[users] Re: Problem with LIbreOffice Fields SOLVED

2012-02-16 Thread Pat Brown
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 18:38 -0500, Pat Brown wrote: I'm running LibreOffice 3.4.4. In the last day when I try to put page numbers or dates or anything from Fields, into a document, instead of getting an actual number

[users] Problem with LIbreOffice Fields

2012-02-15 Thread Pat Brown
not restricted to my own documents. Has anyone ever seen this problem before? Pat Brown http://pabrown.com/ A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. Richard Bach -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

[users] Find and replace issue

2011-04-21 Thread Pat Brown
In my Find Replace the Whole Words Only option is grayed out. Match Case is there. I'm using BrOffice 3.2.0 on Ubuntu Lucid, 10.40 I use the option often and this is the first time I've noticed this issue. Pat Brown http://pabrown.com/ A letter. A secret. A tragedy

Re: [users] What's going on ?

2008-05-17 Thread Pat Brown
that an email is not what I'm expecting I have to open it. Enough of them and I'm wasting time I can better spend on more important things than listen to goons preach political fascism. There, now you can delete me. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-17 Thread Pat Brown
would be a disaster. It makes you wonder, how they ever let a politician become president! ;-) Sorry, I thought this was an email list for Open Office users, not a list for name calling of non-Republicans. If I'm wrong, please let me know so I can unsubscribe. -- Pat Brown http

Re: [users] spellcheck

2008-05-14 Thread Pat Brown
that under Settings - Language Settings - Writing Aids that check spelling as you type is checked. I had this problem suddenly appear once and went in to find this unchecked. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] donation?

2008-04-29 Thread Pat Brown
on the list picked up your email address and sent the 'offer'. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Pat Brown
or am I doing something wrong? -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] I'll try this one more time

2008-04-07 Thread Pat Brown
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Pat Brown wrote: I've turned off all pgp, so hopefully this will come through intact. I have had all my versions disappear. I was using the versioning and had a couple of versions created, but today when I went to check them they were gone. I had always save

[users] Versions

2008-04-06 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] Versions

2008-04-06 Thread Pat Brown
binM5vrxJGDr3.bin Description: PGP/MIME version identification

Re: [users] Versions FAO Pat Brown

2008-04-06 Thread Pat Brown
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 06/04/2008 15:26, Pat Brown wrote: nothing at all *again* Pat, please, what is happening? You keep sending null e-mails to this list. The messages I see from you, with Subject Versions, have attachments named part1.1. If I open one of these with a text editor I see

Re: [users] OPEN OFFICE with WINDOWS VISTA o/s

2008-04-05 Thread Pat Brown
I had Vista for the first 6 months of my laptop's life and I used Open Office exclusively. I was very happy with it. I moved to Linux because I got tired of how slow my Vista machine was, and now don't run any Microsoft products. So yes, Open Office is fully compatible with Vista. -- Pat Brown

[users] OpenOffice 2.4 for Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-01 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good heavens, you don't actually think Micro$oft would GIVE away something, do you? - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/3/31, Michael Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy beta

2008-04-01 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't bother checking the About OpenOffice, there is does say 2.4.0. Nice. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery NoOp wrote: On 03/31/2008 12:46 PM, M Henri Day wrote: Perhaps this is more

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy beta

2008-04-01 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed the Ubuntu Hardy beta, and I was hoping to get OOo 2.4, but it still says 2.3. In fact the only change I noticed is that the Save icon now doesn't gray out when I do a save. It's always showing 'active'. - -- Pat Brown http

Re: [users] YOUR PROGRAM IS LOUSY AND USELESS

2008-04-01 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A 10 minute download is long?? Aside from whether OO is a good product or not, this person needs a spell checker. This is why I will never do customer support. You guys are saints. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris

Re: [users] Publishing from Open Office

2008-03-29 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I write and I use only OO on a Linux platform - I save in the odt format and only convert it to doc if I have to. Which usually I don't, since for my novels I send out hard copies. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris

Re: [users] save pdf file as a wordfile

2008-03-29 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was a joke, right? Posting a porn site? - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery web at work wrote: Sexy Lena? well that is a strange name for a web site for help with PDF stuff. to each his

[users] Interesting observation

2008-03-20 Thread Pat Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed today, when I had to save an .odt document into Word to send to someone that the original .odt doc was only 29.9 KB and the resultant Word doc was 163.5 KB. Quite a size difference. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat

Re: [users] Version Control

2008-03-20 Thread Pat Brown
document. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery PJH wrote: 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

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Verson of Outlook?

2008-03-14 Thread Pat Brown
in Thunderbird with OO.o? Or add the icon? - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [users] Hippity Hop cursor

2008-03-14 Thread Pat Brown
- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did that - used a USB mouse, but until I stopped using Vista it was still an ongoing problem. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Hippity Hop cursor

2008-03-13 Thread Pat Brown
one more reason not to use it. (I've got a filing cabinet full of them) - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my new computer with Vista, the cursor in word processing unaccountably jumps to a new location. Does

Re: [users] using open office writer with wins vista

2008-03-11 Thread Pat Brown
works with vista (all 99 flavours) /paul Gee, that many flavors and not one of them works. Will wonders never cease. I just switched to Ubuntu because I got tired of the crap. For the first time in my life I'm not using a single M$ product. - -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat

Re: [users] Re: Font problems

2008-03-04 Thread Pat Brown
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/28/2008 03:42 PM, Pat Brown wrote: I recently switched over from Windows to Ubuntu. There were some documents I was working on in Windows with OpenOffice and I've been editing one today. I noticed some of the fonts

[users] Font problems

2008-03-01 Thread Pat Brown
font that may not even be on their system. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Going to a particular page

2008-02-19 Thread Pat Brown
Thanks, James and Brian. Pat On Feb 17, 2008 10:39 AM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Brown wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to go to a particular page in Write? I know you can do it in Adobe Reader, but I don't recall seeing it in Word. A search on the Help menu brings

Re: [users] Vista?

2008-02-19 Thread Pat Brown
in Microsoft Vista environment? Yes. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent I must be hallucinating, watching angels celebrating There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) - Eurythmics -- Pat Brown http

Re: [users] openofiice and vista

2008-02-19 Thread Pat Brown
. xan jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

[users] Going to a particular page

2008-02-16 Thread Pat Brown
Does anyone know if there's a way to go to a particular page in Write? I know you can do it in Adobe Reader, but I don't recall seeing it in Word. A search on the Help menu brings up nothing. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

[users] Searching on a page

2008-02-16 Thread Pat Brown
Is it possible in Write to go to a specific page? I know you can do it in Adobe Reader, though I never ran across it in Word and I can't remember if it could be done in WordPerfect. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] i would like all the info but i'm not a computer person please help

2008-02-07 Thread Pat Brown
online, I may dump Vista altogether. I'm sure my blood pressure will go down. :-) -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Re: does openoffice run on vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Pat Brown
://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Re: how is openoffice compatible with microsoft Word?

2008-02-03 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] Re: Is there an Open Office product comparable to Outlook?

2008-01-30 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] un-readable wpd

2008-01-29 Thread Pat Brown
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[users] Stop it already

2008-01-24 Thread Pat Brown
All this teeth gnashing and verbal diarrhea is tiring. About the only thing it's succeeded in doing is making me do a wholesale delete of all emails from the Users group. I thought most of the people on this list were adults? -- Pat Brown

[users] Stop already

2008-01-23 Thread Pat Brown
All this teeth gnashing and verbal diarrhea is tiring. About the only thing it's succeeded in doing is making me do a wholesale delete of all emails from the Users group. I thought most of the people on this list were adults? -- Pat Brown

[users] Publisher who accepts OpenOffice docs

2008-01-20 Thread Pat Brown
I found a publisher who accepts OpenOffice files. How's that for progress? -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [users] Re: PROBLEM [Opening Powerpoint file in Impress]

2008-01-20 Thread Pat Brown
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[users] Using Bookmarks

2008-01-01 Thread Pat Brown
? What am I doing wrong? -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Problem with AutoCorrect

2007-12-27 Thread Pat Brown
You seem to be right. It's only the use of the apostrophe that triggers the failure. Whether the apostrophe is before the period or after, the word won't be capitalized. Interesting. Pat On Dec 26, 2007 10:09 PM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 13:05 26/12/2007 -0500, Pat Brown wrote

Re: [users] WordPerfect docs

2007-12-26 Thread Pat Brown
Thanks for suggesting StarOffice. I was able to access my WP docs. You guys rock. Have a great holiday. Pat On Dec 24, 2007 11:12 AM, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard Coles Jr. wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 08:41:57 am Pat Brown wrote: Has anyone had any experience

[users] Problem with AutoCorrect

2007-12-26 Thread Pat Brown
but can't find anything. Like I said it's a minor issue since obviously I can just go back and capitalize the word, but I like to write fast and hate to go back when I can go forward. :-) -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

Re: [users] Problem with AutoCorrect

2007-12-26 Thread Pat Brown
that would make me run out an buy Microsoft. :-) Pat On Dec 26, 2007 11:57 AM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:05 26/12/2007 -0500, Pat Brown wrote: I have a relatively minor problem with the AutoCorrect feature. It is set to capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence (after

[users] WordPerfect docs

2007-12-24 Thread Pat Brown
Has anyone had any experience converting WordPerfect 12 documents? I stumbled across several stories I had written when I had WP and OpenOffice renders them unreadable. If anyone knows how I could open them I'd appreciate it. And wishing everyone a great holiday! -- Pat Brown http

Re: [users] WordPerfect docs

2007-12-24 Thread Pat Brown
Thanks for the suggestion to get StarOffice. It works perfectly in opening WP files Pat On Dec 24, 2007 11:12 AM, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard Coles Jr. wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 08:41:57 am Pat Brown wrote: Has anyone had any experience converting WordPerfect 12

[users] Are my emails getting through?

2007-12-21 Thread Pat Brown
I'm wondering if the emails I'm sending are getting onto the list. Three or four times I've asked about something - the last time was about the Style update and not once have I ever received an answer, so I have to wonder if anyone is seeing my emails. -- Pat Brown http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A

Re: [users] Spell Checker in Swriter Doesn't Work

2007-12-16 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] DOCX file

2007-12-10 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] Re: DOCX documents

2007-12-09 Thread Pat Brown
The 9 double spaced pages would be correct. Is Word Viewer something I can download? Pat On Dec 9, 2007 11:16 AM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Brown wrote: Hi James, I got this. I had the sender convert it to an older Word document format, but I'd love to know how

Re: [users] Adding Clip Art To The Gallery

2007-12-09 Thread Pat Brown
Is it necessary to add graphics to OpenOffice. I tried to insert a picture from a file but when it took me to the graphics directory, it was empty. -- Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery This is the best gay mystery I have read

Re: [users] DOCX file

2007-12-09 Thread Pat Brown
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Re: [users] Off Topic - E-mail Signature

2007-12-06 Thread Pat Brown
It's always been my understanding that the virus app appends the signature to the email. Maybe your virus app doesn't support this? -- Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery This is the best gay mystery I have read in years - Mark Richard

Re: [users] serious problem with save as -

2007-12-03 Thread Pat Brown
I routinely save my odt files as docs. I do this by doing Save As then entering the name of the file and appending it with .DOC. So far it's never failed and it never shows up as an .ODT file. -- Pat Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pabrown.ca/ L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery

[users] [moderated]

2007-06-17 Thread Peter Pat Brown
Can you advise me if Open Office will work with MS Vista. Regards P Brown