[users] CD/DVD Database with OOo?

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Hello there, Earlier today I was searching a particular piece of music in within my CD collection, it reminded me that one day I was thinking of creating a database so that I would find the wanted music faster! Maybe now is a good time to start this. So I thought I should start by asking two

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
My first text editor was Wordstar on a home brew CP/M computer. Later I used WordPerfect (I still do professionally), at home StarOffice on OS/2 and finally OpenOffice at home on a Linux machine and at Work on a Windows machine. I have to admit that I still live and that I am (or feel

[users] Jour de la semaine

2008-07-10 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Dans une feuille calc j'ai une colonne qui contient les jours de la semaine sous forme d'un numéro (1 pour lundi, 2 pour mardi etc). Je souhaite afficher le jour sous forme de texte (lundi, mardi, etc...). Existe-t-il une fonction qui réalise ceci? J'ai beau chercher, je n'ai rien trouvé!

Re: [users] Jour de la semaine

2008-07-10 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Thank you Brian! Sorry I was not aware that I was on the English speaking list! regards, Freddy Brian Barker wrote: At 23:46 10/07/2008 +0200, Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote: Dans une feuille calc j'ai une colonne qui contient les jours de la semaine sous forme d'un numéro (1 pour lundi, 2 pour

Re: [users] Installing OOo on Debian Linux

2006-12-03 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
There is one good reason not to use the Debian packages: Java! I for myself installed Java from Sun, and OOo from the official sites. You have to tar, and then use alien to make the deb packages. After that you can install with dpkg -i In the Debian version, functions that relay on Java are

Re: [users] Email with Calc

2006-11-21 Thread Freddy VAN INGELGOM
I think the problem is that in Calc, when you export to pdf, the print range is not taken into account!! Freddy Adrian Try a écrit : Hi Fre I am unable to email a single sheet invoice using Calc, the entice document is sent. What am I doing wrong? Since you are sending an invoice, I

Re: [users] formatting

2006-11-15 Thread Freddy VAN INGELGOM
Well, it is easier in my opinion to paste the text as non formatted text then, so that it takes the current format, without importing its own format to the document. Freddy Howard Sallee a écrit : FWIW, I have found that, when I need to import text into a formatted document, it is better to

Re: [users] obase won't work with FORM wizard

2006-11-13 Thread Freddy VAN INGELGOM
I had exactly the same problem. The only way of solving this for me was to uninstall OO.o and to install JRE from Sun and OO.o from the OpenOffice.org sites directly (not the Debian version where there is a Java problem). HTH Freddy Rodney D. Myers a écrit : Debian etch, OO 2.0.4-5 , and

Re: [users] Format for saved Writer docs

2006-11-09 Thread Freddy VAN INGELGOM
I save my documents always in the OOo format, but when sending them to someone I do this as a pdf file. It is very simple: File - Send - As pdf (or something similar, I use the french version of OOo). I even installed a special button on my toolbar for it! If you really need to communicate a

Re: [users] Templates for all corporate users

2006-10-31 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
It is indeed trough Tools - Option - Paths that you can add the path to your templates. To do so you select Templates in the list, then Edit, en then add, you have to add the new path and select it as the default. I just tried, and it works very well. I will implement this in our office next

Re: [users] need help stopping document recovery

2006-10-30 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I had exactly the same problem, I solved it by following the explanation found bij Googling the subject: pulsifer OOo Advocate Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 265

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I am happy to say that on my Debian unstable and with version 2.04 installed from rpm's and with Sun Java, word count is working for me. That is, I go to Tools - Statistics and I have a little window opening saying the number of words and the number of characters in the selected area (o if

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
As promised, I tried this functionality on a Windows XP sp2 machine with OOo 2.0.4 and it worked only partly: if I select the text, it counts the words, unselected in gives 0's for every count (words and characters, selected and whole text). Regards, Freddy Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote: I am

Re: [users] Re: Word Perfect question

2006-10-12 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I can read WordPerfect files within OOo, and this is so since version 2.0, but the convertion of graphics is not possible, only text. So, you just open WP files in OOo and you can work on it. But you can not save them afterwards as a WP file. This is so in OOo in Windooze and in Linux. Freddy

[users] Migration from WordPerfect to OOo

2006-10-12 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Dear all, I would like to migrate our office from WordPerfect to OpenOffice.org. We already use OOo Calc and Writer a lot, but the last only for a limited amount of text documents. I tried to find a replacement for the text merge function as it works in WP. I wonder if someone has a usable

Re: [users] Remove All Frames

2006-06-25 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
If you scanned only text, then you could of coarse select the text en copy it in a blank sheet as unformatted text. Freddy CPHennessy wrote: On Sat June 24 2006 16:21, Pete Holsberg wrote: The OCR program ReadIris has provided me with a set of frames-rich files as a result of scanning a

Re: [users] question...Erin Giove

2005-12-04 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Honesty forces me tu say that you dont need to download OpenOffice to be able to produce a text that she is able to open: In WordPerfect you can save as Microsoft format without any problem. Just click File - Save as and in the drop-down menu Files of type (or something similar) you can

Re: [users] french user interface ?

2005-12-02 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
fr.openoffice.org devrait faire l'affaire Freddy Philippe SIMON wrote: hello I would like to load the french user interface for OOo 2.0 ; is it availaible and where?? thank you for any help PS - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] OOo Base problem : create a button in a form

2005-12-02 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Je ne sais pas vous aider, mais il y a un excélent mailing list en français. Allez à fr.openoffice.org pour le trouver. Freddy yves morliere wrote: hello We are french studiant. We make an database work and we would work on OOo base. our problem is to create an openform button in an other

Re: [users] storing error

2005-11-27 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Hello Boris, I just had the same problem that I solved today. The missing files where unther file:///usr/lib/openoffice/share/basic/Tutorials: I created a directory WebWizard and copied the files in there, and voilà, problem solved. Hope it works for you. Kind regards, Freddy B wrote: Haj

Re: [users] two columns need fast help

2005-10-31 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I would suggest you simply use a table of two colums. That should do the trick. Freddy Jim White wrote: -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of my Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 4:13 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] two columns need fast help

Re: [users] Linux Installation of OOo 2.0.0rc1 without RPM

2005-10-04 Thread Freddy VAN INGELGOM
I installed OOo 2.0RC1 from a tar file, it untarred in several .rpm files. I then used alien to convert du deb files, and installed it using dpkg. (see man files for exact usage of alien and dpkg) I use Debian sarge. Hope this helps. PS: it took about 10 minutes to download and install. It

Re: [users] Printing Envelopes

2005-10-02 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Additional to my earlier message: I just tried out another method for printing envelopes: When you just want to send one letter to someone and print the envelope, this also is easy to do. I have a model letter that I use. I positioned the cursor in the beginning of that letter and then choose

Re: [users] Printing Envelopes

2005-10-01 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I print envelopes very regularly from within OOo. At home I use OOo 1.1.4 with Debian Linux and a HP Laserjet 5L. I do this to send a letter to all the members of my radio-club, and take the addresses from a MySql database. This is how I created the envelope: Format - Page On the Page-tab of

Re: [users] WordPerfect

2005-08-17 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
You can not say that OOo interfaces with WordPerfect, but OpenOffice can read documents in WP Format verry well. I heard that the version 2.0 beta contains the filters build in. The earlier versions need the install of a sort of plugin, look for /writerfilter /on Sourgeforge. Regards, Freddy

Re: [users] ooo 2 with 2 languages?

2005-04-26 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Paste special -- Unformatted text ??? Hope this helps! Regards, Freddy Shane Rice wrote: Hey everyone, Using OOO 2 Beta Writer. When I'm working in a Spanish Document, and I cut and paste another language into the document the spell checker goes crazy. I translate the work into Spanish,

Re: [users] Auto fill

2005-04-25 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Hello Carl, I tried in version 1.1.3 Debian. It works like this: I filled in a date in cell A1 I selected cells A1 to A40 Then Edit -- Fill -- Down et voilà BTW: after selecting the cells you could enter CTRL-D, but then you need a keyboard ;) Carl Paulsen wrote: OO 1.1.4, Win XP I have a

Re: [users] Open office in linux

2005-03-12 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I think you forgot to read the manual. I can asure you that borders etc are there! Cheers Freddy Camillus wrote: Hi Team, I would like to inform you all that Open office in Linux doesn't contain the wordart, creating borders, shadings, cliparts like Microsoft office. To create a documents with

Re: [users] WordPerfect Files, import of, libwpd, how-to?

2005-02-13 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Look at wp.openoffice.org I installed libwpd and writerfilter, and I read WP files verry well. I am using Debian unstable with OOo1.1.4 and 1.9.65, both are able to read WP. In fact I installed the filters with OOo version 1.1.2, and since then I never had to install them again. HTH Freddy

Re: [users] WordPerfect Files, import of, libwpd, how-to?

2005-02-13 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
Indeed, follow the instructions: if correctly installed, you should find whitin de list of supported formats WordPerfect as one of them. Freddy Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Søndag 13 februar 2005 13:56 skrev Freddy Van Ingelgom: Look at wp.openoffice.org I installed libwpd and writerfilter

Re: [users] Wordperfect Office files in Open Office

2005-02-06 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I am using WordPerfect 8 and Wordperfect 12. The documents generated by both these versions of WP are read without any problem by OOo version 1.1.4 and 1.9.65 I remember I had to install an aditional feature when I was using 1.2.x, but since I ame on version 1.1.4 I installed nothing at all,