Linux • Installing LibreOffice after OpenOffice is apparently a no-no ...
BackgroundI came across OpenOffice a number of years ago, when I still used Windows. Found it was way smoother to use than MS Office, so I switched.Early 2023, I dumped Windows due to bad performance...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Forgot part of password
Thanks, but I doubt that I used a dictionary word because it would be easier to hack.Statistics: Posted by sillycat41 — Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:52 pm
View ArticleLinux • Re: Installing LibreOffice after OpenOffice is apparently a no-no ...
I suggest you to use the LibreOffice. AOO is a dead project.viewtopic.php?t=108750Statistics: Posted by Zizi64 — Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:44 pm
View ArticleCalc • Printer prints both invoice and template
Good Day,Something changed about 2-3 months ago. Now, every time I print an invoice using Calc, the printer prints the requested page AND the template lay-out page. It never used to print the Template...
View ArticleLinux • Re: [Solved] -ish - Installing LibreOffice after OpenOffice is...
UpdateWhen checking with LO, I saved the spreadsheet which caused OO4 to try to recover the file, claimed that the file was created with a newer version, so it requested an update. Difficult, when...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Text to Speech
OpenOffice doesn’t have built-in text-to-speech (TTS) functionality like some other office suites. However, there are no widely known free add-ins specifically designed for OpenOffice, similar to...
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Calc • Re: Printer prints both invoice and template
Something changed about 2-3 months ago. Now, every time I print an invoice using Calc, the printer prints the requested page AND the template lay-out page.No one here would know what changes occurred...
View ArticleCalc • Re: If "specific text" exists, then 1, else 0
Assume column $A contains the strings. You will get the numeric results you mentioned to indicate the presence of the substring "bio" byCode: = 0 + ISNUMBER(FIND("bio"; $A1))The Code: 0+ makes Calc...
View ArticleMac OSX • Re: Suppress window switching caused by mouse movements
Thanks very much for the informative reply. Wouldn't you know, after several months of this, I suddenly can't duplicate it(!). The only change was a reboot of my machine and thus an exit from OO,...
View ArticleWriter • Re: My spacing is not uniform when I make bold letters!
If any regular text is a fix then would a workaround be to format a space as normal or else paste a normal formatted zero width space into the all bold lines?Statistics: Posted by JeJe — Wed Jan 08,...
View ArticleImpress • Re: Copy/paste requires two attempts
This is version 24.2.7.2 in the gentoo linux repository. Last night rolled back to 24.2.6.2, and that also has the same problem.Statistics: Posted by jeyoung — Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:55 pm
View ArticleWriter • Adding text to a blank page
I spent a lot of time using open office and have almost 150 pages written. Because of the pictures many of the pages had large areas of blank space after the text and after the pictures. I decided to...
View ArticleWriter • Re: Can't paste mathematical notation
Thanks to all of you for your responses; I really appreciate it. I am pasting the responses that I get from ChatGTP, so I don't really know what kind of format in which they are written; don't know if...
View ArticleMS Windows • [SOLVED] Installation folder question
I started installing OpenOffice on a new Windows 11 PC. The default folder for unpacking and saving the installation files is C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Desktop\OpenOffice 4.1.15 (en-US) Installation...
View ArticleCalc • Re: Selecting specific column in range
Awesome! Thank you MrProgrammer, this is exactly what I was looking for! I am able to get it to work now the way I was hoping with the final formula being :...
View ArticleCalc • Calculating the most used entries
I'm not finding anything for what I'm trying to do in searching, but honestly am not certain I'm even searching for the right terms, so I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate. What I have is collection of...
View ArticleMS Windows • Re: Installation folder question
Hi and welcome to the forum!Anyway, these files are to be removed after installation. But if there is any real time synchronizing, it is a waste of bandwidth. In such case, indeed, try a local...
View ArticleWriter • Re: adding text to a blank page
It's a bit hard to understand without any sample document or at least screenshot (see: How to attach a document here).First, check the anchoring of the pics. Anchoring To character is the most robust...
View ArticleMS Windows • Re: Disappearing documents
If documents are prompting for recovery when you restart OpenOffice, then you have a problem with Saving them. Perhaps you have not full rights in the destination folder, or else you are powering off...
View ArticleBase • Help with database design relationships
Hi, I am a noob here but I have tried to learn database design years ago and failed on the relationships to multiple table part so always just made due with a single table design. Now I am back with a...
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