Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread M Henri Day
2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble. You might also find

Re: [users] I'm stumped about TOC resetting

2008-02-09 Thread Michele
I inherited a Word doc that opens fine in OO (2.2) but all sorts of text elements show up when I generate a new TOC. How do I reset the text and level 4 down heads so they do not appear in the TOC? Hello, to limit the TOC to the first 3 levels only, right click on the TOC, then select edit

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread web at work
We have an optioncall open source. There's NO EXCUSE for using MickySoft today.period! We all got used to the way Gates did business, but Ballmer is a lot more sneakymuch more stab you in back after he sneaks in the back door. He's every bit, if not more, driven do crush

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread jimw wagner
sorry, try this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/us_army_linux_integration/ JimW M Henri Day wrote: 2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts so they do not want M$ to get pissed

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread M Henri Day
2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sorry, try this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/us_army_linux_integration/ JimW M Henri Day wrote: 2008/2/9, jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: web at work wrote: The government cannot live without their yearly licences and

[users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
How do I make an outline using 2.3 on a WindowsXP computer? - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Re: [users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 09/02/2008 20:07, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: How do I make an outline using 2.3 on a WindowsXP computer? By using the Navigator. See for example http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/11/jumping_to_part.html On a different topic, you sent your e-mail, with subject Outlining as

[users] Ryan Cartwright on OOo 3

2008-02-09 Thread M Henri Day
List members might find Ryan Cartwright's Free Software Magazine article (* http://tinyurl.com/3xc3dc*) of interest Henri

Re: [users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Michele
On Feb 9, 2008 8:07 PM, Walter Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I make an outline using 2.3 on a WindowsXP computer? Hello Walter, could you be a bit more specific? are you talking about the outline for a presentation? visualizing the outline of a document? creating the outline of a

Re: [users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Sorry that I made the mistake. I was getting setup to send the User Group a question. I opened a message and then deleted everything in the message. I did not realize I was breaking a thread. Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/02/2008 20:07, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: How do I make

Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

2008-02-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: We have an optioncall open source. There's NO EXCUSE for using MickySoft today.period! We all got used to the way Gates did business, but Ballmer is a lot more sneakymuch more stab you in back after he sneaks in the back door. He's every bit, if not more,

Re: [users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Hi Michele I am thinking of a simple outline where the different 'subjects, where the different thought, are first put on a sheet of paper. As the document is written the outline can be changed as the subjects, as the different thoughts, change. Walter Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [users] Ryan Cartwright on OOo 3

2008-02-09 Thread Claude Poliakoff, MD FACS
Merçi Henri, The Free mag site is both interesting and welcoming. Claude M Henri Day wrote: List members might find Ryan Cartwright's Free Software Magazine article (* http://tinyurl.com/3xc3dc*) of interest Henri

[users] Re: Re: Sound and video in OpenOffice Impress

2008-02-09 Thread Leslie Danks
Dan wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008 02:51:57 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 -

Re: [users] Outlining

2008-02-09 Thread Michele
I am thinking of a simple outline where the different 'subjects, where the different thought, are first put on a sheet of paper. As the document is written the outline can be changed as the subjects, as the different thoughts, change. Got it. I normally use a sheet of real paper and a

Re: [users] TOC Formatting

2008-02-09 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to format a heading which is only a couple of words and underlined. I want to continue on the same line with normal type. I find when I apply the heading format, it formats the whole line (or lines if there are several in the paragraph). If there any way to do

[users] TOC Formatting

2008-02-09 Thread dogtrnr
I want to format a heading which is only a couple of words and underlined. I want to continue on the same line with normal type. I find when I apply the heading format, it formats the whole line (or lines if there are several in the paragraph). If there any way to do this:- This is a heading

[users] Re: TOC Formatting

2008-02-09 Thread dogtrnr
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:58:27 -0500, Richard Detwiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to format a heading which is only a couple of words and underlined. I want to continue on the same line with normal type. I find when I apply the heading format, it formats the whole

Re: [users] Can i include character, as opposed to paragraph, styles in the TOC

2008-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:16:04 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:58:27 -0500, Richard Detwiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the simplest way (which those who are enamored with styles with shudder at I'm sure!) is to highlight the portion of the line that you want

[users] Re: Can i include character, as opposed to paragraph, styles in the TOC

2008-02-09 Thread dogtrnr
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:52:31 +1300, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:16:04 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:58:27 -0500, Richard Detwiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the simplest way (which those who are enamored with styles with

Re: [users] TOC Formatting

2008-02-09 Thread Hagar de l'Est
What I would do is: - Use a standard Heading paragraph style with its configuration in ToolsOutline numbering for the first part - Make this heading style invisible with a white font (can't be made hidden, there is a bug report about that) - In your text, for the first part, use a

[users] OOo Writer crashes when Format | Page

2008-02-09 Thread RBL
Hello, all. I have a simple document. One embedded (pasted) JPEG, everything else plain text, standard fonts, some colors. I want to change the margins, so I go into Format | Page. Tabbed dialog opens. If I click on the Page tab, OOo crashes. Opened a blank (new) document. Went into

Re: [users] OO-Base Printable forms

2008-02-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Using OS X 10.5.1, and OO 2.3/2.4 I'm trying to get a database up and running for my brothers business. I have a form generated, so he can enter all of the pertinent information, into the database. Each form is for one

Re: [users] OO-Base Printable forms

2008-02-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 9, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: Everything views correctly, and prints everything except dates times (those show/view okay on screen). Not sure why the dates times will not print. Any clues on this? Again thank you for getting me real close to

Re: [users] OO-Base Printable forms

2008-02-09 Thread Drew Jensen
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Everything views correctly, and prints everything except dates times (those show/view okay on screen). Not sure why the dates times will not print. Any clues on this? Again thank you for getting me real close to the answer(s) I needed. Sorry, no clue on that

Re: [users] OOo Writer crashes when Format | Page

2008-02-09 Thread John W. Kennedy
RBL wrote: Hello, all. I have a simple document. One embedded (pasted) JPEG, everything else plain text, standard fonts, some colors. I want to change the margins, so I go into Format | Page. Tabbed dialog opens. If I click on the Page tab, OOo crashes. Opened a blank (new) document.