[discuss] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Robert Derman
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 subscribed. This wasted much time for people providing support.

[discuss] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Robert Derman
Jason Ax wrote: Will OpenOffice ever be compatible with Adobe Acrobat? Acrobat does not recognize OpenOffice files. Jason OpenOffice can directly create Adobe PDF type files. -- - To unsubscribe send email to

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

2011-06-30 Thread Robert Derman
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 - but before you do that, please do a search if someone has

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

2011-06-30 Thread Robert Derman
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 chance at the fork of OpenOffice

[discuss] Re: registration? Not Needed.

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Derman
David B Teague sr wrote: On 3/14/2011 10:15 PM, Robert Derman wrote: I am using an old version of Thunderbird, I don't like the new ones, they deleted some nice features. Anyway, before sending any email that has HTML, it says that the email has HTML and asks you to make the choice

[discuss] Re: registration? Not Needed.

2011-03-14 Thread Robert Derman
Thomas Cameron wrote: To Mike Scott:- Wouldn't it be easier for the receiving site to return a message to the sender advising him/her that the message is in HTML and to change to TEXT? On 2011-03-14, at 9:42 AM, Mike Scott wrote: On 14/03/11 12:38, David B Teague sr wrote: On

[discuss] Re: registration?

2011-03-11 Thread Robert Derman
David B Teague sr wrote: On 3/11/2011 10:10 AM, RA Brown wrote: I am not sure that there is a benefit to the community. And I agree that if they want people to register that it should be easy and fast. Just my 2cents. Andy It was not easy, and I tried. I wish I perceived Oracle to be

Re: [discuss] Future element?

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Derman
René Bjerre Andersen wrote: No software in the world can do what I need it to do. I'm a teacher and amateur musician and often I need to have a song transposed to a different key e.g. from G-major to D-major. But I have to do this manually: find every G-chord and change it to D. This can

Re: [discuss] Hello

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Derman
munyampala ntageza wrote: I would like to know how to open OpenOffice with Microsoft XP or Windows 97. Sebagabo Gad. Did you mean Windows 7? There is no such thing as Windows 97. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [discuss] Off topic, a diatribe in agreement: Re: [discuss] 3.3 in standard English

2011-01-30 Thread Robert Derman
David B Teague wrote: On 1/29/2011 7:17 AM, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: When (for example), an interface tells me about spreadsheet 'formulas' and not 'formulae', I think the people responsible have forgotten the user. Off topic, a diatribe, in agreement with the position of Zaphod and others.

Re: [discuss] Propagating knowledge of Open Office?

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Derman
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Something interesting I have come across in the Microsoft Answers Forums. A Poster asked a question about using MS Office 2000 in Windows 7. I replied that in my opinion I would much rather run the latest version of Open Office rather than trying to run a 10-year

Re: [discuss] Writer Question

2010-11-22 Thread Robert Derman
John W Kennedy wrote: On Nov 21, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Robert Derman wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Duffield wrote: Does Open Office Writer have any feature comparable to WordPad? I have searched but find no reference yet to any quick

Re: [discuss] Writer Question

2010-11-21 Thread Robert Derman
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:03:21PM -0900, Duffield wrote: Does Open Office Writer have any feature comparable to WordPad? I have searched but find no reference yet to any quick and easy feature for brief notes as provided by WordPad. I keep WordPad in my Quick Launch

Re: [discuss] Make Wrtite a little better

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Derman
Graham Lauder wrote: On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010 13:25:29 Sabiazoth wrote: Well, with that said, you said a mouthful. You can't really complain what is free, can you, David? You sure put a lid on my mouth. Thank you for pointing out the importance of free software. I must say, I probably

Re: [discuss] OOo's Help

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Derman
David B Teague wrote: On 11/17/2010 7:46 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it politely. We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately we do not have resources to do the hard work of coding. Volunteers are very

Re: [discuss] Re: Suggestions

2010-11-12 Thread Robert Derman
NoOp wrote: On 11/12/2010 01:34 AM, Mike Scott wrote: On 11/11/10 23:59, NoOp wrote: ... Further... checking OOo in Ubuntu 10.04 ver 3.2.1, and clicking on 'Help' doesn't even provide a 'Support' option in the dropdown box. The 'Help' dropdown options in (U)OOo are: -

Re: [discuss] Suggestions

2010-11-11 Thread Robert Derman
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:47:40PM -0600, Robert Derman wrote: .snip The real problem here is that there is no manual to read! I think that its about time that the download package came with a good users manual that explains where

Re: [discuss] Suggestions

2010-11-11 Thread Robert Derman
Graham Lauder wrote: On Thursday 11 Nov 2010 09:47:40 Robert Derman wrote: The real problem here is that there is no manual to read! I think that its about time that the download package came with a good users manual that explains where all the features and controls are, tells about all

Re: [discuss] Suggestions

2010-11-10 Thread Robert Derman
Graham Lauder wrote: On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010 23:42:29 Joshua Zambrano wrote: Hello, I just wanted to drop off some recommendations for OpenOffice, as a user of office suites. -CALC - Merge Cells. No capability to merge cells that I can see, a very valuable feature. Format

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

2010-10-29 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Adams wrote: 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. To me it raises

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice is it a community

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Derman
Rob Clement wrote: I bring to the attention of this group an article from ZDNet and wonder what others think of these events http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-purging-openofficeorg-community-council/7575?alertspromo=tag=nl.rSINGLE Thanks Rob It tells me that it is time to stop

Re: [discuss] How to make OO the standard

2010-10-17 Thread Robert Derman
M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 13:22:44 PM -0400, Wm Stewart (wstew...@livinginternet.com) wrote: b. Solving compatibility is under the community's control NO. It isn't. By definition. Because it's not the community that controls when the secret formats it's trying to catch will

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

2010-10-17 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Adams wrote: 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

Re: [discuss] Re: Oracle [NOT!] dropping OO.org

2010-10-15 Thread Robert Derman
Martin Hollmichel wrote: On 10/15/2010 03:14 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: To the best of my knowledge, it was a standing rule not to integrate features past feature freeze - and everytime that happened, unilaterally by Sun, it broke the build for the non-Sun platforms. I guess Rene can give the

Re: [discuss] New version of Dutch spell checking dictionary

2010-09-27 Thread Robert Derman
Simon Brouwer wrote: Hi all, Today, on the European Day of the Languages, the project OpenTaal (www.opentaal.org) has released a new version of its Dutch spell checking dictionary. This new version was again successfully certified by the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union, the

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo Icons

2010-09-26 Thread Robert Derman
jonathon wrote: On 09/26/2010 04:21 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: So much for the fiction that OOo is a community driven project. OOo has _NEVER_been a community driven project. It has always been nothing more than propaganda stunt by Sun. Sun never grokked FLOSS. Oracle has never been FLOSS

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo Icons

2010-09-26 Thread Robert Derman
Drew Jensen wrote: Quick warning it's a Sunday email and I ramble a bit... On 09/26/2010 07:46 AM, Christoph Noack wrote: Hi everyone! Am Samstag, den 25.09.2010, 22:21 -0600 schrieb Larry Gusaas: On 2010/09/25 9:16 PM Harold Fuchs wrote: Ah. OK Now I see, thanks. The icon for each type of

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2010-09-05 Thread Robert Derman
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 . Kindly let me know as the

Re: [discuss] Incubator project proposal - OpenOfficeMouse

2009-11-09 Thread Robert Derman
Bruce Martin wrote: ReHi Juergen: It is possible that I mistook somebody's identity. I see that [discuss] had a lot of participants and it is a very plausible mistake. Also, my idea was not intended to be directly related to open office or any particular operating system. It is intended as a

Re: [discuss] what does the program do ?

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Derman
- wrote: Hy Openoffice, what does your program do ? I have not downloaded yet. I am looking for a free program that lets me edit and create existing Microsoft powerpoint files, is there such a thing ? kind regards from Peter OpenOffice.org is a suite of office programs which is basically a

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

2009-10-20 Thread Robert Derman
Mike Scott wrote: Michael Adams wrote: 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

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

2009-10-17 Thread Robert Derman
Mike Scott wrote: 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 on the list know to reply to both the list and the OP when a non-subscribed email

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

2009-10-17 Thread Robert Derman
Mike Scott wrote: Tony Pursell wrote: I know for a fact that most of these outbursts come from people who have paid for OOo. Many of the sellers can be found on Ebay and they sometimes give discuss@openoffice.org as the email address for help. I'm not surprised. It crossed my mind a

Re: [discuss] this

2009-10-16 Thread Robert Derman
sj_clem...@yahoo.ca wrote: --Original Message-- From: Michael Adams To: discuss@openoffice.org ReplyTo: discuss@openoffice.org ReplyTo: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] this Sent: Oct 16, 2009 03:23 On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Tony

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Derman
09:25:54 AM +0200 Uwe Fischer uwe.fisc...@sun.com wrote: Hi, On 10/04/09 23:08, jonathon wrote: Robert Derman wrote: OOo should include a pair of manuals in the download package, either in PDF or ODF formats, the presence of which would be made obvious the first time you opened the suite

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Moving forward ...

2009-10-10 Thread Robert Derman
Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi Frank, all, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb: [...] We once had a search box at http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html which really queried the issue database, that is, you enter one or more terms, and all issues containing this

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Derman
Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, On 10/04/09 23:08, jonathon wrote: Robert Derman wrote: OOo should include a pair of manuals in the download package, either in PDF or ODF formats, the presence of which would be made obvious the first time you opened the suite. I would not object in making

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-04 Thread Robert Derman
Gene Young wrote: Robert Derman wrote: It is questions like this that make me think that OOo should include a pair of manuals in the download package, either in PDF or ODF formats, the presence of which would be made obvious the first time you opened the suite. The help provided under

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-03 Thread Robert Derman
jonathon wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 15:35, Patric Urbane wrote: simple Ctrl + F in MS Word but this little function makes it a lot more alt ithen . then return If you'd prefer CTRLF then: Tools Customize Keyboard Functions Category Insert Functions Function Insert

Re: [discuss] Product Registration

2009-08-31 Thread Robert Derman
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I hope that this is the right LIST; I can't think of anywhere more appropriate. Having just installed 3.1.1 I was confronted, as in previous versions, by the registration dialogue box containing 3 alternatives: Register now Register later Don't register It would

Re: [discuss] download/distribution

2009-06-04 Thread Robert Derman
Solé Ronco wrote: hey guys. it takes me ~3hrs to download open office. as much as i love firefox, i hate it's download manager/system. here's a thought: why not make the download of open office a torrent? there are many free/opensource torrent clients, i personally prefer utorrent but there

Re: [discuss] Open Office suggestion.

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Derman
Richard Hole wrote: Hi I have downloaded Open Office and would be happy to help give feedback on suggestions. I have been using Microsoft Office for some time and am trying Open Office on my new computer. I had files saved in Microsoft Excel that show graphs of the local weather in our area.

Re: [discuss] Remove e-mail address from the web site please

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Kristofer Åberg wrote: To M. Fioretti: I think it is very unnecessary to be this defensive and aggressive. My concern is, at least what I think, basic for people who use computers. It is not necessary to be hostile and make personal attacks, just because of some

Re: [discuss] Installation Question

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Derman
Garan Keeler wrote: I installed OO for the first time on my PC which already had Java 6.12. During the installation process I noticed a dialog pop up regarding the installation of Java6.7 (I think it was 6.7). Anyway I paniced because I already had Java 6.12 on my machine so I hit the cancel

Re: [discuss] background page color

2009-03-04 Thread Robert Derman
Rick wrote: 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 page, outside the margins as well? Thanks in advance. Rick You may not be able to under any conditions, it depends on the design of

Re: [discuss] Re: Fw:

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Derman
Ed Jones wrote: On or about 1/10/2009 6:43 AM, Lloyd Lecuona typed the following: Hi Guys, LOVE OpenOffice BUT and its a HUGE but!! You are going to have to work a plan to allow Microsoft Word to open the ODT documents automatically. I sent out 200 emails to employees with OpenOffice

Re: [discuss] open office

2008-12-25 Thread Robert Derman
Brenda Lehman wrote: I'm trying to download open office and it will get to about 90 percent downloaded and just stop. What can I do to get it to finishdownloading. If you download it using the Firefox browser, and it stalls, you can push the pause button that appears right after the count,

Re: [discuss] Re: A text editor

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Derman
Douglas St.Clair wrote: On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Twayne wrote: Wow, I know a lot of companies, big and small, who are going to be mighty disappointed when they read thatg! That can't really be what you meant to say is it? Twayne, Perhaps I should have been more clear. A team product

Re: [discuss] information

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Derman
Prem Kumar wrote: Hi I want just know this open office its free for business around 100 users ya we will buy license . And how much per license. Waiting for reply ... Thanks . This software is free to use for any purpose including commercial, no limit on # of users. Also you are free

Re: [discuss] Re: Autocomplete collects words from Help

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Derman
Russell Butler wrote: Robert Derman wrote: Russell Butler wrote: Hi All I have become sufficiently annoyed by the behaviour of autocomplete to consider raising an issue. Being a rather slow typist, I value the use of autocompletion, though I know many of you turn it off. However, if I

Re: [discuss] Autocomplete collects words from Help

2008-08-23 Thread Robert Derman
Russell Butler wrote: Hi All I have become sufficiently annoyed by the behaviour of autocomplete to consider raising an issue. Being a rather slow typist, I value the use of autocompletion, though I know many of you turn it off. However, if I have a document open, and for some reason look

Re: [discuss] My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise everything - completely.

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Derman
mike scott wrote: On 18 Jul 2008 at 14:12, Michele wrote: ... Hello Thorsten, I understand this historical issue, but are there any plans to move towards more shared code at all? Other functionalities that could benefit are: - rotating pictures in Writer (open issue) - split screen in

Re: [discuss] My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise everything - completely.

2008-07-17 Thread Robert Derman
callmeshane303 wrote: Well the other night I was doing a drawing in DRAW, and I had to insert a table... But there was NO table production function, in the Draw program. S I thought Well it's not such a big deal to do a table in Write and then copy and paste it into Draw... And then I

Re: [discuss] Re: PDF forms

2008-06-19 Thread Robert Derman
P. De Buck wrote: Is there any other more active newsgroup for these kind of 'How to' questions? P. De Buck wrote the following on 18/06/2008 13:17: Hi, I'm rather new to openoffice which I'm using more and more instead of MSOffice. I really like the direct and easy possibility to create

Re: [discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Derman
Andre Schnabel wrote: Hi Michael, Original-Nachricht Von: Michael Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html Reading that, I guess there is a resignation option if you have a deputy - and presumably can be done quietly

Re: [discuss] we need an outlook component to the suite

2008-04-04 Thread Robert Derman
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/4/4, Daniel Kasak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 05:50 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: He he he... I like you, I really do, I feel exactly the same in most cases, like why integrating an email/calendar application when there are

Re: [discuss] New Features

2008-04-02 Thread Robert Derman
Robin Laing wrote: Michele Anselmini wrote: Hi, I'm MIKE. do you think you will add an architectural CAD in Ooo? (2D or better 3D). Thanks miguelon Is there cad in Office from MS? There are many opensource cad projects out there. I use QCad myself. Looking at some 3D cad programs but

Re: [discuss] LGPL 3..0

2008-03-07 Thread Robert Derman
John Boyle wrote: To Robin Laing: Because the initial information states the New Lgpl 3 code will be incompatible with the older LGPL, thereby rendering all older versions obsolete! That is what was stated and unless someone cannot understand English they should clarify that quickly! :-(

Re: [discuss] Re: Openoffice.org free ?

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Derman
Anton Erasmus wrote: snip Sometimes it is good if programs such as OpenOffice is available at a fairly substantial price. Many finacially orientated people directly couple a products value to it's price. If you give them OpenOffice, they think it is valueless. If they have to pay for it, then it

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

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Derman
Joe Smith wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: ... Currently, you can press F1 to open the Help Viewer, then enter something like Microsoft on the Index tab page, and you find a lot of help pages. Is this sufficient? Should we use another presentation, as WordPerfect did it with that special command in

Re: [discuss] Updating/Patching

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:28:42 + mike scott wrote: On 11 Dec 2007 at 8:51, Mathias Bauer wrote: ... That would look different if we stepped back to less frequent feature releases so that bugfix releases happened much more often. But I don't see that at the

Re: [discuss] FAQs

2007-12-03 Thread Robert Derman
Joseph Hurd wrote: You may want to put a statement somewhere that Open Office can be installed with MS Word on the same computer at the same time. Joseph Hurd The only thing that limits being able to put ANY two software packages on any one computer is hard drive space. This fact is so

Re: [discuss] RFE--printing envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Derman
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Dmitry Feofanov wrote: Folks, I understand you are working on 2.4. Great program, with one glaring flaw, IMHO: envelope printing feature. Several of my friends (myself including) were unable to get the envelope printing to work--consequently, we went back to

Re: [discuss] Re: RFE--printing envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Derman
NoOp wrote: On 11/16/2007 12:09 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Dmitry, Dmitry Feofanov wrote (14-11-2007 5:55) Folks, I understand you are working on 2.4. Great program, with one glaring flaw, IMHO: envelope printing feature. [...] Never had any problem with envelop printing.

Re: [discuss] Re: RFE--printing envelopes

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Derman
Klaas Visser wrote: *Robert Derman* typed up the following on 17-Nov-07 07:51 (GMT +11): Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Dmitry Feofanov wrote: Folks, I understand you are working on 2.4. Great program, with one glaring flaw, IMHO: envelope printing feature. Several of my friends (myself

Re: [discuss] DBASE 3

2007-11-15 Thread Robert Derman
Info at COPS wrote: I have used a DOS DBF program (in dbf 3 format) for years. It works great so why fix what is not broken? I read that your open office reads dbf formats. Would it read dos from a company called Alpha software (known as A4)? Thanks for your time. Rick Sloan I used to use

Re: [discuss] here's a good idea ... a really good add-on !

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Derman
Nick Skoblenick wrote: i have never heard of you till last week, i only use MsExcel and MsWord , its all i know but In my kind of work, inventory control, working with numbers on HUGE spread sheets and TRYING to keep it simple I've realized a feature that NO-ONE does ... now maybe you can be

Re: [discuss] Re: IMPORTANT

2007-10-11 Thread Robert Derman
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello there, thank you very much for your hint. I will have a look at this site and check if it violates our trademarks. In general, people are free to sell OpenOffice.org, our license permits that. Yours truly Florian I don't know if you guys are selling your

Re: [discuss] Idea

2007-09-15 Thread Robert Derman
Wally Schoon wrote: First of all thanks much for the outstanding work you are doing with Open Office. Mucho appreciated. Suggestion which you no doubt have heard before -- at least I hope you have! I wish OO would develop the perk of automatically capitalizing the first word of a new

Re: [discuss] Office software shootout: OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word, round three

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: I respect bruce's editorial concept however I think the writting is a bit biass toward word. One of the things is that the description of the problems weren't that indepth as in why it fails. No, I think he is quite fair though I would

Re: [discuss] easy request for future writer development

2007-09-10 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Miesner wrote: Hi- I love using open office and use it on both Linux and my Microsoft box, but would really appreciate it if in an upcoming version, the issue of comment compatibility is addressed. The only feature that Word has over Writer is that I can can collaborate seamlessly on

Re: [discuss] Email client

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Derman
Robin Laing wrote: M. Maas wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am not certain as to whether or not this idea has been uttered, or if something like this actually exists in your software already. I have, however, never been able to find anything likei t in OpenOffice or indpendant email clients, so I

Re: [discuss] Email client

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Derman
M. Maas wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am not certain as to whether or not this idea has been uttered, or if something like this actually exists in your software already. I have, however, never been able to find anything likei t in OpenOffice or indpendant email clients, so I thought I’d give

Re: [discuss] openoffice mail

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Derman
Daniel Kasak wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 00:17 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: The simple fact that this question is asked almost daily, proves that all those that hold that opinion are almost certainly wrong! Hardly. What most of those people are asking for is not just an email

Re: [discuss] openoffice mail

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Derman
Alexandro Colorado wrote: What do you mean 'fully integrated'? All of my applications on my computer are fully integrated. Fully integrated means that there is an icon in the toolbar of Writer that opens a set of email functions, a contact list, a calandar/appointment book, etc. You write

Re: [discuss] openoffice mail

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Derman
Paul wrote: I appreciate the idea and functionality of OpneOffice.org very much. However to replace a most dominant office suite provider, i have no alternative for its outlook mail. Moreover, i loose my mail archive/boxes and address book. Is here something for OOo to entertain?

Re: [discuss] Re: Integrating Grammar Checker into OpenOffice

2007-06-02 Thread Robert Derman
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi Harold, *, Harold Fuchs schrieb: [.. differences US = UK english ..] Oh, as far as I see, US grammar has adopted a wide range of portions of german grammar thinking - interesting! That wouldn't be too surprising, considering that Germans were the largest

Re: [discuss] Re: Integrating Grammar Checker into OpenOffice

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Derman
Rod Engelsman wrote: jonathon wrote: drow wrote: I propose a joint development with abisource to create a standard Grammar Checker for the open source community. a) A grammar checking API within OOo is being developed. b) Roughly half a dozen grammar checkers for OOo are being

Re: [discuss] most disappointed!

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Derman
Pierre wrote: Daniel Kasak wrote: OK. Take your bat and ball and go home. I won't loose any sleep over it. Daniel, you disappoint me ;-) The original poster does a dummy spit and you follow with another. I think those of us who are positive about OpenSource efforts (I trust that

Re: [discuss] Small adoption issue

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Doug, Doug Koup wrote: When they went to save for the first time, they informed Open Office they wanted to use the .doc format, because it was the only one they recognized. What scared them into switching was the very large, very confusing message telling them

Re: [discuss] Questions about using OPENOFFICE

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Derman
Tinel Drugan wrote: Hello, Frist of all I would like to congratulate you for your great work and the good things you are doing. I am using openoffice at home and I am very satisfied whit it. I'm a system administrator to a company and we are intrested in installing and using your office

Re: [discuss] PDF Viewer/Editor for OpenOffice?

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: Hei Lars, thanks for your detailed reply. I think we agree on most stuff, and i'm short on time right now, so i'll just give you the pointers to the software i know of: b) There are already OpenSouce solutions that can do quite a bit of PDF editing. Can you point

Re: [discuss] Difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Derman
William W. Austin wrote: On 2007-04-25 12:47:46, J. David Boyd wrote: Since Sun is currently selling StarOffice 8.0 for 50% off until May 7, I'm tempted to buy a copy. I've scanned their web site, and searched Google, but I can't get a definitive list of the differences between StarOffice

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Works files in Open Office?

2007-04-23 Thread Robert Derman
Ian Rossman wrote: To whom it may concern: I have some old Microsoft works files I want to take off of my backup CD, about 2 or 3 years old now. The only problem is, I think Works may be the only word processor that I can't access the files to in Open Office. I'm not shitty, just kinda

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: Hi, I would like to see OOo writer have the option of turning styles off completely at times and having totally manual formatting. what for? I would suggest quite the opposite... Remove all manual formatting and instead provide some kind of formatting palette

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:11 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: André Wyrwa wrote: Hi, I would like to see OOo writer have the option of turning styles off completely at times and having totally manual formatting. what for? I would suggest quite

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Chris Monahan wrote: In the case of integrating a Mozilla and an OpenOffice application what would that mean for the respective underlying frameworks (NSPR and UNO) That depends on the depth of integration. IMHO we should start with integrating TB functions into

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
Cor Nouws wrote: Robert Derman wrote: I would vote for having Thunderbird go to Writer whenever you hit the reply button so that you would have all the features and power of Writer available. A send button would be in the Writer toolbar durring this function, and anything that couldn't

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Derman
Chris Monahan wrote: Styles do lead something to be desired in OO... Not the technical or the logical aspect of it, just the interface is slightly broken The way I see it OO uses styles a LOT more than MSO and unlike MSO actually encourages you to use them, however MSO enables styles to be

Re: [discuss] FrontPage Alternative

2007-04-12 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:22:18 -0500 Robert Derman wrote: Alvin Lim Liangce wrote: If you just need a good HTML or PHP editor, Notepad++ (and an FTP client) is good enough. Cheers, Alvin IMHO HTML itself SUCKS big time! It is very limited and inflexible

Re: [discuss] FrontPage Alternative

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Derman
Alvin Lim Liangce wrote: If you just need a good HTML or PHP editor, Notepad++ (and an FTP client) is good enough. Cheers, Alvin IMHO HTML itself SUCKS big time! It is very limited and inflexible as far as formatting is concerned. I believe that every serious writer HATES HTML because

Re: [discuss] useful feedback

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Derman
Vince Castanza wrote: Like all software approaching perfection (such as OpenOffice), we are occasionally humbled by our less than perfect hardware. Recently, I was reminded of this fact when my system went into an unrecoverable hibernate on my laptop and my Openoffice writer document went

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Derman
Alvin Lim Liangce wrote: Besides, what did MS do as a corporation that is morally wrong? I'm not saying this because I'm a Microsoft fan (gonna delete XP and install Ubuntu once I'm done with school this year, woohoo!), but 'immoral' is not the right word to describe Microsoft. Monopolistic

Re: [discuss] RE: Using Open Office on Mac OS X

2007-03-22 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Chad Smith wrote: Why can 2 guys in their spare time do 4 years ago what the entire of OpenOffice.org and Sun Microsystems hasn't been able to do in as many years with full time employees? First: I totally agree with you in this point: if you want to have an OOo

Re: [discuss] survey

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Derman
Phillip Ellery wrote: Giday Just did your survey on migration fm OO1.* to 2.1 forgot a feature on the wish list. MS Word has an add on, a PDF converter - this is very handy - do you have a similar ? Regards frPhil Psm 2 OZ Tue 27 1310 I Feb 07 Yes, OOo does, only it isn't an add on,

Re: [discuss] PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2007-02-24 Thread Robert Derman
Chris Monahan wrote: I think there's a OO component that was supposed to be like Outlook, don't know if it got anywhere, can't quite remember what it's called, don't know if that's could have any connection to a 'project management tool' :| ... probably not, heh As of this time, OOo does not

Re: [discuss] Re: Idea for making something NEW: COMBINE CALC and WRITER to ONE Product - or let them interact easily

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Derman
Chris Monahan wrote: Interesting idea What you seem to be describing is a way of having spreadsheet data, sort of auto filed into a report of a kind. So that a person can insert values of the spreadsheet into the document as they would insert fields such as page number, or author. In this

Re: [discuss] A very nearly sort of almost idea

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Derman
Shane wrote: I use the OO Draw program in total and utter preference to all the CAD (computer Aided Drafting) programs for lots of one off 2D drawings of circuit boards, parts schematics, buildings, construction drawings etc.. etc I think it's brilliant - because it's more or less a no

Re: [discuss] Site making you pay money for this software?

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Derman
Josh Ernzen wrote: http://www-openoffice.com/index.php Is this pretty much the same as OpenOffice? This is the most blatant example of outright fraud in selling OpenOffice.org that I have seen yet! Notice that the website is named openoffice.com rather than openoffice.org. that little

Re: [discuss] Issuezilla and simple users

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Derman
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Chad, I am sure that we could find some hosting for it. I mean, it's not like we are talking about a ton of traffic here. There wouldn't need to be many images - if any at all - and they could still be hosted on the Collabnet servers.

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