Re: [users] Fwd: [moderated]Unable to use OO on Mac w/OSX

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Clement
Pat Knotts wrote: Some additional info on my ptroblem: I have a Mac w/OSX 10.5.5. Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:22:24 -0500 To: users@openoffice.org From: Pat Knotts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [moderated]Unable to use OO Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: I have been using Open Office on my home computer

Re: [users] Re: .riess date browser makes OOo 3.0.0 on Mac crash

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/16 Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] NoOp wrote (29-10-2008 21:59) On 10/29/2008 08:07 AM, Guy Voets wrote: I installed the date browser extension from riess gmbh on OOo 3.0.0 on my Intel Tiger Mac and when I restarted, OOo kept on crashing time after time. I then opened the extension

Re: [users] Try OpenOffice.org. I dare you! a new OpenOffice.org tutorial

2008-11-17 Thread Adrian Try
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks really good. I hope many people enjoyed, Cor Thanks very much, Cor. I hope to make it available for download in PDF format in the near future. Adrian www.adriantry.com

Re: [users] Re: .riess date browser makes OOo 3.0.0 on Mac crash

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/16 Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] NoOp wrote (29-10-2008 21:59) On 10/29/2008 08:07 AM, Guy Voets wrote: I installed the date browser extension from riess gmbh on OOo 3.0.0 on my Intel Tiger Mac and when I restarted, OOo kept on crashing time after time. I then opened the

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:23, Brian Barker wrote: At 06:26 17/11/2008 +0100, John D. Herron wrote: When you launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, the first thing that appears is a switchboard, i.e. a dialog box with icons that allow the user to open an application or document of his choice. My

Re: [users] Spanish downloads

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/12 Hector Pizarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear sirs, My name is Hector Pizarro and I am the editor in chief of Diario Ti (www.diarioti.com). We are writing an article con OpenOffice and would like to know, if possible, the number of downloads for the Spanish version of the software

Re: [users] Open Office Calc Help!

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Rentz
Daniel Borzutzki schrieb: hello Mr. Fuchs, i uploaded the picture maybe u can help me know. Can i move those number at the left (red box) to the line (blue box) or copy them?? That is currently not possible. But it is planned to implement this for one of next releases. Please see issue

Re: [users] Re: turn off formatting popup

2008-11-17 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times: [snip] I trust this helps. Brian Barker Ironic... Brian's post came through (popped up) 7 times; ... For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't actually write

[users] Impress - inserting Powerpoint file changes font and background

2008-11-17 Thread Barnpiece
If I open a Powerpoint file, the font used and background are correct. If I insert the file into a default presentation the font is change from Arial to Times even though the default font is Arial. Please advise how I can inherit the font and background when inserting a Powerpoint file.

[users] [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread Dingo-Dog
This is a serious lacking for professional printing (and also for non-professional) tipically, any pdf has different boxes (see here http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page_boxes) MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox ArtBox now, OpenOffice, set the trimbox at same size than mediabox, this,

Re: [users] [moderated]Unable to use OO

2008-11-17 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/11/17 Pat Knotts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been using Open Office on my home computer for almost a year but have been unable to access it since Saturday. What's happening? What do I do? I'm afraid you'll need to give us quite a lot more information before we can help you: 1. Which

Re: [users] auto saving files

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/13 Simon Olig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, does open office generate some auto save files? Becaus two important documents are missing becaus of suddenly down of oppenoffice3 (ps I'm a MAC;-) Greetz Hello Simon, OpenOffice.org can keep a backup and do autosave, if you ask it to. See

Re: [users] [moderated]Unable to use OO

2008-11-17 Thread James Knott
Pat Knotts wrote: I have been using Open Office on my home computer for almost a year but have been unable to access it since Saturday. What's happening? What do I do? Please describe what you're doing and what happens, including any error messages. -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread Eli
Brian Barker wrote: At 06:26 17/11/2008 +0100, John D. Herron wrote: When you launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, the first thing that appears is a switchboard, i.e. a dialog box with icons that allow the user to open an application or document of his choice. My question: does anyone know whether

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread James Knott
Drew Jensen wrote: From: john d. herron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, the first thing that appears is a switchboard, i.e. a dialog box with icons that allow the user to open an application or document of his choice. My question: does anyone know whether

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread James Knott
john d. herron wrote: When you launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, the first thing that appears is a switchboard, i.e. a dialog box with icons that allow the user to open an application or document of his choice. My question: does anyone know whether there is a any way to eliminate (or disable) this

Re: [users] [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread Erling Larsen
Dingo-Dog skrev: This is a serious lacking for professional printing (and also for non-professional) tipically, any pdf has different boxes (see here http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page_boxes) MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox ArtBox now, OpenOffice, set the trimbox at same size

Re: [users] SDK 3.0 available or not?

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/11 Pingju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, When I tried to download the SDK package, I was redirected to the SDK download page of 2.4.0. I suppose this is the latest version. Does it compatible fully with OOO 3.0? As if there is a SDK version 3.0, but not available to public? Best

Re: [users] [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread Dingo-Dog
Erling Larsen wrote: For books or other works that need to be send to printing, i think that Scribus would be a better tool than OOo. [...] Why most people says ever USE SCRIBUS when it is a defect in OpenOffice that must be corrected? Using Scribus does not solve the problem. do you have yet

[users] Help on Calc 3.0

2008-11-17 Thread GIRAUD Jerome DSC NIMES Commandement
Hello, Under Open Office Calc 3.0, there are Data \ Driver Data \ Start, an opportunity to cross-tabulations as Excel. The only difference is that we are limited to 8 Fields in Data Field. How can we increase the number of fields under the heading Data Field (Excel number is limited to 30

Re: [users] Fwd: [moderated]Unable to use OO on Mac w/OSX

2008-11-17 Thread Guy Voets
2008/11/17 Pat Knotts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some additional info on my ptroblem: I have a Mac w/OSX 10.5.5. I have been using Open Office on my home computer for almost a year but have been unable to access it since Saturday. What's happening? What do I do? Hello Pat, Which version of

[users] Re: Page numbers.

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Allan
Gunnar Larssen wrote: Does Oo intend to give us the simple function Automatically insert Page Number and the choises Top Left, Middle, Right and Bottom Left, Middle, Right? The present means to insert page numbers is far too old-fashioned. It seems to me that OOo's current method of inserting

Re: [users] Page numbers.

2008-11-17 Thread Michele
2008/11/16 Gunnar Larssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Does Oo intend to give us the simple function Automatically insert Page Number and the choises Top Left, Middle, Right and Bottom Left, Middle, Right? The present means to insert page numbers is far too old-fashioned. Brgds Gunnar Larssen

Re: [users] probleem

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Dag mevrouw Smid, jenneke smid wrote (12-11-2008 14:00) Geachte mevrouw / meneer, Sinds februari van dit jaar werk ik met Open Office. Ik schrijf een boek! Gisteren overkwam mij iets vreemds. [...] De lijst waarnaar u heeft gemaild, is Engelstalig. U kunt uw vraag dus in het Engels

Re: [users] [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:42:43 -0800 (PST) Dingo-Dog [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Erling Larsen wrote: For books or other works that need to be send to printing, i think that Scribus would be a better tool than OOo. [...] Why most people says ever USE SCRIBUS when it is a defect in OpenOffice

Re: [users] Microsoft Office icons etc.

2008-11-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
Fabrizio De Cesare wrote: I am used to write text by Microsoft Office (MO). Recently, I was suggested to use OpenOffice (OO). I downloaded it, but after that, all the icons of MO files disappeared and were changed in anonymous icons by my Apple OS X 10.4. Furthermore, my email software

[users] Re: OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread Twayne
Drew Jensen wrote: From: john d. herron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you launch OpenOffice.org 3.0, the first thing that appears is a switchboard, i.e. a dialog box with icons that allow the user to open an application or document of his choice. My question: does anyone know whether there

[users] Re: turn off formatting popup

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 03:11 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times: [snip] ... perhaps we need to dock Brian to the toolbar as well? :-) ;^) Brian Barker (who is hoping not

[users] Re: OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 02:03 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: [snip] In addition to Brian's clear explanation - (1) User Experience/StartCenter http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/StartCenter (2) Issue 90815 [StartCenter] Provide configuration option to deactivate StartCenter

[users] Re: SDK 3.0 available or not?

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/11/2008 01:59 AM, Pingju wrote: Hi All, When I tried to download the SDK package, I was redirected to the SDK download page of 2.4.0. I suppose this is the latest version. Does it compatible fully with OOO 3.0? As if there is a SDK version 3.0, but not available to public? Best

[users] Re: [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 05:42 AM, Dingo-Dog wrote: Erling Larsen wrote: For books or other works that need to be send to printing, i think that Scribus would be a better tool than OOo. [...] Why most people says ever USE SCRIBUS when it is a defect in OpenOffice that must be corrected? Using

Re: [users] Impress - inserting Powerpoint file changes font and background

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Richard, Barnpiece wrote (17-11-2008 12:22) If I open a Powerpoint file, the font used and background are correct. If I insert the file into a default presentation the font is change from Arial to Times even though the default font is Arial. Please advise how I can inherit the font and

Re: [users] Impress - inserting Powerpoint file changes font and background

2008-11-17 Thread Barnpiece
I wonder if there is something strange in the Powerpoint file. The orginal is a set of slides all in Ariel font with pictures (in Powerpoint). If I open the file in OpenOffice all slides display correctly. If I insert the file into a newly created presentation (with master slide showing all

Re: [users] Updating ranges after inserting line

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Adam, Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi wrote (6-11-2008 21:12) I have a spreadsheet with a list of values, let's say, at the interval B2:B8. At B9, I have the formula =SUM(B2:B8). If I insert a new row between B8 and B9, the formula at the now B10 cell is not updated. Is there a simple way to

Re: [users] Password Protection

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Dhananjay, Dhananjay Mudgal wrote (14-11-2008 4:34) I am having Win Xp Pro OO 3.0 installed on my system. In OO 3.0 my default format to save spreadsheet is .xls. I want to protect my sheet with password, like we do in Ms excel. It should ask for password before opening the sheet. I am

Re: [users] Updating ranges after inserting line

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adam, Hi, Cor! Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi wrote (6-11-2008 21:12) I have a spreadsheet with a list of values, let's say, at the interval B2:B8. At B9, I have the formula =SUM(B2:B8). If I insert a new row between B8

[users] StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081117.1.xml Unfortunately, it is no longer free for students educators: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/faqs.jsp#g4 7. Q: What are the pricing changes to StarOffice 9 Software? A: There are four key changes: * Subscription

[users] Re: [issue] OpenOffice does not set up the trimbox in pdf

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 11:25 AM, NoOp wrote: [snip] This might be of interest as well: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html quote PDF RW Portable Document FormatRequires Ghostscript to read. By default, ImageMagick sets the page size to the MediaBox. Some PDF files, however,

Re: [users] Re: turn off formatting popup

2008-11-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
NoOp wrote: On 11/17/2008 03:11 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times: [snip] ... perhaps we need to dock Brian to the toolbar as well? :-)

[users] Re: turn off formatting popup

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 04:06 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: NoOp wrote: On 11/17/2008 03:11 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times: [snip] ... perhaps we

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Clement
NoOp wrote: On 11/17/2008 02:03 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: [snip] In addition to Brian's clear explanation - (1) User Experience/StartCenter http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/StartCenter (2) Issue 90815 [StartCenter] Provide configuration option to deactivate

[users] Re: OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard or app chooser

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 04:16 PM, Rob Clement wrote: NoOp wrote: I guess I'm missing the reason for the bug/issue; if you open 'soffice' in 2.4.x you get a blank start page, whereas in 3.0 you get a very nice 'StartCenter'. This is what people kept complaining about -- no desktop icon etc., and now

[users] Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread Twayne
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081117.1.xml Unfortunately, it is no longer free for students educators: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/faqs.jsp#g4 7. Q: What are the pricing changes to StarOffice 9 Software? A: There are four key changes: * Subscription

Re: [users] Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread Eli
Twayne wrote: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081117.1.xml Unfortunately, it is no longer free for students educators: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/faqs.jsp#g4 7. Q: What are the pricing changes to StarOffice 9 Software? A: There are four key changes: *

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 3.0: disabling the opening switchboard (solved)

2008-11-17 Thread john d. herron
NoOp wrote: On 11/17/2008 04:16 PM, Rob Clement wrote: NoOp wrote: I guess I'm missing the reason for the bug/issue; if you open 'soffice' in 2.4.x you get a blank start page, whereas in 3.0 you get a very nice 'StartCenter'. This is what people kept complaining about -- no

[users] Re: Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread NoOp
On 11/17/2008 07:13 PM, Eli wrote: Twayne wrote: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081117.1.xml Unfortunately, it is no longer free for students educators: http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/faqs.jsp#g4 7. Q: What are the pricing changes to StarOffice 9 Software?

Re: [users] Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread Web Kracked
Twayne wrote: snip They say there is no dumb question except the one that doesn't get asked. Let's test that outg. Historically, I came to OO.o from StarOffice long, long ago. In fact in my blissful ignorance I didn't ever realize they weren't the same thing for a long time, 'way back

Re: [users] Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
Web Kracked wrote: Twayne wrote: snip They say there is no dumb question except the one that doesn't get asked. Let's test that outg. Historically, I came to OO.o from StarOffice long, long ago. In fact in my blissful ignorance I didn't ever realize they weren't the same thing for

[users] DOES OPENOFFICE HAS SPELL GRAMMAR CHECK FOR HINDI

2008-11-17 Thread pawan kumar sharma
RESPECTED AUTHORITY, DOES OPENOFFICE HAS SPELL GRAMMAR CHECK FOR HINDI (AN INDIAN LANGUAGE ) AS MICORSOFT WORD HAS FOR ENGLISH USING F7 ? PLZ REPLY ME I AM USING OPENOFFICE FROM A LONG TIME BUT STILL NOT ABLE TO CREATE CHECK DOCUMENTS IN HINDI.

Fwd: Re: [users] [moderated] Unable to use OOWMac OSX

2008-11-17 Thread Pat Knotts
Having allowed updates 2 days before trying to use OO is most likely my problem. Thank you to all for your help. I'll be trying out the solution this eve. PK U Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Unable to use OO At 20:22 16/11/2008 -0500, you wrote: I have been using Open Office on my

[users] (new) About Participate in OpenOffice.org - contributing.

2008-11-17 Thread Joanne
Dear friend, We are conducting a study on the motivation of the knowledge sharing on OpenOffice. The contributors’ experience to OpenOffice is very important to the design and management of this knowledge platform. Would you please forward the following on-line questionnaire message to the

[users] How do I amend the document and retrieve data Doc?

2008-11-17 Thread touzidailiren
Openoffice, English: The software you use good! But in the editing software, all of a sudden power outage occurred, you can not open the file on the. The power failure happened to be the moment your software automatically save the process, this process has not yet been completed, all of a

[users] Change paper format

2008-11-17 Thread ACCO - Head Office
Dear Sir/ Madam, I just install OpenOffice and start using. I have a problem with OpenOffice Writer as below: Default Paper format is Letter. How ever, I want to working with A4 format as default. I have try to set (modify Default style, creat new style...), but if I close the