Re: [users] media player

2008-03-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... However, if you have a media player installed, you can play media in OpenOffice.org. At least I think so; I never tried it myself. A minute later: Now I actually tried it... I opened OpenOffice.org, then clicked Tools → Media Player. Then I clicked the Open

Re: [users] Printed documentation ...

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, zed wrote: Hi! I've searched the openoffice.org site to try and find out where I can purchase printed documentation for OOo but without any success. All I've found is discussion about whether or not there should be printed matter. Please will someone tell me the url of the page for

Re: [users] Bug in Calc

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Bill, bill purvis wrote: I've noticed a couple of times, but haven't been able to reproduce this. I'm working on a multiple-sheet file, and noticed odd values appear where they shouldn't. What seems to be happening is that values typed into a cell on one sheet also appear on the

Re: [users] Pop up menus

2008-02-28 Thread Uwe Fischer
ccornell wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 18:43 26/02/2008 -0800, Dave Sander wrote: I've been using Open Office for about a month and so far I like it. One thing that really annoys me is that when I am looking through a document and I click on certain sections I keep getting bullets and

Re: [users] enter/return key

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Dana, Curtis, Dana wrote: I am using XP Professional Openoffice.org, when I am doing a spreedsheet in the office calc, when I get to the end of a row I want to return to the beginning of the next row. But when I hit my enter key it moves down one row but right under the cell that I just

Re: [users] Users Manual for Open Office 2.3

2008-02-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Wayne, wayne wrote: I am using version Open Office.org 2.3 and I am haveing trouble learning the use of the program. I am familiar with Windows Office XP. I took a course in Business Computer Information Systems and they had a Instruction Manual. Is there any way I can get one of these

Re: [users] Printing spreadsheet documents

2008-02-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, bill purvis wrote: Can someone explain to me why OO2.3 only prints the current sheet of a document, despite asking for 'All' on the print dialog box? Print Preview shows me all the pages, but Print only outputs the 'current' sheet. I have figured out how to get round this by opening the

Re: [users] print spreadsheet

2008-01-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Dan wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008 13:10:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a 20 column, 170 line spreadsheet. I cannot get it to print with a readable font size. Please advise how to get a good copy at a 15 font Nancy Law File Page Preview. Click the Format Page

Re: [users] Writer/Word compatibility

2008-01-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Scott Meyers wrote: I recently started working with OOo, and I just saved my Writer document in Word 97/2000/XP format. I then opened the document in Word XP, and I was surprised to see that (1) frame content (e.g., listings and diagrams) seemed to be missing entirely, (2) special

Re: [users] WRITER -- INVISIBLE SPACE

2008-01-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Lindsay Graham wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply, Michele. I know which I think is the best policy. I don't see the relevance of the line feed, and I certainly can't see any reason for treating spaces at the end of the line differently from other spaces. If I do a Find and Replace, it

Re: [users] Writer: Renaming Text Body and Text Body indent para styles

2008-01-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, may I just add a small correction inline? Brian Barker wrote: At 21:59 17/01/2008 -0800, Scott Meyers wrote: I find that Writer lets me rename some paragraph styles and not others. The not list seems to include Text Body and Text Body indent, presumably because they are predefined style

Re: [users] Re: Change table column width

2008-01-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:59 17/01/2008 +0100, Harald Noname wrote: great, especially the keyboard command !! where do you know from? I managed to discover it in the help text. I think I went to Help from the Columns tab of the Table Format dialogue, and then followed the link to

Re: [users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Lindsay Graham wrote: I'm just starting to use Open Office and the learning curve is pretty long, if not steep. keep on - see http://documentation.openoffice.org for a lot of helpful documentation. My first question is, in the scheme of things, probably a pretty minor one, but I'll

Re: [users] Lost Table in Write

2008-01-08 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Bob Estes wrote: I'm using OO.o 2.3.1 and Windows XP Pro, SP2. I set up a small table in Calc, copied it to a Write document, then emailed the Write file as a MS Word 97 format. The table disappeared from the document. When I resent the file as a PDF format, it worked fine. Is this

Re: [users] Using OpenOffice English-need to write German docs-how to?

2008-01-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am a student using English version OpenOffice but I need to use it to write German documents and practice writing in German.How would I go about doing this?I am native language English.Thank you. first install the German language dictionaries, see

Re: [users] Opening XML files in CALC

2007-12-21 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, hjw wrote: we develope and sell solutions based on small industrial computers for industrial use. Our industrial computers generates XML files. Currently we have to recommend MS OFFICE for our users, because uor customers can use MS EXCEL for opening these XML files in a normal data table

Re: [users] Auto-alternating shading in OOo-Writer-tables

2007-12-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
Copying to not subscribed user. Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, Akki Nitsch wrote: Does anybody know a good way to realize alternating shading in tables in OOo-Writer? It would be a nice trick to make long tables more readable, but it's quit boring to alternate the background-colour of every second

Re: [users] Auto-alternating shading in OOo-Writer-tables

2007-12-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Akki Nitsch wrote: Does anybody know a good way to realize alternating shading in tables in OOo-Writer? It would be a nice trick to make long tables more readable, but it's quit boring to alternate the background-colour of every second row by hand. on the Table toolbar, you can click the

Re: [users] Windows Explorer slowdown

2007-12-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, S Fuhrmann wrote: I recently experienced a massive slowdown of Windows Explorer (MS Windows XP) when changing directories. With the help of File Monitor (sysinternals.com), I found that explorer.exe tried to open shlxthdl.dll and was looking for it in all directories specified in my

Re: [users] Re: Search and Replace Paragraph Breaks

2007-12-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just current selection and regular expressions are checked. the Help file about Finding and Replacing in Writer says: Unlike searching text, replacing text cannot be restricted to the current selection only. Uwe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Technical Writer

Re: [users] Removing Open Office

2007-12-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Rose (Admin Director TS) wrote: http://framework.openoffice.org/scripting/release-0.2/uninstall-guide.html this is the guide to remove the scripting framework from your PC, as the title says. Nothing you are expected to do. I need to remove this software. To remove OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Gallery

2007-11-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Getting Started Guide, Chapter 14 Gallery, but when I click on the Gallery button or use Tools Gallery, it shows a check mark on the Tools list, but I see nothing on my window. I do not see the window shown in the document. What should I be doing?

Re: [users] Need help with Openoffice 2.3

2007-11-21 Thread Uwe Fischer
Writer StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt -- Uwe Fischer Senior Technical Writer Tel: x66756 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Tel: (++49 40) 236 46 756 Nagelsweg 55mailto

Re: [users] Importing Style from Another Calc File

2007-11-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: Here is my question: I want to reuse the page styles from another calc file but I can not find where to import it for the current file. I know there is a 'load styles from another document' option in Writer, but where is the option in Calc? just for you ;-) I wrote a

Re: [users] Open office software question

2007-11-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jodi Pearson wrote: Hi, can someone tell me how to set my default to send my text documents in ms word format? you've got an answer on the mailing list. I include the answer here and cc to you, because you may not be subscribed to the list: -begin of copy If you mean how to

Re: [users] Fw: Open Office Messing up Lotus Approach Dbf file, I fear I may lose much or all of my data

2007-11-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, most possibly, Windows messed up your icons in the Windows Explorer. There is a FAQ (frequently asked question) answer on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General Replace DOC and Word with your file extension and program name: I just installed OOo, now I can't

Re: [users] How do you use the text box?

2007-11-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enjoy your product, but unable to understand how to implement the use of the text box. I was hoping to create a text box from which I can type text inside the box. Also do you know why my documents saved are being printed in the color blue instead of black.

Re: [users] Two questions on open office

2007-11-06 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, My second question also relates to Open Office 2.3 running on Windows XP and relates back to Open Office 2.1 running on both Windows XP and Fedora Core 5, Open Office 2.1 had a maximum document size of 47.6 x 47.6, Open Office 2.3 Writer allows me to also create documents that big with no

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Eric Trichet wrote: /I am using version 2.3 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : I cannot create a read only document protected from being modified if shared with others. I was very surprised that such a function was never included in OO. why not open Help (press F1), and enter

Re: [users] Printing Brochures..........help!

2007-10-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Stephanie Boulee wrote: OKAY, so here goes. I am attempting to print a document as a brochure in Writer. Every time I try, though the pages are /usually /in the right order, the margins are not maintained, causing me to lose part of the text off the page. I have those may have been

Re: [users] openoffice 2.1

2007-10-19 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, HLM wrote: Hi...I have a serious problem with one page in a file I'm using OpenOffice for. I am typing a thesis document, and have several quotes in which I change from my double spaced font to single, and indent the left and right margins. So far, I am having trouble with one paragraph

Re: [users] Bug Report 82446

2007-10-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, jonathon wrote: Scott wrote: How long does it typically take for a bug report to get Confirmed? However long it takes to get 5 votes. For some issues that can be a couple of days. For other that will never happen. come on, you know that this is nonsense. Most possibly

Re: [users] Re: Thesaurus disabled in OOo 2.3.0

2007-10-16 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: However, if I were to change this, I'd want to change the whole document, and that's where I run into worse problems - when do a select-all, a little read-only comes up in the pane on the lower right hand corner, and I can't change much of anything, including

Re: [users] spurious words for autocompletion

2007-10-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Kenn Goutal wrote: I keep having things added to my autocompletion (?) list in any given document, that shouldn't be there. For example, in one document, I type: sur and it autocompletes as surveysSurvey The Help text for AutoComplete seemed to refer only to autocompletion in

Re: [users] Opening Excel Document

2007-09-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/17/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lora Jarvi wrote: Changing file associations Right click on file icon Select Open With Choose Program... Check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file and choose the desired application. If

Re: [users] Exporting picture

2007-09-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Bruno Temple wrote: In Writer, I did'nt succed in exporting a drawing that I made with the draw tools. in Writer you cannot export a drawing. Copy the drawing to Draw or Impress and export it there. See http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/bitmap_pictures_and_line_art for some ideas, tips

Re: [users] Writer-form(value list entry)

2007-09-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi John, john fielding wrote: Dear All, Please help.I have been working with the help files Writer-Forms.Following the example instructions for a drop down list without a connection to a database/table source .I ended with a rectangular box with circle;triangle;etc on one line instead of

Re: [users] Copy/Paste Jpg

2007-08-31 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Murl wrote: Is there a way I can copy/paste graphics, jpg's gif's etc into Open Office letters? All I get is a empty box. I would like to be able to insert Pictures, etc into my letters. Thanks this works as in most other applications. So it might be that you already did copy the

Re: [users] Printing problem in calc 2.2.1

2007-08-31 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Scott Castaline wrote: Joe Conner wrote: See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69576 Scott Castaline wrote: I have one calc file that contains 14 sheets. When I try to print from one sheet it'll start printing from 4 previous sheets, even though my selection is on the

Re: [users] why are you not helping me?

2007-08-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Johan, please forgive me for trying to help you. It will for sure never happen again Uwe Johan Mathew wrote: Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Johan Mathew wrote: Sirs/Madams, You are requested to please help me,in this website(http://www.openoffice.org/index.html) I entered and I

Re: [users] Cells

2007-08-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Shirley Griffin wrote: This morning a STRANGE thing happened!! I was posting to my spread sheet and when I got on to column I to post my $$ balance ...I was going to post a 1 and rather than the one posting, it shifted to the next column. Then I discovered that different numbers did

Re: [users] why are you not helping me?

2007-08-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Johan Mathew wrote: Sirs/Madams, You are requested to please help me,in this website(http://www.openoffice.org/index.html) I entered and I saw--- openoffice.org 2.2.1 The OpenOffice.org Community announces the availability of

Re: [users] Re: Re: Organizational Charts

2007-08-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Have a look over here: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/new-faq/Impress/Formatting/006.html In the future remember, Google is your friend. I have to admit that I don't understand that FAQ... - 'From the Explorer

Re: [users] a very small problem

2007-08-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Luis Pablo Abarca Flores wrote: hello, i have a little problem, the color of menus is really ugly, and i can't change. please, i need help. you can send to me a little how to??? Thank. LuisPablo the color of menus is normally set using your operating system. As you did not tell us about

Re: [users] 1.1.3: How do I delete a page-break?

2007-07-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Anthony Chilco wrote: Hi Alan, Position the cursor after the page break, at the beginning of the following page, and press backspace. Or go to the end of the preceding page and press delete. backspace merely moves point to

Re: [users] webapp online help system using OO and XSLT?

2007-07-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Yermo Lamers wrote: (I originally posted this questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but there isn't much activity over there.) you might prefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I would like to do is write an ooWriter document and tag sections of it with unique codes that would be included in an HTML

Re: [users] Vertical Text

2007-07-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, you can find some instructions how to write vertical text on our OOo TnT blog: http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/writing_vertical_text Uwe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [users] formula mapping from Doc to SXW

2007-05-16 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Brahim GAABAB wrote: I'm using Open Office (2.2) to convert a 'doc' document to tex, through sxw. However, the equation from 'doc' are converted to OLE and not Formula in sxw, although Open Office recognizes them as real equations and can edit them. Are there any solution to force Open

Re: [users] Can't turn off Autocorrect or Autoformat

2007-05-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Paul Palmer wrote: Nevertheless, I cannot turn off the Autocorrect in OO 2.2. Two other users reported this but there were no answers offered. My technical document is almost unreadable because of all the corrections. I tried Word 2000 and found it hardly better. It would be

Re: [users] Re: paragraph reference howto???

2007-04-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Morgan Read wrote: In OOo Writer is there a way (work around?) to reference paragraphs in a similar way that pages can be referenced? ie Set Reference Insert that reference as Format Page So, where paragraphs are numbered a reference to that paragraph's number can be inserted? you must

Re: [users] Re: paragraph reference howto???

2007-04-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Morgan Read wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: you must first choose Tools - Outline Numbering and apply a number format to the respective Outline/Heading level. Yup, done that (if I understand correctly). All paragraphs are numbered with the Outline top row; third from left; second from right

Re: [users] Full Screen bug

2007-04-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Bill Gradwohl wrote: I tried to browse the bug reports with full screen and then ctrl shift j but the reporting tool keeps telling me that the word full is not allowed and the word ctrl is also disallowed. That would leave me searching for screen' which would be useless. Therefore, I'll

Re: [users] OpenOffice help files - Calc

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Arthur Lindley wrote: I've recently downloaded OpenOffice, all software elements are working. The Help files work too - except in Calc. If I ask to open a help page related to any Calc function, I get the following message: Could not find Help page. Unfortunately the Help page you

Re: [users] array in Cacl LOOKUP

2007-02-26 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: TerryJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOOKUP can return the contents of an array. What would be the syntax to do a LOOKUP of an array? I think that's wrong - LOOKUP will only return the contents of a single cell. right. This was a translation error in the help file.

Re: [users] Daylight Savings Time Change in March

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
Keith Bates wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:08:06 -0800 Whitely, Betsy J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is OpenOffice compliant with the Daylight Savings Time change happening in March? Thanks! Daylight Savings is usually handled by the operating system (eg Windows). so it will happen some

Re: [users] [moderated] Help File within OpenOffice

2007-01-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Mullins, Kelly wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me what application is being used to create the help file distributed with OpenOffice? Thanks. the installed help is a set of compiled XML files plus some helper files. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/techdetails.html

Re: [users] Help page fonts

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, David Vallance wrote: Can anyone tell me how to make the font larger on the help pages. The left pane (the navigation window) is fine but the actual help text in the right pane is almost unreadable. open an HTML page in Writer/Web and reset the zoom to 100 percent. Help Viewer uses

Re: [users] Autocorrect doesn't work

2007-01-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Richard Detwiler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have tried several times to use Tools - Autocorrect and then enter words into the Replace and With. However, when I try to type any of the words entered in Replace afterwards, inside Writer, absolutely nothing happens. What am

Re: [users] Autocorrect doesn't work

2007-01-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy wrote: Uwe's note did the trick. I had the replacement table set to All, but when I set it to English (USA) it worked. What is the meaning of All then? Seems a bit misleading. the All entry in the top list box of Tools-AutoCorrect-Replace displays the replacements

Re: [users] True Alphanumeric sort

2006-12-05 Thread Uwe Fischer
Amalia Elena wrote: A friend suggested I try OpenOffice.org to be able to do a true alpha numeric sort that I am not able to do in Excel. I am not sure how to do that. Using the icons at the top of the browser window, I am not getting what I would like. I want A1 - A100 to sort that way

Re: [users] Getting help with Oo Word

2006-11-06 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi jeni, jeni wrote: Is there an equivalent to 'assistant ' where you can type in the question you want answering? It's too complicated finding the right place to ask the question. in OpenOffice.org Writer, you can press F1 to open the Help Viewer. Then press F1 again to see the Help

Re: [users] Writer: Select whole words?

2006-11-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
Dan Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:35 pm, Paul_B wrote: Is there any way to enable the forced selection of whole words, to make working the mouse easier? I think this might be called smart selection, or something like that. Thanks, p. A double click selects a whole word. A

Re: [users] handout printout

2006-10-26 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Mike Dewhirst wrote: I cannot figure out how to print out four slides to a page. I can display them four to a page by just clicking on the appropriate layout control. That isn't the problem. When I try to print, it always comes out one slide per page. Is there a trick to it? I added

Re: [users] Applying a template to an existing document

2006-10-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Mathias Bauer wrote: Terry wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Dan Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 02:24 pm, Mathias Bauer wrote: Paul_B wrote: I have a spreadsheet that under Properties doesn't show any template it's based on; seems to be a bit of a renagade. Is there any

Re: [users] how can I adjust the field length in the bibliography database

2006-10-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jean-Charles Fontaine wrote: Hello I want to use the bibliography facility included in openOffice 2. Unfortunatly I can't because of a stupid problem: in the bibliography, the fields are too short so that I cannot enter the following article To increase the width of bibliography database

Re: [users] Watermark in Calc

2006-10-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, 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 the watermark on the spreadsheet and therefore I don't

Re: [users] How to search for two or more blank lines?

2006-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Victor Bien wrote: I switched to regular expression mode and typed: (^$)(^$) (^$) (^$) in the search box but it doesn't work. Leaving the parentheses out doesn't work either. Then I found that for even one blank line: (^$) doesn't work although it does in StarOffice 5.0 So OO's 2.0.3

Re: [users] Re: How to search for two or more blank lines?

2006-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Victor Bien wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, Victor Bien wrote: ... The application help of OOo tries to give a complete list of regular expressions. If you feel comfortable using them, please write down some useful examples and submit your findings to documentation.openoffice.org, so

Re: [users] Re: How to search for two or more blank lines?

2006-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Harold Fuchs wrote: On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:36 AM [GMT+1=CET], Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My understanding is that regex does not work in OpenOffice as it should, which is a bit of a disincentive to master the art. On 2.0.3 Win XP regexp is definitely broken. For

Re: [sc-users] CALC Print Command Failure

2006-09-28 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Niklas Nebel wrote: Joe Conner wrote: When I try to print a 9 sheet CALC document, and if I select all from the FILE-PRINT menu all prints fine. BUT, if I select PAGES and list the pages 2-9 to print, then the print fails completely. If I select PAGES and leave the default to page 1-9

[users] Getting into contact with Online Help authoring community

2006-09-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, you are very welcome to find information about the OOo Online Help and to contact the Online Help authors: - Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] for discussions about contributing to the Online Help - Blog http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt for browsing tips and tricks, just in case you have some

Re: [users] ask for solutions

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Sum Sereyvuth wrote: First, I would like to apologize to you for my non-native English. I am using the first version of openoffice, so called Khmer office in Khmer. My problem is: the office which I set up doesn't support the installed Khmer fonts, Khmer Unicode fonts and its keyboard

Re: [users] Spell checker not running properly.

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
D.R.Johnson wrote: I am using version 2.0.2 My problem is:- I recently downloaded your programme ?file OOo_2.0_windows_install_en_GB.exe? onto my laptop computer which is running Windows XP and Open Office is running very well. I then copied the above file to my PC which is running Windows

[users] Linking OOo Help and OOo community documentation

2006-08-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, we (the authors of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org Help) would like to give more links from the (F1) Help to the documentation on documentation.openoffice.org. May be to other Web sites, too. However, there are possible problematic areas: - we really don't want to get broken links

Re: [users] Selection List

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Cor Nouws wrote: William Case wrote: Hi Cor and Thanks; Everything I wanted was there. I don't know why I couldn't find it. Data == Validation never dawned on me; Help == Find: Selection List didn't turn anything up. Spent 3 or 4 hours trying to solve it. Must have got caught in a

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org, Math

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, James Denniss-Thompson wrote: a.. I am using version 2.0.2 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : and no doubt I am stupid but what is and how do you use Math. a.. There is no overview description of Math and when someone like myself who has no idea what its about comes across it, I have no

Re: Fw: [users] RE [users] Calc Formula

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, this works fine within different sheets of the same *file*, while is seems to be a problem when referencing a named cell in a different file. Uwe Mac McClain wrote: Uh Oh. Then you must have some kind of connection between sheets 1 2 that I don't have so they share variables/names. Do

Re: [users] Overline?

2006-07-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Harold Fuchs wrote: Adrian, On my system (Win XP Pro/SP2) the spaces between the words are *removed* from the overlined text. So, if I follow your example exactly, I get overlined Thissentenceisoverlined. normal text automatically gets italic font (where spaces are hard to see) in a

[users] Online Help authors meeting at OOoConf in Lyon, France Sep. 11-13, 2006

2006-07-26 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, in September there will be the OpenOffice.org Conference in Lyon, France. See http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ The Online Help authors would like to meet you there. We look forward to meet OOo users who like to contribute to documentation, or who have ideas and concepts for

Re: [users] Documentation Project Issue

2006-07-26 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, James E. Lang wrote: ... The issue is 67735. I hope I submitted it correctly. Yes, your issue report was absolutely correct. Using your information, I could fix the error immediately and without further questions. Thank you very much for the error report. Uwe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Conditional Formatting of Borders in Calc

2006-07-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, ... Thank you, Claudia. I'm getting to the point where I believe that this functionality does not exist in OOo Calc. I don't know whether Excel has it or not so I don't know whether this is a compatibility issue. I realize that if it is not then the likelihood of getting it changed is

Re: [users] Sending email from OOo

2006-07-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Stan Goodman wrote: ** Reply to message from Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:01:12 +0200 Hi, Stan Goodman wrote: Is there somewhere a treatment of how to cause OOo to send email through an email program that is not one of those named in the window at: Tools

Re: [users] Sending email from OOo

2006-07-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Stan Goodman wrote: Is there somewhere a treatment of how to cause OOo to send email through an email program that is not one of those named in the window at: Tools Options OpenOffice.org External programs? If not, can somebody clue me in? The Help system seems to ignore this

Re: [users] 2.0.3 built-in check for updated versions missing

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Dave Barton wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:36 +0200, Uwe Fischer wrote: you can find the specification document for this new feature here: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/onlineupdate/Software_Update.odt this is work in progress, so it is possible that the menu command is not yet

Re: [users] Does [:space:] work with regular expressions?

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, the issue is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64368 as Niklas posted. And thank you, kevin, for the very good explanation of atoms and quantifiers in regular expressions. Uwe Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: An issue already exists for this... :-) Donald H Locker wrote:

Re: [users] Re: 2.0.3 built-in check for updated versions missing

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Uwe Sir Gimp wrote: The problem here is that the Check for Updates option is NOT available when I open a Writer document, but it IS AVAILABLE when I open other document types such as Impress, Draw, etc. What's going on? Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi

Re: [users] Groups

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, It certainly is an oo question. oo appears to save everything I compose read-only rw-rw-r, no matter what the os dictates. I'm the very opposite of a UNIX geek, but I've learned the following already: you can set the permissions to be used for new files using the umask in your start

Re: [users] 2.0.3 built-in check for updated versions missing

2006-06-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Sir Gimp wrote: According to the release notes, I should have a Check for Updates option in the Help. I've just installed version 2.0.3 and this option is not on the Help menu. The Help itself has this mysterious text: Check for Updates This command is available for the full

Re: [users] Does [:space:] work with regular expressions?

2006-06-26 Thread Uwe Fischer
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: What else can I say besides Does [:space:] work with regular expressions? I can use regular expressions, but I can not make it find a space using this syntax, which is documented. I also tested [:digit:], which does not work for me. [0-9] works just fine,

Re: [users] Envelope Printing

2006-06-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jack Casner wrote: /I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : I cannot find how to print envelopes by inserting them vertically in the printer, as is done in Micro$oft Word. please have a look at the OOo Tips and Tricks Blog at

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2006-06-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Immanuel CRC Office wrote: Sven and Doris wrote: Just wanted to ask whether you are going to develop a email client like Outlook 2003 cause I want out of MS Office. Sven: There are many free and good email clients out there, so rather than re-invent the wheel, OOo has decided to

Re: [users] File not opening on last page anymore.

2006-05-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Bill, e3.bill wrote: Dear OO.o, I am using version 2.0.2 of OpenOffice.org. which I downloaded on 13/05/06. My problem is : Ever since I've downloaded version 2.0.2, when I open a file it opens at first page whereas in the previous version when I opened a file it opened at the last page.

Re: [users] Re: Concordance File -- Single Quote Marks

2006-04-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Thomas Ronayne wrote: Andy Pepperdine wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:14, Thomas Ronayne wrote: I have a document that uses smart quotes. I have a concordance file (plain text) that I cannot force to also use smart quotes, so most of what I want in an index is not found; e.g., O'Neil,

Re: [users] Proposed changes to Paths Dialog for 2.0.3

2006-04-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Joe, Joe wrote: Hi. I went to issuezilla to see about requesting a change to how Tools-Options-Paths (Templates) works and found out that they are removing a bunch of options including the one I wanted to change! http://specs.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=announcemsgNo=129

Re: [users] laptop in the train: mac one-button trackpad cannot emulate right-mouse button

2006-04-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Uwe Hobohm wrote: Hi, Macs usually have a one-button mouse and a one-button trackpad. Right-mouse button is emulated using Ctrl-mouse-button (or Ctrl-trackpad-button). Apparently, this behaviour is suppressed in OpenOffice Writer 2.0.2. Any idea how one can teach OO-Writer to understand

Re: [users] Re: too hard to report bug

2006-04-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Rod Engelsman wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:34:49 -0500 Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/20/06, CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, It may also be interesting to create a macro which would be installed by default and available thru Help - Report a bug

Re: [users] persistent AutoCorrect

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Eric Beversluis wrote: My OpenOffice Calc (2.0.2) is displaying an annoying trait (which also arose in a previous version): I have a spreadsheet with 'AutoCorrect--Capitalize first letter of every sentence' turned off. But every once in a while it reverts back to doing auto-capitalization,

Re: [users] persistent AutoCorrect

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Eric Beversluis wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:02 +0200, Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, Eric Beversluis wrote: My OpenOffice Calc (2.0.2) is displaying an annoying trait (which also arose in a previous version): I have a spreadsheet with 'AutoCorrect--Capitalize first letter of every sentence

Re: [users] Quattro Pro Filter for .qpw

2006-03-21 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, CPHennessy wrote On 03/20/06 21:53,: On Mon March 20 2006 17:00, Robert Steinmetz AIA wrote: I notice that 2.0.2 has a filter for Quattro Pro 6. Is anyone working on a filter for later versions of Quattro Pro (.qpw)? If so How can I contact them? I think that Novell/SuSE contributed

Re: [users] Re: too hard to report bug

2006-03-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Joe Conner wrote On 03/19/06 00:09,: snip What would REALLY help is to have a Report a Bug line in the dropdown help menu of each component (write, calc, etc.) which will take you directly http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/submission_gateway.html thus avoiding much of the learning

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