Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
Drew Jensen wrote: But - CAVEAT - I don't know really, I opened my mouth though, so I suppose I should try and see what I can find out about it... Alright then( inside joke ) A quick scan of the mail archives for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list finds this entry from exchange between

Re: [users] Re: dificulties

2008-05-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Drew Jensen wrote (17-5-2008 23:59) NoOp wrote: I did some comarisons of go-oo and 3.0 Beta on docx in a thread last week. I found that, in general, the 3.0 Beta did a _much_ better job on tables, but go-oo did better at graphics that were in the doc. I used the MS RTF spec to do the

[users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread lists . oo-users
Hello users, What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost. Is this possible? I found out that when I send an e-mail from OO it gets sent as attachment, this is

Re: [users] starting new outline numbering

2008-05-18 Thread Rolf Schumacher
Michele, the problem is, that I do not exactly know, how the MSWord-author of that document has achieved this. Suppose you have two parts in your document: Part A and Part B. However, it is still one document with one table of content. Chapters in part B should outline independently from Part B,

Re: [users] Small problem with Calc.

2008-05-18 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/16, Alex Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Радимир Мирчев said the following on 03/15/2008 10:02 AM: Hello Sun :) I use OpenOffice.org [Calc] and is very happy with its functionality. But I had a problem, I hope for your help. When I enter the sum, for example - 164,848, the program rounds

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, Their won't be an install dictionary Wizard for OOo 3.0. If the creator of the dictionary doesn't program it as an OOo extension, there will be no dictionary. Is there a rationale given for why the OOo team is turning their backs on these freely available

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hello Girard, Girard Aquino wrote: huh? just to clear this up... existing dictionaries available from http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Tagalog_.28Philippines.29 can no longer be installed in 3.0 unless they are re-programmed as an extension (.oxt)? can they

Re: [users] Date formatting challenge in table?

2008-05-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:14 18/05/2008 +0800, James Elliott wrote: I have a Template [...] which is a Writer document, ... ... I have a 2 column table ... I have formatted the cell [...] to be: left justified; number format: Date. BUT, when I call up my Template and enter a date such as: 1/5/8 ; instead of

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, Their won't be an install dictionary Wizard for OOo 3.0. If the creator of the dictionary doesn't program it as an OOo extension, there will be no dictionary. Wrong!! For example currently Laurent was so kind to lend a helping hand to convert the existing dictionaries into

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi David, David Lowe wrote: On May 17, 2008, at 01:39 , Cor Nouws wrote: And btw it won't be difficult to present dics as an extension. That does not at all diminish the fact that there are a lot of .dic files 'in the wild' that aren't available through the current system -

Re: [users] starting new outline numbering

2008-05-18 Thread Michele
2008/5/18 Rolf Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele, the problem is, that I do not exactly know, how the MSWord-author of that document has achieved this. Suppose you have two parts in your document: Part A and Part B. However, it is still one document with one table of content. Chapters

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, David Lowe wrote: On May 17, 2008, at 13:29 , Drew Jensen wrote: which also gives the ability then for the dictionary publisher to automate distribution of updates to the files This thought presumes that there is a dictionary publisher, i.e. somebody with the

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, Drew Jensen wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2008 09:54:11 +0100 Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/5/17 Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Will someone in the OOo development team please take the time to ensure that all the existing dictionaries are available

[users] Re: set current directory when open file

2008-05-18 Thread Fabian Braennstroem
Hi, me again... Is it a stupid question, bad explained or just: it does not work!? Thanks. * Fabian Braennstroem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use openoffice 2.4 on my linux machine and like it a lot. I often start openoffice from a terminal in a special

Re: [users] Re: set current directory when open file

2008-05-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 May 2008 10:44:36 Fabian Braennstroem wrote: Is it a stupid question, bad explained or just: it does not     work!? Or perhaps no-one knows the answer. 2000 I don't knows would be very tedious, so if people don't know the answer, they just don't reply. For the record, I don't

[users] Re: set current directory when open file

2008-05-18 Thread Fabian Braennstroem
Hi Lisi, * Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 May 2008 10:44:36 Fabian Braennstroem wrote: Is it a stupid question, bad explained or just: it does not     work!? Or perhaps no-one knows the answer. 2000 I don't knows would be very tedious, so if people don't know the

Re: [users] Re: About Filter Data, please help me.

2008-05-18 Thread Michele
2008/5/18 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 05/15/2008 09:47 PM, Reza Pribadi wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I don't know where I must send this email. My name is Reza Pribadi and I live in Jakarta I have a question about OpenOffice Calc. I have a data. And I make with autofilter (in Excel and OO

Re: [users] Remove all non-text from odf/ods file

2008-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/18 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 22:06 17/05/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have an odf file that contains image elements inadvertently copied while coping a table from the interwebs. Despite a file size of only 12 kb, the file takes over a minute to open, and each time I erase

[users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I installed the 64-bit Fedora 9 this weekend because I am writing an article that requires Fedora 9. Fedora creates their own builds, including a 64-bit build. Their 64-bit build on Fedora 9 is unable to run the following macro Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To 10 Print Hello Next It fails

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread jonathon
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: If the creator of the dictionary doesn't program it as an OOo extension, there will be no dictionary. Wrong!! For example currently Laurent was so kind to lend a helping hand to convert the existing dictionaries into extensions.

Re: [users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread William Case
Hi Andrew; On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 13:23 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Not that it matters for this list, but I intended to file a bug report for the Fedora team, but was not able to figure out where to do this. Just because I am one of those OOo users that also uses Fedora8/9.

[users] Slightly OT: Growth of OpenOffice Software

2008-05-18 Thread Harold Fuchs
From OOoninja.com: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OpenOfficeOrgNinja/~3/289434950/openofficeorg-moores-law-obeys.html -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: opening an openoffice.odt file in MS Word

2008-05-18 Thread Jerry Clancy
I'm getting to this probably too late, but I believe you can reopen the .odt file at home and do a SaveAs to MS Word (.doc) on the USB drive. Then she can open that at school with Word. Jerry Hubler, Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My daughter saved her report

Re: [users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
William Case wrote: Hi Andrew; On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 13:23 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Not that it matters for this list, but I intended to file a bug report for the Fedora team, but was not able to figure out where to do this. Just because I am one of those OOo users

Re: [users] Slightly OT: Growth of OpenOffice Software

2008-05-18 Thread M Henri Day
2008/5/18 Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From OOoninja.com: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OpenOfficeOrgNinja/~3/289434950/openofficeorg-moores-law-obeys.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/OpenOfficeOrgNinja/%7E3/289434950/openofficeorg-moores-law-obeys.html -- Harold Fuchs London,

[users] Re: opening an openoffice.odt file in MS Word

2008-05-18 Thread Twayne
I'm getting to this probably too late, but I believe you can reopen the .odt file at home and do a SaveAs to MS Word (.doc) on the USB drive. Then she can open that at school with Word. Jerry Hubler, Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My daughter saved her

Re: [users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hans said: What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost. He then asked: Is this possible? This is not really an OO issue, it's an email client issue

Re: [users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread JOE Conner
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I installed the 64-bit Fedora 9 this weekend because I am writing an article that requires Fedora 9. Fedora creates their own builds, including a 64-bit build. Their 64-bit build on Fedora 9 is unable to run the following macro Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To

Re: [users] Re: opening an openoffice.odt file in MS Word

2008-05-18 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2008.05.18 19:18 -0500, Twayne wrote: FYI Sun has a plug-in for MS Office that will let it open and save OOo native files, if that helps any. I can't find a link right now but it shouldn't be too hard to find on the SUN site.

Re: [users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread JOE Conner
Douglas Hinds wrote: Hans said: What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost. He then asked: Is this possible? This is not really an OO

Re: [users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
JOE Conner wrote: Douglas Hinds wrote: Hans said: What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost. snip This is not really an OO issue, Really?

[users] Re: opening an openoffice.odt file in MS Word

2008-05-18 Thread NoOp
On 05/15/2008 07:00 AM, Hubler, Debbie wrote: My daughter saved her report (due today) in openoffice.odt writer format and saved it to her USB drive. Our printer at home is not working. When she got to school to print the file she found that MS Word (the only word processor they use) would

Re: [users] OOo Functionality to Support e-mail

2008-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/5/16 jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: What is being called for is the ability to say - there is one ( or more ) email clients that works closely with the other modules in the package. Other than the

Re[2]: [users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hans said: What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost. I answered: This is not really an OO issue, Really? Really! it's an email client

Re: [users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
JOE Conner wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To 10 Print Hello Next It fails on the Next statement. In other words, their build is broken; it worked fine on Fedora 8. SNIP Does Next i rather than next help any? No. I tried that. But even if it did help, it

Re: [users] Extra Dictionary

2008-05-18 Thread David Lowe
On May 18, 2008, at 02:10 , Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: E.g. one that states the dictionary to be published under GPL 3.0. On May 18, 2008, at 10:46 , jonathon wrote: Multiply 15 minutes by the number of dictionaries that have no maintainer. Jonathan, Mr.

Re: [users] Using OO text as e-mail message

2008-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
OK Douglas... The thing is though that the way the question was phrased the answer is no...one can not use OO.o the way described. It has nothing to do with Windows or Linux, it is about a very particular use case. Truth is that solving this use case may not actually require any change to

Re: [users] Fedora 9 OOo is broken

2008-05-18 Thread Drew Jensen
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: JOE Conner wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To 10 Print Hello Next It fails on the Next statement. In other words, their build is broken; it worked fine on Fedora 8. SNIP Does Next i rather than next help any? No. I tried that.