[users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Keith N. McKenna wrote: James; I could say the same thing about you. I find your harping about people who believe to be as offensive as you do there religion. If you don't like the signature, don't read the bloody thing. You frequently offer

Re: [users] email spell check

2009-02-05 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/2/4 JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com Harold Fuchs wrote: On 04/02/2009 10:29, ABELITIS SOLICITORS wrote: hello Can U assist? How do I get spell check to vet emails? Regards Ian You have sent a message to the group of volunteers who help users of OpenOffice.org, a free office

Re: [users] [moderated] [File associations for Microsoft Office document types]

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:42 04/02/2009 -0500, Tim Lonly wrote: Every time a do a new install of OpenOffice.org 2.x and 3.x.x, I have been asked if I want to have the file associations. Look in Tools Options Load/Save Microsoft Office check if you want to Load or Save MS files with OpenOffice.org If you want

Re: [users] Install updates

2009-02-05 Thread Guy Voets
2009/2/2 Mark Ramsay ramsa...@shaw.ca Hello: I am using an IMac (two months old) and just received an update to OO. I downloaded the file which brought up a dialog box to install. Clicked on install and another dialog box came up that said OO must be closed I closed OO and the install

Re: [users] [moderated] [File associations for Microsoft Office document types]

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:41 05/02/2009 +0100, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:37, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:42 04/02/2009 -0500, Tim Lonly wrote: Every time a do a new install of OpenOffice.org 2.x and 3.x.x, I have been asked if I want to have the file associations. [...] [...]

[users] Column break

2009-02-05 Thread Fehmi YAZICI
I have 2 columns per a sheet and numbered paragraphs in both columns. At the end of the first column, I want to move the last numbered paragraph (let say 4. paragraph) to the top of the second column, but the number (4.) stays at the end of the first column and the moved paragraph on the top of

Re: [users] [moderated] [File associations for Microsoft Office document types]

2009-02-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:37, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:42 04/02/2009 -0500, Tim Lonly wrote: Every time a do a new install of OpenOffice.org 2.x and 3.x.x, I have been asked if I want to have the file associations. [...] [...] Installation of OpenOffice used to offer to associate

[users] Re: [discuss] calc

2009-02-05 Thread Guy Voets
2009/2/1 Andrew Jamieson mara...@ntlworld.com I am new to open office and when I open a spreadsheet there is a large Question mark in a panel on the left hand side. Can you please tell me how I get rid of this. Yours sincerely . Andrew Jamieson Hello Andrew, I have no idea what youare

Re: [users] REPOST: [users] Switch to Hebrew Language froze Writer

2009-02-05 Thread M Henri Day
2009/2/5 David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net M Henri Day wrote: 2009/2/4 David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net I posted this about a week ago without response. If anyone here knows why settubg the Locale language to Hebrew might make the program unresponsive even to attempts to

[users] RE: ABBY FINEREADER SCREENSHOT

2009-02-05 Thread Alec McAllister
I use Vista, OO 3.0.1, Office 2007 and Abbyy FineReader version 9. I have just used FineReader ScreenShot Reader to capture mixed text containing English, Greek, Hebrew and Chinese from OO. I then used FineReader to do OCR on that image and turn it into text. I then exported the text to Word

Re: [users] Column break

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:17 05/02/2009 +0200, Fehmi YAZICI wrote: I have 2 columns per a sheet and numbered paragraphs in both columns. At the end of the first column, I want to move the last numbered paragraph (let say 4. paragraph) to the top of the second column, but the number (4.) stays at the end of the

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Dawe
Mike Scott wrote: Mike Dawe wrote: I don't blame James for getting somewhat miffed at her at all. Nor do I. But this list is not an appropriate place to express his own displeasure and gratuitously criticize many other list subscribers, thereby committing a similar offense.

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread James Knott
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Keith N. McKenna wrote: James; I could say the same thing about you. I find your harping about people who believe to be as offensive as you do there religion. If you don't like the signature, don't read the bloody thing. You frequently offer very

RE: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread Witstert
Have we beaten the *rap out of this subject or is it a cross we are going to have to bear ad infinitum? -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:james.kn...@rogers.com] Sent: 05 February 2009 12:43 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

Re: [users] REPOST: [users] Switch to Hebrew Language froze Writer

2009-02-05 Thread David B Teague
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/2/5 David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net M Henri Day wrote: 2009/2/4 David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net Question snipped What if anything am I missing here? David Teague David, what OS are you running ? On a Windows machine, wouldn't it

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Scott
Mike Dawe wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Mike Dawe wrote: I don't blame James for getting somewhat miffed at her at all. Nor do I. But this list is not an appropriate place to express his own displeasure and gratuitously criticize many other list subscribers, thereby committing a similar

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Mike Scott wrote: I'm taking a sabbatical from the list before I get further drawn in to this discussion. Ditto. -- John W Kennedy Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in

[users] Re: Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Marc Schwartz
Ely Schoenfeld ely.openoffic...@mitalteli.com writes: Hello all. I discovered something odd with OOo 3.0.1 Calc. Hope someone could verify this for me. a) Put in two different cells the numbers: 18282.34 (For example A1) -18282.73 (For example A2) b) Add them in another cell. (For

[users] Step by step instructions including fixed width font?

2009-02-05 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Hi guys; can I get some best practice advice on how to do step by step lists that include fixed width font? For example: Here are some sample instructions: 1. First, run the following shell commands: # command1 # command2 2. Now, run these commands: # command3 -1 -2

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Guy Voets
However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. Thank you. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not send attachments with your message, as they add to the bandwidth burden we must all deal with. OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Web Kracked
Guy Voets wrote: However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. Thank you. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not send attachments with your message, as they add to the bandwidth burden we must all deal with.

[users] Front Page

2009-02-05 Thread Joe Grech
Is there an alternative to ms Front Page in OOo3? _ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/events.aspx

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I really appreciate it. About the problem. See below. 2009/2/4 JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com Ely Schoenfeld wrote: Hello all. I discovered something odd with OOo 3.0.1 Calc. Hope someone could verify this for me. a) Put in two different

Re: [users] Re: Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
see bellow. 2009/2/5 Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@comcast.net Ely Schoenfeld ely.openoffic...@mitalteli.com writes: Hello all. I discovered something odd with OOo 3.0.1 Calc. Hope someone could verify this for me. a) Put in two different cells the numbers: 18282.34 (For

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
See below 2009/2/5 Web Kracked webmas...@krackedpress.com Guy Voets wrote: However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. Thank you. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not send attachments with your message, as

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread JOE Conner
Ely Schoenfeld wrote: Thank you for taking the time to answer. I really appreciate it. About the problem. See below. 2009/2/4 JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com Ely Schoenfeld wrote: SNIP Thank you so much for this. it looks great. Just one question... how can I recalculate all the

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Customer Service

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Boba
Drew, Your posts often include language about legal perspectives. The post that I'm responding to suggests possible codification of a customer service role. Seeing that I am curious to know: what are your legal qualifications, what area of law do you believe this idea to be governed by, what if

Re: [users] Step by step instructions including fixed width font?

2009-02-05 Thread Michele Zarri
2009/2/5 Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com Hi guys; can I get some best practice advice on how to do step by step lists that include fixed width font? For example: Here are some sample instructions: 1. First, run the following shell commands: # command1 # command2 2.

[users] Re: Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Joe Smith
Ely Schoenfeld wrote: ... I was already trying to fix the problem using ROUND in some places, like multiplications and divisions, but I steel had differences in my calculation (bigger than 0.01) at the end. Now I see that I have to add round to some places that I didn't thought to. ... You may

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:28 04/02/2009 -0600, Ely Schoenfeld wrote: I discovered something odd with OOo 3.0.1 Calc. [...] If I add more decimals to the cell format, I get something like -0.39, that's ok. But If I copy the last cell and then paste special with only text, numbers and dates checked, I obtain:

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Dawe
Guy Voets wrote: However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not send attachments with your message, as they add to the bandwidth burden we must all deal with.

[users] Re: From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-05 Thread NoOp
On 02/04/2009 02:33 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2009/2/4 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 02/04/2009 11:00 AM, PJH wrote: A neighbor created a document (The 2009 Residents Handbook, to be specific), in Word 2007 and saved it as a .DOC. When I open it in Writer, the cover sheet is off as can be

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Web Kracked
Mike Dawe wrote: Guy Voets wrote: However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not send attachments with your message, as they add to the bandwidth burden we must all deal with.

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Ely Schoenfeld
2009/2/5 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com At 13:28 04/02/2009 -0600, Ely Schoenfeld wrote: I discovered something odd with OOo 3.0.1 Calc. [...] If I add more decimals to the cell format, I get something like -0.39, that's ok. But If I copy the last cell and then paste special

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Dawe
Web Kracked wrote: Mike Dawe wrote: Guy Voets wrote: This being said, most attachments are stripped from mails sent to tghe list. However, odt, ods etc. get through, which is sometimes useful to have easy access to an example of a problem encountered by a OP. This explains why I was

Re: [users] Re: From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:23 05/02/2009 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: The first page has (in Word) a single graphic, and two text boxes. The first text box (refer to the link PJH provided). For some reason, no matter the version of Word used to save the doc, OOo opens with 4 graphics, 4 'Resident Handbook' text boxes,

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread JOE Conner
Web Kracked wrote: SNIP That is interesting. I did not know that ODF attachments are allowed. I would have offered a few, like a great landscape style calendar in a spreadsheet file. Well, may look at some options, some problems, etc., and either attach or link the file to the email(s). Tim

[users] Re: Online Update

2009-02-05 Thread NoOp
On 02/04/2009 08:18 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Today it started working. That is, I had OOo closed and when I went to launch it I got a notification that there was an update available. Unfortunately, the install routine seems to be broken. I clicked on Install, and then it told me OOo

[users] Feature brackets in Writer

2009-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
I need to create feature brackets for work in linguistics. As an example, consider the following: [ +CORONAL ] [ -distributed ] [ +voice] Above is an example showing three items. The actual number if items may be as many as a dozen or as few as one. And here in e-mail-land I had to use

Re: [users] Re: Online Update

2009-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:04:30 -0800 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net dijo: On 02/04/2009 08:18 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Today it started working. That is, I had OOo closed and when I went to launch it I got a notification that there was an update available. Unfortunately, the install

[users] Re: From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-05 Thread NoOp
On 02/05/2009 05:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:23 05/02/2009 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: The first page has (in Word) a single graphic, and two text boxes. The first text box (refer to the link PJH provided). For some reason, no matter the version of Word used to save the doc, OOo opens with 4

Re: [users] WHAT'S UP WITH YOUR B.S.?

2009-02-05 Thread The Beaver
I will send you a DVD with multiple platforms on it plus some extras like templates and stuff in the mail if you want and then you won't have to download it. Send $10.00 USD via PayPal to e...@helpthehandicapped.us and it will be in tomorrows Priority Mail. Thanks, Floyd Paul wrote:

Re: [users] Re: How to convert the field of a word file to plain text?

2009-02-05 Thread Xiang Liu
Sorry, I consider I have give some obscure descriptions in my letter. So I want to clarify them here. Basically, Noop's answer is what my want! I just want to complement the problem's description: 1. using openoffice to open http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/359105/abc.odt 2. check the document, and

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:38 05/02/2009 -0600, Ely Schoenfeld wrote: The precision error didn't happen when I added 2.34 plus -2.73, it only happened when adding 18282.34 plus -18282.73 so it must have to be related with the size of the operated numbers. The numbers will be stored as floating-point quantities,

[users] Deafening silence!

2009-02-05 Thread Richard
Richard wrote: It used to be that when a file was being used from a file server at a work station, should someone else open the same file, editing would be impossible to do, as the file was already open on another workstation. I have only updated my workstation to version 3 and the other

[users] auto save time taken

2009-02-05 Thread Richard
I have brought this issue up a few times without any result, from my workstation documents are taken from a file server, when auto saving locally though, the time taken to do this is unacceptably long, even when this autosave function is directed to the local machine not the file server. Does

[users] Re: Deafening silence!

2009-02-05 Thread Russell Butler
Richard wrote: Richard wrote: It used to be that when a file was being used from a file server at a work station, should someone else open the same file, editing would be impossible to do, as the file was already open on another workstation. I have only updated my workstation to version 3

[users] Re: WHAT'S UP WITH YOUR B.S.?

2009-02-05 Thread Richard
Paul wrote: WHAT'S UP WITH THIS DOWNLOAD CRAP? For more than five hours I've started the download for OpenOffice3. Each and every time, this damn download hangs, stops, or crashes around 28% of completion. After this, the whole operation is frozen into a dead state where everything on the pc

Re: [users] OOo Mailing Lists Guidelines?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:46 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Web Kracked to my mailbox: Guy Voets wrote: However, I do not see any mention on the sending of email attachments to the List. Thank you. On the link you posted, select mailing lists, item # 4 is; 4 Please do not

Re: [users] Re: WHAT'S UP WITH YOUR B.S.?

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Richard wrote: Paul wrote: WHAT'S UP WITH THIS DOWNLOAD CRAP? For more than five hours I've started the download for OpenOffice3. Each and every time, this damn download hangs, stops, or crashes around 28% of completion. After this, the whole operation is frozen into a

Re: [users] 3.0 can't open powerpoint files

2009-02-05 Thread Nicholas
Jason, Uninstall 3.0. Download 3.0.1 and install. Should fix the problem. John Jason Jordan wrote: I have OOo 2.4.1 and OOo 3.0 on Ubuntu Intrepid. My professor puts powerpoint files on his web site. They were created in MS Office 2003 on XP. I can open them fine in OOo 2.4.1 (Impress), but