On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:54:22 -0700
Scott Meyers wrote:
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the
xml behind a document, open the styles information and modify
(insert screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet
is to delete the
Dear All,
I am new in using open office. When I was using Microsoft office, I can print 2
pages per sheet (it looks like a book).
When I was going to print. I filled out the page on printer 32,1 --- the print
out will be page 32 and page 1
How can I do that in Open office???
Plese Help
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0700
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Dear All,
I am new in using open office. When I was using Microsoft office, I
can print 2 pages per sheet (it looks like a book).
When I was going to print. I filled out the page on printer 32,1 ---
the print out will be page 32
Sorin Schwimmer wrote:
Harold,
I'm afraid we're not talking the same here. My issue
is about installing OpenOffice. I'm not a Java expert,
but it looks like the install is not able to use its
own packed VM, nor the one I emerged for it, and
doesn't let me do anything (the Back and Next
buttons
Dear Michael
And how can I do that??
-MJ-
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Printing
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All,
I am new in
:
Hi Russell,
Thanks for the answer. Now, what you mean by 'munched'?
1.. If you mean format of the .dic and .aff files (there are ASCII files):
Format is documented and rather easy to understand. Each basic form is in
its own line, along with several flags. So it is very easy to remove word
On 08/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Michael
And how can I do that??
-MJ-
HelpBooklet Printing and/or
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Printing_a_brochure
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply
Hi,
Scott Meyers wrote:
...
and replace it with a different character style. My sense is that the
best you can do if you want to modify character style X that's been
applied is:
1. Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X.
2. Manually go through your document looking
I bought an ASUS EEE last week with Open office installed. In options view I
rescaled the view from the given 80% to 100% in order for the font to be
bigger in viewing but not in printing. It all worked fine. But then I exited
the system (to get out of a Touch Typing Game) abruptly with an office
thanks
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To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 07/04/2008 09:55, Mario wrote:
If you do, I would like to have
thanks
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Mario wrote:
If you do, I would like to have a look at it. I like
Hello. I am new to open office and I want to know if it is possible to add
words and names to the auto spelling feature in the program?
Yours sincerely Lotten, Malmoe, Sweden.
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Hello,
I am wondering whether any of the OpenOffice suite programs will import
or open CorelDraw files (extention .cdr)?
I have many such files from years ago and I don't want to purchase the
latest CorelDraw program as it is too expensive. I have looked around
and can't see any program
Dear Users,
Version: Open Office 2.4
OS: Leopard
Problem description: Every time I launch OO (whether directly by
trying to launch from the dock or by clicking an appropriate
document), X11 loads, and then I get the beach ball for 30-40 seconds,
and an error dialog that reads Command timed
Are you planning a Visio like product and a Project type product?
Gary
How do i remove saved documents listed in the saved doucments of open office.
thanks
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my documents with
the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as January 1, 2008
instead of 1/1/2008. No matter what I try, the date format that is
automatically inserted is the 1/1/2008 format. Can I change some option to
Hi Gang,
I am working on a commercial product called ALogic LH for the financial
industry. We have included a number of .DOC, .XLS, and .PPT templates for
our customers to utilize as part of the ALogic LH product. Is it legal to
distribute Open Office with our program? We make no implications
Hello everyone,
I am using OpenOffice 2.4 (but this problem also happened in previous
versions), and my problem is that I can format a document very nicely using
tables or whatever. However, when I save it as a .doc or as a .rtf, it'll open
fine on my computer, but when I send that file to
Do you have an equivalent of publisher??
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Deze mail ontving ik op 3 april jl. Wilt u mij svp laten weten of hij van
U afkomstig is? Het bevreemdt mij, dat ik per mail een update mogelijkheid
ontvang.
graag verwacht ik uw commentaar.
Met vriendelijke groet,
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Introducing the OpenOffice.org 4 ReleaseDear gentlemen,
I wonder if undermentioned mail is correct??
I doubt i t, for I never got an information about a new version by mail.
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Please let me know.
Kind
Thanks for your recommendations. I will keep that in mind as I install the
package.
Regards,
Dave Caudle
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Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [users]
Hello.
I am trying to get power point 11.pps to open my email. Could you please tell
me how to download this pps.
Thank you.
Dave Jack.
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Dear Sirs,
Seven times I have downloaded the 2.4 program and each time I get a message
report that says that the files are corrupt and my HP Pavillion Notebook will
not allow them to be loaded and used. Mr. Ted Gangi is a personal friend of
mine and he applauds your site. Please
James Kott wrote:
I'm confused. OpenOffice is an office suite that's used to work with
various documents. It doesn't have anything to do with downloading
files from anywhere. Perhaps you could provide a better description of
exactly what you're doing and what happens.--Use OpenOffice.org
On 7 Apr 2008 at 17:56, Joe Hopkins wrote:
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my documents with
the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as January 1, 2008
instead of 1/1/2008. No matter what I try, the date format that is
automatically inserted is the
Mischa Frusztajer wrote:
Dear Users,
Version: Open Office 2.4
OS: Leopard
Problem description: Every time I launch OO (whether directly by trying
to launch from the dock or by clicking an appropriate document), X11
loads, and then I get the beach ball for 30-40 seconds, and an error
dialog
Christian Blackburn wrote:
Hi Gang,
I am working on a commercial product called ALogic LH for the financial
industry. We have included a number of .DOC, .XLS, and .PPT templates for
our customers to utilize as part of the ALogic LH product. Is it legal to
distribute Open Office with our
Hi Bernard
I bought an ASUS EEE last week with Open office installed.
When I turned the computer on again, it had a
document recovery screen but the button for start recovery was below the
edge of my screen (presumably because I had rescaled it from 80% to 100%).
Your problem has nothing to
Thanks:
I want to try OOo 3.0 Snapshot (as I made with Lotus Symphony) but I
want also to have a production OOo (2.4) running Okay, like I'm using
Firefox 2.0.0.12 and 3.0 beta 5.
PS: Sorry about my poor English.
2008/4/7, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 04/07/2008 12:19 PM, Fábio Emilio Costa
2008/4/8, Karel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How do i remove saved documents listed in the saved doucments of open
office. thanks
Hello,
Removing saved documents is business of your operating system (Windows?)
However, in a save (as) dialog that lists the file you want to delete, you
can try a
Sorry, but I forgot to question:
In Debian Lenny, OOo Snapshot has GNOME integration? It brokes OOo 2.4
integration? I need to know that so I could make the correct
installation of OOo Snapshot.
2008/4/8, Fábio Emilio Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thanks:
I want to try OOo 3.0 Snapshot (as I made
Hi Cynthia
Hello from Texas. :D I have used OpenOffice since version 2.1 and like it
very much, which is why I was perplexed when it would not let me download my
online audio books from the library (this uses a Microsoft developed program
called Overdrive). It is an audio file that reads over
2008/4/8, Paul Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Do you have an equivalent of publisher??
--
*Paul Wilkinson*
Hello Paul,
Maybe the question got lost in all the blurb that your mail is carrying
along?
No, AFAIK the OpenOffice.org developers aren't thinking of making a
Publisher-like component.
2008/4/7, A Schurink [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear gentlemen,
I wonder if undermentioned mail is correct??
I doubt i t, for I never got an information about a new version by mail.
I do not trust their e-mail address either: *
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*.*
Please let me know.
2008/4/7, David Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello.
I am trying to get power point 11.pps to open my email. Could you please
tell me how to download this pps.
Thank you.
Dave Jack.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
This is the users list of OpenOffice.org. We don't have any pps here...
How
2008/4/7, John Ferguon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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2008/4/7, Lynnettte Edic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear Sirs,
Seven times I have downloaded the 2.4 program and each time I get a
message report that says that the files are corrupt and my HP Pavillion
Notebook will not allow them to be loaded and used. Mr. Ted Gangi is a
personal friend of
On 04/08/2008 06:32 AM, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote:
Sorry, but I forgot to question:
In Debian Lenny, OOo Snapshot has GNOME integration? It brokes OOo 2.4
integration? I need to know that so I could make the correct
installation of OOo Snapshot.
I'll repeat:
OOo 3.0dev will install as
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| for
| our customers to utilize as
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From: Adrian Try [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:12 AM
To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [users] problem caused by rescaling
If you hold down the Fn and Alt keys, you can drag the dialogue box up the
screen until you
2008/4/8, Karel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Forgive me for being so stupid but i cant grasp open office even
microsoft word when I want to delete the recent documents list, for instance
when i click on one it says file doesnt exist yet i cant delete it from the
recent documents list. i downloaded the
John Ferguon wrote:
Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format
yet?
No. I believe that's due in version 3.
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Pak-Kei Wong wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am using OpenOffice 2.4 (but this problem also happened in previous
versions), and my problem is that I can format a document very nicely using
tables or whatever. However, when I save it as a .doc or as a .rtf, it'll open
fine on my computer, but when
John Ferguon wrote:
Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format
yet?
No, but version 3, which should release this Sept. will.import only,
no export.
Fred
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to support your Windows anymore.
lotten säfström wrote:
Hello. I am new to open office and I want to know if it is possible to add
words and names to the auto spelling feature in the program? Yours
sincerely Lotten, Malmoe, Sweden.
Hi Lotten,
Yes, you can add words, names, etc. to the spellchecker. When something is
I have tired Oxygen. . . a few months ago and it did not
read/write them well. Also when you try to read the resulting
word document into the Word 2007 trial, it caused an error.
I hope it is fixed now. It would be great if you could have both
installed at the same time.
I switched back from
From: Dave Caudle
Subject: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine
Is anyone aware of any major issues or drawbacks with using OpenOffice on a
computer that already has a version of MS Office running? MS Office 2003
to be precise with Word, Excel and Outlook.
I'd like
I was given a PowerPoint presentation that has a
colored text that has a built in shadow. No built in
the font, but in the presentation.
When I view it in MS PP, then the shadowed text looks
correct. Whe I view it in Impress, then there is no shadowed
text and the text is just plain bad
On 08/04/2008 14:34, Adrian Try wrote:
Hi Cynthia
Hello from Texas. :D I have used OpenOffice since version 2.1 and like it
very much, which is why I was perplexed when it would not let me download my
online audio books from the library (this uses a Microsoft developed program
called
From: James Knott
web at work wrote:
I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo. I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.
There are not real issues with having both on the same
computer. The only problem I
Uwe Fischer wrote:
you can search and replace styles in the Find Replace dialog. Click
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.
Unfortunately, that works only for paragraph styles. I sent the following post
on April 3, but now I can't find it, so maybe it got lost somewhere
On 08/04/2008 18:51, web at work wrote:
From: James Knott web at work wrote:
I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo. I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.
There are not real issues with having both
Scott Meyers wrote:
I know how to search for paragraph styles, but how can I search for
character styles? For example, I have a character style called
Publication Title, and I want to find all text in my document where
that style is applied. How can I do that?
From Googling around, I get
On 08/04/2008 18:51, web at work wrote:
From: James Knott web at work wrote:
I need to have MS Office 2003/Pro on my laptop for some of the
people I deal with, since they will not switch to OOo. I also
have OOo 2.4 installed on the same laptop.
There are not real issues with having
(Top-posting continued; sorry all)
Sorry for the misunderstanding. A quick search on google came up
with
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=40666
which may offer ideas - particularly, you could record a macro, save
it, and assign to a key sequence. Not tidy, but the best solution
web at work wrote:
I know what is what, but anything that involves MS's OS is not simple
Harold is a great help on this list.
MS tends to make everything complex that should be simple.
I wonder how simple MS's newest OS, Microsoft 7 is?
They are taking a lot of underlying code out of Vista
Jim Allan wrote:
Once you’ve found whatever you were searching for, or fixed whatever you
wanted to fix, then change the style back again.
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to change the style back again is
to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been discussed here
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:06:41 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I
got no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I have absolutely no idea where you are getting the ezw attachments
from. This list should not be
Hi Phil,
I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw and what
does it have to do with open office?
tc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I got
no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I found a
Anthony Chilco wrote:
Hi Phil,
I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw
and what does it have to do with open office?
tc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I
got no response that I can read, couldn't even read
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I got no
response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the ones that
I am getting via this newsletter - here's the link,
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Gary Goodfellow wrote:
Are you planning a Visio like product and a Project type product?
In general, Draw provides all of the functionality of Visio. The
critical issue is getting the appropriate shapes.
Potential sources of shapes are:
*
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Paul Wilkinson wrote:
Do you have an equivalent of publisher??
It all depends upon what type of publishing you are trying to do.
OOo can do most of the things that Word can do, and some things that
are impossible to do with MSWord.
OOo can do most of the
https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp will convert most publisher files
to PDF format.
__
Jonathan,
I've seen the PDF Online link published here before. But they convert the
file on their system, then email it out ... the file is on their system.
What do they do with
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:43 PM, web at work wrote:
If you have kept up with the MS ISO stuff, you may have read something
about MS may not support their own creation of their ISO standard format.
May not? How about will not?
One factor that the ISO seems to be overlooking, is that
Scott Meyers wrote:
... To save time, I just typed
Lbegin everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to the
clipboard, then sat down to search for Lbegin and replace it with the
contents of the clipboard. Except that this does not seem to be a valid
replacement option. ...
You're
Scott wrote:
I checked out the link below, but still have a question: What's ezw and
what does it have to do with open office?
It has nothing to do with OOo.
The original poster either screwed up their email client, or their
newsreader, or installed an archiver that automatically converted
Scott Meyers wrote:
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to change the style back
again is to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been
discussed here already, OO has no mechanism within the program to
remove characteristics from a character style. Once you've added a
On 04/07/2008 09:25 PM, Scott Meyers wrote:
I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a
pain to type and format. One is Lbegin where the L is normal
text and the begin is subscripted and italicized. To save time, I
just typed Lbegin everywhere, formatted the first one,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/8/2008 1:06 PM:
I posted a request asking what I should do with ezw attachments - I
got no response that I can read, couldn't even read my own post!
I found a program that read's ezw files, but it could not decode the
ones that I am getting via this
Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic
My point is that you can't do this. Once you've selected something, there's no
way
Joe Smith wrote:
I would tackle your problem using Find Replace, in two steps:
1) Find all Lbegin
2) Find all begin (option: current selection only)
Nifty idea, thanks very much. I was not aware you could do this. Cool, cool,
cool!
That will select only the appropriate begins and then
On 08/04/2008 23:27, Scott Meyers wrote:
Alas, see my post 'Writer: Subscript character style doesn't work'
(no followups so far) about how trying to create a character style for
subscripting does not seem to work. (Subscripting+italics might work,
I haven't tried.)
H. Perhaps I don't
Harold Fuchs wrote:
All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave the
new style a name (SubscriptChar) and set its Position to Subscript.
The new style now appears in the list of available character styles
Web said
I wonder how simple MS's newest OS, Microsoft 7 is?
They are taking a lot of underlying code out of Vista
to make #7. Well that is another fine mess that MS has/will
get us into.
Jim Said..
Please!
It is not only Microsoft who on occasion overcomplicates. Try the mail
Thanks for the added info to my statement
MS is not . . . .
and will not . . . .
lets hope we will not be forced to . . . . .
bleep
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From: jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Compatability
On 09/04/2008 00:14, Scott Meyers wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave
the new style a name (SubscriptChar) and set its Position to
Subscript. The new style now appears
On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
documents with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as
January 1, 2008 instead of 1/1/2008. No matter what I try, the
date format that is automatically inserted is the
Hello,
A collection of issues related to this discussion:
Switching automatically to the character style page in the styles and
formatting when text is highlighted
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15332
Strange behaviour when creating a new character style from selection
On 09/04/2008 00:50, NoOp wrote:
On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
documents with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as
January 1, 2008 instead of 1/1/2008. No matter what I try, the
date format that is
web at work wrote:
I have tired Oxygen. . . a few months ago and it did not
read/write them well. Also when you try to read the resulting
word document into the Word 2007 trial, it caused an error.
I hope it is fixed now. It would be great if you could have both
installed at the same time.
web at work wrote:
[snip]
The only thing I see is MS Office 2003 takes a lot of drive space
on a 80 gig laptop drive. Oh Well. . . . .
long winded . . . . . .but true-ish?
TL in New York, USA
Where in NY? ;)
Fred
--
Fred Molon Labe
A: Because it messes up the order in which people
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Same - Win XP Pro SP2 and I'm up to date with updates. The selected text
visibly changes when I apply the style. In the Position section of your
style's definition, what are the settings apart from Subscript - what
values do you have for Relative Font Size Raise/Lower by?
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:01 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 09/04/2008 00:50, NoOp wrote:
On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
documents with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as
January 1, 2008
On 04/08/2008 04:50 PM, NoOp wrote:
On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote:
How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my
documents with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as
January 1, 2008 instead of 1/1/2008. No matter what I try, the
date format that
On 04/07/2008 04:08 PM, Paul Wilkinson wrote:
Do you have an equivalent of publisher??
Yes. Writer and Draw.
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additional info about this problem.
The text that is the problem was created
using the PP's word art options.
Impress seems not to like word art text.
Any help?
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:11 PM
Subject:
On 04/08/2008 06:29 PM, web at work wrote:
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Please start a new thread.
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I wanted to do this, but during the registration process, I ran into this
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Jim Allan wrote:
You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.
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