Re: [users] Help.....

2008-03-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
at Tools → Customize → Keyboard (or something like that). Johnny Rosenberg - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -- If you are sick and tired with Microsoft Office, install Open Office from http

Re: [users] excel spreadsheet

2008-03-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I AM USING VERSION 2.0.2 OF OPENOFFICE. IDOWNLOADED A SPREADSHEET X.L.SHOW CAN I USE OPENOFFICE TO READ IT AND EXTRACT INFORMATION. Please don't use capitals only, because it means that you are shouting, which some people don't like. About

Re: [users] Calculation Spreadsheet

2008-03-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/14, Betty Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A couple weeks ago (3/4/08) I downloaded your calculation spreadsheet to use in my homework with Prosper Learning. It worked fine and I got a lot done on it. Then, I tried to save it and it just disappeared. I hunted everywhere in my computer

Re: [users] form

2008-03-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/15, Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I`m asking how to save the current open form as the one that will open if I select a new session? - Original Message - From: Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:59 AM Subject: [users]

Re: [users] Bug in Calc images converting from MS Excel

2008-03-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/15, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/03/2008, Marcos Bertoldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm using OpenOffice 2.3. When I open an Excel file with Calc, the shapes and texts that have been rotated appear moved or rotated in a wrong direction. What version of Excel is the

Re: [users] Bug in Calc images converting from MS Excel

2008-03-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/15, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 15/03/2008, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running Windows you can download Excel viewer from M$' site. It's free, but not Open Source... and not very big. I don't know if it will run under Wine in Linux since I don't

Re: [users] form

2008-03-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
on the column headers, not only a bunch of cells, making sure all 65536 cells of every column are selected. 2. Double click the separator to the right of the header to the right in your selection. All columns now adapt to fit the cell contents as good as possible. Johnny Rosenberg

Re: [users] Why do I have many fonts at home and few here at my office?

2008-03-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/18, Our Lady of Hope Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using OpenOffice version 2.3. My problem is that I have the same version on my computer at home and at home I get so much more fonts to work with and here I only get a few. Why is this? That's a question you'd better ask your

Re: [users] Windows XP - Internet Explorer Incompatability

2008-03-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/19, Danita Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a new user running OpenOffice 2.3. in a Windows XP environment. IE (Internet Explorer) is rejecting all internet inquires originating from within OpenOffice applications. For example, when attempting to Register following the installation of

Re: [users] Re: Question

2008-03-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/23, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Kordas wrote: Hello, at first I love Open office it's great! But I miss a webeditor like Dreamweaver 8 or some else. I want to ask you, if the new Open office would have a Webeditor just like Dreamweaver! I am 16 years old and I live

Re: [users] this program

2008-03-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I just got a new computer with this installed. Why do I have to use this instead of Microsoft Office? I have no idea how to use Openoffice because I have no books to refer to. I'm not sure I like this new program. T. Harrison You don't HAVE to use anything at all. If you don't like it,

Re: [users] save pdf file as a wordfile

2008-03-28 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/28, web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: James Knott M. de Haas wrote: Hello, Is there a possibility to save a pdf file as a word file so you can make changes in the file? No. no not in OpenOffice.org I discussed this in another thread, but you can do only one

[users] Calc: Borders with conditional formatting

2008-03-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I have a table in calc with 28 columns and 51 rows. For each column I manually set borders. For some columns the borders are thin and for some other columns the borders are thick. Now, I want to add a thin line for every fifth row, to make it easier to read. I want to do that with conditional

[users] Calc - Status bar - Zoom

2008-03-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I am not sure about the English terminology, but when I say status bar I mean the bar at the bottom of the Calc window. In my case it reads something like this when I open a fresh new and empty spreadsheet: | Table 5/5 | Default | 150 % |

[users] Re: Format → Character in Calc

2008-03-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/2/27, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This options seems to be available only when text inside a cell i selected, so HOW can I change things like kerning on all cells on a spreadsheet in one step? Also there seems to be only two types of styles in Calc, and character style

Re: [users] Calc: Borders with conditional formatting

2008-03-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/29, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 29/03/2008 17:36, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I have a table in calc with 28 columns and 51 rows. For each column I manually set borders. For some columns the borders are thin and for some other columns the borders are thick. Now, I want to add

Re: [users] Insert character with code on Windows

2008-03-30 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
If you have Windows, and you want to input special characters in another way, you can try AllChars http://allchars.zwolnet.com/. It is Open Source these days too, by the way. J.R.

Re: [users] autocorrect entries limit

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Kirill Palagin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tommaso Bartalena ?: unfortunately it seem that autocorrect entries number is not infinite and a limit exist. i was able to calculate the exact number of entries inside my acor_it- IT.dat file as it follows: - open the .dat file

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/29, Matt Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you please tell me how to obtain foreign characters, (e.g. cedillas, accents, etc,) without going into windows ecplorer character map. Is ther a way of doing it from within the word processor? Bernard Davis Long time since using Windows now,

Re: [users] planner 0.14 help

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Marco Gardini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've just installed the last version of openoffice planner (0.14) and I can't export the projects in xml format to import in MS Project, could you help me ? Thanks in advance Marco I have been using OpenOffice.org for many years now and

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS -- Oh Really????

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES If MS Office was downloadable (or maybe it is?), I guess it would take hours to download, wouldn't it? J.R. 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE CUROMER DUE TO EXTREMELY DISIPOINTING LACK

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES Great! That's probably an hour or so faster than it would be to download MS Office if it is possible to download at all (I don't know, is it?). J.R. 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE

Re: [users] attachemnts

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/30, Bob Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why is it when I send an attachment to an email, the recipient cannot open it? That means that he has no software installed that supports the international standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006 format (a.k.a ODF). There are a few things he (she?) can do about

Re: [users] Re: Foreign characters

2008-03-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Long time since using Windows now, but isn't it something like Alt+[decimal character code starting with zero]? That only works for the native Windows code page, not for Unicode not found there or in the current DOS

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Oops... I read it April 1, so I thought it was a joke... J.R. 2008/4/2, Per [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Congrats to Microsoft who got there suite ISO-certified If the vote was dirty, well it´s not up to me to investigate but there are a lot of voices on this mail-list against OOXML, and

Re: [users] Re: YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/1, Bev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE CUROMER DUE TO EXTREMELY DISIPOINTING LACK OF PERFORMANCE AND

Re: [users] autocorrect entries limit

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Andy Chaplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 31 March 2008 09:35:32 Tommaso Bartalena wrote: snip it seems to me that something prevents OOo to handle more that 65213 per language. adding new corrections to my acor_en-US.dat file (which has just few entries) has no effect on

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy beta

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed the Ubuntu Hardy beta, and I was hoping to get OOo 2.4, but it still says 2.3. In fact the only change I noticed is that the Save icon now doesn't gray out when I do a save. It's

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/31, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/29, Matt Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you please tell me how to obtain foreign characters, (e.g. cedillas, accents, etc,) without going into windows ecplorer character map. Is ther

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-04-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/2, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/4/2, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/31, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Johnny, what symbols do you see when you perform «Alt Gr + arrow keys» ? On my keyboard, a standard Scandinavian 105-keyboard

Re: [users] Re: Foreign characters

2008-04-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/4, Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: And, once again I am not sure about Windows, but I defined my own keyboard layout, so I now have 4 different characters on most keys (I put labels on my keys so I won't forget which key is what), so I just use the AltGr

Re: [users] Re: Foreign characters

2008-04-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/4, Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I press AltGr+e I get € (Euro sign). When I press Alt+Ctrl+e I get... nothing. So it doesn't SEEM to be the same anyway. Perhaps you have a customized keyboard of some kind? I don't know and I only tried it on one

Re: [users] Re: Foreign characters

2008-04-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/4, JOE Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: SNIP I don't know and I only tried it on one of my keyboards, which is a wired one with some extra keys for the usual stuff, like E-Mail, Search and so on. If I turn it upside down there is a label saying This device

[users] OpenOffice.org seems to empty the clipboard when closed

2008-04-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I am not sure if this happens on all operating systems, but it does on my system which is a GNU/Linux Ubuntu 7.10 system. It's very annoying. I have a spreadsheet that calculates things for me and put summaries in one column in readable text format, such as E1 would be Anne gives Eric 4 apples if

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 for Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Yes, what about it? J.R.

Re: [users] Re: I am using 2.3 openoffice calc

2008-04-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/6, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/04/2008 02:26 PM, Graham Clarke wrote: Hoe do I move the contents of cells to another location without copying? Yours sincerely, Graham Clarke. Sure. Just select the cells and on the outlined cell and drag the cells to where you want them to be.

Re: [users] Re: Foreign characters

2008-04-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/6, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2008-03-31 22:52:13, schrieb Johnny Rosenberg: Long time since using Windows now, but isn't it something like Alt+[decimal character code starting with zero]? Not only under Windows... It woks on Debian GNU/Linux too Not under Ubuntu

[users] KDE

2008-04-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
supposed to run in KDE? Well, the applications starts up as they should but all the tool buttons have no icons, only text! That makes the buttons so much bigger and there are not room for them all. Do anyone else have this problem? Johnny Rosenberg

Re: [users] KDE

2008-04-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/12, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/04/2008, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have OpenOffice.org 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 (OS=Ubuntu 7.10) and it works great. Today I installed KDE on my system, just for fun and evaluation, kind of. I got a whole lot of applications

Re: [users] KDE

2008-04-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/12, Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 12 April 2008 15:17:57 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I have OpenOffice.org 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 (OS=Ubuntu 7.10) and it works great. Today I installed KDE on my system, just for fun and evaluation, kind of. I got a whole lot of applications

Re: [users] KDE

2008-04-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/13, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/04/2008, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-kde Doesn't this mess up things if I want to run OpenOffice.org with Gnome? No. What I did, was to add KDE to my

Re: [users] format.

2008-04-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/13, Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I`ll reask my question. I open a seesion of calc and set certain columns to a certain height and width. Then I save iot and close it. Whehn I reopen it,its back to where it was befeor I set column width and height. How do I keep the altered column

Re: [users] format

2008-04-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/13, Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like I need a spellchecker. Heres the email with corrected spelling. I`ll reask my question. I open a session of calc and set certain columns to a certain height and width. Then I save it and close it. When I reopen it,its back to where it

Re: [users] no emacs keybindings in openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/13, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/04/2008 20:51, nicky van foreest wrote: Hi, I am using openoffice 2.4. My problem is that I cannot use, or instruct openoffice to use, emacs keybindings. This makes openoffice next to useless to me. In fact, when forced to edit word

Re: [users] format.

2008-04-14 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/14, Alex Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howard said the following on 04/13/2008 05:46 PM: Thanks but I don`t want it as the default template,I just want it to open in the same format,with the columns changed that I saved it as. I have two same puters and on one it does this,and the

Re: [users] Import/Export vs Open/Save ?

2008-04-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/15, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenOffice currently uses Open/Save to handle MS office documents but *export* to handle PDF. Documentation and authoritative sources like Uwe Fischer use the word Import to describe OpenOffice's forthcoming ability to read MS Office 2007 (OOXML)

Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-18 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/18, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Knott wrote: Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. If you want a writing tool that supports e-mail, web browsing, and everything else, use Emacs. I hear it's also

Re: [users] Will openoffice work on the windows 98 operating system?

2008-04-19 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/19, web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard wrote: Hi, I am on a student tech team for Messalonskee High School. One of the projects that the tech team is taking on is giving away computers to the people who don't have/cant afford a computer. We are trying to decide weather

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/20, Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NoOp wrote: On 04/19/2008 03:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Here's another one: Joe says today I will replace MSO with Open Office. He downloads OOo, falls in love with Writer, and decides to write to his grandmother and tell her all

Re: [users] Help!!

2008-04-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/20, thomas steel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The second of my three remaining problems with OpenOffice is this: I successfully converted my Word files, in which quotations were marked by single inverted commas. These reproduce correctly when printing from OpenWord. There is no such thing as

Re: [users] MS and Open Office emails

2008-04-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/27, Fund Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can I send an Open Office doc as an attachment to someone who only has MS? They were unable to open the doc. When I tried it on my computer that doesn't have Open Office it was able to open as a Google doc but not in MS. Thanks ahead of

Re: [users] Hiba sos

2008-05-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/6, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/3 Balázs Miklós [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Üdvözlöm! Egy főiskolai hallgató vagyok. Régóta használom az OpenOffice programcsomagot. Nagyon megvagyok vele elégedve. Azonban most van egy komoly problémám. A helyzet a következő, eltávolítottam a

Re: [users] I need help

2008-05-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/8, IÑAKI ALONSO CARRAMIÑANA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using version 2.4 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : I like to open a .ods document of webdav server and I only can open it on read-only mode. I too prove with version 3.0 beta. Thanks and best regards. Did you check the file

Re: [users] new user

2008-05-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/7, Caroline Calhoun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i have tried to use this product befor and i cannot get it to work what am i doing wrong Please tell us exactly what you did, step by step, then maybe someone can answer your question. It's 100% impossible to tell what you are doing wrong when you

Re: [users] new user

2008-05-11 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/10, Caroline Calhoun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i am trying to open the program itself and it wont open i am trying to use it instead of publisher Ok, my next two questions are: 1. Exactly what did you do to open it? Clicking an icon? In that case, what's the exact name of it? 2. Exactly

Re: [users] Small problem with Calc.

2008-05-18 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
is NOT ticked. If you now enter 164,848 in A1, 254,245 in A2, and then sum these in A3, A3 will now show 419,09 (if all cells are set to showing 2 decimals). Tick the Precision as shown box and A3 will show 419,10, and I guess that is not what you want. So just make sure it's unticked. Johnny Rosenberg

Re: [users] Small problem with Calc.

2008-05-19 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/19 TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Johnny Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Small problem with Calc. 2008/3/16, Alex Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Радимир Мирчев said

Re: [users] Calc Question

2008-05-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/25, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Allen: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:57:14PM -0700, Allen wrote: Hi gang, I'm doing a study of spam and I need to break the date time field I'm getting from log files into separate date fields and time fields. Currently it is

Re: [users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/6/7, mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7 Jun 2008 at 7:11, Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:14:50 -0400 Jerry Feldman wrote: If I have a column of numbers, say A1 to A200 and a =SUM(A1:A200) Now, I replicate A200 down to A300. Is there any good technique I can

Re: [users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I just want to add that, in Excel you could type things like =sum(A:A). I miss that behaviour in OpenOffice.org. It's the only (I think) Excel feature that I actually miss… A:A means the whole A column. I have tried this in Calc but failed, so I guess Calc lacks that feature. J.R. 2008/6/7,

[users] Bug in Calc when linking to other documents?

2008-06-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
the cell in the new spreadsheet should be the same, right? So why is it 0 (zero)? Nothing is wrong spelled or something, since I had both files opened at the very same time, and I selected the cell in Hyrbilskostnader.ods using the mouse. Does this work for someone else? Johnny Rosenberg

Re: [users] Bug in Calc when linking to other documents?

2008-06-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/6/23, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:29 22/06/2008 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Is this a bug or am I just doing something wrong? I opened a new spreadsheet (OpenOffice 2.4.1, GNU/Linux Ubuntu 8.04) and in one cell the formula is: ='file:///home/guraknugen/Eget/Bil

Re: [users] Re: scim input

2008-07-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/7/5, Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 05 July 2008 05:18:25 H.S. wrote: In scim, to toggle between two inputs one just has to do CTRL+SPACE combination (other combination can be configured). Much faster than moving to the mouse, clicking and coming back to the keyboard for

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
My first experience with word processing was a Word800 (not sure about the name though) for the Swedish computer Luxor ABC800 and I know there even was a word processor for the smaller ABC80 computer (this was in the early 1980's). After that, at the university we had a PR1ME computer with a lot

Re: [users] Re: Re: telephone #

2008-07-19 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Couldn't it be that the OP bought the whole computer somewhere, and was told that he could ask his questions regarding the Office suite, to this mailing list? Some users don't have much of a clue what a computer is, what a program is and so on and it doesn't seem that computer dealers are much

Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?

2008-08-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Doesn't work for me either: OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 Ubuntu 8.04 The Insert → Object is grayed out. I have tried with rectangle and text box. Same result in both cases. J.R.

Re: [users] Convert text to number (and date)

2008-08-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/7 Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, A little moment to ask attention for the latest version of CT2N – Convert Text To Number (and date): http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/CT2N Especially of interest for those fighting / playing / studying numbers and dates. This

Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?

2008-08-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/10 Xiang Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, the link should be: http://www.mediafire.com/?0aanca3iafg That's the document I tried. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Xiang Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have encounter the same trouble as Louis. see the link, I have upload a

Re: [users] Convert text to number (and date)

2008-08-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/10 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:28 10/08/2008 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Maybe off topic, but it would be nice if it was possible to convert numbers to numbers as well, such as the conversion from 20080810 â†' 39670 (=2008-08-10 if the cell is formatted as the ISO 8601

Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?

2008-08-11 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
I personally feel that the formula object is not very flexible. In writer I can't even group it to a text box and I found that there is a lot of other things that seems to be impossible too. Maybe we should collect all the things we want and make a wish list to report as a wish for enhancements.

Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?

2008-08-11 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/11 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:02:11 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I personally feel that the formula object is not very flexible. In writer I can't even group it to a text box and I found that there is a lot of other things that seems to be impossible

Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?

2008-08-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/12 Louis-H Desouvrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike scott wrote: On 10 Aug 2008 at 21:13, Louis-H Desouvrey wrote: ... Let's me clarify. When I am in OOo Writer, I can't insert a formula into a text box (created by clicking the T button in the Draw toolbar...). As you put it, the option

Re: [users] macros help

2008-08-15 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/15 David Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I have a little Excel program that works on several macros and I want to add some more to it. However, I cannot get it to work in Open Office Calc. I have been working with this for several years on and off and my brother and I finally

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-08-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/18 Cole Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8 18 08 OO.o: I use OO.o only for its text functions. How can I eliminate the other functions which consume an unnecessary and large portion of my HD? Thanks, C. Lester You could uninstall it and install AbiWord instead. It's

Re: [users] adding fonts

2008-08-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/21 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:11:01 +1000 Chris Paterson increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: Hi there, Just wondering how do I add more fonts to Writer? I want to use them with a Singer

Re: [users] adding fonts

2008-08-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/21 Chris Paterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, Just wondering how do I add more fonts to Writer? I want to use them with a Singer sewing machine program for embroidery and I can't find where the extra fonts are. All fonts are usually administered by Windows. They reside in the

Re: [users] Calc question - Names.?

2008-08-26 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/26 James Elliott - WA Rural Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have named ranges of cells in a bookkeeping spreadsheet: Date; Transaction; Debit; Credit; Balance ... etc Trouble is ... that I have selected the whole column, in each case, eg from cell A1 in the Date column to cell A65536.

Re: [users] Calc question - Names.?

2008-08-26 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/26 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 21:33 26/08/2008 +0800, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: I know how to Insert a Name, but I don't know how to go back and edit the ranges I have previously specified. o Go to Insert | Names | Define... . o Click on the name in the

Re: [users] Re: scim input

2008-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/27 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 05 July 2008 13:06:39 M Henri Day wrote: 2008/7/5 Lisi Reisz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 05 July 2008 05:18:25 H.S. wrote: In scim, to toggle between two inputs one just has to do CTRL+SPACE combination (other combination can be

Re: [users] Calc question - Names.?

2008-08-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/29 Richard Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] shouted: I WISH SOMEONE WOULD TELL ME HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ALL THIS SHIT! [snip] - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/1 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document. Once I open the icon for Open Office, I get so many places/icons to look that I'm totally lost! Is

Re: [users] OO.Draw ... why A4?

2008-09-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/30 Adrian Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Cyorxamp On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm told OO.Draw isn't meant to be Publisher and is more meant to be Visio. In other words diagrams, flow charts, etc... but not Desktop Publishing

Re: [users] Problems with Open Office

2008-09-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/1 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Sep 2008 at 16:49, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/1 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Parker wrote: Hello, I'm in need of help with Open Office. I just downloaded Open Office and I'm having trouble getting into a Word Document

Re: [users] OO.Draw ... why A4?

2008-09-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/2 Adrian Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Johnny On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to save in svg format? That certainly never worked for me. If it did, I would use it a lot. I always end up having to save my work in png format

Re: [users] Re: Problems with Open Office

2008-09-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/2 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Sep 2008 at 21:21, Twayne wrote: ... This isn't new, for whatever reason; it's been around just like this for a long time. I don't know if they took it out or not, but the BETA of version 3.0 I tested did create an icon at least for the desktop

Re: [users] Hello

2008-09-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/2 m.a. martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRUST ME. YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THIS PROGRAM. ENJOY THE CRAP LOAD OF USELESS SPAM YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T UNSUBSCRIBE TO IT. THESE BASTARDS DON'T ALLOW YOU TO UNSUBSCRIBE. THE PROGRAM IS AS CLEAR AS MUD. I SUGGEST YOU FIND ANOTHER

Re: [users] Openoffice.org vs Word2002

2008-09-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/8/28 François GENETIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonjour, 1. Peut-on télécharger OpenOffice.org tout en conservant Word/Excel/... afin de faire des essais ? 2. Quelle sont les extensions des fichiers créés par Writer ? 3. Le traitement de texte Writer permet-il de lire un fichier Word2002 et

Re: [users] Re: Problems with Open Office

2008-09-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/3 TomW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Allan wrote: Erling Larsen wrote: I have to disagree. No matter if you are experienced or novice, the question of desktopicons is about personally preferences, I build my first pc in -86 or -87 and see my self as an experienced user. I want icons for

Re: [users] Re: Hello

2008-09-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/2 Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] m.a. martin wrote: Great idea. Try blocking the users@openoffice.org and you'll still get a shitload of mail. I did all caps because this is a losing battle and you aren't going to get out of this one alive. I wanted to get your attention. The only

Re: [users] Getting started with openoffice

2008-09-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/3 Pam Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just downloaded openoffice and had a few questions to help get me started. (1) If I don't want to register, how can I still use the program? (2) I need to email a client a spreadsheet that was done in Microsoft Works. He is unable to open it and can only

Re: [users] Problem mit Galery

2008-09-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/3 Angelika Klehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hallo, liebe OO-Experten, ich benutze Open Office 2.3.1 mit Windows Vista Home Premium. Nun wollte ich aus der Galery Grafiken laden und stelle fest, dass die bei mir nicht vorhanden sind. Hat jemand eine Idee woran das liegen könnte? Mit

Re: [users] Virgin user

2008-09-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/5 Francois du Toit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, I am about to download the Openoffice software, and was wondering if it will automatically remove my existing software, MS office suite XP (I think!) It's an office suite, not a gangster virus… J.R. After I have downloaded Open

Re: [users] xml editors

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/11 emf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which xml editors are recommended by people over here? -emf -- It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html I am not sure if I am one of the people over here, but I use Emacs. I am not sure I can

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/13 Marc BOOSZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, With the 2.4.1 version of Open Office, it is not possible to save spreadsheets with a password; This is an important disadvantage of Open Office in comparison to Microsoft Excel. I hope that version 3.0 of Open Office will correct this problem

[users] Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Distro=Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice.org, latest RC (downloaded today from the Openoffice.org site). I unpacked, opened a virtual terminal, went to the directory with all the debs, then did sudo dpkg -i *deb It installed fine. I wanted to intall it alongside the 2.4.1 version, and when I click the

Re: [users] Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/20 M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/20 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distro=Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice.org, latest RC (downloaded today from the Openoffice.org site). I unpacked, opened a virtual terminal, went to the directory with all the debs, then did sudo dpkg -i

Re: [users] Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-20 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/20 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/20 M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/20 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distro=Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice.org, latest RC (downloaded today from the Openoffice.org site). I unpacked, opened a virtual terminal, went to the directory

Re: [users] Re: Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/21 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 09/20/2008 10:27 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/20 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] No, I only got another location, which only lead me to the 2.4.1 once again. However, I finally found it, thanks to you. /opt/openoffice.org3.program

Re: [users] Re: Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/22 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 09/22/2008 11:55 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Thanks, that helped some, but not completely: The command opens a window where I can select what I want to do. When I select anything except Writer and Calc it works fine. If I select Wrtier or Calc, I

Re: [users] Re: Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/23 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/22 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 09/22/2008 11:55 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Thanks, that helped some, but not completely: The command opens a window where I can select what I want to do. When I select anything except Writer and Calc

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