Re: [users] Moving the Cursor to the Next Sentence (Bug?)

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008, Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The functionality to move the cursor to the next sentence is provided in OOo, however it is not associated to any keyboard shortcut in the default configuration. All you have to do is to customize the keyboard and, for example change the

[users] I am using Openoffice 2.4. My problem is with DBF file saving after changing

2008-04-07 Thread zither
When dBF file is opened and changed, it does not save but reports error. There was no such problem in 2.3.1 If tried to EXPORT in DBF format, in files type only two options are available, PDF and XTML whereas in Help it is mentioned to select the type of format as DBF Please guide.

[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2008-04-07 Thread wil melendez
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a user of your fine products and have never had a problem nor a complaint. I downloaded your latest version of OpenOffice.org 2.4 and unfortunately, upon restarting my computer, and attempting to log on to the internet I am unable to make a connection.

[users] My problem is I am not able to open attached file.

2008-04-07 Thread Bhambhani, Anil - EESL Electrical (HAZ)
I had prepared the attached file in open office word. I am not able to open it in MS word. Pl help Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this electronic message and in any attachments to this message is confidential,

[users] Fw: Problem with openoffice 2.4 using VISTA opening a PDF file

2008-04-07 Thread George Kuhn
Can't open a PDF file using openoffice 2.4 using VISTA. Do I need another version for VISTA as I have no problem with Windows XP. Or is it a configuration problem. - Original Message - From: George Kuhnmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.orgmailto:users@openoffice.org Cc:

[users] Fw: Problem with openoffice 2.4 using VISTA opening a PDF file

2008-04-07 Thread George Kuhn
I seem to have the same problem with openoffice on windows xp. I can open the pdf with a copy of wordperfect. - Original Message - From: George Kuhnmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.orgmailto:users@openoffice.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

[users] overall blotting out or Coloring of tables

2008-04-07 Thread George Archbold
I have just opened Open Office 2.4 and it I a good program, I have been using the earlier version 2 which was good. The exception in both programs is the fact that when I open a file which includes a table, the area of the table shows a complete 'grey' color, then if I 'select all; this just

[users] Re: Troubles installing

2008-04-07 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
Harold, I'm afraid we're not talking the same here. My issue is about installing OpenOffice. I'm not a Java expert, but it looks like the install is not able to use its own packed VM, nor the one I emerged for it, and doesn't let me do anything (the Back and Next buttons are grayed out, only

[users] Using Hyperlinks

2008-04-07 Thread DD Hardisty
Problem: I have created a table with regularly used Internet addresses listed. I use this as my Home Page in Mozilla Firefox. Recently, I converted to Openoffice.org and the table worked fine. Now, I have discovered that I can create buttons to make it a bit more impressive looking. I create a

[users] [moderated] Alphabatize the spread sheet

2008-04-07 Thread Keith Sonnenberg
Ladies and Gentlemen: How do I alphabatize a list of names on any portion (or all) of the spread sheet? I am using the Open Office Spread Sheet to keep track of the rank promotions of individuals in a martial arts organization. I have given each instructor a section. Each section is

[users] [moderated]

2008-04-07 Thread John Krch
Does openoffice2.2.org have PDF so I can open attachements through my mail?

[users] Flash presentations

2008-04-07 Thread Stan Sears
Hello, I'm needing to do Flash presentations for school. Does Openoffice have that type of program please? Thanks Stan

[users] How to access open office.org 2.4 Writer after download installation

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Frazier
I downloaded installed open office.org 2.4 but I don't know how to open(or access) the word processor (or Writer) Help! Ron

[users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Pat Brown
I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save a version on closing checked. Is versioning flaky or

Re: [users] Re: modification of dictionary

2008-04-07 Thread absamail
: oo_za wrote: : Hi! I run OpenOffice Portable 2.2 from a flash memory. The system is : MS Windows. : : I have installed extra dictionary and it works. No problem here. And : I can find .dic and .aff files in : ..\OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\share\dict\ooo. : : Now I try to make

[users] Error 2908 when installing open office 2.3

2008-04-07 Thread Richard F. Fegley
When installing open office 2.3 on Windows XP, I got an internal error 2908 followed by error 1935. Crashed and artfully uninstalled; something not all commercial software bothers with. Poking around the MS forums, I found that removing mscoree.dll from the system32 directory allowed the

Re: [users] overall blotting out or Coloring of tables

2008-04-07 Thread Michele Zarri
[snip] The exception in both programs is the fact that when I open a file which includes a table, the area of the table shows a complete 'grey' color, then if I 'select all; this just becomes a darker grey color. However if I show the file in 'print preview' the table shows correctly with

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Michele Zarri
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:58 -0400, Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. received correctly :-) I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were

Re: [users] My problem is I am not able to open attached file.

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008, Bhambhani, Anil - EESL Electrical (HAZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had prepared the attached file in open office word. I am not able to open it in MS word. Pl help MS Office cannot read or write the ISO standard ODF (Open Document Format) files used by OpenOffice. There

Re: [users] How to access open office.org 2.4 Writer after download installation

2008-04-07 Thread Javier Rivera
Hi Ron, Looks like you are using Windows. If the program installed correctly, you should be able to open Writer from your start menu. Openoffice doesn't add any icon to the desktop. Javier. Ron Frazier escribió: I downloaded installed open office.org 2.4 but I don't know how to open(or

Re: [users] [moderated] Alphabatize the spread sheet

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008, Keith Sonnenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen: How do I alphabatize a list of names on any portion (or all) of the spread sheet? I am using the Open Office Spread Sheet to keep track of the rank promotions of individuals in a martial arts organization.

Re: [users] Flash presentations

2008-04-07 Thread Michele Zarri
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 16:22 -0500, Stan Sears wrote: Hello, I'm needing to do Flash presentations for school. Does Openoffice have that type of program please? Thanks Stan Hello, You can create a presentation in Impress and then export it as flash. I never tried

Re: [users] I am using Openoffice 2.4. My problem is with DBF file saving after changing

2008-04-07 Thread Drew Jensen
zither wrote: When dBF file is opened and changed, it does not save but reports error. There was no such problem in 2.3.1 If tried to EXPORT in DBF format, in files type only two options are available, PDF and XTML whereas in Help it is mentioned to select the type of format as DBF

Re: [users] [moderated] - Opening PDF Files

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008, John Krch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does openoffice2.2.org have PDF so I can open attachements through my mail? OpenOffice can save documents as PDF files and can send directly, without saving, as PDF but it cannot read PDF files. Most systems these days have the free Adobe

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save a version on closing checked. Is

Re: [users] overall blotting out or Coloring of tables

2008-04-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:50 07/04/2008 -0700, George Archbold wrote: I have just opened Open Office 2.4 and it is a good program, I have been using the earlier version 2 which was good. The exception in both programs is the fact that when I open a file which includes a table, the area of the table shows a

Re: [users] Fw: Problem with openoffice 2.4 using VISTA opening a PDF file

2008-04-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/7 George Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't open a PDF file using openoffice 2.4 using VISTA. Do I need another version for VISTA as I have no problem with Windows XP. Or is it a configuration problem. - Original Message - From: George Kuhnmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [users] How to access open office.org 2.4 Writer after download installation

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
Ron Frazier wrote: I downloaded installed open office.org 2.4 but I don't know how to open(or access) the word processor (or Writer) Help! Ron Assuming you're running Windows, there should be an OpenOffice folder and icons in your Start menu. Do you see them? Did you actually start

Re: [users] Fw: Problem with openoffice 2.4 using VISTA opening a PDF file

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
George Kuhn wrote: Can't open a PDF file using openoffice 2.4 using VISTA. Do I need another version for VISTA as I have no problem with Windows XP. Or is it a configuration problem. OpenOffice does not open PDF files. There are free PDF readers available, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader,

Re: [users] Fw: Problem with openoffice 2.4 using VISTA opening a PDF file

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
George Kuhn wrote: Can't open a PDF file using openoffice 2.4 using VISTA. Do I need another version for VISTA as I have no problem with Windows XP. Or is it a configuration problem. Are you sure you opened a PDF in OpenOffice on XP? OpenOffice can create a PDF, but it cannot open or

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
John Krch wrote: Does openoffice2.2.org have PDF so I can open attachements through my mail? FREE Animations for your email - By IncrediMail! Click Here! http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=101218 No, OpenOffice does not open PDF files. It can create PDF files, but not open

Re: [users] My problem is I am not able to open attached file.

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
Bhambhani, Anil - EESL Electrical (HAZ) wrote: I had prepared the attached file in open office word. I am not able to open it in MS word. Attachments generally don't make it through the mail list, so I don't see yours. When you create a Word file, you have to select a Word format, from

[users] OT: Preventing Phorm Spyware (?)

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
Just heard about this. Judging by previous conversations some of you might be interested: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save a version on closing checked. Is

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Pat Brown
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save a

Re: [users] OT: Preventing Phorm Spyware (?)

2008-04-07 Thread mike scott
On 7 Apr 2008 at 12:36, Harold Fuchs wrote: Just heard about this. Judging by previous conversations some of you might be interested: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ 'The Register' has a fair bit on it. Nasty-looking piece of work - phorm used to be (still are?) 121media, who used to root-kit

Re: [users] OT: Preventing Phorm Spyware (?)

2008-04-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/7 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7 Apr 2008 at 12:36, Harold Fuchs wrote: Just heard about this. Judging by previous conversations some of you might be interested: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ 'The Register' has a fair bit on it. Nasty-looking piece of work - phorm used to

[users] Re: OpenOffice Writer Lite

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Allan
TienChieh Lim wrote: OpenOffice should allow users of Writer to switch to Writer 'Lite' because there are a lot of features those are not being used for most of the times. Writer should categorize features under different categories and allow users to select the least features required to get

[users] Re: [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Allan
Brenda Schrag wrote: The problem is that I don't want it as default for all my documents. It messing up all of my formatting on MSWord. How can I change the default? For each type of file (that is extension) right-click on a file of that type, select “Open With from the menu, select

[users] Re: I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Allan
Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save a version on closing checked. Is

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008, Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's probably because I use the Save As feature. From now on I'll do a copy and paste, then Save as a Word doc. With luck that will maintain the Versions in the original. Why copy/paste? Save in OpenOffice format as version x and then

Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

2008-04-07 Thread jonathon
Larry wrote: and OpenOffice does not appear to recognize the extentions created OxygenOffice Professional can open text documents created with MSO 2007. You can download it from Sourceforge. xan jonathon - To unsubscribe,

[users] user digest

2008-04-07 Thread pjd1001
Why do mailings from [EMAIL PROTECTED] have no body ? With what one expected to use to read the ezw attachments? What I know of EZW (embedded zero wavelet) is that it is an image compression technique, proposed as an alternative to JPEG, but I don't know of any image viewers that process

Re: [users] Problems with OOWriter: spell check and paragraph layout copy tool

2008-04-07 Thread jonathon
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Matteo Bosisio wrote: a.. When I start the spell check (by pressing F7, for example), it takes a LOT of time between one operation and another, * How many dictionaries did you install? * Did you configure OOo to check using all dictionaries? * Are you styles

Re: [users] Table within table challenge.?

2008-04-07 Thread James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
Thanks Barbara You wrote: Fixed in 2.4 I thought I was using 2.4, when I encountered the problem ... but my recollections might be wrong. I may have encountered the problem, and then installed 2.4 immediately after posting my challenge. I have 2.4 installed now, but it is hard to be

[users] Re: Moving the Cursor to the Next Sentence (Bug?)

2008-04-07 Thread NoOp
On 04/06/2008 06:33 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 06/04/2008 14:25, Henning von Roeder wrote: Hi, I just tried this, and I found that, if you press the arrow key to the right and the cursor moves to the next sentence. I you then triple click again (with the mouse pointer over the second

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Writer Lite

2008-04-07 Thread Robin Laing
Jim Allan wrote: TienChieh Lim wrote: OpenOffice should allow users of Writer to switch to Writer 'Lite' because there are a lot of features those are not being used for most of the times. Writer should categorize features under different categories and allow users to select the least

[users] Keeping change bars after accepting changes

2008-04-07 Thread solveig
Hi, When tracking document changes, a lot of users need to accept changes but still have a change bar showing where the new text is. (Framemaker has this and I think Word too.) OpenOffice.org currently doesn't have a way to do this (that I know of). Has this item been entered as a fix and if

[users] HELP !!

2008-04-07 Thread denslows_fl
OpenOffice was recommended to me as a fine download to help me in preparing business letters. I have completed the free download and now have the OpenOffice icon on my monitor screen. When I double-click on the icon, a lot of data pops up. But I don't know where to go from there to bring up a

[users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Caudle
Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a computer that already has a version of MS Office running? MS Office 2003 to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook. I'd like to take a look at some of the other parts of OpenOffice - Impress and Draw in particular -

[users] OO won't work

2008-04-07 Thread L.G. Woods
I have installed Open Office on my computer at home but when I activate it it won't open. See the irony? I only get the initial or welcome dialogue box. Do I have to re-install? I'm running XP-Pro at home. I use an older computer at the office and it works fine here. Jacques

[users] openoffice-2.4.0 installation issue

2008-04-07 Thread Malay HALDER
hello , i am a tools admin and suppose to install openoffice-2.4.0 in a particular path so that other can directly invoke it fro that location[i have distributed the jar file and others to the specified path] but it is asking for root password for the users when they tried to invoke

[users] Checkbox in writer

2008-04-07 Thread Henriette Regine Smith
Hi, How can I activate the checkbox function? The Form controls toolbar shows but it is not possible to press the checkbox key, because it is faded. sincerily Henriette Smith -- Henriette Smith P.B 988 1432 Ås Norway Phone: +47 906 25 883

[users] Problème open office

2008-04-07 Thread manu wac
Bonjour, j'utilise la version 2.4 de open office et j'ai le problème suivant : lorsque j'essaie d'ouvrier un fichier, j'ai un message qui me demande de sélectionner un filtre et lorsque j'en choisi un ( n'importe lequel) il me dit Erreur générale. erreur d'entrée/ sortie générale. Je n'arrive

[users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos
CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS HERBIE

[users] Do you have a product to replace the use of MS Outlook?

2008-04-07 Thread Mario
If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like your other products so it would be nice to be free of MS. Thanks Mario

Re: [users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/7 Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS HERBIE Herbie, you certainly can ; OpenOffice.org is not in any way dependent upon the prior installation of Microsoft Office (or, for that

Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

2008-04-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/7 Dave Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a computer that already has a version of MS Office running? MS Office 2003 to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook. I'd like to take a look at some of the other parts of

Re: [users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos wrote: CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS HERBIE Yes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos wrote: CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS HERBIE Yes. (This time remembering to cc the OP) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users] HELP !!

2008-04-07 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenOffice was recommended to me as a fine download to help me in preparing business letters. I have completed the free download and now have the OpenOffice icon on my monitor screen. When I double-click on the icon, a lot of data pops up. But I don't know where

Re: [users] HELP !! Installing/Running OOo

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 17:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice was recommended to me as a fine download to help me in preparing business letters. I have completed the free download and now have the OpenOffice icon on my monitor screen. When I double-click on the icon, a lot of data pops up. But I

Re: [users] HELP !!

2008-04-07 Thread Per
- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3007 (20080407) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com

Re: [users] Do you have a product to replace the use of MS Outlook?

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 09:55, Mario wrote: If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like your other products so it would be nice to be free of MS. No. OpenOffice does not include an e-mail client or a web browser. Many people who use OpenOffice also use Thunderbird for e-mail and Lightning

Re: [users] Problème open office

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 11:19, manu wac wrote: Bonjour, j'utilise la version 2.4 de open office et j'ai le problème suivant : lorsque j'essaie d'ouvrier un fichier, j'ai un message qui me demande de sélectionner un filtre et lorsque j'en choisi un ( n'importe lequel) il me dit Erreur générale. erreur

Re: [users] OT: Preventing Phorm Spyware (?)

2008-04-07 Thread mike scott
On 7 Apr 2008 at 15:32, M Henri Day wrote: ... Mike, if I understand the matter aright, the «*Notes*http://www.dephormation.org.uk/firefox3.html *for Firefox 3 Beta users*» link is now superfluous, as the version of the dephormation add-on now being offered is 1.6. Can you confirm ?... Have

Re: [users] OO won't work

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 14:31, L.G. Woods wrote: I have installed Open Office on my computer at home but when I activate it it won't open. See the irony? I only get the initial or welcome dialogue box. Do I have to re-install? I'm running XP-Pro at home. I use an older computer at the office and it

Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 18:52, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/4/7 Dave Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a computer that already has a version of MS Office running? MS Office 2003 to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook. I'd like to take

Re: [users] Keeping change bars after accepting changes

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 17:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When tracking document changes, a lot of users need to accept changes but still have a change bar showing where the new text is. (Framemaker has this and I think Word too.) OpenOffice.org currently doesn't have a way to do this (that I know

Re: [users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 07/04/2008 18:35, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/4/7 Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS HERBIE Herbie, you certainly can ; OpenOffice.org is not in any way dependent upon the prior

Re: [users] Writer Calc and posibbly other components single print job issue since 2.4

2008-04-07 Thread Kirill Palagin
I could not reproduce the behavior you describe using 2.4 on Windows. It might be caused by printer driver. Try updating it or enabling option Tools-Options-Writer-Print-Create Single print jobs. Črtomir Černeka ?: Good day! I have one question. I use a printer, that prints on both sides

Re: [users] Do you have a product to replace the use of MS Outlook?

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
Mario wrote: If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like your other products so it would be nice to be free of MS. OpenOffice does not include an email application. However, many people find Thunderbird works well, along with the Lightning calendar extension. Both are available

Re: [users] GOOD QUESTION

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
Heriberto Reinoso Gallegos wrote: CAN I USE OPENOFFICE IN A COMPUTER THAT DOES NOT HAVE MICROSOFT OFFICE INSTALLED? THANKS Yes you can. OpenOffice is a full office suite that competes with Microsoft Office. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

[users] OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 alpha in same machine

2008-04-07 Thread Fábio Emilio Costa
Hi! It's possible to install OOo 2.4 and 3.0 snapshot in the same machine at the same time? How? I use Debian GNU/Linux. -- Thanks! Fabio Emilio CostaSão Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brazil Grupo de Usuários BROffice.org (GuBRo/SP) ICQ #:173799674

Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
Dave Caudle wrote: Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a computer that already has a version of MS Office running? MS Office 2003 to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook. I'd like to take a look at some of the other parts of OpenOffice - Impress and

Re: [users] HELP !!

2008-04-07 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice was recommended to me as a fine download to help me in preparing business letters. I have completed the free download and now have the OpenOffice icon on my monitor screen. When I double-click on the icon, a lot of data pops up. But I don't know where to

[users] Re: OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 alpha in same machine

2008-04-07 Thread NoOp
On 04/07/2008 12:19 PM, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote: Hi! It's possible to install OOo 2.4 and 3.0 snapshot in the same machine at the same time? How? I use Debian GNU/Linux. Yes. OOo 3.0dev will install as /opt/ooo-dev3.0 and will not interfere with 2.4 or even a distro specific install.

[users] ligatures in OOo newer version

2008-04-07 Thread H.S.
Hi, Just wanted to know if there is anything new regarding ligatures and glyphs in newer versions of OOo (3.0 or developer snapshots). thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Is there a way to remove character characteristics from a character style? For example, given the character style I created from a selection above (Light Red + Georgia + 11pt), is there a way for me to remove the 11pt specification so that the resulting style is Light Red

[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-07 Thread Scott Meyers
Naomi Kramer wrote: Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the xml behind a document, open the styles information and modify (insert screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet is to delete the character style and recreate it, taking extreme care to NOT

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Thanks for the information, I didn't know about the hack the XML option. Regarding deleting character styles, the problem with this approach is that once the style is deleted, any text to which that style was applied reverts to the default. Combined with the fact that

[users] Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

2008-04-07 Thread Scott Meyers
I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a pain to type and format. One is Lbegin where the L is normal text and the begin is subscripted and italicized. To save time, I just typed Lbegin everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to the clipboard, then sat down to

[users] Writer: Subscript character style doesn't work

2008-04-07 Thread Scott Meyers
I created a new character style called Subscript that does nothing but make text subscripted. The Contains section of the Organizer for the style says only Subscript automatic. But when I apply this character style to text, the text doesn't change in any visible way. Yet selecting the text,

[users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

2008-04-07 Thread H.S.
Scott Meyers wrote: I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a pain to type and format. One is Lbegin where the L is normal text and the begin is subscripted and italicized. To save time, I just typed Lbegin everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to the

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Replacing found text with clipboard contents?

2008-04-07 Thread Michele Zarri
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 00:40 -0400, H.S. wrote: Scott Meyers wrote: I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a pain to type and format. One is Lbegin where the L is normal text and the begin is subscripted and italicized. To save time, I just typed Lbegin