[users] Re: Question about Open Office

2011-02-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-02-22 5:07 PM, nice2sayhello wrote: Hi, I was thinking about purchasing Quickbooks which says it's intergated with Excel. Can Open Office be integrated with Quickbooks? Well... it *could*, all it would take is a very little effort by Intui, but no, currently, it can't, I'm sorry

Re: [users] Managing Spaces

2011-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-01-31 8:01 AM, Gene Young wrote: To search and replace spaces you must use regular expressions and use [\x0009 ] as the search term for a space and a regular space (spacebar) for the replace with term. Well that's pretty ... nonobvious... What is the reason for this inconsistency?

Re: [users] Re-installation Problems

2010-12-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-12-08 11:42 PM, Mick McCombs wrote: I would try a program called CCleaner from ZDNET.COM. No, its from a company called Piriform: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner It is free but be especially careful to only remove those items that relate to OO. Otherwise you can dork up your whole

Re: [users] Re: Returned mail: User unknown

2010-11-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-30 10:37 AM, Mike Scott wrote: On 30/11/10 14:52, Mick wrote: I got the same return on the same address. I didn't count how many I had but it was several. I believe it is due to the person closing the email account but not unsubscribing. I sent a seperate email to that address

Re: [users] Changing Presentation to Graphic [was changing OSes.]

2010-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-14 12:29 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Also perhaps look at 'PDFCreator' - it's a fake printer driver for windows (which I assume you're using), mainly for producing PDFs (not needed by OOo), but will also convert to your choice of image output, using the 'print' option on any(??)

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

2010-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-12 8:20 AM, Malte Timmermann wrote: snip So just some explanation how the process works - as long as you only use OOo, your configuration can work for you. But once you start using some other ODF processing tools, be prepared that such a configuration can be problematic... Ok,

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 3.2 Printer Administration?

2010-11-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-12 8:37 AM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I typed in Printer Administration in the help option of OOo 64-bit Debain 3.2.1. I got nothing. For whatever reasons you got answers and I did not, it is not the issue at this time. Debian is notorious for 'changing' things and

Re: [users] Partly off-topic question on web site design

2010-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-08 7:18 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 11/08/10 19:01, 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.)

Re: [users] Presentation query

2010-11-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-05 2:55 AM, Mike Scott wrote: On 04/11/2010 20:11, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-11-03 11:09 AM, squareyes wrote: Hi all, I have Open office 3.2 installed on ubuntu 10.04, my query is , when opening a .pps presentation it goes staight into a slide show, is there any way I can set it so

Re: [users] Unsub

2010-11-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-03 3:29 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: Pls unsubscribe me from all OO mailings. We, as users, can't do that for you. Instructions for how to do it are included in most messages that are sent out via the list server. And thus begins another public unsub saga... Please, everyone, when you

Re: [users] Presentation query

2010-11-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-03 11:09 AM, squareyes wrote: Hi all, I have Open office 3.2 installed on ubuntu 10.04, my query is , when opening a .pps presentation it goes staight into a slide show, is there any way I can set it so that it will not go to the slide show without my actually telling it? Change

Re: [users] Upgrade 3.1.1 to 3.2.1 (Fedora)

2010-11-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-02 1:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: 3) I have a ton of personal settings and extensions in ~/.openoffice.org. Are there any issues with 3.2.1? The biggest reason for me not to upgrade was the loss of the colored document icons (they are all greyscale in 3.2.1)... I understand this

Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer

2010-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-11-01 11:33 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: Firefox 4 is still in beta. The final release will not be until next year. I recommend going back to the latest stable release. I am using 3.5.9 Eh? Latest stable is 3.6.12...

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

2010-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-30 9:24 AM, Mike Scott wrote: If a shared file system is 'playing tricks', it sounds like a candidate for being fixed. Breaking something else as a workaround for a broken system doesn't sound to me like a terribly good idea. Windows provides the ability to have very fine-grained

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

2010-11-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-30 5:53 PM, JOE Conner wrote: It *used* to have a problem allowing multiple people to edit a file simultaneously. This problem was *real* and desperately needed fixing. Fine - but when fixing things like this, it is always best to provide a fall-back to the old method so as to avoid

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

2010-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-29 5:24 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Did you open a bug report with an appropriate description (ie, unable to open a document read-only in a directory to which you cannot write... Hard to argue with not able to open a document for edit in a directory you cannot write). It

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

2010-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-30 8:12 AM, SŽof MORETTI wrote: But with the not able to open a document for edit in a directory you cannot write problem, or in our case a shared filesystem that plays tricks, a way to specify another place for the lock file could be great. Precisely... and if all network users

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

2010-10-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-29 5:20 PM, JOE Conner wrote: Lock files are created to prevent two or more different users from editing the same file at the same time, and interfering with each other's edits. I know that - but OOo obviously used to determine this differently, because it *used* to work fine. It

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

2010-10-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-29 10:40 AM, Malte Timmermann wrote: Marcello Romani wrote, On 10/29/10 16:10: Il 29/10/2010 16:03, Sébastien Moretti ha scritto: I would like to change path for .~lock.xyz files. They are currently in $HOME. How to put them in /tmp by example ? I think they're created in the

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

2010-10-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-28 3:00 PM, Ingrid Halama wrote: In contrary go-oo and LibreOffice have choosen a license politics that make it impossible to take their code and integrate it into OpenOffice.org. Crap-crud. Sun/Oracle are the ones with the license problems/limitations. So if you contribute code

Re: [users] Fwd: BIG PROBLEM IN USING OPENOFFICE

2010-10-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-28 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Suddenly a pop up appeared that 'OpenOffice.org 3.1 is available for updating. I clicked and installed the same. But it is not opening my files though it does the recovery. Unfortunately I am not able to use the old version i.e. 2.3 as this has

Re: [users] Re: Strange message from the server

2010-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-16 4:45 PM, Twayne wrote: In news:4cb74dab.7090...@libertytrek.org, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org typed: Sorry, when someone is being dense, I just say it... And well you should. But not using that site, IMO, as it doesn't have a very good reputation. Michael is the one who

Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files

2010-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-14 10:43 PM, NoOp wrote: Actually those settings are changed from OOo... Only during the installation process. There is no way to manage file associations from OOo once it is installed... I know if there was I wouldn't have made the request for a proper File Associations Manager

Re: [users] Re: pps slide show applications

2010-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-14 7:24 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: OO doesn't have a good way to associate file extensions. There should be a program preference setting to associate either all compatible file extensions or selected file extensions to OO. To me, the fact that is doesn't exist is is semi-major

Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files

2010-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-15 9:56 AM, James Wilde wrote: So what does: Properties Load/Save Microsoft Office do if one clicks Load and/or Save beside WinWord? All that does is define the default file format... So, in your example, if I create a new Text document from within Openoffice, it would create

Re: [users] Strange message from the server

2010-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-14 1:21 AM, jonathon wrote: On 10/13/2010 06:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: So whitelist the OOo sender so they won;t be blocked... :) Do you want to explain how to whitelist an address on a mail-server that you don't control, without running afoul of various civil and criminal laws

Re: [users] Strange message from the server

2010-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-14 1:36 PM, Michael Adams wrote: 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 Sorry, when someone is being dense, I just say

Re: [users] Strange message from the server

2010-10-13 Thread Tanstaafl
Totally normal. These can happen when there are temporary outages somewhere between you and their server when they are trying to send you a message. It could be indicative of a problem on your end if you are hosting your own email... On 2010-10-13 1:49 PM, James Wilde wrote: I received the

Re: [users] Strange message from the server

2010-10-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-13 2:15 PM, James Wilde wrote: Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 Your message seems to be Spam and WILL NOT be delivered. ID: b7b15530-cb25-11df-9a0c-005056a12c00 So whitelist the OOo sender so they won;t be blocked... :)

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

2010-10-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-07 7:55 PM, Michael Adams wrote: 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

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

2010-10-07 Thread Tanstaafl
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 Source projects you should then contribute this back to

Re: [users] pps slide show applications

2010-10-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On Wed, 6 October, 2010 20:47:14, bpapwo...@aol.com bpapwo...@aol.com said: On 2010-10-07 3:35 PM, Abdul Hai wrote: Is it possible to use Open Office to read pps e-mail attachments? That would be useful as many photos are sent in that presentation format yet it is a MSFT Office application

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

2010-10-06 Thread Tanstaafl
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? - To unsubscribe,

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

2010-10-06 Thread Tanstaafl
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 you could do it this way. Thanks!

Re: [users] Re: registering

2010-09-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-29 11:09 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Malcolm Moore st-malcolm.mo...@whsg.info wrote in message news:20100929142945.e230c...@mail.whsg.info... We moved to go-oo because it doesn't have the registration feature/bug ;-) Is go-oo going to stay that way now we have libreoffice or are

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

2010-09-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-28 6:57 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 21:32 +1200, Michael Adams wrote: 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

Re: [users] OOo Icons

2010-09-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/25/2010 4:03 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: I have the latest (3.2.1, is that the latest?) OOo on Vista Home Premium and on Win XP Pro. The icons are *not* greyscale, they are coloured. What am I missing, please. Someone must have fixed them for you.

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

2010-09-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-24 8:11 AM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: The problem I see it that you got a POP_UP asking you to update/upgrade I have never seen a pop-up asking me to update OOo, so that may be the key to the problem. The default for new installs is Tools Options OpenOffice.org Online

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

2010-09-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-24 2:04 AM, Sam Swaminath wrote: 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 ASKED ME TO DOWNLOAD 3.1 VERSION. I DID SO. IT

Re: [users] Multipart/Related Content-type

2010-09-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-24 4:05 AM, Julien CHEVALIER wrote: My problem is that the file comes from outisde OO With 3.1 when I was opening it everything was going well. With 3.2 the file opening fails. Yep, confirms this is deut to the wise decision to remove the ability to associate Microsoft Office files

[users] Re: [branding] [Branding Guideline] - how to finalize it?

2010-09-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-23 2:40 PM, Ismaël Grammenidis wrote: I can understand the frustration, and you do have a point. But this is not the right topic for this discussion. We need to prioritise certain things. The logo is the top priority at this point. The logo. Right. Having the right logo is really

Re: [users] Running OpenOffice On a Remote System

2010-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-16 3:27 PM, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: Have you tried this site for information: http://www.ltsp.org/? I don't want a thin client, but thanks. I'm almost certain you can run a remote session on an LTSP server from a windows machine using the free NX client for windows. In

Re: [users] Re: impress and live video feed

2010-09-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-08 3:04 AM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 07/09/2010 16:54, Tanstaafl wrote: On 09/05/2010 11:09 PM, Mike Scott wrote: I'm wondering about creating a presentation, actually for a church service. This will have slides for song words etc in the usual way. But part way

Re: [users] Re: impress and live video feed

2010-09-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-06 9:43 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 09/05/2010 11:09 PM, Mike Scott wrote: I'm wondering about creating a presentation, actually for a church service. This will have slides for song words etc in the usual way. But part way through, it would be advantageous to have a

Re: [users] Showing formatting codes

2010-08-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-31 4:16 AM, Séamas Ó Brógáin s...@iol.ie wrote: Jonathon wrote: Whilst it can be provided, it won't do you the slightest bit of good. This is simply due to the different philosophy in how a word processor should be written. I don’t understand. If it can be provided, how do you

Re: [users] Running OpenOffice On a Remote System

2010-08-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-16 11:13 AM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Is there any setup (other than Ulteo) out there that lets me keep OpenOffice on a server somewhere and run it from another computer, with the files and fonts and so on stored on the same server the program is

Re: [users] [OT moderated discussion ad nauseum] Re: [moderated]

2010-08-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-27 3:04 AM, Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: That said, OOo is being migrated to a new infrastructure. Take a look here: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home and join in if you're interested in what can be made better. There's even a section on Mailing Lists

Re: [users] [OT moderated discussion ad nauseum] Re: [moderated]

2010-08-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-27 2:24 PM, Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: On 08/27/2010 07:25 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Why in $deity's_name go to all the toruble to migrate to a different but still PROPRIETARY list manager?!?! Please,for criminy's sake, just migrate to mailman and be done with it. The OOo

Re: [users] convert or copy calc file to odt table

2010-08-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-08 10:49 PM, David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net wrote: I have an excel file that I have converted to a calc file. It contains membership data: names, addresses, email addresses etc. There are no formulas. I'd like to have this data in a table in an odt file. I do not know how

Re: [users] Thanx for the download...

2010-08-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-08-01 5:59 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: When you install OOo, it will make itself the default application for Microsoft Office files (there's a check box you have to select IIRC). Failing that, just change the file associations for those file types, by following these

Re: [users] get values to the right

2010-07-31 Thread Tanstaafl
Wade Smart wrote: You fingered it Joe. I checked the column and its formated as date. I copied the number over to a new column formatted as text and it works great. Question: how do you reformat as text without loosing all the data? Select the cells, 'Copy', reformat cells as desired,

Re: [users] Why register Db?

2010-07-30 Thread Tanstaafl
webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Today was the first time anyone has ever given me these instructions, the ones listed on the site. How long have I been asking for this kind of help? Feb 2010 or earlier? This is the *generic* ooo-users list. If you want specific instructions for a specif

Re: [users] OxygenOffice Professional 3.2.1 - Extended, open and free

2010-07-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-07-02 3:43 AM, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote: Hi! https://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop/files/Binary-Windows32bit/3.2.1.40/ http://ooo.itc.hu/oxygenoffice/download/3.2.1.40/win32/ Can anyone say whether or not OxygenOffice 'fixed' the huge gaff regarding the black and white icons in

Re: [users] opening programs as Open Office docs

2010-07-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-07-02 4:57 AM, Michael Adams wrote: 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

Re: [users] opening programs as Open Office docs

2010-07-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-07-04 3:41 PM, upscope wrote: On Sunday, July 04, 2010 12:30:23 pm Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-07-02 4:57 AM, Michael Adams wrote: 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

Re: [users] opening programs as Open Office docs

2010-07-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-07-04 3:45 PM, Christopher Oldcorn wrote: MS Office does now have the option to save in the odt format It is so helplessly broken and unusable except for the simplest of documents that I fail to see the point of even mentioning it.

Re: [users] Re: Engineering Notation update

2010-06-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-29 4:01 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/29/2010 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-29 1:08 PM, JOE Conner wrote: I see 134 votes for this at the moment. How many votes is required for implementation work? Only 5,234... 5,930 [must match the bug report number] I stand corrected

Re: [users] Re: Engineering Notation update

2010-06-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-29 1:08 PM, JOE Conner wrote: On 6/29/2010 2:35 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Dean, Tom, everyone interesting in Engineering Notation, Please remember at least to vote for the official bug report: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 I see 134 votes for this at

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-16 5:49 AM, Andrew Fisk wrote: When you get more than 80% full, you need to keep it defraged or it gives you problems. format the drive ext-3 and http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/03/mount-ext2-or-ext3-partition-in-windows.html Because:

[users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-13 5:19 PM, David B Teague wrote: On 6/13/2010 2:33 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: A half *hour*??? Just to *install* it??? On your system, the install should take considerably less than 5 minutes... Are you installing it over an internet connection? That's the only way I can see

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-13 9:24 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: BY the Way, do anyone of you know any free Defrag software that works WELL with a NTFS 1 TB USB drive - one partition. The two I have tried will not show the standard boxes they show when defraging the internal smaller drives on my

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-14 12:04 PM, David B Teague wrote: Your discourse here will discourage response on this list. Response both ways is the reason for the list. So please drop this thread, and be a bit more careful in your responses. I have an even better idea David... why don't *you* drop this thread,

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-14 4:30 PM, David B Teague wrote: I iterate: This discourse here discourage responses on this list. So why do you continue to engage me? Response both ways is the reason for the list. Sorry, I though it was for interaction among adults... Your continuation of this thread

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-14 4:58 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: The more this goes on, Tanstaafl, the more I wonder, What is it this guy has to prove and why does he have to always have the last word and insult others? I have yet to see David Teague call names, but continually see you resort to ad hominem

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-13 2:23 PM, David B Teague wrote: I run an older 1.6 GHZ Sempron 2.8 with 1 GB Ram, and a not-very-fast backplane. I just installed OO.0 3.2.1 and it took less than a half hour, consistent with earlier versions. I saw other responses with suggestions for cleaning up your system

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-10 7:33 PM, Twayne wrote: In news:4c094ddd.70...@silkroadconsultants.co.uk, Rob Clement r...@silkroadconsultants.co.uk typed: Is it just my machine AMD 2.0 Ghz running windows Vista seems to take a very long time installing Ooo 3.2.1. Well, yes, it is, and err, no, it is not. You

[users] Re: [releases] Nominating issue 112141 as stopper for 3.2.2

2010-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 8:59 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Quite frankly, if 63 votes for this issue in less than *four days* 105 votes in 5 days... now I *know* this has to be a record. The issue with the next highest votes - 108 - has been open for almost a year, and the one with the most votes - 468 - has been

Re: [users] Calc - real relative addressing

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-08 6:05 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 06:55 08/06/2010 -0400, William Drescher wrote: How can I write the formula so that it uses = 1_cell_to_the_left - (4_cells_to_the_left + 3_cells_to_the_left + 2_cell_to_the_left)/3) Taking your example of the result being in cell I2, enter:

[users] Re: [releases] Nominating issue 112141 as stopper for 3.2.2

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 8:40 AM, Stefan Taxhet (sonews) wrote: You are a close follower of the releases list. So you will have seen that the discussion about the mime-type icons and related elements came up earlier here. Nope, never saw any such thing, but I'm not sure I'd classify myself as 'a close

[users] Re: [releases] Nominating issue 112141 as stopper for 3.2.2

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 8:59 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Quite frankly, if 63 votes for this issue in less than *four days* And its now up to 75 votes, at just an hour over 4 days... maybe this is a record of some kind? Oh - this is the issue to bring back the colored icons

Re: [users] Re: [releases] Nominating issue 112141 as stopper for 3.2.2

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 3:31 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/06/09 12:39 PM Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/06/09 12:20 PM Tanstaafl wrote: Oh - this is the issue to bring back the colored icons... Please file an issue for your comment What is up with the 'ODF' label on NON-ODF MICROSOFT file formats

Re: [users] Calc - real relative addressing

2010-06-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-08 6:55 AM, william drescher wrote: I am computing a moving average and comparing it to a current value (looking at the current weights of dogs compared to their average over the prior 3 months). So my cell formula is (in column I): =h2 - ((e2 + f2 + g2)/3) Each month I insert a

Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1

2010-06-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-05 4:01 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/06/05 1:09 PM RA Brown wrote: Rob Clement wrote: Are the new icons for the files created by OOo 3.2.1 simply confusing. For example I have some .doc files sent by fiends and the icon clearly shows the letters ODF on the icon. Should that

Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1

2010-06-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-07 9:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: 1. All of the MS file icons are greyscale, and very plain - BAD 2. All of the ODF icons are the same color - *really* BAD 3. Uninstalling OOo 3.2.1 and reinstalling 3.2.0 does *not* restore the old icons - really, really, *really* BAD 4. One

Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1

2010-06-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-07 11:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: 3. Uninstalling OOo 3.2.1 and reinstalling 3.2.0 does *not* restore the old icons - really, really, *really* BAD More whackiness... .ppt and .odp files *do* have the old/original icons... but *only* the presentation files. *Some* of the shortcuts to MS

[users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1

2010-06-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-07 11:42 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: I use MacBook for my WiFi access. I have .docx, .doc and .ppt files on my hard drive. I am also using OOo 3.2.1. While these are all associated with OOo 3.2.1, none of them have any of the OOo icons. Do you have MS Office for Mac installed? Icons

Re: [users] Re: new icons for OOo 3.2.1

2010-06-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-07 1:29 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: Please file a bug report. This seems to be a Windows problem. On Macs the MS files are plain white(which is bad) and do not have the ODF icon(which is good). Someone has already filed a bug for bringing back the colors, and that's really all I want

Re: [users] Quicken versus OOo spreadsheet

2010-06-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-01 11:20 PM, WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: Maybe it's off topic, I use Money Manager Ex to manage my financial accounts. Don't forget about GNUCash... http://www.gnucash.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] Re: downloading openoffice

2010-06-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-02 1:08 PM, Twayne wrote: If you have windows and downloaded the right version of the program (e.g. for windows) it should have create a desktop icon folder with all the files necessary for intsallation in it. That's where you do the install from. If it\'s not on the desktop,

Re: [users] Re: downloading openoffice

2010-06-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-02 4:34 PM, Gene Young wrote: On 6/2/2010 2:45 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: I do know, however, that for some bizarre reason Firefox keeps changing the Downloads folder to My Documents Downloads (I like my downloads to go to the desktop)... That is because that is the default setting

Re: [users] Open Office won't open.

2010-05-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-31 6:25 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: PS -- taskmaster = Task Manager (via Ctrl-Alt-Del), Processes tab. Find and end any soffice.bin process, which is easiest to do from a list sorted in alpha order. There may be soffice.exe and other OOo processes, but they should all close when the

Re: [users] download failure

2010-05-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-30 5:45 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, your download timed out even on a broadband connection, so it definitely sounds as if you need a download manager. One (free) possibility I found by searching says it supports Win7 and can resume broken sessions, among other things. I haven't

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-26 4:29 PM, James Knott wrote: What other office suite does that? How many other (free) office suites are there on windows that can work with all of Microsoft's office file formats? Since it's the operating system that calls an app when a file is clicked, why should apps manage

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-25 7:20 PM, NoOp wrote: On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: I didn't see that on some PCs where MS Office had been installed but removed prior to installing OO. I need an after installation option. Long read... but looks like it's being worked on:

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-25 8:58 PM, Varun Mittal wrote: Right Click on sa a doc file + open with + select writer + tick the checkbox at bottom saying make the selected application as default for handling this kind of file This was you can make the OOO handling of MS files default. This only works

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-26 10:28 AM, O. Felka wrote: Tanstaafl schrieb: On 2010-05-25 7:20 PM, NoOp wrote: Bah... I made a proper request for a proper File Association Manager long before that post: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77257 This is a ridiculous situation, but apparently

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-26 11:37 AM, jomali wrote: snip Let me understand your point of view. You think that developers, most of whom probably work in a *nix environment, to spend precious resources to develop functionality that only affects the windows environment and is already provided by the Windows

Re: [users] Re: Force MS Office file type to be associated to OpenOffice

2010-05-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-26 3:06 PM, jomali wrote: Since I worked in Windows for many years before moving to a sane OS, and managed file associations regularly, I know that Windows does provide resources for associating file extensions with the programs to open them. What functionality does Windows lack

Re: [users] Creating PDFs - PDF icon no longer working.?

2010-05-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-23 6:02 AM, David B Teague wrote: I didn't know about the PDF icon, I always use the file menu's export to PDF. I just tried both and both work here, with XP Pro SP3 on an old home brew computer. You might try: 1. View Toolbars Customize 2. Select 'Standard' toolbar if it isn't

Re: [users] OOo QA website

2010-05-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-17 10:24 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: The OOo bugtracker is terrible: the bug summary is not in the page header, search results for vi do not return bugs with vi in the summary, when filing bugs marking the appropriate version is almost impossible. I am going to write to the devs with

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-14 4:13 AM, Thomas Steel wrote: Dear Barbara: Thank you for yours. You seem to have missed my reply to you on 10 May under 'Incomprehensible Error Message'. You had given me a simple sequence, ending 'Click Repair'. I followed the sequence, but on clicking Repair, got: 'The feature

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-14 7:32 AM, Thomas Steel wrote: -- From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:18 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel On 2010-05-14 4:13 AM, Thomas

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/HairyFucherGuy

2010-05-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-12 4:25 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 11 May 2010 12:17, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2010-05-11 3:15 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: E-mail was designed for conversations. The clue is in the name: mail. Harold, would you *please* stop initiating your reply *inside

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/HairyFucherGuy

2010-05-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-11 3:15 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: E-mail was designed for conversations. The clue is in the name: mail. Harold, would you *please* stop initiating your reply *inside* the quoted text of the person you are replying to? So, what was the point of adding the 'FreeLunchGuy' to the subject?

Re: [users] Re: OT: What is Bottom Posting?/

2010-05-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-11 11:50 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/05/11 5:17 AM Tanstaafl wrote: So, what was the point of adding the 'FreeLunchGuy' to the subject? Your inane way of trying to insult me? Removed you insulting subject line. Harry did not initiate it. The poster he replied to did. You

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 3:49 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Bottom posting is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to which you are replying. Top posting is placing your text above (on top of) the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about the sanctity of the one and the

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 4:42 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 10 May 2010 09:32, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: bg: This is hardly rocket science. Posts are more easily and conveniently absorbed by the reader when they are arranged in their chronological order, oldest at the top, newest at the bottom.

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 2:53 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.05.10 13:44 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote: I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had any storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. If you top posted it meant the reader could hit the

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 1:44 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann kaufm...@nb.net wrote: snip Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content. Then Microsoft introduced Outlook, with default behavior of posting above a fully-quoted message, and top-posting soon became

Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users] incomprehensible error message)

2010-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-10 3:06 PM, Erling Larsen wrote: Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom posting. You will never come to an agreement.. Sorry, I thought this was the discuss list (again), where this kind of thing is allowed... I actually kind of enjoy debating this

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