[users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo? -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo? Not at this time

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Jack D. Lewis wrote: I missed the first part of this thread but there are other alternatives to password protect/encrypt an odb file, or any other file for that matter. This is not found inside OOo but one very good FOSS package for Windows is AxCrypt which is found at

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Drew Jensen wrote: I should have added there is no way to password protect the actual odb file either, as there is with odt, ods, odg. I would sincerely hope this could be implemented in a not too distant future release. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Gail Seidman wrote: I don't know how to get information support. I sent a question and I am getting a lot of responses that have nothing to do with my question. Here is my problem: I have a spreadsheet written on Open Office that I want to use. It contains data that

Re: [users] OT - I apologize

2008-05-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Very good, Drew. I don't know if normal people yell at the monitor, I usually write the offensive person back in a civil manner and challenge their opinion of me tastefully. I hope that you post the thread that got to you, even if it's just to me in a

Re: [users] patches updates

2008-06-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, James Knott wrote: lg wrote: hi, perhaps a silly question, but how one learns about patches and updates , particularly security updates? thanks lg This is covered in the OpenOffice help, but anyway click on Tools Options OpenOffice.org Online Update and make

Re: [users] patches updates

2008-06-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, James Knott wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: This is covered in the OpenOffice help, but anyway click on Tools Options OpenOffice.org Online Update and make your selection. In my version (2.4.1) there is no Online Update option after Tools Options OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Please take my email address off of your mailing list. I'm getting sometimes 20 or more mailings. Much more than I can handle. Thanks.

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Kenneth Chauvin wrote: Please take my email address off of your mailing list. I'm getting sometimes 20 or more mailings. Much more than I can handle. Thanks. Only 20? That's on a light day. 20 is more than you can handle? You must be new at this. In any event, chec the

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/7/23 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 13:14 22/07/2008 -0400, Francine Perlman wrote: In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only permits letters

Re: [users] User Subscription

2008-08-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Michael Adams wrote: Given the rest of this thread i wonder if advising users to subscribe, especially those with a one-off question is advisable. 90%+ of new users simply want their question answered so they can continue with their work. Then they trundle off and are

Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: +1^10 +1^10=1. Sorry. Couldn't resist. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, JOE Conner wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: +1^10 +1^10=1. Sorry. Couldn't resist. For what it is worth, +1^0 also equals 1. Resistless in Poulsbo. My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal

[users] OT Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. No. x^1 is x. x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which is illegal. x^(1 + -1) is x * 1/x, which is 1, except

Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, James Knott wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. You'd better buy some more memory. n^0 = 1 (n0) As I said in another post, it's been too long since I retired and I'm losing it. -- Bob

Re: [users] OT Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 October 2008 23:04:08 Robert Holtzman wrote: You're right about x^0 of course but your example of x^(1 + -1) doesn't look right. x^(1 + -1) reduces to x^0 not x * 1/x. x^0 = 1 x*1/x = 1, so they are the same. To take concrete examples

Re: [users] OT Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, John W Kennedy wrote: Have you also forgotten how logarithms work? No. Have you forgotten what reduce means?. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer - To

Re: [users] how do I open my file?

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Elizabeth vonderahe wrote: Hello there. I just downloaded Open Office and was really pleased with it and did my whole resume in it. It automatically converted files I had on the computer already to its format. (I dont know if I'm saying that right, I'm not that computer

Re: [users] Removing OpenOffice

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sirs: How do I remove the OpenOffice.org suite from my computer? I find the constant updates objectionable. Would you rather run software that has uncorrected bugs and/or security holes? BTW, that applies to all software, not just OpenOffice.

Re: FW: [users] *** HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE ***

2008-12-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, lespur...@aol.com wrote: Another AOL user heard from. -- Bob Holtzman Bother, said Pooh, as he chambered another round... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

[users] Openoffice.org on ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
Some time ago I remember seeing a something about the version of OOo supplied with the then current version of Ubuntu linux had some sort of a problem. The advice at the time was to wipe it and d/l a fresh copy from the web site. Does this still hold true with the version (a Ubuntu tweak)

Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Keith N. McKenna wrote: James; I could say the same thing about you. I find your harping about people who believe to be as offensive as you do there religion. If you don't like the signature, don't read the bloody thing. You frequently offer very good advise on the

Re: [users] Re: WHAT'S UP WITH YOUR B.S.?

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Richard wrote: Paul wrote: WHAT'S UP WITH THIS DOWNLOAD CRAP? For more than five hours I've started the download for OpenOffice3. Each and every time, this damn download hangs, stops, or crashes around 28% of completion. After this, the whole operation is frozen into a

Re: [users] How to unsubscribe

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Gambrinus wrote: I tired to unsubscribe from this mail list for several days now by using the user-unsubscribe e-mail added on the bottom of most e-mails. It is not working. Please let me know what to do. Thanks Did you reply to the confirmation email? -- Bob Holtzman

Re: [users] How to unsubscribe

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Gambrinus wrote: Let's make sure we have the whole story here. * You sent a message from gambri...@sunwave.net to users-unsubscribe @ openoffice.org (note the plural s on users -- that's not what your initial message had). Yes I send an email to

Re: [users] Re: Getting into styles: I want to see the code!(stewart hawley)

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, stewart hawley wrote: I have done this repeatedly for days! I am really an asshole Truer words were never spoken! -- Bob Holtzman The lab called. Your brain is ready. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] Re: Unscrupulous dealings - OOo imposters

2009-02-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, NoOp wrote: snip Not a whole lot that can be done about it... notice at the bottom of the page: .snip.. Now the above might be somewhat OK if these guys actually provided product support

Re: [users] Re: Re: Unscrupulous dealings - OOo imposters

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Twayne wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: ...snip. How about a notice on the download page to the effect that the product is free and anyone that paid to receive the link should demand their money back and/or contact their credit card company

Re: [users] Re: Re: Re: Unscrupulous dealings - OOo imposters

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Twayne wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: ..snip... And just what the hell is wrong with vengefully? The scum deserve it. Well, that's only my own opinion, but ... a company such as OOo should never take a vengeful stance on anything

Re: [users] New user of Thunderbird Mail

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Ron wrote: I am a new user of Thunderbird, and have two questions. I read several weeks ago that settings can be changed so that animations can be inserted into a message. Can anyone direct me to the proper procedure for making this happen? Second, I cannot understand

Re: [users] Unscrupulous dealings - OOo imposters

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Mike Dawe wrote: ...snip. I have come across another, even more convincing scam. It is also another *google* sponsored link. Type openoffice into Google's search engine and you will get both the filechampion.com scam and this (both are at the

Re: [users] Re: Unscrupulous dealings - OOo imposters

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Twayne wrote: I didn't get the great results mentioned here with icerocket so did a little checking. It's actually a blog search engine; and will be changing its name soon too. Makes sense now, what it found. Look at the home page again. It gives you the choice of

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] published e-mail

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Dave Post wrote: On Mar 3, 2009, at 1:48 PM, NoOp wrote: Umm... you did read: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html before subscribing? No. I've never seen that web page before. Then how did you subscrie? -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch,

[users] downlod problems

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
As of 5:00 PM MST tghe download link to the binary packages is dead. I allowed the page under Firefox NoScript and had it work once but since is dead. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer

Re: [users] Support

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Harold Fuchs wrote: The OP didn't get your message as he's not subscribed to this list and you didn't include his e-mail address in its To: or cc: list If he posted to a mail list he knows how to read replies. BTW, his From line was: Paul Shipgood

Re: [users] Support

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 20/03/2009 21:12, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Harold Fuchs wrote: The OP didn't get your message as he's not subscribed to this list and you didn't include his e-mail address in its To: or cc: list If he posted to a mail list he

Re: [users] Re: Support

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Larry Gusaas wrote: You have to register with Gmane for each list you post to 1. The first time you post something to a newsgroup, Gmane spools the message and sends you an email asking you to respond. 2. You press reply in your favorite mail reader, and Gmane

Re: [users] Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files

2009-03-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org And in doing so you hijacked this thread. To ask a new question start a new thread. DO NOT respond to a previous post and just change the subject line. What's

Re: [users] Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files

2009-03-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net To: users@openoffice.org; Ugly Me u...@frightenstein.com Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [users] Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files Not such a petty argument

Re: [users] Re: Hijacked thread. Was: Standalone Help Files

2009-03-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net It is not that people do not want you here. It is simply that it is long standing etiquette to start a new message or thread for a new question. I ***DID*** start a new

Re: [users] registration with openoffice

2009-04-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Roger Jones wrote: As I said to another user, put them all in your spam filter - it cuts down on the aggravation!  The regular ones get spammed... of course, the new ones don't! But how do we get out of this crap? Have you tried to unsubscribe? If so, what was the result?

Re: [users] how to try dev builds in Debian and Ubuntu and purge them if needed

2009-04-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, H.S. wrote: Removing this is not intuitive, should one want to do so. What one needs is the names of all the package that were installed earlier. Extract the package names from the Debs (you can do this step right after installed the DEBS above): $ for f in *.deb; do echo

Re: [users] Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format

2009-04-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I found this terrific document onf the microsoft site which answers a rather FAQ regarding ODTsuitability: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102835631033.aspx Note that this document compares ODT with DOCX, not OOo with MSO. After the site scans

Re: [users] Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format

2009-04-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: After the site scans your computer to see if you have MSO installed you get to the part that says You have arrived at this page because you selected an item that is available only if you have a 2007 Microsoft Office suite or other 2007 Microsoft Office

Re: [users] Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:54:31 -0700 (MST) Came this utterance formulated by Robert Holtzman to my mailbox: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: After the site scans your computer to see if you have MSO installed you get to the part that says

Re: [users] Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, James Knott wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Did you have Cookies on or off for the site? I'm sure they were on but I'll try it again. Try chocolate chip. ;-) Actually I used to have a pretty good recipe for hash cookies. Think firefox would accept them? -- Bob

Re: [users] New User and I need help, please!

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ellie Kuykendall wrote: Gene Young wrote: You don't have to go back to Word. Just set your default save as to save as a .doc file. You may choose from several versions of .doc files. Go to tools options Load/Save General in the bottom right corner there is a

Re: [users] Re: Re: New User and I need help, please!

2009-05-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 23 May 2009, Cliff wrote: You don't need Usenet. Many organizations run a private news server. I agree that blocking nntp ports is a problem; that's just insanity. Hate to tell you but what those servers connect to *is* Usenet. -- Bob Holtzman AF9D 8760 0CFA F95A 6C77 E125 BF90

Re: [users] Major data loss: Calc formatting numbers

2009-07-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Gene Young wrote: Richard Detwiler wrote: I'm a bit confused by the statement about how information on users shouldn't be stored in a spreadsheet, because it is so easy to corrupt the data. Does this suggest that the only information that should be put in a

Re: [users] unsubscribe [was: Re: Return Receipt (displayed) - [users] Re: Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor says OO.o won't install.]

2009-07-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, michael considine wrote: To Whom It May Concern, How come I have received 159 Emails whatis going on I will take legal action if this happens again?? Pray tell, Sparky, just what legal action do think possible? -- Bob Holtzman AF9D 8760 0CFA F95A 6C77 E125

Re: [users] downloading Writer only

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, jonathon wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 18:34, Greg wrote: I am interested in downloading Open Office but I only need Writer. Is it possible to download Writer only? In Synaptic, search for OpenOffice, then scroll down the screen till you find Writer. (It is roughly

Re: [users] Re: ubuntu linux version - any guidance?

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:29:58AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: I understand that the grayed out Save option was deliberately disabled so that OOo Calc would look more like Excel. And this was supposed to be an improvement? Why don't they just rebrand Microsquish Office? That would make

Re: [users] UI work (Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance)

2009-09-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:43:10PM -0700, James E. Lang wrote: Vulgarities are neither welcome nor useful on this list (IMNSHO). Don't let the door hit you in your overly delicate sensibilities on your way out. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check the

Re: [users] Excel 2004 for Mac and web pages

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:38:15AM -0400, Robert Peirce wrote: In Excel for Windows, you can access a web page and specify the specific information you are after. In Excel 2004 for Mac you cannot. Consequently, if your spreadsheet accesses a particular line and it moves because of web

Re: [users] Re: Excel 2004 for Mac and web pages

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:40:27PM -0400, Robert Peirce wrote: In article 20090909163358.ga16...@cox.net, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: Is there some other way to lock in this data in Excel 2004 for Mac or is it possible to do in Open Office? Wrong list. OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] another package ?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:34:57PM -0400, James Knott wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Protect your PC with 50% off Norton Security - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/securepc 's funny. Your sig is an advert for Norton... Q: I wonder why Norton doesn't make a security product for linux?

Re: [users] MS office to openoffice

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:21:35PM -0400, James Knott wrote: Pierre wrote: Satiesh Bansode wrote: whether it supports all the fuctions like email(outlook),word,excel and power point? There is a Send command on the File menu, much the same as in the MS-Office suite. It is supposed to

Re: [users] Re: another package ?

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:21:21PM -0700, John Boyle wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Twayne wrote: 's funny. Your data is very misleading. Linux: -- Has a steep learning curve Tell that to my friend, who I loaned my Eee PC to. She took to it

Re: [users] Re: another package ?

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:46:10PM -0700, John Boyle wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Hate to burst *your* bubble pal, but having used various Linux distros for the last 10 yrs or so I have yet to have an upgrade break hardware compatibility. The only hardware that may not be supported

Re: [users] I'm petrified! =1

2009-10-18 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, James Knott wrote: ...snip As someone else mentioned, you may also want to consider moving to Linux and cutting all ties to Microsoft. By doing so, you'll cut yourself free of the problems that so often affect Windows users. A few

Re: [users] Lost copy of Open Office

2009-10-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, James Knott wrote: hopefulau wrote: Hi I am on dialup and lost my copy of OpenOffice. Does anyone know where I can get a CD sent to me? (I live in Australia). A list of vendors can be found here: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom Please note

Re: [users] Fw: unsubscribe

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Mark Webster wrote: And here we have our typical noob slammer. I've been wondering if it would be more trouble than it's worth to put a very short line at the top of each message on how to unsub Noob slammer or not, he's right. Also, would a line at the top of a message

Re: [users] Fw: unsubscribe

2009-10-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Gallomimia wrote: People don't scroll to the bottom of their emails. Especially webmail users. Just who's fault would that be? If it's the first line, might it be more prominent? I wrote the previous email from my iPhone and I found lines to wrap almost always, so a

Re: [users] Fw: unsubscribe

2009-10-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: It all depends on how far you want to go to coddle the clueless. Depends on what you are producing. For a consumer product - How ever far it takes. That's great *if* you're getting paid to kiss the customer's a**. Don't know

Re: [users] Fw: unsubscribe

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, John Meyer wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: It all depends on how far you want to go to coddle the clueless. Depends on what you are producing. For a consumer product - How ever far it takes. That's great

Re: Fw: [users] Labels

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:23:59PM -0800, michael considine wrote: Usubscribe me turkey or I will keep on sending them back to you Hey moron, no one on this list can unsubscribe you. You have to do it yourself. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check

Re: [users] Re: OOo LiveCD

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:33:44PM +, Mark C. Miller wrote: Thanks. Just typing git into Google didn't get me very far; it even asked if I meant jit -- that one I know, just in time. When I did it the 4th entry was the wikipedia definition. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you

Re: [users] Re: FW: America]

2010-01-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, John Boyle wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: snip. Oh, by the way, did you know that the early Christians were all socialists? NO THEY WERE NOT! And, if you really knew any religion, you would know better than to spout that stuff, which is

Re: [users] your office programm

2010-01-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:10:10AM -0500, Rudolf Konheiser wrote: Thanks a lot ,but what I need is a Smartcon that sais Add Above like the one in 1 2 3 Lotus , unfortunatly my Smart suit is not compatible with Vista ,so I bought Open Office ,a lot a good that did. You *bought* open office?

Re: [users] Re: Top posting/Bainbridge

2010-02-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:51:56AM -, Gordon wrote: Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote in message news:1265970470.4273.298.ca...@merlin.fdi.loc... This whole top-posting thing, IMHO, originated with clueless NetNoobs several years ago, who when first encountering an email editing

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:24:18PM +0100, James Wilde wrote: ..snip... Good point, Marco, and the first really rational - as opposed to religious - justification for bottom-posting. My own position is when in Rome do as the Romans. If I find that the general

Re: [users] Unacceptable personal attacks

2010-02-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:50:43PM -0600, Troll/Idiot wrote: On 14-Feb-10 15:44, Programmer In Training wrote: On 02/14/10 15:16, Troll/Idiot wrote: Programmer In Training is attempting to continue the string of personal attacks in the various Top posting threads. I received the message

Re: RES: [users] can't logon

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:42:34PM -0200, Greyce Goes Giordani wrote: Hi James, I tried many times and things, I also went to Apple to ask them some help and they didn't fond the problem, still not working. Now I had just bought a new one directly at the store with a CD and the serials

Re: [users] OT Re: Re[2]: Unacceptable personal attacks

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Gene Young wrote: Wasitchu wrote: You can demand all you want but the only way to not receive ALL the messages sent to the list is to unsubscribe from the list completely. (directions at the bottom of each message) I would not recommend any attempt at legal action as

Re: [users] Sorry for the group email and dumb question - Can someone send me the unsubscribe link please

2010-02-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:48:59PM +1030, Paul Thompson wrote: Sorry for the group email and dumb question. Can someone send me the unsubscribe link please. I have lost my original joining email and cannot find the correct site to unsubscribe. Look at the headers of your post. In case your

Re: [users] discontinue

2010-02-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 09:51:14AM -0500, Christine Hanley wrote: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS AS YOUR PROGRAM WAS AND IS OF NO USE TO ME. iT DID NOT CONTAIN THE FEATURE i REQUIRED AND i WAS COMPLETELY UNABLE TO GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM YOUR COMPANY.

Re: [users] Time to blow the OOo Trumpet [OT]

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:59:26PM +0530, Siddharth Waikar wrote: Dear All , I try to use openoffice with firefox. I want to open firefox apllication in macro of openoffice. can we do this and if yes then how?? please send some clue.. thanks in advance What does this have to do with the

Re: [users] Help needed

2010-03-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:40:45AM -0500, Richard Detwiler wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: Which begs the question - why is that checkbox even there? All it does is cause this problem (our users have been bit by it a lot too)... Good question -- not sure why anyone would ever have the need or

Re: [users] Re: Help needed

2010-03-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:38:19PM -0500, James Knott wrote: ..snip The only problem with that is Windows will often hide the extension. So, where you need it most, you don't see it. My windows days are long behind me but I remember an option to always show

Re: [users] Help needed

2010-03-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/13/2010 9:34 PM, James Knott wrote: It's a problem in Windows, but not Linux, OS/2 and I expect Mac. Unlike other operating systems, Windows still relies on the file extension to determine the file type. Is the rest of the

Re: [users] Help needed

2010-03-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: ..snip.. James, your fanboism is really boring. As is yours. ? what pray tell are you talking about? And spare me if you are going to try to equate my criticism of James' blatant fanboism as the

Re: [users] Re: Is the install of Ooo 3.2.1 incredibly slow?

2010-06-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:19:17PM -0400, David B Teague wrote: On 6/13/2010 2:33 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-13 2:23 PM, David B Teague wrote: I run an older 1.6 GHZ Sempron 2.8 with 1 GB Ram, and a not-very-fast backplane. I just installed OO.0 3.2.1 and it took less than a half

Re: [users] virus

2010-07-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:28:06PM -0700, Victoria Fultz wrote: I went to your site for the first time, signed and downloaded your program-along with a virus that took days to fix.As I am taking on-line courses I have been on my computer for hour after hour re-programming.I bought serious

Re: [users] Re: Re: ANN: English Grammar Checker Extension for OpenOffice.org

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:43:56PM +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: ..snip. You Yanks say He jumped off of the bridge. We Brits think that's completely wrong - the of shouldn't be there. To be fair, some Yanks think it's wrong too but you see it in respectable

Re: Fwd: [users] HELP!! :)

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:20:26PM -0700, christina vincent wrote: Mr. Adams - I am not sure I am going to receive an answer to my question from these users. I tried to call the 800 # and was cut off. I simply need to know if Open Office 3.2.1 can be used with Windows 7. Can you help, or

Re: [users] opinion

2010-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:17:21PM +0800, Daryl Dy wrote: Never before have i been more frustrated by an office suite in my entire life. It is the most half assed program i have ever had to use and i hope that i will never have the displeasure of using it again. Are you frustrated because it

Re: [users] Re: LibreOffice - adoption

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 12:39:37PM -0500, Michael wrote: On 10/02/2010 09:19 PM, Barry Kahn wrote: On 10/2/2010 19:21, Tony Carr wrote: You like being an immoral fuck head you son of a bitch? Get fuckrd and leave me the fuck alone. I wonder if he reads a lot of Dickens? I wonder if

Re: [users] LibreOffice - adoption

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:21:01PM -0400, Barry Kahn wrote: fuck you ass hole Remember what Daddy did to your naughty parts the last time he caught you playing with his computer? You wouldn't want that to happen again, would you? You had better put it away before he gets home. -- Bob

Re: [users] IMPORTANT

2010-11-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:41:52PM -, Indaba wrote: Please remove the following link from the web, you should not have published the said letter without my permission as you have included my email address. Please remove immediately and confirm with me by return. Thank you! You don't

Re: [users] Unsub

2010-11-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:41:24PM +, AG wrote: ..snip Oh no - not this thread yet again. Do user not read these days? At the risk of starting a flame war, I would bet dollars to donuts that all of these lost souls who plaintively write in to be unsubbed

Re: [users] Re: Unsub

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:05:00PM -0400, Twayne wrote: In news:20101106011654.gd2...@cox.net, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net typed: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:41:24PM +, AG wrote: ..snip Oh no - not this thread yet again. Do user not read

Re: [users] Question

2010-12-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:35:31PM -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: While using OOo, it is better to use OOo's native format, which is ODF. Exceptif you should have to send the file to a windows user who only has Microsoft Office. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're

Re: [users] PDF

2010-12-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 02:09:49PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:54:35 -0500 webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Hello webmas...@krackedpress.com, I do not have the earlier parts of this thread, so I do not know why people are looking for

Re: [users] Re: Trouble with OpenOffice finding email configuration

2011-01-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 03:40:42PM -0800, larryb wrote: i am having the same problem. help please The answer seems to be in the message you quoted. Arnold N. Pollak - SignForce has written on 1/6/2011 12:25 PM: snip. Control Panel Programs Default Programs

Re: [users] FW: This works, don't ask me how, but it does!!! GOOD LUCK!

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:48:02AM -0600, Campbell, Colin wrote: ..snip. Uhm...did you really mean to send this to the list? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer

[users] Re: Looking for oofice executable (on linux)

2011-03-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:19:20AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: I recently removed OO 3.2 from my linux/ubuntu/mint 10 system. I installed OO 3.3 from the debian install. Now I can't start open office from Midnight Commander. The reason is that the /etc/mc/mc.ext file has an entry that looks

[users] Re: [moderated]

2011-05-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hello Ronald, On Wed, 11 May 2011 06:14:42 +0100 RONALD LAW ronl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Reader, I have just joined OPEN OFFICE, and at present I use Microsoft Works for windows as word processor, spreadsheet and

[users] Re: executable file

2011-05-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 07:29:09AM +1000, Dave Barton wrote: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head .snip of a bunch of html crap. /div /blockquote br C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice.org

[users] Re: Abo

2011-06-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Kevin Andree wrote: htmlhead/headbody bgcolor='#FF' style='font-size:12px;background-color:#FF;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;'Sehr geerte Damen und Heern,br/br/Ich hab mal ne frage an euch und zwar wieso ist die neue version von

[users] Re: how does the mail list work?

2011-07-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 04:29:17PM +, aosd...@gmail.com wrote: In the days before www, we had news readers that helped. Are there any readers available for the Mac that one could use for the OOo mailing lists? Are your brower's search engines broken? -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're

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