Re: [users] Re: Open Office Doubt

2008-11-13 Thread kumar v
Hi, The first one is the major problem us all the others now it is working Could you please sort out the first issue. Thanks for your immediate response Thanks Kumar On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:55 AM, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/11/2008 01:15 AM, kumar v wrote: I have been

[users] Problem with font substitution where alternative font is specified

2008-11-13 Thread Toralf Lund
In a document imported from MS Word into OOo 2.3, the font for some of the text is specified (via Styles) as RotisSemiSans ExtraBold;Courier New Isn't this supposed to mean that when the RotisSemiSans ExtraBold font isn't available, Courier New should be used for display and/or print?

Re: [users] Updating ranges after inserting line

2008-11-13 Thread Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for the responses! On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Arnold Huzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually keep an empty row or column between the data and the cell containing the formula if I expect

Re: [users] What is the upper-left icon for?

2008-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/13 Carlos Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Dotan , if you do a click on the icon whith the right botton of the mouse it will show you the mesure of the tab-stops (millimeters, centimeters, picas, points and inches) and if you you click on the icon whith the left botton you kan see the

Re: [users] Print to PDF

2008-11-13 Thread Mike Scott
Michael Adams wrote: You have to be joking! OO.o exports directly to PDF since version 1.1 at least, even on Linux. Tell me you were joking, pretty please. There's actually the occasional good reason for not using the direct pdf export - have you tried creating a brochure this way, for

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Mike Scott
James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of glue... -- Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike

Re: [users] Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Graham Smith
James, One thing to remember is that people will use the tools at hand and Microsoft Office doesn't have anything comparable to Draw, so... Incidentally, a few years ago, I saw someone using Excel to draw a road map! Indeed, and eventually it becomes best practice by default, because that

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread James Knott
Mike Scott wrote: James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of glue... Actually, I know

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread James Knott
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:21:31 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by NoOp to my mailbox: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for

Re: [users] What is the upper-left icon for?

2008-11-13 Thread Carlos Martinez
Hi Dotan , if you do a click on the icon whith the right botton of the mouse it will show you the mesure of the tab-stops (millimeters, centimeters, picas, points and inches) and if you you click on the icon whith the left botton you kan see the direccion of the tab. Ruler showing default tab

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Graham Smith
As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)] 3m x 3m sounds interesting :-) Graham

[users] What is the upper-left icon for?

2008-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
In OOo3, above the vertical ruler and to the side of the horizontal ruler is an icon that switches to these displays when clicked: |_ _| _|_ _|_. What is that icon, and what are the different modes that it controls? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

[users] Impress: stretching a picture to full screen on transition

2008-11-13 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I'm trying to do an effect and I'm not sure how. I have a slide with five pictures. When I go from that slide to the next one, I want 4 of the 5 pictures to fade away, and I want one to become larger until it takes up the full screen. On the next slide, only that picture will show up. So,

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/13/08 13:29, Graham Smith wrote: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)] 3m x 3m sounds interesting :-) You can see a Draw

[users] A sort of work around for autorecovery

2008-11-13 Thread Hedley Finger
I just lost 90 mins of work owing to a crash by not following the advice you are about to receive. If you have a crash and the recovery window opens on relaunch, do NOT opt to continue with the document recovery. If you skip it, a file browser opens which allows you to save the file

[users] OOo and Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Web Kracked
Last week I changed my laptop from a HP to a Dell. Had to, since the old one had a broken display hinge. The HP was XP and the Dell is Vista. Let me tell you, even though the Vista Upgrade advisor software said there would be no troubles with my software running on Vista, I had nothing but

Re: [users] What is the upper-left icon for?

2008-11-13 Thread Arnold Huzen
In addition to what Carlos wrote to you, you can also use it to interactively set your tabs. Click left on the button to change it to the type of tab you want to use and then click left on the position in the horisontal ruler to insert the tab. Arnold Huzen Dotan Cohen schreef: In OOo3,

Re: [users] Impress: stretching a picture to full screen on transition

2008-11-13 Thread Arnold Huzen
I'm not sure it's possible to do this, but did you notice that you can assign an effect to the image itself? So you could put them together on the same slide and on exiting the slide zoom to one picture. Good luck, Arnold Huzen Laurent Duperval schreef: Hi, I'm trying to do an effect and

[users] LDAP data source : how ?

2008-11-13 Thread Vincent Panel
Hi, I have a remote LDAP server set up and I would like to get its content into an OO.o spreadsheet. Unfortunately, by using oobase 3, when I choose connect to an existing database, the drop-down box only shows the following possibilities : JDBC, MySQL, JDBC for Oracle, Adabas D, Spreadsheet,

Re: [users] Updating ranges after inserting line

2008-11-13 Thread JOE Conner
Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for the responses! On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Arnold Huzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually keep an empty row or column between the data and

Re: [users] Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread JOE Conner
Graham Smith wrote: James, One thing to remember is that people will use the tools at hand and Microsoft Office doesn't have anything comparable to Draw, so... Incidentally, a few years ago, I saw someone using Excel to draw a road map! Indeed, and eventually it becomes best

Re: [users] Updating ranges after inserting line

2008-11-13 Thread Arnold Huzen
Downside to this solution is that Calc always has to calculate ALL of the columns. It works, but feels like overkill. Arnold Huzen Another solution: Put your summation at the top row. Then just add new data to the first empty row at the bottom. The summation formula would look something

Re: [users] Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Graham Smith
I almost said the same thing Indeed, to a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Is OOo this easy to crash?

2008-11-13 Thread Robin Laing
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Mechtilde wrote: Hello Andrew, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb: A schedule was created in OOo on a Windows computer and saved. The file was sent to me. When I open the file on my Linux computer (using the standard distribution version of OOo), I see the file

Re: [users] Print to PDF

2008-11-13 Thread norseman
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:32:44 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by norseman to my mailbox: For final output - print to and distribute the PDF. Then it won't mater what the source was. I agree, that is the best method, scalable as well. In OOo Linux, print to file

[users] Update problems in OOo 3.0

2008-11-13 Thread M Henri Day
These last few days, whenever I open Writer in OOo 3.0 I see a download icon at the right of the menu bar and the following message (in my translation from the Swedish) : «Updates available for extensions Click here for more information.» Sucker that I am, I click on the icon, wherewith the

Re: [users] A sort of work around for autorecovery

2008-11-13 Thread Hagar de l'Est
It is indeed a bug! There has been some long discussions here about that. It will be fixed for the next release (3.0.1). - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92968 NB: thanks to all users who have voted. You can now take your votes back and give them to other issues BTW. Hagar

[users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 06:00 AM, Mike Scott wrote: James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of

[users] Re: Print to PDF

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 05:57 AM, Mike Scott wrote: Michael Adams wrote: You have to be joking! OO.o exports directly to PDF since version 1.1 at least, even on Linux. Tell me you were joking, pretty please. There's actually the occasional good reason for not using the direct pdf export - have you

[users] Re: Update problems in OOo 3.0

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 11:58 AM, M Henri Day wrote: These last few days, whenever I open Writer in OOo 3.0 I see a download icon at the right of the menu bar and the following message (in my translation from the Swedish) : «Updates available for extensions Click here for more information.» Sucker that

Re: [users] Re: Update problems in OOo 3.0

2008-11-13 Thread M Henri Day
2008/11/13 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/13/2008 11:58 AM, M Henri Day wrote: These last few days, whenever I open Writer in OOo 3.0 I see a download icon at the right of the menu bar and the following message (in my translation from the Swedish) : «Updates available for extensions Click

[users] Re: Open Office Doubt

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 12:40 AM, kumar v wrote: Hi, The first one is the major problem us all the others now it is working Could you please sort out the first issue. Thanks for your immediate response Actually _I_ can't sort out anything; this is a _users_ list and I am a _user_ just

[users] Re: Update problems in OOo 3.0

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 02:26 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 1. What extensions do you have installed? I've checked under «Tools» → «Extensions» and not found any installed extensions. Am I missing something ? Apparently if OOo is prompting you for and Extension update. But what is causing it is a mystery

Re: [users] OOo and Vista

2008-11-13 Thread Rob Clement
Web Kracked wrote: Last week I changed my laptop from a HP to a Dell. Had to, since the old one had a broken display hinge. The HP was XP and the Dell is Vista. Let me tell you, even though the Vista Upgrade advisor software said there would be no troubles with my software running on Vista, I

[users] Re: Update problems in OOo 3.0

2008-11-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
M Henri Day wrote: 2008/11/13 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. What extensions do you have installed? I've checked under «Tools» → «Extensions» and not found any installed extensions. Am I missing something ? OO.o 3 installs dictionaries as extensions. It has default installs of