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[discuss] Feature request on OpenOffice Writer.

Posted: 16 Feb 2008 10:22 PM PST

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Demian,
I seldom have more than 4 or 5 documents open at a time, so I don't have experience with as many as 15, but I switch among them very quickly using alt w to open the windows menu, followed by alt (whatever the key letter shows in the window listing) to choose the next file. My secretary insisted on using her mouse to achieve the same result. Click on "window" then click on filename, and there you are. She "hated" keyboard shortcuts, so I let her do things her own way.

Regards,

Carl

Demian Sarcolo <com> wrote:
Hello there, I found myself using OpenOffice Writer and having almost 15 documents open at once, but is a big problem to change from window to window to get to another document as fast as I can so, I was thinking (hope it hasn't been asked before) if can it be possible to have tabs on OpenOffice Writer (and maybe other OpenOffice programs) to have a different document open on each one or maybe the same document on a diferent page so I can edit it faster, and of course would be great to have keyboard shorcuts to change from tab to tab.

Thanks for your attention, and hope I'm not causing any trouble with this request.

Best regards.

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[discuss] compatibility issue

Posted: 16 Feb 2008 10:18 PM PST

On 17 Feb 2008 at 21:53, Michael Adams wrote:
 

Even better idea, if this is at all possible, is to try and get your
teacher to install OpenOffice.org and see how good it is. And
to tell him that it is free to use throughout the school and to
distribute to all the pupils without cost and licence restrictions.

Tony Pursell
OOo User



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[discuss] Php script to convert open office doc to xml !

Posted: 11 Feb 2008 11:37 PM PST

I think he meant plain XML. ODF has at least 3 XML files which is
content, meta and styles.

On Feb 12, 2008 9:22 AM, Robert Funnell <ca> wrote: 



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[discuss] Minor bug in File Saving

Posted: 10 Feb 2008 08:57 AM PST

sure i have the same problem nothing has changed sir. would you like me to
send you the file or further answer any questions? i really appreciate your
time thk you
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[discuss] Languages by default

Posted: 10 Feb 2008 08:56 AM PST

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From: Gustavo Paz <com>
Date: Sat 09 Feb 2008 19:29:39 EST

| I used openoffice but I note a Problem when I write in Spanish the
| ortography corrector does not work in spanish I download a dictionary
| in your page but every single word I must choose over an over again
| the spanish dictionary because the progran check english by default,
| so there is a posibiliti that I can Choose set spanish or english as
| language by defalut like in Microsoft Word. thanks

The following link may answer your question:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67

Hope this helps.

Dave

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[discuss] A suggerence - what I miss in OpenOffice.org

Posted: 10 Feb 2008 08:54 AM PST

Well, I work with complex numbers (their real and imaginary parts) and
non-linear functions. For exemple, the most used theoretical models are
Havriliak-Negami and Cole-Cole (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole-Cole_equation and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havriliak-Negami_relaxation for curiosity).
An important part of my work consist of 'deconvolution' of
experimental data, i.e., decomposing experimental plots as a sum of a
number of these theoretical equations, and sometimes other ones.

This involves non-linear least squares fitting of, say, 9 parameters in
the easiest case. This is easy to do with a 'commercial' spreadsheet, by
using Marquardt-Levenberg or Newton-Raphson algorithms, which use
mathematical tools of matrix algebra (matrix transposes, inverses, etc.)
These routines are available in C and Fortran, but I do not know if they
should be migrated into another language for being used in OOo.

For the sake of code reusability, I need a generic fitting algorithm
regardless of the number of theoretical equations I need to add up, or
their mathematical structure -- I cannot spend my time reprogramming the
equations everytime I need to consider an additional effect.

I do not know if this description is helpful to understand what I need,
but it's just that.

Thank you for all,

Alex

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[discuss] Printing from Writer

Posted: 07 Feb 2008 11:42 AM PST

como eliminar a lista de arquivos recentes
abertos pelo openoffice???

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[discuss] Idea / Feature

Posted: 05 Feb 2008 04:33 PM PST

OpenProj is an open source replacement of Microsoft Project.
(http://www.openproj.org) OpenProj is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or
Windows and opens existing Microsoft Project files. It is integrated
with IBM's Symphony which is based on OpenOffice but not yet integrated
with OpenOffice itself.

Microsoft Project is installed on 7% of all Office desktops. It is
priced at $999.99/copy. OpenProj is free and is a complete replacement
which is having a signficant impact in over 132 countries. This has
definite synergy with the OpenOffice suite.


Velzen, M.A.J. van wrote: 


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[discuss] Track Changes feature in text docs

Posted: 05 Feb 2008 04:31 PM PST

> Eva Pressel-Roemer <com> wrote: I am an Open Office user at home, but forced to be a MS user at work. 

Hello Eva,

I actually found the track changes feature in OOo better than the
corresponding feature in MSO in the area of reviewing the changes as
it allows several levels of filtering of the changes.

There are indeed however two major improvements that are sorely missed:
a) integration of accept/reject change in the context menu. In MSO,
when right clicking on modified text, it is possible to accept or
reject that particular change, something which I found very useful.
b) in MSO, you can copy the text with revision marks and paste it in a
different document *preserving* the revisions. I could not find a way
to do it in OOo.

Another little thing that I find useful in MSO is the possibility of
toggling the recording of changes from the status bar (TRK). As there
is currently a fair amount of free space on the status bar, it would
be nice to add this information/switch.

Point a) is covered in 6191 and more general enhancements can be found
in 14268, 25028, 50202, 58839, 58841, 63135, 66293.
Point b) is covered (partially) in 34537.

My suggestion is that people who still have votes available should go
on and vote for one or more of these RFEs.

Cheers,

Michele

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[discuss] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program

Posted: 29 Jan 2008 08:56 AM PST

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:53:51 -0800 (PST)
JERRY L COLLINS wrote:
 

Louis Suarez-Potts is a Sun Microsystems employee directly involved in
OpenOffice.org at an executive level.

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[discuss] Sanity Check DOC opens in Calc

Posted: 27 Jan 2008 09:25 AM PST

On Jueves 24 Enero 2008, Twayne wrote: 
and if so how to 
User Manual, 
images), toc and 
on opening it in 
useless. 
all I get for the 
them. I can't make 

Sounds like a problem with the configuration of either
OOo or Windows.

Simplest first, would be to remove and reinstall OOo.
If that doesn't help..., there are ways to fix other
configurations but without knowing or finding what is
misconfigured, I usually just end up reinstalling
Windows.

saludos,
Richard.

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[discuss] Can't open *.docx

Posted: 24 Jan 2008 12:38 PM PST

Henning Brinkmann wrote: 

That's fine as long as its promoted as being for recovering from
mistakes, but at this stage users are putting their own neck in a rope
if they start using MOOX. And, further, any growth in that area is a
threat to interoperability and an open market.

I realize that many are trying to reposition MOOX as a contender for
ODF's market share but given MS interest in the
Roach-Motel-for-your-data model it is a disservice to do anything but
discourage it:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/microsoft_office_2007_try_before_buy/

Regards,
-Lars

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[discuss] Printing #10 Envelopes

Posted: 17 Jan 2008 01:02 PM PST



I had the same problem when I saved the file as *.doc, it loses formatting.
The solution was to save as *.odt

Heinz

[discuss] idea for alternate spell checker

Posted: 17 Jan 2008 11:18 AM PST

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: 
How about an add-on to the current OpenOffice, called a spelling
teacher. THis add-on would do as has been suggested. I think there could
be people who need to do this, but there are many who would be too busy.

Rob

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[discuss] Application help for MS Office users - what is missing?

Posted: 17 Jan 2008 03:08 AM PST

Hi,

Cor Nouws wrote: 

there is a place deep down in Issuetracker where you can add your ideas
re a startup page: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66443
But I suspect that this mailing list or the openoffice.org
list is better suited to discuss the requirements.

Uwe
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[discuss] File Sizes; sWrite

Posted: 15 Jan 2008 08:48 AM PST

> Another option is to use a desktop publishing program such as 

I have used LaTeX to design 9 text books successfully with Lulu.com
as well as 2 picture books with Scribus and they worked great. I even
did a reference book just with HTMLdoc. Pagemaker is no longer in
development - you now have to go with Adobe In Design or QuarkExpress
which are much more complicated. Another route is to try Multi Ad
Creator Desktop - I knew my University used it for their daily
newspaper. Do NOT use Apple Pages if you want to use Lulu.com because
the fonts are not embedded right and it will automatically be rejected.

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[discuss] File Sizes; sWrite

Posted: 14 Jan 2008 11:24 AM PST

Could you please expand on 'merge print'? It sounds very useful but
I'd never heard of it. Is it related to mail merge?

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Bob Estes wrote:
 

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[discuss] Open Office for Mac "Mini howto" document error

Posted: 14 Jan 2008 10:39 AM PST

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2008/1/15, Jean-Christophe Helary <tiki.ne.jp>: 

Hello

If you use Leopard, then the X11 comes from www.x.org, I believe
On the site http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.1
it is announced that (with X11 2.1.1 an higher) you can disable the xterm
window with this command:

defaults write org.x.X11 app_to_run /usr/bin/true

HTH
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Guy
using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
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[discuss] New to the group

Posted: 13 Jan 2008 06:00 PM PST

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:46:46 -0500
Twayne wrote:
 

You can filter on "Delivered To: moderator", in headers, to identify
_all_ moderated posts as they do not all automatically get the
[moderated] added to the subject line. Moderated posts are simply from
unsubscribed posters (using various methods of posting).

I filter these posts to a sub folder of dicuss or users as approriate.
The way to reply to these is a "reply all", which replies direct to the
OP and the list. You may want to use GMane for this as 100+ emails a day
can be expected on users and discuss.

Mailing list guidelines here if you didn't spot them:
http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html

Welcome on board.

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Michael

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be well

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[discuss] MS Office best of breed, OOo website 15 years old

Posted: 13 Jan 2008 09:07 AM PST


On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 12:42 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: 

I respectfully disagree, as do millions of Firefox and Thunderbird users
(not to mention all of us who use Linux or other FLOSS operating systems
for our daily business).

Whether an item is considered "Free Software" or "Proprietary" is
determined by its license terms, nothing more. Simply being "Free
Software" does not imply a specific development methodology or quality.
It is much harder to close development on a Free Software project,
because by definition the license must allow modifications. However,
nothing requires you, the developer, to accept those modifications in
the product you distribute. Conversely, there is no rule which says a
"proprietary" licenseholder cannot allow modifications from outside the
shop if it so wishes (e.g., the Microsoft "shared source" model).

Dual-licensing is not done to allow a product to be sold to consumers. I
do not know every open source license in existence, but every major
license I can think of -- for example, the GPL, the Mozilla license, BSD
license, Sun's PDL, the OSL -- allows the commercial sale of the
product. Normally, vendors dual-license a product in order to allow the
inclusion of non-free plugins or code that would not be permitted under
the "derivative works" or similar clause in the selected open source
license. For example, you might sell a piece of software to a customer
who wants to modify it to include code that is a company trade secret.
In that case, you might relicense the code to allow your customer to
make the necessary modifications.

One may say that a particular piece of software is more appropriate for
a purpose or audience than another piece of software. A particular piece
of proprietary software may very well be more "consumer-oriented" than a
similar piece of FLOSS. But the converse may also be true. I would say,
from years of experience, that Firefox with its plugins is far more
"consumer-oriented" than IE is. But neither of us can credibly say that
all proprietary software is more consumer-oriented than all FLOSS, or
vice versa.

Matthew Copple
org

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[discuss] Windows version: Installing on a drive other than C:

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 02:56 PM PST

Patrick Goetz wrote: 

Look harder: it is there. The path is shown and is editable.

Peter HB

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[discuss] New Autobak Feature

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 01:54 PM PST



SHAUN COATES wrote: 

Go to Tools/Options, expand the Load/Save option, select General and check
(tick) the box for "Always create backup copy".

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[discuss] Fw: readiness for servers

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 01:53 PM PST

Hi Alexandro,

Alexandro Colorado wrote (13-1-2008 0:11) 
 
 

Well, I think that page has to be nominated for removal; it's quite old.
Recently, this wiki has been set up:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide

Regards,
Cor
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[discuss] Extend array constant syntax in Calc?

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 12:44 PM PST

Eike Rathke wrote: 

The use of INDIRECT prevents unintended changes to the formula if the
A1:A8 range is moved (or rows inserted, etc). The downside of using
INDIRECT is that the formula has to be recalculated after any change to
the document. If you don't need a dynamic upper limit, you could use a
named range, like "onetoeight" for "ROW($A$1:$A$8)" (note the absence of
a sheet reference), which causes recalculation only for changes in
A1:A8, and is also somewhat more readable. Still just a dirty trick, of
course.
 

A new syntax isn't needed, a new function would be enough. For now,
anyone can create one for himself with an add-in (you could also use a
Basic function, but these days, with the NetBeans wizard, an add-in in
Java is written just as easily, and it's more flexible).

Niklas

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[discuss] Promote free softwares in Hungary

Posted: 11 Jan 2008 09:43 AM PST

Rich wrote: 

Also, it's important to keep in mind that feeding traffic to MS-owned
sites feeds valuable advertising revenue - it's like handing them a few
coins and patting them on the back.

-Lars

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