Re: How can I waterproof my document

2023-06-24 Thread Richard Detwiler
Waterproof? You mean print it out and laminate it? I suspect that's not what you mean ... On 6/24/2023 5:48 PM, The Telepath wrote: Hello OpenOffice, I am wondering how you can waterproof a document on OpenOffice. I am a writer and I am trying to send a copy of my book to people who are giving

Re: Word Wrap

2017-12-03 Thread Richard Detwiler
On 12/3/2017 9:57 PM, Shirley Eyres wrote: I didn’t ask this So why are you responding then? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Letter of Authorization - LOA request to add Apache Open Office

2017-05-05 Thread Richard Detwiler
On 5/5/2017 7:35 PM, Isaac Schrader wrote: You cannot sell this software to anyone. This is free software. Incorrect, of course. The software can be sold. There isn't much reason to buy it since it can be obtained for no charge, but there is no prohibition about selling it.

Re: DOCX file extension

2016-11-27 Thread Richard Detwiler
On 11/26/2016 8:13 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: "OO, does not open .docx files" ??? Most of the time, for most people, AOO does open .docx files. Why don't you provide some meaningful support to users rather than spreading falsehoods. Correct. I have never had any problems opening docx files

Re: spreadsheet program

2016-06-14 Thread Richard Detwiler
Carol, You have me and I suspect others curious as to what your problem was! Your initial note never indicated what the serious problems you had were. One advantage of an e-mail group such as this is that others can learn from one person's problems and what the solutions are. On 6/14/2016

Re: revolting support

2016-01-11 Thread Richard Detwiler
On 1/11/2016 7:12 PM, John Hart wrote: How am I supposed to configure a filter for email coming in with random addresses? Filter on the "To" line which is "users@openoffice.apache.org". - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-24 Thread Richard Detwiler
James Knott wrote: On 01/23/2015 05:18 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 01/23/2015 01:07 PM, Maurice Howe wrote: Never, ever, include religious stuff in forum remarks. Surely you are referring to top versus bottom posting! Or Emacs vs whatever. ;-) Or Linux vs all other operating

Re: Question

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Detwiler
Roberta Meehan wrote: I have been using OpenOffice for several weeks now and I am quite happy with it. However, I do have a question and I cannot seem to be able to figure out the answer. Is there a way to utilize a track changes function -- as is found on the Microsoft Word programs? I

Re: Why cant I download Open Office?

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Detwiler
dennis dorney wrote: I get into the website, click the Download button and it invites me to save an exe file but nothing seems to happen. Yet something does happen because when I give up in disgust, and try to leave the site it asks me what I want to do with the unsaved file. This doesn't give

Re: Abus et escroquerie sur site SMS pour l'obtention de code de téléchargement

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Detwiler
Baccara wrote: Wonderful solution, Rory, now that we know there is a problem with different languages being posted to a primary English mailing list and you have so much time to check out Google, I expect a translation at your earliest convenience. I do not have time nor does my health

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread Richard Detwiler
I'm puzzled as to how this letter wound up on the wiki.openoffice web site? Did the author put it there and then later regretted it, did it somehow get put there by accident, etc.? Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:45:58 -0400 DaveMainwaring davemainwar...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Calc fuctions

2014-05-26 Thread Richard Detwiler
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2014-05-26 17:56 GMT+02:00 Hannes han...@sacramentospur.co.za: Hi guys My “sum” etc calc functions are’nt working. If you want to , for example , add the values of say column A1 to A5 , it just says “=A1:A5” , but does’nt do the culculation ? Kind regards You said

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-24 Thread Richard Detwiler
Doug wrote: One use of Reveal Codes will tell you whether a tab or a set of spaces is used in a text. Also, to spot double spaces, if you don't just do a find/replace to get rid of them. I think this kind of use could be done in OO or LO just as well. Just to clarify, and as I think most

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-18 Thread Richard Detwiler
! On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Richard Detwiler rlsha...@aol.com wrote: What I don't understand, and I'm sure I must be missing something so please explain, is how come this discussion seems to suggest that it's either/or -- meaning, use styles for all formatting or we HAVE to have reveal codes

Re: Calc: Paste Format - Split Cell

2014-05-18 Thread Richard Detwiler
japples wrote: Is there a way to split a cell either vertically or horizontally? I have been adding another column or row then going back and merging all but the cell I wanted split - really don't think that is very efficient. Could you describe more specifically what you're trying to

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Richard Detwiler
What I don't understand, and I'm sure I must be missing something so please explain, is how come this discussion seems to suggest that it's either/or -- meaning, use styles for all formatting or we HAVE to have reveal codes to not use styles. I've used styles a lot with Open Office and I

Are there problems with the mailing list?

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Detwiler
I haven't received anything from the mailing list in about a week. I'm wondering if I somehow got removed from the list, or if there are problems. If this comes through to the list, it would seem like I've somehow been removed. I would appreciate anyone responding to copy me directly to the

Re: selecting more sheets to print on MS Office spreadsheet

2014-05-07 Thread Richard Detwiler
The situation with Calc print ranges is the following, from what I can tell: 1. If no print ranges are specified on any sheet, then the default range is to print everything on each sheet. 2. However, if you specify a range on any one sheet, the default range for all of the other sheets

Re: [DISCUSS] ODF file formats vs Zip

2013-06-09 Thread Richard Detwiler
Girvin R. Herr wrote: Probably like you, I find the few seconds it takes to save the file irritating sometimes, especially since only about one keystroke is saved while it is going on. Worse, it seems destined (designed?) to pick a time that is the most irritating to me - just as I