[users] Re [Users] CSV files

2006-07-07 Thread AHodgett
Thanks Guido for the way to import csv files; it works, but I would never have dreamed of going down that route. None of the terms in the 'click' chain would have seemed the way to go. I would have been looking somewhere to 'Import,' never "connecting to a new DB." Am I alone. Maybe a change

[users] Page Pane

2006-07-07 Thread piltdown
On Impress and the Draw program the Page Pane is "integrated" into the main window. But, when it has been closed and then subsequently reopened it appears as a separate window. How do I get it back to the default setting? Thanks. --

[users] [moderated]

2006-07-07 Thread D & J Skinner
Have just downloaded O.O. 2 and completed the registration When I try to open the text or spreadsheet versions I am told I have committed an illegal operation and will be shut down. How do I correct this?? djs

[users] In need of help version 2.0 Open Office Writer Win XPMedia

2006-07-07 Thread Montalvo
Hello, I'm a new user and have found OO very good. I'm having a problem with two items. 1. printing my documents. 2. Reading the help files. It seems I'm stuck in "Page Preview" mode. My papers come out of the printer shrunken to the top right hand corner. As if I wanted to print several

[users] [moderated] Layout errors when importing of MS Word documents

2006-07-07 Thread Ross Anderson
Title: email Hi Users   I am evaluating OpenOffice for our company.  Weh have hundreds of technical documents in MS Word format.    However when I attempt to import these documents, I get a number of formating errors in document headers.   I have attached the a sample document, the word doc

[users] OS 10.4.6 and open office

2006-07-07 Thread Susan Slater
Does OS 10.4.6 contain all the necessary files to run Open Office? Specifically X11? Or does one still need to down load X 11 before downloading Open Office? Thanks, Susan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addi

[users] Confused over versions

2006-07-07 Thread Polly A.
Dear Open Office Crew Members, Yesterday I received an email about Open Office.org's office suite. I went to the download site and downloaded OOo_2.0.3_WIN32Intel_install.exe . I installed this version on my HDD. I signed on for email information from OO0.org. Today, I received an email from

Re: [users] Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

2006-07-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:52:57 -0400 "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6090912.html?tag=nl.e539 I note it says: "The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML" So is this another "embrace and destroy" tactic? Why does MS need its own ver

[users] ?

2006-07-07 Thread Vincent Frallicciardi
I have a few Q's, I looked for the answers to the relevant question online, and could not find it. I am a med student and can't afford to sift thru forums. Please answer these Questions: (1) Nowhere in the installation instructions does it mentioned whether to uninstall a previous O. Office ver

[users] Problem with - Internal Error - Get Storage, No Content.

2006-07-07 Thread Keith Heaney
Hello, Hope you can assist me, I am not really computer literate, so am finding it confusing as to following your "fix" for the above problem. I have Open Office. 1.1.0 Microsoft XP Home I go into Windows Explorer, I did search for c:\program files\openoffice.org which comes up with: open o

[users] Want to help spread the program

2006-07-07 Thread circuit city
I am the lead PC tech at Circuit City Location #4501 in Oklahoma City. I am writing to inquire about installing Open Office for our customers. We sell a variety of PC services (such as computer optimization, and recovery disk creation), I wished to add value to some of our packages by includi

[users] Numeric file cannot open in calc. Reverts to writer

2006-07-07 Thread Leslie Mathison
I am using OOo 2.03 and Windows XP Pro with all the IT baggage here at the univ. I have a numeric text file (numbers only, no text) with no extension. When I try to open it with calc it reverts to the word file and will not open intothe calc file. I can copy the data from writer to calc success

[users] Re: OpenOffice Base: Future Support for Direct Import of Comma Delimited ASCII Files?

2006-07-07 Thread Frank Stevenson
- Original Message - From: "Guido Pinkernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.openoffice.questions Cc: "Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: July 06, 2006 12:12 PM Subject: Re: OpenOffice Base: Future Support for Direct Import of Comma Delimited ASCII Files? > Am Donnerstag, 6.

Re: [users] 64bit OOo

2006-07-07 Thread awujoola sola
Dave Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SuSE have released a 64 bit version of OOo. When will OOo release an "official" 64 bit version? Dave Sorry, previous post sent for non-subscribed address - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: [users] ?

2006-07-07 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi Vince, Vincent Frallicciardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I have a few Q's, I looked for the answers to the relevant question > online, and could not find it. I am a med student and can't afford to > sift thru forums. Please answer these Questions: > > (1) Nowhere in the installation instr

Re: [users] OS 10.4.6 and open office

2006-07-07 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 18:50 -0700, Susan Slater wrote: > Does OS 10.4.6 contain all the necessary files to run Open Office? > Specifically X11? Or does one still need to down load X 11 before > downloading Open Office? That depends on the options used when installing OSX. If X11 was not instal

Re: [users] Confused over versions

2006-07-07 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi Polly, "Polly A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Dear Open Office Crew Members, > > Yesterday I received an email about Open Office.org's office suite. I > went to the download site and downloaded > OOo_2.0.3_WIN32Intel_install.exe . I installed this version on my > HDD. I signed on for

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-07-07 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi, D & J Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Have just downloaded O.O. 2 and completed the registration > When I try to open the text or spreadsheet versions I am told I have > committed an illegal operation and will be shut down. How do I correct > this?? djs Two more questions for yo

[users] Pkg openofficeorg-spellcheck gone in 2.0.3

2006-07-07 Thread Mats Larsson
What happened to pkg openofficeorg-spellcheck which existed in 2.0.2 but is not there in 2.03? Platform is Solaris Sparc if that matters. /MOL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] Re: Numeric file cannot open in calc. Reverts to writer

2006-07-07 Thread Claudia Drechsle
Leslie Mathison wrote: > I am using OOo 2.03 and Windows XP Pro with all the IT baggage here at > the univ. > > I have a numeric text file (numbers only, no text) with no extension. > When I try to open it with calc it reverts to the word file and will not > open intothe calc file. I can copy t

[users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread Na Derro Cartwright
I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I cant seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help me?

Re: [users] Numeric file cannot open in calc. Reverts to writer

2006-07-07 Thread Barrie Backhurst
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:43 -0500, Leslie Mathison wrote: > I am using OOo 2.03 and Windows XP Pro with all the IT baggage here at > the univ. > > I have a numeric text file (numbers only, no text) with no extension. > When I try to open it with calc it reverts to the word file and will not > o

Re: [users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi, "Na Derro Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I > cant seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help > me? Did you install also the appropriate desktop integration package for your distribution? It

Re: [users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread Andis
go to opt dir under root, than to openoffice.org/program dir and run soffice.bin or vary similar Na Derro Cartwright wrote: I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I cant seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help me?

Re: [users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:31:08 -0700 "Na Derro Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I cant > seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help me? Without more info, I'll guess: From the cli type oowriter2.0

Re: [users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread Ambrogio
Il giorno ven, 07/07/2006 alle 06.31 -0700, Na Derro Cartwright ha scritto: > I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I cant > seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help me? try, from a shell, to launch the command soffice. Tell us what desktop yo

[users] Question about hierarchical Styles

2006-07-07 Thread Ambrogio
Hi all, I don't know very well how styles works, so I have to ask to someone. My question is: I have some dependent styles (for ex 1 2 and 3) So if I make a change on 1, I see the change also on 2 and 3. If I make a change on 2 I see the change on 3. Well, this is what I want. But if, for a mi

Re: [users] 64bit OOo

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:10 +1000, Dave Barton wrote: > SuSE have released a 64 bit version of OOo. > > When will OOo release an "official" 64 bit version? > > Dave > The quick way to check status on the 64bit port is to use the search facility under the new user and general info button on the

Re: [users] Sending/receiving faxes via an external serial modem? How?

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:21 +0200, John D. Herron wrote: > If at all possible, I need to be able to send and receive faxes via modem. > In windoze I was using Winfax to send and receive faxes via an external > USRobotics 56k serial modem. > Is/Are there any app(s) that provide(s) similar functional

Re: [users] Page Pane

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:36 +0100, piltdown wrote: > On Impress and the Draw program the Page Pane is "integrated" into the main > window. But, when it has been closed and then subsequently reopened it > appears as a separate window. > > How do I get it back to the default setting? > Most toolba

Re: [users] Problem with - Internal Error - Get Storage, No Content.

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:10 +1000, Keith Heaney wrote: > Hello, > > Hope you can assist me, I am not really computer literate, so am > finding it confusing as to following your "fix" for the above > problem. > > I have Open Office. 1.1.0 > Microsoft XP Home > > I go into Windows Explorer, I di

Re: [users] Want to help spread the program

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:08 -0700, circuit city wrote: >I am the lead PC tech at Circuit City Location #4501 in Oklahoma > City. I am writing to inquire about installing Open Office for our > customers. We sell a variety of PC services (such as computer > optimization, and recovery disk creatio

Re: [users] Page Pane

2006-07-07 Thread Andis
Try this. Move page pane to place, where it was docked originally, then press ctrl and doubleclick with mouse cursor is over grey area of pane (for page pane there is written slides). Andis G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:36 +0100, piltdown wrote: On Impress and the

Re: [users] Open Office

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 06:31 -0700, Na Derro Cartwright wrote: > I am new to linux and to open office. I have installed the rpms but I cant > seem to find how to start the new applications Can someone help me? Are you certain you installed everything as described in the SETUP GUIDE at http://docum

Re: [users] Question about hierarchical Styles

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:56 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know very well how styles works, so I have to ask to someone. > My question is: > > I have some dependent styles (for ex 1 2 and 3) > > So if I make a change on 1, I see the change also on 2 and 3. > > If I make a change o

[users] unable to unsubscribe from this ML

2006-07-07 Thread
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Re: [users] Pkg openofficeorg-spellcheck gone in 2.0.3

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:13 +0200, Mats Larsson wrote: > What happened to pkg openofficeorg-spellcheck which existed in 2.0.2 but > is not there in 2.03? Platform is Solaris Sparc if that matters. > > /MOL > No idea. Please file an issue into Issue Tracker as this is the best way to have reques

Re: [users] unable to unsubscribe from this ML

2006-07-07 Thread Henrik Sundberg
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Re: [users] Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

2006-07-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Friday 07 July 2006 01:04, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:52:57 -0400 > > "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6090912.html?tag=nl.e539 > > I note it says: > > "The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML" > > So is

Re: [users] unable to unsubscribe from this ML

2006-07-07 Thread
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Re: [users] unable to unsubscribe from this ML

2006-07-07 Thread Henrik Sundberg
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Re: [users] [moderated] Layout errors when importing of MS Word documents

2006-07-07 Thread Matt Needles
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:52 +1000, Ross Anderson wrote: > Hi Users > > I am evaluating OpenOffice for our company. Weh have hundreds of > technical documents in MS Word format. > > However when I attempt to import these documents, I get a number of > formating errors in document headers. >

Re: [users] Question about hierarchical Styles

2006-07-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Friday 07 July 2006 13:35, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:56 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I don't know very well how styles works, so I have to ask to someone. > > My question is: > > > > I have some dependent styles (for ex 1 2 and 3) > > > > So if I make

Re: [users] Question about hierarchical Styles

2006-07-07 Thread Ambrogio
Il giorno ven, 07/07/2006 alle 15.09 +0100, Andy Pepperdine ha scritto: > I think Ambrogio has a problem. The point is that after the borders have been > set on a style, there seems to be no way of saying again "take the borders > from the linked style". > > If I'm right, it feels like an RFE t

Re: [users] Numeric file cannot open in calc. Reverts to writer

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
try changing the file extension to csv and then opening the numeric file in calc. hope this helps Kush Leslie Mathison wrote: I am using OOo 2.03 and Windows XP Pro with all the IT baggage here at the univ. I have a numeric text file (numbers only, no text) with no extension. When I try to

Re: [users] Sending/receiving faxes via an external serial modem? How?

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
don't know about fax softwares bundled with suse, but in ubuntu we can have kfax efax etc installed All use of faxes from OOo depends on having appropriate faxing software installed as you had in the past. - To unsubscribe,

[users] editing/removing hyperlinks in odt documents

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
Hi all, There seem to be no help documents or faq concerning how to remove a hyperlink in a text document. One can only edit or change it but not remove the hyperlink. Kush - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [users] editing/removing hyperlinks in odt documents

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:29 -0400, Kush wrote: > Hi all, > > There seem to be no help documents or faq concerning how to remove a > hyperlink in a text document. One can only edit or change it but not > remove the hyperlink. > Really? Which release of OOo do you use? In 2.0.3, have a look at

Re: [users] editing/removing hyperlinks in odt documents

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:29 -0400, Kush wrote: Hi all, There seem to be no help documents or faq concerning how to remove a hyperlink in a text document. One can only edit or change it but not remove the hyperlink. Really? Which release of OOo do you

Re: [users] Confused over versions

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
Generally a tester is one who is very computer savvy and likes taking risks checking out cutting edge versions of the latest software. One should not be a beta tester if one has a production system or a computer on which one's work/life depends on. Beta testing involves a lot of risk and shoul

Re: [users] editing/removing hyperlinks in odt documents

2006-07-07 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
Please note that users@openoffice.org is a mailing list and the best email address you can use when you have a users problem or question about OpenOffice.org. However please note that it is a moderated email list and most replies *only* go to the mailing list so you should really consider subscribi

[users] Re: Page Pane

2006-07-07 Thread piltdown
Andis wrote: > Try this. Move page pane to place, where it was docked originally, then > press ctrl and doubleclick with mouse cursor is over grey area of pane > (for page pane there is written slides). Success! Many thanks. -

[users] Cairo and OpenOffice

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Lüdecke
Hello, as I read in the German Wikipedia, OpenOffice 2.0.3 shall support the 2D-graphics-engine Cairo (www.cairographics.org), which provides anti-aliasing to Impress-Slides. The problem is, I absolutely don't know how to implement the Cairo-library into OpenOffice and how I get my Impress-

[users] re: In need of help version 2.0 Open Office Writer Win XPMedia

2006-07-07 Thread Mitchel Cohen
I'd appreciate it if someone could answer the following query, posted to this list yesterday. I have the same (or similar) problem -- my documents also are printing out at 1/2-size, in the upper right-hand quarter of the page. When I save as PDF and then print out it works fine. Thanx. Mitche

Re: [users] ?

2006-07-07 Thread Robin Laing
Vincent Frallicciardi wrote: I have a few Q's, I looked for the answers to the relevant question online, and could not find it. I am a med student and can't afford to sift thru forums. Please answer these Questions: (1) Nowhere in the installation instructions does it mentioned whether to uni

Re: [users] ?

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
Robin Laing wrote: If they don't have to edit it, you can export as a pdf file and they can use acrobat-reader. I have seen that if one uses the open source software called http://pdfcreator.sourceforge.net to create pdf files from any application including openoffice, the pdfs created are mu

[users] Calc- Delete button always brings up Delete Contents dialog

2006-07-07 Thread Jeff Sherk - Kingdom Alarms
Whenever I want to delete the information in one cell, I simply press the DELETE button on my keyboard, but it always brings the DELETE CONTENTS dialog up, and I then have to hit ENTER (or click OK). How do eliminate this extra step, so when I press the DELETE button, it immediately deletes the co

Re: [users] Calc- Delete button always brings up Delete Contents dialog

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I want to delete the information in one cell, I simply press the DELETE button on my keyboard, but it always brings the DELETE CONTENTS dialog up, and I then have to hit ENTER (or click OK). How do eliminate this extra step, so when I press the DELETE button, it

[users] uninstall 1.1.0

2006-07-07 Thread The Spence/McCarty Family
Hi, This is not a request, but instructions. I had both openoffice 1.1.0 and 2.0.2 on my computer running Windows 2000. Somehow it insisted on using 1.1.0 to open files, even if I explicitly asked for 2. Using Add/Remove programs did not remove 1.1.0, it only removed that user's installation.

[users] AutoFill Feature OpenOffice 2.0.3 Version

2006-07-07 Thread Clois Beckwith
I have been using Microsoft Excel for 10 plus years and I can't quite figure out how to autofill in the following format: Dec, 05 Nov,05 Oct,05 etc. When I try to autofill, it continues to give me Dec, 05 all the way down the spreadsheet. I am stumped, Anyway around this so that it acts like Micr

Re: [users] editing/removing hyperlinks in odt documents

2006-07-07 Thread jimw wagner
Kush wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:29 -0400, Kush wrote: Hi all, There seem to be no help documents or faq concerning how to remove a hyperlink in a text document. One can only edit or change it but not remove the hyperlink. Really? Which release of

Re: [users] AutoFill Feature OpenOffice 2.0.3 Version

2006-07-07 Thread Kush
This may not be the best way but ... 1 --in the format menu --add a new user defined format --MMM, YY 2 --then write the first cell entry as DEC, 05 3-- next entry should be a function =earlier cell number -30 where 30 are the number of days in a month generally 4--copy and paste this functio

Re: [users] AutoFill Feature OpenOffice 2.0.3 Version

2006-07-07 Thread Jeff Sherk - Kingdom Alarms
--- Clois Beckwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Microsoft Excel for 10 plus years and I can't > quite figure > out how to autofill in the following format: > Dec, 05 > Nov,05 > Oct,05 > etc. Here are a couple of suggestions. I am still using Version 2.0.2, but they should still w

[users] Re: OpenOffice Base: Future Support for Direct Import of Comma Delimited ASCII Files?

2006-07-07 Thread Franco
[snip]> > > Will Base soon offer simple, direct import of comma delimited ASCII files? > > Quite improbable. If you would have spared "soon", or have replaced it > with a less challenging term, the answer might have been different :) > > Ciao > Frank [snip] Good point, Frank! Maybe this is a bette

[users] Problem on PDF export

2006-07-07 Thread Ambrogio
Hi all, I seen some bug reports about the problem, but they seem to be all solved or closed. I'm using OOo 2.0.3 for Linux (from OOo) on Fedora core 5, and Acrobat Reader 7.0.5. My problem is related to calc. Borders on cells are not rendered well, so some border goes on middle of other cells. S