Linda, the straightforward approach is to procedurally enforce that the Open
Office users save to the desired Excel format.
Respectfully,
Mike C. Baker
From: Wilcox, Linda K
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:01 PM
To: 'users@openoffice.org'
Subject: [users]
Hello-
I recently
Also, if you haven't already, check out the Open Office wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Migration_Guide/Calc_and_Excel
M
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mike C. Baker kiheb...@hotmail.comwrote:
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Linda, the straightforward approach is
RA Brown wrote,
[..]
DOC and RTF ar both MS owned closed formats. OOo and LibO have what
limited conversion they have from reverse engineering files. It is not
and can not 100% compatible. Someone at MS leaked the format for DOC but
anyone making a 100% compatible program would be sued. MS
Bob Long wrote:
RA Brown wrote,
[..]
DOC and RTF ar both MS owned closed formats. OOo and LibO have what
limited conversion they have from reverse engineering files. It is not
and can not 100% compatible. Someone at MS leaked the format for DOC but
anyone making a 100% compatible program
Stephen Throop wrote:
I have a Mac PPC. If I use OO Writer to type a document and save it as
RTF, it will open fine. If I use OO Writer to open an RTF created with
another app, then save as RTF, keystrokes and words will be missing,
seemingly at random.
The same problem occurs if I copy and
On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:38 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Stephen Throop wrote:
I have a Mac PPC. If I use OO Writer to type a document and save
it as
RTF, it will open fine. If I use OO Writer to open an RTF created
with
another app, then save as RTF, keystrokes and words will be missing,
seemingly
Stephen Throop wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:38 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Stephen Throop wrote:
I have a Mac PPC. If I use OO Writer to type a document and save it as
RTF, it will open fine. If I use OO Writer to open an RTF created with
another app, then save as RTF, keystrokes and words will be
On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:09 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Stephen Throop wrote:
--
Thank you, Andy! How about TXT? At a glance, it seems reliable.
Plain text is the lowest common form. There is no formatting or
graphics so should work across the board.
I thought RTF was almost as simple.
Stephen Throop wrote:
Wow! I used Stuffit Expander to make a folder of an ODT document. Now I
see why it takes so long to open or save with OO.
This is one thing that, it seems, people forget. It takes time to
compress and then store the data.
I believe I've read that Wordperfect
Il 18/03/2011 20:10, William Case ha scritto:
Hi;
This may just be a brain cramp, but I can't see anything in help. If it
is in help could you tell me under which topic I should be looking.
I have a big spreadsheet in Calc with several sheets. I simply want to
save one sheet to a new file
On 3/18/2011 3:10 PM, William Case wrote:
Hi;
This may just be a brain cramp, but I can't see anything in help. If it
is in help could you tell me under which topic I should be looking.
I have a big spreadsheet in Calc with several sheets. I simply want to
save one sheet to a new file
William Case wrote:
Hi;
This may just be a brain cramp, but I can't see anything in help. If it
is in help could you tell me under which topic I should be looking.
I have a big spreadsheet in Calc with several sheets. I simply want to
save one sheet to a new file (.xls). The data and
On 18/03/11 19:10, William Case wrote:
Hi;
This may just be a brain cramp, but I can't see anything in help. If it
is in help could you tell me under which topic I should be looking.
I have a big spreadsheet in Calc with several sheets. I simply want to
save one sheet to a new file (.xls).
In news:i14t0f$85...@dough.gmane.org,
Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com typed:
On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote:
On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote:
Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will
save the scanned image as odt or something capable of
being imported into odt? (On Windows my
On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote:
On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote:
Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will save the scanned
image as odt or something capable of being imported into odt?
(On Windows my wife's HP Officejet has a function to scan into a Word
document -
Gordon ha scritto:
On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote:
On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote:
Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will save the scanned
image as odt or something capable of being imported into odt?
(On Windows my wife's HP Officejet has a function to scan into a
On 7/8/2010 9:05 AM, Gordon wrote:
On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote:
On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote:
Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will save the scanned
image as odt or something capable of being imported into odt?
(On Windows my wife's HP Officejet has a function
On 08/07/2010 17:08, Marcello Romani wrote:
When the scan is complete, you'll have an ordinary odt document with an
image in it.
Regardless of whether the image has been scanned or inserted by hand, it
will be editable with the usual limitations of OOo (brighntess,
contrast, tone, etc.),
Hi,
2010/7/8 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
On 08/07/2010 17:08, Marcello Romani wrote:
When the scan is complete, you'll have an ordinary odt document with an
image in it.
Regardless of whether the image has been scanned or inserted by hand, it
will be editable with the usual limitations of
On 7/8/2010 12:17 PM, Gordon wrote:
On 08/07/2010 17:08, Marcello Romani wrote:
When the scan is complete, you'll have an ordinary odt document with an
image in it.
Regardless of whether the image has been scanned or inserted by hand, it
will be editable with the usual limitations of OOo
Drew Jensen wrote:
Hi,
Perhaps a detour:
get something that does the OCR -
http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/files/gscan2pdf/
This will allow you to produce a pdf file, not of the bitmap image only,
but will run the OCR function to generate text.
On 07/08/2010 09:17 AM, Gordon wrote:
...
I think we're drifting off here!
What I am really after is this.
If I connect to the Officejet in Windows and put a document on the
scanner, there is an option to scan the document in as a Word document,
not as an image file, and the resultant file
In news:4bd30416.8070...@the-martin-byrd.net,
RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net typed:
Manuel Barros wrote:
Hello everybody. Dear user helpers, let's suppose that I
use separate main files for odt and ods works and that I
have been working on an xxx.ods file and then I have
closed OOo
Manuel Barros wrote:
Hello everybody. Dear user helpers, let's suppose that I use separate main
files for odt and ods works and that I have been working on an xxx.ods file
and then I have closed OOo application. If then I need to work on an xxx.odt
file, when trying to open it, the files that
In news:cadf357f08ab49adb154be0a29ae6...@your01352a0c79,
george curran gcur...@uwclub.net typed:
Sir,
I have just converted my original Microsoft x-cel and
word files to your open office system.
Whilst the transfer was successful I note I can only
access the files by checking on
bstanev...@aol.com wrote:
I see lots of coomplaints about not being able to save documents, but no
answers. My version - with Vista - says that the document doesn't exist, so
it can't save it. Well, of course it doesn't exist - it won't save
it DUH
Is there a fix other
Hi,
I'm sorry that I overlooked this when it was posted. I now found it by
luck. As it was a direct question to me I will answer it even if it
might be a little bit outdated.
NoOp wrote:
On 11/21/2008 12:40 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
NoOp wrote:
[snip]
Also, note that StarOffice 9 (yet to
On 01/31/2009 09:17 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
NoOp wrote:
So a couple of questions:
1. Would these SO8 fixes then correspond with OOo fixes?
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-120184-16-1
[issues with digits greater than 5]
2. Given that fixes in #1 with digits
NoOp wrote:
On 11/06/2008 03:08 AM, Dieter Treichel wrote:
We are using staroffice 8 and openoffice 2 since 2006 on about 300 pc in
my school. The users are saving their data on their personal
samba-share.
Now we want to change to OO-3 and have the problem, that no user is able
to save data
On 11/21/2008 12:40 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
NoOp wrote:
[snip]
Also, note that StarOffice 9 (yet to be fully released) may have the
same issues. However, generally Sun/SO tend to use OOo as a testing
ground (hence the delay in releasing SO9), so perhaps they will have
addressed the problem
On 11/06/2008 03:08 AM, Dieter Treichel wrote:
We are using staroffice 8 and openoffice 2 since 2006 on about 300 pc in
my school. The users are saving their data on their personal
samba-share.
Now we want to change to OO-3 and have the problem, that no user is able
to save data in his/her
PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Saving Styles
Twayne wrote:
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Oct 2008 at 9:45, Harold Fuchs wrote:
SNIP
Don't forget the stylist (F11) can load styles into an existing
document from a variety of places - you don't have to start by
opening a suitable template to create
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Oct 2008 at 9:45, Harold Fuchs wrote:
SNIP
Don't forget the stylist (F11) can load styles into an existing
document from a variety of places - you don't have to start by
opening a suitable template to create your document. I confess I've
not tried it, but the
Twayne wrote:
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Oct 2008 at 9:45, Harold Fuchs wrote:
SNIP
Don't forget the stylist (F11) can load styles into an existing
document from a variety of places - you don't have to start by
opening a suitable template to create your document. I confess I've
not tried it,
At 18:42 01/10/2008 -0700, Joe Conner wrote:
I was trying to make a landscape style available within Calc. I did
not want to recreate a style everytime I opened a new document. I
still cannot get the landscape style available in a new document in
the F11 choices.
As far as I know, the only
Harold Fuchs wrote:
But this is exactly my point. It shouldn't be up to the program. The
program shouldn't have to be able to handle it. The program shouldn't
know. The program should just trap the error generated by the OS and
tell the user what the OS said.
Moving stuff from one OS to
I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the file
name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message You cannot save in the
URL location you specified. Please choose another location. This implies
something completely different, in that OOo seems to think I'm specifying
Grover Blue wrote:
I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the file
name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message You cannot save in the
URL location you specified. Please choose another location. This implies
something completely different, in that OOo seems to
: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:31 AM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: [users] Re: Saving Files with a colon in name
Grover Blue wrote:
I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the
file
name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message You cannot save in the
URL location
Brian Barker wrote:
May I please rehearse an alternative viewpoint?
One of the obvious needs for document files is their exchange between
users, and users may have different platforms. If I save, say, an odt
file on my system, I may wish to transmit it to you by some means. If,
with
H.S. wrote:
Regarding this problem of valid characters in filename, I have always
discourages uses from using spaces in their filename. I think all of the
present OSes handle those perfectly well, but one cannot be sure if an
application will do so or not; that depends on the programmer who
On 16/09/2008 04:06, Brian Barker wrote:
At 23:44 15/09/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 15/09/2008 22:10, Jim Allan wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Personally I think that the checking of a file name for legality is
the job of the OS and not of the application but that's just me.
You might
Jim Allan wrote:
H.S. wrote:
I recommend the rule of thumb: use alpha-numeric characters only (a-z,
0-9) and perhaps an underscore to separate words in the filename, and
additionally a period for the extension. How hard can this be?
Would you recommend this to a ordinary Joe who just
On 09/16/2008 07:13 AM, Grover Blue wrote:
I think that we are off topic here. I'm not getting a message that the file
name is invalid. Rather, OOo gives me the message You cannot save in the
URL location you specified. Please choose another location. This implies
something completely
H.S. wrote:
Yes, but only if the unicode (utf8 or utf16 or others) text support has
been polished and verified that it works in the OSes in their languages.
I would say that goes without saying. But people were computing in those
languages, except for Gujarati, long before Unicode.
Having
Jim Allan wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Yes, but only if the unicode (utf8 or utf16 or others) text support has
been polished and verified that it works in the OSes in their languages.
I would say that goes without saying. But people were computing in those
languages, except for Gujarati, long
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 14:44, H.S. wrote:
You are missing the point. Out of all those online document, please point to
even a single one which has Gujrati characters in its filename.
AFAIK, મુખપૃષ્ઠ is a Gujurati word. The word મુખપૃષ્ઠ is part of
the file name of the page
jonathon wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 14:44, H.S. wrote:
You are missing the point. Out of all those online document, please point to
even a single one which has Gujrati characters in its filename.
AFAIK, મુખપૃષ્ઠ is a Gujurati word. The word મુખપૃષ્ઠ is part of
the file name of the
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 20:56, H.S. wrote:
I ditched all of my 阿妹 links a couple of months ago, otherwise I'd
supply URLs where the only thing that uses the Latin writing system is
http. (Even the TDL was a Chinese character.)
The filenames should work, but domain names do not, at least
On 05/16/2008 02:30 AM, Neels Smit wrote:
Hi
When you open a document saved with an .xls extension and close it
again, without changing anything, the program asks you if you want to
save changes. I'm using OpenOffice 2.4.0. Please help.
Neels, I have tested in both 2.4.0 Windows
Sorry about the error in my reply address. Will be cognizant of this
in future. I just completed an uninstall, deletion of the OOOo
profile and a virus/spyware scan and a registry scan followed by a
reboot and fresh install. Nothing changed.
On 03/11/2008 12:29 AM, James wrote:
No joy.
On 03/11/2008 08:41 AM, James wrote:
Sorry about the error in my reply address. Will be cognizant of this
in future. I just completed an uninstall, deletion of the OOOo
profile and a virus/spyware scan and a registry scan followed by a
reboot and fresh install. Nothing changed.
Thanks. Did
On 03/08/2008 04:41 AM, James wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. Please see below:
On 07/03/2008 15:53, James wrote:
Hi Guys,
On save and save-as operations office writer crashes every time.
Any ideas? Cheers, James
Please tell us
a) Which version of which Operating System you are using
Win XP
Andy Ellis wrote:
Okay, I've looked through the user comments and answers about fonts, but can't
find anything similar to my problem.
Basically, I loaded up a file which is in Courier Final Draft. I would like to save this font but don't know how to. When I click the menu button of the
On Oct 4, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
Having worked on a file from a USB device I'm then unable to save
it back to that device directly. I can save it to the desktop and
transfer it, but I don't see why should have to. It's extremely
annoying. I did read a similar thread but
On 10/05/2007 01:20 AM, Frhr.v.Recum wrote:
I am using version 2.2.1.(German) of OpenOffice.org.
My problem is : that the saving of a CALC.document as dBase.dbf produces
a file which is not recognized by FoxPro(DOS and Visual)
If I do the same with SUN Star Office 7 it is ok.
What could I
Having worked on a file from a USB device I'm then unable to save it
back to that device directly. I can save it to the desktop and
transfer it, but I don't see why should have to. It's extremely
annoying. I did read a similar thread but all the answers mentioned
Linux and I'm using Mac
On 09/04/2007 08:30 AM, James Knott wrote:
As far as I know, OpenOffice can read, but not write Word Perfect
files. However, I believe StarOffice can read and write them.
Nope. SO8(update 7) can open them, but not save as Word Perfect.
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:20:03 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
Laurent:
If you want a multi-national audience to view your pages it is best to leave
them in
quoted-printable format (that is what you see when you save the page) and is
W3C
compliant.
True. But when I work with the file in a
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Using OOo 2.0, I tried to save a document in RTF format and in DOC
format. The RTF document came out funny --just a number, and no text.
The DOC document came out just fine. Is there a problem with RTF
format? I had no trouble saving RTF docs under the previous
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:28 +1000, Bob Long wrote:
I'm wondering if this can be confirmed. If so, I'll enter it as an Issue
(unless someone can point to one already there. I could not find one). OOo
2.0; Win XP. Adminstrator permissions. Files in question are not read-only.
Create a
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:28 +1000, Bob Long wrote:
I'm wondering if this can be confirmed. If so, I'll enter it as an Issue
(unless someone can point to one already there. I could not find one). OOo
2.0; Win XP. Adminstrator permissions. Files in question are not read-only.
Create a
I'm wondering if this can be confirmed. If so, I'll enter it as an Issue
(unless someone can point to one already there. I could not find one). OOo
2.0; Win XP. Adminstrator permissions. Files in question are not read-only.
Create a Writer template as follows:
1) Create a new Writer document.
Bob Long wrote:
I'm wondering if this can be confirmed. If so, I'll enter it as an Issue
(unless someone can point to one already there. I could not find one). OOo
2.0; Win XP. Adminstrator permissions. Files in question are not read-only.
Create a Writer template as follows:
1) Create a
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From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:55 PM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Re-saving existing template causes error
Bob Long wrote:
I'm wondering if this can be confirmed. If so, I'll enter
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