[users] Problem: 2.4 Update Issue!

2008-04-02 Thread Adam Farley
To whom it may concern: I currently am running the 2.3 version of OpenOffice. Every time it tries to update to the latest version, I get update failed stall. Many users have been posting the same issue through their own personal blogs. Is there anything you can do on your end to fix this

[users] loss of exe files

2008-04-02 Thread Gini Kyle
I just uploaded version 2.4 - I have lost Writer, Spreadsheet, Slideshow exe files swriter.exe, scalc.exe. simpress.exe respectively How do I get them ? thanks...pb

[users] Installing OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread Lyennior
Do I need to uninstall OpenOffice 2.3 before installing OpenOffice 2.4? /HTML

[users] APA perela use

2008-04-02 Thread deborah mills
I am using open office writer. for school I am asked to use apa perela for writing assignments. I cannot use it with open office. what can I do to change it so I can use it. I don't want to get microsoft word. thank you, debbi mills

[users] Critical Message when booting up PC

2008-04-02 Thread Patti Conlin
Windows Vista Windows has encountered a critical problem Either another instance of openoffice.org is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked. simultaneous access can lead to inconsistencies in your personal settings before continuing you should make sure that user

[users] Troubles installing

2008-04-02 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
Hi All, I'm trying to install OpenOffice an a Gentoo Linux. But I end up with the followings: [code] # ./setup Checksumming... Extracting ... CPIO archive found! 93128 blocks Done. Using /var/tmp/install_29627/usr/java/jre1.6.0_04/bin/java java version 1.6.0_04 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment

[users] loss of exe files

2008-04-02 Thread Gini Kyle
I followed the instructions to perform the upgrade to 2.3 when I opened Office Writer. After doing the upgrade. I do not have writer, spreadsheets or slideshow. I am missing swriter.exe; scalc.exe simpress.exe. The shortcut icons are gone too. How do I get those files? please write back to

[users] OpenOffice.org site delivers 2.3 instead of 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread Jim Gordon
Hi, Last week I had no problem downloading version 2.4 from OpenOffice.org, but today it seems that the links are all back to version 2.3. How can I get version 2.4 for Mac (English)? -Jim Gordon

[users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread Benjamin K
*Att.: Support* *About: Improve picture handling in writer* ** *I am using version 2.3.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :* that I have an idea to improve openOffice and has´nt the time to join the forum rigth now. 1) And make it possible to pull the picture in the edges: that will scale the

[users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread Helene Steiner
Hi there, I am using OpenOffice.org 2.0 and like to use Arial as my default font. I hate Times New Roman and everytime I start a document have to manually change the font. Is there a way that changes the default font? Greetings Helene Steiner

[users] 2.4 download

2008-04-02 Thread dave carter
Have tried several times to download the new version. Each time it has stalled.Have been using older programs for years now.Am using the vista home edition of windows with the new service pack.Do you think that will be the problem. Hope you can help as I like to keep up to date.

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 1 Apr 2008 at 10:29, Helene Steiner wrote: Hi there, I am using OpenOffice.org 2.0 and like to use Arial as my default font. I hate Times New Roman and everytime I start a document have to manually change the font. Is there a way that changes the default font? Take a look under Tools

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:53 01/04/2008 +0200, Benjamin Kirstein wrote: *About: Improve picture handling in writer* ** *I am using version 2.3.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :* that I have an idea to improve openOffice and haven't the time to join the forum right now. 1) And make it possible to pull the

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 1 Apr 2008 at 22:53, Benjamin K wrote: ... 1) And make it possible to pull the picture in the edges: that will scale the picture keeping ratio Select the picture (left-click) then hold the shift key down and grab any of the green handles; the picture will resize maintaining aspect ratio.

Re: [users] loss of exe files

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 1 Apr 2008 at 18:44, Gini Kyle wrote: I just uploaded version 2.4 - I have lost Writer, Spreadsheet, Slideshow exe files swriter.exe, scalc.exe. simpress.exe respectively How do I get them ? thanks...pb I doubt whether you've really lost them! OOo does not put icons on the desktop,

Re: [users] Installing OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed 02 Apr 2008 11:52:42 EST Do I need to uninstall OpenOffice 2.3 before installing OpenOffice 2.4? No you do not need to uninstall 2.3.x, because 2.4.0 will automatically upgrade any previous 2.x.x version. Hope this helps.

Re: [users] Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval

2008-04-02 Thread Ahromi Irawan
Pada Tanggal 04/02/2008 06:18 AM, Fred A. Miller Menulis: Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is now confirming that OOXML won the vote for ISO standards approval. Reports indicate that the OOXML won 75 percent of the vote after being soundly defeated last fall.

[users] [OT] flying penguins and cracked seagulls

2008-04-02 Thread Michele
Really, really off topic and please take a hard look at the date: 1st of April. I just thought it was too good not to share... Cheers, Michele Trieste, Italy, 1st April 2008 - The PLIO association, Progetto Linguistico Italiano OpenOffice.org, has announced the availability of OOoCrackz, an

[users] Re: Troubles installing

2008-04-02 Thread Russell Butler
Sorin Schwimmer wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to install OpenOffice an a Gentoo Linux. But I end up with the followings: [code] # ./setup Checksumming... Extracting ... CPIO archive found! 93128 blocks Done. Using /var/tmp/install_29627/usr/java/jre1.6.0_04/bin/java java version 1.6.0_04 Java(TM)

Re: [users] APA perela use

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: deborah mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed 02 Apr 2008 11:34:25 EST I am using open office writer. for school I am asked to use apa perela for writing assignments. I cannot use it with open office. what can I do to change it so I can use it. I don't

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks I also had a similar question. However while this will work to change the font, it doesn't appear to save the change of font size. Any idea how to do that? Neil mike scott wrote: On 1 Apr 2008 at 10:29, Helene Steiner wrote: Hi there, I am using OpenOffice.org 2.0 and like to use

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Helene Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed 02 Apr 2008 04:29:19 EST Hi there, I am using OpenOffice.org 2.0 and like to use Arial as my default font. I hate Times New Roman and everytime I start a document have to manually change the font. Is there a

Re: [users] Installing OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to uninstall OpenOffice 2.3 before installing OpenOffice 2.4? /HTML No, installing the new version will replace the old. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To

Re: [users] Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval

2008-04-02 Thread James Knott
Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:08:47 -0400 Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: [snip] The whole point of this, was so that Microsoft could claim ISO standard, so that government etc., are more likely to buy their new office versions, in order to force

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The instructions you point to involve creating a template file. However as OOwriter installs there appears to be no default template eg. under winxp there are no template files at all under the template folder C:\Documents and Settings\neil\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\template So

Re: [users] Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph
No first graders maybe. GRIN Christina Godinez wrote: This is a david versus goliath.. Microsoft has the money to corrupt those countries to make it an iso standard. What type of common sense that these country's government has? You can ask any 5 year which one do they prefer, one

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Barton
Creating your own default template saves everything, including the the font size. Dave Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed 02 Apr 2008 22:23:35 EST The instructions you point to involve creating a template file. However as OOwriter installs

Re: [users] Lost my dictionary files with OOo 2.4 install.?

2008-04-02 Thread James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
Thanks for the information, Harold I hear what you re saying - that the dictionaries and other configurational data now upgrade themselves with the newer versions of OOo. I have been using OOo since version 1.0 and in the good old days one had to back up and manually update the

Re: [users] Table within table challenge.?

2008-04-02 Thread James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
Thanks Barbara I have been registered with OOo since version 1.0, however long that has been ( well over 5 years). It is just that I have not reported a bug in recent years. As I mentioned before, I tired to do so some years ago and, I might be wrong, but I seem to recollect that the process

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 2 Apr 2008 at 22:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks I also had a similar question. However while this will work to change the font, it doesn't appear to save the change of font size. Any idea how to do that? Neil Same way works for me - the face and font size can be changed in the

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread Michele
[snip] Someone else has mentioned templates - I haven't the foggiest notion offhand of how these 'options' fonts fit in with whatever is defined in any default template! The template option is much more involving and should not be used to simply change the default fonts. If however you want to

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread Henning von Roeder
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:20 AM, mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Apr 2008 at 22:53, Benjamin K wrote: ... 1) And make it possible to pull the picture in the edges: that will scale the picture keeping ratio Select the picture (left-click) then hold the shift key down and grab

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 2 Apr 2008 at 8:44, Henning von Roeder wrote: ... You might find, that the default as it is right now, is also the default for most graphics applications like photoshop, gimp, flash, paint-shop etc. As I said, I doubt whether it's worth changing. At the risk of being the only one 'in

[users] NFS locking

2008-04-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, Current behaviour on opening a document on NFS which is already held open by somebody else is to open the document read-only. Is there any possibility * of retrieving information (either as sysadmin or perhaps even from within oo.org) on which user and/or which computer is using the

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS - Deaf Troll

2008-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TROL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29 Christina Godinez wrote: This is a free software, not only free, at least there is the user group that's trying their best to support you and answer your questions for FREE. With MS OFFICE, after paying $350 for MS OFFICE for 1 license,

Re: [users] [moderated] unwanted indents

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
2008/4/1, vze4dqkx [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i started using the writters product, and my problem is that when i type, the sentence on the second line starts further in. on the third line, the sentence starts even further in. and this continues on. what should i do? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello,

Re: [users] can't visualize those file.

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
2008/4/2, Andi Permadi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Giuseppe Botturi, I have tried to open the file. It ask me for filters too, I try to choose Open Office 1.0 Text Document and it opened as empty documents with footer something like this: *Rem** S.r.l. Socio unico *Via Ca' di Cozzi, 41 --

[users] APA Perrla

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
FW of reply on my comment about the program being exclusive for MS Word and Windows -- Forwarded message -- From: PERRLA Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2 apr. 2008 15:34 Subject: Customer Comment - Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello T. APA PERRLA is very intricate and required a

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

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
2008/3/29, José Ignacio Machetti Nuño [EMAIL PROTECTED]: He intentado en varias ocasiones bajar el fichero de instalación de openoffice desde su página, pero en todos lo casos ha sido imposible al indicar el sistema que el fichero de instalación no esta disponible. Que debo hacer? José

[users] Impress

2008-04-02 Thread Joe Grech
Three cheers go to Impress OOo 2.4 version. It opened an MS Powerpoint file loud and clear. Good work guys. _ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vistamkt=en-USform=QBRE

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS - Deaf Troll

2008-04-02 Thread Howard
If the program sucks that much why are you even here,why even ask,just delete it. Obviously,if you`ve looked at all the emails here you`ll see that most of those that have a problem can solve it with a question here. Thanks all you people out here who take the time to teach us,(pronounced

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org site delivers 2.3 instead of 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
2008/4/1, Jim Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Last week I had no problem downloading version 2.4 from OpenOffice.org, but today it seems that the links are all back to version 2.3. How can I get version 2.4 for Mac (English)? -Jim Gordon Here's the link for the English (US) 2.4 for

Re: [users] 2.4 download

2008-04-02 Thread Guy Voets
2008/4/1, dave carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have tried several times to download the new version. Each time it has stalled.Have been using older programs for years now.Am using the vista home edition of windows with the new service pack.Do you think that will be the problem. Hope

Re: [users] Table within table challenge.?

2008-04-02 Thread Barbara Duprey
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: Thanks Barbara I have been registered with OOo since version 1.0, however long that has been ( well over 5 years). It is just that I have not reported a bug in recent years. As I mentioned before, I tired to do so some years ago and, I might be

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS - Deaf Troll

2008-04-02 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Howard, Actually, the OP hasn't seen very many of the replies as he's unsubscribed and most of the replies went to the list only. Probably not a problem, since I doubt that there's much that we could say to him that would help. tc Howard wrote: If the program sucks that much why are you

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, mike scott wrote: Don't hold the shift key down! If you grab a side, only the width will change; grab top or bottom, only the height will change; grab a corner and change both at once. in addition, it is not necessary to first know whether you need to hold down a key or not, when you

[users] modification of dictionary

2008-04-02 Thread oo_za
Hi! I run OpenOffice Portable 2.2 from a flash memory. The system is MS Windows. I have installed extra dictionary and it works. No problem here. And I can find .dic and .aff files in ..\OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\share\dict\ooo. Now I try to make small modification to .dic file. But

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread mike scott
On 2 Apr 2008 at 17:03, Uwe Fischer wrote: ... You can just start resizing the image with the mouse. If you see that it resizes proportionally while you wanted it non-prportionally or the other way round, just keep pressing the mouse button, don't release it, and press the Shift key, too.

Re: [users] Re: Junicode font, OOo Linux

2008-04-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:16:28 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: Is there a way to communicate these bugs to Peter? Perhaps: Go to Junicode project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode Click on 1 beside Developers: and click on Peter's name and you

[users] Re: APA perela use

2008-04-02 Thread NoOp
On 04/01/2008 05:34 PM, deborah mills wrote: I am using open office writer. for school I am asked to use apa perela for writing assignments. I cannot use it with open office. what can I do to change it so I can use it. I don't want to get microsoft word. thank you, debbi mills You might

[users] Re: APA perela use

2008-04-02 Thread NoOp
On 04/02/2008 08:55 AM, NoOp wrote: You might ask your school to re-evaluate the requirement to use proprietary software simply to format your writing assignments. By doing so, they are also dictating which computer and operating system the student must use.[1] Free templates for APA are

[users] Re: Troubles installing

2008-04-02 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
Hi Russel, Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to install the OOo binaries. It looks like I don't have Java already in my system. I tried a [code] emerge --pretend java [/code] and it is not it. I would like to have OO 2.4, so I guess that I'll have to figure out how to install a minimal Java. On

[users] Re: Re: Outlook - email

2008-04-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-27 18:20:18, schrieb Harold Fuchs: I think mutt only runs on *nix and, as the question concerns replacing There are versions running on DOS and Cygwin. And AFAIK there are porters for Windows... Microsoft Outlook I'd guess the requirement is for something that runs on Windows ;-)

Re: [users] Re: Russian Language Pack

2008-04-02 Thread ZaK
The russian language pack doesn't exist on these pages. Has anyone an URL to looking for this pack ? Thanks. Le samedi 29 mars 2008 à 12:20 -0700, NoOp a écrit : On 03/28/2008 03:58 AM, ZaK wrote: Hello, I'm looking for the russian language pack for OOo 2.3.1. I can't seem to find it

[users] MS EXCEL 2007 file e.g filename.xlsx not supported by Open office Calc.

2008-04-02 Thread Ernst Sigl
MS EXCEL 2007 file e.g filename.xlsx not supported by Open office Calc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Writer Calc and posibbly other components single print job issue since 2.4

2008-04-02 Thread Črtomir Černeka
Good day! I have one question. I use a printer, that prints on both sides of the paper. In openoffice suite v 2.3.1 and later i printed documents with no speciall effort, just selected how many copies i wanted and it separately printed documents in specified quantity. But in suite v 2.4 it

Re: [users] MS EXCEL 2007 file e.g filename.xlsx not supported by Open office Calc.

2008-04-02 Thread James Knott
Ernst Sigl wrote: MS EXCEL 2007 file e.g filename.xlsx not supported by Open office Calc. That is one of the new Microsoft Office file formats. OpenOffice doesn't yet support them. You'll have to arrange to have them saved in an older format. -- Use OpenOffice.org

[users] Re: Outlook - email

2008-04-02 Thread NoOp
On 04/01/2008 04:15 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-03-27 18:20:18, schrieb Harold Fuchs: Microsoft Outlook I'd guess the requirement is for something that runs on Windows ;-) In that case, Thunderbird, possibly with the Lightning And WINE... :-/ Well... not really. I've never

[users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread Per
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Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
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[users] Re: Russian Language Pack

2008-04-02 Thread NoOp
On 04/02/2008 02:27 AM, ZaK wrote: The russian language pack doesn't exist on these pages. Has anyone an URL to looking for this pack ? Thanks. Did you ask on the Russian mailing list or forum (in the link I provided to you)? http://ru.openoffice.org/

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread James Knott
Per wrote: Congrats to Microsoft who got there suite ISO-certified If the vote was dirty, well it´s not up to me to investigate but there are a lot of voices on this mail-list against OOXML, and Microsoft ad there products in common.. the reasons ?? a big hate to Microsoft, and

Re: [users] Re: YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/4/1, Bev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE CUROMER DUE TO EXTREMELY DISIPOINTING LACK OF PERFORMANCE AND

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/2, Per [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Congrats to Microsoft who got there suite ISO-certified If the vote was dirty, well it´s not up to me to investigate Perhaps doesn't realise that the integrity of the ISO-certifying process is important to us all. Corporate manipulation of standards,

Re: [users] Re: YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-02 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/2, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/4/1, Bev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE CUROMER

Re: [users] autocorrect entries limit

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Andy Chaplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 31 March 2008 09:35:32 Tommaso Bartalena wrote: snip it seems to me that something prevents OOo to handle more that 65213 per language. adding new corrections to my acor_en-US.dat file (which has just few entries) has no effect on

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph
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Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy beta

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed the Ubuntu Hardy beta, and I was hoping to get OOo 2.4, but it still says 2.3. In fact the only change I noticed is that the Save icon now doesn't gray out when I do a save. It's

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-04-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/3/31, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/31, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/29, Matt Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you please tell me how to obtain foreign characters, (e.g. cedillas, accents, etc,) without going into windows ecplorer character map. Is ther a

Re: [users] Re: Need help changing versions of openoffice

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks - it all worked after removing the debian version and installing the oo version. Mark On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:32 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 04/01/2008 10:32 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: I installed Openoffice 2.2.1 from the Debian web site (I am running lenny). It seems that many of the

Re: [users] Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:23:39 -0400 James Knott wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:08:47 -0400 Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: [snip] The whole point of this, was so that Microsoft could claim ISO standard, so that government etc., are more

Re: [users] Critical Message when booting up PC

2008-04-02 Thread Kirill Palagin
Clicking OK will work. Patti Conlin ?: Windows Vista Windows has encountered a critical problem Either another instance of openoffice.org is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked. simultaneous access can lead to inconsistencies in your personal settings

Re: [users] I want Database, please

2008-04-02 Thread Robin Laing
COLIN POATE wrote: I want a database. I am told that thre is one in your wordprocesser that is good but I do not want to use the whole programme. May I download just the Db, is it possible to downlod just the Db? and, if so, how do I do it? If this is not possible, or allowed, can you recommend

Re: [users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread Robin Laing
James Knott wrote: Alan Lord wrote: It's approved: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-dis29500-result-approved/ The big question now, is whether it will stand up to challenges, given the obviously tampered with process. The Norwegian team lead has already fired off a

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-04-02 Thread M Henri Day
2008/4/2, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/31, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Johnny, what symbols do you see when you perform «Alt Gr + arrow keys» ? On my keyboard, a standard Scandinavian 105-keyboard, and with the Ubuntu Hardy beta set to Swedish as the standard

Re: [users] Email Client for OOo

2008-04-02 Thread Robin Laing
Sammy Njuguna wrote: HiAll, Since OOo doesn't have a mail client,has anyone tried any other opensource mail clients apart from Thunderbird successfully Regards SAMUEL NJUGUNA I have used Thunderbird, seamonkey, pine and Evolution. I keep ending up on Thunderbird. I even found a way to

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread The Beaver
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph wrote: James Knott wrote: Joseph wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread Alan Lord
Robin Laing wrote: snip / On top of this, there is supposed to be about a year of writing and amending the standard until it is ready. One site I read today asked if Office 2007 will actually follow the standard once it is finalized? Indeed. ECMA have yet to issue the final spec that is

[users] Scrolling

2008-04-02 Thread Robert Goulding
How do I scroll in Writer please? Thank you. Robert Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] 605-390-9875

RE: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries
From: Michele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:36 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] change default font The template option is much more involving and should not be used to simply change the default fonts. If however you want to change, say the page

Re: [users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:32:30 +0100 Alan Lord wrote: Robin Laing wrote: snip / On top of this, there is supposed to be about a year of writing and amending the standard until it is ready. One site I read today asked if Office 2007 will actually follow the standard once it is

Re: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread Michele
Why not to change the default font? Thanks, Elchanan Of course you could use a template to change the font, but since there is an easy way to do it via the options dialog, I do not think the effort of creating a personal default template can be justified (having said that this email comes

Re: [users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread John Boyle
Alan Lord wrote: Robin Laing wrote: snip / On top of this, there is supposed to be about a year of writing and amending the standard until it is ready. One site I read today asked if Office 2007 will actually follow the standard once it is finalized? Indeed. ECMA have yet to issue the

Re: [users] Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval

2008-04-02 Thread John Boyle
James Knott wrote: Joseph wrote: James Knott wrote: Joseph wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is now confirming that OOXML won the vote for ISO standards approval. Reports indicate that the OOXML won 75 percent of

[users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread Alan Lord
Michael Adams wrote: snip / The spec is maintained by Ecma and the committee there maintaining it are principally Microsoft. The ISO process has actually had minimal impact on the spec. Microsoft will be highly pleased by this. I believe the maintenance is actually now under the control of

RE: [users] change default font

2008-04-02 Thread TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries
:) -Original Message- From: Michele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:00 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] change default font Why not to change the default font? Thanks, Elchanan Of course you could use a template to change the font, but

[users] Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Meyers
I have two questions about character styles. 1. I have a style called Code that is supposed to do nothing but change the font face to Calibri. It should not change the font size, the font background, the use of bold or italics or anything else about the characters. I should be able to apply

Re: [users] Table within table challenge.?

2008-04-02 Thread Barbara Duprey
Barbara Duprey wrote: James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: Thanks Barbara I have been registered with OOo since version 1.0, however long that has been ( well over 5 years). It is just that I have not reported a bug in recent years. As I mentioned before, I tired to do so some years

Re: [users] Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-02 Thread Michele
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Scott Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two questions about character styles. 1. I have a style called Code that is supposed to do nothing but change the font face to Calibri. It should not change the font size, the font background, the use of bold or

[users] Re: modification of dictionary

2008-04-02 Thread Russell Butler
oo_za wrote: Hi! I run OpenOffice Portable 2.2 from a flash memory. The system is MS Windows. I have installed extra dictionary and it works. No problem here. And I can find .dic and .aff files in ..\OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\share\dict\ooo. Now I try to make small modification to .dic

[users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Meyers
Michele wrote: Just guessing (actually it would be much more useful if I spent time trying rather than typing this email (-: ): have you tried putting 100% in the font size box? I just tried. It doesn't seem to exhibit the behavior I want, e.g., applying the resulting style to footnote text

[users] Re: Troubles installing

2008-04-02 Thread Russell Butler
Sorin Schwimmer wrote: Hi Russel, Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to install the OOo binaries. It looks like I don't have Java already in my system. I tried a [code] emerge --pretend java [/code] and it is not it. I would like to have OO 2.4, so I guess that I'll have to figure out how to

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-02 Thread Michele
Just guessing (actually it would be much more useful if I spent time trying rather than typing this email (-: ): have you tried putting 100% in the font size box? I just tried. It doesn't seem to exhibit the behavior I want, e.g., applying the resulting style to footnote text

Re: [users] About Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval, and other thoughts...

2008-04-02 Thread web at work
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[users] Re: YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-02 Thread Bev
M Henri Day wrote: 2008/4/2, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/4/1, Bev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. DOWNLOAD TIME TAKES 10 MINUTES 2. FAILURE AFTER LONG DOWNLOAD TO START 3. LOSE A FUTURE CUROMER DUE TO EXTREMELY DISIPOINTING LACK OF

Re: [users] Writer: Changing a Footnote's Symbol

2008-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 02/04/2008 01:30, Scott Meyers wrote: I can't find a way to change the symbol associated with a footnote. For example, suppose I've decided that footnotes 1 and 2 should be come footnotes x and y. How can I change the symbols for the footnotes? As a workaround, I can insert new

Re: [users] Foreign characters

2008-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 02/04/2008 20:14, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/4/2, Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/31, M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip snip Google found me this: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_fonts.html I personally like http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6tam/ --

Re: [users] Re: OOXML standard vote down to the wire

2008-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 02/04/2008 21:10, Alan Lord wrote: Anyway - it's a crap spec, everyone knows it, ISO is now tainted, ECMA are history and our job is to promote ODF and FOSS in a more concerted way than ever before. Al Talking of ODF, what happened after the recent apparent collapse of the ODF with

Re: [users] Scrolling

2008-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 02/04/2008 20:46, Robert Goulding wrote: How do I scroll in Writer please? Thank you. Robert Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] 605-390-9875 I'm not sure what you mean; the obvious answer is just like you scroll in any other program. Scroll bars become visible as appropriate; mouse scroll

Re: [users] Re: Re: Outlook - email

2008-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 01/04/2008 12:15, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-03-27 18:20:18, schrieb Harold Fuchs: I think mutt only runs on *nix and, as the question concerns replacing There are versions running on DOS and Cygwin. And AFAIK there are porters for Windows... Microsoft Outlook I'd guess

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