Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread Javier Rivera
Web Kracked wrote: 2) Why does 3.2 [windows] need MS Visual C++ when 3.1.1 did not? They probably used the C++ standard lib to do something?. I mean, OOo has ben using the MS Visual C redistributable since day 1, why is using C++ a big change?. I wonder what is being used for Win Visual

Re: [users] Differences between the new OOo 3.2 version and OOO320m11 (Build:9479) ?

2010-02-12 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 12.02.2010 08:36, M Henri Day a écrit : 2010/2/11 Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@laposte.net Le 11.02.2010 23:17, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Henri, M Henri Day wrote (11-02-10 18:48) Are there any ? (I shan't be downloading the latest version for a while anyway, as a

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Bernard Head
I must agree with the top posting proposition. It would seem very counter intuitive to scroll to the bottom of a message, read the message moving down the script and then scroll up to read the previous message, constantly repeating the process, up down, up down sometimes almost ad infinitum

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Linda L. Hull
- Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:41:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [users] Top posting should be allowed Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators I have been criticised a few

[users] Errors in Open Office 3.0.1, Ubuntu 9.04

2010-02-12 Thread Linda L. Hull
I got the following error, following a reboot and update, using Open Office 3.0.1 llh...@marcus:~$ soffice -writer 2009-09-14recustomhealthcarewheelchair5.doc ** (soffice:4237): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number llh...@marcus:~$ error - missing word count in dictionary file Hash

Re: [users] Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Brewster Gillett
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:41 +1100, Keith R Bainbridge wrote: Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators I have been criticised a few times for top posting on this list. I haven't participated much since the last critic. snip I suspect this will start a flame or two, but I am passionate

Re: [users] [moderated]cannot use find replace function, or auto correct option for quotes and apostrophes

2010-02-12 Thread Guy Voets
2010/2/11 Clare du Bois lightofthewo...@taosnet.com: I sure hope you can help me, I have a manuscript to correct and it would take hours to do it manually.  I am using OO3 on a MacBookPro dual processor, intel machine.  I have already tried to access some kind of find and replace function and

Re: [users] Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Laurent
Top-posting has only ever made sense (and barely, at that) in a two-person exchange of a short sequence; where all fits on one page, as: I agree with that message, but I would like to summarize it in a two-lines rule : * When you do a short answer to a question, you have to top-post

[users] Re: Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Gordon
Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote in message news:1265970470.4273.298.ca...@merlin.fdi.loc... This whole top-posting thing, IMHO, originated with clueless NetNoobs several years ago, who when first encountering an email editing format, took exactly the wrong interpretation of the usual cursor

Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-02-11 5:37 PM, Web Kracked wrote: When I started this thread, I seemed to open up a can of worms. I just wanted to know a few things. 1) What is different about OOo3.2 that requires Admin privileges when 3.1.1 did not? 2) Why does 3.2 [windows] need MS Visual C++ when 3.1.1 did

[users] Re: [OT] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-02-12 2:41 AM, Keith R Bainbridge wrote: If I am following a long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the information I have read before. This is why *selective* quoting should always be employed, whether you are top-posting or bottom/inline posting. My biggest gripe

[users] Re: [OT] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-02-12 5:12 AM, Linda L. Hull wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com I suspect this will start a flame or two, but I am passionate about this. I agree. I don't like bottom posting, for the reasons mentioned above, but you had to read all

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Gene Young
Linda L. Hull wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators Keith Bainbridge I agree. I don't like bottom posting, for the reasons mentioned above, but you had to read all that again, to see my

Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread Web Kracked
Javier Rivera wrote: Web Kracked wrote: 2) Why does 3.2 [windows] need MS Visual C++ when 3.1.1 did not? They probably used the C++ standard lib to do something?. I mean, OOo has ben using the MS Visual C redistributable since day 1, why is using C++ a big change?. I wonder what is being

RE: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
-Original Message- From: Web Kracked [mailto:webmas...@krackedpress.com] When I started this thread, I seemed to open up a can of worms. I just wanted to know a few things. 1) What is different about OOo3.2 that requires Admin privileges when 3.1.1 did not? 2) Why does

Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-02-12 9:51 AM, Web Kracked wrote: Well, as some people have already questioned on why OOo is using MS's stuff. They only use it (2005 runtime) on windows systems. Something obviously did change if it now *requires* it, because I know it didn't use to, although I wouldn't have run into

Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue

2010-02-12 Thread Javier Rivera
Web Kracked wrote: Then if they have been using MS's C++ all the long, why is it this is the first time that I get the message that their system is being installed on my computer? They had been using MSV C runtime library, they have added MSV C++ library now. If you don't believe me, just

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread M. Fioretti
Keith wrote: why some dislike top posting. If I am following a long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the information I have read before. One of the reasons for bottom posting (on a support mailing list like this, at least) is that half the reason it exists is for people

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread James Wilde
On Feb 12, 2010, at 17:03 , M. Fioretti wrote: Keith wrote: why some dislike top posting. If I am following a long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the information I have read before. One of the reasons for bottom posting (on a support mailing list like this, at

Re: [users] Top posting /Hull

2010-02-12 Thread Brewster Gillett
- Original Message - Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators snip balance of original message) Linda L. Hull wrote: I agree. I don't like bottom posting, for the reasons mentioned above, but you had to read all that again, to see my thoughts. chalcedony Linda bg:

Re: [users] calc: Python

2010-02-12 Thread jonathon
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Actually, just NEVER EVER use the macro recorder at all, The functionality of the macro recorder depends upon why you think it is there. If you thought it would help you create macros for use on two, or more documents, you'd be wrong. If, OTOH, you thought it would be a

[users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread M Henri Day
*Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder, it still opens by default in 3.1.0 ! I've looked in the help files - perhaps too cursorily - but

Re: [users] Re: Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:51:56AM -, Gordon wrote: Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote in message news:1265970470.4273.298.ca...@merlin.fdi.loc... This whole top-posting thing, IMHO, originated with clueless NetNoobs several years ago, who when first encountering an email editing

[users] Page Background Does Not Export to PDF with oo3.2

2010-02-12 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
I just exported a letter to PDF and find that with oo3.2.0, OOO320m12 (Build:9483) using XP Media Center with service pack 3 the background does not appear in the PDF file. I can't find an option to turn it on or off as is possible when sending a document to a printer. Is this a new bug? I

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:24:18PM +0100, James Wilde wrote: ..snip... Good point, Marco, and the first really rational - as opposed to religious - justification for bottom-posting. My own position is when in Rome do as the Romans. If I find that the general

Re: [users] Page Background Does Not Export to PDF with oo3.2

2010-02-12 Thread RA Brown
Gene Kohlenberg wrote: I just exported a letter to PDF and find that with oo3.2.0, OOO320m12 (Build:9483) using XP Media Center with service pack 3 the background does not appear in the PDF file. I can't find an option to turn it on or off as is possible when sending a document to a printer.

[users] OT Re: Top posting should be allowed BORRRRRING!

2010-02-12 Thread Twayne
In news:27e233ac-a3ab-41ef-9050-7a8e8da2f...@gmail.com, Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com typed: Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators I have been criticised a few times for top posting on this list. I haven't participated much since the last critic. ... Your personal issues

[users] Re: Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Twayne
In news:19086511.191265969536017.javamail.r...@pim.riffle.be, Linda L. Hull chalced...@riffle.be typed: - Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:41:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [users] Top

[users] Re: Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Twayne
In news:20100212160328.gb6...@nexaima.net, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net typed: Keith wrote: why some dislike top posting. If I am following a long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the information I have read before. One of the reasons for bottom posting (on a

Re: [users] OT Re: Top posting should be allowed BORRRRRING!

2010-02-12 Thread BJ Stevens
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. DID YOU SEND TO WRONG ADDRESS? -- From: Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:20 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] OT Re: Top posting should be allowed BORING! In

Re: [users] Re: Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread BJ Stevens
I have no idea what this is about. Did you send to wrong address? -- From: Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Top posting should be allowed In

Re: [users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Tom Bell
M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder, it still opens by default in 3.1.0 ! I've looked in the help files - perhaps

[users] Re: calc: Python

2010-02-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
jonathon wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Actually, just NEVER EVER use the macro recorder at all, The functionality of the macro recorder depends upon why you think it is there. If you thought it would help you create macros for use on two, or more documents, you'd be wrong. If, OTOH, you

Re: [users] UNINSTALLING OPENOFFICE VERSION 3.1.0

2010-02-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/2/10 Roger T. Reynolds rreyn...@hotmail.com: Please Help! How do I uninstall the OPENOFFICE 3.1.0 suite? As others said, you didn't mention your operating system, so I assume that it is Ubuntu and that you installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 from the repositories. In that case, this should

Re: [users] Differences between the new OOo 3.2 version and OOO320m11 (Build:9479) ?

2010-02-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote (11-02-10 23:59) In fact OOO320m11 was RC4, RC5 and OOo 3.2.0 Final is OOO320m12. Yes, my bad ;-\ I'd better gone to bed in time :-) Apologies Henri. Cor -- Your office 2010 software: the new OpenOffice.org Cor Nouws - ideas/remarks for the

Re: [users] Differences between the new OOo 3.2 version and OOO320m11 (Build:9479) ?

2010-02-12 Thread M Henri Day
2010/2/12 Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl Hi Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote (11-02-10 23:59) In fact OOO320m11 was RC4, RC5 and OOo 3.2.0 Final is OOO320m12. Yes, my bad ;-\ I'd better gone to bed in time :-) Apologies Henri. Cor No problem, Cor ; I've managed to install the

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/2/11 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: I need to use the Unicode Gear symbol as a bullet point in lists: ⚙ I click on Numbering/Bullets however in none of the screens can I change to use this symbol. The only screen that comes close is the Options where I could set the numbering to use

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
Your character seems to be U+2699 and that character seems (and many more) seems to be missing. On the other hand, I tested some fonts and I noticed that some characters were available for some fonts and not for other fonts, so maybe if you don't know which font contains the character, if you

Re: [users] Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread M Henri Day
2010/2/12 Tom Bell cbel...@cfl.rr.com M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder, it still opens by default in

[users] Re: UNINSTALLING OPENOFFICE VERSION 3.1.0

2010-02-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/02/12 1:22 PM Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/2/10 Roger T. Reynoldsrreyn...@hotmail.com: How do I uninstall the OPENOFFICE 3.1.0 suite? As others said, you didn't mention your operating system, so I assume that it is Ubunta If you checked the headers you could deduce that he

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/2/12 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: Your character seems to be U+2699 and that character seems (and many more) seems to be missing. On the other hand, I tested some fonts and I noticed that some characters were available for some fonts and not for other fonts, so maybe if you don't

Re: [users] Re: UNINSTALLING OPENOFFICE VERSION 3.1.0

2010-02-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/2/12 Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com: On 2010/02/12 1:22 PM  Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/2/10 Roger T. Reynoldsrreyn...@hotmail.com: How do I uninstall the OPENOFFICE 3.1.0 suite? As others said, you didn't mention your operating system, so I assume that it is Ubunta I type

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread amaloney
U+2699 exists in: Apple Symbols DejaVu Menlo Al Maloney Your character seems to be U+2699 No, none of the fonts listed show that character. Obviously it exists in some font, but how can I know which? - Al Maloney Using OOo_Dev_DEV300 on Mac OS X 10.5.5 Velox Versutus

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread TomW
On 2/12/2010 2:41 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Your character seems to be U+2699 and that character seems (and many more) seems to be missing. On the other hand, I tested some fonts and I noticed that some characters were available for some fonts and not for other fonts, so maybe if you don't know

[users] Re: Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Russell Butler
On 13/02/10 06:57, M Henri Day wrote: 2010/2/12 Tom Bellcbel...@cfl.rr.com M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder,

Re: [users] Re: Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Web Kracked
Russell Butler wrote: I presume you downloaded the .debs from the OOo repositories? I just installed 320m12-RC5, which became 3.2, and running sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the desktop integration directory, 3.2 is now my default, even though I still have 3.1.1 installed. I just wonder if you

[users] Re: Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Russell Butler
On 13/02/10 11:02, Web Kracked wrote: Russell Butler wrote: I presume you downloaded the .debs from the OOo repositories? I just installed 320m12-RC5, which became 3.2, and running sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the desktop integration directory, 3.2 is now my default, even though I still have 3.1.1

Re: [users] Re: Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread Web Kracked
Russell Butler wrote: On 13/02/10 11:02, Web Kracked wrote: Russell Butler wrote: I presume you downloaded the .debs from the OOo repositories? I just installed 320m12-RC5, which became 3.2, and running sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the desktop integration directory, 3.2 is now my default, even

[users] Re: Making a newly installed OOo 3.2 the default over OOo 3.1 in Ubuntu

2010-02-12 Thread NoOp
On 02/12/2010 08:51 AM, M Henri Day wrote: *Grâce à* Jean-Baptiste, I've now installed OOo 3.2 on my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic setup and uninstalled OOo 3.1 via the Synaptic package manager. However, when I click a document in my Document folder, it still opens by default in 3.1.0 ! I've looked in

Re: [users] Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Troll/Idiot
Well, Brewster, you've chewed it over at some length on several occasions. Get used to the idea that given the same facts, different people will reach different conclusions, equally valid. Some people, more experienced than you in email lists and internet forums, find top posting preferable.

[users] can't logon

2010-02-12 Thread ghigg...@woh.rr.com
I have tried repeatedly to log on but can't do it. tried to get password, you say it was was sent to my email but I never got it. so can't log on to try to discover why my documents crash every time I access them. Glenna Higgins

[users] If 3.2 is out, why doesn't my 3.1.1 find it?

2010-02-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have OOo 3.1.1 on Fedora 11 x86_64, installed from OOo, not from the Fedora repositories. (Fedora disables too many things.) I note on openoffice.org that 3.2 is now out and available for download. But when I go to Help Check for Updates it says my 3.1.1 is the latest.

Re: [users] Changing bullet symbol to a symbol not on the OOo list of characters

2010-02-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:37 12/02/2010 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: At 21:25 11/02/2010 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to use the Unicode Gear symbol as a bullet point in lists: ⚙ Thanks, Brian, but I have gone through all the fonts and I cannot find that character. As it is not a common character, I wonder

[users] Using OOo to count words in documents

2010-02-12 Thread Ryan Prior
Hey there all, I am trying to set up an automatic word-count script that takes a document in a wide array of formats (.doc, .odt, .rtf, etc) and prints the number of words contained therein. I have been searching for a library that handles a wide array of text formats, and the most comprehensive