Hello, I had hoped to ask the following questions at Fosdem (Brussel, Belgium), but came too early last Saturday for meeting with Open Office people.
Hence these few practical questions to further migrate to Open Office rather than moving towards the MsOffice2007 non-iso formats: - does one only import a Word template (.dot) by opening it with Writer and then saving it as an ott-file, or is there a way to import a number of templates in one go? - same for .xlt into Calc? - is there a Calc equivalent for the very easy Ctrl+" of Excel (e.g. for quickly copying a date from one row to the next in accounting sheets)? - is there an equivalent in Calc for Excel's Data|Form (a form for those who don't know how to program one)? or a template where one would only have to copy a few lines of code and adapt some parameters (field name, position...)? - is there a way to easily migrate an Access database to Base, including forms, reports etc (I noticed one can use an Access database as such in Writer, but I'd like to get rid of Access altogether to update its data)? - same for a Works database (legacy...)? I have also 2 suggestions for the Dutch native language version: - include also French in the package (the Dutch version serves The Netherlands and maybe South-Africa, but also Flanders where French has second language status), so as not to have to reinstall that language pack after each OO-upgrade, - include a dialog in the setup to be able to check or uncheck the installation of languages included in the package (e.g. un-checking Estonian and Hungarian but selecting French) in order to limit the installation to the 4-6 languages a particular user knows... Finally a detail that puzzles me somewhat: how does it come that the size of the same worksheets saved in Excel xls-format (as yet needed for compatibility reasons) goes up and down by some 25% depending on whether they are saved by Calc (~230 kb) or Excel (~180 kb), when going back and forth between both programs a few times a week is totally transparent? Many thanks on beforehand. Yours sincerely, Luc Daineffe. ------------ info & tickets www.nmbs.be / www.sncb.be --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
