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

2015-06-25 Thread toki
On 06/26/2015 12:26 AM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: What do you do if most every document you create with your word processor (WP) is in a different style, you don't know its style until you finish creating it? Sounds like you are confusing styles, with templates. For my personal use, I

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

2015-06-25 Thread Dale Erwin
On 6/25/2015 7:26 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: What do you do if most every document you create with your word processor (WP) is in a different style, you don't know its style until you finish creating it? For my personal use, I create a lot of specialized lists inventories w/ my WP, in

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread Dale Erwin
On 6/25/2015 7:29 PM, Richard Fox wrote: OK. That works. But it's kind of a back-handed approach. What I was trying to do was to double-click on an xlsx document itself, right click on open with and have it open with OO. It really SHOULD since I have both MS Office and OO installed. But for

Re: OpenOffice update issue

2015-06-25 Thread William and Michele Suepke
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Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user

2015-06-25 Thread thesuepkes
What is ment by style?Bill Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 6.Bill Suepke Legalshield  Original message From: Joe Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com Date: 06/25/2015 6:53 PM (GMT-08:00) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some

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

2015-06-25 Thread James Knott
On 06/25/2015 01:05 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: I would love to learn to use styles; unfortunately there are no books for OO 4, and the tutorials are not much help. Has anyone written a good introductory 'how to' guide? While it's a bit dated, there's OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook, by Solveig

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

2015-06-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jun 25, 2015, at 02:10, Dale Erwin dale.er...@casaerwin.org wrote: I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not moreso. I struggled against it for a long time before I finally broke down and made the

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

2015-06-25 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:05:32 -0400 Julian Thomas j...@jt-mj.net wrote: On Jun 25, 2015, at 02:10, Dale Erwin dale.er...@casaerwin.org wrote: I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not moreso. I

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread Richard Fox
Doesn't seem to work. No matter how I try to open an xlsx file (Office 2010) I can't seem to get an OO option. This PS is running Win 8.1. I have both Office 2010 and OO running so that I can test portability. I'm also using File Center for file management. I thought that might be the problem

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

2015-06-25 Thread Doug
On 06/25/2015 02:10 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: /snip/ I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not moreso. I struggled against it for a long time before I

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

2015-06-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2015-06-25 18:02 GMT+02:00 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net: On 06/25/2015 02:10 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: /snip/ I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not

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

2015-06-25 Thread Joe Conner
It would be useful to have a definition/characterization of each of the various styles in the standard install. The names are available, but sometimes they are not very informative. I would like less of the trial and experiment and more of an intelligent choice when it comes to choosing a

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

2015-06-25 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:53:32 -0700 Joe Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com wrote: It would be useful to have a definition/characterization of each of the various styles in the standard install. The names are available, but sometimes they are not very informative. I would like less of the trial

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

2015-06-25 Thread toki
On 06/26/2015 01:53 AM, Joe Conner wrote: It would be useful to have a definition/characterization of each of the various styles in the standard install. Is this what you are looking for: Paragraph Styles Name: Default Font: Times New Roman Font Size: 12 point Font Weight:

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

2015-06-25 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Doug - Thank you for the update re WordPerfect. Being retired these last 12 years, a $ 200.00 version just makes o sense., though I (luckily) can afford it. Just makes no sense as I can't fully deduct it as a business expense. A $ 50.00 version sounds reasonable. I'll have to look in

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread Doug
On 06/25/2015 09:53 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jun 25, 2015, at 20:29, Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com wrote: OK. That works. But it's kind of a back-handed approach. What I was trying to do was to double-click on an xlsx document itself, right click on open with and have it open with

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

2015-06-25 Thread Doug
On 06/25/2015 09:57 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jun 25, 2015, at 21:11, Andrew Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: I still have a great fondness for Word Perfect. The Reveal Codes function gave me total control. Even more so than Micro$loth Word. I totally agree - Reveal Codes was a

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread James Knott
On 06/25/2015 10:25 PM, James Knott wrote: For the record, I bought my first computer in 1976, an IMSAI 8080, worked for several years as a computer technician maintaining mini-computers, DEC VAX 11/780, a few different PR1ME and Data General models, along with a Collins C8500 (a mil spec

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

2015-06-25 Thread Dale Erwin
On 6/25/2015 11:02 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/25/2015 02:10 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: /snip/ I think if you would take the time to learn how to use styles you would find that Writer can be just as versatile as Word, if not moreso. I struggled

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread Robert Jackson
To change the default association in win 8.1, using the following as a guide: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/choose-programs-windows-uses-default# http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/choose-programs-windows-uses-default# The first computer we owned was a MITS Altair 8800

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

2015-06-25 Thread Anthony J. Rudgers
What do you do if most every document you create with your word processor (WP) is in a different style, you don't know its style until you finish creating it? For my personal use, I create a lot of specialized lists inventories w/ my WP, in addition to creating documents written articles

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

2015-06-25 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I have found styles a real time saver... Imagine a 600 page document and you device that you want top change the don't color of all identifiers for contained coffee examples. I can do it very quickly. For what I refer to as garbage documents (quick letters, half page simple formatting, etc) it

Re: Question re/ using Open Office

2015-06-25 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jun 25, 2015, at 20:29, Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com wrote: OK. That works. But it's kind of a back-handed approach. What I was trying to do was to double-click on an xlsx document itself, right click on open with and have it open with OO. It really SHOULD since I have both MS

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

2015-06-25 Thread Dale Erwin
On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: As to word processors suitable for the general user, my vote is for Microsoft Word. While, like most everyone on our Planet, I'd like the proverbial free lunch, I don't expect to get one. However, I found I can get MS Word to give me the text

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

2015-06-25 Thread Martin Groenescheij
Sent from my mobile device. On 25 Jun 2015, at 8:10 am, Dale Erwin dale.er...@casaerwin.org wrote: On 6/23/2015 10:53 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: As to word processors suitable for the general user, my vote is for Microsoft Word. While, like most everyone on our Planet, I'd like the

OpenOffice update issue

2015-06-25 Thread brendan
Hi, I recently downloaded OpenOffice and when I check for updates this security warning is displayed(attached below). I've looked online and in the forum but cannot find anything specific to this security warning. Thank you! Brendan Sent from my iPhone