Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain words? With Format-Character (or,

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:13 10/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: I took up Brian's suggestion of putting sections inside frames and linking the sections as the means of copying information from one frame to another. My first impressions are that this seems to do what I want. To give credit where it's due, I

[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-10 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:20:29 +0100 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:13 10/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: I took up Brian's suggestion of putting sections inside frames and linking the sections as the means of copying information from one frame to another. My first impressions

[users] Latin-1 Ligatures in Open Office

2008-10-10 Thread JC Ahangama
Hi, It is unfortunate that Open Office still does not support ligatures of simple scripts (English etc.) in ISO-8859-1 code space. WorldPad by SIL.org has been supporting ligatures since its inception: http://scripts.sil.org/WorldPadDownload The latest version of Firefox browser and its

Fwd: [users] Mac installation support software license

2008-10-10 Thread jonathan20824
You wrote: You don't tell us where you got the 'evaluation' version of X11 for OS X, but i'd be willing to bet that you downloaded X11 for Panther - this was somewhat of a public beta. Look more closely here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/ X11.html#tiger . Tiger's X11 is not

[users] No Arial Narrow Font?

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Coffee
Please help.  I tried to open a PDF document today, and it told me it could not read the arial narrow font.  I thought open office had that font?  I checked the fonts, but it does not appear that I have it on mine.   Can I get this arial narrow font?  If so, how?   Thanks, Jim Coffee

[users] Sobre openoffice 64bits

2008-10-10 Thread Manuel Fernández Panzuela
Raul dice que el openoffice es una puta mierda, pero el i386 no, solo el 64 bits. -- www.mfernandez.es

[users] Mac installation support software license

2008-10-10 Thread jonathan20824
You wrote: Hello Jonathan, I didn't know that the licence for X11 was prohibiting commercial or 'productiuon' use. AFAIK X11 is open source, and used as a windowing utility by various open source programs like OOo and the Gimp. Where did you find this restricting licence information? Thank

[users] [moderated]

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Brown
In your survey... you mention that your open office is free. It cost me £29.00...then it offers TV download for $1.99...kept on coming back that details incorrectalthough i used exact same password etc to get the open office. Sorry i bought it now. Eric Brown

Re: [users] Visual Basic w/OOo and others

2008-10-10 Thread Lars Noodén
D. Barboza wrote: Good day, Problem(1) I have an MS-Excel spreadsheet with a Visual-Basic-Macro. Looking ahead, you can write new macros for OOo in Javascript and Python, so there is no need to keep the VB around any longer. -Lars

[users] Error handling in OpenOffice BASIC

2008-10-10 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi all, I am starting to get going with OOo BASIC (spreadsheet) and there is an issue with error handling. The documentation is talking of the 'Err' object that contains an error code. However, when I try it, it always contains 0 (zero). The 'Erl' and 'Error$' values are set correctly. Am I

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/10 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain

Re: [users] Responding to Unsubscribe Requests

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 9 Oct 2008 at 15:17, Barbara Duprey wrote: (By the way, 1-line and ultra-clear are not especially compatible -- I tried to be concise, though! If you have better wording, please provide it here so we'll all see it. I just put up a straw man to help clarify what we can/should do with

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:59 10/10/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: The reason I ask is that I can't force my OOo to hyphenate however hard I try. Any ideas why that should be? Automatic hyphenation is a property of paragraphs and of paragraph styles. It needs to be switched on under Hyphenation on the Text

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 10 Oct 2008 at 8:59, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/10/10 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that

Re: [users] [moderated] NOn-Free OpenOffice

2008-10-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/9 Eric Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your survey... you mention that your open office is free. It cost me £29.00...then it offers TV download for $1.99...kept on coming back that details incorrectalthough i used exact same password etc to get the open office. Sorry i bought it now.

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/10 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:59 10/10/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: The reason I ask is that I can't force my OOo to hyphenate however hard I try. Any ideas why that should be? Automatic hyphenation is a property of paragraphs and of paragraph styles. It needs to be

[users] calc

2008-10-10 Thread Joe Grech
Hi Re my query to paste selections from different sheets onto a single sheet using Paste Special and even the Link option is checked the paste worked OK but no link was created. What have I done wrong? _ Connect to the next

Re: [users] OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? very soon there will be a lot of experience:

[users] OpenOffice Basic class reference

2008-10-10 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi all, Getting started with OOo BASIC is not easy, because the documentation is not very clear. I am looking for a class reference guide. Where could I find that? -- Groeten, Bart Friederichs TBWB - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] No Arial Narrow Font?

2008-10-10 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Jim Coffee wrote: Please help. I tried to open a PDF document today, and it told me it could not read the arial narrow font. I thought open office had that font? I checked the fonts, but it does not appear that I have it on mine. Can I get this arial narrow font? If so, how? It's a

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/10 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing this? I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the best that I could do was to measure and

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/10 Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this help? From the Help: Resizing a whole Table To change the width and height of a table, do one of the following: * Click inside the table. In the rulers, drag the border between the white and the gray area to resize the table. * Click

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-10-10 Thread M Henri Day
2008/10/10 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Brown wrote: In your survey... you mention that your open office is free. It cost me £29.00...then it offers TV download for $1.99...kept on coming back that details incorrectalthough i used exact same password etc to get the open office.

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 10 Oct 2008 at 14:55, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/10/10 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frames? 4 to a page? Frames have the same problem that tables do: no way to say x% height / width. I'm not sure that's right. The frame size dialogue has a tick-box for relative size. In fact, I just

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-10-10 Thread James Knott
Eric Brown wrote: In your survey... you mention that your open office is free. It cost me £29.00...then it offers TV download for $1.99...kept on coming back that details incorrectalthough i used exact same password etc to get the open office. Sorry i bought it now. Eric Brown I

Re: [users] Visual Basic w/OOo and others

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Cipriani
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, D. Barboza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (4) Does someone knows how to send monthly e-newsletters to more than 300 recipients without the hasle of been blocked as spammer? I need some help on this also because we need to re-design our web page and include a monthly

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 10 Oct 2008 at 13:48, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/10/10 Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this help? From the Help: Resizing a whole Table To change the width and height of a table, do one of the following: * Click inside the table. In the rulers, drag the border between the

Re: [users] No Arial Narrow Font?

2008-10-10 Thread web at work
Peter Hillier-Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 7:43 AM Subject: Re: [users] No Arial Narrow Font? Jim Coffee wrote: Please help. I tried to open a PDF document today, and it told me it could not read the arial narrow font. I thought open

Re: [users] Sobre openoffice 64bits

2008-10-10 Thread M Henri Day
2008/10/10 Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/10/9 Manuel Fernández Panzuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raul dice que el openoffice es una puta mierda, pero el i386 no, solo el 64 bits. -- www.mfernandez.es This is an English language list. For information and support in Spanish, please

Re: [users] Mac installation support software license

2008-10-10 Thread Guy Voets
2008/10/9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I originally sent the following reply to the mailing list instead of to you, but on second thought, maybe I should have sent it directly to you instead. Hello Jonathan, If you send to me, there's only us - if you send to the list, others may benefit / help. So

Re: [users] Visual Basic w/OOo and others

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 10 Oct 2008 at 9:07, Jason Cipriani wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, D. Barboza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (4) Does someone knows how to send monthly e-newsletters to more than 300 recipients without the hasle of been blocked as spammer? I need some help on this also because we

[users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing this? I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the best that I could do was to measure and set the width and height according to half the

Re: [users] Re: Repeating data in OOo Writer

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/7 Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A section can get its contents through a link to another section. So you make one section the master, and all the others link to that. The linked sections are not updated automatically. Writer offers to update them when the document is loaded, or you can

Re: [users] calc

2008-10-10 Thread JOE Conner
Joe Grech wrote: Hi Re my query to paste selections from different sheets onto a single sheet using Paste Special and even the Link option is checked the paste worked OK but no link was created. What have I done wrong? Try this. Put your cursor on a blank page. 1. Type an equal sign

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/10 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frames? 4 to a page? Frames have the same problem that tables do: no way to say x% height / width. You don't say what you want do do with the quarter pages though. I have a list that is to be repeated four times on the page, once in each quadrant.

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread H.S.
Uwe Fischer wrote: Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? very soon there will be a lot of experience:

Re: [users] Sobre openoffice 64bits

2008-10-10 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/10/9 Manuel Fernández Panzuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raul dice que el openoffice es una puta mierda, pero el i386 no, solo el 64 bits. -- www.mfernandez.es This is an English language list. For information and support in Spanish, please visit http://es.openoffice.org/ -- Harold Fuchs

Re: [users] Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread mike scott
On 10 Oct 2008 at 12:33, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing this? I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the best that I could do was to measure

Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/10/08 17:04, H.S. wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? very soon there

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Alan Lord
Uwe Fischer wrote: On 10/10/08 17:04, H.S. wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document?

[users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread Julio Sotolongo
Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/ -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread M Henri Day
2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/ Looks like it - are we always the last to know ?... Henri

Re: [users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread Dan Klinglesmith
On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/ Looks like it - are we always the last to know ?... Henri OOo 3.0 is still in

[users] Re : [users] OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Laurent ROCHE
Hi, We have been using OOo and SVN (more precisely the Win client Tortoise): it works like a charm a SVN diff on Writer document will show the differences as revisions in OOo : great ! Have fun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computing Froggy - Message d'origine De : Uwe Fischer [EMAIL

Re: [users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread M Henri Day
2008/10/10 Dan Klinglesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/ Looks like it - are we always the

[users] Re : [users] OOo with WebDav on Https

2008-10-10 Thread Laurent ROCHE
Cor, The OOo File dialog (Tools|Options|OOo General) did the trick ! But strange that I have to go through that to make it work. Also I still have to figure out why I don't have the Open option in the right click menu with OOo documents, when a colleague with MS Office has the option ... and

Re: [users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread Julio Sotolongo
M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Dan Klinglesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/

Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 10, 2008, at 08:04 , H.S. wrote: I wanted to know if an OOo document (e.g. a Writer .odt document) can be hosted on svn so that multiple authors can collaborate at the same time. Absolutely, but Subversion will treat the document as a picture [or any other binary file]. IOW, you

Re: [users] when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread M Henri Day
2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Dan Klinglesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official

[users] Re: Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Joe Smith
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing this? I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the best that I could do was to measure and set the width and height

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Alan Lord
David Lowe wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 08:04 , H.S. wrote: I wanted to know if an OOo document (e.g. a Writer .odt document) can be hosted on svn so that multiple authors can collaborate at the same time. Absolutely, but Subversion will treat the document as a picture [or any other

[users] Re: when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread Spiderman
M Henri Day schrieb: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Dan Klinglesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not

[users] Re: when 3.0 available

2008-10-10 Thread Larry Gusaas
Julio Sotolongo wrote: Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the official ooo site. http://www.filehippo.com/ Release of OO.o 3.0 will be announced on Monday. It is currently propagating through the mirror network.

[users] cannot let open odf-files with writer

2008-10-10 Thread Spiderman
Hi there, I try and try to make writer open odf-files by double click on it but it doesn't work. So I tried to make it through open with. Just selected writer by going to the openoffice folder and clicking on writer in the open with menu. But writer doesn't add to the list of the software list

Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Robin Laing
Alan Lord wrote: David Lowe wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 08:04 , H.S. wrote: I wanted to know if an OOo document (e.g. a Writer .odt document) can be hosted on svn so that multiple authors can collaborate at the same time. Absolutely, but Subversion will treat the document as a picture

Re: [users] cannot let open odf-files with writer

2008-10-10 Thread James Knott
Spiderman wrote: Hi there, I try and try to make writer open odf-files by double click on it but it doesn't work. So I tried to make it through open with. Just selected writer by going to the openoffice folder and clicking on writer in the open with menu. But writer doesn't add to the list of

[users] Re: cannot let open odf-files with writer

2008-10-10 Thread Spiderman
James Knott schrieb: Spiderman wrote: Hi there, I try and try to make writer open odf-files by double click on it but it doesn't work. So I tried to make it through open with. Just selected writer by going to the openoffice folder and clicking on writer in the open with menu. But writer

[users] openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread Spiderman
Hi, I found some downloads of openoffice 3.0 final. Strange. They just can wait till the official release. http://www.chip.de/downloads/OpenOffice_13004346.html http://www.chip.de/news/OpenOffice-3-Finale-Version-als-Download_33223066.html

Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:00 , Alan Lord wrote: The project aims to create a dynamic zip/unzip process as files are checked in/out of subversion thereby enabling full version control of the *contents* of the odf files - not just a blob. It sounds intriguing. I'm trying to reconcile a

Re: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread web at work
Spiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:11 PM Subject: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready? Hi, I found some downloads of openoffice 3.0 final. Strange. They just can wait till the official release. http://www.chip.de/downloads/OpenOffice_13004346.html

[users] Re: openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread Larry Gusaas
Spiderman wrote: Hi, I found some downloads of openoffice 3.0 final. Strange. They just can wait till the official release. http://www.chip.de/downloads/OpenOffice_13004346.html http://www.chip.de/news/OpenOffice-3-Finale-Version-als-Download_33223066.html Actually, they do not announce

Re: [users] Re: cannot let open odf-files with writer

2008-10-10 Thread James Knott
Spiderman wrote: James Knott schrieb: Spiderman wrote: Hi there, I try and try to make writer open odf-files by double click on it but it doesn't work. So I tried to make it through open with. Just selected writer by going to the openoffice folder and clicking on writer in the open with

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Alan Lord
David Lowe wrote: snip / It sounds intriguing. I'm trying to reconcile a project that is in the planning stage versus a 1.0 version release. Do you have a ballpark timeline for this becoming a stable product? As I said in an earlier post: I haven't tried it and don't know at what

[users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread H.S.
Alan Lord wrote: I remember that there was a project to integrate ODF into subversion. Here it is on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odfsvn/ I haven't tried it and don't know at what stage it is but when I first came across this I thought it was a cracking idea. I agree.

Re: [users] Visual Basic w/OOo and others

2008-10-10 Thread jonathon
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 08:54, D. Barboza wrote: Good day, Problem(1) I have an MS-Excel spreadsheet with a Visual-Basic-Macro. I tried to open it with OOo-Calc but doesn't work. Is there a way to import this Macro to OOo? If it is a simple VBA Macro, then yes. If it is complex, then rewrite

Re: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread jonathon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 14:08, web at work wrote: Maybe one day OpenOffice.org will have an option to easily translate your document from one language to another. Machine language translation is useful only when one wants to get the gist of what is written. When one needs to know precisely

Re: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread web at work
jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready? On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 14:08, web at work wrote: Maybe one day OpenOffice.org will have an option to easily translate your document from one language to

Re: [users] openoffice 3.0 ready?

2008-10-10 Thread jonathon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 19:11, web at work wrote: What tools? For human translation: * Omega T+; * OpenLanguage Toolset; * Translate Toolkit; * Anaphraseus; I've forgotten the other one. (Macro that is mainly to ensure that one tranlsates the same phrase identically, across documents.); I

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:18 AM, mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain

Re: [users] Re: Table formating: whole page

2008-10-10 Thread Jean Lear
Hello, I may not be clearly understanding the requirement here but I often use OO Calc instead of using the OO Writer when needing to set out something like I imagine is required here. You can choose a number of columns - if I wanted two tables side by side I would make three columns to fit