[users] Re: Inserting a page before a table

2011-05-17 Thread william drescher
On 5/16/2011 8:44 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: william drescherwill...@techservsys.com To: users@openoffice.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:44:38 -0400 On 5/15/2011 3:45 PM, Richard Detwiler wrote: On 5/14/2011 11:01 AM, william drescher wrote: I have a form

[users] Re: Inserting a page before a table

2011-05-16 Thread william drescher
On 5/15/2011 3:45 PM, Richard Detwiler wrote: On 5/14/2011 11:01 AM, william drescher wrote: I have a form that consists of one table. The table starts at the very beginning of the page. I can not figure out how to insert a new page before the table. I can't get the cursor outside of the table

[users] Inserting a page before a table

2011-05-15 Thread william drescher
I have a form that consists of one table. The table starts at the very beginning of the page. I can not figure out how to insert a new page before the table. I can't get the cursor outside of the table at the top. How ? Thanks in advance. Bill --

[users] .ods file opening strangely

2010-11-12 Thread william drescher
I have a calc file that I have been using, updating it each month. This month when I went to open it in calc, when it opens it looks like a writer table (all the cell identifiers disappear) and I can not edit it at all. Clicking on a cell does nothing. It is NOT read-only. Environment:

[users] Re: .ods file opening strangely

2010-11-12 Thread william drescher
On 11/12/2010 1:25 PM, william drescher wrote: I have a calc file that I have been using, updating it each month. This month when I went to open it in calc, when it opens it looks like a writer table (all the cell identifiers disappear) and I can not edit it at all. Clicking on a cell does

[users] Re: What is the use case for multiple sheets in Calc?

2010-11-02 Thread william drescher
On 11/1/2010 5:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Why does calc support multiple sheets in a single document? What is the use case? Thanks. Gradesheets: master sheet that has points available for each activity as of now. The number of points changes each week of the term 1 sheet per student. bill

[users] Calc, rotating axes

2010-08-31 Thread william drescher
I have a csv file (3 rows x 25 columns) which when I read it in, displays across the page, as expected. But I would like to change the display so the columns become rows, ie: so that it displays down the page. I am sure there is an easy way to do this, but I don't know what it is. bill

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/26/2010 11:41 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/25/2010 09:56 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.25 18:02 -0500, NoOp wrote: ... http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Form_controls_reference I have no doubt that you have a better

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/25/2010 7:18 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Monday 23 August 2010 23:00, william drescher wrote: [snip] The problem I see with defining a paragraph indent is that I potentially have 150 different paragraphs, which would require 150 different style definitions. Is that 150 different

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/27/2010 6:08 AM, william drescher wrote: On 8/26/2010 11:41 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/25/2010 09:56 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.25 18:02 -0500, NoOp wrote: ... http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/27/2010 12:19 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/27/2010 03:15 AM, william drescher wrote: On 8/27/2010 6:08 AM, william drescher wrote: On 8/26/2010 11:41 PM, NoOp wrote: ... Do those not work for you? They work, but when I print a page with form fields on it, the field is bordered with line

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/27/2010 7:53 AM, Michael Adams wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 22:11, william drescher wrote: I agree that mess would be way short of what you could do even using tabs. Using spaces (of any type) is a newbie word processing mistake. I can't use WP on this project unfortunately. I

[users] Re: [users-educ] Issues 972 and 100464 solved by education.openoffice.org Team

2010-08-27 Thread william drescher
On 8/27/2010 1:17 PM, eric b wrote: Hi, Le 27 août 10 à 18:00, fred juan diaz a écrit : education.openoffice.org Team is glad to inform you that issue 972 (alignment of baseline in formulas) http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=972 issue 100464 (special symbols needed in

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-23 Thread william drescher
On 8/23/2010 2:04 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.22 19:51 -0500, NoOp wrote: ... Thank you, with some experimentation that should take care of the line spacing issue. Any suggestions for the horizontal positioning? The form has about 150 items, which do not line up with

[users] Re: line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-22 Thread william drescher
On 8/21/2010 4:28 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/21/2010 03:35 AM, william drescher wrote: I need to build a template with which I will merge form data. This is for a OCR form so positioning the data is critical. Last time I did this, 10 years ago, I was using WordPerfect that permitted me to set line

[users] line spacing and other positioning aids

2010-08-21 Thread william drescher
I need to build a template with which I will merge form data. This is for a OCR form so positioning the data is critical. Last time I did this, 10 years ago, I was using WordPerfect that permitted me to set line spacing by 0.01 % of the base amount and to [advance to x.xx] horizontal spacing

[users] Re: Mail merge from external data

2010-07-06 Thread william drescher
On 7/5/2010 10:50 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: william drescher wrote (05-07-10 14:42) Does the secretary need to import the csv file into base before merging or is it automatic ? Just replacing the previous one with the new one on the file system is sufficient. Thank you, that works. bill

[users] Mail merge from external data

2010-07-05 Thread william drescher
I would like to use OO to create a series of patient statements. At first look it would seem that mail merge is the best way to do this, but the documentation says that I need to first import the data into a base database, which is more complex than I can expect an office worker to do. I

[users] Re: Mail merge from external data

2010-07-05 Thread william drescher
On 7/5/2010 7:26 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Bill, william drescher wrote (05-07-10 12:49) I would like to use OO to create a series of patient statements. At first look it would seem that mail merge is the best way to do this, but the documentation says that I need to first import the data

[users] Re: Calc - real relative addressing

2010-06-09 Thread william drescher
On 6/8/2010 6:05 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 06:55 08/06/2010 -0400, William Drescher wrote: I am computing a moving average and comparing it to a current value (looking at the current weights of dogs compared to their average over the prior 3 months). So my cell formula is (in column I): =h2

[users] Calc - real relative addressing

2010-06-08 Thread william drescher
I am computing a moving average and comparing it to a current value (looking at the current weights of dogs compared to their average over the prior 3 months). So my cell formula is (in column I): =h2 - ((e2 + f2 + g2)/3) Each month I insert a new column just before the average column, then I

[users] Re: Calc - real relative addressing

2010-06-08 Thread william drescher
On 6/8/2010 7:11 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-08 6:55 AM, william drescher wrote: I am computing a moving average and comparing it to a current value (looking at the current weights of dogs compared to their average over the prior 3 months). So my cell formula is (in column I): =h2 - ((e2

[users] Re: [moderated]

2010-04-25 Thread william drescher
On 4/23/2010 4:42 PM, FISHER II, WILLIAM wrote: Hi all, We are a school District and have the same economic woes as everyone else. We need to trim some of the fat from our licensing of another office product. To satisfy the licensing coordinator for our school district, what copy of a

[users] Re: Question.

2010-01-30 Thread william drescher
On 1/30/2010 6:39 AM, Grant Sommer wrote: Hi, I have a question. I downloaded open office to my gateway model # MX6930 laptop using XP. When it was done it said to restart, so I did and went to bed. When I woke up it was stuck on Windows is shutting down. So, I held down the power button for

[users] PHP - Open Office

2009-12-12 Thread william drescher
If you need to produce documents from php data the class: OpenTBS is great. http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/5797.html It is a plugin to the TinyButStrong php class that merges XML documents. http://www.tinybutstrong.com/ OpenTBS will open OpenOffice documents as templates, merge

[users] 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 can not save in format other than .odt from writer

2009-11-04 Thread william drescher
I just upgraded from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 to see if that fixed the problem - it did not. When I click save as in writer the place on the save dialog that usually shows a pull down list for Save as type is just background gray. The checkboxes (automatic file name extension and save with password)

[users] Re: Paragraph with enclosed list

2009-09-25 Thread william drescher
John Kaufmann wrote: A few days ago I asked how, in the OO worldview, one should properly separate paragraphs (Newline between paragraphs - the answer was No). After thinking about the consequences, I followed with a thread (Line break and justification withing paragraph?} that tried to ask a

[users] Re: minimum install for headless mode

2009-09-14 Thread william drescher
Harold Fuchs wrote: 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 purpose is to run it in headless mode to use it in association with jodconverter. To do so, I’d like to install the minimum of RPM, not

[users] Re: Wordperfect and Quattro Pro importing

2009-09-02 Thread william drescher
Philippe Faure wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone has heard of how the importing of Wordperfect and Quattro Pro files? I haven't been able to find anything. thanks Philippe I import WordPerfect files without a problem. bill

[users] Re: I've lost my save as type

2009-09-01 Thread william drescher
william drescher wrote: Mark C. Miller wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:38:37 -0400, william drescher wrote: I open a WordPerfect Document. When I go to save it, there is no pull down for the type of document to save it as. The heading is there, just no pull down. Between the save as type

[users] I've lost my save as type

2009-08-30 Thread william drescher
I open a WordPerfect Document. When I go to save it, there is no pull down for the type of document to save it as. The heading is there, just no pull down. Between the save as type: and the cancel button it is just gray. As a result I can only save as .odt. Anyone have any thoughts as to

[users] Re: I've lost my save as type

2009-08-30 Thread william drescher
Mark C. Miller wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:38:37 -0400, william drescher wrote: I open a WordPerfect Document. When I go to save it, there is no pull down for the type of document to save it as. The heading is there, just no pull down. Between the save as type: and the cancel button

[users] Re: master document: header and footers

2009-08-03 Thread william drescher
Barbara Duprey wrote: william drescher wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: william drescher wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 13:40 01/08/2009 -0400, William Drescher wrote: I have a master document/subdocuments. I would like to have a heading that spans all subdocuments and footers that are unique

[users] Re: master document: header and footers

2009-08-02 Thread william drescher
Brian Barker wrote: At 13:40 01/08/2009 -0400, William Drescher wrote: I have a master document/subdocuments. I would like to have a heading that spans all subdocuments and footers that are unique to each subdocument. The master document has no text in it, it is just a container for each

[users] Re: master document: header and footers

2009-08-02 Thread william drescher
Barbara Duprey wrote: william drescher wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 13:40 01/08/2009 -0400, William Drescher wrote: I have a master document/subdocuments. I would like to have a heading that spans all subdocuments and footers that are unique to each subdocument. The master document has

[users] master document: header and footers

2009-08-01 Thread william drescher
I have a master document/subdocuments I would like to have a heading that spans all subdocuments and footers that are unique to each subdocument. The master document has no text in it, it is just a container for each chapter. If I open the master document and create a header, it works

[users] Re: problem opening a unix file: no nl to cr/nl conversion

2009-07-21 Thread william drescher
Mathias Bauer wrote: william drescher wrote: Usually when I open a unix file I am given a window that asks how to handle it. Now I am trying to open a unix file and don't get that window so the nl - cr/nl translation is not done and it is not formatted correctly. How can I force

[users] problem opening a unix file: no nl to cr/nl conversion

2009-07-20 Thread william drescher
Usually when I open a unix file I am given a window that asks how to handle it. Now I am trying to open a unix file and don't get that window so the nl - cr/nl translation is not done and it is not formatted correctly. How can I force the translation and/or open it correctly. I am on

[users] Re: gmane newsgroup

2009-07-18 Thread william drescher
Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:17, bill wrote: which OOo gmane newsgroup reflects this mailing list ? → http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions Thanks bill - To unsubscribe,