Re: WordPerfect on PC vs. OpenOffice on IMac

2015-05-07 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 07 May 2015 16:10:44 -, Eugene Baranowski eugs...@magma.ca wrote: I’ve data available on a memory stick from a PC in WordPerfect. When I open these data in OpenOffice, I see the text in a code which is impossible to read. apache openoffice has dropped support of wordperfect

Re: Outlook

2015-05-02 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 01 May 2015 20:48:48 -, Dan Kusel danku...@rogers.com wrote: I currently use Microsoft Office and would like to try Open Office. I did no see anything about an equivalent of Outlook for my e-mail. Does the product have this functionality? no, it does not. however, there are plenty

Re: Help with deleted content

2015-05-02 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:29:09 -, kayla samuel dearkay...@gmail.com wrote: OpenOfffice has now deleted the content of 2 very long documents that I saved multiple times and created backups for. Each time I opened the document, all of the content was replaced with page after page of pound keys.

Re: Recovery/ crash of my document: please send response to imanfgib...@icloud.com

2015-03-19 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:53:59 -, Cody Gibson macbook...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Acer computer and my son downloaded open office 4.1.1 . I was writing in this program and I received a message that the document needs to be recovered and I pressed on the recovery .then next came on and I

Re: Recovery/ crash of my document: please send response to imanfgib...@icloud.com

2015-03-19 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:23:47 -, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: Acer computers are not Macs and do not use OS X operating system. oh. i'll read twice next time. however, everything is possible since apple switched to i386: https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+os+x+acertbm=isch

Re: Importing PDF form into O­O 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread johnny smith
Jim McLaughlin jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com: I am looking for a way to import into OO a form created by a third party with Adobe in PDF format. I want to be able to fill out the form with my computer, rather than print a blank form and fill in by hand. For reasons not known to me, the third

Re: I hope someone can help

2015-01-28 Thread johnny smith
Mark Harris imm...@bigpond.com: Openoffice is the best thing since sliced bread. However, I cannot insert a music character on its own such a Semibreve, Minim, Chrotchet, Quaver etc. on their own without being attached in a staff. It is very frustrating when I'm writing notes. Is there

Re: Word completion

2015-01-25 Thread johnny smith
Vivian Cotton vivian.cot...@yahoo.com: I am using open office 4.1 on windows 8. I am using the spreadsheet and want to use word completion. It works if I use enter but goes to next row. I want to go to next column. If I use tab it won't go anywhere just beeps and I have to finish typing

Re: Page renumber problem

2015-01-15 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:58:59 -, Dennis B. Jensen dbj1...@msn.com wrote: Johnny: Thanks for your reply. The photos are anchored to the page. I have found that I must anchor them to the page to keep them from migrating to the wrong page, as they have a tendency to do. But thanks for your

Re: Page renumber problem

2015-01-14 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:26:18 -, Dennis B. Jensen dbj1...@msn.com wrote: I put the cursor in the heading; click format/paragraph/text flow and change the page number. When I click OK on the files I have a problem with, the page number changes; BUT the heading moves to the end of the file.

Re: Trying to update, I have 4.1.0 and I am trying to download 4.1.1

2015-01-14 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:44:14 -, Jeff Gordon jeffando...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all very much. Your answers omit to say you should log-in first before the DOWNLOAD may start. sounds strange. try the direct link:

Re: Using Open Office

2015-01-14 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:19:52 -, Brian Moore bwmoore4173...@btinternet.com wrote: Can anyone point me in the right diction to create some of the attached samples using open office. unfortunately, this mailing list accepts attachments only if they are in the open document format (odt,

Re: Inability to access my op­en office documents

2015-01-12 Thread johnny smith
John johntre...@hotmail.com horacetreui...@gmail.com: I am a writer. Something is going on with my Open Office 3.4.1 program. I am unable to access any of my Open Office documents. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. by which means do you try to access them? by double-clicking

Re: spreadsheet transpose

2014-11-11 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:32:19 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I did search AOO help for both transpose and rotate - no useful results. after i had selected 'openoffice calc' from the drop-down list in the upper-left corner of the help window, a search for 'transpose' retrieved the

Re: Uninstall

2014-11-11 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:52:52 -, Stefan Boroda imnotashr...@gmail.com wrote: To uninstall this software from your Macbook: 1. Click on your desktop. 2. In the menu bar, select *Go Applications*. 3. Select the *OpenOffice *file. 4. Move that file to the Trash. It will be

Re: Help!

2014-10-24 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:12:44 -, Stroma Leith stromale...@talktalk.net wrote: Whenever I try to open my Open Office files I get the following message in a window, with the option to ‘reopen’ or ‘don’t reopen’. the snag is that it won’t do either. I force quit but back it comes when I try

Re: finding content in cells

2014-10-20 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:47:47 -, vdven vd...@tele2.nl wrote: My question is about searching for a situation where in two columns in the same row the same information appears, and then putting this information in another column, but in a different row. -I have a column with names A , and

Re: Blank extra-pages

2014-10-09 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:07:33 -, Pietro Moras studio...@hotmail.com wrote: Ever heard that, when dealing with long OO-documents, you can get some blank extra-pages randomly added before some inserted .jpg images (that is, not a precisely reproducible behavior)? Is it a known OO-Writer's

Re: Open Office 4.1.1

2014-10-03 Thread johnny smith
Hi, today I downloaded Apache Open Office. Unfortunately, the thesaurus is not available. Why ? If I subsequently download Thesaurus, in which Directory must he be placed? you can download a thesaurus from extensions.openoffice.org and place it anywhere you want. after that you should launch

Re: Help please.

2014-10-03 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:37:34 -, skydiv...@aol.com wrote: I've been using Open Office Writer for almost a year and now when I try to open a document I keep getting a ASCII Filter Options window asking me to set the properties for Character set - Default font - Language and Paragraph

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-28 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:12:12 -, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once. A'lgebra I: ?'Do'nde encuentro una gui'a de te'rminos Matema'ticos u'nicos para el an~o?

Re: Auto-word Fill

2014-09-23 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:17:15 -, Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: In Calc Select Tools -- Cell Contents -- AutoInput many thanks! i did not know about this feature and was sometimes very irritated by autofill. occasionally, reading the list proves useful even if one

Re: Field Shading

2014-09-22 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:42:24 -, andrew shearer solarsai...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: After searching the forum I've managed to find a way to get rid of the irritating shading of hyperlinks by selecting 'white' as the field shading colour. However, while this overcomes the problem in cells

Re: OO Writer 4.1.1, cross references

2014-09-22 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:37:20 -, Susanne Ott s@listec-gmbh.de wrote: I m checking the cross references in my document at the moment. The software is doing the jump, but I can t find any tool or command to go back to my reference. How it is to realize to go back to the last one?

Re: Calculation error

2014-09-19 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:35:31 -, Lonnie Vann lv...@centurytel.net wrote: I have a column, in this case, I want the MAX function to choose the largest. I click the MAX function, then in the First Number choice, I enter B5. In the Second Number choice, I enter B31. I have numbers in B5

Re: Calculation error

2014-09-16 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:25:11 -, Lonnie Vann lv...@centurytel.net wrote: While using OpenOffice Calc. (Spread sheet) 4.1.0 and 4.1.1, I found the MAX function does not work. could you please give some more details or an example where the function fails?

Re: Issues with exporting as microsoft doc after update

2014-09-09 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:03:40 -, oh kairong ohkair...@hotmail.com wrote: I have just updated my open office software on my Macbook pro and I am now unable to export my files in the Microsoft document format. please be more specific. what does happen when you attempt saving as '.doc'?

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:51:12 -, Barbaros Akkurt akku...@itu.edu.tr wrote: I have a document in which I must use a different page number than usual. To do this, I enabled a footer, inserted a page number, and it was 1. I right clicked the highlighted area, clicked Fields..., and tried to

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:13:02 -, Barbaros Akkurt akku...@itu.edu.tr wrote: I could not find the option to exclude the first generated (blank) page in the PDF output unticking 'export automatically inserted blank pages' under 'file - export as pdf - general' has worked for me.

Re: hacked?

2014-09-06 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:15:49 -, Kay H. kayh...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded 2 items yesterday, Adobe Reader for Windows and Open Office. I assume it was from one of those two items that my system was infected with animated pop-up ads that proved to be rather sticky to get rid of. You may

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:30:21 -, Christopher O'Brian chriso...@hotmail.com wrote: I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am having problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign language without my being able to alter the language to English. Can you send me

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:30:21 -, Christopher O'Brian chriso...@hotmail.com wrote: On the download page I wasn’t able to input the language preference, system used, or anything as the drop down menus for this were blank! for the community: javascript-based input boxes have never been

Re: conflict with MSWORD

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:48:13 -, Tom Boyde t...@boyde.com wrote: Having installed OpenOffice 4.1 on several computers which already had a version of MSWORD installed, I find 1] Microsoft Word is no longer usable on each of those computers, in fact seems to have been uninstalled. word is

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
andrea, thanks for the speedy action. one note below. On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:25:55 -, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: javascript-based input boxes have never been very reliable. where has gone the old plain link to http://www.openoffice.org/download/other/? The URL is

Re: Problem installing Open Office on an IBM Thinkpad T30

2014-08-30 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:36:39 -, Carl W. Entemann kokopel...@ncweb.com wrote: For the record, I am preparing this problem description in WordPad because I cannot get Open Office installed on my IBM Thinkpad T30 with 2 meg of RAM. After downloading the install software and running it I

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-30 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:50:14 -, Scooter st...@scootersdesk.com wrote: May I suggest that only LIST subscribers should be allowed to ask questions. That would reduce all those folks who ask questions and don't receive answers, because they are non-subscribers. it should be noted that when

Re: Open Office 4.1.1 Download problems

2014-08-30 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:23:58 -, Janis Langins j.lang...@utoronto.ca wrote: I checked for updates and was told that version Open Office 4.1.1 was available for download. To do this I was to open and run a downloaded zip file. When I tried to do this my Malware program blocked the file as

Re: Open Office Tool problem

2014-08-25 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:23:10 -, pietrof...@aol.com wrote: Dear Sirs: I have a HP Compaq computer recently purchased from a store. It has Apache Open Office on it, which works except I cannot turn off that horrible line numbering, list making thing, and I have no user's guide. it keeps

Re: making edits

2014-08-15 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:16:07 -, Buergler, Emily M. ebuer...@ryland.com wrote: I am trying to make edits to a map my company has created. I am using your using your program and it will not allow me to 'copy.' I am clicking on the different layers on the map and it seems to not allow me to

Re: Word program crashed

2014-08-15 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:04:33 -, Eleanor Lawrie eleanorlawr...@gmail.com wrote: I have had trouble lately opening documents. This morning it was suddenly impossible. Finally a screen told me the program (I guess the whole Open Office although I only use the word part) had crashed and by

Re: Inserting pictures

2014-07-30 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:03:01 -, Donna Stanley donna.stanley...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, Still trying to figure out this very mysterious problem and I've been wondering about something. Could this be a glitch in the program? Here is what I found and can plainly see, both the From

Re: SEE: List administrators (was Re: Continued spell check issues.

2014-07-30 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:30:50 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Any chance that the list could be configured to allow attachments? It would save quite a bit of hassle. actually, it does. at least, some small '.odt' files are allowed. even pictures are sometimes. i think, they just

Re: copy/paste goes to TABLES?????

2014-07-28 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:37:29 -, Dee Drill spinn...@flash.net wrote: I tried to copy a very short sentence from an Arabic Bible to OO so that I could enlarge it for use on a t-shirt. It copies and pastes just fine but automatically goes into Tables and won't get out of that format!

Re: Why cant I download Open Office?

2014-07-24 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:16:20 -, dennis dorney ddor...@ihug.co.nz wrote: I tried looking for where the download files might be on my computer and found them so I started trying to Run as requested. the problem may have originated from here. you should not run the '.exe' file but download

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4

2014-07-24 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:24:17 -, chuck ef chuck...@hotmail.com wrote: 2.) I use a so-called Apple Magic Mouse. Excel often is jittery when I accidentally slide a finger across the top of the mouse - columns zoom by but it is recoverable, though irritating. However, Calc does not seem to be

Re: [ENHANCEMENT] Provide 180 degree rotation for characters in text

2014-07-20 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:21:54 -, Arthur Schwarz aschwarz1...@att.net wrote: In logic for all can be written as an 'A' rotated by 180 degrees. I didn't find this character in the special characters the character is included with good fonts, such as those of the dejavu family.

Re: What's this Warning from users@openoffice.apache.org

2014-07-15 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:52:51 -, Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: This isn't the first time I've gotten a msg like this. Why does this happen? most probably, the messages in question were filtered by your mail provider's antispam engine. the ezmlm program checks if the engine

Re: trouble loading OpenOffice

2014-07-14 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:57:19 -, John barbus...@hotmail.com wrote: I get a message saying please wait while windows configures C++ 2008 redistributal - x649.0.30729.6161 and with 0 seconds left it never ends loading and times out. try downloading c++ redistributable 2008 from the

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-10 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:29:20 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Maybe I'm being dense here - if I go to print from Impress, I get an OO dialog that allows me to select which view I want to print. If in that dialog I select Presets, current, orientation is set to portrait. is it

Re: OpenOffice.org on Terminal Server

2014-07-10 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:32:09 -, Saman, Roabi sam...@rki.de wrote: Could you please send the relevant license terms and answer, if a support is offered. openoffice is provided under the terms of apache license 2.0, see here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html and here:

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step by step? I'm on OO 4.1.0 that depends on the model of your printer. the settings are those of the printer, not of openoffice.

Re: New Version O.O.

2014-07-08 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:02:54 -, Michaela Rosar i...@rosar-design.de wrote: There is a bug in the new release (4.1.0): used with the Magic Mouse on Mac OS 10.8.5, you can´t scroll to the left side! this is a known issue: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124191 the fix is

Re: WordPerfect documents

2014-07-08 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:10:52 -, B. de Lange bert.dela...@tiscali.nl wrote: Can someone tel me how to open Word Pefect documents (*.wpd) in Open Office Writer? I have a lot of these documents from version 4.2 till 8. apache's version of openoffice (since 3.4) does not support wordperfect

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-04 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:35:16 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes run off the bottom of the page. i was able to solve this by

Re: Please I am stuck

2014-07-01 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:03:17 -, Lisa Paris 6258l...@gmail.com wrote: I have a document that first of all the page numbers dissapeared when I changed the page breaks and I can't seem to get them back. maybe your first page had no number and you deleted the page break between it and the

Re: SV: Please I am stuck

2014-07-01 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:22:15 -, vitio55 viti...@hotmail.com wrote: Iam not a Office support iam a private person you have subscribed to the mailing list 'users@openoffice.apache.org'. to unsubscribe, send something to 'users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org' and follow the instructions

Re: uninstall

2014-07-01 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:48:20 -, david...@ojooo.com david...@ojooo.com wrote: I can not find how to uninstall Apache Open Office 4.1.0 it does not show up in my uninstall programs and there is no uninstall option with open office that 's not typical behaviour. could you please specify

Re: uninstall

2014-07-01 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:44:00 -, david...@ojooo.com david...@ojooo.com wrote: Thankyou for your reply I am running windows 7 and I installed it from an upgrade link in version 3 search for the string 'openoffice' within contents of the files (not just in filenames) residing in

Re: scatter plot

2014-06-30 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:42:19 -, John Hanly jmha...@me.com wrote: i’m new to this list so i apologize in advance for stupid questions. i trying to use the scatter plot option in the spreadsheet and i can’t get anything to plot. I’ve done this successfully with other spreadsheet packages.

Re: 4.1.0 Crashing

2014-06-27 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:06:33 -, Joey Shadel joseph.p.sha...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Open Office 4.1.0 for weeks, and it has been fine. Suddenly now it begins crashing and THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR THIS PROBLEM. Not a single forum is helpful and there is absolutely no way to get in

Re: flowcharts

2014-06-24 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:33:08 -, Carl Mesaros carlmesaros7...@outlook.com wrote: How do you use the flowchart app in the OpenOffice Draw portion of the OpenOffice suite (v.4.0.1)? first, you draw flowchart elements from the 'flowchart' panel. second, you connect the elements with

Re: Re. Spell Check

2014-06-22 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:17:50 -, daffysur...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Spell check for 4.1.0 just stopped working. Perhaps since downloading a dictionary update. Should I removed 4.1.0 from my computer and download it again? try resetting all the settings to defaults by renaming your user

Re: Re. Spell Check

2014-06-22 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:50:03 -, Maggie Butler mbut...@southgaylord.com wrote: This way to reset may work on Windows, but on a Macbook there is no Options tab under Tools. Anyone know the OSX path? on mac, options are under 'openoffice' menu.

Re: Strange behaviour with OpenOffice 4

2014-06-20 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:25:12 -, francesco.zivi...@surftech.it wrote: o Do the column headers appear? No value is displayed but I see some cells with gray background on the second row of the worksheet (not on the first row as it should be). But, the column H does not have this gray cell. o

Re: Copy/Paste Issue

2014-06-18 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:37:27 -, krista.rangl...@xtl.com wrote: So for example, the user copies the word cat, its pastes fine in Clac, then the user copies the word dog, and it still pastes cat, even though the clipboard shows dog as the last and most recent item copied. is it possible to

Re: Text and pictures

2014-06-18 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:06:17 -, Darren Smith darren.smith_1...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote: I need help in either transferring text from writer into draw in draw, select the 'text' tool on the 'drawing' toolbar, create a text box of the desired size and paste enything you want into the box.

Re: How to prevent very long text in a cell overlap the footer in Calc?

2014-06-18 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:02:13 -, Hung Mark mark...@gmail.com wrote: using writer arise other inconvenience despite it solves formatting problem you can make the table in calc and copy-paste it to writer each time before printing through 'edit - past special - dde link'. in writer

Re: Recovering a document

2014-06-10 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:17:54 -, Elizabeth Forster (S) elizabeth.fors...@coloradocollege.edu wrote: I am trying to recover a document that (supposedly) was damaged or lost. Whenever I try to open it, it has a command window asking what language and what font I want the document to appear

Re: PROBLEMS WITH THE OPEN OFFICE VERSION 4.10

2014-06-07 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:27:44 -, Merina Matthew merinamatt...@gmail.com wrote: The files simply do NOT open that's not enough to diagnose the problem. how do you try to open them: by double-clicking or through the openoffice's 'open' dialogue? what extensions do those files have:

Fwd: Re: PROBLEMS WITH THE OPEN OFFICE VERSION 4.10

2014-06-07 Thread johnny smith
merina's problem has been solved; see the forwarded message. --- Forwarded message --- From: Merina Matthew merinamatt...@gmail.com To: johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su Cc: Subject: Re: PROBLEMS WITH THE OPEN OFFICE VERSION 4.10 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:57:14 - Someone else also

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.0

2014-06-06 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:02:46 -, Timothy M Sullivan ces1...@aol.com wrote: Recently upgraded to OpenOffice 4.1.0 but I've encountered a problem with the left scroll function. It appears that the input buffer is not able to keep up with mouse input. The program begins bouncing left and

Re: PROBLEMS WITH THE OPEN OFFICE VERSION 4.10

2014-06-06 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 23:27:46 -, Merina Matthew merinamatt...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since I've downloaded version 4.10, I can no longer open spreadsheets or letters! Something doesn't want to work on my computer (acer). I use Windows 7. please be more specific. do you receive any specific

Re: Moving a frame - graphic

2014-06-05 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:19:51 -, Colleen McCartin fruitofthespirit...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I'll try. Let's start from the email side. Normally I open an email to compose, write it, and then go to my file that is an open office doc and cut and paste the business signature (Living

Re: Field delimiter when saving a file as text.csv

2014-06-04 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:29:51 -, ennio nasr.la...@tin.it wrote: No, as I said in my original post I would simple like to fix for ever my preferite delimiter as '|' without having to change it every time AOO asks me what I want to use ... you may record a macro for that: start recording,

Re: Moving a frame - graphic

2014-06-04 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:37:16 -, Colleen McCartin fruitofthespirit...@gmail.com wrote: I created a frame with text because when I create a text piece (lines of text) which is to be inserted at end of email - is my company name the spacing because all skewed. So, I inserted the text in a

Re: Please remove my info

2014-06-02 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:32:42 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: In Apache OpenOffice, go to the menu option File-Properties, and in the General tab remove the check box from Apply user data. It looks like that has to be done on a document by document basis. Any way to make it global

Re: PDF export defaults background page color

2014-06-02 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 06:53:54 -, Tony Gallas tony.gal...@spin.net.au wrote: I created a simple text page with a black background and white text, red text, green text, then exported as a .pdf file. The colours were not changed. please check 'tools - options - openoffice writer - print'.

Re: xlsx

2014-06-02 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:00:52 -, Robert Schmidt robertschm...@w-s-d.at wrote: Hallo und guten Tag! Habe mit den Excelformat xlsx ein Problem. Die Dateien brauchen ewig bis sie sich öffnen. Woran kann das liegen? Deutsch-sprachige Mailingliste finden Sie hier:

Re: PDF export defaults background page color

2014-05-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 00:04:27 -, Chris Szott chrissz...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to export an .ODT file to .PDF. I have the background colour for all pages set to black. When I export to PDF it reverts everything to white, and even inverts some of my text (white text is now black.) Also,

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 02:55:33 -, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I created a multi-slides (66 slides so far) presentation using one of the templates. When I preview the slideshow in AOO 4.1,everything looks fine. As soon as I export the presentation to MS Powerpoint, and load it

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 09:02:20 -, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know the screen size of the playback system beforehand (could be a dozen different screen sizes). you need not know the screen size but only the page size of your slide (format - page - page), which is

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 10:14:34 -, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I see in AOO 4.1 when editing the presentation (notice the background, from the AOO template) http://www.imagebam.com/image/bfb67b330098558 This is what the slide looks like in AOO Impress, when played

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 31 May 2014 11:02:37 -, Linda Hull chalcedony6...@gmail.com wrote: I'm quite interested to find out that there might be hidden data in my .doc and other AOO pages, which can be read by anyone. How do we read this in other documents? Not just by clicking a box, but to see what might

Re: Unwanted notice

2014-05-30 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 29 May 2014 14:08:38 -, Brian Moore bwmoore4173...@btinternet.com wrote: For some reason I have got a notice on my screen as follows:- The last time you opened Open Office, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to reopen its windows again? It has two choices

Re: can no more use Open office

2014-05-27 Thread johnny smith
On Tue, 27 May 2014 09:11:22 -, Olivier Cahen olivier.ca...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: I was currently using Open Office, because it looks much more easy than Microsoft Word, namely for adding images to a text. It was up to the time, this morning, when I received an advice from you to download

Re: problem with office org

2014-05-26 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 26 May 2014 02:49:59 -, wilhelmina fisher wilmafis...@optusnet.com.au wrote: When I open open office.org I get a message which says it unexpectedly quit while re-operning windows. It asks I choose a) don’t reopen b reopen however no matter which one I press nothing changes.

Re: Writer

2014-05-23 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 23 May 2014 19:18:35 -, Schmidt, Louise louise.schm...@doc.mo.gov wrote: I now use MS Word 2007. I use the Lock ICON to lock a certain section in my Word document. What do I use in Open Office writer to lock and unlock a form that was created in Word? when you create a

Re: Language pack English GB not working

2014-05-14 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 14 May 2014 12:44:11 -, Anthon-Pieter Wink anthon.pie...@gmail.com wrote: I run a Dutch version of Open Office 4.1.0. I cannot seem to get the British English version of the language pack installed properly and I have no idea why not. I have installed the language pack correctly

Re: ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.­1.0 released

2014-05-02 Thread johnny smith
On 1 May 2014 12:23:16 UTC, la...@akeonet.com la...@akeonet.com wrote: Ever since I installed 4.0.1 I get a message (Opening an exel / word file, that an update or something similar is required - tiring ! A Microsoft gag ? most probably, that message comes from a trial version of microsoft

Re: Open Office for Mac

2014-04-30 Thread johnny smith
30 April 2014 05:07:09, Teng Johnny tengjoh...@gmail.com: How is it that the downloaded application file for Window and Mac OS is the same file Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.0_Win_x86_install_en-US? when i go to the download page i see this for windows:

Re: Printing

2014-04-28 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 02:04:41 -, Gloria Grenga kel...@numail.org wrote: I have, up until today, been able to write letters and print them using Open Office. I wrote a letter today and printed it. Some of the letter printed, but not all of it. A message came on the computer screen suggesting

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-28 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 03:20:36 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I have an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only

Re: desktop icon shortcut`

2014-04-27 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:56:18 -, LEON FAGER dese...@swcp.com wrote: i downloaded Apache Open Office and it seemed to download ok. But i cannot seem to get a shortcut icon on my desktop as i had on another computer where i could open and it would ask me if i wanted a text document, etc. Could

Re: I can't see the command

2014-04-26 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:42:45 -, Ane Olkotz aneolk...@outlook.com wrote: I have a problem; when I want to impress a document, I can´t do it because of the huge window that you can see. it seems that the mailing list manager has filtered the screenshot out. please describe it in words.

Re: difficulty with spacing

2014-04-25 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:40:17 -, Rupa Westbrook rupac...@gmail.com wrote: i'm not sure if i hit something but i can't get out of double spacing mode. i tried all the help topics but couldn't find a solution. choosing 'single' from 'format - paragraph - indents and spacing - line spacing'.

Re: I'm new to open Office

2014-04-25 Thread johnny smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:23:41 -, Darryl Collins dextercollin...@gmail.com wrote: I was just curious how to change the measurement settings from metric to imperial? tools - options - openoffice.org writer - general - measurement unit - inch (it may be 'edit - preferences - ...' or

Re: OpenOffice Corrupted

2014-04-25 Thread johnny smith
*Today I had a big problem with OpenOffice. A couple of days ago, I had to force quit OpenOffice, because it was preventing me from shutting down my computer. I used an OpenOffice file today, when I initialized OO, I got a dialogue box that read: The last time you opened OpenOffice,

Re: Resetting Password

2014-04-24 Thread johnny smith
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:31:26 -, Yuvi yuvrajcha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have been using open office for a while now and I have set up password for on of my file but I am not been able to open it as it says incorrect password even though I am using the same password I have been using. Can

Re: Problem with downloaded '­Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_M­acOS_x86_install_en-US.d

2014-04-24 Thread johnny smith
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:42:11 -, Anthony Patience fgl...@gmail.com wrote: The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again? this is a known issue, see here:

Re: Last Time artifact messag­es

2014-04-21 Thread johnny smith
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:40:07 -, Don Hall dr123h...@gmail.com wrote: Every save file leaves a The Last Time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit ... On recent versions of Mac OS X it might happen, especially after a Force quit, that the following error message appears: Restore

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