Hello Luc,
Thanks for writing ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (25-2-2008 11:11)
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?
Yes: File|Wizards|Document converter (Bestand|Assistten|
Conversieprogramma voor documenten).
- same for .xlt into Calc?
The same.
However, in general / often results will be better with newly created
templates.
- 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)?
Not that I know of. Can easily be made with a macro of course.
- 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...)?
There are possibilities with dataforms in Calc, so I guess that will
meet your needs.
- 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)?
No. Has to be done piece by piece. And depending on the complexity of
the Access databases, it's more or less work.
- same for a Works database (legacy...)?
Same ...
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,
Good idea IMO. I'll forward it to the involved people in our Dutch
language group.
- 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...
I've seen a discussion recently on a new installation structure.
Dictionaries also passed there. You might want to have a look yourself:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=21737
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?
Seems obvious according to what you noticed, that Excel saves data in a
different way then OOo does. But how/why??
If no one else on this list comes up with an answer, I would suggest
writing at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the question is important enough
for you, of course.
Kindest regards,
Cor
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"The Year of 3" -2008- "Het jaar van 3"
Cor Nouws
Arnhem - Netherlands - nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact
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