New to OpenOffice

2014-05-24 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all I joined yesterday and am a new user of OpenOffice. This is thanks to its native accessibility support in the latest stable release for Windows. I say hats off to you all and keep it up. I like the package a lot and it's great now I can join the millions of users in using the free and o

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2014-05-24, 8:20 PM Julian Thomas wrote: On 24 May 2014, at 15:15, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: You can try this extension http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt It adds a word counter on t

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Julian Thomas
On 24 May 2014, at 15:15, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: >> You can try this extension >> http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt >> It adds a word counter on the status bar. On my mac it says th

reading the help files in open office

2014-05-24 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone, I am new to open office. I just installed it today but I'm having trouble reading the help files. What could I be doing wrong? Thanks for your help in advance. Rosemarie --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-con

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 24 May 2014 09:13:00 -0500, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:32:51PM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Also shouldnt be hard to include in the core of AOO, just edit the UI default menu calling the function that does the process. Example here: http://opengrok.a

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:40:31 +0100 Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:34:50 +0100 > Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:15:50 +0200 > > Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > > > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > > > You can try this extension > > > > http://aoo-ui-extras.apac

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:34:50 +0100 Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:15:50 +0200 > Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > > You can try this extension > > > http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-w

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:15:50 +0200 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > You can try this extension > > http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt > > It adds a word counter on the status bar. > > It wo

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Andrea, On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:15:50PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > >You can try this extension > >http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt > >It adds a word counter on the status b

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: You can try this extension http://aoo-ui-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/git/downloads/WordCountStatusbarController-0.0.1-windows-x86.oxt It adds a word counter on the status bar. It works nicely! Any reasons not to integrate it (as a preinstalled extension o

Re: WORD COUNTER

2014-05-24 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:32:51PM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Also shouldnt be hard to include in the core of AOO, just edit the UI > default menu calling the function that does the process. > > Example here: > http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/xref/aoo-trunk/main/officecfg/regist

Re: try to clear/default formatting causes lock-ups

2014-05-24 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hello John, On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:34:16PM -0500, John Deaton wrote: > One of the many great things about OO, until now---and not sure if > 4.1.0 is worse (but pretty sure), > > Is you could put any text, etc., and clear formats, and get rid of > fonts, paging, paragraphing, and linksall

Re: try to clear/default formatting causes lock-ups

2014-05-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/05/2014 John Deaton wrote: you could put any text, etc., and clear formats, and get rid of fonts, paging, paragraphing, and linksall at once. ... But lately (and I've been using it in multiple computer types), it locks up. I mean IT IS CRASHED. No use waiting for it to solve anything.

Re: Simple advice on how to get Reveal Codes inplemented please

2014-05-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/24/2014 07:02 AM, DaveMainwaring wrote: Some of the threads are so long I don't have the energy to follow all the stuff :_) How do I vote, and support this initiative (or any other) ? This is where you vote for that particular issue https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3395

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-24 Thread Richard Detwiler
Doug wrote: One use of Reveal Codes will tell you whether a tab or a set of spaces is used in a text. Also, to spot double spaces, if you don't just do a find/replace to get rid of them. I think this kind of use could be done in OO or LO just as well. Just to clarify, and as I think most user

Simple advice on how to get Reveal Codes inplemented please

2014-05-24 Thread DaveMainwaring
> the Reveal Codes feature to be most useful in finding oddball > things that may have come in with an imported file, and to debug minor > mishaps that are > not obvious from just looking at the text. One use of Reveal Codes will > tell you whether a tab or a set of spaces is used in a text. Also,

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-24 Thread Alan B
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Doug wrote: > > On 05/23/2014 08:43 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> On 2014-05-23, 3:43 PM japples wrote: >> >> /snip/ > > There is a huge difference between showing non-printing characters and >> showing formatting codes. Saying AOO shows non-printing characters