Re: OpenOffice

2015-02-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 06-Feb-15 12:23, Steve wrote: Does OpenOffice work with Microsoft word and Excel files Simple said Yes, but depending on the version of Microsoft Word there could be some minor issues in formatting. Sent from my iPhone -

OpenOffice

2015-02-05 Thread Steve
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Re: Bad download

2015-02-05 Thread Jim McLaughlin
>From whence did you download OpenOffice? I suggest that you were not on the only official OpenOffice site, that being www.openoffice.org. If you downloaded from that site, and only that site, you will not have any extraneous and undesired programs added to your download. Sadly, there are unscrup

Re: Bad download

2015-02-05 Thread Jim McLaughlin
>From whence did you download OpenOffice? I suggest that you were not on the only official OpenOffice site, that being www.openoffice.org. If you downloaded from that site, and only that site, you will not have any extraneous and undesired programs added to your download. Sadly, there are unscrup

Bad download

2015-02-05 Thread Bill Smith
I downloaded open Office today and when I installed it there was about 4 programs tried to install with it, Two made it before I could get them stopped in the end I had to restore my computer it would not reboot to the desktop the was a black screen so I had to go to safe mode and restore the c

Re: Drop Down Menu in AOO4.1.1

2015-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:29 05/02/2015 -0500, Vince Bonly wrote: On 2/4/2015 3:31 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:13 04/02/2015 -0500, Vince Bonly wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, at 13:55, Brian Barker wrote: From: Vince Bonly: Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:51:53 -0500 Does a feature exist whereby I can insert Today's Date in

Re: Drop Down Menu in AOO4.1.1

2015-02-05 Thread Vince-WA2RSX
Actually, what I need is "current date" whenever I reopen the spreadsheet. This will save me time and avoid typos, since I have fat fingers and poor vision! I do not need a time stamp included for my Oil Consumption calculations. I do not understand about the "F2, F9,Enter,Enter" sequence (i

Re: Importing PDF form into OO 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 2/6/2015 3:31 AM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Feb 5, 2015, at 09:33, Vince B. wrote: You might want to consider a program called: NitroPDF. unfortunately only available for windoze And that is exactly the OS where the poster refers to. — jt - j...@jt-mj.net Never ascribe to malice that w

Re: Importing PDF form into OO 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Feb 5, 2015, at 09:33, Vince B. wrote: > > You might want to consider a program called: NitroPDF. unfortunately only available for windoze — jt - j...@jt-mj.net Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -Napoleon Bonaparte --

Re: Importing PDF form into OO 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread Vince B.
Hi Jim: You might want to consider a program called: NitroPDF. I use it by first importing a PDF that has fillable-fields. Then add the text strings to the form. Save my work as a PDF file, or print the filled-in form directly to local printer. This works for me and seems to to me simpler th

Re: Align and Sort Names in Calc

2015-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 05:10 05/02/2015 -0500, Linda Hull wrote: I need to align and sort two columns of names (one is missing some) and the associated information. stuff name1 name1 stuff stuff name2 name4 stuff stuff name3 name2 stuff stuff name4 name7 stuff stuff name5 name3 stuff name6 stuff

Align and Sort Names in Calc

2015-02-05 Thread Linda Hull
I need to align and sort two columns of names (one is missing some) and the associated information. stuff name1name1 stuff stuff name2name4 stuff stuff name3name2 stuff stuff name4name7 stuff stuff name5name3 stuff name6 stuff name5 stuff I

Re: Importing PDF form into OO 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:10 04/02/2015 -0800, Jim McLaughlin wrote: I am running OO 4.0.1 on a PC clone under Windows 7 Home Premium edition. I am looking for a way to import into OO a form created by a third party with Adobe in PDF format. I want to be able to fill out the form with my computer, rather than pri

Re: Importing PDF form into O­O 4.0.1

2015-02-05 Thread johnny smith
Jim McLaughlin : > I am looking for a way to import into OO a form created by a third party > with Adobe in PDF format. I want to be able to fill out the form with my > computer, rather than print a blank form and fill in by hand. > > For reasons not known to me, the third party did not create