TJ Frazier | 7 Mar 02:07
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OpenOffice.org lists are going away

To all my friends and colleagues on these documentation lists:

Effective March 15th, all OO.o email addresses and lists are going away. 
That includes these two @documentation lists, of which I am a co-owner 
and moderator.

If you are using an @openoffice.org address anywhere (wiki, Bugzilla, 
Apache lists, forums, ...), then you need to change it there. The 
current email forwarding will be discontinued.

The best way to keep up with documentation matters is through the 
ODFAuthors site and ML's. The Apache podling does not yet have a 
separate list for documentation; if and when it does, I will pass the 
word on odfauthors-discuss.

Hail and farewell!
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Re: Forgotten username


On 02/04/2012 11:56 AM, j.alex.whyte wrote:
Thanks.  I wanted to access writer to post the following, but I thought I had to register, before posting. When I tried to do this the program said my email was already registered, so it wouldn-t let me create another username.  This was my problem.

Where did you try to register? If you attempted to register at OpenOffice.org, then follow the advice as provided by TJ Frazer, he was right on the money with his recommendations. (he is a pretty smart guy).

I am using OO3.1 on Windows 7 in France. When I start a text, the program assumes, reasonably, that I am writing Froggylanguage,


Pick self off floor and stop laughing...

and gives me the nice French format that separates quote marks, question marks etc. by spaces marked with blue lines, which I want to keep. But I am writing in Obamaspeak,


Boy, the places I could go with that :-)

and when I change languages to use the spellchecker, this format disappears. If I knew what this format is called, or how to describe these blue spaces I could probably find the answer. I suppose I could switch between langauges continually, but there must be an easier way to do what I want.

Can someone please give me a vocabulary lesson, or point to the solution ?


Is your intent to switch between languages in the same document (a bit of this language, a bit of that language, etc...). If yes, then you may want to create a paragraph style for the different purposes in each language. That may be the easiest way to go for that. If you know that you want the entire document to be in a specific language, that may change things a bit. For me, I would probably then write a macro that changed the selected area to be some language. (then again, if all you know is macros, then you use them to solve everything).

I am not certain that I fully understand your problem, so my advice is probably wrong.


If, perchance, you can solve this, then thanks in advance.

J.Alex




> Message du 04/02/12 14:42
> De : "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak"
> A : dev-DL+rna6QvqTMu1CG41HSmBPcwwqwdgDiYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org
> Copie à : "J.Alex Whyte"
> Objet : Re: [documentation-dev] Forgotten username
>
> Which forum are you not able to access?
>
> If you are not able to access oooforum.org, then send me a direct email with a guess as to your username. I am able to search the OOoForum for user-names but not for an email address. Also, if you have ever posted to the forum, you may be able to find an old post and determine your username from an older post. Note that if you have posted, you can use a wild-card search to try and find the post that you made based on a username. For example, I went here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/search.phtml and entered *whyte* as the username.
>
> I did this at the forum and checked about 8 usernames that matched and none of them were you..... Sadly, at that forum I am not able to find a user based on an email address.
>
> If your issue is at this forum
>
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/
>
> Then I can send you an email address to try for that forum (unless a moderator or admin from that forum sees this and chimes in). User reply all so that your message is sent to the list.
>
> On 02/04/2012 08:15 AM, J.Alex Whyte wrote:

My name is John Alexander Whyte and I am a registered user of your program.  Unfortunately I have forgotten the username I selected when registering, so I am unable to consult the forums. My address ius 144 Corniche Paul Clermont 06670 Colomars France.  My phone number 33 (0) 493 080 246.

email j.alex.whyte-39ZsbGIQGT5GWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org

Can you suggest how I can fix this problem?


> -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

-- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
J.Alex Whyte | 4 Feb 14:15
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Forgotten username

My name is John Alexander Whyte and I am a registered user of your program.  Unfortunately I have forgotten the username I selected when registering, so I am unable to consult the forums. My address ius 144 Corniche Paul Clermont 06670 Colomars France.  My phone number 33 (0) 493 080 246.
Can you suggest how I can fix this problem?
AnneMarie McNamara | 29 Jan 23:21
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Writer

Hello.
I am using openoffice writer to work on  a newsletter (to include pics, frames, etc.)
Pre-pdf, would like to send as a doc to Windows XP and 7 as to allow ability to make changes from there.
What do I need to save the document under?
 
Thank you for your time
 
Kind regards, Anne Marie McNamara 775-379-7181
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Porting Excel/VBA to Calc manual

Dear OpenOffice,
 
I'm seriously considering switching to OpenOffice, but the biggest problem I need to tackle is to learn how to use the full functionality of Excel I've been using. I was really happy to see that there is a manual in PDF, but it's 7.5 years old. Is there a newer manual or website concerning this case, or is there an effort to do one? Or is this up-to-date?
I think the biggest obstacle is this compatibility case, and the most information should be given to solve this. Most users are using Excel, and they're asking, OK, I heard about this new software, what do I need to do, to be able to use it? A collection of the most important differences would be really useful.
Thank You:
 
Kazi
Maxwell Rebo | 1 Jan 01:10
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Offer to contribute to documentation

Hello,


My name is Maxwell Rebo, and I'm an independent artificial intelligence developer currently working with Hanson Robotics.

Open Office got me through college, and now it gets my development team through an average day.  We couldn't work without it.  (I also wrote my first novel with Open Office!)

Someday soon I'd like to donate resources, but until then I can offer my help with documentation.  I'm a proficient Linux and Windows user, and so I can write documentation for either platform.  Please let me know if you would like any help with this.

Thanks, and happy new year!

---Maxwell
Chris | 31 Dec 19:16
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User Guide Writing Assistance

How may I assist?
 
Also making inquiry as to how I might become employed by Open Office at a future time. I have been accepted by the Converges company to become an outbound Customer Service Rep, so do I have qualifications if  Open Office has a need for an overnight Customer Service or Sales position.
 
Thank you,
 
Rita C. Vogts
 
heiko strauss | 21 Dec 13:47
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translation calc-guides in german - - Übersetzung fehlende Calc-Handbücher

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I am currently working on translating Calc guides in German.
So far I have completed almost 5 of the (in german language) still missing Calc chapters. However, I need some more advice on how to take the "figure pictures" ("screenshots") and with formating the footers so that the titles and pages appear correctly.
Attached you will find a pdf of Chapter 6 Printing, Exporting, E-Mailing in German.

Thank you very much in advance

Sincerly

Allemand


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ich arbeite zur Zeit an der Übersetzung der Calc-guides / Handbücher aus dem Englischen.
Bisher bin ich mit fast 5 noch fehlenden Calc-Kapiteln fertig. Dennoch benötige ich noch Ihre Hilfe mit der Erstellung der Bilder ("screenshots") und mit der Formatierung der Fußzeile, so dass die Seitenzahlen und die Überschriften koorekt wiedergegeben werden.
Als Anhang finden Sie Kapitel 6 Druck, Export und E-Mailversand als pdf.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Allemand  

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Jean Weber | 18 Dec 22:08
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Re: AOO How-tos

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:04, Rob Weir <robweir@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Jean Weber <jeanweber@...> wrote:
>> Similar to my note about the FAQs, there is a collection of how-tos on
>> the OOo wiki. These also need to be checked to see if they are out of
>> date.
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos
>>
>> That page is also a good place to check if you're thinking of writing
>> a how-to; perhaps it already exists.
>>
>> What other how-to's or FAQs do you think are needed? You can either
>> just write one (no need for permission) or make a proposal if you'd
>> like to discuss it before charging ahead. Some coordination is a good
>> thing, as long as it doesn't mean everyone talks about what we
>> "should" do and never actually does any of it. :-)
>>
>
> Maybe good to think of this in three categories:
>
> 1) What needs to be updated purely based on the move to Apache?  Any
> URL's or email addresses that are now wrong?  Anything factually
> incorrect?  Anything that should be added to answer common questions
> we are receiving related to the move and changes stemming from that
> move?
>
> 2) What needs to be updated based on the upcoming 3.4 release?  Did
> anything come up in the beta that deserves an FAQ?  Do we see  any
> thing from the forums or user lists that is new and should be covered?
>
> 3) General and ongoing clean up and further work on new and existing FAQ's.
>
>
> I can help on #1.
>

Thanks for offer to help on #1.

As for #2 & #3, I agree but also remind people that stuff may be not
even up to date for v3.3 (in sme cases it may be waaaaay out of date)
so the "clean up" and "updating" work needs to be quite in-depth...
often involving a lot of testing, something that inexperienced
volunteer writers often don't do.

--Jean
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