[users] Re: Compatibility Word vs Writer

2011-09-06 Thread Bob Knepper
e it was included ten or more years ago. I may switch from OpenOffice Writer to Word. Bob -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help

[users] how to de-duplicate.

2011-09-06 Thread Bob Marcus
and I think I remember that there is some formula. Thanks for any advice. Bob M-- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help

[users] Re: Open Office installation Problem?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Long
name? I thought the "Open Office Installation File folder on the Desktop" contained something like 129MB of files, one of which is openofficeorg1.cab of 129MB. Do you have that file? Is there plenty of spare room on the hard drive? -- Bob Long -- --

[users] Remove please.

2011-07-04 Thread Bob Strasser
Sent from my iPad -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help

[users] Re: saving in RTF

2011-04-21 Thread Bob Long
s are understandable and correct, then I'd guess that 100% compatibility should be possible. -- Bob Long -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org wi

[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

2011-03-01 Thread Bob Long
3.3 later. When you click outside the table, make sure the vertical flashing cursor actually moves to somewhere outside the table. Sometimes, depending where you click, the cursor doesn't actually move outside the table. Then Ctrl-A

[users] Re: [Issue 116722] Install does nothing

2011-02-02 Thread Bob McMinn
now how to clean the registry. Do I have to go back to Microsoft?!?! Regards Bob On 02.02.2011 09:36, o...@openoffice.org wrote: To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=116722 User of changed the following:

[users] Install does nothing

2011-01-31 Thread Bob McMinn
entered an issue. The answer was "resolved - works for me" with no further comment except this e-mail address and the URL for support. Been there, done that! Help? Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr..

[users] Re: "Repeat" in Writer

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Long
n Ctrl-V will paste it in again. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: How to underline a blank line of text, such that it could be typed?

2011-01-05 Thread Bob Estes
On 01/05/2011 04:36 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 08:45, Bob Estes wrote: What you really need to do is set up an online form with fill-in fields. That sounds about right. Start with a new document and type in the necessary boilerplate. Check. Insert the fill-in

[users] Re: How to underline a blank line of text, such that it could be typed?

2011-01-02 Thread Bob Estes
On 01/02/2011 02:54 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/2/2011 2:33 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: A user is making forms for herself and other therapists. These forms will be printed, and to specify the place where text is to be typed there are lines on the page, created with four dashes and one Enter per l

[users] Re: JPG format

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Long
tion. Or GIMP... [..] Unfortunately, Gimp does not load .PDF files, It can, if ghostscript is installed and if the environment variable GS_PROG points to the ghostscript directory, eg. C:\gs\gs8.71\bin (for Windows). -- Bob Long --

RE: [users] Subscription Query

2010-11-08 Thread Bob Sugar
Thank your for all the past info. I would like to unsubscribe. rsu...@verizon.net -Original Message- From: Barbara Duprey [mailto:b...@onr.com] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:56 PM To: users@openoffice.org; ce...@aol.com Subject: Re: [users] Subscription Query On 11/4/2010 12:50 PM,

RE: [users] Re: Unsub

2010-11-06 Thread Bob Sugar
I hate to bring this up again but, EAST IS EAST & WEST IS WEST AND THE TWAYNE SHELL NEVER MEET. -Original Message- From: Twayne [mailto:twa...@twaynesdomain.com] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:05 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Unsub In news:20101106011654.gd2...@c

[users] cannot files

2010-10-10 Thread Bob Orr
Quite often things lock up and I am not able to open Open Office or open any of my files I frequently have to restart my computer to get things to work. Please help. Bob

[users] Re: Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-23 Thread Bob Long
e (MDY)" (I presume that's how you dates are). Then the column should import as "proper" dates and you can format appropriately. [OOo 3.2.1, Windows] -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubsc

RE: [users] trouble with attachments

2010-09-19 Thread Bob Sugar
I HAVE BEEN HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM OPENING ATTACHMENTS. I AM ANXIOUS TO HEAR ANYONE'S COMMENT. Thanks, Bob -Original Message- From: caroline fairless [mailto:fairl...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:46 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] trouble

[users] Re: Unique Identifier

2010-09-16 Thread Bob Long
in, say, the cell A1. Then click in the cell and it should be highlighted, with a small black square "handle" at the bottom right of the cell. Click and drag that down and the cells will be filled sequentially. -

Re: [users] Showing formatting codes

2010-08-31 Thread Bob Knepper
the time into learning how to use OOo, < This condesending response to Seamas O Brogain may be true but contributes to the negative opinions. I'm sorry because I had planned to use OOo, and may still. Bob Knepper

[users] Re: Cannot print export PDF containing auto-incremented fields

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Estes
On 08/10/2010 09:48 AM, Alvin Beach wrote: On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010 13:45:05 Bob Estes wrote: Your test file printed fine for me. Bob Thank you Bob for testing! What version of OpenOffice are you using? What OS? Also, what version of Adobe Acrobat did you use to print the file? Many thanks

[users] Re: Cannot print export PDF containing auto-incremented fields

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Estes
Since you are using Windows, download 'Cute PDF Writer'. It is free, and it installs as a printer on your system. Then instead of using the OOo PDF export, just print the odt file to 'Cute PDF Writer'. Let me know how this

[users] Re: Cannot print export PDF containing auto-incremented fields

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Estes
On 08/10/2010 08:12 AM, Alvin Beach wrote: On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010 11:58:28 Bob Estes wrote: On 08/10/2010 06:14 AM, Alvin Beach wrote: When I export a Writer document that contains auto-incrementing fields (e.g. Footnotes, Captions, etc.) to PDF, I cam unable to print the PDF using Adobe

[users] Re: Cannot print export PDF containing auto-incremented fields

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Estes
On 08/10/2010 06:14 AM, Alvin Beach wrote: Hello, I am resending this email (See original below) to the list. I am hoping that this issue can/will be resolved. I have attached a sample ODT and its PDF file. The ODT contains one (1) line of text and a footnote. Many thanks, Alvin When I expor

[users] Re: Cannot print export PDF containing auto-incremented fields

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Estes
, Alvin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org Your test file printed fine for me. Bob

RE: [users] Open Office and Window 7 problem

2010-08-06 Thread Bob Sugar
Pleas unsubscribe my email -Original Message- From: RA Brown [mailto:rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:26 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Open Office and Window 7 problem Bob Sugar wrote: > Please unsubscribe my email. Thanks To unsubscr

RE: [users] Open Office and Window 7 problem

2010-08-06 Thread Bob Sugar
Please unsubscribe my email. Thanks -Original Message- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:45 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Open Office and Window 7 problem I seem to remember this under Windows XP. Hmm, what di

[users] Spellcheck isn't working in OOO3.2.1

2010-07-28 Thread Bob Hughes
ned in the help files, but no luck yet. OS: Windows XP Pro, SP3 -- *Bob Hughes* *321 269-5176*

[users] Re: Mailing Labels question

2010-07-14 Thread Bob Estes
On 07/14/2010 12:41 AM, Gordon wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:32:41 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 14/07/2010 07:42, Gordon wrote: [cut] Thanks - I actually found that after I'd posted. It's actually EASIER and more intuitive than in Word 2007! All I need to do now is to find out how to

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

2010-07-14 Thread Bob Estes
On 07/14/2010 07:18 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/14/2010 07:06 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... But in reality talking about "British English" and "American English" is a pretty imprecise thing. There are dozens of varieties of British English, and dozens more of American English. And dozens more if yo

[users] Re: Cannot add rows/colums into a spreadsheet anymore

2010-07-14 Thread Bob Long
columns are hidden too, and this process leaves them hidden. Rows could always be added (right click on row number), so long as a column was not already selected. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openof

[users] Re: Cannot add rows/colums into a spreadsheet anymore

2010-07-14 Thread Bob Long
some sort of protection is still there. As a workaround, this worked for me: select entire sheet, copy, create a new sheet and paste to it. Column insertions can then be done. Right clicking on the bottom sheet name|Move/copy sheet did not work for me. -- Bob Long

[users] Re: [Video] CritiWriter in action (re: Seeking help with Writer!)

2010-07-06 Thread Bob Estes
mail me and I'll fill you in. Sincerely, Jeremy There is an extension to OpenOffice called Readability Report. This may be what your looking for. Here is a link to it. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ReadabilityReport Bob ---

[users] Re: OpenOffice Math: how to "slash" a symbol?

2010-06-28 Thread Bob Estes
On 06/27/2010 07:41 PM, In-Betweener wrote: "Michael Adams" escreveu na mensagem news:201006261458.52058.mbad...@paradise.net.nz... On Saturday 26 June 2010 00:10, InBetweener wrote: (...) I cannot see any slashed examples of "R" on your given page. Indeed. Maybe because of some html limi

[users] Re: OpenOffice Math: how to "slash" a symbol?

2010-06-25 Thread Bob Long
want to be able to have, as the result: the letter x followed by the letter R, with a bar over the top of that R, then followed by the letter y? If so, why does x overline R y not suit? -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e

[users] need info:

2010-06-24 Thread Bob
I can't see how to set up the program to use for writing letters & articles. Please advise. Thanks

[users] Re: Multiple "sheets" in Writer

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Estes
On 06/12/2010 12:38 PM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Tom Bell - cbel...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 06/12/2010 07:53 AM, openoffice.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: I don't see any technical reason that several ODF documents couldn't be stored within a single file. It could perhaps be as s

[users] Re: microsoft office publisher / openoffice .org problem

2010-05-25 Thread Bob Long
rking version of Publisher in order to open publisher files. No other known program will open these files. This on-line conversion site claims to be able to convert from Publisher: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php#documents -- Bob

[users] Re: Plotter

2010-04-27 Thread Bob Estes
Bob: Did you send this to the wrong list by mistake? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with OpenOffice. (Unless I'm really missing something.) Absolutely, I was sending this to a friend in Tacoma, and somehow the routing got screwed up and it was sent to this list. My

[users] Plotter

2010-04-27 Thread Bob Estes
I have my plotter, but I now need to get it hooked up as it didn't come with any cables. I have a power cable, but the data cable is a special RS-232 NULL modem cable. (See the attached file HP-17255D Cable.pdf.) I found various new and used cables on the internet for prices ranging from arou

[users] Re: [moderated] Scribus and OpenOffiece.org

2010-04-11 Thread Bob Long
mplained of needing "elevation"). So I went back to the Oracle Web site and there Update 19 was available. This was all in the space of half an hour. So I installed Update 19 "from scratch" and this time the splash screen omitte

[users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-01 Thread Bob Long
you select text and paste into Writer, but losing layout. You can also individually copy and paste images. But that process will treat every end of line as an end of paragraph. Yo may want to check out the free on-line PDF to .DOC converter that preserves paragraphs: http://www.pdftoword.com

[users] Pass It On

2010-03-28 Thread Bob Estes
Please check out and pass on the following two links, even if you do not normally do so. People need to be made aware of this and the links tell the story better than I can. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm , tells about security problems with using the Microsoft(tm) doc f

[users] Re: corrupt file

2010-03-25 Thread Bob Doherty
xcel 2007 SP2 with the ODS reader builtin results in a dialog saying that the workbook has invalid information and offers to remove it. When the attempt is made Excel hangs. It may have been a product of pre-SP2 Office 2007 where the ods functionality wa

[users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-13 Thread Bob Long
igned to it, it only shows the title. Strange. Have you re-tried the "modify" button and "change icon..." procedure? -- Bob Long I would prefer it too if the default Paste was unformatted, or if the default could be changed. emf

[users] Re: "doubling up" a table?

2010-03-12 Thread Bob Long
7;t matter, but does the table extend to two pages, and if so, is the heading repeated? That may be a factor, but again I could not reproduce the problem. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffi

[users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-12 Thread Bob Long
Special". Thanks, Larry. On my Kubuntu system, after some experimentation, I discovered that it is Shift-Ctrl-V. That is great to know. Thank you! In Windows, in Writer, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V invokes Paste Unformatted Text directly. It's changeable in Tools|Customi

[users] Re: Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Long
in 13 days! Getting off topic now, but if this is a one person job, working 12 hours per day non-stop, I figure that's about 53 pages per minute, or about one per second! -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Long
m... I just read the bug report after writing the above and there it mentions you are interested in Calc, not Writer. The same customise process does not work... the closest I could get was to adding a "Paste Special"

[users] Re: Change default e-mail program for OOo.?

2010-03-03 Thread Bob Long
Thunderbird. I seem to remember that simply making Thunderbird the default e-mail client was not sufficient. Look at Start|Set Program Access and Defaults|Custom, then specifically choose Thunderbird, rather than simply use the current e-mail software, even if it is the default. -- Bob Long

[users] Re: Find and replace empty cells

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Long
Brian McKee wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Bob Long wrote: Brian McKee wrote: In (cough) other spreadsheet software I'm used to starting find and replace, hitting the 'entire cell' check box and leaving the find box blank, thus I can find (and fill) all the empty ce

[users] Re: Find and replace empty cells

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Long
f formulas. You can use them, though, in other calculations. But if you want the original column to end up with "real" hyphens, then do Edit|Copy (given that B1:B10 is already highlighted), then select A1 and do Edit|Paste Speci

[users] Re: Countif between checking

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Long
Bob Long wrote: Keith Clark wrote: Is it possible to check a range of cells to see if the values are between two defined values: countif(range,">5 and <10") I cannot seem to get it to work. I get a count of zero even though there are many values that qualify. It

[users] Re: Countif between checking

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Long
s possible to do a logical operator there. See if this suits your purposes: =COUNT(range)-COUNTIF(range;"<=5")-COUNTIF(range;">=10") That is, count everything, then take out what you don't want. Or, use the range in a

[users] Re: Counting different items in a range

2010-02-05 Thread Bob Long
an answer? I know I can add another formula =COUNT(B13:B16) to get that answer (in this case the data pilot results are in A12:B17) but if the items change the data pilot results change, changing the number of rows in the result, making the COUNT formula incorrect. Am I missing something? -

Re: [users] Re: Question.

2010-01-31 Thread Bob Bolmer
You have to go to where ever you saved the file on your hard drive. Perhaps My Downloads. Find it and double click the file to install Open Office on your computer. Just follow the instructions. It's pretty easy. Bob From: william drescher To:

[users] Re: Page numbers reversal method?

2010-01-20 Thread Bob Long
between each word. I've not investigated why that is; something to do with forcing a left margin, I think. It does not open nicely in OOo, so use a text editor or do some post processing with something like awk. As I said, not pretty! -- Bob Long

Re: [users] Page numbers reversal method?

2010-01-19 Thread Bob Bolmer
I'm not sure if this can be done, but can  you sort it by page number, if numbered and sort it descending? Let me know if it works. Bob Bolmer From: Twayne To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 6:44:39 PM Subject: [users] Page numbers rev

Re: [users] Faulty MS filters in OOo

2010-01-18 Thread Bob Williams
Hi Jonny, On Monday 18 Jan 2010 18:17:47 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2010/1/18 Bob Williams : > > Hi, > > > > I'm using OpenOffice 3.1.1 on openSUSE 11.2. A lot of my correspondents > > are stuck with MS Office, so I'm having to save a spreadsheet I've >

[users] [moderated]

2010-01-18 Thread Bob Barrie
TO whom it may concern: It was my understanding that Open Office was a sort of stand in to Windows Word, in that I would be able to utilize Open Office spreadsheets similar to Excel and, in fact prior Excel files would be somewhat the same format that Open Office uses. Open Office spreadsheets w

[users] Faulty MS filters in OOo

2010-01-18 Thread Bob Williams
xcel 5.0 format. I've had to resort to using Microsoft Excel XP in Vista in a VirtualBox VM, just to edit this one little file, which is definitely a sledgehammer for a nut, as the VM requires half my 4GB RAM to run :( I would rather use OOo on my linux box. Any suggestions? Bob -- R

Re: [users] Open office/ms Office

2010-01-17 Thread Bob Bolmer
I've taught the MS Office Suites and programs for over 15 years and I find Open Office easy to use and it will open all of your Micro Soft files. I am also teaching Open Office to my adult students so they won't feel they are forced to used poorly developed operating systems like V

[users] Re: Is Open Office compatible with WIN 7?

2010-01-09 Thread Bob Estes
other. My Linux drive crashed, and I'm back to using Windows only until I can buy another drive. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: Calc-Time calculations for athlete

2009-11-19 Thread Bob Estes
elapsed time in cell B3. 6. Enter this formula in cell C3: =B3/A3 Using the data from your example I entered 3 in cell A3, 00:31:34 in cell B3, and obtained the result of 00:10:31 in cell C3. This shows that you averaged 10 minutes and 31 seco

[users] install problem

2009-11-08 Thread Bob Lacy
error 1303 insufficient privileges to continue installing ...basic\program\shlxthdl must have admin privs. I do believe I am installed as admin. I own the machine. I built it. I install XP on it. I am the only user installed on my machine. I tried to update from ver 3. Now that is wiped out b

[users] Printing Envelopes

2009-11-05 Thread Bob Estes
vance for any assistance you can provide. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Installing Oxygen Office Pro

2009-10-27 Thread Bob O
Harold Fuchs wrote: Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote: In theory you can upgrade, but it is always better to remove and make a clean install. KAMI Bob O írta: If I have Open Office installed (3.1.1) and download Oxygen Office Pro. Is it installed over the top of Open Office? or Should Open

[users] Installing Oxygen Office Pro

2009-10-26 Thread Bob O
If I have Open Office installed (3.1.1) and download Oxygen Office Pro. Is it installed over the top of Open Office? or Should Open Office be removed from the machine? Thanks Bob O'Day - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: Paragraph with enclosed list

2009-09-25 Thread Bob Estes
paragraphs. (i.e. justification, space between paragraphs, automatically generated bullets or numbers, etc.) You could also create a paragraph style with all of the desired characteristics. You could then apply those characteristics by just applying the style to tho

Re: [users] Database indexes

2009-09-19 Thread Bob Williams
Many thanks, that's working nicely, now. Bob On Friday 18 September 2009 20:21:24 jomali wrote: > Precisely. > > If you aren't familiar with sql, just use the wizard. It will prompt you > for sort order. If you edit your form to use the query rather than the > basic

Re: [users] Database indexes

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
Hi John, Many thanks for speedy response. At the moment, my data entry form is based on the (single) table. To get it to automatically display records in sorted order, I should create a query and base the form on that? Bob On Friday 18 September 2009 19:14:00 jomali wrote: > Hi,

[users] Database indexes

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
tname then Firstname in A-Z ascending order. Do I have to delete the ID index, which is called SYS_IDX_46, first? Will this activate my new 'Names' index automagically? Thanks, Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB7

Re: [users] Re: MS office to openoffice >send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 18 September 2009 15:59:03 James Knott wrote: > This means Linux users have a choice > and Windows users don't. > What's new? ;) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.

Re: [users] Re: MS office to openoffice >send mail

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Williams
ariably hardcoded in linux, is a > question I can not answer.) > Not hardcoded! Try Menu: Tools > Options > Internet > E-mail You can then browse for the executable or type its path in directly. In my case, /usr/bin/kmail HTH Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE

[users] Re: another package ?

2009-09-17 Thread Bob Estes
John Boyle wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:21:21PM -0700, John Boyle wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Twayne wrote: 's funny. Your data is very misleading. Linux: -- Has a steep learning curve Tel

[users] Re: How to sort mixed alpha & numbers?

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Estes
NoOp wrote: On 09/12/2009 01:51 AM, Bob Estes wrote: NoOp wrote: On 09/09/2009 08:35 PM, NoOp wrote: I've tried every combination that I can think of (even formating cells to text) and still cannot figure out how to sort via a column with data like this: Sail Number USA 84 USA 604 US

[users] Re: How to sort mixed alpha & numbers?

2009-09-12 Thread Bob Estes
explanation than it did to do the sort. I hope this helps. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: problem writing a simple macro

2009-08-09 Thread Bob Estes
Rajagopalan TA wrote: Absurd... Even I get the same Error, When see the actual code by editing the macro I could see that the macro moves to Actual cursor to A2 and A1, (Which I understand is how it interpreted the Up-Arrow) and then writes the formula "=A2+A1" in Cell A1... Which I why the e

[users] Re: N-up page setup?

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Long
utside leaf and page two on the "inner". So, in Writer, make four pages of the same text. That should produce two sheets, each with two pages on it. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.

[users] Re: N-up page setup?

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Long
. It is a waste of paper, but at least it lets me get the job done. In that case, perhaps delete pages 1 and 3 (making a backup, of course!), and duplicate your page 2 so you have two A4 pages of that, then print that as a brochure. You should then get two "pages" per sheet. -

[users] Re: N-up page setup?

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Long
ape as the printer settings, and select Brochure in the print options. -- Bob Long - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: OOo Writer: saving and opening documents

2009-06-20 Thread Bob Estes
the document. You can do this in OO.o by using a master document. You will need to list each file in the master document in the sequence in which you want it to print. Another advantage to this procedure is that in case a file is corrupted, you haven't lost the entire document.

[users] Re: Calc: highlight row, move up / down

2009-06-14 Thread Bob Estes
t row, left click that row number. This also works with columns by selecting the column designator. I'm using OO.o v. 3.0.0 on PCLinuxOS 2009.1. I hope this helps. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffi

[users] Re: word compatability?

2009-05-31 Thread Bob Estes
James Knott wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2009/5/31 James Knott : Another way to verify the file is to use the free Word viewer, available from Microsoft. Yes, that works for most people. If they have Windows that is. I have used the Word viewer in Linux with wine. Many years ago

[users] Windows 7 RC Release

2009-04-25 Thread Bob Estes
Check this out: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoff

Re: [users] Weird crashes which end by rebooting.

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Riley
lder WordPerfect) to print envelopes for my letters. It may not be as hard to set up printing on an HP Inkjet, which would have a simpler paper path for envelopes. Bob Riley in Albuquerque On 4/2/2009 9:32 PM, George Polley wrote: Well, now I know I'm not the only one experiencing this probl

[users] new 3.0 installation

2009-03-19 Thread Bob Flagg
n32 application''. I shut down my antivirus as recommended on the forum, no change. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Bob

[users] Calc

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Edey
When printing off excel spreadsheets it has a feature which will fit the spreadsheet to the page size. I've made several attempts with Open office Calc to no avail. Obviously I am missing a command somewhere if Open Office Calc is a clone to MS Office Excel. Sincerely hope someone can steer me

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-26 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 25 January 2009 23:44:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009, Bob Williams wrote: . > > > >Snail mail to The White House? > > Humm, chuckle even. I haven't bought a postage stamp in a dozen moons > or more. Felling a tree for a mail just

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 25 January 2009 23:08:36 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009, Bob Williams wrote: > >Your new President is listening: > > > >http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html > > > >Bob > > 1. While that is a somewhat informative l

Re: [users] OT Re: MS announces layoffs and revenue increase at the same time

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Williams
Your new President is listening: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB

RE: [users] Re: WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X

2008-12-12 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
No thank you -Original Message- From: Yvonne & Bob [mailto:skee...@bigpond.com] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 10:25 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: FW: [users] Re: WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X -Orig

RE: [users] Re: Urgent need - how to convert newer Microsoft "docx" files

2008-12-12 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
No Thank you -Original Message- From: Stephan G [mailto:stepha...@viewpage.net] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 3:57 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Urgent need - how to convert newer Microsoft "docx" files Thank you to everyone for help on this thread. Upgrade to 3.0 s

FW: [users] Re: WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X

2008-12-11 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
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2008-12-11 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
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2008-12-11 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
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2008-12-10 Thread Yvonne &amp; Bob
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[users] Re: Formating Fields

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Estes
Joe Smith wrote: Bob Estes wrote: I have found a problem in formating input fields. ... Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem? Yow. This task is a 'perfect storm' of things that Writer does badly. Yes, I have to agree. Here's a sample with two different

[users] Re: Formating Fields

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Estes
Drew Jensen wrote: Ok so the list doesn't like templates... Lets try it as an odt instead..just created a blank file from the template. Sorry Drew If you attached an .odt file, it didn't come through either. Bob --

[users] Re: Formating Fields

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Estes
something along the lines you want. I used the =SUM() function to do the summing, and it seems to work. Let me know Drew Thanks for your response. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

[users] Formating Fields

2008-12-08 Thread Bob Estes
r to buy. As things stand now, the monetary fields must be filled in out of sequence and manually reformatted. Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem? Thanks in advance. Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

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