[discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-17 Thread Robert Derman
MaximumPC is the magazine for those interested in high end computers and in building their own computers. Every February they give out a series of software awards called the /Softies. /These are awarded to the 10 most outstanding software programs of the year. The winners for this year are:

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-18 Thread Robert Derman
Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 05:48, Robert Derman wrote: This is particularly high praise when you know what really tough critics the editors at /MaximumPC/ are. They don't think that any PC below 3 GHz or the AMD equivalent is even worth sitting down at. Then the

Re: [discuss] OOo database

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Derman
will gladly do that, I have SuSE 9.2 on my PC ... will that be a problem? Robert Derman replies: A database is included in the next major release of OOo, 2.0. You can download a pre-beta of this from the website now. Note that it is pre-beta and as such could have some bugs, but it will

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Derman
ts CPU speed is < 3gig is stupid. But, less than 2 GB is kinda worthless to gamers. (Speaking as one who is stuck on old PC.) But, of course, just because it's *over* 2 GB doesn't mean it's good. The newest games have system requirements higher than 2.0 GB. -Chad Smith Rob

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Derman
Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: The whole point, which I am still not sure that Ian gets from the wording of his replies, is that since the demise of BYTE, MaximumPC is the favorite magazine of the HARD CORE hardware geeks. [...] Robert

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Derman
Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 05:40, Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: The whole point, which I am still not sure that Ian gets from the wording of his replies, is that since the demise of BYTE, I used to read Byte and I hardly play any games ever. Only rugby

Re: [discuss] Strange markup

2005-01-24 Thread Robert Derman
ze 10. position the cursor in the first line, press 'end' twice - again it's 12... this probably works as designed, but maybe there is a possibility to change design in some unintrusive way ? anybody can comment on this ? Robert Derman replies: This is the way that M$ Word works t

Re: [discuss] Default Email Client?

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Derman
Robert Derman replies: We tend to recommend Mozilla Thunderbird however. Rtnmi wrote: Too bad: If it was half a awesome as OpenOffice is it would *beat em all out* Thanks, Bon -Original Message- From: Harald Schilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:06 PM To

Re: [discuss] OO startup time

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Derman
hink this is bad wording, that misleads users into thinking their program has crashed. Nobody expects a error message to repeat 15 times with the same text!). /ralph Robert Derman replies: Since Sun owns Java, and since they give away a Java runtime as a free download, and they are the primary s

Re: [discuss] Spreadsheet

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Derman
S wrote: I was thrilled to find OpenOffice, but disappointed when I saw Spreadsheet only handles 32,000 rows. I use Excel daily, and frequently use files that contain around 45,000 rows of data. Are there any plans to expand the capacity of Spreadsheet? Robert Derman replies: The next

Re: [discuss] OO startup time

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Derman
Office.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Ralph Aichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:37 -0600, Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: Since Sun owns Java, and since they give away a Java runtime as a free download, and they are the primary spo

Re: [discuss] Linux version?

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Derman
Ray Wojtak wrote: Any plans to create a Linux version of OpenOffice? Thanks for a great program! Ray Robert Derman replies: There has always been a Linux version of OpenOffice. If you go to the OpenOffice.org web page and go to downloads, you will be asked what language you need, and then

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-24 Thread Robert Derman
few weeks. Thank you for giving us the developers' POV. It's important that we hear about it. Okay, so developers and users are not communicating. We need to think of a way that they can. The current channels don't work well (which doesn't surprise me). We need something diff

Re: [discuss] opening on a templete

2005-03-29 Thread Robert Derman
ave simply missed the correct way to open the programme? Or does this relate to the discussion about the tray icon (which I did not fully follow). Hope the point is not too trivial - in general still hugely like OO Thanks (very much so to all the effort) Adrian Robert Derman replies: I have no

Re: [discuss] Re: opening on a templete

2005-03-29 Thread Robert Derman
Matt Needles wrote: Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: I have noticed this, and also that it is a mixed curse. There is the advantage that since there is this blank document under whatever else, I can close whatever documents I have been working on without having the toolbars close

Re: [discuss] Daniel is hired by Microsoft

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Derman
with you guys. As of next week, the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work. You can reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Daniel Carrera Technical Writer -- Microsoft Office division. Robert Derman replies: Before anyone gets too excited ab

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Derman
so they wouldn't tend to uncheck them. Robert Derman replies: I just downloaded and installed the latest version of OOo 2.0, (1.9.87) and the check boxes came already checked by default, so either an error has crept in, or this needs to be addressed before the final release of 2.0. This

Re: [discuss] Re: No more file association to MSO when installing

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Derman
Tony Pursell wrote: On 1 Apr 2005 at 11:44, Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: I just downloaded and installed the latest version of OOo 2.0, (1.9.87) and the check boxes came already checked by default, so either an error has crept in, or this needs to be addressed before the final

[discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Derman
I have noticed one change in the latest build of 2.0 beta that i really don't like! It is set up by default not to split paragraphs between pages, and if I uncheck the do not split paragraphs control, it will not stay unchecked, but resets with every new paragraph. this causes major problems

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Derman
7, 2005 at 11:52:18AM -0500, Robert Derman wrote: I have noticed one change in the latest build of 2.0 beta that i really don't like! It is set up by default not to split paragraphs between pages, and if I uncheck the do not split paragraphs control, it will not stay unchecked, but resets

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Derman
Daniel Carrera wrote: Robert Derman wrote: Robert Derman replies: This is OOo 1.9.87 for Windows downloaded from Canada Cygnal mirror. When I open a document created with Writer 1.x many paragraphs are shifted to the next page. That is not the same thing as saying that paragraphs don&#

Re: [discuss] Paragraph splitting in OOo 2.0 vs 1.4

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Derman
Daniel Carrera wrote: Robert Derman wrote: RD: That of course fixed it. I think this is a case of a default being changed that should have been left alone! All previous releases of OOo had the [do not split paragraphs] unchecked by default. To avoid really confusing most newbies I think

[discuss] Auto Complete

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Derman
Auto complete is one of my favorite features in OOo, but on the discuss mail list I have seen a lot of comments from users who don't like it and turn it off the first chance they get. I wonder if some of its shortcomings are responsible for this. Rather than file some ill advised RFE I t

Re: [discuss] Measurments

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Derman
;s not going to happen. Any comments please. You are worrying about something you shouldn't worry about. If you had any chance of comming close to a 10 GB bandwidth you would already know it and wouldn't need to ask here. Cheers, Robert Derman replies: I almost agree w

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Has sun sacked half its developers?

2005-04-19 Thread Robert Derman
only more evident on platforms not basking in Sun love. This apart from the fact no one will donate a rocket engine to people that wouldn't be bothered with oking a bit of paint work when it was last offered. Robert Derman replies: If I had to guess, I suspect that some of these frustratio

Re: [discuss] Again on: Incompatibility between OO.o 2.0 and MS Word

2005-04-25 Thread Robert Derman
ll not go away. Best regards, Mathias Robert Derman replies: Perhaps somewhere there is a statistic that tells which of the 26 letters is closest to being the average width of all the others, weighted for average frequency of use. It seems that this would be the logical starting point if something like this is done.

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice on Ebay

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Derman
janpieter wrote: Hello, I'm Pieter Blower from Belgium an a huge fan of OpenOffice. Today I so that some people in Belgium try to sell OpenOffice on Ebay here is the link --> http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4602&item=5203716988&rd=1 Just to let you know. Maybe you

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Derman
ird, OOo, Linux, and others are perfect examples. They are all superior to their commercial counterparts but are no where near replacing them in the market. Robert Derman replies: No situation lasts forever, sooner or later people WILL realize that high price is _no_ guarantee of quality, at leas

Re: [discuss] build for win32..

2005-08-07 Thread Robert Derman
should be reported. Please reply to discuss@openoffice.org only Robert Derman replies: I havn't paid that much attention to this, but if it says Intel, X86 would be a better term, since that implies the X86 platform, which refers to both Intel and AMD and is actually a much better descriptor.

Re: [discuss] Re: "To Close for Comfort?"

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Derman
newsletter that I work on, and we focus on international news, especially that coming out of the Middle East. Incidentally, OOo's autocomplete doesn't really get in the way so much. Most keyboard keys work just the same. So when autocomplete gets it wrong, it doesn't slow you do

Re: [discuss] Empty file upon reopening

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Derman
. Thanks…. **In Christ,** **Delmar Penner** **Box 4123 Arborg MB, R0C 0A0** **Phone: (204) 376-2844** [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Derman replies: If you reformatted your C: drive before saving your files to a floppy or more likely CD burner, then the files a

Re: [discuss] Re: Beyond 2.0

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Derman
be?) I've wondered that myself. I don't know where it used to be, but I wish I had it. It may have been were the @ is now. And, of course, the @ is more important. But we could get rid of the useless ones like ` and ~ . Some day soon (and it's already started happening) you

Re: [discuss] Re: Beyond 2.0

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Derman
se, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The first three items are long past the point of being commodities and you know Dell didn't actually build the monitor either. All they do is assemble components; no different than any "white box" mfr or roll-your-own hobbyist. They build decent mach

Re: [discuss] OO2

2005-10-08 Thread Robert Derman
endevour. Hans Luebbert Robert Derman replies: It is unlilely that there will ever be a capability in OOo to open or use MS Works documents, even Microsoft's own Office software can't use most Works files. Works is reguarded as software not adaquate for any serious profession

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2005-10-09 Thread Robert Derman
or popular functions. Cheers, Grant Gorddard Robert Derman replies: It it turned on by default in the new OOo 2.0! I am not sure what the interval is, but I know that 2.0 does autosave from time to time. - To unsubscr

Re: [discuss] Writer only?

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Derman
need whatsoever for the rest of the suite and do not want to consume the hard drive needed to store programs I do not need. Is it possible to make Writer available WITHOUT the rest of the suite? Sincerely, L.Moore Robert Derman replies: It is not possible to download just writer, because i

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Derman
program. I read with interest the recent threads about NOT integrating a mail client in OO.o. I hope the same sanity is the driving force here. I would be happiest if it was an optional downloadable add-on wizard like the dictionaries. In other words opt-in not opt-out. Robert Derman repli

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-14 Thread Robert Derman
Beckie Child wrote: I really didn't join this email list to discuss politics. There are plenty of other places on the web to discuss these matters. Can you either make this a private conversation or take it to a place where the purpose is to discuss politics? beckie Robert Derman re

Re: [discuss] WordPerfect 6.0a

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Derman
JH Atkinson (Mr) wrote: I am a user of WordPerfect 6.0a, and find that Open Office won't convert my files ... what can I do? Also, I have found using hyper-text links useful for linking files; is this possible in O.O.? (I think a different name may be used.) Robert Derman re

Re: [discuss] Win98SE install problem

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Derman
Gary Bowen wrote: OOo 2.0 install to Windows 98SE will not run due to error... Unpack works fine Setup immediately generates error "...cannot find file ""." and closes Same file installed on Win2k just fine. Regards, Gary Bowen Robert Derman replies: I

Re: [discuss] OO.O version 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Derman
John Boyle wrote: Does one have to uninstall 1.15 before trying to uninstall version 2.0? Robert Derman replies: No! It may be nessisary to uninstall beta versions of 2.0, but it is absolutely not nessisary to remove any 1.x versions

Re: [discuss] format paintbrush bugs

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Derman
/pre_submission.html Your findings seem to be valuable, Joe. Please don't feel put of by the rather long instructions for filing reports. After you get the hang of it it's fairly easy. Guido Robert Derman replies: I have always felt that Issuezilla/Bugzilla sets the bar far too high for many

Re: [discuss] format paintbrush bugs

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Derman
Guido Pinkernell wrote: Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 18:56 schrieb Robert Derman: Guido Pinkernell wrote: Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 02:52 schrieb Paul: Nope. You have to get a login using the www.openoffice.org site, you can then lodge a bug report. Which you can do

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice and eMail Client

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Derman
#x27;s an email client. It's usually directly related to either your browser, or standalone. If you want One Big Monolith, there's always M$ mark Robert Derman replies: I am getting tired of reading these type of comments without the qualifier IMHO. Not everyone is going to

Re: [discuss] QA volunteers monitoring users mailing list? Re: [discuss] format paintbrush bugs

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Derman
of bug reports. I picked up this idea with suggesting that these mails could be cc to QA, after confirming the bug. What do you think? Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 22:52 schrieb Robert Derman: Guido Pinkernell wrote: Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 18:56 schrieb Robert Derman:

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread Robert Derman
James Walker wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:35 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: Thank you for demonstrating your inability to grasp basic concepts even after they've been explained a dozen times to you. Guys you are wasting your time. I have been working in education f

Re: [discuss] Re ZDNet article

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Derman
ith 256M it was occasionally a bit slow especially if I had other applications up). I don't think the resource use is a problem, but if future versions are more efficient I won't mind. I would think most computers still in use now have at least 512M, if not much more, RAM; am I wrong on this?

Re: [discuss] Re ZDNet article

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Derman
Rick wrote: Someone also mentioned "entry level" computers still being offered with 256 RAM. Can someone define "entry level" for me? Is the same basic computer not "entry Level" if it offers 512? What are other differentiations to look for? I would think most computers still in use now h

Re: [discuss] Word Completion

2005-11-17 Thread Robert Derman
Amiracle Computers wrote: Love OpenOffice.org My Praise: OpenOffice.org is a GREAT opensource office suite. It's a great office suite period. This new 2.0 version blows the socks off of previous versions. Great job! If this was the same price as MS Office, I would be hard pressed to choo

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Derman
This discussion thread has digressed to the point where it no longer has anything to do with the original subject! Let's either end it or rename it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [discuss] Re:Online only apps

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Derman
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Monday, November 21, 2005 Chad Smith wrote: For one thing, unless you're willing to release your source code (which most game companies are not) then there is no easy way to make your game work on *all* Linuxes. (Should I go DEB or RPM, will my DEB work on Ubuntu - n

Re: [discuss] Big OO idea!

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Derman
DJ Steve wrote: Hi, Just thinking, why don't you guys make Writer OO for Handheld PCs? This way we won't have to use Word :) Also, is there a Windows Mobile OS replacement? Like, Linux Mobile or anything? Many thanks There is a Linux release called Linspire which does have a versio

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Email vital for Desktop Linux adoption, prime role available for OOo

2005-12-05 Thread Robert Derman
Andrew Brown wrote: "John W. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:4393C60B.4090405 @attglobal.net: Rubbish. Microsoft is on top because Bill Gates was a trust fund baby, and because he and his gang use the methods of organized crime. "Nice website you got here. It would be a shame if

Re: [discuss] Re: Short list with Pro's & Cons

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Derman
Rigel wrote: Actually the CD's last longest in paper sleeves. This minimizes air movement and reduces oxidization. Storing CD's verticaly typicaly prevents the CD itself from moving around itself. The spindle in the case can over time warp the CD if it's stored horizontaly. Not sure why though.

Re: [discuss] Open Office being sold on Ebay!

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Derman
Sarah Barkway wrote: I wasn't sure which email address to send this to, but I hope you will be able to pass it on to whoever should be alerted. I have found your software for sale on ebay for £2.99! I'm not sure if this breaks any laws, but I thought you should be made aware of this. I

Re: [discuss] very disappointed to see "easter-egg" in a free-software

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Derman
Steven Pauwels wrote: C Cichocki schreef: Steven Pauwels wrote: C Cichocki schreef: Hi Chris, Think you kwow what I mean: try and keep a friendly tone to your posts, even if you do not agree, even if you are giving criticism on someone. Its more fun that way :-P btw, I am a huge spa

Re: [discuss] Feature Idea - Timed Mail Merge

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Lissner wrote: I don't know what the solution here is, but I do find it annoying. I mean, do they really need to set their ISP filter to catch somebody after 25 emails? The real enemy is going to be sending something more like 10,000 or 500,000 emails right? In an hour right? So why do

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Derman
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:36:31 -0600, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite. Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin clients at a primary school a while a

Re: [discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Derman
Andrew Robertson wrote: So the only thing I can find that OpenOffice is lacking is an app like Outlook. I have not heard back form anyone at OpenOffice or Sun Microsystems as to whether or not they are working on something like this or if it is not in the plans at all. Ok, so I know I'll get a

Re: [discuss] What if Microsoft went out and bought OpenOffice.org ...

2006-02-27 Thread Robert Derman
Lars D. Noodén wrote: I thought that was much of the goal with Mono - to take OSS developers out of circulation and put them to work on something 100% dependend on MS. Seriously though, MS has been a growth-though-acquisition style company buying companies if it can't make a deal to get the

Re: [discuss] What if Microsoft went out and bought OpenOffice.org ...

2006-02-27 Thread Robert Derman
Lars D. Noodén wrote: Yes, it would slow things down for a while, but as Robert mentioned OOo would probably just fork and there would be a substantial delay while things get re-organized. MS had been bothering Sun earlier, but I think that it's more likely that this is part of or an offshoo

Re: [discuss] Cannot print

2006-04-03 Thread Robert Derman
Konrad wrote: I cannot print too, because ink ran out completely and this damaged the printer :/ If someone knows any way to clean the head off dry ink, tell me. Konrad What brand and model of inkjet printer is it, with some you just buy a new ink cartridge, with some you buy a new printh

Re: [discuss] Who would have thought... MS doesn't want you to buy a PC without an OS.

2006-04-11 Thread Robert Derman
Carl Shewmaker wrote: I, for one, would really like to buy a naked laptop now, and desktop machines as the ones on my small lan expire. regards, Carl --- Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When it comes to desktop computers, they really aren't that hard to build from parts, and the par

Re: [discuss] About Writer

2006-04-15 Thread Robert Derman
Charles Griffin wrote: 4/15/2006 Good morning, I wonder if the new release of Open Office includes grammar checking in "Writer." thanks, Charlie No it doesn't. There was a lot of discussion about grammer checkers about a year or more ago. One of the most mentioned things was how bad m

Re: [discuss] Mail Client !!!

2006-04-26 Thread Robert Derman
Ian Lynch wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:18 +0200, Jozef Peterka wrote: Probably, I dont understant, and you dont understand me ... I am using opensource alternatives ( Evolution/Kontact ), BUT how can so "called" promoters of OOo expect to use it widely, if it has not the same "components"

Re: [discuss] just an idea

2006-06-26 Thread Robert Derman
Joshua wrote: im using version 2.0.2 of openoffice and i have notice that if you type a sentace and put a full stop and then start a new sentance the first letter does not become a capital, nor does "i" when it is used on its own. im not a programmer so i am unable to help. Just an idea p.s

Re: [discuss] Minimum requirements to run OOo2

2006-07-17 Thread Robert Derman
vance, Gilles Siche Reasonably quickly is rather a subjective term, however if you are talking about new or very recently built laptops there is nothing on the market that will not do a credible job with OOo 2.x.Robert Derman, A+ Cert. Computer Hardware E

Re: [discuss] Re: Minimum requirements to run OOo2

2006-07-31 Thread Robert Derman
NoOp wrote: Gilles SICHE wrote: Hello, I intend to buy a *cheap* laptop on which I'd like to run a linux distribution (Ubuntu) and OpenOffice 2 : could anyone tell me what are the minimum requirements (RAM, processor speed...) necessary for the system to run reasonably quickly? Thank you

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Word

2006-08-01 Thread Robert Derman
Tony Pursell wrote: On 1 Aug 2006 at 21:15, Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 19:38 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi ...? kc7hxy wrote: Are we going to be able to open and save to _Microsoft Works now that Microsoft_ is making a few more dollars (Which I am sure the need) by m

Re: [discuss] Compatibility

2006-08-02 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Robin Laing wrote: bob lyskowski wrote: One of my biggest pet peeves with OOo and pretty much every other program I have ever used is compatibility. I have run into some compatability isues with OOo and MS, both E

Re: [discuss] Lack of OOo feature forces writer to move to Windows from Linux.

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Derman
Ian Lynch wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:26 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Shows use of other character map implementations which are not as minimalistic as the OO.o one You're right that impovements are possible. However, looking to the number o

Re: [discuss] Open Office Premium

2006-09-07 Thread Robert Derman
Michael Adams wrote: Stupid question here. Is this product part of the OO.o roadmap or a completely externally maintained product? Open Office Premium is indeed an externally maintained product. It is based on OpenOffice.org, but it includes a lot of templates, clip-art, and other extras

Re: [discuss] dates are never autoformatted correctly

2006-10-24 Thread Robert Derman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle wrote: personally like to write my dates .mm.dd however, as you may know Open Office Calc is VERY picky about them being one way and ONLY one That "pickyness" is because OOo is style dependent. Everything in OOo revolves around styles, and if you don't g

Re: [discuss] openoffice.org "outlook" version

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Derman
Paul King wrote: Just had a quick question. I have openoffice.org and think it a great product--the only thing it is missing is an "outlook"e-mail/calendar interface. Had this been discussed or in the works. It would be a great for openoffice.org because it would round out it out and make o

Re: [discuss] OpenOS

2006-12-09 Thread Robert Derman
Overcomer Man wrote: Hi, Please start a spin-off called OpenOS.org which will generate a free OS that works better than the other free OS's out there for all purposes, including fixing the real time spinlock problem on Linux, the inability to boot on older IBM towers of Linspire, and of cour

Re: [discuss] OpenOS

2006-12-10 Thread Robert Derman
Graham wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:28, Robert Derman wrote: Overcomer Man wrote: A lot of people on this list will argue that this or that distribution of Linux is great for home computers, but as far as I know, none of them will play MP3s or DVD movies out of the box, and without

Re: [discuss] OpenOS

2006-12-10 Thread Robert Derman
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:51:19 -0600, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:28, Robert Derman wrote: Overcomer Man wrote: A lot of people on this list will argue that this or that distribution of Linux is great for home computers,

Re: [discuss] hello

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Derman
Craig wrote: hello i was woundering how much you would charge to rebrand your program in our companies name. if this is possible. I am 17 and i run my own company and im looking for new ideas. thanks As with all open source GPL software, you are free to do this yourself. Since OOo is

Re: [discuss] Re: [ui-dev] Proposing a new User Experience project on OOo

2007-01-18 Thread Robert Derman
M. Fioretti wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 01:36:36 AM +0100, Christoph Noack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm not sure about the next one: I'd like to see some kind of Issuezilla topic to collect issues that cover the perception of the user. [...] I don't think that the difference between UI/UX

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.

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 .c

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] 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 aspe

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 h

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, it

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] 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] 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 cr

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 of

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] 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 use

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 whi

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'

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 bummed

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 8.0

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

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Derman
Chris Monahan wrote: On 03/05/07, Johnny Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/5/2, Chris Monahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Afraid that I think that the OP's suggestion would probably be quite a > project and as Lars Nooden has pointed out it might not exactly fit in > with what most people

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] 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 that

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