Re: NeoOffice vs AOO - Was Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-25 Thread mt
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.

Re: NeoOffice vs AOO - Was Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-25 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2014-10-25, 12:06 AM mt wrote: 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

Re: NeoOffice vs AOO - Was Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-25 Thread James Plante
FYI, Patrick has submitted many code changes to OpenOffice (not AOO, though, to my knowledge). Few if any were actually implemented. Don't know why. Patrick isn't stingy, and you can download the source code and make your own changes and submit them wherever you like. I think he'd welcome new

Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread James Plante
Try the Font Book app. Open the application, then look up the fonts that have disappeared. Click on the font and see if it is labeled as off. If it is, then right-click (or two-fingered tap; or Command click) to see the context menu. Enable the font. Quit Font Book, and see if that worked. Jim

Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread James Plante
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. It is Patrick Luby's rendering of the AOO source code. Being from the App store, it automatically updates itself in the background. And it just works. You don't

Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread Vincent A. Juliano
Embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing. What and where is the font book app? Exactly how do I do this. As I mentioned I’m computer illiterate. pretty much limited to the keyboard. Could you direct me by the numbers? Thanks On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:08 AM, James Plante jimpla...@me.com

Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread Vincent A. Juliano
I am being called out and will be back in four hours. Please hold your thoughts. I prefer to download the NeoOffice but I don;t have time and I need help to do that. thank you so much Vince On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:14 AM, James Plante jimpla...@me.com wrote: One other thing you may want to

Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread James Plante
Vincent, ### To download NeoOffice, do this: ### Click the App Store icon in your dock. When the window opens, type NeoOffice in the search block in the upper right corner of the window. Click on the Buy tab at the bottom. If you want to keep track of the download, click on the Purchases tab

NeoOffice vs AOO - Was Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread mt
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

Re: NeoOffice vs AOO - Was Re: Disappearing fonts

2014-10-24 Thread James Plante
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. The reason Patrick went to the $100/yr support was because he just

Disappearing fonts

2014-10-22 Thread Vincent A. Juliano
About two months ago I upgraded my OS X from 10.6 to 10.9.6. All went well…..except that occasionally when I opened a file it would be blank. Sometimes it was a new file. In the beginning I started deleting the empty file and then Voila’ by using select all I was able to select a different