[discuss] Re: Text Formatting problem in copying

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 05 October 2011 03:06, IT Support RIX wrote: Hi, We are a support team helping a small research team and we are using Ubuntu Linux. Our team is having difficulties in using 'Open office’ software. With Open office in Linux we could not retain the formatting(such as italic,

[discuss] Re: New Idea

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 01 October 2011 00:00, John Hayden wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I hope you can put me in touch with the appropriate person at Open Office. I'm an innovator based in Dublin with an idea which may be of interest to you but of course, i ask for a non-disclosure agreement to be signed

[discuss] Re: Works files in OO.o

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 01 September 2011 03:05, Hi There wrote: Hello, I hope someone can clarify this for me: Wanting to complete my switch from MSFT Works to Open Office. All of my Works files are showing up on OOO330m20 (Build 9567), but I'm not sure if that will still be the case once I uninstall

[discuss] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 27 August 2011 09:47, Robert Derman wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 26/08/2011 00:10, Larry Gusaas wrote: Wrong. The issue was having to search through the headers to find if the poster was subscribed or not. There was no indication in the subject that the poster was not

[discuss] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 27 August 2011 10:54, Jason Ax wrote: Will OpenOffice ever be compatible with Adobe Acrobat? Acrobat does not recognize OpenOffice files. Will Adobe Acrobat ever be compatable with OO.o? It is as you say, that Acrobat does not recognise the OO.o files. Does Copy and Paste work?

[discuss] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 26 August 2011 05:38, Mathias Bauer wrote: It's easier to get rid of a web forum: just don't visit it anymore. :-) But mails keep coming to your inbox, whether you want them or not. But if anyone wants to think 'new development', there's no reason one shouldn't have the best of

[discuss] Re: Major gaps of Open Office Impress versus Microsoft Power Point

2011-06-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 01 July 2011 08:11, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:06, Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com wrote: If you are looking for improvements in the near future (less than a year) you are probably looking in the wrong place here.  you would stand a much better

[discuss] Re: Major gaps of Open Office Impress versus Microsoft Power Point

2011-06-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 01 July 2011 07:42, Sriram Rengarajan wrote: Hello, Sorry, this is not the email address that the dev. community hears for feature requests. You might login to OpenOffice feature request page to submit these http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Login Agreed that this is not the

[discuss] Re: Error report: hot key combination to special characters

2011-06-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 19 June 2011 23:06, Hegedüs Zoltán wrote: Dear developers, This is not the developers list. I found an error in OpenOffice 3.3 (Hungarian) Errors get reported on the website: http://qa.openoffice.org/ (on 32 bit Windows SP3, 1 GB ECC memory, Intel Pentium 4 HT with SSE3, 200 GB

Re: [discuss] 3.3 in standard English

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 29 January 2011 06:38, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: To whoever is resposible for uploading 3.3 to the mirrors I can see a version that uses US regional spellings (English (US)). Nothing in standard English though. Will this be fixed? In case you think I am being pedantic,

[discuss] Cell formulas WAS [discuss] very bad

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 10 January 2011 02:57, franco wrote: Good morning. Open Office 3 in the guide is wrong, the page 'calculated with the formulas', the percentage, you explained, = A1 * 16% = 16% of a1. the truth is, 16% * a1, a1 = 16% of a1. Google multiplication commutative buongiorno. nella

Re: [discuss] Decimal Alignment

2010-12-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 25 December 2010 06:35, Paul Gress wrote: On 12/22/10 02:13 PM, Paul Cohen wrote: Is there any way to format data in a column so that the decimal points are aligned? There are two ways. As stated previously, set the number of decimal places and right align. This would work if

Re: [discuss] Question

2010-12-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:18, Peter Junge wrote: Dear Marius, I have replied on the users mailing list. how about adding a bit of politeness to your posts by including salutations and regards?! Most of us here do try to reply to the question posed and add advice regarding correction

Re: [discuss] Re: Suggestions

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 12 November 2010 22:34, Mike Scott wrote: Bandwidth is cheaper than wasted time. I and 50% of users in my country (and in the USA IIRC) are on dialup. If it's a real problem, a get-you-started guide should still be included. It's called Help, and is installed as part of the install.

Re: [discuss] best product I have ever seen

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 29 October 2010 15:21, Cody Jackson wrote: hands down with out a shadow of a doubt this product is amazing! my new computer did not come with a copy of Microsoft office (that i didn't have to pay for) and i really needed a program that would do the job. this program goes above and

Re: [discuss] report a bug

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:16, Gabriel Peña Amozurrutia wrote: I dont speak english fluid, just spanish.- i want report a bug,  I dont kwow  how report a fail in openoffice calc.wath can i do? I have no Spanish For assistance - (Google translate) - Para obtener asistencia:

Re: [discuss] UK spelling

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 28 October 2010 07:39, Simon wrote: Can I use my native spelling that I realise is different from English USA? Thank you, Simon Yes. First, you can download the UK version of OpenOffice,.org http://download.openoffice.org/other.html Second, you can set the default language Tools -

[discuss] FUD - WAS [Re: [users] OpenOffice.org community council - only Oracle employees now??]

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:05, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: In an article from October 19th in ZDnet's online site, it states that it looks like Oracle is purging the OpenOffice.org community council of anyone that is not an employee of Oracle. Not realy, only asked those working

Re: [discuss] Visio Question

2010-10-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 24 October 2010 09:27, Luther Coston wrote: I have seen the program, OpenOffice, on the Kim Kommando website and have a question. Is an element of the program similar (or like) VISIO in Microsoft Office? I am most appreciative and look forward to your response. Visio save formats

Re: [discuss] Join mailing list

2010-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 23 October 2010 11:11, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 10/20/2010 9:40 AM, Chris wrote: I am still downloading the program however I appreciate the work that's gone into it after I've familiarised myself with it found it user friendly I'll certainly spread the word help in any way

Re: [discuss] Re: How to make OO the standard

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 18 October 2010 23:42, Wm Stewart wrote: On 10/17/2010 9:27 PM, Michael Adams wrote: They change every time a new version of Microsoft Office is released. This common perception is not true. The reality is that there have only been four Word formats in the last 20 years: - Word

Re: [discuss] Re: How to make OO the standard

2010-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 18 October 2010 01:43, Wm Stewart wrote: The common concern that MS will just change their file formats again is overblown, and not as important as it seems. Consider: o They don't change often. And the frustration of users with the change to docx a few years ago will slow

Re: [discuss] Fwd: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

2010-09-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:43, Simon Brouwer wrote: Hi all, What do you make of this? Most probably an enforced idealogical split with Oracle. [musings] Could be the last straw was reached a wee while back. Looks like flipping Oracle the bird to me. This need not be a bad thing. Case

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2010-09-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 September 2010 19:40, stephen joseph wrote: Dear Team , My Name Is Stephen Joseph working as a Sr.Administrator in a company , we are willing to use open office for Word and Excel . We want to enquire about the software , is it free or we need to pay anything for the software .

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2010-09-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 September 2010 19:40, stephen joseph wrote: Dear Team , My Name Is Stephen Joseph working as a Sr.Administrator in a company , we are willing to use open office for Word and Excel . We want to enquire about the software , is it free or we need to pay anything for the software .

Re: [discuss] Cursor while typing

2010-09-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 04 September 2010 12:41, FPB wrote: After a lot of googling, i gave up. Is there any way to hide cursor while typing in OO Writer? Thanks. This is a question that should be asked on the us...@openoffice.org list. Thanks. -- Michael

[discuss] Documentation on Website

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Adams
I'd like to congratulate the documentation and website teams for being internationally aware and using dates in ISO format on the website. Keep it up guys. -- Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [discuss][OT] spam from collab.net

2010-08-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 28 August 2010 22:08, 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. That address is unique to that purpose and never given out elsewhere, and

Re: [discuss] Why thre is no new update for Open Office.Org after release of MS Office 2010?

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 22 August 2010 08:17, Maro Bey wrote: Will the current version open MS Office 2010? Microsoft Office 2010 saved files are the same as Microsoft Office 2007 saved files. It is a deprecated version of the international ISO/IEC 29500:2008 OOXML format. Deprecated versions are to be

[discuss] Re: [OT-somewhat] [discuss] Webdesign / HTML Editor

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:59, Lars Zimmer wrote: is there a free open source programm like Dreamweaver or Frontpage from Mozilla available? I'm sure you meant *OpenOffice.org* instead of Mozilla? There is Writer/Web, when in Writer select File - New - HTML Document (from memory). The code

[discuss] Re: [OT-somewhat] [discuss] Webdesign / HTML Editor

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 22 July 2010 18:59, Lars Zimmer wrote: is there a free open source programm like Dreamweaver or Frontpage from Mozilla available? I'm sure you meant *OpenOffice.org* instead of Mozilla? There is Writer/Web, when in Writer select File - New - HTML Document (from memory). The code

Re: [discuss] it's really hard to read the menu headers - please fix that

2010-07-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 11:16, Barbara Duprey wrote: catfan...@netzero.net wrote: Monday, July 5th 2010 Good Morning! It is really hard to see/read the BLACK text on the DARK GREY background menu headers! Please use some contrasting color combo instead! Thank you! I wonder if the

Re: [discuss] Help!

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 13 May 2010 14:33, Frank S. wrote: For example, what used to be a simple task of copying text somewhere and then pasting into a new document does not yield something that has the original appearance. It creates a weird table with unexpected formating, margins, and borders with no

Re: [discuss] JOINING DISCUSS OPENOFFICE

2010-04-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 23 April 2010 12:10, egunsola tanesert wrote: Hello, I am a new user of Open Office and as I learn to use it, I want to be able to contribute as well. You are welcome to join. General (International) Mailing Lists and instructions for joining are at:

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 15 April 2010 10:19, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi all, Current discussions about ODF icons in OOo 3.2.1, let me to make my position more clear : 1/ I think that OpenDocument Format (ODF) is more important than the software used to edit the documents. 2/ Obviously

Re: [discuss] How should OOo deal with ods-spreadsheets produced by Excel 2010?

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:02, Regina Henschel wrote: [snip] I write an ods-document with Excel 2010 Beta and let the validator examine it. Open an ods file using the Sun ODF plug-in in Excel 2007, everything is OK. Open an ods file natively in Excel 2007 SP2 with it's alleged ODF

Re: [discuss] suggestion

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 13:07, JohnnieMiller wrote: i'm using OpenOffice.Org version 3.2.0, build 9483 My god... those are the largest sentences and paragraphs outside of a legal document i have ever seen! Not CC'd to OP ;) -- Michael

Re: [discuss] How should OOo deal with ods-spreadsheets produced by Excel 2010?

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:02, Regina Henschel wrote: [snip] I write an ods-document with Excel 2010 Beta and let the validator examine it. Open an ods file using the Sun ODF plug-in in Excel 2007, everything is OK. Open an ods file natively in Excel 2007 SP2 with it's alleged ODF

Re: [discuss] Software

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 01 April 2010 08:37, Peter Vorum wrote: I'm used to Microsoft XP. I need a PowerPoint replacement for my laptop, to let me travel and show some slides. Do I just download version 3??? and run it? Yep, The presentation manager replacement part of OpenOffice.org is Impress.

Re: [discuss] 4 key points

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 11:14, Miroslav Mazel wrote: 1. *The UI* The UI is the single most important aspect of any piece of software. That's how Apple makes its money: its products aren't feature packed and its competitors usually already have the features its products have, but Apple's

[discuss] DOCX, DOC or ODF - was OOo fails to open a DOCX file with nested tables!

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 06:48, Robin Laing wrote: On 03/19/2010 02:04 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010 03:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 17/03/2010 19:26, PJH wrote: I looked at that website and I was right. However, that is not practical when there are large

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo fails to open a DOCX file with nested tables!

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 18 March 2010 08:26, PJH wrote: PJH has written on 3/17/2010 3:23 PM: You're saying that the person with Office 2007 should install an ODF plugin? I looked at that website and I was right. However, that is not practical when there are large numbers of Office 2007 installed.

Re: [discuss] Re: Thought i could help by joining mailing list. I just downloaded the program

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 20 March 2010 03:39, Dave Barton wrote: Michael wrote: [snip] There seems to be some incongruency here. I see that the email for this list is disc...@openoffice.org. However, I monitor the list through gmane on usenet and the newsgroup name is gmane.comp.openoffice.general.

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo fails to open a DOCX file with nested tables!

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 20 March 2010 03:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 17/03/2010 19:26, PJH wrote: I looked at that website and I was right. However, that is not practical when there are large numbers of Office 2007 installed. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 includes the (broken) MS support for

Re: [discuss] Re: Thought i could help by joining mailing list. I just downloaded the program

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 20 March 2010 09:48, Andreas Saeger wrote: Jon Thompson wrote: email me back if this is a valid email to join the mailing list to discuss open office jon Forget it. This mailing list is about mailing list issues. If you want to discuss the software called OpenOffice.org

Re: [discuss] Thought i could help by joining mailing list. I just downloaded the program

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 04 March 2010 06:32, Jon Thompson wrote: email me back if this is a valid email to join the mailing list to discuss open office jon Indeed this is the list to *discuss* OpenOffice.org. The one to help users with their issues is the user list. To make suggestions or Requests For

Re: [discuss] Re: Open Office problem/ Help-seekers

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 20 February 2010 11:54, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/02/19 4:14 PM Robert Holtzman wrote: 1) Did somebody complain about lack or privacy in regard to a post? Do many contributors have the expectation or presumption of a measure of privacy that simply does not exist? A

Re: [discuss] Program Idea

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 05:06, Kevin Jemmott wrote: Dear Developmet, I have several idea's which could be added to your OpenOffice Programs, the question is how do I take forward. There is a process for Requests For Enhancement (RFEs). They get added as issues to the bugtracker the

Re: [discuss] Oppen Office for iPad ?

2010-01-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 28 January 2010 23:24, Antoine Forgeard wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if you were planning to develop an oppen office aplication for ipad ? Maybe it's not possible.. I'm very interested in selling my Macbook for an iPad, but without any office suite, it would be difficult to

Re: [discuss] piece of crap word processor

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 14:25 -0500, Alex Nyunt wrote: Thanks a lot, your piece of crap word processor apparently does not auto save and it does not recover documents. As I was writing a paper for school, your awesome program crashed, thereby losing half my work. Thank you. I didn't really

Re: [discuss] piece of crap word processor

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 14:45 -0500, Sean wrote: From: Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk This person is not a subscribed user, so he will not see any mails just sent to the list. I have sent him a very matter-of-fact reply using an anonymous ID. I think that will tell him how silly

Re: [discuss] Filter for moderated mails [was: Re: why be subscribed (was this)]

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:16:35 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Mike Scott to my mailbox: Consider the following typical scenario:- 1. unsubscribed poster mails the list 2. all on the list colour that in brilliant scarlet so they know to cc the OP because he's unsubscribed 3. a

Re: [discuss] Re: why be subscribed (was this)

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:53:46 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Gordon to my mailbox: Michael Adams wrote: I have a working system of filtering unsubscribed posts to a subfolder. It took me a little time to understand the header contents which were well explained and less than 10

Re: [discuss] Hosting Open Office

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance formulated by Jaime Hernandez to my mailbox: Hello,   I am interested in hosting for free your software on my company's website. I feel that Open Office is an exceptional product and would like to extend my assistance. How would I

Re: [discuss] why be subscribed (was this)

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:32:00 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Mike Scott to my mailbox: Michael Adams wrote: ... Both this list and the user list have been intentionally made as easy to contact with questions as possible. This is to ease the way for newbies. Regular contributors

Re: [discuss][OT] not this but that

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:31:56 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Gene Young to my mailbox: Michael Adams wrote: I didn't get any text in the email other than this, though. I got this line above and below the text being replied to but nothing from sj_clement himself. Unless

Re: [discuss] HINDI VERSION

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:01:08 +0530 Came this utterance formulated by Nishkam Mishra to my mailbox: I want OpenOffice in HINDI LANGUAGE. Is it downloadable? I see no Hindi version listed: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US http://download.openoffice.org/langpack.html But you may

Re: [discuss] this

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Tony Pursell to my mailbox: Hi all 'SHANNON WILLIAMS' is not subscribed to the list, so unless you include 'her' personal email adddress, 'she' will not see any comments. As i did. This is common on this list. My

Re: [discuss][OT] not this but that

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:12 + Came this utterance formulated by sj_clem...@yahoo.ca to my mailbox: Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network Why? It didn't seem to add anything of value to the thread??? Me puzzled! -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be

Re: [discuss] why be subscribed (was this)

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:22:48 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by Robert Derman to my mailbox: I have a question, if someone is not subscribed to this list so that they will not see replies to their email, then why is it that their email is even visible to those reading this list? And

Re: [discuss][OT] not this but that

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:38:41 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Gene Young to my mailbox: Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:24:12 + Came this utterance formulated by sj_clem...@yahoo.ca to my mailbox: Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

Re: [discuss] Lucida Handwriting

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:02:27 + (UTC) Came this utterance formulated by Chris Taylor to my mailbox: Hi Can anyone tell me why this happens I have two computers one with widose vista the other with Linux Ubuntu both with MS Office and OO whrn I change from one computer to the other there

Re: [discuss] Re: some ideas where ooo can even better take off

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:58:20 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Patrick DESAUNAY to my mailbox: I approve Max comments, almost all of them. They are useful improvements. Some already exist in the program. Max simply has not learned how to take advantage of them. Michael, Thank you for

Re: [discuss] some ideas where ooo can even better take off

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:01:30 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Max Staudinger (iii-C) to my mailbox: i am just downloading 3.1.0, i am an excited user promoting this also to many people around me 3.1.1 has just been released. http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.1.1.html

Re: [discuss] FW: help in print preview

2009-08-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:52:41 +0530 Came this utterance formulated by Dinesh Naskar to my mailbox: We are using Open Office version 3 .1 but when we going to preview a cal file then it shows first page(There are many sheet in a file) of the sheet it not shows particular file which I want to

Re: [discuss] problems with update.

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance formulated by Guru to my mailbox: What the hell people?! I want to update my version of Open Office, so I use the check for updates feature. It's been running for a #$%^* HOUR and it's still at only 50%! (I have an

Re: [discuss] problems with update.

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Adams
Resending, with CC to OP. On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance formulated by Guru to my mailbox: What the hell people?! I want to update my version of Open Office, so I use the check for updates feature. It's been running for a #$%^* HOUR and it's still at

Re: [discuss] Another dumb question? I'm afraid so

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:44:52 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Ugly Sean to my mailbox: How do I save a file (table) in OOo Writer as a spreadsheet? Calc has flat out refused to open it when saved as myfile.odt and promptly shut down to let Writer take over. Copy and paste into the

Re: [discuss] Metric Numeric Format?

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:43 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Lew Merrick to my mailbox: All, 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

Re: [discuss] Metric Numeric Format?

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:03:09 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Lew Merrick to my mailbox: Michael, On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:43 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Lew Merrick to my mailbox: All, Engineering data standards for metric values insist on (A) a leading

Re: [discuss] open office. org word

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance formulated by Joe Hartwig to my mailbox: i cant seem to find any old english fonts Like these? http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/SearchPage.htm?kid=old+englishst=12submit=Search so i was thing u guys should make it so the user can add

Re: [discuss] Big Issues

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:40:19 -0300 Came this utterance formulated by José Inda to my mailbox: I was a big supported of Open Office until recently, and today I encountered the last tip that filled de cup. I can't open Draw in my computer (I double click odg file and it doesn't open - I try

Re: [discuss] Word-like bookmarks

2009-06-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:48:07 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Robert Barrickman to my mailbox: I am new at OpenOffice, but I like it so far. I'm sorry that I cannot help you because I am new at this. Welcome to the community. Kindly consider telling me how do I participate in

Re: [discuss] 3.1 vs. 3.2

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:19:05 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Ugly Sean to my mailbox: From: Michael Adams On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:37:16 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Ugly Sean to my mailbox: Since it's not explicitly listed I failed to find a copy of OOo 3.11 so

Re: [discuss] RFEs

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Came this utterance formulated by c...@aol.com to my mailbox: Thank you Only wanted to post some requests for new line styles This is done by visisting this site: http://qa.openoffice.org/ RFE's or Requests For Enhancement are treated the same way as

Re: [discuss] 3.1 vs. 3.2

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:37:16 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Ugly Sean to my mailbox: Since it's not explicitly listed I failed to find a copy of OOo 3.11 so now I'm using 3.2 instead. But I'm perhaps to naive to notice - what's the difference between 3.1 and 3.2? I want what you are

Re: [discuss] discuss-unsubscribe

2009-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Came this utterance formulated by c...@aol.com to my mailbox: In a message dated 22/06/2009 12:55:20 GMT Daylight Time, avhanad...@gmail.com writes: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org Nearly right, send the email to

Re: [discuss] I CONNOT OPEN FILES

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:58:02 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Sindisa Public Phones to my mailbox: Hi, I am using openoffice and my pc crushed the other day. Now when I try to open those old files after my pc was restored I get an error message which say access denied I will be

Re: [discuss] download/distribution

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Adams
Passing on to unsubscribed poster. From: Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org Please check out http://distribution.openoffice.org They have some different formats like ISO, Torrents etc. From: Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com My experience has been just the opposite. I have never

Re: [discuss] the new and most wanted feature on Open Office

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:26:05 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Cata to my mailbox: I want to see in Open Office one of the most wanted feature : OCR (optical character recognition). I'm thinking that it will be a good feature in future for OpenOffice users. The place for RFE's is

Re: [discuss] Re: I would like to subscribe to this list

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 11 May 2009 12:44:57 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by gottlob to my mailbox: How am I suppowed to respond (if at all) to this email? You don't have to. On a mailing list you only respond to the emails that are of interest to you. See:

[discuss] Oracle aquires Sun

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Adams
Surprised it hasn't made it to this list yet. http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363 -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

Re: [discuss] Work Presentation

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:07:04 +1300 Came this utterance formulated by Graham Lauder to my mailbox: On Wednesday 01 April 2009 17:00:25 Michael Adams wrote: I have prepared a presentation for work and would like people to look over it for me. It is available to view as flash or download

Re: [discuss] Work Presentation

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:07:04 +1300 Came this utterance formulated by Graham Lauder to my mailbox: Feel free to use. Notes with the slides are in the Notes View Thanks to those who offered help and constructive criticisms. I'm putting in a big rewrite session this weekend. Haven't looked

Re: [discuss] Please Remove Me

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:36:22 -1000 Came this utterance formulated by Joseph Jane Washington to my mailbox: I do not know how I got into this discussion group, and what you folks are discussing is way above my knowledge level. I don't know how you got into this group either. What i do know

Re: [discuss] Re: background page color

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:48:55 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Rick to my mailbox: Guy Voets wrote: 2009/3/4 Rick r...@hanadari.net Using OOo 3.1 [Format - Page - Background] provides the means for putting color on a page, but only within the margins. How can I color the entire

Re: [discuss] Using Open Ofice

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:33:53 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by msuchli...@aol.com to my mailbox: I absolutely love using Open Office on my work, home, and office computers. The only obstacles ?I face?are either when I send someone an email and they do dot have?Open office or ?when I

Re: [discuss] RE:(discuss) re: issue with open office

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:14:50 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by jackie to my mailbox: couldn't open 'discuss @openoffice.org dated Fri, 13 Feb 2009 ...plse assist. thank you. This is very confusing, are you saying you cannot open an e-mail? I received no e-mails from the list between 7th

Re: [discuss] issue with open office

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:40:15 +0530 Came this utterance fomulated by HelpDesk GURGAON to my mailbox: Hi, How we can open, open office file in MS-office 2007 or office 2003 . Use File - Save As and change the Filetype in the dialogue box as desired. Best is Office 97/2000/XP file format. --

Re: [discuss] Suggestions for improving OpenOffice.org

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:38:17 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Gene Young to my mailbox: Marius Popa wrote: Version:1.0 StartHTML:000168 EndHTML:003922 StartFragment:000471 EndFragment:003905 Good morning! My name is Marius Popa, a user running your wonderful

Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.4

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:40:33 +0530 Came this utterance fomulated by pragya_gu...@dell.com to my mailbox: Hi, I download the source (OOo_2.4.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe) of OpenOffice.org 2.4 and trying to install it on Vista build by using the VMwares. Latest is version 3.0

Re: [discuss] information

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:55 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Prem Kumar to my mailbox: Hi I want just know this open office its free for business around 100 users ya we will buy license . Yes it is free - From http://why.openoffice.org/ *** QUOTE *** Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3

Re: [discuss] On Disk Options?

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:32:12 -0400 Came this utterance fomulated by Angel | Write To Press to my mailbox: I was directed here as a great software to use, but if I tried to download the file my internet would go over my allowed daily limit and, since I work from home, I'd be penalized by my net

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Outlook equivalent?

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:36:39 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Tim to my mailbox: I almost switched to OpenOffice just now, but then I noticed that there is no equivalent to Microsoft Outlook. So, are there plans on creating something that's just like Outlook, but of course with a

Re: [discuss] Website a bit boring

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance fomulated by Hollin DAlmeida to my mailbox: I love what openoffice.org is all about. I want to congratulate the development team for excellent work. Agreed. It would be great if the website could be a little more lively, cause I

Re: [discuss] Website a bit boring

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:00:49 +1300 Came this utterance fomulated by Michael Adams to my mailbox: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Came this utterance fomulated by Hollin DAlmeida to my mailbox: Ffft - Just noticed what i was doing. For some reason sixty odd old moderated posts came

Re: [discuss] LOVE 2 USE OPENOFFICE

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:23:53 + (GMT) Came this utterance fomulated by uditha heertath to my mailbox: DEAR SIR OR MADAM I DONT KNOW WEATHER I'M IN A PROPER CHANNEL TO SAY THIS. I HAVE SEEN OPENOFFICE AND I LOVE TO USE IT.BUT I HAVE A BIG DIFFICULTY I DONT HAVE A INTERNET CONNECTION.AND

Re: [discuss] Unsubscribe Option

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:36:33 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Riley to my mailbox: That's right Michael. The answer is 42. You answered well. Lovett answered well also: keeping his eyes open. You can avoid the walls better that way. http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html may

Re: [discuss] Unsubscribe Option

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:51:03 +1100 Came this utterance fomulated by Mike Lovett to my mailbox: Hi Riley. I'm not sure why but I've just started receiving emails from people discussing proposals for Open Office. Could you tell me how I stop this? Thanks. You subscribed to the

Re: [discuss] Idea

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:23:21 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Connor Smythe to my mailbox: In the system tools is the character map, put a toolbar for unique characters The system tools - character map is a part of Windows, not OpenOffice.org. Have you found the dialogue box at Insert

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