Re: [discuss] Oracle dropping OO.org and joining the community...

2010-10-12 Thread Carl Shewmaker
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, Christian Lippka christian.lip...@oracle.com wrote: From: Christian Lippka christian.lip...@oracle.com Subject: Re: [discuss] Oracle dropping OO.org and joining the community... To: discuss@openoffice.org Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 3:41 AM Am 11.10.2010 18:33,

Re: [discuss] Oracle dropping OO.org and joining the community...

2010-10-11 Thread Carl Shewmaker
--- On Mon, 10/11/10, David B Teague davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote: From: David B Teague davidbtea...@comporium.net Subject: Re: [discuss] Oracle dropping OO.org and joining the community... To: discuss@openoffice.org Date: Monday, October 11, 2010, 12:33 PM On 10/11/2010 12:33 PM, RA

Re: [discuss] Some idea !

2010-07-22 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I set up a template with First Page as the style of page one, with margins I want, and no footer, and follow it with a default style page, again setting the margins I like, but including a footer with a page number inserted therein (I like them centered.) I then either enter text or cut and

Re: [discuss] Some idea !

2010-07-21 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Please excuse me if I don't really understand the request here.  I've opened calc (OOo) spreadsheets on both my ubuntu mini-pc running OOo 2.4 and my vista notebook pc running OOo3.1, and note that there are tabs at the bottom of the page for sheets 1, 2 and three.  I can manuever among them

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-25 Thread Carl Shewmaker
To: discuss@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 12:36 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Shewmaker wrote:   Gotta be an easy way.  Any help appreciated. a) Quick and dirty: record a macro of the degree sign. Assign it to a function key, then hit the function key every time

[discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas.  Gotta be an easy way.  Any help appreciated. Carl

[discuss] problem printing card with 3.0 on hp1020

2008-12-18 Thread Carl Shewmaker
friends, I don't know if this represents a bug, or just ignorance on my part, but I cannot correctly print a 3x5 client card using 3.0 and my hp1020 printer.  I drew the card as a template, supplanting a printed paste-on form use in my office since before the advent of computers, and can print

[discuss] equation editor?

2008-07-14 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I have been asked by a colleague about whether there is an equation editor available in Open Office Writer or in Calc. His equations are scientific/mathematical, and look nothing like the ones I routinely use in figuring interest payments and credits. He says he uses them in Word. I

Re: [discuss] Re: a Q Open Office 3.0 BETA Comments

2008-05-10 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Twayne, Sorry to see you go. Others on this list pose comments as complicated as yours, and I (mostly lurking here) learn from their questions and the responses from users more capable and informed than I. Frankly, although my usage is mostly fairly simple documents and spreadsheets, I

Re: [discuss] Feature request on OpenOffice Writer.

2008-02-18 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Demian, I seldom have more than 4 or 5 documents open at a time, so I don't have experience with as many as 15, but I switch among them very quickly using alt w to open the windows menu, followed by alt (whatever the key letter shows in the window listing) to choose the next file. My

Re: [discuss] Track Changes feature in text docs

2008-02-12 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Please forgive me if I have not understood your question, but doesn't the compare feature in edit do exactly what you want? Regards, Carl Eva Pressel-Roemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an Open Office user at home, but forced to be a MS user at work. In most areas I do not find that OO has

Re: [discuss] envelopes

2007-08-06 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Hi, Timothy, I Copy (control c) the inside address and Paste (control v) on the envelope. Volume mailings, I understand, can use a template to access a database. Have set one up for future use, but haven't used it yet. Regards, Carl Timothy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [discuss] install openoffice

2007-05-16 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Hi, Possibly the problem lies in backing up the file rather than copying it to the CD. I have downloaded several versions of OpenOffice to a windows xp machine and copied them to CD before running them successfully on windows 98 and windows vista machines. Regards, Carl

Re: [discuss] Windows Vista Support ?

2007-02-26 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Even 1.1.3 worked on my vista machine. Used it very briefly, just to see if it worked, and found that it would do whatever I asked of it as a word processor, saving and opening only sxw documents. Replaced it with 2.0 and continue to do productive work. Carl CPHennessy [EMAIL

Re: [discuss] saving fonts and fixing bottom margin

2006-10-11 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Martin, Even though I'm far from an expert in these matters, I handle this problem by creating a template for each type of document I create, with the font and margins I want. Generally I have a first page and then a default page with page numbers in the footer. The template can be mostly,

Re: [discuss] Install of 1.1.5

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Nicolas, Thank you very much. Merci? Carl Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le samedi 27 mai 2006 � 09:11 -0700, Carl Shewmaker a �crit : The disk I installed some time ago has the notation on its face that it is open linux 2.2 Carl, Your linux version is very old (in Linux

Re: [discuss] Install of 1.1.5

2006-05-27 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Really appreciate your help, Carl Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Shewmaker wrote: I'm trying to install a download of OOo1.1.5 on a Linux machine, but get an error message: wrong glibc version, you need at least 2.2.0 Don't have a clue what this means, and what, if anything, I can do

Re: [discuss] installing 1.1.5 on linux

2006-05-27 Thread Carl Shewmaker
26 May 2006 16:27, Carl Shewmaker wrote: I'm trying to install a download of OOo1.1.5 on a Linux machine, but get an error message: wrong glibc version, you need at least 2.2.0 Don't have a clue what this means, and what, if anything, I can do to fix it. Would appreciate any help steering me

[discuss] installing 1.1.5 on linux

2006-05-26 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I'm trying to install a download of OOo1.1.5 on a Linux machine, but get an error message: wrong glibc version, you need at least 2.2.0 Don't have a clue what this means, and what, if anything, I can do to fix it. Would appreciate any help steering me toward a solution Carl

Re: [discuss] Who would have thought... MS doesn't want you to buy a PC without an OS.

2006-04-11 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I, for one, would really like to buy a naked laptop now, and desktop machines as the ones on my small lan expire. regards, Carl --- Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that Microsoft is concerned for computer white box makers income. They are on a campaign to convince the PC

[discuss] double trouble right here in river city

2006-02-17 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Well, it isn't really river city. That's some 65 miles away. But I have at least double trouble. First, I've installed 2.0 on my computer (the 2nd newest on the lan I claim to administer, 5 machines, a switch, a router and a dsl modem cabled together.) Various machines have been added,

[discuss] problem or paranoia?

2006-02-01 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I belong to several listserves, of which this is the most active, and my email lives on Yahoo, rather than on my local machines. Yahoo sends about a third to Bulk where they will disappear after a given time if not opened or transferred to another folder. I think that if I open one the sender

Re: [discuss] #10 Envelpoes

2005-11-02 Thread Carl Shewmaker
With 1.1.4 on my Windows XP pro machine with attached HP LaserJet 3015 printer my #10 envelopes printed incorrectly when I chose the center feed option. My printer, of course, has a center feed for envelopes. Trial and error led me to choose the last envelope icon, and it worked fine. My

[discuss] device driver?

2005-09-19 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I cannot print #10 envelopes properly from my windows xp pro computer on my hp Laser Jet 3015 (it shows as hp 3015 Laser Jet PCL 6 on my Printers and Faxes screen.) No matter how I set preferences, it prints in “portrait” mode, resulting in the return address printing in a inappropriate spot and

Re: [discuss] Word count feture request

2005-09-14 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Please excuse me if I have not understood the problem, but in 1.1.4 I use in an open document: File Properties Statistics which gives me a report on number of words and of characters including spaces and punctuation. It reports lines, as well, which is useful to me, but may not be of any

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

Re: [discuss] GetStorage, name: No Content!

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Thanks, Jonathon, I'll look there first for my next problem. Appreciate your help. Carl --- Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:33 -0700, Carl Shewmaker wrote: Following weekend thunderstorm had problems with lan and accessing internet, since mostly

Re: [discuss] GetStorage, name: No Content!

2005-06-07 Thread Carl Shewmaker
Following weekend thunderstorm had problems with lan and accessing internet, since mostly resolved. But when I try to open OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 I get an error message, OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in accessing the OpenOffice .org configuration data. Please contact your system