[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Alan Boba
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Helen wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. > > I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the document > has too many columns, that google has a limit of 219 columns. > > So I opened my document and I see that the columns just go on

[users] Re: Can OOo open an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 01 July 2011 10:27, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Google informs me that xml is Microsoft's new open document format. OK, The website referred to by Google (not Google itself) is wrong. XML is "eXtensible Markup Language". Microsoft Office's newish (from 2007 onwards) file formats are sto

[users] Re: Can OOo open an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:42:56 -0700 RA Brown dijo: >> Double-clicking on it made Fedora try to open it in Gedit. That was >> not a good choice. Then I dimly recalled that OOo uses xml, so I >> tried opening it in Writer. Writer opened it, but all I got was >> pages and pages of what looks like cod

[users] Re: Can OOo open an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread RA Brown
John Jason Jordan wrote: > I need an article that was published in volume five of a five volume set > "The Blackwell companion to syntax." I had to order the book through > interlibrary loan, and it has arrived. Imagine my surprise to discover > that, instead of receiving volume five, I received a

[users] Can OOo open an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
I need an article that was published in volume five of a five volume set "The Blackwell companion to syntax." I had to order the book through interlibrary loan, and it has arrived. Imagine my surprise to discover that, instead of receiving volume five, I received a CD. Nautilus opened the CD just

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread jomali
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Helen wrote: > How do you prevent the new spreadsheet from creating infinite columns? > Seems all my OO (and libre) spreadsheets take the default of infinite > columns. > > You see "infinite columns" but the actual number of columns in the OOo sheet is determined

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Helen
How do you prevent the new spreadsheet from creating infinite columns? Seems all my OO (and libre) spreadsheets take the default of infinite columns. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Debra Barringer wrote: > i sometimes have that problem with ms excel also. i just copy and paste my > original dat

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Debra Barringer
i sometimes have that problem with ms excel also. i just copy and paste my original data rows and columns into a new spreadsheet - then delete the old one. never understood why this happens. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Helen wrote: > It scoots over to column S. > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 a

[users] Re: Open office installation virus

2011-06-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
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[users] Re: Open office installation virus

2011-06-30 Thread David H. Lipman
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[users] Re: Open office installation virus

2011-06-30 Thread David H. Lipman
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[users] Greek Symbols and Elements

2011-06-30 Thread Eustorgio Meza Conde
Hello, I am using Greek arrows symbols in object formulas in the new version 3.3. I was using all versio 2.8 however in this new version the greek symbols are empty and the arrows do not appear. Could you help me on defining the symbols sets in the catalog and in symbols in the elements toolbar

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Helen
OK - thanks for trying. I clearly have a hundred or so columns that I don't know how to delete. Thanks for the try! H. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, JOE Conner wrote: > On 6/30/2011 10:35 AM, Helen wrote: > >> It scoots over to column S. >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM, JOE Conner > j

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread JOE Conner
On 6/30/2011 10:35 AM, Helen wrote: It scoots over to column S. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM, JOE Conner > wrote: On 6/30/2011 9:54 AM, Helen wrote: I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a mes

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Helen
It scoots over to column S. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM, JOE Conner wrote: > On 6/30/2011 9:54 AM, Helen wrote: > >> I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. >> >> I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the >> document >> has too many columns, that google has a limit of

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread JOE Conner
On 6/30/2011 9:54 AM, Helen wrote: I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the document has too many columns, that google has a limit of 219 columns. So I opened my document and I see that the columns just go on and on forever. I

[users] Re: limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread NoOp
On 06/30/2011 09:54 AM, Helen wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. > > I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the document > has too many columns, that google has a limit of 219 columns. > > So I opened my document and I see that the columns just go on and on >

[users] limit # of columns in a spreadsheet

2011-06-30 Thread Helen
I have a spreadsheet with 14 columns. I tried to upload it to google docs, and got a message saying the document has too many columns, that google has a limit of 219 columns. So I opened my document and I see that the columns just go on and on forever. I need only the fourteen that I'm using.