[users] Find and replace special characters

2011-05-29 Thread PJH
I was given a DOC file where the writer had apparently typed Shift-Enter instead of Enter at the ends of paragraphs. How can I find and replace these with actual paragraph marks? Thanks. -- - To unsubscribe send email to

[users] Re: [moderated]

2011-05-12 Thread PJH
The basic OpenOffice.org does not support Microsoft Works, so you should convert a .wps file to a file compatible with OpenOffice.org. The following list provides ways to convert .wps files to compatible OpenOffice.org files: If you have Microsoft Works, open the .wps file in Microsoft Works

[users] Re: Trouble with OpenOffice finding email configuration

2011-01-10 Thread PJH
Did you try my suggestion? larryb has written on 1/9/2011 6:40 PM: i am having the same problem. help please Control Panel Programs Default Programs Set Your Default Programs Find Windows Live Mail (or whatever windows email is) and make it the default for emails.

[users] Re: Trouble with OpenOffice finding email configuration

2011-01-08 Thread PJH
Arnold N. Pollak - SignForce has written on 1/6/2011 12:25 PM: Hi Folks Hope you can help - or direct me to the correect place to get help. I am running windows 7 with OpenOffice 3.2.1 and using Windows Live Mail for emailing. When I click on the Document as email icon I get the

[users] Re: How to save multi-page spreadsheet as a single CSV file?

2011-01-04 Thread PJH
Gene Young has written on 1/2/2011 11:19 AM: On 1/2/2011 11:03 AM, PJH wrote: Brian Barker has written on 1/1/2011 7:03 PM: At 17:53 01/01/2011 -0500, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: I have a spreadsheet that has 9 pages (sheets). How do I save the entire thing to a single CSV file? You do mean

[users] Re: How to save multi-page spreadsheet as a single CSV file?

2011-01-02 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 1/1/2011 7:03 PM: At 17:53 01/01/2011 -0500, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: I have a spreadsheet that has 9 pages (sheets). How do I save the entire thing to a single CSV file? You do mean sheets, not pages, don't you? The number of (printed output) pages is

[users] How to save multi-page spreadsheet as a single CSV file?

2011-01-01 Thread PJH
I have a spreadsheet that has 9 pages (sheets). How do I save the entire thing to a single CSV file? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Does Writer Have a Random Text Generator?

2010-06-15 Thread PJH
Is there a simple way to generate a paragraph or two of random text (or lorem ipsum)?? Thanks. -- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. - Frieda Norris

[users] Can Calc open an XLT (template) File?

2010-05-06 Thread PJH
I have an Excel template for scheduling volunteers, a month at a time. Is there a way to open it in Calc, or do you know of a Calc template that will do the same thing? Thx. -- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NO MATCH FOR NATURAL STUPIDITY.

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-29 Thread PJH
Daniel Lewis has written on 3/28/2010 8:05 PM: PJH wrote: Andreas Saeger has written on 3/28/2010 3:58 PM: PJH wrote: OK, I want an x/y scatter chart with dates as the X-axis and several Y-axes. How do I do that? Thanks. Open the chart (double-click) and change the chart type

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-28 Thread PJH
Andreas Saeger has written on 3/28/2010 9:29 AM: PJH wrote: I'm going to post my feeble attempts at getting a line chart done in the hopes that (a) I will eventually be successful and (b) someone else will benefit from my flounderings. I have a spreadsheet with the following columns

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-28 Thread PJH
Andreas Saeger has written on 3/28/2010 3:58 PM: PJH wrote: OK, I want an x/y scatter chart with dates as the X-axis and several Y-axes. How do I do that? Thanks. Open the chart (double-click) and change the chart type. That is the answer to how to get an x/y scatter chart. How do I

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-27 Thread PJH
JOE Conner has written on 3/26/2010 12:36 AM: On 3/25/2010 4:50 PM, PJH wrote: JOE Conner has written on 3/25/2010 5:03 PM: snip INSERT - CHART brings up the chart wizard. Perhaps you should look through the helps provided at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation JOE

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-27 Thread PJH
PJH has written on 3/25/2010 2:43 PM: I want to set up a spreadsheet with the following layout: The rows are the months, Jan..Dec The major columns are years, 2007..2009 under each year there is a set of columns: gas, elect, degree days, cost (or I could do simple columns: 2007 gas, 2007 elec

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-27 Thread PJH
JOE Conner has written on 3/27/2010 4:20 PM: On 3/27/2010 10:01 AM, PJH wrote: SNIP I'm going to post my feeble attempts at getting a line chart done in the hopes that (a) I will eventually be successful and (b) someone else will benefit from my flounderings. I have a spreadsheet

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-27 Thread PJH
JOE Conner has written on 3/27/2010 4:26 PM: On 3/27/2010 10:01 AM, PJH wrote: BIG SNIP 3) Under Chart Type, select Line and Stack Series (although it's not clear to me what Stack Series means) You would find the X-Y chart the most useful for what you are trying to do. Pretty sure I want

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-25 Thread PJH
Michael D. Roush has written on 3/25/2010 3:06 PM: PJH wrote: I want to set up a spreadsheet with the following layout: The rows are the months, Jan..Dec The major columns are years, 2007..2009 under each year there is a set of columns: gas, elect, degree days, cost (or I could do simple

[users] Re: Need Help Graphing Energy Usage

2010-03-25 Thread PJH
JOE Conner has written on 3/25/2010 5:03 PM: snip INSERT - CHART brings up the chart wizard. Perhaps you should look through the helps provided at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation JOE, there's an overwhelming amount of material there, and no way to find exactly what

[users] Re: How to remove duplicate records in scalc file

2010-02-20 Thread PJH
Harold Fuchs has written on 2/20/2010 4:14 AM: On 20 February 2010 01:01, PJH pj...@pobox.com wrote: How do I remove duplicate records in a spreadsheet? Thx. Take a look at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5379 Thanks

[users] How to remove duplicate records in scalc file

2010-02-19 Thread PJH
How do I remove duplicate records in a spreadsheet? Thx. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

[users] Re: Add text next to a table?

2009-07-14 Thread PJH
Brian Barker wrote: At 20:55 13/07/2009 -0400, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: I created a table by inserting a CSV file and using convert text to table. The resulting table was full-width. I made it narrower hoping to be able to add text to the right of that table, but I cannot get an insertion

[users] Re: OOo will not open default email client

2009-07-14 Thread PJH
Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:15, Girard Aquino wrote: Hi. I wonder if someone could help me out. I just discovered a problem with OOo having trouble opening my default email client (thunderbird) when choosing to send the document as email. I have OOo 3.1 on XP. I've

[users] Add text next to a table?

2009-07-13 Thread PJH
I created a table by inserting a CSV file and using convert text to table. The resulting table was full-width. I made it narrower hoping to be able to add text to the right of that table, but I cannot get an insertion point in that area. Can someone please help? Thanks.

[users] Re: From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-22 Thread PJH
NoOp has written on 2/5/2009 6:23 PM: On 02/04/2009 02:33 PM, M Henri Day wrote: 2009/2/4 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net On 02/04/2009 11:00 AM, PJH wrote: A neighbor created a document (The 2009 Residents Handbook, to be specific), in Word 2007 and saved it as a .DOC. When I open it in Writer

[users] Re: From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-22 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 2/5/2009 8:35 PM: At 15:23 05/02/2009 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: The first page has (in Word) a single graphic, and two text boxes. The first text box (refer to the link PJH provided). For some reason, no matter the version of Word used to save the doc, OOo opens

[users] Re: Where did the page-wide double line come from?

2009-02-04 Thread PJH
Manfred J. Krause has written on 2/3/2009 7:52 PM: Hi, On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 01:22, PJH wrote: I typed a few consecutive === and hit ENTER and they were replaced by a page-wide double line that I cannot delete!!! How do I get rid of this? What causes this? - Help F1 Index: automatic lines

[users] Error: Reference source not found

2009-02-04 Thread PJH
I opened a Word doc in Writer and found that almost all of the lines in the table of contents were marked Error: Reference source not found. In addition, the corresponding lines in the body had the same addenda. By opening the doc in Word, I found that the TOC was built with hyperlinks and

[users] From Word to Writer -- a problem

2009-02-04 Thread PJH
A neighbor created a document (The 2009 Residents Handbook, to be specific), in Word 2007 and saved it as a .DOC. When I open it in Writer, the cover sheet is off as can be seen at http://www.4seasonsatmapleton.org/word-ooo.html What has he done that is hidden in Word and what can I do to

[users] Where did the page-wide double line come from?

2009-02-03 Thread PJH
I typed a few consecutive === and hit ENTER and they were replaced by a page-wide double line that I cannot delete!!! How do I get rid of this? What causes this? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: I:\ is always a link

2009-02-03 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 2/2/2009 8:06 PM: At 19:46 02/02/2009 -0500, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: I typed I:\ into a writer doc and writer made it a link. I tried to delete the path using Insert Hyperlink, but it won't go away. What can I do? Various things: o Go to Tools |

[users] Re: I:\ is always a link

2009-02-03 Thread PJH
Robert Hodgins has written on 2/2/2009 7:58 PM: On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:46 -0500, PJH wrote: I typed I:\ into a writer doc and writer made it a link. I tried to delete the path using Insert Hyperlink, but it won't go away. What can I do? Select it and then cut it. Delete

[users] I:\ is always a link

2009-02-02 Thread PJH
I typed I:\ into a writer doc and writer made it a link. I tried to delete the path using Insert Hyperlink, but it won't go away. What can I do? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

[users] Export to XHTML Doesn't Work

2009-02-01 Thread PJH
I tried to export a document to XHTML and an error message The selected JRE is defective. So I downloaded and installed the latest one. (It uninstalled the previous version beforeit would install itself.) No joy. Windows XP Pro, OOo 3.0.0 Thanks.

[users] Re: Export to XHTML Doesn't Work

2009-02-01 Thread PJH
Drew Jensen has written on 2/1/2009 1:38 PM: PJH wrote: I tried to export a document to XHTML and an error message The selected JRE is defective. So I downloaded and installed the latest one. (It uninstalled the previous version beforeit would install itself.) No joy. Windows XP Pro, OOo

[users] Settings don't stick

2008-11-11 Thread PJH
OOo 3.0.0/Win XP Pro SP2 In the spreadsheet, I have most columns set for Arial/9 with cells formated #,##0.00;[RED]-#,##0.00. I have set the format for a number of rows beyond my last data entry, but when I enter new data, the format reverts to some default. How do I get the settings to

[users] Re: Settings don't stick

2008-11-11 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 11/11/2008 6:03 PM: At 14:46 11/11/2008 -0500, Ponly J Honly wrote: OOo 3.0.0/Win XP Pro SP2 In the spreadsheet, I have most columns set for Arial/9 with cells formatted #,##0.00;[RED]-#,##0.00. I have set the format for a number of rows beyond my last data

[users] Re: Template/Header Problem

2008-09-11 Thread PJH
Brian Barker has written on 9/9/2008 9:16 PM: At 08:45 10/09/2008 +0800, Rob Clement wrote: The simplest way to solve your problem is to set the header on a First Page Page style and then set the other pages to be default ... Er, except that templates don't *have* other pages! ;^) Brian

[users] Template/Header Problem

2008-09-09 Thread PJH
I have a shortcut (Windows XP) on my desktop to a template that defines a header (my address and a placeholder for the date). Works great except that the header appears on every page. Is there a way to define the template so that the header appears only on page 1? Thanks.

[users] Anchoring a row

2008-03-27 Thread PJH
I have a header row in a spreadsheet that I would like to keep visible at the top of the current window, no matter how many rows are displayed. I tried selecting the row and then Format Anchor but that did not allow me to do anything. How can I do this? Thanks.

[users] Version Control

2008-03-18 Thread PJH
I would like to use version control on a text document but Version in the File menu is grayed out. How do I get it back? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: Version Control

2008-03-18 Thread PJH
Jack D. Lewis has written on 3/18/2008 7:46 PM: PJH wrote the following on 3/18/2008 5:17 PM: I would like to use version control on a text document but Version in the File menu is grayed out. How do I get it back? The 'Versions...' menu item is grayed out for new documents until

[users] How do I .... ?

2008-03-02 Thread PJH
How do I send a doc as an email from within OOo? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: How do I .... ?

2008-03-02 Thread PJH
James Knott has written on 3/2/2008 2:18 PM: PJH wrote: How do I send a doc as an email from within OOo? Click on File Send E-mail as Microsoft word. Thanks, James. That results in this message: Openoffice.org was unable to find a working e-mail configuration. I use Thunderbird

[users] Re: How do I .... ?

2008-03-02 Thread PJH
James Knott has written on 3/2/2008 2:39 PM: -- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ Maxim for the Internet Age: You can't teach an old mouse new clicks... PJH wrote: James Knott has written on 3/2/2008 2:18 PM: PJH wrote: How do I send a doc as an email from within OOo

[users] Re: How do I .... ?

2008-03-02 Thread PJH
Manfred J. Krause has written on 3/2/2008 4:05 PM: -- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: Does this taste funny to you? Hi *, On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:06 PM, James Knott wrote: PJH wrote: James Knott has written on 3/2/2008 2:39 PM

[users] Re: Find/Replace Across Multiple Files?

2008-02-19 Thread PJH
PJH has written on 1/17/2008 3:40 PM: Cor Nouws has written on 9/2/2007 3:44 PM: PJH schreef: Has anyone written any add-on or plug-in or macro that will permit writer to search specified files and replace a given string (or regular expression) with another string

[users] OOo Writer will not send email

2008-02-19 Thread PJH
OOo Writer (V2.3.1,Win XP) reports that it cannot find a ...working e-mail configuration... when I do File Send Email as How can I correct this? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[users] Re: Find/Replace Across Multiple Files?

2008-01-17 Thread PJH
Cor Nouws has written on 9/2/2007 3:44 PM: PJH schreef: Has anyone written any add-on or plug-in or macro that will permit writer to search specified files and replace a given string (or regular expression) with another string? Or is there another way?? You can have a macro

[users] Find/Replace Across Multiple Files?

2007-08-31 Thread PJH
Has anyone written any add-on or plug-in or macro that will permit writer to search specified files and replace a given string (or regular expression) with another string? Or is there another way?? Thanks. - To unsubscribe,

[users] Re: Why we need something like Outlook

2007-04-10 Thread PJH
Douglas Hinds keyed the following on 4/9/2007 2:21 PM: PJH wrote: The main reason Outlook is my choice is its integration of calendar, contacts, e-mails, documents, and tasks (to-dos). You can create a task and attach to it any relevant information including documents, e-mails, contact info

[users] Why we need something like Outlook

2007-04-09 Thread PJH
I have heard all the arguments as to why no one needs Outlook, but last night, my niece, a very smart person (full scholarship to MIT, MSCompSci at Berkeley paid for by Bell Labs, etc.) gave me her reasons for using Outlook. I'm going to quote her message to me and I'd like to get reasonable

[users] Re: Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread PJH
William Case keyed the following on 4/9/2007 6:16 PM: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What integrated extra am I

[users] Re: I want to uninstall

2007-03-26 Thread PJH
Tim McGee keyed the following on 3/25/2007 8:08 PM: I have downloaded openoffice.org1.0.2. My computer runs XP professional. This program has altered my saved Word documents. I want to uninstall it without loosing more saved data. Give me a phone contact. Tim McGee 724-646-1233 Have you

[users] TEST please ignore

2007-03-26 Thread pjh
I'm sending this from Outlook and I expect it to appear in the usual places! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Re: OpenOffice Base: Calculating Median

2007-03-26 Thread PJH
Franco wrote: I would like to thank Harold and all for replying. From what I've read, it seems that Base requires a level of expertise that I don't have and for me to acquire that expertise could be an exercise in mental anguish. I'm using Calc to do median calcuatlions on my data, but it's a