Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I
want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them
float). How do I enable this?
Pramathesh
Have you tried the advice in He
jimw wagner wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday 01 December 2006 07:33 am, Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I
want toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them
float). How do I enable this?
Pramathesh
Hav
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Friday, December 01, 2006 5:55 PM [GMT+1=CET], jimw wagner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Never mind. I found the answer. Thanks anyway
JimW
Are you going to keep it secret?
Click beside the bar, float it to the text window, then hit the "Cancel"
b
M Henri Day wrote:
Thanks Terry ! I use FF 2.0 (also in the version included with Ubuntu
6.10)
as my browser. I have no problem whatever when pasting from one
OpenOffice
document to another ; I haven't had occasion to attempt pasting into
another
text editor
Naive as I am, I had presumed
ndeed, was easier in Windows and Word, where
everything required could be accomplished with a few mouse clicks.
Anybody
feel like taking pity on me in my ignorance and providing me with
step-by-step instructions to make things work ?...
Henri
2006/12/14, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I Use
Philip Spray wrote:
Basically the document is a straight book but I want variable headers like a
dictionary. I have changed over to individual files for chapters/sections.
Now I want to make it do the page numbers right.
-- Phil
On Thursday 21 December 2006 09:42, web kracked wrote:
Wha
I used the official OpenOffice, not the Ubuntu build, and loaded it on
my Ubuntu 6.2.
I took the RPMs and used alien to shift them to debs. Had to use the
-scripts option on two of them.
I then installed these with dpkg.
What I ended up with was a /usr directory in the OO folder on the
Des
TerryJ wrote:
david bird-4 wrote:
I saved some files with the same password (a mix of uppercase, lower case
and numerical characters) and now I can no longer open the files that I
saved. This is VERY frustrating to say the least!
Any suggestions/help would be very much appreciated!
David
Bob.
For one thing, it won't help to cut in with a new subject on someone
else's thread.
For another, at the bottom of each message you receive is this:
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James Knott wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
Actually it is more than just a list: there is a Migration Guide
which includes several chapter on differences between MS Office and
OOo. You can download these chapters from
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooa
The biggest problem, as has been pointed out, is that a very large
number of people are totally unfamiliar with mailing lists, indeed, with
much about their computer besides the programs they commonly use.
Simply deleting any message that has been delivered to the moderator
won't really "teach
Thanks for the tip about flpsed. It may just be something I've needed.
JimW
John Meyer wrote:
Thanks, I'll try that if flpsed doesn't work.
James Knott wrote:
What I did, was to use the PDF as the background and then create the
form over top of it. To do this, you have to convert the PDF
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:57:03 -0800
NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:56 -0800
NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
Can you please explain the D&D that you are trying to do in more detail?
OK, let
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:49 -0600
jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
I've been reading this with some interest,. as I am using the "official"
version of OO2.1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I've been doing a lot of editing
recently, and have ne
TerryJ wrote:
James Lockie wrote:
1. I created a new document
2. Tried to save it to 'media:/sdb1/test'as t.odt ('Storage Media' in
the Save dialog).
3. Get an error dialog that says 'Saving using protocol "media" is not
supported'.
Is 'media' a folder? My system uses /mnt - can
James Knott wrote:
Kelly Covey wrote:
Hello,
Is there a difference between the purchased Open Office and the
downloadable version?
If there is a pay version, how much is it? We are looking for the
full package, for example, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Email,
etc...
There are
James Knott wrote:
Well, I've currently got the 64 bit v2.1 running on SUSE. I believe 2.1
is the latest and 64 bit isn't generally available.
You're one of the lucky ones, then.
JimW
I have two files that I have been working with, each of them in a
table. As the tables have increased, the time required to save them has
also increased. On occasion, if I had other programs open at the same
time, some changes cold cause OO to crash.
As a solution to this, I went into Tools
Kush wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:29 -0400, Kush wrote:
Hi all,
There seem to be no help documents or faq concerning how to remove a
hyperlink in a text document. One can only edit or change it but not
remove the hyperlink.
Really? Which release of
I'm using OpenOffice 2.0.3 on Ubuntu Linux. (_Not _the Ubuntu version of
OO.)
How can I arrange that certain things, such as names, go into the
Spelling dictionary? For the last while, every chapter, I have to
re-introduce these names and so on, because they don't seem to be saved
from one d
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:57:23 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:48 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
If \n represents a "line break" entered via SHIFT-ENTER, what represents
a "paragraph break" entered via ENTER?
Or maybe $ see
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:46 -0600, jimw wagner wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:57:23 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:48 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
If \n represents a "
When I look at an .rtf copy of my work, it shows all the formatting data
at the top.
For instance the following:
caption;Index;Texboddi;Untitled1;Footnote Symbol;Endnote
Symbol;Book1st;Names and notes
I don't seem to recall it doing this before.
Problem number two, I have a toolbar (for wor
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 22:43 -0600, jimw wagner wrote:
When I look at an .rtf copy of my work, it shows all the formatting data
at the top.
For instance the following:
caption;Index;Texboddi;Untitled1;Footnote Symbol;Endnote
Symbol;Book1st;Names and notes
I
RBL wrote:
Please resent this email without all the unnecessary expletives.
(%^$#@). Your questions can be answered, but you need to calm down
and write a civilized letter. Your problems can be solved. If you
want to know how to do this in your own language (Dutch), that is
also possible.
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Sorry, can't help you since this are only random letters to me since I
don't
understand your language... I think this is an English only list.
Hopefully
someone will reply anyway and direct you to the proper forum for your
language.
Johnny;
That's a terribly impolite w
I am using the official 2.0.3 version of OpenOffice on Ubuntu.
I have tried several times tonight to import data from a spreadsheet to
a database, using the instructions given in the documentation on the
list, that is,
How can I import a spreadsheet table to a database?
Thanks to Regina Hen
Paul_B wrote:
Is there any way to do parallel columns in Write? By that I mean
columns where the text flow in each column is independent of that
in the other, except that page breaks would be honored.
I've tried columns, tables, and frames so far, with no luck. All
I get is newspaper-type story
jimw wagner wrote:
Paul_B wrote:
Is there any way to do parallel columns in Write? By that I mean
columns where the text flow in each column is independent of that
in the other, except that page breaks would be honored.
I've tried columns, tables, and frames so far, with no luck. All
I g
arnold huzen wrote:
Claudia,
Please keep the discussion in english on this mailinglist. If you want to keep
it in german, because you consider it a german issue, then continue it offlist
or move it to the german userlist.
Arnold Huzen
Arnold;
Lighten up. If someone has a problem and th
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Monday, October 16, 2006 11:02 PM [GMT+1=CET], terry cotter <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
im usung openoffice.org 1.1. im gettin a message " openoffice.org
cannot be started due to an error in accessing the openoffice.org
configuration data. please contact your system ad
Derek wrote:
Prior to my recent post (just above) I have never posted to this forum using
my e-mail address, therefore my address was not harvested from this forum
but from my registration application details. Fortunately, I can very
easily cancel this address so it is not a serious problem.
H
John Meyer wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Return Receipt
Your [ This EMail May Be Spam ! ] [users] [moderated] Open
document: DOCX fi
I'm in Thunderbird as well. It wouldn't surprise me to know that people
go into their setup menu for the first tie, don't quite comprehend what
"Return Receipt Requested" means so they say "yes," just so as not to
miss something that might be important.
Much like the people who report that Op
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 15 July 2007 02:02:35 mike wrote:
Thanks, I had no idea you were all volunteers. The problem is
that when I was writing in 'Word' when closing quite often it
would switch me to Open Office...no problem thenbut now it
tells me months later:- Open Office.o
I am using the official downloaded version of OpenOffice 2.2.0, working
on Ubuntu linux.
The problem is that double-clicking on an .odt file does not open it,
not unless I put in the exact path to the program.
This is an annoyance, though I haven't felt sufficiently annoyed to
complain abou
NoOp wrote:
On 07/15/2007 05:03 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:25:49 -0600
jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is that double-clicking on an .odt file does not open it,
not unless I put in the exact path to the program.
Right-click on th
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Matthew!
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Matthew Harrison wrote:
Then my question is now "why in the world are you using Linux?"
You're describing things that aren't an issue at all if you know some
basics about Linux, and if you use a package manager, all
NoOp wrote:
Tools|Customize|Toolbars|Standard|Add
Category: Insert
Commands: Special Character
Click the "Add" button, then the "Close" button.
The SC icon will now appear on your standard toolbar.
Thanks very much!
I occasionally do transliterating from foreign languages, and having a
M Henri Day wrote:
Six months ago several participants on this forum discussed using various
keyboard techniques to type Unicode glyphs into an OOo text. Users of recent
Ubuntu versions like Edgy and Feisty discovered that it was possible to type
in a glyph by first holding down «Ctrl + Shift + u
Been wondering about that one myself. If it's supposed to be a
"Standard" in which all documents are written, and the "Standard" is a
closely guarded MS proprietary secret, who in the world could believe
that it will be available to absolutely everyone?
Was it actually just as bald as it see
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! --
http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
It would be nicer if you did not put your whole question in the subject
line. I'm not sure about others, but for me, I have to go through a lot
of hassle to find
Just had this link forwarded to me. Very interesting.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6208274.html?tag=nl.e550
JimW
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Just to get in on this. Considering how many people write in with
problems, but don't (apparently) know enough about e-mail to not put
their whole post, several paragraphs worth, in the subject line, as well
as various other things, putting the hurdle in their way of having to
subscribe first
Unfortunately, no one on this list can unsubscribe you. What procedure
did you use? Are you trying to unsubscribe from a different address
than you subscribed?
When you unsubscribed, or attempted to do so, what response did you get?
If ou can tell us that, maybe someone can tell you where
I'm using the Official version of OpenOffice_2.2 on Ubuntu 7.04.
One of the things I've used to make my writing go faster was to use the
Replacement table. For instance, if I found my self using the name
'Alexander' frequently, I would set it up so that if I put in ale*, it
would spell out Al
Top hand:
It is no use pestering this list. It is a group of volunteers.
If you would politely list the procedure you went through to
unsubscribe, and the results, someone might be able to help you.
Did you really follow the procedure at the bottom of each e-mail?
Another problem that trip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I purchased Open Office 2.2 with the extras cd. How do I get the extras
installed. There is no install or exe. program on the cd.
Unfortunately, you'll have to go to the person who sold it to you to ask.
OpenOffice is free to download from
http://www.openoff
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Joseph wrote:
Can it be used with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has OpenOffice already installed,
but I like to make the best of programs and if there's more that I
can use, I think it's good to have it all when one does some of the
things I do.
I don't find it in the Package Manag
Joseph wrote:
jimw wagner wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Joseph wrote:
Can it be used with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has OpenOffice already
installed, but I like to make the best of programs and if there's
more that I can use, I think it's good to have it all when one does
some of the t
JOE Conner wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote:
<>
For the benefit of those of us who did not understand it...
My guess would be that there is an American/Australian coin worth
12.5 cents, since that would make sense of this comment.
Is that correct??
Lisi
It was a Mexican coin. Numerous referen
When I am cutting and pasting text from the net, I constantly have a
problem that only so much shows on the OO screen. Sometimes, If I cut
down the font-size greatly, I can get the rest, and even then I can
only save it by cutting and pasting it again, into Kword, After which I
can put that f
I had already discovered that if I pasted it as unformatted document, I
got all the text, but without the formating, which is a pain if the
original was two columns.
Thanks,
JimW
rob clement wrote:
jimw wagner wrote:
When I am cutting and pasting text from the net, I constantly have a
This is the handiest one to put up:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1276&Itemid=27
JimW
NoOp wrote:
On 11/10/2007 09:30 PM, jimw wagner wrote:
When I am cutting and pasting text from the net, I constantly have a
problem that
of the
third page.
JimW
Rafał Maj wrote:
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:30 -0600, jimw wagner wrote:
When I am cutting and pasting text from the net, I constantly have a
problem that only so much shows on the OO screen. Sometimes, If I cut
down the font-size greatly, I can get the rest, and
Actually, I am going to be printing out the data.
JimW
Brian Barker wrote:
At 23:30 10/11/2007 -0600, Jim W Wagner wrote:
When I am cutting and pasting text from the net, I constantly have a
problem that only so much shows on the OO screen. Sometimes, If I
cut down the font-size greatly, I c
I installed the mstcorefonts, and tried again.
It still gives me only the first three of 25+pages.
Thanks,
JimW
NoOp wrote:
On 11/12/2007 11:29 AM, jimw wagner wrote:
This is the handiest one to put up:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show
Marco, I am on the edge of setting my Thunderbird to junk any more
messages from you.
Your postings are taking up much too much time and space for the
importance of the subject.
We all know how you feel, wee've heard it over and over and over and over.
Please, for the sake of our sanity, cea
The last few times, a new install of a new version of OpenOffice has
simply accepted my settings, which is nice.
However it still on occasion (latest being this evening) unaccountably
switches around to the "factory defaults," that is, the curly quotes,
and changing of double hyphens into one
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 30/01/2008, Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jim,
jimw wagner wrote (30-1-2008 5:34)
The last few times, a new install of a new version of OpenOffice has
simply accepted my settings, which is nice.
However it still on occasion (latest being this e
Harold Fuchs wrote:
I apologise if you think I was being condescending; I certainly didn't
mean to be.
When you change the settings to how you want them, do you have the
Quickstarter running? I have found in the past that it interferes with
OO's memory of such changes. My theory is that it
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Jim,
jimw wagner wrote (30-1-2008 17:20)
I looked at the Format>While typing, and that is ticked, as it should
be. To _accidentally_ hit this series of keystrokes seems unlikely,
to say the least.
That's what I think :-)
Saying that the settings "mus
Cor Nouws wrote:
jimw wagner wrote (31-1-2008 2:46)
Harold Fuchs wrote:
When you change the settings to how you want them, do you have the
Quickstarter running? I have found in the past that it interferes
with OO's memory of such changes. My theory is that it holds open
some file so
web at work wrote:
The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts
so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when
it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble.
You might also find this interesting; the U.S. Army is switching to Linux.
sorry, try this one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/us_army_linux_integration/
JimW
M Henri Day wrote:
2008/2/9, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
web at work wrote:
The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts
so they do not want M$ to get
Harold Fuchs wrote:
NoOp wrote:
Sorry:
Also: Edit|Account Settings|news.mozilla.org|Copies & Folders -
should be:
Also: Edit|Account Settings|gmane.comp.openoffice.questions|Copies &
Folders -
a) I'm using E-mail, *not* News;
b) When I use TB's *E-mail*, the messages sent *do*
Just this evening, I finishedfiinshed editing a piece. Eg was working
fine at that time.
I then started a new piece, started it in my normal "First Chapter"
template. Somewhere in the middle of the thing, the space bar stopped
working, until I typed the next non-space character.
Even more
Hagar de l'Est wrote:
Le 28.03.2007 06:46, jimw wagner a écrit :
I then started a new piece, started it in my normal "First Chapter"
template. Somewhere in the middle of the thing, the space bar
stopped working, until I typed the next non-space character.
I was able to correc
Hagar de l'Est wrote:
Le 28.03.2007 17:57, jimw wagner a écrit :
Hagar de l'Est wrote:
Le 28.03.2007 06:46, jimw wagner a écrit :
I then started a new piece, started it in my normal "First Chapter"
template. Somewhere in the middle of the thing, the space bar
stopped wo
My problem in this regard will be slightly different; when I finally
retire my old machine and get a new one, I'll probably still have to pay
the "Windows tax" for the inclusion of a system I'll scrub pretty well
immediately.
JimW
Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday March 30 2007 9:00 pm, John Boyle
I haven't installed OO 2.2.0 yet. Does anyone know whether it can
handle Unicode Plane I? I know 2.1.0 just fills in question marks for
anything but Plane 0.
Thanks,
JimW
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I use linux, have for several years, and am nowhere near being a
programmer. In fact Ubuntu, which I have been using lately, requires no
programming at all, though I suspect you are referring to the occasional
things that must be done using the command line, which is far from real
programming.
Just now got up0 into Google and wrote in "what is a11y?"
First hit:
Web
definitions for A11y
In
human-computer interaction, computer accessibility refers to the
usability of a computer system by people with disabilities. It is
largely a soft
The other day I loaded the latest Ubuntu, and with it came OO-2.2.2
included.
In the process of saving files, I find that it does not have the dialog
which allows one to change the file-extension. That is, you can put in
the new file extension, but unless you specifically erase the previous
TerryJ wrote:
jimw wagner wrote:
The other day I loaded the latest Ubuntu, and with it came OO-2.2.2
included.
In the process of saving files, I find that it does not have the dialog
which allows one to change the file-extension. That is, you can put in
the new file extension, but
NoOp wrote:
On 06/01/2007 04:07 PM, jimw wagner wrote:
The other day I loaded the latest Ubuntu, and with it came OO-2.2.2
included.
In the process of saving files, I find that it does not have the
dialog which allows one to change the file-extension. That is, you
can put in the new file
Tan Godfrey wrote:
Hi Richard, and all who replied me,
I am very grateful for the suggestions rendered. I have both done the "Save As" into another file name as well as to Microsoft Word format but still to no avail.
I also clicked on "Edit" button (the icon with a paper and pen/pnci
Grant M. Brown wrote:
If I wanted a lecture I would have called my mother. All I want to
know is did make a donation to OpenOffice and if it is on a credit
card statement under what name would it be? Nothing on PayPal ckecked
that last night. Give my best to Tony
Grant
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