RE: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-08 Thread Marcus Parker
I just wanted to thank you very much! It worked!> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:24:21 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Problems with Open Office> > Marcus Parker wrote:> > Hello, I'm in need of

RE: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-08 Thread Marcus Parker
Just wanted to thank you and users for your assistance. I finally got things working!> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:11:27 +1000> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@openoffice.org> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Problems with Open Office> > Copy to Marcus -

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread JOE Conner
Erling Larsen wrote: mike scott skrev: On 1 Sep 2008 at 16:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document.

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Erling Larsen
mike scott skrev: On 1 Sep 2008 at 16:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the ic

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread mike scott
On 1 Sep 2008 at 17:25, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... > > There is a problem in that OOo is the only (windows) software that I > > know of that leaves its unpacked installation stuff around after the > > actual install. Worse, it leaves it on the desktop, where a lot of > > people expect an icon to b

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread James Knott
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to l

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/1 mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 1 Sep 2008 at 16:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > > 2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Marcus Parker wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open > > >> Office and I'm having trouble getting int

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread mike scott
On 1 Sep 2008 at 16:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Marcus Parker wrote: > > > >> Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open > >> Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open > >> the > >> icon for

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/1 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Marcus Parker wrote: > >> Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open >> Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the >> icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to look that I'm totally >>

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread James Knott
Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to look that I'm totally lost! Is there someone who can help me with this pro

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Dave Barton
Copy to Marcus - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: Rob Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@openoffice.org Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:47:38 +0800 > Marcus Parker wrote: >> Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open >> Office and I'm having t

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Rob Clement
Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to look that I'm totally lost! Is there someone who can help me with this pro

[users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Marcus Parker
Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to look that I'm totally lost! Is there someone who can help me with this problem. I would truly a

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-07-29 Thread Jean Lear
In answer (rather belatedly) to para 1, go to Tools > Options > Open Office.org > General > Document Status > if there is a tick in -(Printing sets "document modified" status), I know this wants you to save the document again even if you have only opened it and printed a copy of it without making a

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-07-01 Thread Phil Hibbs
sandylemberg wrote: > 1. If I open a document with Open Office Writer just to look at it and > make no changes, Open Office will not allow me to close the document. > Open Office insists that I have changed the document and refuses to close > it unless I answer the dialogue box which says > "The do

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-30 Thread Tom
Uh, Sandy? If all you want is very basic text-only editor - why not use Notepad? It doesn't get any simpler than that; and save OOo for the big jobs that need spellchecker, graphics, etc.. HTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barbara First of all, I appreciate your help and your intelligent com

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Peters
Sandy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, this list does not have a home page (that I could find) allowing member options such as "No mail", an option I would have selected because most topics have no relevance for me. I read one post to this list in which a list member describes how he peri

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-30 Thread mike scott
On 29 Jun 2008 at 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. My reply to Mike Scott addresses this point. The font is Times New Which point? Are we expected to read the whole of the rest of your post to find what on earth you're talking about? The rest of your comments are quite out of context - same

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-30 Thread mike scott
(top-posting continued to avoid further mess. No snip, to show the mess that easily results from mixing.) As well as not quoting others' text as your own, I would suggest you learm to snip appropriately, and not to top-post when that will thoroughly mess up the sequence of contributions. Seein

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread sandylemberg
Barbara First of all, I appreciate your help and your intelligent comments. I am happy to continue this conversation with you but it will have to be one on one after tonight, as I will be unsubcribing from this list forthwith. Second: Here is my main beef with MS Office: when I open a program suc

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From my limited experience, the impression I have is that ooo developers seem to arbitrarily implement new features which are inferior to the corresponding features in standard use. A good example is the tree setup for the custom installer. The approach I would like to s

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread sandylemberg
What you say makes sense. However, ooo automatically changed the font from 14 point to 10 point and then behaved as if I had made a change when I restored it. In fact, I had made a change in restoring it, but that change was just to undo the change made by oo Writer. Also, the language in the optio

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread sandylemberg
1. My reply to Mike Scott addresses this point. The font is Times New Roman which I believe is common to both ooo and msw. Permissible responses to questions in dialogue should always be appropriate, directly corresponding to the question. Programmers need to understand this. There should not be a

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread sandylemberg
>From my limited experience, the impression I have is that ooo developers seem to arbitrarily implement new features which are inferior to the corresponding features in standard use. A good example is the tree setup for the custom installer. The approach I would like to see would be to start with t

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-29 Thread mike scott
On 28 Jun 2008 at 22:05, Richard Detwiler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here are some problems with Open Office: ... > > I finally pushed "Discard" and was able to start the program. Experiments > > with a sample document showed the following: the document, which had been > > saved in Word

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-28 Thread Richard Detwiler
There seems to be a mix of some pretty legitimate problems, which I've heard reported before, and some that seem a bit contrived ... or maybe just due to a misunderstanding of how applications work. Comments in line ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some problems with Open Office: 1. If

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-28 Thread Barbara Duprey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, this list does not have a home page (that I could find) allowing member options such as "No mail", an option I would have selected because most topics have no relevance for me. I read one post to this list in which a list member describes how he periodically

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-28 Thread Barbara Duprey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some problems with Open Office: 1. If I open a document with Open Office Writer just to look at it and make no changes, Open Office will not allow me to close the document. Open Office insists that I have changed the document and refuses to close it unless I ans

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-27 Thread sandylemberg
Additionally, this list does not have a home page (that I could find) allowing member options such as "No mail", an option I would have selected because most topics have no relevance for me. I read one post to this list in which a list member describes how he periodically unsubsrcibes when going on

[users] Problems with Open Office; was Re: [users] Install Directory

2008-06-27 Thread sandylemberg
Here are some problems with Open Office: 1. If I open a document with Open Office Writer just to look at it and make no changes, Open Office will not allow me to close the document. Open Office insists that I have changed the document and refuses to close it unless I answer the dialogue box which

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office installing

2007-03-10 Thread Tom Chilton
Hi, This is probably a known issue with your anti-virus software. When you have downloaded the program disconnect your computer physically from the internet (ie disconnect your cable from the phone line). Then disable your anti-virus. Install OpenOffice and when the installation is complet

[users] Problems with Open Office installing

2007-03-10 Thread Pete Merrick
Hi I have downloaded Open Office but when trying to open it I get the message NSIS error and that the installer is corrupted or incomplete due to disk error, failed download or a virus. I have downloaded twice now, checked for viruses and still the same error..Any ideas Cheers Pete --

Re: [users] problems with open office

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Chilton
ect: [users] problems with open office hi. i've downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 for the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and when i clicked on it to open the dmg. file, it said that the system could not recognize the disc image. if you could possibly explain a solution for this, that would be great. Thank y

Re: [users] problems with open office

2007-03-06 Thread Johnny Andersson
Yes, that would be very interesting to know. What about other browsers, such as Opera etc? 2007/3/6, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 06/03/07, James Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erza: > > You will have to download the file again. Please use Firefox or Camino to > download the f

Re: [users] problems with open office

2007-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 06/03/07, James Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erza: You will have to download the file again. Please use Firefox or Camino to download the file. Safari will NOT work. Please reply only to users@openoffice.org James McKenzie Would you please explain to this Mac non-user why two

Re: [users] problems with open office

2007-03-05 Thread James Mckenzie
M >To: users@openoffice.org >Subject: [users] problems with open office > >hi. i've downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 for the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and when i >clicked on it to open the dmg. file, it said that the system could not >recognize the disc image. if you could possibly explain a solu

Re: [users] problems with open office

2007-03-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday March 05 2007 12:02 am, Ezra Park wrote: > hi. i've downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 for the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and > when i clicked on it to open the dmg. file, it said that the system > could not recognize the disc image. if you could possibly explain a > solution for this, that would be great

[users] problems with open office

2007-03-05 Thread Ezra Park
hi. i've downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 for the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and when i clicked on it to open the dmg. file, it said that the system could not recognize the disc image. if you could possibly explain a solution for this, that would be great. Thank you for your time!

Re: [users] Problems with open office

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Divya wrote: sir/madam i have downloaded the openooffice software & there are a few problems i would like u to help me with. 1. after downloading the softawre there are a few dll files that come with the software. now i am integrating the software with my gui(java). right now i have copied al

Re: [users] Problems with open office

2005-06-27 Thread Duncan Lithgow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Divya wrote: >sir/madam >i have downloaded the openooffice software & there are a few problems i would like u to help me with. > >1. after downloading the softawre there are a few dll files that come with the software. now i am integrating the softwar

[users] Problems with open office

2005-06-27 Thread Divya
sir/madam i have downloaded the openooffice software & there are a few problems i would like u to help me with. 1. after downloading the softawre there are a few dll files that come with the software. now i am integrating the software with my gui(java). right now i have copied all the dll files

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office 1.1.3

2005-05-19 Thread Dr. Matthias Weisser
Thank you for your mail. G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:13 +0200, Dr. Matthias Weisser wrote: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I got the below mail from Sun and therefore want to address some problems that I had transferring my 148 page book containing 130 pictu

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office 1.1.3

2005-05-19 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:13 +0200, Dr. Matthias Weisser wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I got the below mail from Sun and therefore want to address > some problems that I had transferring my 148 page book > containing 130 pictures of a digital camera > from word to Open Office 1.1.3. in ja

[users] Problems with Open Office 1.1.3

2005-05-19 Thread Dr. Matthias Weisser
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I got the below mail from Sun and therefore want to address some problems that I had transferring my 148 page book containing 130 pictures of a digital camera from word to Open Office 1.1.3. in january this year. I have heard that open office would like to be the future n