[users] Openoffice calc > quick calculation

2009-12-08 Thread Klark Ooi
Hi, We have this small auto-calculation function at the bottom right when you select a range of values. Anyone knows how to switch to count instead of sum or average? thanks. -- Warmest regards, Klark

Re: [users] Re: Mathematical division sign.

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, Ian L. Target wrote: > PatrickG wrote: >> Ian L. Target wrote: >> >>> How does a user get the mathematical division sign, the bar a dot above >>> and below it in an OO module? I ended up having to go to my room mate's >>> computer and firing up Office 97. I know that ASCII code of 0

Re: [users] Drawing a Venn Diagram

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilchrist
Dear Mark C. Miller, I agree with James Knott. I did exactly as he said, however, I did in Writer. First, I selected *View, Toolbars, Drawing.* ** The Drawing toolbar then appears below the Writer screen. Click on the Circle icon. Make a circle. Place your cursor on whatever shape you get, se

Re: [users] Who has a larger organization (>100 users) using Open Office?

2009-12-08 Thread Arun Shrimali
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dan Itkis wrote: > I'm looking to chat with someone who's migrated their organization to Open > Office to gain insight into what to expect. > > thanks! > Dan > Dear Dan, Probably you are looking for organisation with >1000, for >100 they are count less one of whi

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames?

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilchrist
*CORRECTION!!!* How do I do this *WITHOUT* using a spread sheet? On 12/8/09, John Gilchrist wrote: > > Dear Joseph and Michael, > > Here is an example: > > I am making a presentation. On one page I have three text frames. > > All three text frames are sitting on the page one frame on top

[users] Re: Mathematical division sign.

2009-12-08 Thread Ian L. Target
PatrickG wrote: > Ian L. Target wrote: > >> How does a user get the mathematical division sign, the bar a dot above >> and below it in an OO module? I ended up having to go to my room mate's >> computer and firing up Office 97. I know that ASCII code of 0247 to get >> it in MS Word. I ended u

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames? CORRECTION IN BLUE

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilchrist
Dear Joseph and Michael, Here is an example: I am making a presentation. On one page I have three text frames. All three text frames are sitting on the page one frame on top of another, all set to Horizontal "Center" - NO Problem. Each frame has a different vertical height. I want A. The

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames?

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilchrist
Dear Joseph and Michael, Here is an example: I am making a presentation. On one page I have three text frames. All three text frames are sitting on the page one frame on top of another, all set to Horizontal "Center" - NO Problem. Each frame has a different vertical height. I want A. The

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames?

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
John Gilchrist wrote: Dear Fellow Users, Almost every time I have 2 or more frames in a page of OOo Writer, I want to adjust for equal spacing between the frames, or center 2 or more frames between the margins. Is there any easy way to do this? Is there any kind of utility? Is there a way to

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames?

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:11:24 -0600 Came this utterance formulated by John Gilchrist to my mailbox: > Dear Fellow Users, > > Almost every time I have 2 or more frames in a page of OOo Writer, I > want to adjust for equal spacing between the frames, or center 2 or > more frames between the margins.

[users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames?

2009-12-08 Thread John Gilchrist
Dear Fellow Users, Almost every time I have 2 or more frames in a page of OOo Writer, I want to adjust for equal spacing between the frames, or center 2 or more frames between the margins. Is there any easy way to do this? Is there any kind of utility? Is there a way to read the page coordinat

Re: [users] CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) in OO Calc

2009-12-08 Thread PatrickG
Ian L. Target wrote: > In Office 97 Excel, I could hit SHIFT RETURN to get a CR/LF in a cell. > How is this done in OO Calc? > CTRL-ENTER seems to work, though the screen doesn't refresh until you leave the cell. Note: It does not seem to work if there is not at least 1 character entered before

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
NoOp wrote: On 12/08/2009 06:22 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were subscribed. This is almost certainly a troll. He's bee

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
subratan...@punjlloyd.com wrote: Is not there any regulatory body who can take care of such idiots? With Regards, SUBRATA NATH SNX27, Silchar. I have a few suggestions but none of them legal or moral. - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: [users] Mathematical division sign.

2009-12-08 Thread PatrickG
Ian L. Target wrote: > How does a user get the mathematical division sign, the bar a dot above > and below it in an OO module? I ended up having to go to my room mate's > computer and firing up Office 97. I know that ASCII code of 0247 to get > it in MS Word. I ended up emailing myself a copy of

[users] Re: linux exe

2009-12-08 Thread NoOp
On 12/08/2009 01:25 AM, Ярослав Райченко wrote: ... > Thank you, gentlmen, for your advices, leads and links. i downloaded > xubuntu and was kicking around installation from hard disk by means of > grub4dos. when i have done i wll let you know if you are wondering. > regards, > Alex Please don'

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread SubrataNath
Is not there any regulatory body who can take care of such idiots? With Regards, SUBRATA NATH SNX27, Silchar. Joseph A Nagy Jr 12/09/2009 12:31 AM Please respond to users@openoffice.org To users@openoffice.org cc Subject Re: Fw: [users] Labels Barbara Duprey wrote: > James Knott w

[users] CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) in OO Calc

2009-12-08 Thread Ian L. Target
In Office 97 Excel, I could hit SHIFT RETURN to get a CR/LF in a cell. How is this done in OO Calc? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: Fw: Labels

2009-12-08 Thread NoOp
On 12/08/2009 06:22 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >> michael considine wrote: >>> Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you >> >> You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were >> subscribed. > > This is almost certainly a troll. He

[users] Mathematical division sign.

2009-12-08 Thread Ian L. Target
How does a user get the mathematical division sign, the bar a dot above and below it in an OO module? I ended up having to go to my room mate's computer and firing up Office 97. I know that ASCII code of 0247 to get it in MS Word. I ended up emailing myself a copy of the document with the symbol

Re: [users] Daten Sortieren Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen dauerhaft anwählen

2009-12-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:40 08/12/2009 +0100, James Wilde wrote: On Dec 7, 2009, at 20:05 , Harald Kral wrote: ich nutze Windows XP Home Edition, Open Office 3.1.1 Da ich viele Tabellen mit Spaltenbeschriftungen habe, wollte ich gern die Option: Daten/Sortieren/Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen/ dauerhaft

Re: [users] Draw tutorial?

2009-12-08 Thread Marcello Romani
David B Teague ha scritto: James, Many thanks. I looked around the OO.o web site but did not see this. This may well get me started enough to do what I need to do. I should have mentioned my specific application. I have an image obtained from a screen snapshot. I then save in the (painful

Re: [users] Trolls

2009-12-08 Thread John Meyer
On 12/8/2009 4:08 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: (and I know they can do it, I'm very familiar with mailman). Kinda sad when you don't want to give a donut hole what he wants. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice

Re: [users] Trolls

2009-12-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Michael Reich wrote: Problem with the digest version, can't filter him out. Yeah, that is a problem. If he doesn't unsub himself, I think the list moderators should forcibly remove him from the list (and I know they can do it, I'm very familiar with mailman). I've

Re: [users] Trolls

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Michael Reich wrote: Problem with the digest version, can't filter him out. Yeah, that is a problem. If he doesn't unsub himself, I think the list moderators should forcibly remove him from the list (and I know they can do it, I'm very familiar with mailman). --

[users] Trolls

2009-12-08 Thread Michael Reich
On 12/8/09 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: Subject: Re: Fw: [users] Labels From: James Knott Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:51:34 -0500 To: users@openoffice.org Barbara Duprey wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them ba

Re: [users] Tool bar problem with OpenOffice Writer version 3.x

2009-12-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
William Mangold wrote: Hello I am sorry to bother you, and hope that I have been linked to the right address to help solve this stupid little problem I'm having. I have been using Open Office 3.x for years on both Windows XP and Vista. In the past, my Text Object bar has always been displaye

Re: [users] Draw tutorial?

2009-12-08 Thread David B Teague
James, Many thanks. I looked around the OO.o web site but did not see this. This may well get me started enough to do what I need to do. I should have mentioned my specific application. I have an image obtained from a screen snapshot. I then save in the (painfully primitive) Paint utility

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Barbara Duprey wrote: James Knott wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were subscribed. This is almost certainly a troll

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:23:59PM -0800, michael considine wrote: > Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you Hey moron, no one on this list can unsubscribe you. You have to do it yourself. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, chec

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
James Knott wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were subscribed. This is almost certainly a troll. He's been given very

Re: [users] Opening a Writer document at the end rather than at the beginning?

2009-12-08 Thread AG
Gene Young wrote: AG wrote: I don't know if this is the default behaviour for OOo3:1.1-8 Writer or not, but I would like to be able to open up a previously worked on document at the end of the work that I have done, rather than at the beginning of the document which is what currently happens.

Re: [users] Opening a Writer document at the end rather than at the beginning?

2009-12-08 Thread AG
Brian Barker wrote: At 13:11 06/12/2009 +, Aonly Gonly wrote: I don't know if this is the default behaviour for OOo3:1.1-8 Writer or not, ... I'm puzzled: you mean you haven't tested this? Or perhaps you mean you may have changed something inadvertently? No - just that what some people c

Re: [users] Opening a Writer document at the end rather than at the beginning?

2009-12-08 Thread AG
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/6/2009, Brian Barker (b.m.bar...@btinternet.com) wrote: I seem to recall that previous releases of OOo allowed this but the 3.1* releases don't seem to support this out of the box. Is there a setting that I can tweak to enable this? FWIW, OOo sits proudly on my cur

[users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/07 1:59 PM Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/7/2009, Larry Gusaas (larry.gus...@gmail.com) wrote: On 2009/12/07 5:47 AM Charles Marcus wrote: Yes, but those are DEV builds. Beta builds are LABELED as such... I know, I've downloaded plenty of them in tha past few years...

Re: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Web Kracked
I, Web Kracked, started the thread in the first place. I downloaded the latest DEV that was online, since the English Beta for OOO320 was not there at that time. If there is no Beta listed and the RC1 is coming out is 2-3 weeks, I feel that it is good enough to try like a Beta, since the Beta was

Re: [users] Reverse Page Styles when second page is triggered?

2009-12-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/7/2009, Charles Marcus (cmar...@media-brokers.com) wrote: COND_STYLE1 { If document1 has more than one page, use style1, else If document has more than 2 pages, use style2, else use style3 } That should be: COND_STYLE1 { If document1 has more than o

[users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/08 9:30 AM Charles Marcus wrote: Larry, Please do NOT hijack threads like this, it is very rude. I DID NOT hijack the thread. You are replying to a post by Web Kracked. Learn how to read. Falsely accusing someone is EXTREMELY rude. On 12/7/2009 8:02 PM, Web Kracked wrote:

Re: Fw: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Web Kracked
michael considine wrote: - Forwarded Message From: Charles Marcus To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Fri, 4 December, 2009 4:41:46 AM Subject: Re: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please On 12/3/2009, Web Kracked (webmas...@krackedpress.com) wrote: I just saw th

Re: Fw: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Web Kracked
michael considine wrote: - Forwarded Message From: Charles Marcus To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Mon, 7 December, 2009 3:47:59 AM Subject: Re: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please On 12/6/2009, Web Kracked (webmas...@krackedpress.com) wrote: Charles Marcu

Re: [users] Daten Sortieren Bereich enthält Spa ltenbeschriftungen dauerhaft anwählen

2009-12-08 Thread James Wilde
On Dec 7, 2009, at 20:05 , Harald und Doris Kral wrote: > Hallo, > > ich nutze Windows XP Home Edition, Open Office 3.1.1 > > Da ich viele Tabellen mit Spaltenbeschriftungen habe, wollte ich gern die > Option: Daten/Sortieren/Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen/ dauerhaft > anwählen, was ab

Re: [users] Draw tutorial?

2009-12-08 Thread James Knott
David B Teague wrote: Is there a low level OO.o Draw tutorial available? Draw is not intuitive for me. When faced with a software package that is new to me, I usually need a small set of instructions that make the tool useful, then I can read the "Help" and other tutorials to find things as

[users] Draw tutorial?

2009-12-08 Thread David B Teague
Is there a low level OO.o Draw tutorial available? Draw is not intuitive for me. When faced with a software package that is new to me, I usually need a small set of instructions that make the tool useful, then I can read the "Help" and other tutorials to find things as needed to extend my k

[users] Daten Sortieren Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen da uerhaft anwählen

2009-12-08 Thread Harald und Doris Kral
Hallo, ich nutze Windows XP Home Edition, Open Office 3.1.1 Da ich viele Tabellen mit Spaltenbeschriftungen habe, wollte ich gern die Option: Daten/Sortieren/Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen/ dauerhaft anwählen, was aber leider nicht funktioniert. Bei jedem Neustart des Programmes ist die

Re: [users] Reverse Page Styles when second page is triggered?

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/7/2009, Charles Marcus (cmar...@media-brokers.com) wrote: > COND_STYLE1 > { > If document1 has more than one page, use style1, else > > If document has more than 2 pages, use style2, else > > use style3 > } That should be: COND_STYLE1 { If document1 has more than one page, use style

Re: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/7/2009, Larry Gusaas (larry.gus...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 2009/12/07 5:47 AM Charles Marcus wrote: >> Yes, but those are DEV builds. Beta builds are LABELED as such... I >> know, I've downloaded plenty of them in tha past few years... > OOO320_m2 was also labelled as Beta. And I do recall

[users] Tool bar problem with OpenOffice Writer version 3.x

2009-12-08 Thread William Mangold
Hello I am sorry to bother you, and hope that I have been linked to the right address to help solve this stupid little problem I'm having. I have been using Open Office 3.x for years on both Windows XP and Vista. In the past, my Text Object bar has always been displayed when starting a new s

Re: [users] Re: What is new for 3.2.x (beta) - non-technical please

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Marcus
Larry, Please do NOT hijack threads like this, it is very rude. If you want to ask a question, create a NEW email from scratch (ie, don't just click Reply to someone else's message and change the subject) and ask your question. On 12/7/2009 8:02 PM, Web Kracked wrote: > Larry Gusaas wrote: >> On

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread James Knott
Barbara Duprey wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were subscribed. This is almost certainly a troll. He's been given very explicit directions

[users] Calc formula

2009-12-08 Thread John Meyer
I have several sheets in a workbook with data in the same format (same columns). I want to take that information from all the sheets and put it in a new sheet. The data is in the same format, but I want a column on the side that tells me from what sheet that information comes from (say, if ro

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you You idiot, you have to unsubscribe yourself, just like you were subscribed. This is almost certainly a troll. He's been given very explicit directions on how to unsubscribe,

Re: [users] Fwd: aligning text from left to right

2009-12-08 Thread M Henri Day
2009/12/8 Abd El Rahman Khaled > Thank you very much this is this exactly what I need. now it's ok to switch > to open office. > > -- > Thank you, > Abd El Rahman > > Good that it worked for you !... Henri

Re: [users] Fw: [webmasters] Problem with the dictionary.

2009-12-08 Thread Guy Voets
2009/12/7 Yoel Knopf : > Dear Support >   I am trying to use the dictionary in the OpenOffice Writer but it does not > seem to be working. Neither the AutoSpellcheck or manually spell checking the > document seem to pick out or notice mistakes (no red lines and nothing in the > spell check windo

[users] Who do I have to strangle to get OOo to respect locale settings in Linux?

2009-12-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
Please, please, this is killing me. $ date +%x 2009-12-08 However, Calc insists on using the mm/dd/yy year format in new documents. The settings under Language are all Default. What must I do to have OOo respect the locale settings? I know that this issue has been addressed tens of time on the li

[users] Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a column formatted as "HH:MM". When the user enters "14" I need it to be registered as "14:00" assuming a 24-hour clock. How can this be achieved? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -