[libreoffice-users] Re: Welcome to users@global.libreoffice.org

2023-12-17 Thread Jim Cunning
LibreOffice shows printers in the print menu that no longer exist on my system.  They do not appear in the print menus of any other applications.  How do I remove them from LibreOffice?Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice CommunityBuild ID: 30(Build:2)CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render:

[libreoffice-users] Libre Office version 7.4.5.1 (x64)

2023-02-23 Thread Jim hebert
Hi: One month ago I purchased a new Acer Predator Helios 300 PH317-55-59J9 laptop with Windows 11 Home. Libre Writer crashes many times and causes me to lose all my work. While I am working the program locks up. I can not highlight anything, I can't type anything. I can't close the page. The only

[libreoffice-users] Using Libreoffice as an AppImage

2022-08-21 Thread Jim Byrnes
,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" So I can manipulate them from outside of the sheet. Will this be possible with the AppImage version? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing

[libreoffice-users] What happened to Search

2020-10-04 Thread Jim Byrnes
ned with File-->Open no longer has a Search option. Is there a way to get the Search option back? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] Mouse cursor not moving to default dialog button

2020-09-29 Thread Jim Byrnes
fact it does not move it at all. I only really use Calc so this is where I notice it. Anyone else seeing this and have a work around? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Python macros do not show

2020-09-08 Thread Jim
On 9/7/20 9:22 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 21:05 -0500, Jim wrote: I just did a fresh install of Mint 20 which comes with LO 6.4xx. I did Tools-->Macros-->Organize Macros in Cakc but there is no entry for Python. A few years ago when I did the same thing with Mint 18

[libreoffice-users] Python macros do not show

2020-09-07 Thread Jim
folder in .config/libreoffice/4/user/Scripts/python and be sure that uno.py and unohelper.py were in the site-packages folder of my virtual environment. Also in an effort to get this working I set the security level for macros to low. What else do I need to do to get python macros working? Thank

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-19 Thread Jim
On 5/19/20 11:59 AM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:37 -0500, Jim wrote: On 5/18/20 8:20 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 20:00 -0500, Jim wrote: On 5/17/20 11:10 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 20:26 -0500, Jim wrote: I started experimenting

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-19 Thread Jim
On 5/18/20 8:20 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 20:00 -0500, Jim wrote: On 5/17/20 11:10 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 20:26 -0500, Jim wrote: I started experimenting with calling a basic function from a python script. I was surprised that without to much

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-18 Thread Jim
On 5/17/20 11:10 PM, Mauricio Baeza wrote: On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 20:26 -0500, Jim wrote: I started experimenting with calling a basic function from a python script. I was surprised that without to much trouble I got it to work to a certain extent. I am working on linux Mint. I started

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-17 Thread Jim
On 5/17/20 2:51 AM, Luuk wrote: This page shows the answer to your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2781689/how-to-return-a-result-from-a-vba-function OK, thanks Jim On 17-5-2020 03:26, Jim wrote: I started experimenting with calling a basic function from a python script

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-17 Thread Jim
On 5/17/20 2:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den sön 17 maj 2020 kl 03:28 skrev Jim : I started experimenting with calling a basic function from a python script. I was surprised that without to much trouble I got it to work to a certain extent. I am working on linux Mint. I started

[libreoffice-users] Calling a libreoffice basic function from a python script

2020-05-16 Thread Jim
ipt. I printed result and it was equal to 0. It's been a long time since I did anything in basic. I imagine I would have to get rid of the msgbox code and set the rgb values equal to a variable and then return them, but I'm not sure how to do it. Does anyone know how to get the color value in t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Test

2020-05-10 Thread Jim
On 5/9/20 9:09 PM, James wrote: On 2020-05-09 9:44 p.m., Jim wrote: For some time now I have been unable to post to this list using gmane, so I decided to try subscribing to the list and using email. Hopefully this gets posted. Regards,  Jim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane Use gmane.io

[libreoffice-users] Test

2020-05-09 Thread Jim
For some time now I have been unable to post to this list using gmane, so I decided to try subscribing to the list and using email. Hopefully this gets posted. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help

[libreoffice-users] Re: Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

2017-02-04 Thread Jim
d LO to libreoffice I got some hits. Most of them I had seen already but there was a couple of new ones and one of them actually worked. Thanks, Jim From: Jim <jf_byr...@comcast.net> Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:02 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

[libreoffice-users] Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

2017-02-03 Thread Jim
: Binary URP bridge disposed during call Googling hasn't been any help. Could someone please show me a short example of how to do this? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 5 .config directory?

2017-01-06 Thread jim
On 01/06/2017 04:08 AM, Dave wrote: Original Message From: jim <jf_byr...@comcast.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:17:13 -0600 I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 which uses LO vers 5.1.4.2. When I look at my .config file I see /.

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5 .config directory?

2017-01-06 Thread jim
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 which uses LO vers 5.1.4.2. When I look at my .config file I see /.config/libreoffice/4/user. Why the '4', I expected '5'. Is this normal. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

[libreoffice-users] Re: python macros article

2016-08-08 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/08/2016 04:12 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > A while ago I read an article about updates to python uno in LO to make > it easier to use. At the time I didn't have the time to really pursue > it and forgot to bookmark it. Now I can't find it again. > &

[libreoffice-users] python macros article

2016-08-07 Thread Jim Byrnes
A while ago I read an article about updates to python uno in LO to make it easier to use. At the time I didn't have the time to really pursue it and forgot to bookmark it. Now I can't find it again. Does anyone maybe have a link to such an article? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[libreoffice-users] Re: Directory for Python Macros?

2016-07-11 Thread Jim Byrnes
instead? I don't know about a Mac but on Linux (Ubuntu) mine are in: /home/jfb/.config/libreoffice/4/user/Scripts/python (note the dot in front of config, it's a hidden file). When I put them there they show up in MyMacros when I go to Tools-->Macros-->Organize Macros-->Python. Rega

[libreoffice-users] Re: FlatPak on Ubuntu 14.04??

2016-06-22 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 06/22/2016 10:40 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: If you are talking about package management. Flatpak is a Red Hat Product. See https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-flatpak/ It is, but it seems to be going cross platform just like Snap.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Double Underline in Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/29/2016 05:45 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net>: On 03/29/2016 04:28 PM, jomali wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: Using LO vers 4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 If I go Format Cells--> Line St

[libreoffice-users] Re: Double Underline in Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/29/2016 04:28 PM, jomali wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: Using LO vers 4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 If I go Format Cells--> Line Styles --> double underline all I see in the cells I am trying to format is a thick dark line. Is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Double Underline in Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/29/2016 09:05 AM, jorge wrote: Hi Jim and all: I use Versión: 4.2.8.2 Id. de compilación: 420m0(Build:2) on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, and I get a good double underline following the same process. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El lun, 28-03-2016 a las 19:24 -0500, Jim Byrnes escribió

[libreoffice-users] Double Underline in Calc

2016-03-28 Thread Jim Byrnes
Using LO vers 4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 If I go Format Cells--> Line Styles --> double underline all I see in the cells I am trying to format is a thick dark line. Is there a way to fix this? Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems

[libreoffice-users] Re: Python

2016-03-19 Thread Jim Byrnes
. All of mine were written when I was using the 3.xx branch. At that time there was no ide like there was for basic. I don't know if that has changed. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists

[libreoffice-users] Re: Python

2016-03-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
it is a path issue. If you have not done so already try putting your macro in the same location as a sample that works with the proper permissions and see if that helps. Regards, Jim On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: On 03/18/2016 03:55 PM

[libreoffice-users] Re: Python

2016-03-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
would be. Have you set the macro security to a level that will allow you to run macros? I've been tripped up by this a couple of times on new installs. Can you run any of the sample python macros that come with LO? If you can maybe that indicates a path issue after all. Regards, Jim

[libreoffice-users] Hashes for File Downloads Are Not Obviously Available

2016-02-22 Thread Jim
on installable downloads is more important now than ever. Can you please direct me to where the file checksum hashes are and make them more prominent on the download page. Thanks! Jim T Vancouver BC Canada -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Uninstalling incompatible extension

2016-02-04 Thread Jim Kyle
yone, for the responses! -- Jim Kyle -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libre

[libreoffice-users] Re: Weird Calc behavior: does not add entire range?

2016-01-31 Thread Jim Byrnes
includes all of the cells. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] blurred display

2015-09-27 Thread Jim Quinn
Is your page-style set for "shadows"? -Original Message- From: Thomas Blasejewicz Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 9:00 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] blurred display Good evening After Windows XP all Windows versions, AND all the Linux versions I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Same bug in Fresh and Still

2015-09-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
be able to get rid of your piece of cardboard. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Net

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy cell format

2015-09-18 Thread Jim Quinn
Sorry for just replying to email vs getting into LO and answering. Just too busy with huge biking event this weekend and am new using LO forums. That said, if I understand that you want to copy the data from 1 spread sheet file (1 or more rows/columns) and paste just the data into a file with

Re: [libreoffice-users] DIY AR-15 Build: Introduction, Parts and Tools Required

2015-03-22 Thread Jim Seymour
Don't know how *that* happened. My apologies. On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:37:34 -0400 Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote: http://www.itstactical.com/warcom/firearms/diy-ar-15-build-introduction-parts-and-tools-required/ -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam

[libreoffice-users] DIY AR-15 Build: Introduction, Parts and Tools Required

2015-03-22 Thread Jim Seymour
http://www.itstactical.com/warcom/firearms/diy-ar-15-build-introduction-parts-and-tools-required/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] DIY AR-15 Build: Introduction, Parts and Tools Required

2015-03-22 Thread Jim Seymour
blocked by country [e.g.: China] or corporate [e.g.: Those who emply nanny filters] policy.) Anyway: Again: My apologies for the noise. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-19 Thread Jim Byrnes
will at that point. Thanks, Jim On 17 March 2015 at 14:39, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: On 03/17/2015 06:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is this set by the OS rather than by LibreOffice? Oddly it does work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. snip It does for me to as far as the OS part

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
but I guess not. Regards, Jim On 17 March 2015 at 14:39, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: On 03/17/2015 06:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is this set by the OS rather than by LibreOffice? Oddly it does work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. snip It does for me to as far as the OS part

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
it was open. It's one of those weird things that shouldn't make a difference and i think even the devs don't know why it changes anything. Regards from Tom :) Thanks Tom, unfortunately it doesn't seem to help in this case. Regards, Jim On 17 March 2015 at 15:41, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
to always be half screen. Regards. Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

[libreoffice-users] Size of calc window

2015-03-15 Thread Jim Byrnes
opens to its saved size? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibréOffice and PDFs (Again)

2015-02-12 Thread Jim Seymour
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:43:20 -0700 (MST) V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: Jim Seymour wrote [snip] Question: Do recent (i.e. 4.3.x.x and later) versions of LO *capably* allow the opening/editing/saving of PDF files that are writable and not encrypted or otherwise protected

[libreoffice-users] LibréOffice and PDFs (Again)

2015-02-10 Thread Jim Seymour
and not encrypted or otherwise protected? Related: Another co-worker was asking about the ability to create PDF forms. Again: Can that be done with later/current versions of LO? Thanks, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

2015-01-22 Thread Jim Byrnes
it for cups and got 7 hits, including comp.printing.cups.general and comp.sysutils.apcupsd.user. Maybe they will be useful to you. Regards, Jim On 22 January 2015 at 14:20, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote: Tom: CUPS still seems to be alive and well; in fact, I'm not sure how we could get along

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

2015-01-22 Thread Jim Byrnes
in a VirtualBox? Then you could just open it when you need it instead of having to boot to a particular Ubuntu. Reagrds, Jim Be nice to have 13.10 for my photo printing on my default photo printer and 14.04LTS or newer for the rest of the work. As someone told me - off list - CUPS should

[libreoffice-users] Re: Support options

2015-01-15 Thread Jim Byrnes
, Jim Dave, On Thu, Jan 15, 2015, at 02:44 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Le Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:40:03 +, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/01/15 21:49, dave boland wrote: Can't we

[libreoffice-users] Program Abort - Service Manager not available

2015-01-03 Thread Dr. Jim Ishler
When I try to start LibrOffice I get an error that the program cannot be started. It says the service manager is not available. Premature end of

Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
, and RDBMS' are well-suited to any number of solutions requiring datastores. I'm glad you raised this issue, however. I had not been aware of MongoDB. It deserves a close look. Thanks! Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email

Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Jim Seymour
:). As an aside: I think SQL rocks. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php

[libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-19 Thread Jim Byrnes
know what to put in here line. Then select some text and run the macro. Regards, Jim I think oVC.Start needs to be replaced with something else, but I can't figure out what. All of Andrew's examples with insertTextContent insert the content at a single location, not at a text range, so maybe I

[libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-19 Thread Jim Byrnes
complex beast that is sparsely documented and hard to use, but very powerful if you understand it. Regards, Jim http://bernard.marcelly.perso.sfr.fr/index2.html The useful macros are embedded in the XRay Tool. It would sure be nice to have something like this in the BASIC editor itself - -I am

[libreoffice-users] Re: date acceptance patterns not sticking

2014-10-14 Thread Jim Byrnes
. Also in 86 years you will need to rewrite it. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

[libreoffice-users] Re: Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3[SOLVED]

2014-10-09 Thread Jim Byrnes
it out later. Good luck and regards from Tom :) I don't it ever was an option. I have 3.5xx on my desktop and it is not there either. I think it strictly an internal setting. Regards, Jim On 8 October 2014 15:41, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/08/2014 08:38 AM, Jim Byrnes

[libreoffice-users] Re: Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3[SOLVED]

2014-10-09 Thread Jim Byrnes
, Jim On 10/09/2014 10:23 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: I don't it ever was an option. I have 3.5xx on my desktop and it is not there either. I think it strictly an internal setting. Regards, Jim On 8 October 2014 15:41, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/08/2014 08:38 AM, Jim Byrnes

[libreoffice-users] Re: Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3

2014-10-08 Thread Jim Byrnes
also, but looking on the working version it is not there. Must get it some place internally. Regards, Jim On 8 October 2014 02:44, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: I upgraded my notebook to Ubuntu 14.04 as a test bed before upgrading my desktop. I copied over some spreadsheets from

[libreoffice-users] Re: Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3[SOLVED]

2014-10-08 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 10/08/2014 08:38 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 10/08/2014 06:01 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Something like Tools - Options - Paths is probably too obvious but it's often the obvious things that get missed so it's worth getting that out of the way before looking for something more complicated

[libreoffice-users] Path to python macros in LO 4.2.6.3

2014-10-07 Thread Jim Byrnes
/user/Scripts/python, but they don't show up in MyMacros. I must have a path problem but don't know how to correct it. Does anyone have python macros working in LO 4.2? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer auto indenting?

2014-09-13 Thread Jim Seymour
. Then again: I grew up with vi, so its behaviour is second nature to me :). Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer auto indenting?

2014-09-13 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:23:40 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 08:46 13/09/2014 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote: On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100 Brian Barker wrote: At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote: Is there a way to get Writer to preserve the tab indenting from

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening worksheets from the terminal in linux?

2014-09-09 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 09/09/2014 03:19 AM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Jim, Am 09.09.2014 03:51, schrieb Jim Byrnes: 1. Can I open a specific spreadsheet from the terminal? I have tried a lot of combinations and I either get a new/untitled worksheet or an error message. just a simple [path_to]/soffice file1.ods

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening worksheets from the terminal in linux?

2014-09-09 Thread Jim Byrnes
). So for me it's more like soffice path-name/file-name Regards from Tom :) Yeah, my bad. I should have been taking about somefile.ods not sheets and workbooks. See my reply to Nino. Thanks, Jim On 9 September 2014 09:19, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: Hi Jim, Am 09.09.2014 03:51

[libreoffice-users] Opening worksheets from the terminal in linux?

2014-09-08 Thread Jim Byrnes
an new sheet to open from the terminal, it immediately reverts back to the prompt so no error message would appear. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Not to group] Re: files on network shares not opening. Own ones are ok?

2014-08-31 Thread Jim Seymour
with very short (less than 10m) cable runs. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php

[libreoffice-users] Need help with regex in a calc macro

2014-08-31 Thread Jim Byrnes
found = cellLoc.findFirst(myRegex) 'MsgBox found End Sub This code as is runs with out error, but if I uncomment MsgBox found I get a object variable not set error. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Not to group] Re: files on network shares not opening. Own ones are ok?

2014-08-31 Thread Jim Seymour
open/save dialogue boxes. I don't know if that changes anything. [snip] The originals had owner execute permissions, whereas the copies did not. The copies ended up with current modification dates. Otherwise permissions and every other aspect of directory and files were unchanged. Regards, Jim

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
correctly identified as being like a csv and gave me the usual options (which Jim already covered). It would be handy to go back to the web-page the file came from and try to see if there are any other formats available. One day people might even start putting Ods files up so that everyone can read

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/22/2014 11:05 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data

[libreoffice-users] Link to external data question

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Byrnes
a Text Import dialog with a number in the Fields section When I hit OK I am sent back to the External Data dialog, OK button still greyed out and when I close the dialog, nothing is entered in A1. What do I need to do to get the stock quote entered in the cell? Thanks, Jim

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data dialog Put http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPLf

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
is so complex, I looked at Gnumeric. At that time Python support seemed to be poorly documented and somehow incomplete. Has it gotten any better? Regards, Jim I've found convenient to install LO from the official release instead of the deb of ubuntu. I have ubuntu maverick 10.10 with LO

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
time I was looking at Gnumeric. If I recall correctly, it worked but what you could do with it was limited. Is it still being updated and have features been added? Regards, Jim pdf attached On 18 August 2014 17:28, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: On 08/18/2014 07:47 AM, Peterle

[libreoffice-users] Dialog?

2014-08-13 Thread Jim Byrnes
routines when putting date data in date formated cells or numeric data in numeric formated cells? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-11 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/11/2014 03:05 PM, Stefan Gruber wrote: Hello, Jim Byrnes schrieb am Sonntag, 10. August 2014 23:47: A couple of questions: (1) Has anyone here used it and does it make writing macros for Base easier? I looked at the examples a few weeks ago, and it seemed to me as a clearer approach

Thank You, Developers! (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?)

2014-08-10 Thread Jim Seymour
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:50 +0200 Errol Goetsch er...@xe4.org wrote: [snip] Thank you to the developers who have given so much to so many for so little. [snip] Hear, hear! Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email

[libreoffice-users] Acess2Base

2014-08-10 Thread Jim Byrnes
macros in LO was way harder than it should be because of UNO, so this is an interesting development. A couple of questions: (1) Has anyone here used it and does it make writing macros for Base easier? (2) I write most of my macros for Calc so is there a Excel2Calc planned? Regards, Jim

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-10 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/10/2014 08:02 PM, rost52 wrote: Thanks Jim for introducing this topic. A small company I know is using an ACCESS DB with macros exporting certain information into EXCEL spreadsheets. This ACCESS DB is currently preventing the company to change over from MSO to LibO and Linux. A 2 step

Re: [libreoffice-users] Too much Politics?

2014-08-09 Thread Jim Seymour
group of people. (Save the aforementioned troll, who I have permanently bit-bucketed.) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at http

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-09 Thread Jim Seymour
, not the least of which is the never-ending incompatibility/upgrade issue, and its associated costs--which are not insignificant. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let

Re: [libreoffice-users] query ...

2014-08-09 Thread Jim Seymour
.. question? Maybe it's a language barrier thing, but that wasn't ridicule. That was just a question. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-09 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:01:27 -0400 Pikov Andropov piko...@gmail.com wrote: Jim Seymour wrote on 8/9/2014 10:48 AM: At the risk of adding to the political noise... As for home: I solved the entire problem once-and-for-all by replacing my wife's MS-Win install with Linux Mint. (MS-Win8

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base questions

2014-08-01 Thread Jim Seymour
.) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

[libreoffice-users] No database option

2014-07-30 Thread Jim Byrnes
a database on my system that I was experimenting with a couple of years ago. If I go to Tools--Options--LibreOffice--Databases it shows there but I can't open it. Anyone have any idea of what could be wrong and how to enable databases again? Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users

[libreoffice-users] Re: No database option

2014-07-30 Thread Jim Byrnes
Tom Regards, Jim On 30 July 2014 17:30, Jim Byrnes jf_byr...@comcast.net wrote: Using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04. I am working with a ooBasic tutorial. It says to choose File--New--Database to create a new database. The problem is there is no Database item on that drop down menu

[libreoffice-users] Re: No database option

2014-07-30 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/30/2014 03:42 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 30/07/2014 19:34, Jim Byrnes a écrit : Hi Jim, Just checked with Ubuntu's package manager and Base was in fact not installed. Used it to install Base and now the option appears so I should be able to proceed. Sort of surprised as I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-28 Thread Jim Seymour
for attempting to engage the troll in debate: His missives go straight to /dev/null. Unless somebody quotes him... Fixed. Now those, too, will go straight to /dev/null. (Including, if I did it right, this one...) Life's too short to waste it on his kind. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to locate python macro for editing?

2014-07-26 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/25/2014 06:32 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/25/2014 06:16 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and LibreOffice 3.5.7.2. A couple of years ago I created a python macro and a custom menu entry to run it. It still works but I am going to change the underlying sheet

[libreoffice-users] How to locate python macro for editing?

2014-07-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
a little dumb right now so any help is appreciated. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive

Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Jim Seymour
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:21:36 +1000 Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :) Regards, Jim

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Jim Seymour
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:44:39 +0700 Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Jim Seymour: How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a government body switching to open standards? By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best kickbacks and dumping the astronomic sums

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-21 Thread Jim Seymour
of a story about a government body switching to open standards? But officially it was enthusiasts working 12/24 for food. Not entirely. Don't look now: But major corporations have donated various resources to all manner of FOSS development. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-21 Thread Jim Seymour
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:16:24 +0200 Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Pay no attention to Urmas, he's a known troll / MS shill, he's always coming out with antagonistic, and usually easily seen through, statements. [snip] Been here since February. I know what Urmas is :) Regards, Jim

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Seymour
, run anywhere never did become fully real. It was bad enough under Sun. Now that Oracle owns it, I think it's doomed. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.12 GA and MariaDB 10.1.0 Alpha now available

2014-07-04 Thread Jim Seymour
mailing list. (*All* PostgreSQL branches are LTS, btw. Generally they all have about a five-year lifespan.) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web

Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular Expression

2014-05-28 Thread Jim Seymour
or a (literal) dot. Depending upon the flavour of regexp support, that can also be written [^[:digit:]\.] or [^\d\.], but the first one I gave works with any flavour. HTH Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer Page/Paper Size?

2014-05-22 Thread Jim Seymour
and the printer dialogue has the same size paper listed as 11x17. If I set LO's paper size to Legal and the printer to the same: It sticks. If I try to do the same with Tabloid vs. 11x17: It does not. MS Office refers to it as 11x17, btw. Is there a way to define a paper size to LO? Regards, Jim -- Note

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer Page/Paper Size?

2014-05-22 Thread Jim Seymour
On Wed, 21 May 2014 18:49:15 -0600 Denis Navas denis.na...@gmail.com wrote: El 2014-05-21 07:27, Jim Seymour escribió: [snip] I usually print to pdf and use it later, to print phisically. [snip] And that turned out to be the work-around: Print to PDF, then, when printing the PDF, set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Page/Paper Size?

2014-05-21 Thread Jim Seymour
cannot work around this, LibreOffice will be out of here. Just when I was making headway, too :( Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form

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