On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 07:03 -0500, vernon lang wrote: > Some time ago I downloaded your office system 1.9...... > > A) At that time I started receiving massive amounts of your > user-query-type email. Interesting but much too much to go through so > I somehow desubscribed. More recently I found I was not receving > emails from certain other mailing lists I thought I was on. On > finding them in a "junk" file I resubscribed to the ones I wanted, > which uintentionally resulted in being restored also to receving all > your "(re) user": email. How do I reduce its volume?
Un-subscribe from receiving individual messages and subscribe to the digest version. http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html > > B) Recently I noticed that the screen now shows me as being on > openoffice 2.0. I don't remember downloading this. Note also that the > word "beta" is also shown on my screen. What is up? The help screens I > now get from openoffice talk about passwords, etc. I didn't know there > were any passwords. What should I do now? I would suggest uninstalling this release and getting the 2.0final or the latest rc and installing that. > > C) I recently started using calc to table things like Christmass > present lists, etc.( I am an old user of Lotus and Wordperfect who > never adopted the Microsoft line of office programs!) When I went to > alphabetize these tables by using sort (which is easy in Lotus) I was > blocked. Yur instructions say to use the "data" tab followed by "sort" > but sort is greyed out on the droplist menu that comes down from > "data" . Also the small icon for ascending sort does nothing. How am > I supposted to sort these Christmas lists of mine? Explain better. Try highlighting the list and then try sorting. You will get sort options. > > D) I also need to learn more about how to use calc.For example if you > add some items to the middle (or bottom) of a column the > previously-set total at the bottom of the column doesn't change! I > have had to recorrect such totals, initially be rewriting them > completely, but have since discovered that merely removing and > re-entering the equal sign does the trick. But such a trick should not > be needed at all (It wasn't needed in Lotus) Hmm, can't tell from this what you really want or expect. Are you saying that selecting update after inserting the data does not work or what? More info is needed. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Vernon Lang > . . -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
