not looked back. Still, I
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On 07/29/2010 08:40 PM, RA Brown wrote:
Mark C. Miller wrote:
Every file that is sent to me from outside sources opens as read
only. I've sent myself files and verified that the file permissions
were not set to read only. When I open the mail at home, it opens as
read only. This holds true
believe this is right. Can anyone suggest a solution?
My interim method is to use save as to save the read only copy of
the file, then open the saved file. Thats getting to be a pain in the butt.
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downloading from the official OpenOffice.org web site -
download.openoffice.org
With a little more information one of the power users here can give you
a hand.
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you can provide.
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Internet Scavenger Hunt - mc miller.odt
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
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On 07/15/2010 09:37 PM, NoOp wrote:
On 07/15/2010 03:09 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
Let me preface this by stating that I have already reviewed the material
in two books I own: Getting Started with OpenOffice.org3 and Writer
Guide. Both are printed versions of the on-line help site.
What I need
On 07/16/2010 09:00 AM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
I had a problem earlier with getting fontworks to work. NoOp came
through with a solution for that.
Now I'm having another formatting problem.
I'm creating a worksheeet for one of the classes I teach. It's a series
of questions with space
to get the Fontworks inserted first.
TIA
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To whom are you trying to submit the template?
It's also helpful to know which version of OOo you're using, operating
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On 06/23/2010 08:49 PM, NoOp wrote:
On 06/23/2010 11:04 AM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
rant on
...
/rant off
I appreciate your help, especially when it takes me a page and a half to
say help?.
mcm
Interesting... every time that I've provided some assist you've never
responded; including
can't believe this is so
difficult. I guess with anything powerful, this is to be expected.
/rant off
I appreciate your help, especially when it takes me a page and a half to
say help?.
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Anyone have a link to the past discussions?
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page styles every time I use OOo is getting to
be a pain.
10. Anyone have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong?
tnx
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On 06/14/2010 03:26 PM, HM Paul wrote:
Apple shop could not tell me what the program is useful for.
Keystone is, to the best of my knowledge, is the presentation software
package, like powerpoint or openoffice.org Impress,
Beyond that, I can't help you ... I don't use a Mac.
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it.
Another thought, if someone still has it on their machine, can you
forward it to me?
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I'm running 3.2 on Ubuntu UNR 10.04.
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On 06/06/2010 06:26 PM, jamescarson wrote:
Does it support a compatible FrontPage or similar? for my web editing. JJC
There's a nice little program call KompoZer. I know if from Ubuntu, but
I seem to remember there is also a windows version.
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seem to recall it was to setup
a style, but I'm not doing that correctly as the same thing happens.
How do I, by default, keep OOo from indenting/numbering for me when I
don't want it to?
thanks for your patience
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On 06/04/2010 04:50 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
I've been reading about default templates/styles for the past hour and
am totally lost.
I set up a default template (or is it a style -- I am so confused I
can't tell anymore). It's got my font, margins, toolbar buttons the way
I want it. I made
I've got a question regarding the effect of doing an upgrade to Ubuntu
10.04.
I got into OOo when I installed Ubuntu 9.04 after playing around with
8.10 a little. I stayed with 9.04 version through the debacle that was
9.10. Now that 10.04 is out and apparently stable (and the LTS version
On Mon, 17 May 2010 19:47:51 +, Abdul Hai wrote:
When I try to open files it asks me to save them and gives the following
file name Wd003 I want to open them but not save them how do I go
about doing this?
One of the problems I have when downloading files from fellow teachers
who
One of the hardest sells I face in trying to get Open Office.org
adopted in my school's [English] department is the complaint that legacy
MS PowerPoint files would not run well in OOo Impress. This was
especially when the presentation had embedded sound.
I'm getting ready to fight this battle
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:55:50 -0700, Barb Griffith wrote:
I want to uninstall OpenOffice. But my computer will not do it. What
can I do? Please help! Thank you,
Barbara
What operating system are you using?
Windows is add/remove program (as others have pointed out)
Ubuntu is through the
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:46:54 -0400, Daniel Lewis wrote:
If you do this, you will also want to add the Templates and
Documents icon to the Standard toolbar. This makes it easy to access the
template.
Dan
I've spent the last few minutes going through all the options I can find
for
I created a number of templates (besides default, I have them to set
margins spacing for academic writing, for different fonts, and one for
bullets). I presumed, wrongly, that when I used F11 to call up styles
and formatting that my various templates would appear, just like default
does. I
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:41:34 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
They are probably in one of the system font folders. Check out what came
with your window manager and X server.
I'd also like to add a font to the list but it's in opentype font
format (.oft) (according to the Linux file
Back when I used Windows, there was a view option or shareware utility (I
forget which) that allowed you to actually see a preview of the file you
selected. It was a real time saver.
Does anyone know of a similar utility for OOo for *NIX?
mcm
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:02:07 +, Brian Barker wrote:
Like me, Microsoft don't appear to have heard of their product called
SlideShow; do you know something we don't?
Brian Barker
believe it's called the powerpoint viewer. it used to be packaged with
powerpoint and the license allowed
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:06:49 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
f you checked the headers you could deduce that he is using MS Windows.
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
I keep seeing references to this ability to tell if the user is
subscribed and/or what OS is being used. I can't see
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:03:44 -0500, Roger T. Reynolds wrote:
Please Help!
How do I uninstall the OPENOFFICE 3.1.0 suite?
Thanks
Roger Reynolds
Norcross, GA
What operating system are you using? That makes a difference.
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:54:33 -0800, drscott398 wrote:
I have tried to use the download arrangement today, even attending to
the ' survey ' but when clicking on download the time clock does not
move beyond 56 minutes and 30 seconds ! ?
Can you please advise.Regards
Not quite sure here;
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:54:33 -0800, drscott398 wrote:
I have tried to use the download arrangement today, even attending to
the ' survey ' but when clicking on download the time clock does not
move beyond 56 minutes and 30 seconds ! ?
Can you please advise.Regards
think I hit reply too
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:49:13 +1300, Michael Adams wrote:
On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:02, Linda Lowther wrote:
Hello:
Thank you very much for open office. I need to open and print a
presentation for work that is in created in Word. When I try to open
the completed presentation it looks
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:10:16 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-01-26 11:36 AM, NoOp wrote:
Sorry, that was incomplete... I'd like to just have it open in
read-only mode, like older versions did.
Well... it was even more complete without OS and OOo version. :-)
Dang, and I'm usually pretty
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:47:21 -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
RA Brown [mailto:rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net] replied:
John Meyer wrote:
I had a thought. Would it be helpful to create an
installation video for
OpenOffice and post up a link on the front page of OpenOffice.org?
John,
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:37:02 -0500, James Greenidge wrote:
On 1/13/10 11:27 AM, NoOp wrote:
On 01/12/2010 05:58 AM, James Greenidge wrote:
Happy New Year
I have PPC OOo 3.1 on MacOS 10.4.11 and despite the OOo Writers Forum
and others, I just can't find a way to embed .mov files (1.5
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:54:41 +0100, James Wilde wrote:
On Jan 14, 2010, at 01:30 , Richard Detwiler wrote:
t...@seedfield.co.uk wrote:
Dear Sir/Madame,
Tia:
Barbara gave excellent advice on how to do page numbering in OpenOffice
Writer. (Basically two steps, like she said: Insert
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:11:37 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Also, ensure the power is disconnected while cleaning a computer.
Actually, if I don't have a ground-only cable handy (that I made from a
regular power cable) then I prefer to leave the electricity connected
so long
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:22:35 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:35:29 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 1/4/2010 10:24 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2010/01/05 3:16 AM Sean wrote:
- Original Message -
From
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:35:29 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 1/4/2010 10:24 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2010/01/05 3:16 AM Sean wrote:
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I recently needed to type some material vertically. It was for the end
of binders.
I spent half-an-hour in OOo trying to get the document to set to no
spacing; couldn't do it. Ended up going to Word 07 and did it there.
Took me all of two minutes.
What am I missing in OOo? This is the
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:17:57 -0800, NoOp wrote:
On 12/31/2009 01:45 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
I recently needed to type some material vertically. It was for the
end of binders.
I spent half-an-hour in OOo trying to get the document to set to no
spacing; couldn't do it. Ended up going
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:20:56 +, Brian Barker wrote:
At 21:45 31/12/2009 +, Mark C. Miller wrote:
I recently needed to type some material vertically. It was for the
end of binders. [...] I spent half-an-hour in OOo trying to get the
document to set to no spacing; couldn't do it.
Er
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everything from scratch in case of a crash. I mean,
that's the point of having a back-up, right?
Or would it be better to post this on the ubuntu user list?
tnx
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to recall 1/2 for l 1 for J and 1 1/2 for W (for example)
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as someone once said google is our friend.
FYI this is a list for questions pertaining to the OpenOffice.org
software suite.
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the parameters that come to
mind have been checked and are correct.
Any idea of how to control the language of the toolbar? I'd like to
change it back to English pending the reimage process.
Tnx
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in the hopes
that he's still monitoring the group.
I apologize to everyone for taking up your time/bandwidth.
mcm
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I've bitten the
bullet and come to ya'll. As has been the case many times in the past, I
appreciate your help.
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/paul
When I find art work I like, what directory do I put it in? I don't want
it scattered over several directories -- I hate chasing the stuff down.
I want everything in one directory that the program knows to look in.
tnx
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Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request POST/upload
I'm not using a proxy server.
I haven't seen any other messages about this, and I'm a complete idiot
about this stuff.
Suggestions?
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That way you don't have to worry about doing the translations.
regards
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or
his a website that will combine the files for you
http://www.mergepdf.net/
hope this helps
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audit of software that is freely
available and distributable. That would be beyond their remit..
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are doing a software audit? :D
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don't teach our children the important
stuff. Too busy playing sports.
My hats off to everyone. What a great community!
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Thanks again for all your help.
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to this message and deleting it from your
computer without copying or disclosing it.
Why not just export your OOo file as PDF? I do it all the time for my
students and it works fine.
mcm
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under styles and formatting. Nope.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
thanks for your help.
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:13:20 -0700, JOE Conner wrote:
Mark C. Miller wrote:
I've spent the past several hour pouring over everything I can find on
templates and can't figure them out.
I've created a default template that is based on Modern Library
Association (MLA) standards.
I've created
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:52:52 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
JOE Conner wrote:
Mark C. Miller wrote:
I've spent the past several hour pouring over everything I can find on
templates and can't figure them out.
I've created a default template that is based on Modern Library
Association (MLA
- opened OOo and they work with no issues.
I looked; I don't have a .fonts directory. If I create on, then put some
fonts in it, is OOo smart enough to find them?
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users. I hope someday I can add substantially to the exchanges that take
place here.
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I'm a school teacher and would like to make copies of OOo available to
my students to install on their home computers.
I downloaded the ISO for OOo (it's now only available in DVD form
according to the webs site I linked
alternative to Gimp for
powerusers?
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gmail. I've been tearing my hair out trying to find out where/how to set
it so it goes to gmail -- it wants to use evolution; I don't.
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Office is a scam some outfit is running where they have
rebranded Open Office. You should be downloading directly from the Open
Office site (download.openoffice.org)
Did you get any error messages when you downloaded either time?
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, despite insults and discredit attempts
from some Renaissance/RibbOOon/Ribbon lovers
n=296 out of how many users? Doesn't sound like the petition will have
much impact. Maybe we should start getting used to the idea?
mcm
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It should look like:
1. Question
a.
b.
c.
d.
Instead I'm getting:
1. Question
a.
b.
c.
d.
Tab settings appear to be the same throughout (thanks
Gene for that tip).
regsards
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time. I know
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Why would I keep getting set back to flush left on the third and forth
lines?
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As a result I can only save as .odt.
Anyone have any thoughts as to how I can restore the pull down ?
OO 3.1.0 build 9399
Win XP SP3
bill
Arfe you by chance opening a read only file?
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know that OOo would really be suited
for developing a full-blown web page. There are other F/OSS choices
(Like Kompozer) that are probably better suited.
mcm
nvu?
As I understand it, nvu is no longer supported; Kompozer is the
replacement.
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one of the
Word formats. You can also export your OOo file as a PDF and send it
that way.
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doing wrong (most likely, I admit) or
something that you have already identified as an annoyance. If you don't
feel like writing a book -- how about just a list of examples?
tnx
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listings --- You will have to scroll down several pages.)
jonathon
Yea! Yet another reason to use Ubuntu!
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it XP, I could probably figure it out.
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function of which newsreader one picks?
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called sun presenter console. Not had the need to try it, but the
description says it will do what you want. http://
extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen
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this feature.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
tnx
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the ssh session and invoke OOo?
I know next to nothing about anything I just said, so pointers are
welcome.
In each case, I'm using ubuntu 9.04 as an OS and OOo Ubuntu version 3.0.1
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with the installation you can ask
here. There are lots of nice folks to help. They've bailed me out more
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the slides to change every six seconds, so if I set the song as the
sound, it samples the first six seconds and then recycles when the slide
changes.
Is there a way to have a sound track embedded in the presentation?
tnx
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I'd like to keep the clip art AND the sounds, bullets, etc.
If this makes any sense, does anyone have any ideas of what I'm doing
wrong?
tnx
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can't find them. I've looked there and in draw without
success.
This sounds so simple, but it's got me stumped. Any help you can provide
will be greatly appreciated.
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please excuse a dumb question from a noob -- I've looked at the on-line
documentation and am just as confused as when I started.
I downloaded and installed an extension with a bunch of universal danger
signs. Now I want to insert
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