Re: [users] Installing OO0-2 troubles

2007-08-10 Thread Olaf Felka
Hi Hans, this trouble is normally caused by a running antiviris tool. Disconnect from internet, stop the antovirus tool and start the OOo setup. I think this will lead to a running OOo 2.x. Groetjes, Olaf Hans Hermens wrote: Hello, After reading a warning about security leaks in OO0-1 I

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread web kracked
web kracked wrote: I had a better one I had to install a copy of MS Office 2003 on a new laptop, since he wanted to read the PowerPoints he gets from a service. He did not want the free reader or a FREE copy of OpenOffice.org that could read/write those presentations. He did not want to

RE: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin McLauchlan
Tim, old man... there are a few things you should probably understand before you continue: 1. OpenOffice is a big program created and maintained and by thousands of programmers, writers, organizer-managers, and other interested people, all around the world. They do this for free. They have all

[users] Re: Linux Printing - Fails to change Paper Tray

2007-08-10 Thread NoOp
On 08/10/2007 08:13 AM, Bob - OpenOffice wrote: I have a documents that need to pull from multiple different paper trays. For example: a letter page followed by an envelope, or a piece of letterhead followed by plain paper. I can set the paper trays per page via the page style. Doing this

[users] Re: Clip Art

2007-08-10 Thread NoOp
On 08/10/2007 03:48 AM, OOo Mac User wrote: On 9 Aug 2007, at 23:18, NoOp wrote: On 08/09/2007 01:57 PM, web kracked wrote: I downloaded MS's clipart to my harddrive as individual files and used them before and yes you can get a clipart collection - just do not remember where but if

Re: [users] latest Downloaded version currupt?

2007-08-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:25:35 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After many many hours (dial up) of downloading openoffice..106 MB to be precise..I am told the file is damaged or corrupt...because of the length of time it took to download this program..I was not at my computer at the end of the

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread Jo Rice
Thank you. I finally found everything and yes, it DOES read WordPerfect files so now I'll switch my files over as I need them. The help messages answer my questions before I ask them because other people have the same questions as I do. I'm a happy camper now. Jo - Original Message

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott
Jo Rice wrote: Yes but does Open Office have a wordprocessor? I have WP but when my computer crashed, I lost my registration # to it. So now I just want a simple wordprocessor which will read my WP files. Guess I will have to go shopping. Of course. It's called Writer. As I understand it,

[users] Calc: transporting styles

2007-08-10 Thread Kenn Goutal
In Calc: I have a couple of new styles I have defined, and now I want to make them available to all future spreadsheets. (And past one too, if possible.) I've looked at the Organizer, but there doesn't seem to be any way there to move styles in and out of style libraries (or whatever they're

Re: [users] E-mailing from Writer

2007-08-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
Alberto Muller wrote: Hello everybody ! I'm asking for help : I use OO 2.2 with Windows. I cannot send by e-mail the text I have written because when I try I get the following message : no valid e-mail configuration has been found or equivalent in French. Thunderbird is my default client. I

Re: [users] Getting error when I try to open or download a doc

2007-08-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
Carrie Ann Robinofsky wrote: The error is general error General input/output error. I am using OpenOffice version 2.2 on Windows Vista. I have never had this problem before. How can I fix this or what is wrong. I uninstalled and restalled but still getting the error. Thank you, Carrie

[users] Linux Printing - Fails to change Paper Tray

2007-08-10 Thread Bob - OpenOffice
I have a documents that need to pull from multiple different paper trays. For example: a letter page followed by an envelope, or a piece of letterhead followed by plain paper. I can set the paper trays per page via the page style. Doing this under Windows and the change or switch to a different

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread Jo Rice
Yes but does Open Office have a wordprocessor? I have WP but when my computer crashed, I lost my registration # to it. So now I just want a simple wordprocessor which will read my WP files. Guess I will have to go shopping. Jo - Original Message - From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Clip Art

2007-08-10 Thread OOo Mac User
On 9 Aug 2007, at 23:18, NoOp wrote: On 08/09/2007 01:57 PM, web kracked wrote: I downloaded MS's clipart to my harddrive as individual files and used them before and yes you can get a clipart collection - just do not remember where but if you email me off the lists, I will send to you the

Re: [users] [moderated] Microsoft insecurity

2007-08-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 31/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 15:36:48 Harold Fuchs wrote: It is moot as to whether the reason for this is because Mac/Linux are more secure or because Windows is more common and therefore more likely to yield the results an attacker wants.

Re: [users] Installation von kyrillischer Schrift und Rechtschreibprüfung in mehreren Sprachen

2007-08-10 Thread Guy Voets
2007/8/9, Hanne Levien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich finde bei den FAQ keine Antwort auf meine Frage: ich würde gern auch in kyrillischer Schrift schreiben und habe in meinen Texten auch oft Worte aus der englischen oder französischen Sprache, manchmal auch spanische

[users] Keyboard issue

2007-08-10 Thread Maggie Egresits
I have a frustrating situation with the 'Writer' After typing a half page of E-mail addresses and need for '@' , this character suddenly not available but rather got a (quotation mark) Same scenario with '#' character -got a / (slash) Remainder of characters on number keys seem to be

Re: [users] Calc: transporting styles

2007-08-10 Thread Adrian Try
Hi Kenn I have a couple of new styles I have defined, and now I want to make them available to all future spreadsheets. (And past one too, if possible.) Styles are contained in templates (and documents). If you want your styles available in the future, save your document as a template (File

[users] E-mailing from Writer

2007-08-10 Thread Alberto Muller
Hello everybody ! I'm asking for help : I use OO 2.2 with Windows. I cannot send by e-mail the text I have written because when I try I get the following message : no valid e-mail configuration has been found or equivalent in French. Thunderbird is my default client. I have tried ToolsOptions

Re: [users] Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread Chris Bonde
jonathan: By this crippling, do you mean that OOo will not work at all on Vista Home (not Basic). If that is a fact then something had better been done about it or else OOo will die down the tubes by lack of use. This might be considered a type of denying use of service by MS. I was just

[users] Re: Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread NoOp
On 08/10/2007 03:42 PM, Chris Bonde wrote: jonathan: By this crippling, do you mean that OOo will not work at all on Vista Home (not Basic). If that is a fact then something had better been done about it or else OOo will die down the tubes by lack of use. This might be considered a type

Re: [users] Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bonde wrote: By this crippling, do you mean that OOo will not work at all on Vista Home (not Basic). If that is a fact then something had better been done about it or else OOo will die down the tubes by lack of use. There are some

Re: [users] Keyboard issue

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:12 10/08/2007 -0700, Maggie Egresits wrote: I have a frustrating situation with the 'Writer' After typing a half page of E-mail addresses and need for '@' , this character suddenly not available but rather got a (quotation mark) Same scenario with '#' character -got a / (slash)

Re: [users] Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bonde wrote: By this crippling, do you mean that OOo will not work at all on Vista Home (not Basic). If that is a fact then something had better been done about it or else OOo will die down the tubes by lack of use.

[users] spacing between lines

2007-08-10 Thread Charles Romans
How do I change the space between lines to make it a smaller space. If I use 60 point type on one line and 18 point type on the next line, sometimes I want make it closer together. I have not been able to figure it out. I can make it bigger but not smaller. Thanks Chuck,

[users] Re: Keyboard issue

2007-08-10 Thread NoOp
On 08/10/2007 05:45 PM, Maggie Egresits wrote: I am in Canada and my keyboard driver is US/English --- As explained I was okay with characters in OpenOffice Writer for a period of time and Then suddenly it switched over to the mark In all other software appl. It's okay --

Re: [users] Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harold Fuchs wrote: Please be specific and give at least some examples of what functionality in OO won't work on these defective versions of Vista. a) I've listed them elsewhere, several times. b) The specific defect depends upon which version of

[users] Does the Mozilla plugin work for OOo X11 on OS X?

2007-08-10 Thread Mike Kraft
Hi, Please forgive me if this is a dumb question; I did search the archive first, but found no hits. Should I expect the Mozilla plugin to work in Firefox with OOo 2.2.1 X11 on OS X? I.e., should an odt file, for example, actually display directly inside Firefox? I have no problems with

RE: [users] Vista and openoffice

2007-08-10 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
-Original Message- From: jonathon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:32 AM Harold Fuchs wrote: Please be specific and give at least some examples of what functionality in OO won't work on these defective versions of Vista. a) I've listed them