[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2008-03-21 Thread David Potter
I want my laptop to be able to open XL files. How do I do this? David Potter

Re: [users] German Word Check

2007-03-23 Thread David Potter
: Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [users] German Word Check David Potter wrote: I also use Open Office in parallel with MS Word, all in English. Wolfram Herrmann, I take it that your OpenOffice is a German version? Did

Re: [users] German Word Check

2007-03-22 Thread David Potter
I also use Open Office in parallel with MS Word, all in English. Wolfram Herrmann, I take it that your OpenOffice is a German version? Did it download as 3 different files? Have you installed OpenOffice so that you can open Write? If you have documents prepared in German in MS Word, you

Re: [users] OpenOffice help files - Calc

2007-03-01 Thread David Potter
I downloaded Open Office 2.1 a little while ago. I have Windows XP, Version 2002, Service Pack 2. I have been using spreadsheets, but couldn't remember if I had used the help function. I jsut tried to make sure it was working and it seems to be fine. I did notice that under Contents you

[users] Fw: ezmlm warning_I don't understand this.

2007-02-21 Thread David Potter
I've just switched on and downloaded 114 OO messages. I don't understand any of the message below. I've had one before, tried to respond but don't know if I was successful or not? Except that I have continued to receive many messages daily. Please can someone explain, or tell where I may

[users] Unscribe

2007-02-19 Thread David Potter
I've lost Open Office and am having to use webmail which I find not so convenient. In order to streamline things until I get Outlook Express back, I decided to unsuscribe to OO. When I clicked on [EMAIL PROTECTED] , I got an error message default mail client not properly installed. I don't

Re: [users] [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread David Potter
For Barbara. Question to Open Office download/licence experts. Is it possible for someone limited by dialup connection to the Internet to obtain a copy of Open Office from a friend with broadband? If so, you can get the friend to copy the programme on to a disc and then load it into your

Re: [users] Calc: Windows in taskbar?

2007-01-17 Thread David Potter
, 2007 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [users] Calc: Windows in taskbar? David Potter wrote: Hi RBL, Umm...I think you are trying to challenge me! I confess that I do not know the meaning of the FT in MSFT Office nor do I understand MDI approach. well, 'ft' are two last letters from the full name

Re: [users] Calc: Windows in taskbar?

2007-01-16 Thread David Potter
Hi, It does this in mine i.e. on both the Windows drop-down menu at the top and on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. I don't know if you can switch it on and off. OOo v. 2.1 DP. - Original Message - From: RBL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday,

[users] Open Office 2.1-Calc

2007-01-08 Thread david potter
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with a fairly urgent problem - if I'm not to loose a lot of data I've just entered! I've spent an hour updating a spreadsheet file and at the end of the work I got the message: Error saving the document WALKGRPA.ods: Write Error. The file could not be

Re: [users] Open Office 2.1-Calc

2007-01-08 Thread David Potter
Hi Philip, Thanks for this. No, I didn't try to save with either of the extension you suggested. From the things I did try and the way the problem resolved, I think something about the file I was working on was corrupted. I'll try saving the work I copied into a new file with a new name

[users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread david potter
Hi, I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version of Open Office. Generally I am finding it great but obviously there are differences. Some I am managing to work out but others prove refractory. 1..

Re: [users] How to fix column headings in calc.

2007-01-02 Thread David Potter
Hi, Thank you both for your help. Fixing column headings is solved. I've used the WindowFreeze solution. I think this is how I did it in Excel, but 11 years is a long time for the aging memory. For the other item, I've found both icons I described when I searched on Background in the