Re: [users] open office not performing

2007-10-10 Thread DougM
bianca siavoshy wrote: To whom it may concern: Please help me I am about ready to delet this off my computer. Thank you for your time, Bianca S. So am I. Bianca, look into AbiWord: http://www.abisource.com/ Freeware. I'm trying it out now. For the simple things I do, it is Much mo

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
John Meyer wrote: Google fdisk. The linux version is more advanced, but either one can create the partitions you need. K. Thank you. -- Doug M. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
John Meyer wrote: James Knott wrote: I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some instructions? Thanks. -- Doug M. In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows partition to save your documents and skip the flash drive. That will work

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
James Knott wrote: dougM wrote: I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you

Re: [users] Pagination rant

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
James Knott wrote: I have made a discovery that might be helpful to folks who are having trouble paginating. Have you seen a doctor about that? ;-) Drafting a letter to JAMA even as we speak. (One page only.) No kidding, though, thanks to the many who have written in to help me,

Re: [users] Pagination rant

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
Thanks, Jim. I'll try it. -- Doug Jim Hartley wrote: I have been getting pagination to work reasonably well (both 2.0.4 and 2.3). The secret is in understanding that "Default Page" and "First Page" (in the list that pops up from F11) are DIFFERENT ANIMALS. Position your document on page 2 (

Re: [users] Pagination rant

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
Joseph wrote: Strange but I am always doing this and it just works! On Page 1 insert>footer>default - this gets a footer in all pages Click in footer - insert>fields>pagenumber - this puts a page number in the footer starting from 1 and incrementing for each page. Regards, Joe Durn, Joe,

Re: [users] Open Office on a system containing 2 operating systems

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a document wherever

[users] Pagination rant

2007-10-06 Thread dougM
Greetings from a newbie, all. I have made a discovery that might be helpful to folks who are having trouble paginating. I had written a document and wanted to add page numbers. Nothing fancy, no roman-to-Arabic transition, just, y'know, consecutive numbers on consecutive pages. It was too