Dear All: Sorry for posting here since I presume this is no the right place but I'm nuts linking and linking inside 'sun.com' with the only purpose to register my SO.8.0 copy I bought from 'amazon.com.uk.' I apologize again. Best Regards. Pedro ...

The Norwegian spell checker doesn't separate compounded words, that's not supposed to be compunded, and the thesaurus is very limited. Any hope for an update?

Similar in function to MS Office's formula auditing toolbar where you can click and graphically see the dependants and precedents. This simple tool is invaluable when diagnosing long formulas on very large spreadsheets. To improve upon the MS counterpart, if a dialog box popped up and ...

while installing error message pops up "the system can not open the device or specified file" after that i get the error message 2755.110, there is an error with file staroffice8.msi I have downloaded twice with the same error results, please any advice ...

Setting: PC with Fedora Core2 and CTWM 3.7. SO8 is unusable, since the context menu (right click) does not work as it should. Examination reveals that the context menu is mapped, but then immedeately disappears under the main window. The same problem occurs with OpenOffice.org 2.0. See ...

on export there are no animations

Could anyone give me detailled steps to transfer my MS Access tables into the Star Office Database.I can export them to the spreadsheet but will only open with calc. I want to use the database.Thanks

Hello .. i am having problem in site. I have created the DSN connection aswell and maped on /db folder. All information in application file is correct.. but even then i am having this error please give any sugestion to resolve this issue..Error Occurred While Processing RequestError Diagnostic ...

I'd occasionally like to have StarCalc columns labels simular to Lotus123 i.e. R1,R2,R3... I do not see how to change the current alpha system to alpha-numeric. Is it possable?

I have a simple time-series graph with dates on the horizontal axis and another variable on the vertical. In the spreadsheet data columns I'm adding new data at the TOP of the columns, but I'd like the most recent data to appear at the RIGHT of the graph. My data set shows, e.g., A5:A489 ...

Does Calc import, open Quattro Pro spreadsheets? If so how do I do it? Thanks in advance for the help!

I have several Windows XP SP2 workstations running StarOffice 8 Update 5 and Update 4 that show the drawing toolbar at the bottom of the screen and the focus constantly changes from the toolbar to the document. It makes it impossible to do anything but close the program. The This happens in any ...

Someone told me, there was a WordPro filter on an earlyer version of StarOffice (5 or 7?). Is it possible to read WordPro files in StarOffice 8, too?

I have just changed from using StarOffice version 7 to version 8.I am having difficulties in creating a calculated field in a query.Would anyone have some ideas for me to follow?Thanks - Dan

Hi,I accidentally installed staroffice 7 and now I can't get it off my PC (XP) If I go to the add/remove section in the control panel all I can do is highlight the program, but I cannot remove it. Any advice you could give would be gratefully received.Thank you,Kuvolo ...

I have lost the install CD for my copy of Staroffice 7. I have the entitlement certificate for it and all the DOC..If you call Sun Support and ask them how to get a replacement CD, they forward me to Sales. Talking with Sales, they send me back to Staroffice Support ..Stopping short of me ...

I like the convenience & simplicity of the Page X of Y auto text feature in Microsoft Word, but have not been able to find an equivalent in Star Office Writer 8. Does anyone know if one exists?The workaround I have been using is to type "Page", then insert the page number field, ...

We have been trying out Star Office evaluatedby within a MS centric Company. They would like to go migrate from MS Office.We asked a few Power Users users try it and provide their Comments:This is what their Response was.Advantages:1. Extra options to do custom filter the auto filter command.2. ...

Hi,I tried to update as prompted by auto-update feature. But after I have finished downloading and saved the file 120187-10 (Signed Patch). But when I opened the file, a Java virtual machine launcher window pop up and with message stated Invalid or corrupt jarfile.I have downloaded the latest ...

Having just purchased staroffice 8, and found with some disappointment that I then had to install an update, I now have staroffice 8 (v5?) installed, occupying about .25GB, and the update occupying about .5GB, which seems a lot of space in aggregate. Can I now uninstall staroffice 8, and run ...

Hello, I just bought StarOffice. I am working on a university paper and want to add in-text citation and bibliography and thought that the bibliography database would make that all much simpler and more consistent.However, I really don't understand how it works.For example, I added to the ...

Can I edit a .CSV file with StarBase? I've been able to open the file, but can't edit. I created a data entry form, but it opens in read only mode.I'm not all that familiar with databases, so please excuse my ignorance.Dave

Is there OleDB or ODBC providers to allow external apps access TO a star office database?

Does Writer display all images as JPEGs? I am trying to insert screen shots of program into a Writer document and I am getting very fuzzy, low-quality display. The images are saved as bitmaps. I have also tried PNG. Regardless of the file format, I get the same fuzzy appearance in the Writer ...

i've found my father's (R.I.P) "sdw" files with his poems, but i can't open them without password. i'm looking for solution over the internet but i still haven't found it.if sb can help i'll be greatfull

StarOffice Writer 8 handles the line wrapping for em dashes incorrectly. An em dash should not be treated as a separate word. For example, if you have some quoted text that ends with an em dash (as in a fictional dialogue), you should never end up with the em dash on a single line, like ...

I am attempting to use StarMath formulas within a text document. The vast majority of symbols display as rectangles. How do I configure StarOffice to display a symbol correctly? What software components am I missing?As an example, I want to use the del operator (a triangle whose base is at the ...

I like using Impress because it's easier for me to use on Linux than getting Crossover to work 100%. However, the 3-slide Handouts layout is extremely inefficient and I have to manually re-arrange the layout for each presentation I need to print out. Is there a way to create new layouts so I ...

When creating a new document the spell check works fine. After saving the document as xml and reopening the document, spell checker no longer works. Errors in existing text or new words that are typed wrong all show as correctly spelled.Installed latest StarOffice 8 patches and problem remains ...

hi,on a SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000i have this error:Checking installed patches...Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...Patch 120185-09 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.See /var/sadm/patch/120185-09/log for ...

Hello Everyone,I would like to know if someone know where I can Get a list with description of Function( Financial, Engineering....) present in StarOffice 8. I've checked the help of StarOffice but It didn't list all function (eg date & Time only show one function)I'd really appreciate ...

Hi,I'm trying to write some text in Icelandic with StarOffice, but my dead keys do not work. That is, pressing ' e should yield ? but does 'e. This is different behaviour from the rest of the GNOME apps, where nothing at all happens. It does however work in XEmacs.Is there something I can ...

When I try to save either of two spreadsheets on my WinXP SO8 (update 3 rev 2) installation, SO crashes. I can save these two sheets using my SO8(3.2) Linux machine. (Other Writer and Calc documents work fine on both the Win and Lin installations.)It's just these two files on the Windows ...

Hello folks,I'm a new user of Open Office Writer, I've noticed that whenever I open a .doc file, Writer creates a temp file with the name:Pipe_File_Mapping_OSL_Pipe_UserName_SingleOfficeIPC_bf4ca6xxxxxxx...What is this? What does it do? If someone could educate me and increase my knowledge ...

I am unable to patch my current version of StarOffice 7 rev 6 to rev 7.I am running Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition. I have been using and upgrading the latest versions for several years without any problems.If I use the 'zip' file, I get a Windows eror.If I use the 'jar' file, I get the ...

Greetings, I have a spreadsheet where I've inserted 2 time controls which contain time values. I want to take the difference between those 2 values and plug it into a regular cell in the spreadsheet. Is this possible?I don't want to use a DB or webpage for submission, I just want a ...

In MS word you can set the language bar to Japanese and type the word and it puts the Japanese characters into the document.Can this be done in Writer?

"Writer " will not allow the use of the delete or backspace keys. "Calc" will, as will "word". Please help as this is driving me crazy!!!

I'm evaluating StarOffice both for my own use and recommendation to my clients. Today I encountered a clear bug -- an RTF file that other applications (incl. MS Word) open correctly but which causes StarOffice to crash. Looking on the Sun site I find no place for bug reports -- anyone who ...

I have a situation in which I have a number of text and tabular files with the SXW extension but I need to convert them into MSOffice analogs. My problem is I cannot install StarOffice on this machine and no longer have access to a StarOffice machine. Any hope?>There is a (slight) ...

Hi there,I'm trying to configure the mail megre email client (SO8 on Win2k prof.) but I'm constantly receiving the following error message when testing the settings: "Establish network connection failed; find outgoing mailserver failed". The setting under ...

I just imported a document from the Web into SO8 Writer. It looked to have double line spacing, when a change to single spacing did nothing, I discovered ("view hidden characters") that there are two paragraph breaks after each line of text. So... after each line, there's a blank ...

Dear Srs., please help us. The pictures includes in a .dot document not arrived using e-mail merge of StarOffice 8. Why?. I tryed saving and sending original document how HTML, .doc. and nothing, the document arrive without pictures. I use Outlook Express. If I send document how e-mail from ...

ODTs authored on a Linux box lose some images when opened on a windows box. It seems some images are imbedded into the odt file and have "none" for the picture link file name, while other images link to their home directory under "documents and settings," where, of course, ...

Hi everyone,I am using StarOffice 7 and have had no printing problems with my Epson Stylus Photo 1270 until I updated the software with latest patch 5. I am on Win 2K.From StarOffice I try to print, the printer starts printing and then it stops. Error message pops up.Printing from other ...

I have a question regarding adjusting page numbering in the table of contents. I have manually adjusted my page numbering to start at page 3, which is now called page 1. But my table of contents still show this page as page 3, while I want it to be shown as page 1.How do I do this?I tried to ...

I got a key to download my copy of Star Office from Sun. I downloaded it, but when I try to run it, is says it has expired and closes.How do I get around this?

Hello~ I have my english version of StarOffice installed.However, when I update it to Product Update 1, the language of Options has been changed. How can I solve this? Thanks.

I would like to create a silent install for SO8 in a Windows environment. Previous versions used an answer file which worked nicely. SO8 uses an msi file. In order to configure a silent install using the msi file, and control what options are installed, the Star Office docs say that I need the ...

Hi, new user here, downloaded and installed Java Virtual Machine plug-in, 1.4.2-b28, tonight. Added Java capability to IE 6.0.28. Running XP.Encountered a problem with a URL that had worked with Microsoft VM on another machine on my home network. Found the Java Console, which gave the following ...