Re: [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper

2008-12-18 Thread Julie Flaming
Merry Christmas On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Fred A. Miller fmil...@lightlink.comwrote: M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 09:07:22 AM -0800, John Boyle wrote: To ALL, including James Knott, *MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR :-) * Same from me! Merry

[users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Has anyone read anything about the following or have experience? I have not looked into this lately but what is the word about MS's attempts with their Open Formats going to ISO standards? I know that there was a lot of flack over the voting to start the ISO process and the in the know people

Re: [users] OpenOffice 'free'?

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Gillian Steedman wrote: I have discovered that your Office XP Pro is an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) package that is only available to companies who build computers, such as your friends at Aber.ac For the time being, rather than spending any money on fairly expensive upgrades, I

Re: [users] Fw: Latest Version of Open Office

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Ron Wickerham wrote: Dear Open Office: Twice I have receiving an email, the latest below, claiming there is an update available for your 3.0 product, which I have. I went to the link and the webpage that opens looks like one of yours, but I'm not sure if this is really yours and from you.

RE: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Jolliffe
Hi Mr Kracked MS office openxml was accepted as a standard last year They loaded as many MS supporters as they could into the voting body but were unable to get the required majority at the first attempt At the follow-up Ballot Resolution Meeting however it was passed without the issues raised

RE: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Jolliffe
http://www.raffee.co.za/post/47974926/consegi-declaration FYI Ken From: Web Kracked [mailto:webmas...@krackedpress.com] Sent: 18 December 2008 12:25 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters Has anyone read

Re: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 12/18/08 13:24, Web Kracked wrote: Also, it has been a while since I looked at and downloaded Sun's ODF filters for MS Office. How well does it really work and where can I send the hard nose MS users to get it. I know it would be easier and better if they just used OOo, but there are

Re: [users] Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thread

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:40:06 -0500 Web Kracked webmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: John Jason Jordan skrev: I am an idiot when it comes to web pages. I used OOo to create a simple little web page: http://web.pdx.edu/~johj/ snip The OOo page

[users] Re: [?? Probable Spam] [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Clement
John Boyle wrote: To ALL, including James Knott, *MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR :-) * to all, and especially John A Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year Rob in Hong Kong - To unsubscribe,

FW: [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper

2008-12-18 Thread Joe Grech
Same from me: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:15 -0500 From: fmil...@lightlink.com To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 09:07:22 AM -0800, John

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thread

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Jim Allan wrote: John Jason Jordan wrote: snip As for embedding fonts into web pages I have a fairly dim understanding of it. You can set a font in the tags for the document, but each user can tell their browser to use a different font and to override the font tags on a web page. For example

[users] Re: write

2008-12-18 Thread Jim Allan
Milad Pasta wrote: I would like to know how to write in persian with open office writer, OpenOffice Writer is already set up to let you type any characters that you can enter from your keyboard, including Persian (or Farsi). You have not told us what operating system you are using, but all

Re: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: On 12/18/08 13:24, Web Kracked wrote: Also, it has been a while since I looked at and downloaded Sun's ODF filters for MS Office. How well does it really work and where can I send the hard nose MS users to get it. I know it would be easier and better if they

Re: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Ken Jolliffe wrote: Hi Mr Kracked MS office openxml was accepted as a standard last year They loaded as many MS supporters as they could into the voting body but were unable to get the required majority at the first attempt At the follow-up Ballot Resolution Meeting however it was passed

Re: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters

2008-12-18 Thread Clayton
The Sun ODF Plugin for MS Office is here: http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/ C. Thanks, but I needed to clarify. The instruction to download wants you to use their download manager. My Vista wants to save a weird file format name instead of running the manager. You can look

[users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thread

2008-12-18 Thread Jim Allan
Web Kracked wrote: In style sheets for my web sites, I list many similar fonts to be used for the serif and san-serif font options. I would say that a MS user and a Mac user would have at least one of these fonts installed. Linux should have one as well. I list the fonts is order of

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thre...

2008-12-18 Thread LesPursey
In a message dated 18/12/2008 16:11:32 GMT Standard Time, jal...@smartdm.ca writes: Web Kracked wrote: In style sheets for my web sites, I list many similar fonts to be used for the serif and san-serif font options. I would say that a MS user and a Mac user would have at least one

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thre...

2008-12-18 Thread LesPursey
In a message dated 18/12/2008 16:11:32 GMT Standard Time, jal...@smartdm.ca writes: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thre...

2008-12-18 Thread LesPursey
In a message dated 18/12/2008 16:11:32 GMT Standard Time, jal...@smartdm.ca writes: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thre...

2008-12-18 Thread LesPursey
In a message dated 18/12/2008 16:11:32 GMT Standard Time, jal...@smartdm.ca writes: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:19:21 -0800 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:32 -0800 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I keep trying different things. Just now I got it working. I renamed the .openoffice config files for both 2.4.1 and 3.0, then

[users] Apparent column flow bug

2008-12-18 Thread Jerry Clancy
Ver. 2.4.0 This may have been reported before but this version, and perhaps others, seems to have problem flowing columns in large documents. I have a roughly 450-page document that I finished yesterday in seven sections. The section text is poured in as program-generated RTF text and flowed

Re: [users] Organization Chart

2008-12-18 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 18/12/2008 05:46, JOE Conner wrote: Justin Clark wrote: To whom it may concern, I was wondering how to add organization charts to my powerpoint presentation. Also how would I add the template to my OpenOffice.org as it is on my flash drive as U3. Rgds, malazar Check out

[users] error saving XLS spreadsheet as ODS

2008-12-18 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello: I have a large Excel spreadsheet (ebd.xls) that I want to convert to OO format. Alas, when I ask for that format, it fails (after thinking for a few seconds) with the message: Error saving the document ebd: General Error. General input/output error. It is about

[users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread NoOp
On 12/18/2008 10:44 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:19:21 -0800 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:32 -0800 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I keep trying different things. Just now I got it working. I renamed the

[users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread NoOp
On 12/18/2008 11:30 AM, NoOp wrote: I can't even uninstall the four extensions in 2.4.1 because I can't open the My Extensions folder. Maybe I could do it manually if I knew how. Look in: /opt/openoffice.org3/share/extension/install The above is for standard OOo 3.0. For your Ubuntu

Re: [users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread Drew Jensen
I think I have finally tracked down the problem to the Extension Manager. In 2.4.1 I have four extensions installed, and all work fine, in spite of the fact that when I open Extension Manager in 2.4.1 and try to open My Extensions I get an error message: (com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)

[users] Uninstall OpenOffice

2008-12-18 Thread KellyPetePage
I do not want Open Office on my computer anymore and want to uninstall it. I can't find it in my add/remove programs and it did not install any uninstall program with it when it downloaded to the computer. I would appreciate assistance with this problem. Sincerely, Catherine Page

[users] RE: OpenOffice 'free'?

2008-12-18 Thread Gillian Steedman
Oh dear! I sent this to you all by mistake instead of my father. Please ignore it. Many thanks and season's greetings. Gillian From: Gillian Steedman [mailto:gillian_steed...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: 14 December 2008 17:27 To: 'users@openoffice.org' Subject: OpenOffice 'free'? I have

Re: [users] Uninstall OpenOffice

2008-12-18 Thread James Knott
kellypetep...@aol.com wrote: I do not want Open Office on my computer anymore and want to uninstall it. I can't find it in my add/remove programs and it did not install any uninstall program with it when it downloaded to the computer. I would appreciate assistance with this problem. If

Re: [users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:52:29 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 12/18/2008 11:30 AM, NoOp wrote: I can't even uninstall the four extensions in 2.4.1 because I can't open the My Extensions folder. Maybe I could do it manually if I knew how. Look in:

Re: [users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:36:24 -0800 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I had to restart 3.0 before the Zotero extension would appear, but it came up fine. The toolbar appeared properly, and when I clicked on the Insert Citation button it popped up a window asking for the style I

Re: [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper

2008-12-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
James Knott wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: James Knott wrote: Gotta run. I have to decide who I'm going to sacrifice for the holidays. ;-) Is that because you have been updating your list all year and you need to choose only one or two from the many on your list?

[users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread NoOp
On 12/18/2008 01:36 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:52:29 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: I'm making a lot of progress, thanks to your help. I'm documenting this saga here so that others will know that if there is anything at all wonky in their extensions in 2.4.1

Re: [users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:55:12 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 12/18/2008 01:36 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:52:29 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: I'm making a lot of progress, thanks to your help. I'm documenting this saga here so that others will

Re: [users] Re: Junicode reference - Embedded Graphics in Web Page thread

2008-12-18 Thread Web Kracked
Jim Allan wrote: Web Kracked wrote: snip I used PDF to do embedded fonts in documents, but that was with Acrobat, and the option was not a default. I still have not seen if doPDF does it, since I cannot find any option for it. Still, if I have to, I would go to my file server machine, since

[users] Re: 3.0 in addition to 2.4.1 on Ubuntu

2008-12-18 Thread NoOp
On 12/18/2008 02:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:55:12 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 12/18/2008 01:36 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:52:29 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: I'm making a lot of progress, thanks to your help.

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 doesn't let me input formulas the way I want…

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 17.12.2008 17:53, Johnny Rosenberg a écrit : *What happens?* This worked in 2.4.1: Write this in a cell, for example in B1: =SUM($A$1:A1) Hit ↵ (Enter) Go back to the cell and look at its formula. OpenOffice.org has changed the formula, without asking me, to: =SUM($A$1:$A$1) This is