[users] Re: Open Office save as

2011-03-31 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 31.03.2011 00:30, Karen wrote: When I write a text document in Open Office 3.2 edition and want to send it to others that dont use Open Office, what do I save as? When I save as-- ODFText doc odt file, others are unable to open the file. So, if I want to send a text file as attachment,

[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

2011-03-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 01.03.2011 09:42, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 27.02.2011 21:38, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Uwe Fischeruwe.fisc...@oracle.com wrote: Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-) First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all text in the current table, next

[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

2011-03-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 27.02.2011 21:38, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Uwe Fischeruwe.fisc...@oracle.com wrote: Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-) First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all text in the current table, next selects all tables and normal text. I did

[users] Re: table styles in impress

2011-03-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 25.02.2011 17:20, Daniele Palumbo wrote: Hi, anyone knows how to make a new table style in Impress, or to modify an existing one? Thanks! d. Hi, unfortunately there is no easy way to do this. You might be able to copy and paste Calc table areas, however. But that's just a workaround.

[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

2011-02-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 25.02.2011 08:26, Dotan Cohen wrote: How does one select all the text in an OOo document? Edit - Select All only selects the current table or table cell. Thanks. Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-) First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all text in the current

[users] Re: Remove border from specific Writer table cells' boundary

2011-02-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 25.02.2011 10:27, Dotan Cohen wrote: How does one remove the border for between two cells in a Writer table? In this application Merge is _not_ appropriate, however the border should not be seen. Thanks. Select both cells, then still holding down the mouse key move back to have only one

Re: [users] Disable the auto opening of dialog boxes for tables and bullets in open office write.

2011-02-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
/now_you_see_it_now Hope that helps Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603

Re: [users] How can I see members.

2011-02-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
/ Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V

Re: [users] question regarding default line space of CJK fonts

2011-01-17 Thread Uwe Fischer
Qianqian //James Hi, I never used Asian fonts, but did you enable the support for Asian fonts in OpenOffice.org? (Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages) Then you find a tab page Text Grid when you go to Format - Page. May be this is of some help. Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical

Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

2011-01-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
, copy it over to where the production version Help was. The folder name must be Help. That's all. Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München

Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

2011-01-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 01/12/11 00:00, JOE Conner wrote: On 1/11/2011 1:38 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 01/11/11 05:29, JOE Conner wrote: What an interesting life I live. I decided to create a master document for the first time, and that was a total exercise in frustration. So, I began with the help file

Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

2011-01-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
apologize for the incomplete Help page. A last minute technical problem unexpectedly removed all lists that are nested inside other lists. We did not detect this problem in time. The Help page for OO.o 3.3 should be complete again. Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE

Re: [users] Calc shows Sort greyed-out

2011-01-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
advise; thanks much.Lee Hello Lee, Calc cannot sort with Edit-Changes-Record enabled. Temporarily disable recording changes, sort, then enable change tracking again (if you need that at all). Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG

Re: [users] Re: PDF Conversion

2010-12-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
in Writer. There is some information about the hybrid PDF format in the OpenOffice.org Help Tips and Tricks blog: http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/openoffice_org_exports_and_imports Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55

Re: [users] how to specify a macro for Graphics load successful?

2010-09-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
macro programming: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10t=31312 HTH Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München

Re: [users] Envelops

2010-09-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
experimentation or code inspection. Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603

Re: [users] [Solved] Re: [users] change scroll behavior

2010-09-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Thomas, the OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog has a tip how to scroll by one page down or up. http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/navigation_in_writer May be this is helpful Uwe -- Uwe Fischer | Technical Writer Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55

Re: [users] Multiple sheets in Writer

2010-06-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 06/11/10 03:42, RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: Instead of focusing on parallels to Calc, let's think instead about this: * You have a family of text documents, all related to the same overall function. * The documents are fully independent of each other for such things

Re: [users] MONTH type

2010-06-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 06/11/10 14:25, Vic Dura wrote: Hello, According the OOo 3.2.0 (WinXP) Help: = MONTHS Calculates the difference in months between two dates. Syntax MONTHS(StartDate; EndDate; Type) StartDate is the first date EndDate is the second date Type calculates the type of difference.

Re: [users] Re: Improvements on OpenOffice Smart Tags

2010-03-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 03/30/10 14:14, J. David Boyd wrote: Akila Wajirasena akila.wajirasena _at _ gmail.com writes: Hello, I am doing a research on how the smart tag capability of OpenOffice can be improved by adding new smart tag extensions. If you have suggestions about new smart tags please put them here.

Re: [users] don't want 'notes'

2010-02-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 02/24/10 16:24, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: can I set OO NOT to open notes in my documents? I have looked in all the settings can't find anythingthis started with OO3.1.1 just uncheck View Comments. Uwe -- uwe.fisc...@sun.com - Technical Writer Hamburg, Germany

Re: [users] Auto correct

2009-12-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/17/09 17:09, Ian Davies wrote: How do I get rid of the annoying flag that keep coming up when auto correct does its stuff? It is driving me mad. Ian Hi, if you mean the Help Agent, then look into the Help (press F1) and enter Help Agent on the Index tab page. You either disable the

Re: [users] To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

2009-12-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/14/09 11:27, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/12/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-* or Alt-*? As far as I know, in *Windows* an underlined letter in a menu

Re: [users] Help - I can NOT get OpenOffice to start normally.

2009-12-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/10/09 22:38, Harold Hauge wrote: I have created a macro that calls a dialog that is started by the OpenOffice Start Application event. I have somehow created a loop that causes the dialog to continue to reopen after it is closed. I must use task manager to delete the process so I cannot

Re: [users] Toolbar functions different from menu functions [Was: How to make the automatic toolbars stop?]

2009-11-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/23/09 18:06, John Kaufmann wrote: Hi Uwe, My OO education owes much to you seeing the crux of my questions. However, in this case I think you missed my concern: In a message dated 2009.11.23 10:12 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote: ... functions in the Table toolbar are different from

Re: [users] Re: How to make the automatic toolbars stop?

2009-11-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/21/09 23:00, Barbara Duprey wrote: Andreas Saeger wrote: John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.11.21 08:04 -0500, Andreas Saeger wrote: When the context sensitive toolbar is visible turn it off using menu:ViewToolbars Thanks, Andreas, but then it just comes back next time.

Re: [users] Re: How to make the automatic toolbars stop?

2009-11-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/23/09 15:18, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.11.23 03:53 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote: When the context sensitive toolbar is visible turn it off using menu:ViewToolbars This is also the topic of a blog entry in the OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog: http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [users] Does OO Help's Find support an exact string search?

2009-11-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/19/09 17:32, John Kaufmann wrote: Seeking info on the automatic use of Writer's character style Internet Link, I went to OO's Help and did a Find on Internet Link - without the quotation marks, it should be noted, because Help's Find does not support the convention of quotation marks to

Re: [users] Open Office Help

2009-11-16 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/13/09 15:03, Gerard G wrote: Would you recomend me some usefull help for Open Office. I would like to find some EXAMPLE concerning : 1.) simple form to set parameters, 2.) generating a query with parameters from form, 3.) executing a query, ( generating or updating a table ) 4.) making a

Re: [users] Syntax of an IF

2009-11-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/12/09 00:15, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: I am trying to learn the syntax of the IF formula.so I can modify the formula into a new, modified formula. ... try entering or copying that formula to a Calc cell. Remember that formulas must start with a = character. Then click the Function

Re: [users] How OO documentation is organized

2009-11-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi John, On 11/04/09 06:17, John Kaufmann wrote: ... But for systematic documentation under the auspices of openoffice.org, there seem to be two repositories which, frankly, I can't tell apart: wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/ documentation.openoffice.org/ *both* of

Re: [users] Are there version control tools for openoffice?

2009-10-28 Thread Uwe Fischer
drew einhorn wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Andy a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: drew einhorn wrote: Something like RCS, CVS, ... Drew, No sure what your looking for here. OpenOffice.org has some document version tracking built-in. When working on the users guides we use OOo's

Re: [users] Combine files.?

2009-10-22 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/22/09 00:40, James Elliott wrote: I downloaded the Combine Files macro, but when I run it and click on the Install button nothing happens. I have prepared several pages of a newsletter. Each page is saved as a Draw file: Page1.odg Page2.odg ... ... Page6.odg I want to combine these

Re: [users] How to install Swedish Thesaurus

2009-10-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/15/09 10:38, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/10/15 M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com 2009/10/15 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com ... Forwarding to unsubscribed OP. Thanks, Harold ; I seem to always miss the vital issue of whether or no an OP is subscribed to the list !... Henri

Re: [users] How Do I Make My Header Not Appear on Page 1?

2009-10-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/15/09 12:06, Jay Gilchrist wrote: Please help. I want a header to appear on page 2 and thereafter, but NOT on page 1. How do I do this? Thank you, John Gilchrist Hi, may be this helps:

Re: [users] How to install Swedish Thesaurus

2009-10-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/15/09 16:24, M Henri Day wrote: 2009/10/15 Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org Uwe Fischer wrote: I've written a short guide how to easily see whether a user is subscribed to the mailing list or not. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General

Re: [users] Registration wizard and Windows v Linux

2009-10-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/09/09 13:02, Clayton wrote: Malcolm Moore wrote: OK, We have given it a good kicking and it's fine Many thanks You have to thank the developers who provided the OXT :-) that's true. I've forwarded Malcom's message to the developer, Carsten Driesner. I did not tell you on the list

Re: [users] Localising the user interface

2009-10-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, it is indeed not easy to find any language pack that will change the user interface (UI) language of OpenOffice.org 3. The http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Download_OpenOffice.org_LanguagePacks page only lists language packs for version OOo 2.3.1 unless they just forgot to

Re: [users] Localising the user interface

2009-10-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/07/09 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.10.07 05:20 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote: it is indeed not easy to find any language pack that will change the user interface (UI) language of OpenOffice.org 3. The http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki

Re: [users] Registration wizard and Windows v Linux

2009-10-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, you may want to open Help and enter the index start parameters. The list of start parameters include two or more options to suppress the Welcome Wizard and other messages. Uwe On 10/07/09 15:20, Malcolm Moore wrote: I didn't want the wizard to pop up at all rather than choose one of

Re: [users] Applying different template to OOcalc

2009-09-28 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 09/28/09 10:26, H.S.Rai wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 06:56 28/09/2009 +0530, H.S. Rai wrote: Changing look and feel of OOcalc document seems not there, whereas it is there for OOWriter and OOimpress. How one can apply different

Re: [users] New GUI for OOo ?

2009-09-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 09/04/09 14:23, Lars Nooden wrote: Bernd Eilers wrote: Will the fact that this petition contains advertising for scam sites The petition does need to move to a serious petition site, away from the scam site, in order to be taken seriously. Otherwise, we'll just have to conclude that it is

Re: [users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Harold Fuchs wrote: Do you use professional usability labs? These are organisations that get people in off the street to try to use a piece of software. Typically the people don't have any training. They are observed interviewed to find what comes easily and what doesn't. The results are

Re: [users] Highlighting in Open Office 3.1

2009-08-31 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 08/31/09 13:11, Erling Larsen wrote: Harold Fuchs skrev: 2009/8/31 tales ta...@ic24.net ta...@ic24.net wrote I installed Open Office 3.1 yesterday. I was using 2.4. I use XP. Today I find that I can scarcely see highlighting any more, particularly in Calc. Has my eyesight (or

Re: [users] Hard page break: search and replace

2009-08-19 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 08/18/09 17:44, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, Googled high and low and nothing even close to a solution. Here's the problem. I'm using mail merge to convert data in a spreadsheet into a nice report formatted the way I want. Everything is great except that OOo wants to put a hard page break

Re: [users] Re: Want Full Color Page Without Affecting Text Margins

2009-07-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 07/23/09 22:20, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/07/23 8:57 AM James Greenidge wrote: In Write, is there anyway to have a fully colored background edge to edge without affecting the text margins? For example, if I set the page margins in Page Style Default to 0.00 left and right margins, I can

Re: [users] Paste unformatted text

2009-07-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 07/24/09 09:48, Harold Fuchs wrote: snip Does this mean that OOo 3.2 will include the Alt key in its set of customisable keys? may be. See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4756 which is set to Fixed now. Uwe -- u...@openoffice.org - Technical Writer StarOffice

Re: [users] Help font size

2009-07-22 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Eustace wrote: Is there a way to increase the font size in the Help? In the Navigation pane it's OK (it gets it from the system, where I have set Comic Sans MS as font outside the writing area), but in the pane on the right it's too small for me. please have a look at the

Re: [users] Re: [Solved] Sun Presenter Console Problem with Vista Dual Extended Monitor Setup

2009-07-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 07/14/09 03:00, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 01:18, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 00:38, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: I finally remembered that there is an option to choose which monitor is used for the presentation. ... ... I'm surprised your Sun Console

Re: [users] Unrecoverable Documents OOo 3.1 on Ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 05/18/09 22:31, John Kennedy wrote: Hi All, Every time I start OOo I get a list of 4 files that it tries to recover. These files are no longer on my computer (they were attachments that I did not save). How can stop OOo from trying to recover files that no longer exist? I entered this as

Re: [users] Problem with printing from Open Office Writer File

2009-04-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 04/30/09 13:45, Jean Lear wrote: I have been using Open Office for years now with XP. I updated Open Office to 3.0.1 at the end of Jan 09. In the past couple of weeks I have had a problem with some new files made up in OO Writer when trying to print them. I have a Brother Laser Printer and

Re: [users] How to print in Handout mode

2009-04-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Wade Smart wrote: My son needs to print about 100 slides and I wanted to do it in Handout Mode but I cant seem to print like that. you can find some information about printing handouts in the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks Blog:

Re: [users] Standalone Help Files

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 03/26/09 23:50, Ugly Me wrote: How do you view help files outside of OOo? As with a few other open source programs I have used, it uses some bizarre help format that is totally incompatible with the standard .hlp/.cnt/.fts and .chm/.chw files that are easily viewed from the desktop or

Re: [users] Complex text layout - General Options - Numeral

2009-03-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hany Motawea wrote: Dear Sir: How can I change the numeral option to (context) in the complex text layout general options? I only have three option (Arabic or Hindi or System) Is there a module or plugin to be added to your program to make it write numbers in (context) option? Even when I

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 Writer Indexing

2009-03-18 Thread Uwe Fischer
Brian Barker wrote: At 18:43 14/03/2009 -0700, DeWayne McCarty wrote: I am creating an Alphabetic name index for a large book (700+pages). When the index is generated, there is an occasional page number with a p following it. I have not been able to find an explanation to what it means. Can

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
John W Kennedy wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called Duden, the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for American Hoechst and its successors for 29 years, and I was always

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 02/03/09 15:27, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the way in which Openoffice sorts items in alphabetical order. Openoffice applies the “word-by-word” variant of alphabetical order, whereby spaces and certain punctuation marks are sorted before letters

Re: [users] using OOo for newsletter - articles spanning parts of several pages.

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
Web Kracked wrote: Any one know, off hand, where the documentation is for creating newsletter pages is? I have been using Page Maker for a while and want to do the work with OOo. The trouble is the dividing articles up to flow over several pages automatically during the editing process.

Re: [users] Disabling number to date conversion

2009-01-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 01/09/09 11:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: In OOo 2.4 I managed to disable automatic number to date conversion. I cannot for the life of me find out how in OOo 3.0, and from searching the web it seems that this cannot be done?!? I do _not_ want to create a default template. I want to configure

Re: [users] Disabling number to date conversion

2009-01-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 01/09/09 13:04, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/9 Uwe Fischer uwe.fisc...@sun.com: please have a look at the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks blog. There are some tips titled Fighting Automatic Replacements in Calc. http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/fighting_automatic_replacements_in_calc Thank

Re: [users] Re: Draw: perfectly straight line

2009-01-06 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 12/23/08 02:14, NoOp wrote: NoOp wrote: I just tested with WinXP MSO 2002 and OOo 3.0 and I see what your friend is talking about. On MSO, a diagonal line will appear jagged (stairstep effect) in the draw box until the mouse is released. As soon as the mouse is released the line appears

Re: [users] Impress in Vista

2008-12-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/12/08 14:10, Joe Grech wrote: In fact yes. I sent a friend of mine a PP att and he told me that he cannot open them under Vista, he needs a new MS Office. I recommended him Open Office which he download and liked it very much. But when he tried to open PP it started OK but after a

Re: [users] Hello!

2008-12-09 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 12/08/08 21:11, Nikolai Kunitsõn wrote: Hello! I have a problem with opfenoffice.org and I hope I get an answer. I wrote one text in Openoffice.org in russian, I saved it, but when I opened it again in a few days half of the text were in some weird symbols. Like this: 5 мая было создано

Re: [users] Re: Section Header frustration

2008-12-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jerry Clancy wrote: Jerry Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Had this trick been documented anywhere in the Section or Header help sections it would have saved me countless hours of frustration. Instead the sections allude only to Inserting or Editing

Re: [users] Can't save .odt with password

2008-12-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
Dennis Tibbetts wrote: Help says just check the 'save with password' box on the 'save as' dialog box. My version 3.0.0 doesn't show a 'save with password'. If you are using Vista, there is a known issue that this checkbox is not available. Use the OOo file dialogs until this gets fixed.

Re: [users] Porque no funciona el Open Office

2008-11-19 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, please have a look at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation/How_do_I_install_OpenOffice.org_on_Windows%3F If you cannot download OOo due to a slow connection, you can order a CD from http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom Uwe

Re: [users] Re: turn off formatting popup

2008-11-17 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times: [snip] I trust this helps. Brian Barker Ironic... Brian's post came through (popped up) 7 times; ... For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't actually write

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/13/08 13:29, Graham Smith wrote: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)] 3m x 3m sounds interesting :-) You can see a Draw

Re: [users] Install directories - 3.0

2008-11-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/08/08 15:53, Saleem EDAH-TALLY wrote: Hello, Versions prior to OOO 3.0 had standard OS-independant installation directories. This has much changed since 3.0 : On Win, it seems to be constantly installed in \\program files\openoffice.org 3.0\ On Linux, it's installed in

Re: [users] Base and remote mysql timeouts

2008-11-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/07/08 18:13, Keith Clark wrote: My remote mysql server is set to disconnect every 10 minutes of inactivity and I was wondering if there is a way to have Base communicate every say 5 minutes with the remote server in order to keep it active? Hi, you may try to choose Tools Options OOo

Re: [users] Place text inside frame

2008-11-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/01/08 06:57, John Jason Jordan wrote: This is so stupid. I have created a frame. I see a paragraph mark inside the frame (hidden characters is turned on). But for the life of me I cannot get the cursor inside the frame so I can type some text into it. I can't find the answer in the

Re: [users] Re: Toolbar question

2008-10-31 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/30/08 19:15, NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2008 06:40 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: ... My problem is *not* that the toolbar is there. My problem is that it does not *stay* there. In other words, I want a static layout. I have documents that are full of tables. I move in and out

Re: [users] Toolbar question

2008-10-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: ... My problem is *not* that the toolbar is there. My problem is that it does not *stay* there. In other words, I want a static layout. I have documents that are full of tables. I move in and out of tables all the ... OK, this is what I did to dock the Table toolbar in

Re: [users] Toolbar question

2008-10-29 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/28/08 23:34, Barbara Duprey wrote: Zoltán Kócsi wrote: I have an ancient OOo and I thought it might be time to update to the 3.0 version. However, I do not want to update to a version where toolbars are popping up and disappearing depending on the context; that's one of the main reasons I

Re: [users] Re: Open Office 3 Crashing and no spell check!

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/15/08 15:22, Richard wrote: This is getting worse, it states: Adding More Text Languages 1.In OpenOffice.org software, you can choose File - Wizards - Install new dictionaries to open a Writer document which helps you to install more languages. This does not f*g exist!!!

Re: [users] OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? very soon there will be a lot of experience:

Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

2008-10-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 10/10/08 17:04, H.S. wrote: Uwe Fischer wrote: Hello, On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn (subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with other people while writing a joint OOo document? very soon

Re: [users] Re: openoffice 3.0 rc2 installation problem from rc1 solved

2008-09-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 09/22/08 23:37, Spiderman wrote: ... O.k. Now I found a new version of the wikipedia article in which I found the information a couple of months ago. Thunderbird will be added later to openoffice of some reasons. Hope it gets at least in openoffice 4.0. I'm quite sure there are

Re: [users] Calc: external document cell reference

2008-09-01 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 08/29/08 15:36, Sorin Schwimmer wrote: I am trying to refer a cell in an external document. I tried the following syntax: ='file:///path/to/doc.ods'#$Sheet1.$E$15 but I end up with #NAME? the installed Help has an index entry about references; to cells in another document According

Re: [users] How to split a writer document?

2008-08-21 Thread Uwe Fischer
Ely Schoenfeld wrote: I've found some people asking about how to join/combine documents, but my case is the opposite. I haven't been able to find any information about this. I have my Thesis work in only one document. The university's library is asking me to give them an electronic version with

Re: [users] Re: OOo 3 page question

2008-08-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 08/15/08 06:35, Russell Butler wrote: jonathon wrote: Will OOo 3.0 have the same 300 mm page size limitation that 2.4 has? Hi Jonathon I just tried formatting a page to User in my version of DEV300 m25 build 9330 (Linux) and it accepted a page 100x100 cm, I didn't try going larger,

Re: [users] Illegaly selling of OpenOffice- Produkts !

2008-08-07 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hallo, Markus Muellges wrote: Hallo, (sorry my english isn?d very well) there are German user groups, too. See de.openoffice.org. on Date: 2008/07/19 I was seaching for Open Office to download the programm. Befor the download begins, they asked for my adress and mail- adress. Today

Re: [users] beta-2 crashes when closing Help window

2008-07-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Guy Voets wrote: I have the beta-2 version (Aqua for Mac) installed on my iMac. It crashes almost every time I close the Help window. I made an issue, but an not sure it's OK like this: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92276 your issue looks formally 100% correct. Thank

Re: [users] OOo equivalent of Block Protect

2008-07-25 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called block protect. You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect and the protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole block would be moved to the following page rather

Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

2008-06-05 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I urgently need to print a chart from and Open Office Calc spreadsheet. I've done it before but don't know how. I've spent a couple of hours trying and have not been helped by the help function. please give some more information. Which version of

Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

2008-06-05 Thread Uwe Fischer
a new Writer or Draw doc amd paste the chart into that doc for printing. Uwe - Original Message - From: Uwe Fischer To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

2008-06-05 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you this. The method you suggested worked fine. I had just, under FormatPage, to deselect grids (not to get a section of grid printed alongside the chart) and to centre it horizontally. On this occasion, it did show what I wanted under Page Preview.

Re: [users] Columns deficiency? [Was: Newspaper style -- brain cramp ??]

2008-05-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Michael Adams wrote: John Kaufmann wrote: I do not think that page styles should be used as layout tools, for that purpose a template is much more appropriate IMHO. Agreed, I think. A page (a physical entity) *does* have certain inherent characteristics (like margins, header/footer,

Re: [users] What's going on ?

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Alberto Muller wrote: Hello all, I've been using this mailing list for 3 or 4 months thinking that its main purpose is to help people joining the OO community to learn how to use Open Office. Instead, I have seen endless rants and

Re: [users] Auto-correct N-dashes

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
May be you still did not read the Help? It clearly states: Text will be replaced after you type a trailing white space (space, tab, or return). Uwe thomas steel wrote: My problem is now this: If I type two hyphens then Enter, an N-dash appears. But if any other text is entered on that line,

Re: [users] mails auf deutsch

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Fischer
Robert Senn wrote: danke für ihre nachricht. Ihre empfohlene seite hab ich studiert herr thomas und ist auf der ersten seite deutsch und dann ist auf der zweiten seite wieder englisch und ist wie sie sagten nichts zu ändern. kann nicht verstehen ein produkt wie open office org in der ganzen

Re: [users] From OpenOffice 2.2 to OpenOffice 2.4 AFTER INSTALLING NOTHING WORKS, NOT the NEW version AND not the OLD version URGENT!!!!!!!!!!

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Koen Pelgrims wrote: Up untill this morning I was a very happy OpenOffice 2.2 user, but after a full day of trying to install the OpenOffice 2.4 on my home computer I am getting frustrated because not only the new version doesn't work but also my older 2.2 version doesn't work any

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

2008-04-21 Thread Uwe Fischer
Dotan Cohen wrote: They _can_ use any email client they want, but they don't know that. All they know is that OOo replaces MSO, and that OOo has no email client. Note that I personally don't want OOo to include an email client, but users don't know that they can get email clients seperatly, or

Re: [users] TOC entries and links

2008-04-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Twayne wrote: Hi, OOo 2.4.0 on XP Pro SP2+: This one is probably my own fault but I haven't done anything knowingly to cause it. I recently switched from 2.3 to 2.4 so I'm not sure whether it ever worked in the 2.4 version I have. Problem: TOC does not include links to the page they

Re: [users] Re: OOXML

2008-04-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 15/04/2008, Ganesha Bhaskara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Ganesha, Do you really mean Import Export a'la PDF; or do you mean Open Save. Open and Save . check out pre-beta version of OO 3.0. I've read stuff that *suggests* that OOo 3.0 will be able to

Re: [users] A question about the links on Open Office

2008-04-15 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Kathy Fronton wrote: Hello, I have a question concerning open office impress 2.0.4, i'd like to know how can i put a link on an icon to say back to the last view. Actually, i want to know if it's possible to put this line of programmation language or computer code (i don't know what is

Re: [users] [moderated]Updated version OOo 2.4.0 Registration *Again*?

2008-04-11 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 10/04/2008 12:43, Serge FOUCHE wrote: Second, why there is no software to coordinate my calendar Lightning (thundrbird) with a PDA or Smartphone OpenOffice.org is not responsible for Thunderbird or Lightning. These are products of the Mozilla Foundation. You'll

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-08 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Scott Meyers wrote: ... and replace it with a different character style. My sense is that the best you can do if you want to modify character style X that's been applied is: 1. Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X. 2. Manually go through your document looking

Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, mike scott wrote: Don't hold the shift key down! If you grab a side, only the width will change; grab top or bottom, only the height will change; grab a corner and change both at once. in addition, it is not necessary to first know whether you need to hold down a key or not, when you

Re: [users] [moderated]email program

2008-03-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
Lorenz Pless wrote: I just downloaded your office but can not find a program like MS outlook? Did I miss it? if you allow a small joke: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so

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