[users] Re: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

2009-08-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-08-14 11:55:42, schrieb Twayne: 1. From a blog: notorious sites of misinformation. German News: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Word-Verkaufsverbot-koennte-weit-reichende-Folgen-haben--/meldung/143484 2. Has no clarification or verification links present: only a couple i4i wanted to

[users] Re: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

2009-08-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-08-12 15:11:42, schrieb Gene Heskett: Distribution is probably the key word. I don't know how they think in a legal world, but what the judge meant was to stop the patent violation. IMO this patent will not, cannot stand. There is much prior art, some of it has to be prior to

[users] Re: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

2009-08-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-08-12 14:37:31, schrieb Keith Clark: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And where does this leave OOo? Are they next on the

[users] Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread Neil Armstrong
I was recommended to download Open Office as I needed to send Word documents as part of my exam work this year. I had Word Viewer on my Dell computer but had been managing with Microsoft Works for word processing up to that point. However, things did not work out as anticipated! When I

[users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Kathleen, Am 2009-08-13 08:44:50, schrieb Kathleen Riggio: Dear Sirs., Ehh... grmpf I absolutely love the Open Office!  However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other documents in which I used Open Office, I have found that many people who receive

[users] Label printing problems

2009-08-16 Thread Sharon Baker
I am trying to print Avery labels type J8163, but the data doesn't fit correctly onto the labels. Everything is too far left and the left margin has cut off first part of data. I checked all measurements in format and these tally with label sheet. I tried increasing left margin but then I lost

Re: [users] E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Fodrek
Dear Ms Riggio, 13.8.2009 v 17:44, Kathleen Riggio: I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other documents in which I used Open Office, I have found that many people who receive these e-mails cannot open them or

Re: [users] Pasting a full-page table

2009-08-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:09 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote: 1. I am using 8.5x11 paper with 1 borders. 2. I create a table and set the row height to 9 so the table will include the whole writing area of the page. 3. Since I want center the text in the page I rightclick inside the table and select Cell

Re: [users] Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread Pablo Luis Gonzalez
A few things.First of all, through the control panel you can define which program to use to open a word document. Second, it looks like that, when you resaved the documents, they were probably saved in Open Office native format rather than on a Word format.Make sure that you save them using the

[users] Re: Pasting a full-page table

2009-08-16 Thread Eustace
On 2009-08-16 03:23 Brian Barker wrote: At 01:09 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote: 1. I am using 8.5x11 paper with 1 borders. 2. I create a table and set the row height to 9 so the table will include the whole writing area of the page. 3. Since I want center the text in the page I

Re: [users] Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/8/16 Pablo Luis Gonzalez pabloluisgonza...@gmail.com A few things.First of all, through the control panel you can define which program to use to open a word document. Second, it looks like that, when you resaved the documents, they were probably saved in Open Office native format rather

Re: [users] E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Peter Fodrek wrote: Dear Ms Riggio, 13.8.2009 v 17:44, Kathleen Riggio: I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other documents in which I used Open Office, I have found that many people who receive these e-mails

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Kathleen, Am 2009-08-13 08:44:50, schrieb Kathleen Riggio: Dear Sirs., Ehh... grmpf I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other documents in which I used Open Office, I

Re: [users] Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Neil Armstrong wrote: I was recommended to download Open Office as I needed to send Word documents as part of my exam work this year. I had Word Viewer on my Dell computer but had been managing with Microsoft Works for word processing up to that point. However, things did not work out as

Re: [users] Re: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-08-12 14:37:31, schrieb Keith Clark: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 12 August 2009, James Knott wrote: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3 Interesting. And

Re: [users] Re: Web Publishing

2009-08-16 Thread Web Kracked
NoOp wrote: On 08/13/2009 06:52 PM, Web Kracked wrote: I use KompoZer and it works well. I agree... but: http://krackedpress.com/ ?? What do you mean? Why question my old URL of my company? There is only one page stating that the web site is not used anymore. Buy I still use it for

Re: [users] Label printing problems

2009-08-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:21 15/08/2009 +0100, Sharon Baker wrote: I am trying to print Avery labels type J8163, but the data doesn't fit correctly onto the labels. Everything is too far left and the left margin has cut off first part of data. I checked all measurements in format and these tally with label sheet.

Re: [users] Re: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

2009-08-16 Thread Barbara Duprey
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-08-12 15:11:42, schrieb Gene Heskett: Distribution is probably the key word. I don't know how they think in a legal world, but what the judge meant was to stop the patent violation. IMO this patent will not, cannot stand. There is much prior art, some of

Re: [users] Re: Pasting a full-page table

2009-08-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:35 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote: On 2009-08-16 03:23 Brian Barker wrote: At 01:09 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote: 9. I can see no way of deleting page 2 or the page break that should be somewhere between the 2 full-page tables. [...] After you have pasted your table, just

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
James Knott wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Kathleen, Am 2009-08-13 08:44:50, schrieb Kathleen Riggio: Dear Sirs., Ehh... grmpf I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Gene Young
James Knott wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Kathleen, Am 2009-08-13 08:44:50, schrieb Kathleen Riggio: Dear Sirs., Ehh... grmpf I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my resume or other documents in which I used

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Harold Fuchs wrote: James Knott wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Kathleen, Am 2009-08-13 08:44:50, schrieb Kathleen Riggio: Dear Sirs., Ehh... grmpf I absolutely love the Open Office! However, I have one reallly big problem , when I have e-mailed my

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread James Knott
Gene Young wrote: PDF documents created by OO are fully searchable. And how many recruiters or HR departments are prepared to search them? Many of them place the resumes into a database, which they then search for qualifications. I have had interviews, where I could see my resume in front of

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:54:44 +0100 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Harold, Are you suggesting that PDF is not searchable? All the PDFs I've ever seen are readily searchable using free readers such as Adobe Acrobat. Only if what's in the PDF is text. I have quite a

Re: [users] Editing picture captions

2009-08-16 Thread Michael Reich
John: I too found pictures and captions in Writer to be somewhat baffling at first. Perhaps my two cents will help. I am not an OOO expert, and some of my references may not use the precisely correct terms, but I've learned how to work with pictures and captions. After you insert a

[users] Re: Subject:,Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread Michael Reich
On 8/16/09 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: Subject: Problem with Word documents From: Neil Armstrong neila...@armstrong63.freeserve.co.uk Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:41:54 +0100 To: users@openoffice.org I was recommended to download Open Office as I needed to send Word documents as

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:54:44 +0100 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Harold, Are you suggesting that PDF is not searchable? All the PDFs I've ever seen are readily searchable using free readers such as Adobe Acrobat. Only if what's in the

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
James Knott wrote: Gene Young wrote: PDF documents created by OO are fully searchable. And how many recruiters or HR departments are prepared to search them? Many of them place the resumes into a database, which they then search for qualifications. I have had interviews, where I

Re: [users] Re: Subject:,Problem with Word documents

2009-08-16 Thread Harold Fuchs
Michael Reich wrote: On 8/16/09 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: Subject: Problem with Word documents From: Neil Armstrong neila...@armstrong63.freeserve.co.uk Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:41:54 +0100 To: users@openoffice.org I was recommended to download Open Office as I needed to send

Re: [users] Re: E-mailing an Open Office document

2009-08-16 Thread Gene Young
James Knott wrote: Gene Young wrote: PDF documents created by OO are fully searchable. And how many recruiters or HR departments are prepared to search them? Many of them place the resumes into a database, which they then search for qualifications. I have had interviews, where I could see

[users] Re: Calc: Empty Cells

2009-08-16 Thread Tamblyne
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:09:02 -0400, Joe Smith j...@martnet.com wrote: On 08/15/2009 01:23 AM, Tamblyne wrote: I'm trying to copy certain cells from one sheet to another. If the first cell is empty, I want the second cell to be empty, too, ... Testing for empty cells can be a real mess,