issing something you need, or maybe you're trying to make it too
complex??
(I /do/ have an issue with the way page styles chain one to the next,
but that's something separate I reckon.)
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Mike Scott wrote:
The question in my mind is, how come a spammer has got hold of my
OOo-forum-specific email address?
Your address is available to everyone who reads this list, whenever you
post a message.
Please read posts first :-)
I was talking
x27;to'
header suggests a number of others have had the same email (subject "RE:
Assessment Education").
The question in my mind is, how come a spammer has got hold of my
OOo-forum-specific email address?
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ings me back to my [possibly Bayes-based] autoresponder idea
that's just been so thoroughly knocked on the head.
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can't add much else - the only problems I've had were
down to my own failures in understanding the dialogue box.
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needs them fed - IIRC printers
vary somewhat, and can jam if the flap's in the wrong position.
BTW, a relevant subject would help others on the list provide answers.
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their query and give a likely response (and tells them the benefits of
subscribing). Bayes anyone?
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ss I can't remember offhand). An awkward period for
newcomers, I think!
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subscribed, but there is a new list.
I subscribed to the new list, but receive practically no messages from
it. I don't know where all the traffic that used to be here has gone.
I strongly suspect to the corresponding LO list.
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a plugin, Presenter Console, to help if you
have the luxury of two separate screen outputs. It gives your notes and
a current/next slide view to the presenter on one monitor, and the
full-screen current slide on a second for the audience. Nice.
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On 23/11/11 19:17, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote:
Hello Mr Scott (or may I call you Mike?), and thank you kindly for
your response!
I think informality is the name of the game on most lists :-) I'm, no
great OOo expert, just a user who chips in sometimes.
Are you saying that Impress i
ay).
Quite the worst part of OOo, IMO. But I've had a *lot* of hassle in
Impress one way or another: both fades and text rendering just seem
problematic.
I wonder if LO is any better.
FWIW BTW you can just drop a swf onto firefox, at least under ub
and without being aware of it
and so it changed these settings.
What can I do to get back to my earlier set-up?
I tried to re-install the application, but to no avail.
Presumably the options are stored in your user-specific config area.
This is
On 25/10/2011 19:51, M Henri Day wrote:
2011/10/25
eschamp wrote:
Mike Scott has written on 10/25/2011 8:54 AM:
On 25/10/11 13:34, Amy Lowenstein wrote:
Data House, that would be
"users-unsubscribe@openoffice.**org"
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On 25/10/2011 18:54, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2011-10-25 11:45 AM Mike Scott wrote:
I wonder if a message sent as HTML-only (without a plain text equivalent
part) would have the unsubscribe info added...?
I'm not sure TB can send html-only emails, or I'd give it a whirl. (And I
f they're html-only. plain-text people like me would
never spot TB's presentation of html as plain text.)
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I wonder if a message sent as HTML-only (without a plain text equivalent
part) would have the unsubscribe info added...?
I'm not sure TB can send html-only emails, or I'd give it a whirl. (And
I see your MUA, Mark, isn't plain sailing either :-) )
M
adata-Tools_0.5_Beta/MetaData-Tools_0-5_Beta.zip
(beware line wrap) will be of any help. I just googled for 'openoffice
metadata api' and that turned up.
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On 25/10/11 14:08, M Henri Day wrote:
2011/10/25 Mike Scott mailto:m...@scottsonline.org.uk>>
On 25/10/11 13:34, Amy Lowenstein wrote:
Data House, that would be "users-unsubscribe@openoffice.__org
<mailto:users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org>" -- you
ess from the OP, unlike Another Thread near here.
But I've just noticed something. If I display that email as html there
is no 'how to unsubscribe' message visible. If viewed as plain text, it
does appear. This with Thunderbird. I wonder if this might be causing
some people to miss
en when 8.00 is written in text just in a table. Is
there something I can change?
regards
Bruce
Table | Number Format perhaps. But it still seems to like the time
entered with a ':'.
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chosen, although it's fiddly. (It is based round ghostscript). Quite
handy, really; there are others.
But an uncompressed A1 png at 300dpi (say?) is a big file...
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and each part scrolled separately if needed - so eg row headings could
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an option?
try the digest form. (users-digest@;, iirc). I think it's on the
website.
But don't forget everything's changing, and the old lists will (soon?)
stop working anyway.
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'know there's an update' to your existing 3.3, I'm not sure.
You can always download the latest and greatest from the openoffice.org
website; there's no smaller 'update kit' anyway afaik.
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Openoffice.org if not -- see, I said this was an OOo list :) ) Make sure
to save it as a template type (.ott).
It might all 'just happen' then. Don't forget to Synchronise Labels though.
Many thanks
Regards
Howard
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On 03/09/11 16:08, David B Teague sr wrote:
On 9/3/2011 3:10 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 03/09/2011 01:49, Rob Weir wrote:
If you want more details on how the users list will work, I'd
recommend you start a thread over there, since this openoffice.org
list is soon going to disappear. A
ve.
Such as the fate of the OOo list archives - I'd not like to see them
lost. Are they being retained and moved over?
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ser tree (or rather, the windows equivalent). Not where
one might expect. IMBW. I don't propose checking; maybe someone with a
more patient disposition might bother.
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erved by our continued "conversation". And, btw, some people would
resent your tone (which seems curiously at odds with your email address)
when they're only offering help as best they can.
Carrying your own suggestion to its logical limit, I've added you to the
'never
On 01/09/2011 22:23, . wrote:
On 09/01/2011 04:29 PM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 01/09/11 20:43, . wrote:
How can I configure Oo Writer to make automatic backups on the current
document I'm working on?
I really would suggest trying the help file first before asking in a
public forum
find.
Just search for 'backups'
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On 27/08/11 16:25, . wrote:
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How do I set the language for my document? I'm writing, of course, in
English.
Language is a character attribute. Try ^A to select everything, then
format | character, select the font tab and pick your language from the
drop-down box.
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ch archives. And you lose serendipity
- with a mail list, you see a stream of questions/answers with the
regular email and can leap in (if appropriate!), and fork a thread if
necessary; with a forum, you have to make a special effort to look. And
Effort is the watchword.
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An attachment named ARRAY(0x1c2ebe74) was removed from this document as it
constituted a security hazard. If you require this doc
t my head round sed :-) Given perl's
portability and its flexibility in pattern matching, it's my own tool of
choice for anything from one-off one-liners to OS maintenance scripts
to well, whatever.)
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Does anyone know how to work
around it? Thanks!
Not an OOo solution, but I find perl is good for this sort of thing. You
could preprocess your csv before importing into Calc.
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Put cursor /after/ that section, and repeat as many times as you want.
Seems to do more or less what you ask.
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ave a duff download. Download again, from
www.openoffice.org and nowhere else. Then try again.
You're not subscribed to this mail list so may miss answers; replies to
list only pleaser, not me personally.
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.1. The code is
running on the same 1GHz C7 with 1Gb memory)
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On 11/06/11 13:47, Le Couey wrote:
.
On 6/8/2011 10:32 AM, Gary Bertolo wrote:
PS Thanks for your response back to me today. Mike Scott thinks I was to
abrasive and as he puts it... Jotting-off or not one jot.
At the risk of being boring, I feel my same reply needs repeating here
On 08/06/11 17:32, Gary Bertolo wrote:
PS Thanks for your response back to me today. Mike Scott thinks I was to
abrasive and as he puts it... Jotting-off or not one jot.
Actually, and just for the record, what I actually wrote was
"Abrasiveness will not help one jot." I
t, as the
case may be) and give the version of OOo you're using. Maybe then
someone could advise.
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What a rube!
I wonder if he realises all his posts are being archived for posterity.
PLONK
Can't say I blame you. I /still/ reckon the list should be basically
subscribers-only, which would at least reduce this sort of behaviour.
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rather than all dates; if it finds nothing, it wrongly complains
instead about needing cookies or you're trying to change something you
shouldn't. Or maybe I'm missing something.
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rom you though (apart from this one,
that is).
FWIW, in the event you do not wish to remain on the list, unsubscription
instructions are normally at the foot of each list email.
I hope this clarifies things a little.
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On 07/06/2011 04:43, NoOp wrote:
On 06/06/2011 12:01 PM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 06/06/11 19:24, Tim Deaton wrote:
...
I've subscribed to us...@libreoffice.org as well. I think I've gotten
15-20 messages from there within the last 12 hours. So apparently much
of the activity has m
ot sick of the top/bottom post bickering that seemed to swamp the list,
said my bit about that and left.
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. Can anyone remind me?
Get the table toolbar popped up. Then go to View | Toolbars and untick
'Table'. That should stick for future occasions.
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ly should not come and go
apparently at random, so either way there's a fault.
Has anyone else noticed this sort of thing happening? And better, have a
fix (that leaves me my shadow please :-) ?
TIA.
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good. I've seen nothing as clearly described as in
this thread (thanks again, guys!)) plus some weird things with pictures
jumping around when moved (I see another thread just started on this
same topic). Neither object nor anchor ever seem to me /quite/ under
full control of the mouse.
select it
- get to the position and size sheet (shape) or frame|type menu (frame)
and select anchor to char /and/ horiz pos ... to /character/
- drag the object's anchor into the text.
Phew! Now it sounds easy.
Thanks to you and to Brian for your patience wi
On 17/05/11 02:57, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:11 16/05/2011 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:
What /exactly/ is "anchor TO character" supposed to do in Writer?
Naively, I would suppose a graphic (or whatever) so marked would
"stick" to a given character, and move with it retain
ice transitions on and between slides?
I'm on ubuntu if that makes any difference.
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pposed to do in Writer?
The command is "anchor AS character" and the help file says "Anchors the
selected item as a character in the current text. If the height of the
selected item is greater than the current font size, the height of the line
containing the item is increased.
t horizontally? Is 'anchor to
character' just a misnomer for 'anchor to line'?
I'm really puzzled about this, and info on the web seems very sketchy.
Thanks.
(3.2.0/ubuntu 10.04, but it's the same on XP)
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say 'see XyzzY' or whatever, so if there's a dot.
Anyway, you can change the list labels with the stylist (F11, select
(probably) all styles, pick the relevant numbering one, and head for
options.
Best can do. But I'm ne
On 15/05/2011 11:38, Adam wrote:
The Master document feature!!! I'm sorry but I don't know what this is :(
The help file is a mine of handy information. Otherwise Google.
The master document feature allows a single document to be split over
multiple files.
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grey background - is the dot
part of this?) before you'll get help. Oh, and the OS/version; you never
know. And maybe post a short example.
Sorry no actual solution!
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ndeed show # signs. Mea culpa, and thanks for pointing out my error.
As to the reason for the file containing nothing but zero bytes in the
first place, I've not idea.
I'm guessing there'll be no ideas until and unless someone can make this
happen reproducibly. Does it only happen
w to use the
tools they have. It's too easy for the newbie to assume everything's
100% reliable, when in fact nothing is - the result being that basic
safety precautions are omitted.
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Replies to list /only/ please.
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BTW your opening comment isn't best calculated to encourage help.
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d out to be unexpectedly
time-consuming, so I gave up. But I did twig that such a thing doesn't
actually have to be an 'official' OOo project - anyone on the list with
the right software could do it.
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reduce messages like the 'please unsubscribe' ones by sending an
automated help message. There seems so little point in posting the same
reply to the same query over and over.
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cannot tell you which email address you are sending it to" So how on
earth he (she?) expects anyone to help I cannot image - but worse, the
sender [address] isn't even subscribed.
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rectangle round the text).
Any advice please (I cannot upgrade to 3.3 becuse this is a computer
supplied under the governments 'Broadband for Seniors' program).
Regards *ruce*
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http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2182
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ombat="2" then ' already title case
oCursor.CharCaseMap=com.sun.star.style.CaseMap.UPPERCASE
elseif sWombat="3" then ' we have uppercase
oCursor.CharCaseMap = com.sun.star.style.CaseMap.LOWERCASE
else
oCursor.SetPropertyToDefault("CharCaseMap")
end if
end sub
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rg.uk
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: [users] OT: Re: Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore
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On 14/04/2011 20:17, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
Mike:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Mike Scott wrote:
On 13/04/11 20:29, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
Hello
I have used "dump" and "restore" to perform system backups for many years.
Since upg
, ah,
cautious of course :-) ). I wasn't totally clear whether the OP was
saying this happened under linux, or whether linux was being pitched as
a 'better alternative' after the event.
Either way, the lesson is the same for all OSes - keep backup cop
ata
short, something's got to have been lost.)
(Incidentally, I had to use wget to download your file; firefox just
hung for some reason. Weird.)
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I would recommend asking in a Debian support group. This mailing list is
for Openoffice.org support.
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Word reader program here
rendered the whole lot as musical symbols; although fortunately OOo came
to the rescue. Strange and unexpected things can happen when exchanging
documents. No, not an April Fool!)
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work as expected)
- save file
(extra save step is only because I'm paranoid about mis-clicking)
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#x27;2'
showing in the header of the first page with '1' as offset.
Can I suggest you check your OOo is correctly installed? Can't think of
anything else offhand, but there's hope...
(BTW the list does seem very quiet at present, and
It has now come back - I must have hit a duff patch of a few hours
(Murphy obviously still rules :-( ). Not as fast as it was though.
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t 192.18.44.18, one of sun's
machines; a web browser just times out of course.
BTW, anyone else had spam fronm an Italian gentleman addressed to their
registered OOo website login address? I had 3 a few days ago.
/Not/ a smooth switchover; I thought they'd manage better.
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if the subscribed address is different from that currently in use. I
assume that the confirm message would go to the subscribed address,
which should be OK.
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ws.
(IIRC that's got OOo 3.0 on it, but as I'm dual-booted into ubuntu
presently, I can't check)
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ful though are
UNSubscribe
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different from your "From:" address.
UNSubscribe *
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pages.
Only reply if you know how to do it.
Hmmmph. That comes over as somewhat lacking in grace. Good manners do
not go amiss, even on a mailing list.
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check out Tools | Footnotes/Endnotes. There may be something of
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m the required "5-space" tabs
(tools|options|writer|general, and measure [!!!] the character spacing
first: yuk!).
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ter driver).
Also remember the help file (F1 is quickest) should always be the first
port of call. A search for 'landscape' is very productive.
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st not this one, if you will please.)
On 03/02/2011 08:05, Mike Scott wrote:
On 02/02/2011 20:47, Harold Hauge wrote:
The Write Guide suggestion is excellent, however, if you lookup
Landscape in
OOo help. The steps there will help you create a Page style.
If you are not using styles now it
r goodness sake, do us all a favour and
subscribe to the list! If someone says not to email them, respect that.
Help others to help you.
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rrect and te under
options. Is that it? Thanks.
..."
If I'd replied at all I'd have been sarcastic, so I just stuck him in my
mail server's block list instead. Life's not long enough. Maybe someone
else with more patience could explain to him a little ab
mailing list and will probably miss
responses. Check the OOo web site for more info on mailing lists (under
"I need help" if I recall). Replies to list only please - NOT to me.
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Mystery to Me :-) )
It sounds to me that what you are describing is what happens when you click on
File/New/Writer
Starting Writer from ubuntu's main menu behaves just as if File | New
had been used. As
On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote:
On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote:
On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote:
OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1
I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term.
There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start
is, I /think/:
File | New | Templates and Documents
Organise
Navigate to the one you want to use
Commands | Set as Default Template
(Ah, does seem to work. At least, Writer starts up now with my
letterhead as default. I just need to turn that off.. :-) )
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l was well until the file server
changed, and if others aren't having the same problem with OOo, it does
rather point to the server. But looking rather than theorizing is often
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