On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Roger Gibson wrote:
We have downloaded Open Office for Intel Mac 10.5.2 When we try to
open it in applications we get a message saying it can't be opened
because the architecture doesn't support it.
That message suggests you've downloaded a wrong version. If
On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Mark Carlson wrote:
Is there a stable version of open office that would run on a Dual 2
Ghz PPC G5 running 10.5.4? (with 1 Gb of ram)
The latest US English version is at
On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Camille Poirier wrote:
My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally
enter
information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo
and
retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit
without
saving changes
On Jul 20, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Jerry Anderson wrote:
HEYONE MORE TIME
This post illustrates a problem I alluded to in my Paid support
CDs thread: People buy a CD from any one of many possible sources
(some listed on OO's own site, others not), the vendor points them
here for
http://www.openofficeaccess.com/
Click download now, click through the page that follows (don't need
to fill in any info), pay attention along the way, and you'll get the
idea. Also, see their disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
Are there any attorneys among us who will comment?
Dave
On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Andy wrote:
Mind if I forward this to the marketing mailing list?
Don't know that list's function but, if you think it might help, by
all means do so.
Dave
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On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:48 PM, orngjce223 wrote in response to the
Well this is interesting... thread:
And people pay for support provided by unpaid volunteers?? Now /
that/'s something I don't understand.
That may be so in some cases. The OO site has a page where CD copies
can be ordered
On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Mike Shearer wrote:
I'm experiencing zooming problems with Writer and Calc (the only
modules I use heavily). I'm running OO 3.1.0 Build 9399 on a
MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.7. The problem has been occurring only
since I upgraded OO.
This sounds like an OSX,
On Jul 16, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Mike Shearer wrote:
Than ks Dave, but there's no OSX control that seems relevant to the
problem.
If there's a feature in OO that might be responsible, perhaps someone
who knows of it will respond. Meanwhile, another possibility is OSX's
Universal Access
On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Per wrote:
Is it a sort of handling the numbers in Works, Calc and Excel that
causes the round-up effect???
I think these results are more correctly called truncation and
result from the inherently limited numerical precision of digital
computers. It's not
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I have just noticed a spate of duplicated messages - all with the
same subject and timestamped the same. A few examples:
Haven't seen this.
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Any theories as to why we're suddenly getting receipt messages? Did
this feature get added recently to a popular email program?
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On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Joyce Walcott wrote:
Please help - OO.o is not working for me and won't launch on my Mac,
and is interfering with another application I would prefer as my
default. Can you help me?
If OO won't launch, you've probably
On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Nico Alma wrote:
I would like to see on my screen two weeks in iCal snip
This list is for OO support. If you need OSX support and its built-in
Help isn't adequate, try http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search
or http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa,
On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:56 AM, Lars Nooden wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I cannot reproduce the rounding incident...
That in itself may be an indication of the cause of the problem...
Good point. A simple glitch on the host machine -- which may have
had nothing to do with Calc (e.g., an OS
Nico Alma wrote:
PS : I never give up, but others might give up to enter OOo. Do you
know a way to inform a webmaster or an other central command at
OOo?
From the Contact us link at the bottom of the homepage:
webmast...@openoffice.org
On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Nico Alma wrote:
I registered at Open Office. As soon as I changed to the download
page I got a message register or log in. After logging in I went
back to the download page and get the message register or log in.
How do i get out of this vicious circle???
I
Has anyone notified the webmaster that newcomers routinely get
confused by the register/login option? Surely so, in which case I'd be
interested to learn the history and why nothing has been done yet to
edit the site so it's clear why one might want to register and that it
isn't necessary
skopi...@aol.com wrote:
I would like to write an essay paper using this site, only once.
It was reffered to me, for a class project. I will be using MLA
Format and the
Gordon Rule. Do I need to register and have a password for this
project still?
I seem to recall someone on this list
On Jun 13, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Andre Stomm wrote:
I have tried download the program again however the screen is
coming up as an NSIS error saying Installer Integrity check has
failed and the file is corrupted or damage. Have you got any suggest
to fix this problem. Coincidently the other
On May 22, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
As Paul said, the *moderator* does not have the capability. But that
header line is getting added somewhere
It's clear that ezmin changes the Subject line (for our list, it tacks
[users] on the front) and it's fairly easy to control
On May 22, 2009, at 2:55 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
the only way to cope with this ridiculous situation would be some
kind of autoresponder
that worked invisible in the background. So OK to your script, as long
as you only send extra messages to unsubscribed posters, NOT to the
list OR to single
On May 22, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Dave Post wrote:
As Brian has explained, though, ezmin doesn't seem to offer a way to
make that change dependent on whether the user is subscribed. A
surprising limitation, perhaps, but that's the problem.
Wait a minute. If all messages from unsubscribed users
On May 22, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
My understanding is that ezmlm receives *all* messages and forwards
a copy of those from unsubscribed posters (and only
those) to the moderator who then accepts or rejects them.
The mail manager software ezmlm sends to the list (a) all
On May 22, 2009, at 2:13 PM, M. Fioretti wrote:
You should work on a message by message basis: if message X doesn't
contain some headers send copy to poster. If not, don't.
snip
If you take out the resend message to the list part, ie ONLY send
notifications to unsubscribed users, it won't
. The responses would look something like this:
From: Dave Post
Subject: [users] (Reply All): originator's subject line
To: originator's email address, users@openoffice.org
Cc: (this line would appear if one or more cc addresses were present)
(originator's name) is unsubscribed but will receive your
On May 22, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
You mean so that everyone will receive two copies of moderated
messages? And the list processor will have to distribute 5000
copies of them instead of 2500?
Yes, that's what would happen. (Replies wouldn't be duplicated, though.)
The
Does anyone know why queries from unsubscribed users tend to come in
bursts, like the batch we just got (roughly 11:30 - midnight EDT)?
Dave
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On May 16, 2009, at 5:55 AM, David Patrick wrote:
who would have thought MS would be playing with their formats!! ;-)
As I said, that .docx has problems even in Word 2008. Can't tell
whether that's due to careless composition or to differences in
rendering in the Windows vs. OSX versions
On May 15, 2009, at 5:07 PM, David Patrick wrote:
I have tried searching the various sources of information but with
little success.
I am having trouble opening .docx documents that have been emailed
to me. These documents have consisted of a series of text boxes with
text inside them.
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On May 11, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Patsy wrote:
I recently tried to sign up for open office. It downloaded but now
I cannot locate it to open it to use.
On May 9, 2009, at 5:17 PM, James Knott wrote:
If you have the Intel based Mac, you can download the latest from www.openoffice.org
, but the PPC version is only 2.4.x.
If you're interested only in an official, production release, it's
true that 2.4.0 is the latest for PPC. However,
On May 8, 2009, at 6:01 PM, bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you write to volunteer to help me with my problem? Last night I
downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.1. Now I have a mess! I
can't open it, I can't repair it, and I can't uninstall it! Please
Help Me!!
Bob King
I have no
On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:44 PM, JOHN DOYLE wrote:
I did this 2 years ago still getting all this unwanted mail
Sent from my iPod
On 10 Apr 2009, at 07:07, Mike Dawe ooo-u...@zacglen.com wrote:
Gary wrote:
I'm no longer a user of openoffice. how can i stop the hundreds of
emails coming to me?
On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:17 AM, jonathon wrote:
Using a slightly different algorithm, and parallel processing in a
Beowulf cluster, one could reach a couple of hundred thousand tries
per
second.
Hmm. Imagine a cross between, say, s...@home and FrostWire, but
designed to provide
On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
the macro was modified so it could generate 8300 passwords/s on a
3.19 GHz Penthium.
snip
You could perharps attack the file directly using a C program.
I'd want to know first how long it takes to test each password. It may
be that
On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I did the unthinkably stupid, I forgot the password to one of my own
files! Yes, it is a secure (long, alphanum upper and lower, numbers
and symbols, no dictionary words) password, so a dictionary attack
won't help. Googling password crackers, I
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On Apr 23, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Sammanasunathan, Inbaraj wrote:
Hi,
I have a Dashboard which is scheduled as an output in MS Excel as
attachment. Right now my system has both Microsoft and Openoffice.
The issue is, if I open the attachment using
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On Apr 19, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Dale Canady wrote:
Downloaded OO2.4 then Installed X11 1.3 got error message:
You don't need to install X11
But OO will not open get error message.
Thanks,
DaleC160.jpg
Dale,
Assuming you're using OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or
On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/04/19 9:25 PM Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:39 19/04/2009 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On the home page of www.openoffice.org, click on I want to
download OpenOffice.org and then (assuming you are using some
form of Windows) on the
On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2009/04/20 5:50 AM Dave Post wrote:
On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
When you click on I want to download OpenOffice.org on the home
page of www.openoffice.org it auto-detects the operating system
you are using. I get
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In Thunderbird's *mail* component, which is what I use on one of my
computers, it is possible to set up a filter that, for example,
highlights
in red in the Inbox all moderated messages i.e. those from
unsubscribed
users. I have done this
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Twayne wrote:
But ... since we're in the FYI department: The program will still
cleanly open your currently installed email client and allow you to
send
mails.
Good point, and would be worth mentioning in responses to inquiries.
Personally, due to the
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On Apr 16, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Mike Holmes wrote:
I had open office recommended to me by a tech. in the store where I
bought my laptop.
I have windows 2000, and I am interested in information on open
office.org
all I want to do
Harold,
I notice you often forward to unsubscribed users replies from list
subscribers who miss this fact. Do you do this manually, or have you
created a rule that does it automatically? If the latter, I'd love to
know how you managed it and what email client and OS you're using.
Dave
On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Sigh. Good point, but I hate to get into listing all the things OOo
is *not* intended to do that various MS office products do. There
was a pretty comprehensive list here a while back of all kinds of
possibilities for other MS product
On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:44 PM, David B Teague wrote:
It takes 6 minutes to open a 32 K file odt file that contains only
formatted text. It takes 4 minutes to save this file. It closes
quickly.
snip
It might be instructive to examine the file in a plain text editor.
Then, paste the
On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:08 PM, j...@jimmymoore.com wrote:
Hi...
9 days ago I joined and downloaded openoffice for my new Mac
laptop
Worked great - then shut my computer down and took it on a trip...
Turned the macbook back on and WHAMMO! No openoffice anywhere to be
found
I
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On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Bill Daly wrote:
I bought this program a couple of months ago and it worked fine. I
tried to ugrade to version 3.01 and it did not take. Now 3.0 does
not work. How do I correct this?
Bill Daly
billdal...@yahoo.com
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On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Mike Rowland wrote:
Since downloading Open Office all my word documents try to open up
in Acrobat reader it is like something has taken over Word.
Mike
What operating system are you using?
Dave
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On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Mike Rowland wrote:
1) Since downloading Open Office I have a problem with creating word
documents .When I open up word and type and save it creates a file
name from what I just typed in the document it is like
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On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Mike Rowland wrote:
Since downloading Open Office all my word documents try to open up
in Acrobat reader it is like something has taken over Word.
Mike
What operating system are you using?
Dave
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On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Mike Rowland wrote:
1) Since downloading Open Office I have a problem with creating word
documents .When I open up word and type and save it creates a file
name from what I just typed in the document it is like
There's a free spellchecker for Outlook Express. One source:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html
Dave
On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/4/7 David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net
I seem to recall a there is [was?] a small package that provides a
spelling
On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Guy Voets wrote:
2009/4/2 Philippe Verkerk philippe.verk...@univ-lille1.fr
I was used to OOo working with X11 on Mac (PPC G5 OS X 10.4.11) and
I tried
to switch to OOo 3.0.1_fr, and it does NOT work. I mainly use the
writer :
it allows to open a text file and to
On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
Correction: The plist is in Users/username/Library/Preferences.
Right -- I misread the path. Thanks!
However, Guy mistakingly said 'preference' instead of 'profile'.
I think he was merely quoting the email he referenced from the French
On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Michael Adams wrote:
I have prepared a presentation for work and would like people to look
over it for me. It is available to view as flash or download as an
ODP.
More here:
http://whyodf.blogspot.com/
Comment either on the blog or the discuss mailing list. I
To add a bit to Larry's reply:
The US-English Intel version is
OOo_2.1.0rc2_20061130_MacOSXIntel_install_en-US.dmg, roughly 20 down
the page. US-English PPC version is
OOo_2.1.0rc2_20061130_MacOSXPPC_install_en-US.dmg, roughly halfway down.
As you've discovered, the main site doesn't
On Mar 21, 2009, at 3:24 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
At the very least, the list should be set up so that the address of
non-subscribed posters is included in the reply-to header.
Agreed. Alternatively, a Not subscribed line could be added
automatically to their messages in some prominent
Though I'd share this, in case anyone else is interested.
The (minor) trick to creating the needed rule is getting Mail to
respond to the Delivered-To line in the header. That's not among the
standard options and is handled in steps 3 4, below.
1. Select an email that's been sent to the
On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Paul Shipgood wrote:
How can I submit an issue if your system refuses to let me log in
but I have
to be logged in to submit an issue?
The users@openoffice.org address is a mailing list, subscribed to by
folks who use the software but don't necessarily have
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Guy Voets wrote:
snip
You have a choice of downloads from the good-day site:
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/
• either the 3.0.0 RC4 which is equal to the final release (in the
other OS
versions)
• either the 3.0.1 RC1 which I am using
On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/3/17 Christina Godinez chrisgodi...@yahoo.com
snip
can you please set the date correctly on your email?
snip
To Christina Godinez:
The person you are addressing is not subscribed to this list so
unless you
explicitly include her
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Unlike Linux and OS/2, dunno 'bout Mac, Windows requires the file
extension to know what to do.
Neither OSX nor any preceding Mac OS uses the extension to determine
filetype.
Dave
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Sorry -- I messed up the attribution while editing my preceding post.
This is correct:
On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:55 PM, James Knott wrote:
Unlike Linux and OS/2, dunno 'bout Mac, Windows requires the file
extension to know what to do.
Neither OSX nor any preceding Mac OS uses the extension to
I'm hereby forwarding this unsubscribed user's personal reply to the
list. Does anyone recognize the filenames he mentions?
Dave
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Begin forwarded message:
From: si...@sstott.orangehome.co.uk
Date: March 12, 2009 4:36:15 PM EDT
To: Dave Post davep...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re
On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:12 PM, si...@sstott.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
i installed your software and it works well thank you
but it is leaving read only files on my desktop which i cant
delete ... please advise
What operating system are you using?
Dave
Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations
and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang
programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the
ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd
record programs
On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Dave Post wrote:
(With apologies to Keith) Sebastian: In case it wasn't perfectly
clear, open-office (as you call it) did NOT publish your email or
email address anywhere. Google (and other organizations) run
programs that automatically harvest this sort
On Mar 3, 2009, at 1:48 PM, NoOp wrote:
Umm... you did read:
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html
before subscribing?
No. I've never seen that web page before.
Dave
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On Mar 3, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
Then how did you subscrie?
I don't remember.
Dave
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On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Keith Bates wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:54 +0100, Sebastian Schlaud wrote:
googleing my name, the first six hits depend on a more than two years
old e-mail to you!
I´m not happy to see my private e-mail and mail address published
by open-office and google.
On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Astrid Warner wrote:
I actually had two emails from a Webmaster - one about the download
to register and a second for my password, I just deleted those
emails after the response from Brian Barker. When I went in to
register OO, I found I was already
On Feb 28, 2009, at 8:33 AM, lllact...@gmx.net wrote:
We had such problems with Adobe's PDF acroread, which seemed to cause
the slowing down of not only OOo 3.0.1. After removing Adobe acroread
(to not come into the temptation to start it) the problems
dissapeared.
You only have to have
You'll find it at http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/2.1.0rc2_20061130/
. The US-English version is roughly the 20th entry and ends with eng-
US.dmg.
BTW, although it worked fine for me under OSX 10.3.9, I was never able
to get the X11 sudo nano etc. command (which the
Mike Dawe's 2nd post made me realize that the version I referred to
(roughly the 20th entry) is the Intel one. The PPC version is
further down the page at the link I gave.
Dave
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On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:27 AM, H.S. wrote:
In any case, the poster on Slashdot compared OOo with Firefox. Both
are
free and open source. Yet Firefox grew by leaps and bounds but OOo has
never shown similar rise in popularity.
That comparison seems apples vs. oranges to me.
Dave
On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Nick Brown wrote:
i am running open office 3.0.0 on my mac. I was trying to open a file
and open office stopped responding. When I try to force quit, the
program stays open. I tried to restart my computer but it wouldn't
restart because open office won't respond. i
On Feb 2, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
I assumed that it detected the platform and perhaps language of the
user's browser and offered the appropriate version.
I think you're correct. In my case, for example, it offers 3.0.1 for
Mac OSX PPC in US English.
This would be great,
On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Web Kracked wrote:
Mac OSX Intel has the 3.0.1 version but Mac OSX PPC is still on
version 2.4.0
It's true that only 2.4.0 is available at that link for PPC, but
3.0.1rc2 for PPC is available at:
What web site are you visiting? There is no login, username, or
password needed to download from http://www.openoffice.org/index.html.
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On Jan 30, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Guy Voets wrote:
English: I believe the Update option doesn't exist in the Mac
versions of
OOo. It's easier to go and look every now and then on the website...
In 3.0.1rc2 for PPC, at least, this is true, although Help states
(incorrectly) that it exists and
I downloaded OO 2.4.0 for Mac OSX PPC today and am unable get it
running.
Whenever I start OO, it appears briefly and is then replaced by X11,
which opens an xterm window. After a few seconds, I get an error
message: Command timed out.
If I then select OO from my Dock, I get 3 menus:
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