[discuss] Re: degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Joe Smith
On 04/21/2010 02:25 PM, Carl Shewmaker wrote: 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 Does your mini include the Gnome Character Map

[discuss] Re: Metric Numeric Format?

2009-07-23 Thread Joe Smith
On 07/22/2009 10:23 PM, Lew Merrick wrote: Engineering data standards for metric values insist on (A) a leading zero for all numbers with an absolute value less than 1, and (B) no trailing zeros. It would be very nice if OpenOffice would support such a formatting intrinsically. ??? ... I'm

[discuss] Re: PS Re: Application help for MS Office users - what is missing?

2008-01-18 Thread Joe Smith
Uwe Fischer wrote: ... I've heard that even some users never use the Windows Start menu. What is not present as an icon on the desktop will not be used. StarOffice/OpenOffice.org deliberately decided not to insert another set of icons to the users' desktops. May be we should rethink this at

[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

[discuss] Re: Can't view Impress

2007-10-23 Thread Joe Smith
Alexandro Colorado wrote: ... I use scribus to getnerate an EPS image and then I insert from image the EPS but I got no luck. You didn't say what version you're using, or happens when you follow those steps (An error? Nothing? An empty image?), but it works for me using Scribus 1.3 and OOo

[discuss] Re: Question: How to add an invisible format to OpenOfficeWriter?

2007-10-07 Thread Joe Smith
Tony Pursell wrote: ... Type in the text you want to hide, select it, then apply the 'invisible' format. You have to do it that way as I don't think you can type anything with a hidden format selected. I have tried this and can confim that the hidden text is in the XML. Like so: He

[discuss] Re: Issues with autocorrect in Calc

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Smith
Cor Nouws wrote: ... A mistake with the impementationof an new featue? For the feature: see last row in this section: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.3#Calc_2 No mistake, it was done on purpose. To rein in Calc's over aggressive capitalization of text, it was decided

[discuss] Re: Official spam from OO.org?

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Smith
Chris Monahan wrote: ,,, If sun has somehow had their mail-servers compromised, that would be pretty embarassing, but consider... it's not hard to fake an e-mail header. Absolutely. But AFAIK, headers like this are harder to fake: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Received: from

[discuss] Re: Lotus Smartsuite incorporation

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Smith
Adrian Try wrote: Hi Salty With IBM sort of entering the fold, it would be good to be able to import Smartsuite files. My Linux version of OpenOffice.org definitely lists Lotus WordPro as a file format it can open. I can't check the Windows version of OpenOffice.org at the moment. That

[discuss] Re: Flat OOo files

2007-08-08 Thread Joe Smith
J David Eisenberg wrote: The OpenDocument schema allows you to create an ODF file that has all of its sub-parts enclosed in a single office:document, ... OOo should give users the option to save as a flat file, and OOo should detect such files and open them correctly. At a minimum, this filter

[discuss] Re: Several dudes: Pages recount, oocalc objetct bindings, images...

2007-07-10 Thread Joe Smith
Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: ... ... It doesn't hurt to copy the picture several times; OOo will make them all share just one copy in the file. I don't understand very well this. Copy by hand or automatically with a macro? I know that if I Insert Picture From file, and then copy/paste that

[discuss] Re: Several dudes: Pages recount, oocalc objetct bindings, images...

2007-07-07 Thread Joe Smith
Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: ... - I'm having a last page that is a abstract of whole document for me. I don't want that these page are count in total pages of the document since I'm had a footer like this: Page X of XX. ... It would be harder to make it totally automatic, but once you know

[discuss] Re: Color sets?

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Smith
André Wyrwa wrote: Hi, is there any easy way to manage several color sets in OOo? ... Easy? No. Possible? Yes. You can load color palette files (*.soc) from *some* of the area fill dialogs--look on the Colors tab for a little file folder icon. In Writer and Calc, the only such dialog

[discuss] Re: Feature Request

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Smith
Chris Monahan wrote: ... this seems to be a request for the feature in MS word where clicking on a page boundary closes the gap on screen allowing one to read it as one 'block' Oops--you're right. I focused on the jumping and had come across the Issue before. I assume the action you

[discuss] Re: Feature Request

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Smith
RBL wrote: Feature request: True smooth-scrolling in Writer. ... Sounds like Issue 25483: Text jumping during vertical scrolling drives me nuts http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25483 Joe - To unsubscribe,

[discuss] Re: hun-spell ? not funny

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
Bernd Eilers wrote: Don´t get upset about the name it´s just the name of the spell checker software and name for the related format of the dictonary files and has nothing to do with the language being checked. And the hun in it is an abbreviation for hungaria. ... You know, Jaques may have

[discuss] Re: Calendar Templates

2007-03-09 Thread Joe Smith
Alan wrote: ... For that reason, I would like you to have the two calendar templates I did up for OpenOffice. Please include them with OpenOffice so others can have a starting point to go from when printing out a basic calendar. ... Very nice! For more sample documents and templates, see

[discuss] Re: Save a copy for OOo?

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Smith
William W. Austin wrote: Applix office had/has this, too - very useful function. It was just handled as save as - but it didn't change the doc being worked on. (FWIW, I think Export would be a better place to put this.) I've looked at Scribus, AbiWord, Gimp, Gnumeric and Imendio Planner, so

[discuss] Re: Save a copy for OOo?

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Smith
Chris Monahan wrote: ... Abiword has this. As does a lot of other open source apps. OpenOffice seems not to have bothered just because MS hasn't bothered, even though it's probably simple to implement. I'm trying to write up something for consideration, although I'd rather call it Export. I'd

[discuss] OpenOffice.org Newsletter?

2007-01-30 Thread Joe Smith
This is twice now that I've tried and failed to locate the newsletter from the email announcement sent to comp.openoffice.announce.general. Am I the only one so dense that I can't find the place where I can read the newsletter online? Or is the email only meant to summarize the past month's

[discuss] Re: Autosave

2007-01-06 Thread Joe Smith
Tim Kaufmann wrote: Why is there since Version 2 no Autosave-Funktion ... Tools Options Load/Save Save Autorecovery information every [__] minutes I assume it will look slightly different on your screen, auf Deutsch ;-) Joe

[discuss] Re: saving fonts and fixing bottom margin

2006-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
Martin Yazdzik wrote: Can someone make it so, please, that with no action on my part, the new doc opens with proper margins at the bottom, letter format in the printer, and tnr as the font. ... Save the attached template document (sent separately). File Templates Organize ... Select My

[discuss] Re: saving fonts and fixing bottom margin

2006-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
Joe Smith wrote: ... Save the attached template document (sent separately). Sorry, the direct mail failed. Let me know if you want the doc. You can easily create it yourself. Just yell if you need help. - To unsubscribe, e

[discuss] Re: saving fonts and fixing bottom margin

2006-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
Martin Yazdzik wrote: Can someone make it so, please, that with no action on my part, the new doc opens with proper margins at the bottom, letter format in the printer, and tnr as the font. ... Save the attached template document (sent separately). File Templates Organize ... Select My

[discuss] Re: Delete dialog

2006-07-18 Thread Joe Smith
Code Monkey wrote: Your so-called feature, the delete dialog box, is a violation of the common functionality ... I know how you feel, believe me, but this particular equine corpse has been beaten to dust long ago. Seriously, take two 2 minutes to remap the DEL key and let's all get on with

[discuss] impress idea

2005-09-03 Thread Joe Smith
Can you put a right-click menu in Impress like in powerpoint. It has forward, back, end show, etc...