Select ALL the columns you want sorted (maybe select everything), THEN
do the sort. I routinely sort everything is a spreadsheet I use as a
sort of cheap-and-dirty database.
Jim Hartley
Joe Marks wrote:
In calc when a column is sorted alphabetically only the column selected is changed. How
The word on the street is that Ubuntu is the easiest for a newcomer to
Linux, but I have a few issues with it. My personal preference would be
to go with a RedHat based distro such as CentOS (nice and stable) or
Fedora (a little bit bleeding edge for a new user).
Jim Hartley
aleex zim wrote
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Ed Rivza wrote:
Hi!
It seems to me that making such a close copy to Bill Gates Programming is a
detriment to understanding by people with normal thought processes.All
microsoft programming was done to please Bill Gates.
Any first time user of Windows products will tell you
the
official OO website.
Jim Hartley
John Boyle wrote:
To Users and James Knott: What is your opinion of Red Hat 8? I am about
to get back into Linux, even without the voice dictation, so I would
like to know from someone who knows Linux. :-[
James Knott wrote:
aleex zim wrote:
hello
++)
bfr = bfr $ix ;
next;
}
END { if (length(bfr) 0)
print bfr;
}
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Got one today around noon (EST).
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NoOp wrote:
Anyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sample:
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Sent Date: 47:05 +
has not been delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry
, reaching
all the way back to the e-mail client of Netscape, you just never see
this stuff.
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very well.
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Bruce Roorda wrote:
marra winsome wrote:
Steven Hunlow wrote and email(see below) he seemed somewhat savey of
the differences between OO and Excel. All I wish to know is how to I
get OO to print in a landscape orientation. It will not take this
orientation
Adware
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What I think is REALLY FUNNY is that suddenly he knows how to spell!
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ho would worry about se3curity for something like this? I use ftp to
upload HTML files which are then going to be put on display for all the
world to see ...
I think sometimes people go overboard on security.
Jim Hartley
Alan Lord wrote:
Wayne Vogeler wrote:
What software do I use
the same thing?
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There are zillions of choices, depending on your choise of OS and your
skill levels. Personally, I just use command-line ftp on Linux.
Jim Hartley
Wayne Vogeler wrote:
What software do I use to upload files to my web site?
Thanks,
Wayne
save in the older DOC, XLS, etc. formats. In
fact, they HAVE TO in order to communicate with older versions of
M$Office, none of those can read the new formats either.
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using
Dark-age software like M$Office (but keep working on THEM to get OO TOO!).
Jim Hartley
James Knott wrote:
Fariha Mirzai wrote:
To whom it may concern:
I've just downloaded Open Office 2.3. I went through your tutorials and
played with the applications Writer/Calc (Word/Excel) a bit
internal way to get manuals and books) had one of those All
About Linux type books with a CD in the back. THAT version was OK since
it had come in through legal channels. Lawyers!!!
Jim Hartley
Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:33:13 +
jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before
to read them.
Jim Hartley
Ben Monteith wrote:
is the open office writer compatible with Microsoft Word? My college instructor
tells me that she is unable to down load my written assignments, because they
are not in MSWord format.
Ben
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Do You
1. Reinstall Open Office.
2. load each .odt file in OO
3. Use SaveAs to save each file in M$Word format (.doc)
4. Uninstall OO if you have to (although my suggestion would be to keep
OO and uninstall M$Word ...)
Jim Hartley
PETER LAGUE wrote:
I've been using open office and my problem
.
Jim Hartley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The default format is set under Tools Options Load/Save General.
You can also choose the file type, when you use Save as.
Note that there are some features that don't work when you save in Word format.
I've listed some of them in this blog entry
fine in Linux.
Jim Hartley
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
I could start a new thread about this, but since it's only an extension of
the original question of this thread I thought it was better to ask it as a
follow-up-question here:
I installed the msttcorefonts a while ago, but many documents that I
and it failed to close properly.
I've seen that a few times, it never caused any problems for me.
Jim Hartley
Casey wrote:
While attempting to open any open office program (base, spread sheet, or writer) open office starts loading, then a screen about recovering files appears (the list of files
, that is). Nobody in their right mind upgraded to ME.
Just speculation, I don't really KNOW.
Jim Hartley
Richard Detwiler wrote:
web kracked wrote:
Below it states that the current OpenOffice does not run on Win98.
When did that happen? I installed 2.x on a Win98 computer a few
months ago
languages
and can give me a clue to the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks.
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them. This will help pinpoint the problem.
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Meditours wrote:
Dear OO,
I frequently send emails with writer attachments in a .doc format ...The
documents are frequently received empty.
Can you help me resolve this problem ?
Thanks
Step one: stop mucking around with Outlook Express and get a REAL mail
client (Thunderbird, Mozilla Seamonkey, even Netscape fer cripes sake!).
Jim Hartley
John C. Stevens wrote:
Dear support,
I am using OpenOffice 2.0, installed by a repair shop. Problem: Whenever I receive a
.pdf
like Open Source which get around ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL functions like
DRM? There ought to be a law /sarcasm
Jim Hartley
Drew Jensen wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Alan Boba wrote:
On 10/24/07, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't enforce read only behavior in an open
to be a benefit rather than a detriment to society.
Jim Hartley
Alan Boba wrote:
On 10/28/07, Jim Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, the horror of it - no DRM Why are people allowed to do things
like Open Source which get around ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL functions like
DRM? There ought to be a law
know where the protect bits are, I can
write a program to turn them off.
Jim Hartley
rob clement wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
Alan Boba wrote:
On 10/28/07, Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Boba wrote:
On 10/28/07, Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote
files. A tiny step, yes, but
anything that can be done to combat DOC files will also help the fight
against DOCX (OOXML) files and the absurd OOXML wannabee standard.
Jim Hartley
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fields that are NOT FILLED IN when you open a foreign file type, only
when you open a .od? file.
Jim Hartley
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
Hi Mark,
2007/10/14, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
I just tried to the use thesaurus in OOo 2.3.0 Writer for the first time
since I installed it, and the thesaurus
Simple - just type a new name in the Save As dialog box - also a new
path if you want. Then go back and close the original file.
JIm Hartley
Robert Dailey wrote:
Hi,
Currently I'm opening an ODS file and saving it back as a CSV file.
However, when I save as a CSV file I don't want the open
the trick given here.
Or it might not, I haven't tried it on .docx files. But if somebody
wants to play with it (it's GPL, written in C) you can get it from
http://jsoftco.8m.com/download.html/
Jim Hartley
Keith Bates wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:49:26 -0700
Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL
JPEG's, GIF's, PNG's or similar?).
The GIMP is available for Linux, Windoze, and probably others, and can
be downloaded for exactly the same low bargain price as OpenOffice.
Jim Hartley
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On 10/9/07, nicole baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to create
. If you change the Save as type selection the
display will change to show files of the new type.
OK, it's not the same thing M$ does, it's called an IMPROVEMENT!
Jim Hartley
Paul Herman wrote:
I have just installed Oo 2.3 and when I try and save a document back to
a web folder I don’t see
Minnie. All you can do is try to help them as much as possible.
Jim Hartley
Datatude wrote:
In another thread, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
Can someone please explain:
1) what makes a message appear as [moderated] (I know that it means
someone
moderated the message, but why does/would that happen
Fonts are installed by the Operating System; OO just uses what you have
installed (appropriate to your OS - Linux, Windows, etc.). Download
those fonts wherever you can get them and follow your OS's directions
for installing them. .ttf font files work for both Windows and Linux.
Jim Hartley
them.
Jim Hartley
Paul wrote:
On 10/10/07, Rob Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all!
Good morning. I am writing, and I just installed Open office mere minutes
ago. I prefer Bookman, and I like Poor Richard and Papyrus. Do I need to
find those elsewhere, or does OpOff have them? Where
If you added it correctly to the Windoze Fonts folder using Control
Panel, it should show up automatically in OpenOffice. Might have to
close OO AND any quickstart for it, or reboot Windoze. Then just look in
the list of fonts, it **SHOULD** be there.
Jim Hartley
Stephen Zimmerman wrote
a fair amount of
finnagling to get this working properly.
Jim Hartley
dougM wrote:
Greetings from a newbie, all.
I have made a discovery that might be helpful to folks who are having
trouble paginating. I had written a document and wanted to add page
numbers. Nothing fancy, no roman
number in it, you will see page 2, page 3, etc.
Page 1 still has a page number assigned to it, it is just not shown.
The first page number SHOWN is 2,
Jim Hartley
web kracked wrote:
Here is one for you.
For those who have to hand in a report:
When I needed to hand in a paper or report,
both
). Of course I
have OOo on Linux ... not sure if I ever bothered to put OOo on Windoze,
I use it so seldom I'm not sure what's there. But I'm sure it would work
OK if I did.
Jim Hartley
John Meyer wrote:
dougM wrote:
James Knott wrote:
dougM wrote:
I have a dual-boot system too, Linux
Evolution? What is Evolution? I don't think I have that. I was talking
about Seamonkey (or similar Mozilla-based browser/mail programs).
Jim Hartley
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On 10/3/07, Jim Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clicking Reply does one of two things: either it marks everything
occasionally I have to scroll down to refresh my memory
about what's going on but not often. And if appends get out of order,
with top-posting, looking back to the 2nd-latest or 3rd latest is
usually enough.
I know some people don't agree with me, that's OK. To them I say Frank
Sinatra!
Jim Hartley
it easier to switch so you can do some top and some bottom
posting. Changing mail clients ***IS*** a religious issue :-)
Jim Hartley
NoOp wrote:
On 10/02/2007 06:17 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I know people that venomously disagree. Although I have seen lists,
organizations, and employers
Edit - FindReplace (or Ctrl-F)
Jim Hartley
Walter Hildebrandt wrote:
In 2.3 I have some large text documents. How can I find a word or a phrase
in the text document
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Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows
table might be reasonable in many cases. Never tried
converting text to table.
This is consistent across 2.0.4 and 2.3, so I would expect 2.2 to be the
same.
Jim Hartley
Felmon Davis wrote:
greets,
running OpenOffice 2.2 on Kubuntu 7.04 and just found that inserting a
table or converting
version specified in the original
IPFS.
See how easy it is when you understand the workings of big corporations?
Jim Hartley
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http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2007/09/20/legal-but/
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Leave the Find window open and just keep clicking Find will move you
through the file to successive instances.
Jim Hartley
Walter Hildebrandt wrote:
Thank you Jim. It works however I can only see the word highlighted on my screen. In a very large document the word can be in several places
standards committees to force their technically totally
inadequate alternative OOXML into being accepted as a standard.)
ODF is not just any file format. ODF is not every file format in the
planet.
Jim Hartley
S. A. Gnezdov wrote:
Windows can't support every file format in the planet.
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to do it to Java,
too, but they didn't get away with that one.
Micro$oft's motto: If we can't control it, then mess it up so nobody
else can use it either. And bring out a new incompatible version every
year!
Jim Hartley
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On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred
Hartley
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Jim Hartley wrote:
Well, that looks very much like what is in the OO 2.0.4 .odt file -
the data that I was taking word-count from. Is this meta.xml in the
2.3 .odt file? Where is it? How do I get it out?
I would be happy to look in meta.xml ... if I could just
gives you some ideas.
Jim Hartley
Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:15:30 +0800
Jerry Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a command line tool (in openoffice.org) to convert ms office
into plain text,
just get its content, remove all its style informations.
soffice -help tells me
as ODF gains traction ... not sure
if M$N will ever get the word, though (unless a judge tells them :-) )
Jim Hartley
James Knott wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
MARY RETTIG wrote:
I am a very new user and I'm having the following problem with using openoffice.
I have created some very simple text
that looked promising. I am running Linux Fedora 6,
but some of the stuff may be on, or portable to, Solaris.
Jim Hartley
Colin Sharpe wrote:
Is there a way to convert a .pdf file to a .sxw file,
or even a .doc? I am running Star Office 7 on my X86
Sun box running Solaris 10 OS.
TIA for any help
Hartley
John Meyer wrote:
I have to ask in all seriousness what are they supporting? It's just
allowing a file to be downloaded. That's it. Good thing I use hostgator.
Jim Hartley wrote:
Actually, they aren't the only ones. I have a website with Freeservers,
and they won't support .odt files either
have to do some programming that's OK. The key is to be able to
type one simple command and get a list of all the odt files in the
directory with word counts.
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Well, that looks very much like what is in the OO 2.0.4 .odt file - the
data that I was taking word-count from. Is this meta.xml in the 2.3 .odt
file? Where is it? How do I get it out?
I would be happy to look in meta.xml ... if I could just find it!
Jim Hartley
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote
Hey, that's MSn with emphasis on the MS - doesn't surprise me at all
that they'd look for ANY WAY POSSIBLE to discourage the use of ODF.
Jim Hartley
Paul wrote:
I am a very new user and I'm having the following problem with using
openoffice.
I have created some very simple text documents
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to find out how many people are actually subscribed to this
User List to see if there is justification to make changes to how
the list works with regard to subscribe requirements or not.
Okay this will only work best if everyone subscribed will do this.
Even
.
So I would be cautious about recommending RTF to users. I have to use it
sometimes and have learned to deal with it, but I wouldn't suggest it,
especially to newbies.
Jim Hartley
Michael Adams wrote:
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:53:02 -0700
NoOp wrote:
On 09/23/2007 05:15 PM, Harold Fuchs
Subject this person to 40 lashes with a **LIMP** noodle!!!
Jim Hartley
James Knott wrote:
Ahromi Irawan wrote:
Pada tanggal 21/09/2007 10:49, Lisa Hetherington Menulis :
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good open source/freeware
image editing program??
...Lisa
the gimp http
Solution: Install Linux. Install Linux version of OOo. Mouse wheel works
perfectly.
Oh, that wasn't what you had in mind? Sorry.
You could just go back to WinXP, that's what everyone else seems to be
doing.
Jim Hartley
Luke Gilow wrote:
I've posted this a couple of days ago and no one
if I go to
Fedora 7 I'll get a newer OO. Doing a tarball or other non-RPM install
is NOT a problem for me.
Jim Hartley
Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday September 21 2007 04:00 am, root wrote:
Trying to follow the update announcement in Fedora c6 for 4 packages
updates available for XML-commons etc
for them to work well.
Jim Hartley
Maurice Batey wrote:
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:39:44 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
or even a Windoze partition of their own
machine if they happen to be running dual boot
No need to copy; can just link to them!
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for the reader.
Jim Hartley
Peter Saffrey wrote:
The default styles uses Helvetica for headings. However, this font is
not available in the font list, so I can't set the normal style to use
it. Where is it?
Peter
If it is that cluttered and confused, and that much of a scam, it is
probably run by a Micro$haft shill!
Jim Hartley
Diabolic Preacher wrote:
On 9/16/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
It is entirely legal to sell OpenOffice. Many vendors sell a CD for a
nominal amount and provide
.
Of course, I would NEVER, NEVER advise anyone to copy the TTF files off
their friend's Windoze machine, or even a Windoze partition of their own
machine if they happen to be running dual boot. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!
Jim Hartley
Joe Conner wrote:
Many free fonts are available from:
http
Whichever is the most convenient for you. Both are legal.
Jim Hartley
Leonard Wheeler wrote:
I run OOo on my iMac [love it] but when I travel I miss my
computer. I recently purchased a MacBook to use while traveling. Is it
permissible to put OOo on both machines? If so should I
Install OpenOffice on your work machine RIGHT AWAY, Then you can open
that file RIGHT AWAY.
But, NEXT TIME, when you save the file in OO, use SAVE AS and select
Save as .doc (there are a couple of choices, pick the one that matches
your work machine).
Jim Hartley
Jeannette Cox wrote
at all, but the next best
thing is as many contradictory and confusing pseudo-standards as possible.
Jim Hartley
William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have been following this thread with some interest.
I have a curiosity question.
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:00 -0400, James Knott wrote:
John Meyer wrote
Better answer - tell all your friends to get OpenOffice!
Jim Hartley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/10/2007 4:13:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
When I send my open office files (.odt), they can't be opened. How can they
be opened?
Thanks
, but sometimes it just confuses them - they want **A**
solution to their problem. You have to get a feel for who you're giving
the advice to.
Jim Hartley
Diabolic Preacher wrote:
On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't open an Open Office Program if you don't have Open
have to be a relational DB, since there is only one table.
A flat-file DB would do, but I can't find one (for Linux Fedora 6/7),
and I'm using OO for other stuff so it makes sense to use it here too.
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once or twice to get OO to find them.
Jim Hartley
Russell Butler wrote:
Alyssa Dent wrote:
Hello.
I was wondering if there is a way to get more fonts for my Open Office
Writer?
Hi
Fonts should be available from your operating system, but there is also
a Wizard - File-Wizards
Save as your work as .doc (97, or 95, or earlier at your choice).
The default is to save stuff as .odt, which, you are 100% correct,
M$Word CAN NOT READ. Be careful, OO does attempt to strongarm you into
saving this way.
Jim Hartley
Steven kroeger wrote:
Hello,
I am using Open Office
in OO, but I suspect that's not what you want :-)
Jim Hartley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a teacher and I down loaded Open Office on my computer. Now all my WORD
documents are OPEN OFFICE documents, and I can't open them in WORD;
I can't wait for a week to rectify this problem. Please tell
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