Re: Please Help Me Immediately

2025-06-30 Thread David Belina
To import an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet into Microsoft Excel, you'll need to save the OpenOffice file in a format that Excel can read. The most compatible format is Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls). OpenOffice Calc can also export to the newer .xlsx format, which Excel can open. Once saved in a compatib

Re: Please help me

2025-04-11 Thread David Belina
Sounds like the issue is in how files in a folder are being protected - not OpenOffice.  What operating system are you suing? On April 11, 2025 at 12:10:58 PM, Roger McCauley (rmac1...@hotmail.com) wrote: I have been using this apache spreadsheet for several years and love it. I have beco

Re: PLEASE Help. I cannot open an Open Office file saved to my desktop.

2022-04-25 Thread PCS
My apologies if I am stating the obvious, but maybe it can be opened by another application. If you are using a Macintosh, right-click on the OO document and select "Open With” and try one of the non-default apps in the list. I have found that you can usually get usable text if you open an inac

Re: PLEASE Help. I cannot open an Open Office file saved to my desktop.

2022-04-25 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:11:15 + (UTC) george bornyek wrote: > > Hello, > Since having computers Open Office is all that I use.  This malfunction has > never happened before.  What went wrong? > I crafted a very special letter to Elon Musk on Open Office, saved it and > there is nothing that

Re: Please help- file lost

2020-12-07 Thread Lucetta
I have also had this problem, this year was the first time ever in 29 years w/ computers. Was working w/ someone else in a rush working from home w/ out her office equipment. You are not alone! Can you look through all the other places where you might have saved an earlier version? I now sav

Re: Please help- file lost

2020-12-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, See: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=84056 Very few chances to recover anything. This is a longstanding issue in AOO. Bware, you're not subscribed to the list, you may miss other replies. Hagar Le 07/12/2020 à 18:59, Jessica moloney a écrit : Hello, I am prayi

Re: please help

2020-10-19 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 15/10/2020 20:55, Edward Miller wrote: I created a document in Open Office. Then I cut and pasted a Zoom website (info for a meeting) into the document and saved it. However, I cannot get to the website from the document. Why not? Because, you haven't set the *AutoCorrect* option to "

Re: please help

2020-10-19 Thread Robin Lord
Maybe you saved the file as jpg or other image image On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, at 22:15, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > Am 15.10.20 um 20:55 schrieb Edward Miller: > > I created a document in Open Office. Then I cut and pasted a Zoom website > > (info for a meeting) into the document and saved it. However

Re: please help

2020-10-15 Thread Peter Kovacs
Am 15.10.20 um 20:55 schrieb Edward Miller: I created a document in Open Office. Then I cut and pasted a Zoom website (info for a meeting) into the document and saved it. However, I cannot get to the website from the document. Why not? Maybe this helps: The standard (default) behavior fo

Re: Please help!

2020-06-23 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 07:02:54 +0200 Piet Fox wrote: > Every time I cut and paste or download and open a word document in > OpenOffice Writer there are shadowed bars at the end of some of the > sentences. I am able to delete it manually, but it is very time consuming > with a whole document. What c

RE: please help, my whole chapter is unreadable after update

2020-06-12 Thread Geoffrey Hartwell
://www.arbitrator-engineer-gbh.co.uk/ Consulting Engineer and FIDIC Accredited Adjudicator -Original Message- From: Andrew Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org] Sent: 12 June 2020 12:30 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: please help, my whole chapter is unreadable after update

Re: please help, my whole chapter is unreadable after update

2020-06-12 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
If you want me to test load your document, send a copy to my home email address (assuming there is nothing sensitive) and I can take a peek in case it is just something with your configuration that went bad. I have never seen this so  The fact that the doc loads is a good sign.  A quick te

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:13 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:38 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: > o Complete suggestions are not provided: merely partial ones as far as > they are common. I don't understand what

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:38 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: > o Complete suggestions are not provided: merely partial ones as far as > they are common. I don't understand what you mean by this. Complete words are offered, e

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:38 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: o Complete suggestions are not provided: merely partial ones as far as they are common. I don't understand what you mean by this. Complete words are offered, even rare ones if they've been harvested from

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:58 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: > At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote: > > I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill > > suggestions. If I want to type '60

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:58 05/04/2020 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote: I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill suggestions. If I want to type '60 minute massage', it comes up even after I type "6

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Robert Funnell
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote: I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill suggestions. If I want to type '60 minute massage', it comes up even after I type "60", which is great, but now i have all of these o

Re: Please help

2020-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:03 05/04/2020 -0400, Kellie English wrote: I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete unwanted auto fill suggestions. If I want to type '60 minute massage', it comes up even after I type "60", which is great, but now i have all of these other tabbed suggestions that I have to ta

Re: please help

2019-10-11 Thread Steve C
Yeah, probably unnecessary, but also good on you for follow-up ‘mea culpa’. Still, very entertaining, nevertheless... I smiled a lot, and I’m sure many others, did too..! Illegitimi non carborundum.. Best Regards, Steve > On 11 Oct 2019, at 11:33, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > Just want to ap

Re: please help

2019-10-11 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Just want to apologise for not being able to resist making fun of some parts of the OP's post. I'm sorry, it was very unnecessary. Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg Den tors 10 okt. 2019 kl 19:10 skrev Johnny Rosenberg < gurus.knu...@gmail.com>: > Den tors 10 okt. 2019 kl 14:47 skrev Dave Bito'o'

Re: please help

2019-10-10 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 10 okt. 2019 kl 14:47 skrev Dave Bito'o'wu Pratt < nostradumbas...@gmail.com>: > This will be the fourth try at attempting to contact you. You don't make it > easy. The following is my original message. > What was the other three attempts? Writing to this list or what? And who are you re

Re: please help

2019-10-10 Thread DaveB
My responses are given in-line with your original message. Original Message From: Dave Bito'o'wu Pratt [mailto:nostradumbas...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019, 12:19 UTC To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: please help > This will be the fourth try at attemptin

Re: please help me

2017-12-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:34 05/12/2017 -0800, Howard Blum wrote: I must confess, I am spoiled as a very long term Apple Mac user ... I sympathise ... ... and if I cannot figure out how to use an application without looking for a user's guide or manual I tend to walk away from the application and try another.

Re: please help me

2017-12-05 Thread Howard Blum
I must confess, I am spoiled as a very long term Apple Mac user and if I cannot figure out how to use an application without looking for a user's guide or manual I tend to walk away from the application and try another. Having said that, I love this application suite much better than MS Office. Ok

Re: please help me

2017-12-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 06/12/17 6:07 AM, Ella Oblas wrote: I just learned by trial and error that what I have saved is considered a "picture" and not a document. OK, the good news is that you learn from your mistakes, now you have to learn that hijacking someone else message is a bad habit. If you want help st

Re: please help me

2017-12-05 Thread Ella Oblas
I just learned by trial and error that what I have saved is considered a "picture" and not a document. Could you be searching for a document that the computer deemed a "picture"? Ella From: Diane Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:01 PM To: users@openoffice.

Re: please help me

2017-12-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:01:00 -0500 "Diane" wrote: > Hello, > I use Apache Open Office and would like to insert the file/path into the > document so I know where it is next time. I’ve tried going to insert, fields, > other, file name (type), path/file name (format) and insert. When I do this I >

Re: Please Help

2017-09-19 Thread Dave
On 19.09.2017 12:26, N Ladhu wrote: > Dear Support Team, > > I have used open office for a number of years and now predominantly use it > for work documents. > > I use OpenOffice on my MacBook Pro 13” running on Mac OS Sierra Version > 10.12.6. > > Open Office sadly crashed and I now cannot ed

Re: Please Help

2017-09-19 Thread zahra a
hello did you have backup of your file? or saved informations before crashing? see openoffice tools, options, load-save, general save auto recovery information every and also always create backup copy. windows has the option for recovery of file and restore to the previous state, i believe that ma

Re: Please help me :-)

2017-04-08 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Apr 8, 2017, at 12:34, cres...@aol.com wrote: > > I need your help. You see I am a disable person and unable open .pptx files > for my wife in her email attachments. I am an openoffice user for many years > and basically use the word processor and spreadsheet app. Do you have any > sugges

Re: PLEASE HELP WITH THIS-ODT FILE WAS ALTERED AND IS NOW CORRRUPTED

2017-03-09 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 10/03/17 1:10 AM, Ash Ash wrote: If you remember nothing else from this guide, please make sure you remember this. Whenever you ask for technical support, make absolutely sure you state the following: 1) Which version of OpenOffice.org you are running. Open office 4.1.2 2) What your

Re: PLEASE HELP WITH THIS-ODT FILE WAS ALTERED AND IS NOW CORRRUPTED

2017-03-09 Thread Ash Ash
If you remember nothing else from this guide, please make sure you remember this. Whenever you ask for technical support, make absolutely sure you state the following: 1) Which version of OpenOffice.org you are running. Open office 4.1.2 2) What your operating system is (for example, Window

Re: Please help. Having problems with Calc

2016-04-08 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Scott, Scott Bennett schrieb: My wife has used Calc for years to keep track of highly detailed tax data for our business. This week she was entering info on a certain sheet (she has multiple sheets) and it was entering that same info on sheet number one. When she deleted a row from sheet numb

Re: Please help. Having problems with Calc

2016-04-07 Thread nasrin khaksar
hello. i encourage you to make backup from your essential documents. did you try undo for your unwanted changes to return to its previous normal states? thanks so much for your asking. hope that helps and god bless you. On 4/8/16, Dan Lewis wrote: > On 04/07/2016 05:48 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >>

Re: Please help. Having problems with Calc

2016-04-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On 04/07/2016 05:48 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: My wife has used Calc for years to keep track of highly detailed tax data for our business. This week she was entering info on a certain sheet (she has multiple sheets) and it was entering that same info on sheet number one. When she deleted a row from

Re: Please help. Having problems with Calc

2016-04-07 Thread Martin Groenescheij
If you have selected multiple sheets either by purpose or accidentally data entries or changes are done on all selected sheets. This can be handy if you like to enter formulas on multiple sheets, but as you experienced it can be a disaster when you're not aware of it. Sent from my mobile device.

Re: Please Help

2016-01-12 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Jan 11, 2016, at 23:04, Dale Erwin wrote: > > I submit that no set of computer-generated numbers is truly random. > Pseudo-random is the best you can hope for. True if it's strictly an algorithmic process. Not necessarily true if you introduce variability from external sources [ping

Re: Please Help

2016-01-11 Thread Dale Erwin
On 1/11/2016 7:50 PM, John Hart wrote: On 1/11/2016 2:59 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jan 11, 2016, at 16:13, Peter Koch wrote: I am trying to generate random numbers without duplicate numbers being generated. Mathematicians will tell you that a set of numbers isn't truly random if duplicates

Re: Please Help

2016-01-11 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2016 21:13, Peter Koch wrote: > I am trying to generate random numbers without duplicate numbers being generated. Grab the spreadsheet Inglenook.OTS, that should be linked to this email, and downloadable from Box.com. An older, but working

Re: Please Help

2016-01-11 Thread John Hart
On 1/11/2016 2:59 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jan 11, 2016, at 16:13, Peter Koch wrote: I am trying to generate random numbers without duplicate numbers being generated. Mathematicians will tell you that a set of numbers isn't truly random if duplicates are disallowed. You seem to want a ra

Re: Please Help

2016-01-11 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Jan 11, 2016, at 16:13, Peter Koch wrote: > > I am trying to generate random numbers without duplicate numbers being > generated. Mathematicians will tell you that a set of numbers isn't truly random if duplicates are disallowed. You seem to want a random ordering of the integers in t

Re: Please Help

2016-01-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:13 11/01/2016 +, Peter Koch wrote: I am trying to generate random numbers without duplicate numbers being generated. Can you help me with a formula. I am using the numbers 1 through 69. This is the same idea as dealing cards from a shuffled pack. So all you need to do is take the se

Re: Please help

2015-06-28 Thread Maurice Howe
Couldn't we, as I and others have suggested, write a routine (maybe call it Reset Profile) that resets a user's profile? This problems has taken up more space & energy than any other, and seems so simply (on the surface, anyway) to solve once and for all. Maurice On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:16 AM

Re: Please help

2015-06-27 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:19:46 -0600 "Norma Tech" wrote: > I don’t know what I have done, but spellcheck is not working in my Open > Office program. Can you help me? > > Norma Tech > nht_t...@yahoo.com > > You should start by deleting or renaming your OpenOffice user profile. As you are usi

Re: Please, help me!

2014-10-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:43:21 +0200 Britt Jonsson wrote: > I,m happily working with OpenOffice 4.1.1. Thank you. Now, I, howerver, have > a problem: > > Suddenly, all my 200 pages are underlined with the red sicksack line that > appears when words are wrongly spelt! What happened? And please,

Fwd: Re: please help me. I am trying to get a Microsoft wps email open in open office in English instead of the gibbage it is in now. am not computer smart and need all thehelp I can get.thanks marcy

2014-09-02 Thread Martin Groenescheij
Forwarded to poster as he isn't subscribed Original Message Subject: Re: please help me. I am trying to get a Microsoft wps email open in open office in English instead of the gibbage it is in now. am not computer smart and need all thehelp I can get.thanks marcy

Re: please help me. I am trying to get a Microsoft wps email open in open office in English instead of the gibbage it is in now. am not computer smart and need all thehelp I can get.thanks marcy

2014-09-02 Thread Dale Erwin
On 9/3/2014 12:51 AM, marcu...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: Microsoft Works is not the same as Microsoft Office. In fact it has been discontinued. However, there is a file converter which might be able to convert your file to a Microsoft Office file and then you can open it. If you want to try t

Re: Please help me resolve this problem

2014-08-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:46:50 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > > On 08/17/2014 05:59 AM, Kathryn Silverton wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > How do I correct the following: > > > > There is a red underscore under every word, even when it is spelled > > correctly. The only way I have found to get rid of it is t

Re: Please help me resolve this problem

2014-08-17 Thread jd1008
On 08/17/2014 05:59 AM, Kathryn Silverton wrote: Greetings, How do I correct the following: There is a red underscore under every word, even when it is spelled correctly. The only way I have found to get rid of it is to go to Tools Language For all text None This disables spell check comple

Re: Please help me resolve this problem

2014-08-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:59:19 -0400 Kathryn Silverton wrote: > Greetings, > > How do I correct the following: > > There is a red underscore under every word, even when it is spelled > correctly. The only way I have found to get rid of it is to go to > Tools > Language > For all text > None > >

Re: Please HELP........GRAPHICS OFF

2014-05-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:54:13 -0500 Sapper wrote: > I tried OO and no graphics appear. > I cannot find a graphics icon to turn it on > > What do I do. > Cannot copy anything to Oo??? > > Please help > > Thank you, > Ron If using Writer /Tools /Options/ OpenOffice Writer : Display : View -

Re: PLEASE help with templates!

2012-12-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Neil and Ann Robertson wrote: I want to use standard Avery Inkjet labels 21 to a page 63.5 mm x 38.1 mm code 905068 I have been unable to find a template for this in open Office ... I am sure Open Office must have these Sure it does. Start OpenOffice, then File - New - Labels, set the corre