Terry wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
NO, you don't. But, you can't charge for the software either. As long
as you include it FREE, and only charge for the 'puter, other
hardware, preloading, setup, and service, you're fine.
Fred
Why do you say that? My understanding is that vendors can char
Terry wrote:
My understanding is that vendors can charge for the software.
Conditions relating to distribution are here:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/
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Fred A. Miller wrote:
NO, you don't. But, you can't charge for the software either. As long
as you include it FREE, and only charge for the 'puter, other
hardware, preloading, setup, and service, you're fine.
Fred
Why do you say that? My understanding is that vendors can charge for
the softw
Roger Wu wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
We are a system integrator in Vancouver, BC.
We are looking into the idea of including or pre-installing some of our
PCs with Open Office.
Is there any restriction regarding sell PCs with open office? Do we need
to register or pay for that?
NO, you
dotan,
thanks for your help whenever you can give it. i was not aware of RTF being
proprietary - i've used it for years to avoid lock-in, which i suppose is
less of a concern with an open project like OO.o. if .odt is superior i will
certainly switch.
i managed to see the file again by opening an
> -Original Message-
> From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:09 AM
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck
>
> 2006/10/27, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > I don't know the details
On 28/10/06, aaron brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi folks,
i am preparing an academic paper for a conference and am almost done - like
i intend to send it this week. however, today i saved the RDF to disk,
upgraded OO.o from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (debian packages), and now can't reopen
the file. an
> If you place the text cursor in the empty paragraph between the two
> tables and press delete (the paragraph must be empty of course) then it
> should be removed and you can then merge the tables. This worked for me
> just now, but had I tried this some other time I would have been totally
>
Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 00:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of
columns). The "table - merge table" menu item is always ghosted. The two
tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging
ta
> I created a new text document and inserted two tables so that one table
> was directly below the other (there was no space whatsoever between the
> tables). Then the merge table was unghosted and worked. However, if I
> hit a carriage return and create a line between the two tables the merge
> c
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 00:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of
> columns). The "table - merge table" menu item is always ghosted. The two
> tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging
> tables?
>
> Rick B.
I just downloaded and installed OpenOffice. In standard installation you
must deliberately chose to designate Word and Excel to open with
OpenOffice. So, standard installation (at least on windows) will be fine.
Elizabeth Young
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arnold huzen wrote:
Not necessarily. If you do n
I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of
columns). The "table - merge table" menu item is always ghosted. The two
tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging
tables?
Rick B.
Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday 27 October 2006 12:04 am, Terry wrote:
Elizabeth Young wrote:
Elizabeth Young wrote:
I have just installed Open Office. I am running Windows XP
version 5.1 w/ service pack 2 installed.
I am trying to create a database using open office base program.
This is what I
hi folks,
i am preparing an academic paper for a conference and am almost done - like
i intend to send it this week. however, today i saved the RDF to disk,
upgraded OO.o from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (debian packages), and now can't reopen
the file. an error is reported at the end of the file - nothing app
hi all,
i have several documents in which the style information about footnote
references has somehow been lost. the numerals, both embedded and in the
footer, are full-size. i have about 35 footnotes in one document; how can i
fix this without making 70 manual edits?
thanks,
aaron.
\\ aar
Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:53 AM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck
Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
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From: James Knott
Thomas w. Cranston wrote:
RBL wrote:
Thomas w. Cranston wrote:
Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can
open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of
tweaks? How much RAM are you using?
I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate havin
I appreciate that sentiment. But people looking for stark comparisons
between the two just might find this intellectual discourse of value.
My 2c. Shutting up now ...
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The other major point: OpenOffice is OPEN. It supports open standards
better--MUCH better--than MSFT Office.
Every try to write or edit a blog post in MSFT Office, and then cut and
past it to a blog? The resulting POLLUTED hidden markup text chokes
Feedburner.
Take that same polluted text,
MSFT is Microsoft's ticker symbol.
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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:07 PM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck
I run OO on 2 identical computers. One w/FC5, the other w
Mr. Huzen:
Thank you for your advice concerning the Openofice software packages.
What I am trying to do is use the Search or Find or Filter functions to
compare two cells on one spread sheet to "sort" through an entire
workbook to come up with one or more spreadsheet(s) that are similar to
the fi
Roger Wu wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
>
>
> We are a system integrator in Vancouver, BC.
>
> We are looking into the idea of including or pre-installing some of our
> PCs with Open Office.
>
> Is there any restriction regarding sell PCs with open office? Do we need
> to register or pay
Well, it's not in openoffice. It's called Thunderbird. Thunderbird primarily
is an email client, but Thunderbird's address books integrates beautifully with
openoffice. Grant it, Thunderbird has an address book, but you can create many
for different sorts, i.e. clients, personal, friends, Chur
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To Whom It May Concern:
We are a system integrator in Vancouver, BC.
We are looking into the idea of including or pre-installing some of our
PCs with Open Office.
Is there any restriction regarding sell PCs with open office? Do we need
to register or pay for that?
Please help.
Cheers,
To Users: Why is no one discussing Scribus and the available email
programs ?
arnold huzen wrote:
The development of OpenOffice focusses on Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet,
Presentation. In the future OpenOffice might be offered in a bundle
with Mozilla's Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com) for e-mailha
Not necessarily. If you do not allow OpenOffice to handle your Word and
Excel files by default, then they can work next to each other without
interfering. I'm not quite sure whether this option is part of the
standard installation or that you have to choose the custom installation.
Arnold Huze
There are a few options you might consider.
1. find a friend that has broadband internet and ask him to download the
file for you.
2. have a look at
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom and find
someone near you that sends you a CD with the file on it.
Arnold Huzen
Cas
OpenOffice.org is not compatible with MSFT Publisher.
Arnold Huzen
Schick, Frances M schreef:
My son has a project in school using Microsoft publisher. Is any of
your software compatible with this that he could use at home?
THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE
I have printed 4 pages on the same sheet with OpenOffice.org Writer
1.1.5and it worked fine. I don't know about Drw, though. And maybe it
was my
Printer driver that did the trick, I don't know...
Johnny Andersson
The development of OpenOffice focusses on Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet,
Presentation. In the future OpenOffice might be offered in a bundle with
Mozilla's Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com) for e-mailhandling. For
Thunderbird there is an extension called Lightning that offers calendar
and to-do list
Maybe a bit out of topic, but I think it's rather funny:
In 1999, when my desktop was quite new, I had MS Office 97 installed and
Excel was what I used most of the time. I had a quite large spreadsheet
which I edited almost every day, so it grew over time.
One day (or whatever.. night perharps?)
2006/10/27, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I don't know the details. However, you have to remember that since MS
controls both the OS and app, it's easy for them to do things that are
unavailable to others. An example of this came out several years ago
with Borland. They tried to find out w
On Friday 27 October 2006 04:43 pm, arnold huzen wrote:
> The tabs at the bottom of the window are the worksheets in the
> workbook that you're working on. Every workbook has its own set of
> sheets. The standard is 3, but you can add or delete sheets to your
> own needs.
>
> Arnold Huzen
If
Sometimes installing OpenOffice seems to conflict with either the
virusscanner or the firewall. To be able to install OpenOffice properly
take the following steps:
- Disconnect your computer from the internet
- Disable your virusscanner and firewall
- Install OpenOffice.org
- Enable your firewa
Printing two pages on one sheet is an option from your printerdriver.
So if the driver supports it, you should be able to set it up through
the properties of the printer.
Arnold Huzen
Poul Andersen (2) schreef:
Dear Sirs,
I want to print 2 pages on one sheet. This is an option not
On my OpenOffice.org Draw program, when I insert a text box and pull a
corner slider to expand it, it always expands as a square. I have to
hold down the shift key to get it to expand as a rectangle. It used to
have the opposite behavior. I don't know how this got changed. How can I
change it back?
The tabs at the bottom of the window are the worksheets in the workbook
that you're working on. Every workbook has its own set of sheets. The
standard is 3, but you can add or delete sheets to your own needs.
Arnold Huzen
James G Parsons schreef:
Sirs:
I have one of your OpenOffice CD and
It was not created because there are more than enough e-mail clients
exist already. Creating another one would be waste of effort. Hopefully
OO developers will their energy on more pressing issues.
What is wrong with using existing e-mail client?
> -Original Message-
> From: Giovanni Leo
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:02 am, Giovanni Leone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see that a program to manage email like Outlook has not been
> created! Why?
>
> Are you planning to create it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Giovanni
That is because there are several email clients with which
OpenOffice.org will wor
On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:12 pm, John W. Thompson wrote:
> Today, I received a CD install disk for openOffice 2.0. I am using
> a PowerMac running Panther(OS 10.4.8) and I have 768 megs of DRMM..
> I tried to install openOffice and after I copied it to the
> Applications folder, it would not
I already have word, excel, and access on my pc. if I download the suite so
that I can use your PowerPoint version will the word processing and database
programs conflict with what I have now?
Lisa Craig
Marketing Coordinator
Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation
p. 540-248-6273
f. 540-248-2524
visit our
Hi,
I have trouble downloading Open Office. I have Windows XP and downloaded
Java as it was suggested in the instructions. Because it is such a huge file
and was going to take about 4 hours to download (I have dial-up) I went to bed.
This morning when I checked it, there was absolutely nothi
My son has a project in school using Microsoft publisher. Is any of
your software compatible with this that he could use at home?
THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE
PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient.
If you received this in e
I have an item that was deleted and now every time that I try to use an open
office document, it tries to recover this deleted document and I can not use
my open office.
Please help! While this document recovery is in process, it locks up my
computer and I am unable to use any open office formats.
I'm hoping someone will be able to edit the OpenOffice sourcecode in
order that brochures can be produced in calendar format.
I have this requirement for an annually produced sports program and I
wish to migrate from using MS Publisher as used for several years!
It shouldn't be too hard : I'm
Hi,
I would like to ask which is the size limitation of the openoffice Base
application!
Thank you
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Hello,
I see that a program to manage email like Outlook has not been created! Why?
Are you planning to create it?
Thanks
Giovanni
Hi All,
I would like to know how can i save just the bar chart created in Open
Office Calc in .gif/jpeg/bitmap format. Also i want to save just the bar
chart and not the table.
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
- Deep
Today, I received a CD install disk for openOffice 2.0. I am using a
PowerMac running Panther(OS 10.4.8) and I have 768 megs of DRMM.. I
tried to install openOffice and after I copied it to the Applications
folder, it would not open. The info for installation on a Mac, said
that I would
please help
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I am interested in getting software to replace MS Access. I am currently
using Office Professional 97, which includes Access. However, when I
installed it on my new laptop, Access will not install.
If Base is similar to Access, and can import existing Access tables, I
would like to get it. Please l
This code always works in a VBA client. It sometimes works in
OpenOffice.org Basic.
declare sub HelloWorld lib "c:\dll.dll"
sub calldll
HelloWorld
end sub
dll.dll is the DLL example from Dev-C++, (using gcc).
The error indicates that the DLL did not load. LoadLibrary also fails.
GetLastErr
I have downloaded the new 2.04. I tend to use Openoffice as a basic word
processor getting more exotic only occasionaly. Initially, the automatic Spell
check worked well but now it doesn't.Why? I also loaded this program onto
another computer that has no internet connection. Initially the Spell
Sirs:
I have one of your OpenOffice CD and I think that it is a terrific set of
PC compatible programs. I am now trying to figure out a way to open
multiple spreadsheets and every time try to do that there is a second or
third separate window.. How may I open several spreadsheets so that I may
us
Hi Eike,
Now I got it. I hadn't catched (caught?) that I had to use a column by
column choice. Thank you so much for your friendly help.
Now I can open the .csv files nicely.
And yet I still wonder why figures like 0.34 are rendered right and
2.42wrong, depending upon the whole part being zero
I have tried downloading open office 5 times now. Finally today it is on my
desktop but I cannot open it, the error message is
"The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be
the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or virus."
I cannot uninstall it as it doe
Dear Sirs,
I want to print 2 pages on one sheet. This is an option not yet
available in Open Office, but MS Word has it. When will this option be
available in Open Office?
Best regards
Poul C Andersen
Ericaparken 67 st tv
DK-2820 Gentofte
Denmark
Tel/fax +45 39 67 74 04
James Mckenzie wrote:
>
>>If I am working on important documents, I save them on a regular basis.
>
> I save them on two different machines AND a USB drive. If they are really
> important, they get the DVD treatment. I've learned that one cannot have
> TOO many backups.
>
I send every day m
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>From: Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 27, 2006 11:23 AM
>To: users@openoffice.org
>Cc: Leslie Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [users] Openoffice suck
>
>Leslie Zhang wrote:
>> Hi Mr Laing,
>>
>> You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have le
I just looked at the headers to this message and you are indeed subscribed.
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Sent BLANK message to the users-unsubscribe address with the word unsubscribe
as the subject. Have you tried this? You should get a message asking to
confirm your desire. Check your junk mail
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Actually, the height is one of the options on 'Format / paragraph / drop
caps tab'.
tc
Anthony Chilco wrote:
Hi Matt,
It works for me. I didn't see any effect when I applied the drop caps
to a single line. The first character won't be any taller than the
paragraph. It looks like the max heigh
Hi Matt,
It works for me. I didn't see any effect when I applied the drop caps to
a single line. The first character won't be any taller than the
paragraph. It looks like the max height is three lines.
tc
Matt Needles wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:53 AM [GMT+1=C
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:53 AM [GMT+1=CET], Marshall Feldman <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
The documentation for OOo 2.0.4 says there are two ways to insert
dropped caps:
Choose Format - Paragraph - Drop Caps tab
Choose Format - Styles and Formatting - open
You might find this interesting, then:
Windows 2000 sp4 (fully patched), OOo 2.0.4. I opened a document I had
created many months before with OOo and saved as a Word document. The
printer stored with it lacked the specific font, so the program
substituted, no sweat. I checked the properties, a
I've seen ms crash too
Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Leslie Zhang wrote:
> Hi Mr Laing,
>
> You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the
> mistakes that MS Words is shit, and I on the other hand leant that
> Openoffice is shit too. We all learn from mist
As promised, I tried this functionality on a Windows XP sp2 machine with
OOo 2.0.4 and it worked only partly: if I select the text, it counts the
words, unselected in gives 0's for every count (words and characters,
selected and whole text).
Regards,
Freddy
Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote:
I am ha
James McKenzie wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
[Rant about Microsoft deleted]
I admit that I am anti-Microsoft but that is beside the point on this
list. I have had my headaches with XP-Pro that has kept me on Linux.
FWIW, my wife uses Mac for Work and Linux at home. Won't even
consider Windows eit
Leslie Zhang wrote:
Hi Mr Laing,
You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the
mistakes that MS Words is shit, and I on the other hand leant that
Openoffice is shit too. We all learn from mistakes. Microsoft products
are not perfect, No. Nothing is perfect indeed.
On 23/10/06, rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have the latest version of ooffice installed for FC5
I'm getting this strange problem whereby all the buttons on the taskbar
are absent in ooffice.
Each one ibecomes visible again when the mouse is moved over them.
Is this a KDE thing? Has anyb
Hi is it possible to make a uno package that can be installed or uninstalled
with unopkg, and installes:
socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;
Under
in the file: /share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu
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Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recorded exporting to xhtml. The code is below. I wondered
> whether that was your intention.
Yes, thanks. It also freezes OO, though, I suppose because it uses the
same filter as the menu function, so the bug that makes OO freeze seems
to be an infinite
NeoOffice is another option if X11 is not comfortable:
http://www.neooffice.org/
-Lars
Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OpenOffice.org: Now ISO 26300 Standards Compliant !
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, James McKenzie wrote:
Don't forget to remind your wife that OpenOffice.org is available for
th
Terry wrote:
Hi. Several times a day, it seems, I discover another reason for
staying with 2.0.2.
I've recorded exporting to xhtml. The code is below. I wondered
whether that was your intention.
I stepped back from looking into the StarBasic way of doing this
without the dispatcher but I
Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
Hi Terry,
Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You need to insert something like the following before your line
defining the dispatcher ( dispatcher = etc )
[...]
Thanks for this, it worked. However, it just occurred to me that what I
really wanted to do was to exp
On Friday 27 October 2006 12:53, M. Henri Day wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed information, most of which was new to me, as up to
> the present I have used Word for the majority of the documents that I have
> written. But I should very much like to go over to OOo, and I am grateful
> for all the he
Querido Javier,
Thanks for the detailed information, most of which was new to me, as up to
the present I have used Word for the majority of the documents that I have
written. But I should very much like to go over to OOo, and I am grateful
for all the help I can get ! In this connexion, I should
Hi Terry,
Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
>> How do I substitute the value of this line
>> args1(0).Value = "file:///home/mojo/Desktop/bridge-uge.html"
>> with a modifier that attains my object?
> You need to insert something like the following before your line
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a master document.
> I wanted to have links to subdocuments updated when opening the
> document, without having to answer a dialog box.
> I managed to configure my openoffice "options" to do that and it works.
>
> Now, I have a macro that opens a
Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
>> It's an option that allows part of OO to load at boot up .
>
> I know what it is.
> I was asking what QS can't do do speed up the process even further (in
> the context of MS Office starting much faster).
I don't know the details. However, you have to remember that s
Michele Zarri wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I generally use the "official" releases, but when a feature I am interested
> in has been integrated in the latest developer's snapshot I try it
> immediately. Now in m188 there was the dual monitor support which I really
> needed therefore I have installed it an
On Friday 27 October 2006 12:04 am, Terry wrote:
> Elizabeth Young wrote:
> > Elizabeth Young wrote:
> >> I have just installed Open Office. I am running Windows XP
> >> version 5.1 w/ service pack 2 installed.
> >>
> >> I am trying to create a database using open office base program.
> >>
> >> Thi
I am happy to say that on my Debian unstable and with version 2.04
installed from rpm's and with Sun Java, word count is working for me.
That is, I go to Tools -> Statistics and I have a little window opening
saying the number of words and the number of characters in the selected
area (o if no
M. Henri Day escribió:
Word, as we know,
I for one didn't know ;)
allows one to vary the language against which the
one used in the current document is checked (for both spelling and
grammar) from the toolbar, which is much less cumbersome than
changing the default setting via the path Tools>
2006/10/27, James McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Jeffery:
I found there is an open issue in regards to the usage of this feature
and that it is not fixed. If you would go to the OpenOffice.org
IssueZilla and vote for issue 70534, I did. The more votes, the higher
on the list it moves and this
Word, as we know, allows one to vary the language against which the one used
in the current document is checked (for both spelling and grammar) from the
toolbar, which is much less cumbersome than changing the default setting via
the path Tools>Options>... described my James McKenzie. It would see
Terry wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I have a master document.
I wanted to have links to subdocuments updated when opening the
document, without having to answer a dialog box.
I managed to configure my openoffice "options" to do that and it works.
Now, I have a macro that opens
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