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How to acquire and load OpenOffice in SUSE Linux 10.3

DRZ — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:11:13 +0000

What do I need to download and how do I install this package? This is a first time foray into linux for me. OpenOffice on windows 7 installed straight off. Doing the same in SUSE Linux 10.3 is beyond my current capabilities. HELP!!

Transfer custom dictionary from one computer to another

Pia — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:20:40 +0000

is there a way to transfer the custom dictionary in open office from one computer to another, I’ve been adding entries one at a time to and old computer and wondering if I would have to do the same for the new computer

Import data from Lotus notes into Openoffice

Silvius — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:42:27 +0000

I’ve found many articles on the web of how to manipulate Open Office from the outside, but what I need is to manipulate the outside from within Open Office.

We have some spreadsheets which have macros that connect to a Lotus Notes database using COM and we are looking into porting them over to Open Office, however I can’t figure out how to use COM objects from within Open Office macros. I am wondering if this is possible and if not, is there any other way to grab data from Lotus Notes from within Open Office?

Global file associations question

Ktarnold — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:15:53 +0000

Currently i have MS office and open office.org installed on our terminal Server. When users log on and try to open files with the extention CSV it by default opens MS word. I don’t want this to happen, i need EVERY user that logs on to the TS to by default open- open office.org for any CSV files. I’ve read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257592 which is pretty clear cut but still not solving my issue. Maybe i’m doing this incorrectly but could someone maybe give me some insight on how to change the global file association in regedit? thanks kt

How do I open a document by last modified in OpenOffice

Calebcar — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:02:55 +0000

I generally open one of the last few documents I was working on. I would like the default when I press open on openoffice for the documents to be listed starting from the last document I worked on going backwards, so I can simply select one of my recent documents to open. The default is for documents to be listed alphabetically, taking 4-5 steps each time to get where I want. How do I change this?

Ubuntu: OpenOffice 3.0.1

Mr786976 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:40:27 +0000

Should I install the latest Open Office 3.0.1 or wait for an official Ubuntu update?
I guess it shouldn’t harm if I do?

Windows Vista compatibility with Microsoft Office 2003

Mdsanmartin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:23:49 +0000

I’m working with a Windows Vista system on my laptop and I used to have Microsoft Office installed on my laptop (can’t remember the version); however, I let someone use my laptop and they removed Microsoft Office from my laptop and now everything (word processor docs, spreadsheets, etc.) is being controlled by Open Office 3.0. I cannot open the old Excel spreadsheets that I previously created with whatever version of Microsoft Office I had previously without formatting problems. My question is this: What would happen if I tried to load another version of Office (Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teachers Edition)onto my laptop? That version is on my home PC, and it’s the only install CD I have to restore Office to my laptop. Any complications I can expect?

OpenOffice 2.2.1 Calc SEARCH() function bug

Linux - Ask the Expert — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:18:01 +0000

I believe I understand how OpenOffice Calc’s SEARCH() function works, but,

=SEARCH(“;”;M2)

always results in #VALUE!, even if cell M2 contains the text “Some;Text”.

This would seem to be a bug in OpenOffice 2.2.1. Is it corrected in more recent releases of OOo?

OpenOffice on Ubuntu problems with heading style formatting

Linux - Ask the Expert — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:23:30 +0000

I have the lateste UBUNTU version and OpenOffice 2.4.1.
I am getting crazy: I defined a style Heading 2, for ex. , and each heading with that style looks DIFFERENT. The horizontal position is WRONG.
Numbered Items are wrong too.

How to view the selected document into the open office?

Sugi3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:09:15 +0000

Hi,
Can anyone tell me … I have created OpenOffice button in my lotus designer…. I have created some views also…. Now wat i want is? When i select a view , in that i will select a single document now when i click the open office button the selected document should move to the open office which should be visible……..

Im using Lotus Notes7.0
Pls tell me the coding in the lotus script………
Pls Help me soon…….