Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread James Knott
On 07/26/2014 12:23 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > As far as I remember, you have to right click on the OpenOffice document (or > is it the OO Application itself? - I'm not sure) and select "Run as > Administrator". It should not be necessary to run OO as admin. My main Windows account is a regula

Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:58:14 -0500 "Chris Landrum" wrote: > Hello OO Users, > > I need help. Yesterday, since my Open Office was apparently a victim of > computer gremlins, I uninstalled, rebooted, installed latest version, > rebooted and solved that problem. > > NOW I’m getting an error mess

Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread Alexandro Colorado
If you are using Windows, a good emergency strategy is to try another set of OpenOffice. If yu have a SD card or USB memory dongle, you can install Portable OpenOffice. This will completely be separated from whatever nefarious stuff might be on your computer. Portable OpenOffice install to your U

Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/26/2014 08:58 AM, Chris Landrum wrote: Hello OO Users, I need help. Yesterday, since my Open Office was apparently a victim of computer gremlins, I uninstalled, rebooted, installed latest version, rebooted and solved that problem. NOW I’m getting an error message when trying to open all

help please

2014-07-26 Thread Chris Landrum
Hello OO Users, I need help. Yesterday, since my Open Office was apparently a victim of computer gremlins, I uninstalled, rebooted, installed latest version, rebooted and solved that problem. NOW I’m getting an error message when trying to open all previous OO documents which says: “The reques

Re: open a spreadsheet

2014-07-26 Thread Julian Thomas
On Jul 25, 2014, at 20:42, John Hanbury wrote: > Is there a way that I can place a shortcut icon on the desktop which will > open a specific sheet without opening OpenOffice first? depending on your OS, there's a way to always associate .xls files with open office, so you just need to click o