Re: [users] Re: Extension update problem

2010-05-10 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 10.05.2010 19:24, Larry Gusaas a écrit : > > On 2010/05/10 10:54 AM James Wilde wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I'm running 3.2.0 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.3. >> >> Every time I start OOo I get a notification that there is an >> extension update waiting to be installed. It is French "Classic and >> Reform

[users] Re: Open Office 3.2 for 64-bit Windows 7 did not install

2010-05-10 Thread NoOp
On 05/10/2010 01:56 AM, Jan van Hoek wrote: >>> Maybe an installer issue? > > Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, it was NOT an Open Office 3.2 issue. I got more and > more pieces of > software that refused to install, exactly as described: keeping the CPU busy > for 25% and not > showing any progress.

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread JOE Conner
On 5/10/2010 4:41 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote: James Knott wrote: JOE Conner wrote: Not at all, because the same number is also be used for date AND time. Both date and time are normally integers. Like with money, you wouldn't normally use floating point because you can't be guaranteed a corr

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Lewis
James Knott wrote: JOE Conner wrote: Not at all, because the same number is also be used for date AND time. Both date and time are normally integers. Like with money, you wouldn't normally use floating point because you can't be guaranteed a correct result. With FP, you can get round off

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread James Knott
JOE Conner wrote: Not at all, because the same number is also be used for date AND time. Both date and time are normally integers. Like with money, you wouldn't normally use floating point because you can't be guaranteed a correct result. With FP, you can get round off errors.

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread JOE Conner
On 5/10/2010 1:34 PM, James Knott wrote: JOE Conner wrote: On 5/10/2010 10:13 AM, Tom Bracken wrote: How can i sort on the date field in a sheet? Suppose the format is mm/dd/. Won't it be sorted on month? Thanks. Dates are stored as a floating point number. What you see is pure format

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/FreeLunchGuy

2010-05-10 Thread Brewster Gillett
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:07 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Email was designed for one way communications. Yes, you can use it in a > kind of conversation mode, but it is only workable if a basic set of > rules is adhered to - which is why email lists generally have such > rules. On this list, the gener

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Erling Larsen
Tanstaafl skrev: On 2010-05-10 3:06 PM, Erling Larsen wrote: Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom posting. You will never come to an agreement.. Sorry, I thought this was the discuss list (again), where this kind of thing is allowed... I actually kin

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting/Fuchs

2010-05-10 Thread Brewster Gillett
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 18:44 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: > E-mail was designed for conversations. In a conversation it is not customary > to repeat everything that's already been said before saying something new. bg: Which of course is why the generally accepted protocols call for editing down th

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread James Knott
JOE Conner wrote: On 5/10/2010 10:13 AM, Tom Bracken wrote: How can i sort on the date field in a sheet? Suppose the format is mm/dd/. Won't it be sorted on month? Thanks. Dates are stored as a floating point number. What you see is pure formatting. The sort sorts on the number. In o

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 3:06 PM, Erling Larsen wrote: > Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom > posting. You will never come to an agreement.. Sorry, I thought this was the discuss list (again), where this kind of thing is allowed... I actually kind of enjoy debating this

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread Franz Wein
Hi Tom create a new column. If column A is a date column use in the new one the formula =month(A). In the next step sort the sheet with the new column. Franz Tom Bracken schrieb: How can i sort on the date field in a sheet? Suppose the format is mm/dd/. Won't it be sorted on month? Th

Re: [users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread JOE Conner
On 5/10/2010 10:13 AM, Tom Bracken wrote: How can i sort on the date field in a sheet? Suppose the format is mm/dd/. Won't it be sorted on month? Thanks. Dates are stored as a floating point number. What you see is pure formatting. The sort sorts on the number. In other words, the for

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 1:44 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote: >> "Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content." Then Microsoft >> introduced Outlook, with default behavior of posting above a fully-quoted >> message, and top-posting soon became "normal"; a

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 2:53 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: > In a message dated 2010.05.10 13:44 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: >> I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had >> any storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. >> If you top posted it meant the reader could hi

[users] Bottom Posting?

2010-05-10 Thread Carolyn Stoffel
John - MIT's Project MAC and other campus networks that were later interconnected with DARPAnet: Treat bandwidth and readers' time as valuable; edit messages for context and reply on-point. Still seems like a nice idea to me. - I came to the Internet late. Started out on BBS nets, includ

[users] sort on date

2010-05-10 Thread Tom Bracken
How can i sort on the date field in a sheet? Suppose the format is mm/dd/. Won't it be sorted on month? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Erling Larsen
Harold Fuchs skrev: On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote: Hi Harold, In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.05.10 13:44 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had any storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. If you top posted it meant the reader could hit the Break/Interrupt key after reading your stuff a

[users] OOo 3.2 compatibility

2010-05-10 Thread Mark C. Miller
One of the "hardest sells" I face in trying to get Open Office.org adopted in my school's [English] department is the complaint that legacy MS PowerPoint files would not run well in OOo Impress. This was especially when the presentation had embedded sound. I'm getting ready to fight this battl

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote: > Hi Harold, > > > In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to >> which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top >> of) >> the te

[users] Re: Extension update problem

2010-05-10 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/05/10 10:54 AM James Wilde wrote: Hi: I'm running 3.2.0 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.3. Every time I start OOo I get a notification that there is an extension update waiting to be installed. It is French "Classic and Reform 1990" spelling, hyphenation and thesaurus version 3.6. Now wi

Re: [users] incomprehensible error message

2010-05-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
Thomas Steel wrote: Yes, and thanks. In Windows 7, you can use Start > Control Panel , Programs, Uninstall a program, select OpenOffice.org 3.2, and use the Repair button at the top. I was very excited to get this e-mail, because the solution seemed simple. Alas, when I do it & click Repair

[users] Extension update problem

2010-05-10 Thread James Wilde
Hi: I'm running 3.2.0 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.3. Every time I start OOo I get a notification that there is an extension update waiting to be installed. It is French "Classic and Reform 1990" spelling, hyphenation and thesaurus version 3.6. Now without wishing to offend our French users, I

Re: [users] incomprehensible error message

2010-05-10 Thread Thomas Steel
-- From: "Barbara Duprey" Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 2:40 PM To: Subject: Re: [users] incomprehensible error message Yes, and thanks. In Windows 7, you can use Start > Control Panel , Programs, Uninstall a program, select OpenOffice.org 3.2, an

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? /JKaufmann

2010-05-10 Thread Brewster Gillett
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:03 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: > Then Microsoft introduced Outlook, with default behavior of > posting above a fully-quoted message, and top-posting soon became > "normal"; bg: Wrong on a couple of counts - I stand in awe that this is still so widely misunderstood.

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Harold, In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top of) the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about th

Re: [users] incomprehensible error message

2010-05-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
Thomas Steel wrote: I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Please let me know if that doesn't work. TS It worked. The most use

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 4:42 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 10 May 2010 09:32, Brewster Gillett wrote: >> bg: >> >> This is hardly rocket science. Posts are more easily and conveniently >> absorbed by the reader when they are arranged in their chronological >> order, oldest at the top, newest at the bottom. T

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 3:49 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to > which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top of) > the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about the > sanctity of the one and t

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-10 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 10-May-10 03:32, Brewster Gillett wrote: On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting'& 'top posting' mean. If this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a reply at the end of all this script. I will try th

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 10-May-10 02:49, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting'& 'top posting' mean. If this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Pl

Re: [users] OOo3.2: Impress can not rotate a metafile(EMF/WMF) correctly

2010-05-10 Thread TomW
On 5/7/2010 6:21 AM, ?? wrote: Hi OOo team, as a developer base on OO I have a trouble now, this is a defect in OO3.2. I expect to fix it in my software as soon as possible, so, could you help me?could you transpond this mail to your related developer if I made the wrong target mail. Thanks

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread James Wilde
On May 10, 2010, at 09:49 , Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: > >> I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If >> this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a >> reply at the end of all this script. I will

Re: [users] Open Office 3.2 for 64-bit Windows 7 did not install

2010-05-10 Thread Jan van Hoek
>> Maybe an installer issue? Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, it was NOT an Open Office 3.2 issue. I got more and more pieces of software that refused to install, exactly as described: keeping the CPU busy for 25% and not showing any progress. The same happened to e.g. Java and LFI LANGuard. I stu

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 10 May 2010 09:32, Brewster Gillett wrote: > > > On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: > > > > > I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. > If > > > this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to > type a > > > reply at the end of all this

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-10 Thread Brewster Gillett
> On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: > > > I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If > > this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a > > reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Please let me know > > if that d

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Thomas Steel
-- From: "Harold Fuchs" Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:49 AM To: Subject: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message) On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom p

[users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote: > I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If > this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a > reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Please let me know > if that doesn't work.

Re: [users] Unwanted italics - have to revert to M$ Office for the time being.?

2010-05-10 Thread Marc Hug
I have also OOo running under Windows XP, and all the Bold, Italic or Underline commands work normally. I can modify any text with the special buttons, or with the keyboard shortcuts. I would try the "Options"... but you already did. So I cannot help you. But be sure it is not a general error of

Re: [users] Unwanted italics - have to revert to M$ Office for the time being.?

2010-05-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 10 May 2010 08:15, James Elliott wrote: > A new phenomenon has occurred in my OOo 3.2 running under Windows XP which > I have never encountered before, and I have been using OOo since version 1.0 > > When I select text and Bold it, it also becomes Italic in style. What's > more, I cannot get

[users] Unwanted italics - have to revert to M$ Office for the time being.?

2010-05-10 Thread James Elliott
A new phenomenon has occurred in my OOo 3.2 running under Windows XP which I have never encountered before, and I have been using OOo since version 1.0 When I select text and Bold it, it also becomes Italic in style. What's more, I cannot get rid of the Italics by selecting the text and click