Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 22 September 2014 04:02:58 pm you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > The best way to open MS Works file is to use LibreOffice, > > http://libreoffice.org/download/ > > > > You can then save them in ODF format and open them in Apache > > OpenOffice if you w

Re: Open Office 4.1.1

2014-09-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 11 September 2014 04:33:21 pm you wrote: > On 9/11/2014 5:41 PM, James Lambert wrote: > > Sir or Madam: Does anyone out there know if OO 4.1.1 will respond > > to Dragon Speech recognition Softwre? James Lambert > > The only thing I can find on the Nuance Support site about Apache > Ope

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 31 August 2014 12:30:21 am you wrote: > Hello, > > > I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am > having problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign > language without my being able to alter the language to English. Can > you send me info on how to correct

Re: rpm repository for apache and openoffice

2014-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 23 August 2014 12:30:46 pm you wrote: > On 08/23/2014 04:05 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > If I download it manually, why bother to set it as a REPO dir? > > Because I have more than one computer that I run it on. The one > directory is available to all 3 computers via my network. However, I >

Re: opening open office docs with microsoft word

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 02 August 2014 11:11:27 you wrote: > Hi my name is Randi Moore. I am an online college student and one of > the tech requirements is that I have microsoft word 2007 or later > version. Well I do NOT want to spend that money to download MS word > 2007! So my question is...if I typ

Re: Apache OpenOffice Has Been Reviewed at ListOfFreeware

2014-07-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 29 July 2014 22:20:54 you wrote: > Hello, > > I am Ubaid from www.listoffreeware.com. This is a popular tech blog > that lists best free software out there. > > I am sending this mail to let you know that we recently reviewed > Apache OpenOffice > on our website here: > http://listoffree

Re: small problem launching openoffice from desktop

2014-07-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 14:20:56 you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Andrea Pescetti > > > wrote: > > On 23/07/2014 JD wrote: > >> in /usr/bin, I have: > >> $ ls -l /usr/bin/*office* > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root jd 32 Jul 23 12:18 /usr/bin/ooffice -> > >> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffic

Re: Open Office Spreadsheets

2014-06-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 05 June 2014 13:02:11 you wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:41:06 -0400 (EDT) > > samr...@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When I updated to 4.1.0 I noticed my previous spreadsheets in Open > > Office Calc have disappeared. I'm running Windows 8.1 using Windows > > Classic Shell. I'm not

Re: Fw: Down loaded New Version - PROBLEM

2014-05-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 15:41:16 you wrote: > ALSO: Save Button Does NOT Work??? > > Help > > I downloaded new version of Oo. > > I CANNOT place any graphics in program. > I CANNOT find the graphics icon to turn on.. > > PLEASE HELP.. > > Thank You, > Ron Make sure you have not opened the

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 23 May 2014 13:43:21 you wrote: > Larry, I understand your words. For now, this is the closest OO has > to WP reveal codes. > > Look closely and you will see some of the codes shown with OO are > also shown in WP reveal codes window. Point being, you don't have to > have a separate wind

Re: Document attachments

2014-05-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 12 May 2014 09:08:20 am you wrote: > I recently started used Open Office. > > I a having a difficult time attaching > a document to an e-mail. > > Can anyone assist me? > > Thank you. Setup Openoffice to use your email client: 1.select from menubar: tools>options>internet>email 2. When

Re: Open Office 4.1.0 - McAfee Couldn't Verify

2014-04-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 08:54:16 you wrote: > Hello, > > I’m in the UK. I’ve downloaded OO 4.1.0 from Sourceforge.net. > McAfee gave me a red shield with a warning that it could not verify > the supplier of the software. Help please. > > Thanks, > Vernon Ford > > PS - OO is great and has

Re: AOO writer cell formatting not sticky

2014-04-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 April 2014 18:39:05 you wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2014 18:12:49 you wrote: > > At 16:34 20/04/2014 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > >I am using AOO v 4.0.1, Debian Wheezy, Linux. I create a table in > > >writer, select a range of cells, apply number for

Re: AOO writer cell formatting not sticky

2014-04-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 April 2014 18:12:49 you wrote: > At 16:34 20/04/2014 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > >I am using AOO v 4.0.1, Debian Wheezy, Linux. I create a table in > >writer, select a range of cells, apply number formating. the > >'currency' number format. The cel

AOO writer cell formatting not sticky

2014-04-20 Thread Greg Madden
I am using AOO v 4.0.1 , Debian Wheezy, Linux. I create a table in writer, select a range of cells, apply number formating. the 'currency' number format. The cells are empty , data gets entered later. Formatting only works if there is a number in the cell. Is this normal/desired by some, be

Re: Problems reinstalling openoffice / conflict with libreoffice-writer

2014-04-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 10 April 2014 03:11:03 you wrote: > Dear mr. or mrs, > > I use your Open Office software, version 4.0.1 on a xubuntu system. > > Since i have tried tot install also the Libreoffice writer on the > system: - the system package of xubuntu has broken > - it is not possible anymore to unins

Re: Can't find upgrade, Can't Uninstall - How do you get rid of OO to start over? I can't Paste out of OO 3.2 on Debian Linux.

2014-04-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 April 2014 17:07:50 you wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2014 15:11:31 you wrote: > > Greg, > > > > Could you please explain how to do that? > > > > > Clearing the clipboard history worked here. > > > > Linda > > The clipboard is a utility that is part of my desktop environment, > loo

Re: Can't find upgrade, Can't Uninstall - How do you get rid of OO to start over? I can't Paste out of OO 3.2 on Debian Linux.

2014-04-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 April 2014 15:11:31 you wrote: > Greg, > > Could you please explain how to do that? > > > Clearing the clipboard history worked here. > > Linda The clipboard is a utility that is part of my desktop environment, look in your menu system, >utilities. Has different names depending o

Re: Can't find upgrade, Can't Uninstall - How do you get rid of OO to start over? I can't Paste out of OO 3.2 on Debian Linux.

2014-04-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 08 April 2014 20:59:31 you wrote: > I have OpenOffice 3.2.1.4 on Debian Squeeze (Linux) > > How does one remove old OpenOffice to get a new one? > > When I try to paste text from Open Office to ANY other application, I > lose words > and parts of lines, whole paragraphs. > > It's incons

Re: How do I open spreadsheets in the QuattroPro with extension .wb3 with open office?

2014-04-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 05 April 2014 10:06:15 you wrote: > On 5 Apr 2014, at 13:27, Greg Madden wrote: > > Supported destination formats > > plain text (*.TXT) > > comma delimited text (*.CSV) > > HTML files (*.HTML) > > XML files (*.XML) > > > > Not to usefull,

Re: How do I open spreadsheets in the QuattroPro with extension .wb3 with open office?

2014-04-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 April 2014 16:59:25 you wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Daleep Koshal wrote: > > How do I open spreadsheets in the QuattroPro with extension .wb3 > > with open office? > > I'm not aware of QPro w3b filters for OpenOffice, but there's third > party software which claims t

Re: file opening

2014-03-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 26 March 2014 09:37:21 you wrote: > On 03/26/2014 12:36 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Saturday 15 March 2014 22:43:16 you wrote: > >> On Saturday 15 March 2014 22:33:24 you wrote: > >>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:07:39 -0400 > >>> > >>&

Re: file opening

2014-03-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 15 March 2014 22:43:16 you wrote: > On Saturday 15 March 2014 22:33:24 you wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:07:39 -0400 > > > > Herb Swift wrote: > > > Using Open Office Writer version 4.0.1, how can I open a file > > > created by Word Perfect 6.1, file extension wpd? > > > > > >

Re: file opening

2014-03-16 Thread Greg Madden
ing. I have an archive of old WP docs, Libreoffice opens them. For work I run WP* in a Windows vm, AOO for the rest. LO uses: Inst libwpd-0.9-9 (0.9.4-3 Debian:7.4/stable [amd64]) Inst libwpg-0.2-2 (0.2.1-1 Debian:7.4/stable [amd64]) Inst libwps-0.2-2 (0.2.7-1 Debian:7.4/stable [amd64]) --

Re: Help!

2014-01-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 13 January 2014 15:03:51 you wrote: > I have been using Open office for several years. > > > All of a sudden it marks all the words in a letter as misspelled. I > like using the spell check but this is ridiculous. I have tried > everything I can think of. > > > I have windows 7 and HP.

Re: Reading and Exporting spreadsheets--another commentary

2014-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 06 January 2014 18:28:15 you wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers > > wrote: > > Greetings All, > > > > Here's (imho) another example of the symptoms of the coding flaws > > inherent in the present OOo software suite. You do something > > according to one set of s

Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 10 November 2013 11:31:22 you wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 18:43:10 PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 10/11/2013 M. Fioretti wrote: > > >>>http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/11/shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years- > > >>>promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/ > > > > It

Re: OO 4.0 (deb) installation problems

2013-10-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 18 October 2013 06:48:42 you wrote: > On Friday 18 October 2013 04:02:27 you wrote: > > >> "Rory" == Rory O'Farrell writes: > >> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:19:16 +0200 > >> > >> Hagar Delest wrote: > >>> Why so much trouble? > >>> Just extract the tarball in your standar

Re: OO 4.0 (deb) installation problems

2013-10-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 18 October 2013 04:02:27 you wrote: > >> "Rory" == Rory O'Farrell writes: >> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:19:16 +0200 >> >> Hagar Delest wrote: >>> Why so much trouble? >>> Just extract the tarball in your standard download folder, then >>> run sudo dpkg -i *.deb in th

Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away

2013-09-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 24 September 2013 11:34:44 you wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, BRM wrote: > > From: Alexandro Colorado > > > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > > Cc: > > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:17 PM > > Subject: Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO > > go awa

Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away

2013-09-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 23 September 2013 15:48:00 you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: > > On 09/23/2013 02:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > > > >There used to be many ideas, but most of the integration became > > a > > > >>> "theme-only" where the Oxygen skin will get s

Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away

2013-09-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 23 September 2013 14:28:52 you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, BRM wrote: > > From: Kay Schenk > > To: "users@openoffice.apache.org" > > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 6:49 PM > > Subject: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go > > away > > > > > I was crui

Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away

2013-09-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 22 September 2013 08:53:10 you wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > I also use KDE, however, most of the integration has to do with the > > distro. Since distros dont ship AOO, the options are very > > integrated with LO. > > > > Dolphin/Konqueror defa

Re: It doesnt open on my android tablet

2013-09-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 21 September 2013 01:45:16 you wrote: > It doesnt download properly. I downloaded for android but it doesnt > open. What can I do? Thanks.  Sorry to bother you. > > > > Sent from Samsung tablet What version did you download (platform), and from where did you download from. As far as

Re: Problem installing alongside libreoffice in linux mint 15

2013-09-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 04 September 2013 13:55:35 you wrote: > simon brown wrote: > > All the packages install fine, except the desktop integration, > > which complains that there is a package conflict with > > /usr/bin/soffice > > You are not subscribed to the list and you missed some useful > answers, see

Re: Thanks. RE: Who copies from who the cloud legend?

2013-09-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 08 September 2013 09:30:32 you wrote: > > it is the "cloudCallout" from presetShapeDefinitions.xml from > > ECMA-376. It is part of the standard specification of OOXML. > > > > kind regards > > Regina > > Thanks for that information. > Now I know, that I can use it in other programs, too.

Re: Read Only

2013-09-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 05 September 2013 13:15:02 you wrote: > I have at least one document I have written in Open Office - Open > Document Text that when I return and open the document I cannot make > changes to - the name of the document is followed by "(read only)".  > I have not (knowingly) requested this

Re: Problem installing alongside libreoffice in linux mint 15

2013-09-04 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 03 September 2013 23:24:22 you wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install open office on a latest linux mint copy, > alongside libreoffice. The reason is that I have a libreoffice calc > bug to do with .xlsx compatibility, and I want to see if your > equivalent will get round this. > > Unfo

Re: How?

2013-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 23 August 2013 16:51:14 you wrote: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:19:38 -0400 > > Rima Schulkind wrote: > > Wish I could help. I think it is the worst word processing app I've > > ever used. > > Well, that was mighty helpful. > > Do you have anything to back up *why* you think it's the wor