Re: [WWW]Forum not delivering e-mails

2013-09-13 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > There is a problem with the automated emails on the forums: > > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=64264 > > I checked on the ES forum by sending a PM from a test account to my main > account and can confirm the pro

Re: Reopening the Vietnamese Forum

2013-09-21 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > We have a Vietnamese volunteer, Mr. Phan Anh (in CC), who recently > completed the Vietnamese translation and would be interested in reopening > and moderating the Vietnamese forum at > http://forum.openoffice.org/**vi/

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-03 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Hans Palmér >wrote: > > > Whenever I start OpenOffice, it crashes after one minute. > > > > I have a Dell Dimension 9200 computer with Windows 7 Home Premium with > > Asus Geforce GT640 > > > > Hans Palmér > > >

Re: Open Office 4.01

2013-10-18 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Slivka wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a loyal user of Open Office for the past several years. The > spreadsheet does a nice job of replacing the basics of Excel. > > Two things though that I really would like to see be improved or added for > future releases: >

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-25 Thread F C. Costero
I understand the problem to be that OpenOffice will not start on your computer. If you are getting no error, this can happen because an OpenOffice process is stuck. Not knowing what operating system you are using, the simplest solution is probably to reboot your computer. Francis On Fri, Oct 25,

Log in glitch on en forum

2013-11-03 Thread F C. Costero
I and another moderator have both gotten a message claiming "maximum number of log in attempts exceeded" when we tried to log into the en forum. I did not get that message when logging into the es forum. We could log in successfully after properly entering a Captcha. Perhaps this a a result of the

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-11-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Brian Moore wrote: > Good afternoon, I have recently downloaded Mac’s OS X Mavericks and it > refused to open ‘OpenOffice.! > > I went into System Preferences Security & Privacy and instructed it to > open ‘OpenOffice’ which it now does! > > However it now comes up

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-11-27 Thread F C. Costero
I'm sorry you are having trouble with Calc. Can you give a specific example of what is happening? I use Calc all the time and don't encounter such problems but we may have different uses. Best regards, Francis On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert wrote: > Your Excel Spreadsheet software need

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
There are people who would be happy to help on the user mailing list or on one of the forums (https://forum.openoffice.org/). Your message was sent to the developer mailing list. You might get help here, but that is not the primary purpose of the list. Please describe your problem in detail when yo

Re: Printing a database

2013-12-04 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee wrote: > Hi > > I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was > fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print. > > If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8 > > > Regards > David McGhee > >

Re: Printing a database

2013-12-04 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, dmcghee wrote: > Hi > > I have created a database of my DVD collection. The creation of it was > fine, but there does not seem to be an option to print. > > If it can be done, can you tell me how. I am running Windows 8 > > > Regards > David McGhee > >

Re: OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

2013-12-17 Thread F C. Costero
Your description of the available password protection options is what is typically said on the en forum. I don't recall anyone ever suggesting that users avoid password protection, though I don't read every post. Best regards, Francis On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I noticed

Re: Find and Replace Macro with regex captured groups in replace text

2014-01-01 Thread F C. Costero
The problem is the line oFind.setString(FandR.ReplaceString) The setString() method takes a string input and doesn't know anything about the search done with oDoc.FindNext() or regular expressions. You can perform a global replace that implements your regular expression with oDoc.replaceAll(FandR)

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2014-01-04 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Amy, If you are interested in helping users, one of the options is to volunteer on the forum. The English forum is at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php All you have to do is register and start answering questions. I'm a moderator there (user FJCC) and would be happy to answer

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-30 Thread F C. Costero
I'm sorry to hear you are having a stability problem. Please try resetting your user profile as explained in this tutorial on the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 You don't need to register on the forum to read it. Best regards, Francis On Thu, Jan 30,

Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey

2014-02-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain > who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The > wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. > > You can read about the study here: > https:/

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:17 AM, wrote: > my spell check doesn't work, am I supposed to download a dictionary? > > > > > > > Sent from Windows Mail Please try the steps in the spell check troubleshooting tutorial on the user forum https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512 Y

Re: Layout question relating to screen size/open office writer

2015-09-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Whoojeedoo Monster < gizzy_biscui...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I used to have a smaller screen, and when I did the OpenOffice writer > program would display the pages as centered in the middle of the grey space > with the next page directly beneath the previous, sort o

Re: DATE ISSUE in OpenOffice Spreadsheet

2015-10-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Oliver Brinzing wrote: > Hi, > > > There seems to be an issue of how some1900 dates are being stored in the > OpenOffice spreadsheet. > >> It is my understanding that dates are stored with spreadsheet as a serial >> number starting with 01/01/1900 >> being stored

Re: Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-20 Thread F C. Costero
I verified the Check for Updates in the Extension Manager on Windows 7 64 bit and it correctly flagged my downlevel extensions. Clicking the Install button doesn't seem to do anything useful. A progress window makes it look like a download is underway but afterwards I can't find any extension files

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Just wondering … > > Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally > prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively > small change that I did, and was safe enough to be merged to the

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. > My > > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in many > languages > > and can learn th

Re: Possible Mac problem 4.1.2

2015-11-05 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:02 AM, FR web forum wrote: > >Possible cross problem with mailmerge function. > Issue reported: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126623 > Maybe Mac users could be confirm or not? > > > > - > To u

Re: Proposed Calc "Find & Replace" dialog enhancements

2015-11-12 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > Recently I fixed a bad 9 year old bug #60307 with at least 6 duplicates > [and still broken in at least LO 4.2.8.2 :-)], now allowing searching for > cells by the value displayed after formatting (eg. 30/11/2015 formatted > into "3

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I went to open a new document. > I saw the note there was new version available, so I downloaded it. > > First thing I noticed was the spell check is still not working, let’s fix > it before

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < >> howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> I went to open a new document. >

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-16 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > On 11/16/2015 7:38 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:50

Re: New release - problems

2015-11-17 Thread F C. Costero
. > > - Dennis > > > -Original Message- > > From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 20:53 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: New release - problems > [ ... ] > > Hi Patricia, > >

Re: errors in writer (formula)

2015-11-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) < howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Gang, > I have been using the formula in writer lately. For ‘cdot’, a command > to put a dot between two symbols to indicate multiplication, the dot is not > showing up in the document. T

Re: installing open office

2015-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:42 AM, jjpurlieu wrote: > to open office > > I have had open office for years and am very pleased with it ecept that > occasionally it disappears off the laptop. I have always reinstalled it > till today when I just cannot get the instillation to work > I get so far when

Recovering from broken password (bug 125431)

2016-01-22 Thread F C. Costero
We get questions on the forum about how to access a document that no longer accepts the encryption password. I assume some of these are due to the broken NSS issue #125431. I skimmed through the comments on bugzilla and did not see a definitive way to fix the problem. I"m sorry if I missed it. What

Re: Problem with OpenOffice

2016-02-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Shelagh and Nick Richardson < richardson...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem with Openoffice. It is effectively frozen with this > message: > > *The last time you opened OpenOffice, it unexpectedly quit while reopening > windows. Do you want to try to reopen it

Re: Ошибки в версии 4.1.2

2016-07-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 07/27/2016 06:08 AM, schrieb ИКЦ "Просвет": > >> Добрый день >> Рассматриваю ваш продукт как замену Microsoft Ofiice. Но есть ошибки >> 1. в шаблоне документа (от MS Office) стоит поле сегодняшней даты. При >> открытии пишется "июль", вместо "и

Re: OpenOffice Guide

2016-09-24 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Svjariwala! The documents at the following site are a little old but should still be very helpful: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters Regards, Francis On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, sagar jariwala wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > Kindl

Re: Read-only documents in Calc

2016-11-03 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM, shane gulley wrote: > I recently updated to ver 4.1.3 and am no longer able to edit > spreadsheets (haven't tried other document formats) I can open them but I > cannot edit them. I can still edit documents online but sometimes the > formatting gets changed and t

Re: email will not send

2016-11-22 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:03 AM, jackie sudron sanderson < jackie...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I cant email my letter please can you help me > I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. Please provide some details. What have you tried and what happened? Which email program do you use? Regards, Francis

Re: Which SQL commands support OpenOffice Base?

2014-04-23 Thread F C. Costero
Hello! If you create a Base file using the menu File -> New -> Database -> Create a New Database, you will get a Base file that runs HSQLDB version 1.8 as an embedded database. The SQL documentation for that is here: http://www.hsqldb.org/doc/1.8/guide/ch09.html. I would not recommend using the emb

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:42 AM, jan i wrote: > On 1 June 2014 14:21, Hagar Delest wrote: > > > Le 01/06/2014 13:12, jan i a écrit : > > > > I have noticed the traffic level, but seen from a monitoring POW, there > >> are > >> no problems with forum. > >> > > > > Ah, indeed, I let my browser and

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-06-02 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Roberta Yule Owen wrote: > well, sort of - > > I have been using OpenOffice for some time and now have version 3.0. I > did not know that Apache has taken over OpenOffice, and I have a few > questions: > > Is Apache 4.1.0 the latest version of what I already have?

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

2014-06-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Hi all, > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html > > As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default. > > If you find some errors please report them by mail or Bugzilla issue. > If you think the design could b

Re: [DOWNLOAD] New download webpage

2014-06-06 Thread F C. Costero
/06/2014 08:12 PM, schrieb F C. Costero: > >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Marcus (OOo) >> wrote: >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html >>> >>> As promized in a previous mail, I've now put the new webpage as default. >>>

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-07-29 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:30 PM, John Jay wrote: > Both my ABC with a check mark and my ABC with a squigly line do not work. > I CAN NOT use them to check a word spelling. When using ABC check mark > it goes to the beginning, I must take one word at a time to be corrected. > ABC squigly line

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-09-12 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: > Hi > > I downloaded openoffice a few years ago and only use it occasionally. > Each time I use it I am prompted to register it. But when I try, it says it > needs to be done in a JRE environment. I have not a clue what that means. > Would y

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-09-18 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Campbell Bryan wrote: > I have open office 4.1 but can't obtain either access to word or > publisher. Is this possible? If so how? > > C J Bryan > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ope

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.1 Install Problem

2014-10-14 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Harry Seyfert wrote: > Hello, > I attempted to upgrade my OpenOffice to version 4.1.1 and had a problem. > While the install was running, I received a message stating that “Object > already exists” and only one option to reply,“OK” Clicking this option > yields t

Re: Problem with open office

2014-10-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Juned M. wrote: > Hi, > > I have had problem with this msg which has been coming up everytime i > start openofffice in my computer for the past 8 months. Dosnt help to click > on it or whatever else i try. I have deleted and reinstalled open office, > but it still

Re: Spell check

2014-10-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Frank wrote: > How do I get my spell check to work? I misspell a word, hit the abc and a > box comes up that says > nothing is misspelled. > > There is an extensive tutorial about troubleshooting the spell check function on the user forum: https://forum.openoffic

Re: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Darren, Really, what is the probability that a spreadsheet program that has roots going back 30 years can't add correctly? Could the program survive with that kind of flaw? I understand that it isn't doing what you expect and over at the user forum we would be happy to help straighten out the

Fwd: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years. That's what I get for reading only the title of a message. Francis -- Forwarded message ------ From: F C. Costero Date: T

Re: Creating Chart "com.sun.star.chart.XYDiagram"

2014-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Semen Gubarev wrote: > Hello Everyone! > I read a lot of documentation about creation charts using macro BASIC > And I still can't create chart in Writer (almost all documentation describe > how to create chart in Calc). The problem with inserting series XY data >

Re: Another Basic Function that doesn't Work!!

2014-12-01 Thread F C. Costero
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Darren Myers wrote: > Didn't take me long, found another basic function that does not work in OO > > Who on earth built this program! Seriously... needs to find another > career, maybe hairdressing or something! > > So when you "Find & Replace" select a value , an

Re: Design change for side bar

2015-01-08 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > the pending review request https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ > show_bug.cgi?id=125989 is about a change in the visual style of the side > bar. We do not have a special "Design" group and I do not want to decide > alone. So please h

Re: database problem

2015-03-25 Thread F C. Costero
Can you please ask this question on the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/? There are more people available for user support there. You will need to register to post your question. Best regards, Francis On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Mary Lou Trice wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I hav

Re: How can I get a hot key?

2015-06-01 Thread F C. Costero
2015-06-01 0:34 GMT-06:00 Денис Нилов : > 1) How can I get a hot key of uppercase? > 2) How can I change of my hot key? > > > > Для здоровья, > Нилов (РАДОМИР) Денис > > Добавить в друзья вКОНтакте > нажать + https://vk.com/denisnilov + нажать > > radomir_1...@mail.ru Hello! Select the menu Too

Re: Transferring Openoffice to new computer

2020-01-06 Thread F C. Costero
This is not he best place to ask user questions. Please use the users mailing list or the forum (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) in the future. You can simply download the installation files for Apache OpenOffice from the web site www.openoffice.org to the new computer and then run the ins

Re: Can't download updates

2020-01-24 Thread F C. Costero
You can go to the web page http://www.openoffice.org/download/, choose the appropriate operating system and language and then click on Download Full Installation. You will be redirected to a page on SourceForge where the download will start automatically. You do not need to click anything on the So

Re: Letter page size in Writer sidebar

2020-02-05 Thread F C. Costero
As a native English speaker, I also have no problem with those abbreviations. In that context, there are not many other words that could be there, so it is very easy to understand the meaning. Francis On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:02 PM Michele Denber wrote: > On 02-05-2020 4:03 PM, Matthias Seidel

Re: Facebook comment: It is time for an advanced product. please meet with me.

2020-02-07 Thread F C. Costero
I went to https://www.facebook.com/pg/ApacheOO/posts/ and found the post by Thomas Reid from Feb. 1. The message is fully quoted in the title of this thread, so there is no more to learn from the post. Francis On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:59 AM Peter Kovacs wrote: > > https://m.facebook.com/story.p

Re: Last up-date

2017-01-09 Thread F C. Costero
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Two Rivers Gallery <2rivers...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just up-dated Open Office and now I am having a number of problems? Is > everyone having an issue? Is there another correction up-date that cleans > up the cliches? PLEASE HELP ME > > -- > > *Blessings,* > > *Judy

Re: Community in Mexico City

2017-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
I just copied imacat's message to the Spanish forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=13006#p57499 Best regards, Francis On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi imacat, > > It’s been awhile. I hope you are well. > > For Apache wide community questions

Re: Troubles Loading Files with OpenOffice

2017-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Emma, I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. This mailing list is used by developers and not intended for user support. I suggest you post your message on the users mailing list or at the user forum: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php. Best regards, Francis On Thu, Jun 22, 20

Re: open office file and Excel

2018-03-11 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Ami The problem is almost certainly that the default program your computer wants to use is Excel and that the icon displayed for the file is therefore an Excel icon. The file content is unaffected in this case. There are two things you can try to open the file. I assume you are using Windows.

Re: creating a spreadsheet (was: new cool feature)

2018-08-16 Thread F C. Costero
I changed the LOOKUP() function in columns D and E to be a VLOOKUP() with the fourth parameter set to 0 so the function looks for an exact match. The LOOKUP() function requires that the lookup vector be ordered. Since column A of the Database sheet is not ordered, incorrect results were returned. I

Re: License of specific fonts?

2018-09-05 Thread F C. Costero
Hello Simon, No one here or on any Apache web site can provide legal advice. See https://opensource.com/article/17/11/open-source-and-fonts for a layman's discussion of font licensing. What that article seems to say is that whether you can include the font when you distribute a document depends on

Re: Small website refresh

2018-11-23 Thread F C. Costero
I like the update. I am puzzled by the three different Download buttons/links. The one at the top right says Download, there is a central one for Download For Windows, and a small link under that that says Other Platforms. All three lead to the standard download page where the OS is detected automa

Re: Forum Migration Status

2018-11-30 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Dave, Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is significantly faster than it has bee recently Best regards, Francis On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 AM Dave Fisher wrote: > Migration has completed. > > The IP address has changed and it may take up to 15 minutes from now for > the DNS change to pr

Re: Re: R: Re: Forum Migration Status

2018-11-30 Thread F C. Costero
openoffice.apache.org > Oggetto: Re: Forum Migration Status > > +1, > many thanks, that way much better!Did the daily usual things and everything > went smoothly.HagarLe 30/11/2018 à 20:37, F C. Costero a écrit :> Hi Dave,> > Thanks for your efforts! The en forum is signific

Re: branch 4.1.7?

2019-01-21 Thread F C. Costero
One "regression" that merits immediate attention is crashing on Windows when trying to edit a macro embedded in a Writer or Calc document ( I haven't checked Impress or Base yet). If I open a new document and try to make an embedded macro (menus Tools -> Macros -> Organize Macros -> OpenOffice Bas

Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

2019-01-26 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Nikhil, Try purging LibreOffice with sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice* I did this before installing OpenOffice on my Linux Mint system and it installed with no error. I was then able to download LibreOffice from the LibreOffice site and install that in parallel with OpenOffice. I believe the error

Re: Time for our first 4.2.0 beta?

2019-01-28 Thread F C. Costero
I am a moderator on the en forum but I am speaking only for myself here. I think gathering feedback on the forum would be a good solution. The en forum has a User Experience area that gets very little traffic and could perhaps be used to gather beta build input. Feedback in languages other than Eng

Re: Open Office

2012-11-27 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Catherine McNaught wrote: > Hi > So sorry to email you with this. Please forgive. > I am teaching technology at an International school in Singapore. About a > dozen of my students have the OpenOffice Base freezing on them constantly. > Restart, uninstall and re do

Re: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread F C. Costero
ty and Other formats) I thought that was one of our > > very strong sides. I might be worthwhile to look a bit deeper into that, > > and see if the cause for the questions is in lack of features, lack of > > documentation or someelse, to give a clue of what to do ? Maybe we can do > > something with 4.0. > > > > Jan I. > > > > On 23 December 2012 04:00, F C. Costero wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > MS Office interoperability54 > > > Non-English15 > > > Other formats54 > > [ ... ] > > > > >

Re: Symphony code in AOO 4.0

2013-01-20 Thread F C. Costero
On 1/20/2013 2:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Andrea Pescettiwrote: Rob Weir wrote: OK. Here is a draft: https://blogs.apache.org/**preview/OOo/?previewEntry=** merging_symphony_allegro_non_**troppo

Re: Türkçe Yazım Denetimi

2013-02-18 Thread F C. Costero
Help for the problem can be found on the English forum: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512 2013/2/18 ANIL KULAKSIZOGLU > Merhaba, ben OpenOffice3.3.0 kullanıyorum, fakat Otomatik İmla Denetimi > düğmesi çalışmıyor ve yanlış kelimenin altında dalgalı kırmızı çizgi >

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-19 Thread F C. Costero
The English forum is back up. I haven't checked any others. Francis On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:31 AM, RGB ES wrote: > 2013/3/19 FR web forum > > > Nagios monitore forums with HTML and SSL services. > > But it's the MySQL deamon that must be watched. > > > > Indeed: Forums are green on the statu

Re: draft blog post: With Special Guest Star... Apache OpenOffice

2013-04-18 Thread F C. Costero
Very good! I have a couple of editing suggestions, if it is not too late. The line "Those with access (and this may has geo-based access restrictions) can see scene starting at the 8:50 mark on ABC's online version of the episode

Re: Update on logo survey

2013-04-26 Thread F C. Costero
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> > A quick update. We've been running for 18 hours, enough time to get > >>

Re: Find a better name for "sidebar"?

2013-05-23 Thread F C. Costero
On 5/23/2013 5:29 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: On 5/23/2013 3:52 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: I don't if it's really to late for finding a handy name for the biggest new feature in AOO. This has to be defined by others. :-) However, if we have some time, I have to say that "SuperPanel" or "SmartPanel" ar

Re: Openoffice 4 crashes when copying table in text document

2013-06-22 Thread F C. Costero
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Max Merbald wrote: > Edit: It doesn't only happen when you try to copy a table but always when > you try to copy by mouse. > > Am 22.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Max Merbald: > > Hi there, >> >> I've got an error to report, I don't know if you're already working on it.

Re: help me open my files please

2013-07-02 Thread F C. Costero
Hi! It might be easier to get support from the user forum ( http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/). Please describe further what happens when you try to open a file and what operating system you are using. I have seen such problems caused by a hung OpenOffice process. The easiest fix, not knowing y

Re: Incomplete Answer (from Dr Katherine Phelps)

2013-07-02 Thread F C. Costero
Hello!! One possible solution - you can hold the shift key while rotating to limit the movement to 15 degree increments. Also, you can probably get better support for user questions on the user mailing list or the user forum (http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/) Best regards, Francis On Tue, Ju

Re: Continuous crashing of documents and then having to go through the cycle of Document Recovery 2 or 3 times per letter.

2013-07-06 Thread F C. Costero
Hello! I suggest you try resetting your user profile as explained in this tutorial:http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 Best regards, Francis On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, ian.m...@talktalk.net wrote: > Dear Open Office, > > Can you please guide me as to how the abo

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

2013-07-23 Thread F C. Costero
The volunteers at the user forum ( http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php for support in English) would be happy to help. You can upload the file there if it is under 128 KB. Best regards, Francis On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Marco A.G.Pinto < marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote: >

Re: Three possible issues in AOO 4.0 en_UK

2013-07-23 Thread F C. Costero
d I hope it will get through the ML. > > Thanks! > > Kind regards, > >Marco A.G.Pinto >----------- > > > > On 24/07/2013 01:34, F C. Costero wrote: > > The volunteers at the user forum ( > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/for

Re: [REVIEW] draft blog.

2013-07-30 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Donald Whytock > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:59 PM, janI wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> A while ago we discussed to get more bloggers. > >> > >> Since I have 1 years birthday in a couple of days, I have m

Re: Updated table: Downloads by Country

2013-08-06 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I just updated the page showing downloads by country. The last update > was back in May. > > http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html > > The ordering at the top has not changed much, except that Poland has > overtaken the Netherlands for t

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread F C. Costero
There is some evidence, or suspicion, on the en forum that the automatic check for updates is involved with the problem. See this posting and others in the same thread. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55912&start=30#p253337 Francis On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rob W

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-15 Thread F C. Costero
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >>> questions, some of them qui

Re: Open Office 3.41

2012-11-19 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Kevin, I'm sorry to hear you are having a problem. There is a tutorial on the forum about this topic. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=16512 There are a few different possible causes and it is probably easier for you to look there and work through the steps of the tu

Re: Draft blog post: Call for Marketing Volunteers

2012-11-20 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_marketing_volunteers A minor point about "perhaps second only to Linux and Firefox". Can OpenOffice be second to two other products? How about "perhaps outdone only by Linux and Firefox