[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-08-02 Thread Randy Fisher
nWS > http://johnsearth.blogspot.com > > -- > *From:* Randy Fisher > *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2009 12:36:50 PM > > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; > possible for Mediawi

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-08-02 Thread john stampe
, 2009 12:36:50 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki? Hi John, Thanks - I am aware of this. As I have been converting docs for the Community Media space, I have found that my old Pentium III computer cannot handle medium-size doc

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-08-02 Thread Randy Fisher
; *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:03:56 PM > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; > possible for Mediawiki? > > Hi John, > > Great idea - OK, I've done so.now, I need your support - and our &g

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-08-02 Thread john stampe
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:03:56 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki? Hi John, Great idea - OK, I've done so.now, I need your support - and our Community's support.

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-30 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi John, Great idea - OK, I've done so.now, I need your support - and our Community's support. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=673817f9f1e15b7e&hl=en Can you post your support under this thread? - Randy On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:01 AM, john stampe wrote:

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-30 Thread john stampe
>Does anyone have ideas about how to go about this - pitching to Google that >it's in their interest to do enable this functionality? I would suggest you post a request on the Google Docs forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs?hl=en Cheers, John http://www.wikieducator.org/Use

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi all, For folk who want to experiment and use Open Office for exporting wiki syntax, WE have a tutorial over here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Editing_using_open_office Its great for helping with tables --- there is much room for improvement in MW's table syntax ;-) Ove

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-28 Thread Gita Mathur
Thanks Randy This is very useful information. Warm regards Gita On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:10 -0700, Randy Fisher wrote: > > Hi Gita, > > Thanks - I know about this...it works sort of OK for text, but when > there's tables and more complex heading structure, it doesn't work. > > What does work

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-28 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Gita, Thanks - I know about this...it works sort of OK for text, but when there's tables and more complex heading structure, it doesn't work. What does work, is a straight export to Mediawiki, and then a copy and paste - Randy On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Gita Mathur wrote: > > Hi

[WikiEducator] Re: Google Docs download feature to Open Office; possible for Mediawiki?

2009-07-28 Thread Gita Mathur
Hi Randy I download Google Docs files to my Ubuntu desktop as .odt, then open the file on my computer, select the contents, select-copy them & the directly paste in Edit mode on my userpage in WikiEducator. It simply works! warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur Associate Professor of Botany Gargi