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Open Office - [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major

[discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major

Posted: 21 Nov 2007 12:11 PM PST

On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote: 

Perhaps what Mike means is that while the ISO standard exists, his=20
company has a large number of documents in which people have used=20
whatever format they liked (randomly?) inputting the date info, and=20
that OOo displays the dates differently.

He might also find that such documents written in MSO 98 professional=20
(or earlier) sometimes exhibit a similar problem when brought up in MSO=20
2003 on XP. :-/

Just my $0.02 worth (actually less than that due to inflation)
- Bill

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william w. austin net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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[discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major release

Posted: 21 Nov 2007 09:08 AM PST

RANT WARNING

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:18:12 -0500
Champion, Patrick wrote:
 

Actually many people try to claim that, i don't. I claim it is better in
many ways. If it trieds to duplicate Microsoft office it would always be
an also-ran.
 

And being aware of your immediate problem i suggested a solution to
that.
 

First of all, i am not OpenOffice, as far as i am aware openoffice is a
company in holland that makes the excellent bluefish html editor.
Neither am i an employee of OpenOffice.org or even a representative of
OpenOffice.org. I am a bloke on the end of a computer that saw you had a
problem (you asked for help on an open mailing list that anyone can
join) and suggested an alternative that you may not have previously
thought of. As a web author the way i see it the sooner that all
companies realise they are working in the global village environment and
start talking the global language to each other the better. There, you
made me explain my intentions. Are they as you read them?

As for the rest of your sentence. I honestly don't know whos pulling a
Cartman here ("Screw you guys, i'm going home").
 

It is not an "in one's face" bug. It is actually the first time i have
heard of it on this list, and i have been _contributing_ to
this list, somewhat sporadically, for a few of years now. Not only
that, but i see the issue only has one vote, and that one vote (probably
not yours) is hardly likely to get a fix timetabled real soon. The issue
IS however maked P3, which means:
"P3 marks non-trivial problems which probably affect a noticeable number
of users. Issues with this priority must be fixed before the target
release (see Target milestone) Not fixing them for the target release
must be justified by a superordinate rule."

Your company has made the decision to adopt a proprietary closed source
office suite. The save format of this office suite is also closed. The
only way OpenOffice.org has any compatability at all with .DOC format is
by reverse engineering it. I could make an arguement that would hold
water in a court of law that says the problem is either Microsofts or
"Yours" because you were foolish enough to adopt a closed environment in
the first instance!

If your company and others was prepared to front up even some of the
money they have paid for Microsoft Office licences over the last 5 years
you could probably get anything fixed you damn well like. All i have
seen at present is a whinge followed by escalating abuse.

Did you actually expect me to answer saying "Yes sir based on your
contribution of, let's see, NOTHING, we will fix this for you straight
away". Stop throwing the teddy out of the crib.
 


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Michael

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well

- Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

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[discuss] definitely need to have feature

Posted: 20 Nov 2007 09:02 PM PST

On 21 Nov 2007 at 12:48, Guy Voets wrote:
 


I believe he means an incremental search, such as emacs and firefox
offer. Rather than typing in a complete search string, and hitting
'go' (or whatever), the search starts as soon as the first character is
typed into the search box, and proceeds incrementally as more of the
search string is input (and also back-tracks if it's edited).

Much nicer to use once you're used to it.

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[discuss] good suggestions for OO.o

Posted: 20 Nov 2007 09:02 PM PST

Alexandro Colorado wrote:
 
Yes, OOo supports WebDAV (loading and saving, no locking) but currently
only via http. As fas as I know https support will be added in 2.4.

You must use the OOo internal file dialog to work without remote
folders, the file dialogs of the OS might hide the remote locations from
OOo.

Ciao,
Mathias

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[discuss] Chemical drawing addon

Posted: 17 Nov 2007 03:09 AM PST

Rob wrote:
 

I thought that the French project (http://ooo.hg.free.fr/ ) had
created one, but I can't find it there. :(
 

In theory, one could create a gallery of chemical drawings, and
rearrange them as needed. I'm not sure how well that will work in
practice.

It probably would be easier to rewrite one of the existing FLOSS
chemical drawing programs as a Draw macro.

xan

jonathon

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[discuss] need to have feature

Posted: 17 Nov 2007 03:04 AM PST



jonathon wrote: 

The biggest problem I have found with the Thunderbird/OOo
integration is that they can not interactively use the same phone
book. OOo can interactively work with the Windows address book
but not the Thunderbird address book. Thunderbird requires that
the data be imported into its' own address book. This requires
the user to keep two address books up to date. My other main
gripe is a minor detail; when printing the address book, neither
Windows not Thunderbird will allow the output to be formatted so
that the data for each contact is kept together instead of
running over onto the next page. Tighter integration between the
two products should be able to eliminate both of these problems.

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[discuss] RFE--printing envelopes

Posted: 16 Nov 2007 12:06 AM PST

William Case wrote:
 

If it was easy to define what is the non-intuitive part of OOo's
envelope functionality and how to solve that I would be glad to do it.

But my experience with envelopes is that basically using this function
is not hard to understand, but the problems start when you have to print
it. If you are lucky and your printer does what OOo thinks it should do
envelopes are an easy task.
 

What frustrates me is that each time I helped someone with envelopes and
asked him how we could change the function to make it easier, nobody was
able to give me a hint. So I don't have high hopes that this will be
different in case of those people who complained in issues, mails and
forum postings over the years.

Nevertheless I started to collect the relevant issues some time ago but
was disrupted by some more urgent tasks. As I also don't participate in
Web forums I would be very pleased if someone else could create a list
of complaints and problems (what was found irritating, how often, how
many votes and duplicates, which improvement suggestions etc.) so that
we could try to consolidate that into a single issue.

I tend to believe that the problem isn't the UI but the printing.
 

This would be my approach also though experience tells us that in case
you don't have a superior idea it's better not to be too different from
Word. Repelling former Word users without attracting others by superior
(not only different) design is a bad strategy. Or in a single sentence:
try to be better if you can, but don't try to be different "just because".

Ciao,
Mathias

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[discuss] calc - conditional formatting of a range

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 06:04 AM PST

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Attn Daniel

I believe this must be meant for someone else Daniel. My problem with
Openoffice was that I could not find how to install it. Last evening I spent over
an hour on it and then decided to give up on it all together.

Regards
Diana



In a message dated 20/11/2007 16:17:34 GMT Standard Time,
com writes:

net schrieb: 

Hi,
 
formula: =($A1=YEAR(TODAY()))*(MONTH("1"&$B1)=MONTH(TODAY() )). 
formula appropriate for all marked cells, but returned 

It is important to check the cursor position inside the selection. You
have to enter the relative addresses in your formula according to this
cursor position. If you select A1:B12 with mouse or keyboard, starting
from A1, the cursor will usually be located in cell B12. So, the address
$A1 entered in cell B12 will result in "column A, 11 rows to top" (row
12 to row 1). This results in an invalid reference in the rows 1 to 11.

To solve your problem: You can move the cell cursor with the TAB key to
cell A1 before you open the dialog, or you can enter the formula using
"$A12" and "$B12" instead of $A1 and $B1, when the cursor is located in B12.

Regards
Daniel


PS: Please consider to use the openoffice.org mailing list for
questions about Calc, as they may be missed too easily here.

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[discuss] add a soft in openoffice

Posted: 10 Nov 2007 11:54 PM PST

On 2007-11-11 2:58 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: 

Also worth serious evaluation is Mylyn, an Eclipse plug-in for project
management that is free and is looking really good lately!

kazar

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[discuss] 3D Circle in Drawing tool

Posted: 10 Nov 2007 11:54 PM PST

Russell Aspinwall írta: 
I have checked:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2430
It is better...

Another interesting:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1438


KAMI

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