Re: book covering the fine points of advanced wordprocessing

2016-08-01 Thread JB
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:15:52 -0400 DaveMainwaring wrote: > I am looking for book covering the fine points of advanced word-processing > applications vs classic typewriters. > > A book that explains all the items in the pull down menus, view, encoding, > language,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-08-05 Thread JB
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:32:44 -0400 Victor Goff vgoff...@verizon.net wrote: top-posting corrected On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:17 PM, JB wrote: On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:35:39 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache

Re: Summary of AOO 4.0 download activity for 1st week

2013-08-02 Thread JB
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:12:19 +0700 Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Rob Weir: In what way do you think this is true? Bugs/features affecting Windows integration or performance are overlooked, sometimes for 2–3 years. Compatibility and interaction with Windows-only software is ridiculed.

Re: Summary of AOO 4.0 download activity for 1st week

2013-08-01 Thread JB
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:33:56 +0700 Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: And yet the *OO developers treat Windows users as a second-class citizens. You can't possibly be serious! I guess it had to happen sometime - someone, somewhere would find *something* to whine about. -- “Those who

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread JB
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:59:53 -0400 Jeffrey Deutsch jdeutsch.aspl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My wife is willing to consider converting to LibreOffice 4 permanently. Here's her major issue, in two parts: And this has what, to do with Apache OpenOffice? What does she need to do? Go to

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available

2013-07-24 Thread JB
All I can say is WOW! It looks a bit better and is *FAST* now. I've been using 3.4.0 seems like forever and it seemed like it also took forever to open anything with it, but after installing 4.0.0 anything I do with it is extremely fast. So far all I have is great praise for the AOO

Re: With Apache OpenOffice you get what you don't pay for

2013-06-17 Thread JB
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:19:14 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We've noticed a scam recently where people were fooled into paying a 3rd party website to download OpenOffice. But OpenOffice is free to download from http://www.openoffice.org/. You know this, of course. Anyone who has

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!

2013-04-27 Thread JB
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:53:45 +0700 Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: The Apache OpenOffice project is planning a brand refresh for our next major release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0. As part of this effort we are looking to update our logo. And there was no better ideas that copycatting MSO

Re: INternational Mother Language Day

2013-02-21 Thread JB
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:20:21 -0700 Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:56:24AM -0500, Maurice Howe wrote: Holy cow! Next time, strip off all copylists B4 fwd'ing stuff. Another handy tool: emailStripper, available for free from

The big balagan...

2013-02-21 Thread JB
come in handy for even the most careful of us who can sometimes accidentally do the same mistake as was made here today (I've done it once since '95, but that's once enough!). JB -- Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True