[opensuse] Exporting with OOo/Libre.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else. I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2/QusACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VJkwCfZFkNN+6hBlHIe3EbrjrC3ln+ C4QAmwYMfEfowhn7vEwulGxA65BvcBp8 =bfta -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. said the following on 05/02/2011 07:48 PM:
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
No, but there is a button to export as PD (or menu item, but you can make it into a button). That's what I use to send things to people using windows. Seriously: yes you can write a macro but no I've not written one myself. As I said ... PDFs ... I get a couple of thousand hits googing for "openoffice macros examples" but what strikes me is that the object oriented language is as bad as visual basic or JavaScript ... Try this as a starting point http://www.suite101.com/content/openoffice-macros-open-save-and-close-a-file... or perhaps this http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3612 -- If God does not write LisP, God writes some code so similar to LisP as to make no difference. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hi,
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
Since you're sending the document, why not use the email function to send as a Word document. Just click on File > Send > Email as Microsoft Word. Also, while you're editing the ODT files, you can just use "Save as" to save as DOC and then reset the save as back to ODT. If the others are just reviewing the document and not changing it, a PDF would also work. Don't forget, recent versions of MS Office can read ODF files, but just don't trust them to write to it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
There is also the handy MultiSave extension (Tools > Extension Manager), which allows you to save to .doc or .pdf or both as well as .odt, and does not change the .odt that you are editing. Works well for me. -- Fr David Ousley davidousley@verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 05/03/2011 10:32 AM, Fr David Ousley pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
There is also the handy MultiSave extension (Tools > Extension Manager), which allows you to save to .doc or .pdf or both as well as .odt, and does not change the .odt that you are editing. Works well for me.
And what is the name of the extension you installed? I looked through the "Get more extensions online..." list and didn't see anything there. (Could be my eyes missed it.) -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hallo Ken Schneider - openSUSE, op 2011-05-03 17:03 schreef je:
On 05/03/2011 10:32 AM, Fr David Ousley pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
There is also the handy MultiSave extension (Tools > Extension Manager), which allows you to save to .doc or .pdf or both as well as .odt, and does not change the .odt that you are editing. Works well for me.
And what is the name of the extension you installed? I looked through the "Get more extensions online..." list and didn't see anything there. (Could be my eyes missed it.)
It's "Multisave" indeed, but it doesn't appear in the (er... my) Extension Manager. Neither is it on the list on http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List But here it is: http://libreoffice-na.us/English/extensions.html It's called "StarXpert MultiSave 1.2.1" (MultiSave enables you to save simultaneoulsly a document in the OpenDocument, MS Office and/or PDF formats as you choose.) It works. After install I tried to update, but that was asked too much: "Fout tijdens downloaden van extensie MultiSave. De foutmelding is: Could not download http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/downloadfile/1719/e-files/1719/3/S.... Could not download http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/e-files/1719/3/StarXpert_MultiSave.... De extensie wordt niet geïnstalleerd." (fout = error) The cause is obvious that http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ is unreachable. -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading - seo http://www.tekstbaken.nl/ | harriebaken@linux.com IRCNet #TekstBaken | Skype: harricot Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 11.3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hallo Harrie Baken, op 2011-05-03 17:39 schreef je: [...]
After install I tried to update, but that was asked too much:
Could not download http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/e-files/1719/3/StarXpert_MultiSave.... The cause is obvious that http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ is unreachable.
Strange coincidence: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ is up again, update completed. -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading - seo http://www.tekstbaken.nl/ | harriebaken@linux.com IRCNet #TekstBaken | Skype: harricot Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 11.3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 05/03/2011 11:39 AM, Harrie Baken pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hallo Ken Schneider - openSUSE, op 2011-05-03 17:03 schreef je:
On 05/03/2011 10:32 AM, Fr David Ousley pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
I have to send documents to people using windows, but my documents are .odt. I can tell oowriter to save a copy, say, as .doc, but then oowriter switches to that document, instead of staying with the original .odt. I have to remember that, and reopen the .odt file before writing anything else.
I wonder if there would be an utility, a button, a macro, to say: "save another copy for windows users" in .doc, .docx, etc. And keep OO with my .odt opened.
There is also the handy MultiSave extension (Tools > Extension Manager), which allows you to save to .doc or .pdf or both as well as .odt, and does not change the .odt that you are editing. Works well for me.
And what is the name of the extension you installed? I looked through the "Get more extensions online..." list and didn't see anything there. (Could be my eyes missed it.)
It's "Multisave" indeed, but it doesn't appear in the (er... my) Extension Manager.
Neither is it on the list on http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List
But here it is: http://libreoffice-na.us/English/extensions.html
It's called "StarXpert MultiSave 1.2.1" (MultiSave enables you to save simultaneoulsly a document in the OpenDocument, MS Office and/or PDF formats as you choose.)
It works.
Thanks for the info. I have it installed and will try it out shortly. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
And what is the name of the extension you installed? I looked through the "Get more extensions online..." list and didn't see anything there. (Could be my eyes missed it.)
It's called MultiSave. I got it a year or so ago for OpenOffice from the extensions web site (it works equally well with Libre). I checked and it's not now listed. It came from StarXpert, but a quick look did not find a way to download it from there. I don't really know what's going on with it. Assuming there are no licensing issues, I could send it to you if you cannot find it. Fr O. -- Fr David Ousley davidousley@verizon.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-05-03 16:32, Fr David Ousley wrote:
There is also the handy MultiSave extension (Tools > Extension Manager), which allows you to save to .doc or .pdf or both as well as .odt, and does not change the .odt that you are editing. Works well for me.
That is what I want! Then it is an extension that has to be installed? I'm on a hurry, I'll check later. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3AGSwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WqGACeKtUWM8JGfUkJzZ1jmZeULAwB 2bYAnjS7KtvdI9IKS5vsR+ropICnmBDZ =NH16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-05-03 14:09, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Since you're sending the document, why not use the email function to send as a Word document. Just click on File > Send > Email as Microsoft Word.
Ah, I never tried that. It works.
Also, while you're editing the ODT files, you can just use "Save as" to save as DOC and then reset the save as back to ODT.
That's what I do but I don't want to do. Actually, to be safe, when you save as .doc you lose features, so you have to reload the .odt to be sure. Save (.odt) save as .doc, yes I'm sure of the format, and overwrite. save as .docx, yes I'm sure, yes, I'm also sure to overwrite. reload .odt That's too many clicks. So, I have the choice of sending as email, or adding that extension for multisave. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3AR64ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X92QCglQVvREw92UKt1D49nAoZE2bb 1/EAnjzjo7JtW3qKNCaDMF2d8Ulw5mRl =maq+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Anton Aylward
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Carlos E. R.
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Carlos E. R.
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Fr David Ousley
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Harrie Baken
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James Knott
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Ken Schneider - openSUSE