Re: [users] How to launch an external appliation from OO.o Basic ( was:] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet )

2010-03-01 Thread Harold Hauge
The Basic Guile is an excellent resource but to make easy the following works for me. Call Shell("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe") The path is the default for Firefox, if you installed it somewhere else you will need to modify it. Harold Hauge On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:11 AM, D

[users] How to launch an external appliation from OO.o Basic ( was:] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet )

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Jensen
On 3/1/2010 2:06 PM, Mark Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:59:26PM +0530, Siddharth Waikar wrote: Dear All , I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? please send some clue.. thanks in advance

Re: [users] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Miller
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:59:26PM +0530, Siddharth Waikar wrote: > > Dear All , > > > > I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication > > in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? > > please se

[users] Re: Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Twayne
In news:8c2eccb01003010329s6b565c6fy499e9df7fe846...@mail.gmail.com, Siddharth Waikar typed: Dear All , I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? please send some clue.. thanks in advance Rergards

Re: [users] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:59:26PM +0530, Siddharth Waikar wrote: > Dear All , > > I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication > in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? > please send some clue.. > thanks in advance What does this have to do with t

[users] Re: Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Twayne
In news:8c2eccb01003010329s6b565c6fy499e9df7fe846...@mail.gmail.com, Siddharth Waikar typed: Dear All , I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? please send some clue.. thanks in advance Rergards

[users] RESOLVED Re: Writer; Decimal Tab Stops?

2010-03-01 Thread Twayne
ahh! If it were any more obvious I'd be a candidate for ... well ... something unpleasant! Jeez, I can't even make up an excuse that'd excuse this one! Thanks guys; LAYS (Look at Your Screen!) should be a new acronym in my case. Thanks for opening my eyes! Regards, Twayne`

[users] Re: Very strange sorting error/andreas

2010-03-01 Thread Andreas Saeger
Brewster Gillett wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:34 +0100, Andreas Saeger wrote: When you paste zip-codes from a decent application (database?) the clipboard data are marked as text and Calc will treat them as text in this particular case. Ah, it's about csv files again. Nice to hear after

Re: [users] Very strange sorting error/brian

2010-03-01 Thread jomali
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Brewster Gillett wrote: > > > bg: > > That's an intriguing notion. Since ZIPs only ever consist of numbers, > why would it be preferable to store them as text? So as to avoid > confusion with "real" numbers? > > jomali: That's not entirely true. Extended zip code

Re: [users] Re: Very strange sorting error/andreas

2010-03-01 Thread Brewster Gillett
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:34 +0100, Andreas Saeger wrote: > When you paste zip-codes from a decent application (database?) the > clipboard data are marked as text and Calc will treat them as text in > this particular case. > When you enter a sequence of digits into a cell it treats the sequence

Re: [users] Very strange sorting error/brian

2010-03-01 Thread Brewster Gillett
> >Brian Barker wrote: > >>Either that or the care taken by the user? Let's be fair: you need > >>to test and reproduce such a problem before you can rightly assume > >>that it is a bug. bg: > > > >Right you are, Brian - of course it's more a matter of ignorance > >than of lack of care br

[users] Re: Very strange sorting error/brian

2010-03-01 Thread Andreas Saeger
Brewster Gillett wrote: Thank you for a very useful tip, which I may never have discovered otherwise. Sure enough, the ones that aren't included in the sort are showing as text. And, fool that I am, I should have seen it - every single one of them has a leading single quote - an artifact whose

Re: [users] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Siddharth Waikar
Dear All , I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? please send some clue.. thanks in advance Rergards: Siddharth A. Waikar

[users] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Rob Clement
I think it is time for OOo to blow its own trumpet with an article in Pcworld.com showing the 10 all-time greatest free downloads and services including OpenOffice.org. Please see http://www.pcworld.com/article/189227/the_10_alltime_greatest_free_downloads_and_services.html Rob --

Re: [users] how to create a hanging indent

2010-03-01 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Ken Heard wrote: Shouldn't it be called an *outdent*? The traditional printing term (where this practice comes from) has always been “hanging indent.” “Outdent” is a recently coined term, introduced, if I’m not mistaken, by Microsoft. ---

Re: [users] Difference between default, text body and text body indent para styles

2010-03-01 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 1 March 2010 09:21, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > On 1 March 2010 05:31, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> > 1) Styles can be based on other styles. The "default" style is the > base > >>> for many other styles. The advant

Re: [users] repeated crashes in OOW3.2.0

2010-03-01 Thread Guy Voets
2010/2/27 Tanstaafl : > On 2/26/2010 3:27 PM, Rogier van Vlissingen wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestion, now does anyone know what the same >> preferences file is called on Windows XP/SP3? > I don't know if this will help your problem, but the preference for OOo > on windows aren't in a 'file', the

Re: [users] Difference between default, text body and text body indent para styles

2010-03-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 1 March 2010 05:31, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > >> > 1) Styles can be based on other styles. The "default" style is the base >>> for many other styles. The advantage is that you can make a change to >>> the underlying style

Re: [users] Difference between default, text body and text body indent para styles

2010-03-01 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 1 March 2010 05:31, Ken Heard wrote: > > 1) Styles can be based on other styles. The "default" style is the base > > for many other styles. The advantage is that you can make a change to > > the underlying style and it will cascade through the styles based on > > that style. > > Yes I foun

Re: [users] how to create a hanging indent

2010-03-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > As far as I know, the thing is called in English a "hanging indent". Shouldn't it be called an *outdent*? Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/