[users] Re: Chapter fields in headers - level setting ignored. A bug?

2006-06-15 Thread Claudia Drechsle
Hi > Then, the question is how to tell Writer to use "first level 2 heading > on the current page" in a header in any case? > The header reflects the chapter that is active in the first paragraph of each page. The chapters that start in a later paragraph will not be shown in a header. the only way

[users] Re: Page numbering and table of contents

2006-06-15 Thread Claudia Drechsle
Hi Andrius > I have quite a few documents with the pages to be numbered like this: > > 0.00.1 > 1.00.1 > 1.00.2 > 1.10.1 > 1.10.2 > 1.10.3 > 1.10.4 > 1.15.1 > 1.15.2 > 1.15.3 > 1.15.4 > ... > 2.00.1 > 2.00.2 > > And these page numbers must appear in TOC. > If you can organize that the numbering

Re: [users] Re: Export PDF with User-Editable Fields?

2006-06-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:17:07 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > After looking into this a bit further, I find that it is quite a bit > more complicated just as Giuseppe said. > > The problem appears to be that Adobe has a commercial lock on the > Fillable Form PDF process, and in order to acc

[users] Embedding fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Russbucket
Is the an equavilent to the MS Word option to embed true type fonts in the document if I save it as a Word Document. (tools/options/save/embed true type fonts). Search the help files and google . -- Russ - To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: [users] Re: users Digest 16 Jun 2006 01:44:57 -0000 Issue 4515

2006-06-15 Thread girl
ok thank you. susan "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:28 -0700, girl wrote: > Wellthank you all very much! > The spelling error is fine by me, i knew what you meant. *smile* i > am dyslexic so. > So much for me keeping my personal

Re: [users] Re: users Digest 16 Jun 2006 01:44:57 -0000 Issue 4515

2006-06-15 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:28 -0700, girl wrote: > Wellthank you all very much! > The spelling error is fine by me, i knew what you meant. *smile* i > am dyslexic so. > So much for me keeping my personal business private, i forgot to > turn off my signature, so don't feel bad. *smile* >

[users] Re: users Digest 16 Jun 2006 01:44:57 -0000 Issue 4515

2006-06-15 Thread girl
Wellthank you all very much! The spelling error is fine by me, i knew what you meant. *smile* i am dyslexic so. So much for me keeping my personal business private, i forgot to turn off my signature, so don't feel bad. *smile* thanks again, susan -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON

[users] Re: Export PDF with User-Editable Fields?

2006-06-15 Thread NoOp
John Jason Jordan wrote: > "On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:36:33 -0700 > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > >> > Acrobat Reader, the free version, doesn't save filled in forms, you >> > can only print them. Of course if the student has a PDF printer he/she >> > can print the filled form and mail that back;

Re: [users] old style installation

2006-06-15 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:27 +0200, Andrea Prunic wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I just downloaded the latest version of OO for linux, and was quite > surprised to see it coming only as a set of rpms for rpm based distros. > I am using slackware distribution, and it has an unofficial package from >

Re: [users] Clipart

2006-06-15 Thread Don Parris
On 6/15/06, Felix Federico Pina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I installed Open Office 2.0 in my computer but I do not find any clipart, how do I can Install clipart in Open Office? I'll appreciate any help from you. Thank you very much and have a nice day. Felix Pina You can browse the

[users] Re: Export PDF with User-Editable Fields?

2006-06-15 Thread NoOp
Giuseppe Castagno wrote: > Hi NoOpi, I forwarded the message to dev@gsl.openoffice.org were the > technical details of this can be better discussed. Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

[users] Clipart

2006-06-15 Thread Felix Federico Pina
Hello, I installed Open Office 2.0 in my computer but I do not find any clipart, how do I can Install clipart in Open Office? I'll appreciate any help from you. Thank you very much and have a nice day. Felix Pina - To unsubscri

Re: [users] Line Spacing - How?

2006-06-15 Thread Donald H Locker
Well, I trust you installed correctly. Then, with your insertion point (the little blinking vertical bar, usually) in the paragraph you want to reformat, pick Format Paragraph etc. If there are no sub-menus, then you may have a broken install. For some simple things, a right-click in the reg

Re: [users] Uninstall

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Barton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:30 -0700, Shute Duenise wrote: > I installed open office so that one of my students could show her > slide presentation. Unfortuneately, all my icons have changed from > microsoft word to openoffice. Everything defaults to open office. I > don't want this to happen. When y

Re: [users] Uninstall

2006-06-15 Thread Donald H Locker
I'll also point out that OOo offers the option of associating OOo with various MacroS**t products at install time. If, on installation, you don't choose that option, then OOo will only associate with its own files. And this is an OS, not an OO topic, so I'll go away now Donald. Dan Lewis

Re: [users] OpenSource Calc API

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
John Groom wrote: Good afternoon Is there an API which will enable me to create Calc (or other OpenSource) files directly from an ASP (VBScript) program on a web site ? If so where will I find documentation ? Regards John Groom Yes... must use OOo as an external server and do not call it in

[users] Line Spacing - How?

2006-06-15 Thread JOE OBRIEN
New to Open Office. Began typing my resume and everything down to, and including the first paragraph were spaced 1 1/2 times, then just 'fell back into' single spacing for the remainder of the resume. Went to help index, was told to go to "Format", but sub-menu items could not be found. I'm sure

Re: [users] Uninstall

2006-06-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 15 2006 02:30 pm, Shute Duenise wrote: > I installed open office so that one of my students could show her slide > presentation. Unfortuneately, all my icons have changed from microsoft > word to openoffice. Everything defaults to open office. I don't want > this to happen. I have

Re: [users] licensing for commercial use

2006-06-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 15 2006 03:19 pm, Arvin M. wrote: > Hie there, > > I've currently started using your latest version of open office 2.0; and > i'm planning to use it for my business purpose. If there is any payment > that needs to be made, could you please let me know of it. > > Also i have one mor

Re: [users] fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Adrian Try
I need to use monotype corsiva font for a wedding invite and it is not listed in my choices of fonts. How do I download it and from where? Hi John One place you can get it from is here: http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=205652 It is a commercial Adobe font, and so is not free. You

[users] licensing for commercial use

2006-06-15 Thread Arvin M.
Hie there, I've currently started using your latest version of open office 2.0; and i'm planning to use it for my business purpose. If there is any payment that needs to be made, could you please let me know of it. Also i have one more doubt. The staroffice 5.2 version; i've been told that t

[users] Uninstall

2006-06-15 Thread Shute Duenise
I installed open office so that one of my students could show her slide presentation. Unfortuneately, all my icons have changed from microsoft word to openoffice. Everything defaults to open office. I don't want this to happen. I have tried to delete open office files and have only been partiall

[users] Conferences OpenOffice.org 2006 à Lyon

2006-06-15 Thread Cedric Bosdonnat
Bonjour a tous, Comme vous le savez peut-etre deja, les prochaines conferences OpenOffice.org en septembre 2006 auront lieu a l'INSA de Lyon. Si vous désirez de plus amples informations, vous pouvez vous reporter au site des conferences a l'adresse suivante: http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon

[users] fonts

2006-06-15 Thread John Britt
Hello, I need to use monotype corsiva font for a wedding invite and it is not listed in my choices of fonts. How do I download it and from where? Thanks, John B. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

[users] RE: double click to open .xls file

2006-06-15 Thread Carla Faith-Kost
File Association says Open with Scalc.exe There are several .exe files in OpenOffice.org 2.0 / programs and I have pointed the file association to Scalc.exe as the program to open with - is that not the correct .exe file? Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:44:49 -0400 From: Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL

[users] OpenSource Calc API

2006-06-15 Thread John Groom
Good afternoon Is there an API which will enable me to create Calc (or other OpenSource) files directly from an ASP (VBScript) program on a web site ? If so where will I find documentation ? Regards John Groom

[users] old style installation

2006-06-15 Thread Andrea Prunic
Dear Sir/Madam, I just downloaded the latest version of OO for linux, and was quite surprised to see it coming only as a set of rpms for rpm based distros. I am using slackware distribution, and it has an unofficial package from linuxpackages with OO-2.0.2 (to be more precise) but I don't like

Re: [users] automated document production

2006-06-15 Thread mike scott
On 15 Jun 2006 at 9:02, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:05 +0100, mike scott wrote: > > My wife has a need to produce certificate documents for some of her > > pupils. She was making these from a small number of OOo writer > > templates, editing by hand to insert correct

Re: [users] Mac question

2006-06-15 Thread Ross Bernheim
Also, Filemaker is cross platform to the extent that they have versions for Mac and Windows. No Linux or Unix versions yet. Open Office does have some database capabilities in version 2.0 and newer. It is not meant to be a heavy duty database for large enterprise projects. It may suffice and as p

RE: [users] Mac question

2006-06-15 Thread joann kokindo
Ackkk file maker.. so much for spell checking -Original Message- From: joann kokindo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:57 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: RE: [users] Mac question I think the best data base program for the Mac.. is filmmaker... so kill me Joa

RE: [users] Mac question

2006-06-15 Thread joann kokindo
I think the best data base program for the Mac.. is filmmaker... so kill me Joann -Original Message- From: girl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:52 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Mac question Does Open Office offer a database program for the Mac a

Re: [users] dbl click to open xls file

2006-06-15 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Carla, If anything happens when you double-click, the file association is there. What's happening, is the full pathname is not being passed. Windows in truncating the name at the first space. The quick, dangerous fix is to use regedit to add double quotes around the filename place holder (u

[users] Mac question

2006-06-15 Thread girl
Does Open Office offer a database program for the Mac and work as the same as MS Access? i am looking for a database program for the Mac, MS Office does not offer Access for the Mac. thank you, susan ~~~ The slave gives the Master all that she is. The slave loves and ser

Re: [users] Page numbering and table of contents

2006-06-15 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 18:59 +0300, Andrius Aštrauskas wrote: > Hi, > > I have quite a few documents with the pages to be numbered like this: > > 0.00.1 > 1.00.1 > 1.00.2 > 1.10.1 > 1.10.2 > 1.10.3 > 1.10.4 > 1.15.1 > 1.15.2 > 1.15.3 > 1.15.4 > ... > 2.00.1 > 2.00.2 > > And these page numbers mus

[users] Page numbering and table of contents

2006-06-15 Thread Andrius Aštrauskas
Hi, I have quite a few documents with the pages to be numbered like this: 0.00.1 1.00.1 1.00.2 1.10.1 1.10.2 1.10.3 1.10.4 1.15.1 1.15.2 1.15.3 1.15.4 ... 2.00.1 2.00.2 And these page numbers must appear in TOC. There seems to be no custom page number format at all... Of course, i can enter, fo

Re: [users] Chapter fields in headers - level setting ignored. A bug?

2006-06-15 Thread Andrius Aštrauskas
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:26:49 -0500 Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday June 15 2006 05:55 am, Andrius Aštrauskas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when inserting chapter field in a header: > > > > Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Document -> Chapter -> Chapter name, > > > > outline level 1 heading

Re: [users] RE : [users] importing bibliography citations

2006-06-15 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Hello I had some interest in this capability so I watched the "Using One Line/Cite view (7:37 min). At the end it says that if you use linux or netscape, see the following. http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/tutorial/ Using Write-N-Cite (5:53 min.) They claim that this is universal and th

Re: [users] automated document production

2006-06-15 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:05 +0100, mike scott wrote: > My wife has a need to produce certificate documents for some of her > pupils. She was making these from a small number of OOo writer > templates, editing by hand to insert correct names and dates. However, > even such a simple procedure prov

Re: [users] Calc - Cell Input - Start Macro?

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Johnny Andersson wrote: I have a not so big spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org Calc 1.1.5) and I though of creating a macro which looks in certain cells for bad values and correcting them. My thought is that every time I enter something in a cell, the macro looks in it and corrects it if necessary

Re: [users] writer general input output error on opening latex source file as a text file

2006-06-15 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:10 +0530, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: > I have mentioned the OS: Mandrival Linux Limited Edition 2005. OOo > Version 2.0.2 did not come bundled with this distribution (they had an > earlier version). I downloaded this from one of the OpenOffice FTP > sites. > I will file the

Re: [users] grammer

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
no girl wrote: Does Open Office have a grammar check in the word processing program? thank you, susan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Andrew Pitonyak My

Re: [users] writing macro to do: New from template

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, this is kind of a follow up to my question in 2003 (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=17481). I would like to add a button to the toolbar, which upon clicking creates a new document based on a certain template. Unfortunally, the macro reco

Re: [users] Chapter fields in headers - level setting ignored. A bug?

2006-06-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 15 2006 05:55 am, Andrius Aštrauskas wrote: > Hi, > > when inserting chapter field in a header: > > Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Document -> Chapter -> Chapter name, > > outline level 1 heading is inserted regardless of the chosen level > ("Layer" spinner). > > While the same works

Re: [users] Fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Leslie wrote: > > > GreetingsCongratulations on a really good word processor. I have a > question about the limited font availability on the MAC version. We > are using an older MAC MINI that does not have the new processor. The > program works well and

Re: [users] Base Disable Query quotting

2006-06-15 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Manuel, >>The error message you cited suggests that the Sybase JDBC driver does >>not allow to use so-called catalogs (storedb in the example) in SELECT >>statements. Normally, the driver should tell OOo that it doesn't. Now >>either it does not properly tell, or OOo does not respect this. > >

[users] Chapter fields in headers - level setting ignored. A bug?

2006-06-15 Thread Andrius Aštrauskas
Hi, when inserting chapter field in a header: Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Document -> Chapter -> Chapter name, outline level 1 heading is inserted regardless of the chosen level ("Layer" spinner). While the same works correctly in document text and footers (the selected outline level, e.g. Hea

Re: [users] HELP IN USING PRODUCT

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:58:00 -0400 marion jenkins wrote: > HOW DO I ACCESS INFO TO EXPLAIN COMPLETE USE OF PROGRAMS? AM NEW TO > COMPUTERS AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ASCERTAIN HOW TO USE. I ALREADY > HAVE OFFICE SUITE IN LAP TOP AND AM CLUELESS ON APPLICATIONS. THANKS The support section of the

Re: [users] Calc - Cell Input - Start Macro?

2006-06-15 Thread Johnny Andersson
Den 2006-06-15 12:52:12 skrev Johnny Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a not so big spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org Calc 1.1.5) and I though of creating a macro which looks in certain cells for bad values and correcting them. My thought is that every time I enter something in a cell, the ma

[users] Calc - Cell Input - Start Macro?

2006-06-15 Thread Johnny Andersson
I have a not so big spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org Calc 1.1.5) and I though of creating a macro which looks in certain cells for bad values and correcting them. My thought is that every time I enter something in a cell, the macro looks in it and corrects it if necessary. The "dream" is that I

RE: [users] Base Disable Query quotting

2006-06-15 Thread Blechschmidt Manuel
Hello Frank, > Hi Manuel, > > > Hello, I am trying to use OpenOffice Base as a report generator for a > > Sybase ASE 12.5 Database Server. > > > > I created an an JDBC connection through JConnect 6 with the database > > driver com.sysbase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver That worked fine. > > > > But when

Re: [users] Symbol for "arithmetic mean" missing

2006-06-15 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi Eric, Eric Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hello, > > I cannot find the symbol for the arithmetic mean (x with a horizontal > line above). Is there a package with mathematical symbols that can be > downloaded and if so where do I find it? Have a look at the "Math" module. If you want j

Re: [users] Base Disable Query quotting

2006-06-15 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Manuel, > Hello, I am trying to use OpenOffice Base as a report generator for a > Sybase ASE 12.5 Database Server. > > I created an an JDBC connection through JConnect 6 with the database > driver com.sysbase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver That worked fine. > > But when I try to acces a so I try to exe

Re: [users] HELP IN USING PRODUCT

2006-06-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
marion jenkins wrote: HOW DO I ACCESS INFO TO EXPLAIN COMPLETE USE OF PROGRAMS? AM NEW TO COMPUTERS AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ASCERTAIN HOW TO USE. I ALREADY HAVE OFFICE SUITE IN LAP TOP AND AM CLUELESS ON APPLICATIONS. THANKS There are a number of web pages with help.I'll file attach s

Re: [users] Fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Leslie GreetingsCongratulations on a really good word processor. I have a question about the limited font availability on the MAC version. We are using an older MAC MINI that does not have the new processor. The program works well and has a number of features such as the page borders that oth

[users] Base Disable Query quotting

2006-06-15 Thread Blechschmidt Manuel
Hello, I am trying to use OpenOffice Base as a report generator for a Sybase ASE 12.5 Database Server. I created an an JDBC connection through JConnect 6 with the database driver com.sysbase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver That worked fine. System: Linux 2.6 OpenOffice 2.0.2 JConnect 6 ASE 12.5.2 But whe

Re: [users] dbl click to open xls file

2006-06-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Carla Faith-Kost wrote: I have two computers that still have Win98 and we are running Open Office 2.0 - If I open Open Office and then select the .xls file I want to open it opens great - but if I just double click the .xls file I get an error - red circle white xC:|My does not exist I say

Re: [users] Fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Leslie wrote: GreetingsCongratulations on a really good word processor. I have a question about the limited font availability on the MAC version. We are using an older MAC MINI that does not have the new processor. The program works well and has a number of features such as the page borders

Re: [users] Symbol for "arithmetic mean" missing

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:45 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: >> On Tuesday June 13 2006 06:29 pm, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: >> > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:29 +0200, Eric Stöhr wrote: >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > I cannot find the symbol for the arithmetic mean (x with a horizontal >> > > line ab

[users] automated document production

2006-06-15 Thread mike scott
My wife has a need to produce certificate documents for some of her pupils. She was making these from a small number of OOo writer templates, editing by hand to insert correct names and dates. However, even such a simple procedure proved fraught for a non-computer person, and was too error-pron

Re: [users] HELP IN USING PRODUCT

2006-06-15 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Thursday 15 June 2006 05:58, marion jenkins wrote: > HOW DO I ACCESS INFO TO EXPLAIN COMPLETE USE OF PROGRAMS? AM NEW TO > COMPUTERS AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ASCERTAIN HOW TO USE. I ALREADY HAVE > OFFICE SUITE IN LAP TOP AND AM CLUELESS ON APPLICATIONS. THANKS Please do not use capitals, it

Re: [users] writer general input output error on opening latex source file as a text file

2006-06-15 Thread Pramathesh Ambasta
I have mentioned the OS: Mandrival Linux Limited Edition 2005. OOo Version 2.0.2 did not come bundled with this distribution (they had an earlier version). I downloaded this from one of the OpenOffice FTP sites. I will file the issue soon. The peculiar thing is that writer actually imports the fil

[users] PROMOTION COURSE DE WRITER 2

2006-06-15 Thread José Ramón Perez
of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conestecurso.com Mrs., Like carrying of FreeSoft, I go to you with the purpose of facilitating my Web site to them, to comment to them that I have designed a basic course on processor Writer the text, for versions 2 and 8 respectively of Open/StarOffice. My in

[users] Fonts

2006-06-15 Thread Leslie
GreetingsCongratulations on a really good word processor. I have a question about the limited font availability on the MAC version. We are using an older MAC MINI that does not have the new processor. The program works well and has a number of features such as the page borders that other word

[users] links

2006-06-15 Thread freemanlathplast
Thank you for reading this email. My problem is when I want to link documents to renamed documents using spreadsheets and totaling all of the files to one spreadsheet file, in the edit links window you can't see the information that is associated with the other sheets and you can't drag the wind

[users] HELP IN USING PRODUCT

2006-06-15 Thread marion jenkins
HOW DO I ACCESS INFO TO EXPLAIN COMPLETE USE OF PROGRAMS? AM NEW TO COMPUTERS AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO ASCERTAIN HOW TO USE. I ALREADY HAVE OFFICE SUITE IN LAP TOP AND AM CLUELESS ON APPLICATIONS. THANKS

[users] Problem Solved!Re: Assign accents and ~ to keys

2006-06-15 Thread Sebastian Edwards
I am switching! Thanks for the help! Sebastian Edwards wrote: I usually write in Spanish, but my key board is an English keyboard. I would like to assign accent to a particular key (i.e. alt ‘), so I can write accented vowels, such as á. Also I would like to assign the symbol ~ to a key. Here

[users] dbl click to open xls file

2006-06-15 Thread Carla Faith-Kost
I have two computers that still have Win98 and we are running Open Office 2.0 - If I open Open Office and then select the .xls file I want to open it opens great - but if I just double click the .xls file I get an error - red circle white xC:|My does not exist I say okay and I get another er