Re: [users]Margins

2005-10-16 Thread RDMcBride
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 22:39 -0600, Scott O. Smith wrote: Is there a way to change the default margin settings permanently? Sure. You make a new default template. If you find Help a bit to techie, try the User Guides at http://documentation

Re: [users] opening a .doc file from an internet site

2005-10-03 Thread RDMcBride
G. Roderick Singleton said the following on 3/10/2005 10:58 PM: I suggest that you use your browser for this task rather than OOo. *On a quick test the URL you gave does not exist* so ...etc http://www.est.org.uk/aboutest/publications/index.cfm?mode=audtype&channel=4 gets to their publicat

Re: [users] linking between Writer and Calc

2005-10-02 Thread RDMcBride
Thank you **Mike Meyer** for taking the time to rationally explain the frustration non-developers/non-programmers and dolts like myself have in climbing the learning curve in OOo. My feeling (which is offered with kind intentions) is that until your "users" suggestions are addressed, OOo will r

Re: [users] Open Office Icons issue

2005-09-30 Thread RDMcBride
Ismael Antadillas wrote: Hello All I have notice for a long time that the Icons that identify the main programs of OpenOffice are poorly designed. Main programs meaning "Write, Calc, Impress... etc"They are crowded and poorly identify the application they are referring to. One

Re: [users] FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks

2005-09-14 Thread RDMcBride
Thank you, Naomi and CPH; Your patience in dealing with underfed PC users as myself is extraordinary. When you say, " Word uses a 'doc' file type, and files using that format have a '.doc' extension after the file name given by the user", this means to me that I may treat one "doc" as another

Re: [users] FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks

2005-09-13 Thread RDMcBride
CPHennessy wrote: It is not a good idea just to change the extension strin. It is MUCH better to change the "file type" ( also in the File -> Save As dialog. I vaguely understand some of this; not the "file type" changing. Can you point me to an English answer? Help in odt does not help:

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread RDMcBride
This from Rod fits my experience: "When I installed OOo for the first time in January '04, I thought the question meant "Do want OOo to BE ABLE TO open MSO files?" So I thought, "Yes. Install the appropriate filters, please." I really did NOT expect the file associations to change. I didn't fr

Re: [users] Re: bad programming

2005-09-13 Thread RDMcBride
Randomthots said: "She is constantly asking me if I saved something IN OpenOffice or IN Microsoft Word as if the program itself is a container for documents in some way." You mean it isn't the container? I also thought it was. Richard -

Re: [users] Cut Open Office Load Time

2005-09-02 Thread RDMcBride
David Teague began this thread as Linux help, but it also seemed to improve my own XP SP2 performance. However, the memory setting (Writer Tools > Options > Memory) suggested in David's article still varies in actual operation (in ways which many of you will understand far better than do I), a

Re: [users] Cut Open Office Load Time

2005-08-30 Thread RDMcBride
David Teague wrote: There is an article in Linux Journal by Tom Adelstein on how to speed up loading OpenOffice.org. Here is a link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8308 . [Under Windows XP it cuts the load time from about 100 seconds to about 20 seconds] .. "

Re: [users] GIMP

2005-08-28 Thread RDMcBride
Dear Users: I very much thank everyone who so patiently helped me with my GIMP problem. It is now loaded and running, and looks to have more than I need -- without all the fluff of PShop. And while PShop was a real dude when I discovered ti years ago (especially the "skew" tool - no more para

Re: [users] GIMP

2005-08-27 Thread RDMcBride
Jason Belec wrote: Well I work in the high-end film/animation industry and we use Gimp and FilmGimp quite a bit. I use OpenOffice (NeoOffice/J) variant under OS X most of the time, but also under Linux (Gentoo). I was a Photoshop user from the beginning, the beginning. I have worked for

Re: [users] GIMP

2005-08-27 Thread RDMcBride
CPHennessy wrote: Hi Linda, This sounds like a strange problem. I cannot really offer you a solution except to download another great open source tool call "The GIMP" - it is for graphics manipulation ( http://www.gimp.org ). In this tool you should be able to rotate theimage (and do many ot

Re: [users] FreezeUp in 1.9.122 Writer

2005-08-26 Thread RDMcBride
Robert Volke wrote: I too have witnessed a few freeze ups when it comes to documents with many images, but mainly I get long load times. One question, if you double click an image what comes up, MSPaint, or OpenOffice's picture window? I found that many of my images were somehow linked to MSPa

Re: [users] FreezeUp in 1.9.122 Writer

2005-08-25 Thread RDMcBride
Hello Users List: I have isolated a group of wild files that seem to resent any tampering. Usually I cannot even open them; but when I can, I know that making a change to them is likely to cause a freeze up. The package of files is about 24 pages, has several graphic/picture objects, which have

Re: [users] Google desktop plugin

2005-08-25 Thread RDMcBride
Ron Miller wrote: Is anyone aware of a plugin or setting which will allow the new Google Desktop 2 index OpenOffice files? I have many OOo 1.1 and a few OOo 1.9 which it would be helpful for Google to read. I know that I can save everything as MS Word files, but that's seems a lot of effort.