Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user

2015-06-27 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/27/2015 05:29 AM, toki wrote: On 06/27/2015 05:48 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Two versions were created, and off hand I don't remember the difference between the versions. There were versions for: * Writer; * Calc; * Impress; I don't remember if the one for Impress made it out

Re: Inserting 100 small text files into doc

2015-05-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Are these straight up text documents? If so, I think that a method has already been shown for how to copy all the files to one and then you can insert a single file. On Linux, this is even easier... Of course, since I like to write macros, I would write a macro that looked something like

Re: Help with deleted content

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I usually see this when I open a text file using the wrong character set... Please also include the file type when saved... What was the file name with extension. If the file extension is wrong, most programs open it incorrectly. On 04/30/2015 07:29 PM, kayla samuel wrote: OpenOfffice has

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
How does a file disappear? That is an easy one. If you always save the file to the same file name, and something then happens to that one file, then there are no other copies. I have seen this as follows: Click on Save, and something goes wrong while saving, which corrupts the file (say it

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/23/2015 01:07 PM, Maurice Howe wrote: Never, ever, include religious stuff in forum remarks. Surely you are referring to top versus bottom posting! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/22/2015 10:04 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jan 22, 2015, at 00:18, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Oh, and I have also heard some very strong opinions that PDF export support should be pulled; another minority opinion. PLEASE - do not pull that! It is a very

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/21/2015 06:56 PM, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/01/15 05:50, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: People who want to write the XLSX format are likely to not understand why he might feel so strongly about it. This is one of those complex issues

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/21/2015 08:08 PM, Urmas wrote: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak: ...it will never be able to cope with OOXML. So, now you're trying to lock-in LO users in ODF format? Priceless. First, note that the quoted text is a partial snipped pulled from the forum post that was not written by me

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2015 04:42 PM, Mat Walker wrote: Hi Guys, I have used OO stuff for a while and hope I have put enough back to payback the use. Today, I have the unfortunate task of having to create xslx files for an application that only reads those. So i did a search to see if there was any way to

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2015 08:07 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:44:12 +1100 Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: On 21/01/2015 8:42 AM, Mat Walker wrote: Hi Guys, I have used OO stuff for a while and hope I have put enough back to payback the use. Today, I have the

Re: Need documentation on using OpenOffice as an OLE Object with PowerBuilder

2014-12-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have some documents on my web site that show examples using Basic, which might help understanding the API. I have no particular comment on the use of OLE. https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/tutorial/office_automation.html

Re: Office Writer forum page

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/28/2014 07:21 PM, conc...@localnet.com wrote: Dear Open Office, I've been using computers since the 1990's and the internet since 1998. I can find my way around on a website. However, I want to post to your forum on Office Writer but I do not see, any where on that page, the word

Re: Sytem not working

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/21/2014 07:20 PM, Kim wrote: Dear: I have been using Open Office downloaded from your office since 2004 and I have encountered now Help icon and spell checks are not working I am using latest 4.1.1 Do I need to reload open office or can you send me an email link Kim Still no

Re: Question for you.....

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
No concrete answers, but, off hand, it sounds like AOO thinks that every word is spelled incorrectly. Make certain that you have the proper dictionaries installed and that the language is set correctly on text. Sorry, no time to explain that, I am late for something else. On 09/03/2014 03:46

Re: loading openoffice 4.1.1 release

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I believe that the sourceforge servers just came back online. On 08/23/2014 04:26 AM, Michel Oczkowski wrote: can not find

Re: SV: loading openoffice 4.1.1 release

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I suppose that you are subscribed to the user's list, so you receive the email :-) On 08/23/2014 05:43 AM, vitio55 wrote: I am not open Office suport Mvh Familjen Nilsson Originalmeddelande Från: Michel Oczkowski michel.oczkow...@orange.fr Datum: 23-08-2014 11:38

Re: Macro Problems

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/19/2014 04:19 PM, Don Daugherty wrote: For several years I have been using OOo Macros, running under Basic. Then a few months ago they stopped working, and I am unable to track-down the source of the difficulty. When I startup a particular Financial spreadsheet, which should trigger a

Re: copy/paste goes to TABLES?????

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/27/2014 09:37 PM, Dee Drill wrote: I tried to copy a very short sentence from an Arabic Bible to OO so that I could enlarge it for use on a t-shirt. It copies and pastes just fine but automatically goes into Tables and won't get out of that format! It won't let me enlarge the

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 08:23 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Dear OpenOffice list members, I just wanted to introduce myself to you before I start asking questions. I'm a mom, grandmother, wife, retired teacher, OpenOffice enthusiast, and that's about it. I look forward to getting to know you guys. Cindy

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Thank you for your kind words, but, I think that you are now publicly admitting to being a Geek! :-) On 07/28/2014 08:41 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi Andrew!! I've been enjoying your books about macros!! Cindy On 7/28/2014 7:39 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/28/2014 08:23 PM, CMLDMB

Re: review, comments, conflicts with Oo 4.0 and higher

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 08:43 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi For weeks I have been looking for an answer this problem. I have tried the documentation and the forums. I have searched the internet. The problems started when I upgraded from 3.x to 4.0 and beyond. I have always been able to go from Word 2010

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
/2014 7:56 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Thank you for your kind words, but, I think that you are now publicly admitting to being a Geek! :-) On 07/28/2014 08:41 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi Andrew!! I've been enjoying your books about macros!! Cindy On 7/28/2014 7:39 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/26/2014 08:58 AM, Chris Landrum wrote: Hello OO Users, I need help. Yesterday, since my Open Office was apparently a victim of computer gremlins, I uninstalled, rebooted, installed latest version, rebooted and solved that problem. NOW I’m getting an error message when trying to open

Re: Rif: best macros and macro resources for OpenOffice?

2014-07-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/16/2014 08:50 AM, francesco.zivi...@surftech.it wrote: One thing I think will be useful is to explain for a beginner how to test and run MS Office Macros in OpenOffice. I know it shoud be possible but I could never understand exactly how and whitch limitations I can expect. Thank you.

Re: How to prevent very long text in a cell overlap the footer in Calc?

2014-06-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Jesse, Instructions to unsubscribe are included in the bottom of the email to which you replied I will repeat them here Send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org That should do it. If not, then send an email to the list with text in the subject line that reads something

Re: Wiedereinführung von Staroffice

2014-06-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I will concede that my German is not that good, but, did you ask a question, or simply make some comments? Also, was StarOffice professional reintroduced? Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut, aber, hast du eine Frage zu stellen, oder einfach nur einige Bemerkungen? Auch wurde Staroffice

Re: My problems with OpenOffice

2014-05-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/25/2014 07:07 AM, António wrote: Hello My name is António and I've some questions for you to resolve my problems. So my biggest problem with OpenOffice is working on my laptop and doing work from school In my school all computers use Microsoft Office. When I do works there in

Re: Simple advice on how to get Reveal Codes inplemented please

2014-05-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/24/2014 07:02 AM, DaveMainwaring wrote: Some of the threads are so long I don't have the energy to follow all the stuff :_) How do I vote, and support this initiative (or any other) ? This is where you vote for that particular issue

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
yes, voting is how you officially indicate your interest On 05/23/2014 03:39 AM, Helen wrote: I'd love the reveal codes feature -- didn't know there was a vote until I ran across this. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 05/19/2014 06:11

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2014 06:11 AM, japples wrote: So far, this conversation boils down to: use only styles which requires casual users to travel the steep learning curve to enable their use and possibility of creating conflicts with other style rules or show consideration to the casual user and provide

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2014 09:38 AM, 許哲崇 wrote: If we use OpenOffice to edit the file and use WordPerfect to reveal code, what is the problem? No problem at all... :-) The potential issue is that loading in a different editor will cause slightly different things to be displayed (at least that is my

Re: Reveal Codes Query

2014-05-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/17/2014 04:35 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2014-05-16 20:38 GMT+02:00 japples japp...@europa.com: Does a list exist for OO users to vote for proposed future functionalities? I would like to vote for Reveal Codes. Reveal Codes is a very useful tool. It works independently of the Style

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Some of what you want is easily available as follows: Use Tools | Options to open the options dialog. On the left, expend the section for Writer | Formatting Aids (you may need to have a writer document open at the time) You can then tell it to display things such as Paragraph end, spaces,

Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 03/11/2014 12:54 AM, Tubular wrote: Back to OO - your explanation made sense until I saw the inability to send from the remailer subscribed email address. When I subscribed to the list, I didn't have options . . . clicked the link and I was added. I have had it happen, but it is an

Re: Total Noobie Question--Text Docs (Letters)

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Couple of comments: 1. If you are not able to solve your problem based on the provided feedback, respond and say so; for example, I tried your advice, and I had trouble with ... 2. I usually create a document that is configured the way that I want, and then I save that document as a

Re: Document won't open

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/27/2014 11:08 PM, Nicholas Micalone wrote: Open Office documents do not open when clicking on a document in Documents. A document will open in Sandboxie, recover mode; however, in front of the title is a tilde and the word Lock. I have attached a screen shot. Please help. I have spent

Re: Uninitiateds basic question

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/18/2014 09:39 AM, davidbath wrote: Dear Open Office Sorry to be contacting you on this, but I seem to be making little headway with what appears to be just what I need but is way above my head. Someone here will hopefully know the answers :-) I imported a .wdb file which was put

Re: [openoffice] Flipping a table

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Having a bit of trouble understanding the question I think that what you want to do is to reverse the order (based on rows), so that the first row becomes the last row and the last row becomes the first row. Although this can be done using a macro, I would probably do something

Re: Help pls, my texts in OO don't wrap when I paste to email.

2013-12-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/18/2013 12:04 AM, d b wrote: For the past week or so, texts that I write in Open Office don't wrap when I paste them into Hotmail or Yahoo to send as emails. This very email is an example. How can I fix this problm? Thanks! Can you clarify? if you enter something like this:

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/22/2013 06:41 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Dim iNumber As Integer iNumber = Freefile Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber Print #iNumber, Line 1 Print #iNumber, Line 2 Close #iNumber The file now looks like this (in hex values): 4C 69 6E 65 20 31 0A 4C 69 6E 65 20 32 0A So every line

Re: Open Office does not initialise

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Message- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:02 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Open Office does not initialise I assume you are using windows of some sort. Can you be more specific? I am uncertain exactly what you did and then what happened when you did

Re: Open Office does not initialise

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I assume you are using windows of some sort. Can you be more specific? I am uncertain exactly what you did and then what happened when you did it. (1) Do you mean that you use Windows Explorer to find a WORD document and then you double click on the WORD document and OO does not open? (2)

Re: Java Troubles When Trying to Use Mail Merge

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Despite Dr. Zarlenga's odd claims, I do believe that it is possible to run Java on Windows. I happen to use Linux, so anything that I say is of course suspect. A few questions for you. 1. What version of AOO are you using? 4.x? For version 3.x, you need Java 6, for AOO 4, you can use 7. 2.

Re: File won't open

2013-10-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/01/2013 07:16 PM, Doug wrote: I've just received an attachment consisting of an important legal document as a .docx file. I downloaded Apache 4.0.1 and it won't open the file. (Neither will Textmaker 2012 or WordPerfect 6.) Since this is a personal file, I can't send it to you, but do

Re: VLOOKUP vs Macros

2013-09-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
=ADDRESS(1, 3, 1,, sheet1) returns SHEET1.$C$1 =INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1, 3, 1,, sheet1)) returns whatever is stored in the cell referenced by SHEET1.$C$1 On 09/28/2013 11:30 AM, John Meyer wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a number of worksheets. The first worksheet has the bonuses for

Re: Leslie Liddel, how to unsubscribe

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Leslie, if you send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org with no message, does it remove you from the list? On 09/26/2013 06:56 AM, Leslie Liddell wrote: I'm getting these e-mails also. I am a relatively new subscriber. Can you get me off the list? Leslie Liddell Vocatus

Lynn Brubaker, how to unsubscribe

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Lynn, Did you send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org On 09/25/2013 07:01 AM, LYNN BRUBAKER wrote: help. I don't know how I got on this email list but can someone get me off. From: tomgol...@yahoo.com To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Backwards compatibility Date:

Re: Backwards compatibility

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have no experience with this, but, try the following: 1. Load the document in question 2. Using Tools | Options to open the Options dialog. 3. Under Load / Save, is there a General section that allows you to set the ODF format version? I can't check on AOO at the moment, but with LO I am

Re: scripts in AOO spreadsheets interpreted by MS excel?

2013-09-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/01/2013 11:23 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: Is this also the case for the spreadsheet (calc) documents? Are they readable by MS excel? If so, are scripts (Java) also generally properly interpreted by MS excel? I was not aware that you could script Excel in Java. Do you mean control Excel in

Re: Data Analysis in OpenOffice Calc - Fast Fourier Transform analysis

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Sadly, I am not aware of FFT functionality for AOO. On 08/01/2013 10:13 AM, wils_m...@compuserve.com wrote: Hi AOO Users, Does anybody know whether there are any data analysis add-ons for AOO Calac V4.0.0? I am particularly interested in a Fast Fourier Transform routine similar to the one

Re: Codes

2013-06-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/24/2013 10:32 AM, Brian Barker wrote: You'll have noticed, I hope, that I've anyway been corrected: you *can* do this easily in Writer, using Format | AutoCorrect | Apply. Ummm, I had no idea you could do that, but I see that it works That would have saved me at least one

Re: Codes

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/23/2013 12:08 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all

Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/11/2013 12:05 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: A fix frequently advised for video oddities in OpenOffice is to disable (turn off) one or both of Video Acceleration and anti-Aliasing in /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org : View, under Graphics output. Interesting, that had not occurred to me,

Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have had subtle redraw issues with OO off and on, and I always blamed it on an interaction between applications and the video drivers. Realize that I use nVidia video cards on 64-bit Fedora using the proprietary video drivers. What I saw was not remotely as bad. Admittedly, when I tried

Re: lost password to acct

2013-03-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 03/02/2013 12:51 PM, marcia...@comcast.net wrote: Had all info on spreadsheets for 3 years in open office computer crashed and hard disk gone had passwords on computer please help reinstate my acct marcia hill marcia...@comcast.net Marcia, can you clarify what you need to reinstate? Are

Re: Having issues installing in windows

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/19/2013 09:23 PM, Support Team wrote: Hi, Just updated to windows 8 used your sortware years not had one issues with your sortware come today had issues installing it on windows 8 will not work could please help me with this one Danny, Can you be more specific? For example, was this

Re: user name

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Where, exactly, did you register? A forum, wiki, etc... On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, 514thom wrote: I registered as a user yesterday, but forgot my user name. I have the password, but didn't take note of the user name. Please advise as I've been trying to get through on other links and cannot do

Re: user name

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
: On Apache to resolve an issue with Open Office. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org mailto:and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Where, exactly, did you register? A forum, wiki, etc... On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, 514thom wrote: I registered

Re: Microsoft Office issues

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I assume that he should have said something like: I am running windows, and when I double click on a DOC file, it opens in AOO rather than MS Word. Is this correct? (just trying to figure out what you mean, as is Regina). On 02/12/2013 02:02 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, to help you, we

Re: Updates

2013-02-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/08/2013 02:18 PM, Dave Raby wrote: Is there a new update address? Regards Dave Raby This feels like a simple question, but I don't understand it. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: How? copy a graph exactly (no data table) to another file

2013-02-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/01/2013 02:23 PM, David L Babcock wrote: I have a file for collecting a year's data which I want to duplicate for the next year (2013). Since I am annoyed by a bunch of structural/embedded things that are copied along from year to year when I do a simple rename, I am building a new

Re: I have changed my email address

2013-01-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/26/2013 10:29 AM, George Anstey Webb wrote: Dear Sirs, I already have a password and user name for OpenOffice.org but cannot find where to log in on the website so as to change my email address. I am changing my ISP from Orange to Plusnet. This means changing my email address to

Re: open-office 3.4

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
This sounds confusing / unexpected. I am adding some comments inline. I will repeat some items for clarification. You mention exe files, so I assume that you are using Windows. Hopefully someone more well versed in Windows idiosyncrasies will respond as well. On 01/11/2013 04:45 AM,

Re: User Registration

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/09/2013 06:35 PM, Thomas Ferraro wrote: Please register me so that I can help QA Apache Open Office Go here: http://www.openoffice.org/qa/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html After skimming the page, you can click on the first link that takes you here to be added:

Re: Unscribe

2012-12-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/15/2012 03:44 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: But many users don't bother trying the hints we give. come now Hagar, it is because you did not do what they really wanted.. 1. Figure out their IP address 2. Break into their computer 3. Fireup their email package 4. Send an email message to

Re: Listening Mode - Single instance

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/29/2012 10:18 AM, Steele, Raymond wrote: Is it possible to open a single instance of calc via loadComponentFromURL() in listening mode. The instructions here, http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Starting_OpenOffice.org_in_Listening_Mode, define editing a