[users] Re: Mail Merge won't create multiple letters

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Saeger
D wrote: On 1/24/2010 5:10 PM, jomali wrote: I suspect that you expect to see all of the letters to be sent on your screen. However, have you tried printing your mail merge document? The merge, AFAIK, only happens upon printing. Only on print? That's seems rather strange to me. Fo

[users] Re: Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Saeger
Wade Smart wrote: Wow. I think between what you and Andreas said, I might just create a db and use php on a web page and forget the spread sheet. Thanks. Wade This is a very good idea and I'm sure the extra effort pays off after a few days of data collection by a small group of users.

[users] endnote in reference file

2010-01-25 Thread Nicholas
Hi all, Does Writer have a feature to add endnotes with references from a central reference file? Thank you. -- Nicholas A. Suppiah Centre Manager Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC), MAMPU Level 3, E302 - 304, Enterprise Building 3 Persiaran APEC 63000 Cyberjaya Selangor D.E. [Tel] +603 8

[users] Writer - how to disable the readonly mode?

2010-01-25 Thread Nicholas
Hi all, Happy new year 2010. Anyone knows how I can unprotect a writer document that was protected by the following steps? 1. In Writer menu choose Tools ->Options ->OpenOffice.org ->Security 2. Select (checked) Open this document in read only mode. 3. Press the protect button. 4. Save the docum

[users] Re: Preload OOo on Mac

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Reich
On 1/25/10 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: Subject: Re: [users] Re: Preload OOo on Mac From: James Wilde Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:45:39 +0100 To: users@openoffice.org On Jan 25, 2010, at 00:52 , Michael Reich wrote: > > On 1/24/10 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: > You d

[users] Re: Mail Merge won't create multiple letters

2010-01-25 Thread NoOp
On 01/24/2010 05:08 PM, D wrote: > On 1/24/2010 5:10 PM, jomali wrote: >>> I suspect that you expect to see all of the letters to be sent on your >>> >> screen. However, have you tried printing your mail merge document? The >> merge, AFAIK, only happens upon printing. >> >> > > Only on p

Re: [users] Slow to open.etc.

2010-01-25 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
I don't like Windows. I use GNU/Linux, Debian testing updated every week. I don't see why I have to buy something else if I work well with it. FOR YOU is slow, for me is fine. And it's MY computer. That's all. Sylvia 2010/1/25 Tanstaafl : > On 2010-01-22 9:51 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: >> The

Re: [users] Re: Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread Wade Smart
NoOp wrote: On 01/25/2010 12:02 PM, Wade Smart wrote: I have a project in front of me using calc. They want a form for input. Is anyone using input forms built for OO Calc but also used on Excel? Are they cross compatible? Wade It's a looong story... but there are multiple issues with this.

[users] Re: Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread NoOp
On 01/25/2010 01:28 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 01/25/2010 12:02 PM, Wade Smart wrote: >> I have a project in front of me using calc. They want a form for input. >> Is anyone using input forms built for OO Calc but also used on Excel? >> Are they cross compatible? >> >> Wade > > It's a looong story...

Re: [users] Slow to open.etc.

2010-01-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-01-22 9:51 AM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > The question here is What is exactly poor memory, slow processor or > old computer? What is slow or fast to open? > I have a Celeron 550MHz with 320MBs of ram and works fine. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but... It may work fine, but it is wa

[users] Re: Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Saeger
Wade Smart wrote: I have a project in front of me using calc. They want a form for input. Is anyone using input forms built for OO Calc but also used on Excel? Are they cross compatible? Wade Base input forms are far better than the almost useless Excel forms. - Store a flat list as dBase (*

[users] Re: Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread NoOp
On 01/25/2010 12:02 PM, Wade Smart wrote: > I have a project in front of me using calc. They want a form for input. > Is anyone using input forms built for OO Calc but also used on Excel? > Are they cross compatible? > > Wade It's a looong story... but there are multiple issues with this. See:

[users] Forms for Calc

2010-01-25 Thread Wade Smart
I have a project in front of me using calc. They want a form for input. Is anyone using input forms built for OO Calc but also used on Excel? Are they cross compatible? Wade -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 --

[users] Re: Anaphraseus is messing up with OOo

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Saeger
Alex Zachopoulos wrote: Okay, folks, I _am_ a little misleading in the Subject line, but not much: I've got NeoOffice, which (I hope you'll agree) is for all intents and purposes in this thread the same as OOo. Running on MacOS X Leopard 10.5.7. I installed Anaphraseus, didn't like it, and remove

Re: [users] Re: Write: How to manage Sections?

2010-01-25 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
Hi Joe! and thanks for the very intuitive post! I think your comment expresses my conclusions with OOo Writer sections precisely. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Joe Smith wrote: > On 08/26/2009 06:15 AM, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: > >> I have this Write file which I am putting together, and I wo

[users] Anaphraseus is messing up with OOo

2010-01-25 Thread Alex Zachopoulos
Okay, folks, I _am_ a little misleading in the Subject line, but not much: I've got NeoOffice, which (I hope you'll agree) is for all intents and purposes in this thread the same as OOo. Running on MacOS X Leopard 10.5.7. I installed Anaphraseus, didn't like it, and removed the extension. Here's th

Re: [users] Re: Preload OOo on Mac

2010-01-25 Thread James Wilde
On Jan 25, 2010, at 00:52 , Michael Reich wrote: > > On 1/24/10 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote: > You don't say what version of OSX you have or what type of Mac.On my > MacBook running Snow Leopard (10.6.2) it doesn't take "forever" to start OOO > or NeoOffice. Provide a little i