[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-21 Thread Tim Deaton
*OpenOffice* (www.openoffice.org) and it's more-updated descendant *LibreOffice* (www.libreoffice.org) are both free software no matter how many copies you use. A little history might be in order: Sun Microsystems, which created *OpenOffice*, was bought by Oracle 2 years ago. Oracle had

[users] Re: Downloading extra copies

2011-12-21 Thread Tim Deaton
Also, you probably want to know this: The *LibreOffice* list that corresponds to users@openoffice.org is us...@global.libreoffice.org. The *LibreOffice* list gets a LOT more traffic these days. -- Tim == On 12/21/2011 5:04 PM, Tim Deaton wrote: *OpenOffice

[users] Re: Request: Mail CD Rom Software of Open Office Suites Professional Version

2011-09-19 Thread Tim Deaton
representatives. I hope this helps. -- Tim Deaton On 9/16/2011 6:53 PM, Andre Cardinal, Sr. wrote: Dear People; As I have in the past, utilize Open Office for various non profit organizational projects; this stands to be another opportunity to do so. Please forward the Professional

[users] Re: Still active?

2011-06-06 Thread Tim Deaton
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 moved there. -- Tim Deaton, GA USA -- - To unsubscribe send email to users

[users] read/write Apple iWork formats?

2011-05-12 Thread Tim Deaton
Does either OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice read and/or write to Apple's iWorks formats? Particularly their Numbers spreadsheet format? I'm currently running OpenOffice 3.3.0 under WinXP sp3. I've looked at the load and save as options, but if it's there I don't recognize it. I've never seen

Re: [users] Multiple sheets in Writer

2010-06-06 Thread Tim Deaton
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 6 June 2010 16:28, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: The sheets in Calc are not separate documents; they are all part of one single spreadsheet. Formulas from one sheet can reference cells on another sheet. You are right, but I was giving an example of

Re: [users] Multiple sheets in Writer

2010-06-06 Thread Tim Deaton
Tim Deaton wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 6 June 2010 16:28, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: The sheets in Calc are not separate documents; they are all part of one single spreadsheet. Formulas from one sheet can reference cells on another sheet. You are right, but I

Re: [users] Re: Clippy

2010-05-31 Thread Tim Deaton
Gene Young wrote: On 5/29/2010 12:10 AM, NoOp wrote: On 05/28/2010 05:03 PM, Jeffrey Barish wrote: Not to Gene: http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html eh? :-) I love the way everybody cuts out the most important part of my post; EMPHASISNot a criticism,/EMPHASIS just a fact of

Re: [users] Path specification

2010-02-17 Thread Tim Deaton
jonathon wrote: Tim Deaton wrote: The fact that OOo is one program is no excuse. It's still several very different TOOLS, Actually, it is one tool, with several different modes of operation. The fact that they share a lot of code makes them part of one PROGRAM

Re: [users] Path specification

2010-02-16 Thread Tim Deaton
of files in the same folder. End of rant. (But hopefully it'll catch the eye of someone who can make a difference with such things.) -- Tim Deaton - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] Re: Calc: remove ' character before number

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Deaton
be releasing that at BibleTech 2010. jonathon As someone who knows nothing about SQLite except the name, I'd like to see that too. I hope that there'll be someplace we can download it after you release it. (And when is BibleTech 2010?) It sounds like something I could learn a lot from. -- Tim

Re: [users] turn off Taskbar buttons for each open window

2009-12-29 Thread Tim Deaton
Dotan Cohen wrote: I know that most windows managers can handle this. Which windows manager are you using (Gnome, KDE, Windows)? I'm using WindowsXP with SP3, and OOo 3.1.1. Check grouping in the taskbar options. Thanks for the suggestion. Brian Barker suggested the same

[users] turn off Taskbar buttons for each open window

2009-12-20 Thread Tim Deaton
button no matter how many spreadsheets are open. In either Word or Excel, I can go to | Tools | Options | View | and uncheck the Windows in Taskbar checkbox to accomplish this. How can I do the same thing in OpenOffice? -- Tim Deaton

Re: [users] turn off Taskbar buttons for each open window

2009-12-20 Thread Tim Deaton
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/12/20 Tim Deaton t...@timdeaton.org: Because I usually have many programs running at once, each with buttons on the taskbar, I generally do NOT want every open Writer document (or every open Calc document) to have it's own taskbar button. I only want to see one

Re: [users] How do I adjust size of printed output in calc

2009-11-05 Thread Tim Deaton
Brian Barker wrote: At 11:35 04/11/2009 -0500, Tim Deaton wrote: When I print a spreadsheet in Excel, if the sheet is too large for one page, I can adjust the size of the printed output. I can either adjust the size by a percentage (ie: print at 75% of normal size) or I can set it to shrink

[users] How do I adjust size of printed output in calc

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Deaton
. I can also adjust the margins of the document. And all this is done from either a Page Setup box that can be accessed either from the Print Preview screen or from the File menu. Where do I find this functionality in Calc? -- Tim Deaton

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Deaton
M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 13:16:52 PM -0400, Web Kracked wrote: I have a question? Why not get some really smart people together on ODF, OpenOffice.org, and other open source software, technologies, and concepts, AND create a Wikipedia style of site but with the correct info.

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.1 not compatible with Windows 7?

2009-05-31 Thread Tim Deaton
Thank you, Drew, for answering the original question. I may be using Win7 very soon, and as I waded thru this thread, I was beginning to wonder if anyone had actually tested it on Win7. -- Tim Drew Jensen wrote: I am just asking if someone has tried Win7 and OOo to counter what the upgrade

Re: [users] Envelope printing problems

2009-05-29 Thread Tim Deaton
At 2/23/2009 1:58 AM Tim Deaton wrote: At 18:05 16/02/2009 -0500, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:08 16/02/2009 -0500, Tim Deaton wrote: I'm using OOo Writer v3.01 (OOO300m15 build 9379) on WinXP SP2. The hardware is a no-name PC with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor and 1gb ram. Whenever I write

Re: [users] Envelope printing problems

2009-02-22 Thread Tim Deaton
At 18:05 16/02/2009 -0500, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:08 16/02/2009 -0500, Tim Deaton wrote: I'm using OOo Writer v3.01 (OOO300m15 build 9379) on WinXP SP2. The hardware is a no-name PC with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor and 1gb ram. Whenever I write a letter on OOo and then use |Insert

[users] How to stop Writer from wanting to change my styles?

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Deaton
I'm using OOo Writer v3.01 (OOO300m15 build 9379) on WinXP SP2. The hardware is a no-name PC with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor and 1gb ram. Usually, when I'm using OOo Writer, I'm writing a letter. Sometimes I start from a template I've created and sometimes I start from an older letter.

[users] Envelope printing problems

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Deaton
I'm using OOo Writer v3.01 (OOO300m15 build 9379) on WinXP SP2. The hardware is a no-name PC with an AMD Duron 950mhz processor and 1gb ram. Whenever I write a letter on OOo and then use |Insert|Envelope| to print the envelope on a #10 envelope, the recipient's address wants to print too far

[users] Problem saving letter to odf in OOo3 for WinXP

2008-12-26 Thread Tim Deaton
time. So I saved it successfully as an Office97 .doc file, closed the file, reopened it, and then successfully saved it to the odt format. Can anyone tell me whether anyone else has reported this problem? And (hopefully) whether there's a fix already in the works? Thanks, Tim Deaton

Re: [users] Spell Checker for Openoffice 3.0

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Deaton
to 'add' every word to the dictionary, and it did remember those words and stopped flagging them. It's as if the dictionary file is out there, but empty. Is it possible to download a replacement dictionary? If so, where would I find it? -- Tim Deaton

Re: [users] Re: PDF Forms

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Deaton
to a pdf. So it might be that I actually just filled in the form, then 'printed' it to another pdf.) -- Tim Deaton

Re: [users] Newsgroup moderation

2008-06-16 Thread Tim Deaton
] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I second that. I joined this list to learn more about OOo. But most of the messages seem to have nothing to do with it. -- Tim Deaton - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-13 Thread Tim Deaton
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Re: [users] #MAKRO?

2008-05-09 Thread Tim Deaton
of the function: 360. DAYS360() is designed to assume that every month has 30 days. It is used for certain financial calculations. If you count DAYS() FROM May 15 to June 15 you will get 31. If you count DAYS360() from May 15 to June 15, you will get 30. Tim Deaton