Re: Assistance re:scam

2024-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 10:33, Steve Norton wrote: > This is sad. I would just about wager that the media you received or > website was loaded with malware. “Open Office cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified” It doesn' t necessarily mean the OO code had malware, just that

Re: OpenOffice interface

2024-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 16:00 Fernando Cassia wrote: > Some of us like CUA menus. > A properly designed user interface that can be navigated with mouse clicks > or (for me, most of the time) keyboard shortcuts. > > EG alt-f then using the cursor Keys. > > If the UI is revamp

Re: OpenOffice interface

2024-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
Some of us like CUA menus. A properly designed user interface that can be navigated with mouse clicks or (for me, most of the time) keyboard shortcuts. EG alt-f then using the cursor Keys. If the UI is revamped, that is the day K will stop using AOL. Yeah, newer interfaces might look flasher,

Re: Mi autorizzate a vendere il vostro software Open Office su CD-ROM?

2023-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 15:50 Keith N. McKenna wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: > > La licenza del software openoffice è GPL. > > Risposta breve: sì, puoi. > > > > Ecco cosa dice Richard Stallman sulla vendita di software libero > > > > https://www.gnu.or

Re: Mi autorizzate a vendere il vostro software Open Office su CD-ROM?

2023-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
La licenza del software openoffice è GPL. Risposta breve: sì, puoi. Ecco cosa dice Richard Stallman sulla vendita di software libero https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.it.html FC On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 07:35 Simone Nardoni wrote: > Salve, come da titolo mi chiedevo se potreste

Re: Software support

2023-11-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, 17:16 Gemma Lloyd, wrote: > > Dear Open Office Support, > > My grandfather who has used Open office via you and Sun Systems for years > and worked as an engineer in the tech and electronics sector (ICL,D2D, > Fujitsu and Celestica) all his life now at the grand age of 81 has

Re: Open Office.org

2022-10-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 07/10/2022, amous78 wrote: > Dear Open Office Representative: > I downloaded your version that was supposed to be compatible with my MacOS > Monterey 12.6 version. It said I need to contact the developer to get the > updated version that is compatible with my computer. Could you please help

Re: Winding OpenOffice down

2022-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 23/06/2022, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/6/22 2:20 pm, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> Cows see a lot of trains pass by while pasturing, and that doesn' t >> make the cows train engineers. > I like that. > > Are you the source of that one? Sadly, no. > That is a prover

Re: Winding OpenOffice down

2022-06-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 22/06/2022, Flaviu Tamas wrote: > Why hasn't OpenOffice been wound down & shuttered? > > The existence of the website makes users assume that OpenOffice is > still actively being developed It is. > when those users would be much better > served migrating to LibreOffice. Speak for yourself.

Re: Formula

2022-04-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
The right way to do it is convert HH:MM to seconds. Then calculate your billing rate PER SECOND (amount / 60), and multiply it with the first value. At least that' s how I'd do it. Hope this helps... FC On 09/04/2022, rcrmon...@wi.rr.com wrote: > My pay is basically done by the minute. When I

Re: How to recover a accidently deleted manuscript

2021-10-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 13/10/2021, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:12:00 -0700 > 100 page manuscript and no timed dated backups? Tut-tut! > > Look at the methods set out in this tutorial for recovering deleted files > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71=85038 After several

Re: PLEASE DISCONTINUE AUTOMATIC FORMATTING

2021-08-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
If you Google for "automatic capitalization OpenOffice" the first search result is this: *How do I stop OpenOffice.org from changing the first letter of a word to uppercase?* 1. Select Tools > AutoCorrect Options and then the Options tab. 2. Near the top of the list, uncheck the [T] box

Re: PLEASE DISCONTINUE AUTOMATIC FORMATTING

2021-08-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
You seem to have no problems with writing in all caps, that's for sure. FC On Thu., 12 Aug. 2021, 21:39 David Cobble, wrote: > DEAR OPEN-OFFICE, > > THE AUTOMATIC FORMATTING FEATURES ON YOUR SOFTWARE *IS A NIGHTMARE FOR > WRITERS!* > > WE DO NOT NEED IT. WE DO NOT NEED YOUR PLATFORM MAKING

Re: OPEN OFFICE 4.10... ACTIVATION TROUBLES

2021-05-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, Not a Mac user myself but I found this by googling: Go to "System Preferences" click on "Security and Privacy"> General tab, "Allow apps from" click on "Anywhere" and this allows the "Apache *open office*" program to be *verified* and installed. Hope this helps, FC On Wed., 12 May

Re: AOO PDF Import

2021-02-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed., 10 Feb. 2021, 11:21 Brian Barker, wrote: > At 07:46 10/02/2021 -0300, you wrote: > >I have downloaded and installed the AOO PDF import extension v0.1.0 > >from the extensions web site. > > Extensions are the responsibility of their individual authors, not of > OpenOffice itself. I

AOO PDF Import

2021-02-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi Users, I have downloaded and installed the AOO PDF import extension v0.1.0 from the extensions web site. I have successfully opened a pdf file and it looks good, allows me to edit a typo generated by the back end server that generates pdf files. However I'm not sure if I'm using it right. I

Re: Status of the former Sun Microsystems "Opendocument filters for Microsoft Office"?

2021-01-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat., 16 Jan. 2021, 09:04 Peter Kovacs, wrote: > Hello, > > According to Wikipedia Microsoft Office supports the ODF standard 1.2 > since 2013. > > My cooperate Microsoft Word Version (which is 365) supports the Foirmat > using Apache POI. > > The Microsoft user needs to select Save as and

Re: Status of the former Sun Microsystems "Opendocument filters for Microsoft Office"?

2021-01-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 11/01/2021, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Sun Microsystems used to offer a set of installable Opendocument > Filters for Microsoft Office. The download page was at: > > http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp > > On Web Archive the last version seems to be v3.

Status of the former Sun Microsystems "Opendocument filters for Microsoft Office"?

2021-01-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi users, Recently I had a nightmarish experience with trying to edit long tables on a document originally created with Microsoft Office (the last version before the Office365 move, I believe it was Office 2003). It had tables pasted inside of tables... something which was a nightmare to edit and

Re: emails

2020-12-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
John, You need to unsubscribe from the mailing list yourself. Send an empty email to this address: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org Regards, FC On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 16:40 BAINES JOHN wrote: > Please stop users sending me emails I no longer subscribe to Open Office > > john baines >

Re: Possible Violation of Copyright buy 3rd party developer

2020-02-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 19:47 James Weil wrote: > A 3rd party developer, Menial Software (n...@menial.co.uk i...@menial.co.uk>.,https://menial.co.uk/base/ ) > is marketing a commercial SQLite database for the Mac as a commercial > product and has named it ‘Base’. This

Re: Is there a FAXing Facility in AOO?

2020-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 11:14 WA.TWORSX via AOL wrote: > > I have a PDF file that contains info that I want to transmit to a FAX > recipient. If I convert that PDF file, via OCR, would AOO-Writer be > useful to FAX the document? > > Regards, VinceB. > What you need to fax us a rasterized

Re: I can't use your product...

2017-10-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 10/8/17, zahra a wrote: > hi. > java is required for base. > if you need for example writer and other component too, they work > without need java! > also i need java in openoffice if you need some vizards. > i dont know any other case that you are required to install

Re: I can't use your product...

2017-10-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 10/8/17, Jura Rúdnev wrote: >Ok, I found out what is > JRE, downloaded it and restarted my computer... Now I have OO4, Java, > wasted nearly 400MB of the my 4G internet (is not free!) and your OO4 is > not working.. Dear "Yuriy" Your math doesnt add up: AOO4: v4.1.3 a

Re: OpenOffice writer has neither an envelope tab nor a printer setup tab

2017-10-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 10/6/17, Abdul Harunah wrote: > My version of OpenOffice writer does not have either an envelope printing or > printer setup features. The version currently installed in my MacBook Pro > is 4.1.3. Can you help me to correct this situation? > > Thanks > > Abdul You setup

Re: Question

2017-09-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/23/17, Steve Ahlers wrote: > Right click on a file, chose Open With, chose OpenOffice module from list > (Writer for text files, Calc for spread sheet files, etc.), check box for > All Files of this type, chose Open. In the future all files with the same >

Re: Hello

2017-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/18/17, Eliana R. wrote: > I am having a problem with OpenOffice. I am unable to scroll down with my > keyboard; I have been trying to change the format settings for the past hour > and nothing has worked. Can you please help me fix this issue? Thank you. > Eliana

Re: Android OS and open office

2017-09-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/15/17, nina h wrote: > Is it possible to get your program for my cell phone? Which version should I > use? > > I have to thank you for creating a program that opens and edits all docs. > > Nina Nina, I don't know what "all documents" means (text documents only?

Re: Thanks!

2017-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/28/17, a.b...@mindspring.com wrote: > Isn't there some way Ed can retrieve what he created? If the app crashes usually when you restart a dialog comes up offering you to "recover" your unsaved document. Something like this

Re: Thanks!

2017-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/27/17, Edi Mesic wrote: > Thank you. > > I just wasted three hours of my life, writing an extensive report. It’s not > so much about quantity, as it is about quality. > All the ideas and creativity: completely and utterly lost because your > program crashes for apparently

Re: Diccionario

2017-03-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 3/13/17, Mnc __ wrote: > Gracias, pero así lo he intentado y nada, ni siquiera en la pagina hay uno > en español como tal. Es. Como si no tuviera ningún contenido ningún archivo, > me he bajado el italiano y latino y nada. > Por favor leer hasta el final, donde

Re: Diccionario

2017-03-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 3/13/17, Mnc __ wrote: > Buenos días, estoy intentando localizar el diccionario de Español en el > programa, que se supone que está instalado junto al OOffice, pero no > funciona, no tiene cargada ninguna palabra y no corrige ningún texto. Que > tengo que

Re: contact me to help me with apache open office

2017-03-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 3/10/17, Gene Riddell wrote: > my open office is no longer working properly. i cannot force/quit it. i can > be reached after 5pm friday eastern standard time. 7277299749. Gene, Welcome to this mailing list. A mailing list is an e-mail based discussion group, for the

Re: What is the oldest Linux that AOO can run on? Is there a policy wrt baseline libraries/distro release?

2017-01-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
t I was looking for!. FC On 1/19/17, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 13/01/2017 Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I wonder what are the older Linux version that AOO-current (whatever >> is the latest version) will run on? > > Version 4.1.3 is built on CentOS 5 wit

What is the oldest Linux that AOO can run on? Is there a policy wrt baseline libraries/distro release?

2017-01-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
I wonder what are the older Linux version that AOO-current (whatever is the latest version) will run on? I'm not concerned too much about kernel but glibc which is a common cause of hassles. And I'm trying to create a VM with the oldest possible, still supported Linux version, with AOO on it.

Re: OpenOffice using NetBeans plaform

2016-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/18/16, Martin Groenescheij wrote: > Sorry guys this is a user mailing list and as a user I'm only interested > in functionality > the technical aspects should be discussed at the dev mailing list You are right. Sorry for the noise. End of this thread as far as I'm

Re: OpenOffice using NetBeans plaform

2016-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > 1.43 GB (1,541,226,333 bytes) of text in > 60,955 files, in 6429 folders > wow, thousands of folders!! that already scared the s--t out of me. Folders are hard to port. And the 1.43 gigabyte figure of TEXT

Re: OpenOffice using NetBeans plaform

2016-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I don't understand what that means. > > I thought NetBeans is an IDE with an extensive collection of plug-ins. > Netbeans also provides its own framework, Netbeans Platform, which also includes its own widget

Re: AOO crashes on applying styles

2016-09-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > I mentioned it here a few years ago but > the response were that ”it works for me”. Later I switched hardware > completely (processor, memory, graphics card, mother board, everything > except the DVD burner and

Re: Java

2016-09-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:11 PM, toki wrote: > I take it you have never had the pleasure of using Apache OpenOffice > with either _Window Eyes_ or _JAWS_ and a Braille Display Monitor. > > Hint: it doesn't work. > First you claimed the lack of accesibility APIs as an

Re: Inquiries

2016-08-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
[This somehow landed on the dev list] On 8/28/16, John Yoko Ono Lennon wrote: > Does Apache have > Old English font available? > How stable is it? > I have used WPS but it always collapses. > Upgrade costs? Apache Open Office uses whatever fonts you have installed on your

Re: Research for School

2016-08-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 8/13/16, Yvonne Simmons wrote: > Hello, > My name is Yvonne Simmons and I am doing some research on word processors > for school and I was wondering if you could help me out? Would you be > willing to give me three similarities and three differences

Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of Windows

2016-07-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 7/13/16, William Sullivan wrote: > Is anything published about these differences? > > Is there a forum for users on OS X? > > Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X? > > I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from >

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

2016-06-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 6/15/16, Sean Keough wrote: > A few days ago I opened > up the program, clicked on the file and instead of 15 pages of diary I have > 15 pages of hashtags. > > ## > and so on. >

Re: Java

2016-06-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 6/3/16, suhail ansari wrote: > > Hi everyone, I have a suggestion that Apache OpenOffice should be re written > in java because java is available on all major server and desktop operating > system. Google recently switched to OpenJDK for Android development and >

Re: Apache Open Office v. 4.1.2

2016-05-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 5/3/16, Arnold E. Watkins wrote: > it states that the Open Office works with Windows 8, but there is no > mention of Windows 10. My questions is does it work with Windows 10? Windows always maintains backwards compatibility. Even apps compiled for Windows NT 4 released

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 3/16/16, Urmas wrote: > "Darren Myers": > >> I shouldn't have to delete a profile and re-create it and go through that >> >> pain in order to get the most basic function working. >> Open office need to fix this MAJOR problem. > > Of course this is a big problem, but

Re: please

2016-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 1/27/16, John Hart wrote: > The math was way off, the point wasn't. Most mail lists have unsubscribe > links that aren't so problem prone. What is exactly, "the problem" and what do you propose to fix it? I dont see anything different in the way this mailing list works

Re: Windows 11

2016-01-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
There is no such thing as "Windows 11" AFAIK. FC On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Richard Beeston wrote: > Dear all > > Does anyone know if Open Office is compatible with Windows 11. > > Thanks -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a

Re: Subscription

2016-01-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:22 PM, toki wrote: > Regardless, since Apache Open Office is distributed gratis, it wouldn't > be charging you for a license. > > jonathon > Are we considering the slight chance that this might be a case of a customer running RollAp service on

Re: Open office for iPad

2016-01-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Robert Kemp wrote: > And I have to install 'rollApp' to use it but how do I get it all together > to use? What do you mean by "get it all together"?. Apache Open Office runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and several flavor of Unix, always on

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 released

2015-11-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > He may have javascript disable on his browser. That is one good point. Specially since there´s been a lot of press given to extensions that disable javascript, like NoScript for Firefox, and others. This site is

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 released

2015-11-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:31 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Javascript is evil.. > It is used to spy on your browsing activities. > Not saying that openoffice.org's JS does that. > Most websites install multiple javascripts on your computer. > I asked a knowledgeable and savvy individual

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 released

2015-11-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
Here is a screenshot of what the download page looks like and where you should click to download it. http://s22.postimg.org/f9vo1hdz5/aoo_download.jpg FC On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:57 PM, V. & B. Electric < victorbrasove...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I was trying to download the Apache

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 released

2015-11-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > It really annoys me how sourceforge puts all those other download links > on the open office download page Those are most of the time not links, but advert banners. Big difference. Web users should learn to know

Re: Your download dialogue box(Extension Manager) is extremely confusing

2015-10-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Martin Groenescheij < mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote: > and if I tell you that something is confusing, IT IS! OK, dad. You're always right. ;) FC

Re: Your download dialogue box(Extension Manager) is extremely confusing

2015-10-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Fern Bray wrote: > When > Extension Manager opens, the dictionary is highlighted. It shows 2 > click-boxes: "Disable" and "Remove" as well as "Add" "Check for Updates" > and "Close" > It's English language. Every word has ameaning.

Re: An Issue

2015-07-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Grace Gregg Mountford rain...@upnaway.com wrote: Does Open Office need Microsoft Visual C++ It doesn't install Microsoft Visual C+++ (which is a compiler/IDE), it just installs the VC++ RUNTIME libraries, which is a small set of DLLs needed by any program

Re: An Issue

2015-07-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: No, however, one thing I learned a long time ago, was to only install one app at a time in Windows. Start one, let it finish, then the next, etc.. Otherwise, it gets confused. Apache OpenOffice does ship with the MS

Re: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Sherman dms11...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote: Can we expect OO updates soon or has that function been passed to Libre Office? Libre Office is a different project. This project will never pass any function to LibreOffice. This list is about Apache Open

Re: No Longer Using OpenOffice

2015-04-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I always say things like ”I think people are stupid until the opposite is proven”, not that I mean it very much, it's just fun to say some times… but if the above method really works, then at least some

Re: No Longer Using OpenOffice

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: This mailing list is, as far as I understand, for two main purposes. Asking for help and helping other people. I can't see that this post asks for any kind of help. Neither can I see that it is likely to ever help

Re: Consulta

2015-04-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
2015-04-26 13:10 GMT-03:00 Mª Asunción Gutiérrez López asgutierre...@hotmail.com: Hola Mi consulta se presenta sobre lo siguiente, he escrito en openoffice un texto en formato . odt ¿además del pc se pueden leer en un mac? Muchas gracias Hola Maria, Esta es una lista en idioma

Re: No Longer Using OpenOffice

2015-04-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Blankenship Glenn g.ar...@rocketmail.com wrote: After working hours on my project, then having OpenOffice freeze up and shut down, You don´t say which Apache Open Office version. The latest is 4.1.1. If you had included what operating system and version you´re

Re: re apache office

2015-04-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Jean Wickens wick3...@hotmail.com wrote: I have had to have it reinstalled several times ,since I first got my laptop. Is there any explanation for this. I assume you use Windows. Correct me if I'm wrong. If you use Windows and you install Apache Open

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.1. failure to perform

2015-03-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Kandi kandikountryg...@gmail.com wrote: The pages fail to copy paste correctly. When I do copy and then try to paste a single page on to the gmail, only the text pastes not the whole page with background. I am so exhausted I have sat cried after working

Re: Request for how to email an attachment without sending all of Open Office

2014-10-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Marilyn Robertson employmentmai...@gmail.com wrote: However, if I send my resume as an attachment, in PDF or other forms, the entire Open Office goes with it so that when you open the attachment you get access to everything in my Open Office, including

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about accented characters Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once.

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Simplest are your assumptions. First, I don't use Windows; second, I find myself very often having to use more than one lang in the same text; third, at times I use other editors (for coding, for example); fourth, I

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: User support groups are for getting users' job done, not for holy wars. OpenOffice cannot do what is needed, period. The user is asking about Open Office. The second reply directed him to a converter from Microsoft that allows

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: The best way to open MS Works file is to use LibreOffice, http://libreoffice.org/download/ You can then save them in ODF format and open them in Apache OpenOffice if you want. Could you please use your IDG columns for

Re: OpenOffice is unreliable

2014-08-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM, geoffrey.schulz @dslextreme.com geoffrey.sch...@dslextreme.com wrote: For the last time, OpenOffice crashed and deleted all my hard work. I say the last time, because I am uninstalling it and will never use it again! Open Office has been over 15 years in the

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:51 AM, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: if the autofit option does not work properly, you may set the background image size directly: open 'format - page - background', uncheck 'autofit' and 'original' and set width and height as you wish. You got it wrong. If I

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:06 AM, tammie elgammal tammieelgam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Recently one my students informed me that they were able to read a cover letter from a job application. That has personal information and I would like to kindly ask that you please remove this. Thank you,

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:03 AM, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: i see; it seems to be a bug to file with bugzilla, and a workaround i suggest is nothing more than a workaround. See what I mean: This is what I see in AOO 4.1 when editing the presentation (notice the background, from the

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen bac...@psych.uib.no wrote: Save the file from AOO in pdf format. Then the show can be shown on any machine regardless of operating system, provided the machine has a reader for pdf’s. Thanks, but no, thanks. My plan is to convert it to

Re: AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-31 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:10 AM, johnny smith ka...@krovatka.su wrote: so, powerpoint seems to use different units for page sizes and object sizes: the centimeters of page width are larger than those of a rectangle width. it is quite idiosyncratic, but you have to stay with it. i do not think

AOO 4.1 presentation looks fine in AOO, skewed background exported to PPT and played w MS Ppoint Viewer 2007...

2014-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
AOO 4.1 here. XP64 I created a multi-slides (66 slides so far) presentation using one of the templates. When I preview the slideshow in AOO 4.1,everything looks fine. As soon as I export the presentation to MS Powerpoint, and load it in MS Powerpoint Viewer 2007, the background bitmap, which

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca wrote: There is a word counter. It's in the Tools menu. How difficult would it be to include the word count in the status bar?. I´ve been annoyed by Word users asking for this feature since times immemorial, back when this

Re: Tablets

2014-05-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Robyn Crawford 53redc...@gmail.com wrote: I have an iPad. Can the office be downloaded to a tablet? Thank you for your time. While I´m against user-agent sniffing as a whole, perhaps the www.openoffice.org page, when loaded from an iPad browser could show a

Re: Open Office 4.1.0 - McAfee Couldn't Verify

2014-04-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Issy Vern verni...@care4free.net wrote: McAfee gave me a red shield with a warning that it could not verify the supplier of the software. I wonder if this is realted to the Windows feature of digitally signing executables aka authenticode?

Re: Shame on you. A message to Terry Lugviel

2014-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:55 PM, John Hart jh...@testra.com wrote: If the name was open office it means your DNS was hacked and sent you to a forged site because downloads from the official site don't contain anything but AOO. If the name was close and did something illegal it can be shut

Re: Shame on you. A message to Terry Lugviel

2014-04-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: So it seems there must be some bogus site offering AOO with this findwide add-on bundled. Now it´d be productive if could find out WHERE it is hosted, to shut it down... For instance could someone please test

Re: How do I open spreadsheets in the QuattroPro with extension .wb3 with open office?

2014-04-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Daleep Koshal dal...@ikea.co.bw wrote: How do I open spreadsheets in the QuattroPro with extension .wb3 with open office? I'm not aware of QPro w3b filters for OpenOffice, but there's third party software which claims to convert it

Re: what happened to www.ooocon.org?

2014-03-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: The problem is that these are tons of GB. My upstream connection in Beijing isn't sufficient for that and while I'm in Germany I'm using a mobile 3G package with limited volume. Hi Peter, You might want to check into

Re: ooffice 4.0.1

2014-03-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Sonny Angel sonnyan...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Updating to OpenOffice 4.0.1 was a mistake, it is not ready for prime time. Writer locks up when ever I try to format a page millions of users disagree with your statement. That doesn't mean Writer doesn't lock up on

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

2014-03-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Tom Panfil tap.h...@verizon.net wrote: These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses. They do, if they use GMail SMTP servers which allow setting up aliases for sending email. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a

Re: Reminder: List Conduct Guidelines

2014-01-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Carmen Putrino carmenputr...@yahoo.com wrote: I can't get myself off this list. I want out! You are fucking driving me crazy!! It never cease to amaze me how people subscribe to a mailing list then proceed to feel outraged to see that their inboxes

Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: For major edits (such as relayout or rewrite of the text) you need to use an OCR utility to read the text in the PDF Rory, There is a fundamental misconception here. A PDF is NOT a bitmap. A PDF, more often than not,

Re: Defective Installation CD

2013-11-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Samuel Ogle samuelo...@centurylink.net wrote: If it looks to be a label issue, try removing the label and any remaining stickyness Samuel, You' ve never done that, or did you? Because if you attempt to remove a CD label, you'll surely take the DATA LAYER

Re: Defective Installation CD

2013-11-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Samuel Ogle samuelo...@centurylink.net wrote: I just now found this: http://www.ehow.com/how_5479874_remove-labels-dvds.htm which supports that approach, although not totally the same. Thanks for your response. It depends on the kind of label, and the

Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

2013-10-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We're using a 3rd party library for the charts. I don't see the ability to control the number format, other than to enable or disable rounding to the nearest integer. But maybe someone else sees more here:

Re: Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

2013-10-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I will file a request for enhancement for that 3rd party lib Done http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/detail?id=499 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

Graph numbers in stats pages need thousands separator

2013-10-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
While looking at the graph in http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html it was very difficult for me (besides small screen and poor eyesight) to see if the numbers were 6 million 60 million or 600 million, because of the tiny text and lots of zeros without separators for thousands and hundred

Re: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away... (Rampant FUD in FOSS Land)

2013-09-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Scooter scoo...@scootersdesk.com wrote: I'm a bit confused. It shows. Some comments below each of your statements What is FOSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software FUD http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

Re: Wiki editing plug-in?

2013-09-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Note: it doesn't work with OpenOffice 4 yet, see last comment. But the source code should be in the OpenOffice repository, so it's available to anybody who wants to take a look. Thanks Andrea. I remember trying this

Re: Wiki editing plug-in?

2013-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: So, is there a plugin allowing to use AOO to edit wiki articles (including tables), and pushing changes back on-line effortlessly? If not, there's an idea: there should be. Options: 1. Thanks for your idea, it's very

Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away... (Rampant FUD in FOSS Land)

2013-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
(and MySQL too, and probably the same that would like for Oracle's investments in FOSS to end). LibreOffice, as you know, is now the defacto office suite of choice among Linux users and is rapidly gaining traction in the Windows world as well. OpenOffice is pretty much only a memory

Wiki editing plug-in?

2013-09-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
If you ever tried editing complex tables like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablet_computers on a wiki using wiki syntax you will soon see that it's a hair-pulling exercise. Even with the wikipedia's new Ajax online wysiwyg editor, table editing is stil not even there. So, is

Re: Help I'm being invaded

2013-08-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:36 AM, LYNN BRUBAKER lynn.bruba...@sympatico.ca wrote: Every day I get about 10 emails concerning how to work Open Office Lynn, You, or someone with access to your PC subscribed your e-mail address to the users@openoffice.apache.org mailing list. A mailing list is

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