RE: open office enquiry

[john allen <hi...@hotmail.com>]

HiI do apologise for not thanking you for your earlier email reply t my enquiry.Not sure how it was missed, but thats for the details of the forum and seeking to 'umerge' cells which I'll try.RegardsJohn allen > Subject: Re: open office enquiry
> From: jimplante@me.com
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:27:47 -0500
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
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> On Aug 25, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Alan B <ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >  So the NeoOffice support forum is your next step.
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> No, unfortunately it is not--unless you contribute $100/year for tech support. Neo has only one full-time engineer to maintain the program: Patrick Luby. And while he does give good value for the money, you cannot post questions to the support forum unless you maintain that contributor status. There are only two or three part-time coders who contribute.
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> (N.B.: I once had a problem with NeoOffice screwing up my inserted pictures, then crashing. I posted the problem and an example file on the support forum, and Patrick issued a patch within 90 minutes. He seldom takes more than a day or two to solve problems, although the knotty ones do take longer. His service is unsurpassed.)
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> I use NeoOffice on Mavericks (latest version). To unmerge cells, select the whole data set (not Select All...). From the main menu at the top of the screen, choose Format, then Merge Cells, then uncheck either Merge Cells or Merge and Center cells, whichever is checked. 
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> Now you can sort. Then, immediately save the file under a different name. Look carefully at your original data and the data that resulted from the sort. Do the data in the rows make sense? Is anything missing? Are they in proper sort order in all columns? Remember, to sort you must select the entire data set. If you select only a column, then that column is all that will be sorted; the rest of the data will stay as it was. 
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> You can get the latest NeoOffice from the App Store for free. It is one of the few programs in the App Store which notifies you of available patches or updates; it does not update automatically, but allows you to selectively eschew updates until you've finished your current project (just in case...).  Tech support must be paid for. Only you can decide whether it's worth it. 
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> Jim Plante
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