Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread hem_976
Hi  Hagar,               The file is fine and opens on RHEL-WS-4  with  same version of  openoffice-2.0.0,               the filter selection dialog box open only for .doc , If I open the .txt it does not open               filter selection dialog box it works fine, I even If try to open

Re: [users] please do not hijack existing threads

2007-06-21 Thread Nawal Kishore Gupta
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. Nawal Dear Nawal, It is considered extremely impolite to hijack someone else's thread. Do not post your queries under an

Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Then, you should try to upgrade. To be sure, you can send me the file (don't reply to the list) so I can try on my 2.2.1 Hagar Le 21.06.2007 08:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Hagar, The file is fine and opens on RHEL-WS-4 with same version of openoffice-2.0.0,

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

2007-06-21 Thread Russell Butler
NoOp wrote: On 06/20/2007 04:57 PM, Russell Butler wrote: Robin Eason wrote: I downloaded open office and I've been using Microsoft word for a few years. I do transcription for two doctor's offices and I have downloaded two different spell-checkers for medical transcription on my home

[users] Re: please do not hijack existing threads

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. Nawal Dear Nawal, It is considered extremely impolite to hijack someone else's thread. Do not

[users] Re: have just lost all the text faculties

2007-06-21 Thread Russell Butler
Tom wrote: Hi Dan, Would you believe that I have three toolbars there now and after clicking visible buttons on each one of them and seeing three lists of options, on not one list are the basic things I want: Bold Italics Underline Font colour Highlighting I would have thought these

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

2007-06-21 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hallo, KH.Ziener wrote: Vielen Dank für die schnelle Antwort! Hat aber leider nicht funktioniert. Bekomme weiterhin die Melgungen 1935 und 2908. Habe wieder OO 1.1.5 installiert. [Abstract: Thanks for reply. It still doesn't work. Getting error messages 1935 and 2908. Reinstalled OOo 1.1.5.]

[users] Re: Small updates

2007-06-21 Thread Herbert Eppel
On 20.06.2007 22:29 UK Time, James Knott wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: On 20.06.2007 12:46 UK Time, Joe Grech wrote: Can't you download at night? That's what I do go to sleep and in the morn it is done. Not a very constructive answer, I'm afraid :-( While having to download the whole shebang

Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 02:23 21/06/2007 -0400, Hemanth wrote: The file is fine and opens on RHEL-WS-4 with same version of openoffice-2.0.0, the filter selection dialog box open only for .doc , If I open the .txt it does not open filter selection dialog box it works fine, I even If try to open file-new-text it

Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread hem_976
Hi Brain, ?? when goto the file-templates-organise and Template Management windows open ?right click on left window I get printer setting/Update pop box,If right click on folder I get ?new/delete/import/printer settings/update pop box but I am not getting the Reset Default Template

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

2007-06-21 Thread jonathon
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Why do you need a subscription number? Openoffice is freely available and My guess is the OP bought a subscription service that provides them with updates to their software on a biennial basis. They haven't received their update, and want to know what has happened to the

[users] ODF Format

2007-06-21 Thread Nawal Kishore Gupta
Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. Nawal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: ODF Format

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. Nawal Hi again Nawal, 1st: thanks for starting a new thread. 2nd: the native saving mode for Impress is .odp or OpenDocumentPresentation. It is

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

2007-06-21 Thread jonathon
Robin Eason wrote: home computer. When using open office for the first time yesterday the spell checkers did not work in open office. Is there a way I can get that to happen? If the spell checkers adhere to either HunSpell or MySpell file format, then copying them to

Re: [users] Re: ODF Format

2007-06-21 Thread Nawal Kishore Gupta
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. Nawal Hi again Nawal, 1st: thanks for starting a new thread. 2nd: the native saving mode for Impress is .odp or

Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread hem_976
Hi? Brain/Hagar, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I tried to open the same? .doc file, filter slection dialog box opens then I selected ? Text(openoffice.org writer/web) ,it open another dialog box ASCII Filter Options ? in which I selected UTF-8 as my character set and

Re: [users] filter selection

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 04:41 21/06/2007 -0400, Hemanth wrote: Hi Brain, I'll answer to that, too! when goto the file-templates-organise and Template Management windows open right click on left window I get printer setting/Update pop box,If right click on folder I get new/delete/import/printer settings/update

Re: [users] have just lost all the text faculties Do you have a ph number with location and country code?

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday June 20 2007 4:04 pm, Tom wrote: Do you have a ph number with location and country code? Hi Dan, Would you believe that I have three toolbars there now and after clicking visible buttons on each one of them and seeing three lists of options, on not one list are the basic things

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

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday June 20 2007 1:18 pm, Smith, Jeff (PCLN-NW) wrote: Lucy, Without changing keyboard configurations, which I'm not familiar with, you can use some key sequences which should do the trick. I have a cheat sheet with these printed out for my wife who does Spanish translations. I

[users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-21 Thread Marleen Jongen
Hi, We have Vista Basic, can somebody explain the difference between 387 MB and 1,10 GB indicated above ? Had XP on old PC from which 70% full of downloads - updates and patches from Microsoft, no need to say there was no room left to work with it and want to prevent this happens to new PC,

Re: [users] Re: Small updates

2007-06-21 Thread Per
/How often does MS offer incremental updates for MS Office?/ One per month I think, they have a date (12) I think in every month that they offers updates to Windows and to MS Office... // Per James Knott skrev: Herbert Eppel wrote: On 20.06.2007 12:46 UK Time, Joe Grech wrote:

Re: [users] Download error on three attempts

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Ed Thomas wrote: HI there: I have attempted to download the latest revision three times and receive the same error when trying to run after the download. What is the error you get? -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

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

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using version x.y of openoffice.org. my problem is; that I have down loaded your free office program and I am not able to log on, I did not put in a password nor user name please help me. OpenOffice doesn't need a password to run. Also, what version are

Re: [users] Re: ODF Format

2007-06-21 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Thanks for the reply. But saved .odp seems like a binary file (Not an xml ) when opened in any text editor. It's a compressed (zip) file. If you want to see the XML source, you can unzip the odp file using whatever zip utiliy you have on your operating system. Inside the .odp file you

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

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
JAMES WEDMAN wrote: I can't seem to download office2.2.1 I have windows xp. Can you help or send a cd? Please describe what happens when you try to download. There's a link on the OO site to CD vendors. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

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

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Pueblo Native wrote: in any event, you also need to know that you have to run _two_ executables to install OpenOffice. The first unpacks the files and places them in a directory (usually your Desktop), but it does not install it. Once it has unpacked, you need to go into that newly created

[users] Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Hi All, Please sign the petition here : http://www.noooxml.org/petition/ (cookies have to be enabled for this site) Thanks, Hagar 2466 votes at this very minute. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] OASIS ODF Format for Impress

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear All, Is ODF(XML) Format is supported for Impress?? I can't see this option in file save as options list. The ODF presentation file type is ODP, which is the default choice for Impress on my system. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: ODF Format

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Nawal Kishore Gupta wrote: Dear Jonathan, Thanks for the reply. But saved .odp seems like a binary file (Not an xml ) when opened in any text editor. All ODF files are zipped. If you want to see what's inside, you'll have to unzip them. You may have to change the file type to .zip,

Re: [users] editing a read-only form created in MS Word

2007-06-21 Thread Cor Nouws
Hello Pat, Pat Williams wrote: I've created some forms using MS Word. The user can write only in the text fields I've included in the forms, but can't alter the other parts of the document because I've locked them. Is there a way that I can unlock these documents in OOo in order to edit them?

Re: [users] Re: [moderated]

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
NoOp wrote: On 06/20/2007 02:37 PM, James Knott wrote: Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Patricia Scott wrote: I've read on your website that OpenOffice.org applications can open and save documents in MS Office but does it work the other way around? I'm about to graduate and I don't want to find

Re: [users] Re: [moderated]

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I've just woken up and realised that the OP (Patricia Scott) is not subscribed, so I've forwarded the relevant responses to her (my previous post with all other comments). Peter HB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 21 2007 5:47 am, Marleen Jongen wrote: Hi, We have Vista Basic, can somebody explain the difference between 387 MB and 1,10 GB indicated above ? Had XP on old PC from which 70% full of downloads - updates and patches from Microsoft, no need to say there was no room left to

[users] Openlaszlo and OOo

2007-06-21 Thread Marshall Feldman
Hi, Does anyone know about interfacing OOo with OpenLaszlo (see http://www.openlaszlo.org/). Given that they both use XML-based technologies, I would think that this would not be too difficult. From the looks of things, interfacing with OpenLaszlo would be a convenient way to work around some

Re: [users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-21 Thread jonathon
Marleen Jongen wrote: We have Vista Basic, can somebody explain the difference between 387 MB and 1,10 GB indicated above If that is the size displayed in the add/remove programs tool, ignore it. At best, the file size there is inaccurate. If ls -al displays that as the size of the contents

[users] Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, Can someone confirm my belief that quickstarter is *not* available in the linux version of OO. If my belief is wrong, then can someone explain why it's greyed out in the Memory section of the Options menu. TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Re: [users] Open Office compatibility with MS Office for Mac

2007-06-21 Thread Robin Laing
me 1004 wrote: Re your questions, I had already answered your first one in the second sentence of my original e-mail: yes, I saved the Writer document in Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP format. Re your second question: I think yes, it was checked for automatic file name extension as the extension

Re: [users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Marleen, Are you referring to space used on your hard drive? If so, you should know that all versions of Vista have feature like system restore, called 'previous versions', that backs up every file that is modified or deleted in hidden disk space. In the basic version, the option to use

[users] What is the syntax for using variables in Queries?

2007-06-21 Thread adam . schirmacher
How does one create a query with a parameter? I tried simply putting box brackets around some text in the Criterion field of the designer. It didn't work. 1. How to make a query accept a variable (parameter)? 2. How to send an argument to this query when it is used in a form (say, as a list

Re: [users] Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread Javier Rivera
Jonathan Kaye escribió: Hi all, Can someone confirm my belief that quickstarter is *not* available in the linux version of OO. There are at least 3 different quickstarters for OOo available for linux, 2 for KDE and one for Gnome. At least, on the Ubuntu repositories. If my belief is wrong,

[users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Ed Smits
I'm trying to do a selective Search Replace for specific letters followed by a paragraph break and replace them with a semi-colon and space and have come up dry. The OO Help on Regular Expressions doesn't show it, I found how to use AutoFormat to get rid of them all, but a selective replacement

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Ed, From the list of regular expressions in help: $ Only finds the search term if the term appears at the end of a paragraph. Special objects such as empty fields or character-anchored frames at the end of a paragraph are ignored. Example: Peter$. tc Ed Smits wrote: I'm trying to do a

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Ed Smits
Tried that, it doesn't do what I need. To be specific, as an example I want to convert the following text: sample1.txtParagraph Break sample2.txtPB sample3.txtPB into sample1; sample2; sample3 and doing a SR for .txt$ to be replaced with ;space doesn't remove the breaks, just the .txt which

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi again, It appears that this still won't give you what you want. If you search for Peter$ and replace it with xxx, the paragraph break remains. You could replace all paragraph breaks with some letter combination not used in you file: with regular expressions turned on search for = $

Re: [users] Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, Can someone confirm my belief that quickstarter is *not* available in the linux version of OO. If my belief is wrong, then can someone explain why it's greyed out in the Memory section of the Options menu. TIA, Jonathan I think it depends on which Linux distro

[users] Re: Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Javier Rivera wrote: Jonathan Kaye escribió: Hi all, Can someone confirm my belief that quickstarter is *not* available in the linux version of OO. There are at least 3 different quickstarters for OOo available for linux, 2 for KDE and one for Gnome. At least, on the Ubuntu repositories.

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Ed Smits
still no joy, that works to get rid of all my paragraph breaks, but that I don't need, I want to do it selectively, only for the breaks following .txt There must be some reasonable way to do this.. Thanks for your help so far, I'll take any and all ideas at this stage. Either I figure this

Re: [users] ideas? I am fresh out.

2007-06-21 Thread Robin Laing
Paul wrote: The linux guru (Brendan) that does things that are beyond me said that it was an automatic update that somehow altered the password, and that I need to determine which oo update has this bug in it. If you folks get a report of this please forward it. I would appreciate it. Thanks

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-21 Thread John Boyle
To Fred Miller: My question is why don't someone do something about a viable voice dictation/OS program if they really are concerned about expanding the Linux base? I am tired of hearing that they cannot make any money at it, since most distros are NOT free if bought in box form!!! :o

[users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Bos
Hi, is it possible in writer to define 2 different heading styles for headings that operate on the same heading level. E.g. I want a heading 3 that sometimes inserts a page break and another heading 3 that does not insert a page break, thus: Heading 3: no page break Heading 3 with page

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
I guess the easiest is to define your heading 3 style with a page break and remove it manually when you don't need it (i.e. direct formatting). Right click on the heading 3, Text Flow tab and uncheck the break. NB: The option for automatic style update has to be unchecked. Hagar Le

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-21 Thread jonathon
John wrote: viable voice dictation/OS program if they really are concerned about expanding the Linux base? I am tired of hearing that they cannot http://freshmeat.net/redir/speechlion/58780/url_homepage/speechlion http://voicecode.iit.nrc.ca/VoiceCode/public/ywiki.cgi

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Al Balmer
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:47:52 -0400, Ed Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still no joy, that works to get rid of all my paragraph breaks, but that I don't need, I want to do it selectively, only for the breaks following .txt There must be some reasonable way to do this.. Reread Anthony's

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 21 2007 2:02 pm, Richard Bos wrote: Hi, is it possible in writer to define 2 different heading styles for headings that operate on the same heading level. E.g. I want a heading 3 that sometimes inserts a page break and another heading 3 that does not insert a page break,

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

2007-06-21 Thread Brumfield, Carolyn J
I have converted Microsoft Word documents to OpenOffice.odt. Now I need to save the .odt files to a pdf format. When I try to create a pdf file from OpenOffice the document pages are blank. Could you please give me some advice. Thanks.

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

2007-06-21 Thread Donald
Dear Sir Could you tell me when the Scottish Gaelic version of Open Office will be available. Regards Donald Donald and Fiona Mackenzie 39 Chestnut Rd Dingwall Ross-shire www.fionamackenzie.org HYPERLINK

Re: [users] mail merge; cannot connect to smtp server

2007-06-21 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Dan Lewis wrote: [...] First of all, I would suggest you update your version of OOo. There have been some improvements in the mail merge since 2.0.0. The current version is 2.2.1. Dan OK, I have to warm this subject up again. In an earlier post I wrote it worked, which is

[users] [moderated]

2007-06-21 Thread Charles Isaac
My documents only print in red when using the Mac OS X download. I've changed settings repeatedly, but they continue to print in red. MS Word prints in black as do Open Office documents in Windows platform. This only occurs in my Mac. Thanks, Charles Isaac

[users] Language packs for OOo 2.2 Windows version

2007-06-21 Thread Goudreau, Joel \(NBPLS/SBPNB\)
Hello, I'm having a hard time finding the language packs. I have been all through the OOo site look, have been to the L10n project site, yet I still can't find a location to download the packs. I have one for ver 2.1 that I found somewhere though. Also, I would like to know if there is

Re: [users] Small updates

2007-06-21 Thread Faraz Choudhry
Trouble is, 2.2.1 is not available at the UK mirror for download. F. H. Choudhry Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday June 20 2007 5:30 am, Faraz Choudhry wrote: Hello, I've just downloaded OpenOffice version 2.2.0 and would like to know where can I download the small

[users] View-Toolbars-Text Object has got all but the highlighter back. Any ideas there?

2007-06-21 Thread Tom
View-Toolbars-Text Object has restored all but the highlighter back. (Bold Underline Italics and Text colour back) Any ideas for restoring hilighter? I still think the closest I have got to restoring things is: Tools and then select Customise It is just that I could not get what I selected

Re: [users] Inability to send error reports

2007-06-21 Thread Sidney Westmoreland
Harold Fuchs wrote: Sidney Westmoreland wrote: As i attempt to open the writer a dialog box pops up requesting that an error report be sent. When I attempt to send the program hangs. Help! Sidney Westmoreland - To

Re: [users] Re: Open Office compatibility with MS Office for Mac

2007-06-21 Thread me 1004
OK, with some more testing here, I am suspecting there is a partial incompatibility going on with Open Office Writer documents being saved in Windows 97-2000-XP format and then trying to open it in MS Word 2001 for Mac. I have no problem opening MS Office files from Windows machines with my MS

Re: [users] have just lost all the text faculties Do you have a ph number with location and country code?

2007-06-21 Thread Tom
Sorry Dan but can you think of anything else because use View Toolbars and the click Formating in the menu does nothing at all. And I am using an OpenOffice.org Writer Regards Tom Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday June 20 2007 4:04 pm, Tom wrote: Do you have a ph number with

[users] OpenOffice 2.2

2007-06-21 Thread Prasaad Milner
Dear Sir/Mam: I am using OpenOffice 2.2 and have encountered what might be a very serious probem.I was using Open Office 2.2 Database. I had a Table that I was copying names, titles(etc.) of books on. I had manually saved all of my records. My Operating System, Windows XP, needed an automatic

[users] Donation Information

2007-06-21 Thread George Gold
I would like to donate to Open Office. I need a mailing address for Open Office. I need the correct and compete 501c3 organization name. I need your 501c3 tax id. Looking forward to hearing form you. George

[users] download problem

2007-06-21 Thread David Adamson
I am a new Mac user. I have installed X11. I tried downloading Open Office but all I got was the Writer. That is to say when I open OO from my Applications folder it opens directly to Writer and there is nothing else available. The total download was about 130MB. Am I not knowing

[users] Enquiry

2007-06-21 Thread Systems Kolkata
We are having a small company with 50 computers (approx.). We want to use OpenOffice for spreadsheet, text documents and presentation. I have downloaded the software from your site. Now please guide me about license issue. Is it a freeware? Regards, Abhi Chakraborty

[users] [moderated]

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan.Hewitt
Hi, Im really stuck. I need to distribute OpenOffice 2.2 to about 3000 machines. I have got it to work in Group Policy, however I don't want it to prompt the user asking them if they want to auto update or to register the product. I have read that a file called resource does the job, but the

[users] help please.

2007-06-21 Thread sean older
Hey ya, my name is Sen Older, I hve downladed your product, actually I did it yesterday. I am having troubles in saving and re-opening programmes. What format can I save in to re-open it on my mac computer. I also would like to know can i save it in a format that is compatible with bot Mac

[users] I am using version 2.2.0 of OpenOffice.org Using Reports on BASE

2007-06-21 Thread Helen Dale
I'm trying to create a report of people and the privileges they have. I have created tables according to different sub menus which each contain the details required. There are 15 tables. I need to combine these so that I can have a report for each person. I've tried to create a query to do

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Le 21.06.2007 21:40, Dan Lewis a écrit : Create a custom heading style with all of the attributes of Heading 3. Make one of them have a page break, and the other one not. Then use the heading style that you need each time. The problem with this method is that the custom style cannot be

Re: [users] Language packs for OOo 2.2 Windows version

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Hi, See this thread for example : http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=760 Beware, you're not subscribed to the list, you may miss answers. Hagar Le 21.06.2007 18:46, Goudreau, Joel (NBPLS/SBPNB) a écrit : Hello, I'm having a hard time finding the language packs. I have

Re: [users] Enquiry

2007-06-21 Thread jonathon
Abhi wrote: Now please guide me about license issue. http://www.openoffice.org/license.html OOo is distributed using the GNU Lesser General Public License. In brief, that means that you can use it however you like, for whatever purpose you like, provided the people you distribute it to are

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.2

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Prasaad Milner wrote: Dear Sir/Mam: I am using OpenOffice 2.2 and have encountered what might be a very serious probem.I was using Open Office 2.2 Database. I had a Table that I was copying names, titles(etc.) of books on. I had manually saved all of my records. My Operating System,

Re: [users] Enquiry

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Systems Kolkata wrote: We are having a small company with 50 computers (approx.). We want to use OpenOffice for spreadsheet, text documents and presentation. I have downloaded the software from your site. Now please guide me about license issue. Is it a freeware? It is not freeware.

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

2007-06-21 Thread James Knott
Brumfield, Carolyn J wrote: I am using version OpenOffice 2.2. I have converted Microsoft Word documents to OpenOffice.odt. Now I need to save the .odt files to a pdf format. When I try to create a pdf file from OpenOffice the document pages are blank. Could you please give me some advice.

[users] Re: What is the syntax for using variables in Queries?

2007-06-21 Thread Mechtilde Stehmann
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: How does one create a query with a parameter? I tried simply putting box brackets around some text in the Criterion field of the designer. It didn't work. 1. How to make a query accept a variable (parameter)? 2. How to send an argument to this query

Re: [users] How to show paragraph breaks as a regular expression

2007-06-21 Thread Ed Smits
you're right, one extra step, but it will work Thanks to both ED On 6/21/07, Al Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:47:52 -0400, Ed Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still no joy, that works to get rid of all my paragraph breaks, but that I don't need, I want to do it

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.2

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 21 2007 3:24 pm, James Knott wrote: Prasaad Milner wrote: Dear Sir/Mam: I am using OpenOffice 2.2 and have encountered what might be a very serious probem.I was using Open Office 2.2 Database. I had a Table that I was copying names, titles(etc.) of books on. I had

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Bos
Op Thursday 21 June 2007 21:17:48 schreef Hagar de l'Est: I guess the easiest is to define your heading 3 style with a page break and remove it manually when you don't need it (i.e. direct formatting). Right click on the heading 3, Text Flow tab and uncheck the break. But, if I do it this way:

Re: [users] download problem

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 21 2007 2:31 am, David Adamson wrote: I am a new Mac user. I have installed X11. I tried downloading Open Office but all I got was the Writer. That is to say when I open OO from my Applications folder it opens directly to Writer and there is nothing else available. The

Re: [users] I am using version 2.2.0 of OpenOffice.org Using Reports on BASE

2007-06-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday June 21 2007 4:59 am, Helen Dale wrote: I'm trying to create a report of people and the privileges they have. I have created tables according to different sub menus which each contain the details required. There are 15 tables. I need to combine these so that I can have a report

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Le 21.06.2007 22:34, Richard Bos a écrit : Op Thursday 21 June 2007 21:17:48 schreef Hagar de l'Est: I guess the easiest is to define your heading 3 style with a page break and remove it manually when you don't need it (i.e. direct formatting). Right click on the heading 3, Text Flow tab and

Re: [users] Enquiry

2007-06-21 Thread Christina Godinez
It's FREE ... Just download and install... Systems Kolkata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are having a small company with 50 computers (approx.). We want to use OpenOffice for spreadsheet, text documents and presentation. I have downloaded the software from your site. Now please guide me about

Re: [users] 2 different styles for same heading level

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Bos
Hagar and Dan, thanks a lot for your support! Op Thursday 21 June 2007 22:42:15 schreef Hagar de l'Est: Le 21.06.2007 22:34, Richard Bos a écrit : Op Thursday 21 June 2007 21:17:48 schreef Hagar de l'Est: I guess the easiest is to define your heading 3 style with a page break and remove

[users] Re: Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
James Knott wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, Can someone confirm my belief that quickstarter is *not* available in the linux version of OO. If my belief is wrong, then can someone explain why it's greyed out in the Memory section of the Options menu. TIA, Jonathan I think it

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

2007-06-21 Thread Brumfield, Carolyn J
I am using version OpenOffice 2.2. I have converted Microsoft Word documents to OpenOffice.odt. Now I need to save the .odt files to a pdf format. When I try to create a pdf file from OpenOffice the document pages are blank. Could you please give me some advice. Thanks. Carolyn

Re: [users] Re: Openoffice Quickstarter

2007-06-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Le 21.06.2007 21:52, Jonathan Kaye a écrit : I'm using Debian Lenny but I don't use the debian packages. I get the program from the Openoffice site and then convert the RPM's to .debs myself. I don't believe there's a starter included but Javier's tip led me to the KDE quickstarter project so

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

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Donald wrote: Dear Sir Could you tell me when the Scottish Gaelic version of Open Office will be available. Regards Donald Hi Donald, My guess would be as soon as someone like your good self helps out Evan Brown and JD Gresset with the translation. If you go to this

[users] no news?

2007-06-21 Thread David Bird
I have logged onto the OpenOffice.org website and found no new news (other than M$ routing ODF in the state statutes). I *NEED* my daily update of news!!! :) David -- 'The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Re: [users] View-Toolbars-Text Object has got all but the highlighter back. Any ideas there?

2007-06-21 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, Tom wrote: View-Toolbars-Text Object has restored all but the highlighter back. (Bold Underline Italics and Text colour back) Any ideas for restoring hilighter? I still think the closest I have got to restoring things is: Tools and then select Customise It is just that I could not get

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-21 Thread John Boyle
To Users and Jonathon: Thanks for the information. Now the big question, does any of them work as well as Dragon Naturally Speaking? Secondly, you mention Via Voice must be installed before installing xvoice, do you mean I should put a Windows based voice dictation into Linux and then xvoice?

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

2007-06-21 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Donald wrote: Dear Sir Could you tell me when the Scottish Gaelic version of Open Office will be available. Regards Donald Hi Donald, My guess would be as soon as someone like your good self helps out Evan Brown and JD Gresset with the translation. If you go to

[users] Re: an arcane property of OO sorting

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Allan
Jonathan Kaye wrote: The problem seems clear: the addion of numbers changes the sensitivity of the sort. If there are no numbers then the characters O, Ô and Õ are distinct and sorted in the order you gave. If you add a following number they all merge and the sort is then based on sorting the

[users] Variables and Input Fields

2007-06-21 Thread Lívio Cipriano
Hi, I'm using OO 2.2.1 - from openSuSE 10.2 - and my first experience with these field is not going well. I've a Writer document, where I introduced a Variable Field, hidden, after, an Input Field, to update the Variable Field, and after I've a Show Variable Field, to the same Variable. Each

Re: [users] Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-21 Thread TerryJ
Hagar de l'Est wrote: Hi All, Please sign the petition here : http://www.noooxml.org/petition/ (cookies have to be enabled for this site) Thanks, Hagar 2466 votes at this very minute. I appreciate your efforts, Hagar de l'Est. I saw your post on 8daysaweek.co.uk and voted.

Re: [users] How to run macro on dialog startup?

2007-06-21 Thread TerryJ
adam.schirmacher wrote: Is there a way to run a macro upon the opening of a dialog? I don't mean when any dialog is oepened, but when this specific dialog is opened. You can use a dialogue to run a macro. What exactly do you want to do? -- View this message in context:

Re: [users] Macros not active on new machine?

2007-06-21 Thread TerryJ
Are you using the .ods format? Macros would not, I think, be converted to the .xls format. Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Anthony, The macro was developed on the first machine and in the spreadsheet that I wanted to use it in. That spreadsheet should (I think) already have the macro in it,

Re: [users] Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-21 Thread M Henri Day
Thanks, Hagar, for bringing this petition, of which I just became the 3384th signer, to our attention ! But I am disturbed by some of the comments I see on the site, e g, the following : «No way. M$'s always fucking around. JUST OPEN YOUR EYES... it's time to M$ to go (to hell). I say enough is

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