Re: windows 8

2014-11-21 Thread Steve Ahlers
Forwarding to OP Steve Sent from my iPad On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Jim McLaughlin wrote: > From you E mail address I intuit thatht your primary ISP is in Canada. I do > not know if you are an Anglophone r Francophone, but from your comments I > must presume you are an Anglophone. > > I hope

Re: windows 8

2014-11-21 Thread Jim McLaughlin
>From you E mail address I intuit thatht your primary ISP is in Canada. I do not know if you are an Anglophone r Francophone, but from your comments I must presume you are an Anglophone. I hope that you have downloaded the German language version of Open Office through the official open office sit

RE: windows 8

2014-11-21 Thread Pearl Swan
I have my open office downloaded but it is in German ... how do I change it into English From: pms...@live.ca To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: windows 8 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:36:56 + I am interested in downloading Open Office bit I have windows 8 … is it compatible w

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/21/2014 2:11 PM, Maggie Butler wrote: Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters could be isolated? Most email clients have a mechanism to filter out messages from unwanted sources. Of course, so many times, people are tempted to "feed the troll" and re

Re: Problème clavier

2014-11-21 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/21/2014 12:26 PM, Doug wrote: I would doubt that Chinese will ever become a world-wide language unless and until it converts to a Latin alphabet. --doug Maybe unlikely, but it could happen. It happened in Vietnam although many years ago. Like most far east languages, Vietnamese used

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/21/2014 10:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory's approach to be entirely wi

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread James Knott
On 11/21/2014 02:11 PM, Maggie Butler wrote: > Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters > could be isolated? It's possible in many email apps to forward such messages to trash. - To unsubscribe

Excel

2014-11-21 Thread Ingrid Ream
Good afternoon, I have the most current version of openoffice.org 4.1 and can not open an excel document. Is there something additional that I need to do so I can open the document? or does this version not support opening the docs in excel? I am using windows 8.1 if that makes a difference.

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Maggie Butler
Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters could be isolated? On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:02 AM, mt wrote: > On 21/11/14 at 4:21 PM, dennis.hamil...@acm.org (Dennis E. Hamilton) > wrote: > > Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community de

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread mt
On 21/11/14 at 4:21 PM, dennis.hamil...@acm.org (Dennis E. Hamilton) wrote: Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory'

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Urmas wrote: > > Let's leave rote instructions and faux politeness to Hindu phone support, > shall we? Urmas: That's another offensive statement that is not appropriate on this mailing list. As a list moderator I suggest you voluntarily withdraw from conversati

Re: Fw: New Folder

2014-11-21 Thread mt
On 21/11/14 at 4:20 PM, rim...@comcast.net (Rita Schwartz) wrote: [snip] I am using 4.0.1Open Office. I can't get a New Folder to open when I click on the icon in the task bar. How can I open a New Folder? Hello Rita, Clicking on an icon in the task bar ought to the associated appl

Re: Problème clavier

2014-11-21 Thread Doug
On 11/21/2014 03:53 AM, mt wrote: On 21/11/14 at 8:33 AM, davian...@gmail.com (Urmas) wrote: "Brian Barker": the number of speakers of Mandarin as a first language is more than twice that for English Would you please follow your own logic and repeat your query in Mandarin Not even Chinese

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread James Plante
Just a reminder, folks: Can we please avoid feeding the troll? Jim > On Nov 21, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Urmas wrote: > > "Dennis E. Hamilton": > >> I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit... > > Giving generic advices cannot be 'in spirit' for any support. We can afford > people w

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Urmas
"Dennis E. Hamilton": I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit... Giving generic advices cannot be 'in spirit' for any support. We can afford people who have mettle to actually say the OP is an idiot who wants to terminate his sentences with NumPad decimal dot, for example. Le

ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit and I commend his gentility for emu

Re: Fw: New Folder

2014-11-21 Thread Rita Schwartz
---Original Message--- From: Rita Schwartz Date: 11/13/14 15:05:44 To: Open Office Help Subject: Fw: New Folder ---Original Message--- From: Rita Schwartz Date: 11/12/2014 10:36:27 PM To: Open Office Help Subject: New Folder To: r...@openoff

Re: Problème clavier

2014-11-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:43:54 + Régis De merlis wrote: > Bonjour, > > J'utilise OpenOffice 4.1.1 sur un PC HP "All in One" avec son clavier et > j'en suis très satisfait. > > Cependant, lorsque je veux mettre un point (.) à la fin d'une phrase, > OpenOffice 4.1.1 renvoie une virgule (,) !

Re: Problème clavier

2014-11-21 Thread mt
On 21/11/14 at 8:33 AM, davian...@gmail.com (Urmas) wrote: "Brian Barker": the number of speakers of Mandarin as a first language is more than twice that for English Would you please follow your own logic and repeat your query in Mandarin Not even Chinese speak Mandarin. However, everyone o

Re: Problème clavier

2014-11-21 Thread M Henri Day
2014-11-21 8:33 GMT+01:00 Urmas : > "Brian Barker": > > the number of speakers of Mandarin as a first language is more than twice >> that for English >> Would you please follow your own logic and repeat your query in Mandarin >> > > Not even Chinese speak Mandarin. > However, everyone of conseque