Re: [users] Re: opening documents

2008-03-18 Thread David Hopkins
Actually, I accidentally responded to the wrong message, but Guy Voets had addressed the solution: Use a later (beta) version of OO.org on the Mac (OS X) It seems it might be a known bug. I locate the latest beta builds for Mac and give it a shot. Thanks! Dave Hopkins On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:5

[users] Re: opening documents

2008-03-18 Thread Jim Allan
David Hopkins wrote: I evidently didn't say it correctly at all. The issue is that I have a document, say somedocument.doc (in Word 97/XP format, not docx) on my Desktop. I click the document and ... OpenOffice.org opens with a new document, but does not load the document I double clicked. I c

Re: [users] Re: Opening documents

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Hartley
RTF in OpenOffice seems to have some problems, at least it did on version 2.0.4 (I haven't had a chance to try it since I went to 2.3). If you do a document as a .odt file, formatted as double-spaced, paragraphs indented (standard manuscript), and then do a Save As-> RTF, a lot of the formatti

Re: [users] Re: Opening documents

2007-09-24 Thread James Knott
Michael Adams wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:53:02 -0700 > NoOp wrote: > >> Perhaps you guy's are forgetting .rtf? >> >> > > Actually .rtf is not much use for much beyond basic documents and > formatting. The delivery often fails to meet the expectation. > > (therefore RTF often comes thro

Re: [users] Re: Opening documents

2007-09-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:53:02 -0700 NoOp wrote: > On 09/23/2007 05:15 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > On 24/09/2007, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Jose Martinez wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > I used the OpenOffice and is amazing, I thought I was using MS > >office,> but > >> > I sent ema

[users] Re: Opening documents

2007-09-23 Thread NoOp
On 09/23/2007 05:15 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 24/09/2007, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Jose Martinez wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I used the OpenOffice and is amazing, I thought I was using MS office, >> but >> > I sent email to two persons, one having XP and the other Vista and both >

Re: [users] Re: Opening documents

2006-12-14 Thread Burton Meisner
Jeff Smith wrote: Burton, This looks just like an issue I was encountering a short time ago. I have a Mac Mini. I work on papers, and sometimes the filenames have single quotes (') in their names. While this wasn't a problem with OOo on my PC (WinXP), it appears to be on the Mac. I highly suspe

[users] Re: Opening documents

2006-12-13 Thread Jeff Smith
Burton, This looks just like an issue I was encountering a short time ago. I have a Mac Mini. I work on papers, and sometimes the filenames have single quotes (') in their names. While this wasn't a problem with OOo on my PC (WinXP), it appears to be on the Mac. I highly suspect a shell script so