[discuss] Change OpenOffice look and feel like MS 2003. Posted: 21 Aug 2007 01:13 PM PDT Hi mirfan, mirfan wrote: If I see it right the main difference between OOo and MSO2003 in this regard is the order of entries in menu and toolbars, right? So aligning OOo's menu structure and toolbar content to MSO2003 as close as possible should bring you a big step further. Fortunately this can be done without coding, you just need to rewrite some XML files that store the configuration of menu and toolbars. In case you are interested in doing this please follow up on the openoffice.org mailing list. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007 Posted: 21 Aug 2007 12:24 AM PDT Unfortunately the new MS formats are just as closed as the old formats so there is not really hope of third party implementations. Licensing gotchas actually make the possibility smaller. Best policy is to reject them. If you are getting them through your mail, then you can set your mail filter to block them from your view and autorespond with a rejection notice including instructions in how to save in a better format. Regards -Lars Joshua Money wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] About Currency Mistake in Open Office Calc Posted: 19 Aug 2007 06:53 AM PDT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/2007 10:58 AM, x wrote: OOo contains locale data for: * Turkish (Turkey); * Kurdish (Turkey); The currency options reflect this difference. The currency option you selected was for Kurdish (Turkey). One of the fundamental human rights, as laid out by the United Nations, is the right to read, write, and communicate in one's native language. Turkey has had a long history of denying basic human rights to Kurds, of which this is but one example. There is no rational for OOo to follow Turkey's bad example. That might happen when Kurdistan is granted independence by Turkey. xan jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGyFna2o2GPyX/pG0RApypAJ9+vxofRD/Y0IXfV/qQQTjE9j7oOQCfUMsZ ZUAXEVBUzmKhKi2b2HemieQ= =Ewn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Why is it free? Explanation leads to expansion? Posted: 16 Aug 2007 02:57 PM PDT --0-1504661287-1187338220=:49205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Your reply told me something I didn't know, I used Star back in the 80's ( I think it is the same thing). I was happy to upload open office as I knew Google were using Linux, and have been delighed and impressed with the professionalism of Open Office and the discuss group. If you upload something you can just as easily uninstall it later. I teach computing, and use OF for myself and reccomend it to my students. --------------------------------- For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. --0-1504661287-1187338220=:49205-- |
[discuss] Auto spellcheck Posted: 16 Aug 2007 02:57 PM PDT --------------enig09921622801E6FB8694B5150 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -------- Original Message -------- From: Ed McKie <net.au> Date: Thu 16 Aug 2007 01:44:11 PM EST The OOo (OpenOffice.org) spell check function has to accommodate many languages and requires a little configuration to ensure it works correctly for your language/dialect. If you want the Australian dictionary download the options from this page: http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau For other English variations or languages dictionaries see: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries For a tutorial on spell checking and language configuration see: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3D50862 BTW The best address to get OOo support is org Hope this helps. Dave --=20 This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to org only. You should also be aware that all details of messages posted to this list are publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection For mailing list info see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html For a knowledge base see: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ --------------enig09921622801E6FB8694B5150 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxQHM7asJm/pW/p8RAjvxAJ9P+wZKc0dqTHDInr+3zwl66wfr4wCfaN2c 5lsLnto5YOX5QhgLJlV/05A= =Jsel -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig09921622801E6FB8694B5150-- |
[discuss] Formatting Request Posted: 14 Aug 2007 05:10 PM PDT Shaver, Jon wrote: There is a configurable slot which formats with two decimals and thousands separator. If that's what you need, it's pre-configured on the Shift-Ctrl-1 keyboard shortcut, or you can add it to the toolbar using Tools/Customize, adding "Number Format: Decimal" from category "Format". Niklas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Notes / comments Posted: 14 Aug 2007 01:24 PM PDT On 2007.08.21. 10:28, Mathias Bauer wrote: first implementation probably still will be lacking a bit (no easy printing, no notes on textblocks, no change information displayed this way), but - congrats on getting this finally started and thanks both for the work already done and in advance for one that will follow :) i'm checking out the wiki periodically, so keep on throwing out interesting bits of information there - and once this hits dev snapshots, i will make sure to test things out. damn. i should have thought of clicking on 'watch' before. doing that now =) .... -- Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Writer Update Posted: 12 Aug 2007 04:15 PM PDT I dont need this stuff ----- Original Message ----- From: "DAVID HOLE" <k12.in.us> To: <org> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 6:42 PM Subject: [discuss] Writer Update Hello, In Writer I went to "Help>Check for Updates". The dialog box message read "A new update is available. Click 'OK' to open the website, where you can start the download". Clicking "OK" takes me to http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/221.html, which does not seem to offer the update. Perhaps I'm overlooking something. It seems obvious that "SOLUTIONS", "CONTRIBUTE", and "FEEDBACK" sections wouldn't link to an update. The "SERVICES" section seemed possible, but when I followed the link in that section, I still didn't find anything that looks like an update to writer. David -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2186 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Excuse me for shouting "Defaultisme" Posted: 11 Aug 2007 05:07 PM PDT --------------enig72F9FC2062FDB2F34388CBBE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Let's see...while it was a rambling email, the OP DID have a valid suggestion. And for the valid suggestion, the only response he gets is the far-from-civil response from christine jones. Given that I've already changed the defaults on MY installation, I cannot confirm what the original defaults were, as Chris was unable to do, but if the spreadsheet defaults to having autocorrect on, that seems to me to be a bad idea, as well. Autocorrect is not nearly fine-grained enough to distinguish between badly spelled words and variable or data-range names, for instance, and something like that can really mess up a spreadsheet user. So, while having autocorrect on for Writer might be a good idea, it's a BAD idea for Calc. I'm picky enough to mess with autocorrect as one of the first things I do after installing, but I dare say that most casual office suite users don't even know autocorrect exists until it's bit them in the rear a few times. Modifying the installation scripts so that users are given the option of choosing whether to turn autocorrect on would, at least, make them aware at the start of its existence, and ensure that, if it IS turned on, it is by the user's choice, rather than as a default.= christine jones wrote: <bandwidth sacrifice> =20 =20 --=20 "Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11, 1964 --------------enig72F9FC2062FDB2F34388CBBE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGv1hOAEWCS/G3bx4RAr5hAJ4jVEzey+zxBD8cV+W0fBneltahhACfWE0Y coHRLzSEMQJmEHpklxsfSNE= =k6Tr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig72F9FC2062FDB2F34388CBBE-- |
[discuss] Helloo Posted: 11 Aug 2007 05:06 PM PDT On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 01:05:42 AM +0100, Paul Campbell (com) wrote: No, but maybe a couple of suggestions won't hurt: 1) you did a "reply-all", both to the list and to that "Mr, Pete" address. Remember not to do it next time you inform a list to ignore spam. Placing the spammer's reply-to address in CC only guaranteed that you will either get a bounce, or bother its rightful owner, or confirm to "Mr, Pete" that yours is a valid address which can and should be spammed thousands times more 2) When you send "don't bother" informational messages, please do not retransmit the whole original spam. Doing so may mess up other people's antispam filters. Thanks, Marco -- The one book on software and digital technologies that no parent can ignore: http://digifreedom.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] UK e-petitions for ODF Posted: 11 Aug 2007 10:22 AM PDT ------=_Part_4693_25141169.1186865905064 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 8/11/07, Alexandro Colorado <com> wrote: UK residents can sign too (I guess nationality does not matter as long as you pay your taxes here ;-) ) Cheers, Michele ------=_Part_4693_25141169.1186865905064-- |
[discuss] Possible error in xhtml export (over H1 - H6 generation, Posted: 10 Aug 2007 04:02 AM PDT Thank you Bernd! I just file the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80679 Carlo Bernd Eilers ha scritto: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Possible error in xhtml export (over H1 - H6 generation, i.e. H7) Posted: 10 Aug 2007 03:10 AM PDT 2007/8/14, Carlo Strata <it>: <snip> I agree with you Carlo, the question is: is there a H7 bug in xhtml conversion. Problem is that tll now, nobody has confirmed (or not) your findings. Even if nobody verifies your finding, you can file a bug... [Bernd: Java is installed 1.0.5_07, no custom install, but a Mac version 2.3 m221] -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] I HATE DEFAULTISME !!!!! Posted: 09 Aug 2007 02:08 PM PDT Guy Voets wrote: It's just a child who has overheard some big, bad words and thinks that it's grown up. Ignore it completely and it'll go away. Peter HB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Changing the "Default Language" of the Spell Checker Posted: 07 Aug 2007 11:21 AM PDT --------------enigBAC70BAA73A95DCE801CE610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -------- Original Message -------- From: jonathon <com> To: org, com CC: net Date: Wed 08 Aug 2007 06:38:42 EST In addition to Jonathon's answer. You can add required dictionaries from the "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries..." menu option. Alternatively see: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries For a tutorial on spell checking and language configuration see: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3D50862 Hope this helps. Dave --------------enigBAC70BAA73A95DCE801CE610 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGuQEb7asJm/pW/p8RAlg3AJ9FMB2r4Ls28FE8T3WSTpt1a/LR8wCcCphJ Z/F4bufpUy7erLhDsZ1VO+U= =JPBM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBAC70BAA73A95DCE801CE610-- |
[discuss] Good Ideas. Posted: 07 Aug 2007 11:19 AM PDT ------=_Part_117648_26118433.1186605527451 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 8/8/07, Guy Voets <com> wrote: That's interesting. I suppose the way that the MAC handles it is probably the correct way - you should be able to have different font sizes in a single cell (even after merge). However, the issue raised by the OP is still not replicatable... Anyone with a vista machine to test? /paul -- Processing Key for cracking HD DVD's: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ----- Try Torpark; a small portable, open-source, built on Firefox browser that enables anonymous browsing. Requires no installation : http://www.torrify.com/ ------=_Part_117648_26118433.1186605527451-- |
[discuss] Fwd:[there's a trouble from openoffice for linux version 2.0 (staroffice files)] Posted: 02 Aug 2007 11:59 AM PDT lol "control panel" "installation program" I would wager that you two are not exactly linux experts. If it is the file manager then the wrong values have been recorded in the mime database, and what caused this depends on various factors, which OOo did he install first, which one (if not both) were provided by his distro etc? For the OP, in order to change the file associations through the nautilus (GNOME), one has to change the default program in the "Open with" tab of the properties dialog of any of the relevent files. If in KDE, then it's one of the applets in the K Control Centre. (and possibly one of the tools in the file manager as well, not sure) -- Chris Monahan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Online Classroom Whiteboard Applications Posted: 30 Jul 2007 01:39 PM PDT Hi, Russ, I've been doing distance learning projects on and off since 1995. 1994 if you count a monstrously large (at the time) web tutorial. Time is ripe for a project to identify and evaluate the open source technologies useful for distance education. Perhaps funding can be sought for next year and work spread over a few colleges or universities? I've used many of those commercial tools mentioned and it escapes me that there is so much focus on monolithic "solutions", often replacing a cheaper, easier to use, easier to maintain, more flexible and more powerful set of tools. Following a modular plan will give much more flexibility and functionality. Specific programs are not as important to Voice chat as are the school's choice of protocols. Choose an open protocol (e.g. SIP) and you get a choice of applications and platforms. Choose a closed protocol and your S.O.L. unless your vendor wants to help you. To start with WengoPhone, ekiga, kphone, YATE, Gizmo might give ideas about what to look for and where to search further. Same with text chat. Pidgin (formerly GAIM) is one of the best. Again the protocols are more important than the specific programs. However, most VOIP clients also include text-based chat. For whiteboards I've considered using just a plain old remote desktop connection. See KDE's krdc and krfb for one example, but there are others that work together. These seem to allow many-to-one connections and read-only connections. Again, its the protocol that's important, in this case rfb or vnc. Regards, -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] wish it worked better on Mac Posted: 29 Jul 2007 04:56 AM PDT Thanks. I will try this, it looks promising.=20 James Carruthers Director of Development BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation 4500 Oak Street, Room 1U64 Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3N1 604-875-2798 www.bcwomensfoundation.org =20 =20 -----Original Message----- From: Guy Voets [mailto:com]=20 Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:54 AM To: org; Carruthers, James Subject: Re: [discuss] wish it worked better on Mac 2007/7/29, Benjamin Huot <com>: it with a Hello James On my Intel iMac with OSX 10.4.10 I always use the Apple-C -V and -X shortcuts. Same on my PPC Powerbook. I don't remember doing anything special to achieve this... So both ctrl- and cmd- shortcuts work! As for Calc, the mousewheel indeed scrolls very fast, so that you tend to lose track. I hope this will be dealt with. Meanwhile, you can always use the scroll bar on the right hand side. (I also dislike that the arrows on the scrollbars are on opposite sides insteda of together as on Mac - these are issues that are linked to a multi-platform program that looks too much at one platform, i.e. Windows). I wouldn't advise to switch to NeoOffice. It has few advantages over OOo's main development. In fact it mostly copies OOo, and is always at least one release behind as a consequence. NO isn_not_ the Aqua version of OOo, but a fork, a side-track whose team doesn't contribute anything to OOo's development (so called because of a different licence). OOo's Mac porting team is testing the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org right now. A stable of _the real stuff_ will probably be available somewhere later this year. Look out for it! --=20 Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] I have an idea to help OO Writer "Go Hollywood" Posted: 29 Jul 2007 04:54 AM PDT Carl Garrett wrote: And each production insists on their own different formatting. [I'm pretty sure that the quality of TV would be improved a thousand times if they all used the same formatting specifications, and didn't spend time measuring whether the line spacing was 1/8 inch or 5/32 inch high.] Lost in the bowels of the OOo website is a project to do just that. I've forgotten what it is called, but the original theory was that it would produce templates for the "major" studios, and then fine tune them for the specific productions. I've forgotten how the screenplay template fits in with that project. Hoops? These are the guys that will fire you because the document used midnight blue ink for the lead actor, rather than dark blue ink. God help you if the document is printed on canary yellow paper, instead of manilla.[That the footer contains a date and time stamp is not enough information to tell the understudy that they are using the wrong document.] xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Internet Slide Shows Posted: 25 Jul 2007 12:08 PM PDT Hi, As Alexandro mentioned, OOo can export presentations to Flash. I'd look into that route as one option. Another option is to use a viewer for the OpenDocument Format files created by OpenOffice. The OpenDocument Fellowship has created one such tool which will work with your presentations: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/odfviewer Remember with OpenOffice.org, your files are not locked into a single application, but are available to many others. OpenDocument Format has, with one notable exception, wide industry support and works in over 50 applications and handful of toolkits. Regards, -Lars Keith wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |
[discuss] Proposal for a New OpenOffice.org Art Project Posted: 24 Jul 2007 03:28 AM PDT Hi, thanks, that sounds good! Having a leadership definitely is one of the most important things, so - apart from the discussion if it makes sense to establish an own Art project at the moment because lack of contributors - we definitely need at least two people, I guess. Feel free to search for them. ;-) I will answer to the other concerns in the respective thread later this evening. Florian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: org For additional commands, e-mail: org |