Re: Paste

Eleanor Martha - I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you're doing, but I wonder if your problem is related to a longstanding bug in LibreOffice that may also afflict Apache OpenOffice. See https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148647#c11, for example. Are you using MS Windo

Re: Cancel Subscription Please

Marti - If you are referring to a paid subscription for the AO Professional software, then you will need to contact whomever you obtained that software from. I don't know who that would be. There is no paid subscription for Apache OpenOffice itself (http://www.openoffice.org/), and the e-mail

Re: open office file not working

>From where did you download it? If you download it from the official site, http://www.openoffice.org/, you will not be asked for such information. - Robert From: Rino Marcora Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2024 12:04 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: R:

Re: Assistance re:scam

Michael - I'm sorry to hear about your problem. I don't believe that the OpenOffice project had anything to do with taking your money. What was the contact information for the supposed 'help desk', and where did you get the information from? Whoever gave you the information was probably involv

Re: urgent denied file to open

I do not see your attached image. Maybe it's larger than the maximum allowed size? - Robert From: Marc Nicollet Sent: April 11, 2024 00:44 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: urgent denied file to open Hi I cannot open anymore my open office files 4.1.12

Re: Incorrect page numbering on PDF export (Win11)

I'm using LibreOffice 24.2.1.2 and I see the same incorrect page numbering that you see. - Robert From: Robert Rath Sent: April 11, 2024 11:11 To: W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Incorrect page numbering on PDF e

Re: Incorrect page numbering on PDF export (Win11)

Robert - You can hide your confidential data using Edit > Find and Replace. Make sure the 'Regular expressions' box is checked, enter [a-z] in the Find field, and enter x in the Replace field. If you then click on Replace All, every lower-case letter will be replaced by x. Similarly, you can us

Re: open office

Mary - At https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation there is a selection of User Guides and tutorials. If you look through them, you might find one that can get you going. - Robert From: Mary Sent: February 13, 2024 17:00 To: users@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Apache Open Office

Paolo - I think that at http://www.openoffice.org/it/ you can download an Italian version of Apache OpenOffice. Ho capito bene? - Robert From: Paolo_P Paolo_P Sent: January 29, 2024 13:39 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Apache Open Office Buona sera

Re: Email software

; 07/01/2024 22:24 (GMT+00:00) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: > Re: Email software On 8/1/24 01:47, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. wrote:> > Jodi -> > The Apache OpenOffice project does not offer an e-mail client. > One well-known open-source e-mail client is Thunderbird

Re: Email software

Jodi - The Apache OpenOffice project does not offer an e-mail client. One well-known open-source e-mail client is Thunderbird (https://www.thunderbird.net/) and there are others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients). - Robert From: Jodi Sw

Re: Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.15_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe

The 'Win' in the file name indicates that you downloaded the Windows version instead of the Mac Version. - Robert From: Doug Sterrett Sent: December 27, 2023 15:42 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.15_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe As re

Re: Cannot close file document

Eugenia - How exactly are you doing the 'close' and 'force quit', and what exactly happens? Is this something new that's happening for one particular document? What operating system are you using? - Robert From: Eugenia Wiltshire Sent: December 24, 2023 11:59

Re: PDF to odt problem

e document is now only a picture of each page. Good luck! Bill On Friday 15 December 2023 09:33:18 Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:07:44 + > > "W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof." wrote: > > I assume that by 'totally distorted' Yvonne mean

Re: PDF to odt problem

I assume that by 'totally distorted' Yvonne meant that the text was present but the formatting was scrambled. If that is the case, I don't think that optical character recognition (OCR) software would do any better, and it might introduce errors in the text itself. I'm not aware of any better s

Re: OpenOffice locked up

Have you tried using the Task Manager to shut down OpenOffice? From: Rod Christ Sent: December 9, 2023 12:31 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice locked up [You don't often get email from cozum...@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at http

Re: Help need to recover my account

You don't need an account to get OpenOffice. You can just download the free software from http://www.openoffice.org/. - Robert From: Leslie Holden Sent: November 27, 2023 19:23 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Help need to recover my account Now, my Ope

Re: Problem

Miguel - I assume that you have other word-processor files that work OK in OpenOffice? If so, it's possible that something has become corrupted in this particular file. Are you able to do Edit > Select All (or just control-A)? If so, you could try do that and then Edit > Copy (or control-C) an

Re: Issue with cursor

Ray - I'm not sure this exactly matches your description of what happens, but is it possible that you've pressed the Insert key on your keyboard? That changes you from the usual Insert mode to the Overwrite mode. The shape of the mouse cursor changes and the word 'Overwrite' appears at the bott

Re: How to Make a Background Fit?

Linda - When you were 'playing with the backgrounds', did you try adjusting the page margins to make the image cover the entire page? Or did you use the real 'Background' feature that ignores the page margins for the image but should leave them unchanged for any text you add to the page? In an

Re: Problem open office text

Ian - Nope, not a dumbo :-) In addition to Elaine's suggestions, you might try looking for the Zoom entry in the View menu. There's also a Zoom slider control at the bottom right corner of the Writer window. - Robert From: ELAINE MURSZEWSKI Sent: August 17, 20

Re: Read Only only

Have you tried going to the Edit menu and clicking on 'Edit Mode'? - Robert From: Andre Ryland Sent: August 14, 2023 17:00 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Read Only only Help please.Please guide me to help to allow my to again edit my own files i creat

Re: Open Office crashes immediately after it loads the pages.

Tom - When you subscribed yourself to the list, there should have been instructions for unsubscribing yourself. I can't do it for you. - Robert From: Tom Griffith Sent: August 13, 2023 19:56 To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof

Re: Open Office crashes immediately after it loads the pages.

Linda - Writing '%AppData%' is meant to be instead of specifying 'C:\Users\username\AppData'. I think that 'OO Software > OO ShutUp10' is related to 'O&O ShutUp10', some kind of privacy tool. I think the OpenOffice folder that you're looking for may be in AppData\Roaming\, not in AppData\Local

Re: Besoin d'aide

Manuel - Cette liste fonctionne surtout en anglais. Pour l'aide en français, vous pouvez aller à https://forum.openoffice.org/fr/forum/. En tout cas, pour vous aider, on aurait besoin de plus de détails. C'est quoi exactement qui arrive quand vous essayez d'utiliser le logiciel OpenOffice.org?

Re: OpenOffice.org - Windows 11 Compatibility

If you download the software from www.openoffice.org, it will cost nothing. The 'Support' here is from volunteers. - Robert From: Benny, Olivia Sent: July 12, 2023 18:07 To: David Robley ; users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: d...@openoffi

Re: Deleting presentation

Frank - Are you talking about deleting the file for the presentation, or deleting all of the slides within the presentation but keeping the file intact? For the latter, I see in LibreOffice that if I select all of the slides then (oddly) the Delete Slide menu item disappears. Is that what you'r

Re: Open Office becoming impossible to use- bug ridden

See https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99158, for example, for instructions on resetting your profile. You will lose any customizations that are stored in the profile, but sometimes they become corrupted. - Robert On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 2:37 

Re: Can't edit my PDF files

David - My first thought is that in the past you were scanning your documents with optical character recognition (OCR) turned on, and that now it's turned off for some reason. With OCR turned on, the PDF file contains the actual text and also an image of the page. With OCR turned off, the PDF

Re: Att: Open WPS In Openoffice

Joe - According to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/DocumentManagement/How_can_I_open_Microsoft_Works_wordprocessor_files_(.wps)%3F, OpenOffice cannot open .wps files but LibreOffice can. Both of them use .odt files as their native format and that is what I would recomme

Re: After updtaing to Newest Version

There's a discussion that seems relevant at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=107895 and one of the posts points to a very long discussion at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90677. It seems that the problem could be caused by your anti-virus software.

Re: open office

Vivian - This depends on what operating system you're using. May we ask why you want to uninstall it? - Robert From: Vivian Passmore Sent: March 25, 2023 09:53 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: open office How do I uninstall it? vpassm...@hotmail.com

Re: New feature…?

Sara - Perhaps the instructions at http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_ooo.html#image_background would help? - Robert From: Sara Mahoney Sent: March 25, 2023 09:39 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: New feature…? [You don't often get email from s

Re: Is there a limit to page number correction values in OO?

Joana - I think this was a fine way to answer. I apologize for unthinkingly providing a LibreOffice link, I hope I didn't offend too many people. - Robert From: Joana Ottenbacher Sent: March 24, 2023 15:18 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Is there

Re: Is there a limit to page number correction values in OO?

Joana - Maybe what you need is 'To Start With a Defined Page Number' at https://help.libreoffice.org/7.3/en-US/text/swriter/guide/pagenumbers.html? - Robert From: Matthias Seidel Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 13:51 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: xdonnervog..

Re: Hi, I'm wondering about ODF in comparison to DOCX

Nikhil - Microsoft have done their best to make it impossible for others to create .docx files. Apache OpenOffice can save files in the older .doc format. LibreOffice (www.libreoffice.org) can save files in the .docx format, but the process isn't perfect. It usually works fine for simple docum

Re: re finding words in articles in open office suggestion

Priscilla - I don't have Word so I'm not familiar with the Search tool in Word that you're describing. It sounds like the Search tool in the upper right corner of the Windows File Explorer. In Debian (and presumably also in Ubuntu) there is the 'recoll' application, which searches within the c

Re: Advice

section. - Robert From: Rory O'Farrell Sent: February 12, 2023 12:34 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Advice On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:25:17 + "W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof." wrote: > Rory, I'm not very familiar with

Re: Advice

Rory, I'm not very familiar with sections. Can Michael do Insert > Section after he already has the index in his main document? Or should he do it in the main document before adding the index? In that case, how do you recommend that he add the index? Insert > Text from File? Copy and paste? Cou

Re: Letter template

Frank - One way to solve your problem is to position the cursor just above the e-mail-address frame and press Enter once or twice, and then select the telephone-number frame and use the up-arrow key to move it back up where you want it. You should now be able to click below the frames to enter

Re: Question about embedding fonts in Open Office

Caroline - I'm not aware of a way to prevent a font from being embedded in an exported PDF file, but from what I've read it seems that fonts won't be embedded if the font licence doesn't allow it. Assuming that you know which of your fonts have restrictive licences, have you tried exporting a d

Re: Reveal Codes

Andrew - I would like to take you up on your kind offer to send a copy of your RevealCodes3.odt. If you don't mind, I could add it to my notes about RevealCodes at http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_ooo.html#reveal; otherwise I would just keep it to play with when I have a chance. One o

Re: Impossibilité de désactiver le correcteur d'orthographe sur OPEN OFFICE 10.1.11.

Michelle Desire Piriou - Est-ce que votre correcteur d’orthographe est toujours en panne? (Is your spell checker, which used to work, still not working?) Est-ce que c'est possible que vous avez changé le langage de paragraph par accident? (Is it possible that you accidentally changed the paragra

Another spreadsheet formatting query

Having had my cell colours query sorted so quickly by you very helpful people, I’m gonna push my luck because I have discovered another one! I am finding that apparently random rows do not set themselves to my selected ‘optimal height’? See attached extract from a recordings catalogue. Optimal

Re: General help issue

re i need to go to find the options and paths > > is that on open office otsself > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Dec 2019, at 15:08, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. >> wrote: >> >> If you have 'Always create a backup copy' enabled, you could try &

Re: General help issue

e as a user when you first get the > software (i think i put initials) > but i hadnt updated it by then > and cant remember what i may have put or what is was before as was a long > time ago > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Dec 2019, at 14:47, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. >&

Re: General help issue

o recovery is set - every 15 minutes. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Dec 2019, at 14:28, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. >> wrote: >> >> The length of 18.6 kB suggests that there's something in the file, but >> for some reason OpenOffice isn't

Re: General help issue

d before. > when i click ok > the document opens but is total blank like a new document. > > size says 18.6kb > > non of the attributes on the document are ticked. > > also in document statistics thats is totally blank > where as another document has information > > S

Re: General help issue

When you can't open the document or it won't let you access it, what exactly happens? Is there an error message? Does it open but appear empty? What is the file size according to the file listing (in File Explorer under Windows). Do you have timed backups enabled? - Robert On Thu, 19 Dec 201

Re: Apple operating system upgrade question

At https://www.pcmag.com/article/371267/how-to-run-32-bit-apps-in-macos-catalina (2nd paragraph) there are instructions for listing which of your applications are 64-bit and which are 32-bit. - Robert On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Wade Smart wrote: > If you do not know if you installed the 32 or 64 ve

Re: !

Are you aware that the people responding to these messages about free software are all volunteers? It is rather inappropriate to tell them what they 'must' do. Subject lines on e-mail messages make it much easier to manage the large numbers of messages on the list. It's easy to turn off the ca

Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

Is there any more substance to the claim about malware in LO than there is to the claim about OO going away? I doubt it. - Robert On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, JD wrote: > That wind you got was just some people's brain fart because they are > the club of a derivative software called libre' office. This

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, DCollins wrote: > I happened to run an .odt document through another spell checker and it > turned up a couple of clear typos that Open Office did not catch. > ... > I notice that if I type just the two words directly into a fresh doc with > nothing else, OpenOffice does rec

Captions [was Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Andrew Pitonyak wrote: > ... ... It sounds like you might want to add something like "keep > with next paragraph", or something, but, I usually only use that for > things such as captions where I really need to keep the caption with > a figure, table, or code listing.  Andre

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Felmon Davis wrote: > ... > I can make a 'style' which indents a paragraph say .03" left and right and > say .08" above and below. > > I call this 'text-indent' and when the authors in the volume have extended > quotations, I can format them with a click on the style. > > but

Re: Lost File

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, JW wrote: > I’ve been using Open Office for quite awhile and it seemed to be working well. > > A few weeks ago, I tried to open one of my spreadsheets and it wouldn’t open, > my computer kept trying to open it in Excel. Tried again today, same thing, > so I reinstalled Open

Re: Open Office download

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Reiko Surlow wrote: > I tried to download Open Office. It had approx. 7 minutes left of the > download and seem to have gotten stuck because after 7 minutes it still said > seven minutes remaining. I lost the box where it was informing me of the > time and approx. size. >

Re: Installing Open Office in Windows

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, David Riley wrote: > I have a new laptop based on Windows 10. > > I downloaded Open Office for Windows from the > https://www.openoffice.org/download/ website. > > This is the filename I received in my Downloads folder: > Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Win_x86_install_en-US > > Wh

Re: Retrieving a doc from old account

W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. < > robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 14:07:40 -0400 >>> Carole Christopher wrote: >>> >>>> I used to use Open Office all the time.

Re: Retrieving a doc from old account

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 14:07:40 -0400 > Carole Christopher wrote: > >> I used to use Open Office all the time. But when we got a new computer, >> missed getting that set up on replacement computer. >> >> I have installed 4.16 on this computer now, but canno

Re: Retrieving a doc from old account

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Robert Funnell wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 14:07:40 -0400 >> Carole Christopher wrote: >> >> > I used to use Open Office all the time. But when we got a new computer, >> > missed getting that set up on replacement computer. >

Re: Retrieving a doc from old account

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 14:07:40 -0400 > Carole Christopher wrote: > >> I used to use Open Office all the time. But when we got a new computer, >> missed getting that set up on replacement computer. >> >> I have installed 4.16 on this computer now, but canno

Re: Unwanted Capitalization.

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, FC wrote: >     I use 4.1.3 with Win 10. >     OO Writer has an infuriating habit of capitalizing things > I do not want capitalized. >     Does anyone know how to fix this? What is it capitalizing? Things after a period? If that's the problem, go to Tools > AutoCorrect > Au

Re: Page numbers

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Stephen Whitehead wrote: > I am having problems with inserting page numbers. I have been through the > procedure of inserting a footer then selecting fields then page number. The > words “page number” is then inserted into the footer and NOT the digit 1 . I > have tried uni

Re: Open Office Premium suite

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Richard Rood wrote: > So far I like your program, however in creating a program calendar I cannot > find how to include lines, vertical and horizontal to seperate dates and > events Have you tried inserting a table? Does that do what you want? - Robert -

Re: Help - please - pretty please!

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, mnxe...@gmail.com wrote: > Can you please tell me how to get successive blank pages to follow below the > active page I'm working on, and not alongside it? > > eg: Page 2 ready for use below the bottom edge of Page 1, and not appearing > alongside it? > If you're in Writer, th

Re: Open Office Writer crashes

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, David Robley wrote: > On 6/11/18 11:40 pm, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, David Robley wrote: >> >>> On 6/11/18 12:49 pm, Lin Iseminger wrote: >>>> I apologize if this is not the right place to send this but in

Re: Open Office Writer crashes

On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, David Robley wrote: > On 6/11/18 12:49 pm, Lin Iseminger wrote: >> I apologize if this is not the right place to send this but in case it is… >> >> Almost every time I use the program it says something unexpected occurred >> and anything I had open needs to be recovered. Mos

Re: Have a question please

On Sun, 21 Oct 2018, Cindy Wardle wrote: > Hi, > > I have Openoffice and have loved it for several years now.  But just recently > when I went to open up my saved document spreadsheet it takes about 5 minutes > to open up my saved copies.  They are just stand spreadsheets with a > description l