On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> Don't forget too that many OO users are still on slow dial-up lines
> using pay as you go tariffs so suddenly getting hundreds of irrelevant
> e-mails a day, some with attachments, is not going to be well regarded
> from a cost or time point
On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> Top Post
>
> I'm only voting for a web forum if registration is forced. The mailing
> list as it is now is fine by me. In fact I prefer it to web forums. But
> in my opinion forced registration and, more particularly, the consequent
> and ent
True Friend wrote:
> Hi folks
> i am new to OOo.
> I want to offer a spell checking dictionary for OOo for my language Urdu so
> it would be added in next update. where i can offer this??
> plz guide me
> Regards
> Muhammad Shakir
>
Hi Muhammad
Have a look at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/
Hi folks
i am new to OOo.
I want to offer a spell checking dictionary for OOo for my language Urdu so
it would be added in next update. where i can offer this??
plz guide me
Regards
Muhammad Shakir
As a new user of Open Office I have seen the same six or seven questions
coming up over and over again. My proposal, for what it is worth, would be
while the readme and other documentation is being prepared, that I write
answers to the six most popular questions and put the answers in a PDF file.
I
Thanks
Have not seen the security flaw in US online or printed materials
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From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:51 PM
Subject: [users] BBC NEWS | Technology | Security bug found in PDF reader
Slightly (well, a lot perhap
Columns are what you want. You are off to a good start.
1. The left-most column is the X-Axis, so if you want another column for
the X-Axis then rearrange the columns.
2. Select the top left to the bottom right cells that identify your
data. You can do this by first clicking the top left, then
Bill:
I agree that new users are always a good thing. However, when we are answering
the same issue time and time
again and the information is available from the FAQ, it gets to be a little
more than boring. This shows that our Readme
and installation processes are not in sync. And it does n
1. Double click the chart. When it opens,
2. Double click the X-Axis.
3. If necessary click TAB until just the x-axis is selected.
4. Right click, choose object properties.
5. When the object properties opens, click the SCALE tab
at the top.
6. To modify the scale you first must uncheck AUTOMATIC
Harold:
I agree with your opinions. I have worked with both types, mailing lists and
forums. I find forums much easier to work with
as a new user of a product. It took me about two weeks to get the appropriate
answers to a problem I had with another product
and I had to put up with the 'garba
Slightly (well, a lot perhaps) off topic but possibly of interest:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6234181.stm
Harold Fuchs
London, England
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:31 AM [GMT+1=CET], Johnny Andersson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
I finally bought myself a new laptop. My old desktop (bought in
January 1999) has been a pain for quite a few years now and it was
way to slow for OpenOffice.org 2, so I was limited to OpenOffice.
Top Post
I'm only voting for a web forum if registration is forced. The mailing
list as it is now is fine by me. In fact I prefer it to web forums. But
in my opinion forced registration and, more particularly, the consequent
and entirely unexpected deluge of garbage would be a major turn off f
Hi!
I finally bought myself a new laptop. My old desktop (bought in January
1999) has been a pain for quite a few years now and it was way to slow for
OpenOffice.org 2, so I was limited to OpenOffice.org 1.1.5.
Now however, with 2 GB internal memory, a decided to try OpenOffice.org 2
again and I
Robert wrote:
> Well, here's a vote for retaining mailing lists. I detest web based forums,
> all with their own format, and usually unbearably slow.
+1
From my perspective, support offered is thru a web forum is akin to
saying "we don't care about helping you. Go buy/use the competitors
produ
Jeff wrote:
> His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help
> people with vision impairments?
It depends upon the operating system that he uses, and then the screen
reading software, and/or magnification software that he uses.
OOo does include the ability magnify the d
Additionally you may want to know that fix is coming in version 2.2 (to
be released by March)
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21747
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> From: T. C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:54 AM
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subjec
I did that, but I invariably got error messages, depending on which
font I tried to install.
In the 'Select a Font pack' field, I pointed to FreeSans.dfont
located at /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts/ and I got the
message: "BASIC runtime error. An exception occurred Type:
com.sun.star.p
I've been following this discussion with some interest and would also
generally support the wiki idea. If this was to be adopted it would
surely not just be a question of having content managers/moderators, it
would also be necessary to ensure that that it was easy for those that
are not compu
I guess all of us
Nikos
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
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From: Thomas W. Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:11 AM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: [users] [Fwd: [Spam] [users] Tomorrow night..]
Anybody else get this?
--
Besides ordering a CD through the website you can also buy a
computermagazine. They often contain a CD or DVD with several
sofwarepackages. OpenOffice is mostly one of the featured applications.
Arnold Huzen
Pinky Davenport schreef:
I attempted to download Open Office 2.0 but on dial-up, it
If the filename you mentioned is correct, then it seems like you altered
the default name of the file. During this action you forgot to add the
extension .exe so windows doesn't know what to do.
Arnold Huzen
Eric Cormier schreef:
To whom it may concern:
I have downloaded open office,
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:39 PM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope that you have a suggestion that will help me. My default
browser is
Aol. Whether I dowload openoffice via Aol or Internet Explorer, the
dowload is saved as an Aol document and will not allow
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:52 AM [GMT+1=CET], Eric Cormier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To whom it may concern:
I have downloaded open office, bu have been unable to extract the
file and install the program. The icon appears on my desktop as
OOo_2_1_. When I click on the icon, it sais "
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:31 PM [GMT+1=CET], Robert Smits
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:54, Arnold Huzen wrote:
For the time being it is 3 to 1 in favour for another setup in this
discussion.
Well, here's a vote for retaining mailing lists. I detest web bas
Ma. Dallennes a écrit :
Bonjour
Je voudrais pouvoir lire les aides en langue française, s'il vous plaît
Comment faire.
eventuellement en allemand, langue que je connais bien
merci de me donner la clé
MD
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On Friday, January 05, 2007 11:31 PM [GMT+1=CET], Ma. Dallennes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bonjour
Je voudrais pouvoir lire les aides en langue française, s'il vous
plaît Comment faire.
eventuellement en allemand, langue que je connais bien
merci de me donner la clé
MD
Please send e-mail in F
DougT wrote:
Pinky Davenport wrote:
I attempted to download Open Office 2.0 but on dial-up, it was like a
13 hour download! Do you have it on disks that can be mailed out?
If so, please send to:
Shar Ros
4 King Arthur
Billings, MT 59105
Thank you. Please confirm receipt of this e-mail.
Hi Pinky,
On 6 Jan 2007, at 14:50, Pinky Davenport wrote:
I attempted to download Open Office 2.0 but on dial-up, it was like
a 13 hour download! Do you have it on disks that can be mailed out?
Please see:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
Shaun
_
Pinky Davenport wrote:
I attempted to download Open Office 2.0 but on dial-up, it was like a 13
hour download! Do you have it on disks that can be mailed out? If so,
please send to:
Shar Ros
4 King Arthur
Billings, MT 59105
Thank you. Please confirm receipt of this e-mailthanks.
Shar
On 6 Jan 2007, at 15:30, Bennie Vincent wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam.
I am presently considering purchasing a MACBOOK by APPLE and
would like advise concerning your product "Open Page Office Suite".
I am presently using a DELL and you know the rest of the story. I
was told that it will do
Albert Martinez wrote:
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old id was [EMAIL PROTECTED]
since comcast bought out adelphia they demanded the change. i thought i
fixed your site a long time ago.
sorry
Al
Copy to unsubscribed address of OP:
Albert:
It will be necessary for you to subscribe with yo
Jeff Wandling wrote:
... What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help
people with vision impairments?
Eg., very very large fonts in the UI or some aid in magnifying the
display
selectively?
Thanks,
-jeff
OpenOffice.org allows infinite zoom of the visible text size by
selecting View/Zo
Bonjour
Je voudrais pouvoir lire les aides en langue française, s'il vous plaît
Comment faire.
eventuellement en allemand, langue que je connais bien
merci de me donner la clé
MD
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To whom it may concern:
I have downloaded open office, bu have been unable to extract the file and
install the program. The icon appears on my desktop as OOo_2_1_. When I
click on the icon, it sais
"windows can not open this file" "To open this file windows needs to know
what progra
I hope that you have a suggestion that will help me. My default browser is
Aol. Whether I dowload openoffice via Aol or Internet Explorer, the dowload is
saved as an Aol document and will not allow me to open it to continue the
installation due to the file size. It says that Aol can't open it be
I attempted to download Open Office 2.0 but on dial-up, it was like a 13
hour download! Do you have it on disks that can be mailed out? If so,
please send to:
Shar Ros
4 King Arthur
Billings, MT 59105
Thank you. Please confirm receipt of this e-mailthanks.
Shar
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Dear Sir/Madam.
I am presently considering purchasing a MACBOOK by APPLE and would like
advise concerning your product "Open Page Office Suite". I am presently using a
DELL and you know the rest of the story. I was told that it will do me better
than Windows office suite, especially in a M
my new id is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
old id was [EMAIL PROTECTED]
since comcast bought out adelphia they demanded the change. i thought i
fixed your site a long time ago.
sorry
Al
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My son, just 4 is a frequent user of the computer.
He uses notepad to type. As he gets older I will show him OpenOffice.
His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help
people with vision impairments?
Eg., very very large fonts in the UI or some aid in magnifying the d
On Monday, 18 December 2006 00:51, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm putting together a document that will likely have
about 300 pages
> when completed with lots of graphs and tables. Often when
I open the
> same document again, the pagination will change - even
after doing a
> complete Tools Update Up
It comes from trying to kiss their ass. They already get the product for
free. They should be directed to buy a good book just as they would with
any other problem they are trying to master. If they won't buy a book, then
maybe they better give Bill Gates $300.
Floyd Humpherys
-Original
On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:54, Arnold Huzen wrote:
> For the time being it is 3 to 1 in favour for another setup in this
> discussion.
>
Well, here's a vote for retaining mailing lists. I detest web based forums,
all with their own format, and usually unbearably slow.
> The thing we need to
In that case the website is unclear about the difference between the
two. All users should then be directed to the forum and only the ones
that want to read hundreds of mails with the most basic questions coming
back time and time again should subscribe to the list.
This means that the website
That's true. You can never save often enough, especially if you're
working on an important document.
But the issue here is that the original question was about an
ODT-document being sent to someone that didn't use OpenOffice. Therefore
my question was why we as helpers on this list almost neve
Harold:
I like your ideas. A web forum (like OOOForums) is a 'good thing'. There used
to be several sources of forums but
it looks like OOoForums is the only remaining one.
As to the FAQs/Wiki, it all depends on who does the writing. If they are well
written, they don't sound
and appear as i
Arnold:
There is another option and that is OOOForums. This is the method used by most
of the FOSS projects hosted by SourceForge.
There are some projects that do use mailing lists, but they are subscription
only.
This leaves us with:
Subscription only mailing list and/or the use of fora.
I'm pretty sure most of us Windows users always "save" a document before
trying to "send as" because we have learned to not trust Windows to complete
such an operation without crashing and losing the doc before it gets to
where it needs to go. Don't care to start over each time Windows flakes ou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> It is not MS Office cannot read OpenOffice documents format.
>
> It is that MS can add this feature because OpenOffice documents format is
> international OpenStandard, if they want to.
>
> MS is afraid that if they implement OpenOffic
Thanks for the support Marc but I'm not offended at all by the remarks
of Shaun and Harold. Afterall I asked for them by asking the question
and I think that it's good that from time to time we share arguments on
why we tell or don't tell certain options. It shows the differences
between the di
Please don't shout at Arnold. I really hadn't noticed that you can send
a file "as MS Word" file from within OpenOffice Writer. It is a sad
thing that for some versions of the software this apparently does not
work. I tried it (Windows XP) and it worked well. I think from now on I
will mention
Copy to unsubscribed OP:
Hi John,
This list really has little to do with the OOoforum.
You may have better luck contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] to inquire about
this problem.
Regards,
DougT
John Frosch wrote:
I cant login to OOoforum.
John
- Original Message - From: "DougT" <[EMAIL PROT
All I said is that for the time being, users who have only MS Office
cannot read OpenOffice documents. Your explanation of why that's the
case may be correct, but I think for most users the thing they want to
know is what they can do themselves now with the software they have.
Marc H.
[EMAIL
Shaun McDonald schreef:
On 6 Jan 2007, at 11:58, Arnold Huzen wrote:
Why do we keep telling users to SAVE a document as MS-Word and then
send it, when it is very well possible to SEND as MS-Word without
saving an unneeded copy of the document to our own harddisk??
Arnold Huzen
1. It's st
Very interesting links, Shaun! Thank you very much; can't wait to
start using it!!
Alex.
On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Shaun McDonald wrote:
This is actually old news to me.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/inthenews.html
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/links.html
http://wiki.services.
On 6 Jan 2007, at 11:58, Arnold Huzen wrote:
Why do we keep telling users to SAVE a document as MS-Word and then
send it, when it is very well possible to SEND as MS-Word without
saving an unneeded copy of the document to our own harddisk??
Arnold Huzen
1. It's stopped working on the Ma
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:58 AM [GMT+1=CET], Arnold Huzen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why do we keep telling users to SAVE a document as MS-Word and then
send it, when it is very well possible to SEND as MS-Word without
saving an unneeded copy of the document to our own harddisk??
Arnold
Amber Ivy wrote:
> Thanks...
> So all I need to do is dl it and it will work properly? No special
> version or settings?
Just get the Windows version in the language of your choice.
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It is not MS Office cannot read OpenOffice documents format.
It is that MS can add this feature because OpenOffice documents format
is international OpenStandard, if they want to.
MS is afraid that if they implement OpenOffice file format into
MSOffice, nobody would need to spend money to buy
Why do we keep telling users to SAVE a document as MS-Word and then send
it, when it is very well possible to SEND as MS-Word without saving an
unneeded copy of the document to our own harddisk??
Arnold Huzen
Marc Hug schreef:
Two solutions are possible:
1. You download OpenOffice yourself
For the time being it is 3 to 1 in favour for another setup in this
discussion.
The thing we need to sort out is how do we best serve the users of
OpenOffice. Generally people do not read FAQ's, do not read manuals. So
by forcing them to subscribe to a mailinglist with up to hundreds of
unwan
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 3:05 AM [GMT+1=CET], James Mckenzie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know your opinion on this. Commercial products do not allow
open posting of messages to them. You are forced to go through
the FAQs and possibly more. This is what our 'users' should go
through.
A
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 4:05 AM [GMT+1=CET], Amber Ivy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks...
So all I need to do is dl it and it will work properly? No special
version or settings?
You need to download the Windows version (there are versions for Mac,
Linux etc.) *and then* run the downloa
On Friday, January 05, 2007 10:54 PM [GMT+1=CET], T. C.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using OO 2.0
When opening a file from a USB key, after closing Writer, the USB key
cannot be removed. The process soffice.exe remains active. After
killing it, everythings OK.
Before trying to remove the key,
Yes. In this mailing list you can find people using Windows, other
people using MacIntosh, or Linux.
Marc H.
Amber Ivy a écrit :
Does openoffice work with Windows?
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The compatibility with MS Office is rather good, but some complex
features in files could not be converted correctly (people often have
problems with tables, or pictures.) Moreover, MS Office documents can be
read by OpenOffice, but MS Office cannot read OpenOffice documents. If
you use OpenOff
On 6 Jan 2007, at 07:51, Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
On Jan 6, 2007, at 4:52 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
there is an Aqua version, but it is not ready for testing. If you
would like to assist in building it, please visit the ooo_macport
channel on irc.freenode.net.
Are you telling us that some
Two solutions are possible:
1. You download OpenOffice yourself and install it, so you are sure to
open the documents of your colleague correctly;
2. you tell your colleague that she should save the documents in MS-Word
format (File > Save as, select the MS Word97 line in "Type").
OpenOffice ca
Yes, it does.
Funny how you did find you way to this mailinglist, but weren't able to
find out that OpenOffice runs on windows!
Arnold Huzen
Amber Ivy schreef:
Does openoffice work with Windows?
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On 5 Jan 2007, at 22:28, Scott Collins wrote:
A friend told me about your software, but I am
confused about why you have two versions for Tiger?
If you are talking about the page
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/x11-104.html, it is
because we currently don't have a universal binar
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