Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, May 21, 2009 22:22:33 PM -0400, Dave Post wrote: > I've written an AppleScript for my email client (OSX Mail 3.6) that, > if activated, will respond automatically to messages that contain > "moderator for users@openoffice.org" in a Delivered-To header field > by sending a modified version

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:23 22/05/2009 +0200, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote: I'd prefer there would be a page somewhere [...] where we show how to create a rule to filter (or mark) the moderated mails. You appear to be using Thunderbird. Harold Fuchs recently explained what you ask for Thunderbird. See http://tinyurl.

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread Jurgen Gaeremyn
Dave Post wrote: I've written an AppleScript for my email client (OSX Mail 3.6) that, if activated, will respond automatically to messages that contain "moderator for users@openoffice.org" in a Delivered-To header field by sending a modified version of the original message to the originator an

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread Dave Post
On May 22, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Brian Barker wrote: You mean so that everyone will receive two copies of moderated messages? And the list processor will have to distribute 5000 copies of them instead of 2500? Yes, that's what would happen. (Replies wouldn't be duplicated, though.) The first

[users] How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability

2009-05-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability Jeremy Allison: Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with o

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:22 21/05/2009 -0400, Dave Post wrote: I've written an AppleScript for my email client (OSX Mail 3.6) that, if activated, will respond automatically to messages that contain "moderator for users@openoffice.org" in a Delivered-To header field by sending a modified version of the original me

Re: [users] Re: Bursts of unsubscribed users

2009-05-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:01 21/05/2009 -0700, Gary Noop wrote: Well... when you come up with the link then perhaps we can figure out what exactly provides the prefix [moderated] tag. As Harold Fuchs confirmed earlier in this thread, it used to be at http://www.openoffice.org/contact.html . The version of this p

[users] Re: Merge labels

2009-05-21 Thread H.S.
NoOp wrote: > On 05/21/2009 02:58 AM, James Elliott wrote: >> I am using OOo 3.0.1 (Windows XP) and have used mail merge to print letters >> and envelopes, so I understand the basics. >> >> I buy peel off labels, 14 to a sheet, and the way I print them, without mail >> merge, is by using a templa

[users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-21 Thread Dave Post
I've written an AppleScript for my email client (OSX Mail 3.6) that, if activated, will respond automatically to messages that contain "moderator for users@openoffice.org" in a Delivered-To header field by sending a modified version of the original message to the originator and the list. Th

[users] Re: Merge labels

2009-05-21 Thread NoOp
On 05/21/2009 02:58 AM, James Elliott wrote: > I am using OOo 3.0.1 (Windows XP) and have used mail merge to print letters > and envelopes, so I understand the basics. > > I buy peel off labels, 14 to a sheet, and the way I print them, without mail > merge, is by using a template which is a Writ

[users] Re: Bursts of unsubscribed users

2009-05-21 Thread NoOp
On 05/21/2009 03:02 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 17:57 20/05/2009 -0700, Gary Noop wrote: >>The mail client does when it adds the footer. > > You are suggesting here that the mailing list processor adds the > "[moderated]" tag sometimes seen in the subject field of > messages. But the evidence

[users] Re: Merge labels

2009-05-21 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
James Elliott wrote: I am using OOo 3.0.1 (Windows XP) and have used mail merge to print letters and envelopes, so I understand the basics. I buy peel off labels, 14 to a sheet, and the way I print them, without mail merge, is by using a template which is a Writer page with a table inserted -

Re: [users] IsDate

2009-05-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/5/21 TomW : > Phil Hibbs wrote: >> >> There is no IsDate() function in OOo Calc, is there any way I can work >> around this? I want to write [=IF(IsDate(A1);A1;"")] >> >> Phil Hibbs. >> >> > > Phil: > > This formula will detect if a cell is formated as a Date or a Time.  The > nine 'D' entries

Re: [users] IsDate

2009-05-21 Thread TomW
Phil Hibbs wrote: There is no IsDate() function in OOo Calc, is there any way I can work around this? I want to write [=IF(IsDate(A1);A1;"")] Phil Hibbs. Phil: This formula will detect if a cell is formated as a Date or a Time. The nine 'D' entries are the Date formats recognized by t

Re: [users] OOo hogging CPU.?

2009-05-21 Thread Web Kracked
"defrag is not a problem" Last time I installed Windows (Win 2000/pro), after I installed the OS and all the patches, etc., the disk was really fragged and needed defragging badly. It was worse when I installed XP the last time. So, defragging is needed every time you do any install. James

Re: [users] Calc: insert a date string into a cell - not a function, not a format.

2009-05-21 Thread Clifton Liles
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 20/05/2009 20:08, Clifton Liles wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/5/19 Don Daugherty : Harold Fuchs wrote: On 18/05/2009 19:34, Brian Barker wrote: 2009/5/14 Nobody Noname: I want to insert a string into a cell using keystrokes. I'm sorry this will seem

Re: [users] IsDate

2009-05-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/5/21 Phil Hibbs : > There is no IsDate() function in OOo Calc, is there any way I can work > around this? I want to write [=IF(IsDate(A1);A1;"")] > > Phil Hibbs. I doubt that, since a date is only a number, and just about any number COULD but doesn't have to be a date. Today, for example, is

Re: [users] Interoperability issues between OOo and MSO

2009-05-21 Thread Javier Rivera
Phil Hibbs wrote: What MS have done is to give OOo the solution to this long-standing interop issue - all OOo needs to do is to support the msoxl namespace with Excel semantics and they win! It's not so easy. Supporting Excel semantics to open files is a no-brainer, it should be done asap. But

Re: [users] Interoperability issues between OOo and MSO

2009-05-21 Thread Phil Hibbs
For a quick example of how to break interop between Google Docs and OOo, create a Google doc with A1=1, A2='1, A3=A1+A2 and export it into ODS. Google Docs uses Excel semantics, OOo does not. Phil Hibbs. -- Don't you just hate self-referential sigs? --

Re: [users] Interoperability issues between OOo and MSO

2009-05-21 Thread Phil Hibbs
> Also, why is it that the plugins from Sun and elsewhere, including one > that MS supported work better than what SP2 provides. Well, the official MS line is that just trying to wedge it in would cause surprising and unpredictable results. I actually agree with them on this one, the standard says

Re: [users] Interoperability issues between OOo and MSO

2009-05-21 Thread James Knott
Phil Hibbs wrote: > And in the interest of fairness, here's a Microsoft side to the story: > http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/09/1-2-1.aspx > > The issue he's primarily writing about is this one: > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5658 > > Phil Hibbs. > While there a

Re: [users] Interoperability issues between OOo and MSO

2009-05-21 Thread Phil Hibbs
And in the interest of fairness, here's a Microsoft side to the story: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/09/1-2-1.aspx The issue he's primarily writing about is this one: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5658 Phil Hibbs. -- Don't you just hate self-referential sigs?

[users] IsDate

2009-05-21 Thread Phil Hibbs
There is no IsDate() function in OOo Calc, is there any way I can work around this? I want to write [=IF(IsDate(A1);A1;"")] Phil Hibbs. -- Don't you just hate self-referential sigs? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@op

Re: [users] Re: Bursts of unsubscribed users

2009-05-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:57 20/05/2009 -0700, Gary Noop wrote: The mail client does when it adds the footer. You are suggesting here that the mailing list processor adds the "[moderated]" tag sometimes seen in the subject field of messages. But the evidence is that this is not so. (No doubt this *could* be a

[users] Merge labels

2009-05-21 Thread James Elliott
I am using OOo 3.0.1 (Windows XP) and have used mail merge to print letters and envelopes, so I understand the basics. I buy peel off labels, 14 to a sheet, and the way I print them, without mail merge, is by using a template which is a Writer page with a table inserted - the cells in the tabl

Re: [users] OOo hogging CPU.?

2009-05-21 Thread James Elliott
Hi Pierre and Web Kracked When Task Manage says that soffice.bin is using 90% of CPU surely that means that soffice.bin is using 90% of CPU, and some other hidden or background process is not using part of the 90%?. I recently had to reinstall Windows, so disk fragmentation is not a problem

[users] More on interoperability problems : ODF on MSOffice

2009-05-21 Thread M Henri Day
For interested OOo users, from the ODF Alliance weblog : http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short/ Henri