[users] Re: File Formats

2009-07-29 Thread Mark C. Miller
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:15:56 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/07/27 3:21 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Ian wrote: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html Rhetorical Question: Why are the above documents in .pdf format as opposed to the OOwriter format? It would be

[users] Re: Help ! - How to 'Pack Go' a presentation.

2009-07-29 Thread Mark C. Miller
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:03:32 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 23/07/09 21:27, Etan Doronne wrote: Thanks Harold. Valuable tip. linked. And one more question, if you don't mind, do you know how I can screen the presentation on a big screen (meaning from laptop through the VGA connection to a

Re: [users] Re: File Formats

2009-07-29 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/7/29 Mark C. Miller mr.mcmil...@gmail.com On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:15:56 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/07/27 3:21 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Ian wrote: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html Rhetorical Question: Why are the above documents in .pdf

[users] Re: File Formats

2009-07-29 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/07/29 1:54 AM Mark C. Miller wrote: How are you seeing the headers? I only find show article information -- I'm using the Pan newsreader for the gmane group. Is this simpoy a function of which newsreader one picks? Any program I have used allows you to view all headers or raw

[users] XSLT import

2009-07-29 Thread Jakob Mandalka
Hello, I found this articel (http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/38859#codeitemarea) for an XML Import to Open Office, it works greate but I want to change one thing. At the moment the Node names will be added as Text but what I want is to display the node Names as Labes. But I have not the

[users] Re: XSLT import

2009-07-29 Thread Jakob Mandalka
Additional: What I try to do is to have an import for xsd files. Maybe something like that is already available... 2009/7/29 Jakob Mandalka jakob.manda...@googlemail.com: Hello, I found this articel (http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/38859#codeitemarea) for an XML Import to Open

Re: [users] Open Office.org issue with Open Office.org 3.1

2009-07-29 Thread James Knott
Zach Fecteau wrote: I was familiarizing myself with my newly downloaded copy of Open Office 3.1 and was trying to take an Open Office Text Document and open it with Microsoft Word 2007, but the document would not open with Word. I was wondering if you could tell me if I was doing something

Re: [users] Open Office.org issue with Open Office.org 3.1

2009-07-29 Thread Lars Nooden
Zach Fecteau wrote: I was familiarizing myself with my newly downloaded copy of Open Office 3.1 and was trying to take an Open Office Text Document and open it with Microsoft Word 2007, but the document would not open with Word. I was wondering if you could tell me if I was doing something

Re: [users] Re: XSLT import

2009-07-29 Thread Lars Nooden
Jakob Mandalka wrote: Additional: What I try to do is to have an import for xsd files. Maybe something like that is already available... OpenOffice.org uses a standard format, so since it shares the format with other productivity suites, there are general tools available to work with the

Re: [users] Open Office.org issue with Open Office.org 3.1

2009-07-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
Lars Nooden wrote: Zach Fecteau wrote: I was familiarizing myself with my newly downloaded copy of Open Office 3.1 and was trying to take an Open Office Text Document and open it with Microsoft Word 2007, but the document would not open with Word. I was wondering if you could tell me if I

Re: [users] Open Office.org issue with Open Office.org 3.1

2009-07-29 Thread Lars Nooden
Barbara Duprey wrote: ...the one with the presumed ODF compatibility built in? That would be an interesting, new use of the word presumed. ;) http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short/ http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/19/microsoft-mso-mocks-odf/

Re: [users] Open Office.org issue with Open Office.org 3.1

2009-07-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
Lars Nooden wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: ...the one with the presumed ODF compatibility built in? That would be an interesting, new use of the word presumed. ;) http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short/

[users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Camille Poirier
Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. After an hour of frustration I finally decided to register and send a question. Now it won't accept my name and password. My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo.

[users] Re: Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Philipp Giddings
Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. After an hour of frustration I finally decided to register and send a question. Now it won't accept my name and password. My question: In a

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. After an hour of frustration I finally decided to register and send a question. Now it won't accept my name and password. If you get

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 29/07/09 19:33, Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. After an hour of frustration I finally decided to register and send a question. Now it won't accept my name and password.

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Allan M Watt
I have been using Open Office 3 for quite some time and am happy with it. I am not even going to bother with the update to 3.1. I downloaded it fine, but it refused to install. Cannot be bothered with it now, to much hasle. - Original Message - From: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com To:

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 29/07/09 23:43, Allan M Watt wrote: I have been using Open Office 3 for quite some time and am happy with it. I am not even going to bother with the update to 3.1. I downloaded it fine, but it refused to install. Cannot be bothered with it now, to much hasle. Could it be as simple as

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Paul
My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally enter information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo and retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit without saving changes just to open up again to find out what used to be

[users] Re: Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/07/29 4:25 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Camille Poirier wrote: My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally enter information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo and retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit without

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Drew Jensen
Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. Hello Camille, Well, yes a few people have commented on the website in the past. All I can say is that there are people continually working to

Re: [users] Increasing font size in OOo Base

2009-07-29 Thread Drew Jensen
orngjce223 wrote: Hi, I decided to make an OOo Base database to manage my (voluminous!) SAT word lists. So far, it's working fine (I plan to program in functionality to randomly pick one word and, when I click, show the definition - but data entry comes first.) Here's the trouble. I

Re: [users] Increasing font size in OOo Base

2009-07-29 Thread Drew Jensen
snip Hold down the CTRL key - right mouse click the first control, this selects the control. Amend that line to: Hold down the CTRL key - left mouse click the first control, this selects the control. Ciao Dj - To

[users] Re: Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread NoOp
On 07/29/2009 05:03 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. Hello Camille, Pssst... you are responding to an unsubscribed poster. Camille won't see your

Re: [users] Re: Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Drew Jensen
NoOp wrote: On 07/29/2009 05:03 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Camille Poirier wrote: Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. Hello Camille, Pssst... you are responding to an unsubscribed

[users] Are there Tutorials for making Spreadsheets?

2009-07-29 Thread Linda L. Hull
I was browsing the web for how-to-make-a-spreadsheet and found gazillions of tutorials for Excel. I don't want to use it, I don't want to have to use it, not even for friends who are slaves to Microsoft. Are there tutorials for Calc? I want to make fairly complex spreadsheets. I want to

Re: [users] Cannot even register

2009-07-29 Thread Dave Post
On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Camille Poirier wrote: My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally enter information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo and retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit without saving changes