[users] rows to repeat At top in excel

2008-08-28 Thread Ramzi El Halabi
Dear All, There is a functionality in Microsoft excel called rows to repeat at top in the page setup-- sheet -- print title. Where can I find in in open office? Regards, Ramzi Al Halaby

Re: [users] rows to repeat At top in excel

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:02 28/08/2008 +0200, Ramzi El Halabi wrote: There is a functionality in Microsoft excel called rows to repeat at top in the page setup-- sheet -- print title. Where can I find it in open office? o Go to Format | Print Ranges | Edit... . o Under Rows to repeat, click the Shrink button

Re: [users] rows to repeat At top in excel

2008-08-28 Thread Joe Conner
Ramzi El Halabi wrote: Dear All, There is a functionality in Microsoft excel called rows to repeat at top in the page setup-- sheet -- print title. Where can I find in in open office? Regards, Ramzi Al Halaby From the HELP FILES: Printing Rows or Columns on Every Page If

[users] [moderated]

2008-08-28 Thread Gsvrtsn
Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened up by the works 6.0 text converter).

[users] Script conversion from spreadsheet to CSV

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Saffrey
I'd like to be able to convert a spreadsheet (probably in Excel format) into a set of CSV files representing each tab. Can I do this in a script? I'm running on Linux. This is part of a web based application where a user submits a CSV file for processing. At the moment, my users have to save

[users] FIXED Recovery of files error

2008-08-28 Thread Leone
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[users] How set deafult width and height of page?

2008-08-28 Thread Pol Hallen
I folks :-) Using oo 2.4.1 on debian linux I tring to set the default width and height of default page. In styles and formatting I tried to change (in default) these size but I don't understand where can I set its. Can somebody tell me how? Thanks! Pol

Re: [users] How set default width and height of page?

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:22 28/08/2008 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Using oo 2.4.1 on debian linux I trying to set the default width and height of default page. In styles and formatting I tried to change (in default) these size but I don't understand where can I set it. Can somebody tell me how? The default page

Re: [users] [moderated] Opening a Works Document

2008-08-28 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/8/27 Gsvrtsn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened

Re: [users] Ooo writer: autocorrect MIA?

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi, How do I enable autocorrect in writer? The help says to go to autocorrect-options and check 'use replacement table', but there is no such option. Any thoughts? I'm using 2.4.1-17.4.fc9.i386 (Fedora 9). You need to have a Writer document open and then you can find it under

Re: [users] [moderated] [Opening Works document files in Writer]

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:07 27/08/2008 -0400, Gail Noname wrote: I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I think you may have been misled: your .wps file is probably a

Re: [users] How set deafult width and height of page?

2008-08-28 Thread Michele
On 28/08/2008, Pol Hallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I folks :-) Using oo 2.4.1 on debian linux I tring to set the default width and height of default page. In styles and formatting I tried to change (in default) these size but I don't understand where can I set its. Can somebody tell me

Re: [users] Re: Default saved name now Documents?

2008-08-28 Thread MHR
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you have selected for: Tools|Options|OOo...|General|Open/Save Dialogs? That setting is checked. If I uncheck it, I get the non-OOo dialog with the file name Documents, selected. With it checked, the name is not selected,

Re: [users] Re: Default saved name now Documents?

2008-08-28 Thread MHR
SOLVED! It was my default path for saving the documents. For some reason it was set to /home/mhr/Documents/Documents/, which does not exist. The extra /Documents at the end was getting translated into a file name. I changed it to /home/mhr/Documents/, which does exist, and the problem

Re: [users] Re: interface to cross reference a heading is weird

2008-08-28 Thread Michele
2008/8/27 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like the feature I described below will be in OOo 3.0: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25072 Can anybody using OOo 3.0 RC confirm this? H.S. wrote: Hello, So my technical document writing experiment with OOo is continuing. I am

Re: [users] Re: scim input - a small success

2008-08-28 Thread M Henri Day
2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:46:39 H.S. wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: But I'm immediately stuck again. I am following (or rather, trying to follow) the instruction: mkdir ~/.xinput.d cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-pinyin ~/.xinput.d/default

Re: [users] Re: scim input - a small success

2008-08-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 August 2008 11:07:39 M Henri Day wrote: 2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:46:39 H.S. wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: But I'm immediately stuck again. I am following (or rather, trying to follow) the instruction: mkdir ~/.xinput.d

Re: [users] Re: scim input - further to my last [OT]

2008-08-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
I now get Kanji for all my system keyboard shortcuts and had to turn it off to launch Kail, which I am now setting up in order to see whether I can type in Japanese in that. Thanks very much :-)) \o/ I can type in Kanji in Kmail as well. So it is just your actual word processor now

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-08-28 Thread James Knott
Gsvrtsn wrote: Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened up by the works 6.0

Re: [users] [moderated] Opening a Works Document

2008-08-28 Thread James Knott
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/8/27 Gsvrtsn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this

Re: [users] Re: scim input - further to my last [OT]

2008-08-28 Thread M Henri Day
2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now get Kanji for all my system keyboard shortcuts and had to turn it off to launch Kail, which I am now setting up in order to see whether I can type in Japanese in that. Thanks very much :-)) \o/ I can type in Kanji in Kmail as well. So it

Re: [users] Re: scim input - a small success

2008-08-28 Thread M Henri Day
2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Lisi, your en-GB locale is quite sufficient ; you don't need a Japanese locale. What you do need to do is thye the following commands into a terminal : im-switch -z en_GB.UTF-8 -s scim im-switch -z en_GB.UTF-8 -s scim-bridge Try this

[users] Re: OOo slows down on a page which has eps figure

2008-08-28 Thread Joe Smith
H.S. wrote: ... In conclusion, if an eps file with a preview is used in OOo, OOo does not slow down on the page which contains that file but also it retains the low res in the exported PDF file. Printing the document gives the right eps in the output though. This is the expected behavior. If

[users] How can default chart line thicknesses be set?

2008-08-28 Thread Richard Hainsworth
No one has responded yet to this calc/chart question. Maybe I should rephrase it. If I create a chart in Calc that uses lines, they have a thickness of 1 and a default color scheme. The default color scheme can be changed. To change the thickness, I double click to edit the chart, select a

Re: [users] Re: scim input - further to my last [OT]

2008-08-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 August 2008 13:51:30 M Henri Day wrote: 2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now get Kanji for all my system keyboard shortcuts and had to turn it off to launch Kail, which I am now setting up in order to see whether I can type in Japanese in that. Thanks

Re: [users] Re: scim input - further to my last [OT]

2008-08-28 Thread M Henri Day
2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 28 August 2008 13:51:30 M Henri Day wrote: 2008/8/28 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now get Kanji for all my system keyboard shortcuts and had to turn it off to launch Kail, which I am now setting up in order to see whether

Re: [users] Re: scim input - further to my last [OT]

2008-08-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 August 2008 16:08:09 M Henri Day wrote: Lisi, the «enabled for complex text layout» isn't needed for East Asian (so-called CJK) languages, but is for languages like Arabic and the Indic languages. I had hoped that enabling East Asian languages would do the trick - it works for

Re: [users] Re: OOo slows down on a page which has eps figure

2008-08-28 Thread mike scott
On 28 Aug 2008 at 9:36, Joe Smith wrote: ... OOo's normal printed output (on Unix anyway) has always been Postscript, so to print an EPS, all OOo has to do is include the EPS Postscript code in the printer output stream. No conversion is required and you get a full-resolution graphic.

[users] Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
In the Equation Editor one can set the text of the entire equation with Format - Font Size. This adjusts the font size of the entire formula. I am adding units to my formulas, like this: F=m*a F [N] = m*a [kg*m/s^2] The units are way too large, but they must be in the same formula with the

[users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the Equation Editor one can set the text of the entire equation with Format - Font Size. This adjusts the font size of the entire formula. I am adding units to my formulas, like this: F=m*a F [N] = m*a [kg*m/s^2] The units are way too large, but

[users] Why this happens?

2008-08-28 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
Roman numbers turn to Greek characters when converting from odt to doc. It is incredible, so I took screen shots: http://www.izecksohn.com/leonardo/ok.jpg http://www.izecksohn.com/leonardo/problem.jpg It happens on Windows Vista, on at least two different notebooks. It does not happen on

Re: [users] Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:51 28/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: In the Equation Editor one can set the text of the entire equation with Format - Font Size. This adjusts the font size of the entire formula. I am adding units to my formulas, like this: F=m*a F [N] = m*a [kg*m/s^2] The units are way too large, but

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't looked at this, but isn't normal text in an equation supposed to be based on the default style or Text Body style? It would be a drag having to do this in each and every formula. Thinking more generally, I wonder what happens if the text of a

[users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
Our company is about to do some re-branding, which will mean new templates for customer-facing documents. Somebody (not I) is going to create the new Word templates. Is there anything that I should ask that person to do - or to avoid - that will make my life easier if I want to use OOo instead

[users] Setting default settings for Equation Editor font sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
In the Equation Editor one can specify these font sizes: Base Size (px) Text (%) Indexes (%) Functions (%) Operators (%) Limits (%) How can I set what I need the default values to be? For instance, I need the Base Size to be 8pt (as opposed to 12pt) and the Text to be 50% (as opposed to 100%).

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
HUH? --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:40 PM 2008/8/28 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't looked at this, but

Re: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
what does this have to do with the question I asked? --- On Thu, 8/28/08, McLauchlan, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: McLauchlan, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [users] template-ish question To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:41 PM Our company is about to do some

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE QUESTION I ASKED? --- On Thu, 8/28/08, m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:47 PM --- On Thu, 8/28/08,

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE QUESTION I ASKED? You did not ask a question in this thread. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what does this have to do with the question I asked? You are confusing different threads, Martin. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
unsubscribe me from all this useless bullshit you're sending me - NOW!!! --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] template-ish question To: users@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 28,

Re: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unsubscribe me from all this useless bullshit you're sending me - NOW!!! Martin, calm down, I will help you unsubscribe. If you look at the bottom of each email message from the list you will see this information:

RE: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
Nothing. You DO realize that you are subscribed to a user-to-user mailing-list forum where we help each other with issues and questions about the OpenOffice software suite, don't you? So below is a question that I asked of the list-members just now (by posting to address users@openoffice.org).

[users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread H.S.
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/28 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't looked at this, but isn't normal text in an equation supposed to be based on the default style or Text Body style? It would be a drag having to do this in each and every formula. Thinking more generally, I wonder what happens if

Re: [users] template-ish question

2008-08-28 Thread Jack D. Lewis
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote the following on 8/28/2008 12:41 PM: Our company is about to do some re-branding, which will mean new templates for customer-facing documents. Somebody (not I) is going to create the new Word templates. Is there anything that I should ask that person to do - or to

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread mike scott
On 28 Aug 2008 at 21:50, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/28 m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE QUESTION I ASKED? You did not ask a question in this thread. No; actually I can't find a question from him in my mailbox, I assume it's gone missing. I suspect he's

Re: [users] Re: Making text of equation smaller

2008-08-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/28 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant that it is a drag to manually change the size of all normal text used in equations (e.g. you are using units in normal text). In general the normal text can be used in all equations. most common example are derivations in which

[users] Re: Setting default settings for Equation Editor font sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
Dotan Cohen wrote: In the Equation Editor one can specify these font sizes: Base Size (px) Text (%) Indexes (%) Functions (%) Operators (%) Limits (%) How can I set what I need the default values to be? For instance, I need the Base Size to be 8pt (as opposed to 12pt) and the Text to be 50%

[users] Scim input

2008-08-28 Thread Alberto Muller
Hi all ! I've been seeing a lot of posts dealing with tnbis scim input. I apologize but I'm totlly lost and I don't know what this stuff is and moreover how it is linked to OOffice. Can anybody givge me an input (without scim) ? Thanks in advance A.Muller

Re: [users] Scim input

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message Subject: [users] Scim input From: Alberto Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:10 +0200 Hi all ! I've been seeing a lot of posts dealing with tnbis scim input. I apologize but I'm totlly lost and I don't know what

Re: [users] [moderated] [Opening Works document files in Writer]

2008-08-28 Thread jonathon
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:17, Brian Barker wrote: I think you may have been misled: your .wps file is probably a Microsoft Works word processor file, and OpenOffice does not open these. Some versions of OOo can open MS Works files. (Novell's version is one. OxygenOffice is another.) xan

Re: [users] Scim input

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
NAFF OFF! --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Alberto Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Alberto Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [users] Scim input To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 4:13 PM Hi all ! I've been seeing a lot of posts dealing with tnbis scim input. I

[users] Re: [moderated] Opening a Works Document

2008-08-28 Thread Twayne
2008/8/27 Gsvrtsn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Evening, I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this. I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened

Re: [users] Scim input

2008-08-28 Thread Rob Clement
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: [users] Scim input From: Alberto Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:10 +0200 Hi all ! I've been seeing a lot of posts dealing with tnbis scim input. I apologize but I'm totlly lost and

[users] Re: Scim input

2008-08-28 Thread H.S.
Rob Clement wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: [users] Scim input From: Alberto Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:10 +0200 Hi all ! I've been seeing a lot of posts dealing with tnbis scim input. I apologize

[users] numbered subfigures in a figure frame

2008-08-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, So my experiment of examining the suitability of OOo for technical and academic writing is continuing. My next problem is: how do I insert numbered sub-figures in a figure. Assume I am insert a picture file add a caption to it. My frame style of the frame enclosing the picture *and* the

Re: [users] Calc question - Names.?

2008-08-28 Thread James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
Thanks to both Johnny Rosenberg and Brian Barker for your help James - Original Message - From: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OOo Users users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:33 PM Subject: [users] Calc question - Names.? I have named ranges

Re: [users] [moderated] [Opening Works document files in Writer]

2008-08-28 Thread KAMI
jonathon írta: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:17, Brian Barker wrote: I think you may have been misled: your .wps file is probably a Microsoft Works word processor file, and OpenOffice does not open these. Some versions of OOo can open MS Works files. (Novell's version is one.

Re: [users] Calc question - Names.?

2008-08-28 Thread m.a. martin
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD TELL ME HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ALL THIS SHIT! --- On Thu, 8/28/08, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Calc question - Names.? To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday,