Re: Microsoft payment demand

[Rory O'Farrell]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 14:54:51 +
Stuart Walton  wrote:

> Thanks, guys. I appear to have solved it by simply downloading Open Office 
> again. My documents have now reverted to normal editable format.
> 
> SW


That will have reset your File Attribute settings to point to OpenOffice.

> 
> 
> From: Rory O'Farrell 
> Sent: 08 March 2020 14:40
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org 
> Cc: Stuart Walton 
> Subject: Re: Microsoft payment demand
> 
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 13:52:49 +
> Stuart Walton  wrote:
> 
> > Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am 
> > no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big 
> > dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in 
> > Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on 
> > to a USB device, but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried 
> > copying the existing files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that 
> > either.
> >
> > How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
> > system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
> > Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 
> > 10
> >
> 
> I work on Xubuntu, not any modern version of Windows, so take my advice in 
> that light.
> 
> I think the Windows 10 updates have changed the default programs for 
> Microsoft formats (.doc, .docx, xls, .xlsx etc) back to the trial Microsoft 
> Office supplied with Windows 10.  This trial version is now out of time, 
> hence the "purchase" mag screen.
> 
> How to fix?  If what I surmise above is true, reset the File Associations for 
> affected files so they open with OpenOffice.
> 
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Re: Microsoft payment demand

[Stuart Walton]

Thanks, guys. I appear to have solved it by simply downloading Open Office 
again. My documents have now reverted to normal editable format.

SW


From: Rory O'Farrell 
Sent: 08 March 2020 14:40
To: users@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: Stuart Walton 
Subject: Re: Microsoft payment demand

On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 13:52:49 +
Stuart Walton  wrote:

> Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am 
> no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big 
> dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in 
> Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on to 
> a USB device, but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried copying 
> the existing files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that either.
>
> How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
> system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
> Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>

I work on Xubuntu, not any modern version of Windows, so take my advice in that 
light.

I think the Windows 10 updates have changed the default programs for Microsoft 
formats (.doc, .docx, xls, .xlsx etc) back to the trial Microsoft Office 
supplied with Windows 10.  This trial version is now out of time, hence the 
"purchase" mag screen.

How to fix?  If what I surmise above is true, reset the File Associations for 
affected files so they open with OpenOffice.

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Re: Microsoft payment demand

[Andrew Pitonyak]

Microsoft word is probably associated with OpenOffice documents so when he 
double clicked on one the automatic association probably tried to load a 
Microsoft product.

It is a simple matter to reassociate the file types. I'm not a strong Windows 
user so I won't even try to provide instruction on how to do that, but a quick 
Google search and show you how to reassociate the file types.

Also, you should be able to manually load your word processor and then use file 
open to open the document

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On Mar 8, 2020, 10:39 AM, at 10:39 AM, Wade Smart  wrote:
>Depending payment for OO or for the OS?
>My wifes W10 laptop has LO installed and
>we have not seen that dialog box.
>
>
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>
>On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 8:57 AM Stuart Walton
> wrote:
>>
>> Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I
>find I am no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without
>getting a big dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my
>files is saved in Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have
>saved everything on to a USB device, but it won’t let me access them
>there either. I tried copying the existing files into new .odt files
>and it won’t let me do that either.
>>
>> How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free
>word-processing system? And is there anything I can do to get around it
>without paying Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?
>>
>> Sent from Mail for
>Windows 10
>>
>
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Re: Microsoft payment demand

[Rory O'Farrell]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 13:52:49 +
Stuart Walton  wrote:

> Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am 
> no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big 
> dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in 
> Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on to 
> a USB device, but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried copying 
> the existing files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that either.
> 
> How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
> system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
> Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 

I work on Xubuntu, not any modern version of Windows, so take my advice in that 
light.  

I think the Windows 10 updates have changed the default programs for Microsoft 
formats (.doc, .docx, xls, .xlsx etc) back to the trial Microsoft Office 
supplied with Windows 10.  This trial version is now out of time, hence the 
"purchase" mag screen.

How to fix?  If what I surmise above is true, reset the File Associations for 
affected files so they open with OpenOffice.

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Re: Microsoft payment demand

[Wade Smart]

Depending payment for OO or for the OS?
My wifes W10 laptop has LO installed and
we have not seen that dialog box.


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On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 8:57 AM Stuart Walton  wrote:
>
> Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am 
> no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big 
> dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in 
> Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on to 
> a USB device, but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried copying 
> the existing files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that either.
>
> How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
> system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
> Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>

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Re: Microsoft payment demand

[jhivacaville]

I tend to agree.  I am having problems with this program that has been 
continuously updated from the original purchase of several years ago.  It mused 
to be a very good and workable program.  I am considering looking elsewhere for 
a replacement.  Most venders are in business to SDELL new programs without 
servicing them as time goes along!


-Original Message-
From: Stuart Walton 
To: users@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 6:57 am
Subject: Microsoft payment demand

Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am no 
longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big dialog 
box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in Word, but it 
won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on to a USB device, 
but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried copying the existing 
files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that either.

How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Microsoft payment demand

[Stuart Walton]

Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I find I am no 
longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without getting a big dialog 
box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my files is saved in Word, but it 
won’t let me access them even so. I have saved everything on to a USB device, 
but it won’t let me access them there either. I tried copying the existing 
files into new .odt files and it won’t let me do that either.

How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free word-processing 
system? And is there anything I can do to get around it without paying 
Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want?

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: Quirky page numbers, only every second page

[Brian Barker]

At 21:52 07/03/2020 -0800, Marky Yiannis wrote:
I have a very frustrating problem and frankly find Open Office too 
complex, certainly for me.


Please don't give up: anything worth using requires a little 
learning, not unlike driving a car or playing the piano.


All the instructions on page numbering say to inserts and to fields 
etc. and I do that. It numbers my pages - but only the odd numbered 
ones. So page 1 has a number up at the top, NOT page 2, page 3 has
a number, NOT 4, page 5 has a number etc. It's a 98 page playscript 
and actors will need to reference pages etc., so alternate 
page-numbering won't be adequate.


You will be inserting a Page Number field into a header. (You could 
have chosen a footer instead.) Headers and footers are properties of 
page styles. So one - perhaps unlikely - possibility is that you have 
two alternating page styles, with a Page Number field only in the 
header of the page style set in your odd-numbered pages.


But a more likely scenario is that you have chosen to have different 
material in headers for alternate pages. Books are frequently 
prepared in this way, for example, with the book title in the verso 
(left-hand) header and the chapter title in the recto (right-hand) 
header. In addition, it is usual to have page numbers, where they are 
added, at the outside edge of each page, which again requires 
different behaviour, with these page numbers right-aligned on rectos 
and left-aligned on versos.


Have you perhaps chosen to place different material - play title?, 
act number?, scene number? - on alternate pages? Or merely to align 
page numbers differently on rectos and versos? To do this, you will 
have needed to disable (untick) the option at Format | Page... | 
Header | Header | Same content left/right. If you then insert a page 
number on a recto (odd-numbered page), numbers will appear only on 
rectos - as you say you observe. To add page numbers also on versos 
(even-numbered pages), you simply need to put the cursor into the 
header of a verso and repeat the action Insert | Fields > | Page Number.


This mostly assumes that you will be printing your script 
double-sided. If you intend to print single-sided, you probably won't 
want this arrangement. The solution then will be just to enable 
(tick) the option at Format | Page... | Header | Header | Same 
content left/right. In this case, removing that tick should solve your problem.


Tried googling '*Open Office only numbering every second page*' and 
other permutations of that but don't get answers, just get 
instructions that lead to the same problem.


I think you could find information on the web if you persist. Have 
you tried the documentation available from the OpenOffice web site? Start at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters 
. The information you require is under "Numbering pages" in Chapter 
4, "Formatting Pages", of the Writer Guide.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: Quirky page numbers, only every second page

[David Robley]

Maybe you have set different styles for left and right pages, but only 
added the page numbering in one style?


Without seeing the document we can only guess.

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On 8/3/20 4:22 pm, Marky Yiannis wrote:

I have a very frustrating problem and frankly find Open Office too complex,
certainly for me.  All the instructions on page numbering say to inserts
and to fields etc. and I do that. It numbers my pages - but only the odd
numbered ones. So page 1 has a number up at the top, NOT page 2, page 3 has
a number, NOT 4, page 5 has a number etc.


It's a 98 page playscript and actors will need to reference pages etc., so
alternate page-numbering won't be adequate. Tried googling '*Open Office
only numbering every second page*' and other permutations of that but don't
get answers, just get instructions that lead to the same problem.


This must have happened to others. Anyone know?



Marcus



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