Question on Issue 116295

2016-02-21 Thread Andreas Säger
Hi, There is a known security issue affecting users who use the mail merge wizard in spammer's mode (serial letters as email attachments). The wizard stores the mail account confidentials as clear text in regmod.xcu. > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=116295 Could it be that we already

Re: Calc needs major overhaul

2016-02-14 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 14.02.2016 um 09:17 schrieb knsm...@yahoo.co.jp: > > Please share this email with Calc development team members. > There is an official support forum for this kind of problem: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php > > Calc used to be a brilliant spreadsheet. > This suggests

Re: Question

2016-01-19 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 18.01.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Mayela Muniz: > > Can openoffice most recent version save a word document in a .docx format? > Thanks > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional

Re: [REPORT] Issue Clearance Quality + Technical Debt

2016-01-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Technical Debt in AOO 4.1.2: 1. The entire Base component does not work on the Mac platform. Not a Java issue, not limited to any type of database. Serial letters and bibliographies are impossible to do on the Mac. On the user forum this issue comes up more than once a week. Going back to AOO

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-02 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.01.2016 um 22:39 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > > Meanwhile, I think it would be wonderful if on opening documents there were > *accurate* warnings that the document relies on format features that are not > supported and that will not be presented or preserved properly. (If we > preserved

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2016-01-02 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 02.01.2016 um 04:10 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > That is not quite the use-case I was thinking of. When collaborating, I > often need to edit a document I did not originate. Commonly, the > document will be in a Microsoft Word format, and has to be distributed > in that format. There is no

Re: Re: Complaint Writer lost 36 pages of my document with no auto backup copy.

2015-12-31 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 31.12.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > On 12/31/2015 10:30 AM, Max Merbald wrote: >> Hi, >> >> let me say a few words on this too: >> >> I have had the autosave option enabled for ages and I've never >> experienced a problem I'd relate to this. In the contrary, it has helped >> me a

Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed?

2015-12-31 Thread Andreas Säger
+1 Am 31.12.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > +1 > >> -Original Message- >> From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] >> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:09 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [Forum] Vietnamese forum to be closed? >>

Re: Calc Selections of Entire Rows and Columns

2015-12-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.12.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > The TL;DR: For full row and column selections in formulas, the trick is to > arrange to accept something like A:A and to recognize the explicit OO.o idiom > (i.e., A$1:A$1048576) and show it as A:A. The trick is to always write, in > the

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

2015-11-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.11.2015 um 10:19 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: > No further tests ... I normally don't use the db in OpenOffice > > Juergen Millions of users use it for mail merge, label print etc. from connected spreadsheets. - To

Re: Apache Open Office

2015-11-04 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 04.11.2015 um 22:28 schrieb dzymum .: > Does Apache Open Office work with a MAC? I am trying to help my > granddaughter with her Chemistry and need an office doc program that will > work with her pc and my MAC. > Thanks > Dee > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/

Re: [QUESTION] Usability of Non-Optional Java Dependencies

2015-11-03 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 03.11.2015 um 01:23 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > I have no idea of the frequency of that situation. > Hi, On the user forum it occurs several times per month. The list box of availlable JREs should not include 64-bit JREs. It should have a label such as "Suitable 32-bit Java Runtimes on

Re: Java 32

2014-12-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.12.2014 um 09:49 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Marcus wrote: Of course I can change it in the code with a commit. However, I'm not able to create a build to check myself to see if my fix is good or produces an ugly build breaker. I'm not yet so far to build AOO from scratch myself. I wanted

Re: oooforum

2014-12-05 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 05.12.2014 um 01:15 schrieb Andrew Douglas Pitonyak: I did a scrape of the pages, and it is about 8GB last time I did it. Off hand, I expect that a huge chunk of that is SPAM, especially since most of the SPAMS have large graphics included. I considered writing a PERL script to clean that

Re: Fwd: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-29 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 29.10.2014 um 03:36 schrieb F C. Costero: Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years. That's what I get for reading only the title of a message. Francis Hi, It's 35 years since the

Re: OpenOffice lost again 6000 users (was: Improved OOXML support?)

2014-10-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.10.2014 um 09:59 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 24/10/14 07:54, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, For example: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Berliner-Finanzaemter-wechseln-zurueck-auf-Microsoft-Office-2430961.html I believe a decision like the one in Berlin is always political

Re: Access to the list of Autofilter

2014-10-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 25.10.2014 um 01:06 schrieb Vladislav Stevanovic: Hello, Is it possible with code in Basic to access to the list of Autofilter data in Calc? Reason: filtering with basic is limited maximum with 3 criteria... Because I need more then 3 criteria I want with basic code to use filtering

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-23 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 23.10.2014 um 06:47 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I think it's good that we live in a free society and customers have the right to see things differently. Being a customer, I do see things differently. Every OOXML file is a vote against ODF. One day in future LO will save ODF as a secondary

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 22.10.2014 um 07:03 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find companies that are willing to integrate corresponding filter in AOO, as a normal commercial support. If I were in need of an OOXML suite, I would pay for the real one. The other one is

Re: .mdb file

2014-06-10 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 10.06.2014 18:20, Kenneth Scotland wrote: I have one .mdb file, created some years ago using M/S Access. It is a personal file concerning my collections. However, with acquiring new a computer, I somehow lost access to Access. I still have the file, and can read it.but cannot add

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Andreas Säger
stick with LibreOffice on Linux: Show stopper since OOo 3.2, fixed in LO 3.4: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121312 (Linux/JDBC/Base Extension destroying all Calc charts on Linux: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124470 (Report Builder Greetings, Andreas Säger