[users] Faulty MS filters in OOo

2010-01-18 Thread Bob Williams
Hi, I'm using OpenOffice 3.1.1 on openSUSE 11.2. A lot of my correspondents are stuck with MS Office, so I'm having to save a spreadsheet I've created in .xls format. I chose Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP as a good compromise, but when I re-open the file in OOo it is in Microsoft Excel 5.0

Re: [users] Faulty MS filters in OOo

2010-01-18 Thread Bob Williams
Hi Jonny, On Monday 18 Jan 2010 18:17:47 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/1/18 Bob Williams li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk: Hi, I'm using OpenOffice 3.1.1 on openSUSE 11.2. A lot of my correspondents are stuck with MS Office, so I'm having to save a spreadsheet I've created in .xls format. I

Re: [users] Database indexes

2009-09-19 Thread Bob Williams
as specified in the query. John 2009/9/18 Bob Williams li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk Hi John, Many thanks for speedy response. At the moment, my data entry form is based on the (single) table. To get it to automatically display records in sorted order, I should create a query and base

Re: [users] Re: MS office to openoffice send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 18 September 2009 07:51:11 jonathon wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:14, Pierre wrote: As I said, I have not seen it work under Linux. It will, if you use whatever email client OOo is _hardcoded_ to work with on Linux. (Why the email client is invariably hardcoded in linux,

Re: [users] Re: MS office to openoffice send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 18 September 2009 15:59:03 James Knott wrote: This means Linux users have a choice and Windows users don't. What's new? ;) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel

[users] Database indexes

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
Hi, How many indexes can a database have? I have created a simple, flatfile, name and address type database. Each entry has an auto-incremented ID number, which was set as the primary index in the design stage. Now that I've got some records in there, I'd like to index it on Lastname then

Re: [users] Database indexes

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
statements and be done with it. John On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Bob Williams li...@barrowhillfarm.org.ukwrote: Hi, How many indexes can a database have? I have created a simple, flatfile, name and address type database. Each entry has an auto-incremented ID number, which

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-26 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 25 January 2009 23:44:24 Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009, Bob Williams wrote: . Snail mail to The White House? Humm, chuckle even. I haven't bought a postage stamp in a dozen moons or more. Felling a tree for a mail just sort of doesn't seem right in today's

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Williams
Your new President is listening: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 25 January 2009 23:08:36 Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009, Bob Williams wrote: Your new President is listening: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html Bob 1. While that is a somewhat informative link, its also one of those pure fluff pieces cnet

[users] Location of macro scripts

2008-10-26 Thread Bob Williams
I am trying to use a macro script written in python which works well in OOo.org 2.4 but seems to be invisible to OOo.org 3.0. In 2.4, the script was placed in the following folder /home/user/.ooo-2.0/user/Scripts/python but OOo 3.0 does not find it when the same script is copied to

Re: [users] Opening a .csv file in Writer instead of Calc

2008-10-16 Thread Bob Williams
On Thursday 16 October 2008 17:42:29 Michael D. Roush wrote: I'm using OOo3.0.0 on Mac OS X (10.5.5). Today, I learned that if I Ctrl-click (or right-click) on a .csv file and choose OpenOffice as the application to open the file, it automatically tries to open it with Calc. Sometimes, I

Re: [users] PLEASE REMOVE THIS OFFICE SITE

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 27 July 2008 03:04:06 Mark Knecht wrote: Viola! Or voila, as they say in France ;) -- Bob Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default, KDE 3.5.9 Intel Celeron 2.53GB,

Re: [users] PLEASE REMOVE THIS OFFICE SITE

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Williams
On Monday 28 July 2008 09:56:57 Phil Hibbs wrote: Michael Adams: Is the OP misspelling suite as Site? Well, ask yourself this, what's the name of the software that this mailing list is about? Isn't it obvious how that name can lead to confusion between the software and a website? And in

Re: [users] Newspaper style -- brain cramp ??

2008-05-21 Thread Bob Williams
William Case wrote: Hi; I am having a brain cramp. Probably the result of incorrect help terminology. I want to set up what I know as a newspaper style page(s). That is: 1. 2 columns inserted section; 2. Where text flows to the bottom of one column, 3. Then flows to the top

[users] Widows and orphans

2007-06-29 Thread Bob Williams
Does OpenOffice.org have the capacity to deal with widows and orphans, or does this type of formatting have to be done manually? Can't find anything in the help :( -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4