RE: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
This is as good a place for your question as any. You can tell there are strong differences felt about other user interfaces. In any case, no developers have taken an interest in this and it won't happen unless a volunteer developer with the capacity, capability, and will to undertake somethi

Re: mp4 video not supported in Impress

2016-09-09 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I asked about the ability to embed other formats to understand if you were able to embed anything, not to imply that you needed to encode in another format. The other point is that mp4 is a container and dues not imply the codec. I eclectic that the problem is either am inability to embed anythi

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Tai Nen Chow
Hi Dennis, I agree with your view about file-format level. Actually i would like to post the question to OpenOffice, until one the users informed that I had posted to Users Group. Anyway I still appreciate Dennis and other Users feedback. Best regards, Eric _

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:30 09/09/2016 -0400, Terry Hocevar wrote: That is exactly what I can do in Publisher and what I need. Thanks Dennis. Er, except that - as it happens - it was Dennis who told you that you *couldn't* do this in Writer and it was I that then explained how you could! ;^) Brian Barker --

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Terry Hocevar
That is exactly what I can do in Publisher and what I need. Thanks Dennis. -Original Message- From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:19 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Terry Hocevar Subject: RE: MS Office Publisher At 11:57 09/09/2

Re: Your my last hope, please help.

2016-09-09 Thread Hagar Delest
For the record, username sent to OP by mail (private). Hagar Le 09/09/2016 à 15:37, Clifford Sanford a écrit : Hi My copy of Writer recently stopped insert current dates, page numbers, etc. I attempted to get on the community forum to get a solution for this. However, I found that I am lock

Re: mp4 video not supported in Impress

2016-09-09 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 13:08, Andrew Pitonyak wrote: > > Q1: Are you able to insert other video formats? The obvious OGG Vorbis format > comes to mind. > > If you can embed other formats, then I can convert the video or I can link to the mp4 file in the same directory. I had hoped to be a

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 13:19 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: Terry Hocevar > Subject: RE: MS Office Publisher > > At 11:57 09/09/2016 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >There are functions o

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:57 09/09/2016 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: There are functions of Publisher that OpenOffice Writer does not have (such as column flow into non-contiguous pages) ... I hesitate to query an expert, and I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. But in OpenOffice Writer I can: o Create t

Re: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Wade Smart
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Terry Hocevar wrote: > Hi Wade, I am looking to replace MS Publisher with something less expensive > and easier to get. I am pretty good using Publisher. Does Write work like > Word or Publisher or a mix? I was looking for a specific product or something > to mo

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Terry Hocevar [mailto:tcarna...@comcast.net] > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 10:49 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: MS Office Publisher > > Hi Wade, I am looking to replace MS Publisher with something less > expensive and easier to get. I am

Re: mp4 video not supported in Impress

2016-09-09 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
First question, since I know little to nothing about this that is not many years out of date: Q1: Are you able to insert other video formats? The obvious OGG Vorbis format comes to mind. If you can embed other formats, then MP4 is just a container, do you know what codec is used to enc

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread James Knott
On 09/09/2016 12:11 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > This is a Ford versus Chevrolet matter I'd have thought Porche vs Lada. ;-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread James Knott
On 09/09/2016 12:04 AM, Tai Nen Chow wrote: > Hi, just wonder when will Open Office release ribbon interface version? > > Hopefully NEVER!!! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional command

Re: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread James Knott
On 09/08/2016 07:58 PM, Terry Hocevar wrote: > > Do you have a similar product or recommendation for beginner > newsletter publisher? > > > > You might try Scribus. https://www.scribus.net/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsub

RE: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Terry Hocevar
Hi Wade, I am looking to replace MS Publisher with something less expensive and easier to get. I am pretty good using Publisher. Does Write work like Word or Publisher or a mix? I was looking for a specific product or something to move to. Terry -Original Message- From: Wade Smart [mai

mp4 video not supported in Impress

2016-09-09 Thread Julian Thomas
I am unable to insert an mp4 video in OO 4.1.2 in either windows 10 or Macos. Is there a fix for this? — jt - j...@jt-mj.net Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. - Wendell Berry - To uns

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I would say more accurately, some people live it and some people hate it... At the moment there is no plan to go in this direction Sent from BlueMail On Sep 9, 2016, 8:27 AM, at 8:27 AM, Chuck Davis wrote: >Hopefully, never. It's a major productivity killer!! > >I'm currently working on a pr

RE: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
This is a Ford versus Chevrolet matter (or Toyota versus BMW, if you prefer). Absolute statements like this are not helpful. There are folks who find the ribbon and its growing consistency across Windows to be very useful, especially since you can make the whole thing disappear and pop down on

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 08:28, Chuck Davis wrote: > > Hopefully, never. It's a major productivity killer!! I agree. Who needs it? — jt - j...@jt-mj.net The right thing and the easy thing are rarely the same thing. - To

Your my last hope, please help.

2016-09-09 Thread Clifford Sanford
Hi My copy of Writer recently stopped insert current dates, page numbers, etc.  I attempted to get on the community forum to get a solution for this. However, I found that I am locked out from logging in.  As suggested, I tried to re register.  That was not allowed as my e-mail address was alrea

Re: Ribbon Interface

2016-09-09 Thread Chuck Davis
Hopefully, never. It's a major productivity killer!! I'm currently working on a project where I've had to use excelwhat a pain!! On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Tai Nen Chow wrote: > Hi, just wonder when will Open Office release ribbon interface version? > > > Best regards, > > Open Of

Re: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread Wade Smart
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:41 AM, toki wrote: > On 08/09/2016 23:58, Terry Hocevar wrote: >> Do you have a similar product or recommendation for beginner newsletter >> publisher? > > Write will do a better job than anything MSPublisher could ever dream of > being able to do. > > > jonathon I think

Re: MS Office Publisher

2016-09-09 Thread toki
On 08/09/2016 23:58, Terry Hocevar wrote: > Do you have a similar product or recommendation for beginner newsletter > publisher? Write will do a better job than anything MSPublisher could ever dream of being able to do. jonathon ---