Re: [users] hot keys for special characters

2007-01-02 Thread TerryJ
DougT wrote: > > Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Is there a way to assign keyboard shortcuts for special characters? >> >> Thanks, >> Abu Adam >> > > I don't believe you can assign shortcut keys to individual special > characters. However, you can assign a shortcut to bring

Re: [users] OpenOffice Writer Mail Merge E-mail

2007-01-02 Thread James Mckenzie
Livio: Please file an issue at Issue Tracker for this problem. This will require research and a possible fix. James McKenzie Mac OS X QA Testing Coordinator -Original Message- >From: Lívio Cipriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 2, 2007 12:00 PM >To: users@openoffice.org >Subject: [us

[users] Re: problem with Ooo Mac version

2007-01-02 Thread CarlP
Ross Bernheim wrote: On Dec 29, 2006, at 22:39, Ravindra Holalkere wrote: James, At some point, it will become more valuable to have your time than money and you will buy more memory. I think I'm at that point now :) Guess memory is the only solution; and since you haven't commented on

Re: [users] Unable to apply template.

2007-01-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 5:08 pm, Dean Montgomery wrote: > Students are not able to apply some openoffice templates to their > current presentation. When they click on the "Available for Use" > background that they want to use, the thumbnail preview disappears > and their presentation background

Re: [users] [moderated] Installing OpenOffice

2007-01-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Anthony L Lorentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Windows XP Shaun McDonald wrote: On 26 Dec 2006, at 04:42, Anthony L Lorentsen wrote: Do I need to uninstall the previous version when intalling a new No. A newer 2.x version will overwrite a

Re: [users] Date format in Calc

2007-01-02 Thread Donald H Locker
Might I suggest putting dates in as 13 jun 07 (even 13jun7 works,) thereby obviating any ambiguity about which field is the month. I just tried it in 2.1/Solaris10 and it works here. Donald. Dan Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 2:23 pm, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: I've formatted a column

[users] Unable to apply template.

2007-01-02 Thread Dean Montgomery
Students are not able to apply some openoffice templates to their current presentation. When they click on the "Available for Use" background that they want to use, the thumbnail preview disappears and their presentation background does not change. See the following screenshot which shows seve

Re: [users] OpenOffice Writer Mail Merge E-mail

2007-01-02 Thread Lívio Cipriano
On 2 January 2007 19:47, Dan Lewis wrote: >      What you should have is > Name:  Livio Cipriano > Email:   "Livio Cipriano"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well.. it works exactly as you write it... when I fill Name : Lívio Cipriano Email : Livio Cipriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the messa

Re: [users] Installing open office...

2007-01-02 Thread Guy Voets
2007/1/2, Joao Varandas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I have exactly the same problem Geoff described. I'm running osx 10.4.8 , PPC G4 1.5Ghz. And spotlight points to nowhere except the dmg and pkg of the x11 that I've downloaded but couldn't install. It's like the computer thinks it's installed

Re: [users] Date format in Calc

2007-01-02 Thread Guy Voets
2007/1/2, Alex Zachopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've formatted a column in a Calc .ods file to contain dates in DD/MM/ format. What happens, unfortunately, is that if I enter a date for up to the 12th of any month, Calc formats it as MM/DD/. Example: I want to enter June 13, 2007, so I

Re: [users] Date format in Calc

2007-01-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 2:23 pm, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: > I've formatted a column in a Calc .ods file to contain dates in > DD/MM/ format. What happens, unfortunately, is that if I enter > a date for up to the 12th of any month, Calc formats it as > MM/DD/. > > Example: I want to enter

Re: [users] hot keys for special characters

2007-01-02 Thread DougT
Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to assign keyboard shortcuts for special characters? Thanks, Abu Adam I don't believe you can assign shortcut keys to individual special characters. However, you can assign a shortcut to bring up the special characters selection table.

[users] Date format in Calc

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
I've formatted a column in a Calc .ods file to contain dates in DD/MM/ format. What happens, unfortunately, is that if I enter a date for up to the 12th of any month, Calc formats it as MM/DD/. Example: I want to enter June 13, 2007, so I type in the cell: "13/6/07" or even "13/6".

Re: [users] [moderated] Installing OpenOffice

2007-01-02 Thread Anthony L Lorentsen
Windows XP Shaun McDonald wrote: > > > On 26 Dec 2006, at 04:42, Anthony L Lorentsen wrote: > >> Do I need to uninstall the previous version when intalling a new one? > Which OS do you use? > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > >

Re: [users] OpenOffice Writer Mail Merge E-mail

2007-01-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 1:00 pm, Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using OO 2.0.4 and I setup the Writer Mail Merger E-mail > Dialogue with my Name (Lívio Cipriano), E-Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), > etc. But when the e-mail arrives to the receivers, in the From > field, only my e-mail ([EMAIL PRO

Re: [users] Re: OOO is great, now what about Outlook and Windows Mobile synch

2007-01-02 Thread Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy
Thanks for the help. I think I need to stick to Outlook for now. Hopefully there will be a way to synch Thunderbird with Windows Mobile 2005 Outlook in the future, or even put Thunderbird on the handheld. This is really important for completing the office solution. Abu Adam -

[users] hot keys for special characters

2007-01-02 Thread Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy
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Re: [users] problem with Ooo Mac version

2007-01-02 Thread Ross Bernheim
On Dec 29, 2006, at 22:39, Ravindra Holalkere wrote: James, At some point, it will become more valuable to have your time than money and you will buy more memory. I think I'm at that point now :) Guess memory is the only solution; and since you haven't commented on the Fonts, I guess, tha

Re: [users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Barbara Duprey
Thanks so much for all the help! I'm glad I wasn't just seeing things ;-) Really impressed by this experience, it's really an eye-opener after the usual kind of "support" from commercial apps. - Original Message - From: "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2

[users] OpenOffice Writer Mail Merge E-mail

2007-01-02 Thread Lívio Cipriano
Hi, I'm using OO 2.0.4 and I setup the Writer Mail Merger E-mail Dialogue with my Name (Lívio Cipriano), E-Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), etc. But when the e-mail arrives to the receivers, in the From field, only my e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) appears, instead of my Name and E-mail (Livio Cipriano <

[users] Import HTML into an Impress presentation

2007-01-02 Thread mark shanaman
Hi, I just downloaded OpenOffice 2.1, and I tried to import an HTML file into a presentation slide: a) Insert -> File b) select foo.html c) I then get a dialog with the title "Insert Text" d) click OK --- the text content from the HTML gets added, but all HTML formatting is lost. In Powerpoint,

Re: [users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Barbara Duprey wrote: Thanks, Peter. Nope, I'm used to screen rendering problems and that's not it. The problem often only shows up when I'm opening the document again to start a new session, and I can page back and forth all over the document and it's still there when I look again. I haven't

[users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Joe Smith
Barbara Duprey wrote: ... The graphics were created in a separate program and inserted using the clipboard. Ok. They should be unscaled then. I can force this to happen, as in the attached excerpt, by adding enough blank lines somewhere before the table to force a repagination. It seems to b

Re: [users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Barbara Duprey
Interesting! I can't really remember doing any rescaling once the image was in the table -- maybe one of them after the behavior had already showed up. The graphics were created in a separate program and inserted using the clipboard. I can force this to happen, as in the attached excerpt, by a

[users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Joe Smith
In a quick try to reproduce your document from your description, I had no problems, using both 2.0.2 and 2.0.4, until... I modified the size of the graphic. I.e. the original image was ~2" high at the default size, then I scaled it down to about 60% of that size, and I began to see problems sim

Re: [users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Barbara Duprey
Thanks, Peter. Nope, I'm used to screen rendering problems and that's not it. The problem often only shows up when I'm opening the document again to start a new session, and I can page back and forth all over the document and it's still there when I look again. I haven't had the same thing hap

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! For the 1.question. Just like in Excel select row below headings and under Window chose Freeze. For the 2.question. First of all text formatting capabilities in openoffice.org calc are much better than in excel, even in new versions. I don't think it is possible to easily change background

Re: [users] JDBC: Communications Link Failure Due to Underlying Exception

2007-01-02 Thread Roland Bouman
Hi Thomas, Thomas Ronayne wrote: > > I've trying to, using the data base wizard, set up a MySQL connection. > > I have, apparently, successfully set up the JDBC connection (Test class > reports that the JDBC driver was loaded successfully). > Ok - so I'm assuming that you verified that the

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread David Potter
Hi, Thank you both for your help. Fixing column headings is solved. I've used the Window>Freeze solution. I think this is how I did it in Excel, but 11 years is a long time for the aging memory. For the other item, I've found both icons I described when I searched on Background in the Hel

Re: [users] Converting PDF's to Something that can be imported into OOo

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 01:11 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > Solid Converter PDF > > > > Not free, but very capable. > > > > Douglas Hinds > > Thanks. But all I need is a way to convert from postscript to eps. Solid > Converter appears to work only on windows (not really clear on the web > site)

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:37 AM [GMT+1=CET], Kirill S. Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Format, Print Ranges, Edit, "Rows to repeat". 2. You need button that has "ab" on it with a marker and yellow coloring. It might be not visible, so you need to show it via View, Toolbars, Customi

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:53 AM [GMT+1=CET], TerryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harold Fuchs-3 wrote: On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:20 AM [GMT+1=CET], david potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a need to use spreadshe

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread TerryJ
Harold Fuchs-3 wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:20 AM [GMT+1=CET], david potter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a >> need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version >> of Open Office. G

Re: [users] Big tables slow to open

2007-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a) The document is very simple : only one large table (13830 rows) ; no graphic, link, field nor section in the document. b) This is not a OS resource issue : enough memory, no hard drive or network access, no conflict with an other process... The problems occurs on all OS i've tried : W2K and

RE: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
1. Format, Print Ranges, Edit, "Rows to repeat". 2. You need button that has "ab" on it with a marker and yellow coloring. It might be not visible, so you need to show it via View, Toolbars, Customize, Formatting and putting checkmark next to "Highlighting" (it should be close to the end of the li

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:20 AM [GMT+1=CET], david potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version of Open Office. Generally I am finding it great but obviously t

[users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread david potter
Hi, I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version of Open Office. Generally I am finding it great but obviously there are differences. Some I am managing to work out but others prove refractory. 1.. On

Re: [users] Re: Page Breaks in Table

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Barbara Duprey wrote: Thanks for helping, guys. Joe, you're right that the document is too big for polite posting, though I might be able to create an excerpt that illustrates the problem. I've improved the situation some by making the table four columns wide, with each row containing two of my

Re: [users] Big tables slow to open

2007-01-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:27 AM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, ODT documents containing big tables are very slow to open : For example, i have got a document with just one table containing simple text but big enough to fill 500 pages. It take about 12 hour

[users] Big tables slow to open

2007-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, ODT documents containing big tables are very slow to open : For example, i have got a document with just one table containing simple text but big enough to fill 500 pages. It take about 12 hours to OpenOffice 2.1 to open it ! During the 12 hours, the CPU load is 100%, and the memory use is