Re: Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:38 31/07/2016 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: On 07/31/2016 06:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote: I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing ... Second, you should let your institution know that the world no

Re: Conveting files from Word Perfect x7

2016-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
Believe it or not, as of right now Zamzar still enables people to convert files *to* WordPerfect (wpd). Jeff Deutsch Speaker & Life Coach A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs http://www.asplint.com "Listen to the universe while it whispers before it has to shout." Marion Grobb Finkelstein,

Re: Font colour changes in global substitutions

2016-07-31 Thread brian
On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:45:46 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: I think you hit my answer lower down your reply, so excuse the snip... >A few thoughts: > >o Are you sure that your book publisher will want to print hearts and >diamonds symbols in red in otherwise black text in your book? > Absolutely

RE: Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Assuming you want the recipient to have an email with your document file attached, use the following steps: 1. Save the study document to your file system. 2. When you open Windows Live Mail and address a new message to be sent, attach the document. (This might be an Insert option depending

Re: Font colour changes in global substitutions

2016-07-31 Thread Tina
You have to make sure that the font has all changed to black again. Sorry if I'm not explaining this correctly. You have to make sure that the colour in the little box is black again and not red. After pasting the character, select it, go to colour selection, choose black and it will change.

Re: Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:46 31/07/2016 +, Tina Noname wrote: Simply look for line spacing and choose that which you want at the time. Sorry to be blunt, but the original questioner was asking how to do this! Now you are just telling him he should just do it - but not how. And he wants it generally, not "at

Re: Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread Tina
First off, I always save my documents in word sot that people opening them won't have any problems. You could also export them as pdfs by the way. I don't use that e-mail server. I prefer yahoo and gmail for they present fewer problems. But, in general, you shouldn't have problems attaching the

Re: Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Tina
 Simply look for line spacing and choose that which you want at the time. You should find it under tools. Hope this helps somewhat. Cheers, Tina "'God' brings us into each others lives for a reason and purpose that we may never know until the end. But every interaction that we have - even if

Re: Font colour changes in global substitutions

2016-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:45 31/07/2016 -0400, Brian Meadows wrote: I have a draft of a bridge (the card game) book to work on. My co-author and I have decided to use the suit symbols where possible, and I need to make that change retrospectively. I know how to substitute the red suit symbols for hearts and

Re: Font colour changes in global substitutions

2016-07-31 Thread Tina
Hi, Just as if you were using normal Word. Select that which you want to change. Then go to font colour and select the colour black. It will automatically change to black. Easy as pie. Hope this helps somewhat. Cheers,   Tina "'God' brings us into each others lives for a reason and purpose that

Font colour changes in global substitutions

2016-07-31 Thread brian
Hi folks, This may be a simple question, excuse me if so, but I'm none too familiar with Open Office, I'm only using it for compatibility purposes. I HAVE looked at the help information, and if it tells me how to do this, then I'm missing it. I have a draft of a bridge (the card game) book to

Re: Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote: I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Rather than hit the enter button twice each time especially as I could be writing long sentences and not wanting

Open Office 4 Email Problems

2016-07-31 Thread travel4wd
Hello Open Office Support My name is GeraldW from Melbourne , Australia Subject : Email problems via windows live mail . Recently downloaded Apache Open Office 4 Have typed written study documents in Open Office file about 5-6 pages, but cannot email the documents out via windows live

Re: Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 07:36:33 +1000 "Richard Beeston" wrote: > Hi > > Is there anyone who can help me > > I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing > on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Ratber than hit the > enter button

Double line spacing

2016-07-31 Thread Richard Beeston
Hi Is there anyone who can help me I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Ratber than hit the enter button twice each time especially as I could be writing long sentences and not wanting to interrupt

Re: Conveting files from Word Perfect x7

2016-07-31 Thread Don Daugherty
Just be aware that Libreofice can't re-save as .wpd after editing. Expect to open .wpd and then after editing, save as .odt or any other format that Libreoffice can write. On 7/30/2016 1:33 PM, toki wrote: Grethe wrote: i would like to insure, that it is possible to convert files from

Re: Opening Open Document files [was: How to open zipped file]

2016-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:38 31/07/2016 -0700, Ron Patterson wrote: I am just curious. I had no idea that the Open Office documents were 'zipped' when saved. You are talking as if this is somehow a separate process: that the document is first saved in some format or other and then afterwards zipped. But no:

Re: How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread Hagar Delest
No, it doesn't. Even OOXML (.docx, ...) is a zipped file. But ODF is a human readable file format. Make a copy of an ODF file and rename it to .zip, you'll see what's inside your file. That's the advantage of such an open file format. MS Word (if not too old) knows how to open ODF files.

Re: problem

2016-07-31 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, Are you a Mac user? If so, see: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17=53884 As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing list. Do Not reply to me personally but just to the list at - replies to my

Re:How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread Ron Patterson
I am just curious. I had no idea that the Open Office documents were 'zipped' when saved. Does this mean that if I email an Open Office document (as an attachment) it could not be opened by someone running Microsoft Word as that program could not unzip the document? On 7/31/2016 10:21 AM,

Win 10

2016-07-31 Thread John Gregson
I am having problems installing Open Office (Apache) on my new ACER laptop., running Win 10. I also have a copy on my new desktop, (with Win 10) but it works well. I am an older guy; with minimal computer knowledge. John. J. Gregson jfgreg...@shaw.ca

RE: Possible Scam

2016-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The "tech support guy" would not have been anyone representing the Apache OpenOffice project. It sounds like the "clean up" program may have been malware of some form. That is a common ploy to convince users that they need to install what is in fact unnecessary and unwanted software. How did

RE: How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The problem appears to be that the iCloud Drive recognizes that OpenOffice documents are in a special form of Zip. They are not meant to be unzipped, however. They must be opened by an application, such as OpenOffice, that recognizes the special form and treats them correctly as OpenDocument

Re: How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread James Plante
kazuko, change the file extension to .zip, and the unzip utility will work. At present, the file extension is probably .odt; just change that to .zip, and you can open it with the unzip utility. Jim Plante > On Jul 31, 2016, at 3:24 AM, kazuko wrote: > > Hi > My open

Fehler

2016-07-31 Thread Ton Veerkamp
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich habe versucht, die neueste Version von Open Office herunterladen. Der Download wird immer wieder rückgängig gemacht: "Fehler 1316: Das angegebene Konto ist bereits vorhanden." Ich habe dann versucht , die alte Version zu öfnen, gelingt aber nicht mehr. Diese

Re: How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, kazuko wrote: Hi My open office documents were sent to iCloud Drive iPad from PC Windows 10. But I had no idea these files are zipped. I installed app for unzip but these couldn't adjust open office files. Please help me how to unzip my files. Kazuko I'm not sure what

Re: Problem mit: Einfügen-Bild-Scannen-Anfordern

2016-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Jäth
Am 31.07.2016 um 03:02 schrieb Wagner: > > ich komme allein nicht weiter. Folgende Konfigurationen (2 Rechner) > Windows 10 und Windows XP > OpenOffice 4.1.2 und OpenOffice 4.0.2 > Canon Drucker/Scanner/Fax MB2350 über Lan an die Rechner angeschlossen > Von beiden Rechnern kann ich drucken und

Re: Problem mit: Einfügen-Bild-Scannen-Anfordern

2016-07-31 Thread Dave
Hallo Matthias, keine direkte Antwort, aber ich arbeite grundsätzlich mit folgendem Workaround: Ich scanne das Bild ein, bearbeite es in irgendeinem Programm (Gimp oder was einfacheres), vor allem, um es zuzuschneiden auf das, was ich tatsächlich brauche, und füge es erst dann ein. Grüße Dave

How to open zipped file

2016-07-31 Thread kazuko
Hi My open office documents were sent to iCloud Drive iPad from PC Windows 10. But I had no idea these files are zipped. I installed app for unzip but these couldn't adjust open office files. Please help me how to unzip my files. Kazuko iPhoneから送信