[users] Re: Open Office Forked!

2010-09-28 Thread Clair Johnston
On 9/28/2010 11:21 AM, David B Teague wrote: On 9/28/2010 5:30 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:22, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: The Document Foundation has released a beta version of Officelibre in order to fork from the possible proprietary way that Oracle is taking

[users] Re: Open Office Forked!

2010-09-28 Thread Clair Johnston
On 9/28/2010 1:27 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 28 September 2010 18:20, Clair Johnstoncbj0...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 9/28/2010 11:21 AM, David B Teague wrote: On 9/28/2010 5:30 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:22, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: The Document

[users] Re: Writer and printing multiple pages on one page

2008-06-20 Thread Clair Johnston
Gordon wrote: I am desperately trying to move away from MS Word, but until I can replicate this behaviour, then I won't! In Word 2007, when I go to print, I can choose the option of printing 2 pages on on page. I use this a lot as I do not have a duplex printer, so when printing A5 booklets, I

[users] Re: Writer and printing multiple pages on one page

2008-06-20 Thread Clair Johnston
mike scott wrote: On 20 Jun 2008 at 13:18, Clair Johnston wrote: ... I have been doing this for a number of years, but the approach I use includes a $50 (USD) piece of software. 1) Create the document as usual to the appropriate size (usually 1/2 page) 2) Write the document as a PDF. (easy

[users] Re: Downloading a 94MB file

2006-12-16 Thread Clair Johnston
mike scott wrote: On 15 Dec 2006 at 1:38, Jim Berger wrote: I have been unable to download OpenOffice.org on successive nights (and it takes most of the night with a 56K modem running at a mere 10% of 56K, as it is wont to do). I get about 75 - 85 percent of the way through the download when

[users] Re: text editor?

2006-12-13 Thread Clair Johnston
Dan Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:09 am, Marc Hoenig wrote: I am planning on downloading your product for my new home computer. I am interested in developing web pages and have told I need a decent text editor. I currently use Notepad. Does your product have anything

[users] Re: Operating sqystems

2006-11-29 Thread Clair Johnston
James Knott wrote: Marc Hug wrote: Hi. Someone answered a question regarding MS Vista by recommending Ubuntu Linux. I really do not know much about Operating systems. If I would consider replacing MS Windows by a Linux system, my main question would be: will I be able to communicate with other

[users] Re: OpenOffice on USB stick?

2006-08-13 Thread Clair Johnston
Max Q wrote: I've just got myself a 2GB USB stick and am thinking about installing OOo on it I've read the PDF at http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/USB_key.pdf but also came across this thread that suggested a possible problem with OOo 2.0.x

[users] Re: Broken Spell Checker in OOo Version 2.0.2

2006-05-05 Thread Clair Johnston
Stephen Tonkin wrote: I am using version 2.0.2 on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX (the UB alpha version) on all three platforms the spell checker in Writer does not work at all times. I am yet to figure out why this is happening, as it works for some of my .odt and .doc documents, but not others.

[users] Re: Setup/a installation on flash drive -- can't save files

2006-04-24 Thread Clair Johnston
You may want to try http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice it installs easily and less chance of making a typing error. Clair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick response. Background: I work in one office using Windows 2000 but I don't have

[users] Re: I want to start using open office on Memorex Mini Travel Drive

2006-04-02 Thread Clair Johnston
will be disappointed. Running from a thumb drive is slower that from a USB hard drive. Everything you need is at that site. It is currently a little dated but they are about to release an set of updates. Have fun, Clair Johnston Kira wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with WORD , EXCEL

[users] Re: Users Guide and Writers Guide

2006-03-30 Thread Clair Johnston
can get back to our business. Having been a developer in previous life, I understand that developers live and die by version numbers. As a user, I want to know if I have the latest. If I don't, I'll go get it. Thanks for your time, Clair Johnston

[users] Re: Users Guide and Writers Guide

2006-03-30 Thread Clair Johnston
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Clair Johnston wrote: I don't understand what is so hard about putting a date next to the edition number on the web site. Those of us who use OOo don't give a rats a.. about the version number and can't remember it and shouldn't be expected to try to find it. A date