Re: [users] The new website in Firefox

2005-04-24 Thread Cameron Smith
Hello Bashar I don't think there is anything wrong with your settings of Firefox. Firefox renders HTML and XHTML closer to the W3C standards than IE does. Bashar wrote: Hi, The new OOo site appears widely streched in my FireFox 1.0.3 yet looks quite normal in IE. Is there something wrong with

Re: [users] Details of the new website in Firefox 1.0.3

2005-04-25 Thread Cameron Smith
appeared as wonderfully in all its glory. Making these details I've just given redundent. So I think you can dismiss this Cameron Cameron Smith wrote: Greetings Following my reply to Bashar about the new website in Firefox. I would like to provide some details for the website project crew

[users] How can I recheck a word in spellchecker of 2.0

2005-11-16 Thread Cameron Smith
I have updated from OO 1.1.x to the current 2.0 And I think this new version is Great. I would like to know if it is possible to recheck a word using the spell checker in 2.0 In 1.1.x there was a handy icon to indicate is the word was spelled correctly and you could put in various spellings

Re: [users] Upgrading from V1.5

2005-11-26 Thread Cameron Smith
in the installation and you may also need to download any foreign language dictionarys you may use (if you use languages other than U.S English) as these also did not seem to transfer across) You should be impressed with the good work they did for v2.0 :) Cameron Smith

Re: [users] Want to be a member

2007-03-31 Thread Cameron Smith
While I think the whole community would like to see you complete step 4 it is not neseccary to remove MS Office Immediately. OpenOffice and MS Office can reside on the same machine. If they're both on the same machine you may not want OO to load (open) MS format files by default. Just choose to

Re: [users] Why no OOo 2.2 announcement?

2007-03-31 Thread Cameron Smith
There Was One. It ended up being rather long Summary of the 2.2 Announcement OO 2.2 released OO 2.2 Main Feature Improvements across all platforms OO is also A Community Ended up looking a bit of A PR Press Release Statement Cameron On 30/03/07, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed

[users] I want OO 2.2 without JRE please

2007-03-31 Thread Cameron Smith
I just tried to download OpenOffice 2.2 following the link from the announcement =download page But Chose to cancel the download The Download page states for windows 93 MB and I assume thats OO w/out JRE (ie it's the same size as many other previous releases) but the link when I click downloads

Re: [users] Re: Why no OOo 2.2 announcement?

2007-03-31 Thread Cameron Smith
The msg Title was OpenOffice.org announces Version 2.2 I'm not sure of the mgs number On 30/03/07, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/29/2007 06:03 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Thursday March 29 2007 7:51 pm, NoOp wrote: Just noticed the recent questions regarding install etc., for 2.2 this

[users] Re: I want OO 2.2 without JRE please

2007-03-31 Thread Cameron Smith
SOLVED I solved my own problem I just found the include JRE with Download checkbox (on by default) On 30/03/07, Cameron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to download OpenOffice 2.2 following the link from the announcement =download page But Chose to cancel the download The Download

Re: [users] had to reinstall openoffice due to computer malfunction

2008-03-18 Thread Cameron Smith
://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease24 It looks like the release is now set for 20 March 2008. Cameron Smith On 16/03/2008, RICHARD IWANOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Users: I started to use the Open Office suite last month and was glad to contribute $49.00 went I downloaded

Re: [users] convert OO presentation to video on DVD.

2008-03-20 Thread Cameron Smith
but That is what I did Cameron Smith On 20/03/2008, Paul Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Open Office presentation, with sound files attached to the various slides. I would like to convert it to video in a form that can be put on a DVD and displayed on an ordanary TV using a consumer DVD

Re: [users] New OOo Website/design

2008-03-26 Thread Cameron Smith
Looks calm and Approchable Just an initial quick skim The news page looks a little inconsistent compared with the other pages (The left margin??) The Download Page is better and the development snapshots more accessable is good On the Homepage Maybe something on the homepage about What OOo

Re: [users] When did OOo 2.4 come out?

2008-03-27 Thread Cameron Smith
Well the New OOo website is now a day old and the OOo release of 2.4 is a shorter than that. A new Web site hand in hand with a new OOo version. There the absolute latest and your one of the first to use both in mint condition. Cameron On 28/03/2008, web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was

Re: [users] OOo is free to get, free to use--why is that not generally known?

2007-11-23 Thread Cameron Smith
On 22/11/2007, Leslie Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just a thought-- This list has seen during my brief time here quite a few postings talking about purchasing OOo, getting license keys, shady offers to buy OOo on eBay and in other places, etc. Now I know that in a caveat emptor

Re: [users] Re: Does this open a Mic. Office document?

2008-01-29 Thread Cameron Smith
Your Daughter will be able to open all her previous Microsoft Office Files. The ones that have a *.doc/*.xls/*.ppt file extension. If your Daughter starts using Microsoft Office 12 (a.k.a Microsoft Office 2007) She is going to have to save any documents she want's to use at school or share with

Re: [users] Ryan Cartwright on OOo 3

2008-02-10 Thread Cameron Smith
Not That I use the features of impress much but he mentions 3.0 will allow multiple monitors for impress. Didn't this get added in 2.1 or 2.2? Cameron On 10/02/2008, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List members might find Ryan Cartwright's Free Software Magazine article (*

Re: [users] Installing without Internet connection

2007-08-09 Thread Cameron Smith
Unfortunately you would need to download the entire file (100meg) again. If your updating from v 2.2 just running the file and having it install over the existing installation is fine Cameron Smith On 09/08/2007, Nathaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope you don't mind me tagging along here

Re: [users] .rtf support?

2007-04-19 Thread Cameron Smith
Unfortunately The entire bundle has to be downloaded, however you can just install the Writer module of the package by using the custom install rather than the full/fast or express install. On the next screen you can tell it to install only writer (make sure the other modules show a red X beside

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind

2006-03-08 Thread Cameron Smith
has tabs, blocks pop-ups Use Instead of MS IE Your point of multiple versions coexisting is a good-one I have 1.1.5 (use for the smaller sized PDF that are exported alongside 2.0.1 (and I forgot about that point) Cameron Smith

Re: [users] OpenOffice Base Files Shared with MS Users

2006-04-10 Thread Cameron Smith
different formats I also would like to know how make a copy of an OpenOffice Base File that can be shared with Microsoft Users. Cameron Smith web.kracked wrote: Personally I would see how many customers would like to change to Open Office I deal with several Historical Societies and other

Re: [users] open clipart library

2009-03-10 Thread Cameron Smith
I have to say I thought the first link I gave was quite explicit. It seems to give rather detailed instructions. What do you mean I have *it* downloaded ...? What is it. I don't think there is an it in this context. As to Scribus, perhaps you should ask in its support forums/lists/... To

[users] Re: Windows 64 bit version?

2011-06-20 Thread Cameron Smith
On 20 June 2011 01:03, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: RA Brown wrote: James Knott wrote: A friend recently bought a new computer and she'll be wanting me to install OpenOffice (and some other apps) on it.  The computer came with 64 bit Windows 7.  Is there a 64 bit Windows