Re: Listening Mode - Single instance

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/29/2012 10:18 AM, Steele, Raymond wrote: Is it possible to open a single instance of calc via loadComponentFromURL() in listening mode. The instructions here, http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Starting_OpenOffice.org_in_Listening_Mode, define editing a Setup.

Re: Unscribe

2012-12-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/15/2012 03:44 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: But many users don't bother trying the hints we give. come now Hagar, it is because you did not do what they really wanted.. 1. Figure out their IP address 2. Break into their computer 3. Fireup their email package 4. Send an email message to "u

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote: Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT. Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive and an absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
ntao.com - Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" To: Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:52 PM Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 - Issue 255 On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote: Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT.

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/09/2013 01:56 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: A few days ago, I asked on the dev list why AOO does not support writing in the OOXML formats. I received some very nice replies. Some people have valid reasons why supporting OOXML is a bad idea, but I expect that this support will

Re: User Registration

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/09/2013 06:35 PM, Thomas Ferraro wrote: Please register me so that I can help QA Apache Open Office Go here: http://www.openoffice.org/qa/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html After skimming the page, you can click on the first link that takes you here to be added: https://issues.apache

Re: open-office 3.4

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
This sounds confusing / unexpected. I am adding some comments inline. I will repeat some items for clarification. You mention "exe" files, so I assume that you are using Windows. Hopefully someone more well versed in Windows idiosyncrasies will respond as well. On 01/11/2013 04:45 AM, Gabr

Re: problems

2013-01-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I am only aware of this site to download https://www.openoffice.org/ On 01/11/2013 09:59 AM, Olga Tzogas wrote: hello i recently been trying to download openoffice from both the .org site and the us.com site...downloads but when i try to ope it up its says the host server is down...help i need

Re: Reveal codes?

2013-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2013 10:50 AM, Eric Fenster wrote: What chance Open Office will offer "reveal codes" à la Word Perfect? I expect low since I don't see much call for it. Those who use and love it, however, really really want it. Have not tried this in a long time, and it is a far cry from what you

Re: Reveal codes?

2013-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2013 02:54 PM, Eric Fenster wrote: Reveal codes for Word Perfect were designed to control formatting. Styles were designed to control formatting. In fact, WP also has STYLES. It's not about the same thing. How does WP deal with formatting applied using a style? I have not used or see

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2013 11:53 AM, Brian Barker wrote: The only reason you can have a single troubling code is that the program is faulty. Wouldn't it be more sensible to correct the program so that this couldn't occur? The reason why Word Perfect could have single troubling codes is precisely becaus

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2013 01:57 PM, Eric Fenster wrote: just select "default formatting" to clear all formatting. Why destroy everything and start over if all that's necessary is to put the cursor on a code and DEL I assume that this only works for hard formatting, and not for style related formatt

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/21/2013 03:41 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 20:50 20/01/2013 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 01/20/2013 11:53 AM, Brian Barker wrote: The only reason you can have a single troubling code is that the program is faulty. Wouldn't it be more sensible to correct the program so

Re: Subscribed to users list

2013-01-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/23/2013 09:41 PM, Rakesh Thakoordyal wrote: Hello, I received a reply from Keith McKenna after I sent an email saying I'd like to contribute to Open Office documentation. I then followed the instructions to verify that I'd like to be added to the users@openoffice.apache.org list. I'm

Re: I have changed my email address

2013-01-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/26/2013 10:29 AM, George Anstey Webb wrote: Dear Sirs, I already have a password and user name for OpenOffice.org but cannot find where to log in on the website so as to change my email address. I am changing my ISP from Orange to Plusnet. This means changing my email address to

Re: open office

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
The files does not appear to be an ODT file. I peeked at the first few bytes of the file, and it should begin with PK,and it does not. I renamed the file to x.zip, and then I should have been able to "unzip" the file, but I could not. Has the file extension been changed? On 01/29/2013 04:11

Re: How? copy a graph exactly (no data table) to another file

2013-02-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/01/2013 02:23 PM, David L Babcock wrote: I have a file for collecting a year's data which I want to duplicate for the next year (2013). Since I am annoyed by a bunch of structural/embedded things that are copied along from year to year when I do a simple rename, I am building a new fil

Re: search and replace question

2013-02-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/09/2013 02:10 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:49:52 -0500 doug wrote: I have imported a relatively long document from an email, which contains a lot of single and double quote marks, all of them "inch marks"--straight lines. they need to be curly quotes and apostrophes.

Re: Updates

2013-02-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/08/2013 02:18 PM, Dave Raby wrote: Is there a new update address? Regards Dave Raby This feels like a simple question, but I don't understand it. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php ---

Re: Macro for filling in blank cells. (Elisabeth Hansen)

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Elisabeth, You are subscribed to the openoffice mailing list where people post questions and the questions go to everyone that is subscribed. To get off the list, if you desire to do so, simply send an email to: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org On 02/11/2013 06:35 AM, Elisabeth Hans

Re: Macro for filling in blank cells.

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
AndrewMacro.odt (link to it below) provides working examples On 02/10/2013 08:26 PM, Jason Cipriani wrote: Hi, I'd like to be able to go down a column, and fill every blank cell with the same content as the first non-blank cell above it. So if I have: 5 *blank* *blank* *blank* 6 7 8 *blank* 9

Re: Microsoft Office issues

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I assume that he should have said something like: "I am running windows, and when I double click on a DOC file, it opens in AOO rather than MS Word". Is this correct? (just trying to figure out what you mean, as is Regina). On 02/12/2013 02:02 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, to help you, w

Re: Microsoft Office issues

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
When you try to start AOO just in the moment, when it is already starting, then two processes exist and no document will open. This problem is more likely, when the quickstarter is enabled. I have seen that a few times; not often however. I just kill all running instances and then restart

Re: Being Volunteer

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/13/2013 04:24 PM, Rodrigo Ortiz wrote: Hi! Could someone help me i have intrest to become a volunteer of the proyect but iam a bit confused with the steps. First i need to suscribe to the "dev" and next sign up on all wiki an bugzilla or firts i sign up and second i introuduce me at the

Re: user name

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Where, exactly, did you register? A forum, wiki, etc... On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, 514thom wrote: I registered as a user yesterday, but forgot my user name. I have the password, but didn't take note of the user name. Please advise as I've been trying to get through on other links and cannot do a

Re: user name

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
wrote: On Apache to resolve an issue with Open Office. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak mailto:and...@pitonyak.org>> wrote: Where, exactly, did you register? A forum, wiki, etc... On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, 514thom wrote: I registered as a use

Re: program help

2013-02-17 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Can you be more specific? How do you try to open them? What happens when you try to open them? Error message? Crash? On 02/16/2013 09:38 PM, Jamison wrote: I created two databases and saved them to my USB. I think I had too many documents open and now the databases won't open. - Jasmine -

Re: Having issues installing in windows

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/19/2013 09:23 PM, Support Team wrote: Hi, Just updated to windows 8 used your sortware years not had one issues with your sortware come today had issues installing it on windows 8 will not work could please help me with this one Danny, Can you be more specific? For example, was this a

Re: using tinyurl or is.gd

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/24/2013 02:31 PM, Ernie Kurtz wrote: I am working toward primarily print publication: Although a "tiny" URL is easier to type, a longer usually URL provides more information. If you use a tiny URL, I recommend that you find a way to also include the full version. Then, those that are l

Re: lost password to acct

2013-03-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 03/02/2013 12:51 PM, marcia...@comcast.net wrote: Had all info on spreadsheets for 3 years in open office computer crashed and hard disk gone had passwords on computer please help reinstate my acct marcia hill marcia...@comcast.net Marcia, can you clarify what you need to reinstate? Are you

Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-11 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have had subtle redraw issues with OO off and on, and I always blamed it on an interaction between applications and the video drivers. Realize that I use nVidia video cards on 64-bit Fedora using the proprietary video drivers. What I saw was not remotely as bad. Admittedly, when I tried out

Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/11/2013 12:05 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: A fix frequently advised for video oddities in OpenOffice is to disable (turn off) one or both of "Video Acceleration" and "anti-Aliasing" in /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org : View, under Graphics output. Interesting, that had not occurred to me, pr

Re: Codes

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/22/2013 04:46 PM, Toki Kantoor wrote: On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the feature controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document text may require both deep and wide modification of current code

Re: Codes

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Doug, I can provide a macro that does provide an ability to reveal codes (not written by me), but, sadly, if you don't understand how styles work, it might not be helpful because it shows things like "this style begins here". On 06/22/2013 02:44 PM, Doug wrote: Maybe it's because we're not pr

Re: Codes

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/22/2013 06:25 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: ​Actually reveal codes sound more to me to LaTeX which there are also open source editors like LyX and also many people have developed some type of extensions for this. I don't see however how possible is to do this with extensions except more c

Re: Codes

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/23/2013 12:08 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix al

Re: Codes

2013-06-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/24/2013 10:32 AM, Brian Barker wrote: You'll have noticed, I hope, that I've anyway been corrected: you *can* do this easily in Writer, using Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. Ummm, I had no idea you could do that, but I see that it works That would have saved me at least one macro.

Re: Data Analysis in OpenOffice Calc - Fast Fourier Transform analysis

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Sadly, I am not aware of FFT functionality for AOO. On 08/01/2013 10:13 AM, wils_m...@compuserve.com wrote: Hi AOO Users, Does anybody know whether there are any data analysis add-ons for AOO Calac V4.0.0? I am particularly interested in a Fast Fourier Transform routine similar to the one a

Re: line break in multi-line input box

2013-08-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Did you try +? I ask because there is at least one control that used to use Ctrl+Enter for a new line that now requires Shift+Enter. On 08/15/2013 02:16 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone tell me how to insert a line break in a multi-line input form? In this case it's a front end for a databas

Re: user mailing list

2013-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
You must subscribe yourself :-) Let us know if you have trouble doing that http://www.openoffice.org/support/#community-support Just send an email to: users-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org On 08/21/2013 03:42 AM, Donald Vicarel wrote: recently downloaded Oo v4. Please add my name to the u

Re: How?

2013-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Now, on to your question... My best guess is that the windows add/remove stuff works by looking at the windows registery. Removing a program probably looks in the registery to see where the installer is located (but I am guessing). If this points to a CD, that is a problem and you cannot rem

Re: How?

2013-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/23/2013 07:40 PM, Scooter wrote: Rima: If its so bad why are you on this list? Perhaps Rima uses other aspects of AOO Or, as an artist rather than a computing professional, Rima is creating some artistic masterpiece centered around user-group questions You just never can tell.

Re: Help I'm being invaded

2013-08-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Can you simply unsubscribe to the list? On 08/24/2013 08:36 AM, LYNN BRUBAKER wrote: Every day I get about 10 emails concerning how to work Open Office. Every day I get rid of them by putting them in junk, but the next day I'll get about ten more. I don't think they are people trying to cont

Re: scripts in AOO spreadsheets interpreted by MS excel?

2013-09-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/01/2013 11:23 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: Is this also the case for the spreadsheet (calc) documents? Are they readable by MS excel? If so, are scripts (Java) also generally properly interpreted by MS excel? I was not aware that you could script Excel in Java. Do you mean control Excel in Jav

Re: scripts in AOO spreadsheets interpreted by MS excel?

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/03/2013 11:46 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 09/01/13 22:57, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/01/2013 11:23 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: Is this also the case for the spreadsheet (calc) documents? Are they readable by MS excel? If so, are scripts (Java) also generally properly interpreted by

Re: Backwards compatibility

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have no experience with this, but, try the following: 1. Load the document in question 2. Using Tools | Options to open the Options dialog. 3. Under Load / Save, is there a General section that allows you to set the ODF format version? I can't check on AOO at the moment, but with LO I am se

Lynn Brubaker, how to unsubscribe

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Lynn, Did you send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org On 09/25/2013 07:01 AM, LYNN BRUBAKER wrote: help. I don't know how I got on this email list but can someone get me off. From: tomgol...@yahoo.com To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Backwards compatibility Date:

Re: Leslie Liddel, how to unsubscribe

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Leslie, if you send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org with no message, does it remove you from the list? On 09/26/2013 06:56 AM, Leslie Liddell wrote: I'm getting these e-mails also. I am a relatively new subscriber. Can you get me off the list? Leslie Liddell "Vocatus a

Re: VLOOKUP vs Macros

2013-09-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
=ADDRESS(1, 3, 1,, "sheet1") returns SHEET1.$C$1 =INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1, 3, 1,, "sheet1")) returns whatever is stored in the cell referenced by SHEET1.$C$1 On 09/28/2013 11:30 AM, John Meyer wrote: I have a spreadsheet with a number of worksheets. The first worksheet has the bonuses for emplo

Re: File won't open

2013-10-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/01/2013 07:16 PM, Doug wrote: I've just received an attachment consisting of an important legal document as a .docx file. I downloaded Apache 4.0.1 and it won't open the file. (Neither will Textmaker 2012 or WordPerfect 6.) Since this is a personal file, I can't send it to you, but do you

Re: Java Troubles When Trying to Use Mail Merge

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Despite Dr. Zarlenga's odd claims, I do believe that it is possible to run Java on Windows. I happen to use Linux, so anything that I say is of course suspect. A few questions for you. 1. What version of AOO are you using? 4.x? For version 3.x, you need Java 6, for AOO 4, you can use 7. 2. Wh

Re: Open Office does not initialise

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I assume you are using windows of some sort. Can you be more specific? I am uncertain exactly what you did and then what happened when you did it. (1) Do you mean that you use Windows Explorer to find a WORD document and then you double click on the WORD document and OO does not open? (2) D

Re: Open Office does not initialise

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
--Original Message----- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:02 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Open Office does not initialise I assume you are using windows of some sort. Can you be more specific? I am uncertain exactly what you did and then what happened wh

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/22/2013 06:41 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Dim iNumber As Integer iNumber = Freefile Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber Print #iNumber, "Line 1" Print #iNumber, "Line 2" Close #iNumber The file now looks like this (in hex values): 4C 69 6E 65 20 31 0A 4C 69 6E 65 20 32 0A So every line

Re: Basic Macro – write a file

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 11/25/2013 12:32 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: That was the kind of solution I was looking for, actually… Since it turned out that I didn't need the Windows style newline after all (I tested with the Unix style newline instead and it worked fine), I don't need this code, but SimpleFileAccess a

Re: Help pls, my texts in OO don't wrap when I paste to email.

2013-12-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/18/2013 12:04 AM, d b wrote: For the past week or so, texts that I write in Open Office don't wrap when I paste them into Hotmail or Yahoo to send as emails. This very email is an example. How can I fix this problm? Thanks! Can you clarify? if you enter something like this: pa

Re: [openoffice] Flipping a table

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Having a bit of trouble understanding the question I think that what you want to do is to reverse the order (based on rows), so that the first row becomes the last row and the last row becomes the first row. Although this can be done using a macro, I would probably do something like

Re: Uninitiateds basic question

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/18/2014 09:39 AM, davidbath wrote: Dear Open Office Sorry to be contacting you on this, but I seem to be making little headway with what appears to be just what I need but is way above my head. Someone here will hopefully know the answers :-) I imported a .wdb file which was put int

Re: Document won't open

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/27/2014 11:08 PM, Nicholas Micalone wrote: Open Office documents do not open when clicking on a document in "Documents". A document will open in Sandboxie, recover mode; however, in front of the title is a tilde and the word "Lock". I have attached a screen shot. Please help. I have spent

Re: Total Noobie Question--Text Docs (Letters)

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Couple of comments: 1. If you are not able to solve your problem based on the provided feedback, respond and say so; for example, "I tried your advice, and I had trouble with ..." 2. I usually create a document that is configured the way that I want, and then I save that document as a "templ

Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 03/11/2014 12:54 AM, Tubular wrote: Back to OO - your explanation made sense until I saw the inability to send from the remailer subscribed email address. When I subscribed to the list, I didn't have options . . . clicked the link and I was added. I have had it happen, but it is an unus

Re: Printing text Doc

2014-04-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Do you have this problem with all pages, or only some? Is this a Windows thing, or, is it a vendor provided feature? I assume that at some level Microsoft supports this because I found one place where they claim that some web pages will not shrink to fit if a page specifies "exactly where text

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Some of what you want is easily available as follows: Use Tools | Options to open the options dialog. On the left, expend the section for Writer | Formatting Aids (you may need to have a writer document open at the time) You can then tell it to display things such as Paragraph end, spaces,

Re: Reveal Codes Query

2014-05-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/17/2014 04:35 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2014-05-16 20:38 GMT+02:00 japples : Does a list exist for OO users to vote for proposed future functionalities? I would like to vote for Reveal Codes. Reveal Codes is a very useful tool. It works independently of the "Style rules" and does no

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2014 06:11 AM, japples wrote: So far, this conversation boils down to: use only styles which requires casual users to travel the steep learning curve to enable their use and possibility of creating conflicts with other style rules or show consideration to the casual user and provide

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/19/2014 09:38 AM, 許哲崇 wrote: If we use OpenOffice to edit the file and use WordPerfect to reveal code, what is the problem? No problem at all... :-) The potential issue is that loading in a different editor will cause slightly different things to be displayed (at least that is my exper

Re: Reveal Codes Query - or Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
yes, voting is how you officially indicate your interest On 05/23/2014 03:39 AM, Helen wrote: I'd love the reveal codes feature -- didn't know there was a vote until I ran across this. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak < and...@pitonyak.org> wrote: On

Re: Simple advice on how to get Reveal Codes inplemented please

2014-05-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/24/2014 07:02 AM, DaveMainwaring wrote: Some of the threads are so long I don't have the energy to follow all the stuff :_) How do I vote, and support this initiative (or any other) ? This is where you vote for that particular issue https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3395

Re: My problems with OpenOffice

2014-05-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/25/2014 07:07 AM, António wrote: Hello My name is António and I've some questions for you to resolve my problems. So my biggest problem with OpenOffice is working on my laptop and doing work from school In my school all computers use Microsoft Office. When I do works there in PowerPoint

Re: How to prevent very long text in a cell overlap the footer in Calc?

2014-06-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Jesse, Instructions to unsubscribe are included in the bottom of the email to which you replied I will repeat them here Send an email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org That should do it. If not, then send an email to the list with text in the subject line that reads something like

Re: Wiedereinführung von Staroffice

2014-06-13 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I will concede that my German is not that good, but, did you ask a question, or simply make some comments? Also, was StarOffice professional reintroduced? Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut, aber, hast du eine Frage zu stellen, oder einfach nur einige Bemerkungen? Auch wurde Staroffice Professi

Re: Absurd thing about macro security

2014-07-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I always set my macro security level to always ask On 07/06/2014 05:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2014-07-06 2:53 GMT+02:00 Alexandro Colorado : Can you tell us what does ur macro actually do? There are quite a few and they are different for each spreadsheet file. Most of these setting

Re: Rif: best macros and macro resources for OpenOffice?

2014-07-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/16/2014 08:50 AM, francesco.zivi...@surftech.it wrote: One thing I think will be useful is to explain for a beginner how to test and run MS Office Macros in OpenOffice. I know it shoud be possible but I could never understand exactly how and whitch limitations I can expect. Thank you. Th

Re: help please

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/26/2014 08:58 AM, Chris Landrum wrote: Hello OO Users, I need help. Yesterday, since my Open Office was apparently a victim of computer gremlins, I uninstalled, rebooted, installed latest version, rebooted and solved that problem. NOW I’m getting an error message when trying to open all

Re: copy/paste goes to TABLES?????

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/27/2014 09:37 PM, Dee Drill wrote: I tried to copy a very short sentence from an Arabic Bible to OO so that I could enlarge it for use on a t-shirt. It copies and pastes just fine but automatically goes into Tables and won't get out of that format! It won't let me enlarge the te

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 08:23 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Dear OpenOffice list members, I just wanted to introduce myself to you before I start asking questions. I'm a mom, grandmother, wife, retired teacher, OpenOffice enthusiast, and that's about it. I look forward to getting to know you guys. Cindy Welcome

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Thank you for your kind words, but, I think that you are now publicly admitting to being a Geek! :-) On 07/28/2014 08:41 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi Andrew!! I've been enjoying your books about macros!! Cindy On 7/28/2014 7:39 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/28/2014 08:23 PM, C

Re: review, comments, conflicts with Oo 4.0 and higher

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 08:43 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi For weeks I have been looking for an answer this problem. I have tried the documentation and the forums. I have searched the internet. The problems started when I upgraded from 3.x to 4.0 and beyond. I have always been able to go from Word 2010 t

Re: review, comments, conflicts with Oo 4.0 and higher

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 08:54 PM, CMLDMB wrote: OH! I forgot to say that I tried saving it as .html and .xml, both failed because the comments were either deleted or displayed amongst the rest of the text as if it had been typed in there. Try to save it as a DOC file, and see if that helps. I also fo

Re: New Member

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Right? On 7/28/2014 7:56 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Thank you for your kind words, but, I think that you are now publicly admitting to being a Geek! :-) On 07/28/2014 08:41 PM, CMLDMB wrote: Hi Andrew!! I've been enjoying your books about macros!! Cindy On 7/28/2014 7:39 PM, And

Re: Macro Problems

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/19/2014 04:19 PM, Don Daugherty wrote: For several years I have been using OOo Macros, running under Basic. Then a few months ago they stopped working, and I am unable to track-down the source of the difficulty. When I startup a particular Financial spreadsheet, which should trigger a

Re: Macro Problems

2014-08-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
He is not subscribed to the list I don't think, since he did not respond until I forwarded a previous list message to him, and then he responded to me directly and not the list. I think that I know why it is not working (like it does not know about the library because the library configuration

Re: loading openoffice 4.1.1 release

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I believe that the sourceforge servers just came back online. On 08/23/2014 04:26 AM, Michel Oczkowski wrote: can not find "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/4.1.1/binaries/fr/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.1_Win_x86_install_fr.exe?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openoffice.org%2Ffr%2FTele

Re: SV: loading openoffice 4.1.1 release

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I suppose that you are subscribed to the user's list, so you receive the email :-) On 08/23/2014 05:43 AM, vitio55 wrote: I am not open Office suport Mvh Familjen Nilsson Originalmeddelande Från: Michel Oczkowski Datum: 23-08-2014 11:38 (GMT+01:00) Till: users@openoffice

Re: Question for you.....

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
No concrete answers, but, off hand, it sounds like AOO thinks that every word is spelled incorrectly. Make certain that you have the proper dictionaries installed and that the language is set correctly on text. Sorry, no time to explain that, I am late for something else. On 09/03/2014 03:46 P

Re: Sytem not working

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/21/2014 07:20 PM, Kim wrote: Dear: I have been using Open Office downloaded from your office since 2004 and I have encountered now Help icon and spell checks are not working I am using latest 4.1.1 Do I need to reload open office or can you send me an email link Kim Still no answer

Re: Office Writer forum page

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/28/2014 07:21 PM, conc...@localnet.com wrote: Dear Open Office, I've been using computers since the 1990's and the internet since 1998. I can find my way around on a website. However, I want to post to your forum on Office Writer but I do not see, any where on that page, the word 'Post

Re: Need documentation on using OpenOffice as an OLE Object with PowerBuilder

2014-12-04 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have some documents on my web site that show examples using Basic, which might help understanding the API. I have no particular comment on the use of OLE. https://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/tutorial/office_automation.html https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2015 04:42 PM, Mat Walker wrote: Hi Guys, I have used OO stuff for a while and hope I have put enough back to payback the use. Today, I have the unfortunate task of having to create xslx files for an application that only reads those. So i did a search to see if there was any way to g

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2015 08:07 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:44:12 +1100 Martin Groenescheij wrote: On 21/01/2015 8:42 AM, Mat Walker wrote: Hi Guys, I have used OO stuff for a while and hope I have put enough back to payback the use. Today, I have the unfortunate task of having to

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/21/2015 06:56 PM, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/01/15 05:50, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: People who want to write the XLSX format are likely to not understand why he might feel so strongly about it. This is one of those complex issues, that

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/21/2015 08:08 PM, Urmas wrote: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak": ...it will never be able to cope with OOXML. So, now you're trying to lock-in LO users in ODF format? Priceless. First, note that the quoted text is a partial snipped pulled from the forum post that was no

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/22/2015 10:04 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Jan 22, 2015, at 00:18, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Oh, and I have also heard some very strong opinions that PDF export support should be pulled; another minority opinion. PLEASE - do not pull that! It is a very minority opinion, I would

Re: Way of reporting nastiness in your forum?

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/23/2015 01:07 PM, Maurice Howe wrote: Never, ever, include religious stuff in forum remarks. Surely you are referring to top versus bottom posting! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org Fo

Re: problem with .docx

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/01/2015 10:15 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Martin, martin schrieb: I am just setting up a computer running windows 7 64 bit. I was hoping to not have to load my old version of MS office at all, but I can't seem to save to a .docx file in Open Office as it is not in the drop down list.

Re: problem with .docx

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/01/2015 11:28 AM, Doug wrote: On 02/01/2015 09:05 AM, martin wrote: I am just setting up a computer running windows 7 64 bit. I was hoping to not have to load my old version of MS office at all, but I can't seem to save to a .docx file in Open Office as it is not in the drop down list. D

Re: odt-file, ascii filter, series of pounds

2015-02-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
How does a file disappear? That is an easy one. If you always save the file to the same file name, and something then happens to that one file, then there are no other copies. I have seen this as follows: Click on Save, and something goes wrong while saving, which corrupts the file (say it cr

Re: Help with deleted content

2015-05-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I usually see this when I open a text file using the wrong character set... Please also include the file type when saved... What was the file name with extension. If the file extension is wrong, most programs open it incorrectly. On 04/30/2015 07:29 PM, kayla samuel wrote: OpenOfffice has no

Re: Inserting 100 small text files into doc

2015-05-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Are these straight up text documents? If so, I think that a method has already been shown for how to copy all the files to one and then you can insert a single file. On Linux, this is even easier... Of course, since I like to write macros, I would write a macro that looked something like th

Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the "Joe 6-Pack" word processor user

2015-06-26 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Send me an email off list with the title "Please Send me RevealCodes2.odt" And I will send you a couple of different versions. Two versions were created, and off hand I don't remember the difference between the versions. I did a test run and I added some fixes since they were broken, at least

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