RE: [users] AMD64 builds?

2005-06-06 Thread Tim Lomas
Hi. For information, I am running OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 very happily on Windows XP Home running on an AMD 64 ... installed from the standard Windows binary. Regards, Tim Lomas Caterham Computing www.caterhamcomputing.co.uk -Original Message- From: Robert Mercer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Crash report crashes...

2005-06-06 Thread ECJB
When submitting a crash report, the "crashrep.exe" program itself crashes. - Eric. Windoze XP SP2, 512 MB DDR RAM, 2GB permanent swap file, 80/20/120 GB hard drives (last one is external USB). Running a lot of stuff on my machine (servers, etc) -- Normal does not, and can not, exist. The

[users] request for information

2005-06-06 Thread mark
Dear Sir/Madam, First of all. I am 75 years old pensioner.The main reason to have and to use openoffice is to write papers to friends,institutions and could be sometimes to journals. Frankly speeking not to many.Nevertheless I wish to know how to operate openoffice program,icons and so

[users] request for information

2005-06-06 Thread mark
Dear Sir/Madam, First of all. I am 75 years old pensioner.The main reason to have and to use openoffice is to write papers to friends,institutions and could be sometimes to journals. Frankly speeking not to many.Nevertheless I wish to know how to operate openoffice program,icons and so

[users] file type

2005-06-06 Thread chien kh
normally the open office(text) is save in .sxw file type as default can i make the default file type as .doc ? if can how ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [users] request for information

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 06 June 2005 04:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, First of all. I am 75 years old pensioner.The main reason to have and to use openoffice is to write papers to friends,institutions and could be sometimes to journals. Frankly speeking not to many.Nevertheless I wish

Re: [users] file type

2005-06-06 Thread M Nagashree
May be you can set them here: Tools - Options - Load/save - General You will have something like Default file format: Under Document type - choose Text document and under Always Save as - Microsoft word. Thanks and Regards, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/05 10:52 AM normally

Re: [users] Re: AMD64 builds?

2005-06-06 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 20:35 -0700, Max G. Kluth wrote: By the time the terse and almost rude lecture is written, a simple Yes or No would have gotten a long way. Or no answer at all, since there are hundreds of others who might have more time and patience. Isn't it a beautiful world where some

Re: [users] Re: AMD64 builds?

2005-06-06 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 20:22 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 05 June 2005 07:35 pm, Max G. Kluth wrote: By the time the terse and almost rude lecture is written, a simple Yes or No would have gotten a long way. Or no answer at all, since there are hundreds of others who might have more

[users] [moderated]Using OpenOffice System

2005-06-06 Thread mahogany2
I would very much appreciate your telling me how, having downloaded the programme and unzipped it, I should use it? Is there a manual of any type. At the moment I can't open it! All I have is an ICON on my desktop I've named 'Open Office Word' but can get no response! As you have already

Re: [users] Calc - Autocorrect

2005-06-06 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi John, On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:23:13 +0100, John Barman wrote: An example of what I mean in more detail, is if I have a cell in a spreadsheet formatted 'text', and the first entry in the column for J. Smith reads J. Smith-Order No. 123456 etc, then every entry for J. Smith after that

Re: [users] Open Office 1.1.4

2005-06-06 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
Please note that users@openoffice.org is a mailing list and the best email address you can use when you have a users problem or question about OpenOffice.org. However please note that it is a moderated email list and most replies *only* go to the mailing list so you should really consider

Re: [users] [moderated]Using OpenOffice System

2005-06-06 Thread Ed Zollars, CPA
mahogany2 wrote: I would very much appreciate your telling me how, having downloaded the programme and unzipped it, I should use it? Is there a manual of any type. At the moment I can't open it! All I have is an ICON on my desktop I've named 'Open Office Word' but can get no response! As you

RE: [users] AMD64 builds?

2005-06-06 Thread John Jordan
On 6 Jun 2005, at 8:00, Tim Lomas wrote: For information, I am running OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 very happily on Windows XP Home running on an AMD 64 ... installed from the standard Windows binary. My understanding is that the Athlon 64 runs as a 32-bit processor when the operating system is

Re: [users] Section Break

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Posts in-line On Sunday 05 June 2005 02:25 pm, S-Computers A. wrote: Hi, Sorry, but I don't think I'm suscribed to the mailing? I confused, as I signed up... Could you please cc any answers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks To subscribe to this mailing list: send an empty email to [EMAIL

Re: [users] Java Enviroment not found.

2005-06-06 Thread Doug Thompson
Mike Collins wrote: I am a community distributor. I have two clients who have received an error that the Java Enviroment is not found and can't seem to be installed. One of them has tried to install the new Java updated program and run the exe program in the OOo program file but nothing seems

Re: [users] MS Word documents not displaying correctly

2005-06-06 Thread Robin Laing
ECJB wrote: I have some documents I had opened using 1.9.104 and went to export to PDF. I did it in such a hurry I didn't realize until I opened the PDFs (and went back and opened the .doc files in OOo again) that OOo mis-displayed them. The formatting was critical to get it right so that

[users] Re: seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Before a user edits a document, they should enable change tracking Edit | Changes | Record. You can view all of the changes inline using Edit | Changes | Show. You can then individually accept or reject any change, you can know who made the change, and you will

[users] Anchor by default to character

2005-06-06 Thread jean . samoise
Hi. How can I change the default anchor from to paragraph to to character. Kind regards, Jean. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Morgan
On 6/6/05, Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Before a user edits a document, they should enable change tracking Edit | Changes | Record. You can view all of the changes inline using Edit | Changes | Show. You can then individually accept or reject

RE: [users] AMD64 builds?

2005-06-06 Thread Rob Winchester
Ok, Actually in this case, Windows Apps (tasks) are exec'ed in a windows-on-windows session (And its called WOW) that is in 32bit mode. This is sort of like windows95 compatable mode WOW under NT/XP. Of course the 64 bit version of windows is Windows Server 2003... ( 64-bit hardware for what

Re: [users] Re: seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 06 June 2005 07:57 am, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Before a user edits a document, they should enable change tracking Edit | Changes | Record. You can view all of the changes inline using | Edit | Changes | Show. You can then individually

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-06-06 Thread Richard/g
On Thursday 02 June 2005 08:26 pm, normanjacobs wrote: I had jus E-Mailed you?? What is the 2 version for and how does OOo2 is for the same thing as OOo1. Just a newer version with a new look and new bells and whistles. A person choose which one? You should choose OOo_1.1.4 since that

Re: [users] Open Office 1.1.4

2005-06-06 Thread Ed Zollars, CPA
Jim Braden wrote: Thank you so much for the response. I am getting ready to send out resumes to many jobs. Does this mean that this Text Boundary is not seen by the recipient, but is just a guide for me? I'm wondering about the seen aspect of this? How are you planning to deliver the

[users] Re: [moderated]Using OpenOffice System

2005-06-06 Thread Jiří Hladůvka
Probably that icon is a folder with instalation files. So find in it file named setup.exe and run in. mahogany2 napsal(a): I would very much appreciate your telling me how, having downloaded the programme and unzipped it, I should use it? Is there a manual of any type. At the moment I can't

[users] Re: [moderated]

2005-06-06 Thread Jiří Hladůvka
I suppose you mean CALC component. So go to the page preview, you wil find a button like Page settings at the toolbar, then use the second button at the bottom which enables more settings (sorry I don't know the english names of the buttons). There you find a possibility to change header and

[users] Re: [moderated] Removing preset text in Page header/footer in CALC

2005-06-06 Thread Jiří Hladůvka
I suppose you mean CALC component. So go to the page preview, you wil find a button like Page settings at the toolbar, then use the second button at the bottom which enables more settings (sorry I don't know the english names of the buttons). There you find a possibility to change header and

Re: [users] CD LABELS

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
I'm sure Leechget is a good product ... I use wellget. It was recommended by Kim Komando www.komando.com (she does a massively syndicated daily and weekly computer radio show. I don't listen, but I get her weekly email letter. Even though I have been in programmng and computers for almost

Re: [users] Extracting text strings from an Impress document

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
Just some random thoughts: Have you tried any brute force approaches? I have heard there exists aprogram called something like dexml that strips xml markup from a file (can't get online at this moment to search for it.) That failing, there is always the LInux strings command (versions

Re: [users] impress: change font color on click

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
This may be totally off the point, but: In a web browser, clicking on a link changes it to the visited color. If you could do your presentation as a series of web pages, this particular effect would be easy to achieve. I realize that you might lose a whole bunch of the functionality that

Re: [users] RE: Printing an envelope

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
Fprgive me if this has already been suggested. It's a rather long thread. I had a few unsuccessful bouts of trying to get envelopes to work in OOo 1.1.4 Linux. Then, I created a label template (as someone on this list suggested in an earlier thread) - *not* an envelope template and that

Re: [users] Crash report crashes...

2005-06-06 Thread ECJB
I think it's 1.9.104 - thought I mentioned that. Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 02:53 am, ECJB wrote: When submitting a crash report, the "crashrep.exe" program itself crashes. - Eric. Windoze XP SP2, 512 MB DDR RAM, 2GB permanent swap file, 80/20/120 GB hard drives

Re: [users] book fold document

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
/Shameless Plug/ I can't solve your formatting problems (I would like to make a similar document in the future.), but, if you use an inkjet printer or one that prints in the same page order, etc. my duplexpr utility package (for Linux) https://sourceforge.net/projects/duplexpr/ can make

Re: [users] OOo Embedded Pictures and Manifest File on XP

2005-06-06 Thread operationsengineer1
On Friday 03 June 2005 01:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was i ever surprised to see all my OOo Draw files with embedded pictures not be able to pick up the pictures after moving my folder to a new, better organized, location. after the heart medication took effect, i moved the folder back

Re: [users] Re: book fold document

2005-06-06 Thread Joe
Passwords I seem to have a million of them anyway. What's one more? ;) On Windoze, I use Passkeeper to store the whole bunch in a password protected file. On Linux, I use fpm - Figaro's Password Manager. Joe Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 14:01, G. Roderick Singleton

Re: [users] OOo Embedded Pictures and Manifest File on XP

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 06 June 2005 01:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 June 2005 01:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was i ever surprised to see all my OOo Draw files with embedded pictures not be able to pick up the pictures after moving my folder to a new, better organized, location.

Re: [users] MS Word documents not displaying correctly

2005-06-06 Thread ECJB
I'm well aware of the Export to PDF option in OOo. This is one major reason I installed it. HOWEVER...when I went to open and then export the files to PDF using OOo, the pages did not display properly in OOo, and so did not export as PDF properly. So thus I went back to MS Word and used PDF

Re: [users] recently used doccuments list

2005-06-06 Thread ECJB
Doing some digging, I found where the "history" is located. In the file: %AppData%\OpenOffice.orgversion\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Common.xcu On my computer, this is: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application

[users] Collecting field data

2005-06-06 Thread Marc Elton
Is it possible to automatically collect data to complete fields contained in a template, when a new document is created using that template? (Similar to the SmartCollect function in Lotus WordPro, where the user is prompted for data to complete each field when a new doc is started.)

[users] Request for xls file (Microsoft EXCEL)

2005-06-06 Thread Ghkahl
From: G. H. Kahl, Am Strenzleweg 13, D-79219-Staufen, Germany June 6, 2005 Gentlemen, Copied for your info below is recent correspondence between my web designer son, Alex Kahl in California, and myself, which is self-explanatory (if you understand German). I had asked him for some

Re: [users] MS Word documents not displaying correctly

2005-06-06 Thread Robin Laing
Bottom post. ECJB wrote: I'm well aware of the Export to PDF option in OOo. This is one major reason I installed it. HOWEVER...when I went to open and then export the files to PDF using OOo, the pages did not display properly in OOo, and so did not export as PDF properly. So thus I went

Re: [users] MATH

2005-06-06 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Jamie Simpkins wrote: trig homework, it looks like it can be used for that. Peter Kupfer OOo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Jamie Simpkins wrote: I can't seem to find a tutorial on MATH. I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how to use it to my advantage for homework. Thank you for you help.

[users] I am using Windows XP 64-bit

2005-06-06 Thread Shiraz Mohammed
I use Windows XP 64-bit and Open Office 2.0 Beta. It works fine. I believe that what really needs to increase the performance to 64-bit is that the Java Module from SUN needs to be upgraded to 64-bit. Java 64-bit is JRE 5.0 I believe. -Original Message- From: John Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [users] Readability Analysis Macro

2005-06-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Jonathon Blake wrote: All: OOo 1.1.3 ZA Win 2K SP 3 I installed the readability analysis macro a few days ago. When text is selected, it runs, and gives a score of 0 or N/A, When no text is selected, it displays the button asking if the entire text should be

Re: [users] Keeping toolbars visible

2005-06-06 Thread Paul
I don't think this is possible currently. From memory I think that a request for enhancement has already been loadged for just this functionality. /paul On 6/4/05, Peter Ballantyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am using OOo 1.9.104 and am totally impressed after several years of MS Office.

Re: [users] multiple picture insert

2005-06-06 Thread Paul
One option (which I use on WinXP) is to highlight all pictures in Win Explorer and drag into draw. All are inserted, one one top of each other. Once in Draw you then have to arrange how you want them placed. /paul On 6/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm using draw and often

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-06-06 Thread Paul
Your question is not clear. Please repost with more information. /paul On 6/5/05, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web editor of openoffice 2 beta, use w3c 4.0 version, no understand macromedia use w3c 4.01 version

[users] Printing Hidden Text

2005-06-06 Thread John Miller
I created a document to be used in a classroom setting. I included blanks for students to fill in as we went through the outline. So that I wouldn't have to create 2 forms of the document, I formatted the answers as hidden text (Format...Character...Font Effects - checked the Hidden box). I

Re: [users] Printing Hidden Text

2005-06-06 Thread Paul
Normally when working with hidden text you also create a user variable that contains a boolean value as to whether the hidden values should be shown or not. For instance, create a variable like hidden_or_not and set to either 1 or 0. (1 = hide values, 0 = show values). When you create the fields

Re: [users] Printing Hidden Text

2005-06-06 Thread cono
Hi John, John Miller wrote: [...] hidden text. Any clues of a way to instruct OOo to print hidden text? I'm running Linspire 5.0 and OOo 2 Beta (1.9.79) The Helps says: Hidden Hides the selected characters. To display the hidden text, ensure that Non-printing Characters is selected in

Re: [users] Collecting field data

2005-06-06 Thread Doug Thompson
Marc Elton wrote: Is it possible to automatically collect data to complete fields contained in a template, when a new document is created using that template? (Similar to the SmartCollect function in Lotus WordPro, where the user is prompted for data to complete each field when a new doc

Re: [users] request for information

2005-06-06 Thread dw
I think this might be what your looking for: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/ HTH; DW - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] file type

2005-06-06 Thread Duncan Lithgow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M Nagashree wrote: May be you can set them here: Tools - Options - Load/save - General You will have something like Default file format: Under Document type - choose Text document and under Always Save as - Microsoft word. normally the open

Re: [users] Request for xls file (Microsoft EXCEL)

2005-06-06 Thread Ed Zollars, CPA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for your help in advance!! Best regards. As this would be a rather large email, I would suggest you probably don't want that (ignoring the fact that it's likely to blow a number of limits away in trying to get to your mailbox). What is better is to

[users] Reveal Codes

2005-06-06 Thread David Johanson
Ian Laurenson, would you please contact me off line. Thanks, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. --

[users] HELP! - Hyperlinks

2005-06-06 Thread Adele Hvistendahl
Hi, I really need to know how to create hyperlinks between sub-documents in OOo Writer. please can you help??? Regards, Adele

[users] other mail box

2005-06-06 Thread norman jacobs
Please use my other mail box for my E-Mail's [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [users] other mail box

2005-06-06 Thread GC Fraser
On Monday, June 06, 2005 7:24 PM norman jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [users] other mail box Please use my other mail box for my E-Mail's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norman, you need to unsubscribe from your present account by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the

Re: [users] HELP! - Hyperlinks

2005-06-06 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Adele Hvistendahl wrote: Hi, I really need to know how to create hyperlinks between sub-documents in OOo Writer. please can you help??? Regards, Adele In short, you do it by creating a hyperlinks and linking to the document you want to link to. Can you give a specific scenario, with

Re: [users] Envelope printing

2005-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:35:49 -0400 G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to set the printer properties as well to landscape and #10 then it will work. This is http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 These instructions did not solve the problem for the OOo

Re: [users] HELP! - Hyperlinks

2005-06-06 Thread Doug Thompson
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: (snip) In short, you do it by creating a hyperlinks and linking to the document you want to link to. (snip) Definition: recursive, adj., 1. See recursive. Sorry. I couldn't resist. 8-D Doug -

[users] [moderated]

2005-06-06 Thread Bradryan
How do I download applications such as Writer? Your website is not clear at all in this regard. Thanks Brad

Re: [users] MATH

2005-06-06 Thread Jamie Simpkins
i just wanted my homework to look neat when i turned it in. but it's almost to the end of the trimester so i'll just figure it out another time. because i already had the calculations but looks aweful on paper, lol. --- Peter Kupfer OOo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie Simpkins wrote: trig

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-06-06 Thread Doug Thompson
Bradryan wrote: How do I download applications such as Writer? Your website is not clear at all in this regard. Hmmm. A large green box which states prominently DOWNLOAD at the top center of the home page isn't clear? I give up. What kind of hint would you like? However, what isn't

Re: [users] [moderated] (To Norman)

2005-06-06 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Norman, Almost all emails sent to the mailing list by people who aren't subscribed to it, will have the [users] [moderated] Subject line. Most of them won't be replies to your original email. How are you doing? Have you sorted out your initial problems? Feel free to ask specific

[users] Templates

2005-06-06 Thread Jel Coward
Hi all OO 1.1.3 Fedora Core 3 I want to save a template but I can't. File, Template, Save gives Error writing document Untitled2 as Template. Non-existent object.Non-existent file. Also, using the Template Organizer I am unable to create new folders to put templates in - I use Command, New

Re: [users] can not reg.

2005-06-06 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Joan, Registration is optional. It's more of a user survey. Don't worry about it. tc THOMAS SCHOENEMANN wrote: I have just bought a new comp. Window xlp Home edition. Openoffice.0rg was in it. I seem unable to register it. I have had great luck in the past with the ease of Microsoft Works