Re: [users] number to text conversion

2009-12-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/12/14 subratan...@punjlloyd.com Sir, I want to know that how can I get a text (character) to a numeric value. Say 201 to be as Two Hundred and One or Two Zero One. ie. if a Cell (Say A1) is entered with a numeric value 21 then in Cell (say B1) will display Two Hundred and One or Two

Re: [users] To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

2009-12-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-* or Alt-*? As far as I know, in *Windows* an underlined letter in a menu item *always* means Alt and the letter. If OOo does not follow this convention then

Re: [users] To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

2009-12-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/12/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-* or Alt-*? As far as I know, in *Windows* an underlined letter in a menu item *always* means Alt and the

Re: [users] To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

2009-12-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/14/09 11:27, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/12/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-* or Alt-*? As far as I know, in *Windows* an underlined letter in a menu

Re: [users] Re: [Fwd: Re: A normal user shouldn't be trying . . Who tell us what we cannot use?]

2009-12-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/14/2009, jonathon (jonathon.bl...@gmail.com) wrote: I take it you've never read the disclaimers that go along with those software upgrades. Those disclaimers are there, precisely because your system can be bricked by the upgrade process. I don't see any disclaimers about bricking your

[users] Re: Converting Base to Access

2009-12-14 Thread Andreas Saeger
Terry Ehrhart wrote: Is there a way to convert a Base file back to Access. I have a program that only recognizes an Access data file. Terry Ehrhart Running Linux, I can not try out, but I'm pretty sure it works: Get a copy of some mdb, connect a Base document it, remove the tables, open

[users] Parallel document conversion possible?

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Durket
We're using OpenOffice to convert graphic images to Powerpoint slides. With OpenOffice 1.1.1 we could run multiple copies under the same userid (I think by specifying the -userid parameter) but -headless didn't work right (it still needed X). With OpenOffice 2.3, -headless works right, but

[users] Re: number to text conversion

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/13/2009 08:47 PM, subratan...@punjlloyd.com wrote: Sir, I want to know that how can I get a text (character) to a numeric value. Say 201 to be as Two Hundred and One or Two Zero One. ie. if a Cell (Say A1) is entered with a numeric value 21 then in Cell (say B1) will display Two

[users] Re: To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/07/2009 12:16 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-* or Alt-*? From Help: quote Using Shortcut Keys A great deal of your application's functionality can be called up

Re: [users] CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) in OO Calc

2009-12-14 Thread Fred Stluka
jomali wrote: Not tedious at all: 1. If you are entering data, simply use CTRL-Enter (CMD-Enter on Mac) when you want a new line 2. If you want to edit a cell you've left, double-click the cell, put your cursor where you want the newline to appear, and use CTRL- or CMD-Enter. Do this as many

[users] Re: [Fwd: Re: A normal user shouldn't be trying . . Who tell us what we cannot use?]

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/13/2009 10:19 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/12/13 11:59 PM jonathon wrote: Web Kracked wrote: Even the big boys of industry can have you run a software updateand trash your computer, but not to the point that the hardware goes bad. I take it you've never read the disclaimers that

[users] Re: [Fwd: Re: A normal user shouldn't be trying . . Who tell us what we cannot use?]

2009-12-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/14 10:43 AM NoOp wrote: There are OOo reports of issues with graphic cards... sample: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45534 [Impress Slide Show Crashes Video Card] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4 [Screen distorted after playing arround with

[users] Solved: Re: Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Gordon wrote: I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1). Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and when I go to use the Send function in OO it tells me it can't find the email client. Is there a way round

[users] WG: [webmasters] Base functions?

2009-12-14 Thread Christian Schuller
Hi, maybe you can help me here? When will OO base be as powerful as MS access? (like sum function after doing queries from sheets.) Thank you for your infos in advance. Regards, Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sgauti [mailto:sga...@openoffice.org] Gesendet: Montag, 30.

[users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Lee
When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also took too long I want my refund and FYI, this is my 3rd or 4th time asking

[users] Re: Axis X on a Graph in Calc

2009-12-14 Thread Marko Baloković
A simple no would've sufficed. From: Marko Baloković Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 10:37 PM To: Open Office Subject: Axis X on a Graph in Calc Greetings, I was wondering if moving axis X to the left on a graph (I don't want X and Y axes to be connected) in Calc is possible (I guess moving

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread Howard Coles
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Peter Lee bigaznp...@yahoo.com wrote: When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also took too long I want my refund and FYI, this is my 3rd or 4th time asking I'm sorry to hear about

Re: Fwd: [users] Why is this list so SLOW?

2009-12-14 Thread Paul
[snip] The only pull I have is that our moderator, Paul, is aware of what I'm doing and is generally supportive, and he knows people who may be willing to act if a sufficiently strong case can be made for a specific action. So far, most of these discussions have stayed in the realm of it

[users] Re: refund

2009-12-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2009/12/13 6:03 PM Peter Lee wrote: When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also took too long I want my refund and FYI, this is my 3rd or 4th time asking OpenOffice.org is free software available from

Re: Fwd: [users] Why is this list so SLOW?

2009-12-14 Thread Barbara Duprey
Paul wrote: [snip] The only pull I have is that our moderator, Paul, is aware of what I'm doing and is generally supportive, and he knows people who may be willing to act if a sufficiently strong case can be made for a specific action. So far, most of these discussions have stayed in the

[users] Re: [Fwd: Re: A normal user shouldn't be trying . . Who tell us what we cannot use?]

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/14/2009 09:15 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/12/14 10:43 AM NoOp wrote: There are OOo reports of issues with graphic cards... sample: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45534 [Impress Slide Show Crashes Video Card] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread James Knott
Peter Lee wrote: When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also took too long I want my refund and FYI, this is my 3rd or 4th time asking Perhaps you can complain to your credit card company to get the charge

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread John Meyer
On 12/14/2009 12:09 PM, Howard Coles wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Peter Leebigaznp...@yahoo.com wrote: When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also took too long I want my refund and FYI, this is my 3rd

Re: [users] Diary/Calender

2009-12-14 Thread John Meyer
On 12/12/2009 2:04 PM, Michael Adams wrote: Now you are just tossing stupidity out there. Wordpress is for writing blogs and uses third party components. And a blog is pretty much an online diary, which is what the author was looking for. You can run it locally through either a LAMP or

Re: [users] Re: Calc formula

2009-12-14 Thread John Meyer
On 12/12/2009 1:54 AM, Andreas Saeger wrote: John Meyer wrote: On 12/9/2009 10:25 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2009/12/8 John Meyerpueblonat...@opensuse.us: Have you tried =CELL(…)? Doesn't have an infotype returning the sheet name. My default template for Calc has 2 named references:

[users] Re: Solved (sort of) Re: Very OT: Re: [users] Re: MP4 Files OOo

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/13/2009 10:45 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: ... If I insert the file into Impress from the shared drive on which it actually resides then OOo complains as I said above. But if I copy the file from the shared drive to my local drive then OOo opens the file without any

Re: [users] Re: calculating fields with a macro in a database

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/11/2009 08:00 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: jomali wrote: Thanks John. My macros are extremely specific to a given task and could only be created via a macro programming language (such a the variety of basic used in openoffice). I use the dbms supplied by openoffice (mysql?). I have not been

[users] calc graph

2009-12-14 Thread James
I created a line graph in calc and I want it so when the mouse hovers/clicks a point on the graph, the corresponding data line is selected automatically. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread John Kennedy
On Monday 14 December 2009 15:50:55 John Meyer wrote: On 12/14/2009 12:09 PM, Howard Coles wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Peter Leebigaznp...@yahoo.com wrote: When I made my purchase, it said that it was on discount for around $20, yet I was charged nearly $40. The download also

[users] Unlisted file types

2009-12-14 Thread Sean
There are a few file types that are mentioned on the website but their purpose was unlisted. Can anyone tell me about any of these? Thanks. ,des,eng.ft.ih.lgt.ln3.MacOS.nt2.plf .prj.prt.set.sof.SSLeay.Static.tab .tpt .tsc.vms

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread Sean
- Original Message - From: John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Cc: John Meyer pueblonat...@opensuse.us Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [users] refund I keep seeing emails like this from people who complain then are never heard from again. Am

Re: [users] refund

2009-12-14 Thread John Meyer
On 12/14/2009 8:21 PM, John Kennedy wrote: I keep seeing emails like this from people who complain then are never heard from again. Am I the only one that thinks these are just trolls collecting email addresses or putting FUD into the archives to get some Google/Yahoo/whatever search engine

[users] Re: refund

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/14/2009 07:21 PM, John Kennedy wrote: ... I keep seeing emails like this from people who complain then are never heard from again. Am I the only one that thinks these are just trolls collecting email addresses or putting FUD into the archives to get some Google/Yahoo/whatever