Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Daniel Carrera wrote: cono wrote: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall expect that thay can just work as they

Re: [discuss] Mischievous [Users]

2005-07-08 Thread Rigel
Pierre wrote: G'day OOo folks, I've been reading through recent posts in users@openoffice.org Some seem a little mischievous, i.e. I wonder if they are from genuine frustrated users or attempts to discredit the OOo effort? And how much help should the group offer? For example there is a

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Carrera wrote: Bruce Bowler wrote: Quoting from http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version of Office, shall expect that thay

Re: [discuss] Re: EU says no to software patents

2005-07-08 Thread Wesley Parish
Give them a copy of the mp3 of Peter Cook presenting Misty Mr Wisty and the Invention of the Plib. Once they've stopped laughing, ask if you can patent their laugh. By that time, if they haven't got the hint, ... Wesley Parish

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The one who writes If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. should be fully aware that people using the Ms version

Re: [discuss] Reading Open Office in Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Dave Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:12 +0100, John Thomsett wrote: By way of feedback for development. It appears that if text is sent with emails Word cannot open it the other end. This will not encourage a quick spread of the product. Hope this helps John

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: That's exactly my point, the difference is that a simple user will feel right at home in OOo. A power user will actually have to relearn some of the most higher end tools. So the problems really depend on the user. [...] with no hassle and thats the whole point.

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting cono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexandro Colorado wrote: That's exactly my point, the difference is that a simple user will feel right at home in OOo. A power user will actually have to relearn some of the most higher end tools. So the problems really depend on the user. [...] with no

[discuss] (off topic) Interesting discovery

2005-07-08 Thread William W. Austin
I have heard from a few other people who had written me off-list about the lack of a good filter to import Applix documents, spreadsheets, etc. We have a large (12k) of them of which several hundred are still important to maintain. This is just some info for other people who are in the

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread cono
Alexandro Colorado wrote: So if it's about feelings we don't really need to pay more attention on words since feelings are completely different message. Of course I do agree that feelings are personal. And that people are not realistic, when they expect to have a copy of the

Re: [discuss] Reading Open Office in Word

2005-07-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting John Thomsett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: By way of feedback for development. It appears that if text is sent with emails Word cannot open it the other end. This will not encourage a quick spread of the product. Hope this helps John Thomsett Please use visiooo-writer:

[discuss] OT: Sunbird Calendar

2005-07-08 Thread Eric Hines
Does anyone know how to contact the folks at the Sunbird Calendar project? I had a thought on a capability that would improve the calendar's utility for investors, but I can't find anything more useful than a snail mail address for Mozilla itself. Unless I've missed something, it seems that

Re: [discuss] OT: Sunbird Calendar

2005-07-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Ven 8 juillet 2005 17:33, Eric Hines wrote: Does anyone know how to contact the folks at the Sunbird Calendar project? I had a thought on a capability that would improve the calendar's utility for investors, but I can't find anything more useful than a snail mail address for Mozilla

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
cono wrote: Hi Alexandro, Wonderful! And/or lucky? I did have some trouble at some points, just to find my way. And I know I´m not the only one. Not the fault of OOo, of course. I hadn't any migration problems at all. Then again, I didn't have a migration per se. I was never an MS Office

[discuss] Base problems - access, sql

2005-07-08 Thread Marinos
Hello, Openoffice Base has some problems and gaps such as: 1. When I import an MS Access file (mfb) then unnesseccary tables are created. 2. There is not a possibility to save a database as an access (mdb) file. 3. There is not a possibility to convert an openoffice base to an sql file.

Re: [discuss] Reading Open Office in Word

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Shewmaker
If I want to attach a file to an email I'm sending to a correspondent who uses Word, I use save as and choose one of the versions of Word that I can choose as options, usually Word 6.0, from my 1.1.4 menu. If I'm not sure what my correspondent uses, I generally use rtf. My setup also permits me

[discuss] IRC talk NEXT Saturday.

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello all, The next IRC talk will be NEXT SATURDAY at 8 AM UTC, which should be a good time for people in Asia and Australia, and not bad for Europeans. :-) The speaker will be Sigrid Kronenberger. A member of the German NL project. Sigrid works on translations and documentation. She will