Re: Change from word to open office

2018-01-21 Thread Glen Kohler
PH— What OS are you using? On the Mac you can define the application that opens a given class of files, such as .doc suffixes. I think Windows has a similar function, somewhere. Regards, Glen On Jan 21, 2018, at 9:01 AM, pat hanford wrote: > I have open office and use it often, almost dai

Re: Change from word to open office

2018-01-21 Thread Glen Kohler
PH— If you have a Mac: Control-click on the file icon Hover the cursor over ‘Open With’ Press Option: ‘Open With’ changes to ‘Always Open With’ Click on an application from the list. ;) Glen On Jan 21, 2018, at 9:01 AM, pat hanford wrote: > I have open office and use it often, almost dai

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Glen Kohler
Paul— You might consider downloading and installing AOO for research. 4.1.5 for Mac does not save in .docx. It does save as MS 2003 in .xml. Regards, Glen On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Paul Heltzel wrote: > Hi-- > > I'm trying to confirm something for a story for Computerworld, on > alterna

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Glen Kohler
Office 2003/xml version means). > > I'm hoping to reach one of the AOO developers. > > Best--Paul > > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Glen Kohler wrote: > >> Paul— >> >> You might consider downloading and installing AOO for res

Re: iPad

2018-01-26 Thread Glen Kohler
Google Docs. On Jan 26, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Ray Johnson wrote: > > Is there a way to work on a doc with both windows and iPad? > Sent from my iPad > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For ad

Re: Question about making Open Office my default

2018-02-02 Thread Glen Kohler
Hi Karen— Here’s what you do: 1. Click on an incon for the file type you want to always open with AOO while simultaneously holding down the Control key. 2. Release the Control key and hover the cursor over ‘Open With’ 3. Hold down the Option key; ‘Open With’ will change to ‘Always Open With’.

Re: transferring information

2018-02-05 Thread Glen Kohler
John— You may be able to save the OO document as a Word file, then open it in Pages. If the notation comes from a special font, check to see if it displays normally in OO. Some system fonts do, and some don’t. Glen On Feb 5, 2018, at 3:39 PM, John Sadusky wrote: > I am trying to figure out h

Re: Major Problem on File Access

2018-02-08 Thread Glen Kohler
From my own experiences and those reported by others I have to suspect that the default file locking is not desirable. It would be very useful if the preferences interface included a way to turn file locking off and on. My own difficulty opening files created on my other computer have made me pu