Re: [users] Publishing a theater programme

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:39 03/12/2008 -0800, Angi Simon wrote: I have downloaded the writers section. My goal is to design a programme for our theater's winter show. I have used a letter size, 2-column landscape layout and would like to orient the front cover page on the right and the back cover page on the

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sirs: How do I remove the OpenOffice.org suite from my computer? I find the constant updates objectionable. Would you rather run software that has uncorrected bugs and/or security holes? BTW, that applies to all software, not just OpenOffice.

Re: [users] What does OO.o do?

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:22:45 -0500 (EST) Came this utterance fomulated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my mailbox: I've gone through your web site and I still do not understand what Open Office does. To what purpose do I use it, for what, what does it do. How would it help me? I would appreciate

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:13:19 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Elizabeth vonderahe to my mailbox: Hello there. I just downloaded Open Office and was really pleased with it and did my whole resume in it. It automatically converted files I had on the computer already to its format. (I

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:48:28 + Came this utterance fomulated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my mailbox: Sirs: How do I remove the OpenOffice.org suite from my computer? The same way you remove any program on your Operating System. Assuming Windows is the operating system then in the control

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/12/7 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:13:19 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Elizabeth vonderahe to my mailbox: Hello there. I just downloaded Open Office and was really pleased with it and did my whole resume in it. It automatically converted files I

Re: [users] WRITER: Search for [...] Invisible Characters, ...

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:29 06/12/2008 -0800, Elchanan Noname wrote: We are exploring the search (ctrl-f) function in Writer. We see how to search for many things, but not yet for [...] invisible characters (end of paragraph and the like), ... It's perhaps worth mentioning that there is no such character as

[users] Indexing add-ons for OOo?

2008-12-07 Thread Hedley Finger
Does anybody know of any add-ons or plug-ins for OpenOffice.org to aid in building or compiling an index? I am thinking of thesaurus builders, real-time display of compiled index, progressive matching in an input dialogue to speed up typing subentries under the same main entry as previous

Re: [users] Re: Subject: Problems running 3.0.0 on Mac

2008-12-07 Thread Robertson Dale A.
I'm runnin g on an older PowerBook (867 On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:02, Michael Reich wrote: I also have encountered similar problems with 3.0 on my MacBook running OSX 10.4.11. I've used NeoOffice for a couple years instead of the X11 version of OOO, and I tried OOO Ver.3, but have pretty

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Bob Benolkin wrote: Does OpenOffice have the ability to use Microsoft Publisher? I have many *.pub files but can't get them to work because, now that I'm on Vista with a 64-bit computer. I can't get Microsoft Office 2003 installed. I am using Word and Excel under OpenOffice. Thanks Bob

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Rochelle Stein wrote: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 I am coming to Users Help at the Open Office website because I need help getting started . . . I downloaded a free version of the Open Office suite from Java, but I cannot find how to access it on my computer. Help! I

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Elizabeth vonderahe wrote: Hello there. I just downloaded Open Office and was really pleased with it and did my whole resume in it. It automatically converted files I had on the computer already to its format. (I dont know if I'm saying that right, I'm not that computer literate) ANyhow,

Re: [users] Regular expressions

2008-12-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/12/2008 11:16, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I have tried almost everything, but I just can't get this particular search to find anything (I know it's there to find, because I can find it manually…). The search string I want to find looks like this, kind of: The text /configItem, sometimes

Re: [users] Re: Subject: Problems running 3.0.0 on Mac

2008-12-07 Thread Robertson Dale A.
I'm running OpenOffice 3.0.0 (build 9358) under OS X 10.4.11 on an old PowerBook (867 MHz/ 640 MB). Although I find the program sluggish at times, I haven't had anything like the problems discussed below. I do find it necessary to shut down Oo by hand when shutting down the computer. A

[users] Regular expressions

2008-12-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I have tried almost everything, but I just can't get this particular search to find anything (I know it's there to find, because I can find it manually…). The search string I want to find looks like this, kind of: The text /configItem, sometimes followed by a space but not necessary. Then a

Re: [users] open office / vista

2008-12-07 Thread Robertson Dale A.
Can't you just ignore it for the time being or do you think it is causing problems? Dale On Dec 2, 2008, at 20:24, LAURA BRYANT wrote: I am not registered on your mailing list but, could someone please tell me how to uninstall open office on windows vista? I am a student and this

Re: [users] Where is a list of different locale settings?

2008-12-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/7 jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 20:56, Dotan Cohen wrote: In OOo one can configure different locales. I need to see a list of the differences between those locales. That is buried in the source code of OOo. Once upon a time, there was a document hidden

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've gone through your web site and I still do not understand what Open Office does. To what purpose do I use it, for what, what does it do. How would it help me? I would appreciate an answer that I, a layman can understand. OpenOffice.org is an office

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sirs: How do I remove the OpenOffice.org suite from my computer? I find the constant updates objectionable. What constant updates? I have been using OpenOffice.org for several years and have never experienced that. Did you get it from www.openoffice.org or

Re: [users] Websites

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Bill Murphy wrote: I have an ISP, and I have a website http://members.tripod.com/anmore2003/ Can I edit this website wth Open Office, and upload it to Tripod? If so, where can I get information? OpenOffice.org can edit create HTML files that have to be uploaded to your web

Re: [users] [moderated] Open Office download

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Greg Ward wrote: Hi, on purchasing Open Office the site stated that a 30 day satisfaction agreement was in place. I would like to take advantage of that agreement. I have found your sites incredibly hard to negotiate. Using your product was fine but to find any help seems to require a degree

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Elizabeth vonderahe wrote: Hello there. I just downloaded Open Office and was really pleased with it and did my whole resume in it. It automatically converted files I had on the computer already to its format. (I dont know if I'm saying that

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread James Knott
M Henri Day wrote: Does OOo really automatically convert existing document files to its own default format (i e, *.doc → *.odt) ? I've never noticed that ; have I missed something important ? No. It writes back to the original format, unless you specify otherwise. Also, just

[users] OO Writer 3.0: Can the recent documents list be imported from OO2?

2008-12-07 Thread Maurice Batey
When starting to use OO Writer 3.0, is there a way of importing e.g. the recent documents list, templates, etc. from OO2? -- /\/\aurice (Retired in Surrey, UK) Linux Mandriva 2.6.22.19-desktop-2mdv 2008.0PP 32-bit KDE 3.5.7 Virtualbox 1.6.6

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
M Henri Day wrote: snip Does OOo really automatically convert existing document files to its own default format (i e, *.doc → *.odt) ? I've never noticed that ; have I missed something important ? Henri No, no conversions. What this user (and many others) interpret that way is that

Re: [users] Can't Open OOo on New Vista Computer

2008-12-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Patrick McAuley wrote: I have just set up a new computer running MS Windows Vista Home Premium and I have downloaded, installed and registered OOo Version 3, but I can't get it to launch. I tried opening Writer and Calc and got the same result each time: the little whirring Windows launch

[Fwd: Re: [users] Can't Open OOo on New Vista Computer]

2008-12-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Sorry -- forgot the CC before! Original Message Subject:Re: [users] Can't Open OOo on New Vista Computer Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:09:29 -0600 From: Barbara Duprey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick McAuley

RE: [users] WRITER: Search for [...] Invisible Characters, ...

2008-12-07 Thread VLM TechSubs
From: Brian Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 1:45 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] WRITER: Search for [...] Invisible Characters, ... At 08:29 06/12/2008 -0800, Elchanan Noname wrote: We are exploring the search (ctrl-f) function in Writer. We see

Re: [users] Websites

2008-12-07 Thread Web Kracked
James Knott wrote: Bill Murphy wrote: I have an ISP, and I have a website http://members.tripod.com/anmore2003/ Can I edit this website wth Open Office, and upload it to Tripod? If so, where can I get information? OpenOffice.org can edit create HTML files that have to be

Re: [users] Can't Open OOo on New Vista Computer

2008-12-07 Thread Web Kracked
Barbara Duprey wrote: Patrick McAuley wrote: I have just set up a new computer running MS Windows Vista Home Premium and I have downloaded, installed and registered OOo Version 3, but I can't get it to launch. I tried opening Writer and Calc and got the same result each time: the little

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread JOE Conner
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sirs: How do I remove the OpenOffice.org suite from my computer? I find the constant updates objectionable. Would you rather run software that has uncorrected bugs and/or security holes? BTW, that applies to all

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread Web Kracked
Paul wrote: Does OpenOffice have the ability to use Microsoft Publisher? I have many *.pub files but can't get them to work because, now that I'm on Vista with a 64-bit computer. I can't get Microsoft Office 2003 installed. I am using Word and Excel under OpenOffice. Thanks Bob Benolkin [EMAIL

[users] Re: Problems running 3.0.0 on Mac

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Reich
Dale: I really don't know what's causing the crash/lockup problem (memory or disk activity) with OOO3. I can say that the frequent program crashes come without any warning; that is, OOO seems generally to be doing fine, no significant slowdown, followed by a total crash, the OSX message

Re: [users] Regular expressions

2008-12-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/12/7 Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07/12/2008 11:16, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I have tried almost everything, but I just can't get this particular search to find anything (I know it's there to find, because I can find it manually…). The search string I want to find looks like

Re: [users] Headless PDF converter does NOT return

2008-12-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
What does the macro do if you do not run it headless? Display an error? If yes, you can probably modify the code to simply return instead. aXqd wrote: Hi, all: Recently, I use following code to generate PDF from DOC on-the-fly: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -headless

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread jonathon
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:04, Bob Benolkin wrote: Does OpenOffice have the ability to use Microsoft Publisher? Not directly. Indirectly, between Write and Draw, one can do everything that can be done within MS Publisher. If doing serious desktop publishing, Scribus might better suit the

Re: [users] Re: Date format: filing an issue, avoiding a dupe

2008-12-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/7 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course the screenshot will not have made it through to the list. Sorry, here is the screenshot: http://dotancohen.com/images/ooo_calc_date.png Are you talking about when she enters and displays -mm-dd and after it displays correctly, and then clicking

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread Paul
Paul, I am on Windows Vista Home Edition. Where do I find the Add/Remove dialog? It is not in Control Panel! How do I get to the List to ask questions? -- I don't use Vista so maybe someone else on the list can assist. The 'list' is who you are contacting when you send an email to

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
jonathon wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:04, Bob Benolkin wrote: Does OpenOffice have the ability to use Microsoft Publisher? Not directly. Indirectly, between Write and Draw, one can do everything that can be done within MS Publisher. If doing serious desktop publishing, Scribus

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread Drew Jensen
Hope this helps. http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/24893/Why_cant_I_find_Add_Remove_programs_in_Windows_Vista Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-12-07 Thread Web Kracked
Barbara Duprey wrote: jonathon wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:04, Bob Benolkin wrote: Does OpenOffice have the ability to use Microsoft Publisher? Not directly. Indirectly, between Write and Draw, one can do everything that can be done within MS Publisher. If doing serious desktop

RE: [users] WRITER: Create template using ONLY our styles

2008-12-07 Thread VLM TechSubs
From: jonathon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:53 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] WRITER: Create template using ONLY our styles On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 16:32, Elchanan wrote: And we would like to have zero of the built-in styles in our template.

Re: [users] open office / vista

2008-12-07 Thread DARTAR
LAURA, I AM HAVING THE SAME NIGHTMARE.. - Original Message - From: LAURA BRYANT To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:24 PM Subject: [users] open office / vista I am not registered on

Re: [users] open office / vista

2008-12-07 Thread Rob Clement
DARTAR wrote: LAURA, I AM HAVING THE SAME NIGHTMARE.. - Original Message - From: LAURA BRYANT To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:24 PM Subject: [users] open office / vista I am not

Re: [users] WRITER: Create template using ONLY our styles

2008-12-07 Thread jonathon
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 01:33, VLM TechSubs wrote: why would we want authors to have access to a bezillion formats we don't want them to use? TIf they are properly trained, then it doesn't matter how many styles there are, they will only use the appropriate/correct styles. jonathon

Re: [users] Write in hebrew HOW ?

2008-12-07 Thread DMudgal
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Re: [users] WRITER: Create template using ONLY our styles

2008-12-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Elchanan, VLM TechSubs wrote (8-12-2008 2:33) From: jonathon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 16:32, Elchanan wrote: And we would like to have zero of the built-in styles in our template. The only way that _might_nbe possible, is if you rewrite and then compile the

RE: [users] [moderated] Open Office download

2008-12-07 Thread greg ward
Hi James, I did purchase Open Office for the sum of AU$11.00. It is the latest version and on the help page all references for help/support are to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or www.sun.com/star/support Regards, G (Greg) Ward. Todays Quote: Tough times dont last...tough people do. Date: Sun, 7 Dec

RE: [users] WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X

2008-12-07 Thread Elchanan
From: jonathon [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 6:03 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 16:29, VLM TechSubs

Re: [users] WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X

2008-12-07 Thread jonathon
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 08:32, Elchanan wrote: I must say, this is rather disappointing. I have not the slightest intention of asking ordinary authors to use regex expressions. The product needs to meet the authors, not the reverse. If the authors haven't learned how to use regex searches,