With OO.o versions 3.x I had no problems printing envelopes (COM10 and
6x9 which I believe are COM5) with my HP LaserJet 5. Now, with version
3.2.1 (and earlier 3.x versions) I cannot.
Using the envelope template I'd enter the recipient's name and address,
put the envelope (short end first)
I'm trying to convert client spreadsheets from .xlsx to .ods in OO.o-3.1
on my Slackware-12.2 system. The application crashes when I try to save-as
or, sometimes, when I move to a different sheet in the workbook. The .xlsx
file size is about 7.5M and I have 2G RAM and 2G swap on this machine.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Marcello Romani wrote:
The first thing that comes to mind is try the latest version of
OpenOffice. IME compatibility with MS Office file formats gets better
with every new version.
Marcello,
I wondered about this. I'll do this.
Thanks,
Rich
Apparently I'm not correctly specifying the regex for accomplishing what I
need.
A couple of spreadsheet columns have telephone numbers as a string of 10
digits without separating hyphens. I want to search for ?? and
replace that with ???-???- for the entire column. However, I'm
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Brian Barker wrote:
It's a bit unfair to keep your current attempts a secret and to expect people
to guess where you have gone wrong.
You saw that below.
That's not entirely clear, I'm afraid - and this may be the source of your
problem. Do the cells contain these
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Brian Barker wrote:
Apologies! I hadn't realised the question marks were your expression; I
thought they were just a representation of what you wanted done. It's
late in the day here ...
Brian,
Apology accepted, thank you. The regex I use (emacs, shell scripts, etc.)
Since upgrading from OO.o-2.x to -3.x I've had issues printing with my
LaserJet 5. Currently, 3.1.1 is installed here. The two issues I want to
resolve are:
1) When feeding from the front, drop-down tray I need to put forms such
as checks upside down and bottom in to have them print
On Wed, 26 May 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I can't help because I don't have the same printer (although mine is a
closely related Laserjet), but I never use it to print checks or
envelopes.
Ergo, you don't have the problem. Printing letters or other things on
blank paper (letter size)
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, jordan force wrote:
I am assuming that you are trying to embed the video in a text document, is
that correct?
My question is how you print the video when you print the document text.
Rich
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To
I've been running OO.o for about a decade on my Linux systems (currently
Slackware-12.2). The OO.o version is 3.1.1, cups-1.3.10, and cups-pdf-2.5.0.
The printer is a HP LaserJet 5 with the PostScript module added. I can no
longer print envelopes while I used to do so with no problems.
The
I've been running -3.0.0 here with no problems. This morning I've had two
problems, one of which seems to have resolved itself. The residual problem
stumps me.
In a document I have inserted the .jpg image of my scanned signature.
Yesterday afternoon, this image properly displayed as it
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
In a document I have inserted the .jpg image of my scanned signature.
Yesterday afternoon, this image properly displayed as it always has.
However, this morning it will not display at all. The image box is there,
but it has a default of graphics1 inside
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Cor Nouws wrote:
Under Tools|Options|OpenOffice.org Writer, View, section Display you can
tick that images are shown. Does that help?
Cor,
It certainly does! Somehow, between yesterday and today, that option was
unchecked. I never knew about it because it was never
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Brian Barker wrote:
I don't see a limited list; indeed, the list appears much larger than
anything that can be obtained by default using the mouse.
Brian,
I now see that there are more options in the pick list on the left side. I
somehow missed that yesterday.
Thank
One reason I use Writer so infrequently is its dependence on the pointer
thingie. I'm a touch typist and prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard
while writing. To do this efficiently, in emacs and joe I use control-key
chords (e.g.. ctrl-a to move to the head of the line, ctrl-e to move to the
I have a digital version of my signature (.jpg) and I want to align it
following the word, 'signature:' in a document. I'm having trouble placing
it on the same line as the word. All I can do is place it above or below
that line no matter what choices for anchor and alignment I make.
I'm
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm confident there is a way of placing a graphic file in the middle of a
paragraph, aligned with text on the same line. Please tell me how to do
this.
Oh, duh! Of course: change the wrapping of the text. That fixed it right
up.
Rich
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As part of my distribution upgrade I went from OO.o-2.4.0 to -3.0. I see
now a large, illustrated menu in the middle of the application's window when
I invoke OO.o. I want to get rid of that interior window but have not found
where in the configuration options I can do so.
Please point me to
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Gene Young wrote:
As far as the 15 line signature, ...
The standard for .sig files is 3 lines. I was chastised when I had 4.
There's probably a RFC about this somewhere. However, the degree of
acceptance of 'Netiquette is significantly lower among those who use
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
If you want to deactivate the StartCenter/StartModule, you could try two
possibilities:
(2)
Install the extension DisableStartModule.oxt which is available in -
Issue 90815
[StartCenter] Provide configuration option to deactivate StartCenter
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
Install the extension DisableStartModule.oxt which is available in -
Manfred,
Did this; put it in /opt/openoffice.org3/share/extension/install/,
However, I don't find it as an option (Tools-Options), and it's not
automatically invoked when I
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
This folder install is only a repository for the dictionary extensions.
Hi, Manfred,
I assumed this to be the case, but I use OO.o so infrequently that I've
not before added any extensions.
It now works as advertised.
Thank you very much,
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Drew Jensen wrote:
hmmm - someone should pass this along to all those SUN employees that
regularly post on mailing lists here (not usually this one ) as their sigs
run 9 or 10 lines it seems.
Drew,
Perhaps those extra long sigs are resumes. Sun's firing employees, too.
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, NoOp wrote:
Perhaps this will help:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ
Ah, yes it did. I made soft links from the font directories in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ to /opt/openoffice.org2.4/share/fonts/ and that
fixed the problem.
Thank you very much,
Rich
I recently upgraded from OO.o-2.1 to -2.4 on my linux workstation. For
whatever reason, the fonts were lost. As root, I ran spadmin and
re-installed all the fonts I want for this application, but the display has
only one font: a san-serif of some vintage. When I place the cursor on text,
the
Recently I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.4 on my Slackware workstation/server.
Now all the installed fonts are no longer accessible. In
~/.openoffice2/users/fonts/ there are no files.
How do I re-install all fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/?
Rich
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote:
Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app.
If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and
everything else, use Emacs.
Rich
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:
How do I re-install all fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/?
Never mind. I remembered the 'spadmin' program and fixed the problem.
Rich
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I'm editing a document in which I had inserted graphics, and I now need to
remove those graphics. A left-click of the trackball highlights the image
itself so that can be deleted. However, the enclosing frame remains and I've
not found how to do that. The built-in help wasn't; nothing under
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Rodney R wrote:
If I understand you correctly, you can see the light grey border designating
the frame. If you click on this thin line it should become active. You can
now delete this in a manner of your choosing (right click delete, delete
key, ctrl, etc).
Rodney,
We're running OO.o-2.1.0 here ... on Slackware-11.0. My fiancee works on
her laptop and finds the menu font size too small for comfortable reading.
I've not been able to change that size using the configuration menu. If I
missed it there, please point me to the right place.
I tried using
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michele Zarri wrote:
Tools Options OpenOffice.org View. The first section of the dialog is
called scaling. Change from 100% to, say 125%. This should do the trick.
Michele,
Thank you. That's just what was needed.
Rich
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I need to prepare a template that will be used to print on a legal form.
The text must be in precise locations on the page so that the pre-printed
form is correctly filled in. I've not found a way of doing this by looking
through menus and the Users Guide (although the index for the latter
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Dan Lewis wrote:
Can you use a frame or text box for this? Both can be placed very
accurately where you want them on a page (within .01 if you use
inches).
Dan,
If that is the best approach, then I'll put small frames or text boxes
everywhere text needs to be
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
If that is the best approach, then I'll put small frames or text boxes
everywhere text needs to be entered. I'll look at the built in help to see
which might be better.
Dan,
A read of the help files tells me that frames are probably better than
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Dan Lewis wrote:
Can you use a frame or text box for this? Both can be placed very
accurately where you want them on a page (within .01 if you use inches).
Dan,
I decided to do the form in LaTeX since that's much
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Andy Pepperdine wrote:
Tools - AutoCorrect - Apply numbering and uncheck it.
Thank you, Andy. Never would have found that without a guide. Too bad it's
not in the docs.
Rich
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My fiancee was trying to create paragraphs that referenced too-small
answer spaces on a printed form, and she wanted to number them as the form
was numbered. But, OO.o-2.0.3 (on Slackware-10.2, but that's immaterial)
wants to be smarter than the user and automatically numbers and spaces
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Peter Kupfer wrote:
I am guessing what happened is that she saved some file as the default
template.
A-ha! I'll bet that's it, Peter.
There is probably a better way, but this is a way to fix it (I think).
Yes, I know how to create and edit templates; do it for my
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
A-ha! I'll bet that's it, Peter.
Yup. That's just what she did: saved it as a template rather than as a
document file.
Thanks,
Rich
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My fiancee can get applications to do the strangest things; things no one
else can duplicate, and things I sometimes cannot fix. This is one of those
cases.
We run OO.o-2.0.2 on linux. When she presses ctrl-n, selects File-New, or
clicks on the New icon, the same, unsaved and untitled
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Anthony Chilco wrote:
It looks like the only text that can be rotated 180 degrees is fontwork
text. Another way to get what you want would be to work with the page in
portrait and use 0 and 90 degree text. When I do four-fold cards I keep the
inside text right side up and
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Try
http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/downloads/english/index.php?command=downloadreal=faltkarte.std
as a template. It does exactly what you want. You might also like to
explore some of the other templates available from
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
The setup guide offers a method of dealing with your requirement.
Please see
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf
Thank you, Rod. I had done that before but for some reason the rpm tarball
did not want to
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Did you use the Wizard, Install fonts from the web... or have you tried to
install them in the OS main font repository. I recommend you use the Wizard
initially so OOo has use of them whilst you work on installing the fonts
into the OS.
The
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
The fonts are all in /etc/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/, except for the culmus fonts
that are in /usr/share/fonts/culmus. OO.o sees none of these directories,
only the few fonts that were installed with spdamin in the 1.1.x series.
Well, this is interesting
Whatever happened to the generic linux download? A couple of months ago I
downloaded a generic tarball and installed it on my main workstation/server
and my notebook. After I upgraded my fiancee's laptop I found that I no
longer had the tarball, so I just downloaded a new one. It contains only
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Randomthots wrote:
option. Windows had many limitations but I was proficient on it and
am quite frustrated by not being able to even format a floppy disk.
Winduhs still has many limitations. Are you running a linux distribution
now? If so, you can use the mtools; 'man
A new installation of OO.o-2 on a laptop running Slackware-10.2. I want to
make additional fonts available to the application so I cd to
/opt/openoffice.org-2.0/program and run ./spadmin. It comes up just fine, but
when I go to the 'fonts' choice, only the existing ones are displayed.
Pressing
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
Symlink shall cover the multitude of sins. :-)
# rm -rf /opt/openoffice.org2
# mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/openoffice.org2
# ln -sf /usr/local/lib/openoffice.org2 /opt/openoffice.org2
Matej,
I'd have to move it all to /usr/local before rm'ing it from
I cannot get the left-to-right, and right-to-left, icons to display on the
toolbar. When I click on the small down-arrow at the extreme right end, the
visible buttons option tells me that the two icons are not visible or
selectable. However, when I select the customize toolbar option, both
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Ain Vagula wrote:
You should enable Asian languages / CTL support in Tools - Options -
Languages. These commands are only available for these languages.
ain,
Thank you very much! I enabled CTL support for the Hebrew and that fixed
the situation.
Rich
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jim Razor wrote:
have been trying to import MS Word Documents (Office XP -word 2002)
documents into Writer... they go haywire... dropping some of the borders...
then is when the fun begins...
jim,
I don't have answers for you, but I can report that I've been using OO.o
I recently replaced 00.0-1.1.5 with -2.0; no particular reason, the old
version worked just fine. Anyway, the setup did a very good job of moving
writer templates from the 1.1.5 directory to the 2.0 directory. Once I tested
the new version, I rm'd /opt/OpenOffice.org-1.1.5/ and
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
This problem has been reported quite often. It seems to be due to a faulty
upgrade script that keeps some of the old 1.1.x configurations which -with
2.0- have no meaning.
Guido,
Good; it's not just me.
I have heard from a radical solution
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
FYI the SETUP_GUIDE.pdf has this on page one:
Warning:Please keep in mind that upgrading from 1.1.x to any 2.0 release is
NOT recommended, keep the installation of each separate.
Rod,
Is copying templates from a 1.1.5 directory to a 2.0
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Using native installers was a goal so that the installer cobbled together
for the 1.1.x releases did not have to be maintained. It proved to be
problematic with the way it sucked resources. So, I guess the question is
Who can we get to maintain
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
I can understand your situation. I was hoping that you had the resources.
Too bad you do not. Maybe someone else who would like to see the old
installer back will read our exchange and step in. I guess that is the best
we can expect.
I'll
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Christof Petig wrote:
I have only 512MB RAM in the interesting machine. Luckily opening office
documents is the only task the machine has to do.
With hot caches, isn't it. I'm also interested in startup time on a newly
rebooted/suspended computer. OOo/Linux really made a
Recently I downloaded the huge tarball for 2.0 and today I tried to install
it. Unfortunately, the installation directory has nothing but RPMs, and that
does no good on a Slackware system.
Up through 1.1.5, the linux/English download provided a
distribution-agnostic installation directory.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Get the setup guide. Link is on www.openoffice.org or from the project in
my sig.
OK. It must be quite different from earlier versions, then.
Rich
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
Eugenio posted to the webmistress today:
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To let you know that a package for the Slackware Linux distribution exists
for OpenOffice 2.0 in English.
It is available on http://www.linuxpackeges.net
I have tested it and it works fine, you
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Get the setup guide. Link is on www.openoffice.org or from the project in
my sig.
Huh! Just out of curiosity, what was broken with the installation
procedures used from pre-1.0 through 1.1.5?
I don't mind using rpm2tgz as long as it
This error occurred on one of the portables here, for one user only. I've
installed OO.o on all our linux hosts since 2000 and this is the first time
this error has occurred.
When I searched the mail list archives I saw references to it and a helpful
link to an oooauthors.org FAQ web page.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
I have a question for you. What is enabled on your Tools Options
Language settings Lanuages page? What you tell us will help us help you.
Rod,
Nothing but the defaults -- until this morning.
Thanks,
Rich
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
You need two things:
1) Go to tools--options--language tools, and make sure the checkbox near
Enable CTL is marked.
Shoshannah,
Did this and specified Hebrew in the language selection widget.
2) When after you do that, you will get two new
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
Please note that in order to write Hebrew you need to use *proper* unicode
fonts. The ones that come with Windows like will do, however some
special Hebrew fonts (like the ones that come with Davka writer) will
not work.
Shoshannah,
Well,
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