Re: A question

2021-06-29 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, when inserting a photo into a Writer document then mostly the photo dimensions are bigger than the width of the page. You can select the photo and resize the photo (or any other graphical object) symetrically by pressing Shift+Strg and then selecting one of the handles which you can see wh

Re: A question

2021-06-29 Thread Dan Lewis
A photo can be placed wherever you want to do so the way you want to do it. However, this requires the knowledge of styles. This has been ever since OOo.org 1.0. The Writer Guide contains a chapter on styles. The Writer chapter in the Getting Started Guide does also. One of these two guides als

Re: A Question.

2019-11-12 Thread David Robley
You can do this using the file manager provided by your operating system - on Windows it may be called Windows Explorer. Alternatively you can use the File | Open menu in AOO and right click to see options for selected files. Note that you can select multiple files using Shift+Click for contigu

Re: A Question about drafting pictures from ODG to PDF and then to a Comprehensive E-Book Format

2019-08-26 Thread David Belina
Sorry abut the triple import of the quote. On August 26, 2019 at 4:11:37 PM, David Belina (dbel...@comcast.net) wrote: A difference in raster vs vector graphics? I found this:  As of 1.5.x versions of Scribus, you can now import PDFs as vector graphics files. Previously, all you could do

Re: A Question about drafting pictures from ODG to PDF and then to a Comprehensive E-Book Format

2019-08-26 Thread David Belina
A difference in raster vs vector graphics? I found this:  As of 1.5.x versions of Scribus, you can now import PDFs as vector graphics files. Previously, all you could do would have been to rasterize a PDF into an image frame. This leaves you with some limited and in some cases less than ideal

Re: A Question Pertaining To Updating

2017-02-26 Thread nasrin khaksar
hello. you can install openoffice in your native and favorite language. but if you wish, you can install language pack to install additional languages. (all languages which openoffice is translated to them). On 2/18/17, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:01:19 -0500 > Curtis Watson w

Re: A Question Pertaining To Updating

2017-02-18 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:01:19 -0500 Curtis Watson wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > What is the difference between a full installation and installing the > Language Pack only? > > -- > Respectfully, > > *M* This note may help you: https://www.openoffice.org/download/full_vs_lp.html A full

Re: A question

2016-11-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Paul, Itipong (Paul) schrieb: Dear Sir or Madam I would like to know if I can change the font color by using IF Function as an example below. =if((a1+b1)<5;red(a1+b1);green(a1+b1)) I cannot find a solution or an example on the OpenOffice Help. So please advi

Re: A question

2016-11-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:39 14/11/2016 +0700, Paul Itipong wrote: I would like to know if I can change the font color by using IF Function as an example below. =if((a1+b1)<5;red(a1+b1);green(a1+b1)) You probably know the answer is No! But you can achieve this differently but very easily. In the cell itself, jus

Re: a question about openoffice and docx format.

2016-07-29 Thread David Rivers
However, the .doc format from earlier Microsoft Write programs is readable with very little if any format difference from the later .docx format. Anyone with the software to write .docx files should have no problem reading .doc files. Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Apache OpenOffice does not have

RE: a question about openoffice and remote.

2016-07-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There is no support for Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Visio formats (although SVG can be interchanged with the latest releases of Visio). OpenOffice can operate with remote file systems that appear as if they appear as local disk drives or file folders on your operating system. OpenOffice do

RE: a question about openoffice and docx format.

2016-07-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Apache OpenOffice does not have a means to save documents as .docx. If it is not acceptable to save the documents as .doc or .odt, you will need to use a different product. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: nasrin khaksar [mailto:nasrinkhaks...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 26,

Re: a question about openoffice and docx format.

2016-07-26 Thread Maurice Howe
Including religious material in a FORUM note is inappropriate. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:03 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote: > hello every one again. > i have a very valuable documents saved in microsoft office with docx > format. > when i opened them with openoffice writer and if i change even one > c

Re: A question

2016-05-21 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Please be sure that when you do download Open Office you download it *ONLY* from: http://www.openoffice.org/ On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2016 19:57:16 +0100 Rory O'Farrell > writes: > > > No, you have to download it all, a file of about 140MB. You can > > then

Re: A question

2016-05-21 Thread goffscalifornia
On Sat, 21 May 2016 19:57:16 +0100 Rory O'Farrell writes: > No, you have to download it all, a file of about 140MB. You can > then do a custom install to install only Writer, but the memory > saved is not much, as OO is so integrated and you may lose > functionality in some areas. Muchas gr

Re: A question

2016-05-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 21 May 2016 18:25:48 GMT "goffscalifor...@juno.com" wrote: > I would like to d/l and use Apache Open Office, but every time I try it = > "sticks" at a very early stage. And it looks like an enormous file. Al= > l I really need is the Word equivalent, since I don't have any occasion = >

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 21:23, doug wrote: > > I think you are going to have to save the file as a .pdf, and then move the > pdf to the destination and open it with the app for that system. > That ought to preserve everything. Kinda clumsy, but ought to be fool-proof. That will work to preserve

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread doug
On 03/15/2016 05:07 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Mar 15, 2016, at 13:36, Sony Cyriac wrote: BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too find that offensive. Also, It's generally known that doc is a standard format, but when docx is required, it has to be used. In

RE: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
plan on it. If that changes, there will be prominent notice. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Sony Cyriac [mailto:sonyckov...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:08 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: a quest

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 13:36, Sony Cyriac wrote: > > BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too > find that offensive. Also, It's generally known that doc is a standard > format, but when docx is required, it has to be used. In general, I have found lurking beartra

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Sony Cyriac
James Knott, Please understand that many great feature in open source software had developed via discussion like these. Sorry, for any thing, that you have felt offensive. BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too find that offensive. Also, It's generally known tha

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread James Knott
You can use LibreOffice to save .DOCX. However, whenever possible, you should use plain .DOC, due to incompatibilities even within Microsoft Office. BTW, please keep that religious nonsense off this list. Many people, myself included, find such delusion offensive. On 03/15/2016 11:31 AM, Denni

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Sony Cyriac
Dennis Hamilton, Could that be considered as a new feature request. I feel like an export to docx format would be useful for many users. Regards, On Tue 15 Mar, 2016, 9:01 PM Dennis E. Hamilton, wrote: > Nasrin Khaksar, > > Thank you for your request. > > Apache OpenOffice does not produce doc

RE: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Nasrin Khaksar, Thank you for your request. Apache OpenOffice does not produce docx files. There is no effort to provide docx output at this time. There are free products that do feature interoperable support for docx and the other OOXML formats (xslx, pptx, etc.). Users who make us of such

Re: A question

2015-03-24 Thread Dale Erwin
On 3/24/2015 3:47 PM, Molly Teti wrote: Hi, My computer crashed and so I had to save my document but now it says it is locked how do I un lock my file? Please advise thanks ~Molly When you open a file, the system creates a lock file so that it can't be opened by any other app at the same t

Re: A question

2015-03-24 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
You have a document... Let's call it Bob.odt. is there a file in the same directory  named Bob.lck? Delete this file while you are not running open office. On Mar 24, 2015 8:08 PM, Jan wrote: > > Taste preparing by linux live. > - Original Message - > From: "Molly Teti" > To: > Se

Re: A question

2015-03-24 Thread Jan
Taste preparing by linux live. - Original Message - From: "Molly Teti" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:47 PM Subject: A question Hi, My computer crashed and so I had to save my document but now it says it is locked how do I un lock my file? Please advise thanks ~Molly Se

Re: A question

2015-03-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Please let us know if you are able to execute Apache OpenOffice, what happened when you open the file from inside OpenOffice. Did you download OpenOffice from http://www.openoffice.org ? Please let us know, and this might help us know whats the issue. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Molly Teti

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-07 Thread mt
Hello, From the online Help menu for "page numbers": To Start With a Defined Page Number Now you want some more control on page numbers. You are writing a text document that should start with page number 12. 1. Click into the first paragraph of your document. 2. Choose Format -

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread Barbaros Akkurt
Yes, I did see the option, and unchecked it, but had no idea why this blank page was still there. I had to use external software to delete this page. Worked out fine for me, though. On 06-09-2014 20:18, johnny smith wrote: On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:13:02 -, Barbaros Akkurt wrote: I could no

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:13:02 -, Barbaros Akkurt wrote: I could not find the option to exclude the first generated (blank) page in the PDF output unticking 'export automatically inserted blank pages' under 'file - export as pdf - general' has worked for me. -

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread Barbaros Akkurt
Thank you for the clarification. I have done as you wrote in your e-mail, and everything seems perfect. I could not find the option to exclude the first generated (blank) page in the PDF output, so I used another program to delete the first page in the PDF, a python software that uses pypdf mod

Re: A question about OO Writer

2014-09-06 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:51:12 -, Barbaros Akkurt wrote: I have a document in which I must use a different page number than usual. To do this, I enabled a footer, inserted a page number, and it was 1. I right clicked the highlighted area, clicked Fields..., and tried to play with the offset v