Re: [users] Joomla

2006-12-01 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Does anyone have any experience or comments in regards FileZilla? The main reason I am considering switching from Dreamweaver to FileZilla is that other Volunteers can backup me up and do the posting to the server. Pete Holsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Terry wrote: > Walter Hildebrandt wrot

Re: [users] How Do I Uninstall OO?

2006-12-01 Thread Terry
George Thomson wrote: Have been using OO now for a week. I like the program and have had no problems until today. Suddenly I'm getting a gray screen. Only way to get rid of it is to restart. I would like to uninstall and start over. How do I accomplish that? Can't find any info on the home site.

Re: [users] Joomla

2006-12-01 Thread Pete Holsberg
Terry wrote: Walter Hildebrandt wrote: I am involved with the website www.tutorialsforopenoffice.orgFiles in the OpenOffice format do a "Save As" to the HTML format. The HTML file is posted on our website using Dreamweaver. A Volunteer has suggested we use Joomla which is an open source

Re: [users] How Do I Uninstall OO?

2006-12-01 Thread George Thomson
Sorry! Forgot to mention I have a MacBook (Intel) running OS Tiger. On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:52:31 -0500, "Alan Frayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > George Thomson wrote: > > Have been using OO now for a week. I like the program and have had no > > problems until today. Suddenly I'm getting a gray sc

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread jimw wagner
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Friday, December 01, 2006 5:55 PM [GMT+1=CET], jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never mind. I found the answer. Thanks anyway JimW Are you going to keep it secret? Click beside the bar, float it to the text window, then hit the "Cancel" button at the end o

Re: [users] How Do I Uninstall OO?

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Frayer
George Thomson wrote: Have been using OO now for a week. I like the program and have had no problems until today. Suddenly I'm getting a gray screen. Only way to get rid of it is to restart. I would like to uninstall and start over. How do I accomplish that? Can't find any info on the home site.

[users] How Do I Uninstall OO?

2006-12-01 Thread George Thomson
Have been using OO now for a week. I like the program and have had no problems until today. Suddenly I'm getting a gray screen. Only way to get rid of it is to restart. I would like to uninstall and start over. How do I accomplish that? Can't find any info on the home site. George -- George Tho

Re: [users] Re: PDF font embedding

2006-12-01 Thread web kracked
OK will try it, since I have not looked very deeply into all of the options of OOo - Original Message - From: "Ross Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: PDF font embedding web kracked wrote: Next thing I would need is to

[users] Problems with online Help

2006-12-01 Thread Geoffrey Rabe
Hi - I've downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 on my MacBook, but it doesn't seem to have any Help with it. When I select OpenOffice Help from the Help menu, I get the error message that it's not installed on my computer. I went ahead and downloaded the *OpenOffice.org2.x User Guide *(

Re: [users] Re: PDF font embedding

2006-12-01 Thread Ross Johnson
web kracked wrote: Next thing I would need is to find the "multi-page article" functions of Pagemaker within OOo so I can dump Pagemaker for the newsletters I need to produce in PDF If by multi-page article, you mean, e.g. intro on page 1 and continued on page 3, then this is done with linked f

Re: [users] Joomla

2006-12-01 Thread Terry
Walter Hildebrandt wrote: I am involved with the website www.tutorialsforopenoffice.orgFiles in the OpenOffice format do a "Save As" to the HTML format. The HTML file is posted on our website using Dreamweaver. A Volunteer has suggested we use Joomla which is an open source Content Manag

Re: [users] Mac PowerPC Installation Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Detwiler
Ward Larkin wrote: I downloaded OOo for the Macintosh PowerPC a couple of weeks ago, and I received no error messages with the suggested (ie. non-custom) installation. The problem is I can't figure out how to use OpenOffice Base OpenOffice Calc OpenOffice Draw OpenOffice Math OpenOffice Impr

[users] Mac PowerPC Installation Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Ward Larkin
I downloaded OOo for the Macintosh PowerPC a couple of weeks ago, and I received no error messages with the suggested (ie. non-custom) installation. The problem is I can't figure out how to use OpenOffice Base OpenOffice Calc OpenOffice Draw OpenOffice Math OpenOffice Impress I can only u

Re: [users] Re: PDF font embedding

2006-12-01 Thread web kracked
I am glad that OOo's PDF system had fonts embedded by default Getting Acrobat's print driver to do so is not as straight forward Next thing I would need is to find the "multi-page article" functions of Pagemaker within OOo so I can dump Pagemaker for the newsletters I need to produce in PDF ---

[users] Joomla

2006-12-01 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
I am involved with the website www.tutorialsforopenoffice.orgFiles in the OpenOffice format do a "Save As" to the HTML format. The HTML file is posted on our website using Dreamweaver. A Volunteer has suggested we use Joomla which is an open source Content Management System. Does anyone h

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Friday, December 01, 2006 5:55 PM [GMT+1=CET], jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never mind. I found the answer. Thanks anyway JimW Are you going to keep it secret? Harold Fuchs London, England - To unsubscribe

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 01 December 2006 11:45 am, jimw wagner wrote: > Dan Lewis wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: > >> I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I > >> want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them > >> float). How d

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread jimw wagner
jimw wagner wrote: Dan Lewis wrote: On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them float). How do I enable this? Pramathesh Have you tri

[users] Re: PDF font embedding

2006-12-01 Thread Tony
"Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Are fonts embedded by default in PDFs generated by Writer etc? Can I >> control this, and if so, how? > > Fonts are embedded except the 14 PDF standard fonts: Times, Helvetica, > Courier (each roman,

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread jimw wagner
Dan Lewis wrote: On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them float). How do I enable this? Pramathesh Have you tried the advice in He

[users] Re: DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread Joe Smith
Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them float). How do I enable this? Short answer: you can't. You can inactivate a toolbar using View > Toolbars: if the toolbar has no check-mar

Re: [users] pdf's from MS Publisher

2006-12-01 Thread Harold Fuchs
Original Message From: Mary J. Clark To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:20 PM Subject: [users] pdf's from MS Publisher > I've been using Open Office to create pdf's from Word documents. Is > it possible from a Publisher document? One way is to install a virtual

Re: [users] pdf's from MS Publisher

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’ve been using Open Office to create pdf’s from Word documents. Is it possible from a Publisher document? Mary J. Clark Assistant Administrator Good Shepherd School 603.664.2742 ext 100 OpenOffice is not able to open Publisher

[users] pdf's from MS Publisher

2006-12-01 Thread Mary J. Clark
I've been using Open Office to create pdf's from Word documents. Is it possible from a Publisher document? Mary J. Clark Assistant Administrator Good Shepherd School 603.664.2742 ext 100

RE: [users] Re: Windows Vista

2006-12-01 Thread Schultz, Gary - COMM
To those looking at a Linux alternative to windows that has the latest OpenOffice 2 package I would recommend PCLinuxOS (www.pclinuxos.com). I have used many Linux distros which include Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mepis, DreamLinux and a few others. In my opinion PCLinuxOS is the best all around dist

Re: [users] manual form design

2006-12-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 01 December 2006 06:38 am, Steve wrote: > Can you give me a reference to a Base document speaking about the > manual form design? > > Thanks for your help. > > Steve How manual do you want it to be? Using the wizard, you can choose which fields you want in the form. At the end of t

Re: [users] Text to Column converter in Open office CAlc

2006-12-01 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Ram, There is a macro available that will add that function to calc. Sorry that I can't point you directly to it. If you search www.openoffice.org for 'macros', you should be able to find it. The file that contains the macro has instructions for adding the macro to your setup. tc You appe

Re: [users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote: > I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I > want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them > float). How do I enable this? > Pramathesh Have you tried the advice in Help. Enter toolbars i

RE: [users] How can I install site-packages into the built-in Python for OOo

2006-12-01 Thread Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth
Thanks for the response, I'll give that a try. Thank You, Mike Elkevizth -Original Message- From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:18 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] How can I install site-packages into the built-in Python for OOo Data

Re: [users] Summary of your work and link to web site

2006-12-01 Thread Guy Voets
2006/11/30, Des Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there, I am hoping to roll out low spec, recycled/refurbished computers for school pupils and non-sophisticated computer users, using Open Office and other free and open source software. Do you have any information I can include on my web site th

[users] DOCKED TOOLBARS

2006-12-01 Thread Pramathesh Ambasta
I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them float). How do I enable this? Pramathesh - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] manual form design

2006-12-01 Thread Terry
Steve wrote: Can you give me a reference to a Base document speaking about the manual form design? Thanks for your help. Steve No. But two places to look for information are: http://documentation.openoffice.org./ http://dba.openoffice.org/ Cheers. -- Xfce on PCLinuxOS, OOo 2.0.2 (en_GB)

Re: [users] PDF font embedding

2006-12-01 Thread Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany
Tony wrote: Are fonts embedded by default in PDFs generated by Writer etc? Can I control this, and if so, how? Fonts are embedded except the 14 PDF standard fonts: Times, Helvetica, Courier (each roman, bold, italic and bold-italic), ZapfDingbats and Symbol. There is no further control abo

[users] manual form design

2006-12-01 Thread Steve
Can you give me a reference to a Base document speaking about the manual form design? Thanks for your help. Steve - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Shortcut bar

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amanda Benninger wrote: Is there a shortcut bar with this program as there was with microsoft office, as I know a few people like the shortcut bar, I was wondering if your program had one as well Copy to unsubscribed orignial poster I suspect the Quickstarter serves

Re: [users] Shortcut bar

2006-12-01 Thread Doug Thompson
Amanda Benninger wrote: Is there a shortcut bar with this program as there was with microsoft office, as I know a few people like the shortcut bar, I was wondering if your program had one as well Copy to unsubscribed orignial poster I suspect the Quickstarter serves the purpose you're asking

[users] Re: How to display paths to linked images in draw or impress

2006-12-01 Thread Kjell Lindbo
"Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:38 am, Kjell Lindbo wrote: >> Hi! >> >> A draw/impress question: >> >> I tend to get a "million" linked images in my documents. From time >> to time I loose track on were the files ares

Re: [users] How can I install site-packages into the built-in Python for OOo

2006-12-01 Thread Terry
Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth wrote: Hi, I would like to start using OOo in my organization to replace my Excel VBA that I am currently using to create reports based on information in a .csv file. I would like to hold the data in a MySQL database instead of the .csv file also. In order t

Re: [users] TXT to XLS

2006-12-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Eric Wood wrote: > Mathias Bauer wrote: >> The problem of this issue: *every* text file is a "delimited" file. It >> is (nearly?) impossible to differentiate between a "delimited" and a >> "normal" text file. So the result would be that Calc opened nearly every >> text file. In this case I think t