Re: [users] Re: openoffice and greek language

2008-05-06 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Gary, *, On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:06 AM, NoOp wrote: On 05/03/2008 05:02 AM, Michele wrote: 2008/5/1 Julia Happel miacharaatotenet.gr: [...] You can install two versions in parallel but this is not what you want. You need to download the language pack for the greek language

Re: [users] Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/5/6 web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: [users] Download time for open office Could you please tell me how big the Open Office download is. I have been downloading 5 hours on dial up! Thanks David Morgan David, how fast is your Internet Connection? To find

Re: [users] windows server 2008 - thin client install

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 02 May 2008 07:55:37 -0400 Drew Jensen wrote: Michael Adams wrote: Anyone run OO.o on windows server 2008 for thin clients? Any recommendations for this combination, or gotchas? I note that a few questions have come up on the subject, but very few answers. You might find

Re: [users] windows server 2008 - thin client install

2008-05-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/5/2 Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Adams wrote: Anyone run OO.o on windows server 2008 for thin clients? Any recommendations for this combination, or gotchas? I note that a few questions have come up on the subject, but very few answers. You might find some

Re: [users] windows server 2008 - thin client install

2008-05-06 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
The WS2008 installing bloke just installed OO.o as a normal app and it works on all thin client logins no problems. I only need to get program install privileges to add the dictionaries. Locked down users can't install them and i can't install them system wide. I do need to run through the

Re: [users] Hiba sos

2008-05-06 Thread Guy Voets
2008/5/3 Balázs Miklós [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Üdvözlöm! Egy főiskolai hallgató vagyok. Régóta használom az OpenOffice programcsomagot. Nagyon megvagyok vele elégedve. Azonban most van egy komoly problémám. A helyzet a következő, eltávolítottam a korábbi verziót, (2.3) és most szerettem volna

Re: [users] solicitud

2008-05-06 Thread Guy Voets
2008/5/4 Maritza Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me pueden informar cuas es la versión en openoffice del Microsoft project. Gracias Maritza Ver http://es.openoffice.org en español -- Guy

Re: [users] Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Joseph
Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/5/6 web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: [users] Download time for open office Could you please tell me how big the Open Office download is. I have been downloading 5 hours on dial up! Thanks David Morgan David, how fast is your Internet

[users] PDFs needed of studies OOo vs.Office 2007 migration

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Hohne
I am currently working on a research paper on OpenOffice.org for the course Marketing Management. On http://why.openoffice.org/why_easy.html the following is stated: Studies have proved it is easier (and cheaper) to move to OpenOffice.org 2 from Microsoft Office than it is to upgrade to

RE: [users] Re: Is As is still missing from Character Style attributes?

2008-05-06 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
McLauchlan, Kevin ... was looking for a way to create character styles that imposed no characteristics except the explicitly desired ones - so that one char style could be applied to multiple Para styles. Jim Allan responded Go to a document. Create a new Blue Bold style from the Default

Re: [users] Re: Formatting sections - sp landscape in a portrait document.?

2008-05-06 Thread mike scott
Thanks to all who have responded over this. Apologies if anyone feels I ought to have attributed their thoughts. I've been doing a bit of reading, tinkering and thinking, and the situation seems to be rather as follows. No doubt if there are errors, someone will correct me! 1. After an

[users] dumb RTFM question regarding hyperlinks

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a column of email addresses in calc, most of which were imported from an email message. The addresses that I added manually are shaded as hyperlinks, but most of them are not recognized as hyperlinks. The help file described how to turn hyperlink recognition off for auto correct, but it

Fwd: [users] your product

2008-05-06 Thread Guy Voets
-- Forwarded message -- From: JOrdan Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/4/30 Subject: Re: [users] your product To: Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ha ha, I'm not young, just illeterate. So I have four tangible complaints. The first is that anythiing copied or pasted off the internet

Re: [users] Re: Formatting sections - sp landscape in a portrait document.?

2008-05-06 Thread Michele
Hello Mike, thanks for this great summary. 1. After an explicit page break, the first paragraph on the page defines the page style for that page. This can be set either in the dialogue for the page break, or in the page style property dialogue for the style of the new page. Not quite.

Re: [users] Macros, Vorlagen personalisieren

2008-05-06 Thread Guy Voets
2008/5/3 Johannes Vallazza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grüß Gott, an alle die freude mit Ooo haben! Ich nutze OpenOffice seit geraumer Zeit auf meinen Mac osx 10.4, und hätte einige Fragen, als Neuankömmling auf Eurer Seite: -Scripts bastle ich aus notwendigkeit für Applescript; nur die

Re: [users] your product

2008-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/6 Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ha ha, I'm not young, just illeterate. So I have four tangible complaints. The first is that anythiing copied or pasted off the internet shows up in box that runs accross the screen, no matter how many words you paste. Second, pictures that are copied and

Re: [users] your product

2008-05-06 Thread Guy Voets
Copy to unsubscribed OP 2008/5/6 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/6 Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ha ha, I'm not young, just illeterate. So I have four tangible complaints. The first is that anythiing copied or pasted off the internet shows up in box that runs accross the screen, no

Re: [users] Hiba sos

2008-05-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/5/6, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/3 Balázs Miklós [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Üdvözlöm! Egy főiskolai hallgató vagyok. Régóta használom az OpenOffice programcsomagot. Nagyon megvagyok vele elégedve. Azonban most van egy komoly problémám. A helyzet a következő, eltávolítottam a

[users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Rick Bilonick
I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo 2.3 (Red Hat). I don't see any options to force this. Rick B.

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo 2.3 (Red Hat). I don't see any options to force this. You can set up to 20 decimal places for a

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:46 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo 2.3 (Red Hat). I don't see any

Re: [users] Re: Formatting sections - sp landscape in a portrait document.?

2008-05-06 Thread mike scott
On 6 May 2008 at 14:48, Michele wrote: Hello Mike, thanks for this great summary. 1. After an explicit page break, the first paragraph on the page defines the page style for that page. This can be set either in the dialogue for the page break, or in the page style property

[users] Date changes automatically (and incorrectly!)

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Greenbank
Hi, I'm having a problem with spreadsheets under Vista and OOo 2.4.0. I've been entering lines into a spreadsheet (a timesheet) and save at the end of each day. When I open up the spreadsheet the next day that dates have all changed. I tried creating the same timesheet under Linux and it

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
Rick Bilonick wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:46 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo 2.3 (Red Hat). I

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Anthony Chilco
Rick Bilonick wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:46 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo 2.3 (Red Hat). I

Re: [users] [moderated] Scrolling Sideways on a Spreadsheet [Was: I am using version 2.4 and am trying to type sideways. Can't figure out how?}

2008-05-06 Thread Barbara Duprey
I'm a bit confused here -- you mention transferring from Word, but spreadsheets would normally have been in Excel and be handled by Calc. Did you have a spreadsheet imported into a Word document? But in any case, the normal scrollbars should work just fine. If what you're trying to do is

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:46 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision in which they are stored. I'm using OOo

[users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Bob Estes
Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] Hiba sos

2008-05-06 Thread KAMI
In case of emergency we can take over the rules. So here is the answer in Hungarian. Vélhetően az eltávolítás nem sikerüölt megfelelően. Az eltávolító programmal kezdeményezted? Amit lehet tenni: visszarakni a 2.3-as verziót és megpróbálni eltávolítani és újra telepíteni a 2,.4-es verziót.

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 15:56:40 Rick Bilonick wrote: The number 71.08929399 is what is actually in the .xls spreadsheet but only 2 decimal places display in the cell. When I save the spreadsheet to a .csv file, only 71.09 is saved. I want to always and automatically save the full precision to

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:04 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 15:56:40 Rick Bilonick wrote: The number 71.08929399 is what is actually in the .xls spreadsheet but only 2 decimal places display in the cell. When I save the spreadsheet to a .csv file, only 71.09 is saved. I

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. Perhaps he bit off more than he can chew. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-06 Thread Rick Bilonick
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 11:16 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:46 -0400, James Knott wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I have a spreadsheet with numbers like 71.08929399 which when save end up to be 71.09. I need to save all numbers in the exact precision

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Joseph
James Knott wrote: Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. Perhaps he bit off more than he can chew. ;-) Chew

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

2008-05-06 Thread A
I down loaded OO and found files loose in my documents folder. How do I removed them and reinstall OO in the proper location for Vista Home Prem. Firefox browser. I also found an error when trying to view a site through Apache server? Thank you. Avie

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread mike scott
On 6 May 2008 at 12:25, James Knott wrote: Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. Perhaps he

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 06/05/2008 18:47, mike scott wrote: On 6 May 2008 at 12:25, James Knott wrote: Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:59 -0700 Bob Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. And a

[users] Re: Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Twayne
Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. Perhaps he bit off more than he can chew. ;-) He shoulda taken it a

[users] Re: your product

2008-05-06 Thread Twayne
2008/5/6 Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Q: But if I already know what the question was, why force me to read it again? I'd rather see the answer. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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

2008-05-06 Thread Twayne
I down loaded OO and found files loose in my documents folder. How do I removed them and reinstall OO in the proper location for Vista Home Prem. Firefox browser. I also found an error when trying to view a site through Apache server? Thank you. Avie 1. You gave no summary as indicated

Re: [users] Re: your product

2008-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/6 Twayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Q: But if I already know what the question was, why force me to read it again? I'd rather see the answer. Finally, an intelegent argument _for_ top posting! On a mailing list, one often cannot know which question is being answered, so quoting the question

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:59 -0700 Bob Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. And

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:59 -0700 Bob Estes wrote: Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits. But a Nibble is four Bits.

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:43 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite. It's only 10. There's 8 data bits, one start and one stop bit. Perhaps you're thinking of the old 5 level code, which could have 1, 1.42 or 1.5 stop bits. Also, ASCII at 110 b/s has 2 stop bits, for a

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread James Knott
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:43 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite. It's only 10. There's 8 data bits, one start and one stop bit. Perhaps you're thinking of the old 5 level code, which could have 1, 1.42 or 1.5 stop bits. Also, ASCII at 110 b/s has

[users] Draw configuration

2008-05-06 Thread Allen
I'm having a problem finding where to set the default Base point in Draw. If one right clicks on an object and selects Position and Size in the upper right is an object labeled Base point. The default is the radio button in the upper left corner. I'm doing a series of interlocking circles

Re: [users] Re: your product

2008-05-06 Thread Allen
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/6 Twayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Q: But if I already know what the question was, why force me to read it again? I'd rather see the answer. Finally, an intelegent argument _for_ top posting! But end posting is *_real_* tedious if it is a nested post that has not

Re: [users] Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread web at work
- Original Message - From: Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:03 AM Subject: Re: [users] Download time for open office 2008/5/6 web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: [users] Download time for open office Could you please

Re: [users] Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread web at work
From: Joseph Bit? Bytes? Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Gr grimace GR is more proper, and I goofed with several computer degrees. Too basic to remember. You got BITS

Re: [users] Re: your product

2008-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bottom posting makes no sense to me. This is the only list I am on these days but this is also the only place where anyone bottom posts. In almost all email correspondence I get (and have received for far too long to remember) the replies are top posted. Anyway I understand that we all have our

[users] Video in Impress

2008-05-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
Can it be done? I have to prepare a presentation for a class and I need to show a five-minute video in FLV format. I am using OOo 2.4 on Linux. I can do Insert Movie and Sound and it opens a folder where I can browse. When I open the folder containing the .flv file the file does not appear. On