Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:16:04 -0700 jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Can Microsoft Access .mdb files be easily imported into Open Office and relatively used in the way the Access database creator intended? As MS Access files, no. As SQLite, or Base files: Not without the end user writing

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread M Henri Day
2008/9/11 mike moller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi HenriK snip 8. There is an add-on for OOBase called Sun Report Builder (aka srb) which shows promise and although released still has some way to go before getting full functionality to match Reports in Access There is another path I haven't

[users] to register or not to register

2008-09-11 Thread Guy Voets
2008/9/10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] not really if you cannot start any document because you stuck in the welcome/first configuration where you choose if you want to register the software. I cannot start any part of openoffice. Nor Calc, Writer, etc. Hello, Don't you have the option 'already

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread mike moller
Thanks Henri I wasn't aware of the Google route to acquiring StarOffice however the limitation of not going back past XP ticks me off (same limitation applies to their new Chrome browser too I see) I'm a long time W2k user and it has in fact been these XP and later issues that have caused me to

[users] Please delete my data

2008-09-11 Thread mf . thomsen
Dear Sirs, please delete my Name Marisa Thomsen and my entries from your archive. I don't want to be listed at Google, etc. with my name. Thank you for your understanding. Looking forward getting your feedback. Thank you very much in advance Marisa Thomsen Hostage mit Bruce

[users] Aqua PPC Question

2008-09-11 Thread Royalguard11
I just have a quick question about Openoffice.org Aqua (the mac port). Why is it that the download page for OOo 3.0rc1 http://download.openoffice.org/680/ has the MacOSX Intel version, but not the PPC version? I do know where I can find it, but I was just wondering out of curiosity why it isn't

Re: [users] Aqua PPC Question

2008-09-11 Thread Guy Voets
2008/9/10 Royalguard11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just have a quick question about Openoffice.org Aqua (the mac port). Why is it that the download page for OOo 3.0rc1 http://download.openoffice.org/680/ has the MacOSX Intel version, but not the PPC version? I do know where I can find it, but I was

Re: [users] OPENING OFFICE 2007 FILES IN OPEN OFFICE PROGRAMS

2008-09-11 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cornelius Seon wrote: In another message thread it was asked if you can open Office 2007 files in Open Office, and the reply was that you simply had to change the extensions from ###x to ###, where ### = the three letter extensions for Office 2003 files and Open

[users] solved insert/show ref (was Re: [writer]insert ref; set ref; insert ref just shows ref name

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
On 09/10/08 23:02, Larry Evans wrote: These are the steps to reproduce the problem: Insert:Fields:Other:ReferencesTab:Set Reference:Name=ref0 [snip] Someone emailed me privately with what should have been an obvious answer. Sorry for noise :( -Larry

Re: [users] OPENING OFFICE 2007 FILES IN OPEN OFFICE PROGRAMS

2008-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Knott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cornelius Seon wrote: In another message thread it was asked if you can open Office 2007 files in Open Office, and the reply was that you simply had to change the extensions from ###x to ###, where ### = the three letter extensions for Office 2003

[users] Re: Please delete my data

2008-09-11 Thread Twayne
Dear Sirs, please delete my Name Marisa Thomsen and my entries from your archive. I don't want to be listed at Google, etc. with my name. Thank you for your understanding. Looking forward getting your feedback. Thank you very much in advance Marisa Thomsen Hostage mit Bruce Willis

Re: [users] Get a new firewall...

2008-09-11 Thread James Knott
John Boyle wrote: M Henri Day wrote: 2008/9/9 Mike Fridley, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, I'm kind of intermediate when it comes to security software, but the free AVG suite I have from Grisoft has done a perfect job at everything Hope that helps Mike Fridley, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
When looking at the cusomize:keyboard tab (access from Tools menu), with Category=Naviage, I see in the Shortcut Keys screen, keys names with Prior and Next in their name. I've no Prior or Next keys on my keyboard. What keys are they on my (I guess) USA keyboard? Also, I guess if I want to

[users] Re: RC1 no Dictionary on FC9

2008-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/10/2008 10:22 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: NoOp wrote: On 09/10/2008 05:44 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I installed RC1 on FC9, and I do not appear to have en_US available for spell check... Can you please file an issue regarding this? I am unsure if the best

[users] Re: [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
Also, where a the functions shown in the 'Shortcut Keys' screen documented. On function (the one attached to F9) is only list as 'fields'. When I press help, and then search for 'fields', nothing helpful appears. Where are these functions defined? It would be nice if the function names

Re: [users] Get a new firewall...

2008-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Knott wrote: John Boyle wrote: M Henri Day wrote: 2008/9/9 Mike Fridley, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, I'm kind of intermediate when it comes to security software, but the free AVG suite I have from Grisoft has done a perfect job at everything Hope that helps Mike Fridley,

[users] Re: OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze

2008-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/10/2008 07:18 PM, liquid64 wrote: Well, tonight I copied the 'user' directory from a working machine to the problem machine, and openoffice came right up without any problem. I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the 'quickstart' utility. (I had it disabled in the copied

[users] Re: [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Allan
Larry Evans wrote: When looking at the cusomize:keyboard tab (access from Tools menu), with Category=Naviage, I see in the Shortcut Keys screen, keys names with Prior and Next in their name. I've no Prior or Next keys on my keyboard. What keys are they on my (I guess) USA keyboard? Under the

Re: [users] [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
If I’m not mistaken, “Prior” and “Next” are the keys usually called “Page up” and “Page down,” respectively. Séamas Ó Brógáin

[users] Re: [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
On 09/11/08 10:21, Jim Allan wrote: Larry Evans wrote: When looking at the cusomize:keyboard tab (access from Tools menu), with Category=Naviage, I see in the Shortcut Keys screen, keys names with Prior and Next in their name. I've no Prior or Next keys on my keyboard. What keys are they on

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
John Jason Jordan wrote: snip I discovered that OOo Base cannot read or import Access databases. However, I also discovered that Kexi can do so. Kexi uses SQLite as its database engine. I successfully got my tables into Kexi, although the queries, forms and such failed to transfer. I didn't have

[users] Re: [writer]customize keyboard:prior next keys?

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Allan
Larry Evans wrote: However, there should be a link from each of these key names to their location of a keyboard; otherwise, questions like mine arise on this list :( Neither the operating system or OpenOffice.org normally knows or cares where a virtual key is located on the current keyboard.

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread M Henri Day
2008/9/11 mike moller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Henri I wasn't aware of the Google route to acquiring StarOffice however the limitation of not going back past XP ticks me off (same limitation applies to their new Chrome browser too I see) I'm a long time W2k user and it has in fact been these

Re: [users] Re: OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze

2008-09-11 Thread A . J_
Please do so. I am also interested. Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:15:44 -0700 Von: NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: users@openoffice.org Betreff: [users] Re: OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze On 09/10/2008 07:18 PM, liquid64 wrote: Well, tonight I copied the 'user'

Re: [users] Calc to Excel conversion challenge.?

2008-09-11 Thread norseman
Brian Barker wrote: At 17:38 10/09/2008 -0700, Steve Norseman wrote: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: I have a Calc spreadsheet bookkeeping system which works well for me. [...] The IRS forms are perfect examples of spreadsheet use. [...] If you do it right and keep the receipts

Re: [users] OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze

2008-09-11 Thread liquid64
NoOp-4 wrote: Very interesting! Do you still have the renamed x-user-x folder? If so I'd be very interested in doing a diff comparison against that and your good user folder. I won't be able to upload it today, since the machine is on the other side of town for me. However, as time

[users] [writer]duplicate input field names?

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
I created an input field with name=inp-fun-field0'. Then, a few lines down, I created another input field. I guess, by accident, I gave it the same name, inp-fun-field0. Isn't that a bug? I'd expect the input field names are unique; otherwise, that's the purpose of the name? If the name is only

Re: [users] Re: Please delete my data

2008-09-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 11/09/2008 15:15, Twayne wrote: Dear Sirs, please delete my Name Marisa Thomsen and my entries from your archive. I don't want to be listed at Google, etc. with my name. Thank you for your understanding. Looking forward getting your feedback. Thank you very much in advance Marisa Thomsen

Re: [users] [writer]duplicate input field names?

2008-09-11 Thread norseman
Larry Evans wrote: I created an input field with name=inp-fun-field0'. Then, a few lines down, I created another input field. I guess, by accident, I gave it the same name, inp-fun-field0. Isn't that a bug? I'd expect the input field names are unique; otherwise, that's the purpose of the name?

[users] Re: Template/Header Problem

2008-09-11 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 9/9/2008 9:16 PM: At 08:45 10/09/2008 +0800, Rob Clement wrote: The simplest way to solve your problem is to set the header on a First Page Page style and then set the other pages to be default ... Er, except that templates don't *have* other pages! ;^) Brian

[users] Re: [writer]duplicate input field names?

2008-09-11 Thread Jim Allan
norseman wrote: The norm is: Each variable has to be unique in order to be discernible. The exception occurs in Excel. When line 1 has the same text in different columns and the file is written out as a CSV, duplicate field names are kept. Excel, when making CSV or DBF files, voids the rules

[users] Re: [writer]duplicate input field names?

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Evans
On 09/11/08 12:39, norseman wrote: Larry Evans wrote: I created an input field with name=inp-fun-field0'. Then, a few lines down, I created another input field. I guess, by accident, I gave it the same name, inp-fun-field0. Isn't that a bug? I'd expect the input field names are unique;

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:11:13 -0500 Barbara Duprey [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: snip I discovered that OOo Base cannot read or import Access databases. However, I also discovered that Kexi can do so. Kexi uses SQLite as its database engine. I successfully got my tables

RE: [users] Re: OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze

2008-09-11 Thread Leach, William R
WinXP Pro SP2 On net Installed version w/o JRE Installed and had the same experience with the install hanging following the personal information requester. I rebooted the machine, OO 3 RC1 would run but had text instead of icons on the tool bars and text in almost all requesters was cut (only

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:11:13 -0500 Barbara Duprey [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: snip I discovered that OOo Base cannot read or import Access databases. However, I also discovered that Kexi can do so. Kexi uses SQLite as its database engine.

[users] Re: OO 3 rc1 install/setup freeze

2008-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/11/2008 09:58 AM, liquid64 wrote: NoOp-4 wrote: Very interesting! Do you still have the renamed x-user-x folder? If so I'd be very interested in doing a diff comparison against that and your good user folder. I won't be able to upload it today, since the machine is on the

[users] Where to download a translation .po file

2008-09-11 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
Hello all. I'm having trouble finding some formulas in calc because I learned them in English, but I've now installed OO in Spanish. I need to find an easy way to see how they are translated. It would really be great if OpenOffice Calc had a way to Use formula in English or a way to Translate

Re: [users] Please delete my data

2008-09-11 Thread jonathon
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 13:53, mf.thomsen wrote: please delete my Name Marisa Thomsen and my entries from your archive. You have to contact the appropriate party, of each of the fifty plus archives of this list, that are available on the Internet. In no instance is users@openoffice.org the

[users] Re: Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread NoOp
On 09/10/2008 09:43 PM, mike moller wrote: There is another path I haven't explored which is to use Sun's equivalent to OOo, StarOffice - it's not entirely free but I understand it does include a VBA capability. I keep reading about the infamous Macro Migration Wizard and I have valid

Re: [users] Re: [writer]duplicate input field names?

2008-09-11 Thread norseman
Larry Evans wrote: On 09/11/08 12:39, norseman wrote: Larry Evans wrote: I created an input field with name=inp-fun-field0'. Then, a few lines down, I created another input field. I guess, by accident, I gave it the same name, inp-fun-field0. Isn't that a bug? I'd expect the input field names

Re: [users] Get a new firewall...

2008-09-11 Thread John Boyle
James Knott wrote: John Boyle wrote: M Henri Day wrote: 2008/9/9 Mike Fridley, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, I'm kind of intermediate when it comes to security software, but the free AVG suite I have from Grisoft has done a perfect job at everything Hope that helps Mike Fridley, USA

Re: [users] Re: Template/Header Problem

2008-09-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 11/09/2008 18:47, PJH wrote: Brian Barker has written on 9/9/2008 9:16 PM: At 08:45 10/09/2008 +0800, Rob Clement wrote: The simplest way to solve your problem is to set the header on a First Page Page style and then set the other pages to be default ... Er, except that templates don't

Re: [users] Where to download a translation .po file

2008-09-11 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 11/09/2008 20:23, Ely Schoenfeld wrote: Hello all. I'm having trouble finding some formulas in calc because I learned them in English, but I've now installed OO in Spanish. I need to find an easy way to see how they are translated. It would really be great if OpenOffice Calc had a way to

Re: [users] Where to download a translation .po file

2008-09-11 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
WOW THANKS a LOT I really appreciate your help. 2008/9/11 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 23:20 11/09/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 11/09/2008 20:23, Ely Schoenfeld wrote: I'm having trouble finding some formulas in calc because I learned them in English, but I've now

Re: [users] Where to download a translation .po file

2008-09-11 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
Cant believe I never tryed just: http://www.sunvirtuallab.com:32300/es/openoffice_org/sc/source/core/src.pohttp://www.sunvirtuallab.com:32300/es/openoffice_org/sc/source/core/src.po?view=287 And I moved around different parameters, ha ha ha. If you go to that address you get the whole .po file

Re: [users] Microsoft Access to Open Office Base ?

2008-09-11 Thread mike moller
Hi Jonathon On 9/11/08, jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 21:43, mike moller wrote: What MS Access, when included with MSO offers, is a user experience that is very nlike, and different from that of the typical database engine. What is missing from OOo, and

[users] Typing line break in a cell in Calc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jason Cipriani
I have OpenOffice 2.4.1. How do I type a line break in a cell in OOCalc? Thanks, Jason - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: Typing line break in a cell in Calc.

2008-09-11 Thread Jason Cipriani
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Jason Cipriani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have OpenOffice 2.4.1. How do I type a line break in a cell in OOCalc? Nevermind I got it. It's ctrl+enter, but the trick is you have to double-click on the cell to edit it, rather than typing it in the toolbar editor.

[users] Having trouble indenting text in documents.

2008-09-11 Thread Jason Cipriani
I have a document with a lot of text formatted something like this: WORD: Some paragraph that might be long and should continue to be indented on the next line. WORD: Some paragraph that might be long and should continue to be indented on the next line. I am having a really hard

Re: [users] Having trouble indenting text in documents.

2008-09-11 Thread Joe Conner
Jason Cipriani wrote: I have a document with a lot of text formatted something like this: WORD: Some paragraph that might be long and should continue to be indented on the next line. WORD: Some paragraph that might be long and should continue to be indented on the next line.

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