Re: [users] Styles in Impress

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Michele, In a message dated 2010.05.24 07:18 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote: Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in Impress which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that you mentioned, ... (a) Do you happen to know why that is? (b) Trying to understand

Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote: Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on the different systems than the documnet may look different as OOo will find an appropriate font to replace it Do you know how that font matching works? No I do not. I tend to

Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread fred juan diaz
--- En date de : Mar 25.5.10, John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net a écrit : De: John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net Objet: Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux À: users@openoffice.org Date: Mardi 25 mai 2010, 8h28 In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote: Please remember that if you do

[users] Re : [users] Reset path when saving .doc in .odt

2010-05-25 Thread fred juan diaz
--- En date de : Lun 24.5.10, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr a écrit : De: fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr Objet: [users] Reset path when saving .doc in .odt À: users@openoffice.org Date: Lundi 24 mai 2010, 12h36 Hi when I save a .doc, I browse to the concerned directory

[users] second page for write label ?

2010-05-25 Thread IT Fintan
hallo, i like to add a second page, to write some more label. but only one page is show. how can i add a second page ??? -- __ Projekt-Fintan Klosterplatz 1 8462 Rheinau Tel.: ++41 52 304 91 40 E-Mail: i...@fintan.ch http://www.fintan.ch

Re: [users] second page for write label ?

2010-05-25 Thread OpenSource Fans
Hi, What's your meaning of show? Do you want to print or just show on screen? Please clarify. Regards, Xiaoqi 在 2010-5-25,下午6:16, IT Fintan 写道: hallo, i like to add a second page, to write some more label. but only one page is show. how can i add a second page ??? --

Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.05.25 03:03 -0500, fred juan diaz wrote: ... I asked about how OO does its font matching ... to understand it against a reference of how another word processor handled font matching. ... the WordPerfect Printer Definition Language (WPDL) included an important section on

Re: [users] Creating PDFs - PDF icon no longer working.?

2010-05-25 Thread James Elliott
Thank you all very much for your prompt and helpful replies Mar, on 23/05/2010 12:21 AM, you wrote: I guess the first thing to check is that you're definitely clicking the PDF export icon (looks like a page with text saying PDF at the bottom), and not Save or Save As icons (look like a floppy

Re: [users] Remove outline from textbox

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.05.24 05:31 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure out how to remove the outline! Here is the file

Re: [users] Remove outline from textbox

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Harold, In a message dated 2010.05.24 14:30 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure out how to remove the outline! Here is the file

Re: [users] macros in OO 3.2

2010-05-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/5/24 a...@exemail.com.au a...@exemail.com.au: Thanks very much, Johnny. Cheers Alan Kerns I did some googling and I found this page where you can find the Macro document (in PDF or ODF) and the X-ray thing: http://www.ooomacros.org/dev.php Good luck! Johnny Rosenberg On 23/05/10

[users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2010 06:27 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.05.25 03:03 -0500, fred juan diaz wrote: ... May be we should speak about the three Liberation fonts, created to have the same metric properties than the classical win fonts ? never got any problem on different O.S. when

[users] Re: Remove outline from textbox

2010-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/24/2010 02:31 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure out how to remove the outline! Here is the file http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/bad-title.odp Actually,

Re: [users] Remove outline from textbox

2010-05-25 Thread Harold Fuchs
John, Hi Harold, In a message dated 2010.05.24 14:30 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure out how to remove the outline! Here is the file

Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.05.25 12:52 -0500, NoOp wrote: May be we should speak about the three Liberation fonts, created to have the same metric properties than the classical win fonts ? never got any problem on different O.S. when using those fonts Maybe we should - but that begs a number

[users] microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem

2010-05-25 Thread The Attwoods - BT
had microsft office publisher which i used to do birthday cards /invite etc on. computer crashed when got back had openoffice .org i am a techno thicko - how do i convert publisher files to openoffice.org???

[users] Assigned Event will not save

2010-05-25 Thread Tony Hart
I have assigned a macro to the event Mouse button pressed on a control which I added to my spreadsheet. I save the spreadsheet but each time I reopen the spreadsheet, the event no longer has my macro assigned to it. __ This

Re: [users] Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread Dan Presley
OOo uses system defaults in case of missing font files. On 05/24/2010 02:21 PM, Rob Clement wrote: On 24/05/2010 11:52, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.05.23 13:28 -0500, Rob Clement wrote: Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on the different systems than the

[users] Re: Re: Win/Mac/Linux

2010-05-25 Thread Twayne
Sorry; I must have misread it. HTH, Twayne` n news:4bfb6e21.80...@nb.net, John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net typed: In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote: Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on the different systems than the documnet may look different as

[users] Re: Remove outline from textbox

2010-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2010 06:57 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: Hi Harold, In a message dated 2010.05.24 14:30 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: In the file below, the right-most textbox contains an outline. I would prefer to have free text instead of an outline, but I cannot figure out how to remove the outline!

[users] Re: Writer RTF/Doc files blocked by IE 7/8

2010-05-25 Thread Jerry Clancy
Andy, Thanks for the comments. Response interspersed below. RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote in message news:4bfb52ca.5060...@the-martin-byrd.net... Hi Jerry, Jerry Clancy wrote: Win XP/Pro, OO 3.1, IE 8 (but happened in IE 7, too) I am not sure how, after the last

Re: [users] microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Lewis
The Attwoods - BT wrote: had microsft office publisher which i used to do birthday cards /invite etc on. computer crashed when got back had openoffice .org i am a techno thicko - how do i convert publisher files to openoffice.org??? You don't. You have to have a working version of

[users] Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
There have been a few computers where I have installed OpenOffice (OO) and the stadard MS Office file types were NOT associated to OO (DOC, XLS, etc). How can you force MS Office file type association such that the data files will be associated to OO ? -- Dave

Re: [users] Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread John Kennedy
You can do that from Windows Explorer...Being a Linux guy I am not 100% sure how but I know it can be done. (Somewhere in Tools - Folder Options - File Types if I remember correctly...) John On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David H. Lipman dlip...@verizon.netwrote: There have been a few

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
From: John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com | You can do that from Windows Explorer...Being a Linux guy I am not 100% sure | how but I know it can be done. (Somewhere in Tools - Folder Options - File | Types if I remember correctly...) | John What I was hoping for is something from within OO such

[users] Re: Writer RTF/Doc files blocked by IE 7/8

2010-05-25 Thread Jerry Clancy
Just did some more testing and it definitely is related to moving the returning stream (document) to C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. When I hold Ctrl down there is no bleep and the .rtf file is there. When I don't I get the bleep and no file shows up

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread Jerry Clancy
Dave, Go to Explorer (or My Computer -- NOT IE), Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types. Slide down to DOC. Highlight it (click) and click on Change. Set the opening process to OpenOffice.org x.x Writer (swriter). If, subsequently, IE tries to open a .doc file directly in IE (rather than

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
From: Jerry Clancy jcla...@billtrak.com | Dave, | Go to Explorer (or My Computer -- NOT IE), Go to Tools | Folder Options | | File Types. Slide down to DOC. Highlight it (click) and click on Change. Set | the opening process to OpenOffice.org x.x Writer (swriter). | If, subsequently, IE tries

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread Jerry Clancy
I'm not aware of one but someone else may no of one. I would expect the option to reset or set them would possibly be part of the OO install process, Been too long since I've done it, however. Jerry David H. Lipman dlip...@verizon.net wrote in message news:hthd7p$ks...@dough.gmane.org... I

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Lewis
David H. Lipman wrote: From: Jerry Clancyjcla...@billtrak.com | Dave, | Go to Explorer (or My Computer -- NOT IE), Go to Tools | Folder Options | | File Types. Slide down to DOC. Highlight it (click) and click on Change. Set | the opening process to OpenOffice.org x.x Writer (swriter). | If,

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
From: Daniel Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com | This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when | installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four | checkboxes labeled with four of the MS Office programs. If they are | checked during installation, the MS Office

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Daniel Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com | This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when | installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four | checkboxes labeled with four of the MS Office programs. If

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
From: NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net | On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Daniel Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com | This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when | installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four | checkboxes labeled with four

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Lewis
David H. Lipman wrote: From: NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net | On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Daniel Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com | This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when | installing OOo. One of the windows during installation

[users] how to eliminate page breaks in mail merge?

2010-05-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, I have a need to do a mail merge in which the merged text is a sequence of contiguous paragraphs on continuous pages, rather than a sequence of pages with 1 paragraph one each successive page. The only way I've discovered to do this is to take the 1 para/page text save it as

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread Varun Mittal
Right Click on sa a doc file + open with + select writer + tick the checkbox at bottom saying make the selected application as default for handling this kind of file This was you can make the OOO handling of MS files default. Hope it helps On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Daniel Lewis

[users] Re: microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem

2010-05-25 Thread Bob Long
Daniel Lewis wrote, The Attwoods - BT wrote: had microsft office publisher which i used to do birthday cards /invite etc on. computer crashed when got back had openoffice .org i am a techno thicko - how do i convert publisher files to openoffice.org??? You don't. You have to have a working

Re: [users] Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread James Knott
David H. Lipman wrote: There have been a few computers where I have installed OpenOffice (OO) and the stadard MS Office file types were NOT associated to OO (DOC, XLS, etc). How can you force MS Office file type association such that the data files will be associated to OO ? You'll want

[users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-25 Thread David H. Lipman
From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com | David H. Lipman wrote: There have been a few computers where I have installed OpenOffice (OO) and the stadard MS Office file types were NOT associated to OO (DOC, XLS, etc). How can you force MS Office file type association such that the data files

[users] More RTF problems

2010-05-25 Thread Jerry Clancy
We generate a lot of .rtf files. As it is a native format, MS Word handles them fine. However, on our main development system we have used OO Writer instead of Word. Today I noticed that Writer loads and interprets the rtf file OK but then screws it up if saved to it's original RTF format.

Re: [users] More RTF problems

2010-05-25 Thread Barbara Duprey
Jerry Clancy wrote: We generate a lot of .rtf files. As it is a native format, MS Word handles them fine. However, on our main development system we have used OO Writer instead of Word. Today I noticed that Writer loads and interprets the rtf file OK but then screws it up if saved to it's

Re: [users] More RTF problems

2010-05-25 Thread James Greenidge
Jerry Clancy wrote: We generate a lot of .rtf files. As it is a native format, MS Word handles them fine. However, on our main development system we have used OO Writer instead of Word. Today I noticed that Writer loads and interprets the rtf file OK but then screws it up if saved to it's

Re: [users] macros in OO 3.2

2010-05-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Interesting Did not expect that... On 05/24/2010 06:53 AM, a...@exemail.com.au wrote: Problem solved: -Tools/Customize/Menus/Menu - Tools | Macros | Record Macro - Add - Menu/BASIC/Record Macro - close the Add box - Click OK in the Customize/Menus box - Voila: Record Macro is now an

Re: [users] how to eliminate page breaks in mail merge?

2010-05-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
not sure which of these will work best 1. Merge as labels 2. Use a macro to remove page breaks 3. Regular expressions. Not likely, but, maybe -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: