Re: [users] Petition

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 25/06/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I signed the noooxml petition and received my confirmation. Over 4300 had signed by the time I did. Do these things really make a difference? Such efforts seem to help in Hollywood where I notice that due to petitions and

Re: [users] AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Dotan Cohen wrote: I wrote to AMD regarding the state of ATI Linux drivers and the company's view of the Linux community. This is the response I got: Thanks - could you contact us again in July? We're reviewing our Linux strategy right now, so anything I tell you know could be out of date in

Re: [users] The patents threat to open source....

2007-05-25 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
jonathon wrote: Pueblo Native wrote: On that note, would it benefit OpenOffice if they put together a FAQ or at least inserted a question about this patent mess. The only reason the patent mess exists, is because the USPTO has no qualms about issuing patents that are based on ides

Re: [users] The patents threat to open source....

2007-05-24 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
M Henri Day wrote: A PC World interview with Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth, which many OOo users may find of interest, was published in yesterday's Washington Post : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052300808.html Henri Maybe the open source community

Re: [users] Microsoft threat - Patent infringment

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
jonathon wrote: Robin Laing wrote: This is an on-going issue with MS and threatening OSS software but this is the most direct attack that I have seen yet. It was roughly three years ago that Microsoft announced that their future business strategy would be to derive income from

Re: [users] Quick Reference Card for OOo

2007-05-10 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Ahromi Irawan wrote: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or the entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message including any

Re: [users] open office for apple?

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
klick Computerkurse1 wrote: There was no message. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Kosten

2007-04-28 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 03:35, my mailbox was graced by a missive from Carmen Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote: Wie viel kostet das herrunterladen von Open office? Kostet nix, ganz frei. Gruessen, Ron. What does Wie viel kostet das

Re: [users] Windows Vista

2007-04-01 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
CPHennessy wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, + Eugene Polhemus wrote: [ MODERATED ] Can I download and use Open Office to a Vista operating system? Yes. Tom Cranston wrote: You should probably not consider getting Vista. Just consider using your existing

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] How to install new fonts?

2007-03-24 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Adrian Try wrote: Hi Sven please tell me how I can install new fonts (from a CD) in the Writer? In which directory I have to copy them? You don't install fonts into Writer, you install them into Windows. You can do that by right-clicking the font and selecting install, or you can do it

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Overcoming objections

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Robin Laing wrote: Ray Trimble wrote: I am trying to promote OOo and will be giving a presentation to our computer club in May and need to have all the ammo I can find to overcome objections such as the compatibility issues when trying to open files in other formats. I get the Atlanta Journal

Re: [users] ordered, paid by paypal but have not received openoffice yet

2007-03-01 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Heather Dudley wrote: Sorry, but we're not going to be able to help you. This is a volunteer-run mailing list that can help with troubleshooting, installing, and using Open Office. You'll have to contact the person you purchased the DVD from to find out what the hold up is. On 3/1/07, Phil

Re: [users] TOURBUS - 14 DEC 2004 - Updates From the Left Coast

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Patrick Crispen wrote: -- TOURBUS Volume 10, Number 38 -- 02 Dec 2004 Tourbus Home - http://www.TOURBUS.com Tourbus Forums - http://forums.TOURBUS.com [ For best results view this

Re: [users] Windows Vista Premium

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Batman wrote: Thanks Mathias! - Original Message - From: Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Batman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:36 AM Subject: Re: [users] Windows Vista Premium On Friday February 16 2007 11:23 am, Batman wrote: Will

Re: [users] Microsoft Word cannot read Open Office

2007-02-16 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Porter, Jay (ROC-JA) wrote: I'm am using 2.1 version of Open Office. When e-mailing word documents to others, I'm learning they cannot be read by Microsoft Word / Office users. This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended

[users] Re: [Spam] [users] CD by mail

2007-02-07 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Sieg and Lois Snyder wrote: Where is a good source to receive the latest version of OO on CD? Thank you. Sieg Snyder - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had good

Re: [users] Microsoft to pay blogger for Wikipedia 'corrections'? - SOA/Web Services - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Harold Fuchs wrote: Off topic but of interest, I think. http://software.silicon.com/webservices/0,39024657,39165435,00.htm Harold Fuchs London, England I doubt that there are any significant errors on the subject in Wikipedia, or Microsoft would already be serving them with a lawsuit.

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Microsoft to pay blogger for Wikipedia 'corrections'?- SOA/Web Services - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
John Meyer wrote: Thomas W. Cranston wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Off topic but of interest, I think. http://software.silicon.com/webservices/0,39024657,39165435,00.htm Harold Fuchs London, England I doubt that there are any significant errors on the subject in Wikipedia

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] windows 98

2007-01-19 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Johnny Andersson wrote: I have tried OpenOffice.org 2.0 with Windows 98 (first edition) and it worked. It was terribly slow on my very old machine (dec 1998), but it worked. I don't know about OpenOffice.org 2.1, since I only installed it on my new machine with XP. Johnny Andersson

Re: [users] Credit Card charge of $49.90 !!!!

2007-01-15 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Nikos Mitropoulos wrote: I also ordered OOo from ThinkAll and after the initial shipment they kept sending me staff and charging my credit card. However, they stopped immediately when I e-mailed them with a complaint. Although I definitely like to contribute financially to Open Source

Re: [users] Is this getting through?

2007-01-10 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Harold Fuchs wrote: Please forgive me for this. I have sent several e-mails to this list from my other computer which runs a newly installed copy of Thunderbird. None of them is getting through although I can send to other addresses and can receive OOo stuff from both subscribed and

[users] [Fwd: [Spam] [users] Tomorrow night..]

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Anybody else get this? ---BeginMessage--- Hey what's up? So where should we go from here? I just gotta say I don't trust everone online. There have been some really really strange guys that have emailed me. Your email caught me more than the others so I figured I'd see if you want to meet.

[users] Re: [Spam] [users] Merry Christmas

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Webarb-Hotm wrote: Was there any message? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Operating sqystems

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Adrian Try wrote: Hi Harold Other things to determine include features like being able to download podcasts (does Itunes run on Linux?), You don't need iTunes to download podcasts. Most Linux media players can download podcasts. And podcasts are just media files attached to an RSS feed, so

Re: [users] using microsoft 1998

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: Sure. You even can install and use OpenOffice with it. But do yourslef a favor and upgrade to something that is at least reasonably secure and well-behaved (like Windows XP). -Original Message- From: Gordon Joycey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [users] using microsoft 1998

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:49 PM [GMT+1=CET], James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Joycey wrote: Can I use Microsoft 1998 operating system. Yes, you can use Windows 98. How do you know he can? Regards, Harold

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Tom wrote: Kirill S. Palagin wrote: I'm not knocking MSFT Office. I'm simply applauding OpenOffice. I support it, and look forward to the developers optimizing it further, and hammering out the bugs. I'm not knocking Open Office Office. I'm pointing out problems in OpenOffice that need

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
RBL wrote: Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How much RAM are you using? I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate having to wait on it to start

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-25 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Johnny Andersson wrote: 2006/10/24, Kirill S. Palagin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:04 PM Someone said that MS Office is 10-100 times faster than OpenOffice. I have Windows 98 (first

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-25 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:04 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Windows 98 users I run Open Office w/ 98SE on my computer with ASUS mobo and AMD 1.2 gig Athlon, and

Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-25 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Paul wrote: +1 In fact today had a prime example of why OOo is my choice. I was simply trying to compare two MS word documents to highlight the changes between them (have to predominately use MSWord in the office). Tried it in MS word, and the stupid thing told me that : compare documents

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-24 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
web kracked wrote: I just put OOo on a 200MHz 196Meg Ram Windows 98se machine that was a spare going to someone who just wanted to have something very basic. Yes OOo 2.x is slow on such a machine and MS Office 97 is faster but MS 97 was written for Win 95 and Win 98 was even faster. OOo 1.x is

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Dan Lewis wrote: Reply To: users@openoffice.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 22 October 2006 07:46 pm, Tywana Roland wrote: I am using windows 98, Is there

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
arnold huzen wrote: Other users have stated that they were able to run OOo up to version 2.0.3 with no other problem than it's a bit slow. This is because a win98 is a little behind in the hardware requirements. Arnold Huzen Tywana Roland schreef: I am using windows 98, Is there anyway

Re: [users] Windows 98 users

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Ken Walker wrote: I notice on the openoffice.org site it only specifies windows 2000,nt and xp :( no mention of 98 or ME. -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2006 3:48pm To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Windows 98 users

Re: [users] Why Can't I buy a CD Legitametly

2006-10-15 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Jo wrote: kc7hxy wrote: I tried your list of so called places to buy OOo 3.0.03 and all I got was a bunch of crokks trying to make money by selling me things I don't want. Please give me a legimate place to buy a CD of OOo. Bud Hi Bud, OOo version 3.x.x doesn't exist yet. You'll

Re: [users] Bad fonts in Linux

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Dan Lewis wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 04:10 am, Santiago Donoso wrote: Dear OpenOffice, I have just installed OOo 2.0.3 in my computer running Mandriva Linux. Before, with other versions of OOo, I don't remember exactly wich ones, I had no problems with the fonts, but now the fonts

Re: [users] Bad fonts in Linux

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Fred Moore wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 5:10 am, Santiago Donoso wrote: Dear OpenOffice, I have just installed OOo 2.0.3 in my computer running Mandriva Linux. Before, with other versions of OOo, I don't remember exactly wich ones, I had no problems with the fonts, but now the fonts

Re: [users] Watermark in Calc

2006-10-10 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Andy Pepperdine wrote: On Tuesday 10 October 2006 02:33, DAN ABBOTT wrote: I am using Open Office 2.0.3 Calc. I have placed a watermark with the word draft that shows up on my spread sheet when when I print it. I now want to remove this from the background. I can not remember how I put

Re: [users] Watermark in Calc

2006-10-10 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Andy Pepperdine wrote: On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:39, Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Andy Pepperdine wrote: On Tuesday 10 October 2006 02:33, DAN ABBOTT wrote: I am using Open Office 2.0.3 Calc. I have placed a watermark with the word draft that shows up on my spread sheet when

Re: [users] Openoffice - is it legal?

2006-10-07 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
James Knott wrote: Sun MS simply agreed not to sue each other. That doesn't mean there's anything to sue about, though that doesn't stop some, as demonstrated by SCO. Sandy wrote: Someone asked the same question on the forum. This goes back to 2004.

Re: [users] Fw: ezmlm warning

2006-09-26 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Harold Fuchs wrote: On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:42 AM [GMT+1=CET], Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Gentlepeople, I received the appended e-mail today (26 Sept). I *think* it's spam but I'm not sure. Can anyone tell me for certain? No it's

[users] Re: [Spam] [users] I HAVE WINDOWS 95

2006-09-24 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Elaine Tusso wrote: Dear Sir / Ma'am: I have Windows 95. I only saw Windows 2000 or higher required to download Open Office. Can you help me? Thanks! :) Elaine Tusso I have been running Open Office with Win 98SE. No problems except it mangles heavily formatted word documents. Do

Re: [users] [moderated]can my Windows 98 system download it??

2006-09-24 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Jackie wrote: HELP!not a techhie here..before perusing all website info re openoffice.org.can I or can I NOT download operate it on my HP Pavilion (upgraded rams memory) with a Windows 98 system?? Thanks for responding. See my reply for I HAVE WINDOWS 95

Re: [users] For those who like FREE software

2006-09-10 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Peter Q Blackburn wrote: On 10 Sep, 2006, at 23:14, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 8:28 am, Jack Gates wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:07, James Knott wrote: One is there are many fundamental flaws in Windows that allow a virus to [snip] years ago and

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] trouble saving file as ms word 97/2000/xp

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
CPHennessy wrote: On Sat July 29 2006 21:46, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is: When trying to save a new document (just a single line of text) in MS Word format a message appears stating This document

Re: [users] Robin Miller: How OpenOffice 2.0 stacks up against Microsoft Office

2006-06-05 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Fred A. Miller wrote: http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1174145,00.html?track=NL-306ad=555103 Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Request header field is missing colon separator. Connection Apache/1.3.34

[users] Re: [Spam] [users] Re: Printing envelopes

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Lobo wrote: On 4/27/06, G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:28 -0400, Terry Clark wrote: I have a HP Laserjet 1300 printer. How do I insert the envelope into the printer? I may be thick, but I can't figure it out. Terry Clark Ogdensburg, NY

Re: [users] Mailing list issues

2006-04-25 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Jonathon Coombes wrote: Hi, Just checking if there is a problem with the email list for my email. I have stopped getting email for the last couple of days from the list. Jon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[users] Re: [Spam] [users] bad apple

2006-03-17 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Ken Houtman wrote: 123 Linux is the first supplier listed on your page of USA distributors. They promptly took my money, and never shipped product, and are generally non responsive. They do not deserve to be on your list of suppliers. Open Office is a fine product, but this distributor is

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Public Library Use

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Jo wrote: Michael Douglas schreef: To whom it may concern: I would like to switch to OOo as our productivity suite instead of Microsoft at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. I am going to talk to the IT department to see if we can switch to OOo, but before I do wanted to ask if there

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Anyone else getting MAILER-DAEMON messages from sbns.net?

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
This way people who really have no money and can't even afford $5 or $10 (how do they afford their computer, I don't know) I finally created a filter for that address. On 3/16/06, Keith Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:42:16 -0500 G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not wantopenoffice to bedefault program thatopens or attaches files. How do I changeback to Microsoftword as mydefault p

2006-01-31 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
John W. Kennedy wrote: Thomas W. Cranston wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Thomas W. Cranston wrote: Dave Barton wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:32 -0500, Dee Baker wrote: Please read: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS Dave

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be defaultprogr...

2006-01-31 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Meyer wrote: I guess the whole moral of this is that if we actually put a detailed explanation of what happens for a computer user of average knowledge, we'd fill up a couple of screens. - I tend to agree. You have to have a mid-point. You can't

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to bedefault program thatopens or attaches files. How do I change back to Microsoftword as mydefault program?

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
John W. Kennedy wrote: Thomas W. Cranston wrote: Dave Barton wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:32 -0500, Dee Baker wrote: Please read: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS Dave - To unsubscribe, e

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default program thatopens or attaches files. How do I change back to Microsoft word as mydefault program?

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Dave Barton wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:32 -0500, Dee Baker wrote: Please read: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be defaultprogr...

2006-01-29 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
John Meyer wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Maybe a better message for the installer dialog might be: If you already have Microsoft Office installed on this computer, it is recommended that you do NOT tick the above boxes. Or something like: Clicking on these boxes will make MS Word and

Re: [users] [moderated] - Microsoft Windows 98

2006-01-24 Thread Thomas W. Cranston
Jones, Kelly wrote: Thank you for your help Daniel. I greatly appreciate it. Kelly M. Jones -Original Message- From: Dan Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:45 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Jones, Kelly Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] - Microsoft

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Don't know where to turn for help

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Ray wrote: [Clipped] - Original Message - From: pasunhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:22 PM Subject: [users] Don't know where to turn for help My computer was built for me by a man who I can't reach anymore (he retired and is in South

Re: [users] Frame around MS Word document

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Angelika Kunz wrote: Dave, thanks for your reply. It worked. However I came across another problem (which I did not find under the FAQ section). When sending an odt. file to my Email account I can open it. When forwarding this document to another user he/she cannot open it. And why