[users] I am using the 2 30version of Oo

2007-09-30 Thread c59442
I recently installed Microsoft Word 2000. Now when I try to open a document in this setting, I cannot read it. It is pure gibberish. Can Oo not work with Microsoft Word 2000? how do I access my documents with MW?

Re: [users] How do I do a repair

2007-09-30 Thread Dennis Gudgion
Many Thanks Harold Fuchs London, England Up and running Dennis Gudgion Cairns Australia - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Appcrash

2007-09-30 Thread H. Mortensen
Open Office Writer will not open on a Win Vista system having 2GB Ram. All other apps. (Base, Draw, Calc, etc.) run without any problems. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the program but the problem remains. The error message I get is open office has stopped working. If anyone has a

[users] Fw: product offers,features

2007-09-30 Thread Joy and Tony Hill
- Original Message - From: Joy and Tony Hill To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Joy and Tony Hill Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:40 PM Subject: product offers,features I currently have a free trial version of Microsoft word in my computer, which is windows xp media center

[users] Dictionary

2007-09-30 Thread Geoff Storey
Does the Dictionary have an English or American English language option ?

[users] Updates?

2007-09-30 Thread Leftbit
I am a new user to OO and am getting a message that an update is available. However, when I click on the icon I get a message that the website cannot be found. What is this all about? ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

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

2007-09-30 Thread chris via
Is it possible to buy a Cd for the Open office? I tried to download overnight and it did not install. I think it may be that I have dial up and it takes a long time. thanks

[users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread Fam.Frischkopf
Hallo, Kann ich hier meine Frage auch in deutsch stellen? Ich habe in Excel 2000 ein Dokument erstellt mit VBA-Makros. Wollte nun diese in Excel erstellten Dokumente unter OpenOffice öffnen. Das geht soweit gut. Nur meine Makros sind nun inaktiv. Dann hab ich die Makrosicherheit auf Mittel,

[users] joining mailing list

2007-09-30 Thread Roberta Palmer
I have tried 4 times to join this on the main screen listing online, but I keep getting a message that tells me the email for the link is not installed properly. Please subscribe me to this group. Thank you. Anne Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Re: [users] U3

2007-09-30 Thread FGNico
Hello It is a USB key with some soft already installed You can have more details at http://software.u3.com/ I don't have any commission on it.. :-) make a research with google.. Cheers FGNico Healthy Beaver a écrit : -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [users] Upgrade to new version

2007-09-30 Thread Jeanette and Chuck Hall
Thanks for responding and thanks for the help. Downloading and running the Windows Clean Up Utility did the trick. Everything went fine after that. Thanks for you support of a fine product. Chuck Hall Bozeman, Mt USA Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:46:25 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [users] Changing sizes of envelopes

2007-09-30 Thread Jill Sealey
Thank you so much Works great of course! ---Original Message--- From: Harold Fuchs Date: 9/28/2007 4:58:02 PM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Changing sizes of envelopes On 28/09/2007, Jill Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Open

[users] Impress problem when exporting to .ppt file

2007-09-30 Thread Public JunkBox
everything worked great in OOo 2.1, but when i updated to 2.3 i was unable to export my presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. i am able to do everything else and import presentations. what could be wrong? - Looking for a deal? Find great

[users] Question regarding PPT documents

2007-09-30 Thread COLLEEN HENDERSON
Hello there, I do a fair amount of presentations and could not find a way to print my PPT deck as handouts - i.e. with 3 slides per page and a notes section next to each slide. Can you please advise? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen Henderson Associate Baxter Bean Strategic Direction Training

[users] opening OpenOffice2.3

2007-09-30 Thread bob horning
Hello I'm a bit confused. I was able to downloan and install OpenOffice 2.3, but now when I click on it, I only get a lot of files or folders. I checked the FAQ's, but that didn't help How do I actually begin to use it? Thanks, Bob

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

2007-09-30 Thread Russell Butler
chris via wrote: Is it possible to buy a Cd for the Open office? I tried to download overnight and it did not install. I think it may be that I have dial up and it takes a long time. thanks Hi Here are links to suppliers of CD's: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ No guarantees as to

[users] Re: Fw: product offers,features

2007-09-30 Thread Russell Butler
Joy and Tony Hill wrote: - Original Message - From: Joy and Tony Hill To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Joy and Tony Hill Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:40 PM Subject: product offers,features I currently have a free trial version of Microsoft word in my computer, which is windows xp

[users] Re: Dictionary

2007-09-30 Thread Russell Butler
Geoff Storey wrote: Does the Dictionary have an English or American English language option ? If you do File-Wizards- Install New Dictionaries from the web you will given the option of at least 5 flavours of English Note that you also have to set the language properties of your text to

[users] Re: joining mailing list

2007-09-30 Thread Russell Butler
Roberta Palmer wrote: I have tried 4 times to join this on the main screen listing online, but I keep getting a message that tells me the email for the link is not installed properly. Please subscribe me to this group. Thank you. Anne Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Anne, I believe you have to

Re: [users] Columns, no column, columns...on one page, can't figure out (SOLVED)

2007-09-30 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Lørdag 29 september 2007 23:19 skrev Adrian Try: - I wish to start a page without columns, say a 5 cm top section that runs to 100% width. Then a horizontal line. - Then I wish to split up the page into 2 columns for say, 10 cms.. - Then for the rest of the page, just the usual 100%

Re: [users] Dictionary

2007-09-30 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, Geoff Storey wrote: Does the Dictionary have an English or American English language option ? This page lists spell checker dictionaries, hyphenation files, and thesauri for OpenOffice.org - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries Please, see also ... - 'Tutorial for Spell

Re: [users] remove my mail address given to other's

2007-09-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:07:10 -0400 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 01:42:54 you wrote: Dear Sir, Pls. remove my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Openoffice which has given to users. reg, sampath snip Do

[users] Re: I am using the 2 30version of Oo

2007-09-30 Thread Jonathan Kaye
c59442 wrote: I recently installed Microsoft Word 2000. Now when I try to open a document in this setting, I cannot read it. It is pure gibberish. Can Oo not work with Microsoft Word 2000? how do I access my documents with MW? MS Word is not able to open .odt files although they are the

Re: [users] Re: I am using the 2 30version of Oo

2007-09-30 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, 2007/9/30, Jonathan Kaye wrote: c59442 wrote: I recently installed Microsoft Word 2000. Now when I try to open a document in this setting, I cannot read it. It is pure gibberish. Can Oo not work with Microsoft Word 2000? how do I access my documents with MW? MS Word is not able

Re: [users] Updates?

2007-09-30 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 29/09/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new user to OO and am getting a message that an update is available. However, when I click on the icon I get a message that the website cannot be found. What is this all about? The latest version is 2.3 so if you are not

Re: [users] Question regarding PPT documents

2007-09-30 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 28/09/2007, COLLEEN HENDERSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I do a fair amount of presentations and could not find a way to print my PPT deck as handouts - i.e. with 3 slides per page and a notes section next to each slide. Can you please advise? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen

Re: [users] opening OpenOffice2.3

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
bob horning wrote: Hello I'm a bit confused. I was able to downloan and install OpenOffice 2.3, but now when I click on it, I only get a lot of files or folders. I checked the FAQ's, but that didn't help How do I actually begin to use it? Do you see a file setup.exe? If so,

Re: [users] I am using version 2.3 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : Exporting to PDF

2007-09-30 Thread Dave Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message From: Sébastien Jongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun 30 Sep 2007 09:50:05 EST Hi, Many thanks for your product. I'm very happy to work with it. I get troubles with the Sylfaen policy. I made a Calc sheet and

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

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
chris via wrote: Is it possible to buy a Cd for the Open office? I tried to download overnight and it did not install. I think it may be that I have dial up and it takes a long time. thanks There is a list of CD vendors on the web site, but there may be other issues. Did the download

Re: [users] Fw: product offers,features

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Joy and Tony Hill wrote: - Original Message - From: Joy and Tony Hill To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Joy and Tony Hill Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:40 PM Subject: product offers,features I currently have a free trial version of Microsoft word in my computer, which

Re: [users] I am using the 2 30version of Oo

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
c59442 wrote: I recently installed Microsoft Word 2000. Now when I try to open a document in this setting, I cannot read it. It is pure gibberish. Can Oo not work with Microsoft Word 2000? how do I access my documents with MW? I'm not sure why you're seeing gibberish, as it's entirely

Re: [users] Vista Support (IFilter and Preview)

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred A. Miller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:48:50 S. A. Gnezdov wrote: Windows can't support every file format in the planet. But that is exactly what Microsoft is

Re: [users] Vista Support (IFilter and Preview)

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:44:30 Jim Hartley wrote: No, M$ does not want to support EVERY FILE FORMAT on the planet, only those they can control and change when it suits their purposes. OOXML was DELIBERATELY written with with ambiguities and vague

[users] Active Table Of Contents links in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
When I switched to 2.3 the live links do not work in the Table Of Contents. In previous versions I was able to click on a word or words in the Table of Contents and I would jump to that section of the tutorial. I tried to recreate the live links in 2.3 in the same way I created the live links

[users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
In 2.3 I have some large text documents. How can I find a word or a phrase in the text document - Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

[users] tables blank in OO 2.2

2007-09-30 Thread Felmon Davis
greets, running OpenOffice 2.2 on Kubuntu 7.04 and just found that inserting a table or converting text to table makes a table which is blank - actually a dark grey - on the screen. 'page preview' displays the table and contents fine. I believe this behavior is new but I cannot absolutely

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Hartley
Edit - FindReplace (or Ctrl-F) Jim Hartley Walter Hildebrandt wrote: In 2.3 I have some large text documents. How can I find a word or a phrase in the text document - Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows.

Re: [users] tables blank in OO 2.2

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Hartley
When I do a Table of Contents it shows the gray background - never noticed it to come up blank, in fact, I think it automatically put in the Table of Contents label and anything that was already marked as the right level of heading. Not sure how other tables behave, but it sounds like a blank

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Walter Hildebrandt wrote: In 2.3 I have some large text documents. How can I find a word or a phrase in the text document CTL F usually works, or click on Edit Find Replace or click on the magnifying glass on the tool bar. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

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

2007-09-30 Thread Peggy Arnold
I am using version 2.l of Open Office on a Mac, and am very pleased with it. So far, the only problem is that I cannot get sound on Powerpoint presentations when opened with Impress. Is there any way of doing so? Thanks in advance for your help. Peggy Arnold

[users] how to change the look of icons of open office files saved on hard disc

2007-09-30 Thread Zoran Nikin
How to change the look of icons of open office files saved on hard disc, because they all look the same? Thank you very much.

[users] error on instalation

2007-09-30 Thread Albert Braam
Dear, I can't install openoffice on my Windows pc in the atachment is a print of the two errors What can I do? -- A.J.W. Braam Ambachtsplein 199 3068GV Rotterdam 010 4551594 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[users] Problem in OO2.3 with italics

2007-09-30 Thread Dr Tony Young
Dear Team, I wish to report a problem with the italics function in OO2.3 I use italics very frequently in my work so that paragraphs of text can have sections of italics interspersed with normal font. I found that OO2.3 is very erratic in its use of the italic button on the menu bar, as

[users] try to install lastest version in personnal setting

2007-09-30 Thread gaby
hi and best regards, i try to install oppenoffice with personnal setup page. i found in some windows XP configuration when you choose personnal setting, the setup is unable to creta folder and file but if you choose normal setting it's ok. i don't know how and why, i just wirte this mail to

[users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread Denise
Hello I purchased open office 2 and have subsequently downloaded version 4, but dont know how to open and use it. My old shortchut to the 2 version will noit now work Urgent help please Regards Denise Trowsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread Pierluca Ianniello
Hi, Is it possible to use OpenOffice on the new Windows Vista system? Thanks Luca - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Printing Problem 1.1.3.

2007-09-30 Thread J. Pliquett
I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.3. Today I could not print docouments filed under openoffice. When I then filed them under Microsoft I was able to print them. Where could the problem ly? I know I should use a more recent version of OpenOffice, but at the moment I don't have the time to accustom myself

Re: [users] tables blank in OO 2.2

2007-09-30 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Jim Hartley wrote: When I do a Table of Contents it shows the gray background - never noticed it to come up blank, in fact, I think it automatically put in the Table of Contents label and anything that was already marked as the right level of heading. Not sure how other

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Pierluca Ianniello wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use OpenOffice on the new Windows Vista system? Yes. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Denise wrote: Hello I purchased open office 2 and have subsequently downloaded version 4, but dont know how to open and use it. My old shortchut to the 2 version will noit now work Urgent help please Regards Denise Trowsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't have to purchase OpenOffice and

Re: [users] error on instalation

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Albert Braam wrote: Dear, I can't install openoffice on my Windows pc in the atachment is a print of the two errors What can I do? Attachments are stripped by the mailing list. You'll have to quote the error messages and add a brief description of what happens when you attempt to install.

Re: [users] Vista Support (IFilter and Preview)

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
James Knott wrote: Here's you're saying MS is trying to support every file format in the world. Later you try to argue that what you're saying is what others are saying. My reading is that you are both saying the same thing... The other guy is (in my reading) arguing this through the ooxml

Re: [users] Printing Problem 1.1.3.

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
J. Pliquett wrote: I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.3. Today I could not print docouments filed under openoffice. When I then filed them under Microsoft I was able to print them. Where could the problem ly? I know I should use a more recent version of OpenOffice, but at the moment I don't have the

[users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/20/legal-but/ -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Hartley
As one who spent many years in the employ of IBM, the answer to this is obvious. They started writing the IPFS (Initial Programming Functional Spec) WHEN THAT 1.x VERSION WAS CURRENT. Then they did the FPFS (Final Programming Functional Spec). At that point there was a re-org and the FPFS had

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Charlie Seaman
James Knott wrote: http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/20/legal-but/ I have dealt with IBM twice in a 20 year career, once sending them an RFP for a system conversion from DEC, and once where I had to spend a third of my time for 3 years working around the fact that they would not

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread Diabolic Preacher
On 9/29/07, Fam.Frischkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a document in Excel 2000 provided with VBA macros. Now this wanted in Excel provided documents under OpenOffice to open. That can be done so far well. Only my macros are now inactive. Then I macro security on means, to it even on low

Re: [users] Vista Support (IFilter and Preview)

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 07:15:36 James Knott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:44:30 Jim Hartley wrote: No, M$ does not want to support EVERY FILE FORMAT on the planet, only those they can control and change when it suits their purposes. OOXML was

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Jim Hartley wrote: See how easy it is when you understand the workings of big corporations? Oh, I understand. I used to work for IBM, at two different times in my career. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Hagar de l'Est
But how do you explain that easter eggs from OOo are included in that version ? If it had been done internaly by IBM ? Hagar Le 30.09.2007 20:44, Jim Hartley a écrit : As one who spent many years in the employ of IBM, the answer to this is obvious. They started writing the IPFS (Initial

Re: [users] Vista Support (IFilter and Preview)

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 07:12:17 James Knott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred A. Miller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:48:50 S. A. Gnezdov wrote: Windows can't support every file format in the planet.

Re: [users] Re: joining mailing list

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 03:46:22 Russell Butler wrote: Roberta Palmer wrote: I have tried 4 times to join this on the main screen listing online, but I keep getting a message that tells me the email for the link is not installed properly. Please subscribe me to this group. Thank you.

Re: [users] I am using the 2 30version of Oo

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Saturday 29 September 2007 20:49:23 c59442 wrote: I recently installed Microsoft Word 2000. Now when I try to open a document in this setting, I cannot read it. It is pure gibberish. Can Oo not work with Microsoft Word 2000? how do I access my documents with MW? Install

Re: [users] Problem in OO2.3 with italics

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 10:19:21 Dr Tony Young wrote: Dear Team, I wish to report a problem with the italics function in OO2.3 I use italics very frequently in my work so that paragraphs of text can have sections of italics interspersed with normal font. I found that OO2.3 is very

Re: [users] Fw: product offers,features

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:56:58 James Knott wrote: When you install OpenOffice, there will be a screen where you're asked if you want to make it the default application for MS Office documents, make sure the boxes for all document types are checked. It is not necessary to check those

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my screen. In a very large document the word can be in several places. If I select Find All is there some way to go from one highlighted word to the next highlighted word? Jim Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit -

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, 2007/9/30, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my screen. In a very large document the word can be in several places. If I select Find All is there some way to go from one highlighted word to the next highlighted word? Why

Re: [users] Problem in OO2.3 with italics

2007-09-30 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Known bug : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81764 Already fixed, available for next release. Beware, you're not subscribed to the list. Hagar Le 30.09.2007 16:19, Dr Tony Young a écrit : Dear Team, I wish to report a problem with the italics function in OO2.3 I use

Re: [users] [moderated] Frequent recoveries, error reporting tool won't run (OpenOffice.org 2.2.1)

2007-09-30 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Jill, 2007/9/28, J.J wrote: Hi, Frequently when Open Office is started, 'recovery' seems to be needed; this seems to be for all files, of whatever type, created by any and all (XP) users. Why is this necessary? I have not noticed any problems when closing files or the application. The

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:12 30/09/2007 -0700, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my screen. In a very large document the word can be in several places. If I select Find All is there some way to go from one highlighted word to the next highlighted

Re: [users] Fw: product offers,features

2007-09-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
May I ask why you send the same question three times? Why don't you just read all the answers you got? Or maybe you are not subscribed to the list? In that case everyone but you can read the replies. Just in case you didn't know, you got 11 replies. It's not too late top read them, however. Just

[users] I have an idea for a CALC spreadsheet..suggestion to flesh it out would be appreciated!

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
I work for a company taht puts on trade and consumer shows. I woul;d like to set up a spreadsheet with a calendar for all the shows. There are cetain ytasks that need to be done for every show 1 ye4ar out, 6 months out, 3 months out, 4 weeks, 2 weeks, 10 days, etc etc I am thinking of having

Re: [users] I have an idea for a CALC spreadsheet..suggestion to flesh it out would be appreciated!

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
Lisa Hetherington wrote: I work for a company taht puts on trade and consumer shows. I woul;d like to set up a spreadsheet with a calendar for all the shows. There are cetain ytasks that need to be done for every show 1 ye4ar out, 6 months out, 3 months out, 4 weeks, 2 weeks, 10 days, etc etc

[users] spreadsheet idea...I need help with fleshing it out

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
I work for a company that puts on trade and consumer shows. I would like to set up a spreadsheet to cteate a calendar for all the shows. There are certain tasks that need to be done for every show 1 year out, 6 months out, 3 months out, 4 weeks, 2 weeks, 10 days, etc etc I am thinking of

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
Symphony is a beta at present. It is, however, a free product, beta or not. The current beta of Symphony is based on an old version of OOo, but has had real development done on it by IBM. Some of IBM's changes to the UI are distinct improvements that I would like to see applied to regular

[users] Voice Recognition?

2007-09-30 Thread Mick
I Have Downloaded Version 2.3 Open Office. My Query, is there any Speech Engine Available to go with this Program? My e-mail Address Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Michael Templeton

Re: [users] Voice Recognition?

2007-09-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:13:17 +1000 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Have Downloaded Version 2.3 Open Office. My Query, is there any Speech Engine Available to go with this Program? Depending on exactly what you wish to accomplish, I suspect that this could possibly be made to do what you want:

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
John W. Kennedy wrote: Symphony is a beta at present. It is, however, a free product, beta or not. The current beta of Symphony is based on an old version of OOo, but has had real development done on it by IBM. Some of IBM's changes to the UI are distinct improvements that I would like

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo stealing the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format? BTW writing ODF formats is like writing OpenDocument Format formats. -- http://24.197.142.167/

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Hartley
Leave the Find window open and just keep clicking Find will move you through the file to successive instances. Jim Hartley Walter Hildebrandt wrote: Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my screen. In a very large document the word can be in several places.

[users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
I would like one cell to return an addition or subtraction of months or years from the date in another call. (whatever the need is) ie A1-2 months A1-1 year A1+4 months I need to be able to do months and years without converting them to days Thanks!! ...Lisa

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Lisa I would like one cell to return an addition or subtraction of months or years from the date in another call. (whatever the need is) Have a look at the months and years functions. This is from the online help: MONTHS Calculates the difference in months between two dates. Syntax

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
Adrian Try wrote: Hi Lisa I would like one cell to return an addition or subtraction of months or years from the date in another call. (whatever the need is) Have a look at the months and years functions. This is from the online help: MONTHS Calculates the difference in months between two

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
Hi Lisa Qutoe: Since months and years do not have regular count of days you need DATE as a helper: Same day, next month: =DATE(YEAR(A1);MONTH(A1)+1;DAY(A1)) Contrary to the lousy documentation, DATE can calculate dates by positive, negative and zero arguments. It knows about leap years and count

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 19:46:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo stealing the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format? BTW writing ODF formats is

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:26:24 Andrew Jensen wrote: Hi, I think he was talking about stealing the short cut association for the file type on the computer...ie, open the file and it opens the correct program...not the actual file format. Nope! Go back and look carefully what he wrote.

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
You mean as in - create a date that is the first Monday of last month? On 9/30/07, Lisa Hetherington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect Andrew!! Is there a way to modify the formula to return only weekdays (Mon-Fri) ...Lisa PS I usually see bottom posting here, I just continued top posting to

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
OK - if that is what you think he meant...but go back further and the conversation was about the fact that Symphony set the file associations without asking - and people complained about it - that was the actual subject of the line...IMHO.. Anyway - no harm, no foul as we say here. On 9/30/07,

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo stealing the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format? Just as much and in the same way as Symphony is. -- John W. Kennedy

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Lisa Hetherington
Not exactly, If my formula returns a date that falls on a Sat or Sun, I would like it to advance to the Mon after the weekend (when I would be at work). ...Lisa Andrew Jensen wrote: You mean as in - create a date that is the first Monday of last month? On 9/30/07, Lisa Hetherington [EMAIL

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
Hi, I think he was talking about stealing the short cut association for the file type on the computer...ie, open the file and it opens the correct program...not the actual file format. On 9/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 19:46:42 [EMAIL

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:44:40 John W. Kennedy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo stealing the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format?

[users] Re: [moderated]

2007-09-30 Thread NoOp
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 12:04 +0100, Denise wrote: Hello I purchased open office 2 and have subsequently downloaded version 4, but dont know how to open and use it. My old shortchut to the 2 version will noit now work Urgent help please Regards Denise Trowsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is a

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread linuxmaillists
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:43:04 Andrew Jensen wrote: OK - if that is what you think he meant...but go back further and the conversation was about the fact that Symphony set the file associations without asking - and people complained about it - that was the actual subject of the

Re: [users] how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
Well, three options - I'll try to give you a solution...which will be a while as I have other commitments right now. And I am not much of a Calc guy, more Base...so I would be slow anyway..*smile*... Two - someone else reading this will do so. Three - you could slip over to one of the forums and

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John Meyer
John W. Kennedy wrote: Do not lose sight of the fact that there are large businesses that now refuse to install OOo (because it's hippie-commie-nerdy open-source) but which will happily install Symphony (because it's from IBM). This is a Good Thing. Dang, I must be running low on tye-die

Re: [users] finding words in 2.3

2007-09-30 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Thank you, It works great Jim Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leave the Find window open and just keep clicking Find will move you through the file to successive instances. Jim Hartley Walter Hildebrandt wrote: Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:18, James Knott wrote: Jim Hartley wrote: See how easy it is when you understand the workings of big corporations? Oh, I understand. I used to work for IBM, at two different times in my career. So do I. IBM screwed all the OS/2 users with their lack of

[users] Re: how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Smith
Lisa Hetherington wrote: Not exactly, If my formula returns a date that falls on a Sat or Sun, I would like it to advance to the Mon after the weekend (when I would be at work). It comes in handy here to take advantage of the fact that TRUE and FALSE have the numeric values 1 and 0. So we

Re: [users] Re: how do I add or subtract years or months from a date

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
On 10/1/07, Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lisa Hetherington wrote: Not exactly, If my formula returns a date that falls on a Sat or Sun, I would like it to advance to the Mon after the weekend (when I would be at work). It comes in handy here to take advantage of the fact that TRUE

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