* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [120118 18:05]:
There are two ways to do this. One is to create a new empty
database. Then open the database with the dbf-derived table in it. Copy
and paste this table into the empty database. When you do so, the Copy
Table wizards. In the first page
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [120118 07:03]:
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:53 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
There are two types of data sources that Base accesses which are
read only: text files, and spreadsheets. CSV is a text file format.
To accomplish what you want, open the CSV
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [120118 13:15]:
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 11:46 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [120118 07:03]:
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:53 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
There are two types of data sources that Base accesses which
Using open office 3.30 on Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion).
I've imported a csv file into a Database. My intention is to create
a form for both adding new records and editing existing ones.
Try as I might, I keep ending up with what appears to be readonly.
To create such a form, I use the wizard
1)Adding all
Using OpenOffice 3.3.0 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04.
It seems that all documents in Writer are defaulting to a red font.
I.E. - the 'Font Color' icon on the toolbar is always set on red,
and if we forget to reset it to black and print we deep in red ink - so
to speak. How can this be corrected?
And to
* Fred Dottie Fuchs sandhil...@q.com [110321 06:15]:
Tim,
I'm not an OpenOffice expert, and I only work on Windows XP platform. I'm a
technical editor and have run across all sorts of aggravating issues in Word
(converted from all versions of Word, WordPerfect, PDF, etc.). One way that
* Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com [110316 17:21]:
I've had this problem with every document
that I have worked on. I have had nothing but trouble with this.
FYI: I am a programmer, not well-versed in Office Technology, I do
not use Open Office myself, I am attempting to do this for my wife
The nightmare continues, I've had this problem with every document
that I have worked on. I have had nothing but trouble with this.
FYI: I am a programmer, not well-versed in Office Technology, I do
not use Open Office myself, I am attempting to do this for my wife.
I have OO 3.3 on my computer
* Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com [110315 05:53]:
It can get very messy!
grin I am dealing with 15 documents/chapters of a novel written
by my wife Barbara originally on one of the earliest versions of
Word in 1995.
I can't remember if Word even had the concept of styles back then
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110314 18:14]:
Tim Johnson wrote:
* Dan Lewiselderdanle...@gmail.com [110314 17:29]:
I suggest you use the link below to download the two chapters on
styles:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters
I'm trying to wrap my head around the theory of how paragraphs are
managed in OO. (Using OO 3.3 debian on ubuntu).
From an earlier posting with input from Brian and Andy I've arrived
at the following understanding of how paragraphs are managed. The
sequence I describe follows (to my understanding)
* Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com [110314 17:14]:
Looks pretty good, but realize that the paragraph styles and font
selections are not necessarily visible -- they can be removed from
the toolbar displays, and many people do so, to save screen space
and (especially for character formatting like
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [110314 17:29]:
I suggest you use the link below to download the two chapters on
styles:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters.
Chapters 7 and 8 of the Writer Guide are what you need.
Thanks Dan:
Perhaps
I'm using OO 3.3 (debian install) on ubuntu 10.4.
From Tools-Option-OpenOffice.org Write-General,
I have set Tab stops at .22 inches.
However, on occasion, inserting a Tab generates an enormous
indentation of over 3 inches. Try as I might, I can't reduce it to
.22 inches.
How can I correct this?
* Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com [110313 13:46]:
At 13:02 13/03/2011 -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
I'm using OO 3.3 (debian install) on ubuntu 10.4. From
Tools-Option-OpenOffice.org Write-General, I have set Tab stops
at .22 inches. However, on occasion, inserting a Tab generates
* Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com [110313 15:48]:
1) I have set Tab stops as .22 inches.
Default? In the paragraph style? In the paragraph? (Probably default.)
I have these settings:
From Tools-Options-OpenOffice.org Writer-General I have
set Tab stops to .22
I recently removed OO 3.2 from my linux/ubuntu/mint 10 system.
I installed OO 3.3 from the debian install.
Now I can't start open office from Midnight Commander. The
reason is that the /etc/mc/mc.ext file has an entry that looks for
`oofice' associated with an .odt extension. Now there is no
* Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net [110305 12:01]:
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:19:20AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
I recently removed OO 3.2 from my linux/ubuntu/mint 10 system.
I installed OO 3.3 from the debian install.
Now I can't start open office from Midnight Commander. The
reason
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110305 11:45]:
Tim Johnson wrote:
I recently removed OO 3.2 from my linux/ubuntu/mint 10 system.
I installed OO 3.3 from the debian install.
Now I can't start open office from Midnight Commander. The
reason is that the /etc/mc/mc.ext file has an entry
* Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com [110305 11:30]:
I recently removed OO 3.2 from my linux/ubuntu/mint 10 system.
I installed OO 3.3 from the debian install.
Now I can't start open office from Midnight Commander. The
reason is that the /etc/mc/mc.ext file has an entry that looks
This whole situation is deeply disturbing! We're just not getting
any help. Not on this list. Not on the open office forum. And we are
running out of time and against a deadline. Feeling a bit desperate
here.
* Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com [110303 12:20]:
I'm using Open Office Writer 3.2
* Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk [110304 12:12]:
'2' showing in the header of the first page with '1' as offset.
Can I suggest you check your OOo is correctly installed? Can't think
of anything else offhand, but there's hope...
:) Good to hear from someone!
I see no reason to
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [110304 12:47]:
I followed your directions, and the page appeared as it is suppose
to do. Sometimes, the version of OOo that comes with an Linux OS (GO-OO)
has bugs in it that the OOo version from www.openoffice.org does not
have. This might be one of
Those reading may refer to my earlier email regarding problems
making the page numbers visible in a header.
Reponses to that email indicate that I may have a bug in the
pre-installed version on my computer - version 3.2, linux ubuntu.
I downloaded a package from the openoffice.org
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110304 15:43]:
Tim Johnson wrote:
Those reading may refer to my earlier email regarding problems
making the page numbers visible in a header.
much snipped
I see multiple .deb files in the /DEBS folder, but I kind of expect
a master install file
I'm now using OO writer 3.3 - fresh install on ubuntu/mint 10.
1)I have a header and page numbers in the wrong font color (dark
yellow) and can't find a way to change them.
I've right clicked on the header, picked 'Edit Paragraph Style',
looked at the Font and Font Effect tabs and don't see any
* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com [110304 16:59]:
Could you send me a copy of a file with this problem? (Delete all
the text that I should not see.) I would like to see if I can figure out
what the problem should be.
Thank you for the offer Dan, but someone else OTL'd me and did fix
* Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com [110304 16:44]:
I'm now using OO writer 3.3 - fresh install on ubuntu/mint 10.
1)I have a header and page numbers in the wrong font color (dark
yellow) and can't find a way to change them.
I've right clicked on the header, picked 'Edit Paragraph Style
I'm using Open Office Writer 3.2 on Mint 10 (ubuntu 10).
For the life of me, I can not make a page number field visible in a
header.
Example: With the cursor in the main body of the document:
--
Insert- Fields- Other-Variables(tab).
Under
Using OO 3.2 on mint 10 and ubuntu 10.
On my computer (mint 10) if I invoke spell check from
Tools-Spelling and Grammar, the dialogue window appears and is
position approximately above the word that is being targeted as
perhaps misspelled.
If I did the same on my wife's computer (ubuntu 10) who
My Wife uses OO 3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. Her 'target' is Windows users.
We have found that formating a document is best done (sometimes is
the only way) in ODF format. The problem is that sometimes when an
ODF document is saved in .doc (XP) format, that original formatting
can be lost or corrupted.
* Carlos Joel Delgado Pizarro carlosj2...@gmail.com [110301 12:31]:
2011/3/1 Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com
..
I'm soliciting and would welcome any and all (reasonable) comments
on what format to save as and anything else that one might come up
with.
Export your documents as PDF
* Michael Adams mbad...@paradise.net.nz [110301 17:38]:
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 10:38, Tim Johnson wrote:
* Carlos Joel Delgado Pizarro carlosj2...@gmail.com [110301 12:31]:
2011/3/1 Tim Johnson t...@johnsons-web.com
I'm soliciting and would welcome any and all (reasonable) comments
I am looking at an ODF document where the numbering for the first
page starts at 48. At the first page from the status bar on the
left, I read the following:
'Page 41 1/19'
'1/19' is correct and updates as I would expect, but what I am
curious about is the 'Page 41' at page 1, why not 'Page 1'?
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110205 11:19]:
On Sat Feb 05 2011 11:54:10 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
I am looking at an ODF document where the numbering for the first
page starts at 48. At the first page from the status bar on the
left, I read the following:
'Page 41 1/19
* Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com [110205 15:21]:
..
This is weird!
What is so weird sir? Do you not recall then that I have said that
I know next to nothing about Open Office and that I am
transmitting this questions on behalf of my wife?
One day you ask how to number pages
I'm using OO 3.2 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04.
The test document is in ODF format (.odt).
I want to set an arbitrary starting number for a page, starting at
the second page of the document where the first page is a title
page and has a different page style from the second and following
pages.
I
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110204 11:06]:
On Fri Feb 04 2011 11:39:19 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
I have followed these instructions:
use Insert- Fields- Other. On the Fields window select the
Variables tab. Under Type select Set page variable then under
FYI: I'm a programmer but don't use OO Writer myself, but am
attempting to aid my wife. We both use linux 10.4 (ubuntu).
We have installed the mini-corrector extension which does a good job
of removing extra spaces from the body of text, but it also removes
paragraph indentation - which is
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110203 14:57]:
On Thu Feb 03 2011 15:18:42 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
FYI: I'm a programmer but don't use OO Writer myself, but am
attempting to aid my wife. We both use linux 10.4 (ubuntu).
We have installed the mini-corrector extension which
* Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com [110203 15:12]:
At 14:18 03/02/2011 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
FYI: I'm a programmer but don't use OO Writer myself, ...
You are welcome to learn!
How would you like to be a programmer?
We have installed the mini-corrector extension which does
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110203 15:57]:
Line to set the indent space leaving the rest at default settings.
Your welcome.
Andy
Thank you Andy. That set us straight.
Also, my compliments on the succinctness of your writing.
cheers
--
Tim
tim at johnsons-web.com or
From the replies to this thread, I gather that there are several
approaches that can be used. I also gather that our existing
configuration doesn't provide a 'magic bullet'. It might be that
should I get the 'hang of' writing macros, a user-provided macro may
be the one-pass solution. In the
* Sasa Kelecevic sasakelece...@gmail.com [110131 09:18]:
On 01/31/2011 02:29 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
1)She wants to see a warning mark if there is more than one space
between a punctuation mark and a following letter.
2)She wants to be notified if there is a space before or after
FYI: Using OO on Linux 10.04. I am a programmer, but I use OO *very*
little. The questions that I have are given to me by my wife, so
they are 'second-hand'. I'm going to try to pose these questions in
a sort of categorization:
1)She wants to see a warning mark if there is more than one space
Restarting a thread:
(originally 'Page numbers and footers are being deleted' ...)
I wish to create a title page on a document of about 17 pages.
In response to the previous thread, I have received a lot of great
information, but still am not able to make progress.
So I understand that my goal
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110123 10:41]:
On Sun Jan 23 2011 11:00:33 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
First, what format are you saving the file as. ODT or DOC? If the later
that is the problem as OOo does not inport or export to DOC with 100%
fidelity and some things get
* Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com [110123 12:58]:
On 1/23/2011 1:32 PM, RA Brown wrote:
On Sun Jan 23 2011 11:00:33 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
snip
So to ask the first question:
Why are separate page styles not being saved?
NOTE: This document is subject to very strict standards
* Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com [110123 14:14]:
On 1/23/2011 4:03 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
* Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com [110123 12:58]:
thanks again and good tip on the pdf format
Put your cursor after the last character you want to keep; Shift-Ctrl-End
to select to the end
Maddening problem here.
FYI: I only occassionally use the word processor. I am a programmer.
My wife is having this problem:
1)She creates page numbers for a document.
2)She creates footers for the same document.
3)She removes the page number on the first page.
She saves the document and when it
* Wade Smart wadesm...@gmail.com [110122 15:54]:
On 01/22/2011 06:47 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
Maddening problem here.
FYI: I only occassionally use the word processor. I am a programmer.
My wife is having this problem:
1)She creates page numbers for a document.
2)She creates footers
* RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net [110122 16:24]:
She needs to create a Page style for each type of page used. For the
FirstPage leave the footer turned off, on the MainPage turn the footer
on. I would suggest that she get copies of the Writer's User Guide, the
* Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com [110122 17:25]:
On 1/22/2011 6:47 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
Page header and footer content are associated with the page style in
effect when they are created. What's probably happening is that all the
pages have the Default page style, so any change to the content
* Drew usersl...@paintedfrogceramics.com [100817 20:01]:
Ah -
The wizard you are selecting 'FileWizardsAddress Data Source' is used
to create a new odb file for use as the Address data source. You have
already done this.
To use the registered database you already created simply use the
I have created a database in ubuntu 10.04, using openoffice `base'
from a .csv file. I can open the database from base and all appears
well there.
From what little research I have done, I grok that I should select
from openoffice write, the follow process:
File-Wizards-Address Data Source
My wife and I both use ubuntu 10.04. She has recently transitioned
from Windows XP. I am a long-time linux user and programmer, but
have not used OO that much. We backed up her contacts (address book)
from Outlook express as a .cvs file, and also - I believe - a
tab-delimited file.
She would
* Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com [100814 15:32]:
At 14:42 14/08/2010 -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
My wife and I both use ubuntu 10.04. She has recently transitioned
from Windows XP. I am a long-time linux user and programmer, but have
not used OO that much. We backed up her contacts
* webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com [100710 04:53]:
On 07/09/2010 10:56 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
...
FYI: I am a programmer who works primarily in Linux, but I am
unfamiliar with Writer. I am asking this question on behest of my
wife who is an author and is transitioning
FYI: I am a programmer who works primarily in Linux, but I am
unfamiliar with Writer. I am asking this question on behest of my
wife who is an author and is transitioning from MS-Windows.
Here is the scenario. She is running Spell Check. She is shown a
suggestion. The phrase is:
Gee Willikers --
...@openoffice.org.
thanks
--
Tim Johnson
t...@johnsons-web.com
Senior Analyst/Programmer
http://www.akwebsoft.com
* Abilene Trophies abilenetroph...@gmail.com [091008 10:16]:
1.
ONLY GMAIL/GOOGLE CHROME Browser will not let me copy and paste from Open
Office. I can open up MicroSoft Word
Thank you Joe and Eric.
regards
tim
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Joe Smith wrote:
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hi:
Have files with following format:
First line:
column names, delimited by TABs, no text qualifiers
Following lines:
cells delimited by TABS.
I would like to import such a file
Hi:
Have files with following format:
First line:
column names, delimited by TABs, no text qualifiers
Following lines:
cells delimited by TABS.
I would like to import such a file into calc.
I see no
File - Import
selection from the Menu.
Furthermore, using Help-Index Import doesn't
show me
I am in the process of migrating my wife from Windows XP to kubuntu 7.10.
I believe that .odt files will be the default, but I'm wondering if there is a
way to set Open Office so that any legacy .doc (MS-word) files that are
opened and edited will be saved as .doc files.
Any comments?
Thanks
On Monday 21 April 2008, James Knott wrote:
Tim Johnson wrote:
I am in the process of migrating my wife from Windows XP to kubuntu 7.10.
I believe that .odt files will be the default, but I'm wondering if there
is a way to set Open Office so that any legacy .doc (MS-word) files
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