Re: Open office install and ads

2014-05-21 Thread Tony Gallas
G'day Brian If there is an official site for any software, use it. Software downloaded from a third party site, which may be partly funded by selling ad software, often results in you getting more than you bargained for. I never use them, never get unwanted ad popups. Cheers Tony On 22/05/201

Re: Open office install and ads

2014-05-21 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 22-5-2014 14:38, bikeguy wrote: Hi I installed open office today and after I did I noticed I was getting alot of pop up ads I hadnt previously gotten while on the web visiting various pages. Does your version of Open Office come with ad software attached and if so how can I remove it? OpenO

Re: not opening

2014-05-21 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 22-5-2014 11:10, Geoffrey Anderson wrote: Hello. Thank you for offering me Open Office. My operating system is Vista. After I downloaded Apache's Open Office, I cannot open a file that is designed in Powerpoint. How did you tried to open the file? Did you double click on the file or did you

Open office install and ads

2014-05-21 Thread bikeguy
Hi I installed open office today and after I did I noticed I was getting alot of pop up ads I hadnt previously gotten while on the web visiting various pages. Does your version of Open Office come with ad software attached and if so how can I remove it? Thanks Brian

Re: Apache openoffice math equations problem

2014-05-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:44 21/05/2014 +0200, Michal Noname wrote: I've got a problem with mathematical equations in Apache Openoffice. I have tried versions 3.4.1, 4,01, 4.1 and in all of those I have the same problem. When I try to write for example 2 + 2 or anything else on my screen I can see an empty square

Apache openoffice math equations problem

2014-05-21 Thread soundworks550
Dear Sir/Madame I've got a problem with mathematical equations in Apache Openoffice. I have tried versions 3.4.1, 4,01, 4.1 and in all of those I have the same problem. When I try to write for example 2 + 2 or anything else on my screen I can see an empty square called "object" inside with g

not opening

2014-05-21 Thread Geoffrey Anderson
Hello. Thank you for offering me Open Office. My operating system is Vista. After I downloaded Apache's Open Office, I cannot open a file that is designed in Powerpoint. It asks me to "save" the file. Am I missing a step? Thank you, Geoffrey Anderson

Re: Making graphics stay where you placed them.

2014-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bruce Byfield wrote: If you've done much work positioning graphics in text, then you know how difficult it can be to make sure that the graphics stay in place. In the past, many experts have come up with recommendations about the best settings to use This is only marginally related and I'm on L

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Fernando Cassia wrote: How difficult would it be to include the word count in the status bar? We do have code for that already. You would have to find a mail by Ariel to the dev list about it, but we do have a sample macro doing exactly that. So it shouldn't be particularly hard to integrate

Making graphics stay where you placed them.

2014-05-21 Thread Bruce Byfield
If you've done much work positioning graphics in text, then you know how difficult it can be to make sure that the graphics stay in place. In the past, many experts have come up with recommendations about the best settings to use, but these suggestions either don't work if you try to export to a

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-21 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 05:14:33 PM mt wrote: > On 20/5/14 at 3:02 PM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote: > > > > > >Sorry -- you're waa behind the times. The vast majority of > >books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes, > >even, LibreOffice -- and the publishers

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Robert Funnell wrote: > > There is a word counter. It's in the Tools menu. How difficult would it be to include the word count in the status bar?. I´ve been annoyed by Word users asking for this feature since times immemorial, back when this was StarOffice 5.x and

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 21 May 2014 12:44:59 -0400 Robert Funnell wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014, Mayers, Jennifer A. wrote: > > > We noticed that there does not seem to be a word counter. This is required > > for essays and some research papers my son is doing, so we do not want to > > download this program i

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Robert Funnell
On Wed, 21 May 2014, Mayers, Jennifer A. wrote: We noticed that there does not seem to be a word counter. This is required for essays and some research papers my son is doing, so we do not want to download this program in unless it has the word counter. Could you let us know about this? T

confusing "new software"

2014-05-21 Thread Ronald Delora
have open office on my win7 dell laptop when i open a spreadsheet created under ms2010 (xslx) - I get msg saying new version is available - when I click to download - msg says ver 4.1.0 is available - also says 4.1.1 is installed? I downloaded and installed (at least I thought I installed) - s

WORD COUNTER

2014-05-21 Thread Mayers, Jennifer A.
We noticed that there does not seem to be a word counter. This is required for essays and some research papers my son is doing, so we do not want to download this program in unless it has the word counter. Could you let us know about this? Jennifer robnick...@aol.com ___

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-21 Thread James Knott
On 05/20/2014 10:22 PM, Urmas wrote: > Yes, manual formatting is available. But using it is kind of perverse, > because > it means doing more work than necessary If anyone knows perverse, it would be Urmas. ;-) --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffic

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-21 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
At least two (probably more) of the books I have in my shelf are produced entirely by a system widely used in the sciences, LaTeX, in combination with other software like RStudio, R, and a package for R called knitr. As far as I understand, page layout, headers, footers, references, everything.

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-21 Thread mt
On 20/5/14 at 3:02 PM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote: Sorry -- you're waa behind the times. The vast majority of books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes, even, LibreOffice -- and the publishers set it using tools like styles. ... This is true, Br