[users] Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org

2011-09-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
NoOp wrote: On 09/02/2011 12:59 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011-09-02 1:00 PM NoOp wrote: Is that list setup for gmane.org? Not yet. I asked on gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel . During the discussion with Rob Weir he asked if it was possible for me to request Gmane including the list.

[users] Re: [Oracle lists + kenai.com] Re: Suspect mail

2011-03-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Paul wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: NoOp wrote: On 03/09/2011 11:59 AM, Paul wrote: ...NoOp Wrote: While you're at it; it appears that posts (at least

[users] Re: [Oracle lists + kenai.com] Re: Suspect mail

2011-03-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
NoOp wrote: On 03/09/2011 11:59 AM, Paul wrote: ...NoOp Wrote: While you're at it; it appears that posts (at least mine) are taking 4 hours to appear: Subject: Re: Suspect mail Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:46:06 -0800 Original-Received: from mailout02.kenai.com ([192.9.171.175]) by

[users] Re: .WKS FILE ...........................WTF

2010-02-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: On Feb 19, 2010, at 08:00 , Keith R Bainbridge wrote: My immediate thought was that the file was created in MSWorks and a quick search confirms that Works does .wks So could you add this suggestion to the earlier response Good one, Keith. I did wonder about Works, but

[users] Re: [OT] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Twayne wrote: In news:hl9oj2$lp...@ger.gmane.org, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net typed: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-02-12 5:12 AM, Linda L. Hull wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com Most people who prefer top-posting do so because

[users] Re: [OT] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-02-12 5:12 AM, Linda L. Hull wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith R Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com Most people who prefer top-posting do so because they are too lazy to spend a few extra seconds to properly format their replies. Outlook apparently still

[users] Re: How to tell if a person is subscribed

2010-02-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: Is there any easy way to see whether a person is subscribed to the list? Is the fact that they send a message to the list sufficient - that is must one be subscribed in order to send messages. I ask because I have an idea I have seen mention in here that a person has not

[users] Re: Danish government chooses ODF

2010-01-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
and help and manage to stay above the fray I applaud you and wish I could emulate your abilities. Regards Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h

[users] Re: Inserting page numbers

2010-01-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 23:49 , Keith N. McKenna wrote: The 'bad' thing about Works was that nobody as far as I can remember ever had a conversion routine for Works-their product and absolutely not their product-Works, so that a Works user was totally isolated from the rest

[users] Re: Inserting page numbers

2010-01-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Barbara Duprey wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: James Wilde wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 23:49 , Keith N. McKenna wrote: The only things I really use it for now is the database. It is a flat database and has the problems associated with that, but it serves the need I have for it. Now

[users] Re: Inserting page numbers

2010-01-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 01:30 , Richard Detwiler wrote: t...@seedfield.co.uk wrote: Dear Sir/Madame, Tia: Barbara gave excellent advice on how to do page numbering in OpenOffice Writer. (Basically two steps, like she said: Insert Footer Default; and then Insert Fields

[users] Re: FW: America]

2010-01-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
John Boyle wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/9/2010 5:46 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2010/1/10 John Boyle jbo...@harbornet.com To ALL: Whether you like it or not, here it is, and you can get angry at me for sending it to you, BUT THIS I BELIEVE!!! :o ... John, your

[users] Re: OOo LiveCD

2010-01-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Original Message Subject: Re: OOo LiveCD From: Sean u...@frightenstein.com To: Date: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:36:38 PM - Original Message - From: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [users] OOo

[users] Re: Print Preview in Draw

2009-12-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
RA Brown wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.1.1 on Vista Home Premium. Draw doesn't seem to have a Print Preview feature. The only way I can find to get a preview is to select the entire drawing, copy/paste it into a Writer document and use Writer's Page Preview. What am I missing? Harold, I

[users] Re: Diary/Calender

2009-12-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: On Dec 11, 2009, at 14:24 , Ian Davies wrote: It it me or am I loosing it? Its there a Diary/Calender on OpenOffice I was certain I saw one when I loaded it. Ian - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: When I Copy Text into OOo, Only One Space Between Sentence End and Beginning of Next sentence

2009-12-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Wilde wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 23:16 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote: As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish there has never been an extra space required Tell me about it! Living in Sweden myself, with a Swedish wife who was trained as a secretary, we've had

[users] Re: [discuss] Dragon Naturally Speaking et OpenOffice.org

2009-11-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: NoOp wrote: On 11/14/2009 09:15 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Bonjour, Est-ce que quelqu'un a un retour d'expérience récent sur l'usage du logiciel de dictée Dragon Naturally Speaking avec OpenOffice.org Writer ? Bonne fin de journée JBF Don't know... I don't

[users] Re: Envelopes (was Re: [users] [moderated])

2009-10-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: Twayne wrote: I can't comment on how easy or otherwise it is to make envelopes in Word as (a) I've never done it and (b) I don't have Word installed or available to install. The only real difficulty I've had with envelopes in OOo was figuring out which way to put them in

[users] Re: Pinging Harold Fuchs?

2009-10-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/10/14 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com 2009/10/14 Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com Hi Harold, I paricipate via the gmane.org newsgroup. Please keep that in mind as you read my questions. I am only subscribed to this newsgroup server and not to the actual

[users] Re: Pinging Harold Fuchs?

2009-10-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: major snip Sorry. I forgot. I don't think News readers (NNTP/Usenet/Gmane) let you examine the message headers in sufficient detail to tell if a message came from a subscribed poster or not. I have tried reading this list via

[users] Re: Downloading version 3.1

2009-10-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
. Right clock on that icon and left click close. That should close it down and allow you to install. Regargs Keith N. Mckenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h

[users] Re: Downloading version 3.1

2009-10-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
JOE Conner wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: David Lister Hi David; It sounds like you still have the Quickstarter open. I am a leap that you are on a windows system. If so then the Quickstarted will be in your system tray (the area at the botttom left of your screen where the clock

[users] Re: MS office to openoffice send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
of choice in windows. I CHOOSE to set my default mailer to Thunderbird and OOo happily complies. Regards Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h

[users] Re: MS office to openoffice send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Knott wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: James Knott wrote: Yes, I know it goes to the default app, which means you cannot chose another. In Linux you can use whatever app you desire and someone else provided info on using a browser. This means Linux users have a choice and Windows users

[users] Re: MS office to openoffice send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Knott wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: James; Find one that would meet my needs. I see no logical reason for using more than one email client. For me all it does is use up disk space to duplicate a function. Well, at work I used two different email apps, Seamonkey for work

[users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
to be about. Regards Keith N. McKenna PS Before you go off and accuse me of not being educated, believe me I am. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Problem Installing OOo 3.1.1 on Windows XP Pro SP3

2009-09-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
After years of installing OOo on my Toshiba Tablet, all of a sudden it will not allow me to install version 3.1.1. When I run the installer it extracts the files then tries to start the install and fails with a pop up saying the system administrator has set policies to prohibit this

[users] Re: Problem Installing OOo 3.1.1 on Windows XP Pro SP3

2009-09-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/9/1 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net Three things: 1. Are you loggged in as an Administrator of the Windows system? I think you need to be. 2. Before starting the installation, did you exit the [old version's] Quickstarter? You do need to. 3. Have you

[users] Re: bypass regative numbers

2009-05-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Walter Hildebrandt wrote: In Calc I am using the following formula in cell C1 =A1-B1)/B1 Is there some way to get an empty C1 cell when there is a negative number in either A1 or B1? Walter; Put this if statement into cell C1. =IF(A1-B1 0;0;A1-B1) which says If the difference of A1-B1

[users] Re: bypass regative numbers

2009-05-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Walter Hildebrandt wrote: In Calc I am using the following formula in cell C1 =A1-B1)/B1 Is there some way to get an empty C1 cell when there is a negative number in either A1 or B1? Walter; Put this if statement into cell C1. =IF(A1-B1

[users] Re: New User and I need help, please!

2009-05-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Original Message Subject: Re: New User and I need help, please! From: Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com To: Date: 5/23/2009 1:46 PM Ellie Kuykendall wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: In the save as file picker window the MS Word 2003 option is at the bottom of the list of

[users] Re: MY COMPUTER IS OVER LOADED!!!!!!!

2009-04-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith Bainbridge wrote: No issue at all: there wiil be no more outlook Keith Bainbridge PO Box 324 BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia +61(0)408 522 706 kei...@akrb.name 2009/4/6 jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com: Uninstalling MSOffice also means that you won't have a spellchecker for Outlook.

[users] Re: Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files

2009-03-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Gene Young wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Either way, this was a new question. Haven't received one of those in a while? Surprise! And in doing so you hijacked this thread. To ask a new question start a new thread. DO NOT respond to a previous post and just change the subject line. Gee.

[users] Re: Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files

2009-03-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ugly Me wrote: Actually I am looking at the thread as I type this and the original op was Loren and the Subject was Change default settings for Calc paste special. This is the way it shows on Gmane anyway. sigh Forgive my shortcut. I did not hijack anything - intentionally. Because I

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Post davep...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for

[users] Re: Unwanted updates - what to do with them.?

2009-02-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Web Kracked wrote: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: The icon and pop up note appeared at the top right hand corner of my OOo Writer (3.1) screen to say that new updates were available. I clicked on it and found out that the update was for the French dictionary extension. As I am

[users] Re: Unsubscribed Posters

2009-02-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 08/02/2009 18:45, NoOp wrote: On 02/08/2009 04:40 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: As far as I can tell most *news* readers can't filter on the Delivered To: header. This makes life harder for people reading this list (and wishing to reply) via Gmane. I'm testing the

[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

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

2009-02-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Knott wrote: Gene Young wrote: She still felt it necessary to send me a nasty private email, complete with her religious exhortations, describing how she was right and we are all representatives of Open Office. She obviously doesn't get it and never will. Therefor she has been

[users] Re: Paragraph borders

2008-11-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
John Jason Jordan wrote: oops, sent this from the wrong e-mail account. resending. OOo 2.41, Linux I'm pretty sure you can't do this in OOo, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Suppose you have pages of text and you want a border along the right edge of the paragraphs that appear on odd numbered

[users] Re: How to win friends for Open Office

2008-08-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
them does nothing to solve the technical problem at hand of enhance the OpenOffice.org in the eyes of people coming here for help. Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

[users] Re: Email Client

2008-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Gordon wrote: Dennis Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:![EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for getting back to me and I apologize for not providing details. I've tried Thunderbird but I'm not a big fan. I have been using Firefox for years though and like it very much! I really like

[users] Need location of 2.4.1 windows installer without JRE

2008-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Good day all; Could someone please point me to the download area for the 2.4.1 windows installation file without the built in JRE. I already have the latest Sun Java Environment installed and really do not need it. Though the new site is very nice, it is a lot less user friendly to find

[users] Re: What are we here for?

2008-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Microsoft has already announced they'll extend XP for those low end systems. However, as always, Linux provides better performance than XP on the same hardware. Also, I understand that some vendors reduce the hardware, to help keep the cost down, when Windows is installed. This will

[users] Re: Need location of 2.4.1 windows installer without JRE

2008-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Harold Fuchs wrote: Go to www.openoffice.org and click I want to download... (or the Download tab). Then choose the get more platforms and languages option. You'll be taken to http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US. Deselect the with JRE check box and then click on the version you

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

2008-05-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
it an office function for me :-) Then by all means feel free to write the extension to do that. ;-) Regards Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: Duplicated Messages (was Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office)

2008-05-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Knott wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: The problem is allowing unsubscribed postes to the list in the first place. If they are allowed, at least their address should be added to the 'Reply-To' header. Having to look to see if a post is delivered to the moderator before replying is idiotic.

[users] Re: Duplicated Messages (was Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office)

2008-05-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
James Knott wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: James Knott wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: The problem is allowing unsubscribed postes to the list in the first place. If they are allowed, at least their address should be added to the 'Reply-To' header. Having to look to see if a post is delivered

[users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Bob Estes wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago.

[users] Re: Signatures [Was: where is spell check?]

2008-03-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[users] Signatures [Was: where is spell check?] From: Dave Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Date: Tue 11 Mar 2008 12:11:57 EST Original Message From: Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue 11 Mar

[users] Re: enabling macros

2008-01-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
spreadsheets. Regards Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: OOo and Linux/Troll/Idiot

2008-01-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
M. Fioretti wrote: SNIP Without forgetting for a moment that the first thing to do before bottom posting is trimming as much as possible of the original message, of course. Marco My experience is that although most people whom are fanatical about the joys of bottom