[users] Need help creating database report

2007-09-11 Thread Open Office User
I¡¦m an esl teacher. I¡¦m trying to a ¡§directory¡¨ of all the words and what book/unit/page number it appears on. I created a two field data base table . Here¡¦s an example: Wordbookpagenumber crab 2.1.4 fish 2.1.4 island 2.1.4 octopus 2.1.4 shark 2.1.4 turtle

Re: [users] Need help creating database report

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Open Office User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In which the two colums flow down to the bottom of the page and then flow to the top of the page. Wow. I hope your OpenOffice document is formatted better than your email here is. To answer your question,

Re: [users] PDF layout errors in headless mode

2007-09-11 Thread Sander Marechal
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Sander, Sander Marechal schreef: I am running a document conversion server running OpenOffice.org in headless mode (using a virtual framebuffer) and a little Python script[1] to convert documents from ODT to PDF. However, I keep running into layour errors when converting

Re: [users] Re: failed download

2007-09-11 Thread Diabolic Preacher
On 9/10/07, Larry Gusaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice.org is free to download at following URL. http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html doesn't the http://download.openoffice.org/ page itself autodetect your platform and give the pictorial link to the correct and latest stable

[users] Re: failed download

2007-09-11 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 9/11/07 1:54 AM, Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/10/07, Larry Gusaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice.org is free to download at following URL. http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html doesn't the http://download.openoffice.org/ page itself autodetect your platform and

[users] Toolbar disappearing

2007-09-11 Thread Gus Porteners
I have a number of odt files to be used as examples in a basic course. They are all saved with both standard and formatting toolbars showing as well as the horizontal ruler. On burning them to a CD with CD to be formatted for closure, i.e. cannot be used for adding files, the files all appear

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

2007-09-11 Thread Guy Voets
2007/9/10, robert buehring [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I Have MAC OS X 10.4.x installed, it came preinstalled, I have no back-up disk. I still can't find it on the hard drive. Can you give me the path to the program? If it is installed what can I do then to get OpenOffice to operate properly. Thanks

Re: [users] Re: failed download

2007-09-11 Thread Diabolic Preacher
On 9/11/07, Larry Gusaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What autodetect? At the link you gave I have to click Download OpenOffice.org Version: 2.2.1 (Stable) will it always be 2.2.1? can one be sure that your link will be clicked within the period that 2.2.1 stays the latest stable

Re: [users] Toolbar disappearing

2007-09-11 Thread linuxmaillists
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 04:15:13 Gus Porteners wrote: I have a number of odt files to be used as examples in a basic course. They are all saved with both standard and formatting toolbars showing as well as the horizontal ruler. On burning them to a CD with CD to be formatted for closure,

[users] Re: where?

2007-09-11 Thread Jason E. Dorfler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007 09:42:11 Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/10/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Sevenau wrote: hello, i just downloaded your office suite and can't find the email client in the suite. could you please tell me where in the software

Re: [users] Toolbar disappearing

2007-09-11 Thread Diabolic Preacher
On 9/11/07, Gus Porteners [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of odt files to be used as examples in a basic course. They are all saved with both standard and formatting toolbars showing as well as the horizontal ruler. i understand that you mean to say that if the CD is made multisession

Re: [users] Exporting picture

2007-09-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Bruno Temple wrote: In Writer, I did'nt succed in exporting a drawing that I made with the draw tools. in Writer you cannot export a drawing. Copy the drawing to Draw or Impress and export it there. See http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/bitmap_pictures_and_line_art for some ideas, tips

RE: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-11 Thread Jekke Bladt
Back in 1998, I bought an IBM PC directly from IBM and there was no option to have OS/2 installed. If it's still a product, they're certainly not pushing it very hard. --Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net -Original Message- From: John Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [users] Need help creating database report

2007-09-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:46 10/09/2007 -0700, A Nameless Person (Open Office User) wrote: I'm an esl teacher. I'm trying to [create?] a directory of all the words and what book/unit/page number it appears on. I created a two field data base table . Here's an example: Wordbookpagenumber crab 2.1.4

[users] Graphic logo on envelope - how?

2007-09-11 Thread Tony
Is there a way to make a standard envelope layout including a business graphic? I don't want to have to add and position the graphic each time I generate an envelope. I would like it to be there automatically, as is done in MS Word using a macro. -- Tony W My e-mail address has no hyphen -

[users] Bilingual setup for OOo

2007-09-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hello, all! I am not an OOo newbie and have been using it happily for years, but I have a new-to-me problem with which I am hoping that one of you can help. I am trying - unsuccessfully :-( - to set up OOo to function bilingally. I installed the relevant package (Japanese), and it appeared in

Re: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 09:33, Jekke Bladt wrote: Back in 1998, I bought an IBM PC directly from IBM and there was no option to have OS/2 installed. If it's still a product, they're certainly not pushing it very hard. Yes, it's still being sold, but under the name Ecomstation, not OS/2. I

Re: [users] Graphic logo on envelope - how?

2007-09-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:38 11/09/2007 +0100, Tony Woolf wrote: Is there a way to make a standard envelope layout including a business graphic? I don't want to have to add and position the graphic each time I generate an envelope. I would like it to be there automatically, as is done in MS Word using a macro.

[users] Need help with bullets and tabs

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Phillips
How can I set up a decimal tab for a numbered list? In other words: I. Some text II. Some more text III. More text IV. More text So all the periods line up? Thanks! -- Mark -

Re: [users] Need help with bullets and tabs

2007-09-11 Thread Naomi Kramer
You need to set up: - A paragraph style (eg. Numbering 1) - A list style (5th tab on the Styles Formatting window)... last tab contains the number type and second-last tab contains the right-align option. Then link the two from the paragraph style (in the numbering tab). Make sense? Yell

[users] Re: PDFs???

2007-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/07/2007 12:54 PM, Clayton Cornell wrote: jonathon wrote: Dan wrote: OOo does not read or open PDF files: only create them. I suggest that There is an extension for OOo that enables one to open PDF files in Draw. There used to be a (Linux only) extension that converted PDFs to

Re: [users] Need help with bullets and tabs

2007-09-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:37 11/09/2007 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: How can I set up a decimal tab for a numbered list? In other words: I. Some text II. Some more text III. More text IV. More text So all the periods line up? When you go to Format | Bullets and

[users] installing openoffice on solaris

2007-09-11 Thread luis cuadros
am quite new on solaris, and i am looking for a procedure for install openoffice on Solaris 9. I have downloaded OOo_2.2.1_SolarisSparc_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz, but when I execute the commands gunzip . and tar -xvf .. I have just a folder and I don't find the install script. PLEASE HELP!!!

Re: [users] Bilingual setup for OOo

2007-09-11 Thread jonathon
Lisi wrote: installed the relevant package (Japanese), and it appeared in the available You also have to configure OOo to do CJKV. Tools Options Language Settings, then check Asian Language support. And then Options General Fonts Replacement Table and replace Andale Sans UI with a CJKV font

[users] Re: installing openoffice on solaris

2007-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/11/2007 07:05 PM, luis cuadros wrote: am quite new on solaris, and i am looking for a procedure for install openoffice on Solaris 9. I have downloaded OOo_2.2.1_SolarisSparc_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz, but when I execute the commands gunzip . and tar -xvf .. I have just a folder and I