Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread F C. Costero
There is some evidence, or suspicion, on the en forum that the automatic check for updates is involved with the problem. See this posting and others in the same thread. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=55912start=30#p253337 Francis On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rob

Re: Open Office 3.41

2012-11-19 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Kevin, I'm sorry to hear you are having a problem. There is a tutorial on the forum about this topic. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512 There are a few different possible causes and it is probably easier for you to look there and work through the steps of the

Re: Open Office

2012-11-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Catherine McNaught cmcnau...@chatsworth.com.sg wrote: Hi So sorry to email you with this. Please forgive. I am teaching technology at an International school in Singapore. About a dozen of my students have the OpenOffice Base freezing on them constantly.

Re: Symphony code in AOO 4.0

2013-01-20 Thread F C. Costero
On 1/20/2013 2:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Andrea Pescettipesce...@apache.orgwrote: Rob Weir wrote: OK. Here is a draft: https://blogs.apache.org/**preview/OOo/?previewEntry=**

Re: Türkçe Yazım Denetimi

2013-02-18 Thread F C. Costero
Help for the problem can be found on the English forum: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=16512 2013/2/18 ANIL KULAKSIZOGLU ani...@abv.bg Merhaba, ben OpenOffice3.3.0 kullanıyorum, fakat Otomatik İmla Denetimi düğmesi çalışmıyor ve yanlış kelimenin altında dalgalı

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-19 Thread F C. Costero
The English forum is back up. I haven't checked any others. Francis On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:31 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/19 FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr Nagios monitore forums with HTML and SSL services. But it's the MySQL deamon that must be watched. Indeed:

Re: draft blog post: With Special Guest Star... Apache OpenOffice

2013-04-18 Thread F C. Costero
Very good! I have a couple of editing suggestions, if it is not too late. The line Those with access (and this may has geo-based access restrictions) can see scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the

Re: Update on logo survey

2013-04-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: A quick

Re: Find a better name for sidebar?

2013-05-23 Thread F C. Costero
On 5/23/2013 5:29 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: On 5/23/2013 3:52 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: I don't if it's really to late for finding a handy name for the biggest new feature in AOO. This has to be defined by others. :-) However, if we have some time, I have to say that SuperPanel or SmartPanel are

Re: Openoffice 4 crashes when copying table in text document

2013-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Max Merbald max.merb...@gmx.de wrote: Edit: It doesn't only happen when you try to copy a table but always when you try to copy by mouse. Am 22.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Max Merbald: Hi there, I've got an error to report, I don't know if you're already

Re: help me open my files please

2013-07-02 Thread F C. Costero
Hi! It might be easier to get support from the user forum ( http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). Please describe further what happens when you try to open a file and what operating system you are using. I have seen such problems caused by a hung OpenOffice process. The easiest fix, not knowing

Re: Incomplete Answer (from Dr Katherine Phelps)

2013-07-02 Thread F C. Costero
Hello!! One possible solution - you can hold the shift key while rotating to limit the movement to 15 degree increments. Also, you can probably get better support for user questions on the user mailing list or the user forum (http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) Best regards, Francis On Tue,

Re: Continuous crashing of documents and then having to go through the cycle of Document Recovery 2 or 3 times per letter.

2013-07-06 Thread F C. Costero
Hello! I suggest you try resetting your user profile as explained in this tutorial:http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426 Best regards, Francis On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, ian.m...@talktalk.net ian.m...@talktalk.net wrote: Dear Open Office, Can you please guide

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

2013-07-23 Thread F C. Costero
. Thanks! Kind regards, Marco A.G.Pinto --- On 24/07/2013 01:34, F C. Costero wrote: The volunteers at the user forum ( http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php for support in English) would be happy to help. You can upload the file

Re: [REVIEW] draft blog.

2013-07-30 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:59 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Hi A while ago we discussed to get more bloggers. Since I have 1 years

Re: Updated table: Downloads by Country

2013-08-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I just updated the page showing downloads by country. The last update was back in May. http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html The ordering at the top has not changed much, except that Poland has overtaken the

Re: [WWW]Forum not delivering e-mails

2013-09-13 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Ricardo Berlasso rgb.m...@gmail.comwrote: There is a problem with the automated emails on the forums: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102t=64264 I checked on the ES forum by sending a PM from a test account to my main account and can

Re: Reopening the Vietnamese Forum

2013-09-21 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: We have a Vietnamese volunteer, Mr. Phan Anh (in CC), who recently completed the Vietnamese translation and would be interested in reopening and moderating the Vietnamese forum at http://forum.openoffice.org/**vi/

Re: Open Office 4.01

2013-10-18 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Slivka jerrysli...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I've been a loyal user of Open Office for the past several years. The spreadsheet does a nice job of replacing the basics of Excel. Two things though that I really would like to see be improved or added for

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-25 Thread F C. Costero
I understand the problem to be that OpenOffice will not start on your computer. If you are getting no error, this can happen because an OpenOffice process is stuck. Not knowing what operating system you are using, the simplest solution is probably to reboot your computer. Francis On Fri, Oct

Log in glitch on en forum

2013-11-03 Thread F C. Costero
I and another moderator have both gotten a message claiming maximum number of log in attempts exceeded when we tried to log into the en forum. I did not get that message when logging into the es forum. We could log in successfully after properly entering a Captcha. Perhaps this a a result of the

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-11-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Brian Moore bwmoore4173...@btinternet.comwrote: Good afternoon, I have recently downloaded Mac’s OS X Mavericks and it refused to open ‘OpenOffice.! I went into System Preferences Security Privacy and instructed it to open ‘OpenOffice’ which it now does!

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-11-27 Thread F C. Costero
I'm sorry you are having trouble with Calc. Can you give a specific example of what is happening? I use Calc all the time and don't encounter such problems but we may have different uses. Best regards, Francis On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert ry...@yahoo.com wrote: Your Excel

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
There are people who would be happy to help on the user mailing list or on one of the forums (https://forum.openoffice.org/). Your message was sent to the developer mailing list. You might get help here, but that is not the primary purpose of the list. Please describe your problem in detail when

Re: Printing a database

2013-12-04 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee m...@dmcghee.plus.com wrote: Hi I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print. If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8 Regards David McGhee

Re: Printing a database

2013-12-04 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee m...@dmcghee.plus.com wrote: Hi I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print. If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8 Regards David McGhee

Re: OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

2013-12-17 Thread F C. Costero
Your description of the available password protection options is what is typically said on the en forum. I don't recall anyone ever suggesting that users avoid password protection, though I don't read every post. Best regards, Francis On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2014-01-04 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Amy, If you are interested in helping users, one of the options is to volunteer on the forum. The English forum is at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php All you have to do is register and start answering questions. I'm a moderator there (user FJCC) and would be happy to

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-30 Thread F C. Costero
I'm sorry to hear you are having a stability problem. Please try resetting your user profile as explained in this tutorial on the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426 You don't need to register on the forum to read it. Best regards, Francis On Thu, Jan 30,

Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey

2014-02-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. You can read about the study

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:17 AM, brwbuildersand...@gmail.com wrote: my spell check doesn't work, am I supposed to download a dictionary? Sent from Windows Mail Please try the steps in the spell check troubleshooting tutorial on the user forum

Re: Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?

2014-04-23 Thread F C. Costero
Hello! If you create a Base file using the menu File - New - Database - Create a New Database, you will get a Base file that runs HSQLDB version 1.8 as an embedded database. The SQL documentation for that is here: http://www.hsqldb.org/doc/1.8/guide/ch09.html. I would not recommend using the

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:42 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 1 June 2014 14:21, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 01/06/2014 13:12, jan i a écrit : I have noticed the traffic level, but seen from a monitoring POW, there are no problems with forum. Ah, indeed, I

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-06-02 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Roberta Yule Owen ryo...@nc.rr.com wrote: well, sort of - I have been using OpenOffice for some time and now have version 3.0. I did not know that Apache has taken over OpenOffice, and I have a few questions: Is Apache 4.1.0 the latest version of what I

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

2014-06-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default. If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue. If you think the

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

2014-06-06 Thread F C. Costero
: Am 06/06/2014 08:12 PM, schrieb F C. Costero: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default. If you find some errors please report them

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-07-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:30 PM, John Jay john.ku...@frontier.com wrote: Both my ABC with a check mark and my ABC with a squigly line do not work. I CAN NOT use them to check a word spelling. When using ABC check mark it goes to the beginning, I must take one word at a time to be

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-09-12 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Steve Johnson steve.spoth...@comcast.net wrote: Hi I downloaded openoffice a few years ago and only use it occasionally. Each time I use it I am prompted to register it. But when I try, it says it needs to be done in a JRE environment. I have not a clue what

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-09-18 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Campbell Bryan cbr...@talktalk.net wrote: I have open office 4.1 but can't obtain either access to word or publisher. Is this possible? If so how? C J Bryan - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Spell check

2014-10-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Frank frank1...@comcast.net wrote: How do I get my spell check to work? I misspell a word, hit the abc and a box comes up that says nothing is misspelled. There is an extensive tutorial about troubleshooting the spell check function on the user forum:

Re: Creating Chart com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram

2014-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Semen Gubarev mnog...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone! I read a lot of documentation about creation charts using macro BASIC And I still can't create chart in Writer (almost all documentation describe how to create chart in Calc). The problem with inserting

Re: Another Basic Function that doesn't Work!!

2014-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Darren Myers myers_dar...@hotmail.com wrote: Didn't take me long, found another basic function that does not work in OO Who on earth built this program! Seriously... needs to find another career, maybe hairdressing or something! So when you Find Replace

Re: Design change for side bar

2015-01-08 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi all, the pending review request https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ show_bug.cgi?id=125989 is about a change in the visual style of the side bar. We do not have a special Design group and I do not want to decide

Re: database problem

2015-03-25 Thread F C. Costero
Can you please ask this question on the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/? There are more people available for user support there. You will need to register to post your question. Best regards, Francis On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Mary Lou Trice maryl...@flash.net wrote:

Re: How can I get a hot key?

2015-06-01 Thread F C. Costero
2015-06-01 0:34 GMT-06:00 Денис Нилов radomir_1...@mail.ru: 1) How can I get a hot key of uppercase? 2) How can I change of my hot key? Для здоровья, Нилов (РАДОМИР) Денис Добавить в друзья вКОНтакте нажать + https://vk.com/denisnilov + нажать radomir_1...@mail.ru Hello! Select the

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Just wondering … > > Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally > prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively > small change that I did, and was safe enough

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. > My > > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < >> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> I went

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Nov 16,

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I went to open a new document. > I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it. > > First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix > it before

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

2015-11-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:02 AM, FR web forum wrote: > >Possible cross problem with mailmerge function. > Issue reported: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126623 > Maybe Mac users could be confirm or not? > > > >

Re: Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-20 Thread F C. Costero
I verified the Check for Updates in the Extension Manager on Windows 7 64 bit and it correctly flagged my downlevel extensions. Clicking the Install button doesn't seem to do anything useful. A progress window makes it look like a download is underway but afterwards I can't find any extension

Re: DATE ISSUE in OpenOffice Spreadsheet

2015-10-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Oliver Brinzing wrote: > Hi, > > > There seems to be an issue of how some1900 dates are being stored in the > OpenOffice spreadsheet. > >> It is my understanding that dates are stored with spreadsheet as a serial >> number starting with

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-17 Thread F C. Costero
> track with also. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message- > > From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 20:53 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: New release - problems > [ ... ] > > Hi

Re: Proposed Calc "Find & Replace" dialog enhancements

2015-11-12 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > Recently I fixed a bad 9 year old bug #60307 with at least 6 duplicates > [and still broken in at least LO 4.2.8.2 :-)], now allowing searching for > cells by the value displayed after formatting (eg. 30/11/2015

Re: errors in writer (formula)

2015-11-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Gang, > I have been using the formula in writer lately. For ‘cdot’, a command > to put a dot between two symbols to indicate multiplication, the dot is not > showing up in the document.

Re: installing open office

2015-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:42 AM, jjpurlieu wrote: > to open office > > I have had open office for years and am very pleased with it ecept that > occasionally it disappears off the laptop. I have always reinstalled it > till today when I just cannot get the instillation

Re: Problem with OpenOffice

2016-02-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Shelagh and Nick Richardson < richardson...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem with Openoffice. It is effectively frozen with this > message: > > *The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening > windows. Do you want to try to reopen

Recovering from broken password (bug 125431)

2016-01-22 Thread F C. Costero
We get questions on the forum about how to access a document that no longer accepts the encryption password. I assume some of these are due to the broken NSS issue #125431. I skimmed through the comments on bugzilla and did not see a definitive way to fix the problem. I"m sorry if I missed it.

Re: Ошибки в версии 4.1.2

2016-07-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 07/27/2016 06:08 AM, schrieb ИКЦ "Просвет": > >> Добрый день >> Рассматриваю ваш продукт как замену Microsoft Ofiice. Но есть ошибки >> 1. в шаблоне документа (от MS Office) стоит поле сегодняшней даты. При >> открытии

Re: OpenOffice Guide

2016-09-24 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Svjariwala! The documents at the following site are a little old but should still be very helpful: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters Regards, Francis On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, sagar jariwala wrote: >

Re: email will not send

2016-11-22 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:03 AM, jackie sudron sanderson < jackie...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I cant email my letter please can you help me > I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. Please provide some details. What have you tried and what happened? Which email program do you use? Regards,

Re: Read-only documents in Calc

2016-11-03 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM, shane gulley wrote: > I recently updated to ver 4.1.3 and am no longer able to edit > spreadsheets (haven't tried other document formats) I can open them but I > cannot edit them. I can still edit documents online but sometimes the >

Re: Last up-date

2017-01-09 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Two Rivers Gallery <2rivers...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just up-dated Open Office and now I am having a number of problems? Is > everyone having an issue? Is there another correction up-date that cleans > up the cliches? PLEASE HELP ME > > -- > > *Blessings,* > >

Re: Troubles Loading Files with OpenOffice

2017-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Emma, I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. This mailing list is used by developers and not intended for user support. I suggest you post your message on the users mailing list or at the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php. Best regards, Francis On Thu, Jun 22,

Re: Community in Mexico City

2017-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
I just copied imacat's message to the Spanish forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39=13006#p57499 Best regards, Francis On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi imacat, > > It’s been awhile. I hope you are well. > > For Apache

Re: creating a spreadsheet (was: new cool feature)

2018-08-16 Thread F C. Costero
I changed the LOOKUP() function in columns D and E to be a VLOOKUP() with the fourth parameter set to 0 so the function looks for an exact match. The LOOKUP() function requires that the lookup vector be ordered. Since column A of the Database sheet is not ordered, incorrect results were returned.

Re: License of specific fonts?

2018-09-05 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Simon, No one here or on any Apache web site can provide legal advice. See https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-and-fonts for a layman's discussion of font licensing. What that article seems to say is that whether you can include the font when you distribute a document depends

Re: open office file and Excel

2018-03-11 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Ami The problem is almost certainly that the default program your computer wants to use is Excel and that the icon displayed for the file is therefore an Excel icon. The file content is unaffected in this case. There are two things you can try to open the file. I assume you are using

Re: branch 4.1.7?

2019-01-21 Thread F C. Costero
One "regression" that merits immediate attention is crashing on Windows when trying to edit a macro embedded in a Writer or Calc document ( I haven't checked Impress or Base yet). If I open a new document and try to make an embedded macro (menus Tools -> Macros -> Organize Macros -> OpenOffice

Re: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status

2018-11-30 Thread F C. Costero
openoffice.apache.org > Oggetto: Re: Forum Migration Status > > +1, > many thanks, that way much better!Did the daily usual things and everything > went smoothly.HagarLe 30/11/2018 à 20:37, F C. Costero a écrit :> Hi Dave,> > Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is signific

Re: Forum Migration Status

2018-11-30 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Dave, Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has bee recently Best regards, Francis On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM Dave Fisher wrote: > Migration has completed. > > The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes from now for > the DNS change to

Re: Small website refresh

2018-11-23 Thread F C. Costero
I like the update. I am puzzled by the three different Download buttons/links. The one at the top right says Download, there is a central one for Download For Windows, and a small link under that that says Other Platforms. All three lead to the standard download page where the OS is detected

Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

2019-01-26 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Nikhil, Try purging LibreOffice with sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice* I did this before installing OpenOffice on my Linux Mint system and it installed with no error. I was then able to download LibreOffice from the LibreOffice site and install that in parallel with OpenOffice. I believe the

Re: Time for our first 4.2.0 beta?

2019-01-28 Thread F C. Costero
I am a moderator on the en forum but I am speaking only for myself here. I think gathering feedback on the forum would be a good solution. The en forum has a User Experience area that gets very little traffic and could perhaps be used to gather beta build input. Feedback in languages other than

Re: Can't download updates

2020-01-24 Thread F C. Costero
You can go to the web page http://www.openoffice.org/download/, choose the appropriate operating system and language and then click on Download Full Installation. You will be redirected to a page on SourceForge where the download will start automatically. You do not need to click anything on the

Re: Letter page size in Writer sidebar

2020-02-05 Thread F C. Costero
As a native English speaker, I also have no problem with those abbreviations. In that context, there are not many other words that could be there, so it is very easy to understand the meaning. Francis On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michele Denber wrote: > On 02-05-2020 4:03 PM, Matthias Seidel

Re: Facebook comment: It is time for an advanced product. please meet with me.

2020-02-07 Thread F C. Costero
I went to https://www.facebook.com/pg/ApacheOO/posts/ and found the post by Thomas Reid from Feb. 1. The message is fully quoted in the title of this thread, so there is no more to learn from the post. Francis On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:59 AM Peter Kovacs wrote: > >

Re: Transferring Openoffice to new computer

2020-01-06 Thread F C. Costero
This is not he best place to ask user questions. Please use the users mailing list or the forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) in the future. You can simply download the installation files for Apache OpenOffice from the web site www.openoffice.org to the new computer and then run the