Re: [users] Re: Is there a serious flaw in Impress

2007-11-16 Thread rob clement
NoOp wrote: On 11/15/2007 12:20 AM, rob clement wrote: Apologies for sending out a read receipt with my last request. Some time ago I discovered a web site called www.powerbacks.com. The contents of the web site is a series of presentation templates. I found one in the technical section that

[users] After download of German OOo 2.2.1 for Intel Mac under Mac OS X Leopard the activation fails

2007-11-16 Thread Maccle
Hello everybody! I can't install German OOo 2.2.1 for Tiger (Mac OS 10.4) on Intel Macs und Leopard (MacOS 10.5). After the download is finished, the dmg-file should be activated to start the installation but the initialization fails. I can't do ANYthing. Do you ever heard of this problem?

Re: [users] Problems installing OpenOffice.org 2.3

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:04:14 - Mel Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I attach screen shots of the error messages. No you didn't. Most attachments are stripped by the mailing list software. Describe your situation in words, in the body of your message. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask

[users] Hello!

2007-11-16 Thread Robert
http://kz-h.nm.ru Internet banking is daed! Why? ojfrsaluqvej - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Writer v 2.21

2007-11-16 Thread jcb
In a table I am unable to operate the 'sort' facility. Help please john BEX - Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.

[users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread Sheri Evans
Good Day, I can no longer open documents under My Documents after loading Windows Live One Care and also updated version of Explorer (7). The filter keeps coming up, and I can no longer access a blank (new) document for OpenOffice. Thank you! Sheri

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

2007-11-16 Thread bluhm_pat1
Can OpenOffice be installed and used on Windows 98? Patricia Bluhm San Antonio TX - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] hola from anita nicholson and need some support

2007-11-16 Thread alcn
Hi - I just uninstalled every bit of open office. I could not open many of my documents on other computers. All my files changed back to word (which is perfect for me) except two files. I need to open them and can not since I uninstalled open office. One is an ODP file and the other is an ODT

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:28:26 + Mike Fogarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello open office I am looking at the open office programme and want to find a simple users guide so I can evaluate it. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:50:44 +1000 luis Ordonez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have tried to load open office on to a HP pavillion 9251 lap top running vista ultimate 64 bit OS, the installation failed and rolled back. What can i do ?? And the error message that you received was? -- MELVILLE

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Dowling
I don't expect to find a dictionary that can interpret where a special character is needed, but would like a quick way while I'm typing to add these characters. What is possible/what do you suggest? Thanks The AltGr key opens up a keyboard-based route to most European accented

[users] Sheet Does Not Recalculate (was Re: [users] re spread sheet)

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 12/11/2007, eleanor wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi harold thanks for getting back to me. sorry for the confusion it doesnt calculate the total at the end of the cell. I am on windows xp. i bought the cd from a web site hotsales NJ. USA it opens up as office org.. hope this helps

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

2007-11-16 Thread Elaine
I want to know if you provide an electronic tally grid to compute typographical errors, etc.

[users] writer does not respond

2007-11-16 Thread Alejandro D. Corbalan
hi, my name's alejandro i write from southamerica I am new in using open office an i have just installed ubuntu gusty gibbon along with OO suite here's the deal: it turns out that Writer does not respond when i try to apply character format, when i click directly on the icon or when deploy format

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

2007-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sir I try to used openoffice 2.3.0 and there is a mistake. I can't used it because there is a crach anytime. do you have a stable version for ubuntu 7.10 thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread Mike Fogarty
hello open office I am looking at the open office programme and want to find a simple users guide so I can evaluate it. I am a Mac user. Can you tell me where. e.g. i cannot find how to place a saved document, and the open office org information fro crashes

[users] making brochures

2007-11-16 Thread nfjoyce
I have followed the steps in openoffice 2.3 to make brochures, changes to landscape, then checked brochues, when i print it out, it prints totally out of line to the paper, not brochure style at all. can you please give me step by step instructions on how to make a brochure in office 2.3?

[users] RE: Possible error

2007-11-16 Thread Jay Kung
Dear Sir/Madam, I just installed OpenOffice Portable into my desktop computer. The computer comes with 2.8GHz, 768MB RAM, 80GB HDD, WinXPpro. It was smooth during the installation. After that, I opened the OpenOfficePortable.exe. and I received a pop up window. Please see the attached image. I did

Re: [users] Accessing Draw?

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:30:45 + Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to access the other items particularly 'Draw'. Can you please advise? File - New -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:43:09 +0200 Waldie Bartie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what do I do next? Any particular reason not to do your work using OpenOffice 2.3 instead of Word Perfect 8? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread l . j . isaacs
Hi, I installed Open Office 2.3 and added a Spanish language dictionary, which seems to be working fine. However, when writing text in Spanish it's agonizingly slow to individually add common special characters (for example: ¿ é á ó ú ñ) using the special characters menu. The dictionary

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

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:14:10 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can OpenOffice be installed and used on Windows 98? Yes. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] Re: Re: The Creative Commons Licensing extension

2007-11-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Drew Jensen wrote: snip Have used it under XP and Kubuntu with OO.o 2.3, it is found at ToolsAddonsCreative CommonsSelect License NOTE - Please read the comment I made at the extension site... It will crash the applicaton if you select insert license', it will actually insert the

[users] Re: Openoffice.org software I ordered.

2007-11-16 Thread Jessica Neshem
I was told about your website because I do not have Microsoft Word or anything on my computer. I needed the software to make documents, business info. I went to your website to download and because I have dial-up It will take 33 hours to download. So I ordered the software through cafepress.com

Re: [users] Help!

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:03:11 -0700 Marti Hanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't tell me my first several hours of typing are just gone and not retrievable. If you deleted the first several pages, then saved your document and over-wrote the previous document, then that is indeed the

Re: [users] making brochures

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed the steps in openoffice 2.3 to make brochures, changes to landscape, then checked brochues, when i print it out, it prints totally out of line to the paper, not brochure style at all. can you please give me step by step

Re: [users] Accessing Draw?

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Mark Harris wrote: Hello All, I have recently downloaded version 2.3 of 'OpenOffice.org' for OSX 10.3 'Panther'. My problem is I can only access 'Writer'. I need to access the other items particularly 'Draw'. Can you please advise? With the Mac version, only the Writer icon appears. 

Re: [users] RE: Possible error

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Jay Kung wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I just installed OpenOffice Portable into my desktop computer. The computer comes with 2.8GHz, 768MB RAM, 80GB HDD, WinXPpro. It was smooth during the installation. After that, I opened the OpenOfficePortable.exe. and I received a pop up window. Please see

Re: [users] Open Office on eBay

2007-11-16 Thread Bo Hogland
- Original Message - From: Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Theresa...Ms. Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [users] Open Office on eBay On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:29:38 -0500 Theresa...Ms. Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread Guy Voets
2007/11/16, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:28:26 + Mike Fogarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello open office I am looking at the open office programme and want to find a simple users guide so I can evaluate it. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ --

Re: [users] Open Microsoft *.msg format - HOW TO OPEN

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/11/2007, Hardy, James P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using OpenOffice for several months. I love it. I also use Firefox and Thunderbird. In the past, I copied a number of Microsoft emails, in the *.msg format into file folders. Later, I moved these folders to my Vista

Re: [users] Accessing Draw?

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/11/2007, Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have recently downloaded version 2.3 of 'OpenOffice.org' for OSX 10.3'Panther'. My problem is I can only access 'Writer'. I need to access the other items particularly 'Draw'. Can you please advise? Best regards, Mark

[users] Accessing Draw?

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Harris
Hello All, I have recently downloaded version 2.3 of 'OpenOffice.org' for OSX 10.3 'Panther'. My problem is I can only access 'Writer'. I need to access the other items particularly 'Draw'. Can you please advise? Best regards, Mark Harris

[users] empty image!

2007-11-16 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hi *, I'm facing a problem with OOo 2.0.4 on Debian Etch i386. OOo is installed locally on the client, but the user's home dir is mounted from a Samba share. Authentication is done on a NT domain and the same Samba is the PDC. When I run oo I get client1$ oowriter InsertFromHorizontalBitmap -

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

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can OpenOffice be installed and used on Windows 98? Patricia Bluhm San Antonio TX - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, provided

Re: [users] hola from anita nicholson and need some support

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I just uninstalled every bit of open office. I could not open many of my documents on other computers. All my files changed back to word (which is perfect for me) except two files. I need to open them and can not since I uninstalled open office. One is an

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread M Henri Day
2007/11/16, TechAdmin @ VLM [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Bob Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key The AltGr key opens up a keyboard-based route to

[users] problem with visible menu bar while doing a presentation with OOo

2007-11-16 Thread Laborgott
Hey to all!I really hope you can help me.I'm using Mac OS 10.5.1 (Leopard) with X11 (Vers.X11.app 2.0 - X.org X11R7.2) and OOo 2.3on my MacBook.As you can see from the attached picture of my desktop while holding a presentation under OOothere is still the menu bar.The button "full screen on/off"

[users] Re: Re: Fw: Re: Unable to open an MS word Doc with OO from an email attachment on a MAC

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Long
mike scott wrote: [..] (Oh, btw, I think someone said pdfcreator was not free. Bullzip for windows seems to work reasonably well and is a freebie. Others have suggested cutepdf) For the sake of completeness, PDFCreator (if you are talking about what is available from SourceForge), is free:

Re: [users] Re: Openoffice.org software I ordered.

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 16/11/2007, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jessica Neshem wrote: snip I am confused. Why do I have to buy more software? I though I would just get this software and be able to download it with no problem. I have Windows XP. I can't afford 50.00in more software.

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

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sir I try to used openoffice 2.3.0 and there is a mistake. I can't used it because there is a crach anytime. do you have a stable version for ubuntu 7.10 Some people have mentioned problems with the Ubuntu version, though I don't recall this problem

Re: [users] hola from anita nicholson and need some support

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:29:37 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One is an ODP file and the other is an ODT file. Those are Open Document Format files. You can view, edit and modify them using OpenOffice. Can you help? And no I do not want to install open office again. Sorry. That's how

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

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:53:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to used openoffice 2.3.0 and there is a mistake. I can't used it because there is a crach anytime. do you have a stable version for ubuntu 7.10 OpenOffice 2.3 is the current version. Many people use it on

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Mike Fogarty wrote: hello open office I am looking at the open office programme and want to find a simple users guide so I can evaluate it. I am a Mac user. Can you tell me where. e.g. i cannot find how to place a saved document, and the open office org information fro crashes You

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

2007-11-16 Thread Nelsonr937
I have an ebook wrote with open office and can't seem to upload it. is there a way to upload files in open office ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Re: [users] RE: Possible error

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:45:22 -0800 (PST) Jay Kung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the attached image. There is no attached image. The mailing list software strips most attachments. You will have to describe your problem using words. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

[users] Open Office on eBay

2007-11-16 Thread Theresa...Ms. Tech
Why are people selling your product on ebay? Are they legally representing your product? Thanks for your reply. Theresa

[users] headers in master docs

2007-11-16 Thread Joe Grech
Is it possible to have a different header for every chapter in a master doc? Tks _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/

Re: [users] Re: The Creative Commons Licensing extension

2007-11-16 Thread Dave Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message From: Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri 16 Nov 2007 18:43:52 EST Jonathan Kaye wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Has anyone here succeeded in getting this extension to work. I have tried adding it to several

[users] Help!

2007-11-16 Thread Marti Hanna
Hello Tech Support People, What a nightmare! For hours this morning, I was using OpenOffice.org-Writer working on a document I am preparing in preparation for a job interview. I clicked on Save As and gave the document a title. I kept typing, and after several pages (I think I kept Saving) I

Re: [users] Open Office on eBay

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Theresa...Ms. Tech wrote: Why are people selling your product on ebay? Are they legally representing your product? Thanks for your reply. Theresa They have decided to sell something that's available for free, but that's entirely legal, though some vendors appear more ethical than

RE: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
Thanks Henri. Looked there, I think my keyboard may be sufficiently old not to have this key. I have, to the right of the space bar: normal Alt key Win key Right-click key (whatever it is called) Ctrl key And that's it. So unless it's that Right-click key

Re: [users] Accessing Draw?

2007-11-16 Thread Guy Voets
2007/11/16, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mark Harris wrote: Hello All, I have recently downloaded version 2.3 of 'OpenOffice.org' for OSX 10.3 'Panther'. My problem is I can only access 'Writer'. I need to access the other items particularly 'Draw'. Can you please advise? With the

Re: [users] Open Office on eBay

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:29:38 -0500 Theresa...Ms. Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are people selling your product on ebay? Are they legally representing your product? OpenOffice is Free Software. Anyone who wishes to can give it away or sell it for any price they choose. You can do it too,

Re: [users] hola from anita nicholson and need some support

2007-11-16 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I just uninstalled every bit of open office. I could not open many of my documents on other computers. All my files changed back to word (which is perfect for me) except two files. I need to open them and can not since I uninstalled open office. One is an ODP file and the other is an ODT

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

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:43:06 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an ebook wrote with open office and can't seem to upload it. is there a way to upload files in open office You use software other than OpenOffice to upload files with. You can create files with OpenOffice and then use other

Re: [users] Writer v 2.21

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:16:41 + (GMT) jcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a table I am unable to operate the 'sort' facility. Describe the exact steps that you took, in detail. You haven't given us enough information to advise you at all. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~

[users] Computing Typographical Errors (was Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE)

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 13/11/2007, Elaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know if you provide an electronic tally grid to compute typographical errors, etc. I may be alone here but I really don't understand what you are trying to do. Would you please explain in more detail. Are you simply trying to count the

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

2007-11-16 Thread Waldie Bartie
I do all my work in Word Perfect 8, manuals which include drawings. When I open a wpd document in Open office ver 2.3, the text is fine but none of the drawings nor even place holders come into the document. So what do I do next? I really want to get away from MS Word97. Regards Waldie Bartie

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread bill purvis
On Friday 16 November 2007, TechAdmin @ VLM wrote: From: Bob Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key The AltGr key opens up a keyboard-based route

Re: [users] Re: new user of OOo:Base

2007-11-16 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 15 November 2007, NoOp wrote: On 11/15/2007 04:53 AM, Drew Jensen wrote: Hello Bill, Well, the best advice I could give you would be to either upgrade your version of OpenOffice.org to the latest distro version or replace it with the vanilla version from OpenOffic.org ( the

[users] Re: Openoffice.org software I ordered.

2007-11-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jessica Neshem wrote: snip I am confused. Why do I have to buy more software? I though I would just get this software and be able to download it with no problem. I have Windows XP. I can't afford 50.00 in more software. Jessica Hi Jessica, Frank answered most of your questions. Your

Re: [users] Sheet Does Not Recalculate (was Re: [users] re spread sheet)

2007-11-16 Thread robert
On 12/11/2007, eleanor wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi harold thanks for getting back to me. sorry for the confusion it doesnt calculate the total at the end of the cell. I am on windows xp. i bought the cd from a web site hotsales NJ. USA it opens up as office org.. hope this

[users] Re: Help!

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Long
[CC:d to user] Marti Hanna wrote: Hello Tech Support People, What a nightmare! For hours this morning, I was using OpenOffice.org-Writer working on a document I am preparing in preparation for a job interview. I clicked on Save As and gave the document a title. I kept typing, and after

Re: [users] Unsubscribe not working

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 16/11/2007 19:20, JJ Rogers wrote: OO is cool, I subscribed to the forum but found it way too much information for me. I have unsubscribed twice, yet I continue to get lots of OO email. Ca you help? JJ Rogers - To

[users] Templates for envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread John Meyer
I've gone through the templates available for download and I can't seem to find one for printing to envelopes. Apparently I'm blind or something but a little clue would be appreciated. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Re: to software part 2

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Jessica Neshem wrote: It says it does not reconize the software and some is unknown.Jessica You'll have to provide more information, such as what operating system you're running (Windows, Mac, Linux etc) and what version of OpenOffice you purchased. Exact quotes of the error

Re: [users] Re: Re: Fw: Re: Unable to open an MS word Doc with OO from an email attachment on a MAC

2007-11-16 Thread mike scott
On 16 Nov 2007 at 23:58, Bob Long wrote: mike scott wrote: [..] (Oh, btw, I think someone said pdfcreator was not free. Bullzip for windows seems to work reasonably well and is a freebie. Others have suggested cutepdf) For the sake of completeness, PDFCreator (if you are talking

RE: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
From: Bob Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key The AltGr key opens up a keyboard-based route to most European accented characters. Hi Bob, this

Re: [users] Templates for envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread John Meyer
John Meyer wrote: I've gone through the templates available for download and I can't seem to find one for printing to envelopes. Apparently I'm blind or something but a little clue would be appreciated. Like I said, blind. I didn't look over to the Insert-Envelopes option. Found it.

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread M Henri Day
2007/11/16, TechAdmin @ VLM [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Henri. Looked there, I think my keyboard may be sufficiently old not to have this key. I have, to the right of the space bar: normal Alt key Win key Right-click key (whatever it is called) Ctrl key

RE: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
Thanks, Bob. Already responded to Henri's message. Either it's that right-click key, or I don't have it ... laptop or external. Elchanan -Original Message- From: bill purvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:28 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users]

Re: [users] Re: Openoffice.org software I ordered.

2007-11-16 Thread James Knott
Jessica Neshem wrote: I was told about your website because I do not have Microsoft Word or anything on my computer. I needed the software to make documents, business info. I went to your website to download and because I have dial-up It will take 33 hours to download. So I ordered the

[users] GPO installation + disable auto update

2007-11-16 Thread flavoie
Hi, We use our Active Directory to push OpenOffice on our workstations. My problem is that many of them don't have internet access and we are then responsable to make the update ourself. This cause the auto update to ask question to users that lead to error (and support calls). I look at the

[users] Unsubscribe not working

2007-11-16 Thread JJ Rogers
OO is cool, I subscribed to the forum but found it way too much information for me. I have unsubscribed twice, yet I continue to get lots of OO email. Ca you help? JJ Rogers - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[users] [moderated]

2007-11-16 Thread luis Ordonez
To whom it may concern Have tried to load open office on to a HP pavillion 9251 lap top running vista ultimate 64 bit OS, the installation failed and rolled back. What can i do ?? thanks Luis Ordonez Coorparoo, Brisabne Qld. Australia.

[users] Re: to software part 2

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Long
[CC:d to user] Jessica Neshem wrote: It says it does not reconize the software and some is unknown. Jessica Please explain in more detail. What is it? What are the exact error messages you get, and what are you doing at the time? -- Bob Long P.S. You have written to a mailing list where

Re: [users] Re: Openoffice.org software I ordered.

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:21:17 -0800 (PST) Jessica Neshem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told about your website because I do not have Microsoft Word or anything on my computer. I needed the software to make documents, business info. I went to your website to download and because I have

[users] Open Microsoft *.msg format - HOW TO OPEN

2007-11-16 Thread Hardy, James P
I've been using OpenOffice for several months. I love it. I also use Firefox and Thunderbird. In the past, I copied a number of Microsoft emails, in the *.msg format into file folders. Later, I moved these folders to my Vista environment operating with the OpenOffice suite, Mozilla web search

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Unable to open an MS word Doc with OO from an email attachment on a MAC

2007-11-16 Thread mike scott
On 15 Nov 2007 at 17:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I would like to point out that you should use OOo's PDF export when appropriate rather than PDFCreator. OOo produces better PDFs. At the risk of intertwining threads, I should point out again that OOo's pdf creation doesn't offer the same

[users] Re: Is there a serious flaw in Impress

2007-11-16 Thread NoOp
On 11/16/2007 12:00 AM, rob clement wrote: NoOp wrote: Your issue may be related to this bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70669 [Import of templates fails when the name contains spaces - Target milestone: OOo 2.4] I'd recommend that you eliminate the underscores

RE: [users] Templates for envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
LOL, Great catch, John. I love when I find my own errors.:) Elchanan John Meyer wrote: I've gone through the templates available for download and I can't seem to find one for printing to envelopes. Apparently I'm blind or something but a little clue would be appreciated. Like I said,

Re: [users] Leopard Compatibility

2007-11-16 Thread David Lowe
On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Ross Bernheim wrote: Just found an interesting bit on the time out error on launching OOo. Seems there is a script involved. I managed to get a look at it, but am not familiar with the scripting. Seems someone who is, could just add a delay before a check to

[users] using OO.o with a dark theme in Gnome

2007-11-16 Thread Michele
Hello, I have tried to switch to a dark theme on my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 and OO.o 2.3, however as soon as I launch OO.o (any application) the frame freezes. I tried to launch soffice from a terminal and I get this error message (followed by several tens of lines of backtracing. *** glibc

[users] Re: writer does not respond

2007-11-16 Thread NoOp
On 11/14/2007 05:19 AM, Alejandro D. Corbalan wrote: hi, my name's alejandro i write from southamerica I am new in using open office an i have just installed ubuntu gusty gibbon along with OO suite here's the deal: it turns out that Writer does not respond when i try to apply character format,

Re: [users] Leopard Compatibility

2007-11-16 Thread Ross Bernheim
On Nov 16, 2007, at 13:05, David Lowe wrote: On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Ross Bernheim wrote: Just found an interesting bit on the time out error on launching OOo. Seems there is a script involved. I managed to get a look at it, but am not familiar with the scripting. Seems someone who

Re: [users] Using OpenOffice 2.3 with screenreader orca

2007-11-16 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Klaus, (CC'ing you as I'm afraid that my answer might come late and you left the discussion) I will ask our accessibility experts. One of them is a Knopicillin user. Maybe he owes you something. ;-) Ciao, Mathias Klaus Knopper wrote: Dear Jonathon, On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:06:27AM

[users] Re: v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread NoOp
On 11/16/2007 08:43 AM, TechAdmin @ VLM wrote: Thanks, Bob. Already responded to Henri's message. Either it's that right-click key, or I don't have it ... laptop or external. Elchanan -Original Message- From: bill purvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16,

Re: [users] Template and gallery packages for OpenOffice.org

2007-11-16 Thread John Boyle
To KAMI: How does one install these templates? I cannot seem to do anything but download them. KAMI wrote: Hi OpenOffice.org Fans! As you probably know we (The OxygenOffice Professional Team) are collecting templates and ClipArts for OpenOffice.org. We have collected and created several

RE: [users] Re: v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
Oh great !! How might one do that in Win XP? Most standard US style 104/5 keyboards do not have this labeled as AltGR and are only labeled as Alt - including my US/Japanese International keyboard. In fact, I've never seen an Alt GR key on any of my keyboards, laptops included (since 197x) so

Re: [users] After download of German OOo 2.2.1 for Intel Mac under Mac OS X Leopard the activation fails

2007-11-16 Thread David Lowe
On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Maccle wrote: I can't install German OOo 2.2.1 for Tiger (Mac OS 10.4) on Intel Macs und Leopard (MacOS 10.5). After the download is finished, the dmg-file should be activated to start the installation but the initialization fails. I can't do ANYthing.

Re: [users] using OO.o with a dark theme in Gnome

2007-11-16 Thread Davide Corio
Il giorno ven, 16/11/2007 alle 22.26 +0100, Michele ha scritto: Hello, I have tried to switch to a dark theme on my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 and OO.o 2.3, however as soon as I launch OO.o (any application) the frame freezes. I tried to launch soffice from a terminal and I get this error

Re: [users] Re: v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 16/11/2007 22:26, TechAdmin @ VLM wrote: Oh great !! How might one do that in Win XP? Most standard US style 104/5 keyboards do not have this labeled as AltGR and are only labeled as Alt - including my US/Japanese International keyboard. In fact, I've never seen an Alt GR key on any of my

[users] Re: v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread NoOp
On 11/16/2007 02:26 PM, TechAdmin @ VLM wrote: Oh great !! How might one do that in Win XP? Most standard US style 104/5 keyboards do not have this labeled as AltGR and are only labeled as Alt - including my US/Japanese International keyboard. In fact, I've never seen an Alt GR key on any

[users] KeyTweak: Keyboard Remapping in Windows (Freeware)

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
Alrighty, great suggestion, I searched a wee bit and found KeyTweak, Windows keyboard remapper, freeware available at: http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1ID=1698 Just installed and opened it, looks quite straightforward to use, as long as it's not buggy. (No time yet to

[users] Re: using OO.o with a dark theme in Gnome

2007-11-16 Thread NoOp
On 11/16/2007 01:26 PM, Michele wrote: Hello, I have tried to switch to a dark theme on my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 and OO.o 2.3, however as soon as I launch OO.o (any application) the frame freezes. I tried to launch soffice from a terminal and I get this error message (followed by

[users] Gremlins or what?

2007-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Hill
Hi This may take awhile, it concerns Frames. I had a Microsoft Word doc and it was full of Text Boxes (Frames). I turned it into a Oo doc. All the Frames went kaflooy. Some had been pre-grouped in the Word document and some were not. I decided to move everything to a new Oo

Re: [users] Re: The Creative Commons Licensing extension

2007-11-16 Thread Drew Jensen
Dave Barton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message From: Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri 16 Nov 2007 18:43:52 EST Jonathan Kaye wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Has anyone here succeeded in getting this extension to work.

Re: [users] Gremlins or what?

2007-11-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:06 16/11/2007 -0800, Elizabeth Hill wrote: [...] I had a Microsoft Word doc and it was full of Text Boxes (Frames). I turned it into a Oo doc. All the Frames went kaflooy. [...] A new Frame created in the new doc. I tried to type the information in the way that all the other Frames'

RE: [users] KeyTweak: Keyboard Remapping in Windows (Freeware)

2007-11-16 Thread TechAdmin @ VLM
Well, 3 different downloads later, I have learned that: 1. There are some very nice little utilities out there that can remap almost everything on a Windows keyboards. 2. Almost does not appear to include the AltGr function. I wrote off to one of the authors, and he simply has never heard of

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