[users] Re: UK English spell checker and thesaurus

On 23/02/10 09:32, Guy Voets wrote: 2010/2/22 James Wilde: I'm having my work corrected to US English, so I checked the settings. No UK English dictionary. So I went on line to look. Can it really be that there is no UK English spelling dictionary? There's US English, Australian, Canadian

[users] Re: New GUI for OOo ?

On 07/08/09 01:01, Harold Fuchs wrote: Errm. What prototype? Do you mean I can download and run a version of OOo with this new GUI and *not* have it interfere with my existing 3.1.0 (m11) version? I find a link "New: OOo-DEV 3.1.1 Developer Snapshot (build OOO310_m17) available " but, as that se

[users] Re: Major data loss: Calc formatting numbers

On 01/07/09 17:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: More likely, the text may have been copy/pasted out of an email. Are you suggesting that the data that was pasted was already rounded? I will look into that possibility. Have you checked the "Precision as shown" setting on OOo? "Precision as shown Specif

[users] Re: Alternatives to MS Project (was Re: alternatives for MS Outlook and MS Frontpage

McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > From its description, OpenProj can't handle multiple projects (the company Serena is trying to steer us toward their pay-for product "Projects On Demand"). Is that the case? Our local-office Program Manager has MS Project. In it, she tracks about a dozen products/pr

[users] Re: alternatives for MS Outlook and MS Frontpage

Franz Waldmüller wrote: * Microsoft Project:OOo template and macros with this functionality check out ganttproject: http://ganttproject.biz/ OpenProj: http://openproj.org/ Opens MS Project Files. Almost as fully featured, cross platform. And it is included with StarOffice (SUN's comm

[users] Re: alternatives for MS Outlook and MS Frontpage

Franz Waldmüller wrote: * Microsoft Project:OOo template and macros with this functionality check out ganttproject: http://ganttproject.biz/ OpenProj: http://openproj.org/ Opens MS Project Files. Almost as fully featured, cross platform. And it is included with StarOffice (SUN's com

[users] Re: Off Topic - need help finding . . .

Web Kracked wrote: I know this is way off topic, but in response to my efforts to get our local City Government to switch, one of their responses/questions was stated as; "If you know of any open source software that is available or becomes available that is designed for municipal management (

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

David Lowe wrote: It sounds intriguing. I'm trying to reconcile a project that is in the planning stage versus a 1.0 version release. Do you have a ballpark timeline for this becoming a stable product? As I said in an earlier post: "I haven't tried it and don't know at what stage it i

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

David Lowe wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 08:04 , H.S. wrote: I wanted to know if an OOo document (e.g. a Writer .odt document) can be hosted on svn so that multiple authors can collaborate at the same time. Absolutely, but Subversion will treat the document as a picture [or any other binary

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

Uwe Fischer wrote: On 10/10/08 17:04, H.S. wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document?

[users] Re: Common font for Linux and MS-windows

Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/10/4 H. S. Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there some way to prepare documents and presentations which look same across various platforms? I suggested my students to use OpenOffice on Linux in order to avoid proprietary fonts. But when we open files on MSwindows, they s

[users] Re: Who is Kaye Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Harold Fuchs wrote: On 05/10/2008 10:40, Alan Lord wrote: Rob Clement wrote: Anyway - another great example of why these lists are *so* much better accessed using gmane. Please excuse my ignorance but how is this (repeated message problem) alleviated by the use of gmane? Well, mainly, it

[users] Re: Who is Kaye Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Rob Clement wrote: If you have something to say then please say it or members of this group will contact earthlink.net or their ISP to prevent you spamming anyone else. Maybe she has a virus/spambot or something? She looks to be using Windows so it shouldn't be a surprise... ;-) Anyway - a

[users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

James Knott wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: +1^10 +1^10=1. Sorry. Couldn't resist. I was thinking about mentioning that too, but didn't bother. 1 raised to any power is always one. Do - That's why you shouldn't email after getti

[users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

James Knott wrote: I'll apologize the day the bible thumpers, christians, jews, muslims and others apologize for spreading their garbage. +1^10 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

[users] Re: Terrance & gmane; Attention Alan Lord

Bob Estes wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: original message From: Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:09:57 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Subject: Terrance mike scott wrote: On 1 Aug 2008 at 12:17, Jason Hunter wrote: ..

[users] Re: Gmane group name

Kevin Jones wrote: Hello all, Does any one know the name of this group as it appears on the GMane selection list? I have searched both 'users' and 'openoffice'. I can see the french and german language lists but not t his one.Can any one help? Off Topic Since I am at GMane... Does any on

[users] Re: Terrance

Larry Gusaas wrote: Kevin Jones, 2008/08/04 9:27 AM: I have tried many times to set up a gmane account for this group, do you have a link with a nice set of instructions? See . The gmane address you need to set up the newsreader account is "news.

[users] Re: Terrance

mike scott wrote: On 1 Aug 2008 at 12:17, Jason Hunter wrote: The "terrance" account was designed to silently listen to the mailing list in order to produce an archive record for markmail.org. The account was not designed to send email. The only time it is allowed to send email is t

[users] Re: An idea from a grandma in the outback!

Alan Lord wrote: I just went there on a regular Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 8.04. No issues viewing the site or clicking through to OneNote. Must say I don't often go to their site though... Have no need to. Of course I meant to write Firefox 3. Doh... -- The way out is open!

[users] Re: An idea from a grandma in the outback!

Lisi Reisz wrote: I had never heard of OneNote 2007 but I did a google and it seems to be a Microsoft product which means: Out of curiosity I checked for it at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/default.aspx and got back the following: What system are you using? I'm on Win XP Pro/SP

[users] Re: How does Lotus Symphony compare with open office?

Jim Allan wrote: Well, I would say that $449.95 would would be a “few” hundred dollars, not “several” hundred dollars. I could be wrong. Some dictionaries say that “several” means more than “two” or “three”. But they also say it means more than “few”, which some dictionaries say means “mor

[users] Re: How does Lotus Symphony compare with open office?

Jim Allan wrote: Alan Lord wrote: I would say probably Symphony but only as it has a more restrictive and non-free (Open Source) license. But why bother to compare against MSO? That's several hundred dollars of wasted money IMHO. MSO doesn’t cost “several” hundred dollars. Jim Allan

[users] Re: How does Lotus Symphony compare with open office?

ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: legolas wrote: Hi I saw that Lotus Symphony has a version which can be installed on Ubuntu, I was wondering how does it compare with OpenOffice when it come to writing articles and text documents. As they are both free, why don't you just download them and c

[users] Re: using version 2.3.1 trouble opening PDFs

Russell Butler wrote: Beth Blakey wrote: Good evening, I am attempting to open some PDFs in OpenOffice Draw to add text and pictures to them. They are forms so they contain text and images; most of the images are rectangles to put text in. OpenOffice keeps trying to open these files in Wr

[users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor anda text editing component

Robin Laing wrote: McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: Hum, I don't want either of these. I want images to be blocked unless I want to see them. I don't want rich text, I want clear plain text that is easy to read. No BOLD or italic messages. If someone sends me a *.doc file, I want it to be save

[users] Understanding Users! [WAS: Re: OOo needs an email client...]

Dotan Cohen wrote: They are not looking for something that you missed. They are looking for something that you found. They are looking for an email client. They do not know that Thunderbird or any other email client exists. OOo needs to say "Hey! We know that MSO had an email client, but we don

[users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

lots of stuff where people talk about their favourite email client Isn't this *exactly* the reason why OOo should *not* have a bundled email client? I use TB, someone else uses Pegasus, someone else might use Seamonkey, Spicemonkey, Zimbra, Evolution and this list continues... I can't beli

[users] Re: Free?

June K. Carrasco wrote: Salutations! I am very interested in Open Office. The software sounds terrific. I am amazed that such wonderful do-all software can just be given away! How can this be? I searched your FAQ's for answered and my question was not addressed to my satisfaction. How is

[users] Re: Purchasing Open Office 2.4

Jackie wrote: To whom it may concern; Please can you inform me, where in the UK can I purchase "Open Office 2.4" on CD-Rom? I have tried searching your web site, but all the UK suppliers are only offering downloads. I would very much prefer the purchase the disk/s. Please can you help? Than

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

Harold Fuchs wrote: Talking of ODF, what happened after the recent apparent collapse of the ODF with senior figures leaving etc.? Is ODF still being promoted? Enhanced? ...? Are we talking about different "ODFs" here? I was referring to ODF as in the Open Document Format (ISO/IEC 26300: h

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

Michael Adams wrote: The spec is maintained by Ecma and the committee there maintaining it are principally Microsoft. The ISO process has actually had minimal impact on the spec. Microsoft will be highly pleased by this. I believe the maintenance is actually now under the control of the JTC-

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

Robin Laing wrote: On top of this, there is supposed to be about a year of writing and amending the standard until it is ready. One site I read today asked if Office 2007 will actually follow the standard once it is finalized? Indeed. ECMA have yet to issue the final spec that is the res

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

It's approved: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-dis29500-result-approved/ Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

[users] Re: Advice re ECDL

Henning von Roeder wrote: it is probably Early Childhood Development "Something" I hope you are joking... ECDL stands for the European Computer Driving License. See http://www.ecdl.com/publisher/index.jsp for more details. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[users] Re: image to csv

Howard wrote: I`ve done that. I`ve been to at least 5 different calc tuitorial sites and can`t find anything about extracting whatever I need from a image opened in calc. If it is really an "image" (i.e. a bitmap of some sort like jpeg, png or gif etc) then you cannot extract text from in cal

[users] Re: image to csv

Howard wrote: I saved an image from draw as an otg. Is there any way to convert this to open in Calc? Its just a list of numbers. Or does anyone know of any other program to convert a jpeg to some sort of text file that calc can handle? You need some sort of OCR software. It looks for "c

[users] Re: Starting with Linux

A.Muller wrote: Hello everybody ! I've been monitoring this mailing list for a couple of months and received answers to my questions about OO. Thanks to the benefactors. My experience with OO goes back to 2005 and I'm very satisfied with it. Now I would like to cross the Rubicon and eliminate,

[users] Re: OO.o in java/tomcat webapp?

Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; so far I have enjoyed using OO.o as a desktop-based office application on my machine, now I want to move things to some other level: So far we're using a document management system automatically generating documents using MS Office on a Windows machine, relying upon V

[users] Re: EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

web at work wrote: Adobe is getting bad as well If you had to fo to Acrobat 8, or the CS2/3 products, you get a disk full. Acrobat 8 takes 1.8 gig on my laptop with Photoshop CS2 taking 0.8 gig and the CS3 version over 1 gig. Add all of the of the other "needed" products and you fill your 80 gig

[users] Re: Best Linux Solution

Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:59, Alan Lord wrote: Take a look at the latest Distrowatch page. It says it all really. Ubuntu is the "best" in their eyes at least... http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071203 I followed your link, but on the page I saw Mi

[users] Re: Best Linux Solution

Take a look at the latest Distrowatch page. It says it all really. Ubuntu is the "best" in their eyes at least... http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071203 Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -

[users] Re: FTP Software - What do I use?

> Wayne Vogeler wrote: What software do I use to upload files to my web site? Thanks, Wayne I wouldn't try and use FTP on it's own... Not very secure. Most ISPs will allow you to use SSH and SFTP to access your host. Just google for those. Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.the

[users] Re: Mac OSX Leopard

Leslie Wright wrote: This is OT, but if any OOo 2.3 for X11 users on Leopard can tell me how the heck to turn off the default launching of xterm when X11 is started, I would be grateful. I have read something about editing a .xinitrc file in /etc/X11/xnit. The only problem is that I don't seem

[users] Re: OOo on MACs?

h will be mostly cleared up when Apple gets an updated X-11 for 10.5. The Open Office native builds are not yet production ready and are subject to change and would not be a good choice for this type of installation at this time. On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:44, Alan Lord wrote: Hi everyone, I am fami

[users] OOo on MACs?

Hi everyone, I am familiar with OOo to the point I can compile it from scratch on Linux and I use it day-to-day for my job... However - I have been asked to quote for installing it on a few MACs in a design office. MACs are an alien world to me, apart from the command line of the latest re

[users] Re: How to make lists within Calc Array formulas OO RE: {}

Tom Harper wrote: Thanks for the info Joe I only have 2.2.1. I only just downloaded it a short while ago. So not sure why it isn't latest version. I'm unsure about your specific forumla but I have been using the {} array formula construct for some time in OOo (I am currently running the 2.2

[users] Re: spreadsheet idea...I need help with fleshing it out

Lisa Hetherington wrote: jonathon wrote: Lisa wrote: I would like to set up a spreadsheet to create a calendar for all the shows. What you want is project management software, not a spreadsheet. xan jonathon Is there some open source software you would recommend? ...Lisa openproj, or

[users] Re: Working daily with .doc file format

Bruno Temple wrote: Hello, I'm thinking in deploying OOo in my company (aprox 30 users). As they have a lot of exchanges with other organisations which use MS Office, I wonder why I could't set OOo Writer and Calc to save their files automaticaly in MS Office format by default. What is your o

[users] Re: OO-BASE: JRE is defective

Rolf Schumacher wrote: Thank you Andrew, that may answer the problem. As I'm doing Java development I obviously have JRE installed, as new as possible, however, somewhat stable, prior to the installtion of OOo 2.2.1 from the official distribution. While installing, the installer has searched for

[users] Re: OpenOffice2.2 startup problem

Paul wrote: Hi, I have just downloaded OO2.2, and installed it on my 2.0GHz Celeron (with 736Mb RAM) PC which runs on Windows XP Home. When trying to open any of the OO applications, I get the message ' soffice.BIN - Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc142)

[users] Re: read one number but use another

Nathaniel wrote: So is there a formula that can get Calc to see the number 1 but actually add 10 to the cell on the other sheet and so on down the list?? I hope I have explained this correctly. Hi, I think you need to use something called an Array Formula. Check the help docs... Alan --

[users] Re: [moderated] Teaching Open Office rather than Word Pad

Joan Coxhead wrote: I teach computer use to Seniors.mostly beginners. Many do not have a Word Processing program on their computers other than Word Padwhich is limited in what it offers. We have five computers on a network with the Township. Would I be able to download Open Office t

[users] Re: Cheerio - and thanks!

Harold Fuchs wrote: The problem with this approach is that unsubscribed users won't see any message published to the list. And, of course, anyone subscribed to the list probably knows the elementary stuff anyway. That's a reasonable point but I bet there are plenty of "lurkers" who read plenty

[users] Re: Cheerio - and thanks!

Harold Fuchs wrote: I sort of agree with most of what you say. The problem is that even though we've discussed this so often nothing has been done to fix it. There were some very intelligent proposals several months ago from people (including you, I think) who know a lot more than I do about lis

[users] Re: Cheerio - and thanks!

Harold Fuchs wrote: Don't you get the same 100+ messages per day in your News "folder"? Which in some news readers (Thunderbird, for example) you can't delete. And to which you can't "properly" reply because you can't tell if the OP is subscribed or not and therefore whether or not s/he will s

[users] Re: Cheerio - and thanks!

Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, OO users! I'll be unsubscribing from the list soon, mainly because I can't cope with the volume of mail here - I'm not really reading it. There's a lot of great people here - you solved my problems for me, (finding the help files (without having to upgrade ;-), and hel