RE: [users] open-office writer improvements

2010-09-26 Thread Ketan Patel/Ahmedabad Branch/IT/General
Dear tony, Solution for 1) open OO writer. Maximize it. Then Click on same button to : "restore down" Drag it to left-top corner, change size by click & drag from right-bottom corner of Oowriter.(make it like horizontal rectangle so half desktop can be visible ) Open other application do sam

RE: [users] drawing arc with defined angle (was Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar)

2010-09-26 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Mike and all: There is an add-on to Oo Draw known as CAD00o. This gices you some limited CAD-Like macros, but they are a bit more awkward to use for a CAD experienced user than Autocad. But them they are free, not a matter of $5000 or More US$. I do a lot of CAD-like stuff in draw, but I hav

[users] open-office writer improvements

2010-09-26 Thread Tony Carr
I'm using OpenOffice 3.2 and Windows 7 on an HP530 laptop. Two small irritations have bugged me for most of a decade - maybe there is a workaround? Or maybe it's all Bill Gates' fault? 1: When I reduce OO Writer to part-screen, by default it hogs almost the whole centre of the screen! Obviousl

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:04 22/09/2010 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: Here's that dadblasted now-you-see-it-now-you-don't "text indicator" (I seem to recall that's what someone once called it) that I have got to eradicate. Don't think of it as a problem: it's there to help! [...] Unfortunately the way I get the

Re: [users] drawing arc with defined angle (was Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar)

2010-09-26 Thread Tom Bell
On 09/26/2010 03:13 PM, Mike Scott wrote: > On 26/09/2010 16:43, TomW wrote: >> On 2010-09-26 09:36, Mike Scott wrote: >>> A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and >>> ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown >>> in the toolbars customise

[users] drawing arc with defined angle (was Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar)

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Scott
On 26/09/2010 16:43, TomW wrote: On 2010-09-26 09:36, Mike Scott wrote: A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown in the toolbars customise menu though. This with Draw 3.1.1 and 3.2 (on XP) Accor

[users] Change in cursor movement behaviour

2010-09-26 Thread Phil Hibbs
In OOo 3.0, I could select a range of cells using shift & right-arrow and down-arrow, then Ctrl-C to copy, and when I moved the cursor down, it would move down relative to the top-left of the block, and I could paste it all one line down. Now in 3.2.0, when I press the down arrow after copying, the

Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar

2010-09-26 Thread TomW
On 2010-09-26 09:36, Mike Scott wrote: A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown in the toolbars customise menu though. This with Draw 3.1.1 and 3.2 (on XP) According to the menu customize page

[users] Re: Translation work of OxygenOffice, released extensions and upcoming extensions

2010-09-26 Thread KAMI911 KAMI911
/wiki/Validator_Extension You can find the translators' pack here: http://ooo.itc.hu/oxygenoffice/download/translator/extension-translation-20100926.zip Please translate the properties files. You should copy original en_US files to your language then you can translate the files. Also p

Re: [users] inaccessible toolbar

2010-09-26 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 26 September 2010 14:36, Mike Scott wrote: > A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and > ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown in > the toolbars customise menu though. This with Draw 3.1.1 and 3.2 (on XP) > > According to the menu c

Re: [users] table - dismantling

2010-09-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 9/26/2010 3:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:40 23/09/2010 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 9/23/2010 4:04 PM, Tony Carr wrote: In .odt documents, I often wish to take text which has been enclosed in a table and remove the table - while keeping the text. Obviously I can copy the text to th

[users] inaccessible toolbar

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Scott
A very silly problem here. I've been trying to access the 'circles and ovals' toolbar - but it doesn't appear on View | Toolbars. It is shown in the toolbars customise menu though. This with Draw 3.1.1 and 3.2 (on XP) According to the menu customize page, View|Toolbars has no submenu, which se

Re: [users] table - dismantling

2010-09-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:40 23/09/2010 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 9/23/2010 4:04 PM, Tony Carr wrote: In .odt documents, I often wish to take text which has been enclosed in a table and remove the table - while keeping the text. Obviously I can copy the text to the document just outside the table, then de

Re: [users] Comparing two strings - resort to compare using bash - OOcalc has no substring functions

2010-09-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:58 23/09/2010 -0700, John Bowling wrote: ... OOcalc has no substring functions Er, what about such functions as CONCATENATE(), FIND(), LEFT(), MID(), RIGHT(), REPLACE(), SEARCH(), SUBSTITUTE(), TRIM(), ...? I have columns that contain addresses. Column A is number and street as in '1