RE: [users] Re: Advice re ECDL

2008-03-18 Thread Jekke . Bladt
It seems silly to me. Still, someone should be pushing them to recognize OOo as a good alternative to Microsoft Office before they deliberately or inadvertently turn ECDL into another platform for Microsoft hegemony. --Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [users] [moderated]$45 - your product was not free

2008-03-13 Thread Jekke . Bladt
Carol Bryant wrote: And excuse me for being stupid, but my computer cannot locate the install instructions on your disks. S U C K S! You're excused. OpenOffice.org is, indeed, a free product. People who package OOo are allowed, under the terms of the license, to charge a fee. No one here

RE: [users] Can I get Works for free?

2007-10-30 Thread Jekke Bladt
Even if you got Microsoft Works for free, it would still be too expensive. --Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:37 AM To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Can I get Works

RE: [users] OOo user list survey

2007-09-24 Thread Jekke Bladt
--Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net -Original Message- From: Curt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 4:34 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] OOo user list survey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find out how many people are actually subscribed

RE: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-11 Thread Jekke Bladt
Back in 1998, I bought an IBM PC directly from IBM and there was no option to have OS/2 installed. If it's still a product, they're certainly not pushing it very hard. --Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net -Original Message- From: John Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: [users] settings

2007-09-04 Thread Jekke Bladt
It depends on the extension of the file you downloaded. With any extension except .txt, you can right click on any file with the extension in question in Windows Explorer, select Open With... and, when you select OpenOffice, click Always use this program. --Jekke http://www.pokernerd.net

RE: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-12 Thread Jekke Bladt
OOo is licensed for free use for all purposes, commercial and non-commercial. You do not have to pay for a license, regardless of what you use it for. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Sümer Yamaner MD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:17 AM To:

RE: [users] [moderated]

2006-01-12 Thread Jekke Bladt
Carrie-- Your daughter can use OOo to do her work and, when she is finished, save it in a Microsoft-supported format. Provided that she does so, her teachers will be able to read the documents using Microsoft Office. Simply use the Save As feature and save in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

RE: [users] A .chm, Strange, probably M$ format file

2006-01-05 Thread Jekke Bladt
If you're using Windows, it should open normally just by double-clicking on it in Explorer. CHM is a compiled HTML help file. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:13 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] A

RE: [users] Opening a document wit hthe cursor in place.

2006-01-05 Thread Jekke Bladt
If you're working in Windows, CTRL-END will bring you to the end of the document. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Jim Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:14 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Opening a document wit hthe cursor in place. Back

RE: [users] TS Environment

2005-11-29 Thread Jekke Bladt
TS = Terminal Services. Like any normal Windows application, OOo will run under terminal services. No special license is required. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Sigrid Kronenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:13 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject:

RE: [users] Profanity in the dictionary and thesaurus

2005-11-18 Thread Jekke Bladt
I strongly suspect that the f-bomb is not the only profanity in OOo's dictionary. Has your school provided a list of verboten words that you can cross-check from? --Jekke -Original Message- From: Craig Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:05 AM To:

RE: [users] Re: Thesaurus for English UK

2005-11-18 Thread Jekke Bladt
The language/country codes are part of an ISO standard which designates the English of Great Britain as en-UK. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Thomas Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:21 AM To: users@openoffice.org; users@openoffice.org Subject: Re:

RE: [users] Mystery Missing F13

2005-11-03 Thread Jekke Bladt
My PC only goes to F12 as well. --Jekke -Original Message- From: Andrew Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:57 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Mystery Missing F13 I am glad it doesn't -- my mac only goes to F12. What would you want to

[users] Minimum requirements - laptop running OOo

2005-11-01 Thread Jekke Bladt
All-- I'm speccing out low-end laptops that I can use for writing and not much else. I was wondering: 1. What's the cheapest laptop I can buy and run OOo reliably? 2. What's the cheapest laptop I can buy and run OOo under Windows reliably? TIA --Jekke