Re: [users] one thing i can't figure out

2009-09-24 Thread James R. Liebert
See http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30470, OO Issue 30470. This formatting device is called Fixed Decimal in Excel. It remains absent from OO Calc, as you will read. JRL Akron Stanton A Hershman wrote: in excel you can adjust the cell contents so that if you enter -5432 you

[users] Re: Word spacing

2009-09-24 Thread NoOp
On 09/22/2009 10:12 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: A couple weeks ago, in a thread begun by someone else (How do you turn a single spaced Doc into double-spaced?), an inapt answer to the OP's question - suggesting search-and-replace to turn all single spaces into double spaces - prompted me to

Re: [users] one thing i can't figure out

2009-09-24 Thread Stanton A Hershman
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:32:15 -0400, you wrote: thanks There is a switch in Excel relevant to currency cell formats that mimics many adding machines, automatically making the last two digits entered the decimal places. Find it in OO. The downside is you must enter 00 for even dollars. For me

RE: [users] um...

2009-09-24 Thread Frankyne Mouton
Please remove me from your mailing list. Thank you. Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:54:58 -0500 From: b...@onr.com To: users@openoffice.org; micha...@sjnumurkah.catholic.edu.au Subject: Re: [users] um... michael phillips wrote: dose this sevice contane mail reader? Openoffice.org is a

[users] Frames disappear

2009-09-24 Thread Sowbhagya Sundaresan
Some of the frames in a OO Writer document I was working on disappeared suddenly. Initially I was able to see those missing frames as the document loaded. The text was not loaded at this point. Then when it was finished loading and all the text was there, those frames just disappeared. After

Re: [users] um...

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Detwiler
Frankyne Mouton wrote: Please remove me from your mailing list. Thank you. Ummm ... are you sure you're subscribed? If so, you don't appear to be subscribed from franky...@msn.com as it is showing as a non-subscribed address. If you are subscribed, but from a different address, you

Re: [users] Re: Word spacing

2009-09-24 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.09.24 12:27 -0500, NoOp wrote: ... OO [Writer] recognizes, and tries to encapsulate, structural entities. With respect to text, those entities seem to be characters, lines, paragraphs, and OO provides formatting capabilities to independently adjust spacing of each of

Re: [users] Newline between paragraphs?

2009-09-24 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.09.19 05:27 -0500, Brian Barker wrote: Does OO Writer deprecate the traditional practice of inserting a return (newline = carriage return = hard return = line break) between paragraphs? Traditional? Does that mean as beloved of typewriter users? ;^) I mentioned