On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:37:25 -0800 (PST) John Shelton wrote: > > > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/20/2008 06:11 PM, John > Shelton wrote: > > Your admonishments are well taken and I apologize if a statement I > > made tended toward starting a "this sucks war". I assure you I had > > no such intent. I get as tired of them as anybody even when I am > > just an observer and not directly involved. > > > > The reference to permitted users for MS Office was in direct > > response to someone asking me if I knew the answer to that. > > > > I very often "control C/control V" online news articles, for > > instance, which I subsequently print or save. I very often find > > myself unable to format (margins, fonts, etc.) these items in > > Writer, but not so in a word processor that I am more familiar with. > > Occasionally items just will not even appear at all, but I can open > > another word processor and the item shows up normally. I encounter > > many more "difficulties", but I better take one at a time. If I can > > solve one, then I will look at another. > > > > Perhaps I have found a forum here that I can get some advice and > > assistance that I need to learn this program and how it works and > > hopefully raise my personal ratings for it. In time, perhaps I can > > learn to utilize the program so I can replace a very expensive > > program that it basically parallels. > > > > Does that sound like a better attitude? John > > > > > > Thanks John & sorry for the delayed reply... the local telco seems to > think that my local phone/dsl line is a test circuit & I just got my > connection back. > > Thanks for posting back with a better attitude :-) > > I recommend that you start a new thread with something along the lines > of "help with cut & paste from html" and I'm pretty sure that you'll > find some helpful suggestions from other folks here. I too have issue > with cut & paste from web sites, and even have a few bug reports open > regarding this issue - so it's not just you. But perhaps it may be the > way that you are doing it, so a new thread on that subject would be > better. That way this original thread "How did I get this OpenOffice > program?" doesn't get too far off track. > > > > I can start a new thread , but I don't think I know how to remove a > post from a current thread. Do I need someone to give me > instructions so as to not interfer with the subject matter or can a > forum moderator do this for me? I wish to withdraw my participation > from this thread because my subject matter conflicts with that ot > the thread. >
No, don't worry about it. Let the past lie and move on. Start your new thread. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
