[users] Transferring templates to another computer.?
I have a lot of business document templates on my old Win XP computer and wish to transfer most, but not all, to my new Win 7 computer. Is it just a matter of finding the template folder and copying them across, or is there more than one folder involved? I look forward to your advice Many thanks, James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Transferring templates to another computer.?
James Elliott wrote: I have a lot of business document templates on my old Win XP computer and wish to transfer most, but not all, to my new Win 7 computer. Is it just a matter of finding the template folder and copying them across, or is there more than one folder involved? I look forward to your advice Many thanks, James Search for all files using this format: *.ot? All templates have a file extension that begins with ot. The question mark in searches tells the computer to look for all file extensions whose first two letters is ot. Included will be ott (Writer), oth (Writer HTML), ots (Calc), otp (Impress), and otg (Draw). (You probably will not have all of these file extensions.) These files may or may not be in one folder. Copy the template files you want to transfer and paste them to your Win 7 computer. Suggestion: if they were not in a single folder on the Win XP computer, create a template folder and paste the templates into this folder. The Standard toobar contains an icon labeled New Document from Template. If you make this icon visible, you can use this icon to access, organize, or add templates. File New Documents and Templates menu path will open the same dialog as when you click this icon. When I am transferring templates from one computer to another, I place the templates in a single folder. Then I open the Templates and Documents dialog. Then I click the Organize button. Then I click My Templates to highlight it. Then I click the Commands button, and then click Import Template from context menu. I browse to the templates in the template folder I created. I highlight all of the templates and then click the Open button. All of the templates will now be listed in My Templates. I added the last paragraph because you might not know how to organize all of the templates at the same time. In the past, I have used this process one template at a time. It is much quicker to highlight all the templates when organizing them than to highlight one template at a time. HTH Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OOo-Calc Error when moving tab?
Hi, I have a fresh install of openSuSe 11.2 and it comes bundled with OOo 3.1.1 build 3.1.1..4, which has been installed to facilitate continued use of OpenOffice. I had created a 17 sheet spreadsheet on the older version launched with openSuSe 11.0 and successfully opened the spreadsheet in the new version. The spreadsheet contains 2 tabs of text with the balance being graphs of the text data i.e. one of the text sheets is called data and contains readings, which are then graphed on the remaining sheets. The problem on the newer version of OOo is that when I want to move one the monthly tabs that contains a graph, or even the data tab that only contains numbers, when I click on it and move it OOo shuts down completely and needs to be restarted and the recovery of the open document needs to take place. To try and fix this eror I have checked for updates using Yast, and whilst newer versions are available they do not seem to be openSuSe 'supported'. Is there a fix for this, should I raise a bug report as it may be happening in the newset version too? Anyone point me in the right direction to get this resolved? Regards Hylton
Re: [users] OOo-Calc Error when moving tab?
Den 2010-10-16 16:47:56 skrev Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) hyl...@conacher.co.za: Hi, I have a fresh install of openSuSe 11.2 and it comes bundled with OOo 3.1.1 build 3.1.1..4, which has been installed to facilitate continued use of OpenOffice. I had created a 17 sheet spreadsheet on the older version launched with openSuSe 11.0 and successfully opened the spreadsheet in the new version. The spreadsheet contains 2 tabs of text with the balance being graphs of the text data i.e. one of the text sheets is called data and contains readings, which are then graphed on the remaining sheets. The problem on the newer version of OOo is that when I want to move one the monthly tabs that contains a graph, or even the data tab that only contains numbers, when I click on it and move it OOo shuts down completely and needs to be restarted and the recovery of the open document needs to take place. To try and fix this eror I have checked for updates using Yast, and whilst newer versions are available they do not seem to be openSuSe 'supported'. Is there a fix for this, should I raise a bug report as it may be happening in the newset version too? Anyone point me in the right direction to get this resolved? Regards Hylton I had a problem like that (not exactly the same problem though) with the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice.org, which I believe is Go-oo rather than OpenOffice.org but I think also the OpenSUSE version is built with Go-oo. I removed the crap and installed the official OpenOffice.org version (the one to be found at http://www.openoffice.org/) instead and had no problems since. It's not ”supported” by Ubuntu, but I don't care; it works. For me, that is… If I had OpenSUSE 11.2 (which I indeed do, on one partition, but I rarely use it) and had that problem in OpenOffice.org, I would uninstall it and try the official OpenOffice.org version instead, which by the way is much more recent anyway. If that works I probably should report the problem to the OpenSUSE team. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files
On 10/15/2010 11:10 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:56 15/10/2010 +0200, James Wilde wrote: So what does: Properties Load/Save Microsoft Office do if one clicks Load and/or Save beside WinWord? It influences only how object linking and embedding (OLE) objects within documents are handled when document types are being converted. At 13:06 15/10/2010 -0400, Tanstaafl Noname wrote: All that does is define the default file format... No, it doesn't. That's at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General instead. I trust this helps. Brian Barker When I ran Office 2003 and Openoffice.org on a Vista machine I has the setting, that is listed above, set for OOo to load all the Word, Excel, etc. files directly to OOo instead of MS's suite even though I had it installed. Checking the settings in the Load/Save section does a lot more than the default file format. It made sure that the file associations went to OOo instead of MS Office so I would not have to deal with MSO unless I had to, which was rare. With my Linux systems, I have no MSO and the system defaults OOo for all MSO product files. 99% of the time OOo does all my .doc file needs. I use OOo to create the .doc file that I create for my Word only clients. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files
At 11:34 16/10/2010 -0400, Nobody Noname wrote: On 10/15/2010 11:10 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:56 15/10/2010 +0200, James Wilde wrote: So what does: Properties Load/Save Microsoft Office do if one clicks Load and/or Save beside WinWord? It influences only how object linking and embedding (OLE) objects within documents are handled when document types are being converted. At 13:06 15/10/2010 -0400, Tanstaafl Noname wrote: All that does is define the default file format... No, it doesn't. That's at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General instead. I trust this helps. Brian Barker When I ran Office 2003 and Openoffice.org on a Vista machine I has the setting, that is listed above, ... Sorry, but you are confused here: there are *two different* settings mentioned above. ... set for OOo to load all the Word, Excel, etc. files directly to OOo instead of MS's suite even though I had it installed. Again, *neither* of these settings has this effect. You may well have had this arrangement, but you did not achieve it through either (or both) of these settings. The way you set Windows Vista's file associations is in Windows Vista, not in OpenOffice. Checking the settings in the Load/Save section does a lot more than the default file format. I fear not. It made sure that the file associations went to OOo instead of MS Office ... It doesn't do this for anyone else. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Re: opening .doc files
On 10/16/2010 12:59 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:34 16/10/2010 -0400, Nobody Noname wrote: On 10/15/2010 11:10 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:56 15/10/2010 +0200, James Wilde wrote: So what does: Properties Load/Save Microsoft Office do if one clicks Load and/or Save beside WinWord? It influences only how object linking and embedding (OLE) objects within documents are handled when document types are being converted. At 13:06 15/10/2010 -0400, Tanstaafl Noname wrote: All that does is define the default file format... No, it doesn't. That's at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General instead. I trust this helps. Brian Barker When I ran Office 2003 and Openoffice.org on a Vista machine I has the setting, that is listed above, ... Sorry, but you are confused here: there are *two different* settings mentioned above. ... set for OOo to load all the Word, Excel, etc. files directly to OOo instead of MS's suite even though I had it installed. Again, *neither* of these settings has this effect. You may well have had this arrangement, but you did not achieve it through either (or both) of these settings. The way you set Windows Vista's file associations is in Windows Vista, not in OpenOffice. Checking the settings in the Load/Save section does a lot more than the default file format. I fear not. It made sure that the file associations went to OOo instead of MS Office ... It doesn't do this for anyone else. Brian Barker That is interesting. When I installed the latest version[s] of OOo on my Vista system I make sure that the Load/Save settings are checked. Then it works. When I have an MSO update downloaded and installed then It resets the .doc files back to Word. I do the Load/Save settings in OOo and then .doc goes back to OOo. It works for me, so if you tell me that it does not work that way, then I wonder why it worked for me each time I do that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Strange message from the server
In news:4cb74dab.7090...@libertytrek.org, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org typed: On 2010-10-14 1:36 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010 00:41, Tanstaafl wrote: ?? don't be dense. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists. http://www.madmanweb.com/archives/0102avoiding_personal_conflict_on_mailing_lists.html Sorry, when someone is being dense, I just say it... And well you should. But not using that site, IMO, as it doesn't have a very good reputation. See http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/netlingo.com Since I received the warning about malicious software having been presented, phishing and a couple others, I stopped and never entered the site. Site has a rather truthful domain name IMO. Google supports the same information on lookup. Didn't bother with a whois but Robtex shows its position rather well (bad neighborhood). Sorry to be so negative, but ... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Transferring templates to another computer.?
In news:4cb96b49.40...@wn.com.au, James Elliott james.elli...@wn.com.au typed: I have a lot of business document templates on my old Win XP computer and wish to transfer most, but not all, to my new Win 7 computer. Is it just a matter of finding the template folder and copying them across, or is there more than one folder involved? I look forward to your advice Many thanks, James IMO I think you're OK and on the right track. Just in case though, I'd like to point out that in NOF-ese, a template is a zip file that contains everything you need to move one site from one location to another folder, computer, server, whatever. Everything, including assets, styles, content, etc. etc. is contained in that template for that site. Template in the normal scheme of things, isn't used that way in NOF. In NOF, the kind of template that you use to start a web site with predefiined settings, etc., is called a Style. NOF chose a lousy word when it picked template for packaging a web site. IMO they need to fix the terminology so it doesn't confuse people. A web site consists of several folders. A NOF template (File; Export as Template) creates a zip file that contains ALL of the needed folders for a web site. Just unzip it on another computer to the NOF area and it will run and create all the folders needed under User Sites. No other function in NOF does this! A web site template in NOF is named a Style. Look thru Help for further information, or the manual available at OO.o. HTH, Twayne` - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Transferring templates to another computer.?
In news:4cb96b49.40...@wn.com.au, James Elliott james.elli...@wn.com.au typed: I have a lot of business document templates on my old Win XP computer and wish to transfer most, but not all, to my new Win 7 computer. Is it just a matter of finding the template folder and copying them across, or is there more than one folder involved? I look forward to your advice Many thanks, James LOL! Sorry about that! Head's on straight and newsgroup name now corrected in my brain! Please completely ignore my previous post!! HTH, Twayne` - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
