RE: [users] Date issue on open office.org calc

2007-07-12 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
-Original Message- From: Lasantha Marian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:39 AM This problem has been there since the beginning of OOo 2.2.x (starting with RCs') and I have brought the attention of the developers also to the same by this bug report

Re: [users] Single Returns ...

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:51 12/07/2007 -0400, Mitchel Cohen wrote: Hi, When I cut and paste from Open Office into Eudora, single returns at the end of a line in Open Office become double-spaced in Eudora. I then have to go through entire documents to eliminate the extra unwanted space between lines. What do

[users] Spelling checker disabled in some paragraphs

2007-07-12 Thread Djingo Cacadril
I have a oowriter document where spell checking seems to be disabled or just not working in some paragraphs. I am looking around in paragraph, character, style, and other dialogs, from context menu and from the regular format/* menu, but I cannot find out what the problem is. I press F7, the

Re: [users] New subject--user icons

2007-07-12 Thread Joyce McClure
This only occurs on the OO mailing list. Apparently not everyone sees what I see. Joyce P.S. and when I try to send this message I get a Messsage Character Set Conflict with three options: Send As Unicode, Send As Is, or Cancel. I will send as Unicode. - Original Message - From:

[users] Re: Relational DB's

2007-07-12 Thread Mr. Cheese
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I expect one Base document, one link. If you write a macro, however, you can do what you want (meaning in a macro I can connect to more than one DB at a time). Mr. Cheese wrote: I'm trying to use Base on files that I have in DBF format. I've used these with

Re: [users] calc: lookup cell not value

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
James Lockie wrote: I want to use the all a value to the cell returned by lookup. Basically I have a sorted column (A) that contains categories and column B which contains a number. I also have another 2 columns (C, D) that contain a category and a a number. I want to add all the numbers that

Re: [users] Spelling checker disabled in some paragraphs

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Djingo Cacadril wrote: I have a oowriter document where spell checking seems to be disabled or just not working in some paragraphs. I am looking around in paragraph, character, style, and other dialogs, from context menu and from the regular format/* menu, but I cannot find out what the

[users] Re: Re: Re: Re: OOo/StarSuite8: Calc: Date Format

2007-07-12 Thread Jan Sax
Hi Andrew, Maybe this might help you? Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I use the format so that I can send files around and they will fort using an ASCII sort. The standard does not require delimiters. ISO 8601 defines basic format without

[users] Re: New subject--user icons

2007-07-12 Thread Russell Butler
Joyce McClure wrote: This only occurs on the OO mailing list. Apparently not everyone sees what I see. Joyce P.S. and when I try to send this message I get a Messsage Character Set Conflict with three options: Send As Unicode, Send As Is, or Cancel. I will send as Unicode. -

[users] Re: Re: Re: Re: OOo/StarSuite8: Calc: Date Format

2007-07-12 Thread Jan Sax
Sorry Andrew: in my previous answer, I forgot to mention an important remark. Reason why earlier (grin grin) I pretended not to understand your 2007071001 is twofold. 1. Input: If input like you wrote it, your string would never be recognized, by any spreadsheet application, as a valid

RE: [users] XForms repeating fields

2007-07-12 Thread Swanson, Dennis
OK... that's what I needed to know. Thanks for the info. -Original Message- From: Jonathon Coombes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:45 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] XForms repeating fields Yes, quite a good description and I believe the

[users] Navigation of input fields

2007-07-12 Thread John Meyer
You might want to vote for this issue here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49604 By the way, to the list members: has there been any recent work on this? Last I am seeing is 2005. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] REF: I copied the program from another PC and could not installed on my PC

2007-07-12 Thread John Meyer
Victor Kaw wrote: I copied the program installer from another PC and try to run on my PC, there is a NOTE shows : 16 bit MS-DOS subsystem C:\PROGRAM--1\OPENOF--1.1\OOO_22-1.EXE C:\DOCUME--1\Owner\LOCALS--1\Temp\. A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or could

[users] Data Label Font Size in Open Org Calc

2007-07-12 Thread comp guru
I have created a scatter plot and labeled each point in the scatter plot. The scatter plot represents pay distribution in my company. The data label is the employee's name. There are many employees so the labels overlap. If I was able to reduce the label font size I believe that all would be

Re: [users] New subject--user icons

2007-07-12 Thread Al Balmer
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:23:23 -0500, Joyce McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only occurs on the OO mailing list. Apparently not everyone sees what I see. This is a function of your mail program, Outlook Express. You might try poking around the help pages for information on the icons. Joyce

Re: [users] REF: I copied the program from another PC and could not installed on my PC

2007-07-12 Thread John Meyer
Victor Kaw wrote: Thank you very much, apparently it is the directory problems, but I do not know how to fix it. I'll try reload the program see what happens. Thanks again. Victor First off, it sounds like you may not be in the administrator account. If you are in a networked

Re: [users] Date issue on open office.org calc

2007-07-12 Thread Robin Laing
Lasantha Marian wrote: *--- Original Message * *Subject: * [users] Date issue on open office.org calc *Date: *Thu, 12/Jul/2007 5:01:13 AM +0550 *From: *Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To: * users@openoffice.org On 11/07/2007, at 9:56 PM, Lasantha Marian

[users] Re: Fill in fields

2007-07-12 Thread NoOp
On 07/11/2007 07:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new user/trainer to OpenOffice, not a developer. I have been researching and testing quite a bit with my Word documents, but would appreciate some help. My question is this: Our Police Department has over 200 templates done in Word. A

[users] Re: Navigation of input fields

2007-07-12 Thread NoOp
On 07/12/2007 09:08 AM, John Meyer wrote: You might want to vote for this issue here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49604 By the way, to the list members: has there been any recent work on this? Last I am seeing is 2005. See my post regarding Fill in Fields. I think

[users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread bruno lucien Mazzia di venarolo
Hi, After installing OpenOffice, i have always the same message cannot open for Mac OSX because the X11 software in not installed, .../X11.html I HAVE ALREADY INSTALLED X11, AND RE-INSTALLED IT I HAVE I checked in the library in receipt all is OK and yet the application

[users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread Mr Mrs Woodger
Dear OpenOffice I see that there is an upgrade available and I was thinking of downloading it. Will I need to uninstall Openoffice before I open the upgrade, or is this done automatically? Thanks Andy Woodger - To

[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE-I pd. got nothing.

2007-07-12 Thread monty shields
I gave my credit card # and was informed that I was installed . Nothing. I was to receive an email with confirmation...NOTHING.

[users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread Sandara Dev
testing

[users] WG: Set OpenOffice 2.2.1 Software Online?

2007-07-12 Thread Reuter joe
Hello I have nothing understood. May I set the software on-line one or not? Yours sincerely Reuter Joe OpenOffice.org is free to copy and distribute as per the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL ). Quoting Reuter joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

[users] Changing paragraph breaks to spaces

2007-07-12 Thread Sam Warren
Does anyone know how to change paragraph breaks to space and double paragraph breaks and spaces to single? Sam Warren Bookwarren Publishing Services Post Office Box 620685, San Diego, CA 92162 (619) 674-3066 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bookwarren.com -

[users] another *very* basic question. do I get an email in reply

2007-07-12 Thread m p
to my question about Impress or do I have to log in somewhere and look for the answer to my question. Thanks a million!! - Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.

[users] Alternative to Excel

2007-07-12 Thread Michael, Costa
I am looking for an alternative to excel and access on an apple platform What can you offer Costa

[users] How to download-install Impress

2007-07-12 Thread m p
Hello everyone: I have a basic knowledge of what open source is and my question reflects how basic. In any case, the question is: is Impress like power point and how do I install it. I need to prepare a presentation and don't have power point. thank you!!

Re: [users] Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
I'm not sure what you mean by vertical, but in Writer you can go to Format Page Page and change orientation to landscape. You can also go to Format Columns to set up columns if this is what you want. In Calc, you can go to Format Cells Alignment to rotate text. Quoting Kay Byrnes [EMAIL

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE-I pd. got nothing.

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
Come again? You gave your credit card to whom? You were installing what? This is the OpenOffice.org mailing list - a free and open source office suite that doesn't need your credit card. Are you lost? Quoting monty shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I gave my credit card # and was informed that I

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
Are you sure you installed the correct X11? If you're running 10.4.x, you'll need to install it from the DVD(s) that came with your computer - the download from Apple won't work. If you're running 10.3.x, you have to install X11 from Apple's download. Quoting bruno lucien Mazzia di venarolo

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
If you use the upgrade menu option, it will do everything automatically. Quoting Mr Mrs Woodger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear OpenOffice I see that there is an upgrade available and I was thinking of downloading it. Will I need to uninstall Openoffice before I open the upgrade, or is this done

[users] Question about downloading program [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-07-12 Thread Ernestine S. Bonicelli
When I start downloading, it says there are 9 hours and so many minutes left. Does it really take that long to download Openoffice or am I doing something wrong? Thank you. Ernestine S. Bonicelli - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Unable to recogniswe UK English

2007-07-12 Thread A.C. Douglas
Hi I have just upgraded to OpenOffice v.2.2, hoping this might solve a problem with the earlier version, but it is just the same. I live in England and my computer is set to UK English as the default language. I selected UK English as preferred options in OpenOffice. But OpenOffice Writer

[users] graphics on/off

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Smith
Hi, I'm smashing my head against a brick wall, probably due to my lack of knowledge. please could you advise me how to find graphics on/off in tools. I can never see my pictures in my documents, just a box with graphics written in the corner with the number written next to it,when i go to help it

Re: [users] Question about downloading program [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
If you have dialup or an otherwise slow connection, it will take a long time to download. Quoting Ernestine S. Bonicelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I start downloading, it says there are 9 hours and so many minutes left. Does it really take that long to download Openoffice or am I doing

Re: [users] technical problem

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
It's under the Window menu. Quoting Gregg Jennifer Gahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have used OpenOffice products on PC's many times and have been very satisfied with them. I recently downloaded it onto my iMac and installed the X11. When I try to use OpenOffice, it opens up X11 as expected.

Re: [users] How to download-install Impress

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
OpenOffice's Impress is the open source equivalent of PowerPoint and you can open and save MS PowerPoint presentations using it. Download OpenOffice from http://download.openoffice.org/index.html and install the suite. This gives you Impress plus Writer (for Word stuff), Calc (for Excel stuff),

Re: [users] Alternative to Excel

2007-07-12 Thread mharriso
OpenOffice has an alternative to Excel called Calc and a database application called Base. Download and try them out at http://download.openoffice.org/index.html Quoting Michael, Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for an alternative to excel and access on an apple platform What can you

[users] technical problem

2007-07-12 Thread Gregg Jennifer Gahan
I have used OpenOffice products on PC's many times and have been very satisfied with them. I recently downloaded it onto my iMac and installed the X11. When I try to use OpenOffice, it opens up X11 as expected. However, OpenOffice is not in the Applications menu in X11. All that is in there is

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

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Detwiler
Thomas Mackin wrote: I have downloaded OpenOffice: 2.2.1 several times and I cannot get it to work. I am using Windows XP and have plenty of memory space. I found the OO0_2.21_WIN32intel_install_en-us.exe on my hard drive but it just tell's me that I am already installed on the 2.2.1. No

[users] Download issues

2007-07-12 Thread Stephen Pett
The new download facility is very unclear and over complictated, where it used to be simple. I was not able to update as even when I did guess at the correct selection (what I wanted was windows, v 2.2.1 and UK verision which wasn;t even listed) it wasn't available so I gave up. Abbreviations

[users] Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread Kay Byrnes
Hi! there - sorry to be a worry to you, but I have a necessity to write with your OpenOffice 2 in vertical and I cannot seem to find anything that will allow me to do it in the programme .. that I can see, that is. So I am coming to you to ask whether such an attribute exists - and I am just

[users] open office spreadsheet

2007-07-12 Thread Helen Fox
Hi I have been using the open office spreadsheets but have found a conflict when others open up the file in excel. In particular, using data validity. I have chosen a list as part of the criteria but when it converts to the excel sheet it loses the list or moves it. Has anyone else had

Re: [users] Unable to recogniswe UK English

2007-07-12 Thread John W. Kennedy
A.C. Douglas wrote: Hi I have just upgraded to OpenOffice v.2.2, hoping this might solve a problem with the earlier version, but it is just the same. I live in England and my computer is set to UK English as the default language. I selected UK English as preferred options in OpenOffice.

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

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Detwiler
Thomas Mackin wrote: NO, I do not see it. *In God We Trust !* * Tommy Mackin* /---Original Message---/ /*From:*/ Richard Detwiler mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /*Date:*/ 7/12/2007 8:27:23 PM /*To:*/ users@openoffice.org mailto:users@openoffice.org /*Cc:*/ [EMAIL

Re: [users] Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread Scott Castaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by vertical, but in Writer you can go to Format Page Page and change orientation to landscape. You can also go to Format Columns to set up columns if this is what you want. In Calc, you can go to Format Cells Alignment to rotate text.

Re: [users] graphics on/off

2007-07-12 Thread TomW
Alex Smith wrote: Hi, I'm smashing my head against a brick wall, probably due to my lack of knowledge. please could you advise me how to find graphics on/off in tools. I can never see my pictures in my documents, just a box with graphics written in the corner with the number written next to

[users] OO-2.2.1 Upgrade - Leftover Outdated Files??

2007-07-12 Thread Debbie_Ruiz
Return Receipt Your [users] OO-2.2.1 Upgrade - Leftover Outdated Files?? document:

Re: [users] another *very* basic question. do I get an email in reply

2007-07-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 July 2007 14:17:55 m p wrote: to my question about Impress or do I have to log in somewhere and look for the answer to my question. Thanks a million!! - Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto

[users] Re: another *very* basic question. do I get an email in reply

2007-07-12 Thread Russell Butler
m p wrote: to my question about Impress or do I have to log in somewhere and look for the answer to my question. Thanks a million!! You are not subscribed to the mailing list where replies are sent. To subscribe to the list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or you can look in the

[users] Re: Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread Russell Butler
Scott Castaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by vertical, but in Writer you can go to Format Page Page and change orientation to landscape. You can also go to Format Columns to set up columns if this is what you want. In Calc, you can go to Format Cells

Re: [users] WG: Set OpenOffice 2.2.1 Software Online?

2007-07-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:13:03 Reuter joe wrote: Hello I have nothing understood. May I set the software on-line one or not? Do you want to make the software available to download from your site? Yes you can do that. -- http://webpages.charter.net/jlgates Microsoft users go to

[users] Re: Changing paragraph breaks to spaces

2007-07-12 Thread Russell Butler
Sam Warren wrote: Does anyone know how to change paragraph breaks to space and double paragraph breaks and spaces to single? Sam Warren Bookwarren Publishing Services Post Office Box 620685, San Diego, CA 92162 (619) 674-3066 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bookwarren.com Hi Sam Look at

[users] Re: WG: Set OpenOffice 2.2.1 Software Online?

2007-07-12 Thread Russell Butler
Reuter joe wrote: Hello I have nothing understood. May I set the software on-line one or not? Yours sincerely Reuter Joe OpenOffice.org is free to copy and distribute as per the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL ). Quoting

Re: [users] Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:07 12/07/2007 +1000, Kay Byrnes wrote: Hi! there - sorry to be a worry to you, but I have a necessity to write with your OpenOffice 2 in vertical and I cannot seem to find anything that will allow me to do it in the programme .. that I can see, that is. So I am coming to you to ask

Re: [users] open office spreadsheet

2007-07-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 July 2007 06:56:16 Helen Fox wrote: Hi I have been using the open office spreadsheets but have found a conflict when others open up the file in excel. In particular, using data validity. I have chosen a list as part of the criteria but when it converts to the excel sheet it

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 July 2007 22:46:45 Joyce McClure wrote: Will an upgrade take as long as an original download? I have not upgraded as I feared it would take 5 to 10 hours with dialup. Yes, there are no incremental upgrades. Each new release is a full release. --

Re: [users] Unable to recogniswe UK English

2007-07-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 July 2007 17:35:08 A.C. Douglas wrote: Also, is it possible to disable the 'bullets and numbering' option permanently? Every time I type a number at the start of a line it indents everything, and I have to go into the 'bullets and numbering' menu to cancel this. There doesn;t

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-07-12 Thread Joyce McClure
Will an upgrade take as long as an original download? I have not upgraded as I feared it would take 5 to 10 hours with dialup. Joyce - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org; Mr Mrs Woodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, July

[users] Scalc and filters

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Abbott
I have a file of email addresses, one per line. I thought that if I changed the file type to CSV and open it with scalc, I could somehow filter out the ones with hotmail.com and msn.com, but I haven't been able to configure the filter to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Re: [users] graphics on/off

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:18 12/07/2007 +0100, Alex Smith wrote: Hi, I'm smashing my head against a brick wall, probably due to my lack of knowledge. please could you advise me how to find graphics on/off in tools. I can never see my pictures in my documents, just a box with graphics written in the corner with the

Re: [users] Re: Vertical Text

2007-07-12 Thread S Perry
You can also go to the INSERT menu and choose FRAME. You'll get a special box drawing cursor which you drag from the upper left corner to the lower right corner to establish the size. You can type text into the frame. Then, you can right click on the frame to set various properties, such as

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

2007-07-12 Thread S Perry
The rest of the story: As Richard told you When you click on the Start button (lower left part of the screen), and point to Programs. Once Programs opens, slide your mouse down to OpenOffice. While you're holding your mouse there, an additional box will open with a list of the

Re: [users] Scalc and filters

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:21 12/07/2007 -0400, Peter Abbott wrote: I have a file of email addresses, one per line. I thought that if I changed the file type to CSV and open it with scalc, I could somehow filter out the ones with hotmail.com and msn.com, but I haven't been able to configure the filter to do this.

Re: [users] Unable to recogniswe UK English

2007-07-12 Thread S Perry
You may be able to correct this by clicking on TOOLS Options Language Settings Writing Aids. If English UK isn't in the list, click on Browse to choose it. John W. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A.C. Douglas wrote: Hi I have just upgraded to OpenOffice v.2.2, hoping this

Re: [users] Changing paragraph breaks to spaces

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:50 12/07/2007 -0700, Sam Warren wrote: Does anyone know how to change paragraph breaks to space and double paragraph breaks and spaces to single? o Use Edit | Find Replace... to open the Find Replace dialogue box. o Click on More options and put a tick by Regular expressions. To

Re: [users] Data Label Font Size in Open Org Calc

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:27 12/07/2007 -0700, L Buckley wrote: I have created a scatter plot and labeled each point in the scatter plot. The scatter plot represents pay distribution in my company. The data label is the employee's name. There are many employees so the labels overlap. If I was able to reduce the