"Recovery failed" warning on each relaunch of iMac and Openoffice

2019-11-20 Thread paulranger
I have OpenOffice 4.1.6 installed on iMac (late 2009) running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Having experienced malware previously which corrupted software and files on my iMac, I always mark my AOO spreadsheet file “Orders”, covering order history in the “Finder/Get Info” window and ticking the

AOO download (English) for Windows 10 - menus in Dutch.

2018-04-03 Thread paulranger
Hello fellow users, I have run AOO for Mac for many years and and am completely satisfied with the program and assistance rendered by other users via this forum. I had to download and install AOO 4.1.5 onto a Windows 10 system PC to enable a social working friend to create and maintain

Syntax in Calc.

2018-02-16 Thread paulranger
Hello John, Thank you for your kind help in formulae syntax for Calc. The formulae you supplied have done the trick (thank you). Sincerely, paulranger. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Syntax in Calc to denote current date and financial balance.

2018-02-15 Thread paulranger
Hello fellow AOO users and fans, I need to create a simple financial statement spreadsheet to indicate readily the available funds to a charitable body at any given date. The formulae syntax I am seeking will enable me to • formulate a cell to the current date; • calculate new balance after

How to set up 2 A5 pages to print on 1 A4 sheet

2017-09-26 Thread paulranger
I need to type set and print 2 x A5 pages in a document file onto a single sheet of A4 paper. - this shows  the back cover (text left justified) of an A5 size pamphlet  with the front cover (containing an inserted picture with text being centred inside the line drawing insertion. being

Saving from AOO 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 to MS Word 2010 - reply to Brian Barker

2017-09-01 Thread paulranger
Thank you, Brian, for your kind response to my query. The friend for whom I offered to edit the .docx file is probably even less IT savvy than I am (no great stretch). To exacerbate the situation, he is a Windows user while I use Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.5). From my workforce days in a office

Saving from AOO 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 to MS Word 2010

2017-08-29 Thread paulranger
Hello fellow OpenOffice fans, I have to help a friend with re working a MS Word 2010 .docx file (containing a inserted .jpg file) in AOO 4.1.3 and saving the resulting modified file into the same .docx format. The nearest “Save As” options are: Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) or Microsoft

Re: Cannot get cells to accept "Date" formatting.

2017-04-12 Thread paulranger
Thank you, Martin. I followed your kind advice and the cell Date formatting seems to be resolved. Sincerely, ranger1. > On 12 Apr 2017, at 6:31 pm, Martin Groenescheij <mar...@groenescheij.com> > wrote: > > > > On 12/04/17 6:07 PM, paulranger wrote: >> Hell

Cannot get cells to accept "Date" formatting.

2017-04-12 Thread paulranger
Hello all, I am running AOO 4.1.3 on iMac Yosemite 10.10.5. I keep several spreadsheets which detail orders, symbol keys etc. but cannot format cells to accept ‘Format/Cells…/Date’ with "31 Dec 1999” option. When I press the keys “3”, “/“, “4” and “return”, the tabulation “3/4” (superscript