Re: [discuss] OO automation?

2008-01-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
bryan rasmussen wrote: Hi Mathias, The main thing that will need to be done is to convert between various formats using OO as the conversion engine, the problem is that with the requirements it can be that we will need to be running conversions concurrently. Conversion is one of the

[discuss] Fw: readiness for servers

2008-01-12 Thread Roan Jacobs
Hi ther I just want to no if the new openoffice works with servers so multipal user can user openoffice at te same time from one server ? thank you ! Roan Jacobs _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are

[discuss] Windows version: Installing on a drive other than C:

2008-01-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell the MS Windows OO installer to install on any partition other than C:. This is problematic for those who have limited space available on C: and/or simply want to install elsewhere. This seems like an easy thing to fix, and I can't even remember

[discuss] New Autobak Feature

2008-01-12 Thread SHAUN COATES
What is the possibility for adding an Autobak feature to the OpenOffice platform? The feature would simply create automatic back-ups of files in a designated folder with a generic naming scheme. This would prove helpful for individuals that get caught up in their work and forget the golden

[discuss] Text to columns

2008-01-12 Thread Laura Pennycuick
Hi, Maybe I just couldn't think what Open office would call this, but I souldn't find a version of Office's Text to columns feature in Excel, where you copy an paste a table into Excel and then click on Text to Colums and you can split it into separate columsn either by fixed width or by

[discuss] Writer

2008-01-12 Thread Tech Support
Friends, Thank you for the huge effort everyone has expended to get the word processor component up to the place where it is today. I can only imagine the depth of work that went into the effort. There is no way that any should belittle that work. However, with that said, there seems to be

[discuss] Future Feature

2008-01-12 Thread David Polson
I just got your product and find it to be very nice. Beats MS word in my humble opinion. There is one thing that is very handy in other word processors that you do not have in office though. A file history of documents you have opened and been working on. That is one thing that would be

Re: [discuss] Windows version: Installing on a drive other than C:

2008-01-12 Thread Guy Voets
2008/1/11, Patrick Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell the MS Windows OO installer to install on any partition other than C:. This is problematic for those who have limited space available on C: and/or simply want to install elsewhere. This seems like an

Re: [discuss] Fw: readiness for servers

2008-01-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
OpenOffice.org has been able to work on a network setup which is a central computer (server) with the core installation of OOo. And multi-clients which they have only the local files (dotfiles) of the application. This is what is called the network install of OpenOffice.org here are some

[discuss] Re: Text to columns

2008-01-12 Thread Joe Smith
Laura Pennycuick wrote: Maybe I just couldn't think what Open office would call this, but I souldn't find a version of Office's Text to columns feature in Excel ... Thanks for reminding me to add this to the list! See: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3318#p3318

Re: [discuss] Writer

2008-01-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:13:57 -0600, Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Hi Michael. Thank you for the huge effort everyone has expended to get the word processor component up to the place where it is today. I can only imagine the depth of work that went into the effort.

Re: [discuss] New Autobak Feature

2008-01-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:49:34 -0600, SHAUN COATES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the possibility for adding an Autobak feature to the OpenOffice platform? The feature would simply create automatic back-ups of files in a designated folder with a generic naming scheme. This would prove

Re: [discuss] Windows version: Installing on a drive other than C:

2008-01-12 Thread Richard/g
On Sábado 12 Enero 2008, Guy Voets wrote: 2008/1/11, Patrick Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell the MS Windows OO installer to install on any partition other than C:. This is problematic for those who have limited space available on C: and/or

[discuss] mdb file

2008-01-12 Thread EJones
I was sent an .mdb file. I do not have M$ Office and don't want to buy it. I use Works for spread sheets and WordPerfect for a word processor. Will OO work on .mdb files? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[discuss] Re: mdb file

2008-01-12 Thread Matt Needles
EJones wrote: I was sent an .mdb file. I do not have M$ Office and don't want to buy it. I use Works for spread sheets and WordPerfect for a word processor. Will OO work on .mdb files? Short answer: Yes More Detail: OOo will not show all the object types contained in an Access database

Re: [discuss] Future Feature

2008-01-12 Thread Matthew Copple
Check out the Bookmarks Menu Extension, available on the OpenOffice.org Extensions page (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/). That should give you much of the functionality you have requested. On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:13 -0800, David Polson wrote: I just got your product and find it

[discuss] Re: Writer

2008-01-12 Thread Matt Needles
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:13:57 -0600, Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Hi Michael. Thank you for the huge effort everyone has expended to get the word processor component up to the place where it is today. I can only imagine the depth of work that

[discuss] Re: Future Feature

2008-01-12 Thread Matt Needles
David Polson wrote: I just got your product and find it to be very nice. Beats MS word in my humble opinion. There is one thing that is very handy in other word processors that you do not have in office though. A file history of documents you have opened and been working on. That is one

[discuss] Re: Suggestion

2008-01-12 Thread Matt Needles
jonathon wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 9:20 AM, Matt Needles wrote: Then why do you mention it? How /do/ you filter for country? I was asked why I thought that SeaMonkey and Thunderbird had inadequate filtering options. With procmail, I can filter on both language and country of origin. Language