Printing Envelopes in Open Office

[Tom]

Trying to print envelopes in Open Office 3.4.1 is like dealing with a 
disobedient autistic child on steroids:


1) I cannot create a stand-alone envelope--Open Office document insists that I 
make it part of a letter document, complete with an "insert" command that is 
meaningless & confusing to the user who only wants to print out an envelope;
2) The program insists on defaulting to C5 as an envelope.  If I change it to 
#10 and then navigate to another screen to make other changes, I discover that 
it is back at C5 when I return to the screen I navigated away from.  Since most 
people print out #10 business envelopes, C5 is an inappropriate default, anyway.

3) The page preview function is worthless: what it shows is nowhere near what 
my printer prints out.  Often the return address or the addressee address is 
not printed.  I'm forced to print the same envelope out five or six times in 
order to get something resembling a sendable mailpiece, and the addressee's 
address is always too close to the bottom.
4) No one denies that somewhere buried in the program might be solutions for 
these issues.  However, finding them is like looking for a needle in a 
haystack, making the solutions effectively non-existent.

Won't SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE INS AND OUTS OF OPEN OFFICE PLEASE ADVISE HOW THESE 
PROBLEMS CAN BE OVERCOME OR COULD SOMEONE WITH SOME PROGRAMMING ACUMEN PLEASE 
FIX THESE ISSUES AND SEND A PATCH OR BE HONEST ENOUGH TO DECLARE THE PRINT 
ENVELOPE FUNCTION UNUSABLE?  I'd appreciate some sort of response.  Man up, 
Gentlemen.

Sadly, I've had to abandon OpenOffice

[Tom Leonard]

Aloha,

I have been a user and supporter of Open Office since it's first public 
release, and was extremely pleased when to project was taken under the wing of 
the Apache Foundation.  To me, this guaranteed it's long term success.

Unfortunately, with the latest windows version (4.1.x), the product has become 
so buggy that I've had to abandon it and turn to Libre Office.  This last week, 
Writer crashed while saving an ODT document, and was unable to successful 
recover my work (recovery crashed).  4 hours of work lost.  Crash reports were 
generated, but that was the extent of it.

I really believe in the product, and have been an open source advocate since 
long before Linus came to the fore.  Please do what you can to make sure future 
releases are stable.

Thank you,

Tom
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Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

[Tom Struble]

After switching to LibreOffice quite some time back, I thought I'd give 
the latest Open Office a try.  Reasonably impressed, and now have the 
difficult decision on which one to invest my learning time on.  One 
thought - downloading OpenOffice was PAINFULLY slow, around 130 KB/sec 
(where LibreOffice consistently downloads at 900+ KB/sec).  Since 
neither one of you can figure out how to update with DIFF's instead of a 
FULL BLOWN install, download time makes a difference.


Something to think about.

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Query about Open Office

[Tom Kerr]

Good morning

We are getting new computers in the shop and our computer guy suggested we
contact you

We currently have many files made from Corel Print House V 5.00
The files are CPH files

Does Open Office have the ability to open CPH files?

Thanking you in advance

Cheers
Tom

Tom & Rose-Marie Kerr
Box 220, 39 Bridge St East
Campbellford, ON, K0L 1L0
T: 705-653-4335
F: 705-653-1655
www.FrogsWhiskersInk.com
www.KerrsCornerBooks.com

Re: Query about Open Office

[Tom Kerr]

Thank you for your time and effort

It looks like the best answer is to keep and old XP computer to look after
this until we retire, as we have approx 4,000 CPH files

Cheers
Tom

Tom & Rose-Marie Kerr
Box 220, 39 Bridge St East
Campbellford, ON, K0L 1L0
T: 705-653-4335
F: 705-653-1655
www.FrogsWhiskersInk.com
www.KerrsCornerBooks.com

On 23 November 2016 at 14:08, Marcus  wrote:

> Am 11/23/2016 12:36 PM, schrieb Peter Kovacs:
>
>> I am sorry. I do not think so.
>> Can Corel export to another file format?
>>
>
> as OpenOffice has no import filter for this file format, you have indeed
> not many possibilities:
>
> 1. If still available, install CPH and see if there are other suitable
> file formats you can export your *.cfph fikes to. I'm sorry, I don't know
> this so I cannot tell you.
>
> 2. Try to find out if this software has a successor or if another Corel
> software is able to open the files.
>
> 3. Maybe this forums thread [1] is helping you.
>
> 4. Or this one [2].
>
> [1] http://www.vinylforum.org/smf/all-other-software/need-help-c
> onverting-cph-file/msg65866#msg65866
>
> [2] http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=45318
>
> I hope this helps you at least a bit.
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> Tom Kerr  schrieb am Mi., 23. Nov. 2016, 08:18:
>>
>> We are getting new computers in the shop and our computer guy suggested we
>>> contact you
>>>
>>> We currently have many files made from Corel Print House V 5.00
>>> The files are CPH files
>>>
>>> Does Open Office have the ability to open CPH files?
>>>
>>

Reporting broken download link

[Tom Leeks]

Dear Sir
I downloaded open office and it appears in my all programmes.  I open the open 
office folder and they all appear individually writer, calc etc.   
Unfortunately when I click on any of the individual programmes nothing happens. 
  Can you help me to make them work?
Regards
Thomas Leeks

Downloads

[TOM SZALLER]

Hi, 
I'm trying to download your OpenOffice for Windows7 to be able to edit and use 
the .doc files that I've made in Microsoft Word 2000 & 2007, but when I try I 
keep getting "styles failing to load" and so no download. Also will your 
software do what I"m trying to get done? 
Hope your site is fixed soon and your software does what I need, 
Tom Szaller 

Re: Downloads

[TOM SZALLER]

on your sit http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html I don't see a grey 
"Problem Dowloading " option. I wish I did because just choosing to download I 
get the error page that says "style failing to load" and can't get around that. 
I'm sure I'm missing something but I don't know what. 
Thanks for writing back thoug. Hopefully we can resolve this problem and I can 
ge the file, 
Tom Szaller 

- Original Message -

From: "Marcus"  
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: "TOM SZALLER"  
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 6:22:38 PM 
Subject: Re: Downloads 

Am 23.05.19 um 20:33 schrieb TOM SZALLER: 
> I'm trying to download your OpenOffice for Windows7 to be able to edit and 
> use the .doc files that I've made in Microsoft Word 2000 & 2007, but when I 
> try I keep getting "styles failing to load" and so no download. Also will 
> your software do what I"m trying to get done? 

I've downloaded a second ago [1] and haven't seen a problem. So, in 
general it's working. 

When you have problems with specific mirror servers then just change 
them. On the SourceForge webpage there is a grey "Problems Downloading?" 
button. Just click on it and choose a different mirror from the popup 
dialog. 

[1] https://www.openoffice.org/download/ 

HTH 

Marcus 

open offce formattin problems since upgrading to version march28 2021

[Tom Coyne]

missing icons: 
 colors, print colors and merge cells

Can i return to the previous version which wasproblem free.  

Please respond totomcoyn...@gmail.com

Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

[Tom Goldie]

"Who are you, where are you from, what are you interested in? These are 
all good things to cover."


My name is Tom Goldie, and I am from, and live in, Arizona. I am an 
educator by trade.


My interest in this list and this community is as follows: I currently 
teach inmates in a large (3500 men) prison -- 75 at any one time -- how 
to use OpenOffice. I use it, love it, and share what I know wherever I 
can. My motto: "Friends don't send friends document it will cost them 
hundreds of dollars to open."


We have one problem: we don't have any recognized standards to teach to. 
Sure, we have come up with what WE think is important, but we're looking 
for something that guys can feel good about earning and that will tell 
potential employers what they are likely to know.


Here's what I'm offering: my "expertise", such as it is, and a whole lot 
of prison labor (voluntary, you can be assured) to flesh-out and test 
standards and curriculum materials to form the basis for an OpenOffice 
Certification. I believe the approach I'm suggesting is different and 
more easily completed because it is driven by produced documents -- 
which brings into ready and sharp focus requisite skills and thought 
processes.


Here's the idea so far, with some sketching-in in a few places to give 
you an idea of how it would go together:


1) OpenOffice users across the globe are asked, "What documents is it 
important to know how to make?" Of course, depending on experience the 
responses will be varied, but perhaps it begins to shape up as follows:


Writer -- business and personal letters, shopping lists, mailmerge 
letters, academic papers (MLA in the US, not sure about elsewhere), 
memos, newsletters, etc.


Calc -- inventory sheet, payroll calculation, balance sheet, budget -- I 
KNOW there is a lot of variety out there, but perhaps representative 
sheets with common functions and can be settled on


Draw -- line and block organization chart, simple product illustration, 
landscape scene with imported bitmaps, artistic rendering of automobile, 
whatever.


Note that Impress, Base, Math,and Basic are left out for now -- but not 
forgotten.


2. We (a working group of me and interested people from this community) 
gather from all over the globe .pdfs of each of these documents and 
their specifications. We decide which document elements are signature, 
come up with different levels of elegance of handling them, and then 
assign documents and methods to certain levels.


Some sketching here is in order: Let's take letters. There are business 
and personal letters. We can say what SHOULD NOT be done (hard returns 
at the end of lines), but also say that adding paragraph markers for 
above/below paragraph spacing is a beginner-level technique (and 
students should be aware of the pitfalls), but creating and applying a 
paragraph style is an intermediate-level technique. Instruction can be 
provided for creating common elements: page numbering, dates, alignments 
and indents, margins, and such -- which will be determined by looking 
over user submissions. The student passes the letter portion at either 
basic or intermediate level when they avoid all the don'ts, and then 
apply the appropriate techniques.


This is done for each type of common document for each facet of OO. More 
difficult documents (say, books, or long academic papers -- things that 
require tweaks for headers, bookmarks, cross-references, etc.) are in 
the advanced section.


For Impress, it is pretty easy to figure out what are basic tasks 
(transitions, animations), intermediate tasks (more complicated 
animations and timing, making groovy slide masters), and advanced topics 
(printing handouts, notes, etc.).


For Base, beginners should be able to navigate a database, view data 
using filters and sort, perform queries, use forms, enter data in tables 
and forms, run reports with parameterized queries, etc. Intermediate 
users should be able to design/write queries, design tables, make forms, 
make reports, etc. Advanced users write code to make their forms more 
functional -- probably intersects with Basic (see below).


For Math, symbols are divided into groups (up through high school 
algebra for basic -- I know there will be variety by country, but there 
should be some common ground), common college stuff for intermediate, 
and specialized notations for advanced.


For Basic, beginners should be able to import/export code, insert macro 
code, maybe write simple macros for a spreadsheet; intermediate level 
should be able to make dialogs, and pass info back and forth between 
code and dialogs, write apps; advanced use UNO objects to manipulate 
dbs, text docs, draw objects, etc.


3. Our guys produce learning materials and release them under a Creative 
Commons SSA (or other license, if this community has a preference) to be 
used by anyone wishing to deliver train

Apache OpenOffice Forum

[Tom Rogers]

I have tried to register, but have not received a a verification email.
This is because I have gmail as my email provider?  The username I tried to
register with is tnrrogers, and my password is hannah17.  I wanted to
register to find out why Open Office is not providing page numbers any
more.  I have used Open Office for hundreds of documents, and in the past I
was able to click "Insert," then "Fields," and then "Page numbers."  Now
when I look at my documents I see the words "Page numbers" displayed on
each page where the actual numbers used to be.  Why would Open Office have
disabled that useful tool, making it necessary for me now to go through
every page of every document and insert page numbers by hand?

Made spellchecker, language not in list

[Tom Br]

Dear developers,

I have created an extension for OpenOffice to do spell checking for
Gronings (ISO 639-3: gos), and the language does not show up in the
languages list. The extension does work apart from that, since I can go to
Format -> Character... and set the language there. But that way, the
language cannot be set as default for all documents. I was directed to this
e-mail address for assistance. Could you help me with this?

Kind regards,
Tom Brand

Reporting broken download link

[Tom Heffernan Sr]

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I have been using Open Office 4.1.0 for 2-3 years, and have not had any 
problems until now.  I have tried to open several documents, and they will not 
open, can you help me with this problem.
The documents are Open Documents T.
Thank you for a quick reply.

excel seems to have taken over my data

[Tom and Judy McInctyre]

All my files in Open Office Calc, (I believe it is called) going back 5 or
6 years are now shown to be in Excel but do not have any data in them
except underline
The system I have is (unfortunately) Windows 10