Re: open a spreadsheet

2014-07-25 Thread Tony Gallas
John I'm using OO on a Windows 8.1 so I can right click on the file in Documents, choose "Send to" and then "desktop as icon". Works for me. Just about any file can be put on the desktop in the same way. Then click on the icon and the file opens. If you use a Mac it might be different. Tony

open a spreadsheet

2014-07-25 Thread John Hanbury
I am a new user of Open Office. To open an Excel spreadsheet I first open “OpenOffice, then choose “Spreadsheet” then select the file. Is there a way that I can place a shortcut icon on the desktop which will open a specific sheet without opening OpenOffice first? Thanks, John H

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4

2014-07-25 Thread James Plante
Yes. The file will load just fine--UNLESS you try to Insert-->From file... If you do that, the inserted file overwrites the one you loaded originally. So I have to open each Excel file and save it as an .ott. Then I can copy/paste between them normally. Jim On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:41 PM, James

RE: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4‏

2014-07-25 Thread chuck ef
OK - I am only playing with 4.1.0 right now so I might give it go. See how the weekend goes. Thanks. > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:04:46 +0200 > From: pesce...@apache.org > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4‏ > > On 25/07/2014 chuck ef wrote: > > Column

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4‏

2014-07-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/07/2014 chuck ef wrote: Column confusion when using Apple's Magic Mouse: Apparently this is a known issue. I have been using the scroll bar at the bottom of the OO spreadsheet as a usable work-around. If you want to test whether OpenOffice 4.1.1 will fix this issue (as Johnny wrote, this

Re: Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4‏

2014-07-25 Thread chuck ef
Thanks to those who replied. To Martin, I have written much software over the years that was indeed "confused". And while I am often confused, I have no soul - many people have told me this so it must be true. Anyway, as I mentioned in the previous email - Cut-And-Paste issue: I had (

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4

2014-07-25 Thread James Lambert
James: Have you tried just loading an MS file directly? James Lambert -Original Message- From: James Plante Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:32 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4 Reply interleaved: On Jul 24, 2014, at 12:24 PM, chuck ef wrote:

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4

2014-07-25 Thread James Plante
Reply interleaved: On Jul 24, 2014, at 12:24 PM, chuck ef wrote: > I am an OO newbie so bear with me. > I am on an iMac using 10.9.4 and I have never used OO before. I downloaded > 4.1.0. I am trying to migrate an MS Excel spreadsheet to Calc. It will be > nice to get away from MS. > Anyway,

Re: Calc issues, Mac OS X 10.9.4

2014-07-25 Thread mt
Hi Chuck, On 24/7/14 at 3:24 AM, chuck...@hotmail.com (chuck ef) wrote: I am an OO newbie so bear with me. I am on an iMac using 10.9.4 and I have never used OO before. I downloaded 4.1.0. I am trying to migrate an MS Excel spreadsheet to Calc. It will be nice to get away from MS. Forgive m