Postal Bar Code Add on - US

2014-02-19 Thread Jim McLaughlin
in. Can anyone here direct me to such a feature, either native to OO, or as an add on or plug in. Thank you. Jim McLaughlin

Re: Postal Bar Code Add on - US

2014-02-19 Thread Jim McLaughlin
digit zip on the envelopes / mailing labels. Some how, it just looks better, more complete and professional, with the bar code for trhe 9 digit zip. Thank you again for the information. I guess my age is showing. Jim McLaughlin On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:10 PM, John Jason Jordan joh

Re: windows 7

2014-04-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I've been using 4.0.1 very well with Windoze 7 Home Premium. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Robert Wray bobro...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi Folks, I note that Open Office is compatible with windows XP and 8 but windows 7 is not mentioned. Can I use it with Windows 7? Thanks. Bob

Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2

2014-04-29 Thread Jim McLaughlin
29 April 2014 14:58 Pacific daylight Time (US) the blog link is still returning a 404 error. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Don Daugherty ddaughe...@sunflower.comwrote: On 4/28/2014 7:24 AM, Rob Weir wrote: The new issue is out and you can find it here:

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-12 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I would certainly second Gordon Lee's suggestion for ver. 5.x.x that having a parallel to the Corel/WP reveal Codes function would be invaluable. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Sarala Lee sarala...@gmail.com wrote: Sir / Madam, For many years I used WordPerfect as my Word Processor

Re: not working version of OO4.1.0

2014-05-16 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Google 401.msi The msi extension is a Microsift Installer file. I found a series of conversations back in November, 2013 regarding 401.msi errors for OO with a purported link to a file source to fix thise errors. Following is what I found: *openoffice401*.*msi* download -

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-16 Thread Jim McLaughlin
This has been a very interesting thread. It has also been the single most posted to thread I've seen in the six or so months I've been a subscrber to this group. What fascinates me is that other than the three defender's of OO orthodoxy regarding styles ve. alternative methods, like a WP reveal

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Jim McLaughlin
All the more reason why the open source community operating under the Apache umbrella should add a Reveal Codes analog to OO. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 05/19/2014 09:38 AM, 許哲崇 wrote: If we use OpenOffice to edit the file and use WordPerfect to

Re: Help for users@openoffice.apache.org

2014-05-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Me too. My second one came in on 24 May. I notice the others were dated 25 May. \ This is the second message I received. *Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the users@openoffice.apache.org users@openoffice.apache.org mailing list. I'm working

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

2014-06-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jesse Lafian jesse.laf...@gmail.com wrote: yo. unsubscribe me please. this shit is super annoying. *To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org *

Re: OpenOffice for Android

2014-06-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jesse Lafian jesse.laf...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to be unsubscribed. *To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org*

Re: OCR A Extended font

2014-07-07 Thread Jim McLaughlin
In Windows 7, there does not appear to be a listing under Control PanelFonts...for the OCR A Extended font about which the first poster inquired. No idea about any other flavor of Windows. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: If you're

LABELS question

2014-07-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Printer is an HP 6310. OS is Windows 7. Open Office 4.0.0 Label sheets are Avery # 5160. I'd like to print multiple different labels on different column / row combinations on the Avery sheet. (Note: I do not want to print 30 iterations of the same label on a sheet.) As it is, I can

Re: LABELS question

2014-07-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Yes, thank you, problem solved. I was certain that there was something simple which I was overlooking. On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 16:00 13/07/2014 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: Printer is an HP 6310. OS is Windows 7. Open Office 4.0.0

Re: What's this Warning from users@openoffice.apache.org

2014-07-14 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Me three on getting these odd missives. Show up about every three weeks, and despite the text, no bounced messages are ever attached. Very odd. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Rochelle rhub...@gmail.com wrote: Good question. I get them too, but not recently. I've asked and have not gotten

Boots, instructions, and unsubscribing

2014-07-27 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dennis- Rather than repeatedly performing an action which does not yield the result you are seeking, why not actually read and follow the directions for unsubscribing from the Open Office forum? Or are you too stupid to pour piss out of a boot while reading the directions written on the sole of

Inserting jpeg into .odt document

2014-07-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I have created a document, saved with the .odt extension. I want to insert a .jpeg file int the document, between paragraphs in the teext within the document. I am having difficulty getting the .jpeg file to appaer and print within the document. Would some kind soul here walk me through the

Re: Inserting jpeg into .odt document

2014-07-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Thak you, that resolved the issue. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 06:41 30/07/2014 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: I have created a document, saved with the .odt extension. I want to insert a .jpeg file into the document, between paragraphs

Re: problem with installation

2014-08-14 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Alan - Thank you for the pointers to the malware cleaner and registry cleaner programs. Very valuable to tuck away in case of future need. Thanks again. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:59 PM, wjs kb6...@gmx.com wrote: I have tried

Re: I want to install Open Office version 1 on a Windows 98 SE installed computer.

2014-08-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
What disk? Where did you get the disk? I suspect you purchased the disk from a third party reseller, and if so, you are taking several risks. I urge you to DOWNLOAD the Open Office 4.0.1 or 4.1.0 or whatever it is this week directly from either: www.openoffice.com or www.sourceforge.com

Re: emails bouncing`

2014-10-07 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I also get the same set of bouncing E mail messages. I got all panicked the first couple of times, but I wisely learned to ignre them. It is a tad irritating that the Powers Who Have Appointed Themselves To Be, though notified of and aware of the issue with the list management software, have

Re: Re: FW: Open Office error

2014-10-09 Thread Jim McLaughlin
This was an almost content free post from Martin ( and that is *really* unusual.) All that was in it was the word image, at left margin,repeated on two consecutive lines. Did the list management software scrub out an enclosure / attachment / image? On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Martin

Re: Please Remove me from Open Office Spreadsheet issue

2014-11-14 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Shocking I know that you can't and won't be waited on, but if you want off the list, you have to do it yourself. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Glenn Harder dghar...@rogers.com wrote: Please take me off the users open office

Re: windows 8

2014-11-14 Thread Jim McLaughlin
yes, it is compatable. Be very careful which site you use from which to download OO. Please use only: https://www.openoffice.org/ which will redirect to the SourceForge site. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Pearl Swan pms...@live.ca wrote: I am interested in downloading Open Office bit

Re: Lost info

2014-11-16 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Alexandro - Thank you for that reminder. It caused me to check my save settings and I noted with horror that I had left the saving interval setting at the default 15 minutes. Fortunately I have not yet had an issue, but I was very glad to correct the interval before having an issue. On Sun,

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

Re: Quick Office Pro

2014-12-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Exactly. That's why Simon is providing info that OO/ Apache is not related to Quick Office; explaining that this group can't help re QO, and directing the person making inquiry to a possible source for help since that help can't be obtained here. I can't think of a better function for a

Open Office 4.1.1

2014-12-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Monsieur - Je suis attristé d'apprendre que vous éprouvez des difficultés à l'installation d'Open Office 4.1.1 Je embarrassé par le ton et la teneur de certaines des réponses que vous avez reçues des membres sur le groupe de cet utilisateur. Pour commencer à répondre à vos questions, nous

Re: Open Office 4.1.1

2014-12-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Brian - Thank you for the correction. You are of course correct. Brain fart on my part. So easy to by habit type .com. Apologies to all. On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 19:57 13/12/2014 -0800, Jim McLaughlin wrote: Télécharger seulement de

Re: How to get Open Office without Malware

2014-12-17 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Current version is 4.1.1. Download safely only from www.openoffice.org On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Marilyn Jackson marilynejack...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi. I recently had trouble by downloading Open Office with malware. How can I get a version that's safe to use? I see someone is

Re: Downloading Problem

2014-12-23 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Be sure you have gone only to www.openoffice.org to begin the download process. Open office.org will then take you to the servers at sourceForge for the actual download. Beyond that there is little we can do to assist you until you tell us: Your machine type (PC variant / Mac / other ?)

Re: Schriftenfamilie DejaVu-Fonts

2014-12-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Enough. No more. While Urmas' xenophobia is legendary, there is zero reason for Urmas to be calling Martin ...a fool... for offering advice to the OP. TUrmas is apparently not willing to self moderate. His latest escapade demonstrates to me that he needs to be barred from accessing this group.

Re: Won't print

2015-01-01 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Tony - There is no version of Open Office to buy. Open Office is freeware. Don't ever pay any vendor for it. OpenOffice is available for free and without a lot of add on junk that some unscrupolous folks package it with from the official OpenOffice site at www.openoffice.org. Going to that

Importing PDF form into OO 4.0.1

2015-02-04 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I am running OO 4.0.1 on a PC clone under Windows 7 Home Premium edition. I am looking for a way to import into OO a form created by a third party with Adobe in PDF format. I want to be able to fill out the form with my computer, rather than print a blank form and fill in by hand. For reasons

Re: Bad download

2015-02-05 Thread Jim McLaughlin
From whence did you download OpenOffice? I suggest that you were not on the only official OpenOffice site, that being www.openoffice.org. If you downloaded from that site, and only that site, you will not have any extraneous and undesired programs added to your download. Sadly, there are

Re: Please take me off your support email reply list.

2015-01-21 Thread Jim McLaughlin
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org You must use the same e mail address with which you initially subscribed to un subscribe. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Marvin Hubbard marv...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Dear openoffice Please take me off your support email

Re: can't extract and finish installation of open office

2015-01-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
No, no one viewed the attachment you sent, as the list software strips out any attachments. You have been told that twice by other people responding to you. This list works when users pay attention to its operating constraints. You have also twice been told that there is no key required for OO.

Re: Please address bad allocation, Not Responding, and 'just blowing up when accessing macros

2015-01-05 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Mac or PC Which operating system Unclear from your post which version of OO you are using. Please add this data to your query. Please do not respond directly to me. Post only to the list. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Louis B Bushard lbush...@comcast.net wrote: I have the following

Re: Please Unsbscribe me from this form

2015-01-13 Thread Jim McLaughlin
To unsubscribe read, understand, and follow the directions at the foot of each message. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org You 'unsubscribe message must be sent from the same e mail account used when originally subscribing. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:49 PM,

Re: Open Office

2015-03-03 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Rory correctly notes that OO 4.1.1 will open .doc file extensions. However, there have been issues in some instances with .docx file extensions. There are work arounds for the .docx issues, but you should be aware of the potential for issues with the .docx format. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:40

Re: Spreadsheet

2015-02-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Google Spreadsheets tutorial and see what happens. Its amazing what you can teach yourself , instead orf expecting everyone to do your research and spoon feed you. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Dale Erwin dale.er...@casaerwin.org wrote: Believe it or not, I have never felt the need to use a

Re: Open office writer

2015-03-04 Thread Jim McLaughlin
There was nothing improper or rude in Dale's reply. SPF deserved exactly the mild response Dale provided. The only rudeness I see is the sophomoric insult about Dale being a high schooler. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:53 AM, ArbolOne arbol...@hotmail.ca wrote: Anyone might scold you for being

Re: Getting started with CHECKBOOK REGISTER

2015-03-01 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Understand you are on a MAC. Please tell us where you obtained the checkbook register form you are trying to use. Its hard to try to troubleshoot without knowing what spreadsheet you are actually working with. As a courtesy I have sent a copy of this reply to you as well as to the mailing

Re: Downloading Upgrade to 4.1.1

2015-02-22 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Very difficult to try to help if you don't tell us: a) what site (URL( are you using for your download. (It should ALWAYS AND ONLY BE www.openoffice.org), b) Web browser and version; c). OS and version; d) available disk space on hard drive disk you seek to load / install OO 4/1/1 Please

Re: Mystery messages

2015-03-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Rory - My ISP is a direct feed from hGoogle. I get the mystery messages at least every other week from the OO list. As others have commented with respect to Yahoo, the chances of Google being off line that often are slim to none, and slim doesn't count. It is yet another bug in the OO

Re: Word completion

2015-01-25 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Brian - Thank you. I, too, had the same issue and was not aware that there was an option. I just lived with it as what I thought was an artifact of the way OO was coded. I appreciate the tip. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 15:23 25/01/2015

Re: Help with deleted content

2015-04-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Operating system? Version of OpenOffice? Did you download your cop of OpenOffice *only from *www.openoffice.org? It is extremely unlikely that your files have been deleted. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:29 PM, kayla samuel dearkay...@gmail.com wrote: OpenOfffice has now deleted the content of 2

Re: bad allocation crash part 2

2015-04-07 Thread Jim McLaughlin
How about what version of Open Office? What type of file, Text, Spread sheet, data base? File size in kilobytes / megabytes? What OS and what versio of thre OS? How much memory available in the machine? Really need that kind of data to even begin to look at ideas / solutions. Please do not

Re: OMBUDSMAN PETITION-CESAR M. ALBA VS LLOYDS BANK PLC.DOCX

2015-04-04 Thread Jim McLaughlin
From the caption of the initial request it looks like the document may have been saved as a .docx file. Which can be problematical On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Martin Groenescheij mar...@groenescheij.com wrote: Sent from my mobile device. On 4 Apr 2015, at 2:49 pm, cesarma...@aol.com

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

2015-06-25 Thread Jim McLaughlin
: On 06/25/2015 08:57 PM, Jim McLaughlin wrote: Anthony - I'm with you. The whole styles approach is ridiculous. I still have a great fondness for Word Perfect. The Reveal Codes function gave me total control. Even more so than Micro$loth Word. Sadly, for all practical purposes, Word

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

2015-06-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Where does one find this magical sounding macro/extension? On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:12 PM, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/26/2015 01:57 AM, Julian Thomas wrote: I totally agree - Reveal Codes was a superb and valuable feature that SHOULD have been incorporated into OO. Did you

Re: problems downloading OpenOffice

2015-06-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
First, thank you for forwarding so much data regarding the failed downloads. That is really helpful in terms of trouble shooting. I'm not the most knowledgible person on this list / board. I hope that either Brian Barker or Rory O'Farrell will chime in. In my limited experience, in downloading

Re: Please advise

2015-06-17 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Please always provide version of your specific operating system and the specific version of Open Office you are using whenever posting a question. The software for this message board strips off all attachments. Thus, the copy of your file which you attached has never and will never appear here.

Re: Screen shifted from a single to three across

2015-06-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
And when you went to the Help (by clicking the F1 key) and looked at Display and Screen and :View you found.? Oh, you didn't do that? Well, please start there. When you do post a message seeking aid, please always indicate your specific operating system and the specific version of OO

Re: downloading open office

2015-05-23 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Please be sure that you are only attempting to download from the actual, official, free, website: www.openoffice.org On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Greg Masson greghmas...@gmail.com wrote: All I want to do is use open office, however I have tried for one hour tonite to get the download.

Re: An Issue

2015-07-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
It works quite well, but you must send your unsubscribe request from the same E mail account which you utilized to initially sign in, and, as noted by another contributor, you must confirm the unsubscribe request as requested by the robot which runs the subscribe / unsubscribe function. You're

Re: Open sur Windows 10

2015-08-05 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Oui, OO est compatible avec Windoze Dix 2015-08-04 23:02 GMT-07:00 Thierry Spanhove spanhove.thie...@neuf.fr: Bonjour, Je vais passer sur windows 10 prochainement, à cette occasion je souhaite passer sur Open Office 4.1.1 mais celui ci est il compatible aves windows 10 ? Merci d’avance et

Re: Fwd: Apache Office org

2015-08-04 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Larry- Simon - I invoke the age old net phrase which terminates all disputes. Hitler! If this is important enough to you for you two to fight over, please take it private. Thank you. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-08-04, 4:43 PM Simon

Re: Cannot remove new line character between two sections

2015-08-10 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Sounds like yet another example of why a Word Perfect Reveal Codes type function is so badly needed in OO.  On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:11 PM, jd1008 jd1...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/10/2015 03:04 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: Sent from my iPhone On 11 Aug 2015, at 12:20 am,

Re: questions about the extensions for open office

2015-10-29 Thread Jim McLaughlin
In Writer in OO 4.1.1: File> New > Labels You'll get a box with three tabs. The first tab (Labels) gives you a panel on the right side about 2/3 of the way down the panel to select a label format by label manufacturer and form number, *e.g.* "Avery 5160 Address". Other parts of that panel

Re: Bogus link

2015-11-11 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Something is then wrong with your browser and its linkages. I have used the www.openoffice.org link forwarded to the sourceforge site to download OO 4.1.2 to 3 machines in the last 3 or so weeks. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:55 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 11/11/2015 02:52 PM,

Re: problem with creating labels from mailing list

2015-11-03 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Please bVersion of Open Office? Computer operating system and version? We need certain basic bits of info to even think about your issue. Thank you. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Angie Earle wrote: > My computer here at work has been changed several times.

Fwd: problem with creating labels from mailing list

2015-11-03 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Angie sent a response solely to me, not to the group. She is Using: Windows 7 Professional, Open Office 4.1.0 -- *From:* Jim McLaughlin [mailto:jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2015 2:51 PM *To:* users@openoffice.apache.org; Angie Earle

Re: Download 4.1.2

2015-10-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
"Front page" for OO 4.1.2 download was at: http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4.1.2 showed up fine for me on the front page. ( ). > > Downloaded and install

Re: Download 4.1.2

2015-10-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
4.1.2 showed up fine for me on the front page. ( ). Downloaded and installed fine. Running happily away on my ancient Dell Latitude laptop under Windoze XP. The install seemed a tad slow, but I ecpect that is a function of the relatively old / slow CPU and the XP. On Fri,

Re: No internal OpenOffice v4.1.2 update for installed v4.1.1?

2015-10-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
4.1.2 showed up fine for me on the front page. ( http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html ). Downloaded and installed fine. Running happily away on my ancient Dell Latitude laptop under Windoze XP. The install seemed a tad slow, but I ecpect that is a function of the relatively old /

Re: No internal OpenOffice v4.1.2 update for installed v4.1.1?

2015-10-30 Thread Jim McLaughlin
ownloading/installing the new version. Regards, Andrea. > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:58:09PM -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: > > 4.1.2 showed up fine for me on the front page. > > ( http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html ). > > > > Downloaded and instal

Re: 发送给你的图片

2015-10-14 Thread Jim McLaughlin
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:20 AM, chen.gx wrote: > > > I don't want receive any mail about OpenOffice anymore. please help me > > > - > To

Re: Recommended program version for old and slow computers, netbooks, based on winXP

2015-10-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Alan, thank you for the tip. I use 4.1.1 on an old Dell Latitude D600, running XP. I have 2 gigs of memory installed (board maximum). The CPU is a now ancient Pentium, 1600 Mhz. It takes a LONG time to boot up. In OO 4.1.1, when I access Tools>Options>Memory and look at the QuickStarter

Re: haven't received any email since 31 August 2015

2015-09-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Ditto here. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't received any email for the Open Office users list since 31 > August. > Are all problems solved or is there a problem with the email server? > > Thanks, > Martin >

Re: test

2015-09-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
> > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Jim McLaughlin > <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looking for list mail > > Appears to be working. > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr..

Re: question....

2016-01-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Instead of playing like a six year old with silly riddles, just specify the version of the Mac O/S and ask if that O/S can support OO Version 4.1.2. The grownups here really don't have time for six year old's riddles. Or, once you actually determine your Mac operating system version, you could

Re: can't open 2 programs at once

2016-06-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Brian and JonlyDonly - STOP. HITLER. End this, please. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 12:35 06/06/2016 -0600, Jonly Donly wrote: > >> You misquote who wrote the statement. >> > > Sorry, but I didn't: it was definitely you. > > Jonly Donly

Re: Referencing a cell from previous worksheet in same spreadsheet file...

2016-06-03 Thread Jim McLaughlin
try this: highlight cell to be copied> click edit >click copy;>navigate to sheet where cell is to be pasted> navigate to cell on second sheet where original cell is to be pasted >highlight destination location > edit > click "paste special" > on grey pop up screen click "link" On Fri, Jun 3,

Re: hi

2016-06-11 Thread Jim McLaughlin
This is neither rocket surgery nor brain science. Go to Open Office Help by pressing F1. Click the INDEX tab. On the search line, "*superscript text*". Press the Display radio button. Follow the directions which come up in the right panel. On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:51 AM,

Re: #############################################

2016-06-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Doug - Its the repetitive hash tag / pound sign in the OP's (Sean's) initial post which will make many readers think the initial message is SPAM. Wade is not indicating / stating or implying that a spam message will create the issue initially described by Sean. Wade is telling Sean that a

Re: Windows 11

2016-01-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
There is, as yet, no Windows 11. If your question was meant to refer to Windows 10, which does exist, AOO is reportedin many posts on this list, be compatabl with Windows 10. I have not, yet, personally used AOO 4.1.2 with Win 10. On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Richard Beeston

Re: Windows 11

2016-01-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
wrote: > Hi Jim > > Sorry to inform you but Windows 11 was launched the day before yesterday > and is in stores now. > > Regards Richard > > -----Original Message- From: Jim McLaughlin > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 7:55 AM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Compatibility

2016-01-18 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Not an Apple guy, so I can't tell you if AOO 4.1.2 is compatible with your op sys. If you download ONLY from www.openoffice.org and no where else you will be "safe" in the sense that you will not get any "add ons"or assorted malware. That site should list compatiIble Apple OS versions, if the

Re: Windows 11

2016-01-15 Thread Jim McLaughlin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Richard Beeston wrote: > Well what is this then > > > Image result for windows 11 > > > Windows 11 Release Date, Feature Concepts, Update And ... > > > > windows11update.com/ What it is is a non Microsoft site with a bunch of third party

Re: new wireless touch pad driving me bonkers

2016-02-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dave Mainwaring - I had the same issue with a Dell Pavillion 17 laptop, product number K4Q96UA#ABA running 64 bit Win10 Home on a non touch screen. Synaptic SMBus touch pad. Couple weeks ago I gave up on the touch pad and plugged in an old logitech wireless mouse. Its not a Win 10 compliant

Re: new wireless touch pad driving me bonkers

2016-02-28 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dave Mainwaring - Follow up on my prior post re using mouse instead of touchpad with Win 10. HP mouse is a "X3000". I did finally connect it this afternoon. Functions perfectly. On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dave Mai

Re: Help please!

2016-01-25 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dan - Katherine had a question about apparently disappearing files when she tried to load a history manager onto her OO installation. Jan, who's first language is not English, graciously tried to help by recommending a program called "recuva" to recover the missing files. The phrase "dwn

Re: Windows 10 and Apache open office

2016-03-29 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Lucy Blake - I upgraded my laptop from Win 8.1 to Win 10 about three months ago, just after New Years. I had no issues. The upgrade went fine. There is a learning curve from Win 8 to Win 10. I did back up all my files (not programs, but files) to an external hard drive as a precaution, but

Re: A question

2016-05-21 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Please be sure that when you do download Open Office you download it *ONLY* from: http://www.openoffice.org/ On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2016 19:57:16 +0100 Rory O'Farrell > writes: > > > No, you have to download it

Re: Conveting files from Word Perfect x7

2016-07-29 Thread Jim McLaughlin
I have not used any Word Perfect product in at least a dozen years. I do not know what file formats WP 7 uses. It is my understanding that Open Office (OO) 4.2.1does not directly handle the PW file format *.wpd, due to licensing issues with Corel, the publisher of Word Perfect. Similarly, OO

Re: propagating changes

2016-07-19 Thread Jim McLaughlin
16 at 1:33 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 12:57 19/07/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: > >> How do I change the default font in Calc? I have vision issues and both >> the Arial font structure as well as the default size are an issue for

Re: propagating changes

2016-07-19 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Brian - Thank you for the walk through on managing and changing default fonts in Writer. Esay to follow and helpful. A slightly related question: How do I change the default font in Calc? I have vision issues and both the Arial font structure as well as the default size are an issue for me.

Re: Languages Office Writer

2016-07-09 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dan - SNIP > 2. >How well do you understand the use of styles in Writer? If not >well you need to learn. There are chapters on styles that will be >very helpful. > > Where are these "chapters" on styles located? > > On 7/5/2016 9:40 AM, chaxiraxi...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>>

Re: Languages Office Writer

2016-07-10 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Brian - Yes, it does help. Thank you. On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 10:22 09/07/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: > >> Where are these "chapters" on styles located? >> > > In t

Re: Double line spacing

2016-08-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
virii On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote: > > I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a >> term-paper or a dissertation might frequently >> be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation

Re: Double line spacing

2016-08-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
rian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote: > >> virii >> > > Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension > noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would

Re: Libre Office

2017-02-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
sei...@hamburg.de > wrote: > So does OpenOffice. > > > Am 06.02.2017 um 20:59 schrieb Jim McLaughlin: > > Libre Office works. > > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:19 AM, John Gregson <jfgreg...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > >> Wh

Re: Libre Office

2017-02-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Libre Office works. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:19 AM, John Gregson wrote: > What is the difference between Open Office and Libre office? > > > > > > J. Gregson > jfgreg...@shaw.ca > >

Re: Libre Office

2017-02-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
s a klutz instead of a leghorn.. > > Vincent Juliano > vjuli...@optonline.net > > > On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:09 PM, Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > No, it doesn't. > > OO is a bad joke. yaers and years with the same defects, unresolved. &

Re: Libre Office

2017-02-06 Thread Jim McLaughlin
. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de > wrote: > Yes, enough is enough. > > It is time for you to go to bed! > > Am 06.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Jim McLaughlin: > > Vinnie - > > You and I have neen using OO since the s

Re: Help needed NO FORUM PLEASE

2017-02-02 Thread Jim McLaughlin
So you are a dumb shit incapable of receiving advice in th omly manner in which it is offered. Your problem. Send microsoft youur money and begone from the forum. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 23:43:06 -0200 > Giulli Castro

Re: Cant access a template

2017-01-29 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Yet another instane of a long festering defect in the OO "organization" and the inability or unwillingness of the organization to resolve it. OO is effectively dead. Try Libre Office fr a somewhat better experience. Sad to be a *former* OO user, but after a while dealing with the defective

Re: Installing OO.o

2017-02-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Why would Microsoft alter Windows Defender in Win 10 to make use of open source garbage like OO 4.1.3 easier? Microsoft is in the business of selling, among other things, Office and Word. You truly think that Microsoft wiould willingly cut into the sales of Office or Word to assist Open Office

Re: Installing OO.o

2017-02-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Imagine how much I care what you think. On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 9:14 AM, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-02-26 18:01 GMT+01:00 Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com>: > > > Why would Microsoft alter Windows Defender in Win 10 to make use of open &g

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