Re: Fwd: style list box
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:04:48 -0500 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:59 PM, VA wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:48 PM, tj wrote: On 11/28/2012 20:10, VA wrote: I should have added that I am using AOO 3.4.1 on Win7. I have a dual boot system with a Wubi Ubuntu Install. I also have AOO 3.4.1 installed on the Ubuntu side of things. When I load a document in Writer in the Ubuntu system, the F11 Style List box defaults to All styles. Again, I would prefer Hierarchical. Virgil Original Message Subject: style list box Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:56:37 -0500 From: VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com Reply-To: users@openoffice.apache.org To: users@openoffice.apache.org When using Writer, if I open the paragraph style list box (f11), it defaults to displaying the Applied Styles. I would like it to default to Hierarchical. Does anyone know how I can make it default to hierarchical? Virgil Hi, Virgil, AFAIK, that list box stays set to whatever you last chose, even across sessions. I'm running 3.3 and 3.4.0 on WV, and use almost nothing but custom styles, which is what always comes up. HTH, /tj/ I wish it worked that way with mine. With mine, no matter how I have it set when I close or even open a new file, it always comes up All styles in my Ubuntu system and Applied styles in my Win7 system. It ignores how I had it set when I closed the program. Virgil Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - User Data. Fill in your name as a minimum. This defines who is opening AOO and seems to set his/her preferences including how F11 opens. --Dan This recommendation from Dan has one other useful side effect; an OpenOffice file (.odf format) opens now at the last position for that user. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Blocked from logging on to forum
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:16:27 +0100 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, Sunday morning first things done here! Do you confirm that you're talking about his account: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofileu=58744 ? Make sure that the cookies are enable for the forum. In case of problem, reply to me (without the list in copy if your message has personal information), I'll take care of that (I've admin rights). As for the contact mail, this is an old topic that had been abandoned after the move to the ASF servers. I'll see with imacat how to fix it. That is the account I found, Hagar. I suspect there is confusion between the forums, but haen't been able to check Users on the old forum this morning - its being buggy again. I did check on the Apache Forun and could find no User from his domain. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: text with pictures
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:25:54 -0500 Hans van der Ven hans...@optonline.net wrote: I could not find the Insert option in my File menu. What am I doing wrong? Please advise On Dec 11, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Quite the same, just copy and paste. It may take some time until AOO retrieves the pic from the net. You may have better results to copy and paste as unformatted text and save the pics on your HD before inserting them with the InsertPictureFrom file menu. Hagar Le 10/12/2012 23:44, Hans van der Ven a écrit : I hope that I sent this request to the correct location. In MS Office I can copy a web page that contains both text and pictures and paste it into MS Word. How do I capture both text and pictures into Apache Open office? Please advise. Hans The Menu item is /Insert /Picture, and you should then be offered a choice of From File... or Scan; this is nothing to do with the menu item /File. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Odd behavior in Writer
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:33:04 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I have recently (last October) acquired a new laptop and got rid of my desktop. It's a Dell with Intel quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD running Win 7 Home Premium. I believe that when I installed OpenOffice on this machine it was the first time I had used version 3.4.1. I think my desktop had 3.3 on it but I can't swear to that. The reason I mention this, is that I'm not sure which is to blame for this behaviour, OOo or the new laptop. I am editing my book manuscript which has a master file and over 50 individual chapter files. Anyway, this is what is happening: When I am in the midst of editing a file, the cursor will jump from it's position to some other seemingly random position with no warning... even if my hands are not touching it, so I know it is not something I am doing by accident and not noticing. Also, I keep all the files set at View - Zoom - Variable 120%. For no apparent reason, with no input from me, the size will change or the file will shift position in the window.Sometimes it does both at the same time. This is very, very, very irritating. -- Dale Erwin, Such behaviour was reported on the Forum when AOO 3.4 first came out (or else OOo 3.3 - I'm not certain). It appeared as if it might have been due to inadvertent contact with the touchpad; as a temporary solution I suggest plugging in a USB mouse and covering the touchpad with a piece of heavy card, taped on, card thick enough to mask any touchpad contact. This ought quickly establish if the culprit is the touchpad; if so, then you might adjust its settings to render it less sensitive. In doing this temporary masking, you haven't altered any settings, simply physically masked off the touchpad. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Odd behavior in Writer
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:44:50 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: Well, it seems that the touchpad was not disabled after all. Maybe it has to be done each time I turn the thing on. I also have noticed now (didn't notice it before) that when the touchpad is tuned OFF, a small led lights up above it, so that should be a good indicator for me. I sure hope this solves the problem because I've been tearing my hair out (and I can't afford to lose any more of that). Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 12/26/2012 7:22 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: Rory and Dennis and Virgil, thanks but... I had a laptop before but I did not use it much. It was (and still is) my wife's machine) so I learned a long time ago that I can't tolerate the touchpad. Since the first day I got this new laptop, I have been using a USB mouse and have the touchpad disabled. However, now that I read so many similar reports, I've been deliberately trying to make the cursor move with the touchpad and it seems like it does still move the cursor around. This just might be a deal breaker. I also find that when typing messages here in this Firefox editor that the font size just changes all by itself while I'm typing. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 12/26/2012 2:59 PM, VA wrote: I feel confident that your touchpad is the culprit. Sometimes, my touchpad will sense the slightest brush of my thumb. Sometimes, if I even slightly move my thumb over the pad, it will actually highlight text and as soon as I type another letter, it will replace all the selected text with my next letter. I then have to hit Ctrl-z to undo my mistake. If you haven't used a laptop with touchpad before, it can be quite annoying. I have found two ways to deal with it. First, before typing, use the touchpad to move the cursor arrow to a benign area of the screen, such as a blank area in the toolbar or menu bar. Then continue typing. If you brush the touchpad, nothing will happen. Also, in your computer settings, you can turn off the tapping feature of the touchpad, so that you have to actually click the touchpad buttons. I don't really like this solution as I find the touchpad tap feature useful (when I actually want it.) Virgil -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:14 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Odd behavior in Writer My experience is that if the hand is resting on the laptop surface, the touchpad can detect pressure on the case as movement. The symptoms are exactly as described. Try working with the hands not resting/pressing on the case. The USB mouse is still a good idea, although it doesn't deactivate the touchpad from side pressure responses. (It removes one hand from resting on the laptop case though [;). - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 09:42 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Odd behavior in Writer On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:33:04 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I have recently (last October) acquired a new laptop and got rid of my desktop. It's a Dell with Intel quad-core processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD running Win 7 Home Premium. I believe that when I installed OpenOffice on this machine it was the first time I had used version 3.4.1. I think my desktop had 3.3 on it but I can't swear to that. The reason I mention this, is that I'm not sure which is to blame for this behaviour, OOo or the new laptop. I am editing my book manuscript which has a master file and over 50 individual chapter files. Anyway, this is what is happening: When I am in the midst of editing a file, the cursor will jump from it's position to some other seemingly random position with no warning... even if my hands are not touching it, so I know it is not something I am doing by accident and not noticing. Also, I keep all the files set at View - Zoom - Variable 120%. For no apparent reason, with no input from me, the size will change or the file will shift position in the window.Sometimes it does both at the same time. This is very, very, very irritating. -- Dale Erwin, Such behaviour was reported on the Forum when AOO 3.4 first came out (or else OOo 3.3 - I'm not certain). It appeared as if it might have been due to inadvertent contact with the touchpad; as a temporary solution I suggest plugging in a USB mouse and covering the touchpad with a piece of heavy card, taped on, card thick enough to mask any touchpad contact. This ought quickly establish if the culprit is the touchpad; if so, then you might adjust its settings to render
Re: Crashes
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:48:44 -0500 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Allen Aldridge wrote: I am using an HP PC with Apache Open Office 3.4.1 on Windows 7. I have deleted the soffice.bin on numerous occasions and changed the user to user.1 - user.7 Sometimes I can get a spreadsheet up, but for the most part Office will not even open. On my latest attempt I tried to open OPENOFFICE. Document Recovery comes up and shows that Untitled 1 is not recovered yet. Start Recovery is hit and the file shows RECOVERED NEXT is then hit Open Office opens up I then try to FILE OPEN Document Recovery opens Due to unexpected error Untitled1 is not recovered. the OPEN FILE page comes up and is locked and the only way to unlock it is to open Task Manager and delete soffice.bin Please give me some idea of how to fix the incompatible error in my system. Understand that i have removed the OPENOFFICE from my system and re-installed and that before I upgraded to your new 3.4.1 it worked fine. I have a user name at ad...@yahoo.com and tried to file a report, but I apparently don't understand your system for reporting. THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP Allen Allen D Aldridge ad...@yahoo.com 252-240-1425 107 Hoffman Beach Rd Atlantic Beach, NC 28512-5914 Allen; Please read the Release Notes: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 manage the user profile differently than previous versions. The old user profile is automatically converted so that users can keep their extensions and settings. In a minority of cases, especially with highly customized profiles (many extensions or customizations) the conversion doesn't succeed. Common symptoms are: frequent application crashes, problems with dictionaries or thesaurus, OpenOffice starting and crashing after a few seconds. To solve this, just reset/rename your user profile as explained in the official OpenOffice forum. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12426 Regards Keith Keith: the change in User name is sufficient to cause a new profile be generated, so that should rule out a user profile problem. @Allen: have you any continuous backup system running? Comodo (for example) has been known to cause crash problems when it touches OpenOffice files. It is worth starting OpenOffice with no file, going to /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org /Online Updates and turning off any checks for online updates. It may be best to completely restart OpenOffice after this, including its Quickstarter (often easiest to Power down/10 second delay/up the computer). If you start Windows in Safe Mode (F8 when Starting Windows message on screen), is OpenOffice stable then? If so, the problem is almost certainly caused by some interaction with another program running in the background. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: problems
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:49:05 -0500 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: I am only aware of this site to download https://www.openoffice.org/ On 01/11/2013 09:59 AM, Olga Tzogas wrote: hello i recently been trying to download openoffice from both the .org site and the us.com site...downloads but when i try to ope it up its says the host server is down...help i need this program and its not working! I gave the redirection from that site to Sourceforge, who host the downloads, Andrew. Unfortunately, many inexperienced users search for OpenOffice and select the first sites returned by the search engines, sites which often (silently) offer tweaked versions of OpenOffice, often with intrusive search bars and/or keyloggers. Getting such users on the correct path, namely with a clean untweaked copy of OpenOffice, crops up regularly on the Forum. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Help with word processor...
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:13:21 -0800 (PST) Jack Coughlan cough70...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Open Office- Need help with 2 things. First, the list of different fonts has disappeared from the top of your opening page. Also missing now is the function where you decide what size the fonts are going to be. How can I retrieve them-? /View /Toolbars /Formatting to be checked. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: non functioning restore window
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:04:08 + Alex Holden alex.hol...@iconfilms.co.uk wrote: Hi there. Every time i open Openoffice i get the attached window. Neither of the buttons seem to work and the window will not close. I have tried removing from my computer and re-intalling and it is still there. Is there a way of fully uninstalling perhaps?? I have a mac with the attached spec. Any help would be much appreciated Thanks Alex [cid:9E54014E-1611-40DC-AA30-65EC29DEA017][cid:55C79E4F-4D50-4F68-A3C3-8007110FD4EA] Possible fix hre: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17t=53884p=259082 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: reveal codes
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:27:19 -0800 (PST) Eric Fenster eric...@yahoo.com wrote: Styles doesn't begin to do what Reveal Codes does. Just simple things like when Bold or Italics stop and start, where languages change, etc. It's far easier to SEE a code, delete where necessary or place a cursor. Bold and Italics should best be applied as Character Styles (strong emphasis and emphasis, respectively); Foreign language insrtions could be character style Quoation. As OpenOffice is a WYSIWYG editor, they show up on screen where they start and stop. On the en-Forum there is a useful listing of the predefined styles http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71t=48530 Reveal codes seems to be the major feature that keeps people using Word Perfect. here's got to be a reason. Why Word never did this, I don't know, but Open Office should. This seems to me to be dinosaur mentality. I once wrote a macro processor to strip formatting codes from Wordstar and print a book to an unsupported output device. I haven't had to do that since 1988, thanks to WYSIWYG. --- On Sun, 1/20/13, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: From: Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie Subject: Re: reveal codes To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Eric Fenster eric...@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 6:06 AM On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:42:46 -0800 (PST) Eric Fenster eric...@yahoo.com wrote: What chance Open Office will offer reveal codes à la Word Perfect? This is the reason I keep my old Word Perfect program, as crash-prone as it is. The feature really helps control formatting. Consistent use of styles should obviate the need for this. Also useful is /View /Nonprinting characters, to reveal spaces, tabs and line or paragraph breaks. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: reveal codes
A short response to many of the points raised in this thread, to quote which points would be tedious and not very relevant to this posting. Would it be possible to reach a broad equivalent of reveal codes by incorporating an XML analysis screen.facility, which would look at the underlying XML code and highlight what it felt were departures from correct syntax? Such an analysis would be useful for irregular formatting in Write, much as the reveal codes advocates require, but perhaps more importantly for the many cases of broken .ODF files, usually Calc, where an error message indicates an (undefined) error at row,column. Several such cases occur every month, which can often be cured by deleteing a bad formatting sequence at XML level. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Presentations
On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 09:47:30 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:59:52 -0600 Stephen J. Lemmons stevejl@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir; I've been looking at and experimenting with Open Office. In particular your presentation package. I like what I see, however, I haven't been able to find one thing. How do you put your presentation on a CD with a viewer so it can be viewed on another PC that doesn't have Open Office? I'm trying to set up some class material for my minister who is computer illiterate. I need to give him something that he doesn't have to try and search all over his computer trying to find a particular piece of software. Can you help? After what I've been through the past two weeks I really don't want to use any version of MS Office. As far as I know there is at present no OpenOffice Presenation viewer. One can download a free Powerpoint Viewer from Microsoft, which should (but try it!) work with OpenOffice Impress files saved in .ppt (MS Office 97/2000/XP format for presentations); however, one should check that such presentations work correctly with the viewer, as the MS Office formats have been reverse engineered and some subtleties of display may be lost. Answer sent separately to the OP. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: My machine is French but I want OpenOffice in English. Why do you chose for me, why can't I select what I want? eom
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:15:27 -0700 Gary Aitken openoff...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 02/04/13 12:06, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:52:30 -0600 Christian Joffrain christian.joffr...@ni.com wrote: My machine is French but I want OpenOffice in English. Why do you chose for me, why can't I select what I want? Pick the version you require from http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html; you could have overridden the automatic choice and you would have been brought to that page. Is there a reason one can't have one version with multiple languages on a machine, so one user can use, for example, Spanish, another French, and a third English? Is the i18n stuff not configured at runtime? I don't know for certain because I have never tried this; on installing OpenOffice one is asked whether one wabts to install for onself only, or for All Users. The normal choice is All Users, but I think the other setting would allow thre separate installations for three users, each of a differing language. But I haven't tried this. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: My machine is French but I want OpenOffice in English. Why do you chose for me, why can't I select what I want? eom
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:04:52 -0700 Gary Aitken openoff...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 02/04/13 13:40, Hagar Delest wrote: Le 04/02/2013 21:15, Gary Aitken a écrit : Is there a reason one can't have one version with multiple languages on a machine, so one user can use, for example, Spanish, another French, and a third English? Is the i18n stuff not configured at runtime? What do you mean? The language packs do just that. good, I thought that was the case. I thought the answer to the OP was that he had to download a different version of aoo. Perhaps he should have been told that if he was downloading for the first time and only wanted to use a single language, he should select a particular language; but if he wanted to add another he could just add the language pack he wanted. The OP's gripe was that OpenOffice site was deciding what version to install, not the version he wanted. The answer to him was that he could have overruled the site decision and downloaded from the full range of versions. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: search and replace question
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:51:00 -0500 TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 2/9/2013 08:10, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 02/09/2013 02:10 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:49:52 -0500 doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: I have imported a relatively long document from an email, which contains a lot of single and double quote marks, all of them inch marks--straight lines. they need to be curly quotes and apostrophes. While I could and did change the preferences (in whatever drop-down menu I found it) to use single and double curly quotes, it does not automatically take place, and I dont' know how to do a search and replace on them, since some double quotes are opening quotes, and some are closing quotes. So even if I manually change one and then use it as a template for the sr, how will it know what to do? And what about apostrophes, in words like can't? I had to do this some years ago for several book texts, so what I say is subject to possibly faulty memory! Normally a leading quote is the sequence space quote and a trailing quote quote space, or sometimes StartOfPara quote quote EndofPara. Ditto for single quotes, apart from the apostrophe. I normally type a short line to generate sample curly quotes so I can Copy and Paste these into the Replace box. My memory is that Find and Replace in OOo 3.x did not accept characters direct from /Insert /Special Characters, so I used this work around; this may have changed in AOo 3.4.x. I then was able to use a few Find and Replace sequences to change an entire text. I think I actually used AltSearch in place of Find and Replace for the last texts. I did have to check the texts for anomalies - there were a few, but these were picked up quickly in a proof-reading scan; I converted several book length texts in a matter of a few minutes each. If you decide to use this method, do please keep an unmodified backup, as global Find and Replaces can quickly be disastrous until you get the hang of them. it may be possible to do all this with either a macro or Regular Expressions. I have no great experience with either. Step 1: Turn change tracking on. Step 2: Do your magic to make the changes, what ever that may be. Step 3: Review your changes, which would hopefully be rather quick. You can probably do a safe search and replace by finding all spaces followed by a and replace with a space followed by a curl-to-the-right double quote. You know, low hanging fruit and all. Same with followed by a space. Just looking for some short cuts if you wanted to use search and replace. After you do the bulk of the conversion, perhaps using some of the preceding excellent advice, you might find my QuoteChecker macro of use. It will catch stray inch marks, and should detect unbalanced or missing curly double quotes. (Sorry, no help for single quotes: with exceptions like 'Twas the ... and 'Course you can, the logic gets very complex.) If you're interested, I'll clean up the macro and post it on the wiki. BTW, you can insert special characters into dialog fields (like sr) with Ctrl-Shift-S, to open the Special Characters dialog. The curly quotes are up at U+2018, 19, 1B, and 1C. I normally use a sneaky trick to find the unconverted single quotes. After the main conversion has been done I FR a single straight quote, replacing it with a single straingt quote, in bright red, size (say) 26pt. This stands out like a sore thumb on full page views, and it is simple to run through the document and hand patch the few occurences of an unconverted single quote, usually in contexts such as suggested above. Back in SO8, OOo2.x and 3.x days I could not easily get FR to accept a character selected from Special Characters and it was quicker to put a line in the text with any needed Special Charaters and Copy and Paste them into FR. My priority was and is always to get the job done, even if inelegantly. Once it is finished, no one cares how it was done! -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: uninstalling openoffice, replacing
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:26:19 -0500 Glenna Giveans glenna.give...@gmail.com wrote: Dear OpenOffice staff, My Mac 3.4.1 version of OpenOffice suddenly started putting up a little window asking if I want to Restore Windows of the Application or not. I can't get my files to work or get the Restore window to disappear or start new files. I want to reinstall, but am not sure if I first must uninstall my application. Also, I don't know what version I should be installing. I saw 3.4.x and 4.0. Usually there is no need to reinstall OpenOffice, which, if the problem is concerned with a corrupt User Prifile, does not of itself cure the problem. Look instead at this thread http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=53884 paying particular attention to the postings of lgusaas, who has very good knowledge of Macs. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Earlier releases
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:41:57 -0600 John G Innes jgin...@centurytel.net wrote: I am dead in the water on an important project because I cannot print, by any means some Writer output which I routinely printed in earlier releases. Is it possible to download releases prior to 3.4? I have submitted Bugzilla reports, one so old it predated Apache's inheritance of OpenOffice. It still is listed as unconfirmed. I just submitted a shorter version with screen shots and graphic example. Please point me to earlier releases I can drop back to temporarily. I cannot wait any longer for a fix, and must do something even if it means use a commercial printer. A useful work-around is to Export as PDF and then print the PDF file. If using a 64 bit Windows, it can sometimes help to reinstall the printer _after_ installing OpenOffice. For reasons as yet unexplained sometimes OpenOffice (32 but) does not talk easily to printers on a 64 bit Windows. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: saving documents on a mac
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:27:36 -0500 Ron Davis rjdavis...@yadtel.net wrote: I have a new macbook pro and I am unable to save documents in folders that I used on my PC. I cannot get past documents folder to individual folders when saving documents. I can create new folders but I then cannot get to them to save a document in them. Help, Ron Davis rjdavis...@yadtel.net Can you access such folders and save files there from other applications, outside of OpenOffice? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: ***
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:13:00 -0500 James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: Ernie Kurtz wrote: When I put three asterisks at the beginning of a line, they convert to a solid line. That is a useful feature. But sometimes I later wish to get rid of / erase that line. How, please? Place the pointer just above the line, right click and select Default Formatting. Or immediately select /Edit /Undo (Ctrl Z is the shortcut) -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PUBLIC TALK] request for input for my talk Apache OpenOffice - project status and release 4.0
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:11:40 +0100 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, sorry for cross-posting - I want to reach all of you almost directly. Please reply to d...@openoffice.apache.org. I will give a talk on a German conference about Apache OpenOffice in mid April 2013 in Berlin. I had already mentioned this German conference in an earlier post [1]. The conference is about free office suite, mainly focused on Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and the OpenDocument file format. The title of my talk is Apache OpenOffice - project status and release 4.0. In the first part I will present the continuation of the project at Apache and the actual project status. Some general remarks on the project structure and processes (The Apache Way) will be included, I think. The main purpose of this part is to demonstrate how well OpenOffice evolves at Apache since the change the project had suffered in mid 2011. This will strengthen the confidence/trust in the project. The second part is about our planned 4.0 release. The intention of this part is to show how active the development of the product and the project is by talking about the changes and improvements we had made/are making for our planned 4.0 release. Now my _big_ request to you _all_. I am only one person and I have more or less a developer view on the product and the project. E.g., I am not active on all our mailing lists. On certain areas I have no deep insight. Thus, please provide me with information about the stuff that is going on in your area of interest. What are the key milestones which you had achieved for the project? What are your contributions for our coming 4.0 release? [If wanted I can name the corresponding contributor(s) in the presentation document.] The talk's length is 45 min. (30 min talk, 15 min QA) - I am able to fill the presentation with the stuff I know, but I strongly believe that in this case certain important stuff and details about the product/project will missing. I will collect all your input and I will fill a wiki page with the summarized information. My presentation document will of course be available for further usage. If the presentation document will not be created at the last minute, I will also provide drafts of it for review and feedback. I am looking forward for your input. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3C512C9ED2.70601%40googlemail.com%3E You should mention the powerful style-based formatting and layout facilities of AOO and how it has largely superceded Desk Top Publishing applications for non critical/non professional document layout. Most users/authors are now able to undertake their own layout and produce competent looking documents using AOO. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Open office issues.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:50:21 -0400 Judith L. Bardach judyspl...@roadrunner.com wrote: I tried it on Windows 8 laptop, too, and couldn't open it, although I am using it on my XP desktop.. Does it not yet apply to Windows 8? Many people are running OpenOffice quite successfully on Windows 8. Do you get any error messages? - Original Message - From: Dan Cowell danielmartincow...@hotmail.com To: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:04 PM Subject: Open office issues. Hi there, I’m not sure is I’m going about this the correct way but I have an issue with Open Office. I recently downloaded the program to my new dell tablet, which runs on windows 8 pro, but when I try open it I get a message that reads; This application cannot be started. [context=shared] caught unexpected exception! Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. P.s It runs fine on my windows 7 laptop. Sent from Windows Mail - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Problem with open office.org
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:50:54 -0500 Debbie Weber dj...@aol.com wrote: I suddenly have page breaks under every line in my spreadsheet. Besides manually deleting each line (editdelete manual break...row break), how can I get this task done quickly? I've tried highlighting all of the lines and deleting the page break, but it doesn't work. Please help! Are these actual Page Breaks, which put you on a new page (current page and total pages are shown at bottom left of status bar, on the botton of the screen), or are they solid black lines under ewach paragraph? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Opening an existing document
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:34:40 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: In previous versions of OOo, when an existing document was opened in writer (I don't know about other components), it was opened at the same place in the document where it was closed the time beffore. I find that function rather useful and do not understand why it has been eliminated. Would it be possible to get it back? If you refer having the document opening at the last editing position, you need to enter a name in /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org /User Data on Windows / Linux machines. I'm not certain, but you may need to restat OpenOffice completely for this to take (including the Quickstarter). (Similar path on Macs under Preferences) -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Printing on only the right pages of a book
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Sam Warren sambookwar...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I format a book with the text only on the right hand pages? An alternate way, which might suit depending on many things, is to print to a landscape page with a lefthand margin set to more than half the page width (half + whatever margin you wish on the other half page). Again, set your styles properly, via /Format /Styles and Formnatting) - see the Help file for detailed information on this. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: british dictionary
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:53:51 +0200 h. v. circul...@gmx.com wrote: Hi Hagar Many thanks for the hints - very useful. Is it me, or is there a slight error in: 2. Check the general settings by Hagar Delest » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:54 pm Go to menu ToolsOptionsLanguages SettingsLanguages Should it not be: /Go to menu OpenOffice.orgPreferencesOptionsLanguages SettingsLanguages/ At least that is where you find it on a mac. ToolsOptions does not exist - on mine, anyway. Hope it helps - Original Message - From: Hagar Delest Sent: 04/18/13 08:19 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: british dictionary Some hints with screenshots here: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512 As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at users@openoffice.apache.org - replies to my personal email address will be ignored. Since you are not subscribed to this list you may not see all the replies to your query. To subscribe Apache OpenOffice mailing lists go to http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html For user support you can also use The OpenOffice.org Community Forum http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ Regards, Hagar Le 18/04/2013 15:46, lisette.eindho...@kabelfoon.net a écrit : I hav ejust downloaded apache open office 3.4.1. in the Dutch language. I also downloaded the English UK language package. But it does not work. Only US-spelling gets checked!!! What can I do? Help please, Lisette As you point out, the Options setting is different on a Mac. As most replies are for Windows users, it is easy to overlook the Mac and Linux differences, _especually_ when the host operating system is not specified. This is why on the en Forum we request an OO version number and an OS in the User .sig. . -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Two questions
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:49:16 -0400 Nancy Bellantine njbellant...@gmail.com wrote: 1. How do I highlight a field or cell ? 2. How can I change the default font? I tried to change it, it reflects what I changed it to in the preferences, however still defaulting to new times Roman. 1. In Calc, double click in the cell. Or Click to one side of the entry in the Formula bar, hold mouse button down and drag across it. In Writer Click in front of or behind it and drag, for fields. In a Writer Table treble click in a cell will select the entire content of the cell, or click and drag (as above). 2. Tutorial on the Forum on making a new default template: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71t=1161 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:50:15 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 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. We've received 40 proposals from community members and we would like your feedback on these designs. You can find the survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/815178/ Thanks in advance for your participation and feedback. Regards, -Rob Would you consider posting this to the Forums, Rob? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:43:04 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:50:15 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 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. We've received 40 proposals from community members and we would like your feedback on these designs. You can find the survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/815178/ Thanks in advance for your participation and feedback. Regards, -Rob Would you consider posting this to the Forums, Rob? So far I've sent it to the dev, marketing and users list. Also to Facebook and Twitter. If there are any other places it should go, then please post it broadly. -Rob OK, now posted to the en-Forum -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Problems with inserting graphics, columns
On Sun, 5 May 2013 20:41:22 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your response, Johnny. This time I had no problem creating the two columns where I wanted them. But I don't know how to get my cursor to go into column 2. (I have a laptop and use the touchpad). Pat On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/5/5 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com: Is this the place to get help with a text document? I am trying to insert a picture and put text to the right of the image. I can put text above or below, but not beside the image. What did you try? I had no problems at all doing this. Also I want to divide the page into two columns, beginning about 2 or 3 inches from the top, but instead it divided the entire page into two columns. So, two questions: How to get text to the right of an image? 1. Insert your image. 2. Right click the image, click ”Image…” (or whatever it says; I run OpenOffice in Swedish). 3. Select the Text adjustment tab (I don't have a clue what its English name is, just select one that seems to do what you want…). 4. Select what you think will give you the result you want. Or: 1. See 1 above. 2. Right click the image, click Text adjustment (or whatever the English name is), click one of the options that seem to do what you want. and how to divide a page into two or more columns, beginning 2-3 from the top? 1. Select the text that you want to have in two columns. 2. Click Insert → Section (again, I'm not sure about the English name of this option). 3. Click the column tab of the new dialogue that pops up and edit the settings to suit your needs. When you are setting up your section to use columns (or afterwards by /Format /Section :Options) there is a checkbox to evenly distribute contents to all columns. If this is not what you want, uncheck this option. Then when you have entered sufficient text in Column One or position your cursor where you need the break, use /Insert /Break :Column break and cursor will move to Column two. To exit the Column section use Alt Enter. It may be that you do not need to use a Column section. Perhaps a two column table will be what you need, to allow you enter text left and its matching text right. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: why?
On Wed, 08 May 2013 10:12:12 -0400 Carole Blake cbla...@verizon.net wrote: Why can't I open anything with Apache that I created with the former version of Open Office? Carole Blake What are the three letter extensions on the files you are trying to open? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: How to display pages with no breaks between them
On Wed, 8 May 2013 15:29:55 + stephen schneider ...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear OpenOfficers: Thanks for your time and support on this admittedly simple question: Before swtiching to OO, I used ms word, where it was possible to view text documents continuously: i.e., pages were separated by one line only. To set this up, one went to the 'View' heading and chose 'Normal.' Now, in OO, pages are separated by a blue area, so when one goes down a multi-page document, there's a jump after every page. The document is discontinuous, which I don't like. So, the questions: is it possible in OO for pages to be separated by one line (and not by the gap described above)? How to set this up? How to make this the default for viewing documents? Two ways: Move to /View /Web view or Set Page height (/Format /Page : Page tab, User) to the max allowable of 300 cm (118.11) Both of these will minimise the intrusion of the page break. Be aware that OpenOffice does not like (= really hates) paragraphs containing more that 64K characters. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: EPUB from OpenOffice
On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500 Tamblyne tambl...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: *I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital book conversion from OpenOffice: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator* * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub* * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub* Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation? Or is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to EPub? Thanks in advance for any insights. I've done very little by way of conversion to electronic formats; I found Calibre very satisfactory. It converts to many (all?) eformats directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and manages one's library on the ereader. Certainly worth investigation. I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling of the styles. So -- to convert do you need a document without any formatting? Thanks Tam I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read up the intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion. I am aware that it can be fine tuned to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but haven't looked into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually entails decision making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for (say) a US Letter page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic page/textflow of an ereader. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: strip formatting??
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:49:39 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to remove all formatting? I am copying some items from a website (worldcat.org) to include in a report and I want to do my own formatting so I would like to strip the current formatting (font style, size, color; italics, etc. Is there a way to remove all the current formatting? Thanks, Pat /Edit /Paste Special and then choose textwhen offered. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: saving text file
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:02:03 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I am suddenly impossible to save 2 separate files, both in Dropbox. I have tried saving to a different location that doesn't work either. What to do?? In the /File /Save As window, is automatic file name extension checked? It should be. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: saving text file
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:02:03 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I am suddenly impossible to save 2 separate files, both in Dropbox. I have tried saving to a different location that doesn't work either. What to do?? In the /File /Save As window, is automatic file name extension checked? It should be. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: saving text file
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:02:03 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I am suddenly impossible to save 2 separate files, both in Dropbox. I have tried saving to a different location that doesn't work either. What to do?? In /File /Save As window, is automatic file name extension checked? It should be. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: saving text file
I'm sorry for the multiple responses by me to the above query. Monday was a public holidy in Ireland and emails were being rejected, probably because the email servers were being adjusted. However, it apears that the rejected emails were queued and later forwarded by the server. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Auto Recovery
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:10:11 +0200 Tom Backer Johnsen bac...@psych.uib.no wrote: Girvin: That does not fit the menus on my version of Openoffice (version 3.4.1. on a Mac). The Path is under Preferences on a Mac, starting (I think) from /Options. Tom On 12. Jun 2013, at 21:48 , Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The backup files are stored where the backup path setting is set to. See: Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Paths and look for the Backups entry in the list. That will tell you where the backups are stored. Also, the option Always create backup copy must be selected in: Tools - Options - Load/Save - General in order for a backup copy to be saved. Hope this helps. Girvin Herr Kadal Amutham wrote: Generally a backup file will be saved in the same directory, file name will be same but with a different extension. To recover, change the extension and open with the same application With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 12 June 2013 00:08, Hannah Aubry hannah.au...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was working on a document and goofed, deleting two pages. I hadn't saved it yet, but had seen the autosave loading bar several times so I figured I would be able to recover the two pages by closing the document. Did I just completely delete the file or will it be saved somewhere on my computer? I am running OpenOffice 3.4.1 on Mac OS X version 10.7.5 Thank you so much! Best, Hannah -- *Hannah Aubry* | Northwestern University, 2014 School of Communication | Theatre Major | Film and Media Studies Minor SONIC Laboratory | Research Assistant 415.497.9050 | hannah.au...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org Tom Backer Johnsen Søndre Steinkjellersmauet 7 5003 Bergen Mobil: +47 9169 3346 Email: backer(at)psych.uib.no - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: open office troubles
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:15:08 -0400 Shelley Keating mrsskeat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I had open office on my computer and now it seems to have partly uninstalled. It is still listed on my start menu but will not open I am unable to open any of the documents I have saved using this program. Please help! I have tried to reinstall it from your website but only get a bunch of add ons I neither need nor want. Shelley Keating If your operating system is Windows, use Ctrl Shift Esc to open Taskmanager and delete all soffice processes shown on the Processes tab. Then restart OpenOffice. Did you have a system or program crash? Your symptom is typical of this. The only site from which you should download OpenOffice is through www.openoffice.org (exactly so, no area or country codes). This will redirect you to Sourceforge who handle the storage and downloads; there are no unnecessary and unwanted downloads offered from the correct OpenOffice site (given above). Do not download off the top hits from a Google search; we canot control these and are aware that unwanted additions are forced on you. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:54:50 -0400 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)? I am having a problem with the following: I am preparing a list of books as follows: In a table of two columns, I insert an image of the book cover in the first (a narrow) column. In the 2nd column I put info about the book: title, author, publisher date. I have obtained the info from www.worldcat.org, compiled a list of the books, copied the list into Notepad to strip it of formatting. Next I copied the list into an OO text document and formatted it as follows: font Calibri color black title: 18 point bold italic author publishing info (two separate lines): 15 point regular. For some reason, OO is changing the color of the publishing info to blue. I change it to black. but when I save it the color switches to blue!! It is driving me crazy!!! Any ideas?? Thanks!! Pat Your request to reveal codes presupposes that the underlying structure of all word processors is the same as in Word Perfect; which is a faulty assumption. Yes, one can reveal the formatting codes of OpenOffice - don't blame me if you don't like what you see! You do this by saving an OpenOffice file as .odt (or in OpenOffice's native format if using its non wordprocessing applications). Depending on the Archive Manager you use, you may then need to rename this to .zip. Open it with an Archive Manager, and look inside content.xml with a plain text editor. There you will see the xml formatting codes OpenOffice uses. How to solve your immediate problem? Trying to diagnose your problem fron a description is like sending your mother to see the doctor because you have a pain in your tummy. He can only work from hearsay of your problems. I suggest you post to the help forum at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/ and attach a short file (an .odt, not a picture) which has the problem. I will be very surprised if you do not get a solution in a very short time. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of the formatting codes inserted by WP. Instead, I saved the document as a plain text file, stripping all formatting. I then loaded it into LyX, which is a GUI LaTeX editor. LaTeX is the ultimate in styles-based document processing as there is no other way to do things. I applied the Part and Chapter styles, (called environments in LaTeX speak) to the part and chapter titles, and then inserted a fully formatted, numbered, and typed table of contents with a couple mouse clicks. I set NO page formatting parameters such as page margins, page numbering, etc., as those were handled entirely by the Book template (called document class). I then compiled the book and had a fully formatted novel, complete with Title page, Table of Contents, properly formatted right and left hand pages with fully formatted headers with page numbers, etc. The entire process took about a half hour. I surprised even myself. I could have done the same thing with OpenOffice's styles, but they're not quite as fully automatic as LyX/LaTeX, so it would have taken a bit longer, but not much. Yes, styles can be difficult to learn, much the same as learning a new cable TV remote control. But once learned, you'll appreciate all you can do with them, and you won't go back to the typewriter (or it's only begotten son, WordPerfect), just like I won't go back to rabbit ears for my TV. Virgil -Original Message- From: Tamblyne Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 5:29 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Codes Hi, Patricia -- Of course, you're going to be told -- and I can see that you already have -- that you're not doing it right. Use styles. Styles will, apparently, take care everything, including promote world peace, as well as fix all that's wrong with your document. Perhaps if we asked for reveal styles instead of reveal codes, we could get some progress on this issue. The View Non-printing characters doesn't help much unless what you're looking for is carriage returns/line-feeds, as far as I can tell. It certainly doesn't tell me what styles are being applied to any given portion of the document. And it doesn't show formatting codes, either. As an old WP user (and aren't we all, at this point?), I argued passionately for this enhancement long ago. The fact that we were blown off then, and still are, is the reason I don't volunteer my time to this project anymore. The response to use styles doesn't solve the problem -- that being that you can't tell where an applied style begins or ends when you have a problem. Wait until you get a horizontal line under all of your paragraphs that you can't get rid of. That's even more fun! :-D You can spend time playing Document Detective -- or just CTRL-Z out of it and come up with some other way to format your document the way YOU want to. As to your particular issue, this blue text is often automatically applied to email addresses and hyperlinks, and you can change that under character styles. As for reveal codes -- don't hold your breath. :-) Tam On 6/20/2013 6:54 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote: Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)? I am having a problem with the following: I am preparing a list of books as follows: In a table of two columns, I insert an image of the book cover in the first (a narrow) column. In the 2nd column I put info about the book: title, author, publisher date. I have obtained the info from www.worldcat.org, compiled a list of the books, copied the list into Notepad to strip it of formatting. Next I copied the list into an OO text document and formatted it as follows: font Calibri color black title: 18 point bold italic author publishing info (two separate lines): 15 point regular. For some reason, OO is changing the color of the publishing info to blue. I change it to black. but when I save it the color switches to blue!! It is driving me crazy!!! Any ideas?? Thanks!! Pat It is worth remembering that as well as Paragraph styles, OpenOffice has Character Styles, which allow you to change character attributes mid paragraph. If the WP lobby feel so strongly about not having Reveal Codes, why don't they do something about it and write an extension to do just that? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Can't Get Rid of Window
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:12:58 -0400 Donald Titus donaldti...@verizon.net wrote: 1. I have a Mac OS 10.8.4. When I call up a document using Apache OpenOffice I get a message that says: The last time you opened OpenOffice.org it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again? If you choose not to reopen windows, you may have to open and position the windows yourself. Two options are given: Don't Reopen and Reopen. Selecting either option does not get rid of the window. 2. My OpenOffice is locked up. The only way that I can quit is to Force Quit. However, every time that I call up OpenOffice I get the same message. 3. I have gone to your help page and tried some of the remedies that have worked for others. However, they don't work for me. What can I do? Look at this thread on the Forum http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17t=43095 The restorewindows problem is common on a Mac and there are many reports of it on the Forum and many discussions of how to fix. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:49:39 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and apostrophes in imported text? Good question. If I remember correctly--I haven't looked at OO/LO in some time--they don't let you find and replace double spaces. Meanwhile, those who have looked recently are doing it all the time! Brian Barker These are also flagged by extension Language Tool. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:08:25 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all the damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect can do that automatically. Not only that, it can differentiate between quote marks and real inch and foot designators. Let's see your OO/LO do that! I am not sure what this is since I have never had any particular difficulty dealing with these things though I am not sure how one can understand that a particular single quote is an inch mark as opposed to a non-curly double quote. I think the reference to an inch mark is simply a way of identifying your (typewriter-style) non-curly double quote. But Mr McGarrett does have a point, I think. OpenOffice Writer will replace typed single and double quotes with what it calls custom quotes quite efficiently as you type. But if you have existing straight quotes in a document (perhaps in an inherited document or in text pasted in from elsewhere), there appears to be no easy way to apply that intelligence after the event. You could replace a straight quote with a curly one, but you'd have to select manually the individual cases where you needed open and close quotes: you cannot at this stage invoke Writer's ability to use its intelligence about this. In some other word processors (dare I mention Microsoft Word if I promise to wash my mouth out?), you can merely replace straight quotes with straight quotes: replacement is treated the same way as typing, the same intelligence is invoked, and curly quotes of the appropriate handedness are substituted en masse. If text is set to Default Paragraph style, either entire document or a selection, with no applied direct formatting, /Format /Autocorrect /Apply or /Format /Autocorrrect /Apply and Edit Changes will apply the autocorrect options as if one were typing. Inbuilt Find and Replace will allow searching/replacing Styles. Also inbuilt Find and Replace will allow one to do a few selective searches for quotes. Leading double quotes usually occur after a paragraph mark or a space, and trailing quotes after a .?!. So some selective FR operations can sort the single/double quotes quickly. Extension AltSearch is a more powerful Search engine (recommended). One tip: in many versions (all? I haven't checked) of OpenOffice it can be difficult (impossible?) to insert a curly quote into the Replace box from /Insert /Special Characters. I find it easiest to enter the curly single/double quotes into a short line in the document and Copy/Paste them into the Replace box. I can take the text version of War and Peace from Project Gutenberg and convert it into a completely formatted Styles based document in less than thirty minutes - what's to complain about that? Using the Find and Repace method, any missed quotes will be picked up at proof-reading stage. You don't proof read? Naughty, naughty! -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 06:17:07 +0100 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:08:25 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all the damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect can do that automatically. Not only that, it can differentiate between quote marks and real inch and foot designators. Let's see your OO/LO do that! I am not sure what this is since I have never had any particular difficulty dealing with these things though I am not sure how one can understand that a particular single quote is an inch mark as opposed to a non-curly double quote. I think the reference to an inch mark is simply a way of identifying your (typewriter-style) non-curly double quote. But Mr McGarrett does have a point, I think. OpenOffice Writer will replace typed single and double quotes with what it calls custom quotes quite efficiently as you type. But if you have existing straight quotes in a document (perhaps in an inherited document or in text pasted in from elsewhere), there appears to be no easy way to apply that intelligence after the event. You could replace a straight quote with a curly one, but you'd have to select manually the individual cases where you needed open and close quotes: you cannot at this stage invoke Writer's ability to use its intelligence about this. In some other word processors (dare I mention Microsoft Word if I promise to wash my mouth out?), you can merely replace straight quotes with straight quotes: replacement is treated the same way as typing, the same intelligence is invoked, and curly quotes of the appropriate handedness are substituted en masse. If text is set to Default Paragraph style, either entire document or a selection, with no applied direct formatting, /Format /Autocorrect /Apply or /Format /Autocorrrect /Apply and Edit Changes will apply the autocorrect options as if one were typing. Inbuilt Find and Replace will allow searching/replacing Styles. Also inbuilt Find and Replace will allow one to do a few selective searches for quotes. Leading double quotes usually occur after a paragraph mark or a space, and trailing quotes after a .?!. So some selective FR operations can sort the single/double quotes quickly. Extension AltSearch is a more powerful Search engine (recommended). One tip: in many versions (all? I haven't checked) of OpenOffice it can be difficult (impossible?) to insert a curly quote into the Replace box from /Insert /Special Characters. I find it easiest to enter the curly single/double quotes into a short line in the document and Copy/Paste them into the Replace box. I can take the text version of War and Peace from Project Gutenberg and convert it into a completely formatted Styles based document in less than thirty minutes - what's to complain about that? Using the Find and Repace method, any missed quotes will be picked up at proof-reading stage. You don't proof read? Naughty, naughty! IMPORTANT!! If you wish to experiment with the Autocorrect and Find and Replace options I outlined earlier (quoted above), until you become familiar with them, do PLEASE work on a copy document. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OOD behavior
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:43:42 -0400 Roberta Palmour rmp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Users: Can someone please tell me why e-mail attachments downloaded from gmail to the desktop are automatically opened by open office, even when that is not the program in which they were constructed? And what does one do to remove this automatic default behavior? Many thanks, Roberta Palmour You need to reset the file associations for the documnt types you do not wish OpenOffice to open. Normally ths is doe by right clicking on a typical document of a type and selecting Open With option from the pop-up menu. There is usually a setting towards the bottom of the dialog wibdow that open to say always use this application. I have not access to a Mac, so the real wordings may be slightly different. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Conflicts?
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:25:58 +0200 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Can't say for sure on Windows (but I don't think there would be any problem). Under GNU/Linux, you need to install them with the official packages from their respective website. Using the version delivered by your distro may lead to dependency problems. Hagar Le 23/07/2013 21:38, Virgil Arrington a écrit : Are there any known conflicts with having LO 4.0.4 and AOO 4.0 installed on the same computer? In my never-ending, obsessive (and admittedly futile) search for computing perfection, I want to try both programs to see which better meets my techno-needs. Virgil My solution, where I desire to try different versions, is to use two different computers, connecting to data files across a network. Often one can find an older, unloved, computer being disposed of, which after a rebuild and reinstall of operating system is quite adequate for experimentation of that sort. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice 3.4
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:23:44 -0700 (PDT) jim shepard she...@sbcglobal.net wrote: 3.4 is opening on Windows startup. How do I turn that off? My operating system is XP. If I remember correcty this was a bug on an earlier version of 3,4 (or was it 3.3?) and was cured by /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org :Memory and unchecking Enable systray Quickstarter, It was cured in the later revision (certainly 3.4.1), but you should consider upgrading to AOO 4.0. the latest revision. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Static date
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:18:36 +0200 Ruben van Amelsvoort rubenvanamelsvo...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'm looking for a way in OpenOffice Calc to get the current date in a cell, but keep it that date too. So just the simple Date function doesnt work. For example, it has to show 26-07-2013 because thats todays date, but it still has to show 26-07-2013 tomorrow too. Is this possible? Thanks! See this posting on the en-Forum (and surrounding postings in that thread). http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45354#p209723 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: superscripted numbers (version 4.0)
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:39:47 -0400 doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: Somebody please tell me how to get rid of superscripted numbers, like 20th, etc. I do not want anything superscripted unless i specifically tell it to! Thanx--doug /Format / Autocorrect /Autocorrect options : Localized Options tab, uncheck settings against Format ordinal number suffixes. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
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 OpenOffice 4.0 yet? I really liked the sound of the toolbar down the side so i just gave it a quick go. I was a tad disappointed to find that toolbar was in addition to the ones we both already have at the top and mostly was just a duplication of many of those buttons. However 1st time try-outs of new things seldom go completely smoothly! lol I would really like to see both LO and AOO go this route and faster. At the moment all programs seem intent on making the screen more and more like a letter-box slit with more and more wasted space at the sides and more and more crammed in at the topbottom. It's becoming tougher and tougher to see a whole document all at the same time. Regards from Tom :) The individual toolbars and the sidebar are all separately switchable on/off in a standard AOO 4.0 installation. Switching off standard toolbars releases space at screen top; using Sidebar uses side space. If one wishes even more vertical space one can (Operating system dependent) often turn a wide monitor on its side. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: default Writer save format
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:44:52 -0400 Ernie Kurtz kurtz...@umich.edu wrote: So simple, I am sure, but . . . . How does one change the default save format in Writer from .odt? erniek It is best not to; work in .odt and save out to other formats only when needed. Working in other formats offers severe risk of file loss if a computer or program crash. Better chance of recovery using .odt. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: OpenOffice Download Page
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:07:03 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 08/07/2013 08:43 PM, schrieb Steele, Raymond: Rob, Thanks for the response. I am looking for the 4.0 code. I clicked the link, but it is not going anywhere. Does it work for you? Yes, for me all 3 links are working, also the links for the signature and hash files. Works fine for me as well, Firefox on Windows 7. -Rob Do you get any error message or at least see any hint that could bring us forward? As alternative, what is happening when you use the Apache server? http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0/source/ Thanks Marcus -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 10:51 AM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; Steele, Raymond Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: OpenOffice Download Page On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Steele, Raymondraymond.ste...@lmco.com wrote: I download page does not seem to be displaying the correct information. I am looking to download the latest version 4.0 source. Can someone point me in the right direction. I am looking for the tarball. http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#source From that URL, do you see the row labeled Source tarballs? That's what you want. It is available in three different archive/compression formats. But remember, that is not the latest code. That is the code from 4.0. The most recent code is what you get out of the trunk in Subversion. Information on retrieving that is here: http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html Regardsm -Rob Raymond - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org Sometimes it is necessary to clear the browser's Internet cache to clear such a situation. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Can't upload PDF files
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:57:15 +0100 MIKE LISH emell...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I get a General input/output error window whenever trying to upload a PDF file into AOO ver.4 which I have just updated to, and just downloaded the Oracle PDF file extension My platform is windows 7 64bit Have you restarted OpenOffice after installing the PDF extension? Is it also the updated extension for AOO 4.0 (at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/17351). -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: FW: Help
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:31:12 +1030 daniel howarth danielhowarth2...@hotmail.com wrote: From: danielhowarth2...@hotmail.com To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Help Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:04:09 +1030 I need help with openoffice.org 4.0.0 for Mac OS X 10.7.5 due to an error i am recieveing where i get the 'restore windows' screen and it will let me access documents but the restore documents menu is still there and will not let me select any options or use the openoffice prefences Discussed in detail in this thread on the Forum forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17t=55755 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Openoffice4
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:19:09 -0400 Jean Gunn jgu...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi I just downloaded open office apache for the first time. I am used to Office. Having difficulty formatting the page I am using. I have to continually format the page or app that I want on every line. Is there something I can do Thanks You need to drasticly change your method of working, as OpenOffice is _not_ a clone of MS Office, no matter what people think. It offers much the same functionality, but this is arrived at by different methods of working. OpenOffice makes considerable use of Styles. You may find this document helpful http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Templates_and_Styles It may also be of use to Internet search for using styles in OpenOffice The consistent use of Styles requires a paradigm shift in one's method of working and it will not be in your first major project when you realise how powerful this method is. You may also ind it of use to bring specific problems to our Forum at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Exporting PDF from Master Document
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:00:27 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I am trying to export a printable PDF document from a master document in Writer (AOO 4.0.0 Win7) and cannot find the option to generate automatically inserted blank pages. I also was unable to find this option when printing the document directly from Writer. As best as I can remember, the last time I did this, this option was prominent, but it may have been pre Apache OOo. /Tools /Options /OpenOffice Writer : Print -under Other: Print automatically inserted blank pages -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Exporting PDF from Master Document
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:53:03 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I'm not really sure if that worked or not. When I tried exporting to PDF this time, I got a message from Windows saying: OpenOffice 4.0.0 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Windows did close the program, but I have received no notification. :-) Like I was expecting one. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 8/13/2013 4:17 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:00:27 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I am trying to export a printable PDF document from a master document in Writer (AOO 4.0.0 Win7) and cannot find the option to generate automatically inserted blank pages. I also was unable to find this option when printing the document directly from Writer. As best as I can remember, the last time I did this, this option was prominent, but it may have been pre Apache OOo. /Tools /Options /OpenOffice Writer : Print -under Other: Print automatically inserted blank pages I never use Master Documents so cannot comment about them, but I have never has a problem with Export to PDF from ordinary Writer documents of any size. I'll confirm with a 5000 page document (a compendium of one author's works for private use) later today (its computer is asleep at other end of a sleeping house at present). -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Exporting PDF from Master Document
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:30:07 +0100 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:53:03 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I'm not really sure if that worked or not. When I tried exporting to PDF this time, I got a message from Windows saying: OpenOffice 4.0.0 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Windows did close the program, but I have received no notification. :-) Like I was expecting one. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 8/13/2013 4:17 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:00:27 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: I am trying to export a printable PDF document from a master document in Writer (AOO 4.0.0 Win7) and cannot find the option to generate automatically inserted blank pages. I also was unable to find this option when printing the document directly from Writer. As best as I can remember, the last time I did this, this option was prominent, but it may have been pre Apache OOo. /Tools /Options /OpenOffice Writer : Print -under Other: Print automatically inserted blank pages I never use Master Documents so cannot comment about them, but I have never has a problem with Export to PDF from ordinary Writer documents of any size. I'll confirm with a 5000 page document (a compendium of one author's works for private use) later today (its computer is asleep at other end of a sleeping house at present). As promised above, I have now Exported as PDF a 5000+ page document; all is well, inclluding automatically inserted blank pages. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Desktop Icon
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:43:06 +0200 koun...@nanatours.co.za wrote: Hi! The new version 4.0.0 was installed, but the desktop icon did not appear, only the Installation Files icon did show up. How can I make the desktop icon for the version 4.0.0 to appear? What operating system are you using? Do OpenOffice applications (Writer, Calc etc) show up in Program Files? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Fwd: How to install 4.0 Dictionary Update?
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:36:22 -0700 Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded the dictionary .zip file but it does not open with OO 4.0 so how do I install it? The readme file in the .zip is useless, talking license only, not help. At system level rename the file to type .oxt, double click it and OpenOffice should install it. If it has been renamed to type .zip, this is because Internet Explorer is badly behaved. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Fwd: How to install 4.0 Dictionary Update?
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:36:22 -0700 Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded the dictionary .zip file but it does not open with OO 4.0 so how do I install it? The readme file in the .zip is useless, talking license only, not help. At system level rename the file to type .oxt, double click it and OpenOffice should install it. If it has been renamed to type .zip, this is because Internet Explorer is badly behaved. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OCR Program
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:16:49 -0400 Rod Lockwood rodlockw...@provide.net wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion/recommendation for an OCR application? I have two huge notebooks I would like to scan in and convert to documents. I realize there will probably be some editing to do afterwards, but it would be better than typing in everything. I used to use TextBridge when I was using Word years ago. This is for Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. If these are handwritten notes, OCR is of little (read: no) use. You should look for a handwriting recofnition application. I have used (very briefly) one called MyScript under Windows; it is very sensitive to the style and regularity of the handwriting. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: pop-up help I don't understand the problem
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:52:36 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: Even this is no good for 1 sheet (4 pages) per signature. For the so-called perfect binding method, if there is more than one sheet per signature, then the sheets of each signature must be sewn together. More than one sheet per signature also results in uneven edges when the book is closed. The only way I have been able to do this, after exporting to pdf and using the booklet function, is to print pages 1 to 4, then pages 5 to 8, then pages 9 to 12, etc. This means that for a book of 200 pages, I have to run 200/4=50 print jobs. I have one book which is a dictionary consisting of 566 pages which means I have to run 142 print jobs. Of course, these figures only apply to printing on a printer with duplex capability. Otherwise, these figures are doubled. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 8/14/2013 1:49 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:03:15 -0500 Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: Unfortunately, this doesn't work too well for large documents, but it's fine for documents of 2 to 4 sheets. The larger documnts need to be divided into smaller units. I prefer one sheet per unit so that I can fold them and bind them at home. There is no easy way I have found to do this. The easiest way to do this is to Export as PDF. Then use a suitable PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader, to Print Booklet on a duplex printer. This will shrink the pages to the half size of the sheet and reorder the pages to the sheets in the correct order, permitting one to print binding signatures (groups) of 16, 24 or 32 pages. You are wrong. Just print as I say, then chop the signatures in half done the centre line. All will be well. In fact, there is no need to print in signatures for perfect binding. Just print the entire book, page 1 .. nnn on a duplex printer, using the Adobe Reader print booklet, and chop the paper stack down the centre. I do it all the time. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Delete document
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:05:18 +0100 Brian Allen hbchick...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can anyone inform me how you delete a document or letter in Open Office Apache please? brian You do it at system level using your file browser (Windows Explorer if in Windows). If you wish to remove the quick access link in /File /Recent Documents, download and install History Manager, but for a one off delete it is quickest to open sufficient documents to scroll the unwanted link off the list. . -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Request for help [Was Re: Is anyone using Apple Pages?
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT) calm...@aol.com wrote: I am hoping you would be willing to help me. I have posted 3 times with no answers. I am 76, just learning this wonderful new world...10 days ago downloaded Open Office. Was able to open and edit docs from my Flash Drive..Then somehow, 98% of my docs (90% of which I had not even opened in Open Office), got changed from Word docs to openoffice.org.XML 1.0 Text Documents (which as I understand it (not sure) are text encoded docs) When I try to open, pop-up ASCII menu comes up. No matter what I do there, the doc opens as computer code. I NEED these documents which represent 25 years of creative work. (I am a Jazz pianist/composer/poet).\ Thanking you in advance, God Bless you and yours, Cal Bezemer / Cal Q LateR Fitstly, I direct you to our Forum at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ where you should register and pose any follow up queries. We need to know what operating system you are using (such as Windows version) Did these files ever open with OpenOffice? Have you recently upgraded OpenOffice? If so, what version are you currently using? The first thing to try with strange happenings with OpenOffice is to delete or rename the User Profile. Details on how to do this are given at [Tutorial] The OpenOffice User Profile Then start up OpenOffice, and make a trivial file. In writerm, if you type dt (no quotes) and press F3, you should get a page of dummy text. Save this file to the local hard disk (NOT the Flash Drive), then try to reopen it. If it reopens, then we are on the right track. Best not to write to your Flash Drive until it is certain that your OpenOffice installation is working OK. If you have only recently moved to OpenOffice (or upgraded it), from which site did you download? We only recommend downloading through www.opemnoffice.org/download/ (automatic redirection to Sourceforge) You say you are using a Flash Drive and have been working to it. Is this a solid state USB stick, or is it a USB connected hard drive? Experience on the above Forum is that it is bad practice to work direct to a solic state Flash Drive for a number of reasons: One is that the life of these is limited - the circuitry may support only a limited number of Write cycles and they may fail without warning. Secondly, they ought be removed from the computer using a definite USB removal protocol; should they not be so removed, or should the computer be closed down too quickly, the files can be left in an uncertain, often unreadable, state. Thirdly they are also sensitive to static electricity from being transported in pockets. Again, subject to failure without warning. If you come back to the mailing list or the Forum with answers, we can carry on from there. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Connecting paragraph styles with numbering (list) styles
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:33:03 -0400 Janis Langins j.lang...@utoronto.ca wrote: I am trying to construct an outline with nested headings for lectures. Following the online manual (ch. 7, p. 259) for Open Office, I can create both Paragraph styles and Numbering styles but I cannot seem to combine them. Could I get some sources of information please? Second problem: I would like to transfer my new styles (if they work) to a document consisting of bits and pieces of previous documents with different styles and configure them to the new style with consistent renumbering. There is no information in the manual on this. Microsoft word seems to have a renumber feature on their Outline mode that renumbers a collections of cut and pasted documents to make the heading in the new document sequential and consistent. Open Office does not seem to have this. True? False? Any reference to solutions would be appreciated. Janis Langins - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org I don't do paragraph numbering so am not much help. However this tutorial might get be of help http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71t=58558 I have a vague memory that there is (was?) an extension that applied a new template to an existing document, but cannot find it in the extensions repository. If I do, I'll post back. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Connecting paragraph styles with numbering (list) styles
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:57:21 +0100 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:33:03 -0400 Janis Langins j.lang...@utoronto.ca wrote: I am trying to construct an outline with nested headings for lectures. Following the online manual (ch. 7, p. 259) for Open Office, I can create both Paragraph styles and Numbering styles but I cannot seem to combine them. Could I get some sources of information please? Second problem: I would like to transfer my new styles (if they work) to a document consisting of bits and pieces of previous documents with different styles and configure them to the new style with consistent renumbering. There is no information in the manual on this. Microsoft word seems to have a renumber feature on their Outline mode that renumbers a collections of cut and pasted documents to make the heading in the new document sequential and consistent. Open Office does not seem to have this. True? False? Any reference to solutions would be appreciated. Janis Langins - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org I don't do paragraph numbering so am not much help. However this tutorial might get be of help http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71t=58558 I have a vague memory that there is (was?) an extension that applied a new template to an existing document, but cannot find it in the extensions repository. If I do, I'll post back. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie I've located the Templat Changer extension. It is at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/template-changer Whether it works on AOO 4.0, and how it is used, I cannot say -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: How?
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Al Simpkins whofree...@yahoo.com wrote: Ido not use Open Office and tried to remove it via control panel but message says it can't without inserting a disc wit removal on it. How can I do that when OO WAS A DOWNLOADED APP WITHOUT A DISC? It is eating up 326 MB OF MY HARD DRIVE. I NEED TO GET IIT OUT! Thanks Three choices: either reinstall the version you used, then, without deleting the install files (usually on the desktop) use Control Panel to remove it - Control Panel is looking for the install files. Or: download and use RevoUninstaller at its most aggressive to remove it. Or: just delete the Program files by hand and use some registry cleaner like CCleaner to clean the registry, If in any doubt about computer manipulation the first method is the safest. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Help I'm being invaded
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 05:30:45 -0300 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:36 AM, LYNN BRUBAKER lynn.bruba...@sympatico.ca wrote: Every day I get about 10 emails concerning how to work Open Office Lynn, You, or someone with access to your PC subscribed your e-mail address to the users@openoffice.apache.org mailing list. A mailing list is like a web discussion forum, but with each message delivered by e-mail to your mailbox. In fact, mailing lists existed way before web based forums, and many people prefer them to forums. Now, if you didnt subscribe, someone with access to your PC did. If you want to unsubscribe (remove your address from the mailing list) send an empty email to the following address users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org After that, you will receive in your mailbox a response e-mail. Hope this helps! FC Fernando omitted to mention that you _must_ reply to the response email or you will not be unsubscribed. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: open office vers 4
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:28:39 -0500 TN Patriot irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:07:28 -0400 Dave.Mainwaring davemainwar...@gmail.com wrote: It does crash to often !! That's relative. I've had it and been using it since the day it was announced that it was available for download. I've not had it crash on me once in all this time. The same for me - not a crash! -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Novel writing need to Link/update various documents
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:07:23 +0200 birgitte nielsen birgitteelmerniel...@hotmail.com wrote: It is totally wrong that you send all these mails to me. So please stop it. I get long-mails every day from other Open Office Employees and users, but I have not registered myself into any group, and my OpenOffice works perfectly. You may not have registered on the various OpenOffice mailing lists, but someone with access to your computer has registered you, and confirmed the registration; you should check who uses your computer and stop them doing things like that. Use the Unsubscribe link on the bottom of a message to unsubscribe and then, when you get the confirmation message, acknowledge it. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Pop-up junk......
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:41:04 -0600 David Pitman 86dpit...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I downloaded OpenOffice to create documents for my business. Upon Installation a bunch of junk ads now appear in the sites I use. As far as I am concerned these are like viruses. Please tell me promptly how to disable this issue. If I do not hear a solution in three days your product will be completely uninstalled. You will not have a satisfied client. *David K. Pitman* *Sales Manager * *Vacation Rental Videos/ N LIGHT N* *720.496.3911* You have downloaded openOffice from a rogue site, which has added these obtrusive items. Unfortunatekty, as OpenOffice is opensource software this happens regularly. Downloads from the main site at www.openoffice.org are clear of such intrusions. I recommend you remove the existing installation, run updated Malware and Virus scans, then install using a fresh download from the URL above. Note that OpenOffice is free; from the above site you will not receive any request for cash. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Don´t ansver
On Sat, 05 Oct 2013 19:30:38 +0200 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Göte, Göte Thurgren schrieb: Why do openoffice Always tell mi when I open it that it dont ansver? No ather progran on my conputer das that. have you used the default installation paths? Please tell us the version you have installed, whether you had another version before, and what operating system you use. Kind regards Regina Also, if the don't answer is a translation of the actual message, please give us the untranslated message. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: RED LINE GLITCH!!!!!!!!
On 11/10/2013 5:12 AM, step...@carrcommunications.com wrote: In your program I keep getting this error where it marks every thing spelled right with a red line. I know that I have it set to English. What is going on. Try this spellcheck repair tutorial http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: unique uses of frame styles
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:34:24 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net wrote: On Saturday 12 October 2013 03:33:54 PM Regina Henschel wrote: What is sideheads? Sideheads are headings placed in a small column by the left margin. This positioning allows for very easy scanning, but naturally means that the text takes up more space. You see sideheads sometimes in technical documents. With some adjustments, you can create sideheads using the Marginalia frame style. I do not really understand, what you are looking for. The predifined frame styles have special properties, which are geared to special kind of frames. They are automatically choosen in most cases, when you insert an object. But the usage is not different from other kind of styles. You can use them to distinguish kind of frames and to easily change a style property of a class of frames. I am looking for ways to adapt the pre-defined frame styles, or new frame styles that others might have developed for specific purposes. Sideheads are one example of what I mean, and I'm hoping there might be others. if you can suggest a use that I haven't heard about - how can I know what you have heard about? You can't know -- but then you don't have to. :-). I'll know what suggestions are new to me. Is it possible to get the already finished part for reading? The draft is very rough right now, and not fit for others to read. But I will be completing the work in the next few months, and posting more polished versions on the ODF Authors site. I will post to this list (among others) when chapters are uploaded to ODF Authors. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ In this thread on the Forum Hanya gives a macro to turn Footnotes into Sidenotes and contrariwise http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45t=43956 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OO 4.0 (deb) installation problems
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:19:16 +0200 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Why so much trouble? Just extract the tarball in your standard download folder, then run sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the /DEBS folder. Then again in the desktop-integration folder. Hagar i agree with Hagar. Installing as he suggests works perfectly on all my ?Ubuntu computers, and has for several years. Le 18/10/2013 13:03, Uwe Brauer a écrit : Hello Here are my steps. I downloaded Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz I unpacked it and moved all the debs into /root/DEBS I run sudo dpkg-scanpackages DEBS /dev/null | gzip DEBS/Packages.gz in the /root directory I get a warning dpkg-scanpackages: warning: Packages in archive but missing from override file: dpkg-scanpackages: warning: openoffice openoffice-base openoffice-brand-base openoffice-brand-calc openoffice-brand-draw openoffice-brand-en-us openoffice-brand-impress openoffice-brand-math openoffice-brand-writer openoffice-calc openoffice-core01 openoffice-core02 openoffice-core03 openoffice-core04 openoffice-core05 openoffice-core06 openoffice-core07 openoffice-debian-menus openoffice-draw openoffice-en-us openoffice-en-us-base openoffice-en-us-calc openoffice-en-us-draw openoffice-en-us-help openoffice-en-us-impress openoffice-en-us-math openoffice-en-us-res openoffice-en-us-writer openoffice-gnome-integration openoffice-graphicfilter openoffice-images openoffice-impress openoffice-javafilter openoffice-math openoffice-ogltrans openoffice-onlineupdate openoffice-ooofonts openoffice-ooolinguistic openoffice-pyuno openoffice-ure openoffice-writer openoffice-xsltfilter dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 42 entries to output Packages file I now modify my source.list file it only contains the line deb file:/root DEBS/ I run sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openoffice.org After installation I run /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice And I obtain Missing vcl resource. This indicates that files vital to localization are missing. You might have a corrupt installation. What is the problem? thanks Uwe Brauer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Save big file
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:06:33 +0200 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 19/10/2013 Henry Bohné wrote: I recently upgraded from ver3.3 to ver 4.0. I work with a big (2.2 MB) text file. With ver3.3 it took 5 to 9 minutes to save the file, with ver4.0 it takes 29 minutes. How can I speed it up? If you can make the file public we can have a look. Large files generally open fine in 4.0, as fast (or faster) than 3.x. But we have a few particular cases already known, see for example https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123457 and we can possibly investigate the root cause in the case of your file too. Just now tested: Using 4.0.1 on a slow machine (circa 2002) running Xubuntu 13.04. saving a 14365 page (A5, plain text) file takes 75 seconds. If the file has been altered immediately before the Save, it will repaginate, and this repaginate time adds about 120 seconds to that Save time. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Kubuntu 13.10 AOO
Synaptic or sudo apt-get before installing OO - the key file to rempve was libreoffice-core. I haven't needed to do this recently as I have been using Xubuntu exclusively, so the key file specification may differ.. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Open Office 4
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:09:37 -0600 Jim Shirley nealgre...@centurytel.net wrote: I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4. To change the entire screen to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the installation and the close of the program. It is pretty but not useful. Please change it back to its prior screen. Please ensure that you are downloading only from www.openoffice.org (which redirects to Sourceforge). Out of the box OpenOffice4 looks very much as previous versions; if there are changes to the default screens these may be caused by whatever theme is set on your computer. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Open Office 4
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:25:20 -0700 John Meyer johnme...@pueblocomputing.com wrote: On 11/21/2013 10:09 PM, Jim Shirley wrote: I do not like the change in the new Open Office 4. To change the entire screen to a new colored venue is distracting and delays both the installation and the close of the program. It is pretty but not useful. Please change it back to its prior screen. JNGreene Don't these people seem the type that would ask you to change the MOTD back in the day because they didn't like it? When I see someone say that he has been using OpenOffice for n years and this, that, or the other is wrong, I'm reminded of Talleyrand's assessment of the Bourbon Dynasty They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:15:15 -0500 Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: How do I convert a PDF to ODT (or DOC) so that I can edit it? Cheers, Maurice Howe For minor edits OpenOffice's PDF import extension will allow it be edited in Draw. For major edits (such as relayout or rewrite of the text) you need to use an OCR utility to read the text in the PDF then import the text from the OCR into OpenOffice. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:50:39 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:15:15 -0500 Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: How do I convert a PDF to ODT (or DOC) so that I can edit it? Cheers, Maurice Howe For minor edits OpenOffice's PDF import extension will allow it be edited in Draw. For major edits (such as relayout or rewrite of the text) you need to use an OCR utility to read the text in the PDF then import the text from the OCR into OpenOffice. I forgot to add that this is not a trivial task for a document of any length, particularly if you have never done it before. Don't start this task against a deadline. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500 Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: BEWARE !!! The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of excess baggage. After 3 attempts at System Restore, running Malware Bytes, Spybot, RegCure and Stinger got rid of (what I hope is all of) 243 infections. There may be a clean version out there but this exercise scared me off. I'll try Dave's Google Drive method. Thanks to all, but I thought this warning was in order. Hope it saves others a lot of grief. Cheers, Maurice Howe I'm retired. Go around me. The comments on the cnet freeocr page indicate such infestation. You could try Calibre, downloading only from http://calibre-ebook.com/ which will convert a PDF into text. Anything I have ever downloaded from that calibre site has been clean. As a general rule I suggest only to download from an application's own site. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 11:57:34 -0500 Think thinkta...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded from freeocr.net and also got other software with the OCR program. It was an accept/decline statement and the first one got past me, but I saw the others and declined. So when my daughter went to use my browser to find a recipe for me she said there's a weird browser on your computer. This happened with dealslider a week ago when I downloaded a free font browser. Unfortunately, this one issue is one of the biggest issues for people utilizing free and open source software -- it is not verified to not have malware, etc. attached to it. I am in the process of specifying open source software for a non profit company I am building, and am swimming the waters myself to see what problems are inherent in open source. It seems that this one is huge and relatively insurmountable unless someone wants to start a foundation to cull the software for cleanliness. Also, many people such as myself trust CNET. Obviously that trust is misplaced. So if not CNET, then whom? For openoffice we only recommend www.openoffice.org/download For all other applications I always recommend using the main project site; if I have to recommend a particular site, it is always one I have used myself and know to be clean. Brenda Hart Neihouse -Original Message- From: Allen Schaaf, CISSP [mailto:netsecur...@sound-by-design.com] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 4:09 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion Alas, CNET is a nest of vipers. Sorry, I should have mentioned the best source: http://www.freeocr.net/. NEVER TRUST CNET! Best, Allen On 11/30/2013 8:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500 Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: BEWARE !!! The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of excess baggage. After 3 attempts at System Restore, running Malware Bytes, Spybot, RegCure and Stinger got rid of (what I hope is all of) 243 infections. There may be a clean version out there but this exercise scared me off. I'll try Dave's Google Drive method. Thanks to all, but I thought this warning was in order. Hope it saves others a lot of grief. Cheers, Maurice Howe I'm retired. Go around me. The comments on the cnet freeocr page indicate such infestation. You could try Calibre, downloading only from http://calibre-ebook.com/ which will convert a PDF into text. Anything I have ever downloaded from that calibre site has been clean. As a general rule I suggest only to download from an application's own site. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Sudden? Conversion of a file to a read only file
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:21:06 -0500 Janis Langins j.lang...@utoronto.ca wrote: A file I have updating daily (quite long, about 340 pages) has inexplicably for reasons I cannot understand converted to a Read Only file. I have tried to get around this by copy the file from another folder where did not convert to a Read Only to overwrite this file. It stays Read Only. I have erased it and copied from my other folder and it becomes a Read Only. Any idea of what is going on and how can I stop this? Thank you Janis Langins At system level, with OpenOffice closed, enable viewing of hidden and system files for your computer. You will find a hidden file with a name like .~lock.YourFileName.odt# in the file directory. Delete this file and all should be well. Note that this file is typically a few hundred bytes in size, whereas the actual file thhat owns ir will be a minimum of about 6-7 KBytes in size (in your case I would expect much larger). If you are in doubt, please get a computer experienced person to assist. Note that the instructions given in another reply to this query (by dmcgarr...@optonline.net) are correct for linux, but you are using Windowswhere they won't work. Such lock files can be left over after a program or system crash, or sometimes after too speedy a close down of the computer. Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Power Point 2007
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:19:52 +0100 Mike Tong mtong1...@gmail.com wrote: Please can you confirm if Open Office version is compatible with Power Point 2007. I tried using it in July and found that it wasn't. Can you confirm whether the latest version is fully compatible with it now? Thanks Mike It would be foolish of anyone to say it was _fully_ compatible with PowerPoint 2007. In fact even Microsodft has had glitches between differing versions of their software. If you must maintain 100% compatibility, use Powerpoint 2007 on identical machines with identical font packs. As you can install OpenOffice for free (only download from www.openoffice.org/download, which will redirect you to SourceForge) you can try it alongside your PowerPoint installation. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice 3.5
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:56:40 +0100 Kröger lueb...@gmx.de wrote: Hy, i need the openoffice Version 3.5 included Java 1.6 in German Language. Can you help me with an Link? Thank You, Jens from Gremany There was no v3.5. 3.4.1 can be downloaded from http://www.openoffice.org/download/other-341.html and 32 bit Java (i586 version) from http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=81819 -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Performance measurements on Mac vs others
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:11:21 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:48:06 -0600 Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org dijo: Would be nice if people can time the boot time of this application. I have LibreOffice, not OpenOffice, on Xubuntu 13.10. The computer is a pretty state of the art System76 laptop. From cold boot the launch time for LO Writer is less than one second. I just click and there it is. My earlier findings on Xubuntu indicated opening times close to 10 or 12 seconds. If I enabled the Quickstarter, these times dropped to 4 seconds. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:07:27 +0100 Josef Latt josef.l...@gmx.net wrote: Am 05.01.2014 15:06, schrieb Hagar Delest: The power shortage is clearly a root cause. Perhaps we need an old disk to test what happens when we pull the plug during a save operation. Whats about the autorecovery function of AOO. It can work, but for critical work relying on it can be catastrophic in the instances that it fails. With an unimportant file, try pulling your power cord a few times; it is not 10% reliable.. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:12:20 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:07:27 +0100 Josef Latt josef.l...@gmx.net wrote: Am 05.01.2014 15:06, schrieb Hagar Delest: The power shortage is clearly a root cause. Perhaps we need an old disk to test what happens when we pull the plug during a save operation. Whats about the autorecovery function of AOO. It can work, but for critical work relying on it can be catastrophic in the instances that it fails. With an unimportant file, try pulling your power cord a few times; it is not 10% reliable.. Sorry! 10% should read 100% -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:05:25 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Sadly, quite nothing to do, see: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=17677 where you'll see that I've recorded more than 150 occurrences of this problem. And there were 368 reported UFO sightings in December: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxe201312.html But I'm not rushing to learn Klingon... If you search Google for phrases like Word document lost when saving you'll see 100's of reports of this as well. With respect, we are not concerned about MS Word's reliability. But OpenOffice's ought be a matter of concern for us all. We are all on the same side here. I've raised this issue on the dev mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openoffice.apache.org/msg15177.html and interest has been slightly raised (new comments in the bug report) but this is a difficult problem that can't be reproduced, hence very difficult to spot. Nevertheless, even in case of bug, the save process could be improved IMHO. Any power shortage? Check the temporary folder of the system (see in OOo ToolsOptionsOOoPaths). If there are folders like sgmlf.tmp with a file having the same name inside, make a copy of that file, rename it to .odt and cross your fingers. If you have not rebooted, you might have those files still there. It would be great to ask for information like this whenever someone reports this kind of problem. 150 reports without this detail are useless. But even 10 reports with this detail might indicate a pattern. 1) What AOO version is in use? 2) What OS version? The Version and OS are usually indicated in the footer of the repoorting post. Most OS versions are Windows 3) What file type (extension) was being saved? 4) Where was the file being saved? USB? Network drive? In many cases to the hard disk. USB saves as you say below can unreliable and we try to separate them out from spontaneous hashtag events. 5) Is autosaved enabled? 6) When you returned to your computer was it in the same state? For example, had you lost power? Did the OS force a reboot? Did your laptop hibernate? Hibernation/Suspend of a computer with an open OO file reportedly can cause corruption. Some hashtag/damaged archive events seem to be caused by over hasty closedown of the computer, such as by snapping laptop lid shut, or power off of the desktop before the software/hardware write buffers have flushed. Just anecdotally, and without deeper analysis, I see a number of reports on OpenOffice and with Microsoft Office, where a USB memory stick is being used. Savvy users know how to properly remove a memory stick. But not all users do. This can cause problems. We know this and advise not to work direct to a USB stick, also advising observance of correct removal protocols. Also (added information) anecdotally (also personal experience) USB sticks of earlier manufacture can fail (internal chip failure) after a smallish (circa 1000 is suggested in some postings) number of read/write cycles. I have no knowledge of more recent USB stick reliability. Another case to watch out for is old Wordperfect files. A user saves a WPD file, upgrades OOo 3.3.0 to AOO 4.0.1 and now their file won't open. But this is due to the loss of WPD support, not due to damage to the file, though the symptoms look the same at first. Another thing to look for is a forced reboot, the kind that recent versions of Windows do when installing a critical security patch. Some antivirus software does this as well. If you have a document loaded in OpenOffice with unsaved changed, and have autosave enabled, and leave your machine on for a week, with OpenOffice running, and a system restart is forced, what will happen? Is there a correlation to problems in that scenario? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags
I've clipped the previous messages as this posting doesn't depend on them. Rob suggests the following queries be put to Hashtag/file loss posters. I've added some choices to the file save destinations. Are there other questions that should be asked? Once we reach agreement on the questions I'm sure the Forum will use this questionaire to gather information on hashtag/file loss cases. 1) What AOO version is in use? 2) What OS version? 3) What file type (extension) was being saved? 4) Where was the file being saved? Local Drive? USB stick? Network drive? External drive? 5) Is autosaved enabled? 6) When you returned to your computer was it in the same state? For example, had you lost power? Did the OS force a reboot? Did your laptop hibernate? -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags
I've added your suggestion Roband Steve Ahlers to a draft document. I'll wait in case of more input and then we can consider a short questionaire and revise the wording. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: All essay text turned to hashtags
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:11:38 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: I've added your suggestion Roband Steve Ahlers to a draft document. I'll wait in case of more input and then we can consider a short questionaire and revise the wording. One further idea on this: I can turn this into the form of a survey on http://survey.openoffice.org, using LimeSurvey. If we do that then we can point users to that URL (after trying to help them, of course) to collect this level of additional detail. If we do this then the information is collected all in one place. -Rob That's a very good idea, Rob. It simplifies the workload for the active developers/advicates of OpenOffice and builds a database. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Restored Documents
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:01:21 -0500 Ernie Kurtz kurtz...@umich.edu wrote: Rob, I appreciate your thorough answers, from which I often learn much. But on this one, I use OO 4.0.0, and there is no Options choice under Tools. Can you tell me, please, where I might find it? Thanks. ernie kurtz ernestkurtz.com On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Another thing to try is to open Writer, go to Tools/Options/OpenOffice/Paths and note the location of the backup directory. Check that directory and see if there is anything there that looks right. If you are using a Mac, Options is under Preferences. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Publisher Templates?
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:21:26 -0500 uga...@talktalk.net wrote: Scribus does not handle ink-jet printer output profiles. -Original Message- From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:27 Subject: Re: Fwd: Publisher Templates? uga...@talktalk.net wrote: Scribus may not be suitable if you are outputting to an ink-jet printer. Why's that? Scribus is driving Ink-jet Epson WP4535 on my Xubuntu system. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Next st.. (another unsubscribe problem)
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:29:11 -0700 John Hart jh...@testra.com wrote: On 1/10/2014 8:07 AM, Andrew Kinsella wrote: Hagar-- how can I unsubscibe from this fucking list? 3 attempts so far--- all wasted. Every single damn message that I get from your list is marked as spam-- but I am suffering spam button finger fatigue syndrome. Go figure. Dr Andrew Kinsella General Practitioner *Victorian Counselling Psychological Services* 62 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne 3002 Phone: 03 9419 7172 Fax: 03 8678 3880 Mobile: 0414954103 www.vcps.com.au There's something strange about this email, it doesn't have the unsubscribe message and it's the first post by the sender and every time I've checked out a How do I get off this *** list request, it's been the same. How can an email be distributed to the list without an unsubscribe? And how do those people get on the list without answering a request to be on it? sent to users@openoffice.apache.org I have seen it suggested that some of the 'irregular' OpenOffice download sites automatically log the downloaders to the User list to 'honour' their assertion of 'support' and justify the fee they charge for the download. I don't know if this is so, and cannot remember where I saw the suggestion (possibly on an Apache ML?) -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: duplex pages upside down
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:48:38 -0700 Gary Aitken openoff...@dreamchaser.org wrote: I'm not sure what caused this, as I haven't printed any duplex pages for a while, but now the back side of double-sided pages is printing upside down. The printer is an hp officejet pro 8500. I'm on a freebsd (*nix) system, using gutenprint/cups as the print driver. If I look at the page preview, the second sheet is properly oriented. Anyone have any ideas? Change the flip option from 'long edge' to 'short edge' or cohtrariwise. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: How Do You Open Save Lotus WK4 Type Files as MS Excel XLS Files
On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 23:19:32 -0500 aftab khan powerk...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam--- How Do You Open Save Lotus WK4 Type Files as MS Excel XLS or MS Excel XLSX Files? WK4 Being Files Extension Code in Lotus,such as File Name survey.wk4and xls and xlsx, Being Old New File Extension Codes in MS Excel. Kudos on providing this versatile and useful Software for Users. Would Appreciate an answer to above question as I have quite a few WK4 Type Lotus Files I want to covert. If Open Office Software cannot do this, could you Pleaselet me know which Other Free Software can do this orsuggest a method that I can use to Convert these WK4 Files toXLS or XLSX Type Files? Thanks Very Much for Ypur Help. Best Wishes--- Aftab Khan If migrating to a different application it may be best to convert all files of an older format to the native format of the new application. A useful site offering many conversion formats is www.zamzar.com -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie . --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
