I don't see any attached error message, I'm not sure whether
attachments are allowed on this list. Can you just tell us what it
was? And I'm not clear about whether the error message was when
running 4.1.1, when installing 4.1.2 or when running 4.1.2.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Claude Barsalo wrote:
Doug -
When you say that Word 'no longer opens' them, do you mean that when
you double-click on them they're opened in OpenOffice? If so, it means
that the file association has been changed. Can you right-click on a
.rtf file and choose to open it with Word?
- Robert
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Do
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, Ace Rosman wrote:
When I open OpenOffice I get a very small box to write on and am not able to
even see what I type. In the past, the box filled a good part of the
monitor and was a pleasure to use. How can I enlarge the box?
If I understand correctly, the Window (or b
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, richard s wrote:
Hi
I purchased software on eBay open office with seagulls on here's the link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OPEN-OFFICE-2016-for-Microsoft-Windows-Home-Student-365-Digital-Download-/291725612179?hash=item43ec339493:g:DrkAAOSwll1WuLnr
That I paid for which I've
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, Wagar, Hannah Lee wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded Open Office on my Macbook Pro a couple years ago. I was on the phone with a
tech support guy who helped me complete the download, then he had me download a program
that was supposed to "clean up" my computer, and rid it of vir
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 yo
A quick Web search turns up the following from 2015:
<<
You should start by deleting or renaming your OpenOffice user profile.
As you are using Windows do this by:
Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and
paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer Address Bar and
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Doug wrote:
...
I don't believe Open Office can write docx format output.
..
If docx format is required, SoftMakerOffice's word processor can do it
and there is a free version for non-commercial use. It doesn't have all
the bells and whistes of the paid version, which is in
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Robert King wrote:
I would like to change the default font for all text documents to Verdana.
...
While waiting for someone more knowledgeable to respond, you may want
to look into using Templates. I haven't used them myself but I think
they'll do what you want.
See, f
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, James Knott wrote:
...
AOO supports both backup copies and autorecovery.
...
That's true, but the support could be more robust.
I found this for AOO 3:
<<
Save AutoRecovery information every
Choose whether to enable AutoRecovery and how often to save the
information us
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 11/12/16 8:06 AM, iris.j.willi...@btinternet.com wrote:
I had Windows XP laptop I have now changed to Windows 10. I had two files
in documents on Windows XP they are PAF and FTL I cannot open them on Open
Office 4.12 can you tell me how to d
documents are working.
Regards
Iris
From: "Robert Funnell" Windows XP laptop and des
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To: ;
Cc:
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: PAF & FTL FILES
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
> On 11/12/16 8:06 AM, iris
This may be because of the particular keyboard layout and/or language
setting that you're using. What you're describing seems to correspond
to the standard speech marks (or quotation marks) used in Dutch and a
number of other languages, as shown at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
- R
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Stephen Nichols wrote:
I used WordPerfect for 15 years because of two reasons, besides that it’s a
great product.
1) I hate Microsoft.
2) I absolutely LOVE the “reveal codes” function of WP. It is the most
powerful tool in word processing, eliminating all sorts of bad fo
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
The reveal codes shows bad formatting issues, if you learn to use Styles
properly there is nothing to reveal.
Sometimes one has to work with documents created by other people.
And often one would like to be able to place the cursor before or
af
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Stephen Nichols wrote:
Let me clarify. The “codes” revealed are not what your thinking of — tags with
bracketed text, XML code, etc.. I think that the viewing option should more
properly be called “Reveal Structure” since it simply shows what formatting
instruction has
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:08:16 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Robert Funnell wrote:
...
To me the value of RevealCodes in WordPerfect was not just in seeing
the structure but in therefore being able to position the cursor
before or after (or insi
Yuriy -
I don't see a screenshot in your message, I'm not sure if attachments
are allowed in this list. If you want help, perhaps you could try
explaining the latest symptoms in words, and what operating system
you're using.
- Robert
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Jura Rúdnev wrote:
Dear sirs,
A l
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Doug Rhodes wrote:
Hello,
Difficult to get to you. I need a question answered. I have a older disc for
OO.O vs.3.1 ?. I see there is a newer offering. My question is this (as I never
really learned or needed to learn) all the apps of the old one. I have many, many
PDF
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Diana Ashley PhD wrote:
Hi! I have some documents made in an older version of Open Office (they’re
dated in 2004) and though I searched online, I can’t figure out to download a
version that will open them. I currently run Open Office 4.1.1 and don’t want
to overwrite it.
This is an OTF font that requires special handling. According to the
usage notes (notice d’utilisation) on the provider's Web site, the
font is compatible with LibreOffice version 5.3 and higher. According
to the FAQ, 'OpenOffice does not handle contextual variants ... On the
other hand, LibreO
cts the column, row or table;
"Number Format" and "Table properties" And I can't find anything in those
that lets me select "unprotected cells."
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Robert Funnell
wrote:
Peggy -
I don't really understand Wade Smart's resp
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, j g wrote:
I notice you operate in a bastardized US spelling of proper English words.
It's not clear what you're asking about. Can you provide examples?
Is there a way to clean that up at my end? Or do you have an app or extension
to correct
It?
I assume that your prob
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote:
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill
suggestions. If I want to type '60 minute massage', it comes up even after
I type "60", which is great, but now i have all of these o
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:58 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote:
> > I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill
> > suggestions. If
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:38 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
> o Complete suggestions are not provided: merely partial ones as far as
> they are common.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Complete words
I guess you mean Apache OO.
Have you looked at http://www.openoffice.org/download/ ?
There are 2 flavours of packages for Linux, Deb and RPM. Mageia seems
to use RPM?
- Robert
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
Is there an AOO distribution for Linux, specifically for Mageia 7?
M
David -
Johnny Rosenberg is right that corrupted profiles seem to cause a lot
of misery.
If that doesn't help: When you start a new show, do you start from
scratch with a new document, or do you revise an existing document? If
the latter, then there might be some corruption in that document.
minute or so, I’m screwed. I am
also creating some data for an upcoming book. It is basically a listing of
concerts, in various categories. And yes, they occasionally crash too. Not as
often…but it has happened.
I can try to change my profile, I guess it can’t hurt.
Thanks,
David
Sent
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
At 20:28 08/08/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
You should be able to set OpenOffice to save your document periodically. In
LibreOffice this is under Tools > Options > Load/Save > General. I think
it's similar in OpenOffice.
As I me
Derek -
Your scanner is presumably producing images of text rather than actual
editable text. Unless you want to retype all the text yourself, you
will need to try using 'optical character recognition' (OCR). See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition and
https://en.wikip
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote:
In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics
with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that
provided with OpenOffice) indicates that, when one wants a picture to
appear in one of Writer's documents,
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Dan Lewis wrote:
On 10/24/20 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, William Lee Valentine wrote:
In response to Mr. Olsson's recent complaint about combining graphics
with text in Writer: my documentation for Writer (distinct from that
provided
I've always had the impression that frames and images act the same in
terms of anchoring and subsequent positioning (including sometimes
unexpected behaviour of paragraph anchoring), and images can disappear
from within frames, so frames don't seem to be a cure-all.
- Robert
On Sun, 25 Oct 20
I read the bug report and it seems to be exclusively about images that
are copied and pasted? My understanding is that this thread applies
also to images that are inserted from files, and that the behaviour is
much less reproducible.
- Robert
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, Peter Kovacs wrote:
Hello
My instructions to myself for this are at
http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_ooo.html#replaceHardReturns
- Robert
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Aloris Te wrote:
Hi all,
So thankful for everyone that contributes and makes this product so
incredibly amazing!
I have one question: I am unable to d
At https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3395 you can see some
of the history of this request. I would love to see it but I don't
know if it will ever happen.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Eric Fenster wrote:
What chance Open Office will offer "reveal codes" à la Word Perfect?
This is the rea
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 01/21/2013 03:41 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 20:50 20/01/2013 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 01/20/2013 11:53 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
The only reason you can have a single troubling code is that the program
is faulty. Wouldn't
Pat -
About Reveal Codes: I loved them in WP, and there's no reason why
something comparable couldn't be implemented in OO and in fact
somebody cobbled together a kind of demo at one point (in spite of
what people say about styles). But we don't have them.
About styles: Yes, that's the elega
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Doug wrote:
On 06/22/2013 10:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
/snip/
If the WP lobby feel so strongly about not having "Reveal Codes", why don't
they do something about it and write an extension to do just that?
Maybe it's because we're not programmers. We're people who
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Toki Kantoor wrote:
On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the feature
controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document text may require
both deep and wide modification of current code.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Wade Smart wrote:
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Cliff wrote:
Could someone pleas tell me how to delete just one file from my list of files
in open office 4 please.
Do you mean your recently opened list?
At the bottom - clear list.
If you are indeed asking about the
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 08:48:20PM -0700, Terry Lugviel wrote:
It was from OpenOffice.org.
Hey genius, if you didn't download from openoffice.apache.org it's your
own goddamn fault. ^^
I don't understand the poi
On Thu, 1 May 2014, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:29 01/05/2014 +0300, Ivan Penev wrote:
I do NOT find any icon for your "Track Changes" feature; please advise how
I create or customize such an icon. Actually, it could be very helpful to
have it on the toolbar.
o Open a text (Writer) document.
o
On Tue, 20 May 2014, David McGuire wrote:
...
I noticed when scrolling through the special character list by heading that
there is one called "Canadan Aboriginal Symbols". Should this not be
"CANADIAN Aboriginal Symbols"?
...
For which font are you seeing that?
--
On Tue, 20 May 2014, Robert Funnell wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014, David McGuire wrote:
...
I noticed when scrolling through the special character list by heading
that
there is one called "Canadan Aboriginal Symbols". Should this not be
"CANADIAN Aboriginal Symbols"?
On Wed, 21 May 2014, Mayers, Jennifer A. wrote:
We noticed that there does not seem to be a word counter. This is required for
essays and some research papers my son is doing, so we do not want to download
this program in unless it has the word counter. Could you let us know about
this?
T
In Writer, right-click on the picture that you've inserted into the
document and look for the Wrap item in the menu that pops up.
Experiment with the different options. You may also want to experiment
with the Alignment item in the same menu.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Darren Smith wrote:
Hi th
With my e-mail client, if I open the document directly from the e-mail
client then it is read-only. Clicking on the 'Edit File' button in the
toolbar offers the possibility of editing a copy of the file.
Alternatively, if I first save the document somewhere and then open it
from there, it is n
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Christopher Hallsworth wrote:
I can tell you it sucks under OS X. I asked to make it accessible with
VoiceOver but received no response. Someone suggested LibreOffice your
competitor so going to try that.
According to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Accessibility
(last m
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Max Moroni wrote:
Hi all, i have noted that if you insert an image in OO the software Switch
automatically to the last page of the document. This is very annoying because
when you have document of many pages after inserting an image you have to
scroll back the document up
A Google search for 'open office spell check highlights every word'
led me to this forum thread from 2012:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56074
It points to a trouble-shooting procedure:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16512
The bottom line in th
In the View menu under Toolbars there's an item called Drawing that
you can turn on. Is that what you're looking for?
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Bridget Letcher wrote:
I just got an update for openoffice, which I did update, but...
I'm not very good at explaining, but I'll give it a try. A few
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote:
Please help-. I am hysterical here.
I have just had the bright idea to upgrade my Open Office program. The upgrade
from 3.3 to 4.1.1 went swimmingly except NOW I CANNOT OPEN ANY OF THE HUNDREDS
OF DOCUMENTS ON MY SYSTEM. I REPRESENT 20 SPORTING
cs using Doxillon or something similar - one by one? Wouldn't it be
easier to just reinstall 3.3?
Christine
I haven't
- Original Message - From: "Robert Funnell"
To: "Christine Lawrence"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM
Subject:
ed in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes
any difference.
Christine
- Original Message - From: "Robert Funnell"
To: "Christine Lawrence"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: I have lost everything
Christine -
I don't rememb
an effort for me. It is nice to be
rescued by strangers.
I think I will go an eat now.
Many kind thoughts
Christine
- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Funnell"
To: "Christine Lawrence"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: I have lost every
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