Re: [users] using Writer in Outlook

2011-02-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:40 -0500, Maurice Howe wrote: How do I get Outlook to use Writer instead of Word as its text processor? In two words - you can't. Outlook will ONLY use Word. (And that's assuming you are using Office 2003 or earlier - 2007 and 2010 don't even do that - they load a small

[users] Cancel Extension Update notification?

2011-02-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
OO 3.3.0 keeps notifying me about a French Dictionary Extension update. I don't want it, I'm English! How do i stop the notification? On a similar theme, AFAIK you used to be able to uninstall all the dictionaries that loaded by default - I can't see where to do this in 3.3. Cheers Gordon

Re: [users] Re: Cancel Extension Update notification?

2011-02-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 04/02/2011 13:04, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 04.02.2011 12:37, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: OO 3.3.0 keeps notifying me about a French Dictionary Extension update. I don't want it, I'm English! How do i stop the notification? On a similar theme, AFAIK you used to be able to uninstall all

[users] Embarrassing Misprint in Your Testimonials Page!

2011-01-31 Thread Betsy Gordon
://user.services.openoffice.org/ . Pubic users? You might want to think about fixing this. I'm sure I'm not the first person who has brought it to your attention. Thinking seriously about joining up! Best wishes, Betsy Betsy Gordon, BA, MAOM Freelance Writer and Editor La Jolla, California 858

Re: [users] MSWord

2011-01-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/01/2011 14:13, James Knott wrote: However, there are problems with Microsoft Office writing to ODF that appear to be deliberate. It's not just writing TO odf, it's opening ods documents as well. All the formulae are converted to the last VALUE...

Re: [users] suggestion

2011-01-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 20/01/2011 20:18, michael thomas wrote: Hello, Open Office use to be a free alternative to Microsoft Office, that did not hog up your computers memory. Now its just a free alternative... To Bad! I even tried re-install with the 2 programs I really use. I saved a whopping 1 MB! You are

Re: [users] suggestion

2011-01-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/01/2011 15:42, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: OpenOffice.org used very little space, under 200 meg on a Windows system [or at least the last time I installed it on my Vista laptop]. As far as I remember, OOo installs needing much less than MSO does. Interesting. I just had a look.

Re: [users] Database form to generate a Calendar entry

2011-01-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 08/01/11 13:11, Alan 0 wrote: For your first requirement, trigger calendar entries, I don't see what calendars the entries are to appear on. Are the entries meant to appear on a printed calendar, an e-mailed schedule, .ics type calendar invitations sent to subscriber e-mail accounts, what?

[users] Database form to generate a Calendar entry

2011-01-07 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi! Firstly let me say I am not an expert in database operations. The scenario is this: My Vicar needs a form to enter in details of weddings particularly, (but other events as well) where certain fields trigger calendar entries. Let me explain! In the Church of England there are certain

Re: [users] Re: Database form to generate a Calendar entry

2011-01-07 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 07/01/11 19:44, JOE Conner wrote: On 1/7/2011 11:29 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 07.01.2011 12:42, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Is there any (easy!) way this can be set up? (My Vicar does have the latest version of OO installed already) No, there is not easy(!) way. And now

[users] [moderated]

2011-01-07 Thread Gordon Elloy
? I have paid the 3 year dues of USD$66.74. What am I not aware of? Gordon Elloy.

Re: [users] Question

2010-12-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/12/10 18:31, Marius Popa wrote: Good evening! I am also Marius Popa and I want to know if OpenOffice.org v3.2.1 is able to save .xps files. What format is better: XPS or ODF? XPS is Microsoft's attempt at a competitor to pdf which appears to have failed because hardly anyone uses it.

[users] Help with form input

2010-11-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I have need to construct a database-type form (it needn't BE in Base - Calc would do) such that when a future date is inserted in a particular field, it generates a calendar reminder (say) 10 days before the date in the field. I suspect that that may be relatively easy using something like

Re: [users] User

2010-11-17 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 17/11/2010 18:14, John Brooks wrote: Please remove my email address from open office. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Send an email to

Re: [users] Please Refund or kindly reply

2010-10-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/08/2010 01:11, d...@mweb.com.na wrote: Dear ? I made a purchase yesterday 18 August of the latest open office suite by Visa credit card. It card was billed and I was directed to go to my yahoo mail box where a key would be sent. Up until now there is no such key or any

[users] Adding entry into Index

2010-10-03 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I have a document that was a Word docx file that is now saved as an odt document. It has an index (which LOOKS as thought all the entries are Hyperlinks - if you hover over the entry in the index a pop-up appears saying Ctl Click to follow link). I'm trying to add an entry into this index for

[users] Re: Adding entry into Index

2010-10-03 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 03/10/10 13:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have a document that was a Word docx file that is now saved as an odt document. It has an index (which LOOKS as thought all the entries are Hyperlinks - if you hover over the entry in the index a pop-up appears saying Ctl Click to follow link

Re: [users] Software problem with open office?

2010-09-29 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 29/09/10 14:33, Sam Swaminath wrote: I could not open any files. So what EXACTLY happens when you try? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Open Office Forked!

2010-09-28 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
The Document Foundation has released a beta version of Officelibre in order to fork from the possible proprietary way that Oracle is taking Open Office. Unfortunately the Linux version seems to be only an RPM at this moment... http://www.documentfoundation.org/

Re: [users] Need support -

2010-09-28 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 28/09/10 14:08, ri...@compuserve.com wrote: Sir; In the past I have sent an annual donation to keep open office alive. However there is a conspicuous lack of product support. Until I am able to receive an intelligent answer to the question Please can someone tell me why the open office

Re: [users] [moderated]

2010-09-28 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 28/04/08 23:15, ELLEN WESBY wrote: I want to download excel, word and power point from open office. But I'm having trouble after I download what do I go into to open up these items. Mailed to Op and posted to list: Open office doesn't have Excel, Word and PowerPoint - what it does have

Re: [users] table - dismantling

2010-09-24 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/09/10 23:40, Barbara Duprey wrote: Yes, there sure is. Just click in the table and Table Select, then Table Convert Table to Text. Select how you want the resulting text to be represented (for instance, you can use the default selection to keep the basic structure with tabs between

Re: [users] OPEN OFFICE ORG 2.3/3.1/3.2 VERSIONS

2010-09-24 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 24/09/10 07:04, Sam Swaminath wrote: ANY USER WHO CAN GUIDE ME!!! SIR, I AM A GENUINE MS WINDOWS XP USER. Does that mean you are genuine, or XP is genuine? ;-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] trouble with attachments

2010-09-20 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/09/2010 23:38, RA Brown wrote: Did they by chance upgrade their versions of Office? MS made changes in the last round of Office so that older formats do not work, even from older versions of Office. H. I have Office 2007(uses OOXML by default) and have no problems opening

Re: [users] Re: [ui-access] Question about OpenOffice.org from new user

2010-09-20 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 20/09/2010 10:34, Malte Timmermann wrote: and many other applications have support for ODF, even MS Office starting with 2007SP1. Support for ODF and Microsoft in the same sentence is an oxymoron - the ODF support in Office 2007 SP2 is lip service at best and deliberately broken at

Re: [users] trouble with attachments

2010-09-20 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 20/09/2010 10:49, Sam Swaminath wrote: Hi, I have MS Windows XP. I also had Open Office 2.3. I saw a popup asking for updating. I clicked it and upgraded to Open Office 3.1. Alas!!! I am not able to open up any of my Files Documents saved by Open Office 2.3. Another problem is the new

Re: [users] Re: [ui-access] Question about OpenOffice.org from new user

2010-09-20 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 20/09/2010 13:20, James Knott wrote: Of course OOo can save in Word format too. There is also the plugin available that adds ODF support to MS Office. As I understand it, it's far better than Microsoft's support of ODF. It is much better - unfortunately unless you have a copy already,

[users] Importing (or otherwise) MS Office templates

2010-09-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I have a number of templates created in MS Office 2007, mainly Word templates. Is there a correct way to get these templates onto Open Office? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] unsuscribe PLEASE!!!!!!

2010-09-17 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 09/09/2010 08:09, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Why don't you just send email to the unsubscribe ubuntu users address instead? Which will be difficult seeing as he's using Hotmail and this is the Open Office list! ;-) - To

Re: [users] opinion

2010-09-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 12/09/2010 21:42, Barbara Duprey wrote: and you may find that it is actually just as easy or even easier to accomplish what you want. For example - MS Office 2007 is APPALLINGLY bad at printing Booklets - it's a know problem. OO is a breeze!

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Celebrates Tenth Anniversary at OOoCon in Budapest

2010-09-02 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/08/2010 17:27, John Kaufmann wrote: Hi Tim, I just wrote to you off-list, but will also reply here to tie up this thread: In a message dated 2010.08.29 23:44 -0500, Tim Derflinger wrote: John I am new to this...Where do I find my Thunderbird. You don't have Thunderbird, which

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 27/08/2010 01:16, Twayne wrote: I think this has been covered, but I'd like to reiterate just in case it was missed. Many printers have watermark capability. Both my Epson inkjet and HP Color Laser have it. They both put DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL defaults, or whatever words you want up to

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 27/08/2010 01:16, Twayne wrote: I think this has been covered, but I'd like to reiterate just in case it was missed. Many printers have watermark capability. Both my Epson inkjet and HP Color Laser have it. They both put DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL defaults, or whatever words you want up to

Re: [users] Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/08/2010 19:42, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:46 22/08/2010 +0100, Aonly Gonly wrote: I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background of a document in OOo 3.2.1 Writer, on a GNU/Linux Debian testing machine. So far I can add a background color or graphic, but apparently

Re: [users] Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/08/2010 20:37, AG wrote: I must say that this seems like a very over involved rigamarole to go through each time I might want to create some watermark text in a document. Is the OOo development team likely to consider making this process more straightforward like it is in MS Office

Re: [users] [moderated]

2010-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 26/08/2010 09:59, Carlo Strata wrote: Hi Johnny, are you sure that Gail doesn't mean Writer and wrote Word only because he usually said Word? Because he come from the Microsoft suite? I think so... You are probably right. Unfortunately Word is becoming a generic term for Word

Re: [users] [moderated] - NO MENTION OF MS OUTLOOK

2010-08-25 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/08/2010 18:16, sky.sales wrote: 1. I've used MS Outlook as my MANAGER of documents in Word and MSExcel. Will any or all of the OPENOFFICE.ORG programs work with MS OUTLOOK? Eh? Outlook is a PIM not a document filing system. As a long-time user of MS Office to advanced level I

Re: [users] [moderated] - NO MENTION OF MS OUTLOOK

2010-08-25 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 25/08/2010 18:31, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/8/25 Gordon Burgess-Parkergbpli...@gmail.com: On 23/08/2010 18:16, sky.sales wrote: 1. I've used MS Outlook as my MANAGER of documents in Word and MSExcel. Will any or all of the OPENOFFICE.ORG programs work with MS OUTLOOK? Eh

Re: [users] [moderated] - NO MENTION OF MS OUTLOOK

2010-08-25 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 25/08/2010 19:39, James Wilde wrote: On Aug 25, 2010, at 19:31 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2010/8/25 Gordon Burgess-Parkergbpli...@gmail.com: On 23/08/2010 18:16, sky.sales wrote: 1. I've used MS Outlook as my MANAGER of documents in Word and MSExcel. Will any or all

Re: [users] Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/08/2010 18:46, AG wrote: Hi list I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background of a document in OOo 3.2.1 Writer, on a GNU/Linux Debian testing machine. So far I can add a background color or graphic, but apparently not text (using Format/ Page/ Background,

Re: [users] Please kindly unsubscribe me from Open Office. Richard Burfoot.

2010-08-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/08/2010 14:44, Judy Lyons wrote: Me too as I have sent about 10 unsubscribe messages - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Message to

Re: [users] Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/08/10 17:25, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.23 08:42 -0500, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I can set Watermarks in my printer settings rather than in the WP package itself. Have you investigated that? Interesting. What driver do you use? Must be a Windows thing

Re: [users] Download

2010-08-03 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 03/08/10 20:47, James Knott wrote: Peter Harris wrote: Hi, I have just downloaded your free openoffice progam for the second time, the first time every time I went to use it it did the install then said I needed Quick start to use it as I could not find that I uninstalled the complete

Re: [users] Thanx for the download...

2010-08-02 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/10 22:27, Barbara Duprey wrote: Most computer suppliers give you the necessary CDs as well -- it sounds as if you may have gotten an unofficial copy of Office. Most vendors today include a TRIAL version of MS Office - which is valid for 60

[users] Using Thunderbird addressbook in Open Office

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Running Open Office 3.2.0 (with Base installed) on Ubuntu 10.04 with TBird 3.0.6 as default email client. I can't set up Thunderbird as an Addressbook source in File-Wizards-Addressbook source. There's no option to do so. How can I do this or am I forced to use Evolution?

Re: [users] Using Thunderbird addressbook in Open Office

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:24 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Running Open Office 3.2.0 (with Base installed) on Ubuntu 10.04 with TBird 3.0.6 as default email client. I can't set up Thunderbird as an Addressbook source in File-Wizards-Addressbook source. There's no option to do so. How can

Re: [users] SOLVED Using Thunderbird addressbook in Open Office

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/07/10 14:40, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:24 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Running Open Office 3.2.0 (with Base installed) on Ubuntu 10.04 with TBird 3.0.6 as default email client. I can't set up Thunderbird as an Addressbook source in File-Wizards

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/07/10 16:56, Earl Melton wrote: Greetings All, I am new to Linux and this is my first post to the forum. Hope I do it right. While I have often used OOo Writer and Calc in Windows, I had never opened Base. The subject line was going to read, Did Base not come with Ubuntu? because there

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/07/10 17:28, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/30/2010 12:12 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 30/07/10 16:56, Earl Melton wrote: Greetings All, I am new to Linux and this is my first post to the forum. Hope I do it right. While I have often used OOo Writer and Calc

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 30/07/10 17:36, Earl Melton wrote: Thanks Gordon, On 07/30/2010 11:12 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: If it's an address database then Open Office can use that for mailing labels and such like... So would you say there is really no reason -- privacy, security, or otherwise

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/10 17:45, jomali wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/30/2010 12:12 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 30/07/10 16:56, Earl Melton wrote: Greetings All, I am

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/10 18:34, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/30/2010 01:31 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: snip Follow these instructions to get the latest version )3.2.1) from Open Office org: http://www.muktware.com/news/08/2010/164 Today

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/10 18:24, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I wish they would put some indicator that they are using go-oo office suite instead of seeing the Splash Screen showing Openoffice.org and the Oracle name. That is where is gets confusing. I

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/10 18:05, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/30/2010 12:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 30/07/10 17:28, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/30/2010 12:12 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 30/07/10 16:56, Earl

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/10 19:15, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I am not 100% sure about the reason why Base is missing in the Ubuntu version, but it could be that Ubuntu is supposed to be quick to install and perhaps they don't include things they don't think people

[users] Re: Mailing Labels question

2010-07-14 Thread Gordon
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:49:04 -0400, Ted Trobaugh wrote: Gordon, Creating mailing labels in Open Office is more cumbersome than it needs to be. Perhaps someone will simplify the process someday. The following link will take you to a tutorial I used to figure it out. I hope it helps

[users] Re: Mailing Labels question

2010-07-14 Thread Gordon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:32:41 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 14/07/2010 07:42, Gordon wrote: [cut] Thanks - I actually found that after I'd posted. It's actually EASIER and more intuitive than in Word 2007! All I need to do now is to find out how to print a one-off label at different

[users] Mailing Labels question

2010-07-13 Thread Gordon
I need to print mailing labels where the recipients all have different addresses. I have found tutorials to print a sheet of labels of the SAME address or ONE label on its own, but not a set of labels with a different address on each label. Can anyone help? -- Registered Linux User no

[users] Re: Mailing Labels question

2010-07-13 Thread Gordon
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:09:40 +, Gordon wrote: I need to print mailing labels where the recipients all have different addresses. I have found tutorials to print a sheet of labels of the SAME address or ONE label on its own, but not a set of labels with a different address on each label

[users] Saving scanned image as ODT?

2010-07-08 Thread Gordon
Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will save the scanned image as odt or something capable of being imported into odt? (On Windows my wife's HP Officejet has a function to scan into a Word document - unfortunately this function doesn't work in Linux!)

[users] Re: Saving scanned image as ODT?

2010-07-08 Thread Gordon
On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote: On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote: Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will save the scanned image as odt or something capable of being imported into odt? (On Windows my wife's HP Officejet has a function to scan into a Word document

[users] Re: Saving scanned image as ODT?

2010-07-08 Thread Gordon
On 08/07/2010 17:08, Marcello Romani wrote: When the scan is complete, you'll have an ordinary odt document with an image in it. Regardless of whether the image has been scanned or inserted by hand, it will be editable with the usual limitations of OOo (brighntess, contrast, tone, etc.),

[users] Re: [moderated]how do i spell check

2010-06-21 Thread Gordon
denis mannell dmannel...@bigpond.com wrote in message news:663f67712cc544e58f327cc73dd7f...@vehicle... I am a new user , pIease advise how i do i add spell checker to my email. thanks dmannell 39 Depends on what application you are using for email...

[users] Re: Re: NIGHTMARE!!!

2010-06-17 Thread Gordon
Paul paul.m...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktilqlnuypiawtynjpkpucjrhdl0iecqc6-5jb...@mail.gmail.com... To everyone that has replied to the OP: please remember to check on the 'moderator' tag - none of the below would have been seen by the OP since they are not subscribed. Maybe

[users] Re: NIGHTMARE!!!

2010-06-16 Thread Gordon
Claus Fuetterer c.fuette...@physik.uni-leipzig.de wrote in message news:20100615233043.18062kzw7112e...@mail.uni-leipzig.de... Fill out windows forms with openoffice writer IS A SHEER NIGHTMARE!!! I risk to fail a project submission with deadline midnight (in one hour!!!) because of this trash

[users] Re: (slightly) off topic: the old Sun ODF pluging

2010-06-11 Thread Gordon
Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es wrote in message news:87bpbhc0wj@mat.ucm.es... Hello In my experience without having a decent ODF plugin for MS Office, openoffice will start to replace MS office. I tried out the ODF plugin as provided by sourceforge and it is a little worse than the OO

Re: [users] [moderated] Scribus and OpenOffiece.org

2010-04-12 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 08/04/2010 14:17, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I am not looking for the docs to go into draw, but Writer. Do a google on free pdf to word converters. There seem to be quite a few around, some free, some not. - To

[users] Starting page numbering on page 2 of a document

2010-04-12 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
This is, perhaps, one of the main areas where OO could outdo MS Office. I would assume that this function is fairly commonly required, when you have a document with a cover for example, and yet it is DIABOLICALLY difficult in MS Word and not much easier in OO. Would it be beyond the bounds of

Re: [users] [moderated] Scribus and OpenOffiece.org

2010-04-12 Thread Gordon
On 08/04/2010 14:17, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I am not looking for the docs to go into draw, but Writer. Do a google on free pdf to word converters. There seem to be quite a few around, some free, some not. - To

[users] Re: Scrolling Presentation

2010-04-09 Thread Gordon
On 08/04/2010 19:20, Daniel Lewis wrote: Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: How do I set a presentation so that it scrolls round and round until I stop it? I've found the time for each slide in Slideshow-Transition but it stops after the last slide. How do I get it to start at the beginning again

[users] Scrolling Presentation

2010-04-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
How do I set a presentation so that it scrolls round and round until I stop it? I've found the time for each slide in Slideshow-Transition but it stops after the last slide. How do I get it to start at the beginning again automatically?

Re: [users] [moderated]

2010-04-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 04/04/2010 12:45, James Knott wrote: Mick wrote: Hiya, I have been reading your pages and have registered with you. It all looks great. On your Open Office download option,I wondered if you have anything like a Publishing program similar to Microsoft Publisher?

Re: [users] gmane up?

2010-03-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 06/03/2010 16:48, Mark Miller wrote: I normally read the list via gmane ... but have been unable to connect since yesterday. Is anyone else having trouble? tnx mcm Yes. Not working here in UK. - To unsubscribe,

[users] OO Extension for Ubuntu One?

2010-02-22 Thread Gordon
Is there an extension that can be installed in OO to allow direct saving to Ubuntu One, rather like the add-in to MS Office that allows direct uploading to Office Online? - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] OO 3.2 and Works documents

2010-02-21 Thread Gordon
I'm very surprised that the latest offering from Sun STILL doesn't have an in-built importer for Works Documents - I would have thought that Works users (particularly now that MS is discontinuing Works) would have been a key target

[users] OO 3.2 and MS Works

2010-02-21 Thread Gordon
I'm very surprised that the latest offering from Sun STILL doesn't have an in-built importer for Works Documents - I would have thought that Works users (particularly now that MS is discontinuing Works) would have been a key target

[users] Re: Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-13 Thread Gordon
Troll/Idiot poss...@softhome.net wrote in message news:4b762a68.7000...@softhome.net... Well, Brewster, you've chewed it over at some length on several occasions. Get used to the idea that given the same facts, different people will reach different conclusions, equally valid. Some people,

[users] Re: Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Gordon
Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote in message news:1265970470.4273.298.ca...@merlin.fdi.loc... This whole top-posting thing, IMHO, originated with clueless NetNoobs several years ago, who when first encountering an email editing format, took exactly the wrong interpretation of the usual cursor

[users] Re: How to tell if a person is subscribed

2010-02-02 Thread Gordon
On 01/02/2010 21:25, Keith N. McKenna wrote: James Wilde wrote: Is there any easy way to see whether a person is subscribed to the list? Is the fact that they send a message to the list sufficient - that is must one be subscribed in order to send messages. I ask because I have an idea I have

[users] Re: Creating mail merge labels

2010-01-27 Thread Gordon
On 26/01/2010 23:14, NoOp wrote: On 01/26/2010 08:11 AM, Gordon wrote: Can anyone point me to an easy to understand but detailed tutorial on how to use OO and an external data source (such as Evolution addressbook) to create either single or multiple mailing labels? (Multiple being a number

[users] Re: Slow to open.etc.

2010-01-27 Thread Gordon
On 27/01/2010 10:55, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-01-26 7:26 PM, jonathon wrote: FWIW, the OOo wikipage lists 256 MB RAM for Solaris, Windows, and Linux, and 512 MB for Mac OS X as the minimum system requirements. Then the wiki page needs to be updated. 256MB RAM for Windows XP is just plain

[users] Creating mail merge labels

2010-01-26 Thread Gordon
Can anyone point me to an easy to understand but detailed tutorial on how to use OO and an external data source (such as Evolution addressbook) to create either single or multiple mailing labels? (Multiple being a number of labels all containing different addressees) Many thanks

[users] Re: Problem with open office .org

2010-01-26 Thread Gordon
On 26/01/2010 15:36, Gerry Burke wrote: Hello! I have downloaded Open Office.org twice in order to open an attachment from an email but it will not open it for me . What is the problem?Bernie But did you INSTALL it? -

[users] Re: Inserting page numbers

2010-01-13 Thread Gordon
t...@seedfield.co.uk wrote: Dear Sir/Madame, I'm currently writing a document for work using vista Vista is not a Word processor - it's an Operating System which is the only programme on my lap top which was highly recommended to me by the company who sold me the lap top. However it

[users] Re: Cannot open my Open Office documents

2010-01-12 Thread Gordon
Marcello Romani wrote: Just a quick search with that error message: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowssecurity/thread/3a3085d2-2b19-4277-8146-3edd217cfbc9 http://tinyurl.com/yeflt5h http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5197159/Microsoft_Office_2007__Edition

[users] Re: Cannot open my Open Office documents

2010-01-12 Thread Gordon
Jordan Force wrote: Email or call microsoft support, see if it can happen to an application! Yes it can, but generally this happens when the application is not Vista or Windows 7 compatible. OO 3 certainly IS Vista and Win 7 compatible. -- Registered Linux User no 240308 Say No to OOXML

[users] Re: Cannot open my Open Office documents

2010-01-12 Thread Gordon
James Knott wrote: Marcello Romani wrote: Requires Elevation is a symptom of the increased security measures that have been implemented in Windows Vista. It's all part of the same concept that has you confirming that you are the administrator over and over again. In other words, Requires

[users] Re: Is Open Office compatible with WIN 7?

2010-01-10 Thread Gordon
John Boyle wrote: To Users: I use WIN XP, and today at my computer club, we had a presentation of WIN 7 and the FACT that MANY programs are NOT compatible with it, OR , the FACT that you have to have the original installation disks, as you have to re-install ALL programs, although you can and

[users] Re: saving

2009-12-18 Thread Gordon
bstanev...@aol.com wrote: I see lots of coomplaints about not being able to save documents, but no answers. My version - with Vista - says that the document doesn't exist, so it can't save it. Well, of course it doesn't exist - it won't save it DUH Is there a fix other

[users] Re: Unlisted file types

2009-12-15 Thread Gordon
Sean wrote: There are a few file types that are mentioned on the website but their purpose was unlisted. Can anyone tell me about any of these? Thanks. ,des,eng.ft.ih.lgt.ln3.MacOS.nt2.plf .prj.prt.set.sof.SSLeay.Static.tab .tpt

[users] Solved: Re: Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Gordon wrote: I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1). Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and when I go to use the Send function in OO it tells me it can't find the email client. Is there a way round

[users] Re: linux default settings

2009-11-13 Thread Gordon
Janez Kosmrlj wrote: Hi, I am preparing a desktop distribution for our company. For that i would like to change some default openoffice settings. Can someone pint me to the files, where i can change them. I would like to change the default save directory, the default template directory, the

[users] Re: Windows 7

2009-10-26 Thread Gordon
David Bowman wrote: Are there any issues when upgrading to Windows 7 thanks in advance Dave Issues with what? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail:

[users] Re: Open Office Licence agreemet

2009-10-19 Thread Gordon
Diego Alterisi wrote: In addition we would like to know how to respond to eventual inquiry required from BSA or authority. I would guess you could tell the BSA to take a running jump - AFAIK they would have no authority to make any audit of software that is freely available and

[users] Re: Not possible to unsubscribe me

2009-09-18 Thread Gordon
Phyllis Kahn wrote: No need to be so patronizing! I have done all that I could can't get these people off my back. yours truly, Well I've never had any problems unsubscribing from these lists - To unsubscribe,

[users] Re: Calendar

2009-08-29 Thread Gordon
bobalethak...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have a calendar that does along with Mozilla Thurderbird or Open Office? Please respond. Bob Sunbird as a standalone or Lightning integrated with TBird (like Outlook). http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

[users] Re: Not possible to unsubscribe me

2009-08-29 Thread Gordon
g...@voila.fr wrote: hum. great organization ! just unsubscribe me please. sigh just follow the instructions, as you've been told... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands,

[users] Re: ubuntu linux version - any guidance?

2009-08-07 Thread Gordon
Web Kracked webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote in message news:4a7c3154.50...@krackedpress.com... I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on one of my machines. Is there any thing I should know about dealing with the Ubuntu version of OOo? I want to start setting it up with all the extensions I have on

[users] Re: MS Office v OOo

2009-07-31 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Charles T. Bell wrote: According to Bing.com, MS' own search site, MS' total revenue is expected to be $US 64.9B-$US 66.4B, while operating income (read expenses) is expected to be in the range of $US 24.4B-$US 25.5B for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. Do the math! That comes out to a

[users] Writer - strting page numbers on second page

2009-07-11 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
OO 3.0.1 - is there now an EASY way of doing this? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

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