[libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-13 Thread Werner
Hi, On 8/13/2014 1:18, Paul wrote: Hi Mark, ... Normally, localization is done by having a plain text file with all the application strings in it, and this file is simply copied and each string translated for each different language. Then at run time the application knows which locale it is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2014-08-13 Thread Keith Bates
Hi Brian, While I agree with most of your post, a slight typo or something crept in here, where you confuse 10^53 with 2^53 2^53 is one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course - so is just too long to be stored accurately. Brian Barker -- God bless you Keith Bates Jesus is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2014-08-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:55 13/08/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: While I agree with most of your post, a slight typo or something crept in here, where you confuse 10^53 with 2^53 2^53 is one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course - so is just too long to be stored accurately. I wasn't clear - but not in

[libreoffice-users] Converting Microsoft Access to Libre Base

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Goggin
I have a MS access data base running under XP. For various reasons I am converting my ;laptops to run Ubuntu with LibreOffice. I have successfully transfered Thunderbird e-mail from XP to Ubuntu. I am able to transfer and read MS Word and Excel files to run under LibreOffice under Ubuntiu.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Converting Microsoft Access to Libre Base

2014-08-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/08/2014 10:55, Peter Goggin a écrit : Hi Peter, I cannot see how to transfer rhe MS Access to run uder LibreBase. I tried doing the conversion under XP by loading LibreOffice and then opening the Access data base using LibreBase. with the following results: All this does unfortunately,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2014-08-13 Thread Keith Bates
Of course! I don't think binary! Keith On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:42:12 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 15:55 13/08/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: While I agree with most of your post, a slight typo or something crept in here, where you confuse 10^53 with 2^53 2^53 is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Converting Microsoft Access to Libre Base

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i take it that View is the new name for Queries? It is quite a good name for it. Queries had to be explained quite a bit although i thought it made more sense tbh. Open Source advocates and people who are helping organisations to move away from Microsoft lock-ins often give the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Converting Microsoft Access to Libre Base

2014-08-13 Thread Werner
On 8/13/2014 13:47, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, i take it that View is the new name for Queries? I don't think so, at least not in SQL terms. http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_view.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL see Queries section Werner -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
(2014/08/11 11:53), T. R. Valentine wrote: On 10 August 2014 21:13, Thomas ny...@hb.tp1.jp wrote: Good morning AFAIK, F11 brings up the Styles menu on both Ubuntu Mint. No. I just made a clean install of Mint 17. Only Fn+F11 works All the other key commands are apparently the same as they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Calc and hiding rows

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/11/2014 08:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he hides rows to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Calc and hiding rows

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/12/2014 01:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) +1 Also ... Errr, how are the cells being hidden?!?? Of course it is possible to hide an entire row or column by clicking on the row/column header (1, 2, 3 etc or A, B, C etc) and then right-click to hide the entire row/column. This is what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Calc and hiding rows

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/12/2014 01:22 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Also the 4.1.0 was VERY early in that branch's cycle. There have been numerous updates to fix lots of bugs and make it more stable. So instead of the 4.1.0 it would be better to try the 4.1.6. Similarly with the 4.0.1. That 3rd digit shows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about Calc and hiding rows

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/12/2014 08:44 AM, Pedro wrote: If the document has been going back and forth between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice (or old OpenOffice.org) it is quite possible that it was corrupted at some stage (I have a document where this happened...) If your father has been using OpenOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There might be but i don't know of it. It might be worth asking in the generic http://www.linuxquestions.org forum because that forum covers many different distros so people might have run into the issue before or might find it an interesting new challenge. Also i find it can be good to

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 08/13/2014 08:24 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: (2014/08/11 11:53), T. R. Valentine wrote: On 10 August 2014 21:13, Thomas ny...@hb.tp1.jp wrote: Good morning AFAIK, F11 brings up the Styles menu on both Ubuntu Mint. No. I just made a clean install of Mint 17. Only Fn+F11 works All the

[libreoffice-users] Error at the time of auto saving process.

2014-08-13 Thread Farhad Ahmad
Dear sir I was doing work on Libre office for page crop and contras like edit of a PDF book made from scanned image, at the time of auto saving process the software uses to stop working, it saved the file and after some page there was just a small icon instead of the original page. Pls help me to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are only 10 types of people in the world Those who think in binary, and those who don't (err and a bit of a grey area where logic gates might or might not have been triggered so i guess that makes 11 types of people) Sorry! I know it's not a good joke so it's great to have the

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's not clear which DE is being used in Mint. I'm guessing it's the default one but i'm not sure which that is. Mint seems to make it easy to choose which DE, so it might still be Xfce on Mint but my guess is it's more likely to be a Gnomeish one like Mate or Cinamon (or Gnome itself!).

[libreoffice-users] Dialog?

2014-08-13 Thread Jim Byrnes
Using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 if it makes any difference. I am designing a dialog that will be opened by a macro, accept some data and then place the data in the proper cells of a Calc sheet. The data will consist of text, numbers and dates. In the dialog design environment I see

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-13 Thread Paul
Hi Werner, On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:09:31 +0200 Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi, On 8/13/2014 1:18, Paul wrote: Hi Mark, ... Normally, localization is done by having a plain text file with all the application strings in it, and this file is simply copied and each string

[libreoffice-users] Numbering/Outline levels in Writer

2014-08-13 Thread dave boland
Writer used to allow this from a slection in Outline 1.0 Head 1 1.1 Head 2 1.2 Head 2 1.2.1 Head 3 2.0 Head 1 Can't find how to do it in 4.1.3.2 Any ideas? Dave, -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Text Orientation

2014-08-13 Thread Pikov Andropov
I want to create a document of a layout of a bridge table. It should have the words, NORTH, EAST, SOUTH and WEST on the four edges, each facing outward. That is, when printed and placed in the center of a bridge table, each player will have one such word facing him. How do I do that? Thanks.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Text Orientation

2014-08-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:21 13/08/2014 -0400, Pikov Andropov wrote: I want to create a document of a layout of a bridge table. It should have the words, NORTH, EAST, SOUTH and WEST on the four edges, each facing outward. One way to do this is to use a text box: o Go to View | Toolbars | Drawing, to display the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about Calc and hiding rows

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We all get all the mails sent to the mailing list. So we all got all 3 replies. There is a bit of clumsiness about it but 3 mails to the list is one of the best ways of handling it. On some other mailing lists, particularly the weekly DW Readers Comments one, i have seen people send a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error at the time of auto saving process.

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, all i can suggest is to switch off the auto-save as it can be annoying anyway. However that does mean you'll have to remember to save often and frequently (but at times to suit yourself rather than suddenly stopping you doing things at awkward moments). Tools - Options - Load/Save -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is a separate mailing list which might be able to offer suggestions. Our mailing list for international translators and co-ordinating between the different languages is l...@global.libreoffice.org (lower and upper-case don't matter = it's just to help human readers make more sense of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering/Outline levels in Writer

2014-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Brien
Well, I do it using a List style. Regards On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:07 PM, dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm wrote: Writer used to allow this from a slection in Outline 1.0 Head 1 1.1 Head 2 1.2 Head 2 1.2.1 Head 3 2.0 Head 1 Can't find how to do it in 4.1.3.2 Any ideas? Dave, --

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
(2014/08/13 23:26), Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's not clear which DE is being used in Mint. It is Mint 17 Cinnamon. (File) Tools / Customise - Keyboard tab, will let you look at all the I tried that ... And the customize function DOES NOT work. I tried that already. For example, LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi Thomas, I just installed Mint/Cinnamon as a VM under my Fedora desktop. I'll have a play around later. You just ran with the version of LO which came with Mint? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure it is the Mint spin (which I have got). Cheers On 14/08/14 11:00,

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
(2014/08/14 10:20), Tim Lloyd wrote: Hi Thomas, You just ran with the version of LO which came with Mint? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure it is the Mint spin (which I have got). Cheers I believe it is the newest: 4.2.4.2 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Paul
Hi Thomas, On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:00:15 +0900 Thomas Blasejewicz ny...@hb.tp1.jp wrote: And the customize function DOES NOT work. I tried that already. For example, LibreOffice comes with a lot of presets. One is Navigator, that is assigned to F5 under Windows and Ubuntu. Clicking on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
(2014/08/14 10:55), Paul wrote: Hi Thomas, On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:00:15 +0900 Thomas Blasejewicz ny...@hb.tp1.jp wrote: And the customize function DOES NOT work. I tried that already. For example, LibreOffice comes with a lot of presets. One is Navigator, that is assigned to F5 under Windows

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Tim Lloyd
I downloaded Mint 17 which is running LO 4.2.3.3. I looked in writer and calc where F5 and F11 were behaving as normal (navigator styles and formatting). I have noted though that behaviour is not consistent across the distros you have tested which may point at Mint. I can't for the life of

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 14/08/2014 04:31, Thomas Blasejewicz a écrit : I also thought about that already, although I have currently no idea how to change that keyboard behavior. BUT ... if that were true ..would / should LibreOffice not behave in the same way under Ubuntu (Unity desktop), Xubuntu (XFCE) and Mint

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
(2014/08/14 12:39), Tim Lloyd wrote: I downloaded Mint 17 which is running LO 4.2.3.3. I looked in writer and calc where F5 and F11 were behaving as normal (navigator styles and formatting). I have noted though that behaviour is not consistent across the distros you have tested which may