Re: [users] What is the best version that is compatible with Windows ME?

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, December 10, 2006 6:47 PM [GMT+1=CET], Brian Soper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : System Requirements What is the best version to use on Windows ME? Version 2.0.4 doesn't mention that it runs on Windows ME. snip Direct quote

[users] News about MS Office for Mac

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
Slightly off topic, I know, but I thought of interest ... I received the following today from a friend who follows Mac and MS technology rather closely. === begin quote = Todays Developer's seed copy of the new Apple OS Leopard includes importing and exporting documents in Office

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Español

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Hug
I do not think that you can use the same version alternatively in Spanish and in English. I tried to change my French version into English or German. All I was able to obtain was the spell check in these languages. I hope someone else will give you better advice. Marc H. herbert bustamante

Re: [users] Editing OLE object in separate window

2006-12-11 Thread Mathias Bauer
Thomas Chilton wrote: Hi, I have a Write document with a Draw object embedded that I occasionally have to update. Is there any way of getting it to open in a separate Draw window rather than in the Write window itself? I'm using OpenOffice 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 No. Ciao, Mathias --

Re: [users] open office powerpoint

2006-12-11 Thread Guy Voets
2006/12/11, Elisa Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello this is a user of open office powerpoint openoffice.org Impress i was wondering about how to dock the slide pane... -a user Elisa, OOo comes with exhaustive Help files, please consult them. You would find about floating toolbars: • Drag the

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Españo l

2006-12-11 Thread Terry
If you have the language pack installed for another language, I believe you can change the interface to the other language. Language packs may or may not include a dictionary as well. There is just so much waffle around this whole subject that I forget what I'm looking for before I find it.

Re: [users] font question

2006-12-11 Thread Guy Voets
2006/12/11, Mary Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have tried to find information on adding more fonts to Open Office to no avail. Is it possible to add more fonts to Open Office and how is it done? I am running a Mac OS X. Thank you, Mary Miller Hello Mary, There is a wizard for adding new

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Españ ol

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Monday, December 11, 2006 8:38 AM [GMT+1=CET], Marc Hug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think that you can use the same version alternatively in Spanish and in English. I tried to change my French version into English or German. All I was able to obtain was the spell check in these

Re: [users] Can't print documents

2006-12-11 Thread Guy Voets
2006/12/11, Steve Grindey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure which version I am using, how do I tell? I tried to print it using all the different options (Ctrl. P, Print icon, File - Print), but none of them would work. It kept going to the Save As screen when I tried to print. It worked on my

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Españo l

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Hug
Terry, if you find out the way you can obtain to choose the language of the interface, please tell us. I downloaded the Norwegian language pack, and obtained the result that for the interface, Norwegian is now offered. That was not my real purpose. What I wanted was to obtain the choice

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Españo l

2006-12-11 Thread Terry
Marc, Isn't that your answer? If you want the choice of a language for the interface, you have to install that language pack. If you want the choice of several languages, you will need all the relevant language packs, AFAIK. Did you get the Norwegian dictionary with the language pack? I

[users] Australian place names dictionary now available for OpenOffice.org.

2006-12-11 Thread Kelvin Eldridge
Hi, An Australian place names dictionary is now available from the JustLocal website. OpenOffice.org has the ability to have a main dictionary plus additional specific dictionaries. At one stage if I recall correctly, there was a bug which caused this not to work. From the limited testing I

Re: [users] Re: Outlining with OO

2006-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:09 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: No, it's not a matter of missing interest. The problem is that this feature needs a huge amount of work to do. I agree that it is an important feature. But unfortunately there are so many other issues that are important also so that it

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Españ ol

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Monday, December 11, 2006 8:38 AM [GMT+1=CET], Marc Hug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think that you can use the same version alternatively in Spanish and in English. I tried to change my French version into English or German. All I was able to obtain was the spell check in these

[users] Frame Overhangs Page / Tables Can't Wrap

2006-12-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
OOo 2.0.2, OpenSuSE 10.1 I've got a large technical document I maintain in OOo writer. This document makes extensive use of footnotes. The problem is that frames (anchored to paragraphs) are over positioned overhanging the margin of he page, covering the foot notes. I've read a couple of

[users] OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook

2006-12-11 Thread Solveig L Haugland
Hello, I'm writing to mention that like a lot of other big publishers, Prentice Hall has been scaling back the books they're putting out, and they decided a few months ago that they were not going to publish the 2.0 version of my OpenOffice.org book. However, that means that the rights

Re: [users] PDF/A export possible ?

2006-12-11 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Petar Petrov wrote: Hello, We are interested in the OpenOffice document export functionalities and in particular - export to pdf subset - PDF/A by ISO standard 19005-1:2005 . Unfortunatelly I was not able to find any information on this on OpenOffice.org . Do you think such exports are to be

[users] Can't create simple paragraph or header references

2006-12-11 Thread Ivan Krechetov
Hello there. First of all, thanks a lot to everybody involved for making OpenOffice. You rock! Now -- the issue. I am using version 2.0.4 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is: In the Writer document I have headings of sections numbered like this: - 1. Heading1 1.2. Heading2 ... 2.

[users] Chinese character

2006-12-11 Thread Vicky Law
I'm using open office 2.0. I save a file with chinese characters in MS Word 97 format in writer, but all chinese character become ? when it's opened in MS word, how can solve this problem?? Thanks Vicky - To unsubscribe,

[users] Installation problems. Can't find .msi file

2006-12-11 Thread J and A
I keep getting this error message when trying to install the Open Office.org 2.0.4 package. The file C:\Documents and Settings\owner\Desktop\OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files\openoffice.ort20.msi is not a valid installation package for the product Openoffic.org 2.0. Try to find the

[users] Opening odt documents

2006-12-11 Thread Burton Meisner
When I create and save a new document in odt format, I am then unable to open it from my Documents folder on my iMac. I get a dialog that it is not readable, yet I can open it via the recent documents list. Any ideas? - To

[users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Joe Jacobs
Dear Sir / Madam, My daughter is studying at the University College of London and she uses Open Office on her computer. She needs to send me files by email to me in South Africa in Word format so that I can open them on my computer. I cannot open .odt files. Please help. Thank You, Joe

[users] Installing Problem (error 1935)

2006-12-11 Thread Dirk
I downloaded the Open-Office version 2.0.4 and tried to install this on my pc. but i can`t open the file and get this message: The installer you are trying to use is corrupt or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the

[users] OO Questions

2006-12-11 Thread Jamie Fehr
Hi, I have OO Version 2.0.3 and I want to get 2.0.4. Do I have to uninstall my old version and download the new one, or is there an update to avoide that situation? Thank you very much. -- - Jamie Fehr

[users] [moderated]

2006-12-11 Thread STEVE WAHLQUIST
Is the excell program in open office the same as ms excell. My wife uses ms excell at work, she would like to be able to take work home or email it work on it in open office then take it back to work with her. Are there any compatability issues. Thanks

[users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread Camillo Iacoboni
I am very satisfied w/ Open Office instead of MS Office, but wonder about a Calendar? Are there any Open Office or compatible free products that could add Calendar capability?

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

2006-12-11 Thread M. Bailey
Hello, Could you please assist me in learning how to open Microsoft word documents. I am unable to at this time. Thank you Charlotte

[users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread Mustafa
Dear Reader, Do you have a version of OpenOffice for windows Vista? Thanks in advance

[users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread Mustafa
Dear Reader, Can Openoffice be installed on a computer that has MSoffice already installed? So there will be two Office programs at the same time. Thanks in advance

[users] Installing OpenOffice version 2.0

2006-12-11 Thread lucy_gdi
Hello, I just downloaded, unpacked and unzipped my Open Office files. However, when I go to Start Menu, Programs, OpenOffice.org 2.0, and select any of the programs (Write, for example) I get the following error message: The installation source for this product is not available. Verify

Re: [users] [moderated] Unistalling OOo

2006-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i am not a subscriber to this list. CC thank you at least for your reply. you are of course right that my previous email was out of frustration anger and genral dissapointment with open office org. my first complaint was that i had too many clicks to reach the finnal doan load , unpack files

[users] Thank You Re: [users] OS X calc window extends below dock can't resize

2006-12-11 Thread Stan Jewula
On Dec 10, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Guy Voets wrote: 2006/12/9, Stan Jewula [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I opened a spread sheet using calc. The sheet was made in Excel. When it opened it extended below the dock. I can't get to the button to resize it and see my data. Cannot use the slider bar .

Fwd: [users] Install/Uninstall problem

2006-12-11 Thread William Birchall
Harold I know that you are trying to be helpful, but I guess that your real job is not in Customer Relations! The link that you gave me was the following:- Download Central Download OpenOffice.org Version: 2.0.4 (Stable)http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html?focus=download Links -

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Frayer
Joe Jacobs wrote: Dear Sir / Madam, My daughter is studying at the University College of London and she uses Open Office on her computer. She needs to send me files by email to me in South Africa in Word format so that I can open them on my computer. I cannot open .odt files. Please help.

Re: [users] OO Questions

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Frayer
Jamie Fehr wrote: Hi, I have OO Version 2.0.3 and I want to get 2.0.4. Do I have to uninstall my old version and download the new one, or is there an update to avoide that situation? You can download and install OOo 2.0.4 over the 2.0.3 version, if you choose, but there isn't an upgrade

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Hug
Your daughter should save their files in MS Word format (I suppose you use MS Word). Tell her to use Save As MS Word or Save As RTF if she wants to send you the file. - The other solution would be that you download OpenOffice yourself (you can have it for free at http://www.openoffice.org/).

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Hug
In OpenOffice, there is no Excel, but a similar program with name Calc. If the Excel files of your wife are very complex, she could have problems with the conversions between Calc and MS Excel. If they are not, conversion should be satisfactory. Try it. In any case, she will be well advised to

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread Adam Williams
Can Openoffice be installed on a computer that has MSoffice already installed? Yes, of course. So there will be two Office programs at the same time. No, there will be M$-Office and Open Office. Two separate applications.

Re: [users] Installing Problem (error 1935)

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 11 December 2006 06:09 am, Dirk wrote: I downloaded the Open-Office version 2.0.4 and tried to install this on my pc. but i can`t open the file and get this message: The installer you are trying to use is corrupt or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 11 December 2006 11:40 am, Marc Hug wrote: In OpenOffice, there is no Excel, but a similar program with name Calc. If the Excel files of your wife are very complex, she could have problems with the conversions between Calc and MS Excel. If they are not, conversion should be

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

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 11 December 2006 10:16 am, M. Bailey wrote: Hello, Could you please assist me in learning how to open Microsoft word documents. I am unable to at this time. Thank you Charlotte Start OpenOffice.org (OOo). Use File Open, and the browse to the folder containing the document

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:27 pm, Mustafa wrote: Dear Reader, Do you have a version of OpenOffice for windows Vista? Thanks in advance It appears that OpenOffice.org will run on Windows Vista just as it does for Windows XP. Dan

Re: [users] Installing OpenOffice version 2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just downloaded, unpacked and unzipped my Open Office files. However, when I go to Start Menu, Programs, OpenOffice.org 2.0, and select any of the programs (Write, for example) I get the following error message: The

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread James Knott
Mustafa wrote: Dear Reader, Can Openoffice be installed on a computer that has MSoffice already installed? So there will be two Office programs at the same time. Yes, you can have both installed. However, when you install OpenOffice, make sure of your choice for whichever program

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread James Knott
Joe Jacobs wrote: Dear Sir / Madam, My daughter is studying at the University College of London and she uses Open Office on her computer. She needs to send me files by email to me in South Africa in Word format so that I can open them on my computer. I cannot open .odt files. Please help.

Re: [users] [moderated] Unistalling OOo

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 10 December 2006 10:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not a subscriber to this list. CC thank you at least for your reply. you are of course right that my previous email was out of frustration anger and genral dissapointment with open office org. my first complaint was that i had

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Benton Greene
Joe- Your daughter can easily save her OpenOffice files as Word files by selecting Microsoft Word format from the menu on the save window. Bear in mind that even though they can now be read with Microsoft Word, they might have a few formatting issues if the documents are format intensive

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

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Hug
I suppose you try to open them with OpenOffice. Normally these documents should be opened without special intervention, or you might have to indicate that files with the *.doc extension have to be opened with OpenOffice. (Use the options at File Types) Marc H. M. Bailey a écrit : Hello,

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 11 December 2006 12:38 am, Joe Jacobs wrote: Dear Sir / Madam, My daughter is studying at the University College of London and she uses Open Office on her computer. She needs to send me files by email to me in South Africa in Word format so that I can open them on my computer. I

Re: Fwd: [users] Install/Uninstall problem

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 11 December 2006 04:25 am, William Birchall wrote: Harold I know that you are trying to be helpful, but I guess that your real job is not in Customer Relations! The link that you gave me was the following:- Download Central snip Can you please indicate which of these I need to

Re: [users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:04 pm, Camillo Iacoboni wrote: I am very satisfied w/ Open Office instead of MS Office, but wonder about a Calendar? Are there any Open Office or compatible free products that could add Calendar capability? I am not sure what you mean by calendar capability?

Re: [users] Install/Uninstall problem

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
Top post. William, Sorry but I am really confused by your message. I gave you three links: 1. The first is http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/md5sums.html This gives the correct MD5 sum for a longish list of different files, which it names. You need to identify the name of the file you

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Arnold Huzen
Joe, I think Dan gave you the best answer. Your daughter should use the option to send the document as MS-Word attachment (FileSendSend as Microsoft Word). This way she doesn't have to store unneeded copies of all the documents she sends to you. Alternatively you could install OpenOffice

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Español

2006-12-11 Thread NSP Ciudad Madero
You need to download the language pack.(thesaurus dictionary also) Saludos, Roberto herbert bustamante escribió: Yo quise descargar el openoffice en español, sin embargo se descargo en ingles, a pesar que decia en español. ¿como puedo cambiarlo a español? Herbert Bustamante L. Av. linea

Re: [users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread george palfi
I am sure that he is looking for the one thing missing in the non-Microsoft world - a good equivalent for Outlook, with all its capabilities. Something that runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux. George - Original Message From: Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Cc:

Re: [users] Re: Outlining with OO

2006-12-11 Thread Mathias Bauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:09 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: No, it's not a matter of missing interest. The problem is that this feature needs a huge amount of work to do. I agree that it is an important feature. But unfortunately there are so many other issues that are

[users] Mac Problems using Sheet: Pasting Special seems link-dependent and cannot sort

2006-12-11 Thread James Busser
Hi, Using OpenOffice (Sheet) I am trying to copy a grid (14 columns x 13 rows) of information from an Excel (Mac) spreadsheet and Paste Special (just the values) into another Excel(Mac) spreadsheet. The data includes calculated results, dates, text strings. I want to Paste Special in

Re: [users] Password protecting in Base

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 4 2006 05:07, + eVak . wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am using version 2.0.4 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : How do I password protect an OpenOffice.org Base document? I saw that you can password protect in other OpenOffice.org products like Writer and

Re: [users] Writer, Autocorrect, Word Completion - how does it collect words?!!

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 4 2006 06:57, + Phoenix LAN Admin wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello. I just have discovered that word completion has collected very interesting collection of words. The question is - how it does this? Word completeion is mostly based on the words in your

Re: [users] OpenOffice files on Internet Explorer

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 4 2006 18:24, + Sue Powers-Bellew wrote: Hi, We have posted some .xls files on a server for people in our company to download use as templates. However, when they click on the download ( the PC is set to automatically open downloaded files) they get a broken link. Is

Re: [users] postcards for all contacts?

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 4 2006 19:32, fikin wrote: hi, for several years i wanted to print all my chistmas cards automatically out of contacts in evolution. if you happen to know any such work, even remotely related, i'd be happy to hear about. meantime i'd consider doing it myself. - could you

Re: [users] OO 2.0 Spreadsheet graphing is vastly different than with Excel. How can I get the same graphs?

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 5 2006 03:32, + William W. Plummer wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Please explain the type of graphs you are trying to get. Also note that the graphing and charting component is being completely rewritten and should be available in the 2.2 release ( I hope).

Re: [users] Fiancial tools free of Charge

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 6 2006 10:56, + M. Brodmann wrote: Ladies an gentlemen, I have developed some financial tools in Lotus 123, which i would put at the disposal of openoffice. These tools might make pocket calculators obsolate. I Hi max, This sounds interesting. Can you give us more details ?

Re: [users] Using 2.0.3 - Need to know how to add additional fonts

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 7 2006 04:02, + wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** A part of my new website and stationery is the business name in Little Lord Fontleroy font and since I want to use Open Office exclusively, I need to know how to add additional fonts. They are in the Windows

Re: [users] Print layout problem - postscript generation issue

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 6 2006 11:31, Florent Sabourin wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem when I try to print on my Samsung-ML-2570 under linux (Debian). I am using the postscript driver provided by Samsung. When I print a document (writer, calc ...) it comes out with the bottom left corner of

Re: [users] new Mac without X11

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu December 7 2006 21:00, + Paul Adams wrote: Hi, I just bought a Mac (MacBook Pro with Intel processor) that runs OS X ( 10.4.8). I tried downloading Open Office (the latest stable version) for Macs. When I tried to install it, it said that X11 was not installed. I downloaded

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Joe Jacobs
Thanks Dan, Copying to my daughter, Best, Joe. - Original Message - From: Arnold Huzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ? Joe, I think Dan gave you the best

Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ?

2006-12-11 Thread Joe Jacobs
Thanks Dan, Copying to my daughter. Shalom, Joe Jacobs. - Original Message - From: Dan Lewis To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Joe Jacobs ; sheera jacobs Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [users] To convert .odt files to Word files ? On Monday 11

[users] Error in version2.0.4

2006-12-11 Thread David Phillips
Hi, Ive recently downloaded open office, Im really enjoying using it but every time i save a document(in all of the office programs) i get the error below. It don't know what this means,being a bit of a computer dunce. i have removed, downloaded a new copy from the official website and the

Fwd: [users] Install/Uninstall problem

2006-12-11 Thread William Birchall
Harold I thought that I was supposed to download the MD5 calulator program. I am still unsure where that is downloaded from. I understood that when I had downloaded this it would establish whether my download was the correct one or not. Regards Bill -- Forwarded message --

[users] OpenOffice Program

2006-12-11 Thread Suzanne George Darling
Hi, I have installed the above product. The feature Insert-video is not hilited. How can I get that feature? Thanks Suzanne Darling

Re: [users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread Camillo Iacoboni
We are seeking to use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office, but know of no way to retain features of the Outlook Calendar (ability to Create new Appointment, automatically adding it to personal calendar, and nice-to-have but not need-to-have features such as being able to email any appointment

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Mon December 11 2006 05:26, + Mustafa wrote: Dear Reader, Can Openoffice be installed on a computer that has MSoffice already installed? So there will be two Office programs at the same time. Yes. Please reply to users@openoffice.org only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe

Re: [users] cant open a file

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 2 2006 00:13, + john wrote: Hi have a problem opening a file created by Open office 1 which nI nolonger have as I updated to Open office two and it wont open .any suggestions? What is the exact errror messages ? Which version of 2.0 are you using ? ( 2.0.4 is the latest ).

Re: [users] Assembly for .NET - using Oo Calc

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri December 1 2006 23:13, Lukáš Holota wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi, I am developing new application and I want it to support Oo Calc format, but I do not know if there is some assembly (dll file) to access Oo calc files from .net (or any other platform) and how to

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

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat December 2 2006 20:29, Michael A Breaux wrote: Hello, Is there a way to concert Microsoft works over to open office? As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sat December 2 2006 23:44, Arnold Huzen wrote: You need to convert them to MS Office before you can read them

Re: [users] OpenOffice will not install

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun December 3 2006 00:30, + Beecher Lamb wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am using a Mac PowerBook G4 (PPC) running OSX. I have made sure that latest version of X11User.dmg for my non-intel mac is installed in the Applications/Utilities folder and seems to be running

Re: [users] True Alphanumeric sort

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue December 5 2006 01:37, + Amalia Elena wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** A friend suggested I try OpenOffice.org to be able to do a true alpha numeric sort that I am not able to do in Excel. I am not sure how to do that. Using the icons at the top of the browser window, I

Re: [users] X11 installed on Mac iBook4 Open Office starts but menu doesn't show any applications

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed December 6 2006 02:51, + Rayad HTM wrote: [ MODERATED ] First of all, I really like using O/O on my Linux and Windows systems. Good job guys. I am using the version on the site as of today's date (December 5, 2006). I followed in the instructions on the website,

Re: [users] Mac Problems using Sheet: Pasting Special seems link-dependent and cannot sort

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
Please do *not* start a new question by replying to an old one as this causes several problems: 1) most email software will correctly think that your email is a response to the email you are replying to, and will indicate this by displaying your email as a child of the original email 2) because

Re: [users] cambiar de idioma, del ingles al Español

2006-12-11 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun December 10 2006 21:45, + herbert bustamante wrote: [ MODERATED ] Yo quise descargar el openoffice en español, sin embargo se descargo en ingles, a pesar que decia en español. ¿como puedo cambiarlo a español? As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that:

RE: [users] Opening odt documents

2006-12-11 Thread Sartor, Nick
I believe you have to associate the ODT with Openoffice. Click on the file in the finder and hit APPLE I that will bring up the info window. There should be an open with section, open that up and select open office. Also in that section there's a button that says do this for all or similar. That

Re: [users] re Openoffice 2.04

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Barton
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:27 -0600, g kelly wrote: Hi; Just a quick question. I noted that OpenOffice 2.0 has upgraded to 2.0.4.. I went to download the newer ver., but noted it was for Windows 2000 etc.. . I have Win 98se , me. Does this mean it will not work with my OS?

Re: [users] re Openoffice 2.04

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Frayer
g kelly wrote: Hi; Just a quick question. I noted that OpenOffice 2.0 has upgraded to 2.0.4.. I went to download the newer ver., but noted it was for Windows 2000 etc.. . I have Win 98se , me. Does this mean it will not work with my OS? Assuming the rest of the computer (processor,

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread John Boyle
To Users and Dan: I wish it would sabotage MSFT, just as MSFT is trying to sabotage Linux! Dan Lewis wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:27 pm, Mustafa wrote: Dear Reader, Do you have a version of OpenOffice for windows Vista? Thanks in advance It appears that

Re: [users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread Adam Williams
I am sure that he is looking for the one thing missing in the non-Microsoft world - a good equivalent for Outlook, with all its capabilities. OpenOffice interoperates well with M$-Outlook. Something that runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux. I don't believe any such thing exists, nor will

Re: [users] Install/Uninstall problem

2006-12-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
Top post because that's how the OP wants things ... Bill, Yes, you are supposed to download the MD5 checker program *and run it*. Go to the first link I gave you. Click Instructions for using MD5 sums. Click Windows (you are using Windows so that's what you want). You will find two

Re: [users] Enquiry

2006-12-11 Thread web kracked
I ran MS's Vista Upgrade Advisor, a free download and The package did not indicate any problems with any of my open source software, including Open Office 2.0.4 Please go to Microsoft and download the Upgrade Advisor and see for yourself. - Original Message - From: John Boyle [EMAIL

Re: [users] Mac Problems using Sheet: Pasting Special seems link-dependent and cannot sort

2006-12-11 Thread Terry
James Busser wrote: Hi, Using OpenOffice (Sheet) I am trying to copy a grid (14 columns x 13 rows) of information from an Excel (Mac) spreadsheet and Paste Special (just the values) into another Excel(Mac) spreadsheet. The data includes calculated results, dates, text strings. I want to

Re: [users] PDF/A export possible ?

2006-12-11 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Petar Petrov wrote: Hello, We are interested in the OpenOffice document export functionalities and in particular - export to pdf subset - PDF/A by ISO standard 19005-1:2005 . Unfortunatelly I was not able to find any information on this on OpenOffice.org . Do you think such exports are to be

[users] Zeroday Windows Flaw

2006-12-11 Thread Rohan Holmes
Hey I am using open office 2.0.4 and I was wondering all with all these Microsoft Word flaws do any of these affect open office in any kind of way? any help on this would be much appreciated Thanks

RE: [users] re Openoffice 2.04

2006-12-11 Thread g kelly
Thank you! I was sure. G. Kelly Subject: Re: [users] re Openoffice 2.04 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:17:56 +1100 On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:27 -0600, g kelly wrote: Hi;Just a quick question.I noted that

Re: [users] OO 2.0 Spreadsheet graphing is vastly different than with Excel. How can I get the same graphs?

2006-12-11 Thread William W. Plummer
I'll be happy to send you the spreadsheet that shows the problems. Let me know. Every time I pay a utility bill, I add it to the spreadsheet. There are columns that have the (monthly) cost and the monthly usage. I do this for heat (cooking) gas, electricity, water, cable, etc. There are

Re: [users] Calendar Capability?

2006-12-11 Thread george palfi
more's the pity. while Outlook does not really have much to do with the other office functionalities, its lack is one of the major items stopping people moving from MS Office. If you want Outlook, you've bought MS Office. - Original Message From: Adam Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[users] Re: Can I use OO to modify Access 2000 tables within an .mdb?

2006-12-11 Thread Kelvin Eldridge
Jim Smith jimsmith at shaw.ca writes: OK, thanks very much for this info. I'll get a copy of Access 2000. Thanks again and Merry Xmas all. Jim Smith Arnold Huzen wrote: Jim, The replies you received from James and Marc were not quite accurate. You can open and edit Access

Re: [users] Re: Playing video in OO Impress

2006-12-11 Thread Terry
Terry wrote: Terry wrote: Peter Payzant wrote: I'm using OOo 2.0 on Linux. The Insert/Object/Video menu item is greyed out. There is also an Insert/Movie and Sound menu item. When I use this to insert a file named xxx.mp4 or xxx.wmv there is a pause, and then I get an error message saying

Re: [users] [moderated] Unistalling OOo

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Barton
Just to add a little to Dan's previous reply. On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 05:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not a subscriber to this list. CC Thanks for that. This is a busy list and this makes it a bit easier to identify non-subscribed users. thank you at least for your reply. Your

[users] Re: Installation problems. Can't find .msi file

2006-12-11 Thread GregChi
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:03:26 -0500, J and A wrote: I keep getting this error message when trying to install the Open Office.org 2.0.4 package. The file C:\Documents and Settings\owner\Desktop\OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files\openoffice.ort20.msi is not a valid installation package for

Re: [users] Re: Installation problems. Can't find .msi file

2006-12-11 Thread Terry
GregChi wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:03:26 -0500, J and A wrote: I keep getting this error message when trying to install the Open Office.org 2.0.4 package. The file C:\Documents and Settings\owner\Desktop\OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files\openoffice.ort20.msi is not a valid

[sw-users] Paragraph indents and backspace.

2006-12-11 Thread William Alan Yamada
This is not an indent specific behavior. If you have two paragraphs A and B, backspace at the start of B will join A and B by preserving the attributes of B. Delete at the end of A will join A and B, using the attributes of A for the joined paragraph. In your scenario, the first backspace

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