[users] Re: (unknown)

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 14 December 2011 06:52, DR.R.E. EDGAR wrote: If you are able, why not send my requests to your friends at openoffice.org to remove me? I would be grateful for your kind help! Do not worry. This list is meant to stop soon anyway. It will just fade away. -- Michael --

[users] Re: Document Failure/Recovery

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 28 November 2011 11:28, Kenneth H. Koutz wrote: Gentlemen: I have used Open Office happily for several years. Recently (I believe after I installed an update), I cannot do ANYTHING with the spreadsheet or text programs. I have not tried the others. I tried to search the forums and

[users] Re: Problems with opening

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:18, Rick Hayden wrote: I have used your product for the last two years. Today, for the first time, I was unable to open my folders. I keep getting Fatal Error message that states that the application cannot be started due to my access rights missing. I have to

[users] Re: Compatibility Word vs Writer

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 14:30, Dale Erwin wrote: I was collaborating with a man who lives in Naples, Italy to write a dictionary. Each page was in two columns and each page had a heading at the top of the page with the left side having the first word in the left column and right side

[users] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 25 August 2011 18:41, Mike Scott wrote: I'm another with a dislike of web fora. +1 -- Michael -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to

[users] Re: Calc: Restart Page Numbering On Each Sheet

2011-07-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 July 2011 17:33, Olivier Bietzer wrote: Le 31/05/2011 20:10, Harold Fuchs a écrit : OOo 3.2.1 (I know, I know; but as far as I'm concerned it ain't broke so ...) on Vista Home Premium. How do I get Calc to restart its page numbering at the start of each new sheet? Two

[users] Re: English dictionay

2011-07-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 July 2011 03:50, john...@waitrose.com wrote: I am having problems that the dictionary is not working, I have tried re-installing and nothing happens. I have entered words that I know are correct but there must be a couple of million to go. Which english dictionary are you

[users] Re: set cell's value?

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 05:29, James wrote: I want to put an 'x' in Calc cells based on whether another cell's date (totalincoming) is larger than a different cell's value. I started this macro but is there an easier way? How do I set a cell's value? I'd forget the macro and just use 'IF' or

[users] Re: how does the mail list work?- the actual question- update function??

2011-07-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 03 July 2011 21:01, Owen Nieuwenhuyse wrote: The various links on the Wiki to the mail/archive area weren't working. I ended up creating a user ID and logging on. I am not sure whether that was required, but I finally found more mail list info, thanks. I am trying to make the update

[users] Re: how does the mail list work?

2011-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 03 July 2011 04:29, aosd...@gmail.com wrote: I am very frustrated using mailing lists, having used fora for the past few years. While I on the other hand cannot understand why people would use forums when a perfectly good mailing list is available. I cannot find a FAQ that defines

[users] Re: how does the mail list work?

2011-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
a forum organizes topics and responses. I am using gmail on Firefox. Michael Adams refers to a properly threaded mailing list. Is this mailing list properly threaded? A mail client will properly thread emails in a folder if you tell it too. Attached is a PNG showing what I see. The list server

[users] Re: Can OOo open an .xml file?

2011-06-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 01 July 2011 10:27, John Jason Jordan wrote: Google informs me that xml is Microsoft's new open document format. OK, The website referred to by Google (not Google itself) is wrong. XML is eXtensible Markup Language. Microsoft Office's newish (from 2007 onwards) file formats are

[users] Re: Visine for an inserted SVG file

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 18 June 2011 08:09, Rick Jones wrote: I have an SVG file created by rrdtool graph, which when inserted into a document being created in OpenOffice gets what appears to be a not-very transparent red layer over top of it. Through the red I can see what appears to be the grid of the

[users] Re: Openoffice on terminal services

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 17 June 2011 03:03, Yogesh Patil wrote: Hi, I am running openoffice on windows 2k3 terminal services, about 100 users running openoffice, but problem is that soffice.bin consumes lot of memory, and it is loaded in every users memory, also another issues is that it works very

[users] Re: SUMPRODUCT() (just some thoughts, no question)

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 June 2011 00:56, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Maybe this would rather be sent to the Discuss list, but I thought that this could be a hint for other people who didn't know about the SUMPRODUCT() function for some strange reason… Go on Johnny, it's not a tutorial without an example.

[users] Re: Help

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 02 June 2011 15:02, Kenneth Lawler wrote: I downloaded OpenOffice and installed it, but I can't get passed the register page no matter what I do. Suggestions?-- With OpenOffice.org being gifted to the Apache Project. registration on the existing website may be of no future benefit.

[users] Re: What version of MS to save as

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 10:38, Tim Johnson wrote: * Carlos Joel Delgado Pizarro carlosj2...@gmail.com [110301 12:31]: 2011/3/1 Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com I'm soliciting and would welcome any and all (reasonable) comments on what format to save as and anything else that one might

Re: [users] Product Support: Question

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 31 January 2011 17:13, Jordan Grode wrote: Hi. There is a serious problem with your software, Open Office Text Documents, that has been bothering me for months. I cannot find an answer on your website and on your help pages, so I would thankful if you can answer my question. When I

Re: [users] Open default document on startup

2011-01-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 19:42, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 20:13 , Dan Lewis wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:21 +0100, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 13:07 , Mike Scott wrote: Further to my earlier, it appears that what I have done is to configure OOo as though I

Re: [users] Basic help with the Open Office Mathematics program.

2011-01-22 Thread Michael Adams
There are actually two programs built in. Some of these questions seem to relate to one (Calc) and other questions seem to relate to the other program (Math). On Friday 21 January 2011 01:11, FRANCES MICHAEL wrote: Hi there forum members!  I am a mathematics teacher. I am trying to

Re: [users] Re: Repeat in Writer

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 14 January 2011 01:52, . wrote: On 01/13/2011 03:31 AM, Bob Long wrote: Hi ., Using Writer here's what I want to do; Insert a horizontal ruler line Thenrather than having to repeat the same command by selecting Insert- Horizontal Ruler- Plain Try

[users] MOVED Re: [discuss] Headers and Footers

2010-12-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:04, Marius Popa wrote: How to add the contents of Header/Footer for a left/right page because I did not find any space for introducing the text in the mentioned fields. This is probably two seperate issues. Assuming Writer: 1. The page style needs to be set for

Re: [users] Sections

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 29 November 2010 05:03, Harold Fuchs wrote: I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a

Re: [users] how to set x character and lines per page ?

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 27 November 2010 10:38, Victor Stapelberg wrote: Hello I am writing a book and I need to format it in a way as to know how man pages of text I have reached. I need 55 character/spaces x 30 lines per page To set these you need to think slightly outside the box. Mainly because

Re: [users] JPG format

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 19 November 2010 06:34, mansoor wrote: Hi, I have downloaded openoffice and now using it, 2 questions pls   1-in the  spreadsheet printing  I can not see options as those are in the MS office such as print area,page layout ,. As previously explained, these options are under the

Re: [users] [moderated] Cannot Download

2010-11-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 06 December 2007 08:48, Jim, Mediacom wrote: I have Win 98 and am not able to download. What do I need or do in order to download the progam? Something just seems wrong and maybe it is my PC. Any ideas because I have downloaded it on Win XP. Hope I am at the right place! The

Re: [users] Re: Open Office

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 13 November 2010 00:19, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Michael Adams mbad...@paradise.net.nz snip | NOTE: During the install process Windows may spout some bull about the | program being untrusted. This is because companies have to pay Microsoft | to be a Trusted developer

Fwd: RE: [users] Open Office

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Adams
Thanks for the kind words Olivia. -- Forwarded Message -- Michael Adams, Your reply was of great help to me, especially as it was detailed and clear:) Many thanks, Liv Hilton Blaise. Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:17:17 +1300 From: mbad...@paradise.net.nz Subject: Re: [users

Re: [users] Open Office

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 12 November 2010 07:16, Olivia Hilton wrote: OpenOffice, Just a thought, but is there a chance of picking up a virsu from downloading OpenOffice? Yes, definately! But if you treat it in the same way you treat any download then you minimise the risk to an acceptable level. 1.

Re: [users] Pretty much Fully off-topic question on web site design

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 09 November 2010 13:01, Richard Detwiler wrote: I'm looking into software for web page design. I have heard that OpenOffice.org is NOT a particularly good tool. (What are the reasons for this? I'm not very knowledgeable about web sites.) What would be some better applications for

Re: [users] open office 2009

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 09 November 2010 01:25, Bill McCarthy wrote: HelloI installed the program as instructed on CD, but I have never found a way to actually RUN the program since there was NO operational icon created and all that comes up is the original install panel. Bill McCarthy Pittsburgh,

Re: [users] Zoom on page

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 05 November 2010 05:49, Charlie Hunter wrote: Hi, I am writing from Calgary, Canada. I started using open office about a month ago. It has been great. The first few days I asked you guys a couple of questions which set me up nicely and I haven't been stuck since. Until today. I have

Re: [users] Zoom on page

2010-11-05 Thread Michael Adams
Previously CC'd OP On Friday 05 November 2010 05:49, Charlie Hunter wrote: Hi, I am writing from Calgary, Canada. I started using open office about a month ago. It has been great. The first few days I asked you guys a couple of questions which set me up nicely and I haven't been stuck since.

Re: [users] What is the use case for multiple sheets in Calc?

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 10:01, Dotan Cohen wrote: Why does calc support multiple sheets in a single document? What is the use case? I've used it before with seperate monthly sheets and an annual totals sheet. -- Michael

Re: [users] IMPORTANT

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 06:41, Indaba wrote: Dear Sir's, Please remove the following link from the web, you should not have published the said letter without my permission as you have included my email address. Dear Sir That is impossible. Your permission was implicit in sending an

Re: [users] [moderated] Powerpoint Presentations

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 30 October 2010 15:32, william lepage wrote: How do I open ppp power point presentations Start OpenOffice.org Impress Then open your presentation. HTH -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] PROBLEM

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 30 October 2010 16:18, william lepage wrote: WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS OPERATION REQUESTED REQUIRES ELEVATION ? This is windows (Probably Vista?) wanting the permission of an administrator to continue. If this is your home computer, you probably have access to the

Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 14 October 2010 01:06, Ekain Rojo Labaien wrote: I just want to know if endnote 9 is available in open office writer like in Microsoft word 2003, if I can cite in my text and as always endnote create the bibliography. And is it possible to carry all the references that I have

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:05, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: All sorts of things. FUD mainly. My reply on the discuss mailing list. -- Cheers - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] Change path for .~lock.xyz files

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 30 October 2010 03:40, Malte Timmermann wrote: Marcello Romani wrote, On 10/29/10 16:10: Il 29/10/2010 16:03, Sébastien Moretti ha scritto: Hi I would like to change path for .~lock.xyz files. They are currently in $HOME. How to put them in /tmp by example ? Thanks

Re: [users] User defined date field in Base not enforcing format

2010-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 24 October 2010 06:59, AG wrote: Question about Base. In table I defined a field date to take year only (I don't want days or months) for article publications. I selected user defined in the field properties and stipulated . The example shows up as 1903 and the format field

Re: [users] Strange message from the server

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 15 October 2010 00:41, Tanstaafl wrote: ?? don't be dense. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists. http://www.madmanweb.com/archives/0102avoiding_personal_conflict_on_mailing_lists.html IRHTH -- Michael - To

Re: [users] mail

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 15 October 2010 08:39, Ian E. Coaton wrote: i would like to get mail from open office, as i am a new subacriber, If you can read this you are getting mail from the users mailing list. 0ne day, I don't understand this. but only my mail, please help. You have somehow managed to

Re: [users] Linked code, syntax highlighting, frames, and captions

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 15 October 2010 12:51, Thangalin wrote: Hi! I would like to do the following: - Link to an external source code file (for example a SQL script in ASCII format) - Apply syntax highlighting to the imported text - Edit the external source file and have OpenOffice refresh

Re: [users] Upgrading to 3.2.1

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 20:54, Mike Scott wrote: I can quite see your point, but - strictly IMO, of course - it really does cause significant hassle to the list to allow unsubscribed contributions to appear. IMHO the opposite is true. Computer newbies are often these unsubscribed

Re: [users] Fwd: FRENCH SPELLCHECKER/THESAURUS

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 15:52, JOE Conner wrote: 1. How do I delete the French dictionary and thesaurus that automatically installed in my OpenOffice? I need only US language, and not any others. The French, and perhaps Spanish, dictionaries are part of the default dictionary package

[users] Measurements

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
Can anyone else confirm that the UK English version only shows measures from text to polygon (rectangle etc.) edges in Inches when other measures (cm) are selected in Tools - Options. Windows OO.o V2.3.1 -- Michael - To

Re: [users] Upgrading to 3.2.1

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:20, Mike Scott wrote: [2] Of course DEV's are the true Aryans and they already have their own lists, which we can join - but must be suitably obsequious while there. Aah, yes. I recently dared to submit a query on the OOo dev list (not having obtained any

Re: [users] Re: Measurements

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 23:25, John King wrote: Michael Adams wrote: Can anyone else confirm that the UK English version only shows measures from text to polygon (rectangle etc.) edges in Inches when other measures (cm) are selected in Tools - Options. Windows OO.o V2.3.1 I presume

Re: [users] Text wrap in Impress

2010-10-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 10 October 2010 11:43, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:37:18 -0700 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com dijo: I only ever used Impress once several years ago. Now I need to use it again, but I am far from an expert. I placed a PNG graphic on a slide. There is

Re: [users] Mouseover Tooltip of contents of cells too narrow to display full contents

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 09 October 2010 05:50, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-10-07 7:55 PM, Michael Adams wrote: Respectfully, I told you how to do it. No you didn't, and now you've wasted more of our time... Apologies to the list. I intend to discontinue with this issue. It is clear no further benefit

Re: [users] Calc - freezing rows and text on menus

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 October 2010 06:22, AG wrote: Hello all Two (unrelated) questions on using Calc: (1) How do I freeze a row so that scrolling through the rest of the spreadsheet the top/ frozen row remains visible? (2) When mousing over the various menus, the yellow text bubble that

Re: [users] Mouseover Tooltip of contents of cells too narrow to display full contents

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 October 2010 06:38, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, Is there a way to emulate the Excel feature of displaying the contents of a numeric cell that is too narrow to display fully (so it just displays ### signs) in a tooltip when the ### is moused over? With Open Source Software there is

Re: [users] Calc - freezing rows and text on menus

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 October 2010 06:22, AG wrote: Hello all Two (unrelated) questions on using Calc: (1) How do I freeze a row so that scrolling through the rest of the spreadsheet the top/ frozen row remains visible? (2) When mousing over the various menus, the yellow text bubble that

Re: [users] Mouseover Tooltip of contents of cells too narrow to display full contents

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 08 October 2010 08:21, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-10-07 2:10 AM, Michael Adams wrote: With Open Source Software there is always a way. In this case it required a little programming. If you are not up to this yourself you could pay someone to do it for you. As with all good Open

Re: [users] Calc - freezing rows and text on menus

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 October 2010 07:09, Mike Scott wrote: On 06/10/10 18:40, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-10-06 1:34 PM, JOE Conner wrote: 1. Click on the cell below and to the right of the rows and columns you want to freeze. 2. Click WINDOW - FREEZE (or CTRL F) Interesting, didn't know

Re: [users] coding documents in Open Office

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 01 October 2010 07:16, Ľubomír Cerina wrote: hi, is any way to change coding of documents in HTML ? Im suffering with different codes when using Open Office it uses Win-1252, while when editing in Note pad i have options (ansi, win-1250, unicode, utf-8) please help me synchronize

Re: [users] coding documents in Open Office

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 04 October 2010 07:44, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-09-30 21:16:39 skrev Ľubomír Cerina lubomir.cer...@gmail.com: hi, is any way to change coding of documents in HTML ? Im suffering with different codes when using Open Office it uses Win-1252, while when editing in

Re: [users] Harrasment - attn Barry Kahn

2010-10-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 03 October 2010 15:09, Barry Kahn wrote: You d*m b**t**ds. Get the h*ll off my email and stop harassing me or I'll report you to the FTC You have joined, subscribed to, a mailing list. This is run by a server which sends every email addressed to the list, to everybody that is

Re: [users] Abuse - reported

2010-10-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 03 October 2010 15:19, Barry Kahn wrote: Sory Barry - that is really to much.You have been reported. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Open Office Forked!

2010-09-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:22, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: The Document Foundation has released a beta version of Officelibre in order to fork from the possible proprietary way that Oracle is taking Open Office. Unfortunately the Linux version seems to be only an RPM at this

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

2010-09-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:41, Varun Mittal wrote: Hi All, The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org have set up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project - *The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/*

Re: [users] OPEN OFFICE ORG 2.3/3.1/3.2 VERSIONS

2010-09-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 24 September 2010 18:04, Sam Swaminath wrote: ANY USER WHO CAN GUIDE ME!!! SIR, I AM A GENUINE MS WINDOWS XP USER.I HAD ALSO OPEN OFFICE ORG 2.3 WITH ME ALL THESE DAYS. IT WAS WORKING VERY NICELY. SUDDENLY, DUE TO MY MADNESS, I CLICKED ON A 'POPUP' UPDATE OPEN OFFICE. IT

Re: [users] Criticising OP

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 24 September 2010 21:26, Malte Timmermann wrote: Are you sure the problem isn't related to your apparently broken caps-lock key? :o Criticising the OP's writing style, however witty you think your pun may be, adds nothing to solve the problem of the OP. An on-topic reply with a

Re: [users] How to use

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 13 September 2010 16:32, sainath rao wrote: Dear Sir/madam i am a new user for open office pls tell me how to use this software bye sai The best all round way to find this out is to read the getting started guide found here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ HTH - Please only

Re: [users] example code ...

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 11 September 2010 07:15, Albretch Mueller wrote: I couldn't find the following examples of the code snipets page ... Assuming OpenOffice.org Writer is being discussed All the following would be best found in the Manuals Getting Started Guide Writer Guide

Re: [users] opinion

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:17, Daryl Dy wrote: Never before have i been more frustrated by an office suite in my entire life. It is the most half assed program i have ever had to use and i hope that i will never have the displeasure of using it again. A plonker walks into a bikers bar and

Re: [users] Regex Search Replace in Calc Column

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 12 September 2010 04:50, Rich Shepard wrote: Apparently I'm not correctly specifying the regex for accomplishing what I need. A couple of spreadsheet columns have telephone numbers as a string of 10 digits without separating hyphens. I want to search for ?? and

Re: [users] Start blank document (was - Basic basic basic question)

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 September 2010 05:39, Chris Tozer wrote: How do I create a blank document onto which I can write? I can find instructions about using the various editing features and such, which I'm actually guessing I could figure out for myself if only I could create a document on which to

Re: [users] ODM, Templates, Chapters, Oh My!

2010-08-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 31 August 2010 08:48, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: So I have TOC Chapter 1 [included file] .. sections .. Chapter 2 [included file] .. sections .. Chapter 3 [included file] .. sections .. Chapter 4 .. section #1 .. .. section #2 .. .. * bunch of repetitive subsections

Re: [users][OT] - Unsubscribed list posts without subjects

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 27 August 2010 12:34, RA Brown wrote: Replies have been made, though I have not seen any thing from the OP to know if any thing is getting through. He did not hijack the thread, just did not put in a subject, which did not help. :( Preferred practise when an OP has not put a

Re: [users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 27 August 2010 22:11, william drescher wrote: I agree that mess would be way short of what you could do even using tabs. Using spaces (of any type) is a newbie word processing mistake. I can't use WP on this project unfortunately. I shudder to think. I need 150 absolutely

Re: [users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 23 August 2010 23:00, william drescher wrote: [snip] The problem I see with defining a paragraph indent is that I potentially have 150 different paragraphs, which would require 150 different style definitions. Is that 150 different paragraphs OR 150 different styles for paragraphs

Re: [users] Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 23 August 2010 17:43, John Kaufmann wrote: Dumb question, Brian: After inserting a background graphic, presumably the way to edit the watermark is to replace it with another graphic? How do you remove it altogether? To selext a background image behind text can be awkward. it is

Re: [users] Mailing List subscription

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 12:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: [snip] Imagine, there are subscribers with one address to GET messages to read it if there are e.g. in office, but use anoter mail, e.g here business one to send messages. This is what I do. This is similar to what a some other

Re: [users] Save as issue

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 16:36, Владимир Чернецов wrote: Dear sirs, i have some trouble with OpenOffice 3.2 product. When i trying to save any files with . the automatic extention does't work prorertly. For example: i want to save file (name of file in the date format) 11.08.2010.xls

Re: [users] Database Macros

2010-08-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 08 August 2010 17:48, R C wrote: Does any one know how I can get VB commands needed to do the above? I know how to put the lines in my macro; I just don't know what the lines should be to open the tables, fill a new record, and to close the tables with the updates taken into

Re: [users] Why does owriter enforce tables of side width?

2010-08-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 05 August 2010 18:34, Michelle Konzack wrote: Oo is more worse then any other programs... Were you drunk when you wrote this email? This is the worst email i have ever seen from someone calling themselves a consultant. You, as a consultant, above all people need to know that when

Re: [users] Scrivener-like Project with Writer

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 03 August 2010 05:54, Alan Taylor wrote: I've just spent several days surveying the landscape of book-authoring software. There are a number of ongoing efforts, however the only mature project is an Apple-only program called Scrivener. I do not know this product and as such cannot

Re: [users] HELP!! :)

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Adams
The terms of the OpenSource license that Openoffice.org is released under means it can pretty much be used on any computer for any purpose. The restrictions in the license apply more to programmers than users. Documentation on the website is released under a different license - both are

Re: [users] HELP!! :)

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Adams
The terms of the OpenSource license that Openoffice.org is released under means it can pretty much be used on any computer for any purpose. The restrictions in the license apply more to programmers than users. Documentation on the website is released under a different license - both are

Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Adams
Two more things. You have managed to join the users mailing list which is where users come for help with issues they have with the program. Sort of a help each other community - with a usually friendly spirit. What this does mean however is that you will receive all emails sent to this list.

Re: [users] Re: how to go back after clicking on a document internal hyper link

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 19 July 2010 01:29, Gelonida wrote: [snip] I am navigating through an odt document. Some items in the doc are links. When clicking on them I can jump to other chapters or sections of the document. Is there any button / keyboard short cut to navigate back? I'm

Re: [users] Problem with writer

2010-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 17 July 2010 12:49, Jeffrey Needle wrote: [snip] Good question. I did some additional testing. I wrote a quick silly document and copied and pasted it into this message: This line has the standard enter at the end This line has a shift-enter at the end This is the end of the

Re: [users] [Q] Math: handling of Greek symbols in OOo 3.3 ?

2010-07-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 08 July 2010 00:51, Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: Hi, [snip] Please tell us the favored solution. I have no authority to speak on this, but i wonder is this question properly for a mathematician or a typographer?

Re: [users] opening programs as Open Office docs

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 01 July 2010 14:14, Stephen Harris wrote: I am using version 3.2.1 of OpenOffice.org that I just downloaded. My problem I am having is how to set up all my documents so that they open as a Open Office document. I did right click on the documents I wanted to open and went thru the

Re: [users] Re: View HTML source

2010-07-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:38, Michael wrote: [snip] You are correct in that if I save the file as HTML while in OO, I can then close the file, reopen it, and then the view HTML option becomes available. The problem with that is that the HTML code created by OO is a little different than

Re: [users] Re: View HTML source

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 21:26, Vlastimil Ott wrote: Dne St 30. června 2010 06:08:32 John Kaufmann napsal(a): The extension is not the key; you have to tell OO that you are saving as HTML Document (.html) - at which point it will add the extension. Then close the file, open it, and OO will

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Math: how to slash a symbol?

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:09, InBetweener wrote: Never mind. You have already helped a lot. My guess is that OOo Math hasn't this feature at all. :-( I tryed even LyX, and that was able to do what I want, but, at least to me, in a cumbersome way. Would it be useful to go to another group

Re: [users] Re: Re: OpenOffice Math: how to slash a symbol?

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 28 June 2010 14:41, In-Betweener wrote: [snip] Ok, I think it's enough. My next post will try *again* to send an image. If it the newsgroup doesn't allow that (the mos likely), is there a way of sending the .gif to all of you who want to *see* what I'm looking for? The list does

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Math: how to slash a symbol?

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 26 June 2010 00:10, InBetweener wrote: Hi Daniel. Thanks for the reply. You're right xRy means (x,y) in R. But compare the verbosity. xRy is not an MS Word notation. It is a mathematical, well established one (see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/

Re: [users] Fwd: Project on Openoffice

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 26 June 2010 14:16, H.S.Rai wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:26 PM, inderjeet singh inderjeetsing...@gmail.com wrote: snip also i want to do some programming by which i can adjust the amount of contents that is to included in report snip Seems good project. but this list

Re: [users] open office impress

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote: Hello, my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office. I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video

Re: [users] [Apologies - misposted]

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Adams
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Re: [users][OT] Thread Hijacking, @ John, @ Andy - explanation

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 17 June 2010 17:53, John Kaufmann wrote: Andy, sorry that I don't have an immediate answer to your question, but I do have a request: Please don't hijack a thread for a new question; it's much better to start your own thread. John John, when you make a request like this you

Re: [users] open office impress

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote: Hello, my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office. I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video

Re: [users] open office impress

2010-06-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote: Hello, my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office. I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video

Re: [users] Regarding Mathtype support

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 07:30 +0530, Dr. J. S. Lather wrote: Dear Sir/Madam What I feel, the openoffice is not getting popular in scientific community is because it has entirely different formula inserts. If you can get in Openoffice the same kind of support Microsoft Word has provided for

Re: [users] microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:42 +0100, The Attwoods - BT wrote: had microsft office publisher which i used to do birthday cards /invite etc on. computer crashed when got back had openoffice .org i am a techno thicko - how do i convert publisher files to openoffice.org??? Further to Daniels

Re: [users] What if I uninstall OOo - should that fix it.? Previoulsy: Unwanted italics - have to revert to M$ Office for the time being.?

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 15 May 2010 12:56, James Elliott wrote: Thanks for your advice, Jonathon On 14/05/2010 8:09 PM, jonathon wrote: You mentioned that you had installed at least 1 100 fonts. IOW, uninstall your fonts, until you have less than 100. Tests and researches done by Dave and Russell on

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