macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-03 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, the subject says it all. I have already searched online, and am looking at the manual but apparently (maybe I used the wrong terms) it is not easy to find CURRENT information on macro compatibility between LO 4 and AOO 3.4.1: will all macros created in one tool also work in the other?

Re: macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 04:02:56 AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:52 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > > are there any guidelines/best practices to write portable macros? > > Just use the documentation about writing macros for OpenOffice.org > 3.3x or earlier. &

little known features in LO/OO?

2013-04-17 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I'm looking for general inspiration (not necessarily pointers to specific examples, even if those are welcome too, of course) to write an article or two on this topic. What would you say is the **least** known feature of LO/OO? What is the thing that most often, when you suggest these s

first article on LibreOffice/OpenOffice little known features is online

2013-05-24 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, you may remind that a couple months ago I had asked your opinion on what are the least known features of the free office suites. That project was a bit delayed, but in case you missed it, the first article is now finally online at: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/seve

Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
Twelve (TWELVE!!!) years ago I asked OpenOffice users “Are you advocating OO correctly”. Six years ago I said the same things in a different format. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a perfect proof that that kind of advocay IS right, but so far has been never practiced enough. Continues on my

Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 09:45:53 AM +0800, Peter Junge wrote: > >http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/11/shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/ > > Prominently within that article is an advertisement (from Google add > services) to download OO from usDOT

Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 19:18:37 PM -0800, Dr Donald Zarlengo wrote: > Let us take Fioretti’s advice. Lets focus on using one good > product. Please note I never said "use one *product*" . Only "use open *formats*" Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com

Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 18:43:10 PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 10/11/2013 M. Fioretti wrote: > >>>http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/11/shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/ > > It's a complex issue. OpenOffice doe

Re: essential remark for majority of OO users - incompatibility of Math formula editor.

2013-11-11 Thread M. Fioretti
t, too complicated, unstable etc? A related question, but this is just a curiosity of mine: why aren't you all using TeX/LaTeX for formulas? Best Regards, M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com - T

Re: essential remark for majority of OO users - incompatibility of Math formula editor.

2013-11-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 23:25:01 PM -0800, Dr Donald Zarlengo wrote: > Great news. Bu my current major problem on my MacBook Pro... excuse me, but.. may I respectfully suggest that a former "VP/CIO of IT and Telecom" may be expected to know better than highjacking threads on a mailing list (not to m

Re: Re: essential remark for majority of OO users - incompatibility ofMath formula editor.

2013-11-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 12:13:19 PM +0400, svmizin wrote: > >In other words, what of these two things is the problem: > > > >- the formulas generated with the OO formula editor are not readable > > /editable correctly in MS Office and viceversa > > This is THE MAIN problem : MS OFFICE document formu

what happened to www.ooocon.org?

2013-12-12 Thread M. Fioretti
AS per subject. There were lots of good stuff there, was it migrated elsewhere online? Thanks, Marco - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.

Re: A suggestion for those un-interested in off-topic arguments

2014-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
reesoftware.zona-m.net/how-ignore-uninteresting-threads-in-mailing-lists/ I use it since when I wrote about it, and it works. I only realized that there must have been pretty good flamewars here recently when I got Rob's reminder about list policies yesterday -- M. Fioretti

status of Microsoft Office compliance with ODF support?

2014-02-15 Thread M. Fioretti
r the OpenDocument Format? Is there something specific that isn't supported yet? What, how.. Case stories, tests, reports, whatever, all pointers are welcome. Thanks in advance! Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and t

Re: Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of "MS Word only"?

2014-04-17 Thread M. Fioretti
8.0 or higher" it means to me that their software is heavily dependent on several MS specific features to work. Interestingly, that FAQ doesn't mention Office at all, so I'd be curious to know where/how exactly the OP got the explicit answer, IIRC "no, OpenOffic

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 3:00 pm, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Good catch, Brian! I'll remove that document in one week if nobody > objects. If the document is still there in one week, feel free to send a > reminder. considering the nature of the request and of that document, if I had editing access to

Re: richiesta informazioni

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 12:34 pm, ivano camurati wrote: > Gentili signori > > Ho installato open office nel mio computer che usa windows xp home > edition. > buonasera, personalmente non posso aiutarla perchè non uso Windows. Ma soprattutto, questa è la mailing list inglese di OpenOffice, quasi ness

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 4:07 pm, tammie elgammal wrote: > Hello Renee, > I meant that when you Google my name, tammie elgammal, there is a > document that I wrote in open office. just out of curiosity, did YOU put it yourself on the openoffice website? Because in another message here a moderator po

Re: Please remove my info - Unclear writing

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, June 1, 2014 4:22 am, japples wrote: > Based on what I gleamed, the author published it not knowing the > personal information was also published as meta tags. No she didn't. Or at least this is what she said in the email with which she replied (only to me) to my previous one in this thre

Re: Please remove my info

2014-05-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 31, 2014 11:29 pm, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > So: tammieelgammal AT gmail.com, whoever he/she is, created the Drtammie > account on our wiki on 27 August 2013 a more exact wording, more coherent with what Tammie says now, would be: somebody who in august 2013 had access to that email ad

best macros and macro resources for OpenOffice?

2014-07-16 Thread M. Fioretti
system) Thanks in advance for any feedback, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

status of "macro in ODF" interoperability?

2014-07-23 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, When I wrote this, almost 10 years ago, things didn't looking too good for "inter-suite" macro compatibility: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/47935 today, I have the feeling thing's haven't really improved, when it comes to macros inserted in ODF files, even considering only the FO

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:04, Andrea Pescetti wrote: This is exactly the spirit of this list. We very much prefer that users subscribe, and you'll hardly find a link to this list on our site that comes without the recommendation to subscribe. Still, it

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-08-31 12:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 31/08/2014 M. Fioretti wrote: On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: Is there any way that [without a lot of effort] a post from a nonsubscriber could trigger an email warning that he/she will not see the response unless subscribed? yes: http

Re: Old open office files

2014-10-09 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-10-09 07:35, Paul Paramore wrote: Hello, I downloaded Open Office a long time ago when it was an Oracle program. i wiped my computer clean recently and then downloaded Open Office again and my old Open Office files wouldn't open up in the new program. Hi Paul, since you don't pro