Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:18, James Knott wrote: Jim Hartley wrote: See how easy it is when you understand the workings of big corporations? Oh, I understand. I used to work for IBM, at two different times in my career. So do I. IBM screwed all the OS/2 users with their lack of

Re: [users] starting

2007-09-26 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 04:35, Gilles Mousseau wrote: i have installed and uninstalled OpenOficce 2.3 three times and i can't get it to open, it just keeps repeating the installation. what do i do? thank you You've left out some things that would make it easier to assist you - like,

Re: [users] OOo user list survey

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 23 September 2007 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find out how many people are actually subscribed to this User List to see if there is justification to make changes to how the list works with regard to subscribe requirements or not. Okay this will only work best if

Re: [users] Re: Identifying Unsubscribed Posters

2007-09-23 Thread Robert Smits
On September 20, 2007 11:49:23 pm Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/21/07, Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, for pity's sake, USE A REAL EMAIL PROGRAM to read the list! oi! why are ye shouting! 'real' email program, eh? what about us GMail/Yahoo/any other web-based mail users. i know

Re: [users] Re: Identifying Unsubscribed Posters

2007-09-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 12:23, Larry Gusaas wrote: I am not complaining about people CCing the original poster. I AM complaining about people being able to post without being subscribed. As I explained elsewhere, I can not filter for unsubscribed posters when I use the Gmane newsgroup

Re: [users] IBM Lotus Symphony

2007-09-19 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:42, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: I wouldn't get too excited. They claim to support SLED and Red Hat, but their download isn't even available in RPM format. Looks like typical IBM cluelessness. Actually, they are not The losers who decided to go RPM with OOo

Re: [users] horrible

2007-09-19 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 06:53, Johan Mathew wrote: A lot of illiterate nonsense. Another windows troll heard from. -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [users] IBM Lotus Symphony

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:37, James Knott wrote: Those who have Lotus Smart Suite files may be interested in this. As I understand it, it's Smart Suite updated to work with ODF. http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa I wouldn't get too excited. They claim to

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

2007-09-11 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 09:33, Jekke Bladt wrote: 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. Yes, it's still being sold, but under the name Ecomstation, not OS/2. I

Re: [users] [moderated] Microsoft insecurity

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:31, Ken Burnside wrote: I run Windows at home/work, and take due precautions - firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, strip attachments into a different partition. I run in user mode, not admin mode. I run Windows because it runs the software that I need to be

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 10:01, jonathon wrote: Joseph wrote: That is precisely why we need an address to which we can mail a check. If there isn't a physical address on the website, then no contributions from anybody who is located in, resides in, or a citizen of the state of California can

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:18, jonathon wrote: Robert Smits wrote: The website is hosted in Europe. Last I heard, California laws only apply in California. a) The California statute implies that it has jurisdiction worldwide. b) The US respects neither national sovereignty

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-02 Thread Robert Smits
On Monday 02 July 2007 04:23, jonathon wrote: Robert Smits wrote: bank a withdrawal of however many euros that works out to. That's hardly rocket science. Nope, but it is the best, and fastest way to ensure that OOo can not receive any funds, because of fraud. [My guess is that the first

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-02 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 01 July 2007 23:54, Harold Fuchs wrote: I don't wish to place the burden anywhere. The fact it says Euros on the web page places the burden on the donor. It is *not* normally possible to buy/donate in a foreign currency. If I want to send my foreign mother-in-law money in her

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-02 Thread Robert Smits
On Monday 02 July 2007 10:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 02/07/2007 18:17:19 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I didn't. You are confused. I haven't sent you anything. You, however, are, or have been subscribed to the users@openoffice.org mailing list, and are

Re: [users] Donation Issues

2007-07-01 Thread Robert Smits
When you buy stuff in a foreign country you pay in that country's currency and the amount you get charged in your currency is not specifiable by you but depends on the exchange rate in force at the time your bank (or credit card company) debits your account. This is true whether or not you

[users] How do I turn off Open Office auto formatting?

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Smits
This afternoon, Open Office (2.0.4, on open suse 10.2) has been driving me absolutely bonkers. It infuriatingly insists on moving words and numbers to fit it's idea of how the format should be instead of behaving itself and leaving my text alone unless I ask for changes. For example. I have

Re: [users] clipboard does not clear and repeats a paste Copy time after time

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 19 May 2007 20:05, Marlene Jones wrote: I have a Mac OS X and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Yesterday I copied a recipe off the Internet and stored it as a document. Today I tried three times to copy and transfer another document as e-mail text. All three times the recipe appeared.

Re: [users] Software question

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 20 May 2007 13:04, Frank wrote: Dear Sirs, I have nothing for respect for your software. I am a disabled individual, who doesn't have the funds for the MS office thing. You have given me and many others the ability to use a quality product, on a budget which I can actually afford to

Re: [users] I have a question

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 12 May 2007 15:15, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: Mr. Michael L. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 12 May 2007 14:43:33 EST Does Openoffice offer Speech to Text? If how do I access it. Mr. Michael L. Dixon No, it's core functionality does not

Re: [users] I have a question

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 12 May 2007 15:15, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: Mr. Michael L. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat 12 May 2007 14:43:33 EST Does Openoffice offer Speech to Text? If how do I access it. Mr. Michael L. Dixon No, it's core functionality does not

Re: [users] MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout. MORE from a MickySoft shill!

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:21, Michael Adams wrote: These tests come up from time to time and should always be seen in perspective. Both use two different models. Microsoft Office 1. Starts one application at a time 2. Works on Microsoft Windows OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] IBM Select Copywrite Principles

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 28 April 2007 06:42, John W. Kennedy wrote: Richard Detwiler wrote: What do you mean by a11y? a-ccessibilit-y, like 119n for i-nternationializatio-n Hmm that's very intuitive ... not ... :) I don't suppose it is very intuitive, but it /is/ established jargon. With WHOM?

Re: [users] Linux migration with OOo- question from a rank newbie-LONG

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 21 April 2007 03:03, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Saturday 21 April 2007 00:49, my mailbox was graced by a missive from Adrian Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote: OpenOffice.org comes standard (preinstalled) on almost every Linux distro, so you won't have any difficulties there.

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HEREMMARY HERE

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 21 April 2007 05:01, Gerard Chrzanowski wrote: Anyone: I purchased OpenOffice 2.0.4 CD, as my WinOffice2000 is incomplete. (Partial Install on machine which I bought used) After arrival, I anxiously tried to install it. It would not install on my W98SE. The following

Re: [users] Linux migration with OOo- question from a rank newbie-LONG

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 21 April 2007 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 April 2007, Robert Smits wrote: But quite often the vesion packed in the distribution is not the lates, so you are better off not installing this, but downloading and installing the version from OO.org In my

Re: [users] incomplete printing of label sheet

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 13:23, myron joseph wrote: When using Oo labels templet for Avery labels #5160 . It prints all but the last row of labels. 2/3 of the last row across prints . The bottom address line didn't print.On print page preview it shows all 30 labels.It seems to

Re: [users] Address labels

2007-04-15 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 15 April 2007 02:28, John Curd wrote: I have a data base of about 100 names and addresses for which I want mailing labels (21 labels per page). I do File=New=Labels and create a new document for the label type (Avery J8160 - 21 per page) with the required data base address fields.

Re: [users] Why we need something like Outlook

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:52, PSC Inc wrote: OpenOffice is the first step for me. Once I get comfortable with it, I want to switch our network over to Linux and abandon MS forever, but I don't know enough yet. I don't have a Unix background. I went from CP/M directly to Windows, never

Re: [users] Why we need something like Outlook

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 03:11, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 15:21, my mailbox was graced by a missive from Douglas Hinds [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote: I hope open office integrates a great PIM with security and an E-Mail client ... then we might have a marketshare

Re: [users] Outlook Equivalent

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 07 April 2007 11:11, Chris Cioffi wrote: On 4/6/07, Robert Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outlook is a bug-ridden Windows product that introduces more viruses to its users than any other email client. Outlook is a major business application with more people being daily users

Re: [users] Outlook Equivalent

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Smits
On Friday 06 April 2007 09:43, Chris Cioffi wrote: On 4/6/07, Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This I do not understand the problem. I use Linux with a KDE desktop. Kontact has the things you just mentioned and some other things as well in a PIM package (RSS and weather for two

Re: [users] Outlook Equivalent

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Smits
On Friday 06 April 2007 08:34, Chris Cioffi wrote: Outlook is far more than just email. The Outlook/Exchange combination is something I haven't seen really replicated yet. The combination of Email, Calendar, Todo and Journal, even if individually lacking, combine into a very powerful tool.

Re: [users] Menu change...

2007-03-18 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:38, Joseph Amato, Jr. wrote: I am using version 2.1of OpenOffice.org. My concern is that there is no way to change the actual view of openoffice. Is there anyway to make openoffice look more like microsoft office 2003 or 2007? GawdI hope NOT! -- Bob Smits

Re: [users] impress 2.0 prsentations created can not be read and shown by powerpoint

2007-03-18 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 17 March 2007 12:38, Albert Pye wrote: My open office program is great! However, although I can use it to look at power point presentations, power point can not open or read impresses presentations. So, impress will open its own files and powerpoint files, but powerpoint will

Re: [users] Unverified Publisher

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 06:16, Veronica Williams wrote: I am downloading newset version of Open office for the first time. I am using windows xp. I received a security pop up box that say, Are you sure you ant to run this program. The publisher could not be verified. Is this ok to run?

Re: [users] Lotus Word Pro documents

2007-03-13 Thread Robert Smits
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:48, Dr. med. John van Limburg Stirum wrote: I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is: Can you also open Lotus Word Pro documents? Thank you John van Limburg Stirum John, you don't say what operating system you're using, so this is more difficult

Re: [users] OpenOffice for OS/2

2007-02-19 Thread Robert Smits
On Monday 19 February 2007 06:54, James Mckenzie wrote: OS/2 is still technically superior to any version of Windows (there is a batch file that will bring XP and even Server 2003 to its knees as it takes up all of the CPU cycles) in my humble opinion. However, it runs on almost all home PCs

Re: [users] Can print landscape from Calc

2007-02-17 Thread Robert Smits
On Thursday 15 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purchased a cd over e-bay Open Office Plus (I think). When I create a wide spread sheet, even though I set it up to print lanscape, it always prints letter style. Any suggestions. Thanks, Gary Foster Do a print preview, go to

Re: [users] Re: Job search resume

2007-02-04 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 03 February 2007 17:31, Pete Holsberg wrote: Lighten up; it's almost time for the Super Bowl! :-) Note - at the risk of further extending this now off topic discussion, for those who are on this list but not residing in North America, here's Bob's definition of Super Bowl Super

Re: [users] Why do some users get CC:ed (or The best way to answer questions on this list)

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 27 January 2007 04:57, CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'd like to remind everyone of a few simple points which may help new users get the most out of our answers:   1) We should CC: the posters of messages that contain a Delivered-to: moderator header since they are from users who

Re: [users] problem with saving document in open office .org

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 10:23, annie gonzalez wrote: please contact me I tried to save a file with open office.org and I accidently saved all of my documents in some other format and it changed all of my documents into hyroglifics. I can't read any of my documents. I have used open

Re: [users] Convert Wordstar 4 Format to Open Office

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Smits
On Monday 22 January 2007 08:52, Sam Sloan wrote: I am using Open Office 2.1 I have some old documents in Wordstar Version 4. How can I convert these Wordstar documenmts to OpenOffice? Sam, have a look at the following site: http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm#FAQ It lists

Re: [users] Lotus WordPro docs

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 23:38, Mathias Bauer wrote: Howard Coles Jr. wrote: I see a filter in my OpenOffice.org writer that shows that I can open WordPro Docs (from Lotus Smartsuite). However, when I open a doc it just comes up a blank page. I'm running 2.0.4 (because Kubuntu

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:54, Arnold Huzen wrote: For the time being it is 3 to 1 in favour for another setup in this discussion. Well, here's a vote for retaining mailing lists. I detest web based forums, all with their own format, and usually unbearably slow. The thing we need to

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: Top Post I'm only voting for a web forum if registration is forced. The mailing list as it is now is fine by me. In fact I prefer it to web forums. But in my opinion forced registration and, more particularly, the consequent and entirely

Re: [users] Forced Registration For This List (was Re: [users] Return receipts)

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: Don't forget too that many OO users are still on slow dial-up lines using pay as you go tariffs so suddenly getting hundreds of irrelevant e-mails a day, some with attachments, is not going to be well regarded from a cost or time point of

Re: [users] unistall OpenOffice.org

2006-11-30 Thread Robert Smits
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Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Smits
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Re: [users] [moderated] Publisher/pdf conversion

2006-11-29 Thread Robert Smits
to a pdf file. Open Office can't open MS Publisher files. -- Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Smits
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Re: [users] Re: Dropped caps

2006-11-01 Thread Robert Smits
that wrapped around the end of the line, and tried it again. Now it worked. Still wouldn't do it with the top line, however. I hope this behaviour is a clue. Bob. -- Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC Email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Send as Email not working in 2.04

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Smits
. The question would be why you'd want to use them given the superiority of both Kmail and either Konqueror or Firefox. In fact why would anyone want to use IE or Outlook in Windows either? -- Robert Smits, Ladysmith BC Email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Printing Mail Labels

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Smits
On Saturday 16 September 2006 06:58, Thomas Tallant wrote: I'm trying to print mailing labels, the Avery type (in this case, 5160). Everything seems to be set up correctly, and the print preview shows where the address should print, but the address always prints on the wrong part of the page:

[users] Re: Lotus-Smartsuite-Files

2006-04-14 Thread Robert Smits
Peter Krueger wrote: Hello, I'm using Open Office Org 2.0 with Windows and Linux. Before I used Lotus Smartsuite with Windows. Can you tell me if there exists any import filters for importing Lotus-1-2-3, Lotus-Freelance and Lotus-Wordpro files into Open Office Org. If there exists any