Re: [users][OT] Re: Memory Tweaking /NoOp

2010-07-21 Thread James Wilde
On Jul 21, 2010, at 04:47 , WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us wrote: How do you know it's Mister? This could help: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/gender-guesser.html The link is interesting, though you need to enter the

Re: [users] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Lars Nooden
On 07/21/2010 03:35 AM, NoOp wrote: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments That one would be of particularly good use, since they can be used as case studies. It's not a complete list, but it does give a good survey. Many governments are now requiring open

Re: [users] Mail Merge

2010-07-21 Thread Paula Johnson
It just happens that I needed to find this very recently. The tutorial is 9 pages, however, at the bottom of the first page is another link to download OO's address book, which saves a lot of time if you don't have reason to customize. Here's the link:

Re: [users] Mail Merge

2010-07-21 Thread Vic Dura
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:23:26 -0400, Paula Johnson lesbng...@gmail.com wrote Re Re: [users] Mail Merge: It just happens that I needed to find this very recently. The tutorial is 9 pages, however, at the bottom of the first page is another link to download OO's address book, which saves a lot of

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 07/20/2010 06:17 PM, RA Brown wrote: Gregory Forster wrote: OOo's web site has been changed, so I can't find the information I need. I need help! This Saturday, a computerized system will be voted on. On the table is a very expensive, overly elaborate database that does much more

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Paula Johnson
I don't know if this will be at all helpful, but I live in state funded public housing and I do volunteer work for the director. State funded housing is suffering badly. While funding has not increased, expenses continue to rise. I am assisting the part-time director because she is unable to

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread jomali
@Paula, It's great that you have found using OOo so helpful. However, you could give back to the community by sharing the glitches you have found with Calc. Perhaps users could help you overcome those glitches, or perhaps your experience would help developers to improve the system. Jomali On

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Paula Johnson
Hi Jomali, I'm still figuring my way around OO, but I'll try. The biggest concern I have is, when I format the cells in a column, the format doesn't hold or it formats other (unwanted) columns. For instance, I formatted the zip code column (OO's address book) so it would show zero as the first

RE: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Paula: As it was easier to control what I had to say in an .ODT, I have attached it here, along with the corresponding .PDF in case it needs to be read by someone who does not use Oo. Best regards, Bruce M. email to [users] July 2010.odt Description:

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Needle
A question for Bruce Martin, if I may: Why do all your mails come with a request to confirm that the e-mail was received? It's really annoying to have to tell my mail reader to ignore the request each time. Do you have a reason for this behavior? Is there a way for you to disable this in

Re: [users] Re: ANN: English Grammar Checker Extension for OpenOffice.org

2010-07-21 Thread Terry Warby
On 19/07/2010 04:52, David B Teague wrote: On 7/18/2010 10:45 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/16/2010 08:39 AM, Terry Warby wrote: ... I've been following this thread with some amusement not intending to comment. But I really have to say that the only Brits that would pronounce Thames as Tims are

[users] summing cells with different background colors

2010-07-21 Thread Neil Bonine
I want to get totals of how many cells have a particular background color. Is this possible in Calc? N Bo9 nbon...@gmail.com

RE: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Users: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. By using reply requests, I can follow and track their availability and adjust my expectations of them by default. Most email clients not only allow for the

RE: [users] summing cells with different background colors

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Neil: I have not seen this capability, as the colours involved can be far more than what comes with Oo. Personally I have created a whole set of additional custom colours, some custom matched to external samples and each with special names. To even start to track this, Oo would have to have

[users] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/07/21 4:20 PM Bruce Martin wrote: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. By using reply requests, I can follow and track their availability and adjust my expectations of them by default. Do you know

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.07.21 12:00 -0500, Paula Johnson wrote: I'm still figuring my way around OO, but I'll try. The biggest concern I have [with Calc] is, when I format the cells in a column, the format doesn't hold or it formats other (unwanted) columns. ... Paula, I don't /know/ if

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread RA Brown
Bruce Martin wrote: Dear Users: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. {much clipped} What you say is true, but why insist that we refuse a Return Receipt when you do not have to send them? With Thunderbird

Re: [users] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.07.21 18:35 -0500, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/07/21 4:20 PM Bruce Martin wrote: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. By using reply requests, I can follow and track their

[users] OT: Return Receipts

2010-07-21 Thread Tom Bell
For those who don't like return receipts: I use Thunderbird and in the Edit menu I open Preferences - Advanced tab - General - Return Receipts - check (tick) Leave it in my inbox and check (tick) Never send a return receipt - Okay. Surely other email clients have the same options. I never see a

[users] Re: OT: Return Receipts

2010-07-21 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/07/21 5:00 PM Tom Bell wrote: For those who don't like return receipts: I use Thunderbird and in the Edit menu I open Preferences - Advanced tab - General - Return Receipts - check (tick) Leave it in my inbox and check (tick) Never send a return receipt - Okay. Surely other email

[users] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 07:40 AM, Paula Johnson wrote: I don't know if this will be at all helpful, but I live in state funded public housing and I do volunteer work for the director. State funded housing is suffering badly. While funding has not increased, expenses continue to rise. I am assisting

[users] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 09:00 AM, Paula Johnson wrote: Hi Jomali, I recommend that you start a new thread. That way you don't hijack Gregory's thread your new thread will get direct attention. Be sure to put something relevent in the subject like 'Calc Cell Formatting', and make sure you include: OOo

[users] vlookup and chinese characters

2010-07-21 Thread listofx
Hi, It seems that vlookup function in calc can not deal with Chinese characters. I hope someone here can help me verify it. attached file: http://ubuntuone.com/p/AFl/ Kind Regards, xiang - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: vlookup and chinese characters

2010-07-21 Thread listofx
has been solved. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: vlookup and chinese characters

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 05:50 PM, listofx wrote: has been solved. Please advise how. This could help others that have the same issue. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: [users] Re: Users and promoters in regards to marketing Oo.

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
ReHi Noop: I was thinking that starting a new thread here would be good some days ago, however I am not sure if that is simply a matter of changing the subject line of a posted message or more than that is needed. Since Marketing Oo can have an enormously diverse range of subsets, I think it

[users] [OT Return Receipts] Re: Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 03:35 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/07/21 4:20 PM Bruce Martin wrote: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. By using reply requests, I can follow and track their availability and adjust my

RE: [users] Re: Return Receipts.

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Larry and more: As is well known, return receipts have their place, even if some don't want to deal with them, yet have the capability on their own machines. I believe every user has the right to use them as he/she sees fit, within the limits of what the internet provides, and no other

Re: [users] Re: Users and promoters in regards to marketing Oo.

2010-07-21 Thread RA Brown
Bruce Martin wrote: ReHi Noop: I was thinking that starting a new thread here would be good some days ago, however I am not sure if that is simply a matter of changing the subject line of a posted message or more than that is needed. Since Marketing Oo can have an enormously diverse range of

[users] Re: Return Receipts.

2010-07-21 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/07/21 7:36 PM Bruce Martin wrote: Dear Larry and more: As is well known, return receipts have their place, even if some don't want to deal with them, yet have the capability on their own machines. Yes they have there place. But it is not on mailing lists. Using them on mailing

Re: [users] Re: vlookup and chinese characters

2010-07-21 Thread listofx
On 三, 2010-07-21 at 17:52 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 07/21/2010 05:50 PM, listofx wrote: has been solved. Please advise how. This could help others that have the same issue. vlookup has a disturbing parameter, the fourth parameter, which is a optional parameter. Indeed, there are good

[users] Re: Return Receipts.

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 06:36 PM, Bruce Martin wrote: Dear Larry and more: As is well known, return receipts have their place, even if some don't want to deal with them, yet have the capability on their own machines. They have no place on mailing lists. Please stop.

[users] Re: vlookup and chinese characters

2010-07-21 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2010 06:45 PM, listofx wrote: On 三, 2010-07-21 at 17:52 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 07/21/2010 05:50 PM, listofx wrote: has been solved. Please advise how. This could help others that have the same issue. vlookup has a disturbing parameter, the fourth parameter, which is a optional

Re: [users] Re: OT: Return Receipts

2010-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Needle
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:05 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/07/21 5:00 PM Tom Bell wrote: For those who don't like return receipts: I use Thunderbird and in the Edit menu I open Preferences - Advanced tab - General - Return Receipts - check (tick) Leave it in my inbox and check

[users] Return Receipt Redux [Was: Need help to Market OOo]

2010-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.07.21 18:51 -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.07.21 18:35 -0500, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/07/21 4:20 PM Bruce Martin wrote: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable.

Re: [users] Re: Return Receipts.

2010-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
Bruce, I have refrained from replying directly to you, in the interest of avoiding yet more return receipt requests to the list noise - and because I thought Larry and NoOp were already making all the right points. It was sad to see that their good sense was not enough. After reflection,