Re: Cannot retrieve password

[Dan Lewis]

What email client do you use? The problem may lie with it. Just make 
sure that you send your answer to users@openoffice.apache.org and not to me.


And to other readers of this mailing list, Cheri is not subscribed to 
it. So, your answers should contain her as a CC.


Dan

On 9/1/21 1:41 PM, Cheryl Bauer wrote:

I am trying to retrieve my password, but your system says it cannot send and 
email and to contact the Administrator of this site???
Cheryl Bauer
baue...@comcast.net

I also tried to set up a new account under a different comcast.net email 
address, and got a similar error message.

All I am trying to do is download an Avery 8160 label template for my Open 
Office software that I have used for years!

Can yo assist me please?
Thanks,
Cheri Bauer baue...@comcast.net




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Fwd: A question

[Dan Lewis]

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: A question
Date:   Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:26:04 +
From:   Dean Bauwens 
To: Dan Lewis 



Subject: Thanks

Sir,
I looked up your information.
But this morning when I added a pdf photo it was put horizontally on a 
vertical sheet and vetically on a horizontal sheet.


So I placed my title first and then the photo in a table below.
The writer didn't do this well with ODF photos either.

So view options, grid, ...can you explain to me exactly what you have to 
tick to make sure that a photo adapts to the sheet and where I don't 
have to use a table.



Yours Sincerely,
Dean Bauwens

*Van:* Dan Lewis 
*Verzonden:* dinsdag 29 juni 2021 0:52
*Aan:* users@openoffice.apache.org 
*CC:* bauwensn...@hotmail.com 
*Onderwerp:* Re: A question
A photo can be placed wherever you want to do so the way you want to do
it. However, this requires the knowledge of styles. This has been ever
since OOo.org 1.0. The Writer Guide contains a chapter on styles. The
Writer chapter in the Getting Started Guide does also. One of these two
guides also contains a second chapter on styles. Search for these books,
download them, and study these chapters. You should have no problems
afterwards.

You have written this email to a mailing list, and I among a vast number
of people have read it. I have sent you a CC so you would see what I
have written also to this mailing list. Please, if you have more
questions about Open Office, email them to the mailing list and not to
any of the people who also reply to your question.

Dan

On 6/29/21 7:51 AM, Dean Bauwens wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> Dear Madam,
>
> This morning I had some difficulties with Openoffice.
>
> Why not provide a rotary knob for photos in a writing
> When you want to add an image in a text, openoffice always placed it 
in the length (horizontal).

> Are photos mathematically constructed with values?
> Could you explain why I had to put this in a table first.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> Dean Bauwens
>
>
>

Re: A question

[Dan Lewis]

A photo can be placed wherever you want to do so the way you want to do 
it. However, this requires the knowledge of styles. This has been ever 
since OOo.org 1.0. The Writer Guide contains a chapter on styles. The 
Writer chapter in the Getting Started Guide does also. One of these two 
guides also contains a second chapter on styles. Search for these books, 
download them, and study these chapters. You should have no problems 
afterwards.


You have written this email to a mailing list, and I among a vast number 
of people have read it. I have sent you a CC so you would see what I 
have written also to this mailing list. Please, if you have more 
questions about Open Office, email them to the mailing list and not to 
any of the people who also reply to your question.


Dan

On 6/29/21 7:51 AM, Dean Bauwens wrote:

Dear Sir,
Dear Madam,

This morning I had some difficulties with Openoffice.

Why not provide a rotary knob for photos in a writing
When you want to add an image in a text, openoffice always placed it in the 
length (horizontal).
Are photos mathematically constructed with values?
Could you explain why I had to put this in a table first.

Yours Sincerely,
Dean Bauwens





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Re: Limited functions

[Dan Lewis]

This really depends upon what functions that you want. For example, the 
Base, Impress, Math, and Draw functions all use the Writer function for 
the text that they produce. Writer used Calc for the calculations done 
in text documents.


   In other words, there are common tasks that are used by the various 
functions. This part forms the core of the program and is by far most of 
the complete program. The part for each function needed beyond the core 
is rather small as in perhaps  5-10 MB.


   The installation folder contains approximately 390 MB. At the larger 
amount I mentioned, the core consists of at least 350 MB. It is not 
worth the effort needed to install only one or two functions. Besides, 
if you really need another function or two to be able to use the one you 
want to install, then you would have to redo the installation to get 
them later. It is not really not worth the effort.


Dan

On 6/25/21 10:13 AM, David Schoepf wrote:

I only want one or two of the functions (software) that is available in Open
Office.

How do I avoid all the other items that I don't want?




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Re: Unable to use new release

[Dan Lewis]

Cathy is not  member of this mailing list so I am including her in this 
email.


Cathy: the following instructions will solve your problem.

Dan

On 5/12/21 3:30 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
You should always read the release notes of new/updated software. The 
solution to your problem is in them.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.10+Release+Notes#AOO4.1.10ReleaseNotes-FormacOSusers 



On 2021-05-12 12:35 p.m., Cathy Labudak wrote:
I have a macOS Big Sur Version 11.3.1.  I received an email from Open 
Office stating that there is a newer version-4.1.10.  I downloaded it 
and am unable to open it.  I get the message as follows:


“OpenOffice.app” cannot be opened because the developer 
cannot be verified.  macOS cannot verify that this app is free from 
malware.  Firefox downloaded this file today at 11:19AM from 
sourceforge.net.


My choices are to move to trash or cancel.


I tried to get an older version back on my computer because the 
installing of new software removed my older working software.  I have 
no idea what version it is.


I really need to get open office back on line because all my files 
use it.l


Can you help me?

Regards
Cathy





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Re: Info about Openoffice 4.1.9

[Dan Lewis]

The original poster has not subscribed to this list, so your email did 
not reach him. I have CC him. And to Herbert, please reply with the 
information that Dave has asked for. Just make sure that you put 
"users@openoffice.apache.org" in the To box of your email.


Dan

On 3/21/21 2:51 PM, Dave wrote:

The little amount of information you have given doesn't help us to
understand your issue. Please tell us more about what happens, what
messages you see when you try to install.

Please address any reply to users@openoffice.apache.org not to my
personal email address, thank you.

On 21/03/2021 18:21, Herbert Lindermann wrote:

Hello OpenOffice-team,

Info:

I can't install Openoffice 4.1.9.

My OS ist Windows 10 Home 64 bit / 20H2.

I' ve taken Openoffice 4.0.0 without problems.

Greetings

Herbert Lindermann


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Re: capitals in German

[Dan Lewis]

But do you have the spell checker icon activated? It is the ABC with the 
red wavy line below it. It will be enclosed in a box if you do. I always 
keep this active. So, when I installed a German dictionary and set the 
paragraph style to German, it automatically marked misspelled words in 
German. For example, I typed, mench. It first corrected that mensch then 
flagging that as misspelled. The final correction was to Mensch. (This 
is the Austria dictionary.


Dan

On 2/15/21 10:16 AM, Felmon Davis wrote:

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Dan Lewis wrote:

   I think you have missed one very important step: the paragraph 
style for the paragraph in which the German language is used. It 
contains the control for which language is checked for spelling. 
Yours probably is one of the English languages depending upon what 
country in which you live. Change that setting to German. Also make 
sure the your selection contains an ABC before the name of the language.


Dan


I just took a look at the style and it says the language is German.

next to "German (Germany)" I see a teeny 'ABC' with a check mark under 
it.


so far then so good.

f.




On 2/15/21 7:41 AM, Felmon Davis wrote:

Greets!

I'm not easy with the German system of capitalization; if I write 
something without capitalizing the nouns, is there a way to run a 
spell-checker or something which will do that?


I installed dict-de_de-igerman98_2011-06-21.oxt into OpenOffice 
4.1.8 and selected "Tools/Language/For all text/German" and note 
that "Options/Language Settings/Language" has German as default for 
documents.


however spell-check breezes through without touching the document.

(a) maybe there was an error in the way I installed the template?

(b) suppose it worked, would it flag nouns without capitals?

appreciated!

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Re: capitals in German

[Dan Lewis]

   I think you have missed one very important step: the paragraph style 
for the paragraph in which the German language is used. It contains the 
control for which language is checked for spelling. Yours probably is 
one of the English languages depending upon what country in which you 
live. Change that setting to German. Also make sure the your selection 
contains an ABC before the name of the language.


Dan


On 2/15/21 7:41 AM, Felmon Davis wrote:

Greets!

I'm not easy with the German system of capitalization; if I write 
something without capitalizing the nouns, is there a way to run a 
spell-checker or something which will do that?


I installed dict-de_de-igerman98_2011-06-21.oxt into OpenOffice 4.1.8 
and selected "Tools/Language/For all text/German" and note that 
"Options/Language Settings/Language" has German as default for documents.


however spell-check breezes through without touching the document.

(a) maybe there was an error in the way I installed the template?

(b) suppose it worked, would it flag nouns without capitals?

appreciated!

fjd



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Re: Question

[Dan Lewis]

I am not sure this will help. You have a key on your keyboard, Insert. 
Try typing some text, then click the Insert button, and finally type 
some text. See what may happen. Otherwise, I have no idea what happened.


Any reply or questions need to be sent to users@openoffice.apache.org 
rather than me or anyone else who may send you suggestions.


Dan

On 2/14/21 7:48 PM, Pam wrote:

I am creating a document to save in Open Office.  I have made several entries 
with no problem, but now a space is automatically skipped between characters 
and no matter how I try, I can’t get it to stop.  Here is an example:  Pam F 
armer.  When I backspace, it deletes the F and when I type it again, it does 
the same thing.  Help!  Thank you.  I love this program and have used it for 
years, and will continue to.  It does everything I need to do.

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Re: Feedback

[Dan Lewis]

If you have more questions that you might want to ask, you should 
subscribe to this mailing list.
Open a new email window entering users-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org 
in the To box and send. You will get an email in return verifying that 
you want to join this mailing list. So, you must reply by clicking Reply 
and then Send.


There are people on this mailing list that will be able to answer your 
questions such as Felmon. You will also be getting all of the emails and 
replies which are sent to this mailing list. You can learn a lot from 
reading the replies of others this way.


Dan

On 12/2/20 17:26, Gilles Lecerf wrote:

Hey Dan,

Thanks a lot for your answer !

And sorry for having been dumb, I really spent my morning on it and I could not 
do anything without having trouble...

I will try to dedicate more time going through all the documentation available 
and if you are still ok it would be awesome if I can send you some questions 
(real ones I promise, especially on how to install Zotero on openoffice...) if 
I still have some..

thanks !



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‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:45 PM, Dan Lewis  
wrote:


Since you are not subscribed to this mailing list, I have sent you a
copy of another response to your email.

I agree with him: it takes some time to learn how to use a new program,
so be patient. I also have a suggestion of my own. Writer is the name of
the component of Apache OpenOffice used to work with text. It has its
own documentation that you can download from the following link.  You
can also download from the Getting Started Guide the chapter, Getting
Started with Writer. Both will make excellent references.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

Dan

On 12/2/20 07:32, Felmon Davis wrote:


On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Gilles Lecerf wrote:


Hey Apache,
I was really happy to download Apache and use it as a replacement of
Pages and/or Word.
It was HORRIBLE. Really, I got mad. I'm sorry but it is not possible
that the interface is so difficult to use. I tried for an hour to
create templates for the style of my document and nothing worked.
When I tried to make modifications in a style, it did not modify the
text. When I tried to erase the pre-programmed styles it was not
possible (there are 10 "titles" format, seriously who need 10 titles
format and of course the number 10 is betwenn 1 and 2, very
convenient...)
Basic things are impossible to do with your interface i'm sorry.
How can you help ??!

You've written to a list of users of the software, it is not 'ours'.
but some of us can help.
I have a couple of templates I use, it's not hard but the trick is to
familiarize yourself with the software. have you tried looking at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Calc_Guide/Creating_editing_template?
This may clarify matters or anyway get you in place to narrow down
your questions.
Complex software is usually confusing on first acquaintance, then it
becomes second-nature.
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Re: Feedback

[Dan Lewis]

Since you are not subscribed to this mailing list, I have sent you a 
copy of another response to your email.


I agree with him: it takes some time to learn how to use a new program, 
so be patient. I also have a suggestion of my own. Writer is the name of 
the component of Apache OpenOffice used to work with text. It has its 
own documentation that you can download from the following link.  You 
can also download from the Getting Started Guide the chapter, Getting 
Started with Writer. Both will make excellent references.


https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

Dan

On 12/2/20 07:32, Felmon Davis wrote:

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Gilles Lecerf wrote:


Hey Apache,

I was really happy to download Apache and use it as a replacement of 
Pages and/or Word.


It was HORRIBLE. Really, I got mad. I'm sorry but it is not possible 
that the interface is so difficult to use. I tried for an hour to 
create templates for the style of my document and nothing worked. 
When I tried to make modifications in a style, it did not modify the 
text. When I tried to erase the pre-programmed styles it was not 
possible (there are 10 "titles" format, seriously who need 10 titles 
format and of course the number 10 is betwenn 1 and 2, very 
convenient...)


Basic things are impossible to do with your interface i'm sorry.

How can you help ??!


You've written to a list of users of the software, it is not 'ours'. 
but some of us can help.


I have a couple of templates I use, it's not hard but the trick is to 
familiarize yourself with the software. have you tried looking at 
?


This may clarify matters or anyway get you in place to narrow down 
your questions.


Complex software is usually confusing on first acquaintance, then it 
becomes second-nature.


fjd



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Re: Report build wizard

[Dan Lewis]

 What you need to answer your question is described in the LibreOffice 
Base Handbook available at this link:


https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/base/

It is available in both the .odt (text format) and PDF for version 4.0. 
Several years ago, AOO and LibreOffice split over disagreements 
producing two variations of the same software. So, this guide's 
instructions will work for both. Unfortunately, I could not find a base 
guide for OpenOffice.


However I will mention this much. The first step is to create a 
relational database with the two tables you mentioned. Then create a 
query which combines these tables in which the relationship between the 
tables is defined.  From here, detailed instructions are needed to 
create the report you want. (This is why you need a guide to help you 
with the specific steps.


Dan

On 11/23/20 04:47, DAB DAB wrote:

HI, I have two tables in a database, Customers and Dogs. One customer could 
have more than one dog.

I want to create a report which shows the customer details on one line but then 
the list of dogs that the customer owns before the next customer line and so 
on. For example:


John Deacon 18/05/1968
 Nelson, Cocker Spaniel, Male
 Loki, Cocker Spaniel, female
Barbara Barker 18/05/1975
 Patch, Springer Spaniel, Male
Karen Brighthouse !8/06/1985
 Nelson, Springer Spaniel, Male
 Bruno, Labrador, Male

What is the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

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Re: Default Value field in a table formatted to Date

[Dan Lewis]

Try this: Control + ; (or Insert > Date)

This will insert the date in whatever format you select. Note: this is 
not a function such as NOW() or TODAY().


Dan

On 11/12/20 18:40, Alan Pearce wrote:

But it will change every time you open the spreadsheet which isn't what I 
thought you wanted. It is probably something that can be achieved but others 
more knowledgable than me will know.
 
Alan


 Original message 
From: Joost Andrae 
Date: 12/11/2020  11:37  (GMT+00:00)
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Default Value field in a table formatted to Date

Hi,I'm not quite sure what you like to accomplish.Within Calc you can use the formula TODAY()So if you 
enter =today() into a cell you'll get the current date.If you save this within a spreadsheet document and 
if you load that document then this cell will show you the current date.Kind regards, JoostAm 12.11.2020 
um 09:04 schrieb DAB DAB:> Hi, I am new to openoffice and have used MS Access in the past. I have 
created a table called Customers and have 3 fields CustomerID, Name and Date. The date field type is date. 
When I open the table I want the Date field to default to today’s date so I don’t have to keep inputting a 
date.> > What is the best way to do this in openoffice?> > Sent from 
Mail for Windows 10> > 
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Re: [AOO-Templates]

[Dan Lewis]

Since you are not subscribed, I have sent you a copy of one reply by 
Alan B. In this email, I will make my own suggestions.


There user guides which will help you learn how to learn AOO. The 
Getting Started guide has a chapter on styles. As a beginner, the whole 
guide is worthwhile downloading and studying. Since your interest is 
text document editing, I recommend downloading the entire Writer Guide. 
It will answer many of your present questions as well as make a very 
useful reference guide.


Dan

On 11/12/20 08:24, s.e. o. wrote:

I am not a user yet. I want to download your programs for writing. How and 
where are the pages stored while in progress over a period of time? Can you go 
back and edit at any time? Is there spell checking? I have purchased a new 
device and plan on adding an app for writers similar to Microsoft Word without 
the unnecessary extras. Thanks

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Re: [AOO-Templates]

[Dan Lewis]

How and where are the pages stored while in progress over a period of time?
Stored as files wherever you like (NOTE: a multi-page document is stored as
a single file. Individual pages of a document are not stored as discrete
files). This is the same as any pc/tablet based program you might use to
create and edit files. Where the files are saved is up to you.

Can you go back and edit at any time? Yes.

Is there spell checking? Yes.

Alan B

On 11/12/20 08:24, s.e. o. wrote:

I am not a user yet. I want to download your programs for writing. How and 
where are the pages stored while in progress over a period of time? Can you go 
back and edit at any time? Is there spell checking? I have purchased a new 
device and plan on adding an app for writers similar to Microsoft Word without 
the unnecessary extras. Thanks

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Re: Complaint: "buggy implementations"

[Dan Lewis]

  There is a reason why graphics should be inserted in a frame and the 
latter should be anchored to an empty paragraph. When anchored to a 
page, the graphic was known to move to other places as in the end of the 
document.


Dan


On 10/25/20 09:45, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
The only issue I have seen is when you have a large document with a 
lot of images and you start moving or shifting text around by copy and 
paste in the document.
The behavior depend on how the images are anchored, in case the are 
anchored to a page it is sometimes possible that pictures are laying 
on top of each other.


Each author should know his word processing tool and work(around) with 
the limitations.


On 25/10/2020 12:11, Peter Kovacs wrote:

Hello all,

Thanks for this discussion. Because it has been mentioned multiple 
times now, we have a bug report. There is no need to fill a new one.


https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=115994

A Bug report alone does not fix the Bug. However we have so many of 
them that this kind of discussion is really helpful to raise 
attention and to structure the Issues.


I guess not all have the Issue on Mac? Maybe if we ciould collect the 
current information, I can update the ticket:


I assume we have this now on windows, Linux, Mac? The report states 
only mac is affected.


Can you confirm that this happens on 4.1.7?

Am 25.10.20 um 11:29 schrieb Hagar Delest:

Le 24/10/2020 à 21:38, William Lee Valentine a écrit :

This seems straightforward. I do not understand why Mr. Olsson would
find this disconcerting or difficult.
I fully understand Mr. Olsson's complaint. In the Forum, we are 
indeed used to advise saving any picture to be embedded in AOO on 
the HD first and then to insert it with the relevant menu.

However, this is not a very good user experience.

I agree.
Note that I never filed a bug report for that. First because there 
already too many reports for too few coders and second because I 
often adjust the pic before actually inserting it in the document. 


Despite we are a view Coders it helps if Tickets are updated, and 
maybe it would make sense to link support emails / forum issues. It 
is quite hard to prioritize Tickets. However a prioritization is not 
a ranking for a fix ;)


Everything helps, even if there are only people giving feedback by 
updating the bugs. Just be nice when you do. The Software Product is 
on community support.



All the best

Peter


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Re: Complaint: "buggy implementations"

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/24/20 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote:


In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics
with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that
provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a picture to
appear in one of Writer's documents, one should click on "Insert >
Picture >  From file", then select the graphic from the listing 
displayed

for a given directory, then click on "Open", and the graphic will appear
(at the cursor position?) in the given document.

This seems straightforward. I do not understand why Mr. Olsson would
find this disconcerting or difficult.


Inserting an image is indeed easy. mr. Olsson's concern was that, in a 
large document with a lot of images, the image positions may change in 
seemingly random ways and the images themselves may disappear. This 
does happen.



In his reply, Martin Groensheij indicates that "the most reliable way
is to insert [the graphic] in a frame." I assume that the frame helps
because it fixes the position of the graphic within the document's
borders.


Most of my images are in frames because that's a good way to provide 
captions. My experience is that frames move around in the same way aa 
images do, and that frames don't prevent images from disappearing.



My question is: does Writer's documentation indicate that it is
preferable to insert graphics within frames?


If you want captions, I think the answer is yes. If not, I don't know.

- Robert


https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

Here is the documentation on how to use Writer and other components of 
Apache Openoffice. I recommend Chapter 3 of the Getting Started Guide as 
well as the entire Writer Guide. In the latter, every chapter has a 
large number of screenshots without the problems that are seen in the 
OP's original email.


Note how they do this while also learning how it is done.

Dan


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Re: Install location

[Dan Lewis]

The instillation directory is in /opt/ for Ubuntu. After you run Apache 
Office, you will find the configuration files in home/.openoffice/ with 
home being your home directory.


Reading a second time, you will find two directories in /opt/: 
libreoffice and openoffice 4. Enter and run this in a terminal:


/opt/openoffice 4/program/soffice.  openoffice should open.

Dan

On 10/23/20 09:42, Adam Gouge wrote:

To whom it may concern,

  This is going to seem ridiculous, I'm sorry for the foolish inquiry.
  I recently installed OpenOffice using the DEB installer from the
website however I cannot find the directory in which it installed - it
did not automatically populate in my launcher.
I'm using Ubuntu with the KDE plasma desktop environment.

  I tried using the launch commands from the terminal but it launches
libre office which I also have installed.

  If someone would be able to help me that would be awesome. Thank you.


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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/13/20 12:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 11:00 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work 
on Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by 
some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more.


Aha! But this problem is not a matter of "the spell checker doesn't 
work", so we don't know - indeed you don't know - that this is what 
the original questioner is experiencing. And you didn't indicate that 
this different problem - that spelling checking works until you 
mishandle your computer but then doesn't - is what you were talking 
about.


Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these 
two office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution 
would be to apply the same solution.


Yes, I agree that this later problem should be prevented, but we 
should not give users generally the untrue idea that "the spell 
checker doesn't work". Meanwhile we should encourage them into the 
good practice that avoids it anyway.


Brian Barker


I agree with you. What I should have pointed out as to what the likely 
problem is that the user was having which I did not. Instead I assumed 
that everyone would know what has been obvious on so many computers 
running OOo: the configuration folder has become corrupt. It has become 
a reflex action.


Dan

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Re: Open Office 4.[1.7] Spell Checker

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/13/20 08:31, Brian Barker wrote:

At 08:10 13/10/2020 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:
When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work on 
Open Office 4.[1.7]? Open Office is a great app but the spell 
checker doesn't work.


A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected?


Er, what problem, please? Spelling checking works for me and for 
millions of others. Why not for you?


Brian Barker


   For more than 10 years, the configure folder has become corrupted by 
some action. This prevents the spell checker from working any more. 
Deleting the this folder and then running OOo corrects this as you 
already know. LibreOffice has learned how to avoid this. Since these two 
office programs are very similar, I would think that the solution would 
be to apply the same solution.


   I also know that this affect very few people, but it is a consistent 
problem that appears in this mailing list.



Dan


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Re: Open Office 4.7.1 Spell Checker

[Dan Lewis]

A similar question occurs to me. When will this problem be corrected? It 
has been an all too common problem. LibreOffice solved this problem some 
time ago. Surely, that solution should have point out a way to make the 
correction. This is not to put down OOo at all, but is my desire that 
OOo be made a better office program. People who use it should have it.


Dan

On 10/12/20 21:33, Paul R. Morin wrote:

When do you plan to or do you plan to have the spell checker work on Open 
Office 4.7.1? Open Office is a great app but the spell checker doesn’t work. 
What older versions of Open Offices spell checker works when installed from the 
download?

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Re: Hello my friend/world!?

[Dan Lewis]

CC sent to the poster as they are not subscribed to this mailing list.

Dan

On 8/30/20 14:31, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:

Which format? Be specific. OpenOffice 3.0 sports docx, for example.

⁣Sent from BlueMail ​

On Aug 30, 2020, 12:09 PM, at 12:09 PM, Casa Casa  wrote:

Have though about give support to Microsoft office formats??? I mean
the
new ones.
People will feel encouraged to migrat to your platform which has a
really
nice look in my opinion.
Thank you!


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Re: Help. 575-747-3533

[Dan Lewis]

You should know that your email will be stored permanently on a public 
server. It is unwise to send personal information to a public emailing list.


If you have task master on your computer (Control+Alt+Delete), look for 
any listing of soffice. Delete all of them. This should solve the 
problem, and you should not have to uninstall OpenOffice.


Dan

On 8/23/20 14:55, Richard Currier wrote:

I have open office on my gateway in 63 which they don't even make gateways 
anymore however even though it's an old computer I haven't had any problem 
running OpenOffice 3.3.
Until now.   At one point I tried to repair but the repair program won't work 
saying that there is an open office pass for something running and then it 
shuts down when I try to uninstall it it does the same thing.
I tried using Revo uninstaller but it does the same thing as well you will not 
uninstall it.  Help.

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Re: Adding an interactive index

[Dan Lewis]

you will find this information in the Writer Guide for OpenOffice.org. 
Search for it and then download it. It will then be available for other 
questions you have in the future.


Dan

On 8/10/20 3:04 PM, Wade Smart wrote:

You mean like a  tag?


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Re: Question for Blended Learning

[Dan Lewis]

On 8/3/20 14:04, Doris Gardner wrote:

Does Open Office offer a solution for users on ChromeBooks?

Our county schools will have 'blended learning'  where students have
face-to-face instruction two days a week and work at home online three days
a week. Our county is have 1-to-1 digital initiative where all students
grades 4-12 will receive a Chromebook to use for at-home distance learning.

We have traditionally used Microsoft Office Access to teach units on
database concepts. We are looking for options that will enable us to teach
that unit using other platforms on Chromebooks.

Thank you for any insight you can provide
Open Office and LibreOffice be installed on chromebook. Instructions 
for installing LibreOffice are found here: 
https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/29506100?hl=en. I don's 
see any reason why Open Office could not be installed the same way. 
(LibreOffice is a fork of Open Office.) You might want to check out 
both of these programs to see which one you might want to use. There 
are also user guides that can be downloaded for free.


In case you did not know, both of these programs' license allows you to 
download the installation file and then install it on as many computers 
as you have. There is no cost for downloading the program either. (A 
copy of the license comes with the download file.)


Dan


https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/29506100?hl=en
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Re: Open Office problem

[Dan Lewis]

First, try to open a document again. When the recovery messages appears, 
click Cancel instead of OK. This will delete the part that is causing 
the the problem.


Dan

On 7/15/20 11:25, James Geddie wrote:

Hi,
I've been using Open Office for a number of years and been very 
pleased with it until a couple of day's ago, now every time I try and 
open a document I get the message as per the attached asking if I want 
to recover the document. I've uninstalled version 4.1.5 and installed 
4.1.7 but it makes no difference I still get the same message. Any 
help to sort this out please.

Kind regards
James Geddie

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Re: Perhaps Uninterruptible Power Supplies Should be used with AOO for Non-Portable Computers

[Dan Lewis]

It is also important to save all documents on a regular basis. Tools > 
Options > Load/Save > General has options that will you should consider 
using. Just make sure to limit the number of minutes to 4 of 5.


Dan

On 7/14/20 15:45, Steven Ahlers wrote:

Tom that’s an interesting idea. I would suggest an even more important concept, 
practice good computer hygiene: before you leave your computer save all 
documents, shut down all programs. Then if there is a power failure no problem. 
I would recommend clearing out browser memory (history, cookies, etc.) you can 
bookmark websites and use a password manager to easily return to websites on 
restart.

Sent from my iPhone


On Jul 14, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Tom Panfil  wrote:

Hello AOO Users & Advisors,

For years I've routinely read reports from Open Office Users about various 
problems.  Many are generally attributed to having shut down one's computer too 
quickly, before shut down processes have been completed.

I've used OO and AOO for many years, both on Windows based computers and on 
MacBook Pros.  I've never experienced *this* type of problem.  I attribute that 
good fortune to three things:

* Use of Uninterruptible Power Supplies with Desktop Computers.
* Use of Laptop Computers which have immunity to power loss due to
   their internal batteries.
* Very deliberate shut down processes:
 o Quit the Running Applications (at least all which involve my
   user data)
 o Log out of whatever LogIn Accounts have been in use (generally
   just one)
 o Shutdown the computer

I think that AC Power Failures which cause sudden shutdowns are the cause of 
many AOO Problems.

Should the AOO Installation site STRONGLY recommend the use of Uninterruptible 
power Supplies with non-laptop computers?

Users might be unhappy with paying for UPSes, but they are a small expense 
relative to the pain of serious data loss and corruption of profiles.

--
*v/r,
Tom Panfil
eBureaucrat (Ret.)

Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR
drivers to identify their corporate sponsors

**m-2015-mbp-15**general_user***fm** *


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Re: Status of OpenOffice

[Dan Lewis]

Actually, LibreOffice does have an email address: 
us...@global.libreoffice.org which is a mailing list just like this is a 
mailing list. But to your question. Whether you should delete AOO or not 
is simply your choice. You can have both programs on your computer. 
However, you would be advised to not run both at the same time. I know 
how to do this, but most do not.


Both programs have people who advocate for others to use their version. 
They are even known to state things that are not true such as 
"OpenOffice couldn't support itself any longer". Both have their own 
mailing list as their support system. I recommend that you join one or 
both of these mailing lists. (I as well as others are members of both.)


Since this is a mailing list where you sent your email, anything more 
that you may want to know should be send to users@openoffice.apache.org 
as you did this email. This way all members of the mailing list will see 
your concern and can reply.


Dan


On 6/10/20 13:28, David Maurer wrote:

Hi,

LibreOffice provides no Support or email address so I'm trying this email 
address to ask you guys a question.

I've had OpenOffice on my computer for many years.

Around May 10, 2020 I was looking at an OpenOffice word document after losing 
computer access and internet access for two years, due to financial problems.

I noticed that no message popped on like before re "update available", so I 
started web searching.

Some websites were basically claiming  that OpenOffice couldn't support itself 
any longer and recommending LbreOffice, so I downloaded it - it appears to be 
almost exactly the same as OpenOffice.

I've got lots of documents on my computer I made over the years with 
OpenOffice.  Whenever I look at one now it comes on the screen, but I see a 
LibreOffice logo. (I've only used the word processing portion of OpenOffice).

So my question is - should I delete/uninstall OpenOffice on my computer, since 
Libre Office seems to read all the files with no problem?

Again, I'm only reaching out to you all since LibreOffice provides no Support 
or email address (understandable if they're open source) - so I'm sorry if Open 
Office went to it's demise, and if anybody is out there reading this I 
appreciate you answering my question.

Thanks,

David




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Re: Text/background colours on spreadsheet

[Dan Lewis]

There is  third way to do this using styles. Had you created a style 
which described all of the characteristics you want (background AND 
text) the particular cell to have, giving other cells involves only two 
simple steps:


1) Click the cell.
2) Double click the style.

If you want to do this to several cells at one time, select the cells 
and then double click.


AOO is designed to use styles to define properties that can be used over 
and over again if necessary. This is especially true in Writer when it 
simplifies formatting text documents. It is just as true for cells, 
rows, columns, and group of cells in Calc. There should be information 
in the Calc Guide as to how to do this.


Dan

On 6/10/20 06:35, David Deeks wrote:

Hi all

I am editing a previously created spreadsheet that uses a variety of colours 
for background and text. I need to add more cells that use the same colours. If 
I select an existing cell, is there a way of identifying the previously used 
colours? At the moment I’m selecting all colours that look close, until I find 
the right one!

Thanks

David D
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Re: Transfering custom syles from an old document

[Dan Lewis]

Yes, this can be done using the Styles and Formatting dialog. How to 
change styles in a document is described in the Writer Guide for AOO. 
You may need to do a search to download it. In addition, you should also 
use these custom styles to create a template for future use. That will 
give you access to these styles anytime you need it. How to do this is 
also explained in the Writer Guide. (It is an excellent source for how 
to use the Writer component for AOO when doing any number of tasks.) I 
no longer use AOO, so I can not give you complete instructions, but in 
the long term you need to know what is contained in this guide. Download 
it and study its contents.


Dan

On 6/3/20 21:15, Keith N. McKenna wrote:

I have a document originally done on a system I no longer have access to
which has custom styles I would like to use for a new project. Is there
an easier way to to transfer them from that document to my present
system than opening the old document and a new one and recreating then
one by on in the new document?

Thanks in advance for your advice
Keith



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Re: Connecting to database remotely

[Dan Lewis]

What type of database are you using? If it is embedded, you could copy 
the database file to the desktop and run it. Of course each time you 
will have to move this file from one computer.


Otherwise, you will need to network the two computers so that the 
computers will have access to each other. (Moving the database file 
between computers would be easier than moving using  USB stick.) Then 
the database should be converted into a server/client relationship on 
one of the computers and set up a client database file. This way both 
can access the database. Base can do this; there are other database 
engines which can also do this (MySQL and PostgreSQL are two examples.)


Any further questions should be sent to this mailing list and not to me 
directly. (users@openoffice.apache.org) I have sent you a CC so you 
could see what I wrote. Others should do the same.


Dan

On 5/16/20 03:50, Jose Molina wrote:

Im trying to connect to a database created on my laptop running on windows 10 
pro and trying to connect it so I can open it on my desktop running on windows 
10 home. How does one do that, exactly?

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Re: It Is Time for Me to Generate an Updated Telephone-Addressbook

[Dan Lewis]

As you are not subscribed to this mailing list, you will not see all of 
the replies. So, I have copied Peter's response for you to see below my 
remarks. Also, do not reply directly to me for information: send it to 
users@openoffice.apache.org.


If you are comfortable in using Thunderbird as you data source, you can 
fill in the information that you want to have in it. Then you can use 
Base to connect to it creating Thunderbird.odb. When you open this file 
you will have all of the information that is in Thunderbird's Address 
Book at your finger tips. Both AOO and LIbreOffice will open this file.


Important: Any changes you want to make in the address information has 
to be made in the Thunderbird Address Book. Base only shows the 
information that is contained in this address book. However, you can 
still create queries, forms, and reports using this information. This 
opens up all kinds of ways to work with this information. If, for 
example, you wanted to send a single email to several different people 
at one time, this can be done by AOO or LibreOffice. It is called mail 
merge. Just some thoughts.


Dan

Peter Kovacs 

Hi,

I would say it depends what your goal is.

Is it a simple Address List, then Calc is the way to go. Do you want to 
do complex stuff with the List then you may want to consider a database 
approach and look if you base is sufficient.


I would personally install locally an Email App and use the build in 
Address book (maybe Thunderbird?). If you configure to sync Google then 
you have an easy job syncing the Addresses between your PC, Google and 
even to an Android Smart phone will be simple. And you can then maintain 
your address List on your phone. This works for me.



All the Best

Peter

On 4/17/20 16:34, Vince@GMAIL wrote:


Hi:

I am staying at home and have time on my hands, so I think this might 
be a good time to generate an updated telephone/address book in a PC 
format.


Can anyone suggest a "relatively" simple database template for 
tracking Names, Postal Addresses, Telephone numbers-House, Telephone 
numbers-Cell, Telephone numbers-Businesses, Medical offices' data, etc?


I started by exporting my Contacts from the GMAIL website for my one 
@gmail.com email account, and have that data now on my WIN10-x64 
desktop PC as a .CSV file (to Excel).  I also plan to eventually enter 
the data from a paper telephone/address book into a database.  I am 
not certain which to use, (vers 4.1.5) AOO-Calc or AOO-Base.  I also 
have Libre Office (Version: 6.3.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: 60da17e045e08f1793c57c00ba83cdfce946d0aa) installed, but am 
even less skilled with its operation.


1. Should I go with AOO-Calc or attempt to learn more about AOO-Base
   for this project?
2. Any suggestion for a template file would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading this.

Regards and stay safe,

VinceB.





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Re: Archival version of OpenOffice

[Dan Lewis]

Is the computer that you are using 32 bit or 64 bit? What about the 
Debian OS? OOo 4.1.7 is not that much different from 3.3. So, as long as 
you match the bit rating of OOo with Debian, 4.1.7 should run well on 
your Debian OS.


Dan

On 4/11/20 09:01, William Lee Valentine wrote:

I am still running Windows 2000, on one computer, and tried yesterday to
download the last version of OpenOffice (3.3) that was known to work
under Windows 2000. I was sent to a URL that simply gave me an error
message. I then sent a message to the Users Group asking for help.

I received four messages, in reply; and, by trying additional links
(several others failed as well), I located an archive that allowed me to
download version 3.3. I appreciate the replies that I received.

One suggestion that I received was to try running version 4.1.7 under
Windows 2000. I had not even considered that possibility. I am still
running version 3.2.1 under a back version of Debian (on the same
machine that houses Windows 2000), and my results have been excellent. I
have never had a problem with these old version of OpenOffice.

Thank you again for your assistance.

-- Lee Valentine




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Re: Archive download failure

[Dan Lewis]

https://www.openoffice.org/download/archive.html

I recommend using the above link. This page has the version you are 
looking for.


Dan

On 4/10/20 19:11, William Lee Valentine wrote:

I want to download the last version of OpenOffice that executes under
Microsoft's Windows 2000. (I am still running Windows 2000 on one
computer.) I looked at the OpenOffice web site, and it appeared that the
last such version of OpenOffice was 3.3. (I was not able to tell whether
version 3.4 would run under Windows 2000.)

I was directed to the following web site to download version 3.3:

   http://archive.services.openoffice.org/pub/openoffice-archive/

I went there; but my browser gave me the following error message:

   Apache / 2.4.25 (Debian) server at archive.services.openoffice.org
  Port 80

   The requested URL was not found on this server.

Should I be attempting to make use of a different URL? Is this back
version of OpenOffice available for download?

I would appreciate any assistance.

-- Lee Valentine




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Re: How to open docs

[Dan Lewis]

Tony is not subscribed to this mailing list, so I have sent him a Cc so 
he can see what Julian wrote.


Is it possible that  these documents are .sxw files? Or was the :w" 
replaced with another letter? If so, the format for these documents 
predate the open document format such as .odt, .odc, odb, etc. I do not 
know if the latest versions of Open Office will read the .sxw or similar 
files. Perhaps someone else knows.


This mailing list strips all attachments, so no one saw your example. 
Also, when you answer my questions, make sure that you sent it to 
users@openoffice.apache.org and NOT to me personally.


Dan

On 4/4/20 16:04, Julian Thomas wrote:



On Apr 4, 2020, at 11:56, Tony Seidel  wrote:

I have several documents created 10 years ago etc. with Open Office. Now i’m 
using Open Office 4.1.7 and can’t open these documents (example below). Any 
suggestions?

there was no 'below' and you don’t tell us what OS you are using, but it is 
likely that you have lost your file associations.  Try opening OO and then 
selecting one of the documents to open.  The best result is that it will open; 
if it cusses at you and claims that it is an unknown format, someone else here 
may be able to help better than I.  I can’t find anything that old on this 
computer to test.

HTH

  
Julian Thomas   - http://jt-mj.net


‌When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to 
set. - Lin Yutang‌  ‌



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Re: Bug with writer-document

[Dan Lewis]

CC to OP

On 2/25/20 8:52 AM, Tommy Skoglund wrote:

Hi

Suddenly it is impossible to write any longer in my writer-document. Why? The document has been 
longer earlier. 150 000 word. Its a novel, and very important for me to fix the document. I have 
tried to copy latest 24 hours text mass into earlyer version, but the there still seems to be a 
maximum length, it stops and I can't write any longer. Seems to be some kind of "coding" 
to make that happened. I can't "neutralize" my document and fix the font etc again 
without ruining loads of bold and italic effects. So please help me asap. I also tried to duplicate 
document, reinstall Open Office, my Mac etc.

Regards
Tommy


It sounds like a memory problem to me. It might be that you do not have 
enough available free RAM to write any larger than 150,000 words. Under 
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org some where you can increase the amount 
of RAM that is reserved for OOo to use. This also may be the problem.


You have written this email to a mailing list which means that everyone 
who is a member of it saw your email. For that reason, any replies you 
want to make needs to also to be addressed to this mailing list. Others 
may provide additional help.


Dan


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Re: Persistent OpenOffice Writer crashes

[Dan Lewis]

On 2/12/20 6:40 PM, Sabrina McAlvain wrote:

I have been having a persistent issue with my open office writer crashing on 
me, specifically while formatting my documents and hitting “enter” 3 times in a 
row. I’ve read all the forums and this is a issue that a lot of people are 
having. I’ve tried all the fixes that they suggested. I’ve event re-formated 
and cleaned out my laptop. I’ve updated the program, uninstalled and 
reinstalled the program, trouble-shot the program through my laptop, I’ve even 
deleted my user profile and restarted with the wizard. Nothing is fixing this 
issue and as a student it is frustrating when my document crashes every 5 
minutes.

Looking forward to a quick response,
Thank you,
Sabrina McAlvain.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10


How are you formatting your document? Why is it necessary to type 
"enter" 3 times in a row? AOO Writer is designed to use styles rather 
than to directly apply the formatting. I suggest you use the following 
link to download the chapters you will be needing to learn how to use 
styles for Writer:


https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

There are 3 chapters on styles: one in the Getting Started Guide and two 
in the Writer Guide.


Any replies you make need to be to users@openoffice.apache.org which is 
a mailing list.


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Re: Unsaved Open Office Writer Document

[Dan Lewis]

   I am sending you a copy of a reply to your problem as you are not a 
member of this mailing list. If you have further problems or more of 
them in this situation, please write to this mailing list 
(users@openoffice.apache.org) and not me personally.


   I sounds like you did not set how you want backup copies to be made. 
If so, Alan is completely right. Check this out:


1) Tools > Options > Openoffice.org > Load/Save > General. (Select these 
one at a time to browse to where you can make changes in making backups.)


2) I check Autorecovery and reduce the number of minutes to 5. With 
this, information about my document is saved every 5 minutes. These are 
saved in the backup folder every 5 minutes. If there is a problem like 
you had, I can open the latest one of these files and continue from that 
point.


Dan

On 2/3/20 10:54 PM, Alan B wrote:

Hello Narissa,

I think you are out of luck. If OpenOffice or the computer had crashed or
if you forced the program to close without saving the document you would be
able to find the document per the instructions at the link below.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/recover-unsaved-work-openoffice-29581.html

That crash recovery version of the document the instructions direct how to
find disappeared whenever the program was closed by clicking the Discard
button in every test I tried.

One other possibility is look in the directory the file is saved in. Make
sure your file browser is set to show hidden files. It is possible a
version of the file might still be there. The name would likely start with
the ~ character and end with #. The file has a greater chance of being
there if it was saved on a network drive instead of the pc's hard drive.

Good luck.

At the risk of rubbing salt in a wound, and not at all intending to,
regardless what happens with this file I suggest the following to people as
a way to protect against just this sort of thing. "Save early, save often".
The keyboard combination Ctrl+S allows saving the file just as rapidly as
typing a capital letter. Get into the Ctrl+S habit at any time you pause
your editing and there's a great chance of not loosing any work.

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:36 AM Narissa Hinojosa 
wrote:


Hello! I am desperate for help!!

I accidentally clicked “don’t save” when editing a document! I have looked
everywhere and I can’t find out how to get it back! I went through the
steps online of the c:\users\ that brings up the backup file and it’s not
in there!

Thank you so much for your time!


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Re: 32 bit projects already in my compute

[Dan Lewis]

You will not loose any of them. Download the latest version of Apache 
Open Office.org 4.1.7. It is 64 bit. You will probably run into a 
problem with Apple's Gatekeeper which is very strict as to what programs 
are installed on the system. There are instructions on the internet 
which describes how to authorize installing Apache OpenOffice.


Dam

On 1/20/20 12:10 PM, Lucky Stoller wrote:


I’m told the new Apple OS, Mojave, is a 64 bit system and I will lose access to 
my 32 bit projects on OpenOffice, among which are several projects into which 
I’ve put hundreds of hours. How can I access these documents after switching to 
the new OS?
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Re: Hyper links stopped working

[Dan Lewis]

On 1/14/20 6:12 AM, Michael Fryer wrote:

Hello I was wondering if you could help me.

I have two computers one has word and the other has open office.

On word the hyperlink to different tabs work on open office the links don't
work.

Could you advise why?
Perhaps is has to do with how you click on the link. Word may open a 
link by just clicking on it. However, OpenOffice seems to require you 
holding down the Control key while clicking the link.

michaelfryer1...@gmail.com

Dan

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Re: IOS Catalina

[Dan Lewis]

One possibility is that you have been using a 32 bit version of Open 
Office. Catalina is 64 bit only. If this is the problem, you need to 
download the latest version of Open Office and install it. The other 
likely problem is Apple's Gatekeeper system. Someone else will have to 
help you with this. (There is a website that explains how to modify 
Gatekeeper to allow your Mac to install and use Open Office.


Dan

On 1/8/20 8:47 AM, Trine Marie Hovind wrote:

Hello!

How can I get my mac to cooperate with Open Office? After upgrading to Catalina 
it does not work anymore.

Kind regards

Trine Marie Hovind


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Re: Dont remember password

[Dan Lewis]

If you mean you have encrypted a document using OpenOffice.org, you have 
a serious problem. Its encryption is designed to make if very difficult 
if not near impossible to open an encrypted document.


Do not reply to me but only to users@openoffice.apache.org.

Dan

On 11/7/19 2:39 PM, Nafis johnson wrote:

I can’t remember my password to get in to get the stuff I started to write for 
my book if you need any information please let me know I will provide you with 
any thing you need to know


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Re: BASE questions

[Dan Lewis]

On 9/15/19 16:25, Dan Lewis wrote:

Try this link: it should get you started.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Base_Guide 



Dan

On 9/15/19 16:18, Steven Ahlers wrote:

Roy,

This is a mail list of users of OpenOffice, while I personally can’t 
help you with this issue, if you’re patient someone who has 
experience with Base should be able to help you. Please allow 72 
hours for replies as this is an international users group and many do 
not respond to email over weekends and or while they’re sleeping.


Steve

Sent from my iPhone


On Sep 15, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Roy Wood  wrote:

Hi Tony
Thanks for letting me now
Roy

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Tony Turner
Sent: 15 September 2019 17:43
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: BASE questions

Hi Roy

I’m afraid that you’ve been directed to the wrong person,

Tony Turner


On 15 Sep 2019, at 17:28, Roy Wood  wrote:

Hi I  am curious to know if you got any useful reply to your mail 
back on 29/7/19 regarding Base.


I have found that it always an item that not many are familiar with 
and tend o leave Base alone and consencreate

0n the the equivilent to Excel.

I am trying to convert an industrial program in excel to Base.

I wnote to colleges locally and needless to say none offered even 
the Ms base. Not even our local

Uni so am slowing making my way through using the Internet.

Best wishes

Roy Wood


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Mike
Sent: 29 July 2019 09:03
To: OpenOffice Users
Subject: BASE questions

I'm new to Base and discovering just how ignorant I am despite 40 
years

working in IT.  I have created a simple data base with three tables.
When trying to create relationships and forms it's become obvious that
some of my field definitions need to be changed.  Problem 1: how can I
display all of the variables I used to specify each field?    
Problem 2:

I created a table and made a mess of it.  How can I delete that table?
DROP TABLE ... hasn't worked.  Problem 3:  The ID in my main table 
is a
numeric sequential number.  Can I define the field so that the 
number is

automatically assigned using a field type?

Background:  I'm working in OpenOffice 4.1.6 on a MacBook Pro running
MacOS 0.13.6.  My first reference is to LibreOffice 4.0 Base Handbook,
OO helps, OpenOffice Forum, then finally Google.  I assume that
LibreOffice BASE and OO BASE are sufficiently similar that LO
documentation should be relevant to OO BASE.

thanks,

Mike Shearer
Australia







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Re: MS DataBase accdb Convert To OpenBase odb format

[Dan Lewis]

Please reply back to this mailing list as to the operating system you 
are using. Windows requires one method and Linux requires another.


Dan

On 4/16/19 11:30 PM, Alex Koh wrote:

Hi Open Office Support Team,

I wish to convert my current DataBase(MS accdb) to Open Office Base and
allow me to key in data and modify table. I had import and convert, but
appear read only file, I can't edit new data on the new field.

Please advise.

Thank you very much and best regards,

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Re: Open a document

[Dan Lewis]

It is near impossible for some to help you until you provide more 
information. Depending upon what you have already done, this may be 
possible or impossible. Describe what happened to your document that 
would require the need to recover it.


Tools > Options > load/Save> General. Click on these consecutively. In 
the save section, you should have made sure that "Always make a backup 
copy" has been checked. So should "Save AutoRecovery information every" 
be checked. Set the time for this as every 5 minutes.


If the latter has been checked, what is the time listed there?

Dan

(CC to OP)

On 3/20/19 3:19 PM, Jose Rodriguez wrote:

Hi,
I want to find some kind of help from you. I have written a document that I 
want to recovery to finish it, and now it is not possible. Could you help me 
please. Title is C…U…B…A, S.A. I need help… please!
Mr. Rodriguez

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Re: Install on Linux Mint 18.1

[Dan Lewis]

So, you tried many different ways. But you have not said what those ways 
are: you need to write back to this mailing list with that additional 
information. (users@openoffice.apache.org) Only then will someone be 
able to tell you what the problem is. I have seen emails on this mailing 
list from people using Linux Mint, so it can be done.


Dan

On 12/28/18 3:54 PM, Kim Polonczyk wrote:

I have been attempting to find out how to install Apache Open Office on
Linux Mint 18.1.I do have the software downloaded in my Downloads file
and every command that I have encountered to install Apache returns the
message that the file cannot be found.What am I doing wrong.I have
searched everywhere and attempted the methods that have been listed and I
still come up with the same problem.
I have purged libre office because I did read that libre may cause problems
using Apache.
can you let me know how to do it or if it can be done?
For some reason the libre writer jammed in a book view and I was unable to
change it to a regular view so I got frustrated and decided to just use
someone else's software.
Thanks
Kim Anthony Polonczyk, Owner-Chief Consultant
KAPCO Consulting
850-449-1049
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Re: Help - please - pretty please!

[Dan Lewis]

On 12/2/18 7:24 AM, mnxe...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you please tell me how to get successive blank pages to follow 
*below* the active page I'm working on, and not alongside it?
eg: Page 2 ready for use *below* the bottom edge of Page 1, and *not* 
appearing alongside it?

Thank you,
Graham Cutler
(now known as Graham with the nervous tic)!

If you are in Writer, look to the bottom right where there are three 
page representations. The left one is single page view (which you want), 
the second one is multiple page view, and the third one is book view. 
Click the single page view.


Dan

Re: Problems Using Open Office

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/16/18 4:46 PM, Hayley Nelson wrote:

Hello
I have a google pixelbook and am having issues using Open Office.  Once
downloaded I try to open it and it opens it via Painter???  and It won't
let me open it up any other way.  I've only had the computer for a few
months so I'm not a pro at it.   If you have any suggestions on how to help
me please let me know.
Thank you
Hayley Nelson


   The Google Pixelbook runs the Chrome operating system. Apache Open 
Office is not designed to run on Chrome; in fact, it won't. This is why 
you are having problems. It is possible that what you need is 
AndrOpenOffice will do what you want. I have not tried it yet. It runs 
on the Android operation system. But according info about the Pixelbook, 
anything that runs on Android will also run on Chrome. It is worth a try.


Dan


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Re: open office license

[Dan Lewis]

On 08/17/2018 11:05 AM, 許耀彰 wrote:
> Dear Support Team,
> Would it be possible to install openoffice in commercial place? Is there
> license agreement which we can follow and check ? Thanks a lot.
> Best Regards, Hsu Yao Chang
>
Then answer is yes. The license is listed on the website. There is
always a license found in the installation folder of OpenOffice which
you can read or show to a lawyer if you like to verify your right to use
it in a commercial place.

Dan

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Re: Font query.

[Dan Lewis]

On 08/05/2018 01:27 PM, Chris Howard wrote:

Hi, my name is Chris, an authoring hopeful. And currently I am in the midst
of writing a book, a fantasy horror, the only problem is that I want to be
able to write particular parts of it in Elven languages such as Tengwar,
Quenyar and Sindirin. I cannot find any sources to help me along with this,
so would it be possible to make the fonts available for budding authors
such as myself? Yours sincerely, Chris.

You also need to create a paragraph style for each language. In each of 
these styles, select the font that you want to use for that language. (I 
am assuming that any given paragraph contains only a single language.) 
Any time you are changing languages between paragraphs, make sure you 
assign the proper style for the new paragraph: click the new paragraph 
and then double click the style for the language you will be using in it.


If you are not acquainted with styles, you need to learn how to use 
them. There should be a Writer Guide for this very purpose.


Dan


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Re: Page numbering

[Dan Lewis]

   Are you using page styles in this document as you should? The title 
page should have its own style. If the rest of the document is text, it 
also should have its own style. At the bottom of the title page, create 
a page break. With this select the style of the text and select the page 
number that you want the text to begin with.
   All of this is well documented in the Styles and Formating section 
in the Writer's Guide. I suggest you download a copy and study this 
section. It will do wonders to how well you can use Writer.
   While I now use LibreOffice exclusively, I used OpenOffice.org 1.0 
to 3.13. I had no problems doing many things with styles as I wrote 
documentation on Base (OOo's database section) for ODFAuthors.


On 06/11/2018 09:18 AM, zahra a wrote:

hi i recommend that try libreoffice too.
maybe it can supports it.

On 6/9/18, Rory O'Farrell  wrote:

On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:48:23 +
Craig Thompson  wrote:


Hello,

I want to start page numbering with "0" not "1" so I can use a title page.
  I don't think there is any way to do this.  Microsoft Office supports
this.

Is there any way around this without creating two different files?


I really like Open Office.  Just this one problem with converting files
from MS Office.


Thanks,

Craig


https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71=1221 for Page
numbreing info,

and

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71=44607 for Page
Style info (which you need to know for page numbering)



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Re: Open Office Database Question

[Elder Dan Lewis]

 What I would do if I wanted to update a form after adding new
fields to the original table: I would edit the form and add the
records for the new fields to the form. There may be some
documentation for Apache Open Office on Base.
  If you do not know how to do this, there is a fairly simple
alternative way to do what you want. First add the new fields to the
original table. Then delete the form associated with this table. Then
recreated the form from the table just as you did the first time. It
will now display all the data of your table.

Dan

On 3/29/17, Felicia Gehlhausen  wrote:
> I've created a table, and then created a form with that table. My question
> is, if I decide I need to add new fields to my original table and therefore
> need my form updated to reflect the changes, is this something I am able to
> do? If so what are the steps?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Felicia Gehlhausen
>
> fge...@hotmail.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Get Outlook for iOS
>
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Re: Languages Office Writer

[Dan Lewis]

1. Yes, you can. You can because it is a text document. However,
   that is not what I would suggest. Since you use multiple languages,
   I recommend you create a user created dictionary file for each
   language. (Help should tell you how to do this.) Then assign a
   language to each dictionary. (Spanish for the Spanish words,German
   for the German words, English for the English words) See Help for
   how to do this also.
2.
   How well do you understand the use of styles in Writer? If not
   well you need to learn. There are chapters on styles that will be
   very helpful.

Dan


Can you edit the dictionary to include some Spanish words?


On 7/5/2016 9:40 AM, chaxiraxi...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I normally write in German, but as I am living in Spain, many words 
are spanish, too. Buant always the program put These red lines under 
the spanish words.


As I know, I can´t use more than one language with this program, but 
I think it would be very useful if there will be a function to use 
more languages, at least two at the same time.

It is only a idea, but maybe you find a solution?

Uli Reissaus

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Re: JAVA Requirements

[Dan Lewis]

On 03/29/2016 10:32 AM, Vince wrote:

Hello fellow AOO users:

The other day I wanted to make use of the AOO-Calc Help function from 
the menu bar, but I was given an error message about Java file 
corrupted or invalid version and that I should install a different JRE.


I am using Win8x64. Thought that all was okay with regard to Java 
requirements, but something was wrong.


How can I verify which JAVA run time is installed and that it is the 
correct version?
When using Tools-OO-Java, I am told that Oracle Corporation version 
1.8.0_73 JRE is already installed.


I do not recall how to locate the JRE within my hard drive.  Back in 
the 2015 Fall, I did a OS reset from Win10 back to Win8.1, and I do 
recall that both x32 and x64 JREs were installed on C: drive at that 
time.


It appears to Not be a problem now, and Calc has been running as 
expected all along.  Could this be a timing issue?


Regards,
VinceB


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 The most likely problem is that you are should be using the 32 bit 
version of java because your AOO is 32 bit.


Dan



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Re: Font Color

[Dan Lewis]

On 02/15/2016 05:24 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:


Sent from my mobile device.


On 15 Feb 2016, at 10:24 PM,   
wrote:

I can change the background color but I can not change the font color. When I 
go there and click on Red it always goes back to automatic and black.  Please 
help.  Thank you.


Technical you can't change the colour of a font, but you can change the colour 
of a
paragraph or character.  There are different ways how you can set these colours,
In you paragraph and character styles or overwrite it from the to menu bar.

So if you can explain where and how you tried to update the colour we can give 
you some hints.


E. L. Daniell

Sent from Mail for Windows 10
  
 Strange thing: When I am using the paragraph style, Text Body, I 
can modify it by changing the font color in the Font Effects Tab. I can 
also change the font color for a character style using the same Tab for 
this character style. This has been true ever since OOo 1.03 and 
possibly sooner.
A way of changing font color is to select the text that you want to 
change and then from the Format toolbar select the font color you want 
to change using the Font Color icon. Changing the font color should be 
done using styles instead of the Font Color icon though.


Dan

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Re: Help please!

[Dan Lewis]

On 01/23/2016 05:54 PM, Jan wrote:
If you delete this files,taste pgm "recuva"  (dwn @piriform.com) To 
max success operation  minimize work  on the PC .
Sorry, but the above comment makes absolutely no sense. What files 
should be deleted and why? What does an email address have to do with 
the problem?


Dan



- Original Message - From: "Katherine Pappas" 


To: 
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 8:39 PM
Subject: Help please!



I lost all of my documents/ spreadsheets. I was trying to install a
history manager file so I could see more than just 10 of my most recent
works and in doing so it somehow erased everything.

How do I get them back??

Also, it never fixed the problem with me being able to only see 10 docs.

Thank you!

Katie




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Re: Spreadsheets

[Dan Lewis]

 You have given me the information that I was looking for. Thanks!
I am writing a chapter, Planning/Designing your Database, for 
LibreOffice. Since many people use spreadsheets and shy away from 
databases, I wanted something to compare the two. The general conception 
seems to be creating databases is difficult, and creating spreadsheets 
is easier. I wanted to show that the basic principles for creating a 
database are not very different from creating a spreadsheet.


On 12/23/2015 01:08 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:



On 23-Dec-15 03:36, elderdanlewis wrote:

Is there an equivalent in spreadsheets to relational databases?


You can use lookup values from other tabs in that sense you could 
compare both, but the functionality in a spreadsheet is very limited 
in comparison with a relational database.



Or, are they all similar to flat databases?


No because in a spreadsheet you can have multiple sets of data.
A flat database is limited to one set of data.

I am looking for similarities and differences between databases 
and spreadsheets.


This is an open ended question, could you be more specific on what you 
try to achieve?




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Re: styles

[Dan Lewis]

On 12/09/2015 09:28 AM, eile1 wrote:

I have a Word document (2011 Office for Mac) that I have opened in OO and saved 
to the OO format (.odt).

However, the styles that were in the Word document now don't seem to actually 
work in the OO document.

If you select text or have the cursor in a paragraph, and then click a 
different style in the style browser, nothing happens.

I also tried loading the styles from an odt template file taken from the source 
Word file.
No difference.

Do styles that were in a Word doc not work in OO?

Thanks.

Mac
OO: Latest for Mac
OS: El Capitan
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 Have you checked for any direct formatting in the paragraph? One 
way to find out is to highlight the paragraph, right click within it, 
and select Delete Direct Formatting. After that, you should be able to 
apply a different style to the paragraph.


Dan

Re: Top posting

[Dan Lewis]

Bottom post

On 10/14/2015 08:07 AM, Coll-Barth, Michael wrote:



-Original Message-
From: William K Helbig Jr [mailto:whel...@windstream.net]

A quick lesson on top posting.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

I've been doing the newsgroups, forums and email in its various formats for 
close to 30 years.  The whole top/bottom posting issue is just plain BS.  
Particularly when the thread is long with folks responding to different parts 
of the post at different times.  What's important is to write clearly and 
concisely.  Don't make me work to understand what you are saying.  As for 
personal preference, I prefer midposting.


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Not for me.


Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

A: Top-posting.

A: The most annoying is flame wars.  Especially over trivial things like, how 
to post.

A: All the wasted time spent on topics like this one because no one really 
learns anything about AOO from this thread! Give the rest of us a break; post 
information about AOO that will help other members of this mail list.
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Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user

[Dan Lewis]

On 06/25/2015 08:26 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote:
What do you do if most every document you create with your word 
processor (WP) is in a different style,  you don't know its style 
until you finish creating it?  For my personal use, I create a lot of 
specialized lists  inventories w/ my WP, in addition to creating 
documents  written articles in many  varied  formats.  To address 
the responder of my initial posting, let me say:  I've invested a lot 
of time in trying to become proficient in Writer styles w/o much 
success.  Also, I bought every reference I could find on 'Writer,' but 
still couldn't get that Writer WP to produce the documents I needed in 
the format I wanted.  What is more, when I was required to re-edit a 
Writer document at a later time, I found the re-editing often undid 
all the formatting I thought I had built into the Writer document.  I 
don't mind investing in computer programming technology that serves my 
needs.  (For a selfie aside,  I started in the computer business 
in 1961,  was, at various times, fluent in 7 ea. different computer 
languages. So I know what it means to invest one's time  effort to 
acquire proficiency w/ a particular software product.)  I decided w/ 
Writer that I wasn't making progress getting my work done. Therefore, 
I decided to invest my time  eanergy elsewhere. In consistency w/ my 
previous experience,  I chose to invest my time  energy in the 
so-called tried  true--in this case MS Word.  My priority has 
always been on getting my work done efficiently,  not on learning to 
become proficient w/ any particular software product.


Best wishes,

Anthony J. Rudgers
Orlando, FL
Posted: June 25, 2015; 8:25 pm


   It is clear from what you just wrote that you do not understand the 
difference between using styles and using a template. When you speak of 
a document having a style, you are really meaning it has all of the 
individual styles that you want it to have. If you had several documents 
that used the same styles, it would be worthwhile to create a template 
with those styles. Then you would not have to create the same styles 
each time.
   When the Styles and Formatting window is open, you are given lists 
of styles: paragraph, character, frame, page, and list. Each paragraph 
style defines the formatting to be applied to the selected paragraph; 
character styles define the formating of a single or group of characters 
within a paragraph; page style defines the layout of the selected page; etc.
   When I create a document, I will use a variety of paragraph styles 
depending upon what I want the paragraph to look like. I will also add a 
character style in some paragraphs to add a color and italics to some of 
characters in these paragraphs.
   One thing that I *do not* do is use the styles list across the top 
of Apache OO. (*B*,/I, /_U_) There  are character styles for the first 
two (strong emphasis, emphasis respectively). An underline character 
style can quickly be created.
   Full disclosure: I wrote the original Getting Started with Base 
chapter for the Getting Started Guide for OOo.org 2.0 in 2003 or there 
abouts. I was involved with writing Getting Started with Impress around 
that time as well. My help with documentation goes back to OOo.org 1.03 
and probably earlier. During all of this time, I learned how to use 
styles to accomplish what I wanted to do.
   It takes time and commitment to learn how to use styles in AOO just 
as it takes time to learn how to use Word Perfect or MS Word. But once 
one learns how to use a given word processor, he can do many things that 
he could not before. Remember, it is always easier to do something the 
same way you did before than to do it in a different way.
   I have been using styles for probably 15 years, so I am very 
comfortable with using them. Recently, I completed a book in ePUB format 
with 196 pages of text (89,000+ words) and illustrations. I used a wide 
number of styles in the process. It has the look that I wanted it to 
have. It was basic second nature.


Dan


ITo: users@openoffice.apache.org
Cc: Anthony Rudgers
Subject: Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf 
of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user


On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote:
As to word processors suitable for the general user, my vote is for 
Microsoft Word.  While, like most everyone on our Planet, I'd like 
the proverbial free lunch, I don't expect to get one.  However, I 
found I can get MS Word to give me the text I want to type almost 
always.  But when I use Writer, I keep getting something I have to 
constantly diddle with to get it to appear in the form I want.  And, 
if I want something fancier than simple text, I can get that too with 
MS Word.  I'd like Writer fine if only I could sit down at my 
computer  prepare a document using it without constantly undoing all 
the things built into Writer that I've never figured out how to turn 
off or to modify. Of course I had to 

Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user

[Dan Lewis]

On 06/26/2015 12:08 AM, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

It's only money.

You couldn't  be more wrong.

With OO 4.1.1 there is no money involved.

What is involved is how I choose to employ my time.

And with me, and apparently a  lot of other people, learning the styles
silliness is not worthwhile.
 Please do not make statements that you can not backup with proof. 
It is highly unlikely that you know the ratio of people who do not use 
styles to those that do. Also, mentioning silliness has nothing to do 
with the topic except in your head. In reality, what one person calls 
silliness would not be what another person would call it.
 It seems to me that you made a very good point: how people choose 
to employ their time. Regardless of what word processor a person chooses 
to use, it takes time to learn how to use it so that the final document 
is what he wants. This is an excellent use of his time and effort. Not 
to do this would be silliness.
 Yes, using AOO without learning how to use styles is silliness. So 
is using MS Word without learning how to use its ribbons. So is using 
Word Perfect without learning to use its strong points. Yet, the 
opposite is also true: using AOO with styles in not silliness; using MS 
Word with ribbons is not silliness; and using Word Perfect with its 
strong points is not silliness. So, please do not put down anyone who 
is doing well with what they have learned just because it is different 
from what you would do.


Dan
  


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Dale Erwin dale.er...@casaerwin.org
wrote:


On 6/25/2015 11:02 AM, Doug wrote:



On 06/25/2015 02:10 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:


On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote:


/snip/


I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would
find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not moreso.  I
struggled against it for a long time before I finally broke down and made
the time to learn how to use them.

Dale Erwin


Learning to use styles is too high a price to pay for a free word
processor. I'd rather pay money and get something user-friendly.

--doug


Well, no software will give you service if you aren't willing to take the
time to learn how to use it.  It's only money.

Dale Erwin

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Re: Open office multiple instance

[Dan Lewis]

 The link in nice to know. I clicked on the link, but I could not 
find anything of real use in setting up a multi user environment for 
OpenOffice.org. It would be much better to also include more specific 
directions as to how to reach the section that includes this 
information. I, personally don't know where to go from this link other 
than to blindly click on some links.


Dan

On 12/13/2014 09:19 AM, Joost Andrae wrote:

Hi,

I assume you just started the setup program and installed the 
application but this way OpenOffice is not prepared for a multi user 
environment. Please take a look at the following WIKI entry:


https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Collections/Administration_Guide 



Am 13.12.2014 um 08:56 schrieb shivam educational society:

Dear Sir/Madam

I am facing a problem regarding not opening of multiple instance of 
Open office.

actually I am running a LAN for our Computer LAB in which all the
workstations are connected by N-Computing with Server. Openoffice
packages are installed on server but it is not opening on all
workstations. It support only one instant at a time and displays an
error message on other workstations i.e. Cannot open on multiple
instant, It is already opened on other instance.
Kindly help to resolve this issue, so that it can can be opened on
multiple instant.



Kind regards, Joost



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Re: problem with process to enable text character repetition on holding key down

[Dan Lewis]

On 11/27/2014 08:04 AM, A SEYMOUR wrote:


I would be much obliged if you could inform me how to reverse the 
above process so that text character is not repeated on holding key 
down. This problem has arisen because when I start  typing a document, 
on pressing the Shift key after typing the first letter, a dot 
appears  and this process continues throughout typing of the document.


Also, if I hold the Shift key down I get a dotted line. Similarly, the 
same processs occurs when I hold any text character key down and I get 
a repetition of that character.


I haver tried to find the answer to my problem making use of Openreach 
Help, without success. I do not know what caused this problem as, 
prior to this occurring for the first time I had typed out a text 
document two weeks previously without the problem arising. During 
those two weeks I had a problem involving emails corrected on line by 
an employee of  my server, BT.com, using the 'Remote Process'. Whether 
or not an error involving my 'OpenReach program' occurred during that 
process I do not know.


I look forward to your response with many thanks.

Dr R Seymour

 It appears that you have accidentally turned on the non printing 
characters. Use the Control and F10 keys together. This should remove 
all of the dots.


Dan

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Re: Openoffice is terrible

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/18/2014 05:42 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:

lots of replies for someone that never came back to clarify its point.
Is clearly a spam email.

huge snip

 Or is it likely that the OP did not subscribe to this mailing list 
and has missed all if not many of the comments made? If so, not having 
received them, the OP might be even more angry.

 Or, there is also the possibility that the person is a troll.

Dan



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Re: Base only?

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/08/2014 10:18 AM, Nichole Russo wrote:

Hi,

I was just wondering if there is anyway to only download Base, rather than
the entire open office?

Thanks
Nikki

 No, because Base uses other components of AOO. For example, forms 
are created using Writer. Reports also require Writer. Besides all of 
the AOO components requires the same core files to run. There is 
virtually now difference in the amount of disk space required to install 
some of the components and all of them.


Dan

Re: Cannot get the English Dictionary etc to load/install

[Dan Lewis]

On 10/01/2014 04:54 PM, Richard Darnell wrote:

Each time I download the file it goes into my download library.  When I
click add in the Extension Manager, I get the error message that my file at
C:\users\Richard\appdata\roaming\openoffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\su1s8zp.temp_\dict-en.oxt
Does not exist.  What may I do now?

*Richard W. Darnell*
 The obvious answer is look in the download folder on your 
computer. The path you listed is not your download folder though. Search 
for the file dict-en.oxt. This should tell you where the file is 
located. Then you will need to open LibreOffice and install this file.
 Once you install the extension, this is what you will find in the 
path you mentioned:


C:\users\Richard\appdata\roaming\openoffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\su1s8zp.temp_\dict-en.oxt\

The end of the path will be a folder (its name will be the same as the 
name of the extension) rather than the extension file.


 You have written to a mailing list where you can ask questions and 
get answers. However, the links you included in your email was 
completely improper. Advertising yourself is a BIG NO NO.
  Also, the entire email is available to anyone with Internet 
service and does a search for it including the bots that all the search 
engines send out to get information. So, you might regret listing your 
phone number before it is all over.
 Do not reply directly to me as I am only one person on this 
mailing list. If you have additional question, send another email to 
this list with it.


Dan


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Re: OO Writer 4.1.1, cross references

[Dan Lewis]

In
On 09/22/2014 08:37 AM, Susanne Ott wrote:

Hello,

I m checking the cross references in my document at the moment. The 
software is doing the jump, but I can t find any tool or command to go 
back to my reference. How it is to realize to go back to the last one?


Thank you very much!

 As far as I remember, cross references are one way: from the Set 
Reference to the Insert Reference. If you want to go back to reference, 
you have to create a Set Reference-Insert Reference pair that will take 
you back.


Dan

Re: Suggestion.

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/22/2014 04:15 PM, japples wrote:



Urmas wrote:

japples:


A more efficient way would be to have the codes seen where they are in
document and make corrections on the spot.


I've never used WP, but basing on Wiki images, it shows mostly 
useless stuff like linebreaks and spaces. Do you want to see where 
each formatting run begins and ends?


May I suggest you use the real deal rather than accepting an 
explanation by a third party - listening to a third party is similar 
to listening to gossip rather than finding out for yourself.  Most of 
the time you will find gossip is a mix of truth and fantasy.  Last 
comment, OO has similar codes revealed and, personally, I have used 
them for over 30 years and find them most helpful.  In the past, I was 
able to help co-workers who used a product without ability to see 
codes.  They spent hours trying to fix a document that took me less 
than 10 minutes.


 Once again I read about that someone has done something without 
saying what they did nor how. What codes are you talking about in OO 
better known (supposedly) as AOO? Are you talking about the content.xml 
file in the zipped ODT file?


--Dan

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Re: OpenOffice mac

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/19/2014 02:22 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:

On 2014-05-19, 5:24 AM mt wrote:
But I suppose I'll have to live with that, at least until I can 
afford a new computer, able to run the latest OS!

...
MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.8 

That model of MacBook Pro should run the latest version of OS X.
http://www.apple.com/support/osx/upgrade/

 One solution for older computers running OS X 10.x for those who 
want to do so: Ubuntu runs quite well on Ubuntu and likely other 
versions of Linux. (This is for computers that have the Intel 
motherboard.) I have Ubuntu 14.04 (April 2014) running on a MacBook (OS 
X 10.4 was the original OS installation). But you have to be willing to 
leave the Apple way of doing things...


--Dan

Re: Suggestion.

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/14/2014 10:17 PM, Julian Thomas wrote:

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 see some helpful information on how to get started with styles (better than 
'my pets' and 'my cats'; [I tried those tutorials and they didn't work very 
well for me]) and a reference.

jt


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 Chapter 6 and 7 of the Writer Guide available at this link:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide

--Dan

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Re: Spelling Checking Feature

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/03/2014 10:00 PM, japples wrote:
I am so thankful to have the spell as typing feature in OO Writer; 
however, is there a way to accept the suggested word without typing 
the full word?


So far, I tried arrow to the right which resulted in going back to 
finish typing the word.


Jack


 Use the Enter key to accept a suggested word.

--Dan

Re: New Folder

[Dan Lewis]

 When using Save As to save a new document or to save a current 
with a different name or location, you can create a new folder to save 
the document in. Perhaps this is to what the OP referred.


--Dan


On 06/06/2013 05:46 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:


As far as I know there is no New Folder function in OpenOffice.
There is however a New menu where you have the choice to Open a New 
Text Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation etc.


Could you be more specific and tell us where your problem happen and 
what Operating System and Version you have and

which version of OpenOffice you use.

On 7/06/2013 12:27 AM, Ellen et al wrote:

The New Folder function stopped working.
I click New Folder and nothing happens.
I reinstalled the software, but that didn't help.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks.
Ellen
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deserve, either one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin*




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Re: Extending the life of an older desktop machine by installing OpenOffice?

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/22/2013 10:13 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

Have you extended the life of an older PC or Mac by installing
OpenOffice and other open source packages?

The issue of making old computers (or *any* computer) usable is to
install an actual *operating* system (i.e. one that *works*) as a
replacement for that pathologically non-operating system Microsoft (Not
Responding) (TM).

Sincerely,

Wolfgang
 Seems like yours is a personal opinion rather than an answer to 
the original question. Your comment about Microsoft has nothing to do 
with this question. Then again I do not know whether you consider OS X 
to be in the same category as any of the Windows versions.
 More likely, the issue is about two operating systems that have 
the reputation of continuing to require computer upgrades with newer 
versions (planned obsolescence) . There is no attempt to provide an 
operating system for older computers.
 For example, I have a MacBook that was one of the early Intel 
based motherboards. It runs OS X 10.4. It is too old to run any of the 
current OS X operating systems (cost too much even if it could). For 
WiFi, it only uses WPA; so I can not use it to connect to any secure 
network even if I knew the password. Yet, Ubuntu runs fine on this 
laptop with WPA2 available.
 Another example, I had a laptop from 1998 running Windows 98SE 
with 180MB RAM. A couple of years ago, I could run Kubuntu with a 
desktop that would run on limited RAM amounts. That was 10 years after I 
got the laptop!


--Dan

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Re: Extending the life of an older desktop machine by installing OpenOffice?

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/22/2013 05:20 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:

On 2013-05-22 2:18 PM Dan Lewis wrote:
For example, I have a MacBook that was one of the early Intel based 
motherboards. It runs OS X 10.4. It is too old to run any of the 
current OS X operating systems


The first generation MacBook (Model Identifier: MacBook1,1) will run 
OS X ver. 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). 2nd generation and newer will run 
Ver. 10.7 (Lion)


(cost too much even if it could). 


Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Costs $19.99 from the Apple store. Is that 
too expensive? Lion is the same price but requires Snow Leopard to be 
installed on your computer.
 A few years ago, I talked with the people in the local Apple store 
after Leopard came out about the cost of upgrading. I was informed that 
I would have to pay for Tiger and Leopard. That came to $360 (180 each). 
That seems too much for two upgrades. Besides I prefer to do a clean 
install with a complete operating system rather than an upgrade. Perhaps 
the prices at the Apple store have changed since then, but the sales 
personnel had the wrong attitude as far as I am concern. So they have 
lost a potential customer.

 So, I may be wrong about the current practices of the Apple store.

--Dan
For WiFi, it only uses WPA; so I can not use it to connect to any 
secure network even if I knew the password. 


My MacBook (MacBook2,1) with OS X ver. 10.6.8 connects to WPA 2 
protected networks. If Ubuntu gives you WPA 2 access, Snow Leopard 
will as well





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Re: subscriber status

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/13/2013 03:42 PM, Warren Mullen wrote:

How do I enroll as a subscriber to this service?


Send an empty email to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org. You will 
get a confirmation email to verify that you want to subscribe to this 
mailing list. When you receive it, click Reply and then send the 
confirmation email.


--Dan

Re: EPUB from OpenOffice

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/10/2013 04:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500
Tamblyne tambl...@gmail.com wrote:


On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org
wrote:


*I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital
book conversion from OpenOffice:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator*
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub*
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub*

Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation?  Or
is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to
EPub?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

I've done very little by way  of conversion to electronic formats; I
found Calibre very satisfactory.  It converts to many (all?) eformats
directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and
manages one's library on the ereader.  Certainly worth
investigation.

I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects
of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling
of the styles.  So -- to convert do you need a document without any
formatting?

Thanks

Tam

I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to 
convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read  up the 
intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion.  I am aware that it can be fine tuned 
to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but haven't looked 
into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually entails decision 
making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for (say) a US Letter 
page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic page/textflow of an 
ereader.
 What I have found that works rather well is to use Calibre to 
convert ODT to ePUB. Then I use Sigil to clean up the underlying html 
files. I use these settings in Sigil's Preferences in the Clean Source 
section: HTML Tiddy, Open, Save, and Replace all files.
 We had a post that mentioned Tiddy in a web article in which the 
author mentioned that using his method to clean up the code while 
converting OTD to ePUB. The only problem with the article is that there 
seems to be no information on the web for how to install Tiddy on Ubuntu 
(the OS that I use). Sigil seems to install and use Tiddy to clean up 
the code.
 FYI: The conversion of ODT to ePUB involves converting a single 
ODT file to multiple HTML files based upon your settings in Calibre. 
These files are zipped along with other information, and the zipped file 
is given the ePUB suffix.


--Dan

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Re: EPUB from OpenOffice

[Dan Lewis]

  The Webinar mentioned later is an hour long infomercial about the 
eBook Evolution product. There were also a general outline of the 
process that was very general in nature. I'm not sure if there was 
anything in it that could not be learned from other sources, but the 
general ideas presented might help someone. Perhaps the free seminars 
might be more specific.
 As far as the link to the free brown bag webinars, the outline of 
the two webinars available at the link below contains some of the same 
information found in the ultimate-ebook webinar that I watched from the 
second link. Neither link seems to give enough information for it to be 
useful to me.
 Disclaimer: I use Linux as my OS exclusively, so none of this 
information is of any use to me that I can see.
 Perhaps an ODT template can be developed by a person for AOO that 
could be used with Calibre to create an ePUB document that has fairly 
clean code. This could then be used by people who only use Linux.


--Dan

On 05/10/2013 12:10 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

Pamela Wilson provides some free seminars on making ebooks,
http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/free-brown-bag-webinars/#3.

Apache OpenOffice Writer is featured as the preferred authoring too.  The 
bundled materials that are for sale include ODT templates.  There is also 
guidance and explanation of what it takes to format for EPUB and have good 
results.  EPUB formats are restricted and attempting to make a heavily styled 
document is not a good idea.  The proposed approach works for submissions of 
Kindle books also.

The associated materials are not inexpensive, in the $100-$200 US range.  They 
are intended for folks who are serious about publishing or who want to provide 
authoring services to others.  After the initial expense, there is no reuse 
limitation and there are no royalty obligations, however.  Calibre for creating 
eReader-ready format.  There is an assumption that folks are using Windows or 
Macintosh OSX.

There's an On-Demand Webinar for eBook Evolution that is recommended for folks 
who are not professional authors/writers as well.  I presume that it features 
the eBook Evolution package that is offered as a product.  I haven't explored 
this:
  http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/ultimate-ebook-kickstart/.

  - Dennis





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From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 03:53
To:users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: EPUB from OpenOffice

On 05/10/2013 04:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500
Tamblynetambl...@gmail.com  wrote:


On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org
wrote:


*I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital
book conversion from OpenOffice:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator*
*http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub*
*http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub*

Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation?  Or
is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to
EPub?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

I've done very little by way  of conversion to electronic formats; I
found Calibre very satisfactory.  It converts to many (all?) eformats
directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and
manages one's library on the ereader.  Certainly worth
investigation.

I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects
of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling
of the styles.  So -- to convert do you need a document without any
formatting?

Thanks

Tam

I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to 
convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read  up the 
intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion.  I am aware that it can be fine tuned 
to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but haven't looked 
into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually entails decision 
making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for (say) a US Letter 
page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic page/textflow of an 
ereader.

   What I have found that works rather well is to use Calibre to
convert ODT to ePUB. Then I use Sigil to clean up the underlying html
files. I use these settings in Sigil's Preferences in the Clean Source
section: HTML Tiddy, Open, Save, and Replace all files.
   We had a post that mentioned Tiddy in a web article in which the
author mentioned that using his method to clean up the code while
converting OTD to ePUB. The only problem with the article is that there
seems to be no information on the web for how to install Tiddy on Ubuntu
(the OS that I use). Sigil seems to install and use Tiddy to clean up
the code.
   FYI: The conversion of ODT to ePUB involves converting a single
ODT file to multiple

Re: EPUB from OpenOffice

[Dan Lewis]

On 05/10/2013 04:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote:

On 05/10/2013 04:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500
Tamblyne tambl...@gmail.com wrote:


On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org
wrote:


*I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital
book conversion from OpenOffice:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator*
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub*
* http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub*

Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation?  Or
is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to
EPub?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

I've done very little by way  of conversion to electronic formats; I
found Calibre very satisfactory.  It converts to many (all?) eformats
directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and
manages one's library on the ereader.  Certainly worth
investigation.

I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects
of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling
of the styles.  So -- to convert do you need a document without any
formatting?

Thanks

Tam

I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to
convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read  up the
intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion.  I am aware that it can be fine
tuned to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but
haven't looked into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually
entails decision making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for
(say) a US Letter page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic
page/textflow of an ereader.

  What I have found that works rather well is to use Calibre to convert
ODT to ePUB. Then I use Sigil to clean up the underlying html files. I use
these settings in Sigil's Preferences in the Clean Source section: HTML
Tiddy, Open, Save, and Replace all files.

Hi Dan,  Does that workflow you describe preserve the Table of
Contents from the document, so it becomes a proper TOC in EPUB, not
list a list of hyperlinks?

-Rob
 I would think the answer is yes, but it depends upon what you mean 
by proper TOC. It is a list of the headings used in the document in 
the form of hyperlinks. When one of these is clicked, you are taken to 
the selected heading. Each level of the TOC has a style applied to it 
that has at least two properties: font size, and left margin. So, the 
TOC contains indentations that are determined by the level of a 
particular heading.
 I'm not sure if this answers your concerns. If you want, I could 
convert a copy of AOO3_4_chapter_template1.odt and send it to you 
off-line. I have the template so it is no problem creating the odt file 
from it.


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Re: Open office 2.4.3 with Java 7

[Dan Lewis]

On 04/09/2013 09:44 PM, NG, Derek wrote:

Hi,

  My name is Derek and i am currently working in DSTA/MINDEF and we are 
currently using OpenOffice 2.4.3. However as we are planning to upgrade Java 
version to 7 , I would like to enquire from you if Open Office 2.4.3 support 
Java 7.

I know that Open Office 3.4.0 and above support Java 7 and if Open Office 2.4.3 
does not support Java 7, we will be upgrading Open Office to 3.4.0 and above.

Hope to hear from you soon to clarify our doubts. Thanks !

Thanks and regards
Derek Ng
 You should upgrade to 3.4.1 since it supports Java 7. OOo 2.4.3 is 
a couple of years old. I do know from personal experienced that a 
version that was newer than OOo 2.4.3 would not use Java 7.


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Re: Request Advice on Use of OO's Base MySQL to Accomplish a Task Done Nicely by MS Access

[Dan Lewis]

On 04/07/2013 02:08 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

I need advice as to whether OO's Base with MySQL

Don't use MySQL if you want to get your data back in a consistent state
reliably.

Use PostgreSQL instead.

Avoid the embedded database.


can be used in a practical way to do some tasks, before making a
major attempt to switch from MS Access to OO  MySQL for this work.
Do such tasks seem appropriate for OO's Base  MySQL?  Can Base
provide very critical control of the positioning of text?

The forms will have to be defined in Writer.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang
  What is an example of inconsistent state of returned data when 
using MySQL?

  Will using Mail Merge also be a part of what the OP wants to do?

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Re: RUTHIE FLOWERS

[Dan Lewis]

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Re: Deleting pages

[Dan Lewis]

On 03/11/2013 04:31 PM, Gary Beers wrote:

How do you delete blank pages,  My document has 3 pages, and one is blank when 
previewed and I cant get rid of it.
Gary Beers
gary.be...@frontier.com
 It all depends upon how the blank page was created. So, please 
describe your document in more detail.


--Dan

Re: Spell Check problem

[Dan Lewis]

On 02/27/2013 10:08 PM, Goodson wrote:

An ongoing problem with Open Office 3.4.1 on this Windows 7 machine is
all words show to be misspelled.
I've tried all I know to do to find a solution to this problem on the 
net.   No success.
Windows trouble shooter keeps saying that this software is 
incompatible.

HELP!
 It sounds like you are missing the English spelling and 
hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus extension. Go to Tools - 
Extensions. At bottom left, click this link: Get more extensions online. 

From there you can download the extension I mentioned. Then install it.


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Re: Opening .wk1 files

[Dan Lewis]

On 02/17/2013 07:02 PM, Merrill Medansky wrote:

I downloaded and installed Apache Open Office, tried using it to open my
old .wk1 files, and did not get an error message but the files did not
open. I then discovered that my .wk1 files have all been converted to
OpenOffice files. Now what am I supposed to do to open the files? Nothing
seems to work.

Thanks,
Merrill Medansky

 Open the program that you had been using for opening .wk1 files. 
Then open your files from within this program.
 What you have is a file association problem. If you use Windows, 
search Help for file association. It should tell you how to convert 
them back.
 For that matter, these files were not converted at all. Your 
operating system decided to change what program it will use to open 
these files when you double click on them.


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Re: Transition to OpenOffice Writer

[Dan Lewis]

On 02/06/2013 07:50 AM, Joel Ikenberry wrote:

To Whom It May Concern:
I have been adjusting to OpenOffice Writer for a few weeks after losing my Microsoft Word 
application, and I hope you can imagine how frustrated and confused I am with this new 
software. As Microsoft Word is what I know, I naturally approached Writer like I would 
Word. However, there are stark and considerable differences between Writer and Word that 
I have inevitably encountered. For example, there is apparently no vertical 
paragraph alignment option in Writer, but there is in Word. As a writer, there are 
many essential tools and options that I need from my word processor that I am not finding 
or having trouble finding. I do refer to OpenOffice Wiki and the Help Tool, however, 
there are many things the Wiki and the Help Tool do not explain. For example, they do not 
explain how to apply a certain page-style. I only stumbled across the fact that a 
page-style can only be applied by inserting a manual page break.
I am struggling with how to format my documents to display various page-numbers. I am a novelist 
and any guides I discover only pertain their information to technical and business-style document 
formats. For example, the guides on headers always go into great detail about 
customizing your header and skip over the essential simple how-to-make a normal, 
average everyday header that is not going to be viewed by a company CEO or graded by a business 
education instructor. I am simply a writer writing a novel, and I need my word processor to apply 
to me specifically.
Here is what I need to know how to do:
1. Format different page numbers- Title Page (no number)- Dedication Page (no 
number)- Table of Contents (roman numerals)- Preface (roman numerals)- Prologue 
through all chapters ( starting at page 1)- Acknowledgments (continuing page 
numbers)- Appendices/Index (continuing page numbers)2. Create a traditional 
Table of Contents (like in any other novel, no business topics or sections and 
complete with a leader)3. Design headers to display book name on one page, 
chapter title on the next, continuously4. Vertically align a paragraph
Any information regarding these issues would be most certainly appreciated and 
duly acknowledged. I am new to OpenOffice Writer, but I know I will be just 
fine with it once I get my bearings. I also have another question concerning 
file format and extensions. As a writer, I will have to eventually 
electronically submit part or all of my manuscript to a Literary Agent and or 
Publisher at some point and so the file extension will need to be in a format 
usable by these organizations' software (most likely Word). Is the ODT file 
format compatible with Word or do I need to save my documents under a different 
format? This, above all else, is perhaps the most important question because 
the others are useless without the file being able to proceed. I thank you very 
much for your time, consideration, all manners of things and especially for the 
development and availability of this software to simple people like myself. 
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joel S. Ikenberry   

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters

 This is a  link to the User Guides for Apache OpenOffice. From 
here you can download individual chapters or the entire guide. From the 
Getting Started Guide, I recommend downloading chapters 2 and 3. I also 
recommend downloading the entire Writer Guide (Full Book choice) given 
for what you are now using Apache Office.
 The two chapters on styles in the Writer Guide are very important. 
Vertical alignment of text is a property of the paragraph styles. 
Changing page styles is discussed  in detail. This includes telling you 
when you need a page break to change page styles and when you don't.


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Re: Presentations

[Dan Lewis]

 You have two choices for a portable version to show slides: 
Portable LibreOffice 3.6.5 which is very recent, and Portable 
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 which is rather outdated. Both are available at 
http://portableapps.com/apps/office.
 The portable apps people are working to get an agreement on 
licensing from Apache OpenOffice so they can produce a version for AOO 
3.4. Until that time, they recommend a person use Portable OpenOffice. 
So states the web site if you click on the OpenOffice.org Portable.


--Dan

On 02/02/2013 11:06 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:
There used to be a Portable version of Open Office that one could 
include on the CD.  It is not a viewer but rather the full blown 
product.  It just doesn't have to be installed on the machine.  I keep 
it on my flash drive for when I'm traveling.


Dale Erwin
Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03
Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
http://leather.casaerwin.org

On 2/2/2013 4:37 AM, Kadal Amutham wrote:

Dear Steve,

There is no stand alone viewer for OpenOffice. Basically it is not 
required

at all. You have to install OpenOffice where ever you want to run the
impress.

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort/Improve_Impress/Standalone_presentation_viewer 



With Warm Regards

V.Kadal Amutham
919444360480
914422396480


On 2 February 2013 06:29, Stephen J. Lemmons stevejl@gmail.com 
wrote:



Dear Sir;

  I've been looking at and experimenting with Open Office.   In
particular your presentation package.   I like what I see, however, I
haven't been able to find one thing.  How do you put your 
presentation on a
CD with a viewer so it can be viewed on another PC that doesn't have 
Open
Office?   I'm trying to set up some class material for my minister 
who is
computer illiterate.   I need to give him something that he doesn't 
have to
try and search all over his computer trying to find a particular 
piece of
software.   Can you help?  After what I've been through the past two 
weeks

I really don't want to use any version of MS Office.

  Steve


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Re: Latest Open Office install

[Dan Lewis]

On 01/24/2013 03:29 PM, doug wrote:

On 01/24/2013 03:05 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:46:24PM -0500, doug wrote:

[doug@Dell desktop-integration]$ rpm -UVH
openoffice.org3.4-freedesktop-menus-3.4-9593.noarch.rpm
error: open of /usr/share/comps/i386/hdlist failed: No such file or
directory

Did you get the same the error trying with mandriva-menus?


Regards
You hit the nail on the head!  I should have tried that myself, but I 
was slavishly following instructions rather than using my head!
Everything is now copacetic.  I have the whole set of OO programs in 
my GUI menu, and they work--at least Writer does,
so I assume they all do.  This has been a long grind for each of us, 
and I am grateful for your help and your patience--all of

you who pitched in to help me.  Thank you very much!

(I still think you need an easier installation. It was not like this 
months ago when I installed the program on my desktop.)


--doug
 It is not all that complex. Some of steps could even be written as 
a script that you could run as a superuser.

1) Extract the AOO tar file.
2) Browse to the RPMS files using the command line.
3) As a superuser, enter this commandrpm -UVH *.rpm
4) Browse to the desktop-integration folder.
5) As a superuser, enter this commandrpm -UVH name of mandriva-menu 
file.rpm

6) Close the command line.
 This should be all that it takes to install AOO.

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Re: reveal codes

[Dan Lewis]

On 01/21/2013 11:29 AM, Eric Fenster wrote:

Try /View /Non printing characters.  This allows one to exactly position the 
cursor.


That's totally different. It shows paragraph breaks and spaces, not formatting 
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 What difference does it make? LO does not have formatting codes. 
Why insist that it should? If you miss the way WP works as a text 
editor, why don't you use WP? How much work would it take to develop 
them? Is this really worth the expense, time, etc. to do it? What are 
you willing to do to help? Why not learn how to use LO better? There 
seems to be several people who would like formatting codes. Why don't 
this group get together and build an extension that will do what you 
want it to do? Show us that it can be done.
  Yes, I am disappointed with this continued discussion of why 
format codes are better than styles. Of course it is very likely that 
some information about what has to be done when using formatting codes 
is not included. And yes, some information is also left out when 
mentioning what has to be done when using styles.
 A real test is to take a 1000 word text document with 100 
formatting errors. A correct version of the document must be available 
so that the people making the corrections know what the final formatting 
should be. List how to correct the errors using formatting codes. Then 
list how to correct the errors using styles. Then compare how many steps 
each one of these took. How much time did it take to do each one?
It is easy to make statements about either one, and this has been 
done recently as well as when there was an extended discussion about 
this same issue. Very little if anything has been said that was not said 
one time and usually many times then.


--Dan

Re: reveal codes

[Dan Lewis]

On 01/21/2013 01:47 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Eric,

Eric Fenster schrieb:

Styles doesn't begin to do what Reveal Codes does.

Just simple things like when Bold or Italics stop and start, where
languages change, etc. It's far easier to SEE a code, delete where
necessary or place a cursor.

Reveal codes seems to be the major feature that keeps people using
Word Perfect. here's got to be a reason. Why Word never did this, I
don't know, but Open Office should.


OpenOffice has the feature to search for attributes and formats and 
mark the text parts accordingly. Have you ever use it?


It is very powerful. But one shortcoming is, that it looses the 
highlighting when you click in the text to edit something. Perhaps it 
would help to make the marking persistent until the user turns it off 
explicitly or searches again?


Kind regards
Regina
One comment about the shortcoming: Once you click in the text, you 
can click Find again to highlight the next occurrence. Below the 
vertical scroll bar are two double arrows. Once you have defined a 
search, you can use these to search forward or backward.


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Re: Filter on column

[Dan Lewis]

On 01/19/2013 09:10 PM, Wade Smart wrote:

I sent a spreadsheet to someone I was working with and when I got to
their office - obviously
they were using Excel. They were slow to edit the sheet compared to
what I was doing with OO
but, one feature that was amazing was the ability to click on Sort and
then choose the named
column to sort on. Is there a way to do that with OO?

wade
--
Registered Linux User: #480675
Registered Linux Machine: #408606
Linux since June 2005

 First highlight the rows and columns that is to be sorted.
  Data - Sort. When the dialog opens select the columns you want to 
use. Click OK.


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Re: can't save as .doc on my Mac Tiger OS

[Dan Lewis]

For OS X Tiger (10.5): In Finder, find your user name.  user name - 
Library - Application Support - OpenOffice.org -  3 - user


--Dan

On 01/14/2013 05:10 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:

On 2013-01-14 4:03 PM Maritess Zurbano wrote:
Hi, thanks for responding--I see that solution is for OS Lion. I'm on 
Tiger

OS (10.5.8) is there a solution for my OS version?


The location is for all versions of OS X. There are specific 
instructions to find the folder if you are using Lion.


In finder, go to /Users/user name/Library/Application 
Support/OpenOffice.org/3/user and follow Hagar's instructions:


   1. Rename the profile by changing the \user folder name (see here 
for its location) to
   \user.old for example. This way, you still keep a backup of your 
configuration.
   2. Restart AOO/OOo, it will create a new profile. Check the time 
stamp of the files and

   folders created to make sure there are brand new.



On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Larry Gusaas 
larry.gus...@gmail.comwrote:



On 2013-01-14 3:33 PM Maritess Zurbano wrote:


I see the solution in that link for Windows, but not for Mac OS Tiger,
please advise?


Click on  (see here for its location) in the link that Hagar gave to
find the profile location on a Mac.


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Hagar Delest 
hagar.del...@laposte.net*

*wrote:

  You can try to reset your user profile:

http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=**
**12426#p58403http://forum.openoffice.org/**en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=**12426#p58403 

http://forum.**openoffice.org/en/forum/**viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426#** 

p58403http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426#p58403 


Hagar

Le 14/01/2013 21:46, Maritess Zurbano a écrit :


   I've also freed up RAM, closed other apps, still it won't 
convert odt



files
into .docs

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Maritess Zurbano 
maritesszurb...@gmail.com wrote:

   It used to be very easy to save odt files as .doc and now, it 
won't do



it.

That little mac wheel just keeps spinning and I have to force quit
every
time. I've also restarted the apps, restarted the machine and 
installed

new
software. Nothing works except if I do it the crunchy way, which 
is of

course, opening a new .doc blank file and cutting and pasting and
saving
as... but really, I'd rather not. Someone please help




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Re: info: Additional Licensing requirements if any for use of Open Office for Professional Work in Companies

[Dan Lewis]

On 12/31/2012 05:04 AM, anand.vasappanav...@tatamotors.com wrote:

Dear Andrea,

Greetings from Tata Motors!

Thank you for your reply  wish you a happy  a prosperous new year 2013.

Please do not mind me asking but can you let me know your views on Libre Office 
(documentation foundation)  Open Office org (Apache foundation)

As we are deciding to roll out Open source office tools to our employees, which 
do you feel would be more beneficial to a large business organizations.

What about the security associated with the extensions of these tools are they 
safe, can they leak our professional info like those free android apps?

  We am trying to bring about the use of open source tools for productivity, 
creativity - traditionally possible with MS Office  Adobe in our company.

If the Open Source usage drive is successful in one Tata company, it will then 
rapidly penetrate into our other 70 odd companies in India  the world.

Have a pleasant day ahead
Anand Vasappanavara
09552502340
Note: This Mail was sent with the help of Mozilla Thunderbird 
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ , an Open Source Email Client.
On 12/29/2012 5:51 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:


anand.vasappanavara wrote:


Greetings from Tata Motors! We are happy to note your 
foundation's
work in developing open office tools for the world. We have been
using your tools for my academic  personal activities from 
some time
now.   would like to suggest their introduction for its use for
professional work in our company.



Thanks for your appreciation! I'm removing the security list from the 
recipients, since it is a confidential channel related to security incidents 
only.



We would hence like to know the answers to the following 
question to
acess the feasibility



Sure. Just remember that my statements here, as virtually all 
communication on our mailing lists, do not constitute legal advice or official 
answers. For that, you should read, e.g., the full license text at 
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1.What are the additional licensing, permissions 
requirements to be
factored if any



None (of course, I recommend that you read the license).



2.Can the employees use Open Office tools freely to
perform their commercial work



Yes, definitely. The Apache License is permissive and 
business-friendly, and it gives maximum freedom to the user.



3.Is there any risk of office data
leaking via the internet while using the Open tools



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notification service) do not disclose personal private data or documents data.



 4.Are there any
organizations where open office is ready used for professional 
work



Yes, so many that we actually have trouble in keeping the list 
up-to-date... Anyway you can find an outdated list at
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments



5.Are there any annual maintenance or up-gradation services 
which
can be offered



Sure, but not from this project directly. We do maintain a list of 
consultants at http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html but for 
corporate-grade support you might also be contacted by companies that employ 
full-time OpenOffice developers. Employees from these companies already read 
our mailing lists.

You can also support the project by sponsoring development, or contributing 
developers or translators or other resources for QA or marketing... Feel free to write 
again (the dev list is enough) if you would like to know more about this.

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Re: Open Office writer 3.4.1

[Dan Lewis]

 Sorry, but resetting the user profile will not help at all. Only 
removing all but one of the spell checking extensions will work. This 
was mentioned on this list some time ago.


--Dan

On 12/24/2012 03:25 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Forwarding Martin's answer, below. Resetting the user profile will 
probably be enough. Andrea


On 24/12/2012 Martin Groenescheij wrote:

Hi,

Try to reset your AOO user profile:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=58403#p58403 
to

solve your crashing problem.

Spellchecker issue:

There is a bug with the extensions (different extension using the same
configuration name), so you will have to remove some of them, until we
contact the extensions authors and ask them to fix the issue.

Go to the menu Tools - Extension Manager... and remove all the
English dictionaries (Canadian, etc), leaving only the one that says

English spelling and hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus 2010.03.16

This should fix the bug.

Martin

PS both answers are copied from previous conversations



On 24/12/2012 3:23 PM, justcall...@cs.com wrote:

Hi, I donate about $75 each year and am proud to do so but since
upgrading
to my present version the program crashes constantly and there is no
dictionary (English) and it is exasperating.
I know you are busy but I will pay someone to help me out of this
dilemma. We are using a PC with Windows XP.
Thank you, Joe
Stokes
Idaho Falls,
Idaho, USA
P.S. - We have attempted to download the extension but to no avail.



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Re: unsubscribe - subscribed in error: Open Office writer 3.4.1

[Dan Lewis]

At the bottom of this email is a statement:
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Had you sent an empty email to the email address listed, you would have 
begun to unsubscribe yourself. So, send an email to 
users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org. All you need to do is to put 
the email address in the To box of a new message in your email client. 
Leave the subject box empty as well as the message portion.
 Shortly thereafter you will receive a confirmation email to verify 
that you want to unsubscribe. When you open it, click the Reply button 
which opens a new message window. Then click the Send button in this window.


--Dan

On 12/24/2012 03:03 PM, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta wrote:

Hi all,
I joined this list because it appeared to be the only way to find out 
how to make an end-of-year donation to support Mozilla, but I've done 
that through the Firefox site, now, so would like to unsubscribe.

Thanks,
MaxineKL
On 24/12/2012 8:21 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

Dan Lewis wrote:

Sorry, but resetting the user profile will not help at all. Only
removing all but one of the spell checking extensions will work.


Do we have a BugZilla issue number and/or a repeatable way to 
reproduce the problem on a clean installation?


If it depends on OpenOffice or on third-party extensions we bundle 
with OpenOffice, this is something we should fix before the next 
release.


If it depends on third-party extensions that we don't bundle but that 
users install from http://extensions.openoffice.org then we can 
merely contact the author, but still it's good to have a way to 
reproduce the problem.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: text with pictures

[Dan Lewis]

 Components of Apache OpenOffice: Writer is a word processor (for 
text documents), Calc is for spreadsheets, Draw is for graphics, Math is 
for writing mathematical formulas, and Base is for databases.


--Dan

On 12/19/2012 09:12 PM, Doug wrote:

On 12/19/2012 04:59 PM, Hans van der Ven wrote:

Doug,
I am using Open office 3.4.1 on a Mac pro. How do I add the writer to 
my open office, or is that the same as my text document?

Please advise.

  On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:


On 12/19/2012 10:25 AM, Hans van der Ven wrote:
I could not find the Insert option in my File menu. What am I doing 
wrong? Please advise




In my previous message, I said to paste into OO.  By that I meant 
use ctrl-v to paste.

Sorry if I was not clear.

--doug


Writer is what OO calls the word processor program--at least in Linux.
I'm not familiar with what they do in Macs, but it must be almost the 
same.
I wouldn't guarantee that something that works in Linux also works in 
MacOs.
Just because MacOs is based on Unix doesn't mean everything is just 
the same

--and Linux is not quite the same as Unix, but almost.

--doug

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Re: Data Base Conversion

[Dan Lewis]

On 11/29/2012 08:00 AM, DeWayne McCarty wrote:

I have a data base file created in MS Works. Is there a way to convert it to
Open Office data base, without doing a new OODB design?
  thank you
DeWayne McCarty
Probably not. Anything created by MS Works has to be converted to 
either a MS Office program or to AOO.
The first thing to do is to save the database file as a CSV (comma 
separated version) format. Then you can use Base to connect to the CSV file.


--Dan

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