Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
My experience with volunteer groups has been to let the experienced members hang back when it comes to repetitive or simple questions and encourage others to tackle responding. In those cases, the normal monitors take on the role as mentors to new responders, encouraging and correcting how the

[users] Re: Forced Registration For This List

2007-01-07 Thread Jay Maechtlen
Greetings! I'm reading this via GMANE as a news forum- emails tend to pile up and become a nuisance. I see that there's a pretty decent FAQ on the OOo site. What if the mail server that handles this list appends to each outgoing message a link to the FAQ and a brief blurb about it? fwiw Jay

[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE(open doc with password)

2007-01-07 Thread jeffreyng
Hi, does your office suite offer password protection for opening documents? I do not seem to be able to locate this function using 'writer' and 'calc'. MS word and excel does offer this, thus I am wandering if this is available too. Thanks. Jeff

[users] openoffice suite

2007-01-07 Thread Rita Laurance
Dear openoffice.org; I am a new user and here are my issues; 1)When you copy and paste an email into a blank openoffice document, it doesn't word wrap the text to fit it into an 8.5x11 page. 2) I write bilingual emails to France and Italy. I need a bilingual wordprocessor, whose accents will

Re: [users] Open Office on Macbook only runs writer

2007-01-07 Thread Bradley Schneider
Dan, Thank you for your response to my e-mail. About the same time your e- mail came in I happened to look at the word processor and clicked on the File menu and selected New and found the various modules. I would suggest that on the web site under the installation section, that you

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

2007-01-07 Thread Isis Rich
Hi- Hope you can help me with this- I am in UK, using my daughter's laptop with OpenOffice,org 2.0There HAD been an icon on the toolbar(?) at the bottom of the screen that had a means of accessing the Open Office stuff she had downloaded to this computer- Last night I was working on

Re: [users] Re: Forced Registration For This List

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:58 AM [GMT+1=CET], Jay Maechtlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I'm reading this via GMANE as a news forum- emails tend to pile up and become a nuisance. I see that there's a pretty decent FAQ on the OOo site. What if the mail server that handles this list

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE(open doc with password)

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:56 AM [GMT+1=CET], jeffreyng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does your office suite offer password protection for opening documents? I do not seem to be able to locate this function using 'writer' and 'calc'. MS word and excel does offer this, thus I am wandering if

Re: [users] Fontworks Styles missing

2007-01-07 Thread Michele Zarri
On 12/30/06, Samantha Reddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the OpenOffice 2.0 version. A few days ago, I was working with one of the programs (I believe it was the Draw program) and I used the Fontworks feature with no problem. However, no matter what program I am in, whether it be

Re: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:50 PM [GMT+1=CET], Vin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Open Office a few months ago. Tried it out and it did not suite my needs. I uninstalled it. All traces removed from Program files and registry. Since then, all my MS Word icons are what seem to be

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

2007-01-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Laura/Isis, I would recommend that you try restarting your computer to see if that helps. You may also find updating to the latest version of OpenOffice.org 2.1 would also help to get ooo back. Do you have the right page setup? Try 'Format' 'Page' and look for the option to set the

Re: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 06 January 2007 5:50 pm, Vin wrote: I installed Open Office a few months ago. Tried it out and it did not suite my needs. I uninstalled it. All traces removed from Program files and registry. Since then, all my MS Word icons are what seem to be notepad icons. I am not happy. I

Re: [users] Open Office on Macbook only runs writer

2007-01-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Bradley, On 7 Jan 2007, at 01:50, Bradley Schneider wrote: Dan, Thank you for your response to my e-mail. About the same time your e-mail came in I happened to look at the word processor and clicked on the File menu and selected New and found the various modules. Easy to do, I've done

Re: [users] Adding fonts in OOo 2.0 OSX 10.4

2007-01-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
[cross porting to mac list to check that fondu supports these fonts and that the method is correct. On 6 Jan 2007, at 21:09, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: 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

Re: [users] problem with save-as html

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 06 January 2007 6:24 pm, alex mesch wrote: Hi. I'm using OpenOffice.org2.1 to create a newspaper-like hobby-related club newsletter. I've attached a copy of what it should appear as (Tpage1 in openoffice format .odt). I've tried saving it differently for hours with no success; it

Re: [users] problem with save-as html

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 06 January 2007 6:24 pm, alex mesch wrote: Hi. I'm using OpenOffice.org2.1 to create a newspaper-like hobby-related club newsletter. I've attached a copy of what it should appear as (Tpage1 in openoffice format .odt). I've tried saving it differently for hours with no success; it

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE(open doc with password)

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:56 pm, jeffreyng wrote: Hi, does your office suite offer password protection for opening documents? I do not seem to be able to locate this function using 'writer' and 'calc'. MS word and excel does offer this, thus I am wandering if this is available too.

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
but is not good for people that just want an answer to their question. That is just the whole point, isn't it. We're asking for an easy way to post questions without getting hundreds of unneed emails. I have major issues with a FLOSS email client. The only support offered for it is on a

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
Robert Smits schreef: You could reduce it by threefold if we separated out the Mac and Windows users from the rest of us and had one list for each subset. A lot of questions are not neccessarily OS-specific and I don't mind reading them. If you split it up, a windows user may never see a

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread DougT
Harold Fuchs wrote: 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

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Saturday 06 January 2007 22:39, Jonathon wrote: 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

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M Henri Day
The issues raised by William Case (informal division of labour between more and less experienced OOo users), Bob Smits (separate lists for Windows and Mac users [and why not Linux users, whom I believe are well-represented among OOo users], respectively), and Harold Fuchs (on the problems faced

Re: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread James Knott
Vin wrote: I installed Open Office a few months ago. Tried it out and it did not suite my needs. I uninstalled it. All traces removed from Program files and registry. Since then, all my MS Word icons are what seem to be notepad icons. I am not happy. I want my MS Word icons back. Please

RE: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Demi
James is correct...just change the file association and you should have your MS Office Icons back I use both suitesI just installed OpenOffice a couple of weeks ago and am comparing it right now...so far I believe it would meet my needs. Tony -Original Message- From: James

Re: [users] openoffice suite

2007-01-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:10, Rita Laurance wrote: Dear openoffice.org; I am a new user and here are my issues; 1)When you copy and paste an email into a blank openoffice document, it doesn't word wrap the text to fit it into an 8.5x11 page. Doesn't it? This to me sounds more like an issue

Re: [users] BBC NEWS | Technology | Security bug found in PDF reader

2007-01-07 Thread M Henri Day
As a matter of fact, Brian Krebs posted a detailed description of this flaw, along with with helpful tips on what to do about it, to his Washington Post bloghttp://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/be_careful_with_those_pdf_docu.html?(

RE: [users] openoffice suite

2007-01-07 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
(See inline) -Original Message- From: Rita Laurance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 7:10 AM 3)Can you download with the openoffice extras bilingual and trilingual capabilities. Can I download the appropriate keyboards and spell-checks so that I can write

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:47 PM [GMT+1=CET], DougT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hey, All, It is long past time to move this thread to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, DougT And get another sackful of unwanted mail? Harold Fuchs London, England

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 1. Update FAQs frequently. That's why I think a Wiki might be good; several people can update it easily. 2. Redo the search function for the User Mail List Archives so that it searches not

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
Robert Smits wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: I really don't think we ought to be inflicting that kind of punishment on some poor soul even if they couldn't be bothered to read the FAQs. Like not top posting? Let's please not get into a discussion of

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread DougT
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:47 PM [GMT+1=CET], DougT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hey, All, It is long past time to move this thread to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, DougT And get another sackful of unwanted mail? Harold Fuchs London, England Do you mean like what

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M Henri Day
With regard to the second point below, the risk is that users unfamiliar with the site will, as I did, use the prominent search button in the left-hand column, rather first than clicking on the (rather less-prominent) «Search mailing list archive» button, and then on the «search body»

[users] problem with calc

2007-01-07 Thread Andreas Konrad
Hello, I have a calc sheet with form containing a list element. To insert data in the list box I open the options dialog and write in the Quellzellenbereich (data source cells?) a reference to an area in an other calc file. Everything works fine and I can select the different values from the

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-07 Thread Sarah Malone
Dear Dave, Thanks for the information. I have XP Home (with Office but no Word installed). The answers are not quite how you describe for the icon. It reads: Open Office.org 2.1 Installation Files and a double click shows the following icons: licensesreadmes

Re: [users] Aol dowload problem

2007-01-07 Thread Edsless
Harold, Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, my AOL version is not the newest (V8 I believe). I have been advised to throw away my Win 98 laptop, but since I tend toward being thrifty (hence Open office) I remain loyal to my hand-me-down laptop. Afterall, one cannot become a millionaire if one

[users] difinition

2007-01-07 Thread taufik hasbi taufik
dear :openoffice I want to ask about openoffice difinition? how to use program? what of the compenent of open office? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

[users] Problem with calc

2007-01-07 Thread Andreas Konrad
Hello, I have a form with a list element. To insert data in the list I open the options dialog and write in the Quellzellenbereich (data source cells) a reference to an area in an other file. Although I save the document, each time I reopen it, the list is empty. What do I do wrong? Could you

[users] Launching OpenOffice/Linux after Installing

2007-01-07 Thread William Ellis
I followed the Installation Instructions at: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html : 1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For example, currently, the following command would unpack into the current directory: 2. tar xvzf OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

RE: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Vin
Dear Mr. Fuchs, Thank you for the speedy reply. The document does open in MS Word, but I no longer have the MS Word icon next to my documents. I have what looks like a MS Wordpad icon. This started after I uninstalled Open Office. Even if I create a new document in MS Word and save as .doc,

[users] Cannot uninstall openoffice.org 1.1

2007-01-07 Thread klaus klein
I got OpenOffice.org 1.1 from a CD last year and am using it on Windows 98 Ed2. It installed, and looks interesting, but I cannot use it for editing or printing documents received in Word because it distorts the Word format. During installation I unfortunately set an option to yes which

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

2007-01-07 Thread Juan Castañeira
Utilizo OpenOffice regularmente, pues es free y me pongo en contacto con ustedes para agradeceros vuestra ayuda. Juan Castañeira Vazquez Uruguay 6 PRT 1º Bajo B Río San Pedro - Puerto Real - Cádiz Spain C.P. 11510

Re: [users] difinition

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
If you want to read about openoffice you'd best start here documentation.openoffice.org Perhaps you might want to be able to ask your question in your own language. You could visit the website www.openoffice.org/native-lang.html and click on the name of your country. Arnold Huzen taufik

[users] WebDav-OpenOffice-Abre como solo lectura

2007-01-07 Thread Jesús Genicio
Hola: Estoy haciendo pruebas para crear una carpet web WebDav através de apache y acceder a ella de forma remota desde Windows y openoffice. El tema de la carpeta web ya lo tengo solucionado y desde Debian Sarge y Konqueror me funciona bien puedo abrir, crear, modificar y grabar archivos desde

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

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
Juan, This mailinglist is in English, you can post your question in Spanish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably receive an answer from this list, but it may be in English. Arnold Huzen Juan Castañeira schreef: Utilizo OpenOffice regularmente, pues es free y me pongo en contacto con ustedes

Re: [users] Cannot uninstall openoffice.org 1.1

2007-01-07 Thread Arnold Huzen
Before uninstalling OpenOffice you must close the quickstarter that's in the systemtray. After that you should be able to uninstall it just like any other programm. To restore the opening of files, just rightclick on a file and choose Open with ... From the list select the application you

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 02:36:50 AM -, rob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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 would circulate the PDF

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 14:57:02 PM +0100, M Henri Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Based on this experience, my suggestions to reduce the number of repeat questions from new users are as follows : 1. Update FAQs frequently. 2. Redo the search function for the User Mail List Archives so that

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 20:05:47 PM -0700, James Mckenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is a reason that mail lists exist. However, this list is abused and some folks from SUN have even shut down their subscriptions because of it. Sorry, what do you exactly mean by abused here? That it lets

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 12:54:00 PM +0100, Arnold Huzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So by forcing them to subscribe to a mailinglist with up to hundreds of unwanted e-mails a day does not bring them the support they want. A solution to answer (decently formatted) questions from unsubscribed users

Re: [users] Launching OpenOffice/Linux after Installing

2007-01-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:35, William Ellis wrote: I followed the Installation Instructions at: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html : 1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For example, currently, the following command would unpack into the current directory:

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 16:10:20 PM -0800, Jonathon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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 Same here. Web based forums are absolutely unusable unless

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 14:07:41 PM +0100, Arnold Huzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: but is not good for people that just want an answer to their question. That is just the whole point, isn't it. We're asking for an easy way to post questions without getting hundreds of unneed emails. It was

Re: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:32 PM [GMT+1=CET], Vin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mr. Fuchs, Thank you for the speedy reply. The document does open in MS Word, but I no longer have the MS Word icon next to my documents. I have what looks like a MS Wordpad icon. This started after I

Re: [users] WebDav-OpenOffice-Abre como solo lectura

2007-01-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:39 PM [GMT+1=CET], Jesús Genicio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola: Estoy haciendo pruebas para crear una carpet web WebDav através de apache y acceder a ella de forma remota desde Windows y openoffice. El tema de la carpeta web ya lo tengo solucionado y desde

Re: [users] Launching OpenOffice/Linux after Installing

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 07 January 2007 7:35 am, William Ellis wrote: I followed the Installation Instructions at: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html : 1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For example, currently, the following command would unpack into the current directory:

Re: [users] problem with calc

2007-01-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 07 January 2007 10:48 am, Andreas Konrad wrote: Hello, I have a calc sheet with form containing a list element. To insert data in the list box I open the options dialog and write in the Quellzellenbereich (data source cells?) a reference to an area in an other calc file. Everything

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

2007-01-07 Thread Marc Hug
Please see http://es.openoffice.org/comunidad/index.html (particularly listas de correo). Marc H. Juan Castañeira a écrit : Utilizo OpenOffice regularmente, pues es free y me pongo en contacto con ustedes para agradeceros vuestra ayuda. Juan Castañeira Vazquez Uruguay 6 PRT 1º Bajo B Río

Re: [users] difinition

2007-01-07 Thread Marc Hug
It is a software pack similar to Microsoft Office, but it is free. There are several components, specially Writer (cf. MS Word) and Calc (cf. MS Excel). See http://www.openoffice.org/ Marc H. taufik hasbi taufik a écrit : dear :openoffice I want to ask about openoffice difinition? how to

Re: [users] WebDav-OpenOffice-Abre como solo lectura

2007-01-07 Thread Marc Hug
I think you will have a better chance to find someone who can understand you and answer if you write to the users list in Spanish : users@es.openoffice.org (see http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList) Marc H. Jesús Genicio a écrit : Hola: Estoy haciendo pruebas para

Re: [users] problem with save-as html

2007-01-07 Thread Gregory Forster
OpenOffice 2.1, as with 2.0.X, does a poor job displaying HTML unless you know HTML coding. I discovered that the hard way when I attempted to design a web page. If you know what you can and cannot do in HTML, then OpenOffice is fine, it isn't the greatest, but just fine. OpenOffice does

Re: [users] WebDav-OpenOffice-Abre como solo lectura

2007-01-07 Thread Jesús Genicio
El 7/01/07, Marc Hug[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I think you will have a better chance to find someone who can understand you and answer if you write to the users list in Spanish : users@es.openoffice.org (see http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList) Marc H. Jesús Genicio a

Re: [users] Adding fonts in OOo 2.0 OSX 10.4

2007-01-07 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
Hi Shaun, A font pack is a set of files that are inside a .zip file. OK, where do I get them? Or are they only on the web, in which case, how do I go about installing my .dfont or .ttf/.otf fonts? Here is the solution for converting the fonts automatically on the next start of

Re: [users] usb key and writer

2007-01-07 Thread Gregory Forster
What type of USB key drive are you using? My college son has a 1 Gig Sandisk U3 USB. He has had a lot of problems with the U3 portable version of OpenOffice. He had problems also with his U3 Thunderbird. I have a Verbatim 512, non-U3 USB drive. I have the non U3 portable version of

[users] HOW TO GET OFF THE LIST

2007-01-07 Thread Tenbob
Will someone email me and tell me how to get off this list. It was an error Bob K-- Marc Hug wrote: It is a software pack similar to Microsoft Office, but it is free. There are several components, specially Writer (cf. MS Word) and Calc (cf. MS Excel). See

[users] Numbers in cells imported as dates-not just numbers

2007-01-07 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
I've just used Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 10 to export a tab separated file with dimension data for all doors and windows in a building project. In Finder, I changed the .tab to .csv and used OOo 2.0 to open the file, which took me to the Text Import panel, where I specified all columns to be

Re: [users] HOW TO GET OFF THE LIST

2007-01-07 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
You must be joking. Look at the bottom of every message you receive! It happened to me as well, so don't kill yourself for not having seen it. Alex. On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Tenbob wrote: Will someone email me and tell me how to get off this list. It was an error Bob K--

Re: [users] Re: where to offer spellchecker dictionary

2007-01-07 Thread Guy Voets
2007/1/7, Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Marco: That is a great solution, but did CPH ever try it? James McKenzie -Original Message- From: M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 7, 2007 11:38 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts) On Sun, Jan 07,

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Marco: Answers to your comments below: Yes, it is sufficient to answer one or two messages directly to the original poster. However, I am not nor will I ever be, in the 'business' of answering questions for OpenOffice.org. This is exactly what happens when folks are of the opinion that we

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 15:27:23 PM -0700, James Mckenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Marco: That is a great solution, but did CPH ever try it? IIRC: The first time I proposed it, he said that he had no time and/or energy/skills to try it. I asked for details on his email and Linux

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Marco: There have been times where the my widget is better than your widget wars have broken out. Also, repeatedly asking the same question over and over does not help. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 7, 2007 11:15 AM To:

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Marco: There have been times where the my widget is better than your widget wars have broken out. Also, repeatedly asking the same question over and over does not help. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 7, 2007 11:15 AM To:

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Marco and Rob: An even better suggestion is to post the pdf on the web and then post the link to it here. Simple one line message. Cuts down traffic and the mail system may strip off the pdf file anyway. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan

[users] Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Dr Jon Jenkins
Hi Is there any way to get OO to print page 1 from a different tray to other pages, Format-Page-Paper Tray only seems to allow for setting printer tray for whole document. thanks jon_at_trac.org.au - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 15:37:36 PM -0700, James Mckenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Marco: Answers to your comments below: No need to send each message twice if you can avoid it, thanks. Getting it through the list is enough. Interlaced answers are also easier to understand for newcomers or

Re: [users] HOW TO GET OFF THE LIST

2007-01-07 Thread Alan Frayer
Tenbob wrote: Will someone email me and tell me how to get off this list. It was an error Follow the instructions quoted below (and added to the bottom of every message sent to the list). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Adding fonts in OOo 2.0 OSX 10.4

2007-01-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Alex, On 7 Jan 2007, at 20:52, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: Hi Shaun, A font pack is a set of files that are inside a .zip file. OK, where do I get them? Or are they only on the web, in which case, how do I go about installing my .dfont or .ttf/.otf fonts? I don't know, any more about the

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M Henri Day
Caro Marco, I agree that modifying a subject of the the type «Help !» to one which better denominates the specific problem could be a way to make it easier for inexperienced users to find relevant commentaries. I also agree that changing the subject line to read something to the effect «you must

Re: [users] Adding fonts in OOo 2.0 OSX 10.4

2007-01-07 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
Thanks, Shaun. BTW, any explanation as to why I send my replies to this thread, then I get yours, but not mine? I'm sure I sent to the list, not your private address. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users] Adding fonts in OOo 2.0 OSX 10.4

2007-01-07 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 7 Jan 2007, at 21:21, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: Thanks, Shaun. BTW, any explanation as to why I send my replies to this thread, then I get yours, but not mine? I'm sure I sent to the list, not your private address. I don't know, this message has come through the list. It could be the

Re: [users] Numbers in cells imported as dates-not just numbers

2007-01-07 Thread Pradeep Srinivas
On Monday 08 January 2007 02:42, Alex Zachopoulos wrote (regarding [users] Numbers in cells imported as dates-not just numbers): I've just used Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 10 to export a tab separated file with dimension data for all doors and windows in a building project. In Finder, I changed the

RE: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread rob
James and Marco I accept that cutting down e-mail traffic is important but I think in the short term having it available and making sure that the majority of questions are answered in a way that any inexperienced users can understand and use them first would at least stop multiple updates of the

Re: [users] Numbers in cells imported as dates-not just numbers

2007-01-07 Thread TerryJ
Pradeep Srinivas wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 02:42, Alex Zachopoulos wrote (regarding [users] Numbers in cells imported as dates-not just numbers): I've just used Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 10 to export a tab separated file with dimension data for all doors and windows in a building

RE: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread James Mckenzie
Rob: Maybe i should clarify the situation. We allow anyone to post anything to this list. If you are not subscribed, this goes to a moderator's mailbox which is then reviewed and if the message applies to this list, it is allowed through. If you decide to subscribe, you can post at will.

RE: [users] Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Nikos Mitropoulos
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr Jon Jenkins Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:21 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Page 1 from different paper tray ? Hi Is there any way to get OO to print page

RE: [users] Open Office Changed my MS Word Icons...

2007-01-07 Thread Nikos Mitropoulos
Dear Vin, My guess is this: OpenOffice allows for saving in Microsoft Office format, so that if one can also work on the a document with Microsoft application, if one desires. However, Microsoft Office doesn't allow for saving documents in OOo format. If you created the documents with OOo, or if

Re: [users] Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Kasak
Dr Jon Jenkins wrote: Hi Is there any way to get OO to print page 1 from a different tray to other pages, Format-Page-Paper Tray only seems to allow for setting printer tray for whole document. Start a new section, and then format - page only applies to that section. -- Daniel Kasak IT

[users] Re: Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Dr Jon Jenkins
Nikos Mitropoulos wrote: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr Jon Jenkins Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:21 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Page 1 from different paper tray ? Hi Is there any

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 00:41:49 AM -, rob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: James and Marco I accept that cutting down e-mail traffic is important The fastest and easiest ways to contribute to reduce traffic are: to NOT send multiple copies of the same message (direct _and_ to the list) if your

[users] Re: Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Dr Jon Jenkins
Daniel Kasak wrote: Dr Jon Jenkins wrote: Hi Is there any way to get OO to print page 1 from a different tray to other pages, Format-Page-Paper Tray only seems to allow for setting printer tray for whole document. Start a new section, and then format - page only applies to that section.

Re: [users] Cannot uninstall openoffice.org 1.1

2007-01-07 Thread arnold huzen
klaus klein schreef: My greatest complaint at present is that it does not quite do what Word does, with regard to text formatting. The document formats of Microsoft are closed formats. The details of how to save certain features need to be discovered using trial on error. Therefore it's a

Re: [users] Re: Page 1 from different paper tray ?

2007-01-07 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On 08/01/2007, at 5:25 PM, Dr Jon Jenkins wrote: Daniel Kasak wrote: Dr Jon Jenkins wrote: Hi Is there any way to get OO to print page 1 from a different tray to other pages, Format-Page-Paper Tray only seems to allow for setting printer tray for whole document. Start a new section, and

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread arnold huzen
M. Fioretti schreef: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 12:54:00 PM +0100, Arnold Huzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So by forcing them to subscribe to a mailinglist with up to hundreds of unwanted e-mails a day does not bring them the support they want. A solution to answer (decently formatted)

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users]Return receipts)

2007-01-07 Thread arnold huzen
What do other readers think of the requirement to post through a web page if you are not subscribed using a simple form like this: Your e-mail address: Subject of your question: Details on what you are trying to accomplish or problem: Note: Your message will be reviewed prior to posting