Thanks! That was exactly what I suspected.
When I went over from MS Office to OpenOffice.org I had MS Office '97
and Windows 98 or Windows 2000. One of the first things I noticed was
that OpenOffice.org was sooo slw, and I think when using
AutoFilter was the first time I thought that this is
On Fri, May 15, 2009 22:07:16 PM +0100, David Patrick wrote:
I am having trouble opening .docx documents that have been emailed
to me. These documents have consisted of a series of text boxes with
text inside them.
...
Can anyone either tell me, or point me in the right direction for a
Thanks to all for the comments - the poster is going to be printed and
put on building walls anyway, so compatibility amongst other users is
not too much of an issue, except when the creator has asked me to
review the document.
For now I guess the easiest solution is to get them to save it
On May 16, 2009, at 5:55 AM, David Patrick wrote:
who would have thought MS would be playing with their formats!! ;-)
As I said, that .docx has problems even in Word 2008. Can't tell
whether that's due to careless composition or to differences in
rendering in the Windows vs. OSX versions
I'm planning to upgrade to OO 3.1. Is it preferable to uninstall my
older version before doing the upgrade or will installing over the old
version suffice?
Dick
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Dick Hoffman wrote:
I'm planning to upgrade to OO 3.1. Is it preferable to uninstall my
older version before doing the upgrade or will installing over the old
version suffice?
Dick
Question;
do you have any add-on extensions?
do you want to save your user information?
I just installed 3.1
I want to add a star on a gif. I have opened the gif. According to the
OOo Help:
Click an icon on the Stars and Banners toolbar, and then drag in the
document to draw the shape.
How do you do this? If I right click and hold down on a star icon and
move the pointer to the point I would like
Dick Hoffman wrote:
I'm planning to upgrade to OO 3.1. Is it preferable to uninstall my
older version before doing the upgrade or will installing over the old
version suffice?
Dick
It will automagically replace an older 3.x version. It will not affect
1.x or 2.x versions.
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On Sat, 16 May 2009 14:54:16 -0400
Came this utterance formulated by Eustace to my mailbox:
I want to add a star on a gif. I have opened the gif. According to the
OOo Help:
Click an icon on the Stars and Banners toolbar, and then drag in the
document to draw the shape.
How do you do
I have been using white text on dark background on my system and use
Automatic colors in OOo, and the table borders appear black and there is
no option to set their color to Automatic. In
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23655
towards the bottom of the page mt writes:
Whenever I try to open an attachment (usually word or excel) from my e-mail
(std windows) - it won't open and I have to save it and then open 'open office'
and open it from within - which is laborious.
how do i set preferences so that i can just double click on an attachment in an
e-mail and
Tim Stephen wrote:
Whenever I try to open an attachment (usually word or excel) from my e-mail
(std windows) - it won't open and I have to save it and then open 'open
office' and open it from within - which is laborious.
how do i set preferences so that i can just double click on an
Hi Tim
use the WIN-Explorer
select the tabulator filetype - in the list with registered filetypes
- you will find the extension von MS-Word - change this to writer and
this files will allways open with OO-Writer.
Sincerely
Franz
Tim Stephen schrieb:
Whenever I try to open an attachment
Thanks,
Can you advise how I 'configure my e-mail app' as I can't work out how to
do that on Vista
- Original Message -
From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Question
Tim Stephen wrote:
Whenever
James Knott wrote:
Tim Stephen wrote:
Whenever I try to open an attachment (usually word or excel) from my e-mail
(std windows) - it won't open and I have to save it and then open 'open office'
and open it from within - which is laborious.
how do i set preferences so that i can just double
Hi Tim
I couldn't assist you in this question, I don't know this possiblity to
configurate the application to open attachments - I know only the
described form with WIN-Explorer where the file-extension ist linked to
the application.
Franz
Tim Stephen schrieb:
Thanks,
Can you advise how
Right Click on the file
Open With
Choose Default Program
Franz Wein wrote:
Hi Tim
I couldn't assist you in this question, I don't know this possiblity to
configurate the application to open attachments - I know only the
described form with WIN-Explorer where the file-extension ist linked
Hi
I'm using the newest seamonkey 2.0a3 and although in the former versions
your tip worked only when I didn't assign the fileextions to an
application. I'm know that other email-clients have such properties, but
seamonkey have some more features as composer and the browser so I use
this open
Tim Stephen wrote:
Thanks,
Can you advise how I 'configure my e-mail app' as I can't work out
how to do that on Vista
That would depend on the email app and I have no experience with Vista.
First step, however, is to make sure the file associations are correct.
If you save the file and
At 14:54 16/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
I want to add a star on a gif. I have opened the gif. According to
the OOo Help:
Click an icon on the Stars and Banners toolbar, and then drag in
the document to draw the shape.
How do you do this? If I right click and hold down on a star icon
On 05/15/2009 08:03 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
I am aware that my suggestion did not answer the larger question How
do I open all .docx files for editing in Writer? And I'm happy that
the enquirer will read your (and others') comments too, of course; I
imagine he can make his own decisions
NoOp wrote:
On 05/15/2009 08:03 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
I am aware that my suggestion did not answer the larger question How
do I open all .docx files for editing in Writer? And I'm happy that
the enquirer will read your (and others') comments too, of course; I
imagine he can make his own
At 16:09 16/05/2009 -0700, Gary Noop wrote:
My apologies.
Oh, absolutely none necessary! (Sorry if I gave any different impression.)
My response wasn't intended to deem your contribution useless.
Indeed. But I still insist that the enquirer - or anyone else - is
entitled to think so if
On 2009/05/15 3:07 PM David Patrick wrote:
I have tried searching the various sources of information but with
little success.
I am having trouble opening .docx documents that have been emailed to
me. These documents have consisted of a series of text boxes with text
inside them.
OOo3.1,
At 15:56 16/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
I have been using white text on dark background on my system and use
Automatic colors in OOo, and the table borders appear black and
there is no option to set their color to Automatic. In
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23655
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