Re: [users] naive question

2005-12-30 Thread Richard N. Fell
The path is /usr/bin/soffice. Thanks Quoting CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu December 29 2005 19:17, + Richard N. Fell wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Thank you very much for this information. It was most helpful. However, one problem remains. With gnome, I cannot start

Re: [users] naive question

2005-12-29 Thread Richard N. Fell
no difference. Thanks for any help, Dick Fell Quoting G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:23 -0500, Richard N. Fell wrote: I am running redhat 9.3 and have openoffice 1.0 installed. Two questions: 1) How do I uninstall 1.0? 2) I have installed the latest but cannot

[users] naive question

2005-12-28 Thread Richard N. Fell
I am running redhat 9.3 and have openoffice 1.0 installed. Two questions: 1) How do I uninstall 1.0? 2) I have installed the latest but cannot determine how to start it. I installed via the rpm's that came with the tar.gzip file. Many thanks, Dick Fell Richard N. Fell Fisher School of Physics

Re: [users] UNO leaks

2005-05-03 Thread Richard/n
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 10:21 am, Geoffrey J. Teale wrote: Hi, We've found a memory leak when using OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 as a server dealing with multiple pyuno scripts. Can anyone tell me where the right place to discuss this issue would be? I don't want to post a huge e-mail here if

Re: [users] Help!

2005-05-03 Thread Richard/n
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:44 am, Fredrik Kervel wrote: Hi, Can you please rescue my document? Openoffice had a crash and when I restartet it was impossible to open the file. Can you fix this?ç Need more information. I wonder what version of OOo you are using. What sort of file did you

Re: [users] my Microsoft Office

2005-05-03 Thread Richard/n
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 03:45 pm, Tia Luker wrote: Hello I seem to be having some issues with the microsoft office program. Do you mean the program that works like microsoft office? Do you mean OpenOffice.org? What version? What OS? Though I imagine Windows 98 or ME. Everytime I

Re: [users] Translating OOo documents (was Re: [users] ooo 2 with 2 languages?)

2005-04-28 Thread Richard/n
See below: On 2005/04/26, at 21:07, Shane Rice wrote: Hey everyone, Using OOO 2 Beta Writer. When I'm working in a Spanish Document, and I cut and paste another language into the document the spell checker goes crazy. I translate the work into Spanish, and then set the

Re: [users] Activating Open Office Thesaurus

2005-04-27 Thread Richard/n
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 07:15 am, Rowan Han wrote: Hello, I'm a fairly new user of Open Office and can't seem to activate the thesaurus function in text documents. Is there something I need to do to open the thesaurus for the first time? (I couldn't see anything under Help) Thanks very

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-26 Thread Richard/n
On Monday 25 April 2005 04:49 pm, Kim E. Matheson wrote: Kim E. Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have powerpoint presentations that are already developed. If we = download and use the Impress software, 1) can we convert the existing powerpoints into this format (.swf or = .mov)

Re: [users] Diccionario de OOo 1.1.4

2005-04-26 Thread Richard/n
On Monday 25 April 2005 10:23 am, elia martinez wrote: Hola., Alguien me podría ayudar para que el diccionario de la version OOo 1.1.4, funcione. Me metí en herramientas y nada. Saludos Elia Claro que si. Hay varios opciones: http://es.openoffice.org/programa/index.html

Re: [users] removing 1.9.79 requires Thunderbird to close?

2005-04-26 Thread Richard/n
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 11:25 am, Gordon wrote: I installed 1.9.95 and removed 1.9.79. On removal, it said it couldn't continue as Thunderbird was open! (It's not even my default Email client - I use it for Newsgroups!). Is this normal, or is this a bug? Windows sometimes doesn't want to

Re: [users] assistance appreciated

2005-04-08 Thread Richard-n
On Friday 08 April 2005 13:20, Christina Godinez wrote: i'm downloading from www.openoffice.org thank you once again can you give me the link to a different site? thank you very much Steve Kopischke wrote:Have you tried downloading from a different server? Christina Godinez

Re: [users] Watermarks

2005-04-07 Thread Richard-n
On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:56, Anthony Scott wrote: Dear List, I write a lot of Draft documents which are distributed for comment and then sent back to me. How do I insert a watermark which reads DRAFT across an A4 sheet of paper as it is printed out? I am on a Windows XP OS and I am

Re: [users] Screen starts blanking out after everything is idle only two seconds

2005-04-07 Thread Richard-n
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 18:42, Jason Brower wrote: I am creating a presentation and after showing the presentation and am back in to the editing screen my screen goes black after I am Idle only 2 seconds or so. Can anyone help me? FC3 Oo version 1.1.3 Jason Never seen your problem in

Re: [users] Platinum Perfect pro office system

2005-04-07 Thread Richard-n
On Thursday 07 April 2005 14:21, Barry Vogel wrote: Hi when i first save my work and then add more text or data in writer it won't let me save in samefile name. I have to save it under different file name. I find this to be very irritating. Barry J. Vogel I imagine. Platinum Perfect

Re: [users] Database Help with OO 2

2005-03-27 Thread Richard-n
What does, 'cotton pick'n db issue!', actually mean? It's just nicer than sayin' #*2 !!() )=??#= db issue. Common in the South. regards, Richard. Steve. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] How to open

2005-03-27 Thread Richard-n
On Saturday 26 March 2005 18:22, John Betty Henderson wrote: I have just downloaded openoffice. i cannot find it on my mac so how do I open it? B There is probably a function on the Mac called Find or Search. Use that to find where it downloaded to. It happens to all of us. It really

Re: [users] Basic Question

2005-03-27 Thread Richard-n
On Saturday 26 March 2005 20:28, Don Ritter wrote: Why use Open Office? I already am familiar with the standard MS products. What are the compelling reasons to use Open Office? Are there advantages over the usual programs? I downloaded the program but i am now asking myself why should i

Re: [users] Re: Sun.com Email - Question: publishing software (PR#3187)

2005-03-27 Thread Richard-n
On Sunday 27 March 2005 18:01, CPHennessy wrote: User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Herlick, 705-878-8998 - wrote: Does open office.org have anything in the office suite that will open ms publisher files In short no. However the recommended way of openinf this files is to ask a

Re: [users] howto wrap text in spreadsheet cell

2005-03-26 Thread Richard-n
On Friday 25 March 2005 20:35, Bob Lockie wrote: I want to know how to wrap text in a cell instead of cutting it off or printing over the next few cells. I use Ctrl-Enter while entering the text. Richard. - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] Publisher Files and OpenOffice.org

2005-03-25 Thread Richard-n
On Friday 25 March 2005 16:09, Crystle Numan wrote: Dear Sir: Only MSOffice is able to open publisher files. The file format is not known to anyone else. If possible, have the person who created the publisher file to export to RTF or HTML and work from that. I have never seen a version of

Re: [users] Spelling for Open Office

2005-03-25 Thread Richard-n
On Friday 25 March 2005 07:10, Tony Martin wrote: Hi, even though I am a technician I find it hard to install the UK English spelling pack. Perhaps integration for getting language packs could be built into OO. Many thanks for your hardwork Tony Martin P.S. I do try and support you