Re: [users] possible to use OO as file conversion filter?

2005-02-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:24 pm, William Skaggs wrote: Hi, I'm a new subscriber to this list -- I've looked at the archives, but not seen anything that directly answers my question. I have been doing development for GIMP (the open source image editing program), and wonder whether

Re: [users] Concurrent Versions on FC2

2005-02-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:24 pm, Chris Hallinan wrote: Greetings fellow OO users, In searching, I found my question posted more than once, but never the answer. I'm writing a large manuscript on a deadline, and need the fallback and security of my stable version, which comes w/ FC2.

Re: [users] Digital Signature

2005-02-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:04 am, Rauf Abdul wrote: Could anyone tell me , how to use Digital signature in OOO. I tried the same through File-Digital Signature. But i don't know how to test whether it si added or not Thanks in advnce Abdul Rauf If you are talking about sending OOo

Re: [users] Digital Signature

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 17 February 2005 09:04 am, user86 wrote: Anthony E. Greene wrote: On 17-Feb-2005/03:57 -0700, Rauf Abdul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am talking about encryption. still i doubt-- save as with password option will protect the document with password. But nothing related to

Re: [users] How?

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 17 February 2005 07:06 am, nora batty wrote: Can someone please tell me how do I get on the users for help in access and excel Access and Excel are MS products. To get help with them, you need to go to Microsoft. If you are looking for help with using the OpenOffice.org office

Re: [users] JRE Required warning box loop.

2005-02-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 17 February 2005 01:26 pm, Benjamin Baez wrote: Hello, I went to View - Toolbars - Customize - ... Add Commands OpenOffice.org Macros - OpenOffice.org and got a warning box stating that JRE Required. I click OK, again, and again, and again :) Maybe about 15 times and then it

Re: [users] Little Bo-Peep's lost help

2005-02-18 Thread Dan Lewis
Top post: You have listed the same information more than once, but you have not given us any more information that we requested. If you do not know how to do what was requested, please say so. Which windows manager are you using? (Perhaps KDE or Gnome) Have you used your file manager

Re: [users] Send document as e-mail on Linux

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:37 pm, Khan wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 18:50 +0100, Khan wrote: Hello, I'm using OOo on several distribution at work home etc, but I dont know how to set up option Send document as e-mail. What should I put into program path,

Re: [users] Re: DATABASE SOFTWARE

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
Post: in line On Tuesday 22 February 2005 07:24 pm, Rod Engelsman wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Only if you purchase MSO-Pro or Access after the fact. See http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx#EEAA Yeah... I specifically said MSO Pro in my first post on this

Re: [users] problems with instructions on website for instally OO 2.0beta on linux

2005-03-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 07 March 2005 07:06 am, Aaron Sloman wrote: This page http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/instructions.html states Installation Steps 1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For example,Currently, the following command would unpack into the current

Re: [users] My System?

2005-03-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 10 March 2005 02:05 pm, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:34 +, Patrick Scully wrote: Hi- not sure who or where to turn to- I could be wasting your time- I was very impressed with home page of Openoffice but before I download the software could anyone out

Re: [users] Creating a new Database in 1.1.4

2005-03-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:33 pm, Matthew B. Howell, MOS wrote: Hello, I'm totally confused by the Help file. Is there a way to create a new database in 1.1.4 and, if so, how do I do it? Unfortunately, I do not understand most of the Database dialog boxes under the Data Source option. As

Re: [users] Re: opening document in writer

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:31 am, Dave Barton wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:45, Rod Engelsman wrote: Paul wrote: I'm using winxp, OOo1.1.4 and cannot reproduce what your saying. If I start writer then open another document using 'open' command, the initial blank document is replaced

Re: [users] Query re any possible installation conflicts with other software

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 14 March 2005 08:35 am, p s wrote: Hi, I've only recently heard of your OpenOffice suite - received on a sample CD from a series about 'Your PC at Home' (UK) and I was interested to view and evaluate it to compare with the currently installed MS Office suite (which if I recall

Re: [users] Mozilla-Ooffice-Integration: no window comes up

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Lewis
Post at the bottom. On Monday 14 March 2005 09:08 am, Bertram Franz wrote: Hi, Is there anyone who could give me some hints how to troubleshoot OOo 1.1.3 on Linux and why it does not open a window when started by mozilla (where does the window go?). (Is this the wrong list for

Re: [users] open office

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:20 pm, Rick Marks wrote: Dear Open Office, I have successfully installed Open Office, but I did it without Java. I just installed Java but now want to include Java in the open office programming to take advantage of all of Open Office's features. How do I do

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 13 March 2005 09:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am Interested in OpenOffice and have a question. I have received e-mails with pictures That need to be opened with Power Point. Can I open them with OpenOffice? I do not have Power Point on my computer. THANK YOU Robert

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 14 March 2005 06:30 pm, H. Ray Battels wrote: Can openoffice be used to edit PDF files? Ray In short, no. It can export documents as PDF files. Acrobat has a program that does this, but it is rather expensive. What can be done with OOo (openoffice) is to create the PDF file. As

Re: [users] 2.0 HSQLDB Table-Editing

2005-03-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 20 March 2005 01:41 pm, H. Talhammer wrote: Hi, I created a table in the built-in databes HSQLDB and saved it and put not yet data in the table. After that I can't change anything in the structure of the datafields, for example changing the size of a textfield. I can only add new

Re: [users] How can I see where an inserted picture is located on my HDD?

2005-03-28 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:39 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:37 +0200, Johnny Andersson wrote: Hi. Insert a picture, then select it and right click it. If I want to replace it with another picture, how can I do that? I can't find a way to see the search path

Re: [users] Re: seeking calc membership template

2005-04-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 31 March 2005 10:31 am, Duncan Lithgow wrote: I can think of two easy alternatives: 1. Depending on what the fields contain (I'm assuming basic name/address/phone type of stuff) then you may very well be able to use a Mozilla address book for this. OOo can connect very easily

Re: [users] Queston on Printing Envelopes

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 04 April 2005 10:42 am, PREMIERE FINANCIAL - Danny Taylor wrote: I have the open office system. I had been using the MicroSoft Word system. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to print envelopes with my address and the clients address. How do I do that? The next question is

Re: [users] Would the Open Office suite...

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 04 April 2005 02:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the Open Office suite install onto a data stick or thumb drive, as they are sometimes called. The Windows version of the programs. I have found that while OO Write can read MS Word documents, MS Word can't handle OO Write

Re: [users] MLA Formatting Question (Works Cited Related)

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 12:51 pm, Charles Pittman wrote: I have two questions: First, what is it called when every line after the first in a paragraph is indented? I believe that it is a hanging indent. Second, how does one achieve the above? I remember there being a specific option for

Re: [users] Documenting Envelope Printing

2005-04-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:22 pm, GC Fraser wrote: -Original Message- From: Dennis J. Tuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:48 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Documenting Envelope Printing On Wednesday 06 April 2005 15:17, G.

Re: [users] OOo-1.1.4: moving in spreadsheet

2005-04-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:33 am, Ennio-Sr wrote: Hi all! as my previous post on this item remains unanswered I feel as being the only one having this problem. OTOH, if this is the 'normal behaviour' it falls beyond my capacity to grasp its rationale and I couldn't find a clue in the

Re: [users] I saved a blank document over an importent one, can i get it back? please help, my wife will kill me.

2005-04-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:20 pm, Hallgeir Gustavsen wrote: i could really need som help here.. my wife had worked for a very long time om a document, and I saved over it, any chance of getting it back? i managed to get the file from c:/windows/system32/spool/printers/ so i got the file

Re: [users] [OOo2] Why Spellcheck is available in SpreadSheet but not in Database?

2005-04-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 14 April 2005 05:23 am, Ludovic Coumétou wrote: Hello, I don't know if I'm the only one to wonder that but why the spell checking is available on Spreadsheet but not in Database? Is it a technology restriction problem or is it just a forgotten feature? Regards, Ludovic

Re: [users] Turn off auto numbering in text document

2005-04-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 15 April 2005 01:16 am, Rich wrote: 1. press ctrl+z immediately after enter; 2. press enter second time; 3. use buttons in numbering toolbar (insert unnumbered entry and other); 4. in tools-autocorrect uncheck apply numbering... at 'options' tab :) James E. Lang wrote: I use

Re: [users] OOo 2 beta: Zoom doesn't always work

2005-04-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 15 April 2005 07:40 pm, Vincente Aggrippino wrote: Is this the correct list for OOo 2 beta feedback? Zoom doesn't always work in OOo 2 beta. This may be just in draw. I'll try to pay attention to the exact situation when it happens and reproduce it exactly. For now, here's the

Re: [users] Re: How do I uninstall the linux RPMs with mulitple core files?

2005-04-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 15 April 2005 08:33 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 09:26 -0400, Diane Mackay wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] I found the following useful: rpm -qa | grep openofficeorg rmlist that lists what is installed. The grep string will vary

Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] OpenOffice would not install to my computer

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 16 April 2005 11:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, you were right that OpenOffice was in StartPrograms, I found it there all right, but when I tried to install and run it I STILL had problems: Now I keep getting a message that I have to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Re: [users] JRE

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:45 pm, Oliver Lermen wrote: Dear madam, dear sir, I am having a problem getting a java runtime environment downloaded as freeware as I had it before my computer broke down and I had to completely reinstall all the programs. Does this software still exist as freeware

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 17 April 2005 04:52 pm, Charles Boehm wrote: Not certain I understand OpenSource. Can I use OpenOffice on my Mac? CBoehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] The simple answer is yes. If you want detailed information about where and how OpenOffice can be used, find the license for it on the

Re: [users] Graphics links not updated in Write

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 02:53 am, Alex Zachopoulos wrote: I am using X11 on Panther (MacOS X 10.3.8) and OOo 1.1.1 (I know, it's not the latest one available...) The problem I have is caused when, after I create a new Write document, on my template which has a full page graphic for a

Re: [users] Problem with v.1.9.93 Base

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 03:48 am, Andrew Cassels wrote: Hello, I have a problem, I want to open a .odb database, it opens but when I click with the Tables button, there is a error message saying: /The connection to the data source accounts could not be established. / /Error

Re: [users] Problem with auto recovery screen in 2.0 beta

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:14 pm, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: TANYANIKA LEWIS wrote: Hello, I am having a serious problem with the document auto recovery screen in OpenOffice 2.0 beta. The screen comes up for you to choose the document to recover and it tells you to click on the start

Re: [users] Screw up

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 18 April 2005 09:18 am, Orjan Henningson wrote: After I had downloaded OpenOffice, I noted that some of my WordPerfect files had been converted to OpenOffice files with no options to convert it back to WP without changing the format. When I think of the ones developing this program,

Re: Aw: Re: [users] Saving problems openoffice 2.0

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I received your response, but I didn't find any message, except the one that I sent to you. Kind regards - HDBender - Original Nachricht Von: help hints for unsubscribed users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded Perfect Pro Office by Cosmi and am now advised I have to download openoffice.org/1.1.4/index, so am doing this.I am trying to break up 30,000 line files into 10,000 line files so if I have 1 file now, I will have 3

Re: [users] Problem with auto recovery screen in 2.0 beta

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 09:40 am, Brian wrote: Dan Lewis wrote: I have similar problems with Win 98SE on a laptop. I have no such problems with the 1.1.79 or 1.1.90.1 on Windows 98SE, so I would suggerst it is not a Win98 problem Brian Would you please quote more of my email

Re: [users] OO 2.0 Beta (1.9.79) with binary

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 21 April 2005 04:12 am, Simon Ceh wrote: Sorry, I forgot the attachment. Kind regards, Simon - Original Message - Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: OO 2.0 Beta (1.9.79) Hello users/fans of OO! With OO 2.0 Beta I encountered folowing error(s):

Re: [users] OOo V2 - Cross referencing

2005-04-23 Thread Dan Lewis
Post in-line concerning cross-referencing. On Saturday 23 April 2005 08:14 am, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 05:45 +1000, Pierre wrote: I should know how, and can do it in 1.1x no sweat, but in version 2 I'm going crazy trying to get some basic cross referencing to

Re: [users] Position on Page Current File name, overlooking

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Lewis
Answer to a) inline. On Friday 22 April 2005 02:04 pm, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi List, - have I missed something here, I just can't seem to find how to a) see where my cursor is located (vertically) down from the top, i.e. noted in inches or centimeters Tools Options. Then

Re: [users] open office

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 22 April 2005 04:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each time i try to open my open office i get a error report saying --- get storage, name, no content. how do i fix that?? thank you, sue This information is available in the Setup Guide that came with open office. Do a search

Re: [users] PLEASE HELP ME!

2005-04-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 25 April 2005 08:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Whom it May Concern: I have a downloaded vrsion of Open Office and I am trying to create a database in the Open Office Base. I was told it was just like MS Access however...it's not. I created a table in designe view but when I

Re: [users] PLEASE HELP ME!

2005-04-26 Thread Dan Lewis
to make changes to the design of a table after I save it. If I decide that I want to add something new later on, I cant do it without having to re-do the entire thing. Is there a way around this that I'm just not figuring out? Please advise. Thanks So Much, Amanda --- On Mon 04/25, Dan Lewis lt

Re: [users] OpenOffice 1.0.2

2005-04-26 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 06:56 am, Albert A Rich III wrote: Support OpenOffice Suite Dear Sir or Madam: I have installed the OpenOffice 1.0.2 and it works good, but it have dominated my word program. I still want MS Word to be my primary text editor for now. How do I stop it from

Re: [users] CD Software Documentation

2005-05-02 Thread Dan Lewis
At www.OOoauthors.org, we are presently working on User Guides for version 2.0. Many of them are taking shape as I write this. There are plans to make this available as a download and later as a published book. http://documentation.openoffice.org is an excellant sourse of

Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] Problems

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
Click on this link: http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/026.html The information there will tell you what to do. Dan On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:05 pm, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi I have recentley been unable to get into any of my open office folders. I am getting an

Re: [users] Open Office questions

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:09 pm, Fiona McCutcheon wrote: Hi, Can you please help me with two questions: 1. I am running Open Office v 1.1.0 at present, and in order to get use of all the features I had to load a Java Runtime first. Is this still necessary with v 1.1.4, or do I get

Re: [users] my Microsoft Office

2005-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
Since you are not subscribed to this mailing list, you may have missed the following reply. I personally think you have been using MS Office before and are not having a problem with Open Office. Are you using the Beta of version 2.0? If so, you may have an earlier Beta which had that bug.

Re: [users] Dimensions in inches: need 2 decimal places

2005-05-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:48 am, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Orson Jones wrote: John Hardy wrote: Hello; There are many places where a dimension must be set, such as margins, tab stops, indents, line spacing, grid spacing, etc. But OO only provides two decimal places. This is very

Re: [users] Dimensions in inches: need 2 decimal places

2005-05-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 01:32 pm, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Dan Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 04 May 2005 11:48 am, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: [snip] [snip] You must be talking about Calc, as guessed by Tim above, and I'm talking about Writer! Thanks anyway. Peter HB In Writer

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:02 pm, J.G. wrote: I want this crappy software off my hard drive. BUT, there does not appear to be an uninstaller included. Since throwing visible files in the trash will not necessarily remove those not visible, I need to know how to remove OpenOffice entirely.

Re: [users] Md5 checksum

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:24 pm, Joe Marks wrote: What is the Md5 checksum? How is it used during a download of OpenOffice? md5sum (or md5sum.exe on Windows OS) checks the downloaded file to see if is the same as what is on the OOo mirrors. There are instructions on how to use it on

Re: [users] Icons

2005-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 05 May 2005 04:29 am, Margaret Baillie wrote: When I put the arrow over any icon on open office the purpose of the icon doesn't show up in words any more. How can I get this back. Thank You Margaret Baillie Click on Help and then on Tips. Dan

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 07 May 2005 06:41 am, Carolyn Bruce wrote: I have received a text document file prepared in OpenOffice 1.1.2. I cannot simply open it in Word, which I use. How can I access the document? Carolyn HALE BRUCE The easier thing to do is to request the person who sent the

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 09 May 2005 10:24 am, Noel Lavery wrote: Hi, I am unable to gain access to my Open Office. I get an error GetStorage,name. No Content. I have a lot of spresdsheets I just can loose. Please help me. Kind regards Noel It is a FAQ on the web site:

Re: [users] oo and Tiger

2005-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 09 May 2005 11:10 am, Bill Joanne Euler wrote: I used to run OpenOffice with Panther but when I installed Tiger all that ended. My question is, will oo run on my iMac G5 and Tiger? I get this when I try to open the program: Have you installed X-11 with Tiger. If not,

Re: [users] Re: Where are paragraph styles kept?

2005-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 09 May 2005 05:05 pm, Paul B. wrote: Doug Thompson wrote: Paul B. wrote: Doug Thompson wrote: ---(big snip)--- I think I have to disagree. When you open the document that was saved as a template and then the Styles and Formatting list (formerly, Stylist) the new and

Re: [users] Draw using pixels

2005-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 09 May 2005 08:46 am, Derek Duban wrote: I use OpenOffice as much as I can but now I have a bewildering problem: How do I work with pixels in Draw? Like many people I want to do graphics for the web. Places in the OpenOffice.org website mention web graphics but there is not a

Re: [users] OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.5

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:18 am, Craig Adams wrote: OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.5 14 September, 2005 - 16H00 UTC OpenOffice.org is proud to announce the immediate availability of the new 1.1.5 version of the award-winning open source office suite. This new version is

Re: [users] autopilot help..

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 12:29 pm, Wesley Allen wrote: Hi all, Here's my question - directions and help would be most appreciated... Every week our secretary creates a bulletin for use at Church. She does a good job, but just keeps over-writing the same file (invariably

Re: [users] Mac support

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:52 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the claimed multi platform capability of OO extend to Apple OS 10.x? From another member of this mailing list: Yes, sort of.  There is a true Mac version but it's tricky to install. A better option

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Replying to list

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:39 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:32:28 +0100 CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:39, Michael Adams wrote: Ah-ha... Hence the two reply to's in your headers. Note that mails with the header Delivered=to:

Re: [users] Writer: turn on/off page headers on a per-page basis?

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:29 am, Paul_B wrote: It doesn't seem possible to turn page headers on and off on a per-page basis, but only for the entire document. And editing page headers seems possible on an odd/even page, entire document basis. This doesn't seem appropriate. What about

Re: [users] OpenOffice Questions

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 15 September 2005 09:45 pm, Jonathon Blake wrote: Dale wrote: Format is not found on the toolbar. It is found on the menu bar. It can be accessed by: i) Function toolbar. ii) Menu bar iii) TRCL F11 Should this be CTRLF11? xan jonathon

Re: [users] Working with Master Slides in Impress

2005-09-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 16 September 2005 04:21 pm, Robert Volke wrote: I am working with OpenOffice version 109 on an NT box. I have put together two master slides in Impress, one of which I named title, and the other I named Body. I applied the master designs to my slides and the border image has

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 17 September 2005 04:18 pm, ann wrote: I have tried to download the openoffice program for one of my classes as I've been told that it is compatible to the Microsoft Office and Excel, but each time it shows that it will take between 4-6 hours to download - is there something I

Re: [users] Join two tables on printed report?

2005-09-17 Thread Dan Lewis
Bottom post On Saturday 17 September 2005 09:43 pm, Fred Frazelle wrote: Dear Pablo -- Thanks a lot for your indications. i checked them out and they would be great for someone with quite a bit of computing skill and knowledge but one of the things i´m hoping to see with this new

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:37 pm, Dale Erwin wrote: Ross Hammond wrote: Hi I just downloaded Ubuntu 5.10 which comes with Open Office 2. It has no help files though. I just want to know how to make a root sign such as 2(squared)=4 3(cubed)=27. Trivial, I know. I was just

Re: [users] [moderated]

2005-09-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:54 pm, tommy ellis wrote: I am stumped. I can create a spreadsheet using openoffice 1.1, but i cannot reopen that spreadsheet to see what is on it or to change it. I think that i need ODBC data sources to open the spreadshee, but i do not know what DRIVER i

Re: [users] Location of Executables

2005-09-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 18 September 2005 05:03 pm, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: I just followed the intallation procedure and installed 2.0 on my Red Hat operating system . I searched for th oowriter and oocalc and no such files exist. Where are those files located? Evan They should be in

Re: [users] equations

2005-09-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 19 September 2005 03:26 am, Peter Huesser wrote: Hello I just wanted to add an equation within a line of text using Insert - Object - Formula of Openoffice Version 2 beta. Unfortunately this formula is somehow embedded in a Frame and I always have some Text (Illustration :)

Re: [users] RTF files inport from word

2005-09-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 19 September 2005 07:34 am, Carsten Holck wrote: Hi, I have tried to import some rtf files composen in word, one feature that are not comming correctly through is Form Text - the contents are only displayed is boxes as if the font was not available. Anyone have any ideas to rectify

Re: [users] TOC links and PDF numbers

2005-09-19 Thread Dan Lewis
The question I may be able to answer but definitely not the possible bug. Comment in-line. On Monday 19 September 2005 08:15 am, Majeed M wrote: One question and one bug. First, the question: Why you don't make OOo generates TOC WITH LINKS (just like M$ Office Word) automatically instead of

Re: [users] Re: [webmasters] Word processor colours V1

2005-09-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 19 September 2005 08:34 pm, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hello, On Sep 16, 2005, at 7:53 AM, Philip de Jong wrote: Hello - on the word processor I have been unable to find how to put a different colour into the characters of a text. At the moment there is only one colour on the

Re: [users] Looking for a gentle introduction to Base

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 05:50 am, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody here please recommend to me a gentle introduction to Base? Thanks in advance, Paul http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html Read Chapter 10: Getting Started with Base. It might be of

Re: [users] Is this a bug? Icon Text

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Lewis
Here is something that might help you. Make sure that Tips is checked (ticked). Then when you put your cursor over the icon, its description apears. In 1.1.x, Tips is found at Tools Tips. Make sure it has a check (tick) mark in front of it. (Help Agent probably should be checked

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Wizard Multiple records per page

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:59 am, Marcus Ilgner wrote: Hello again, in a previous post I remarked about strange page numbering issues after using the Mail Merge Wizard. Though in the case mentioned, the wizard was effectively the wrong solution, I'm now in a situation where I really

Re: [users] Version 1.1.0 / all files locked, program will NOT start - HELP!!

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:30 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:42:35 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help!! I am using 1.1.0 OpenOffice.org and my unit locked up and upon restarting the system now all my OpenOffice documents will not open and I

Re: [users] Calc: is this a bug?

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 02:12 pm, David Chapman wrote: FWIW, Excel has same output. Dave On 9/20/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have a squared array with the following elements: 1,2,3,8. When I apply the formula {=IF(AND(A1:B22;A1:B24);yes;no)} I get a

Re: [users] Re: Calc: is this a bug?

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Lewis
)*(A1:B24)} On 9/21/05, Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 02:12 pm, David Chapman wrote: FWIW, Excel has same output. Dave On 9/20/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have a squared array with the following elements: 1,2,3,8

Re: [users] Impress start differences

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 12:47 pm, Gregory Forster wrote: Hello I use OpenOffice 1.9.125. HW=AMD1800+,512DDR,40Ghd OS=WinXP Pro+SP2 I've been trying the Load OpenOffice.org during startup primarily to see how it effects load and execute times for both initial bootup and program

Re: [users] Reg: Supporting centre in india

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 06:44 am, mathanraj sankar wrote: Dear Sir, Myself is Mathanraj. I have worked in private concern. we need to buy Open Office2.0 software. I need price list and supporting center in india. with regards, Mathanraj.S From another member of this mailing

Re: [users] Nice to see MS Word password support working partially, but...

2005-09-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:07 pm, Matthew Trent wrote: ... I really wish the MS Word export with password protection was there! I was hoping to convert my organization over to OOo, but they are used to using MS Word passwords to protect sensitive documents. Not that the protection is any

Re: [users] Re: Save to this current path(Not My docs)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 23 September 2005 11:47 am, GregChi wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:35:08 -0400, Paul_B wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:27:59 -0400, GregChi wrote: I have a file/template in F:\Recipes\4x6 cards\_Recipe4x6.odt. I want to load this template, insert new data(ingred/instructions) then

Re: [users] Opening documents

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 23 September 2005 06:35 am, Anne Shaw wrote: I can no longer open my text documents???please help Anne If the error message contains the phrase, No Content, then follow the instructions found in this document: http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/026.html

Re: [users] Tutorials

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not familiar with the copyrite laws regarding openoffice but I was wondering if it would be legal if I made tutorials on how to do different things with open office and published them to the web? From another member of this

Re: [users] PDF and photo issues

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 23 September 2005 01:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two issues I have with Open Office 1.9.125 1. When using the one click PDF creation options it's all find and great ... except that the PDF opens at 200% size. I want it to open fit to screen or if that option can't be given

Re: [users] How to maintain trailing zeros when concatenating cells

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Friday 23 September 2005 04:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I concatenate two cells, containing Jan in one, and 56.0540 (as a numerical format, with 4 decimal places), I get: Jan56.054. I would like it to display as Jan56.0540 (with the trailing zero). I have tried a number of

Re: [users] How to maintain trailing zeros when concatenating cells

2005-09-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 24 September 2005 10:38 am, Brian wrote: Brian said the following on 25/9/2005 1:19 AM: When I concatenate two cells, containing Jan in one, and 56.0540 (as a numerical format, with 4 decimal places), I get: Jan56.054. I would like it to display as Jan56.0540 (with the

Re: [users] Writer: Outline View

2005-09-24 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 24 September 2005 11:54 am, Paul_B wrote: I'm trying to nail down some Writer basics so I can convince my daughter she would be better off with OOo than with purchasing MO. I've got to tell you, I've been immersed in computers for 22 years, and I have a difficult time, again and

Re: [users] export to PDF with password-protection

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 24 September 2005 01:27 pm, Natalia Wolyczko wrote: Hello everybody, I wonder to know if it is possible on my OpenOffice v1.9.122 (Windows) to build PDF file with protection (no printing, no texty copy). Thanks in advance. From two members of this mailing list: (They have the same

Re: [users] Inserting Section Break

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Saturday 24 September 2005 02:11 pm, aschubert wrote: Could you please tell me how to insert a section break in Open Office? I'd like to be able to use one column on part of my page and two columns on another part of the same page. I've already tried HELP. Thank you very much. Marilyn

Re: [users] what licence type is open office?

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 25 September 2005 06:56 am, askash patel wrote: Hi, I was wondering what licence type open office is? Is it site, stand alone, shareware , freeware or other (please specify). Can you also tell me what i can do with the licence? Thanks The license for OpenOffice.org is LGPG,

Re: [users] PANNE

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sunday 25 September 2005 03:36 pm, JB-L wrote: BONJOUR, OPEN OFFICE ORG NE MARCHE PLUS, APRES PLUSIEURS MOIS D'UTILISATION SANS FAILLE J'UTILISE LA VERSION 1.1.4 DES LE DEMARRAGE DE WINDOWS (A FROIDS) JE RECOIDS LE MESSAGE D'ERREUR SUIVANT : IMPOSSIBLE DE DEMARRER OPEN OFFICE ORG :

Re: [users] what licence type is open office?

2005-09-26 Thread Dan Lewis
. However, OOo 1.1.5 is still licensed under both LGPL and SISSL. 1.1.5 will be the last version to use the SISSL. (Read the license that comes with 1.1.5 to be sure.) Dan On 9/25/05, Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 06:56 am, askash patel wrote: Hi, I

Re: [users] Problem

2005-09-26 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 26 September 2005 05:47 am, Tony Ross wrote: Can any one help, I can not start open office. I get a message an error has occured in cofigeration data. Getstorage.name. No content. Thanks Tony Instructions on how to cope with this problem are in our FAQ section. Please see

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