Re: [discuss] Writer Form Controls and Calculations?

2010-09-03 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.09.03 13:24 -0500, Gurus Knugum wrote: Is it possible to have form controls in an ODT who's numerical content automatically derives from each other? I envision to have three Formatted Fields A,B and C and C would - after A and B have been filled in by the user display

Re: [discuss] SUM

2010-09-01 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.31 21:21 -0500, Bob Runkel wrote: How does one sum a series of columns? =SUM(column_range). [Note the = prefix, if you are used to one of the spreadsheet programs that does not require it.] If you mean to sum all of the column totals, then =SUM(row_range) if

Re: [discuss] Re: SUM

2010-09-01 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.09.01 23:03 -0500, NoOp wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.31 21:21 -0500, Bob Runkel wrote: How does one sum a series of columns? =SUM(column_range). [Note the = prefix, if you are used to one of the spreadsheet programs that does not require it.] If you mean to sum

Re: [discuss] spam from collab.net

2010-08-28 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Mike, In a message dated 2010.08.28 06:08 -0500, Mike Scott wrote: An odd one this. I had some spam last night, received from a collab.net mail relay, addressed to the account email address I use for logging into the OOo issues system. Fascinating! I had the same thing happen, in a post

Re: [discuss] RE: [users] Re: ANN: English Grammar Checker Extension for OpenOffice.org

2010-07-14 Thread John Kaufmann
Claire, In a message dated 2010.07.14 04:50 -0500, Claire Newell wrote: Stop emailing me!! Please see the message at the bottom of your own mail: To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org You subscribed; you

Re: [discuss] Re: Fwd: Fw: Ashim Banerjee - Excel functiontions - 1-956078302 [RJ]

2010-07-01 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.07.01 09:11 -0500, Joshua Lee wrote: This message was picked up as a virus by our exchange server. I just had it released from the quarantine, am looking at it, and have no idea why. Thus I am replying, do any of you know why this email was thought to have a virus? ...

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp in Issuezilla

2010-07-01 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Bernhard, In a message dated 2010.07.01 15:25 -0500, Bernhard Dippold wrote: ... I see the strange time and date format you mentioned ... Perhaps someone in the QA or the website project has any clue, but I expect only one or another guy from CollabNet, the company hosting our website and

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp

2010-06-30 Thread John Kaufmann
Lars, In a message dated 2010.06.30 06:44 -0500, Lars Nooden wrote: Searching the issues database (on an unrelated problem) prompted a question about the timestamp format: See ISO 8601 or discussions of it: A summary of the international standard date and time notation

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp

2010-06-30 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Bernhard, In a message dated 2010.06.30 17:55 -0500, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] And that is yet another answer that ignores John's question. The questions John is asking are: * Why does OOo not adhere to the ISO standard for its default date and time notation, but uses a date time

Re: [discuss] Fwd: Fw: Ashim Banerjee - Excel functiontions - 1-956078302 [RJ]

2010-06-30 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.30 04:34 -0500, Ashim Banerjee wrote: Very recently we have been using open office suit in our organisation in lieu of Ms. Offce. Really it is excellent. I had put forward an issue to Micriosoft regarding an Excel function, but I don't know whether the issue has been

[discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp

2010-06-29 Thread John Kaufmann
Searching the issues database (on an unrelated problem) prompted a question about the timestamp format: - DDD MMM dd HH:mm:ss (or WkD MMM dd HH:mm:ss ) - that is, Weekday (3 characters) Month (3 characters) Day-of-month (2 digits) Time(Hours (24-hour, 2 digits): minutes (2

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp

2010-06-29 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.29 10:41 -0500, David Evans wrote: ... [apparently unrelated comments] ... MM DD HH mm ss would be sortable !! Yes. My question was not directed to what would be an ideal timestamp format for the issues database, but rather Why does it use the format DDD

Re: [discuss] Re: Writer- change page color?

2010-06-21 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Pete, In a message dated 2010.06.21 11:36 -0500, pmitche...@aol.com wrote: A more than decade ago we used Wordperfect as a standard text editor with the default blue background and white fonts. This appearance was ... more restful, depending the monitor. And How do you change this in

Re: [discuss] soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.07 16:38 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this process seem to hang around in my system and my wife's after open office file's have been closed. If this happens several times in the course of a session it becomes impossible to open a new file without first

Re: [discuss] Re: Question

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.08 05:56 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: How can I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before? On 8 June 2010 12:45, Marius Popa marius.mar...@gmail.com wrote: May I look for a text while I type in Writer to see if I have written it before?

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Marius, In a message dated 2010.06.08 11:40 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. You mean like a redundancy alarm? Where have you seen such an option? John

Re: [discuss] finding text

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.06.08 13:14 -0500, Marius Popa wrote: Again, I referred to the option that warns me if I wrote a certain sentence before while I write the same sentence later. You mean like a redundancy alarm? Where have you seen such an option? I did not see the option anywhere,

Re: [discuss] Re: soffice.bin

2010-06-08 Thread John Kaufmann
Niall, In a message dated 2010.06.08 14:15 -0500, R N D Martin wrote: Instances of this process seem to hang around in my system and my wife's after open office file's have been closed. If this happens several times in the course of a session it becomes impossible to open a new file without

Re: [discuss] Moderator-Forced Unsubscribes

2009-12-09 Thread John Kaufmann
the list owner can, though I am not sure who's the owner for users. However, for each list, there's a list-ow...@... alias, which should hopefully give you the owner's attention. That is welcome news! - maybe we can see if hopefully can be more than that. John Kaufmann

Re: [discuss] Moderator-Forced Unsubscribes

2009-12-08 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.12.08 18:56 -0500, Paul wrote: I've, in the past, asked for these rights [to unsubscribe a third party] ... so will advise if something comes of it. I've very recently sent blank emails to the following address which should mean that the troll only has to hit reply to

Re: [discuss] Re: Helping people unsubscribe from us...@openoffice.org

2009-11-19 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.11.19 14:07 -0500, Paul wrote: From a brief look (and this is no way definite) it seems that the message will appear _at least once_ per thread on subscribed user replies. It generally doesn't appear for unsubscribed users. ... Just as an aside - I've noticed that my

Re: [discuss] Feature request: PDF association

2008-05-21 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2008.05.20 10:10 -0500, Bobo Otmas wrote: As far as I know OOo 3.0 will contain an importer to view and edit pdf files. I would really like to see a way to associate pdf files directly with OOo. Windows? -- Control Panel Folder Options File Types -- John

Re: [discuss] How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-05-12 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2008.05.09 04:57 -0500, Mathias Bauer wrote: The language attribute is kept separate from all other attributes. In OOo 2.4 you can change it easily using the language status bar control. Hmm... one of the feature I like about WordPerfect is that language is an attribute of