Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread Urmas
"Tim Deaton": The name "Urmas" says it all: "anti-AOO spam". What can one say about the office software which is unable to open its own documents from 2000? Only the truth. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@ope

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: > "Tim Deaton": > >> The name "Urmas" says it all: "anti-AOO spam". > > What can one say about the office software which is unable to open its > own documents from 2000? Only the truth. > Why do you say it won't open stuff from back then? I don't have any files from then handy, but

RE: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread Maurice Howe
I regularly use AOO to open files built in the 1990s, without any problems. Some are complex, convoluted whoppers (such as one 300+ page book that has a great many format & font shifts, photos, tables, etc). Maurice -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:james.kn...@rogers.com] Sen

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread Urmas
"James Knott": Why do you say it won't open stuff from back then? No version of OO.o can open the StarOffice documents (SDW, etc.) properly. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional co

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: > No version of OO.o can open the StarOffice documents (SDW, etc.) > properly. Well, the current version can save in OO 1.0 formats, so it seams unlikely that it can't read them.properly. Can you provide some examples to back up what you claim? --

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
James Knott wrote: Urmas wrote: No version of OO.o can open the StarOffice documents (SDW, etc.) properly. Well, the current version can save in OO 1.0 formats, so it seams unlikely that it can't read them.properly. Can you provide some examples to back up what you claim? To clarify the misu

Re: [ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 released

2013-10-06 Thread Volker Holfeld
Am 06.10.2013 um 17:16 schrieb Urmas : > "James Knott": > > Why do you say it won't open stuff from back then? > No version of OO.o can open the StarOffice documents (SDW, etc.) properly. > Since the very early days after OpenOffice.org 1.0 was released, a tool called "Document Converter" was

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-10-06 Thread Dick Hoffman
On 10/5/2013 5:03 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: I upgraded to AOO 4.0.1, so out of curiosity I tried to access the .xlsx file at the Cornell site. Results were the same; after about 20 minutes the progress bar showed about 25% of the file loaded and I had to use the Windows Task

Hope it's right address.

2013-10-06 Thread Barry Nightingale
I've lost Thesaurus, copy, cut and paste in Writer 4.01, Is there some way I can recover them please? I've reverted to 4.00 where there is only the Thesaurus mising. Still a great suite of programs, I don't feel i should complain really. Any help you can give would be most appreciated. Thanks,

Does openoffice open .doc documents?

2013-10-06 Thread psterner
Does this program open documents with a .doc extension? I am using the free version and if the program does open these documents, please advise how I can get the program to do this. Presently, if I try to do this, all that shows on the document is a bunch of gibberish. Thanks Phil Sterner

Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread PJH
I have used Open Office for many years. In attempting to get the latest version SourceForge was the defacto mirror. That download included a nasty piece of software from "conduit" which takes over my computer. Went to another mirror site and cannot open the download. I am on a Mac and have been

Re: Does openoffice open .doc documents?

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
pster...@aol.com wrote: > Does this program open documents with a .doc extension? I am using the free > version and if the program does open these documents, please advise how I can > get the program to do this. Presently, if I try to do this, all that shows > on the document is a bunch of gi

Re: Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice handles this through sourceforge, we dont include any other application besides the Apache OpenOffice dmg file for OSX. Please verify you download from the official download page http://www.openoffice.org/download URL should be http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirro

Re: Hope it's right address.

2013-10-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Usually you will find the dictionaries, thesarus etc at the invisible folder .openoffice/4/user/extensions/tmp/extensions/sv496ohf.tmp_/dict-en.oxt/th_en_US_v2.dat you could try (if you dont have heavy configuration) just deleting your .openoffice folder On 10/6/13, Barry Nightingale wrote: > I

Re: AOO can't open .xlsx spreadsheet at Cornell site

2013-10-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dick Hoffman wrote: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123429 since this is definitely a performance bug. Thanks for opening a bug on this. I don't understand the comment from Andreas Säger; does that mean no action will be taken on the bug? It's simply an analysis of the pathologic