[users] How do I avoid preceding ' in Calc?

2009-09-15 Thread Graham P Davis
When I open a text file into Calc, I keep getting numeric data preceded by a single quote. This is with 3.1.1. I think this bug arrived with 3.1. Can't change it in replace as changing it to a blank is seemingly impossible. Why can't I specify changing ' to ? -- Graham P Davis, Bracknell,

[users] Re: How do I avoid preceding ' in Calc?

2009-09-15 Thread Andreas Saeger
Graham P Davis wrote: When I open a text file into Calc, I keep getting numeric data preceded by a single quote. This is with 3.1.1. I think this bug arrived with 3.1. Can't change it in replace as changing it to a blank is seemingly impossible. Why can't I specify changing ' to ? Hi, The

[users] Re: Text to Coulmn

2009-09-15 Thread Andreas Saeger
omkar pandit wrote: Sir/ Madam i am facing a problem in Open Office Calc that is i am not able to split the text column in two part or i want to split the text column that is available in the Microsoft Office (Text to Column) menu:ToolsCustomize... Add the Text to columns command from

Re: [users] Openoffice 3.0 Writer Index problem

2009-09-15 Thread Arun Shrimali
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: Arun Shrimali wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: Arun Shrimali wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Andy a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Arun Shrimali wrote: Dear All,

[users] Re: How do I avoid preceding ' in Calc?

2009-09-15 Thread Graham P Davis
Andreas Saeger wrote: Graham P Davis wrote: When I open a text file into Calc, I keep getting numeric data preceded by a single quote. This is with 3.1.1. I think this bug arrived with 3.1. Can't change it in replace as changing it to a blank is seemingly impossible. Why can't I specify

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
again the same false accuses... i'm not the first author of the petition so i cannot edit it... i told ya many times but still don't wanna understand it... petition goes on despite your accuses... we got now 337 signatures and it keep growing!!! -- View this message in context:

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Lars Nooden
Tommy27 wrote: again the same false accuses... i'm not the first author of the petition so i cannot edit it... If you can't find the authors of the petition, please take a few moments to create a new one at a legitimate petition service. No one outside of a small circle of de Icaza types wants

Re: [users] Converting a text document to a spreadsheet

2009-09-15 Thread Harold Fuchs
Harold Hauge wrote: If you have a CSV file it it is really easy. Start Calc, Select Open, then select the .csv file and you should get something like: Opps, looks like the image did not import. An import screen will appear that you can modify what is going to import or just clk OK. I believe

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Guy Voets
I'll sign when the petition is on a legitimate petition site. -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.1.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.1.1 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread The Beaver
Tommy27 wrote: the reasons for the birth of the petition have been communicated to Renaissance developers on their blog: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_user_interface the majority of comments was negative. we don't want a Ribbonized OpenOffice, that's it. Nobody with a

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
the GUI prototype of Renaissance sucks even more than Ribbon. the standard GUI is more usable. this is my opinion and 342 users who signed the petition agree with me. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Petition-against-OOo-Renaissance-tp25228803p25457262.html Sent from the

Re: [users] Some of ideas for Openoffice

2009-09-15 Thread Pablo Luis Gonzalez
Open Office is not a DTP programme, nor a image editor. Please, do not complicate things. Pablo 2009/9/14 John Meyer pueblonat...@opensuse.us Why would you edit a picture format in a office suite? Wouldn't you consider an application like Inkscape to do such editing? WEBER (Netvigator)

[users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/09/15 6:33 AM Tommy27 wrote: i'm not the first author of the petition so i cannot edit it... Then get you pet dingo to do it. He created it. Unless it is changed you are both scam artists. By promoting this petition you are promoting the scam artists in the links on the

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
no one of the 347 signers (you see, any time i post here the number is always higher...) has complained about scam sites because no one of them is so dumb to be fooled by those advertosing. the only one who are concerned by those scam site are people like you that don't wanna sign the

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Detwiler
Tommy27 wrote: no one of the 347 signers (you see, any time i post here the number is always higher...) has complained about scam sites because no one of them is so dumb to be fooled by those advertosing. A number of people have complained (on this very list) about the scam site links.

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
people signing the petition know what a GUI is, know what a Ribbon and a Renaissance mean, and most important know that OOo is freeware, so there will be nobody so dumb to be fooled by those scam links... when i signed the petition (i think i was numebr 67... actually 348) i did not even notice

[users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/09/15 2:33 PM Tommy27 wrote: no one of the 347 signers (you see, any time i post here the number is always higher...) has complained about scam sites because no one of them is so dumb to be fooled by those advertosing. How do you know none of them went to the scam sites? You don't.

[users] [moderated]

2009-09-15 Thread vendplus
I think I have installed Open Office, but I can't be sure. The installation was interrupted and I tried to start over (Took about 2 hrs.) but I don't have any iconsa on my Desktop to open referring me to Opal Office Writer, but I still have my Word file. What can I do?

[users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread handar...@tiscali.co.uk
Dear open ofice , I purchased your soft ware to use for powerpoints etc .Unfortunately we had to have our windows system reinstalled and lost the program.Is it possible to be sent it again free of charge .My name is Helen Richardson and our email is handar...@tiscali.co.uk.it was about thwo

[users] Sorting in Report

2009-09-15 Thread FamiliaFrazelle
i'm making a report, based on a query. The report is Grouped and Sorted, first on Date, then Neighborhood, then Street. In the detail area, the first control is the house number which, when the report is generated, does not order the house number in ascending order. i've ordered the field

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
Larry, i make no bucks becuase i have no financial interest with those sites... did you stopped a while thinking that by keeping asking over and over again the same things despite you already got the answer, you are keeping this topic at the top of the list... in this way you are promoting the

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Detwiler
Tommy27 wrote: stay tuned, signature 400 is getting closer... i will alert you when it comes... you don't wanna miss that event, right buddy? Please, spare us all ... - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread Harold Fuchs
handar...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Dear open ofice , I purchased your soft ware to use for powerpoints etc .Unfortunately we had to have our windows system reinstalled and lost the program.Is it possible to be sent it again free of charge .My name is Helen Richardson and our email is

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Richard Detwiler wrote (15-9-2009 23:15) Tommy27 wrote: stay tuned, signature 400 is getting closer... i will alert you when it comes... you don't wanna miss that event, right buddy? Please, spare us all ... And yourself, Tommy27. You make yourself ridiculous, and that all will be

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread AG
Pierre wrote: James Knott wrote: Some people feel the need to fix something that isn't broken. A similar situation is developing with the Linux KDE desktop, where apparently eye candy has become more important than function. Exactly! And while we're at it, why did they wreck Amarok?

[users] Re: [moderated]

2009-09-15 Thread Mark C. Miller
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:06:14 -0400, vendplus wrote: I think I have installed Open Office, but I can't be sure. The installation was interrupted and I tried to start over (Took about 2 hrs.) but I don't have any iconsa on my Desktop to open referring me to Opal Office Writer, but I still have

[users] Re: How to sort mixed alpha numbers?

2009-09-15 Thread NoOp
On 09/12/2009 01:51 AM, Bob Estes wrote: NoOp wrote: On 09/09/2009 08:35 PM, NoOp wrote: I've tried every combination that I can think of (even formating cells to text) and still cannot figure out how to sort via a column with data like this: Sail Number USA 84 USA 604 USA 275 USA 35024

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, handar...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Dear open ofice , I purchased your soft ware to use for powerpoints etc .Unfortunately we had to have our windows system reinstalled and lost the program.Is it possible to be sent it again free of charge .My name is Helen Richardson and

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread James Knott
handar...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Dear open ofice , I purchased your soft ware to use for powerpoints etc .Unfortunately we had to have our windows system reinstalled and lost the program.Is it possible to be sent it again free of charge .My name is Helen Richardson and our email is

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread James Knott
Harold Fuchs wrote: handar...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: .It was about thwo years ago when I bought it .Thanks Helen . If you paid by credit card you *might* be able to get your money back. It's worth a try. But it is strictly between you, your credit card company and the company you paid. I

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread James Knott
Gene Heskett wrote: Protect your PC with 50% off Norton Security - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/securepc 's funny. Your sig is an advert for Norton... Q: I wonder why Norton doesn't make a security product for linux? A: Because linux generally doesn't need it. Its many times more

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, James Knott wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Protect your PC with 50% off Norton Security - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/securepc 's funny. Your sig is an advert for Norton... Q: I wonder why Norton doesn't make a security product for linux? A: Because linux generally

Re: [users] Re: How to sort mixed alpha numbers?

2009-09-15 Thread jomali
Put the formula =MID(A1;FIND( ;A1);LEN(A1))+0 in Cell B1. Extend down as far as your data in Column A goes. Sort on column B Voila! John On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 09/12/2009 01:51 AM, Bob Estes wrote: NoOp wrote: On 09/09/2009 08:35 PM, NoOp

[users] Playing Audio Throughout An Entire Impress Presentation

2009-09-15 Thread Dave Barton
Yes, I know this one has been asked a million times before, but the solutions are always somewhat hit miss. Another user contacted me asking for advice about playing audio throughout an entire Impress presentation with version 3.1.1. I referred him to the relevant section of the current Impress

RE: [users] Re: minimum install for headless mode

2009-09-15 Thread Pascal CHAPUIS
Nobody find any issue, may be I’m not on the right mailing list, where should I report my problem? Thanks Pascal From: pascal...@hotmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:24:39 + Subject: RE: [users] Re: minimum install for headless mode Sorry but I

Re: [users] Sorting in Report

2009-09-15 Thread Rob Clement
FamiliaFrazelle wrote: i'm making a report, based on a query. The report is Grouped and Sorted, first on Date, then Neighborhood, then Street. In the detail area, the first control is the house number which, when the report is generated, does not order the house number in ascending order.

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread John Boyle
The Beaver wrote: Tommy27 wrote: the reasons for the birth of the petition have been communicated to Renaissance developers on their blog: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_user_interface the majority of comments was negative. we don't want a Ribbonized OpenOffice,

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-15 Thread Tommy27
well said John, the Ribbon is gonna kill OOo usability!!! P.S. thanks for signing the petition: updated count is 352 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Petition-against-OOo-Renaissance-tp25228803p25466002.html Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at

Re: [users] Re: minimum install for headless mode

2009-09-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Pascal, Pascal CHAPUIS wrote (16-9-2009 4:56) Nobody find any issue, may be I’m not on the right mailing list, where should I report my problem? 2009/9/14 Pascal CHAPUIS pascal...@hotmail.com Hi, I’ve downloaded the latest RPM version of ooo to install it on a production server. My