Re: [users] updating links at document opening

2006-10-27 Thread Francois . Gournay
Terry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have a master document. I wanted to have links to subdocuments updated when opening the document, without having to answer a dialog box. I managed to configure my openoffice options to do that and it works. Now, I have a macro that opens a

Re: [users] french spell check

2006-10-27 Thread M. Henri Day
Word, as we know, allows one to vary the language against which the one used in the current document is checked (for both spelling and grammar) from the toolbar, which is much less cumbersome than changing the default setting via the path ToolsOptions... described my James McKenzie. It would seem

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Guy Voets
2006/10/27, James McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeffery: I found there is an open issue in regards to the usage of this feature and that it is not fixed. If you would go to the OpenOffice.org IssueZilla and vote for issue 70534, I did. The more votes, the higher on the list it moves and this

Re: [users] french spell check

2006-10-27 Thread Javier Rivera
M. Henri Day escribió: Word, as we know, I for one didn't know ;) allows one to vary the language against which the one used in the current document is checked (for both spelling and grammar) from the toolbar, which is much less cumbersome than changing the default setting via the path

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
I am happy to say that on my Debian unstable and with version 2.04 installed from rpm's and with Sun Java, word count is working for me. That is, I go to Tools - Statistics and I have a little window opening saying the number of words and the number of characters in the selected area (o if

Re: [users] problem creating new file, base

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 27 October 2006 12:04 am, Terry wrote: Elizabeth Young wrote: Elizabeth Young wrote: I have just installed Open Office. I am running Windows XP version 5.1 w/ service pack 2 installed. I am trying to create a database using open office base program. This is what I do and

Re: [users] Porting OOo2.0.4 settings to OOo-dev

2006-10-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
Michele Zarri wrote: Hello, I generally use the official releases, but when a feature I am interested in has been integrated in the latest developer's snapshot I try it immediately. Now in m188 there was the dual monitor support which I really needed therefore I have installed it and now I

Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread James Knott
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: It's an option that allows part of OO to load at boot up . I know what it is. I was asking what QS can't do do speed up the process even further (in the context of MS Office starting much faster). I don't know the details. However, you have to remember that since

Re: [users] updating links at document opening

2006-10-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have a master document. I wanted to have links to subdocuments updated when opening the document, without having to answer a dialog box. I managed to configure my openoffice options to do that and it works. Now, I have a macro that opens a document

[users] Re: Simple OpenOffice Calc macro question

2006-10-27 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi Terry, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morten Bo Johansen wrote: How do I substitute the value of this line args1(0).Value = file:///home/mojo/Desktop/bridge-uge.html with a modifier that attains my object? You need to insert something like the following before your line defining

Re: [users] french spell check

2006-10-27 Thread M. Henri Day
Querido Javier, Thanks for the detailed information, most of which was new to me, as up to the present I have used Word for the majority of the documents that I have written. But I should very much like to go over to OOo, and I am grateful for all the help I can get ! In this connexion, I should

Re: [users] french spell check

2006-10-27 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Friday 27 October 2006 12:53, M. Henri Day wrote: Thanks for the detailed information, most of which was new to me, as up to the present I have used Word for the majority of the documents that I have written. But I should very much like to go over to OOo, and I am grateful for all the help

Re: [users] Re: Simple OpenOffice Calc macro question

2006-10-27 Thread Terry
Morten Bo Johansen wrote: Hi Terry, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to insert something like the following before your line defining the dispatcher ( dispatcher = etc ) [...] Thanks for this, it worked. However, it just occurred to me that what I really wanted to do was to

Re: [users] Re: Simple OpenOffice Calc macro question

2006-10-27 Thread Terry
Terry wrote: Hi. Several times a day, it seems, I discover another reason for staying with 2.0.2. I've recorded exporting to xhtml. The code is below. I wondered whether that was your intention. I stepped back from looking into the StarBasic way of doing this without the dispatcher but

Re: [users] Openoffice - is it legal?

2006-10-27 Thread Lars D . Noodén
NeoOffice is another option if X11 is not comfortable: http://www.neooffice.org/ -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) OpenOffice.org: Now ISO 26300 Standards Compliant ! On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, James McKenzie wrote: Don't forget to remind your wife that OpenOffice.org is available for

[users] Re: Simple OpenOffice Calc macro question

2006-10-27 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recorded exporting to xhtml. The code is below. I wondered whether that was your intention. Yes, thanks. It also freezes OO, though, I suppose because it uses the same filter as the menu function, so the bug that makes OO freeze seems to be an infinite

[users] installing ooSetupConnectionURL through UNO package

2006-10-27 Thread Knut Olav Bøhmer
Hi is it possible to make a uno package that can be installed or uninstalled with unopkg, and installes: prop oor:name=ooSetupConnectionURL oor:type=xs:string valuesocket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;/value /prop Under node oor:name=Office/ in the file:

Re: [users] openoffice buttons disappear until mouse over

2006-10-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 23/10/06, rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the latest version of ooffice installed for FC5 I'm getting this strange problem whereby all the buttons on the taskbar are absent in ooffice. Each one ibecomes visible again when the mouse is moved over them. Is this a KDE thing? Has

Re: [users] Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread Robin Laing
Leslie Zhang wrote: Hi Mr Laing, You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the mistakes that MS Words is shit, and I on the other hand leant that Openoffice is shit too. We all learn from mistakes. Microsoft products are not perfect, No. Nothing is perfect indeed.

Re: [users] Openoffice - is it legal?

2006-10-27 Thread Robin Laing
James McKenzie wrote: Robin Laing wrote: [Rant about Microsoft deleted] I admit that I am anti-Microsoft but that is beside the point on this list. I have had my headaches with XP-Pro that has kept me on Linux. FWIW, my wife uses Mac for Work and Linux at home. Won't even consider Windows

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Freddy Van Ingelgom
As promised, I tried this functionality on a Windows XP sp2 machine with OOo 2.0.4 and it worked only partly: if I select the text, it counts the words, unselected in gives 0's for every count (words and characters, selected and whole text). Regards, Freddy Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote: I am

Re: [users] Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread Christina Godinez
I've seen ms crash too Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leslie Zhang wrote: Hi Mr Laing, You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the mistakes that MS Words is shit, and I on the other hand leant that Openoffice is shit too. We all learn from mistakes.

Re: [users] Word count feature in Writer does not work

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Frayer
You might find this interesting, then: Windows 2000 sp4 (fully patched), OOo 2.0.4. I opened a document I had created many months before with OOo and saved as a Word document. The printer stored with it lacked the specific font, so the program substituted, no sweat. I checked the properties,

[users] Re: Dropped caps

2006-10-27 Thread Matt Needles
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:53 AM [GMT+1=CET], Marshall Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The documentation for OOo 2.0.4 says there are two ways to insert dropped caps: Choose Format - Paragraph - Drop Caps tab Choose Format - Styles and Formatting - open

Re: [users] Re: Dropped caps

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Matt, It works for me. I didn't see any effect when I applied the drop caps to a single line. The first character won't be any taller than the paragraph. It looks like the max height is three lines. tc Matt Needles wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:53 AM

Re: [users] Re: Dropped caps

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Chilco
Actually, the height is one of the options on 'Format / paragraph / drop caps tab'. tc Anthony Chilco wrote: Hi Matt, It works for me. I didn't see any effect when I applied the drop caps to a single line. The first character won't be any taller than the paragraph. It looks like the max

[users] Off-topic: Unable to unsubscribe.

2006-10-27 Thread annonygmouse
Sorry about the off-topic. I've sent about 4 emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can't seem to get unsubscribed from this list. I haven't found any admin email where to ask for help either. Please unsubscribe me. Thanks in advance Sebastià

Re: [users] Off-topic: Unable to unsubscribe.

2006-10-27 Thread James Mckenzie
I just looked at the headers to this message and you are indeed subscribed. Let's see how I did it: Sent BLANK message to the users-unsubscribe address with the word unsubscribe as the subject. Have you tried this? You should get a message asking to confirm your desire. Check your junk mail

Re: [users] Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread James Mckenzie
-Original Message- From: Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 27, 2006 11:23 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Leslie Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Openoffice suck Leslie Zhang wrote: Hi Mr Laing, You are absolutely right. You and your daughter have leart from the

[users] Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread Ain Vagula
James Mckenzie wrote: If I am working on important documents, I save them on a regular basis. I save them on two different machines AND a USB drive. If they are really important, they get the DVD treatment. I've learned that one cannot have TOO many backups. I send every day my daily

[users] Open Office 2.0.4 Danish - Want to print 2 pages on one sheet.

2006-10-27 Thread Poul Andersen (2)
Dear Sirs, I want to print 2 pages on one sheet. This is an option not yet available in Open Office, but MS Word has it. When will this option be available in Open Office? Best regards Poul C Andersen Ericaparken 67 st tv DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark Tel/fax +45 39 67 74 04

[users] Help on installation

2006-10-27 Thread Janis Wade
I have tried downloading open office 5 times now. Finally today it is on my desktop but I cannot open it, the error message is The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or virus. I cannot uninstall it as it does

Re: [users] Possible bug importing .csv file to spreadsheet

2006-10-27 Thread Jose Miyara
Hi Eike, Now I got it. I hadn't catched (caught?) that I had to use a column by column choice. Thank you so much for your friendly help. Now I can open the .csv files nicely. And yet I still wonder why figures like 0.34 are rendered right and 2.42wrong, depending upon the whole part being

[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-10-27 Thread James G Parsons
Sirs: I have one of your OpenOffice CD and I think that it is a terrific set of PC compatible programs. I am now trying to figure out a way to open multiple spreadsheets and every time try to do that there is a second or third separate window.. How may I open several spreadsheets so that I may

[users] Spell Check

2006-10-27 Thread Marcia Erickson
I have downloaded the new 2.04. I tend to use Openoffice as a basic word processor getting more exotic only occasionaly. Initially, the automatic Spell check worked well but now it doesn't.Why? I also loaded this program onto another computer that has no internet connection. Initially the Spell

[users] BASIC Runtime Error. Error loading DLL file.

2006-10-27 Thread David Graham
This code always works in a VBA client. It sometimes works in OpenOffice.org Basic. declare sub HelloWorld lib c:\dll.dll sub calldll HelloWorld end sub dll.dll is the DLL example from Dev-C++, (using gcc). The error indicates that the DLL did not load. LoadLibrary also fails.

[users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Phyllis Anderson
I am interested in getting software to replace MS Access. I am currently using Office Professional 97, which includes Access. However, when I installed it on my new laptop, Access will not install. If Base is similar to Access, and can import existing Access tables, I would like to get it. Please

[users] using : OpenOffice.org.2.0 and wont print after install default printer

2006-10-27 Thread John F . Norton
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[users] Installing openOffice on Mac

2006-10-27 Thread John W . Thompson
Today, I received a CD install disk for openOffice 2.0. I am using a PowerMac running Panther(OS 10.4.8) and I have 768 megs of DRMM.. I tried to install openOffice and after I copied it to the Applications folder, it would not open. The info for installation on a Mac, said that I would

[users] Saving Bar Charts in Open Office Calc

2006-10-27 Thread Pradeep Bechanahalli
Hi All, I would like to know how can i save just the bar chart created in Open Office Calc in .gif/jpeg/bitmap format. Also i want to save just the bar chart and not the table. Thanks for the help. Regards, - Deep

[users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread Giovanni Leone
Hello, I see that a program to manage email like Outlook has not been created! Why? Are you planning to create it? Thanks Giovanni

[users] Base Size limitation

2006-10-27 Thread Kolliniatis Anastasios
Hi, I would like to ask which is the size limitation of the openoffice Base application! Thank you - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] [moderated] brochures in calendar format

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Finch
I'm hoping someone will be able to edit the OpenOffice sourcecode in order that brochures can be produced in calendar format. I have this requirement for an annually produced sports program and I wish to migrate from using MS Publisher as used for several years! It shouldn't be too hard :

[users] need help stopping document recovery

2006-10-27 Thread Amy Cook
I have an item that was deleted and now every time that I try to use an open office document, it tries to recover this deleted document and I can not use my open office. Please help! While this document recovery is in process, it locks up my computer and I am unable to use any open office

[users] Microsoft Publisher compatible

2006-10-27 Thread Schick, Frances M
My son has a project in school using Microsoft publisher. Is any of your software compatible with this that he could use at home? THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in

[users] NOT ABLE TO DOWNLOAD OPEN OFFICE

2006-10-27 Thread Cassie Keeley
Hi, I have trouble downloading Open Office. I have Windows XP and downloaded Java as it was suggested in the instructions. Because it is such a huge file and was going to take about 4 hours to download (I have dial-up) I went to bed. This morning when I checked it, there was absolutely

[users] compatibility

2006-10-27 Thread Lisa Craig
I already have word, excel, and access on my pc. if I download the suite so that I can use your PowerPoint version will the word processing and database programs conflict with what I have now? Lisa Craig Marketing Coordinator Dixie Gas Oil Corporation p. 540-248-6273 f. 540-248-2524 visit our

Re: [users] Installing openOffice on Mac

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:12 pm, John W. Thompson wrote: Today, I received a CD install disk for openOffice 2.0. I am using a PowerMac running Panther(OS 10.4.8) and I have 768 megs of DRMM.. I tried to install openOffice and after I copied it to the Applications folder, it would not

Re: [users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:02 am, Giovanni Leone wrote: Hello, I see that a program to manage email like Outlook has not been created! Why? Are you planning to create it? Thanks Giovanni That is because there are several email clients with which OpenOffice.org will work. There

RE: [users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
It was not created because there are more than enough e-mail clients exist already. Creating another one would be waste of effort. Hopefully OO developers will their energy on more pressing issues. What is wrong with using existing e-mail client? -Original Message- From: Giovanni

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
The tabs at the bottom of the window are the worksheets in the workbook that you're working on. Every workbook has its own set of sheets. The standard is 3, but you can add or delete sheets to your own needs. Arnold Huzen James G Parsons schreef: Sirs: I have one of your OpenOffice CD and

[users] Question on OpenOffice.org Draw

2006-10-27 Thread Scott Simpson
On my OpenOffice.org Draw program, when I insert a text box and pull a corner slider to expand it, it always expands as a square. I have to hold down the shift key to get it to expand as a rectangle. It used to have the opposite behavior. I don't know how this got changed. How can I change it

Re: [users] Open Office 2.0.4 Danish - Want to print 2 pages on one sheet.

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
Printing two pages on one sheet is an option from your printerdriver. So if the driver supports it, you should be able to set it up through the properties of the printer. Arnold Huzen Poul Andersen (2) schreef: Dear Sirs, I want to print 2 pages on one sheet. This is an option

Re: [users] Help on installation

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
Sometimes installing OpenOffice seems to conflict with either the virusscanner or the firewall. To be able to install OpenOffice properly take the following steps: - Disconnect your computer from the internet - Disable your virusscanner and firewall - Install OpenOffice.org - Enable your

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 27 October 2006 04:43 pm, arnold huzen wrote: The tabs at the bottom of the window are the worksheets in the workbook that you're working on. Every workbook has its own set of sheets. The standard is 3, but you can add or delete sheets to your own needs. Arnold Huzen If you

Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread Johnny Andersson
2006/10/27, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know the details. However, you have to remember that since MS controls both the OS and app, it's easy for them to do things that are unavailable to others. An example of this came out several years ago with Borland. They tried to find out

Re: [users] Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread Johnny Andersson
Maybe a bit out of topic, but I think it's rather funny: In 1999, when my desktop was quite new, I had MS Office 97 installed and Excel was what I used most of the time. I had a quite large spreadsheet which I edited almost every day, so it grew over time. One day (or whatever.. night

Re: [users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
The development of OpenOffice focusses on Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet, Presentation. In the future OpenOffice might be offered in a bundle with Mozilla's Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com) for e-mailhandling. For Thunderbird there is an extension called Lightning that offers calendar and to-do list

Re: [users] Open Office 2.0.4 Danish - Want to print 2 pages on one sheet.

2006-10-27 Thread Johnny Andersson
I have printed 4 pages on the same sheet with OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1.5and it worked fine. I don't know about Drw, though. And maybe it was my Printer driver that did the trick, I don't know... Johnny Andersson

Re: [users] Microsoft Publisher compatible

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
OpenOffice.org is not compatible with MSFT Publisher. Arnold Huzen Schick, Frances M schreef: My son has a project in school using Microsoft publisher. Is any of your software compatible with this that he could use at home? THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR

Re: [users] NOT ABLE TO DOWNLOAD OPEN OFFICE

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
There are a few options you might consider. 1. find a friend that has broadband internet and ask him to download the file for you. 2. have a look at http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom and find someone near you that sends you a CD with the file on it. Arnold Huzen

Re: [users] compatibility

2006-10-27 Thread arnold huzen
Not necessarily. If you do not allow OpenOffice to handle your Word and Excel files by default, then they can work next to each other without interfering. I'm not quite sure whether this option is part of the standard installation or that you have to choose the custom installation. Arnold

Re: [users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread John Boyle
To Users: Why is no one discussing Scribus and the available email programs ? arnold huzen wrote: The development of OpenOffice focusses on Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet, Presentation. In the future OpenOffice might be offered in a bundle with Mozilla's Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com) for

[users] Bundled into OEM Windows-based PC

2006-10-27 Thread Roger Wu
To Whom It May Concern: We are a system integrator in Vancouver, BC. We are looking into the idea of including or pre-installing some of our PCs with Open Office. Is there any restriction regarding sell PCs with open office? Do we need to register or pay for that? Please help.

Re: [users] Off-topic: Unable to unsubscribe.

2006-10-27 Thread Terry
annonygmouse wrote: Sorry about the off-topic. I've sent about 4 emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can't seem to get unsubscribed from this list. I haven't found any admin email where to ask for help either. Please unsubscribe me. Thanks in advance Sebastià I have copied the following from

Re: [users] [moderated] When a Open Office Outlook will be available?

2006-10-27 Thread Gregory Forster
Well, it's not in openoffice. It's called Thunderbird. Thunderbird primarily is an email client, but Thunderbird's address books integrates beautifully with openoffice. Grant it, Thunderbird has an address book, but you can create many for different sorts, i.e. clients, personal, friends,

Re: [users] Bundled into OEM Windows-based PC

2006-10-27 Thread James Knott
Roger Wu wrote: To Whom It May Concern: We are a system integrator in Vancouver, BC. We are looking into the idea of including or pre-installing some of our PCs with Open Office. Is there any restriction regarding sell PCs with open office? Do we need to register or pay for that?

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-10-27 Thread James G Parsons
Mr. Huzen: Thank you for your advice concerning the Openofice software packages. What I am trying to do is use the Search or Find or Filter functions to compare two cells on one spread sheet to sort through an entire workbook to come up with one or more spreadsheet(s) that are similar to the

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
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[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
The other major point: OpenOffice is OPEN. It supports open standards better--MUCH better--than MSFT Office. Every try to write or edit a blog post in MSFT Office, and then cut and past it to a blog? The resulting POLLUTED hidden markup text chokes Feedburner. Take that same polluted text,

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
I appreciate that sentiment. But people looking for stark comparisons between the two just might find this intellectual discourse of value. My 2c. Shutting up now ... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
Thomas w. Cranston wrote: RBL wrote: Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How much RAM are you using? I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:53 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: James

[users] replacing lost footnote styles

2006-10-27 Thread aaron brick
hi all, i have several documents in which the style information about footnote references has somehow been lost. the numerals, both embedded and in the footer, are full-size. i have about 35 footnotes in one document; how can i fix this without making 70 manual edits? thanks, aaron. \\

[users] need to recover an RTF

2006-10-27 Thread aaron brick
hi folks, i am preparing an academic paper for a conference and am almost done - like i intend to send it this week. however, today i saved the RDF to disk, upgraded OO.o from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (debian packages), and now can't reopen the file. an error is reported at the end of the file - nothing

Re: [users] problem creating new file, base

2006-10-27 Thread Elizabeth Young
Dan Lewis wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 12:04 am, Terry wrote: Elizabeth Young wrote: Elizabeth Young wrote: I have just installed Open Office. I am running Windows XP version 5.1 w/ service pack 2 installed. I am trying to create a database using open office base program. This is what I

[users] Merging Tables

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Bilonick
I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of columns). The table - merge table menu item is always ghosted. The two tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging tables? Rick B. -

Re: [users] compatibility

2006-10-27 Thread Elizabeth Young
I just downloaded and installed OpenOffice. In standard installation you must deliberately chose to designate Word and Excel to open with OpenOffice. So, standard installation (at least on windows) will be fine. Elizabeth Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] arnold huzen wrote: Not necessarily. If you do

Re: [users] Merging Tables

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 00:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of columns). The table - merge table menu item is always ghosted. The two tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging tables? Rick B. I

Re: [users] Merging Tables

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Bilonick
I created a new text document and inserted two tables so that one table was directly below the other (there was no space whatsoever between the tables). Then the merge table was unghosted and worked. However, if I hit a carriage return and create a line between the two tables the merge can't

Re: [users] Merging Tables

2006-10-27 Thread Ross Johnson
Rick Bilonick wrote: On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 00:01 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: I have never been able to merge two tables (both with the same number of columns). The table - merge table menu item is always ghosted. The two tables are right next to each other. What is the secret to merging

Re: [users] Merging Tables

2006-10-27 Thread Rick Bilonick
If you place the text cursor in the empty paragraph between the two tables and press delete (the paragraph must be empty of course) then it should be removed and you can then merge the tables. This worked for me just now, but had I tried this some other time I would have been totally

Re: [users] need to recover an RTF

2006-10-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28/10/06, aaron brick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks, i am preparing an academic paper for a conference and am almost done - like i intend to send it this week. however, today i saved the RDF to disk, upgraded OO.o from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 (debian packages), and now can't reopen the file. an