Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CT2N Extension.

2011-06-17 Thread Stephan Zietsman
Tinkerer wrote: I was trying to convert 'one and two If you can upload a test file with typical inputs, then someone (maybe even me?) could have a look at writing a function (Calc function or Macro) that addresses your need(s). Regards Stephan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
I'm new to LO base (I'm using the default HSQLDB), and having a pretty good time with it so far, but have run into something I don't understand, and cannot find documentation about. I have a form with a main db displayed in a grid control. Linked to it is a detail db displayed in a subform.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Sorry to have forgotten this: I'm running LO 3.3.2 on Kubuntu Linux 11.04. On 06/17/2011 01:06 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: I'm new to LO base (I'm using the default HSQLDB), and having a pretty good time with it so far, but have run into something I don't understand, and cannot find documentation

[libreoffice-users] fields added to table do not show up in form grid

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Am deeply puzzled by this one: I have a master-slave form. The master db is shown in a grid control. I just added several fields to the table which supplied data to the grid control, then relaunched the form. No changes are visible. Where are the new table fields? The appear in several views

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: General input/output error when saving to network drive

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 17/06/11 3:51 PM, protonpusher wrote: Another update. First off, in response to Jean-Francois, I checked, and there are no special characters in the share name or server name. I also have some more test results. Using two computers (Old Toshiba Satellite, and desktop) I ran the Live cd for

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Just found the answer. I may be misleading myself at times due to [a] prior experience of several years duration with MS Access, and [b] my being very new to LO base. What doesn't work is to add text box control to a form and specify their data, in their properties, as a field in the main

[libreoffice-users] Re: Font colour bucketfill and palette behaviour

2011-06-17 Thread Jonor
Tom Davies wrote: Is it happening when you try to highlight text? Yes but only if the bucketfill is used and it happens when using font colour bucketfill too. Jack wrote: I believe you ran into this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37955 It looks like a work-around

[libreoffice-users] Re: CT2N Extension.

2011-06-17 Thread Tinkerer
Thank you Stephan I copied and pasted the quantities in text from an article. In the end it was quicker to print it out and just type them in, but I thought using CT2N would guarantee the accuracy. Do you think there would be much demand for such a function? Best regards, Tink. -- View this

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
WH :) So, you have fixed your own problem!? How did you find the answer? Documentation or experimentation? Do you have time to join the Documentation Team and perhaps help them for maybe a few hours a week or something? Base documentation needs a lot of work and there are not

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing With OSX 10.6.7

2011-06-17 Thread Tinkerer
Michael I only have the one printer in Snow Leopard, but I think you problem lies with System X rather than LibreO. Way back I changed printers and I had to remove the old printer before the new printer became the real Default. That was in the days of Panther though. Tink. -- View this message

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing With OSX 10.6.7

2011-06-17 Thread Tinkerer
Michael Second thoughts. Are you using the Apple Printer Driver, or the one supplied by the printer Manufacturer? My preference is for the Apple drivers, especially with Epson printers. Tink. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Well, nuts. You really know how to get to me. I love databases, and I'm coming to love this one (after about 6 days of work with it), and its manifestation in LO seems versatile, rock solid, and damn poorly documented. Oh...that last on does NOT cause love. However, I love to document stuff

Re: [libreoffice-users] fields added to table do not show up in form grid

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Just found the solution to this one, too. Another piece of obscurity which, once seen, just works. 1. Place focus on grid form. 2. Click the add field icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the window; it's the blue/green thingie that's 6 icons in from the left (why the hell don't these things

[libreoffice-users] Font colour bucketfill and palette behaviour

2011-06-17 Thread Jonor
Following your directions Tom i managed to move the toolbar but regrettably the work-around fails on my system. I still intend to comment though. My second issue with LO Writer and this is the one that RedHat Bugzilla say is intentional, is the lack of the capacity to initiate font colour

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font colour bucketfill and palette behaviour

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be worth writing a new bug-report and in the subject-line put [wish-list] before the brief heading. This guide might have better instructions for filing a feature request in a much better way. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport LibreOffice and TDF seems to have better

[libreoffice-users] Re: Landscape printing issue

2011-06-17 Thread David Griffiths
David Griffiths wrote: Hello I have just discovered an error when printing in landscape format on my system. Whether I create a normal text page or a DL envelope document in Writer, the printed output does not match the preview. The page preview for my DL envelope test can be seen here:

[libreoffice-users] Font colour bucketfill and palette behaviour

2011-06-17 Thread Jonor
Sasha's toolbar suggest at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37955 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37955 has increased productivity and it is nice to know the problem is recognized. I've added a wish list item as you suggested, could have put several items in there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font colour bucketfill and palette behaviour

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is better to put each request as a separate item, as with forums and mailing lists and for the same reasons. Filing bug-reports is great. Triagers sort out the priorities and even mark which is an easy hack to help people learn how to produce code for LibreOffice. The other

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread John B
Tom Thanks - I have posted the request below today - I will let you know if I get a response. I note that on the new IBM Lotus Symphony Web site - this has to be the most angered and fought for request (1000's), but IBM have now disowned its own software in favour of making the new cut

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread Roland Hughes
If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs on this issue. They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement WordPro windows for documents. Right now they have taken the brain dead Microsoft approach of having each document as a tab. On Fri, 2011-06-17 at

[libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
A paragraph that points to pcmag.com's article about 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 list the following rule: [quote] For most of the world, Microsoft Office 2010 follows the 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality. [unquote] That 80% that is not used

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol, i can't believe they are advertising one of the key reasons we give to people for walking away from MSO. Obviously every single user believes they are in the 1% that uses too many of the advanced features and so could not possibly walk away. The specific example of not needing

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread yahoo-pier_andreit
Il 17/06/2011 16:33, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions ha scritto: A paragraph that points to pcmag.com's article about 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 list the following rule: [quote] For most of the world, Microsoft Office 2010 follows the 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread John B
Dear Roland It reminds me of that Guinness Ad on Cold Guinness where the barman says your the 15th person today I've told that there is no call for Cold Guinness. I remember the 1st time I saw Lotus Smart Suite, this chap had just 2 files - Private and Business, he opened up the private one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Dear John, uh-oh...that sounds like an ominous opening! Grin Actually, the they I refer to is every other word processor on the face of the planet. I never abused/relied on the tab system as a document control architecture. I used it to segregate out the portions of a writing project. Each

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No, i think the point is that of that same 20% not everyone uses all of that 20%. Yes people use different features from each other but all the features they use tend to be fairly basic ones, eg not macros and almost none of the formulas in Excel. It's all very imprecise of course.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: General input/output error when saving to network drive

2011-06-17 Thread Wayne Stidolph
I see the same General-on save/nothing on open behavior with LO3.4 trying to directly read/write to a Synology NAS: * Fedora 14 64-bit, wired connection * Fedora 15 32-bit, wireless connection Double-clicking on the remote ODT file from Nautilous works - the doc opens in LO. And, changing the

[libreoffice-users] very slow windows swithing with LO 3.3.3

2011-06-17 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Yesterday or so I upgraded my LO3.3.0 version (running on Windox XP desktop) to LO 3.3.3 (final version).Now I noticed, that if you are working within LO for a while and then try to switch to Firefox,the switch takes something like 10-20 seconds!This DID NOT happen before.If I repeat

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread lee
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com writes: The extensions solve many of the functions that are needed by the small percentage of users. We do not need them to be installed by default. Spreading things across too many packages (that one can optionally install)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: General input/output error when saving to network drive

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Hi Steve and Wayne On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 09:07 -0700, Wayne Stidolph wrote: I see the same General-on save/nothing on open behavior with LO3.4 trying to directly read/write to a Synology NAS: * Fedora 14 64-bit, wired connection * Fedora 15 32-bit, wireless connection Double-clicking on

[libreoffice-users] crash with LO 3.4.0 Calc

2011-06-17 Thread Frieder
Hello I'm running Windows7 Professional and LibreOffice 3.4.0 . If I open a normal spreadsheet in Calc without macros there is no problem. But if I open the document WurzelmanagerCalcVersion1.2.5.2.ods which I send you in the addition, LO crashes. (you can also download the document on my web

Re: [libreoffice-users] very slow windows swithing with LO 3.3.3

2011-06-17 Thread Roxy Robinson
Now that you mention this annoyance, I have noticed this using LO 3.3.2. I've been using it since its full production version became available for download. I've downloaded 3.3.3 final, but have not installed it yet. Will be interesting to see if this annoyance continues. I did not notice this

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Tom On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 02:22 -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: Just found the answer. I may be misleading myself at times due to [a] prior experience of several years duration with MS Access, and [b] my being very new to LO base. What doesn't work is to add text box control to a form and

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Tom, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 03:12 -0600, Tom Cloyd wrote: Well, nuts. You really know how to get to me. I love databases, and I'm coming to love this one (after about 6 days of work with it), and its manifestation in LO seems versatile, rock solid, and damn poorly documented. Oh...that

[libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread John B
Dear Roland My mistake, I thought that /[the brain dead//Microsoft//approach of having each document as a tab]/ refers to Lotus Symphony which loads each document in as a separate (big fat pointless) tab - as that is the only word software program I know, that uses those tabs (hence, what do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Dear John, It will not work as a bolt on. I really really REALLY thought IBM was finally going to sort this out, since they have the ENTIRE WordPro file specification. The OpenDocument file format has to have many things added to it in order to support tabbed document divisions. Mainly, it has

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Cloyd
Well, I write lots of notes for /myself/, as I don't like to trod the same jungle path more than once (and there's a lot of jungle out there!). I'm headed over to the website right now to get involved formally. Thanks for the encouragement. t. On 06/17/2011 12:20 PM, planas wrote: Tom On

[libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings?

2011-06-17 Thread Jan Parttimaa
Hi all! I have a question. How can I reset all settings and toolbars to defaults in LibreOffice? I already tried to unistall and reinstall LibreOffice and yes I restarted PC after unistalling but it didn't work. I still have non-default settings. I use Windows 7 (64-bit). Sincerely Jan

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread lee
planas jsloz...@gmail.com writes: I believe that the 80/20 is somewhat misleading. As noted earlier must use approximately 20% but not the same 20%. I would estimate that somewhere around 50% of all the features are used reasonably often and the rest are rarely used. There are substantial

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings?

2011-06-17 Thread Roxy Robinson
Download and install Revo Unistaller: http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html Run Revo and use the 4th option to unistall LO. You will have the option to delete any and all registry links to LO and any other little cyber-bits of info left. When you re-install LO you

re: [libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings?

2011-06-17 Thread Gérard FARGEOT
Message du 17/06/11 21:23 De : Jan Parttimaa A : users@global.libreoffice.org Copie à : Objet : [libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings? Hi all! I have a question. How can I reset all settings and toolbars to defaults in LibreOffice? I already tried to unistall and

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings?

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Hi Jan, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 22:19 +0300, Jan Parttimaa wrote: Hi all! I have a question. How can I reset all settings and toolbars to defaults in LibreOffice? I already tried to unistall and reinstall LibreOffice and yes I restarted PC after unistalling but it didn't work. I still have

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Sorry, but that example was the only one I remember seeing that was too weird to forget. I know many high-end users that need those limited user functions to do really weird things that I would not have though possible in Word or Excel. Those users are the type that could write books on

Re: [libreoffice-users] crash with LO 3.4.0 Calc

2011-06-17 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Frieder, Frieder schrieb: Hello I'm running Windows7 Professional and LibreOffice 3.4.0 . If I open a normal spreadsheet in Calc without macros there is no problem. But if I open the document WurzelmanagerCalcVersion1.2.5.2.ods which I send you in the addition, LO crashes. (you can also

[libreoffice-users] Re: How can I reset all settings?

2011-06-17 Thread NoOp
On 06/17/2011 12:51 PM, Gérard FARGEOT wrote: Message du 17/06/11 21:23 De : Jan Parttimaa A : users@global.libreoffice.org Copie à : Objet : [libreoffice-users] How can I reset all settings? Hi all! I have a question. How can I reset all settings and toolbars to defaults in

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Lee, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 21:42 +0200, lee wrote: planas jsloz...@gmail.com writes: I believe that the 80/20 is somewhat misleading. As noted earlier must use approximately 20% but not the same 20%. I would estimate that somewhere around 50% of all the features are used reasonably

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: crash with LO 3.4.0 Calc

2011-06-17 Thread Frieder
Tanks a lot for your quick responds I did not try LO 3.4.1 jet but I tried LO 3.3.3 ,as I already said, without crashes. I could not check the bug-report because I already uninstalled LO 3.4.0 .But the description of Bug 37673 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37673 (

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 6/17/2011 5:12 PM, planas wrote: The current problem is we do not have any good information of what features are not very important and do not extend the functionality for all but a few users. The question is what mix of included and extensible features should be available beyond those that

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Very few people know this, but OS/2 Warp was light years ahead of current Windows products with its speech technology. On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 17:55 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 6/17/2011 5:12 PM, planas wrote: The current problem is we do not have any good information of what features

[libreoffice-users] Export to Html Bug still in 3.4.1rc1

2011-06-17 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
There were a couple messages on this sometime ago, and one mentioned that it had been reported, but I just downloaded the 3.4.1rc1 and it still does the same thing. A document with a Table of Contents that has them setup up as links produces the links, but the have ./ in them that makes them

RE: [libreoffice-users] Export to Html Bug still in 3.4.1rc1

2011-06-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I've only seen this in Exporting XHTML. Is that what you are doing? I've seen different problems with Send to Web Document and Save as Web Page, but not this. I don't think anyone turned this into a bug report. I've been meaning to but have been distracted by other things. I can do it if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export to Html Bug still in 3.4.1rc1

2011-06-17 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 17 Jun 2011 at 16:40, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: From: Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject:RE: [libreoffice-users] Export to Html Bug still in 3.4.1rc1 Date sent: Fri, 17 Jun

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: crash with LO 3.4.0 Calc

2011-06-17 Thread Tom Davies
From: Gérard Fargeot gerard.farg...@orange.fr To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 17 June, 2011 21:42:25 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: crash with LO 3.4.0 Calc Hi, Regina Henschel wrote: It will be fixed in version 3.4.1. Please try it

[libreoffice-users] Lost file

2011-06-17 Thread Andrea Nommensen
I was working on an .ODF text file on LibreOffice. When I attempted to open the file, I got the file recovery screen, but the recovery module indicated the file is in use by an unknown user and the file could not be recovered. Upon checking the file size, it was 0 kb, as was the backup file

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/17/2011 05:55 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: On 6/17/2011 5:12 PM, planas wrote: The current problem is we do not have any good information of what features are not very important and do not extend the functionality for all but a few users. The question is what mix of included and

[libreoffice-users] Disappearing Spell Checker

2011-06-17 Thread Roxy Robinson
About a week ago I posted a problem I have had with the spell checker disappearing - yes, that's correct - disappearing. This will be the 3rd time since I installed LO 3.3.2, which was installed a couple days after the final release became available. I was typing in some recipes tonight and

[libreoffice-users] Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-17 Thread aqualung
In the Release Notes for LibreOffice 3.3.3, it says: For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations. It would be nice to have the option of keeping OOo, for the odd case when something that works

Re: [libreoffice-users] Disappearing Spell Checker

2011-06-17 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:28, Roxy Robinson wrote: About a week ago I posted a problem I have had with the spell checker disappearing - yes, that's correct - disappearing. This will be the 3rd time since I installed LO 3.3.2, which was installed a couple days after the final release