I cannot find windows xp in > the operating window. When I download using just the windows > operating system everything goes fine until I try to install and it > tells me th

Re: [users] column GQ limit

2006-02-17 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi gerald.dunnill, On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 21:27:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Calc's V.2 only allows sorting up to column GQ when sorting ALL the > data (ensuring the row info is tied together). Why will the sort > criteria not go to column IV as it does when just sorting a single > colu

Re: [users] Re: Print Control

2006-02-17 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:31, Jallan wrote: > Today 16:31:17 >   > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >     The   .htm   trick   helped a little, but not enough. It didn't work > > at all when I tried MS Word. > >      However, it destroyed the line-feed character so I had to enter that > > manua

Re: [users] OOo2.0 General Error

2006-02-17 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:53 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:48 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > >> G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:06 -0200, Clovis Tristao wrote: > >>> > Hi, > > I installed OOo2.0 in

[users] Re: Remove line breaks from paragraphs

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Brown
Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Select the parapraph, then open the Find/Replace dialog. Put a check > next to "regular expresssions", enter a dollar sign in the "search for" > box, and a space in the "replace with box". Make sure "current select > only" is checked as

Re: [users] OOo2.0 General Error

2006-02-17 Thread Pete Holsberg
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: I see no one has bothered to answer you. Probably because the fix is in the User Guide at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf The fix is incorrect, vis-a-vis Windows. This error message indicates that the files script.xlc and

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
> I just tried it with copy and paste instead of cut and paste. Result as > expected. I just wonder why we get the result you describe, when cutting > and pasting. Strange. Well, the example hid the reason a little, and I've almost satisfied myself that this is actually how I would want it to

[users] Re: Programming Short Cut Keys for Symbols

2006-02-17 Thread Andy Lewis
I. Khider wrote: Hello Users! How does one program the keys to input specific symbols (I frequently use em dashes in my writing) without having to go into the 'symbols' section every time. When I used Word, I could program a key combination to make the symbol appear. I could not spot the option

[users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
If I have a formula (say, =A1+A2) in Calc, and cut-n-paste one of the cells to a new location (say, cut from A2 and paste into A3) , the formula changes (and would now be =A1+A3). How do I stop that for specific formulas so that a normal cut-n-paste action will leave the formula unchanged? I

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Barton
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 07:36 -0600, BILL BAKER wrote: > I am using "windows 98SE" operating system & a 56K modem. This > download takes over 7 hours to download. My question is: Can I have or > buy a CD disk for this software. I was referred to this site by: > "Stratitec Inkjet Refill nKit". > Tha

Re: [users] Fwd: [releases] OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 rc1 (oob680_m1) uploaded

2006-02-17 Thread vernon lang
I have been operating on beta file of 2.0 for a while, and are scared to trying to instal 2.01 May be I coud do more helpful job with 2.02? Vernon Lang - Original Message - From: "CPHennessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:33 PM Subject: [users] Fwd: [re

Re: [users] Calc - Moving cells in and out of formula references

2006-02-17 Thread Ross Johnson
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:34 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > There should be a way to protect the cell or something to be able to > cut-n-paste the contents from a cell in a formula, to a cell outside of a > formula. e.g. ^X ^V cell A2 to cell A3 and leave the formula =A1+A2 > unchanged and not =

[users] Extra Features in Word Documents with OO 2.0.1

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen . Morris
I am using OpenOffice 2.0.1 under Mandriva 2006. I have a Write document with a Table of Contents and at the moment a body of about 100 pages or so. I am using the tags in the Table of Contents configuration to specify that I want the text inserted from the heading tags to be created as clickable

[users] [moderated]

2006-02-17 Thread BigRed8066
Help!!! I installed Openoffice - now it has taken over my computer. Every program now has extension of .LNK. Every ICON is Openoffice Icon. HELP!!

[users] Need for help

2006-02-17 Thread Apel Mar Technology Srl
Dear Sirs, We are getting in touch with you because we need to translate in Italian some PDF pamphlets with a complex layout. To perform the translations in our company we use a translation memory called Omega T (www.omegat.org) that can handle natively Open Office documents. As known, PDF

[users] OpenOffice program for Website design - like MS Front Page?

2006-02-17 Thread Alf Nisi
I have just bought a new computer(for private use)and got OpenOffice 2.0 installed. I am pleased to see that there is a serious competitor to MS. Is there anything like Front Page (or better) available i.e. something easy to use and without need of html-programming knowledge? I will recomend O

[users] OO2 Impress: (total) page count

2006-02-17 Thread Joerg Decker
Hello Everyone, I have just started using OO2 (2.0, ubuntu breezy version core 2.0.1-0breezy) Impress. I am unfortunately missing a, in my opinion very important feature - an automatically updated "page count" field. Every slide should show something like (current number/total number). After two

[users] Cannot Install OpenOffice

2006-02-17 Thread jldib
Attempting to install OpenOffice results in this message: The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip

[users] OpenOffice as an alternative for PowerPoint in Windows XP

2006-02-17 Thread Katrien Scholiers
I am using Windows Office XP with a PowerPoint Reader, but need to work with a full presentation program. Can OpenOffice be of use for me? If so, do I need to download the full version?

[users] Installation Error

2006-02-17 Thread Eric Freese
I am attempting to install OpenOffice 2.0.1 on a WinXP machine and am getting the following errors: First I get a dialog that displays the following: internal error 2908. {749A33ED-0E66-4215-9A88-66F9C2299745} Once I acknowledge that, then I get another dialog that displays the following: Error

[users] default empty file for write/calc...

2006-02-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
Hi, when opening writer or calc then I have to start with an empty spreadsheet or writer document. Is there a way to exchange the file with sth. that has our company logo in the corner... in short to not start with an empty page but a standard spreadsheet? kind regards Sebastian -

[users] Installing OpenOffice

2006-02-17 Thread Chris Wilkerson
I am a new Intel Imac user with OSX 10.4.5 Installing OpenOffice is certainly a lot easier on my PC than my Mac! I downloaded the program but it won' open. I guess I am missing X11 or something. I wish you had some easy install for the Mac like there is for the PC. Any suggestions or links

[users] installation problems

2006-02-17 Thread Patti Ward
Hi.  I just installed open office 2.0 on my laptop, but I cannot get any of it to work.  I clicked on the icon for sbase, scalc, sdraw, simpress, and smath and each time I received the following error msg: system can't find specified file.  I also tried clicking soffice and got this message:

[users] Problem with install

2006-02-17 Thread North Country Signs
Hello,   i use Win XP SP2. I tried to download and install OpenOffice from the website. After it unpacks and starts the install, I get these error messages - can you tell me what the problem is?Thanks, PatrickP - To unsubscri

[users] Help needed

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Burley
When I create a new document Spellcheck fails to work despite all my attempts to configure it. Also, when I set up a font it returns me to the default font as soon as I hit return/enter. Can you help please? _ Are you using the lat

[users] [moderated]

2006-02-17 Thread Club Dominique
where can i download more fonts like Palace script MT

[users] openoffice 2.0 trying to access the internet. why?

2006-02-17 Thread c.bell
why is open office 2.0 trying to access the internet everytime i open the program from the program list in windows xp. I am using zone alarm. it gives me a warning of suspicious activity with openoffice 2.0 trying t get on the internet. is this normal activity. if so why ?

Re: [users] OpenOffice as an alternative for PowerPoint in Windows XP

2006-02-17 Thread Chad Smith
Hello Kartien, And thanks for your interest in OpenOffice.org. Yes, OpenOffice.org can open, view, edit, and create PowerPoint presentations. It doesn't have every feature that PowerPoint has, but it is a good presentation program. OpenOffice.org is a single program that does many different thi

Re: [users] OpenOffice program for Website design - like MS Front Page?

2006-02-17 Thread Chad Smith
OpenOffice.org does have some limited HTML editing ability, but it is more similar to MS Word's HTML editing than FrontPage. For an open source, cross platform, free WYSIWYG HTML editor - try Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/ On 2/17/06, Alf Nisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just bought a new co

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 16:35, Club Dominique wrote: >where can i download more fonts like Palace script MT There are about 25,000 free and shareware fonts at this site, some of them are very nice indeed. If you can donate to the site,

[users] Re: default empty file for write/calc...

2006-02-17 Thread Terry North
Sebastian Reitenbach rapideye.de> writes: > > when opening writer or calc then I have to start with an empty spreadsheet or > writer document. Is there a way to exchange the file with sth. that has our > company logo in the corner... > in short to not start with an empty page but a standard sp

Re: [users] Installing OpenOffice

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Fisk
Please take a look at www.neooffice.org -- you might find that installing on a mac is easier than on a PC :) X11 is free from Apple's web site or from the disks that came with your mac. The requirement for X11 allows you to use the UNIX guts of OS X and go around Apple's interface -- the X

Re: [users] OpenOffice program for Website design - like MS Front Page?

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Shaver
Take a look at Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/). I haven't but it was recomended by Novell on this page: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16917.html Rob:-] Alf Nisi wrote: I have just bought a new computer(for private use)and got OpenOffice 2.0 installed. I am pleased to see that there is