Re: OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

2003-11-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
ch ends >> with that paragraph. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> mike >> >> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:15 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> > I'm running OpenOffice 1.1 and am finding that if I set up the >> > numbering for an outline (i.e.

Re: OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

2003-11-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
well) is selecting a style for a specific paragraph, which ends > with that paragraph. > > Hope this helps. > > mike > > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:15 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> I'm running OpenOffice 1.1 and am finding that if I set up the numbering >>

Re: OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

2003-11-19 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
document. Whereas, what you are doing (and I > did, as well) is selecting a style for a specific paragraph, which ends > with that paragraph. > > Hope this helps. > > mike > > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:15 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > I'm running OpenOf

Re: OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

2003-11-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
new numbering style that will be the default for your entire document. Whereas, what you are doing (and I did, as well) is selecting a style for a specific paragraph, which ends with that paragraph. Hope this helps. mike On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:15 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I'

OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

2003-11-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm running OpenOffice 1.1 and am finding that if I set up the numbering for an outline (i.e. level 1 I, II, ..; level 2 A,B,..; etc) under format->outline numbering or Tools->Outline numbering that it doesn't stick. If you break the outline to add text as in I. blahlbha A. b

Re: OpenOffice Hanging indent

2003-10-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Tried it and it does work as expected and in Word. What threw me off was that when the triangles are both at the left margin dragging the bottom also drags the top. I had to drag the top triangle over, then move the bottom to where I wanted it and move the top back. Once I did that everythin

Re: OpenOffice Hanging indent

2003-10-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. I'll check it out. Ralph Sanford wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:09, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> In MS Word they have a setting for a hanging indent which can be done > will work for OpenOffice 1.1 as well. > > Graphically you can use the adjusting triangles

Re: OpenOffice Hanging indent

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Sanford
he life of me I can not find the equivalent in OpenOffice 1.1. I've > been all over the toolbars, dialogs, etc. and can't find it. The ruler has > the triangles for adjusting margins but I can't make it work for the > indents. I know it's something simple I'

OpenOffice Hanging indent

2003-10-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
In MS Word they have a setting for a hanging indent which can be done either via the ruler at the top of the page or a dialog. A hanging indent is where the lines after the firstt are indented by some amount. For the life of me I can not find the equivalent in OpenOffice 1.1. I've bee

Re: Fw: Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-09 Thread Net Llama!
errr...what's with all the forwarded mail?? anyway, no, i'm the only one who writes to the file. On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux St

Fw: Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Beckers wrote: > > Hi Lonnie, > > > >> Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel > >> by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. > >> Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecognized f

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Net Llama!
On 06/08/03 13:20, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote: Hi Lonnie, Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecognized file type' error. fro

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Hermann-Josef Beckers
Hi Lonnie, > Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel > by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. > Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecognized file type' > error. from a german OOo-li

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Net Llama!
On 06/08/03 12:00, Tim Wunder wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 2:24 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 08 June 2003 2:24 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel > by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. > Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecogn

Re: OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Joel Hammer
el > by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. > Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecognized file type' > error. I don't have Excel, so i don't know for sure if this is an OO > problem, or if the file is comp

OpenOffice spreadsheet won't open?!?

2003-06-08 Thread Net Llama!
Last week, I was working on a spreadsheet (originally created in Excel by someone else) in OpenOffice-1.0.2, and saved it in Excel-2000 format. Today, OpenOffice refuses to open it, with an 'unrecognized file type' error. I don't have Excel, so i don't know for sure if th

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're right. That is an obscure one! Hopefully soon Word will just be a bad memory . Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> Outline number I've seen - i can do that . >> >> However, the navigator appears to provide the ability I need to drag my >> headings around and change

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Outline number I've seen - i can do that . However, the navigator appears to provide the ability I need to drag my headings around and change the order in the document. I never would have thought to look under there! I often found that functions well known in Word are

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Outline number I've seen - i can do that . However, the navigator appears to provide the ability I need to drag my headings around and change the order in the document. I never would have thought to look under there! Thanks. Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> MS Word

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: MS Word has the ability to view a document in outline format. That is if you have a document that has different heading levels in it you can select a view option that displays the document as an outline. This is very handy because you can drag the headings around to rea

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 21 March 2003 22:56 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > MS Word has the ability to view a document in outline format. That is > if you have a document that has different heading levels in it you can > select a view option that displays the document as an outline. This > is very handy because

OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
MS Word has the ability to view a document in outline format. That is if you have a document that has different heading levels in it you can select a view option that displays the document as an outline. This is very handy because you can drag the headings around to rearrange them in the docum

Re: OpenOffice vs MySQL read-only

2003-03-07 Thread James McDonald
Bill Campbell wrote: myodbc-3.51.05-20030116shared openpkg rpm What might I be doing wrong? I used myodbc-2.5 which worked but that was a while ago... on openoffice 642. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe

OpenOffice vs MySQL read-only

2003-03-04 Thread Bill Campbell
I've been trying to learn my way around openoffice on SuSE 8.1, in particular interfacing with MySQL. The basic problem is that mysql tables show up as read-only even though they have the proper primary keys, and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] has full privleges in the mysql database (e.g. ``grant a

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-26 Thread Tim Wunder
OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker site, and that's failing, too. My approach wou

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-26 Thread Collins
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:11 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? >

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? % >>> My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the % >>> specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that % >>> it can be done. I've tried the RPM from M

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote: % >On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: % >>On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: % >>> Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOff

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? > My son's having difficult getting the rpm

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > > Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? > > My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't ha

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Collins
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? > My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the > specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification tha

Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread C M Reinehr
Joel Hammer wrote: > > HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the > html with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my > knowledge of html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with > html2ps and ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made in

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:22:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >Hmmm > >What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or >5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper >order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > >Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? > >I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. > > Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard &g

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Ralph Sanford
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote: > Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? > I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. > > Thanks, > Joel > > Hi Joel, I did a fair amount of OO Impress to P

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? >I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard browser i

OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.li

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-11 Thread Bob Raymond
that my screensaver (which had previously been very jerky) was > > now smooth. OpenOffice, which uses OpenGL for its interface, performs > > just fine now. Sorry to trouble the group, and at least I don't have to > > waste that 12 hr. compile now ;) > > Since when does Op

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-11 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote: > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:53 pm, Collins wrote: > > Fyi, I'm running the binary version (directly downloaded from OO > > rather than the openoffice-bin ebuild) and it works like a champ. I'm > > only running an 800 Mz m

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-11 Thread Bob Raymond
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:53 pm, Collins wrote: > Fyi, I'm running the binary version (directly downloaded from OO > rather than the openoffice-bin ebuild) and it works like a champ. I'm > only running an 800 Mz machine, so startup is a full 15-16 seconds, > but no s

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-11 Thread Bob Raymond
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:44 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote: > > All right, if the ice is not so bad my father can get to work, I'll ask > > him to download it there. Thanks > > Ice? you mean that stuff falls from the sky?? ;) Freezing rain... I went out t

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-11 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote: > All right, if the ice is not so bad my father can get to work, I'll ask him to > download it there. Thanks Ice? you mean that stuff falls from the sky?? ;) -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Collins
:41, Bob Raymond wrote: > > >> > Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when > > >it is> > unusually slow? > > >> > > > >> > I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on > > >my> > Gento

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Bob Raymond
en it is > >> > unusually slow? > >> > > >> > I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on my > >> > Gentoo 1.4rc* system with Portage 2.0.45, GCC 3.2.1, Glibc 2.3.1, and > >> > Blackdown JDK 1.4.1beta, kernel 2.5.51,

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/10/02 19:56, Bob Raymond wrote: On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:44 am, Net Llama! wrote: On 12/10/02 19:41, Bob Raymond wrote: > Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when it is > unusually slow? > > I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday mor

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Bob Raymond
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:44 am, Net Llama! wrote: > On 12/10/02 19:41, Bob Raymond wrote: > > Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when it is > > unusually slow? > > > > I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on

Re: OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/10/02 19:41, Bob Raymond wrote: Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when it is unusually slow? I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on my Gentoo 1.4rc* system with Portage 2.0.45, GCC 3.2.1, Glibc 2.3.1, and Blackdown JDK 1.4.1beta, k

OpenOffice Sluggishness

2002-12-10 Thread Bob Raymond
Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when it is unusually slow? I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on my Gentoo 1.4rc* system with Portage 2.0.45, GCC 3.2.1, Glibc 2.3.1, and Blackdown JDK 1.4.1beta, kernel 2.5.51, and it was compiled under 2.5.

OpenOffice templates

2002-10-15 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
I do not know if anyone else knows this or not, but here goes. I have downloaded a bunch of templates for M$ office word, one or two have popup dialogs that gather some info, of course they work ubder MS, but they also work under Linux & openoffice 1.0.1. That includes *.dot files and p

Re: diff OpenOffice StarOffice

2002-07-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
So does OO... On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:59:08 -0400 "Bruce Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 9:36 am, Michael Hipp wrote: > > Does anyone know what the "certain file filters" is? Specifically, > > will SO be a better drop-in replacement for MSOfc than OO? > > Can't say

Re: diff OpenOffice StarOffice

2002-07-02 Thread bof
Michael Hipp wrote: >Does anyone know what the "certain file filters" is? Specifically, will SO >be a better drop-in replacement for MSOfc than OO? > For one, SO has a filter to import WordPerfect documents, while OpenOffice does not (altho it is bei

Re: diff OpenOffice StarOffice

2002-07-02 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 9:36 am, Michael Hipp wrote: > Does anyone know what the "certain file filters" is? Specifically, will SO > be a better drop-in replacement for MSOfc than OO? Can't say for certain but my SO 6.0 shows that I can save a file in: Microsoft Word 97/2000/xp whatever that

diff OpenOffice StarOffice

2002-07-02 Thread Michael Hipp
The OO.org site has this about the differences: + Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts) + The database component (Adabas D) + Some templates + Extensive Clip Art Gallery + Some sorting functionality (Asian versions) + Certain file filters Does anyone know what the "certain

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 05:30 schrieb Joel Hammer: > The spreadsheet in staroffice didn't have > built in functions for data analysis, as far as I could find, and was > awkward in other ways, not nearly as nice as Excel. And, I had to have > painless compatibility with Excel. When you think of

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Moore
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Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:30:57 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any intense experience with openoffice, in particular, > the spreadsheet? I used to use StarOffice 5.2 but gave it up in favor > of vi and Excel (running under win4lin). (Obviously,

OpenOffice

2002-06-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone have any intense experience with openoffice, in particular, the spreadsheet? I used to use StarOffice 5.2 but gave it up in favor of vi and Excel (running under win4lin). (Obviously, I don't have to exchange text documents at work, just spreadsheets.) I was never happy wit

OpenOffice 1.0

2002-05-02 Thread James McDonald
Hi All, For those interested OpenOffice 1.0 is out http://openoffice.org James ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.