Comments on: OpenOffice Writer Tools – Text Snippets, Word Lookup, and More http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/ Technology News Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:45:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-119009 Ryan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:48:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-119009 DivShare doesn't have plugins for the browsers, do they? DivShare doesn’t have plugins for the browsers, do they?

]]> By: DaComboMan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118962 DaComboMan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:39:30 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118962 DivShare.com (although a bit slow right now) may be the most viable option. With IE and Firefox plugins, it's really simple to upload files and share them through links to whatever email address you please. DivShare.com (although a bit slow right now) may be the most viable option. With IE and Firefox plugins, it’s really simple to upload files and share them through links to whatever email address you please.

]]> By: DaComboMan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118960 DaComboMan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:54:36 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118960 Hi Ryan, In fact, i have even setup a Hotmail along with my default email account within OE (don't have Outlook), even had the mail program open side by side with OO and i still had the Corel settings window popup and same error messages. Did however send an email to the author. Hope his English is better than mine! :P Hi Ryan,

In fact, i have even setup a Hotmail along with my default email account within OE (don’t have Outlook), even had the mail program open side by side with OO and i still had the Corel settings window popup and same error messages.

Did however send an email to the author. Hope his English is better than mine! :P

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118882 Ryan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:30:35 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118882 Gravatar just got bought by WordPress today, which is what powers our blog. I'm pretty excited about that, and I think it will be good for the company. I looked into the Email Backup thing a little closer, and apparently all it does is open your default email application (such as Outlook) and attach the document to an email for you to send. If you don't have an account setup with an application it is not going to work. Sorry about that, I wasn't completely sure with how it worked. And unfortunately it defeats its usefulness a bit since you have to go through so many hurdles just to get the email sent. :( Gravatar just got bought by WordPress today, which is what powers our blog. I’m pretty excited about that, and I think it will be good for the company.

I looked into the Email Backup thing a little closer, and apparently all it does is open your default email application (such as Outlook) and attach the document to an email for you to send. If you don’t have an account setup with an application it is not going to work. Sorry about that, I wasn’t completely sure with how it worked. And unfortunately it defeats its usefulness a bit since you have to go through so many hurdles just to get the email sent. :(

]]> By: DaComboMan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118838 DaComboMan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:54:42 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118838 Ryan, Just so happened that Gravatar moved over to some other company today. Guess that opens the door to possible delay situation as well. Did a GMail setup, config tested okay. Went to perform email backup. For some reason the Corel settings are not being respected (addressbook). Error message still comes up. Hope i'm doing things properly here: Tools/Star Office Writer/Mail Merge E-mail That's the place to setup email config right? Ryan,

Just so happened that Gravatar moved over to some other company today. Guess that opens the door to possible delay situation as well.

Did a GMail setup, config tested okay.
Went to perform email backup. For some reason the Corel settings are not being respected (addressbook). Error message still comes up.

Hope i’m doing things properly here:
Tools/Star Office Writer/Mail Merge E-mail
That’s the place to setup email config right?

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118817 Ryan Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:06:15 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118817 Just looked into the Gravatar issues and it was a bug in my code. Your Gravatar now shows up just fine. ;) Just looked into the Gravatar issues and it was a bug in my code. Your Gravatar now shows up just fine. ;)

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118807 Ryan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:04:03 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118807 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-118701" rel="nofollow">Jack of all Trades wrote:</a><blockquote>this is very useful indeed. all is lacking is automatic backup to a removable drive/disk on key of some kind.</blockquote></div> That would be nice to schedule an automatic backup to a secondary drive. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-118711" rel="nofollow">DaComboMan wrote:</a><blockquote>BTW, i’ve set a Gravatar image yesterday and it still doesn’t show up in my profile. Any other options?</blockquote></div> Are you using the same email address in your comments that you setup with Gravatar? I'm pretty sure that's what it uses to pull in the image. If you are I'll go ahead and look into it. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-118754" rel="nofollow">DaComboMan wrote:</a><blockquote>-OO is configured with an valid email account. I’ve even opened up OE to setup a Hotmail account so that a default Windows Addressbook be operative (seems OO needs this for some reason). Email backup requests an email address every time (wish there were a default address).</blockquote></div> And you setup your email account in the extension correctly? Maybe you should try setting up a Gmail account and see if that works. You can always have Gmail forward any of the documents onto your Hotmail. Jack of all Trades wrote:
this is very useful indeed. all is lacking is automatic backup to a removable drive/disk on key of some kind.

That would be nice to schedule an automatic backup to a secondary drive.

DaComboMan wrote:
BTW, i’ve set a Gravatar image yesterday and it still doesn’t show up in my profile. Any other options?

Are you using the same email address in your comments that you setup with Gravatar? I’m pretty sure that’s what it uses to pull in the image. If you are I’ll go ahead and look into it.

DaComboMan wrote:
-OO is configured with an valid email account. I’ve even opened up OE to setup a Hotmail account so that a default Windows Addressbook be operative (seems OO needs this for some reason). Email backup requests an email address every time (wish there were a default address).

And you setup your email account in the extension correctly? Maybe you should try setting up a Gmail account and see if that works. You can always have Gmail forward any of the documents onto your Hotmail.

]]> By: DaComboMan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118754 DaComboMan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:05:12 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118754 -I don't know if this should go into a forum somewhere but i tried to use email backup and it's not working. -OO is configured with an valid email account. I've even opened up OE to setup a Hotmail account so that a default Windows Addressbook be operative (seems OO needs this for some reason). Email backup requests an email address every time (wish there were a default address). Yet every tentative is negative. Zilch! Nada! :cry: -I don’t know if this should go into a forum somewhere but i tried to use email backup and it’s not working.
-OO is configured with an valid email account. I’ve even opened up OE to setup a Hotmail account so that a default Windows Addressbook be operative (seems OO needs this for some reason). Email backup requests an email address every time (wish there were a default address).
Yet every tentative is negative. Zilch! Nada! :cry:

]]> By: DaComboMan http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118711 DaComboMan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:58:43 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118711 My initial impressions? 1. Didn't know that there were extensions for OO. 2. There's no info. in the OO help about Wikifying (have to test the extension on this yet). 3. The backuping to email option i must look into. It will definitely come in handy! 4. If only i could find some good Video tutorials that show more than just how to download/install OO. ;) BTW, i've set a Gravatar image yesterday and it still doesn't show up in my profile. Any other options? My initial impressions?

1. Didn’t know that there were extensions for OO.
2. There’s no info. in the OO help about Wikifying (have to test the extension on this yet).
3. The backuping to email option i must look into. It will definitely come in handy!
4. If only i could find some good Video tutorials that show more than just how to download/install OO.

;)

BTW, i’ve set a Gravatar image yesterday and it still doesn’t show up in my profile. Any other options?

]]> By: Jack of all Trades http://cybernetnews.com/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-118701 Jack of all Trades Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:33:32 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/17/openoffice-writer-tools-text-snippets-word-lookup-and-more/#comment-118701 this is very useful indeed. all is lacking is automatic backup to a removable drive/disk on key of some kind. i wish word would have this also (till i make the move to openoffice anyway), cause they should have an automatic saving in doc and docx at same time. this is very useful indeed. all is lacking is automatic backup to a removable drive/disk on key of some kind.

i wish word would have this also (till i make the move to openoffice anyway), cause they should have an automatic saving in doc and docx at same time.

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