OpenOffice/StarOffice Apache OO4 for OSX

2013-08-17 Thread Julian Thomas
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Re: Is anyone using Apple Pages?

2013-08-22 Thread Julian Thomas
On 22Aug 2013, at 9:19 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: But if anyone can do the same for XLS and PPT files exported from iWork applications sorry, I don't have the other apps. -- j...@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,

Re: Does. Open office work on ipad

2013-08-26 Thread Julian Thomas
On 26Aug 2013, at 4:22 PM, Bett froma...@dccnet.com wrote: If so do all versions of oo work on iPad Looking at the apple iTunes store, and searching on open office, I only see a reader [free app]. -- j...@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net The Holmes Corollary to Murphy's First Law: Any rule or

Re: Retrieve

2013-09-05 Thread Julian Thomas
On 5Sep 2013, at 12:48 PM, Marion blair...@sky.com wrote: I have had a problem with my imac and had to take it in to be repaired (nothing major). Is there anyway I can retrieve documents prior to this and if so how do I do it? Ideally you have time machine backups so your data is safe

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-06 Thread Julian Thomas
On 6Sep 2013, at 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I discovered changing the CUPS driver from Postscript to the HP PCL3 driver made it work fine. Now pages print within seconds of clicking on Print. All of my computers are Slackware 14.0 Linux and all of my HP printers

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-09-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On 25Sep 2013, at 7:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: No suggestions and yes AOO 4.0.x has a problem with it. I downloaded it as well. I hope it doesn't contain personal data. If it does, I will delete it. 1. AOO won't open it on OSX. 2. MS Office had no problem [surprise?]

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-09-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On 24Sep 2013, at 11:08 PM, Joe Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded a fairly large spreadsheet from this location http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ but when I try to open it with AOO the progress line shows about a quarter of it being loaded and then

Needed: more keyboard shortcuts! (Writer at least) - Mac OSX

2013-09-29 Thread Julian Thomas
writing. It's a PITA to have to use 4 (count them, 4) mouse clicks. The OK button (once you have selected the type of mark) isn't even responsive to the enter key:-( tnx -- Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net

Re: Needed: more keyboard shortcuts! (Writer at least) - Mac OSX

2013-10-01 Thread Julian Thomas
substitute option for alt? unfortunately, that doesn't work. Option-f gives me an italic f:-( there are no shortcuts for insert mark ctrl+shift+enter to insert column break, ctrl+enter to insert manual page break, shift+enter to insert manual line break. My saviour! -- Julian

Re: Open Office Writer Mac vs PC

2013-10-02 Thread Julian Thomas
On 2Oct 2013, at 9:55 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Are the files created in Open Office PC version compatible in the Mac version and vice versa? Mike Yes I've used OO on Mac, eCS (OS/2), Windows XP and 7, and Linux Ubuntu. Never had any interchange issues. -- jt

Re: change default window size

2013-10-03 Thread Julian Thomas
to OO. -- Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Is there a bug list and reporting mechanism, or is this a known bug?

2013-10-09 Thread Julian Thomas
I have a docx file with embedded images. Viewing or printing from OO the images do not appear. They do in MS Word 2011 for Mac. Known bug? I can share the file [which most likely was done on a W7 machine]. tnx jt - To

Re: can I open a powerppoint presentation on my mac

2013-10-13 Thread Julian Thomas
On 13Oct 2013, at 7:20 PM, Sharmen Graydon shar...@maui.net wrote: I have a powerpoint presentation prepared in Word on a zip drive that I need to open on my Mac. How can I do that? There are two issues. One is easy: A powerpoint prepared in Word [I think you really mean MS Office,

Re: Save big file

2013-10-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 18Oct 2013, at 5:15 PM, Amicompland aminanima...@mm.pl wrote: Ungrade your OO and/or OS to minor version. Do you mean Upgrade?? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands,

Save As gripe - OSX

2013-11-06 Thread Julian Thomas
If I create a new file and want to save it to a particular directory/folder, the Save As popup does not allow me to drill down into subdirectories under the ones it suggests. This is a PITA because I have to save stuff in the best choice [ in my case ~/Documents/oodocs] and then remember to

Re: Save As gripe - OSX

2013-11-07 Thread Julian Thomas
On 6Nov 2013, at 11:03 PM, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: Not sure without a screenshot - but have you tried clicking the little arrow next to the filename (in the Save As popup)? Yes - that's the clue. It opens a finder-like window with full navigation capability. Thanks to those who

Re: Writer, ouline numbered list

2013-11-19 Thread Julian Thomas
I am still having major issues with lists If I start a numbered list and enter items: 1. xxx 2. yyy 3. zzz and then want to put some bulleted items in: * aa * bb That all works OK. But then I unindent and change to numbers, and the next item is again: 1. It's a ROYAL PITA to try to

presentations layouts and fonts

2013-11-19 Thread Julian Thomas
Something has changed in 4.0.x Previously, I used to be able to select between a number of slide layouts - title only, title and text, title and two columns of text, etc. Now it's hard to find the incantation to bring up these options; they are not identified in the right hand menu. Also, the

Re: Problem with a docx file

2013-11-20 Thread Julian Thomas
I had issues today on a Mac running OO 4.0.0 and Maverickx opening a docx file [I'm pretty sure it was created by MSO on W7]. No problem on this machine still on Mt Lion with OO 4.0.1. Updated the other machine to OO 4.0.1 and all is well. Still need to try a file exported from Pages. jt

Re: presentations layouts and fonts

2013-11-21 Thread Julian Thomas
On 21 Nov 2013, at 11:50, James jlamb...@inebraska.com wrote: How did you get a template fro Star Office? I also used Star Office and any way ay I could recover anything is by copying the text and paste it into Open Office. I don't know exactly how I did it by now, unfortunately. I may

Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-29 Thread Julian Thomas
On 29 Nov 2013, at 13:40, Maurice Howe maur...@stny.rr.com wrote: How do I convert a PDF to ODT (or DOC) so that I can edit it? There seem to be [at least] two types of PDF files. One are essentially scanned images. The others are formatted text files that can be converted to .doc or .txt by

Re: Informal Mac OS / OpenOffice Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Julian Thomas
On 11 Dec 2013, at 10:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: An informal survey to help our project planning: If you run OpenOffice on the Mac, what version of Mac OS are you running today? Main machine 10.8 - laptop 10.9 jt

Re: Help!

2014-01-13 Thread Julian Thomas
On 13 Jan 2014, at 19:03, June Lockhart june...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using Open office for several years. All of a sudden it marks all the words in a letter as misspelled. Could your language setting have been struck by a bolt of lightning and switched to Swahili? just a

Re: Updated List Conduct Guidelines

2014-01-18 Thread Julian Thomas
On 18 Jan 2014, at 06:36, DaveMainwaring davemainwar...@gmail.com wrote: meet your main moderator http://tinyurl.com/kdp3gvxhttp://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl%2Ecom%2Fkdp3gvxurlhash=G-u0_t=tracking_disc Error: Unable to find site's URL to redirect to. Please check

Re: 2 thinks for the future

2014-01-21 Thread Julian Thomas
On 21 Jan 2014, at 14:24, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: ...but this one is already reality. See https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_installation_packages#Patches_on_Windows ; patches will be available as of OpenOffice 4.1 (April 2014). What about the rest of us who know

Re: iPad OpenOffice

2014-01-23 Thread Julian Thomas
On 22 Jan 2014, at 12:16, Paul Scheider paul.schei...@gmx.de wrote: Alternatively you could use PAGES which runs on all Apple-devices. Unfortunately Pages does not either import or export OO format; the only OO bridge is via a .doc file. I have Pages, but find its UI enough different from

Re: 2 thinks for the future

2014-01-23 Thread Julian Thomas
On 23 Jan 2014, at 02:38, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: it uses Microsoft technologies that, as far as I know, are not meant to be ported to other systems. Boo hiss for using Msquish proprietary technologies:-( jt --- List Conduct

Re: Recent documents

2014-01-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On 25 Jan 2014, at 16:52, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: Yes, it can be done manually by editing some configuration files, but it is much easier and convenient to use one of the available extensions. My own preference is the History Master extension:

portable AOO (was Re: Apple compatibility

2014-03-12 Thread Julian Thomas
On 11 Mar 2014, at 11:27, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: Since you're using a flash drive at the library, you might also consider the Portable Apps version, which you install on a flash drive. http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable I've done this, and it works,

Re: Sort Numeric ?

2014-04-02 Thread Julian Thomas
On 28 Mar 2014, at 14:19, amazing_8...@rogers.com wrote: in the first column I enter a time for an event such as 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 11:00 and so on. In some cases entered as 5:00 - 6:00 to cover the length of an event not just the time it will occur. The other two columns are for the event

Re: Open Office Org Excel Question

2014-04-06 Thread Julian Thomas
On 6 Apr 2014, at 00:38, Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: In Open Office Org you have a program that looks like and indeed does exactly the same thing as Excel. So would I be able to do the tasks in the Excel Intermediate and Advanced books on the Open Office Org program?

Re: How to open attachment sent with Microsoft Office 2010

2014-04-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 8 Apr 2014, at 22:32, Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: Depend on the format, most MS Office documents can be opened by OpenOffice although there are some issues with docx documents, but these will be solved in the next release scheduled for this month. I have a docx

Re: Apache Writer converts all WORD files

2014-04-15 Thread Julian Thomas
On 15 Apr 2014, at 05:32, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: Note: if the recipient only needs to read but not edit the file Writer has the ability to create a .pdf. This can be found in the menu at File | Export as PDF.. Why, pray tell, isn't this an option under 'Save As'??? jt

Keyboard shortcuts (was Re: symbol shortcut?

2014-04-16 Thread Julian Thomas
On 16 Apr 2014, at 19:51, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: I can't speak for the Mac, but Alt+I, U, F gets there for me. Does this not work (perhaps using Option) on a Mac? If you press Option, don't the relevant letters appear underlined in the menus? NO - and that's the

Re: symbol shortcut?

2014-04-16 Thread Julian Thomas
On 16 Apr 2014, at 19:51, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: In any case, you can set your own keyboard shortcut. o Go to Tools | Customize... | Keyboard (or wherever that is on a Mac). o At the top right, select OpenOffice or Writer (or whatever). o Under Functions | Category,

Re: Keyboard shortcuts (was Re: symbol shortcut?

2014-04-17 Thread Julian Thomas
On 17 Apr 2014, at 03:44, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Mnemonics (and their existence) are language-dependent. Are you using OpenOffice in English yes - US english. jt --- List Conduct Guidelines:

Re: Just a thought…..?

2014-04-18 Thread Julian Thomas
On 17 Apr 2014, at 12:48, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: OpenOffice is a desktop application, you can use a laptop or a PC. However, it runs on Windoze, OSX, or Linux. iPad (and other apple devices other than osx computers) use iOS and OO is not available for iOS. jt

LIST administrators - Re: James Ho is on leave from 21 April to 27 April 2014.

2014-04-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 20 Apr 2014, at 03:19, jam...@datalink.com.hk wrote: I am on leave from 21 April to 27 April 2014. Please have Mr Ho use a more modern auto responder that doesn't send more than one response to a sender! --- List Conduct Guidelines:

need help with excel file

2014-04-27 Thread Julian Thomas
I have an excel file (names and addresses) where the previous user(s) have marked the processed row items by coloring the entries yellow. Is there an easy way to select these rows to delete them and get a file with only entries needing processing? Conversely, if I save in excel as CSV, is

Re: need help with excel file

2014-04-29 Thread Julian Thomas
On 28 Apr 2014, at 00:16, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: I'm reasonably sure that you cannot do this: OpenOffice sees background colour as formatting information and not data - so you cannot use it in processes. I agree. Fortunately excel has the capability to sort on this

Re: Malware

2014-05-12 Thread Julian Thomas
On 12 May 2014, at 05:43, japples japp...@europa.com wrote: Could a download script be smart enough to recognize (via non-editable script section) if it is being downloaded from an authentic site/page and flash a nauseating Warning - download only from . . . (blurb similar to your

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-12 Thread Julian Thomas
On 12 May 2014, at 21:20, Jim McLaughlin jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com wrote: I would certainly second Gordon Lee's suggestion for ver. 5.x.x that having a parallel to the Corel/WP reveal Codes function would be invaluable. Amen. One of the VERY BEST features of WP - even before it went Corel -

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-15 Thread Julian Thomas
On 14 May 2014, at 09:38, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: While I have learned how to (use and) appreciate the Styles features, I agree that not everything in every given text document is prone to being styled. As a longtime Star office and now OO user, I am new to styles. I'd still like to

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-16 Thread Julian Thomas
But more basically, OpenOffice is for people like Julian and me. If people like me and Julian put forward a suggestion, it should be the programmer's job to consider it from the user's perspective... or shouldn't it?? On 16 May 2014, at 03:12, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: Sorry I can't

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 16 May 2014, at 03:12, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: Sorry I can't help Julian, I have found no tutorials at all. I'm used to learning by reading the manual and then lots of trial and error, and after investing many hours doing just that, I have found that using styles can save some

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 19 May 2014, at 03:34, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: Anyhow, a (very basic) example of how this could be obtained is in the Write/Edit Post interface in WordPress, with its two tabs (Visual | Text). I have no idea whether this is possible in OO - but it is my understanding that

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 19 May 2014, at 09:38, 許哲崇 fide...@gmail.com wrote: If we use OpenOffice to edit the file and use WordPerfect to reveal code, what is the problem? lack of a current wordperfect and why should we pay for it if we are committed to OO? jt --- List

Re: Thank You for this Program

2014-05-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 19 May 2014, at 21:49, mcs...@aol.com wrote: I just want to extend a BIG thank you to Apache, their support team, etc… I am a business consultant for small businesses and non-profits. Many small business owners/non-profits in start-up have difficulty with program software, funding,

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Julian Thomas
On 24 May 2014, at 15:15, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: You can try this extension http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt It adds a word counter on the status bar. On my

Re: Keyboard shortcuts (was Re: symbol shortcut?

2014-05-27 Thread Julian Thomas
On 27 May 2014, at 07:17, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: As noted by Herbert in https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124972 this is by design: it was disabled on Mac OS X in 2007 since it seemed odd on a Mac. If Mac OS X users want to change it back, it can probably be

Re: OpenOffice Writer/Web how to add lists without paragraph P tags.

2014-05-30 Thread Julian Thomas
On 30 May 2014, at 20:03, Keyur Parikh kypar...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway , I found that Microsoft Expression Web 4 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36179 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36179 is now free ( at least the version I am

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread Julian Thomas
On 31 May 2014, at 05:27, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: In Apache OpenOffice, go to the menu option File-Properties, and in the General tab remove the check box from Apply user data. It looks like that has to be done on a document by document basis. Any way to make it global

Re: HELP!

2014-06-08 Thread Julian Thomas
On 8 Jun 2014, at 12:53, Mike Stagg 2sta...@ameritech.net wrote: For the life of me, I cannot figure out HOW to open a new document with a landscape format! DUH!! In a new document use Format - Page - Page tab and click the orientation for landscape. If you want to make it even easier in

Re: OpenOffice for Android

2014-06-13 Thread Julian Thomas
On 13 Jun 2014, at 08:32, Hotelería Meyer hoteleria.me...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an App for iPhone (4)? OOReader is an app for iOS that allows viewing of files in OO format. jt - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: DocX

2014-06-15 Thread Julian Thomas
On 15 Jun 2014, at 22:46, Buck cfc4...@tds.net wrote: Using a Windows platform I have opened many *.docx files with OO. It’s worked on all platforms for me. You do need a fairly recent version of OO, and to set the file associations for .docx to OO. jt

2 issues (OSX)

2014-06-16 Thread Julian Thomas
1. When I start OO I see a popup window telling me that updates for extensions are available - click here, but just as I click there, the popup vanishes and nothing happens. 2. Put together a 5 slide presentation, went to print it as a handout, and no matter what template I pick, nothing

PPT interoperability wrinkle

2014-06-17 Thread Julian Thomas
Presentation using first and second level bullets * first * is actually a black dot - second When I save it as a ppt file and view it in ppt [2011 - Mac or late PPT on Windoze] it displays as expected, but when I then view the ppt file in OO I get a strange symbol instead of the

Re: 2 issues (OSX)

2014-06-17 Thread Julian Thomas
On 17 Jun 2014, at 18:03, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Julian Thomas wrote: 1. When I start OO I see a popup window telling me that updates for extensions are available - click here, but just as I click there, the popup vanishes and nothing happens. What if you check

Re: page numbering

2014-06-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On 19 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Delete the number 1 in the first footer, then position your cursor in the footer, and /Insert /Page Number field. Insert - Field - Page Number jt - To

Re: PPT interoperability wrinkle

2014-06-21 Thread Julian Thomas
On 21 Jun 2014, at 12:45, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Does it happen on the same system or on another system? Looks very much like a font replacement gone wrong (i.e., the bullet/line is taken from a special font that OpenOffice cannot find and replaces with another one, but

Re: Open Office

2014-06-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On 25 Jun 2014, at 13:28, Lisa Towner lisa.tow...@icloud.com wrote: Question: I am new to Maverick and this Open Office was suggested to me by a woman for whom I will be doing volunteer work. Is this a forum application or a place to work on a document for that entity privately as well. I

Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-01 Thread Julian Thomas
I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes run off the bottom of the page. It grates my teeth to have to convert to ppt and use PPT to do the print job :-{{ -- -- -- jt

template with table - need help

2014-07-03 Thread Julian Thomas
I've created a template consisting of a table (5 rows 2 columns). Each cell contains 3 frames - two of which are constant for all rows and one of which is for entry of variable information. How can I use this for a multipage document and have my fixed information replicated after the first

Re: template with table - need help

2014-07-03 Thread Julian Thomas
On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page style and then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that all this does is to anchor the frames in the header: they can still be positioned

Re: template with table - need help

2014-07-03 Thread Julian Thomas
On 3 Jul 2014, at 16:41, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: As I recollect, you said that your frame content was invariant from page to page. If you wish it to change, or to change after a number of pages, make another page style identical in format but of different name. Header/Footer

Re: Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 4 Jul 2014, at 14:34, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:35:16 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: I don't seem to be able to print slides with notes (1/page). If I select notes, I get the slide and the notes but in a landscape format where the notes

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 9 Jul 2014, at 17:58, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step by step? I'm on OO 4.1.0 that depends on the model of your printer

Re: Impress odp file - notes view

2014-07-09 Thread Julian Thomas
On 9 Jul 2014, at 22:27, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: On 9 Jul 2014, at 17:58, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:24:07 -, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: Not sure which printer settings you are referring to. Can you walk me through step

Re: PPT interoperability wrinkle

2014-07-12 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jul 12, 2014, at 16:21, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: I'm reviewing some bugs for OpenOffice 4.1.1, but this seems a known one and it seems it is unsupported. See the discussion at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122279 ??? What's unsupported. The discussion

Re: open a spreadsheet

2014-07-26 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jul 25, 2014, at 20:42, John Hanbury jhanb...@rogers.com wrote: Is there a way that I can place a shortcut icon on the desktop which will open a specific sheet without opening OpenOffice first? depending on your OS, there's a way to always associate .xls files with open office, so you

Re: Inserting pictures

2014-07-27 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jul 27, 2014, at 15:08, Donna Stanley donna.stanley...@gmail.com wrote: I can neither drag and drop or go to Insert in the toolbar because all I ever get is an icon and Graphic 1. What in heaven's name am I doing wrong? I am using a Mac OS X. Which version of open office? Which OSX

SEE: List administrators (was Re: Continued spell check issues.

2014-07-29 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jul 29, 2014, at 17:41, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Screenshots do not go through the mailing list. You've to upload it somewhere and give the link to it. Any chance that the list could be configured to allow attachments? It would save quite a bit of hassle. -- -- -- jt

Re: Issue: Opening and saving files is slow

2014-08-01 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:49, Hélio Figueiredo helior...@gmail.com wrote: Long story short, saving any file, regardless of size, takes several (5-10) seconds. This is quite annoying, as I save very often (I write a lot, and I don't want to risk losing any of my work). Have you emptied your trash

Re: opening open office docs with microsoft word

2014-08-02 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 2, 2014, at 16:19, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: I have often used OO to send Word documents to others and never had a problem. One thing you can do, to check a file, is install the free Word viewer from Microsoft. If your file looks OK there, then it should be fine.

Re: caps lock on/off indicator

2014-08-15 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 15, 2014, at 18:58, Earl Welsh earlwels...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: I LOVE OPEN OFFICE BUT I HAVE APPARENTLY DELETED THE CAPS-LOCK INDICATOR. IT APPEARED IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER OF THE SCREEN WHEN USING THE WORD PROCESSOR. HOW DO I GET IT REESTABLISHED AGAIN? Most keyboards have

Re: letter writing

2014-08-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 19, 2014, at 11:06, Tom Backer Johnsen bac...@psych.uib.no wrote: Use a table with one row and two columns, no borders, width between the left and right margins. Format the two cells for left and right text, and there you are. thanks. for a header, you then need to reduce the

Re: [OT] why so many accidental subscriptions?

2014-08-27 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:29, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Would a lenghtier explanation of the process be needed. We could record a youtube video explaining how to de-subscribe and insert the link on these message this way users wil have at least more documentation on the

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-27 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:04, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: This is exactly the spirit of this list. We very much prefer that users subscribe, and you'll hardly find a link to this list on our site that comes without the recommendation to subscribe. Still, it seems many users

Re: [OT] why so many accidental subscriptions?

2014-08-27 Thread Julian Thomas
On Aug 27, 2014, at 13:27, TN Patriot irgu...@gmail.com wrote: If that's not clear enough, perhaps going back to school to learn reading comprehension all over. Before we get too harsh, we need to remember that we were all there in the past; we should be able to walk a mile in their shoes

Re: generic text in a column

2014-09-12 Thread Julian Thomas
One way would be: Save as csv Use a text editor or a script to do the mods. Specifics depend on the layout of each row. Rex (regina) program to do this would be a snap. Reload the modified csv From my i5. Julian Thomas http:jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western NY State

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Julian Thomas
On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:41, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. But not Works documents, which are the subject of the enquiry. End of story. Not for Works documents. If AOO could not handle a simple doc file with recipes it would

Re: Problème avec la version 4.1.1 Open Office

2014-10-11 Thread Julian Thomas
On Oct 11, 2014, at 13:09, Pierre Roehrich proehr...@sunrise.ch wrote: Comment puis-je télécharger à nouveau la version ancienne 4.0.1? je ne la trouve pas sur le site. Bonjour! http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/ -- -- -- jt http://jt-mj.net This life is a test.

Re: Printing errors

2014-10-30 Thread Julian Thomas
On Oct 30, 2014, at 19:42, Steve Ahlers sahlers...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: I wouldn't dismiss the fact that you have an HP printer. I also have an HP printer and making sure that you have downloaded the most current printer driver often solves issues like this. I just got an updated

spreadsheet transpose

2014-11-10 Thread Julian Thomas
Is there a quick way to transpose a spreadsheet so the columns become rows and vice versa? I want to get one column as a csv file, and if I do the transposition and then save as CSV I should be home free. Otherwise is there a way to export a column as CSV? tnx — jt - j...@jt-mj.net A

Re: spreadsheet transpose

2014-11-10 Thread Julian Thomas
On Nov 10, 2014, at 19:24, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Did you look in Help to get your information? In LibreOffice I searched help for transpose tables. AOO should have a similar entry in its Help. I did search AOO help for both transpose and rotate - no useful results. —

Presentation - insert audio link issue - OS X Yosemi

2014-11-13 Thread Julian Thomas
If I create a presentation, and then in the body of a slide click - insert - video or sound - sound - and select an mp3 file, it tells me [on my Macbok] that the audio format is unsupported. A wav file works OK. On my other machine [also OS X Yosemi] there's no issue. is this an OO problem

Re: Activation codes

2014-11-22 Thread Julian Thomas
On Nov 22, 2014, at 09:13, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: An update and a clarification: we expect to deliver signed binaries by the end of 2014 (see dev list) and when I speak about signed binaries, I mean signed binaries that Windows recognizes as such: all past versions of

Re: question

2014-11-28 Thread Julian Thomas
On Nov 28, 2014, at 21:19, Eden Bart edencb...@gmail.com wrote: Will Open Office be made available for Max OS X Yosemite? And if so, when? I [and I suspect many others on this list] are running 4.1.1 on Yosemi with no problems so far. — jt - j...@jt-mj.net The Analytical Engine has no

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-03 Thread Julian Thomas
On Dec 3, 2014, at 03:52, mt m...@lockedbags.org wrote: For these reasons, we are unable to make our forums/mailing lists available to support other software products, including [Quick Office Pro or whatever], which are sold and distributed by commercial entities as profit-making

Presentation layout glitch

2014-12-04 Thread Julian Thomas
AOO 4.1.1 running on OS X Yosemite Create a new presentation, select layout Title and content. If I click the icon in the middle of the slide for inserting an image and select an image, the image still has a bullet with 'Click to add text' overlaid on the picture. If I click to add text (to

Issue 93796 - supported files for Insert Movie and Sound

2014-12-04 Thread Julian Thomas
says: Please add wmv to list of supported video files. It is possible to add a wmv video to a presentation, but you have to set the filter box to all files. At least on windows there is no problem playing the file in OOo. Where is the filter box? tnx — jt - j...@jt-mj.net A computer

writer - unwanted paragraph borders

2014-12-25 Thread Julian Thomas
I created a document and pasted a number of entries in; separating them by a line like this: Sometimes this works OK and sometimes it converts to a thin line that goes from margin to margin it looks like format paragraph - borders - but if I select all and set the border to no

Re: writer - unwanted paragraph borders

2014-12-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On Dec 25, 2014, at 18:35, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: If you really do want to disable this facility completely, remove the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply border. Many thanks. — jt - j...@jt-mj.net If more politicians in this country were

Re: Mail Merge Problem

2015-01-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jan 19, 2015, at 16:48, sueabb...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: I have been trying to practice Mail Merge in order to help a friend with some office work. When I click on Mail Merge Wizard, I am unable to scroll down to the bottom of the page in order to click on next. There is no

Re: writer page

2015-01-16 Thread Julian Thomas
Format - page. From my i5. Julian Thomas http:jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western NY State! On Jan 16, 2015, at 14:13, Jim Lee jam...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I’m trying to find out how I can get open office writer to change from vertical page to a horizontal position

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-22 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jan 22, 2015, at 00:18, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Oh, and I have also heard some very strong opinions that PDF export support should be pulled; another minority opinion. PLEASE - do not pull that! — jt - j...@jt-mj.net If people do not believe that

Impress issue

2015-01-22 Thread Julian Thomas
When I open up impress, I don't always have the right side Properties - Layouts pane. I know you can get this by Format - Slide Layout, but WHY oh WHY isn't this an option in the right side bar which has master slides, animation, transitions, etc. [which only seems to reappear after I activate

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-17 Thread Julian Thomas
On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:19, tom cuypers tomcu...@hotmail.com wrote: I've received some other answers that convince me my specific problem is unsolvable so it's no use answering your questions. Have you tried: Saving as a csv file Using a good text editor on that file to fix the issues to

Re: fonts

2015-02-16 Thread Julian Thomas
On Feb 16, 2015, at 13:30, Jayne Librizzi jbma...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I have a mac that I use open office on and I want to down load another font, when I have the font on my desktop and go to install it it refuses to install, I have already had this font installed and working on open

Re: Impress issue - resolved [but confusing]

2015-01-23 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jan 22, 2015, at 22:20, Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: When I open up impress, I don't always have the right side Properties - Layouts pane. I know you can get this by Format - Slide Layout, but WHY oh WHY isn't this an option in the right side bar which has master slides

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