Re: [users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 March 2010 01:11, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010/03/11 4:32 PM  Michael Reich wrote: I have to use the toolbar icon for Paste Special or the Edit-Paste Special menu command to get unformatted text. Shift/Command/V brings up Paste Special. Thanks, Larry. On my

Re: [users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 March 2010 00:51, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: Hi Dotan, Do other people paste from outside OOo to within OOo on a regular basis? Do you have problems with text formatting (specifically, the fact that formatting is preseved)? I filed an issue for a feature request to let the user

Re: [users] Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
Dotan, if you mean that pasted text, whatever formatting it may have had in its original location, will be imported as unformatted and thus take on the formatting of the current document, this would indeed be tremendously popular.  Just getting the font right would be a big step. Please

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t. opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s

Re: [users] [moderated]

2010-03-12 Thread Guy Voets
2010/3/10 G. Regeer reg...@xs4all.nl: Sometimes I receive messages only to open with support from Open Office. I can't open this messages. Can you tell me how to do. greetings Gerard Regeer Beste Gerard, OpenOffice.org includes a text writer, a spreadsheet component, a presentation

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread john d. herron
On 03/11/2010 11:50 PM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t. opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s

[users] Openoffice Draw How to save to odp file format

2010-03-12 Thread Klark Ooi
Hi, When i open any pdf file in openoffice, it will open with draw. But from draw, how could I save to other openoffice format like odp for impress? Thanks. Warmest regards, Klark

Re: [users] Openoffice Draw How to save to odp file format

2010-03-12 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-12 3:45 PM, Klark Ooi wrote: When i open any pdf file in openoffice, it will open with draw. But from draw, how could I save to other openoffice format like odp for impress? Thanks. PDF is just a wrapper that can contain just about anything, including objects that really aren't

[users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Bob Long
Dotan Cohen wrote, On 12 March 2010 01:11, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010/03/11 4:32 PM Michael Reich wrote: I have to use the toolbar icon for Paste Special or the Edit-Paste Special menu command to get unformatted text. Shift/Command/V brings up Paste Special.

Re: [users] Openoffice Draw How to save to odp file format

2010-03-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-12 8:45 AM, Klark Ooi wrote: Hi, When i open any pdf file in openoffice, it will open with draw. But from draw, how could I save to other openoffice format like odp for impress? Maybe you are looking for the PDF import plugin? I haven't used it but it appears to work for some

Re: [users] Re: Lost recovery information?

2010-03-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-11 2:14 PM, NoOp wrote: The problem will occur regardless of which OS (Windows or Linux etc). The issue is that, while OOo is saving your work every 5 minutes, it's saving it in a /tmp or /Tempdir folder/directory. Are you sure about this? I don't think that is correct, at least for

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Hello, John. I actually deleted all the condensed versions, so I can’t test this immediately. (Chacun à son goût!) I’ll download them now and see what happens (Ubuntu 9.10, Openoffice 3.2). Bear in mind that Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) won’t see condensed or other variants as subdivisions of plain

Re: [users] Re: Lost recovery information?

2010-03-12 Thread Barbara Duprey
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-11 2:14 PM, NoOp wrote: The problem will occur regardless of which OS (Windows or Linux etc). The issue is that, while OOo is saving your work every 5 minutes, it's saving it in a /tmp or /Tempdir folder/directory. Are you sure about this? I don't think

[users] Spell Check anomaly.?

2010-03-12 Thread James Elliott
A friend sent me her university assignment to read and I noticed that all the underlined 'mistakes' were, in fact, correct but not spelt in the American way ... she is a very good speller, so I was quite surprised to see so many red underlines, and not surprised at all to see she was right and

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
I just downloaded all the DejaVu fonts and put them into my own user fonts folder (/home/sob/.fonts). Only the basic ones show up: no condensed. I also cleared font caches (fc-cache -rv), but there was no difference. Next I opened one of the fonts, DejaVuSansCondensed, in Fontforge, and now

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Programmer In Training
Resent, sorry if some get this double. On 03/11/10 11:50, bill purvis wrote: I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the

Re: [users] OT Re: Lost recovery information?

2010-03-12 Thread James Knott
Twayne wrote: In news:4b9926b4.9050...@rogers.com, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com typed: Björn Holm wrote: Hi, My laptop crashed today, while my 103 pages long document was open. Foolishly I've kept the laptop running for days without giving it a proper shutdown. This is one example of

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Programmer In Training
Sorry, I didn't realize there were two different threads. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed.

[users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/03/12 8:19 AM Bob Long wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote, On 12 March 2010 01:11, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010/03/11 4:32 PM Michael Reich wrote: I have to use the toolbar icon for Paste Special or the Edit-Paste Special menu command to get unformatted text.

Re: [users] Spell Check anomaly.?

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Lewis
James Elliott wrote: A friend sent me her university assignment to read and I noticed that all the underlined 'mistakes' were, in fact, correct but not spelt in the American way ... she is a very good speller, so I was quite surprised to see so many red underlines, and not surprised at all to

Re: [users] OT Re: Lost recovery information?

2010-03-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-12 11:43 AM, James Knott wrote: The point of my message was to show a way to avoid such problems in the future. Crashing, such as he experienced, is a feature of Windows. We have an unfortunate situation where the majority of computer users think that crashes, viruses etc., are a

Re: [users] Re: Lost recovery information?

2010-03-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-12 10:56 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: The file you're talking about is the lock file that protects against multiple users updating the same file in conflict. Ack, you're right, thanks for the correction and sorry for the noise... -- Charles

[users] doubling up a table?

2010-03-12 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64 I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content. I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower 27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3 and 4. Is there a quick and direct way to do

RE: [users] Spell Check anomaly.?

2010-03-12 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
-Original Message- From: James Elliott [mailto:james.elli...@wn.com.au] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:02 AM To: OOo Users Subject: [users] Spell Check anomaly.? A friend sent me her university assignment to read and I noticed that all the underlined 'mistakes' were, in

[users] Re: Spell Check anomaly.?

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/03/12 10:02 AM James Elliott wrote: A friend sent me her university assignment to read and I noticed that all the underlined 'mistakes' were, in fact, correct but not spelt in the American way ... she is a very good speller, so I was quite surprised to see so many red underlines, and

Re: [users] doubling up a table?

2010-03-12 Thread RA Brown
Hi Kevin, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64 I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content. I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower 27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3 and 4. Is

[users] Re: doubling up a table?

2010-03-12 Thread Bob Long
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: [..] I _selected_ rows 28 through 54 and did [Ctrl][C], but when I then selected the empty (columns 3 and 4) areas of rows 1 through 27 and hit [Ctrl][V] all the copied material got nicely pasted in the desired places... except one row OFF. I can't reproduce the

Re: [users] Numbering Copies

2010-03-12 Thread Michele Zarri
On 05/03/10 23:42, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: I have a 1 page application. I need to print 100 copies, but each copy needs to have a unique number. 001, 002, 003 etc How can I do this? Hello, If it is a one-off then the copy and paste method + page number is the best (storage is very

[users] Ping Cor] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-12 Thread NoOp
On 03/11/2010 09:56 AM, NoOp wrote: On 03/10/2010 09:38 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: I wrote: Today the doctor told me that it is possible that he produced the table in Excel. --- NoOp wrote: Still looks to be a bug. I even tried a copy paste to a new document with the same results.

Re: [users] Ping Cor] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Lewis
NoOp wrote: On 03/11/2010 09:56 AM, NoOp wrote: On 03/10/2010 09:38 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: I wrote: Today the doctor told me that it is possible that he produced the table in Excel. --- NoOp wrote: Still looks to be a bug. I even tried a copy paste to a

[users] Re: doubling up a table?

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Smith
On 03/12/2010 04:35 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64 I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content. I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower 27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3

Re: [users] Re: odt table bug?

2010-03-12 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 11.03.2010 18:56, NoOp a écrit : On 03/10/2010 09:38 PM, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: I wrote: Today the doctor told me that it is possible that he produced the table in Excel. --- NoOp wrote: Still looks to be a bug. I even tried a copy paste to a new document with the

[users] Re: [discuss] help!

2010-03-12 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, What script you want to write? You can use any text editor to write a script. If you use openoffice, save as a plaintext file. Please give more details on your requirement. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:42 AM, s. a. soray...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I use Openoffice to write a script?

[users] Questions

2010-03-12 Thread Yachoved
I'm new to Openoffice software and would like to create a database, but can't find how to do this in Openoffice.  I'm  not sure I have the latest version.  The version I am using is 2.4.1.  The  problem I'm having is I don't know what type or version of Linux I'm using, ie 32.bit DEB, 64.bit

[users] Help needed

2010-03-12 Thread Ann
When I initially started using openoffice in lieu of microsoft word I had no problems.  For some reason something changed and docs saved as office with .doc extension do not keep the extension when attached in an email.  Also, They don't appear in the directory as a .doc.  Something is screwy

[users] Problemi istallazione

2010-03-12 Thread boyfrank
(errore 1310 Errore durante la scrittura dei file: C:\ProgramData\Windows\Templates\soffice.old. Assicuratevi di disporre dei diritti di accesso alla cartella.) Ho eseguito il setup come amministratore...come posso fare? Cordiali Saluti-