Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/24 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here is a macro that I hard coded to increment a value in cell D2. I must admit that I found something similar online, but I need to start to learn OO.o macro languages in the next few weeks. Sub Incd2() mynum = Range(d2) + 1 Range(d2) = mynum End

Re: [users] how to arrange scattered words into one line

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:13 25/05/2008 +0800, Girard Aquino wrote: i have a document with a bunch of text that isn't arranged in any way and i need to do a sort on them. this is the user-defined dictionary of OOo, which I transferred into a writer document so that i could add them to a word list i'm working on.

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:50 24/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The previous version of OO acts differently than 2.4 when inserting a page break and changing the page numbering... For instance my first page should be a cover page (no page number), the second page should be of type Index. The index page has

[users] Can't uninstall OO3 beta from WinXP-SP2

2008-05-25 Thread j1rd27902
Good morning! I just installed OO 3 Beta on my WinXP-SP2 machine. (I already have OO 2.3 installed in a different folder.) I can't uninstall the beta. There is no entry in Windows Add/Remove programs, and setup.exe doesn't have a Remove button. Help! Thanks. C.

Re: [users] Can't uninstall OO3 beta from WinXP-SP2

2008-05-25 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (25-5-2008 9:09) I just installed OO 3 Beta on my WinXP-SP2 machine. (I already have OO 2.3 installed in a different folder.) I can't uninstall the beta. There is no entry in Windows Add/Remove programs, and setup.exe doesn't have a Remove button. Help! The

[users] OOo 2.4 base sample

2008-05-25 Thread stefano gmail
hello user I've just installed OOo and i would like to buid my first db but i'm not able to find a db sample, could you please post me a web place where is fossible to find bettere if italian bye

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-25 Thread Rolf Schumacher
Thank you for your answer, John. Unfortunately this does not solve the problem. It may hinder hyphenation but the decision of Writer to break a line after a / (or $ for example) is not bound to any language hyphenation rules. Thus I end up with something like the following two examples you may

Re: [users] Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread James Knott
Allen wrote: Hi gang, I'm doing a study of spam and I need to break the date time field I'm getting from log files into separate date fields and time fields. Currently it is all one: 05/13/08 12:32 PM I need it to be: 05/13/08 and 12:32 PM Am running OO 2.4 on Windoze and Linux. Since

[users] Headers

2008-05-25 Thread bill
I am a new convert to OO from WordPerfect and I can not figure out how to set headers so that: 1) page 1 does not get a header, and/or 2)partway through the document the header changes. (not even/odd headers) help please. -- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

Re: [users] Headers

2008-05-25 Thread James Knott
bill wrote: I am a new convert to OO from WordPerfect and I can not figure out how to set headers so that: 1) page 1 does not get a header, and/or 2)partway through the document the header changes. (not even/odd headers) help please. I think you want to look at styles. You can set a style

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 25 May 2008 09:03:33 +0300 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/24 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here is a macro that I hard coded to increment a value in cell D2. I must admit that I found something similar online, but I need to start to learn OO.o macro languages in the

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 24 May 2008 22:42:11 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. IBM tended to be on the cutting edge, and often could not wait for the standards to catch up. (Standard COBOL, for example, did not get around to supporting disk files until 1968.) Microsoft, on the

Re: [users] Headers

2008-05-25 Thread Keith Bates
On Sun, 25 May 2008 07:43:24 -0400 bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new convert to OO from WordPerfect and I can not figure out how to set headers so that: 1) page 1 does not get a header, and/or 2)partway through the document the header changes. (not even/odd headers) help please.

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-25 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 25, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Rolf Schumacher wrote: Thank you for your answer, John. Unfortunately this does not solve the problem. It may hinder hyphenation but the decision of Writer to break a line after a / (or $ for example) is not bound to any language hyphenation rules. Thus I end up

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Hagar de l'Est
You can vote for that enhancement request: - http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88361 Disable even=left/odd=right page rule to avoid page numbering issues Hagar Le 25.05.2008 08:58, Brian Barker a écrit : At 19:50 24/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The previous version of OO

Re: [users] Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Allen: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:57:14PM -0700, Allen wrote: Hi gang, I'm doing a study of spam and I need to break the date time field I'm getting from log files into separate date fields and time fields. Currently it is all one: 05/13/08 12:32 PM I need it to be: 05/13/08 and 12:32

Re: [users] Headers

2008-05-25 Thread bill
bill wrote: I am a new convert to OO from WordPerfect and I can not figure out how to set headers so that: 1) page 1 does not get a header, and/or 2)partway through the document the header changes. (not even/odd headers) help please. Thank you both -- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys

Re: [users] Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/25, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Allen: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:57:14PM -0700, Allen wrote: Hi gang, I'm doing a study of spam and I need to break the date time field I'm getting from log files into separate date fields and time fields. Currently it is

Re: [users] OOo 2.4 base sample

2008-05-25 Thread Drew Jensen
stefano gmail wrote: hello user I've just installed OOo and i would like to buid my first db but i'm not able to find a db sample, could you please post me a web place where is fossible to find bettere if italian bye Hello Stefano, I do not know of any examples in Italian. In fact good

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Adrian Parker
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:50 24/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The previous version of OO acts differently than 2.4 when inserting a page break and changing the page numbering... For instance my first page should be a cover page (no

[users] oooPortal.com - The worldwide portal for OpenOffice.org users was launched

2008-05-25 Thread Filip Molcan
Prague, the Czech Republic, 26 May 2008 - Today a gate to the virtual city of users of OpenOffice.org from the whole world was opened. The users get their own portal where they can find the fresh information, articles, directions, templates, extensions or discussion forum. The target of the

[users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Gene Kohlenberg
Allen wrote: Hi gang, I'm doing a study of spam and I need to break the date time field I'm getting from log files into separate date fields and time fields. Currently it is all one: 05/13/08 12:32 PM I need it to be: 05/13/08 and 12:32 PM Am running OO 2.4 on Windoze and Linux. Thanks,

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Allen
*Wow!* Thanks gang. Couple of minor caveats about this that I found. 1) Don't enter the formula in the cell, use the Input Line (I think that's what it's called) otherwise you will get #Name? in the cell. 2) Use the exact format for the date and time that it started in. Don't attempt to

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Printing blank pages can be turned off in the ToolsOptionsOOo WriterPrint dialog IIRC. Hagar Le 25.05.2008 19:27, Adrian Parker a écrit : On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:50 24/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The previous version of OO

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Adrian Parker
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Hagar de l'Est [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printing blank pages can be turned off in the ToolsOptionsOOo WriterPrint dialog IIRC. Oh, that's good then :) Hagar Le 25.05.2008 19:27, Adrian Parker a écrit : On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Brian

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread bill
Allen wrote: *Wow!* Thanks gang. Couple of minor caveats about this that I found. 1) Don't enter the formula in the cell, use the Input Line (I think that's what it's called) otherwise you will get #Name? in the cell. 2) Use the exact format for the date and time that it started in. Don't

[users] Hidden Styles

2008-05-25 Thread Adrian Parker
When I hit F11, the styles are shown. If Paragraph Styles is showing, it often only lists about 1/2 of the available styles. I have to click any of the other style types (Character for example), then click on Paragraph Styles to see the complete list. This is incredibly annoying. Is it

[users] Re: Adding templates in New dropdown

2008-05-25 Thread Laurent Duperval
On Sun, 25 May 2008 11:15:39 +0800, Girard Aquino wrote: you can have them from inside the Templates and documents... i'm not sure whether you could modify the contents of the drop down. Ok Something else I thought of: I could create a couple of buttons on my toolbars that map to a

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/25 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WRT: Java. I also got a message. All I did was to go to Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Java, and point it at your installed JRE. I run SuSE 10.3, and I pointed it to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0.u6-sun-1.6.0.u6/jre There are a number of web sites that have

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:27 25/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The behaviour of 2.4 compared to the previous release does vary. The previous version does not print the blank page. I hear you repeating this claim, but I don't believe it to be the case. According to the web site, the option to suppress the

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:52 25/05/2008 -0700, Allen Noname wrote: Couple of minor caveats about this that I found. 1) Don't enter the formula in the cell, use the Input Line (I think that's what it's called) otherwise you will get #Name? in the cell. That shouldn't make any difference. You presumably made an

Re: [users] Hidden Styles

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:28 25/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: When I hit F11, the styles are shown. If Paragraph Styles is showing, it often only lists about 1/2 of the available styles. I have to click any of the other style types (Character for example), then click on Paragraph Styles to see the

[users] Re: [New thread]Re: Re: Duplicated Messages (was Re: [users] Re:Download time for open office)

2008-05-25 Thread Paul
Hi Paul, Am 2008-05-22 10:00:13, schrieb Paul: If I did that then how long would it before there were many other 'special users'. I don't believe I'm the only moderator and it will be up to the others whether they do something similar. I won't and I recommend they don't either.

Re: [users] Manual Breaks and Page Numbers

2008-05-25 Thread Adrian Parker
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 13:27 25/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: The behaviour of 2.4 compared to the previous release does vary. The previous version does not print the blank page. I hear you repeating this claim, but I don't believe

[users] Re: Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2008 12:40 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/25 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are a number of web sites that have Excel macro tutorials. Try some of the techniques here. http://www.angelfire.com/biz7/julian_s/julian/julians_macros.htm While not all Excel functions and

[users] Re: keeping characters together

2008-05-25 Thread Joe Smith
Rolf Schumacher wrote: ... How to tell Writer to keep the five letters together on one line? One workaround is to put the word in a frame. With no borders and no extra spacing, it can be made to work. Defining a frame style, and an AutoText for inserting them, can help a lot. Joe

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Allen
bill wrote: Allen wrote: [snip] Now, is it easier for me to create a column with the day of the week by hand - Monday through Sunday - or can it be calculated? actually it is easier than that: click format/cell and select date and pick a format that shows the day of the week, or roll

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Allen
Brian Barker wrote: At 11:52 25/05/2008 -0700, Allen Noname wrote: Couple of minor caveats about this that I found. 1) Don't enter the formula in the cell, use the Input Line (I think that's what it's called) otherwise you will get #Name? in the cell. That shouldn't make any difference.

Re: [users] Re: Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread JOE Conner
Allen wrote: SNIP I can do it by using Fill but I have 20 pages of 65K lines and it's a bit of a pain. Plus I expect this to be several million lines after gathering more log files so automation is my friend allowing me to spend more time on analysis. SNIP Calc has a limited number of

Re: [users] Re: Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/25 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dotan, If you can explain a little more on what the spreadsheet is about perhaps someone can point you to a template that exists already. One particularly not-complicated use would be to keep track of homework assignments. My mathnet assignments have 8-12

[users] Re: Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread NoOp
On 05/25/2008 05:26 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/25 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dotan, If you can explain a little more on what the spreadsheet is about perhaps someone can point you to a template that exists already. One particularly not-complicated use would be to keep track of homework

Re: [users] scim input works but can't display kanji on OO

2008-05-25 Thread Paulo Jnkml
Hello again, this is just an update to my previous email. After trying the solution for a while, I ended up doing something slightly different. In the end I just added the line scim -d -c socket -f x11 -e socket to my kde startup script (~/.kde/Autostart/autostart.script) and the lines