Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

jonathon пишет: Mike wrote: The cited examples (wikipedia, dvd writing) are nothing to do with OOo. Just because you don't know how those features work with OOo, does not mean that other people lack that knowledge. xan joanthon So you do not have an example (because none exist

Re: [users] Re: Macro madness

2008/2/7, TomW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > 2008/2/6, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I tried your macro and I didn't get the problems you described. It > >>> > >> seemed > >> > >>> to work perfectly. Maybe I need you

[users] need help

I want to add auto numbering to my invoice that I made for opeoffice can't find the right way to do it any suggestions -- Hans Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] registered Linux user 289023 411024 - To uns

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

Mike wrote: > The cited examples (wikipedia, dvd writing) are nothing to do with OOo. Just because you don't know how those features work with OOo, does not mean that other people lack that knowledge. xan joanthon - To unsub

Re: [users] Re: Macro madness

TomW wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/2/6, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I tried your macro and I didn't get the problems you described. It seemed to work perfectly. Maybe I need your whole document to evaluate what's going on. Sorry for the delay. I needed

Re: [users] Re: i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 9:38 PM, NoOp wrote: > 1.5 gigabytes? > What versions are you using? Once you add audio gallery, image gallery, extensions, grammar checking, dictionaries, and UI in various languages, 1.5 GB is not an unexpectedly large size for all of the various things that are associa

[users] Re: Learning about macros

H.S. wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: I can't get any of the example macros to work in OOo 2.3.1 running on Debian Lenny 2.6.22 (kernel). I get a variety of errors which I can send the list, if requested. *None* of them work? That is weird. Please take a look at the macro sent by Michele in the

Re: [users] Re: Macro madness

Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/2/6, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I tried your macro and I didn't get the problems you described. It seemed to work perfectly. Maybe I need your whole document to evaluate what's going on. Sorry for the d

Re: [users] OOo-Base error.?

Drew Jensen wrote: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: I don't know if this list's mail client accepts attachments or not, but I have attached an OOo Draw document containing a screen print of the error message I get when trying to open tables in my OOo-2.3.1-Base database Yes I got th

[users] Re: Sound and video in OpenOffice Impress

On 02/06/2008 01:43 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 02/06/2008 11:59 AM, Leslie Danks wrote: >> I'm just starting to get involved with OpenOffice Impress under SUSELinux >> (and Ubuntu)and would like to insert some sound and/or video clips into a >> presentation. All I get when I do Insert -> Movie and Sound

[users] Re: Sound and video in OpenOffice Impress

On 02/06/2008 11:59 AM, Leslie Danks wrote: > I'm just starting to get involved with OpenOffice Impress under SUSELinux > (and Ubuntu)and would like to insert some sound and/or video clips into a > presentation. All I get when I do Insert -> Movie and Sound -> [File name] > is the error message: "T

[users] Re: i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 02/06/2008 05:49 AM, Colin Sharpe wrote: > --- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 3.. what size is it? > > Big - about 1.5 gigabytes 1.5 gigabytes? What versions are you using? http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.1/index.html?focus=download (note the download sizes...) > > Download the s

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

(copying to OP). Colin Sharpe ?: --- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3.. what size is it? Big - about 1.5 gigabytes Huh? OpenOffice installation file for Windows is 120MB in size (bigger for other platforms). It takes approx 330 MB of disk space installed (650MB are required du

[users] Re: Disapearing font

On 02/04/2008 03:24 PM, Charlie Freeze wrote: > Hello, > > I have ver. 2.3 of the OpenOffice, and would like to know how a > certain font is missing from the drop-down list in the writer page. > The font is "Bullpen 3-D". I used this font to make a flyer, and > then after I saved it, and went bac

[users] Sound and video in OpenOffice Impress

I'm just starting to get involved with OpenOffice Impress under SUSELinux (and Ubuntu)and would like to insert some sound and/or video clips into a presentation. All I get when I do Insert -> Movie and Sound -> [File name] is the error message: "The format of the selected file is not supported". I'

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 06/02/2008 19:50, Colin Sharpe wrote: --- Kirill Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin Sharpe ?: --- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3.. what size is it? Big - about 1.5 gigabytes Huh? OpenOffice installation file for Windows is 120MB in size (bigger for

Re: [users] OOo-Base error.?

Drew Jensen wrote: First question - do you run Quickstarter - and if you do- then if you kill all instances of open windows and quickstarter - then open the file does that clear the error? Ah let me clarify - close all open OpenOffice.org document windows and quickstarter - not all Windows on t

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

--- Kirill Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin Sharpe ?: > > --- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 3.. what size is it? > > > > > > Big - about 1.5 gigabytes > > > Huh? > OpenOffice installation file for Windows is 120MB in > size (bigger for > other platforms). > It

Re: [users] OOo-Base error.?

James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: I don't know if this list's mail client accepts attachments or not, but I have attached an OOo Draw document containing a screen print of the error message I get when trying to open tables in my OOo-2.3.1-Base database Yes I got the attachment. I am

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

Colin Sharpe ?: --- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3.. what size is it? Big - about 1.5 gigabytes Huh? OpenOffice installation file for Windows is 120MB in size (bigger for other platforms). It takes approx 330 MB of disk space installed (650MB are required during installatio

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 6 Feb 2008 at 18:41, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 06/02/2008 18:38, mike scott wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2008 at 14:39, jonathon wrote: > > > > > >> Mike wrote: > >> > >> > >>> What specific limitations had you in mind here? > >>> > >> The simple case is Wikipedia Integration using Window

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 06/02/2008 18:38, mike scott wrote: On 6 Feb 2008 at 14:39, jonathon wrote: Mike wrote: What specific limitations had you in mind here? The simple case is Wikipedia Integration using Windows Vista Starter Edition. or saving to DVD on Windows Vista Home Edition. Mm

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 6 Feb 2008 at 14:39, jonathon wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > What specific limitations had you in mind here? > > The simple case is Wikipedia Integration using Windows Vista Starter Edition. > or saving to DVD on Windows Vista Home Edition. > Mmm. But the context was features of OOo that some

Re: [users] Re: Macro madness

2008/2/6, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > > >> > > I tried your macro and I didn't get the problems you described. It > seemed > > to work perfectly. Maybe I need your whole document to evaluate what's > > going on. > > Sorry for the delay. I needed a place to up

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

Mike wrote: > What specific limitations had you in mind here? The simple case is Wikipedia Integration using Windows Vista Starter Edition. or saving to DVD on Windows Vista Home Edition. xan jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

jonathon wrote: > To take a trivial example. How would you like to explain to somebody > why they can't use a specific feature of OOo, after telling them that > OOo works on Windows Vista? From their perspective the issue is that > OOo doesn't work., not that their version of Vista is crippled.

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

On 6 Feb 2008 at 12:20, jonathon wrote: ... > The less computer savvy somebody is, the more comprehensive the answer > needs to be, so that they can comprehend the effects of teh action. > Maybe. Maybe not. The best place to hide a tree is probably in a forest. One way to hide the info a user ne

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

--- DEBRAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, My name is Ray and our daughter has been having > problems opening .doc files from her school computer > on our home computer we have windows vista home > premium with wordpad and sarahs school has windows xp > with ms word.. I would like to know G'd

Re: [users] Designing Star Finder with names as arcs around a central point

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to make a planisphere or star finder, with a circular star map > showing stars around the north star. > > I want the names so they can be read as you look towards the centre. > > Can anyone recommend a program or a way that could be done? > > Ideally all the nam

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

Richard wrote: > He asked for some simple answers and your write a treatise You are right. I left out a number of crucial definitions that are not self-explanatory. As such, it was not as simple as I intended it to be. > What's wrong with just saying, yes, it is free? Free qua Libre? Free

Re: [users] read only

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:20, Reception wrote: > Just wondering how a person can create a document that will allow you to > enter a start date and and it will set dates for things we need done at > specific dates after that start date? I use my calendar to do just this. I use Evolution on Li

Re: [users] Open Office 3

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Re: [users] Designing Star Finder with names as arcs around a central point

On 6 Feb 2008 at 11:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... > Apart from Mike Scott's suggestions, what about software that is designed to > make CD labels where the text surrounds the hole? >From what I've seen lately, most CD designer s/ware is rubbish. At least the freebie stuff, and also what came with my

[users] date calculations (was Re: [users] read only)

On 5 Feb 2008 at 11:20, Reception wrote: > > Just wondering how a person can create a document that will allow you > to enter a start date and and it will set dates for things we need > done at specific dates after that start date? Can you help me with > some guidelines. I have been playing ar

Re: [users] Designing Star Finder with names as arcs around a central point

On 06/02/2008, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Feb 2008 at 22:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I want to make a planisphere or star finder, with a circular star map > > showing stars around the north star. > > > > I want the names so they can be read as you look towards the centre

Re: [users] Designing Star Finder with names as arcs around a central point

On 5 Feb 2008 at 22:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to make a planisphere or star finder, with a circular star map > showing stars around the north star. > > I want the names so they can be read as you look towards the centre. > > Can anyone recommend a program or a way that could be done

Re: [users] Learning about macros

On 2/6/08, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a real problem getting my foot in the door learning OOo macros. Hello Jonathan, If you really want to learn about OOo macros I recommend the book of Andrew Pitonyak. Unlike the document which, as the introduction states, is a random

Re: [users] Re: drawing tables dynamically in writer; need a macro for this?

[snip] > Thanks a ton, Michele. I will try it out and experiment with it. I > really appreciate your work. > > regards, > ->HS Hello HS, One clarification I wrote the macro under the assumption that the document you will apply it to is a short one. Transversing the document searching for the styl