Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread JB
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:59:53 -0400 Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > Hello, > > My wife is willing to consider converting to LibreOffice 4 > permanently. Here's her major issue, in two parts: And this has what, to do with Apache OpenOffice? > > What does she need to do? Go to the LO website/maili

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2013-07-27 7:44 PM Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: Larry, I thought LibreOffice was simply the new version of OpenOffice. How is the latter the real thing, as you put it? (Also, since you said LibreOffice has its own separate mailing list, do you have the address for that?) Nope. It is a derivative c

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
Hello, Clarence, thank you very much for the information. Unfortunately, saving as .ppx is not an option. Will saving as .ppt work? Larry, I thought LibreOffice was simply the new version of OpenOffice. How is the latter the real thing, as you put it? (Also, since you said LibreOffice has its own

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
This is a help list for Apache OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a clone of OpenOffice and has their own help mailing list. For problems with LibreOffice you should ask them. Or switch to the real thing, instead of a clone. On 2013-07-27 6:55 PM Clarence M Weaver wrote: Jeff, I did the same test aga

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Clarence M Weaver
Jeff, I did the same test again only now I used .pptx file format. And I see the problem. It mixes the LibO notes over top of the Powerpoint notes. We need to add a bug report for this. As a workaround, if she saves her powerpoint file as a ppx (powerpoint 97-2004 presentation) then it will tra

Re: Version 4

2013-07-27 Thread doug
On 07/27/2013 07:07 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Strange, but I didn't have to uninstall 3.4.1 first. They both remain on my computer. I'm running Win7. Virgil Running PCLinuxOS. Extracting the rpms was confusing, since the old code was in the Download directory also. All the old 3.4 files wer

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
Hello Clarence, My wife uses LibO 4.0 and PowerPoint 2010. While in LibO, she's in Windows 7 Home Premium and saves the file as PowerPoint 2007/2010 (.pptx). At work (where she uses PowerPoint 2010), she also does it on Windows (either 7 or 8.1, she's not sure...it's a government office if that he

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Clarence M Weaver
Hi Jeff, I just did a test with LibreOffice 4.1 (LibO) and Powerpoint for Mac 2011 version 14.3.5 both running on Mac OS X 10.8.4 I had no problem going back and forth. I created notes in one and opened them in the other and then reversed the process. It worked flawlessly. What version of LibO

Re: Version 4

2013-07-27 Thread Virgil Arrington
Strange, but I didn't have to uninstall 3.4.1 first. They both remain on my computer. I'm running Win7. Virgil -Original Message- From: doug Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 12:26 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Version 4 Hey, Apache, congratulations! I just installed versio

Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
Hello, My wife is willing to consider converting to LibreOffice 4 permanently. Here's her major issue, in two parts: (1) She does not know how to start or use Notes in LibreOffice Impress (the presentation part). (2) When she starts (and saves) Notes in PowerPoint, and then works on the presenta

Re: Installation folder

2013-07-27 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: ni...@rndmartin.cix.co.uk (R N D Martin) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:13 +0100 (bst) > Version 4 insisted on installing itself into the Windows Programme Files > folder, > giving me no option to put it according to my preference

Installation folder

2013-07-27 Thread R N D Martin
Version 4 insisted on installing itself into the Windows Programme Files folder, giving me no option to put it according to my preferences.I had successfully installed previous versions in a folder in a separate partition, and this is retrograde. Niall Martin --

Re: openOffice 3.3 for PPC

2013-07-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2013-07-27 6:25 AM Ken wrote: thank you anyway and hope the above helps in getting your archives up to date!! No need to blather on about the importance of Mac archives!! :) if you are a Mac user - you know and if your not it won't matter ;) OOo 3.3 for PowerPC Macs was not released for

Version 4

2013-07-27 Thread doug
Hey, Apache, congratulations! I just installed version 4.0 (after finding out the hard way that I had to UNinstall 3.4 first!) and I am impressed! You have imported most (all?) of the GUI from Symphony, and now your product is looking professional for a change! I haven't used it yet, so I hope

Re: openOffice 3.3 for PPC

2013-07-27 Thread Ken
thanks Andrea, i did a search on google for OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_PPC_install_en-US and found it at http://ftp.bg.debian.org/ooo-bg/3.3.0/macOSX/PPC/OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_PPC_install_en-US.dmg http://ftp.bg.debian.org/ooo-bg/3.3.0/macOSX/PPC/ also has the ooo PPC v3.3 SDK & lang packs as well as the bg l

Re: openOffice 3.3 for PPC

2013-07-27 Thread Ken
thanks Andrea, i did a search on google for OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_PPC_install_en-US and found it at http://ftp.bg.debian.org/ooo-bg/3.3.0/macOSX/PPC/OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_PPC_install_en-US.dmg http://ftp.bg.debian.org/ooo-bg/3.3.0/macOSX/PPC/ also has the ooo PPC v3.3 SDK & lang packs as well as the bg l

Re: openOffice 3.3 for PPC

2013-07-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/07/2013 Ken wrote: Am trying to find a link to download openOffice 3.3 for PPC os X but the only one I have found is a French version. does anyone have a link to openOffice 3.3 for PPC os X (English version) please? Either http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/ or http://archive.ap