Re: [users] Open office to Microsoft??

2007-02-05 Thread arnold huzen
You can just save the spreadsheet as a Microsoft Excel-sheet (*.xls). There might just be an issue if Excel doesn't know a function used in the original ods-file, but most functions should be compatible. Arnold Huzen John Ihle schreef: Hello, I have a question about going from an Excel

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
I agree that it's better to anchor as character and to use table parameters for right placement, and it's better to embed graphics. Than you will be able to move this file from one machine to another without loosing information. Linked graphics can be easily copied into file using Edit --

Re: [users] e-mail

2007-02-05 Thread arnold huzen
In addition to what Wade Flemming wrote, you can add calendaring functionality to Thunderbird with the Lightning-extension. If you prefer a stand-alone calendar, you may want to look at Sunbird. Thunderbird, Sunbird and the Lightning-extension can be downloaded from

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Linked graphics can be easily copied into file using Edit -- Links... -- Break links (or something like this). For 80 pictures it will take some time. Not at all. In this dialog, you can select all the links at once and break the links to embed the pics. Hagar.

Re: [users] Getting rid of the registration message when opening Open Office

2007-02-05 Thread Mathias Bauer
Luke Davies wrote: I have registered with Open Office online and have my user details How do I get rid of the registration box that opens up each time I open up a document. I keep pressing 'already registered' box but it still opens up each time I log on I have downloaded Open Office

[users] help windows

2007-02-05 Thread James Lockie
Whenever I am in a table, a window pops up with what it thinks will be useful tools. Bulleted text has another toolbar window. I want to see what I have written and these popups are very annoying so how do I turn them off? I use Gentoo and they are unable to help me.

Re: [users] Question

2007-02-05 Thread James Lockie
Per wrote: Howdy... check this out www.scribus.net not actually from OOo, but it´s opensource. I haven´t tried it, but it looks nice on the screenshots.. Looks like desktop publishing. :-) Thanks for the URL. -

Re: [sc-users] Extending row selection down with keyboard NOT working

2007-02-05 Thread Niklas Nebel
TerryJ wrote: From earlier posts in the thread, it seems that the company's users select a row and try to extend the selection down with SHIFT + DOWN. The result is that the first column is selected down, NOT the table. I have suggested that he file an issue but that is in desperation only.

Re: [users] Spell checking in more than one language

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:04, Robert Springett wrote: Dear Sirs I am a home user and thinking of using Open Office and and not sure whether one can choose to spell (and perhaps grammer check) in more than one language. I live in France and sometimes write in English and sometimes in

Re: [users] Spanish spell check

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:50, Joel Sanchez wrote: The openoffice version I have in my computer doesn't have Spanish spell check. How do I install it? and/or Where do I find one I can install? Try this: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=usersmsgNo=137861 -- Andy

Re: [users] Spell checking in more than one language

2007-02-05 Thread Marc Hug
Grammar checkers (especially for French) are not reliable. For spell checking, you must have both language packs, and then select in Tools Options Language Settings what language you use for the documents. Maybe the language change will operate only when you reboot Marc H. Andy

[users] Openoffice and Windows Vista

2007-02-05 Thread Jerry Saldana
Does OpenOffice work with Windows new operating system Vista? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Andis - To

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Ron Ferguson wrote: Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Perhaps because of this :

Re: [users] Problem with OpenOffice 2.1

2007-02-05 Thread Johnny Andersson
Slide show? Really..? I learn something new every day... =) Thanks! I'll remember that. =) Johnny Andersson 2007/2/5, Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Comments in-line On Sunday February 04 2007 5:08 pm, Johnny Andersson wrote: I guess that would be the same thing as in my case. I have a

Re: [sc-users] Extending row selection down with keyboard NOT working

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
Niklas Nebel wrote: TerryJ wrote: From earlier posts in the thread, it seems that the company's users select a row and try to extend the selection down with SHIFT + DOWN. The result is that the first column is selected down, NOT the table. I have suggested that he file an issue but that is

Re: [users] power point

2007-02-05 Thread arnold huzen
Dan Lewis already told you how to start Impress. Information on how to use it can be found at documentation.openoffice.org Arnold Huzen tammy marble schreef: I just became a member and I do not no how to get to or use the power point in open office, how do I get there and use it.

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

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Joncat95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu 01 Feb 2007 18:44:45 EST Quisiera saber, si teniendo instalada la versión 2.1.0, se puede desinstalar la 1.1.1, sin que perjudique al primero. Sí. Usted puede la versión 1.1.1 del uninstall, sin crear ningunos

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

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri 02 Feb 2007 20:53:18 EST Vary good office package i have converted from microsoft office 2007 it opens all old docs but word 2007 can you help If you are referring to Microsoft's reinvented XML format (OOXML), the

[users] Re: help windows

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Butler
James Lockie wrote: Whenever I am in a table, a window pops up with what it thinks will be useful tools. Bulleted text has another toolbar window. I want to see what I have written and these popups are very annoying so how do I turn them off? I use Gentoo and they are unable to help me. Hi

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

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri 02 Feb 2007 22:09:21 EST Hello. I won't write a long letter, but my question is: How do you tolerate marketers such as International Masters Publishers PTY LTD, selling cut down versions of your fine program along

Re: [users] Openoffice and Windows Vista

2007-02-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday February 05 2007 3:50 am, Jerry Saldana wrote: Does OpenOffice work with Windows new operating system Vista? Yes, it does. There are still a few problems which are outlined in the following email: ~~~ OpenOffice.org runs fine on Vista. The

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Hagar de l'Est wrote: Ron Ferguson wrote: Why is it not a good idea? Ron Ferguson Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! I don't know from where comes idea to insert pictures into frames, but I think it's definetly not good idea. I hope this will help! Perhaps because of this :

Re: [users] DOWNLOAD

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Marc Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 05 Feb 2007 11:08:20 EST Hello OpenOffice, I have tried to download the 93MB file for windows XP, the estimated time for this download to complete is usually over 5 hours (I have ntlworld

[users] Re: [moderated] Special symbol shortcut keys

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Brown
Walter Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am presently using WORD for Windows and have created templates containing shortcut keys for typing Turkish, some Ottoman Turkish, and English on the same keyboard. This is easy to do in WORD but I can't see how it can be

Re: [users] Open Source Reader?

2007-02-05 Thread James Knott
Al and Jan Isaac wrote: I publish a 900 issue newsletter monthly and would like all the subscribers to be able to download an open source (free) reader to view the newsletter with. Are there any reader apps. associated with this project? Thank you, Janet Isaac Perhaps you should be using

Re: [users] help windows

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
James Lockie wrote: Whenever I am in a table, a window pops up with what it thinks will be useful tools. Bulleted text has another toolbar window. I want to see what I have written and these popups are very annoying so how do I turn them off? I use Gentoo and they are unable to help

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! First of all it's problem when you sometimes need to send your writer documents to ms word user with .doc exension. I think every user of openoffice.org writer sometimes should do it. Second, also related to other formats, is saving to html. Placement of pictures also will be changed in

Re: [users] Getting rid of the registration message when opening Open Office

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
Mathias Bauer wrote: Luke Davies wrote: I have registered with Open Office online and have my user details How do I get rid of the registration box that opens up each time I open up a document. I keep pressing 'already registered' box but it still opens up each time I log on I

Re: [users] Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! First of all it's problem when you sometimes need to send your writer documents to ms word user with .doc exension. I think every user of openoffice.org writer sometimes should do it. Second, also related to other formats, is saving to html. Placement of pictures also

Re: [users] Open Source Reader?

2007-02-05 Thread Richard Detwiler
Copying the original poster who is unsubscribed. James Knott wrote: Al and Jan Isaac wrote: I publish a 900 issue newsletter monthly and would like all the subscribers to be able to download an open source (free) reader to view the newsletter with. Are there any reader apps. associated with

[users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread William Case
Hi; I just spent most of Sunday building two sets of permanent 'Styles'. Although I have been using OOo Write and Calc for over two years and do not consider myself a newbie, it was one of the most frustrating exercises I have had using a computer in a long time. I tried to follow both the

Re: [users] Can I read/ edit files created in MS Publisher to Open Office?

2007-02-05 Thread Harold Drabkin
If you have Adobe Acrobat (not reader), you can use the pdf writer plugin to turn the publisher docs into a PDF. PDFs can be marked up with the acrobat program. I had a few dozen Publisher documents that I have converted to pdfs in this manner in my goal of purging MS from my computers. hjd

Re: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread Harold Drabkin
melchar wrote: However, I just spent 12 hours totday trying to download the darned thing and my dial-up BOTH times at about the 6-7 hour mark dropped signal and the download stopped. And then would not re-establish the download at where it stopped, so I had to do it all over again.

RE: [users] Can I read/ edit files created in MS Publisher to Open Office?

2007-02-05 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
Also you can vote for Publisher support in OO - there is an RFE for that http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48700 (you need to register first at http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join) -Original Message- From: Dave Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February

Re: [users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday February 05 2007 9:47 am, William Case wrote: Hi; I just spent most of Sunday building two sets of permanent 'Styles'. Although I have been using OOo Write and Calc for over two years and do not consider myself a newbie, it was one of the most frustrating exercises I have had

Re: [users] Re: Calc function that returns the value of the current cell?

2007-02-05 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi Mark, * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040207, 16:46]: On 2/4/07, Ennio-Sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030207, 17:20]: [...] This is not what you would like but seems to be a better workaround: 1. in the conditional formatting, set the 'equal to'

Re: [users] Re: help windows

2007-02-05 Thread James Lockie
Russell Butler wrote: James Lockie wrote: Whenever I am in a table, a window pops up with what it thinks will be useful tools. Bulleted text has another toolbar window. I want to see what I have written and these popups are very annoying so how do I turn them off? I use Gentoo and they are

Re: [users] help windows

2007-02-05 Thread James Lockie
TerryJ wrote: James Lockie wrote: Whenever I am in a table, a window pops up with what it thinks will be useful tools. Bulleted text has another toolbar window. I want to see what I have written and these popups are very annoying so how do I turn them off? I use Gentoo and they are

[users] Re: [moderated] Special symbol shortcut keys

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Lewis
Walter Andrews wrote: I am presently using WORD for Windows and have created templates containing shortcut keys for typing Turkish, some Ottoman Turkish, and English on the same keyboard. This is easy to do in WORD but I can't see how it can be done in Writer. Is this possible? I am very

Re: [users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread William Case
Hi Dan; Thanks for your reply. I wasn't initially looking for a response. My post was mainly a Monday morning vent. However ... On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:05 -0600, Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday February 05 2007 9:47 am, William Case wrote: Hi; I just spent most of Sunday building two sets

RE: [users] Connecting OOo to a mySQL relational database for addressing an mail merge

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Robertson
Thank you! This pointed me in the right direction; I need to look into the queries better and try to structure something with as few user steps as possible, perhaps using a Macro to automate the process as much as possible. :) Thank you everyone for your insight and assistance! Sincerely,

Re: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread David Potter
For Barbara. Question to Open Office download/licence experts. Is it possible for someone limited by dialup connection to the Internet to obtain a copy of Open Office from a friend with broadband? If so, you can get the friend to copy the programme on to a disc and then load it into your

Re: [users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:15:58 -0500 William Case wrote: Hi Dan; Thanks for your reply. I wasn't initially looking for a response. My post was mainly a Monday morning vent. However ... On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 10:05 -0600, Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday February 05 2007 9:47 am, William Case

Re: [sc-users] Extending row selection down with keyboard NOT working

2007-02-05 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi TerryJ, On Monday, 2007-02-05 21:19:45 +1100, TerryJ wrote: From earlier posts in the thread, it seems that the company's users select a row and try to extend the selection down with SHIFT + DOWN. The result is that the first column is selected down, NOT the table. Do it in reverse

Re: [users] Can I read/ edit files created in MS Publisher to Open Office?

2007-02-05 Thread Harry James
Foxit reader also has a PDF editing capability much cheaper than Adobe. HJ Harold Drabkin wrote: If you have Adobe Acrobat (not reader), you can use the pdf writer plugin to turn the publisher docs into a PDF. PDFs can be marked up with the acrobat program. I had a few dozen Publisher

Re: [users] Need to Convert

2007-02-05 Thread Robin Laing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry but I need to convert my program into microsoft. Most of my programs are in openoffice, but I tried to submit programs to other users and came across a stumbling block. Openoffice cannot be read by other networks. I need to convert to Microsoft. Do you

[users] Re: Draw, grid lines print

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Smith
Chris Bonde wrote: ... How do I have the grid lines printed? You mean View Grid Display Grid is turned on, right? If so, there is no way to print them. Can I select certain areas to print the grid lines? Likewise, no. I would like to print a sheet, like graph paper so that I can

[users] Re: Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Smith
Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday February 05 2007 9:47 am, William Case wrote: ... And, by the way, I did finally get things working the way I wanted, but Gawd it was hard. One thing that did get through is this: you are very frustrated. Then again, you also created a problem for someone

RE: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
I can split the file in 5MB chunks for you and post it at www.mytempdir.com. If it is OK for you to accept binary from stranger on the mailing list you have two options - selfextracting multipart archive or just multipart RAR archive (trial avail from http://www.rarlabs.com/). Specify either

[users] Re: Import PDF table

2007-02-05 Thread NoOp
James Knott wrote: NoOp wrote: In Adobe Reader click on the Select tool, outline the table with the cursor, copy. This select the table as a graphic which you can then past into OOo. Assuming the document allows copying. In that case the table shouldn't be copied anyway simply to

Re: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread James Lockie
David Potter wrote: For Barbara. Question to Open Office download/licence experts. Is it possible for someone limited by dialup connection to the Internet to obtain a copy of Open Office from a friend with broadband? If so, you can get the friend to copy the programme on to a disc and then

Re: [users] multi language

2007-02-05 Thread SIKDER Abdul-Majid
- Original Message - From: SIKDER Abdul-Majid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:56 PM Subject: [users] multi language Sir, I am using OpenOffice 2, French version under Windows XP Familial ( french), My probleme is: I can not write

[users] How the heck do you unsubscribe?

2007-02-05 Thread kvnsmnsn
I've sent several e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and nothing ever happens! Does anyone out there know how to unsubscribe from this e-mail list? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. ---Kevin You'll never get to heaven, or even to LA, if you don't believe there's a

Re: [users] multi language

2007-02-05 Thread SIKDER Abdul-Majid
- Original Message - From: SIKDER Abdul-Majid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [users] multi language - Original Message - From: SIKDER Abdul-Majid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday,

[users] find page break greyed out

2007-02-05 Thread John King
ooo 2.1 on both Windows XP and Linux I'm trying to use the facility offered in: Edit - Find and Replace - More Options - Format - Text Flow to find breaks, specifically hard page breaks. However, in the dialogue the section under 'Breaks' is greyed out. This is the case on both

FW: [users] adding music to a impress project

2007-02-05 Thread Marshall Feldman
As a work-around, you might try exporting the Impress presentation to a Flash file (swf) and then merging it with your audio using swftools. This link outlines the general procedure using different software (Wink) to generate the initial swf file:

Re: [users] How the heck do you unsubscribe?

2007-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 05/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've sent several e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and nothing ever happens! Does anyone out there know how to unsubscribe from this e-mail list? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. You should get a confirmation email. If not, check your

Re: [users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread Terence W C Warby
William Case wrote: I am willing to help. ( My previous background is in writing reports and analysis of many and varied non-IT subjects. i.e. businesses and communications plans). But I don't want my time to be wasted. I don't mind if suggestions are not used because they are wrong headed

[users] Resetting Dialog boxes

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Robertson
Afternoon! I accidentally checked a box that says Do not show this dialog again and unfortunately, the app does not function the same without it. ;) LOL! How do I reset those dialog boxes to display as if it were a fresh install, without reinstalling and erasing all my other mods? Sincerely,

RE: [users] Resetting Dialog boxes

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Robertson
Never mind, I found it. :) For those who are interested: ~~ When you click Do not show warning again, OpenOffice.org makes an entry in your local copy of Writer.xcu Code: node oor:name=PrintOutput prop oor:name=AskForMerge

Re: [users] Re: search and replace non-printing characters

2007-02-05 Thread Harold Drabkin
I have that document, but I can't find it; Lots of mention of special characters, but nothing on searching for non-printing characters, or is the only way to do this is with hexadecimal codes and \x ? Harold NoOp wrote: NoOp wrote: Harold Drabkin wrote: In Word, I am able to

Re: [sc-users] Extending row selection down with keyboard NOT working

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Watson
Eike Rathke wrote: Hi TerryJ, On Monday, 2007-02-05 21:19:45 +1100, TerryJ wrote: From earlier posts in the thread, it seems that the company's users select a row and try to extend the selection down with SHIFT + DOWN. The result is that the first column is selected down, NOT the table.

[users] OO-2.1: assign keystroke to macro

2007-02-05 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all, Having mixed up OOo packages coming from Debian testing with those converted from *.rpms (OOD580_m5_native_packed-1_en_US.9073) I fear that my Calc is somewhat incomplete... AAMOF, when I choose: Tools/Macro/Organize Macros/OO.org Basic/Assign, in the appearing window there are only three

Re: [users] OO-2.1: assign keystroke to macro

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Ennio, Hi. I was just 15 minutes ago trying to implement the macro you sent on my question and ran into the very same problem. I can paste the macro you wrote in, and I can run it by hand. (Some problems with the macro but I'll write about those later.) Anyway, I could not figure out how to

Re: [users] OO-2.1: assign keystroke to macro

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
And I found it. Look in the Openoffice.org Basic macro editor itself, in the tools menu there. The Keyboard and how it is mapped to a macro can be set up there. - Mark On 2/5/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ennio, Hi. I was just 15 minutes ago trying to implement the macro you sent

[users] Re: Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread NoOp
Rick Bilonick wrote: I'm using OOo 2.1 on Fedora 6 (using the OOo site 2.1 not Fedora's rpms). This is an ongoing saga working with a 350 page document. Just when I think I understand how OOo works, it surprises (and disappoints) me. I have a large number of pictures, most if not all inserted

[users] Re: Disappearing Pictures

2007-02-05 Thread Tim Wescott
Rick Bilonick wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:38 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I'm using OOo 2.1 on Fedora 6 (using the OOo site 2.1 not Fedora's rpms). This is an ongoing saga working with a 350 page document. Just when I think I understand how OOo works, it surprises (and

Re: [users] Re: Draw, grid lines print

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Conner
In calc to print grid lines: 1. Mark the cells to have grids printed. 2. FORMAT - CELLS - BORDERS - Select the border width from the choices - Choose line arrangement. Joe Smith wrote: Chris Bonde wrote: ... How do I have the grid lines printed? You mean View Grid Display Grid is

Re: [users] Re: Draw, grid lines print

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Conner
Also, you can check the check box. TOOLS - OPTIONS - OPENOFFICE.ORG CALC - VIEW - VISUAL AIDS - Check Grid Lines. Joe Conner wrote: In calc to print grid lines: 1. Mark the cells to have grids printed. 2. FORMAT - CELLS - BORDERS - Select the border width from the choices - Choose line

Re: [sc-users] Extending row selection down with keyboard NOT working

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
Jim Watson wrote: Eike Rathke wrote: Hi TerryJ, On Monday, 2007-02-05 21:19:45 +1100, TerryJ wrote: From earlier posts in the thread, it seems that the company's users select a row and try to extend the selection down with SHIFT + DOWN. The result is that the first column is selected

Re: [users] OO-2.1: assign keystroke to macro

2007-02-05 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050207, 14:22]: And I found it. Look in the Openoffice.org Basic macro editor itself, in the tools menu there. The Keyboard and how it is mapped to a macro can be set up there. - Mark I'm glad you succedeed and hope it does help you with what you wanted to

[users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Will Kramer
Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have 3 rows by 40 columns of data that I want to do a couple of calculations for on each row and then sort the rows. Is one of calc, gnumeric, excel more efficient at this?

Re: [users] OO-2.1: assign keystroke to macro

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
It's simpler to use Tools Customise : Keyboard Mark Knecht wrote: And I found it. Look in the Openoffice.org Basic macro editor itself, in the tools menu there. The Keyboard and how it is mapped to a macro can be set up there. - Mark On 2/5/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [users] How the heck do you unsubscribe?

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 05/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've sent several e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and nothing ever happens! Does anyone out there know how to unsubscribe from this e-mail list? I don't know what I'm doing wrong. You should get a confirmation

[users] RE: Resetting Dialog boxes

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
What was the command you used which employed the dialogue? This could be a problem for users rightly unwilling to mess with what they do not know. I get tired of telling people to hack their user folder (or, sometimes the software folders) - if the software was well written, it would be

Re: [users] Re: Calc function that returns the value of the current cell?

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/5/07, Ennio-Sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040207, 16:46]: On 2/4/07, Ennio-Sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030207, 17:20]: [...] This is not what you would like but seems to be a better workaround: 1. in

Re: [users] Just some 'Style' observations.

2007-02-05 Thread William Case
Hi Dan, Terence, Michael and Joe; You have peaked my interest in helping with documentation by your replies. I have a couple of days work ahead of me but after then I will read the sites you have suggested with care and interest. And then, decide if my volunteering to help will be of use to the

RE: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
-Original Message- From: Will Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:37 AM Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have 3 rows by 40 columns of data that I want to do a

Re: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! I have the same experience with large spreadsheets. If it comes close to 1 Mb (some 50 Mb in .xls), than it's impossible to work with calc. I'm linux user at work, so my solution is to break large spreadsheets into smaller ones and connect them with links, and of course delete every

[users] Combining functions Formula Cell

2007-02-05 Thread John Heinrich
I have a large spreadsheet in OO-Calc Windows XP that contains a large number of calculations in cells that have been given names. The names work; I use them to refer to the calculation result in subsequent calculations. I need to make a list of the cell names and their formulae. Several

Re: [users] Combining functions Formula Cell

2007-02-05 Thread TerryJ
John Heinrich wrote: I have a large spreadsheet in OO-Calc Windows XP that contains a large number of calculations in cells that have been given names. The names work; I use them to refer to the calculation result in subsequent calculations. I need to make a list of the cell names

[users] Querry regarding .cdr file

2007-02-05 Thread Mandar Sherbet
I wish to know whether any of the Open Office softwares can help me access a CDR File, (i.e. with .cdr extension). Kindly let me know if I have any other alternatives. Thanking You. Mandar Sherbet. Mandar Sherbet - Here’s a

[users] Re: [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread melchar
That is tough, especially getting a bad CD. Do you use a download manager? There are several shown on the Download page of OOo http://download.openoffice.org/index.html Another alternative is peer-to-peer, as this checks each chunk as it downloads and will reload anything missing.

Re: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread melchar
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: I can split the file in 5MB chunks for you and post it at www.mytempdir.com. If it is OK for you to accept binary from stranger on the mailing list you have two options - selfextracting multipart archive or just multipart RAR archive (trial avail from

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2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Mattson
Is this program compatible with Vista. Thomas Mattson

[users] Problem with File/Recent Documents

2007-02-05 Thread Åke Joan
/I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : The Recent Documents tab under the File drop down menu does not retain/show the latest documents opened. When I am in Openoffice and save a document it shows up correctly, but if I then go out of the program and then re-enter, only

[users] find replace - special

2007-02-05 Thread TLSabim
Hello, Does anyone know how to replace for example a paragraph mark (or Tab character) with manual line break or vice-versa? I am knew to OOo and I could not find under Find Replace an option for that. Thanks a million. -- Thelma L. Sabim [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.portuguesetranslator.net

[users] Querry regarding .cdr file

2007-02-05 Thread Mandar Sherbet
I wish to know whether any of the Open Office softwares can help me access a CDR File, (i.e. with .cdr extension). Kindly let me know if I have any other alternatives. Thanking You. Mandar Sherbet. Mandar Sherbet - Here’s a

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2007-02-05 Thread SOREN KRAGH
Hi, I am not able to install the latest version of OpenOffice. Error Message indicates #2908. Can anybody help? I am running XP. Regards, Soren

[users] WILL OPENOFFICE RUN ON MS VISTA new operating system?

2007-02-05 Thread Amanda Binks
Hello users@openoffice.org I want to buy a new computer soon and Dell (supplier I'm interested in) are only supplying new systems with MS Vista. So my question is: Does OpenOffice work/run on MS Vista the new os? Will I have problems running OpenOffice on new computers with new os? I'm not

[users] WILL OPENOFFICE RUN ON MS VISTA the new operating system

2007-02-05 Thread Mandi Binks
Hello users@openoffice.org I want to buy a new computer and Dell (supplier I'm interested in) are only supplying new systems with MS Vista. So my question is: Does OpenOffice work/run on MS Vista the new os? Will I have problems running OpenOffice on new computers with new os? I'm not a real

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2007-02-05 Thread Rose Bastidas
I am using openoffice.org writer..I cannot print envelopes, no matter the size. I have to tell you it is very frustrating. It is not a friendly program to use, I follow the instructions and the error message is that the envelope size is not correct. I hand write all of my envelopes

[users] Password for sheet / document protection

2007-02-05 Thread Tadek
I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : when I opened excell file by calc.org all passwords for sheet and document structure protection are lost. I can modify excell sheet protected by password. qestion: This is error in software or normal feature of this software? What

[users] signatures de fichiers

2007-02-05 Thread Karine Lenain
Bonjour, J'utilise le système windows xp, avec des partitions fat 32 et NTFS. Dans le cadre d'une récupération de données, les fichiers open office v2.x ont-ils une signature ? Dans l'affirmative, quelles sont leur valeur ( en héxadécimal ) et leur position offset pour chaque extension ( .odt,

Re: [users] Can I read/ edit files created in MS Publisher to Open Office?

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Evans
Thanks for that, Dan. I'll look into Scribus. Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday February 02 2007 3:57 am, Dave Evans wrote: Hi there My version of MS Publisher (2000) - which I use a lot in my job as a teacher - is currently very creaky. Some templates won't work, it's beyond the

[users] Fwd: Ms Outlook counterpart

2007-02-05 Thread Pieter Louw
Pieter Louw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:53:57 + (GMT) From: Pieter Louw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ms Outlook counterpart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi We envisage installing Linux only on our new IT system - we are a new startup company with around 5 staff but we will

[users] Windows vista

2007-02-05 Thread Paxton, Emily
Can I use openoffice.org with window's vista? Thanks Emily

Re: [users] Spanish spell check

2007-02-05 Thread Joel Sanchez
Thanks Andy! Andy Pepperdine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:50, Joel Sanchez wrote: The openoffice version I have in my computer doesn't have Spanish spell check. How do I install it? and/or Where do I find one I can install? Try this:

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2007-02-05 Thread cbarnett9
I recently received officeorg and downloaded on my computer. My question, can I delete Microsoft Office 2003 and get everything I need off Open Office.

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