Re: [users] The best way to answer questions on this list

2006-04-01 Thread richard perry
CP: Well put and timely. Sometimes this Forum gets messy. I for one, check all the posts, learn alot don't post unless I can't find an answer here or in the many help places available in Open Office (there are dozens!). Anyway, please keep up the good work you several others do in this

Re: [users] export as Word Doc - button?

2006-03-20 Thread richard perry
Thanks grsingleton: the document Open Office.org Writer for Microsoft Word Users is beautifully prepared and well laid out. On 3/19/06, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 08:32 +1100, Manfred Bartz wrote: Wouldn't it be nice to have an export as Word Doc -

Re: [users] An example of a fake Microsoft Get the Facts?

2006-03-18 Thread richard perry
Fred: Well Done! I'm archiving this one. On 3/19/06, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This web page is supposed to be an account of a company that switched from OpenOffice to Microsoft office http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/business/casestudies/linkpage4212.asp Fast growing

[users] Skins in Mozilla

2006-03-18 Thread richard perry
Thanks! ...to the Poster who recommended Gmail Skins (Sorry, I didn't save your posting to respond in your thread). Anyway, anyone using Mozilla Firefox ... this is a very neat extension (Go to Firefox and search extension Gmail Skins). My Gmail screen is clean as a whistle.Also, anyone

[users] OOPS!

2006-03-18 Thread richard perry
RE: Gmail Firefox. I posted a message to the wrong Forum. Sorry. Still luv y'all.

Re: [users] Anyone else getting MAILER-DAEMON messages from sbns.net?

2006-03-17 Thread richard perry
Hi, Henrik. As one who got several of these sbns.net warnings last night, after asking one question in this Forum, I have no clue what you are saying RE: unsubscribing the poster, (or unsubscribing me, the recipient?). All e-mails sent recieved to/from this Forum got the same mailer

[users] JAVA Open Office

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
I tried to open OO Wizards got the following error: OO requires JRE. Selected JRE is defective; select another version or install a new JRE. I have J2SE RE/Update 6 installed, which is the latest version and haven't had any previous problems with Java. Any advice? Thanks.

Re: [users] JAVA Open Office

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
, I am ecstatic at how stupid I am. Thanks! On 3/16/06, Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday March 16 2006 04:36 pm, richard perry wrote: I tried to open OO Wizards got the following error: OO requires JRE. Selected JRE is defective; select another version or install a new JRE

Re: [users] Anyone else getting MAILER-DAEMON messages from sbns.net?

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
Yes, me too -- two of them in response to a help message in this Forum. Thanks for sending to abuse at his upstream. Frankly, I still don't know what it all means, nor how you could do the upstream thingy. On 3/16/06, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 18:33

[users] Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
-- Forwarded message -- From: richard perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:51:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [users] Anyone else getting MAILER-DAEMON messages from sbns.net? Yes, me too -- two of them in response to a help message in this Forum. Thanks for sending

[users] JAVA OOo Writer Wizards

2006-03-16 Thread Richard Perry
I tried to open the Wizards in Open Office Writer got the following Error: OO requires JRE. Selected JRE is defective, select another version or install new JRE. I have J2SE RE-Update 6 installed, which is the latest version. I've had no previous problems with Java. Please advise thanks.

Re: [users] JAVA OOo Writer Wizards

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
Disregard this, folks. It has been answered fixed. I had sent this mesg. from a non-member address. Thanx. On 3/16/06, Richard Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to open the Wizards in Open Office Writer got the following Error: OO requires JRE. Selected JRE is defective, select

Re: [users] [moderated]

2006-03-16 Thread richard perry
I'm pretty sure you have to download the whole program, BUT, after that you can install just one part of it, like just Writer. Am I correct, anyone? RE: PDF -- I have no problems sending PDF documents directly from OO Writer (Filesend as PDFexport... then, your SMTP takes over to send the

Re: [users] [eBay Sales with OpenOffice.org]

2005-12-26 Thread richard perry
, thanks for enlightening us. Perhaps you will be delighted at the lawyerly discourse from the next respondent. In the spirit of the season ... Bless us, every one. P.S. Perfectly Legal is an oxymoron. On 12/26/05, Caleb Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richard perry wrote: You are correct

Re: [users] [eBay Sales with OpenOffice.org]

2005-12-26 Thread richard perry
program, such that one hates to see anybody take advantage of it. Obviously, many of you folks do too. Perhaps these comments should be included as a topic in FAQ in Open Office, for I'm sure this issue will pop up again. Richard Perry On 12/26/05, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, While

Re: [users] [eBay Sales with OpenOffice.org]

2005-12-25 Thread richard perry
You are correct. It is a Free Open Source Program they shouldn't, but there are scammers in this world. Please stay concerned. Just another appreciative user. Richard Perry On 12/24/05, Richard Harpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern, While browsing eBay I had noticed a very

Fwd: [users] Happy Birthday OOo -- And Thanks A Trillion!!

2005-10-22 Thread richard perry
Ditto on James Greenidge's comments! Could not have said it better. Thanks sincerely, Richard Perry -- Forwarded message -- From: James Greenidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 15, 2005 6:53 AM Subject: [users] Happy Birthday OOo -- And Thanks A Trillion!! To: users

Re: [users] Printer Setup

2005-07-26 Thread richard perry
-- -Original Message- From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 24, 2005 8:46 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Printer Setup Hi Richard, On Saturday 23 July 2005 13:15, richard perry wrote: How does one include Open Office in the Printer Options? I always get

Re: [users] Printer Setup

2005-07-26 Thread richard perry
To: users@openoffice.org Cc: richard perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Printer Setup On Monday 25 July 2005 07:42, richard perry wrote: To CP Hennessy: Thanks for getting back. Got busy on other stuff this weekend couldn't get back to you. Once I get it, I won't have to ask again. I

Re: [users] Printer Setup

2005-07-25 Thread richard perry
, richard perry wrote: How does one include Open Office in the Printer Options? I always get Wordpad, WordPerfect, and some other options when I try to print. I never see Open Office as a Print Option. My default settings are Open Office, regarding word processing, calc, etc. Isn't this set

[users] Printer Setup

2005-07-23 Thread richard perry
How does one include Open Office in the Printer Options? I always get Wordpad, WordPerfect, and some other options when I try to print. I never see Open Office as a Print Option. My default settings are Open Office, regarding word processing, calc, etc. Isn't this set up via the Word

[users] OOo Writer MS Word Conversion

2005-07-06 Thread richard perry
Thanks! ...to all who helped me with my problems sending/receiving Word documents in OOo 2 this past week, or so. I didn't have these conversion problems with OOo 1.1.4, so that's what concerned me. For the benefit of anyone who experiences this problem, here's what I did: I re-installed OOo

Re: [users] Doucment Icon.?

2005-06-28 Thread richard perry
Paul, thank you for your perspective. I'm going to try a post-installation correction. -Original Message- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 26, 2005 11:27 PM To: users@openoffice.org, richard perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? I've gone back through

Re: [users] Doucment Icon.?

2005-06-28 Thread richard perry
Paul, thank you for your perspective. I'm going to try a post-installation correction. -Original Message- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 26, 2005 11:27 PM To: users@openoffice.org, richard perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? I've gone back through

Re: [users] font (maybe) problem

2005-06-28 Thread richard perry
Robert, this is a whole 'nother perspective for me. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Robert Volke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 27, 2005 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] font (maybe) problem If you look in this document on page 8

Re: [users] Doucment Icon.?

2005-06-28 Thread richard perry
Dan, again thanks for your effort perspective here. -Original Message- From: Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 27, 2005 7:26 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? Bottom Post On Monday 27 June 2005 12:13 am, Naomi Kramer wrote: I suspect that the main

Re: [users] Basic Problem-WORD.DOC Conversions

2005-06-26 Thread richard perry
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 11:42 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2005 10:00 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:48 +0100, David wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:28 -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: richard perry wrote: Hope someone can

Re: [users] Basic Problem-WORD.DOC Conversions

2005-06-26 Thread richard perry
, 2005-06-25 at 15:48 +0100, David wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:28 -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: richard perry wrote: Hope someone can help me with what should be very basic (but not for me, right now). I did not have this problem with the previous (1.14

Re: [users] Basic Problem-WORD.DOC Conversions

2005-06-26 Thread richard perry
wrote: richard perry wrote: Hope someone can help me with what should be very basic (but not for me, right now). I did not have this problem with the previous (1.14) OOo version. I'm trying to use 2.0 beta. For a couple months now I've been monitoring this Forum, but haven't found

Re: [users] Doucment Icon.?

2005-06-26 Thread richard perry
Hello, Everyone on our Forum, regarding Anthony's Post. Thanks, Dan, for trying to answer his problem, but I'm not sure the WORD/OOo interchangeability problems are being addressed. Does anyone see the similarities to my problem/post a couple days ago? ... i.e. the conversion factors from

[users] Basic Problem-WORD.DOC Conversions

2005-06-24 Thread richard perry
Hope someone can help me with what should be very basic (but not for me, right now). I did not have this problem with the previous (1.14) OOo version. I'm trying to use 2.0 beta. For a couple months now I've been monitoring this Forum, but haven't found (or recognized) an answer, so here