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

2007-01-21 Thread susan
I am not sure who I am meant to send my email to, I just want to check with you the following: I was offered an offer for free software disks on line from think all publishing, then when it arrived they no longer were free. I just sore on line a complaint similar to mine which helped confirm I

[users] Use with Word/Excel

2007-01-21 Thread Rarangure
I have not downloaded your product yet, but am looking into it. I currently do NOT have any Microsoft programs on my computer. The company I work for sends everything out in and needs to receive information in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Will this be compatible? If I receive an

[users] UNINSTALL for MAC 10.4.8

2007-01-21 Thread simon colvey
Hi There, All I want to do is UNINSTALL the OpenOffice 2.1 suite. I CANNOT find any information that is clear and concise about this procedure. I have now trawled your website, forums etc for nearly 1.5 hours. I think such information should be shown on the download. Regards Simon Colvey

[users] [moderated]Formatting fields on Base design form

2007-01-21 Thread Janet Barnes
I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem deals with Forms design in Base. I created a table and then a form related to it. I then added new fields to the table and want them to appear on the corresponding form I created. I went into design mode on the form and clicked on the

Re: [users] finding text in files

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 20:34, + rfjones wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** is there anyway in Writer to search for text in a set of writer files, i.e. directory of files on linux I reviewed this list without finding an answer There are several indexers which do this including

Re: [users] After downloading what I thought was the Oo.o suite, I can only find Writer

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 21:31, + Mary Ann Boote wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I just downloaded version 2.1 of Open Office. When I downloaded it, I thought I was obtaining the entire suite of Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, Math and Macro recorder. All I seem to have ended

Re: [users] hungarian accentuated letters in filenames

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 22:55, + Gábor Szepes wrote: Dear Support! I was happy to download the hungarian version of openoffice.org 2.1. But a bug has shown up: Calc file's name: tűzfalak.ods but what I doublecklicked on it it says that there is no tuzfalak.ods. But when I started the Calc

Re: [users] Neo Office

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 16:22, + Sue Ried wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I want to download Open Office onto my Mac Mini. I am not computer savvy so which option do I pick to download Open Office. I will be un-installing Neo Office afterward. If you could reply today I would

Re: [users] Open Office 2.1

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 10:58, + sheila tomkinson wrote: [ MODERATED ] I have OO 1.1.4 installed and have been using it for some time. I would now like to install 2.1 instead on the presumption that it is better. Is it indeed a desirable thing to do and if so, do I

Re: [users] How to copy a template from one sheet to another without changing column widths?

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 10:44, + clive innes wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am using version 2 of open office.org. My problem is: I have made up a template in open office. org calc which I want to copy to at least 30 other sheets without the column widths changing

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

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 19 January 2007 04:05, + Dwijono Priatmada wrote: [ MODERATED ] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : I can not find toolbar or function to draw table in openoffice impress instead of sheet. Use table function is more convenience and more

Re: [users] registering product

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Saturday 20 January 2007 00:29, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using windows XP I dont have a officeorg/users/ template directory. I put them into the preset/template directory I have a bunch of files and templates in a directory that was installed with the program in the

Re: [users] Running 2.0.4 Can't get Scenarios--Samples opens nothing

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
We need more information before we can help you. Where do you find Scenarios ? What operating system are you using ? Have you tried upgrading to 2.1 to see if the problem still exists ? Please reply to users@openoffice.org only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been

Re: [users] CR LF

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Dpto. Informática wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi friends. I have a problem I'm wising you could help me to solve. I need to save a word file as a MSDOS Text file with line jump (when finishing the lines passing to the next line and making

Re: [users] Calc and ExcelML

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:34, Peter Flynn wrote: Someone is sending me Excel spreadsheets saved in Microsoft's XML (because I am going to reprocess them). However, it would occasionally be useful to be able to view them in spreadsheet form, and I don't have any Windows machines (or even

Re: [users] Calc is crashing while loading XML-file

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:28, Jan Herold wrote: Hello, I want to import XML-data from a file. Therefore I've created a XML-importfilter. [SNIP] The progress bar at the lower border of the Calc window stops at 50 percent without importing anything. To close Calc I have to use the

Re: [users] screwed up formatting

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:24, + Hank Arendt wrote: [ MODERATED ] SOFTWARE: I am using OpenOffice 2.0, newly acquired last Thursday. FILE: I am working on a HUGE (about 23,000 rows by 12 columns) Excel spreadsheet originally started years ago in Windows Office 95 and

Re: [users] Spellcheck shows errors on words that are in dictionary

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:18, Tony wrote: Using Impress, I find that ordinary words are sometimes shown with a wiggly underline as if they have spelling errors. This can be cured by making a change to the word (for example, deleting the space between that word and the next one) and then

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:18, + Veronica Demtchouk wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I am using open office v2.1 my problem is: it freezes every single time i open and try to recover my recent files. it freezes before i can do anything. i cant even scroll down or save as...

Re: [users] Use with Word/Excel

2007-01-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:52 AM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not downloaded your product yet, but am looking into it. I currently do NOT have any Microsoft programs on my computer. The company I work for sends everything out in and needs to receive

Re: [users] Question

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 05:52, + Tony Pilling wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hi I have a problem. I can't seem to find it in your help section. How do I combine two odg. files (pages) into one file? Thanx. Tony Did you try Insert - File ? Please reply to users@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Help with installing enw fonts.

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 06:48, + Jay Bauman wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi All, I'm using OO 2.0.4. I'm trying to add some new fonts. I've followed the help directions in OO. But for one thing, I can't find the spadmin file/directory/program or whatever it is. I

Re: [users] Computer Crash

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:40, + mick.aldo wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi, I am using open office version 2.0.4. on Windows98FE. When I try to save a document in Microsoft format the whole computer crashes and will not respond to even the ctl-alt-del keys and has to

Re: [users] Error message

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 21 December 2006 15:35, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I have downloaded the Mac OpenOffice program to read Word on my lap top-Intel system. When I try to open documents, I get Error Number 10660. Can you explain and help?? As you are not

Re: [users] Im Using Openoffice.ord 2.0 - Mailing Labels

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 22 December 2006 13:00, + Jessica Edwards wrote: I can produce mailing labels, i've read the how to by Peter on the site but it's not helping me. Please help. Hi Jess, Please explain what the exact problem or error messages are, and which steps were successful and which were not.

Re: [users] Text to column

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 24 December 2006 14:23, + ad van-elsacker wrote: Dear all I am already searching for quite some time for the OO equivalent of the Excel Data option Text to column which allows separation of text data in several columns, by specifying either a fixed width or alternatively a

Re: [users] Importing MS Access Data

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:10, + Karl Krelove wrote: I've seen lots of traffic about connecting to Access data files with OpenOffice Base. I don't necessarily want to connect to an .MDB, but I would like to import a large amount of data from an Access db into OO-Base and then use the data

Re: [users] info about calc

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 14:03, + leonarda matteucci di s. ginesio wrote: HAS CALC IN OPEN OFFICE LAST RELEASE (2?) , BETWEEN ITS TOOLS AND FUNCTIONS, THE TOOL EQUIVALENT, CORRESPONDING TO 'DOWNLOAD EXTERNAL DATA' OR 'QUERY WEB' THAT EXISTS IN MICROSOFT EXCEL? I MEAN THAT TOOL-FUNCTION THAT

Re: [users] OO Video tutorial creation

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:03, + CTVN wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello, [SNIP] We have a question regarding the next tutorial on page styles. For the first page (title, name of the writer, supervisor) we want to align the content in the middle of the page. The only

Re: [users] NSIS ERROR

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 00:31, + toakes13 wrote: [ MODERATED ] downloaded 2.1 tried to run it but got a NSIS ERROR saying it was incomplete, corrupted download virus. the download completed. the EXE is on the desktop but that's as far as it went, You can verify

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org 2.0 download

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:26, + Luis Alfonso IGLESIAS wrote: I tried twice to download OpenOffice.org 2.0, but when I get to the end, and apparently remains 1 second, the download doesn't complete and keeps on and on. I waited 10 minutes but it didn't stop so I pushed the Enter button

Re: [users] I am using Open Office v 2.0.4

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 14:57, + Themisive wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I was using MS Office XP, so most of the files are in the old MS format. That being said, I would like to be able to configure Open Office to associate with the similar files. Thus we see: *

Re: [users] PROBLEM WITH PAGE BREAKS

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 04 January 2007 05:50, + JAMIE DEVLIN wrote: i downloaded open office.org 2.0. i'm using the spreadsheets, and having problems using page breaks. i have one file open with 5 sheets in it. only the second sheet allows me to do page breaks, none of the other 4 sheets. also, when

Re: [users] what is this supposed to do and why is mouse disabled?

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:23, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded this program and set it to read excel powerpoint and was it word docs(?) thinking it would give access to office type facilties - it was the only link from Internet Buyer Direct who advertised their product as

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 04 January 2007 19:22, + William Marcovitch wrote: Does 2.1 have a dictation engine: No. is it compatible with Dragonspeak: I think that it should be, but you will have to ask DragonSpeak about their product. is there anything like MS Onenote in the suite? Not yet.

Re: [users] new user problems

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:06, + Herbert Rudolph wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** How do I open my Microsoft WORKS wordprocesser files? I see nothing in the filter that deals with .wps files. Everything that I tried with Microsoft in it still came up with input error Which

Re: [users] [moderated] Spell checking in OpenOffice will it work on my system?

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:50, + simon mannering wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I have been looking for a Word processing program similar to MS word, but having tried a few I find that the spell check will not operate in English on my PC. I believe this is because my OS is

Re: [users] documents do not automatically open with Open Office

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Monday 01 January 2007 12:25, + Ron Martin wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi, If I have sent this incorrectly I apologise, please point me in the right direction. I'm using v2.0.2. For some reason, any /*new*/ documents I write and databases etc do not open by default in

Re: [users] keyboard

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:02, + Barbara Malpass Edwards wrote: [ MODERATED ] My keyboard has decided to re-design itself. The 'at' symbol for web addresses/emails has migrated to the upper case of quotation marks, the tilde has been replaced by a ' ¬', I hae a UK

Re: [users] Openoffice.org writer

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 05 January 2007 14:35, + Stephen Addison wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi there, i am using version openoffice,org writer of openoffice.org. My problem is that when i try and print it comes back saying its the wrong paper size when ive altered it to the right size

Re: [users] Can't successfully download OpenOffice 2.0

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:44, + R Peters wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello, I've tried twice to download OpenOffice 2.0 from your website. Both times, the server resets and the download terminated, at 45 percent complete. (Both times at 45 percent completed

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.1 problem : help me please

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hi, When i start Openoffice2.1 , no display appears . I ‘ve tried by pressing “openoffice.org-2.1” in a terminal or by the menu “openoffice.org-2.1 Writer” Icon ; the processes starts :

Re: [users] Vista

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 12 January 2007 09:58, + Thierry wrote: [ MODERATED ] can i download and install for windows vista . Yes. Please reply to users@openoffice.org only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already?

Re: [users] Unable to install OO 2.1

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Friday 12 January 2007 20:32, + Ben Chastain wrote: [ MODERATED ] Using Windows XP, had version 2.0 installed. Downloaded 2.1 and tried to install. Received error 1714. Uninstalled 2.0, same error. Went through registry and removed all listings with Openoffice,

Re: [users] Fichiers avec extension Drw

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 14 January 2007 08:49, + Pierre BECOURT wrote: [ MODERATED ] Bonjour J'ai sauvegardé il y a quelques années des fichiers de dessin portant l'extension DRW. Or le logiciel que j'avais acquis(windows draw) ne fonctionne plus avec windows XP.J'utilise à présent la

Re: [users] Version francaise

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:36, + AGC Jenkins wrote: [ MODERATED ] Bonjour, Comment je peux trouver une version francaise? Je suis base en Angleterre pour l'immediat. This list is generally an English only mailing list. If you would like to communicate in your own

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 14 January 2007 16:34, + Kjell Persson wrote: [ MODERATED ] Hallo, Is it possible to get all in the Swedish language As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sunday 14 January 2007 17:20, Marc Hug wrote: See

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

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:57:02 + susan wrote: I am not sure who I am meant to send my email to, I just want to check with you the following: I was offered an offer for free software disks on line from think all publishing, then when it arrived they no longer were free. I just sore on line a

Re: [users] Use with Word/Excel

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:52:16 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not downloaded your product yet, but am looking into it. I currently do NOT have any Microsoft programs on my computer. The assumption can therefore be made that you have a Mac or are running Linux. The company I work

Re: [users] OO Video tutorial creation

2007-01-21 Thread CTVN
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:59:02 +0100, CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:03, + CTVN wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello, [SNIP] We have a question regarding the next tutorial on page styles. For the first page (title, name of the writer,

Re: [users] More colors in color picker - how?

2007-01-21 Thread KAMI
Hi Jonathon! I have downloaded 13th edition of you palettes. What is the difference between 12th and 13th? I sent you corrected standard.soc file. Did you find useful? I think the general OOo colors should be on the top of the list. We should extend colors of Writer and Calc. Also we might

[users] Re: Line numbering in sections

2007-01-21 Thread Oliver Hader
robert wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 09:19, Oliver Hader wrote: Hi! The Situation: If have regular text sections describing some kind of software. In some cases it is necessary to provide some lines of source-code (such as Java or PHP). Sometimes it is also required to reference from

Re: [users] Re: Line numbering in sections

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
In the Bullet/Numbering toolbar (or context menu), there is an option to restart the numbering. Le 21.01.2007 14:10, Oliver Hader a écrit : robert wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 09:19, Oliver Hader wrote: Hi! The Situation: If have regular text sections describing some kind of

Re: [users] Use with Word/Excel

2007-01-21 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not downloaded your product yet, but am looking into it. I currently do NOT have any Microsoft programs on my computer. The company I work for sends everything out in and needs to receive information in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Will

Re: [users] Re: Line numbering in sections

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But one thing is left I couldn't handle yet. The first section showing some source code is correctly numbered from e.g. 1 to 30, then some lines of regular text follow and afterwards there is another block with source code. But this one continues numbering from 31

Re: [users] free

2007-01-21 Thread James Knott
John W. Kennedy wrote: John Meyer wrote: Christina Godinez wrote: My opinion is you only use MSO if you feel like donating to Mr. Bill Gates who need a little bit more of money for his charitable cause... Even though his causes are worthy, Not all of them. He donates $1,000,000 a year to

Re: [users] [moderated]Formatting fields on Base design form

2007-01-21 Thread WalterAM
Janet Barnes wrote: I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem deals with Forms design in Base. I created a table and then a form related to it. I then added new fields to the table and want them to appear on the corresponding form I created. I went into design mode on the form and

Re: [users] Re: Frame Bug? and question

2007-01-21 Thread James Knott
Stephanie Boulee wrote: Stephanie Boulee wrote: I have a problem: when I insert a frame and happen to click on the tab Macro a dialog box pops up telling me that I need to install Java. I cannot get rid of this dialog box and OpenOffice completely freezes at this point and I have to

Re: [users] demande d'information

2007-01-21 Thread Theodora BORISSOVA
My problem is soleved, thank you very much! Message du 21/01/07 12:25 De : CPHennessy A : users@openoffice.org, Theodora BORISSOVA Copie à : Objet : Re: [users] demande d'information On Friday 12 January 2007 00:47, + Theodora BORISSOVA wrote: [ MODERATED ]

[users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread R. Greiss
Hi, I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know how. Can you please help Reiner

Re: [users] Computer Crash

2007-01-21 Thread mick.aldo
Hi, I have 128MB of RAM some 2-3 GB on the hard drive. No I have not yet tried openoffice.org 2.1. Do you recommend I try this bearing in mind I have windows 98FE. Regards Mike - Original Message - From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org; mick.aldo [EMAIL

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread Veronica Demtchouk
This happens only in OpenOffice 2.0. When I reopen the program, the recovery box comes up, i press recover, and everything recovers. then the document automatically freezes. i've tried not recovering the file and just opeining it, and it does the same thing.

[users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread WalterAM
I was off this list for a couple months and my email automagically cleaned out my old emails (I had a compact setting set that I'd forgotten about). I used to have one that explained which header on an email address made it clear that someone was not subscribed. Could someone let me know what

Re: [users] problems opening / viewing /editing ODP genealogy files

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
If these files are not private, can you send their address ? Le 21.01.2007 13:47, Willem Ponsen a écrit : While looking for genealogical data in the Netherlands I came across several in ODP format which I duly downloaded and could not open. So I downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 with the sole hope

[users] Re: Line numbering in sections

2007-01-21 Thread Oliver Hader
Richard Detwiler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But one thing is left I couldn't handle yet. The first section showing some source code is correctly numbered from e.g. 1 to 30, then some lines of regular text follow and afterwards there is another block with source code. But this one

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
R. Greiss wrote: Hi, I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know how. Can you please help Reiner Put it on a disk and throw it in a safe (preferably one welded to the floor). HTH - To

[users] Hindi and Arabic numerals

2007-01-21 Thread Abu_Adam Al-Naruujiy
Hi All, I write a lot of documents with both Arabic and English. Arabic script uses Hindi numerals, and English uses Arabic. In OpenOffice I haven't found a way to use both Hindi and Arabic numerals in one document. In Word this is automated according to the context. Is there a way to do this in

Re: [users] UNINSTALL for MAC 10.4.8

2007-01-21 Thread Rodney Myers
On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:25 PM, simon colvey wrote: Hi There, All I want to do is UNINSTALL the OpenOffice 2.1 suite. I CANNOT find any information that is clear and concise about this procedure. I have now trawled your website, forums etc for nearly 1.5 hours. I think such information

[users] Query: OpenOffice Database Component - Importing from MSAccess

2007-01-21 Thread GJim
Hello, On the recommendation of a friend, I down-loaded and installed the OpenOffice Suite, so I'm a complete newbie to OO. I used the Database Component to open an existing MSAccess db (Access 2000). The process brought in the tables and queries, but none of the forms. I really don't want to

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
More to the point, why are these posts even allowed. Are we supposed to take time out and send them a personal e-mail, as opposed to just hitting the reply key? WalterAM wrote: Obviously, most of the time [moderated] in the subject is a good clue ;)

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:25, WalterAM wrote: I was off this list for a couple months and my email automagically cleaned out my old emails (I had a compact setting set that I'd forgotten about). I used to have one that explained which header on an email address made it clear that someone

Re: [users] problems opening / viewing /editing ODP genealogy files

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Willem Ponsen wrote: While looking for genealogical data in the Netherlands I came across several in ODP format which I duly downloaded and could not open. So I downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 with the sole hope of being able to view and / or extract the data to Excel or Word. Not a chance!

Re: [users] Secure a Document

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Conner
To add password to a document already created, save it again click FILE - SAVE AS then when the window appears check the SAVE WITH PASSWORD at the bottom. I also recommend checking the AUTOMATIC FILE NAME EXTENSION box. It can save grief later. It is very important that you remember the

[users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
I was wondering if there is a program that would allow me to type on top of a PDF and print that out? I've tried OpenOffice and Scribus, and neither seem to work with this particular PDF. Any suggestions? - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread James Knott
John Meyer wrote: I was wondering if there is a program that would allow me to type on top of a PDF and print that out? I've tried OpenOffice and Scribus, and neither seem to work with this particular PDF. Any suggestions? What I did, was to use the PDF as the background and then create

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Thanks, I'll try that if flpsed doesn't work. James Knott wrote: What I did, was to use the PDF as the background and then create the form over top of it. To do this, you have to convert the PDF to some image file that OO can use as a background. I used jpg. This is easy enough to do in

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
OOo is not designed to edit PDF. You can try Foxit Reader, it can add notes to a pdf. Don't remember if you can print them in the free version. Le 21.01.2007 17:15, John Meyer a écrit : I was wondering if there is a program that would allow me to type on top of a PDF and print that out? I've

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Under Windows, you can use PDFCreator to export as an image (do it for each page). Le 21.01.2007 17:24, James Knott a écrit : John Meyer wrote: I was wondering if there is a program that would allow me to type on top of a PDF and print that out? I've tried OpenOffice and Scribus, and

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Hagar de l'Est wrote: OOo is not designed to edit PDF. You can try Foxit Reader, it can add notes to a pdf. Don't remember if you can print them in the free version. flpsed worked like a charm. Free program to boot. - To

Re: [users] problems opening / viewing /editing ODP genealogy files

2007-01-21 Thread Ron Ferguson
John Meyer wrote: Willem Ponsen wrote: While looking for genealogical data in the Netherlands I came across several in ODP format which I duly downloaded and could not open. So I downloaded OpenOffice 2.1 with the sole hope of being able to view and / or extract the data to Excel or Word. Not

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:54 PM [GMT+1=CET], Andy Pepperdine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:25, WalterAM wrote: I was off this list for a couple months and my email automagically cleaned out my old emails (I had a compact setting set that I'd forgotten about). I

[users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread PIERRE GOUGEON
hello i a using your software and i have a question: i would like to replace automaticly a ; by a tab and i can not do it. Can you help me? Best regards - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[users] OpenOffice.org Calc 2.1 freeze when autofiltering a big old spreadsheet!

2007-01-21 Thread Johnny Andersson
Hi! I have a spreadsheet file which I don't use anymore, but just to be curious I tried to open it with OpenOffice.org Calc 2.1. It was created with OpenOffice.org Calc 1.1 and it is approximately 2200 rows and maybe 20 columns or so (plus there is a few more spreadsheets in the same file, not

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
PIERRE GOUGEON wrote: hello i a using your software and i have a question: i would like to replace automaticly a ; by a tab and i can not do it. Can you help me? Best regards Find and Replace. Search For: ; Replace with \t HTH

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-01-21 Thread Johnny Andersson
Don't forget to click More options and then check the Regular expressions checkbox. Johnny Andersson 2007/1/21, John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PIERRE GOUGEON wrote: hello i a using your software and i have a question: i would like to replace automaticly a ; by a tab and i can not do it.

[users] Microsoft Office 2007

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Nice to see that they've finally caught up with Thunderbird and can aggregate RSS feeds in outlook: http://news.com.com/Office+2007+From+bloated+to+sleek+-+page+2/2100-1012_3-6151153-2.html?tag=st.num I remember demo-ing this thing and the whole ribbons thing was convoluted and a pain in the

Re: [users] Lotus WordPro docs

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Smits
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 23:38, Mathias Bauer wrote: Howard Coles Jr. wrote: I see a filter in my OpenOffice.org writer that shows that I can open WordPro Docs (from Lotus Smartsuite). However, when I open a doc it just comes up a blank page. I'm running 2.0.4 (because Kubuntu

Re: [users] Query: OpenOffice Database Component - Importing from MSAccess

2007-01-21 Thread Arnold Huzen
Because the language for reports in OOo is different from Acces, they can not be converted. Unfortunately this means you have to redesign them. Arnold Huzen Op Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:32:19 +0100 schreef GJim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, On the recommendation of a friend, I down-loaded and

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread Larry Gusaas
John Meyer wrote: More to the point, why are these posts even allowed. Are we supposed to take time out and send them a personal e-mail, as opposed to just hitting the reply key? WalterAM wrote: Obviously, most of the time [moderated] in the subject is a good clue ; Why do all the

[users] Turning off bullets and numbering

2007-01-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
I hate automatic features. I just updated OOo 2.02 on my Ubuntu computer to 2.04. Now I can't type a number at the start of a paragraph without automatic numbering coming on. I have to turn it off for every paragraph. Then I hit enter to start a new paragraph and the damn automatic numbering comes

Re: [users] Turning off bullets and numbering

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Menu ToolsAutoCorrect, 'Options' tab, uncheck 'Apply numbering - symbol *'. Le 21.01.2007 20:56, John Jason Jordan a écrit : I hate automatic features. I just updated OOo 2.02 on my Ubuntu computer to 2.04. Now I can't type a number at the start of a paragraph without automatic numbering

Re: [users] UNINSTALL for MAC 10.4.8

2007-01-21 Thread James Mckenzie
Simon: Hello back. 1. No we will not include instructions on how to remove OpenOffice.org as it is removed like every other Mac program. Drag the program to the trash, empty. Find the Application Support directory, drag it to the trash empty. That is the entire process. We don't cover it

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread Christina Godinez
anybody familiar with SCRIBUS? I tried to open a pdf file and i get an error message, like wrong format or unrecognized format... John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try that if flpsed doesn't work. James Knott wrote: What I did, was to use the PDF as the background and then

Re: [users] PDF files

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Christina Godinez wrote: anybody familiar with SCRIBUS? I tried to open a pdf file and i get an error message, like wrong format or unrecognized format... Tried scribus. I can print to them but apparantly it can't open them for editing. flpsed is the way to go on this one.

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:25, + WalterAM wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** I was off this list for a couple months and my email automagically cleaned out my old emails (I had a compact setting set that I'd forgotten about). I used to have one that explained which header on an

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread Hagar de l'Est
Ah many thanks ! As newcomer in this mailing list, I was not aware about that ! It explains why questions never get any feedback after answering ! Is it possible to have this information sent with the mail activation ? Or just forbidding messages for addresses that are not registered ? Hagar.

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread Arnold Huzen
Larry, I'm so glad finally somebody asking the same question I'm struggeling with. I at one point asked CP Hennessy this question in an email that was addressed to him directly, but sadly never got an answer. I can understand that if you answer a question and forget to CC the OP that you

Re: [users] Microsoft Office 2007

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:22:24 -0700 John Meyer wrote: Nice to see that they've finally caught up with Thunderbird and can aggregate RSS feeds in outlook: Outlook 2007 is probably the worst part of the new Office. It's HTML Email reader/composer uses the Word engine. How sick is that?

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread jimw wagner
The biggest problem, as has been pointed out, is that a very large number of people are totally unfamiliar with mailing lists, indeed, with much about their computer besides the programs they commonly use. Simply deleting any message that has been delivered to the moderator won't really teach

Re: [users] As you are not subscribed...

2007-01-21 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 21 January 2007 21:28, Hagar de l'Est wrote: Ah many thanks ! As newcomer in this mailing list, I was not aware about that ! It explains why questions never get any feedback after answering ! Is it possible to have this information sent with the mail activation ? I wish. It is an

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