On 30/1/15 at 1:51 AM, sora...@comcast.net (Susan Anderson) wrote:
I did an update (not an upgrade) on my Mac and when it finished
I realized that Open Office is missing. How do I get it back.
I have many important documents on it.
A phone number would be great. I find it much easier for
Hello Beverly,
On 14/1/15 at 4:13 AM, bever...@eastlink.ca (Beverly Eisner) wrote:
Hello to someone:)
Although I have both programs, Pages and Office, I want Office
and I start to write, but it changes to Pages which is a puzzle
to me. I want only Office open because that is the one others
Jeff,
[see below]
On 14/1/15 at 7:44 PM, jeffando...@gmail.com (Jeff Gordon) wrote:
Thanks all very much.
Your answers omit to say you should log-in first before the DOWNLOAD may
start.
There are no login requirements for downloading Apache
OpenOffice from the official Website.
Make
On 4/1/15 at 7:00 PM, dbo...@gmail.com (Dan Boney) wrote:
I've recently begun using Open Office Base to organize my stamp
collection. Using online tutorials, I created a stamp collection table.
Then I created a form to enter my stamp information. After entering
information on 100's of stamps,
I'm not a moderator on this list, however I have some experience
from running moderating other busy mailing lists for a long
time. So I'm putting this forward just as a suggestion, which I
have found to work perfectly in similar situations - hope this
is OK.
The idea of preparing a standard
On 28/11/14 at 7:16 AM, b.m.bar...@btinternet.com (Brian Barker) wrote:
At 16:50 28/11/2014 +1100, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Go to C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\program and copy the file
soffice.exe and paste on your desktop.
Aaargh! Please don't suggest such misuse of a computer and its
Hello Ingrid,
On 21/11/14 at 8:10 PM, ing...@superiortrvl.com (Ingrid Ream) wrote:
Good afternoon,
I have the most current version of openoffice.org 4.1 and can not open an
excel document. Is there something additional that I need to do
so I can open the document? or does this version not
will make it much easier for you to communicate over
the Internet. Which is the only reason for 'netiquette' to
exist: no communication, no need for netiquette. Right? :-)
mt
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On 21/11/14 at 4:20 PM, rim...@comcast.net (Rita Schwartz) wrote:
[snip]
I am using 4.0.1Open Office. I can't get a New Folder to open
when I click on the icon in the task bar.
How can I open a New Folder?
Hello Rita,
Clicking on an icon in the task bar ought to the associated
On 21/11/14 at 4:21 PM, dennis.hamil...@acm.org (Dennis E.
Hamilton) wrote:
Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF
Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind
when supporting users: http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html.
I find Rory's
On 15/11/14 at 9:02 AM, ofarr...@iol.ie (Rory O'Farrell) wrote:
[snip]
There is an informative article on OpenOffice line spacing at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/now-revealed-secrets-line-spacing-
openofficeorg-writer
This may have been outmoded by later versions - I'm not certain.
John, have you tried changing magnification through the Zoom
slider at the bottom right corner of the OpenOffice screen? That
should adjust the font size on your screen, till it's big enough
for you to see.
Sorry I can't help with your other issue. I assume you have
already made certain you
John, have you tried changing magnification through the Zoom
slider at the bottom right corner of the OpenOffice screen? That
should adjust the font size on your screen, till it's big enough
for you to see.
Sorry I can't help with your other issue. I assume you have
already made certain you
On 14/11/14 at 3:04 PM, kc0...@centurytel.net (John W. Smith) wrote:
Marina, Yes, I'm using Apache Open Office 4.1.1. Thanks for the
magnification tip. I'll see what I can do to make that work
when I get the document recovery issue resolved. When I open
the Open Office icon, I have to go
Hello,
On 14/11/14 at 9:55 PM, stan.spref...@tiscali.co.uk (Stan
Reffin) wrote:
We have created a document in open office text with single line
spacing. When we paste this document in to a template created
in word the spacing is 1.5 we have right clicked to high lite
single line but this
It sounds like you would benefit from personal support. You can
get help with your iPad at any Apple Store or Mac User Group.
This list can only help with technical questions relating to the
OpenOffice application suite, which however is not available on iPads.
Kind regards
marina
(message
Hello Christine,
It sounds like you would benefit from a hands-on tutorial. Could
I suggest that you explore the availability of local resources,
such as Mac User Groups or basic computer courses at
libraries/local community centres.
I am sending this message to you privately, as well as to
On 24/10/14 at 9:23 PM, jimpla...@me.com (James Plante) wrote:
Nope, you're still correct. That's for TECH support, though.
You can still get help with How do I problems from forums
like this one, since AOO and Neo operate pretty much
identically. There's also NeoWiki, and of course Google.
On 24/10/14 at 4:14 PM, jimpla...@me.com (James Plante) wrote:
One other thing you may want to do: Download NeoOffice from the
App store. On Macs, it seems to work with fewer annoyances than AOO.
Not sure this is really true. I have used both NeoOffice and
Apache OpenOffice, and have opted
Could I add my two bob's worth, as a long-time Mac Calc user.
I am assuming the following was written by Michael (who is
receiving this in copy), even though I found it in Rory's message:
On 19/10/14 at 5:59 PM, ofarr...@iol.ie (Rory O'Farrell) wrote:
By far the most annoying bug from 4.0
I often have to do that with Italian accented letters - my
simplistic approach is to keep a reference file with all
accented (or otherwise modified) letters, which I copy and paste
in the Replace with field. This doesn't take as long as I
would need for a macro... but then I am not a
Version 4.1.1 build 9775 (Mac OSX) is what I have, and I get the
same message when checking for updates on Apache OO Website.
Is it possible that the Cnet alert email is spam? Or otherwise,
that Cnet has some not-very-timely update alert system you
signed up for?
Kind regards
marina
G'day Albretch,
On 27/9/14 at 12:25 AM, lbrt...@gmail.com (Albretch Mueller) wrote:
How? simple... switch your keyboard configuration to Spanish-Traditional
(in Windows XP to 7, this is done from Control Panel, under regional
settings, click on the Languages tab and then on the details button.
I really don't understand why these scams, and spam with them,
aren't necessarily and sufficiently addressed by the
appropriate authorities.
Isn't there suitable legislation to combat fraud? Shouldn't
elected politicians be accountable for ensuring fair business
practices on the Internet?
Hello Jerry,
I'm not familiar with Xubuntu Linux, but in other operating
systems, the default browser is a system-wide setting. So you
should be able to change it through whatever tool Xubuntu Linux
offers for controlling system preferences.
HTH,
marina
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Hi Chuck,
On 24/7/14 at 3:24 AM, chuck...@hotmail.com (chuck ef) wrote:
I am an OO newbie so bear with me. I am on an iMac using 10.9.4
and I have never used OO before. I downloaded 4.1.0. I am
trying to migrate an MS Excel spreadsheet to Calc. It will be
nice to get away from MS.
Forgive
to compare how MS Office and Open Office can achieve those
results, and compare their performance for the task.
HTH,
mt
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Jack,
Not sure what your reason was for writing to this list, but your
message below doesn't sound like a request for help with a real problem.
Applications and computers do not improve or update without
you, the user in command, deciding they need it.
If you're happy with your current
Hi,
My understanding is that you can only export any OO Writer
document as an HTML file. For this, you would add normal
formatting as for any Writer document, without worrying about
HTML tags.
I suppose you might then be able to change the tags to your
liking - but for this, and if you
On 20/5/14 at 3:02 PM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote:
Sorry -- you're waa behind the times. The vast majority of
books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes,
even, LibreOffice -- and the publishers set it using tools like
styles. ...
This is true,
On 19/5/14 at 12:05 PM, j...@jt-mj.net (Julian Thomas) wrote:
Is there a better manual than the online help that I'm missing?
cheers - jt
The best style manual I have come across was the ancient Hakon
Wium Lie's CSS book - and in fact, it's been easier for me to
master styles in
On 15/5/14 at 6:19 AM, pesce...@apache.org (Andrea Pescetti) wrote:
On 12/05/2014 mt wrote:
Is there somewhere an explanation of what older Mac users are missing
out on?
It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take
advantage of 64-bit Mac OS X applications and avoid
Sorry if there is some confusion here, as I for one never meant
to criticise styles - which I use extensively, and generally
find useful.
There are however situations where styles might not help. For
example, when troubleshooting document formatting problems such
as page or section options,
On 19/5/14 at 6:02 PM, larry.gus...@gmail.com (Larry Gusaas) wrote:
On 2014-05-19, 1:35 AM mt wrote:
Do you know if there's a way to turn off the OpenOffice
update available - Click here for further information warning
I get when I start OO on my Mac OS X 10.6.8?
On menu bar click
On 14/5/14 at 12:17 PM, j...@jt-mj.net (Julian Thomas) wrote:
As a longtime Star office and now OO user, I am new to styles.
I'd still like to see some helpful information on how to get
started with styles (better than 'my pets' and 'my cats'; [I
tried those tutorials and they didn't work
On 14/5/14 at 4:12 AM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote:
On Wednesday 14 May 2014 05:29:45 PM Brian Barker wrote:
At 23:38 14/05/2014 +1000, Marina Tadiello wrote:
In general, and from a user's perspective, Styles are one example of
how common users are encouraged (or forced? :-) to
While I have learned how to (use and) appreciate the Styles
features, I agree that not everything in every given text
document is prone to being styled.
Sometimes it's just not worth spending the time required to
define a new Style (or find a suitable one among those already
defined), so
On 8/5/14 at 7:33 PM, der_...@rocketmail.com (der_ron) wrote:
Please could you make new releases available on mac osx 10.6?
10.6 is 5 years old ...
Same here. I would like to be able to use new OpenOffice
releases on my 10.6 Mac OS X system without having to upgrade
-which in my case would
Doc, you might have forgotten you had signed up to this list, or
misinterpreted its description and assumed it was an announce
newsletter. I don't think anybody can be put on unbeknownst to them.
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On 12/12/13 at 4:22 AM,
Back to the original topic (but thanks for the useful info about
download sites!) - just thought I'd mention that dragging or
copying-and-pasting text from any (text) PDF and OpenOffice
works pretty well on a Mac.
Not sure if this would apply to all platforms, but it's by far
the easiest way
Not sure I understand correctly, so please forgive me if the
following isn't going to help -
I have a feeling there might be a misunderstanding as to which
search box you would like to use.
If you would like to search OpenOffice's help files, then you'd
need to go to the Help menu (top
As you suggest in 3rd paragraph, below, I have a feeling the
whole signing procedure might be outside the scope of OO, and
you might need Adobe Acrobat Pro for that.
This said, a quick Internet search just brought up the following:
Not sure without a screenshot - but have you tried clicking the
little arrow next to the filename (in the Save As popup)?
The arrow toggles between different views of your filesystem -
and the expanded view allows you to navigate anywhere you like,
as well as create new folders.
Cheers,
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