[discuss] Removing ODF Save As function in MS Office

2010-04-21 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I'm on a thread in the MS Forums where the OP is wanting to remove the ODF Save As function from Office 2007 for legal reasons. (His explanation). I've asked him if he can say WHAT this legal reason might be. (None that I can think of...) and I'll report back if I get an answer...

Re: [discuss] Oracle now charging $90 for Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Scott
jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Carlos wrote: It's free here: http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/ Get it now FREE button No Get it now Free button when I go to that URL. It did yesterday - I looked. Today, it now says ODF Plugin licensing has

Re: [discuss] Apology: OOo is not a copy of MS Office [was: ODF icons - possible compromise?]

2010-04-21 Thread Lars Nooden
Thorsten, oh that's rich, coming from Novell staff. His apology is made of fine words, but the behavior repeats. Copying by any other name is still a semantically incorrect description of the project's status, history and, I do hope, goals. All that is a distraction from the problem of

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] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format

2010-04-21 Thread Lars Nooden
On 04/20/2010 10:51 PM, James E. Lang wrote: My first reaction while still reading this proposal was the same as Noop's. That is because I had not read the whole proposal yet. Jean-Baptiste's proposal has great merit. My experience with files that needed to be available for a Windows user but

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format

2010-04-21 Thread Lars Nooden
On 04/21/2010 11:06 AM, Michael Adams wrote: Groan -1 ...i don't need reasons. Don't be so quick to dismiss the technical aspects in eagerness to use name calling. Microsoft formats are for all practical purposes undocumented, especially the new ones. The new ones are very much moving

RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Martin
ReHi Everybody: I have been using Oo for some years, often in non-profit environments. I use it in English, French and Spanish. I also like Lars' comments about the competitive aspect of Oo and its competitors. Ideally the open source concept also stands for the moral principal that

[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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I think OOo had a special symbol panel in writer. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Carl Shewmaker shewmake...@sbcglobal.net 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

[discuss] Re: Oracle now charging $90 for Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office

2010-04-21 Thread J. David Boyd
NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net writes: On 04/20/2010 06:53 AM, John W Kennedy wrote: On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:42 AM, Sean Carlos wrote: It's free here: http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/ Get it now FREE button but bait and switch, $90 here:

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread RA Brown
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 Carl, Does 2.4 not have the Insert Special Character option? If so you

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Robert Carl: Being more familiar with Fedora, I will refer to that, as possibly the answer also exists in your Ubuntu environment. You can use an experimental blank Writer document to place the special characters from the Oo 2.4 menu. Then save the file. Following that you have 2

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/4/21 Carl Shewmaker shewmake...@sbcglobal.net: 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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb: Hi, Well, fired up my HP mini and OO.o 2.4 Try as I might can't get those unicode characters to show up via the keyboard - but using insert-Special Character and selecting DejaVu Sans for a font, there they are, right where they should be. The glyph for

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb: Hi, Well, fired up my HP mini and OO.o 2.4 Try as I might can't get those unicode characters to show up via the keyboard - but using insert-Special Character and selecting

[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

Re: [discuss] Re: degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Joe Smith j...@martnet.com wrote: /usr/bin/gucharmap It does not appear to have it by default - and checking now, nor does it seem to offer it from the HP repository. This lack of tools in the repository seems to be the weakest link with this system...

[discuss] Re: degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread NoOp
On 04/21/2010 02:58 PM, Andrew Jensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Joe Smith j...@martnet.com wrote: /usr/bin/gucharmap It does not appear to have it by default - and checking now, nor does it seem to offer it from the HP repository. This lack of tools in the repository

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread jonathon
-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 you want to use the macro; b) Map a glyph on your keyboard