I believe I have found a bug in openoffice's mail merge routine (OOo version
3.1.0 - running on Debian/testing). If someone can replicate the problem
then I'll file a bug report.
Here's the bug. Mail Merge losses formatting information applying to
individual fields (fonts, italics, etc.) if the
2009/8/21 Pradeep Srinivas pradeep.srini...@gmail.com:
Search for : ([:space:]){2,}
Replace with : $1
/* i.e., you do not need to use the syntax here */
The $1 in the replace says the pattern matched by what is inside the
first pair of parenthesis : i.e., what is within the '(' and
Sy Fine wrote:
I am a very active user of word and excel and planning to buy a new laptop.
Is it safe to switch to OpenOffice instead of MSOffice?
Will OO permit editing of all my present files?
Thanks,
Sy Fine
OpenOffice.org is an excellent office suite, that meets the needs of
most
Brian Barker wrote:
At 06:35 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
On 2009-08-16 03:23 Brian Barker wrote:
At 01:09 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
9. I can see no way of deleting page 2 or the page break that should
be somewhere between the 2 full-page tables.
[...] After you have
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Sy Fine wrote:
I am a very active user of word and excel and planning to buy a new laptop.
Is it safe to switch to OpenOffice instead of MSOffice?
Will OO permit editing of all my present files?
Thanks,
Sy Fine
I work in a MS environment using Linux. I have had minimal issues
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2009/8/20 Jonathan Kaye jdkay...@gmail.com:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
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In the Find Replace dialogue click More options and then check
Regular Expressions. Now, in the Find box, enter * without the
quotes. That is 2 spaces followed by an asterisk. Enter a single
Pradeep Srinivas wrote:
On Friday 21 August 2009 00:52:57 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2009/8/20 Jonathan Kaye jdkay...@gmail.com:
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Thanks for the offer - I will, in return, treat you to some great
Indian snacks if you brought the bottle to India
Oh Pradeep. You have found
I am a beginner at Ooo and ask your opinion on the best tutorial for writer and
calc 3. One problem I encountered was trying to create a table of contents. I
saw the following in a tutorial:
Before inserting a Table of Contents, the Stylist must be used to identify
headings.
To mark
I tried to open several files, OpenOffice.org crashed every time.
My OS is Ubuntu 9.04 and my machine is an Eee PC 900. I uninstalled
OpenOffice.prg 3.0.1 using Synaptic and then I installed
OpenOffice.org 3.1 from a deb package downloaded from the Swedish
OpenOffice site. This shouldn't be any
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
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Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you know regular expressions
quite well. I want to match a string from the start of the record to the
first full-stop (if any) in the record. That part is easy:
^.*\. gives me what I want. Now the hard part: in the replace
Arq Gonnet wrote:
URGENTE
Tengo un archivo que esta dañado y el oppen oficce no pued erepararlo, como
debo hacer para abrirlo correctamente ?
Gracias
Arq Bruno Gonnet
This is an English language list. If you prefer to discuss your problem
in Spanish please go to http://es.openoffice.org/
Hi Twayne
I created a small file and added a manual page break with the text before
break before the break and, well you know, after the break. I renamed the
file, adding .zip and opened the content.xml using 7-zip and this is what I
found:
text:p text:style-name=StandardLine1/text:p
text:p
Sy Fine wrote:
I am a beginner at Ooo and ask your opinion on the best tutorial for writer and calc 3. One problem I encountered was trying to create a table of contents. I saw the following in a tutorial:
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But when I clicked OK all I got was a heading, Table of Contents. No
To All: I cannot find how to take about 5 lines of text and have it
spread out on one page! Make it sort of a poster! Can anyone help? Using
OOo 3.1 on a WinXP with sp/3.
--
Old Sarge-John Boyle
IN GOD WE TRUST!
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To
John Boyle wrote:
To All: I cannot find how to take about 5 lines of text and have it
spread out on one page! Make it sort of a poster! Can anyone help? Using
OOo 3.1 on a WinXP with sp/3.
I have had success using CALC and printing in landscape. Change the
typeface to one just big
Robin Laing wrote:
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Sy Fine wrote:
I am a very active user of word and excel and planning to buy a new
laptop. Is it safe to switch to OpenOffice instead of MSOffice? Will
OO permit editing of all my present files?
Thanks,
Sy Fine
I work in a MS environment using Linux. I have
At 19:51 21/08/2009 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you
know regular expressions quite well.
Sorry, I'm not Pradeep; will I do?
I want to match a string from the start of the
record to the first full-stop (if any) in the
record. That part is easy:
At 14:21 21/08/2009 -0400, Sy Fine wrote:
I am a beginner at Ooo and ask your opinion on the best tutorial for
writer and calc 3. One problem I encountered was trying to create a
table of contents. I saw the following in a tutorial:
Before inserting a Table of Contents, the Stylist must be
Dear Robin,
Thanks for the compelling reasons for going OOo, which I determined to do.
That is, until I ran into stubborn resistance by OOo to insert a table of
contents. I have spent hours meticulously following tutorials directions;
the TOC just won't appear. I have successfully created them
Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:51 21/08/2009 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you know regular
expressions quite well.
Sorry, I'm not Pradeep; will I do?
I want to match a string from the start of the record to the first
full-stop (if any) in the record.
Seymour Fine wrote:
Dear Robin,
Thanks for the compelling reasons for going OOo, which I determined to do.
That is, until I ran into stubborn resistance by OOo to insert a table of
contents. I have spent hours meticulously following tutorials directions;
the TOC just won't appear. I have
I've searched the archives and see various problems with headers,
but haven't found how to get a header (company logo/address) to
appear on page one only. I can get the logo to appear on all
pages, or not on any, but how can I get it to only be on page
one?
Thanks,
Helen, using OO 2.4.0 on
On Saturday 22 August 2009 05:46:57 Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:51 21/08/2009 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you
know regular expressions quite well.
Sorry, I'm not Pradeep; will I do?
That, Brian, is an understatement :-)
And Jonathan, thanks, but
On Saturday 22 August 2009 07:20:27 Helen wrote:
I've searched the archives and see various problems with headers,
but haven't found how to get a header (company logo/address) to
appear on page one only. I can get the logo to appear on all
pages, or not on any, but how can I get it to only
Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:51 21/08/2009 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you
know regular expressions quite well.
Sorry, I'm not Pradeep; will I do?
Please don't be sorry, Brian. I feel I am being pampered by all this expert
help; the more the merrier. :)
On 08/21/2009 05:09 PM, Web Kracked wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
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At 12:38 21/08/2009 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Also, given a recent court decision, Microsoft has been banned from
selling Word, after Oct. 10, until patented technology that they
willfully infringed has been removed.
At 11:23 21/08/2009 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
With the recent court case
At 11:26 20/08/2009 -0500, Michael Reich wrote:
One thing I can't figure out at this point is how to get that new
key field to auto-increment when adding a new record. The help
files talk about selecting an auto increment (or something like
that) property, but I can't find that anywhere.
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