Re: [libreoffice-users] Upgrading Version 10.04
This is the libre-office list not a Ubuntu list, but we won't hold that against you. Try this article http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/ubuntu-10-04-12-04-upgrade-how-well-does-it-go which I just found by googling upgrade ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 Keith On 31/05/13 09:54, George R. Crossman wrote: I would like to upgrade my current Ubuntu version 10.04 to the new 12.04.2. Can someone outline the steps which I need to take to accomplish this? Thanks. George Crossman -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [OT] Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax
The base of the misunderstanding is the shift in meaning of the word acronym over the last few decades. It used to mean an abbreviation which formed a word- such as radar. Now it seems to be used more for an abbreviation which is more familiar than the original terms. e.g. most people know the BBC or the Beeb but fewer know it stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. In my experience bureaucracies spawn all kinds of meaningless terms which then get abbreviated-- these abbreviations become known as acronyms because everyone knows what the FHSAP does but nobody knows what the abbreviation stands for. (I just made that abbreviation up- there probably is one somewhere in your local, state or regional bureaucracy). It's similar with the word electrocution which everyone over 50 knows is a fatal electric shock. Everyone under 50 seems to use it as an alternative to electric shock which leads to interesting phrases such as electrocuted to death and I've been electrocuted three times. Life would be much simpler if they let the pedants run everything. Keith On 17/07/13 06:15, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Brian Barker wrote: At 02:02 16/07/2013 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Doug wrote: This is not an acronym. It can't be pronounced as a word. (See dictionary definition in URL below.) the definition says: - : a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; [...] - I'm missing the part about being pronounced as a word. May I help? I think I can. It's right there in the second word of the definition: it says it's a *word*, so it'll be pronounced as, er, a word! ah, now I see where that comes from! deviates from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym which counts the following formations as acronyms: BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer USA: The United States of America FGM: Female Genital Mutilation or maybe it doesn't deviate after all since they can also be pronounced as words (any string of initials can). I'm going to let Anne-ology make the call. F. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
Hi, I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a stupid question, I apologise. Someone has sent me a long presentation in ppt format which consists mainly of text. It is somewhat annoying to try to read and absorb the intent of the text. Is there a simple way to extract the text from the entire slide show and save it as a text document- I don't care what format it is as long as it is on one page instead of 45? Thank you -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
Hi Brian, Your messy workaround was far more straight forward than my messier work around, which was to export to PDF then use OCR software to get the text. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to select the text via the PDF reader.. Thank you. Keith On 12/10/12 16:02, Brian Barker wrote: At 14:37 12/10/2012 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a stupid question, I apologise. Not stupid at all ... Someone has sent me a long presentation in ppt format which consists mainly of text. It is somewhat annoying to try to read and absorb the intent of the text. Is there a simple way to extract the text from the entire slide show and save it as a text document- I don't care what format it is as long as it is on one page instead of 45? Here's a rather messy workaround: o Open the presentation in Impress. o Go to File | Export as PDF... to create a PDF copy. o Open the PDF copy in your favourite PDF reader and save as text from there. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
Thank you, Jean-Francois. Works perfectly and fixes the formatting issues of the other methods. Keith On 12/10/12 17:51, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hello, Le 12/10/2012 05:37, Keith Bates a écrit : I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a stupid question, I apologise. Someone has sent me a long presentation in ppt format which consists mainly of text. It is somewhat annoying to try to read and absorb the intent of the text. Is there a simple way to extract the text from the entire slide show and save it as a text document- I don't care what format it is as long as it is on one page instead of 45? Just copy the text from Impress to Writer ;) Here's how: 1. Open the .ppt with Impress 2. Select Impress Outline mode (Outline thumbnail or View / Outline menu) 3. Ctrl+A 4. Ctrl+C 5. Open an empty Writer document 6. Ctrl+V Et voila! If you don't want to get the formatting into the Writer doc, at step 6, press Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] PDF Importer Problems
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and LO 3.6.2.2 Every month or so our church has a music practice which basically involves me reproducing sheet music and word sheets, then adding a photocopying licence number to each piece of music. Typically I might scan 16 to 20 pages in a session. I am using the program Simple Scan to do this. In the past it was straight forward to scan the music to a pdf document then use LO pdf importer to add the required text. The last few times I have tried to do this the document just opens as a series of blank pages. I know the pdf is OK because other pdf viewers show it. I did use pdfEdit to fill the gap but this can no longer be used in Ubnuntu 12.10 Does anyone know how to resolve this? I could go back to using stickers with the required text, but using LO to add the text prior to printing is much simpler when it works. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] PDF Importer Problems
Thanks Robert, Xournal does the job. I ignored it because the notes say it's for handwritten annotations, but it does have a text input also I'm copying to the list also- you sent your reply direct to me. To reply to the list, you need to click Reply to list on your email program. Keith On 20/11/12 13:50, Robert Funnell wrote: Keith - Are you still looking for a workaround? Have you tried the PDF annotation function in Xournal? I use it under Debian so I assume it's available under Ubuntu. - Robert On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Keith Bates wrote: I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and LO 3.6.2.2 Every month or so our church has a music practice which basically involves me reproducing sheet music and word sheets, then adding a photocopying licence number to each piece of music. Typically I might scan 16 to 20 pages in a session. I am using the program Simple Scan to do this. In the past it was straight forward to scan the music to a pdf document then use LO pdf importer to add the required text. The last few times I have tried to do this the document just opens as a series of blank pages. I know the pdf is OK because other pdf viewers show it. I did use pdfEdit to fill the gap but this can no longer be used in Ubnuntu 12.10 Does anyone know how to resolve this? I could go back to using stickers with the required text, but using LO to add the text prior to printing is much simpler when it works. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Fwd: Printing Labels From Google Address Book
Hello, Having just finished my annual Christmas card mail out and mastering the arcane wizardry of producing labels from a database, I realised that my address list is greatly out of date. It occurred to me that rather than trying to maintain a separate database which I use exactly once a year, it would be more useful to import addresses from my Google contact list. Is there any simple way of importing a selection of Google contacts into Libre Office? Thanks Keith -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Printing Labels From Google Address Book
Thanks, Gabriele, for that suggestion. I will look into it. Keith On 19/12/12 22:30, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: The first thing it comes to my mind is to export from Google in CSV format, and then re-open it in Calc. From there You should be able to easily convert it into a LO DB. Regards. --- Gabriele Ponzo 2012/12/19 Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au: Hello, Having just finished my annual Christmas card mail out and mastering the arcane wizardry of producing labels from a database, I realised that my address list is greatly out of date. It occurred to me that rather than trying to maintain a separate database which I use exactly once a year, it would be more useful to import addresses from my Google contact list. Is there any simple way of importing a selection of Google contacts into Libre Office? Thanks Keith -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Columns
On 02/10/13 12:26, Michael wrote: When formatting a page for columns, the columns start at the very top of the page, messing up what I have already typed. How to have a paragraph or two on my page and then start the columns below my text on the same page? Michael To do this you need to insert a section at the point where you want the columns to start. Go Insert- Section. In the dialog box there is a tab for Columns. If you want to revert to one column start another section. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress Presentation
Hi, I'm not a big user of Impress, but if you go to File- Preview in Web Browser it produces a series of jpg and html files. On my linux system it opened the file manager in the temporary directory where they are saved, so that makes it easy to save into whatever directory you want them to go to. I'm sure looping a presentation is avaialble but I'm no expert. Someone else will have to guide you there. Keith On 06/10/13 04:24, Rev Nick Nicholas wrote: Dear Libre Office is it possible to please add jpeg and gif options in 'save as' under Impress. The inability to do this presently forces me for some purposes to use MS Powerpoint also, I cannot see it, could the option to loop a presentation be available under setting up the slide show many thanks -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Calculations in Report Builder
I am going crazy over a calculation I am trying to do in Report Builder. I have a database that records weather details each day. I want to calculate average temperatures and the like, and put this into the footer. The function RecordCounter counts records correctly. The function AccumulationLOWreport sums the daily minimum temperatures. This seems to work correctly in that I can put this in the footer and get the sum of temperatures. To work out the average, I put a field in the footer. In the Data tab I choose Field or Formula and enter [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] . When I run the report it returns 0. I have tried all of the following, with the same result ' [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter]' ' [AccumulationLOWReport]'/'[RecordCounter]' = [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Calculations in Report Builder
Hi Tom I changed the display to 3 decimal places and it still comes out as 0.000 When I put the individual fields into the footer they report correctly, but trying to do operations with them seems to not work. I have now tried every combination of quote marks including no quotes, and putting an = before the formula but it just returns 0 (or 0.000) I've uploaded the database file to dropbox if anyone would like to look at it https://www.dropbox.com/s/w26g98jn58f74n0/Weather.tar.gz Thanks Keith On 04/12/13 02:42, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is it possible to see a lot more decimal places after the point? Like 0.000?? or do ' [AccumulationLOWReport]'*1000/'[Rec ordCounter]' Can you temporarily have the 2 fields reporting separately in the header/footer to check that they are giving sensible results in there? Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2013 10:01, Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: I am going crazy over a calculation I am trying to do in Report Builder. I have a database that records weather details each day. I want to calculate average temperatures and the like, and put this into the footer. The function RecordCounter counts records correctly. The function AccumulationLOWreport sums the daily minimum temperatures. This seems to work correctly in that I can put this in the footer and get the sum of temperatures. To work out the average, I put a field in the footer. In the Data tab I choose Field or Formula and enter [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] . When I run the report it returns 0. I have tried all of the following, with the same result ' [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter]' ' [AccumulationLOWReport]'/'[RecordCounter]' = [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Calculations in Report Builder
Thanks Paul. It now WJFFM2 :) I'm wondering if there is something in the selecting another field first. I was very careful to save before executing with each change, but I didn't select another field. So perhaps it was not really saving the changes although it appeared to be doing so. Either that or you have some sort of ninja power that fixes things just by you being near them :) My eldest son can go into a room and any misbehaving hardware instnatly fixed itself. Keith On 04/12/13 12:49, Paul wrote: Hi Keith, You'll hate this, but WJFFM. I unzipped your upload, opened it (and amended the connection details), edited the report, and saw the field you were referring to. In the Data Field I saw the value was =[AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] (without the quotes, of course). When I ran this, I got the zero as you reported, and as expected. So I removed the = from the Data Field, so that it now shows [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] (without the quotes, of course), selected another field (you seem to need to do this before running the report so that it updates the field, otherwise it still runs with the old formula), ran the report, and got an average of 16.655. Which is what you want, I think? If this doesn't work for you, then I have no idea what is wrong. I'm running LO 4.1.1.2 on Windows 7 64 bit. Hope you figure it out. Paul On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:53:53 +1100 Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: Hi Tom I changed the display to 3 decimal places and it still comes out as 0.000 When I put the individual fields into the footer they report correctly, but trying to do operations with them seems to not work. I have now tried every combination of quote marks including no quotes, and putting an = before the formula but it just returns 0 (or 0.000) I've uploaded the database file to dropbox if anyone would like to look at it https://www.dropbox.com/s/w26g98jn58f74n0/Weather.tar.gz Thanks Keith On 04/12/13 02:42, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is it possible to see a lot more decimal places after the point? Like 0.000?? or do ' [AccumulationLOWReport]'*1000/'[Rec ordCounter]' Can you temporarily have the 2 fields reporting separately in the header/footer to check that they are giving sensible results in there? Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2013 10:01, Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: I am going crazy over a calculation I am trying to do in Report Builder. I have a database that records weather details each day. I want to calculate average temperatures and the like, and put this into the footer. The function RecordCounter counts records correctly. The function AccumulationLOWreport sums the daily minimum temperatures. This seems to work correctly in that I can put this in the footer and get the sum of temperatures. To work out the average, I put a field in the footer. In the Data tab I choose Field or Formula and enter [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] . When I run the report it returns 0. I have tried all of the following, with the same result ' [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter]' ' [AccumulationLOWReport]'/'[RecordCounter]' = [AccumulationLOWReport]/[RecordCounter] Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Counting Instances
Hi everyone, I've used Libre Office for years, but I am an absolute newbie as far as Calc is concerned for anything but the very basics. :) Here is my problem. My church has to report to the copyright licence holders the names of the songs it uses and the number of times each song is used in a given time period. The software we use for projecting the words for songs (OpenLP) will produce the name of each song used in each service. It will generate a CSV Obviously it is easy enough to import that into a spreadsheet. How can I then count the number of times each song is used? I could sort the table by song title and then count them manually, but I am guessing there would be some sort of function that automates the counting. Thanks for any help on this. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Counting Instances
On 30/12/13 09:47, doug wrote: On 12/29/2013 05:10 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 12/29/2013 03:12 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi everyone, I've used Libre Office for years, but I am an absolute newbie as far as Calc is concerned for anything but the very basics. :) Here is my problem. My church has to report to the copyright licence holders the names of the songs it uses and the number of times each song is used in a given time period. The software we use for projecting the words for songs (OpenLP) will produce the name of each song used in each service. It will generate a CSV Obviously it is easy enough to import that into a spreadsheet. How can I then count the number of times each song is used? I could sort the table by song title and then count them manually, but I am guessing there would be some sort of function that automates the counting. Thanks for any help on this. Kieth I would try the COUNTIF(). The syntax is =COUNTIF(range, criteria). The range is the column with the titles and the criteria is the title you want counted. I would set up the data one sheet and in another I would set a column with each title and in the next column have =COUNTIF(datasheet.range, cell). The only problem is if you accidentally missed of the titles in the range. Assuming an average of 3 services per week that use 5 songs you have about 780 separate instances that a song was used. I can see easily missing a single title. An alternative is to use Base with the data uploaded to a table. CSV files work very well with databases. Then the have Base count each title. Most people find databases more intimidating because they do not directly work them. But once you get familiar with them you might find this an easier approach for problems like this. I tend to use raw SQL when working with Base (mostly because I use SQL at work). In SQL the query would look like this: SELECT Count(*) AS Count AS count is optional FROM Songs use actual table name GROUP BY Title use actual column name which has the titles If you want you can send me a typical dataset to off list and I will look at both with Calc and Base. Jay I'm wondering if you are expected to pay royalties on the music. If so, I would think that there is enough sacred music in the public domain that you could forget about the problem, and save money for the church to use for religious purposes. You should have your music director look into that. --doug The licence is through CCLI (www.ccli.com) and is a flat fee based on the size of the congregation. The total fees are divided amongst the song authors based on total song usage. For contemporary music it is a very cost effective way of legally reproducing lyrics and music. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[SOLVED] [libreoffice-users] Counting Instances
On 30/12/13 09:51, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Bates schrieb: Hi everyone, I've used Libre Office for years, but I am an absolute newbie as far as Calc is concerned for anything but the very basics. :) Here is my problem. My church has to report to the copyright licence holders the names of the songs it uses and the number of times each song is used in a given time period. The software we use for projecting the words for songs (OpenLP) will produce the name of each song used in each service. It will generate a CSV Obviously it is easy enough to import that into a spreadsheet. How can I then count the number of times each song is used? I could sort the table by song title and then count them manually, but I am guessing there would be some sort of function that automates the counting. Thanks for any help on this. Import the csv data into the spreadsheet. Define a data range for this data including the field names. Generate a pivot table from it this way: - drag the field name of the song title to the Row Fields - drag the same field name to the Data Fields. - Double click the field name button in the Data Fields area and change the function from sum to count. OK Using a pivot table has the advantage, that you do not need to know beforehand, which song titles are contained in the list. Kind regards Regina Thank you to everyone who offered help with this. I found the pivot table option to be the best one- thanks Regina for your detailed instructions. Before today, I had no idea what a pivot table is- now apparently I can use one :) I might read the user guide now to deepen my understanding. Paul suggested using Subtotals on the column with the song title, but I found this sorted just that column which separated the song titles from other fields. I guess I could have selected the other fields as part of the sorting/sub-totalling, but the pivot table has the advantage of giving the information without messing with the data. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
Has anyone experienced this new problem (or is it a feature?) in 4.2? In previous versions of LO, opening an html file would give you the file as would be seen on a web browser. In 4.2 it is the actual html code that is displayed. This behaviour happens when opening any html document or inserting an html file into an open LO document. Does anyone know of a way around this? I use moneydance to track finances, and it allows reports to be saved in html. Producing printed reports used to be a matter of simply opening the Income and Expenses report in LO, inserting the Account Balances at the end of the report, then edit titles, styles etc at will. I have discovered that I can open the html files in Firefox, then copy and paste into LO, but that does seem unnecessarily complicated, when it used to just work in a single step. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
Hi, No, I made sure that the HTML source item was not selected. I've tried a few different files generated by different sources. Generally they behave as I described, although I did find one that opened correctly. I have no idea what the difference is between those that work and those that don't. Opening them from a blank html document makes no difference. In fact the title bar just says LO Writer not Writer/Web. If I start with a blank html document and use Insert-File it shows up as the source. I'm using the linux version of LO. Are you using Windows or Linux? Keith On 05/02/14 12:39, null wrote: Hello, In LibreOffice 4.2, there is an option under the View menu in LibreOffice Writer/Web labeled HTML Source. Be sure that that item is unchecked. Also, if that doesn't fix the problem, try going into LibreOffice, selecting FileNewHTML Document, and once in Writer/Web, go to FileOpen and select the HTML file. For me, HTML files load in LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 correctly. Did this fix the issue? Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/4/2014 7:28 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Has anyone experienced this new problem (or is it a feature?) in 4.2? In previous versions of LO, opening an html file would give you the file as would be seen on a web browser. In 4.2 it is the actual html code that is displayed. This behaviour happens when opening any html document or inserting an html file into an open LO document. Does anyone know of a way around this? I use moneydance to track finances, and it allows reports to be saved in html. Producing printed reports used to be a matter of simply opening the Income and Expenses report in LO, inserting the Account Balances at the end of the report, then edit titles, styles etc at will. I have discovered that I can open the html files in Firefox, then copy and paste into LO, but that does seem unnecessarily complicated, when it used to just work in a single step. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
On 05/02/14 14:48, null wrote: NOTE: If you received this e-mail twice, I apologize. It doesn't look like Nabble, the mailing list interface, picked it up. So, I am resending it to the list. Hello, On 2/4/2014 10:06 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, No, I made sure that the HTML source item was not selected. I've tried a few different files generated by different sources. Generally they behave as I described, although I did find one that opened correctly. What kind of files did you try that were generated by different programs? Which ones worked? Do all the files have the .html extension, or are some .xhtml, etc? Do you know if there is a certain pattern in the source code of each file that causes LibreOffice to display the source? When I tried loading an HTML file into LibreOffice 4.2, it worked correctly. If the files do not contain any sensitive, personal, or otherwise information that you do not want to publish, you can send the list and I the HTML files you tried. However, *E-Mail attachments are not accepted by the LibreOffice mailing list server*. If you use the mailing list via Nabble, I think you can upload a file to the server. If you use an E-Mail client to use the mailing list, you can use something like Sendspace (http://www.sendspace.com/). I've produced a document that doesn't work with LO. It is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbylcso4r2qm2r2/test.html Strangely it does open in Abiword. Earlier documents produced by moneydance as recently as last month open fine in LO. I have not upgraded moneydance in that time. Having quickly opened about 20 html's the problem is limited to those produced lately by moneydance. I haven't had time to look closely at the html source. I suppose it's possible that LO is now being more strict in its interpretation. The work around in the short term might be to use Abiword. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Additionally, I've tried opening from a blank Writer/Web document, from file manager, from the opening screen- all with the same result. Just for reference, as we seem to be getting very different results my version of LO reports as Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 420m0(Build:4) Keith On 06/02/14 09:07, null wrote: Hello, I just discovered something. If the DOCTYPE of the HTML file is not the topmost line (line 1), LibreOffice renders the file fine (instead of showing the source). However, If there is a blank line before the DOCTYPE (like the HTML file Keith uploaded), the HTML parser is tripped and shows the source. So maybe LibreOffice expects the DOCTYPE to be on line 1, and if not on line 1, panics and doesn't render the HTML. But still, LibreOffice shouldn't have trouble rendering the file, even if the person who wrote the HTML (or the generator) didn't follow every strict standard. Web browsers know how to adapt to that kind of stuff. So, the file that Keith uploaded renders successfully in LibreOffice 4.2 if the !DOCTYPE ... syntax is corrected to: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd; , and the DOCTYPE is on line 1. Is anyone able to confirm this? Not to mention the unclosed P (paragraph) tag in the HTML file (luckily that didn't seem to influence whether Writer/Web rendered the page correctly). Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 2:45 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing //EN from the end). The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, so cannot check, but try correcting the DOCTYPE. If that allows the file to open as expected, it appears the problem is with moneydance producing invalid output, rather than with LO. Arbitrarily changing the DOCTYPE to indicate HTML5 may well also fail, as the rest of the document is not valid HTML5. Mark. null wrote: Hello, It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpreting DOCTYPEs. You see, every HTML is supposed to have a DOCTYPE at the top of the file, explaining what version of HTML (HTML5, HTML4.01, etc) the file uses. The file you uploaded has a DOCTYPE of HTML4.01 Transitional. Anyway, if I remove the !DOCTYPE ... part of the HTML file, and reopen it in LibreOffice, it works just fine, and shows the file's contents (not the source). Even switching the DOCTYPE to !DOCTYPE html (HTML5) causes the problem. So, in theory, if you want to view an HTML file in LibreOffice 4.2, you have to remove its !DOCTYPE ..., and it will work fine. Would you like an official bug to be filed so that the developers know of the problem and can try to fix it? Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 12:05 AM, Keith Bates wrote: I've produced a document that doesn't work with LO. It is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbylcso4r2qm2r2/test.html Strangely it does open in Abiword. Earlier documents produced by moneydance as recently as last month open fine in LO. I have not upgraded moneydance in that time. Having quickly opened about 20 html's the problem is limited to those produced lately by moneydance. I haven't had time to look closely at the html source. I suppose it's possible that LO is now being more strict in its interpretation. The work around in the short term might be to use Abiword. . -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a html tag. Keith On 06/02/14 09:56, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 5:29 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Does this file work?: https://doc-0g-8s-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/8ka37k9nojan5h3m348ambggvqd7vnq8/139163760/12418654871184392135/*/0B-6nu1NEycJ0bTMwQWppVUtaZEU?h=16653014193614665626e=download It is a revised version of the Moneydance file you sent me. It renders fine in LibreOffice. The reason I am asking you to try so many things is so that I can attempt to gather enough information to file a bug. Additionally, I've tried opening from a blank Writer/Web document, from file manager, from the opening screen- all with the same result. Just for reference, as we seem to be getting very different results my version of LO reports as Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 420m0(Build:4) Mine reports as: Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 05dceb5d363845f2cf968344d7adab8dcfb2ba71 Keith Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 06/02/14 09:07, null wrote: Hello, I just discovered something. If the DOCTYPE of the HTML file is not the topmost line (line 1), LibreOffice renders the file fine (instead of showing the source). However, If there is a blank line before the DOCTYPE (like the HTML file Keith uploaded), the HTML parser is tripped and shows the source. So maybe LibreOffice expects the DOCTYPE to be on line 1, and if not on line 1, panics and doesn't render the HTML. But still, LibreOffice shouldn't have trouble rendering the file, even if the person who wrote the HTML (or the generator) didn't follow every strict standard. Web browsers know how to adapt to that kind of stuff. So, the file that Keith uploaded renders successfully in LibreOffice 4.2 if the !DOCTYPE ... syntax is corrected to: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd; , and the DOCTYPE is on line 1. Is anyone able to confirm this? Not to mention the unclosed P (paragraph) tag in the HTML file (luckily that didn't seem to influence whether Writer/Web rendered the page correctly). Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 2:45 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing //EN from the end). The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, so cannot check, but try correcting the DOCTYPE. If that allows the file to open as expected, it appears the problem is with moneydance producing invalid output, rather than with LO. Arbitrarily changing the DOCTYPE to indicate HTML5 may well also fail, as the rest of the document is not valid HTML5. Mark. null wrote: Hello, It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpreting DOCTYPEs. You see, every HTML is supposed to have a DOCTYPE at the top of the file, explaining what version of HTML (HTML5, HTML4.01, etc) the file uses. The file you uploaded has a DOCTYPE of HTML4.01 Transitional. Anyway, if I remove the !DOCTYPE ... part of the HTML file, and reopen it in LibreOffice, it works just fine, and shows the file's contents (not the source). Even switching the DOCTYPE to !DOCTYPE html (HTML5) causes the problem. So, in theory, if you want to view an HTML file in LibreOffice 4.2, you have to remove its !DOCTYPE ..., and it will work fine. Would you like an official bug to be filed so that the developers know of the problem and can try to fix it? Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 12:05 AM, Keith Bates wrote: I've produced a document that doesn't work with LO. It is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbylcso4r2qm2r2/test.html Strangely it does open in Abiword. Earlier documents produced by moneydance as recently as last month open fine in LO. I have not upgraded moneydance in that time. Having quickly opened about 20 html's the problem is limited to those produced lately by moneydance. I haven't had time to look closely at the html source. I suppose it's possible that LO is now being more strict in its interpretation. The work around in the short term might be to use Abiword. . -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2
On 06/02/14 10:21, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 6:16 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a html tag. Well, actually, there was an HTML tag in the file before. You may not have seen it because the source was crammed into one line. I think I have enough information to file a bug! Thank you for helping with this. Feel free to use the file as an example if needed. I hope that the devs can fix this soon, Keith Keith Congrats and regards from xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 06/02/14 09:56, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 5:29 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Does this file work?: https://doc-0g-8s-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/8ka37k9nojan5h3m348ambggvqd7vnq8/139163760/12418654871184392135/*/0B-6nu1NEycJ0bTMwQWppVUtaZEU?h=16653014193614665626e=download It is a revised version of the Moneydance file you sent me. It renders fine in LibreOffice. The reason I am asking you to try so many things is so that I can attempt to gather enough information to file a bug. Additionally, I've tried opening from a blank Writer/Web document, from file manager, from the opening screen- all with the same result. Just for reference, as we seem to be getting very different results my version of LO reports as Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 420m0(Build:4) Mine reports as: Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 05dceb5d363845f2cf968344d7adab8dcfb2ba71 Keith Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 06/02/14 09:07, null wrote: Hello, I just discovered something. If the DOCTYPE of the HTML file is not the topmost line (line 1), LibreOffice renders the file fine (instead of showing the source). However, If there is a blank line before the DOCTYPE (like the HTML file Keith uploaded), the HTML parser is tripped and shows the source. So maybe LibreOffice expects the DOCTYPE to be on line 1, and if not on line 1, panics and doesn't render the HTML. But still, LibreOffice shouldn't have trouble rendering the file, even if the person who wrote the HTML (or the generator) didn't follow every strict standard. Web browsers know how to adapt to that kind of stuff. So, the file that Keith uploaded renders successfully in LibreOffice 4.2 if the !DOCTYPE ... syntax is corrected to: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd; , and the DOCTYPE is on line 1. Is anyone able to confirm this? Not to mention the unclosed P (paragraph) tag in the HTML file (luckily that didn't seem to influence whether Writer/Web rendered the page correctly). Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 2:45 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing //EN from the end). The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, so cannot check, but try correcting the DOCTYPE. If that allows the file to open as expected, it appears the problem is with moneydance producing invalid output, rather than with LO. Arbitrarily changing the DOCTYPE to indicate HTML5 may well also fail, as the rest of the document is not valid HTML5. Mark. null wrote: Hello, It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpreting DOCTYPEs. You see, every HTML is supposed to have a DOCTYPE at the top of the file, explaining what version of HTML (HTML5, HTML4.01, etc) the file uses. The file you uploaded has a DOCTYPE of HTML4.01 Transitional. Anyway, if I remove the !DOCTYPE ... part of the HTML file, and reopen it in LibreOffice, it works just fine, and shows the file's contents (not the source). Even switching the DOCTYPE to !DOCTYPE html (HTML5) causes the problem. So, in theory, if you want to view an HTML file in LibreOffice 4.2, you have to remove its !DOCTYPE ..., and it will work fine. Would you like an official bug to be filed so that the developers know of the problem and can try to fix it? Regards, xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com On 2/5/2014 12:05 AM, Keith Bates wrote: I've produced a document that doesn't work with LO. It is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbylcso4r2qm2r2/test.html Strangely it does open in Abiword. Earlier documents produced by moneydance as recently as last month open fine in LO. I have not upgraded moneydance in that time. Having quickly opened about 20 html's the problem is limited to those produced lately by moneydance. I haven't had time to look closely at the html source. I suppose it's possible that LO is now being more strict in its interpretation. The work around in the short term might be to use Abiword. . -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus
Re: [libreoffice-users]
Hi Maddie There are many services which enable you to do that. Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) is one popular service with apps for mobile phones and tablets. Another service is Google Drive (drive.google.com) There are also many others. Keith On 13/02/14 13:54, maddie10...@gmail.com wrote: are people with libreoffice able to have an account that they can save work to so that they don't have to use the same computer all the time. I am a middle school student and I am doing this from a home computer and I want to be able to access my spreadsheets from my school computers and ipads please respond. Sent from Windows Mail -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?
Writer 90% Calc- a few times a year Base- daily Impress- almost never Draw- just discovering how simple it is to layout info on a page Keith On 12/05/14 12:04, Les Howell wrote: On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 17:53 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote: I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is: Writer (85% of my use of LO) Calc(10%) Impress (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year) Base (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards) Draw (What's that?) Virgil Writer 10% Calc 30% (but decreasing as I become more familiar with gnuplot_ Impress 10% (not just for presentations, but as a tool for creating graphics to send to customers) Base 0% Draw 0% Give me a link to a more powerful tool for graphing tool, please. Gnuplot is OK, but I deal with millions and millions of samples, and I find generating plots or graphs with zoom and very slow and time consuming. I think gnuplot uses TK, which is not quick, and maybe python in the back end. Something native would be nice, but with the ability to choose samples, rows and columns like gnuplot. Big data is the field, isn't it. Regards, Les H -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
An anti-English troll- that's a new one for this list. :) I can't say that I've studied every language in the world, but I did study French, New Testament Greek and Ancient Hebrew. Guess what? They ALL have weird rules, exceptions and strange words. This would be due to the fact that languages are mostly used by humans who can be a little bit creative. I studied some rigidly conformist languages but they were rather dull. As far as I know there is no equivalent for I love you in BASIC, FORTRAN or C++ Keith- whose name disproves the i before e rule On 22/05/14 10:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: English sucks as a language anyway. It's a conglomeration of words grafted on from many other real languages that mostly still adhere to the rules of the original language. The result is that English has no consistent rules without the ever present, Except, word. This paragraph contains one of the prime examples. I almost all cases adding apostrophe s on the end of a word denotes ownership, i.e. Tom's car, but to indicate ownership with the word it the 's' is added without the apostrophe. Of course its could also indicate multiple quantities of its. Then there are words like disgruntled. Has anyone ever been gruntled? Then too as in also, two as in one more then one, and to as in where you are going. There's lead as in the heavy metal, lead as in being shown the way, lead as in showing the way. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
On 08/09/11 11:29, Don Myers wrote:Reply below:On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote:For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: pleaseconsider bottom posting with interspersed replies.Hi All,I will respect your wishes about posting at the bottom. I live in the US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a lot of work e-mails. I never receive any e-mails where people reply to me at the bottom. The reply is always at the top. I never understood why Thunderbird had the default to reply at the bottom when Thunderbird came out. It was backwards!! So I have always changed the default on every system I've installed it on. Maybe there are different customs in different countries.DonIt's not a point about national customs. It's about the way we read mailing lists.If you are in a one-to-one conversation then you will know the context of the conversation and more importantly you will remember what you said to that person last time.In that case top posting works often,although you may still have to re-quote parts of the previous conversation to make it clear what is being talked about or the points you are responding to.In a mailing list where there are multiple conversations frommultiple people all happening simultaneously, it is a lot easier for all concerned if replies are interspersed in the body of the previous email or at the bottom so that new readers can pick up the context of the conversation. Also for people who come across the archived version looking to solve a problem several months later, it is much easier if you can follow the logical flow by scrolling down through the various discussions.We've had this discussion multiple times on this and previously on the OO list.I'm with NoOp on this but I know that there are people who insist on their right to top post.-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation
to an Impress presentation, click here .. -- View this message in context:http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Adding-a-song-to-an-Impress-presentation-tp3397901p3398695.htmlSent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] How do you get spell checking to work?
On 19/10/11 17:38, Keith Bates wrote: Using Ubuntu 11.10 and LO 3.4.3 I'm no idiot or technophobe. I can research stuff on the internet. This should not be hard... spell checking on LO. It seems that in the default install of Ubuntu no spell checking is installed. Using synaptic package manager I have searched for LO dictionaries but found none. Living in Australia, I would like to use the Australian dictionary that I previously used. Logical thing is to press F1. There seems to be no internal help system any more. You just get connected to an online wiki which is pretty useless. Searched in Google using as many different search terms and combinations as possible. Two options emerge 1. Go to Forms- Wizards- Install Dictionaries. Helpful screenshots in Windows-- but the wizard does not exist in the Ubuntu version of LO 2. A LO extensions page- it covers a range of different extensions but not too many dictionaries, although I do note that Afrikaans ands Dutch speakers are well catered for as are my friends in New Zealand... but no AU dictionary. I am so desperate now for any spell checker that I would even settle for a US English one. Would someone please tell me how to find and install the spell checking facility? Thank you Managed to find an old Au Dictionary extension on my hard drive that seems to do the job. Still it seems unnecessarily difficult to find this stuff on line. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Duplex
Bruce, That's exactly the problem, and I've used the same work around. Mine is a bit more complicated than that as I edit the sheet each week, having a collection of songs saved that I cut and paste. So this week's songs are on page 1 of an 11 page document. That means I now have to remember to copy page 1 to page 2, deleting last week's page 1 or 2. Previous versions of LO would let you send 2 copies of 1 page and print duplex. I can't make this work in 3.4.4 Keith On 30/11/11 16:09, Bruce Carlson wrote: Hi, I had the same problem recently. Or at least I think so. Correct me if I've misunderstood your problem. Only way I got around it was to create a second page on my document which was an exact copy of the first page and then select print 2 copies and print duplex. And selecting combine print jobs made no difference It works but I'd also like to know if there is a better way because every time I make a modification I have to do it to both pages. It would be much better to be able to send 2 copies of one page to the printer and get it to print duplex that is one copy on each side of the paper. Bruce Carlson -Original Message- From: Keith Bates [mailto:ke...@new-life.org.au] Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 3:48 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Duplex Hi list members. I'm having trouble doing something that used to be easy and automatic. I need to print multiple song sheets. They are in two columns printed landscape. Each song sheet fits onto one A4 page. I print the copies back to back then cut pages in half, giving me two sheets of A5 each containing identical content. In previous versions of LO this was straight forward. Set the number of copies, set to print duplex. In 3.4.4 I am finding that it sends each page out as a separate print job even when I select the option to combine into a single job (under the Options tab in the print dialog- it used to be under Tools-Options-General-Print, I think). It happily prints a second blank page on the back of the first so I get exactly what I don't want. I also make sure that the option for printing extra blank pages is not selected. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 if that helps. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Duplex
On 30/11/11 18:51, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:09 30/11/2011 +1100, Bruce Carlson wrote: Only way I got around it was to create a second page on my document which was an exact copy of the first page and then select print 2 copies and print duplex. And selecting combine print jobs made no difference. It works but I'd also like to know if there is a better way because every time I make a modification I have to do it to both pages. There may be a workaround for that. Insert a section consisting of your first page. On your second page, insert another section; on the Section tab of the Insert Section dialogue, tick Link and select the name of your first-page section from the drop-down list for Section. Now any change to your first page will appear also in the copy on your second page: you need make each change only once. You may need to use Tools | Update | Links to force an update. That's not to say it wouldn't be better if you didn't have to do this ... I trust this helps. Brian Barker Thanks for that suggestion, Brian. It's well worth trying. I've used sections in this way before, but it's not something that I think of until prompted by someone else! I'll give it a go tomorrow. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized?
I tried it this morning and it does not work on Ubuntu 11.10 LO 3.4.4 Keith On 21/12/11 14:02, Virgil Arrington wrote: It works just fine for me. By just copying the italicized word (Alt-C), it automatically appeared in the right With box. I didn't even have to paste it. It was already there. I then typed the word without italics in the left Replace box. Of course, the word in the right box doesn't appear italicized, but when I go back to my document and type the word without italics, as soon as I hit the spacebar it is replaced by the italicized version. I'm using 3.4.4 on Windows 7. Virgil -Original Message- From: TinKicker Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:10 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized? Hmmm. I like the way you think Pedro, BUT I tried it and it doesn't work. I have 3.4.4. When I copy a properly italicized word in my text to the clipboard, then open the autocorrect form, then type in the word normally in the left box and paste the before-italicized version into the right box, it shows as /not /italicized. I AM CONFUSED! Now heading to the feature request page... - Best regards, TinKicker -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-words-in-LibreOffice-be-auto-italicized-tp3601650p3602887.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized?
On 21/12/11 14:55, Jay Lozier wrote: On 12/20/2011 10:18 PM, Keith Bates wrote: I tried it this morning and it does not work on Ubuntu 11.10 LO 3.4.4 Try using Paste Special That's not an option in the Auto-correct dialog Keith On 21/12/11 14:02, Virgil Arrington wrote: It works just fine for me. By just copying the italicized word (Alt-C), it automatically appeared in the right With box. I didn't even have to paste it. It was already there. I then typed the word without italics in the left Replace box. Of course, the word in the right box doesn't appear italicized, but when I go back to my document and type the word without italics, as soon as I hit the spacebar it is replaced by the italicized version. I'm using 3.4.4 on Windows 7. Virgil -Original Message- From: TinKicker Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:10 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized? Hmmm. I like the way you think Pedro, BUT I tried it and it doesn't work. I have 3.4.4. When I copy a properly italicized word in my text to the clipboard, then open the autocorrect form, then type in the word normally in the left box and paste the before-italicized version into the right box, it shows as /not /italicized. I AM CONFUSED! Now heading to the feature request page... - Best regards, TinKicker -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-words-in-LibreOffice-be-auto-italicized-tp3601650p3602887.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates
I made a big mistake this morning. I upgraded to 3.5- I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Installed from the libreoffice ppa I discovered early that it won't print multiple copies. I tried to revert to 3.4 by removing 3.4 and re-installing. It wouldn't start up. Now I find that I can't use templates. There is not even a templates folder in the organize templates module. The templates exist but just can't be used. If I try to use a template I get an error message templates already exists. If I try to open them as documents and save them as templates I get another similar error about them already existing- no option to overwrite. Has anyone come across any of this insanity? -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates
On 01/03/12 02:05, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be worth renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It would be great to save a copy somewhere safe and far away from where LO will look for it, perhaps in your My Documents folder. Hopefully the 3.4 will start up just fine after that but you will need to copy-back the templates and maybe a few other things from your old UserProfile to the new one that automatically gets generated. If that hasn't worked try fully uninstalling LibreOffice again, reboot (especially if using Windows) and then re-install the 3.4.5. Again you will need to copy the templates and stuff back from the copy you made into the new one that got generated in the previous paragraph. Regards from Tom :) Hi Tom, I managed to get 3.4.4 working after several attempts at re-installing. I don't know what the problem was with 3.5. I guess I'll just have to wait for a later version. Keith --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au wrote: From: Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 1:09 I made a big mistake this morning. I upgraded to 3.5- I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Installed from the libreoffice ppa I discovered early that it won't print multiple copies. I tried to revert to 3.4 by removing 3.4 and re-installing. It wouldn't start up. Now I find that I can't use templates. There is not even a templates folder in the organize templates module. The templates exist but just can't be used. If I try to use a template I get an error message templates already exists. If I try to open them as documents and save them as templates I get another similar error about them already existing- no option to overwrite. Has anyone come across any of this insanity? -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared
With the new release of Ubuntu last week I received a new release of LO 3.5.2.2 For some reason, my templates are no longer accessible. The files are present in a folder that is referenced in the Tools-Options-Paths - all unchanged since the previous version of 3.4. When I try to access the templates through the organise templates feature, there are no templates. I also get an error message templates already exists- presumably a reference to the folder templates rather than really bad English. This error message also comes up when I open an existing document. When I try to start a new document using a template I get this message: Error creating a new document; templates already exists. I've checked paths and permissions and I can't see what is wrong. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared
Thanks Dan. I'm away from home for a few days, but I'll give it a go when I return Keith On 03/05/12 05:12, Dan Lewis wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:16 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: With the new release of Ubuntu last week I received a new release of LO 3.5.2.2 For some reason, my templates are no longer accessible. The files are present in a folder that is referenced in the Tools-Options-Paths - all unchanged since the previous version of 3.4. When I try to access the templates through the organise templates feature, there are no templates. I also get an error message templates already exists- presumably a reference to the folder templates rather than really bad English. This error message also comes up when I open an existing document. When I try to start a new document using a template I get this message: Error creating a new document; templates already exists. I've checked paths and permissions and I can't see what is wrong. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life The problem arises from a change in where the templates are located: LO 3.5 stores them in a different location (.config/libreoffice/3/user/template) than 3.4 (.libreoffice/3/user/template). Suggestion: use the organise templates feature again. If you use My Templates as the folders for your templates, highlight it. The click the Command button and select Update. Perhaps this will cause your templates to appear. If this does not work, copy your templates contained in .libreoffice/3/user/template to .config/libreoffice/3/user/template. Then organise your templates, highlight the My Template folder, click the Command button, and select Update from the drop down menu. The templates should appear. I used this process to add multiple templates to My Templates, and it saves time compared to importing one template at a time. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared
On 04/05/12 17:09, Keith Bates wrote: Thanks Dan. I'm away from home for a few days, but I'll give it a go when I return Keith On 03/05/12 05:12, Dan Lewis wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:16 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: With the new release of Ubuntu last week I received a new release of LO 3.5.2.2 For some reason, my templates are no longer accessible. The files are present in a folder that is referenced in the Tools-Options-Paths - all unchanged since the previous version of 3.4. When I try to access the templates through the organise templates feature, there are no templates. I also get an error message templates already exists- presumably a reference to the folder templates rather than really bad English. This error message also comes up when I open an existing document. When I try to start a new document using a template I get this message: Error creating a new document; templates already exists. I've checked paths and permissions and I can't see what is wrong. The problem arises from a change in where the templates are located: LO 3.5 stores them in a different location (.config/libreoffice/3/user/template) than 3.4 (.libreoffice/3/user/template). Suggestion: use the organise templates feature again. If you use My Templates as the folders for your templates, highlight it. The click the Command button and select Update. Perhaps this will cause your templates to appear. If this does not work, copy your templates contained in .libreoffice/3/user/template to .config/libreoffice/3/user/template. Then organise your templates, highlight the My Template folder, click the Command button, and select Update from the drop down menu. The templates should appear. I used this process to add multiple templates to My Templates, and it saves time compared to importing one template at a time. --Dan I tried what Dan suggested but it doesn't work :( I don't even have a My Templates folder in the template organiser wizard thing. I know it was there in 3.4 but it's no longer there. I copied the template files to .config/libreoffice/3/user/template then clicked the Commands button and Update but then got several templates already exists messages and one Update could not be completed error. I've removed all folders from the templates path except the default (/usr/lib/ something) and then added.config/libreoffice/3/user/template and set it as the default for adding new templates. I'm wondering if there is a glitch in the Ubuntu update. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared
On 10/05/12 18:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Try Tools - Options - Paths to see where LibreOffice is looking for your templates. Hopefully you can edit that to look in the right place. It is better to have your templates inside your /home along with all the rest of your users data and settings. The full address for the 3.5.x branch is something like /home/username/.config/libreoffice/3/user/template Note that inside /home/username/.config you will see a lot of folders. Each program has a folder in there for it's own settings and configurations. Some are still in /home/username but are moving to the newer place to reduce congestion and confusion. Note that username should be replaced by your own user-name, the one you login with. Don't change the 3/user part tho! Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 10/5/12, Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au wrote: snip / I get all that. It's not helping. I've edited the paths. I've even deleted them and re-added them. The templates are in the correct folder but LO isn't finding them. There isn't even a folder in the organiser for any templates-- My Templates isn't there. Keith On 03/05/12 05:12, Dan Lewis wrote: snip / The problem arises from a change in where the templates are located: LO 3.5 stores them in a different location (.config/libreoffice/3/user/template) than 3.4 (.libreoffice/3/user/template). Suggestion: use the organise templates feature again. If you use My Templates as the folders for your templates, highlight it. The click the Command button and select Update. Perhaps this will cause your templates to appear. If this does not work, copy your templates contained in .libreoffice/3/user/template to .config/libreoffice/3/user/template. Then organise your templates, highlight the My Template folder, click the Command button, and select Update from the drop down menu. The templates should appear. I used this process to add multiple templates to My Templates, and it saves time compared to importing one template at a time. --Dan I tried what Dan suggested but it doesn't work :( I don't even have a My Templates folder in the template organiser wizard thing. I know it was there in 3.4 but it's no longer there. I copied the template files to .config/libreoffice/3/user/template then clicked the Commands button and Update but then got several templates already exists messages and one Update could not be completed error. I've removed all folders from the templates path except the default (/usr/lib/ something) and then added.config/libreoffice/3/user/template and set it as the default for adding new templates. I'm wondering if there is a glitch in the Ubuntu update. -- God bless you Keith Bates -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Templates Disappeared
On 10/05/12 19:57, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.05.2012 11:37, Keith Bates wrote: I get all that. It's not helping. I've edited the paths. I've even deleted them and re-added them. The templates are in the correct folder but LO isn't finding them. There isn't even a folder in the organiser for any templates-- My Templates isn't there. Keith OK, try this: Open the new office version. FileOpen... Get the old templates folder .libreoffice/3/user/template/ select all the templates you are interested in and load them. Now for each file: FileTemplatesSave... and enter the template name. FileNewTemplate [Ctrl+Shift+N] should list the imported templates now. I deleted all the existing templates in .config/.libreoffice/3/user/template. Then I opened a template and tried to save as a template and got this error: Error writing document Untitled2 as template: templates already exists Click OK and it opens the box to enter a name and save the template.I enter a name and click save and it comes back with the same message. I click OK and then get this message: Error writing document Untitled2 as template: General error General input/output error -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Templates Disappeared
Thank you Andreas. That fixed the problem. Keith On 10/05/12 23:22, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.05.2012 12:19, Keith Bates wrote: I deleted all the existing templates in .config/.libreoffice/3/user/template. Then I opened a template and tried to save as a template and got this error: Error writing document Untitled2 as template: templates already exists Click OK and it opens the box to enter a name and save the template.I enter a name and click save and it comes back with the same message. I click OK and then get this message: Error writing document Untitled2 as template: General error General input/output error Reset your entire user profile and try again. Close the office, delete the .config/libreoffice folder and let it build a new one. Do not copy any files into the profile. Templates need to be registered for whatever reason. There is also an import command in the templates organizer (FileTemplatesOrganize... button [Commands]) -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] BASIC Runtime Error. Object Variable not set
Hi, I just installed libre office 3.3 on my computer running Ubuntu 10.10. I have a macro written in openoffice and running perfectly for many years. It now returns the above error. The macro is activated by a button on a form that adds a record to a database. Basically it reads the last record and enters some of the fields into the form for the new record. Can you tell me how to fix this please? Thank you. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] BASIC Runtime Error. Object Variable not set
On 29/01/11 17:10, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I just installed libre office 3.3 on my computer running Ubuntu 10.10. I have a macro written in openoffice and running perfectly for many years. It now returns the above error. The macro is activated by a button on a form that adds a record to a database. Basically it reads the last record and enters some of the fields into the form for the new record. Can you tell me how to fix this please? Thank you. Well I didn't get any replies, but the strangest thing has happened... After entering yesterday's data directly into the table, today the form works. Very strange. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] BASIC Runtime Error. Object Variable not set
Sadly rebooting didn't magic it this time, and I certainly don't understand why manually entering the data did. But it works. Keith On 30/01/11 17:47, Tom Davies wrote: Lol, that is soo often the way! I was hoping someone else would have a good answer so i stayed quiet. With Windows it's often the old reboot fixes everything trick. OpenSource gets updated quite a bit or just seems to fix itself by other magic. Congrats and regards from Tom :) From: Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 30 January, 2011 6:35:14 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] BASIC Runtime Error. Object Variable not set On 29/01/11 17:10, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I just installed libre office 3.3 on my computer running Ubuntu 10.10. I have a macro written in openoffice and running perfectly for many years. It now returns the above error. The macro is activated by a button on a form that adds a record to a database. Basically it reads the last record and enters some of the fields into the form for the new record. Can you tell me how to fix this please? Thank you. Well I didn't get any replies, but the strangest thing has happened... After entering yesterday's data directly into the table, today the form works. Very strange. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base form editing/creation impossible, missing dialog boxes and Menu bars
On 01/02/11 01:18, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 31/01/11 04:26, Mobidoy a écrit : Hi, Yes I did indeed installed the latest version. The bug was in RC3 and yes, It was supposed to be fixed but, I am not sure it is now, this is why I would like for someone to see if it is for them. Well, I've just tested and it works fine for me, as far as I can see, I can display the properties of the form control, edit them, etc. Is the control in question of a particular type (e.g. combo, list box, etc) or is it any control ? Alex I'm running the latest version under Ubuntu 10.10 and I just tries this as it was an issue for me with the Release Candidates. You can right click on a field and access the various controls, but the form toolbars do not appear, even when you go to the View menu and select them. -- God bless you Keith Bates Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base form editing/creation impossible, missing dialog boxes and Menu bars
On 01/02/11 09:24, Keith Bates wrote: On 01/02/11 01:18, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 31/01/11 04:26, Mobidoy a écrit : Hi, Yes I did indeed installed the latest version. The bug was in RC3 and yes, It was supposed to be fixed but, I am not sure it is now, this is why I would like for someone to see if it is for them. Well, I've just tested and it works fine for me, as far as I can see, I can display the properties of the form control, edit them, etc. Is the control in question of a particular type (e.g. combo, list box, etc) or is it any control ? Alex I'm running the latest version under Ubuntu 10.10 and I just tries this as it was an issue for me with the Release Candidates. You can right click on a field and access the various controls, but the form toolbars do not appear, even when you go to the View menu and select them. Well LO just stuffed up a form that I use daily. All the boxes, labels etc are just dumped on top of each other. All the program settings have reverted to the defaults from the first time use-- things like macro security, background to application and other things selected under tools- Options There is no apparent reason for this. I need to use this form and since LO will not let me do this, I guess that I'll be reverting to Open Office. I'll give LO another go when there is a major new release. -- God bless you Keith Bates Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base form editing/creation impossible, missing dialog boxes and Menu bars
On 01/02/11 19:28, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 01/02/11 07:21, Keith Bates a écrit : Hi Keith, Well LO just stuffed up a form that I use daily. All the boxes, labels etc are just dumped on top of each other. All the program settings have reverted to the defaults from the first time use-- things like macro security, background to application and other things selected under tools- Options There is no apparent reason for this. Did you play with the zoom settings in any other document, in particular, a Writer document ? This is a known (old and recurring) bug from OpenOffice.org and I wouldn't be surprised if it also affected LibO. It gets fixed, then it gets broken again, along the various version releases, and yes, it is really frustrating when you rely on forms for data entry. Many a time I had to try and explain to users what was happening. Additionally, I know of a bug that causes this to happen in OpenOffice.org when the form is stored on a network resource, such as a NFS or SMB file store. I haven't yet experimented to see whether this also happens in LibO, but I wouldn't be overly surprised. Alex No, Alex as far as I know I haven't zoomed in on anything. But I've never had this happen in OO. I think it's related to the other issues with Forms in Base that seem to have erupted in LO. I'm surprised that it also lost all of my previous settings. So for now I've uninstalled LO and reinstalled OO which actually remembered all my settings and opened the form correctly. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frustrated Base Users / Errors in Base 3.3 (OO 3.2 work beautifully)
On 09/02/11 02:05, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 08/02/11 13:13, Tony Smith a écrit : Hi Tony, What makes the issues with Base 3.3 worse is that there is no consistency in the bugs, as you will see by reading my posts to the above bug report. NONE of these issues occurred in OO 3.2. This unfortunately reflects really badly on the Open Source community altogether, surely cannot the coding for Base be regressed to how it was in 3.2, until the changes that were attempted in 3.3 can be more thoroughly tested. Well I am staying with OOo 3.2.1 until things get better (if they ever do). Working with Base as it evolves (and I use that word lightly) is like running a marathon and hitting the wall at every version change... Alex I've given LO a couple of goes over the last few weeks and I just find the Base component is unusable. Forms that worked flawlessly on OO for several years suddenly don't work. One thing that I noticed is that for some reason LO resets to the original defaults randomly between uses-- fonts, macro security, background colours etc. The problem with this is the frustration of having to go back to the Options menu and put things back to the way that works for me, and then having to re-register databases. I've switched between LO and OO about 4 times hoping that I could get LO to work consistently, but it doesn't. Unfortunately I've had to revert to Open Office for now. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Report Builder
I'm using LO 3.3 with a database originally constructed using OO and everything is mostly fine.I just tried to produce a report using the Report Builder extension and found it didn't work.This is a report that previously worked under OO. I edited the query that the report reports on, then edited some labels in the report. Whan I clicked the Execute Report button a new window opened, but the actual report did not appear.I closed the report builder then used Extension Manager to update the extension. Repeated process with the same result.Has anyone else had a similar issue with reports?-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Report Builder
OK. Thanks Rikard.I will have to keep ontrying to work out what the problem is thenKeithOn 01/04/11 19:20, Rikard Svenningsen wrote:No. I uses LO 3.3.2 on Linux Ubuntu, and OOo 3.2.1 on Windows both with Report builder 1.2.1 At least I haven't seen any yet Done one report with too grouping and calculating no problem 2011/4/1 Keith bateske...@new-life.org.aui'm using LO 3.3 with a database originally constructed using OO and everything is mostly fine.I just tried to produce a report using the Report Builder extension and found it didn't work.This is a report that previously worked under OO. I edited the query that the report reports on, then edited some labels in the report. Whan I clicked the Execute Report button a new window opened, but the actual report did not appear.I closed the report builder then used Extension Manager to update the extension. Repeated process with the same result.Has anyone else had a similar issue with reports?-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail tousers+help@libreoffice.orgPosting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NetiquetteList archive:http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplex Printing
On 08/05/11 22:02, Barbara Tobias wrote:I just printed a three-page document created with LibreOffice and found that I seem to have lost the duplex capability that I have used with OpenOffice. The only options under duplex were ignore and off. Am I doing something wrong or has the duplex capability been lost? I am using an HP Officejet 6500 Wireless printer that has done duplex from OpenOffice. Thanks. BarbaraHi Barbara,I use duplex printing regularly in Libre Office.The problem is most likely that your printer driver has become corrupted. Try removing the printer and re-installing it- I mean in the printer management section of Windows or whatever your operating system is.Hopefully that should fix the problem. If it doesn't fix it try re-installing your printer driver or see if you can download a more recent version of the printer driver.-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem transferring OO Base Data to LO Base.
On 16/06/11 19:42, Ian Whitfield wrote:Because of this I'm wanting to convert to LibreOffice and have for the past 3 releases tested my Database on these with no luck. After trying the latest (3.4) last week I wrote into the LO Base Forum with a request for help and received a reply from a Member that OO Base and LO Base are incompatible!! If this is the case I can _NOT_ move my system to LO as I _MUST_ have my Database!!Can anyone help me out and/or confirm the story about incompatibility please!!??Thanks a lotIan Whitfield.Pretoria, South Africa.Hi Ian,I transferred some databases from OO without any problems. They are just simple databases (one or two tables).I use Ubuntu 11.04My biggest problem is that Sun Report Builder extension no longer works.Just a random thought. There are issues for LO when OO is on the system. I was running into problems with forms until I completely removed OO. Might be worth trying. I would backup the OO configuration files though.Keith -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] search does not find (
Hi ThomasI just tried it in the Linux version and it works fine. Had a document with ( and ) in it and it found both just on a straight find.KeithOn 18/06/11 12:07, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:Good morning (Windox XP desktop, LO 3.3.0) just noticed: the search function DOES NOT find ordinary brackets: (, ), [, ] etc. (not regular expression etc. ...) THESE are not any form of special characters. Every software I know of with a search function can find these ASCII characters. What is so special about them, that LO does NOT find them (they are right there on the screen!). Recently I have started working with LO, but this kind of really stupid problems makes me wonder ... In case there is a solution, I would like to hear it. Thank you. Thomas-- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri 2390 Ask Jesus into your life He is The Way, The Truth and The Life -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Regular Expression
Hi, I'm in unfamiliar territory, searching a QIF file for a single badly formatted transaction. I've exported the original moneydance file to a tab limited file with the thought of searching for a non-numeric character in the transaction amount column. The only problem is I can't work out the appropriate Reg. Exp to search for characters that are not numeric or a . My brain just refuses to twist into the required contortions to work out regular expressions! Can someone give me the formula required in the Find box in libre office please? Keith Bates New Life Christian Fellowship Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way, the Turth and the Life. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular Expression
Brian Barker PS: What's Turth, please? Brian, Thanks for your suggestion. I went with the Reg. Exp method but still unable to find the rogue transaction that throws the error. I could say that Turth is a kind of post-modern rejection of truth, but that would be suggesting that Jesus is not quite the truth. :) I've now fixed the typo as you can see, Keith Bates New Life Christian Fellowship Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular Expression
Thanks Jim. That worked, although it didn't solve my problem with the QIF file Keith On Wed, 28 May 2014 08:00:37 AM Jim Seymour wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:17 +1000 Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: Hi, I'm in unfamiliar territory, searching a QIF file for a single badly formatted transaction. I've exported the original moneydance file to a tab limited file with the thought of searching for a non-numeric character in the transaction amount column. The only problem is I can't work out the appropriate Reg. Exp to search for characters that are not numeric or a . [snip] You want to find everything that's *not* in a particular set, so... [^0-9\.] That's anything that's not zero thru nine 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 Keith Bates New Life Christian Fellowship Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Importing financial report into Write
I want to print a financial report worth data from my accounting program. The program produces a couple of formats for exporting the data- a text file, a html format that Libreoffice won't display correctly and a csv. Here is a part of a report Net Worth As of: 30/05/2014 AccountAmount JournalA$ 1,250.00 New Life MinistriesA$ 793.09 Orphanage AccountA$ 796.20 To get the kind of formatting I need, I could just import the text file and make each line expand to fill the width of the page. I can't see any way to do this- full justification doesn't apply to the last line in a paragraph- which is every line. Alternatively I could import it into a table, but it all gets put into a single cell. I imported it into a spreadsheet then copied it from there into Write. That worked out, but it is a bit clumsy. Is there a way to directly import the data in a way that produces easily readable data without an intermediate step? -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing financial report into Write
On 03/06/14 12:37, Alan B wrote: Hello Keith I'm trying to understand what you want to accomplish. You write I want to print a financial report worth (perhaps you meant with?) data from my accounting program and then describe how you try and manipulate that data in another program. So it seems you are printing a financial report already but the output of the account program doesn't meet your needs. Is this correct? Then you describe various output formats the accounting program provides and that none of the formatting meets your need. My questions here are: - how do you want the formatted reports to look? e.g. the data centered on the page - what appears on the page before and after the data? - what program are you expecting to use to make the formatted report? Thank you Hi Alan, Amongst other things, I need the Account Balances and Profit and Loss statements in the same document. But I also need to produce a clearly readable document so that amounts line up etc. Other reasons I want to edit the document include to add a logo plus comments. The financial software produces information that looks like this: Item1 $32.00 Item 2 $3257091.23 Whereas I want it to look like this: Item1 $32.00 Item 2 $3257091.23 A table would be ideal as you can add borders etc, but that's not essential. I used to export the data as html which used to import directly into LO, but now LO just shows all the html code rather than the formatted document. So then I used to open the html file in a web browser and copy and paste the page into LO. But the latest version of the financial program (moneydance) has changed what it puts into the html so that even passing it through a web browser just results in a list similar to that above. Hope that clarifies my aim. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing financial report into Write
I've had a couple of replies off list, and with more playing around I discovered I can open the html in a browser, copy it there and use Paste Special- html code to import it into LO Writer. If there is a better way to just import and format as described below I would be happy to know that. Keith On 03/06/14 13:50, Keith Bates wrote: On 03/06/14 12:37, Alan B wrote: Hello Keith I'm trying to understand what you want to accomplish. You write I want to print a financial report worth (perhaps you meant with?) data from my accounting program and then describe how you try and manipulate that data in another program. So it seems you are printing a financial report already but the output of the account program doesn't meet your needs. Is this correct? Then you describe various output formats the accounting program provides and that none of the formatting meets your need. My questions here are: - how do you want the formatted reports to look? e.g. the data centered on the page - what appears on the page before and after the data? - what program are you expecting to use to make the formatted report? Thank you Hi Alan, Amongst other things, I need the Account Balances and Profit and Loss statements in the same document. But I also need to produce a clearly readable document so that amounts line up etc. Other reasons I want to edit the document include to add a logo plus comments. The financial software produces information that looks like this: Item1 $32.00 Item 2 $3257091.23 Whereas I want it to look like this: Item1 $32.00 Item 2 $3257091.23 A table would be ideal as you can add borders etc, but that's not essential. I used to export the data as html which used to import directly into LO, but now LO just shows all the html code rather than the formatted document. So then I used to open the html file in a web browser and copy and paste the page into LO. But the latest version of the financial program (moneydance) has changed what it puts into the html so that even passing it through a web browser just results in a list similar to that above. Hope that clarifies my aim. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing financial report into Write
Thanks Brian. It turns out I can use Paste Special to paste the html direct from web browser to Writer. Keith On 03/06/14 22:57, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:34 03/06/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: I want to print a financial report worth data from my accounting program. The program produces a couple of formats for exporting the data - a text file, a html format that Libreoffice won't display correctly and a csv. Open the CSV file in LibreOffice Calc. Copy the relevant cells. Paste into a text (Writer) document, but using Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste. In the Paste Special dialogue, select HTML (HyperText Markup Language) or Formatted text [RTF]. You will now have the material in a table, which you can manipulate easily as you wish. To get the kind of formatting I need, I could just import the text file and make each line expand to fill the width of the page. I can't see any way to do this - full justification doesn't apply to the last line in a paragraph - which is every line. You can do that (but it's probably not your best solution): o Go to Format | Paragraph... | Alignment (or right-click | Paragraph... | Alignment). o Under Options, select Justified. o For Last line, select Justified. Better still, you can set this in paragraph style. I imported it into a spreadsheet then copied it from there into Write. That worked out, but it is a bit clumsy. I suspect that's the easiest you'll get ... At 13:50 03/06/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: Amongst other things, I need the Account Balances and Profit and Loss statements in the same document. Combining information from multiple sources can very likely be done most easily in the intermediate stage in the spreadsheet. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Importing financial report into Write
On 03/06/14 20:50, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 03/06/2014 03:34, Keith Bates a écrit : Keith, You could try this : http://sourceforge.net/projects/csv2odf/ Alex Thanks for that suggestion Alex. It looks like a very useful and versatile tool. I will give it a try. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Error
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 Way, the Truth and the Life. Follow Him. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Error
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 one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course - so is just too long to be stored accurately. I wasn't clear - but not in the way you thought! I meant that 2^53 is represented *in binary* (as it will be in the computer) as one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course. So it's the value that is just too large to be stored accurately in double precision. (As so often happens, I spotted that omission just after I had sent the message!) Brian Barker -- God bless you Keith Bates Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Follow Him. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit a signature file into a PDF document
How about Insert- Image- From File ? Or click on the icon at the bottom of the page, near the right end, says From File when you hover over it, Keith On 04/12/14 12:08, john herron wrote: A paper form has been sent to me to be filled out. I scanned it as a PDF file into my Mint Maté 17 box, opened it in LO Draw (v. 4.2.7.2), typed the necessary data into the relevant locations, then re-exported the edited file as PDF. The edited file, containing the added text, opens properly in other applications such as Adobe Reader or Document Viewer. In Draw I then tried to add a PNG signature file to the PDF, but the File option of the Insert menu is greyed out, so that I don't know how to add the signature file to the PDF. I cannot do it manually because my handwriting is impaired. What should I do? Thanks for helping. jdh -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export all slides from a PowerPoint document?
Oops! Sorry all, I hit Reply instead of Reply to List Keith On 29/12/14 07:22, Gilles wrote: Out of band, I was suggested to install the following extension, which worked fine: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/export-as-images -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-all-slides-from-a-PowerPoint-document-tp4134267p4134273.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export all slides from a PowerPoint document?
Tom, The OP wanted to export all slides as images. He had no problem with opening the ppt file. Keith On 29/12/14 11:55, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It should be possible to open a ppt by just double-clicking on it, or open LibreOffice and use the; File - Open menu to open the ppt in Impress. Regards from Tom :) On 28 December 2014 at 20:22, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: Out of band, I was suggested to install the following extension, which worked fine: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/export-as-images -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Export-all-slides-from-a-PowerPoint-document-tp4134267p4134273.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Batch Convert from .wps to .doc or docx
Hi Does this work? |$ soffice--headless--convert-to doc*.*| From: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/19832/batch-convert-multiple-file-types/ Keith On 07/01/15 10:24, bishoplowe wrote: I am aware that it is possible to open each document one by one in LibreOffice and convert them one by one but this would be very time consuming. What I would like to do is to convert multiple files automatically. Currently, I no longer use WordPerfect. I do my work now on a Mac and would like to import the WordPerfect files into Evernote. Any additional suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Batch-Convert-from-wps-to-doc-or-docx-tp4135223p4135370.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] How to get rid of This document is in read only mode bar
The version of LO that ships with Ubuntu 15.04 is 4.4.2. Since upgrading Ubuntu the other day I have noticed that forms- which are meant to open in read-only mode- now come with a big yellow bar which says This document is in read only mode with a big button to press to enter Edit mode. Is there a way to get rid of this thing permanently? Thanks -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [OT] Operating Environment Survey
On 26/07/15 05:58, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Harvey Nimmo wrote: On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 14:54 -0400, James Knott wrote: On 07/25/2015 09:35 AM, Graham P Davis wrote: We only had log tables; standard slide rules weren't allowed as they were too inaccurate. Drifting a bit more OT, ball-point pens weren't allowed either, only fountain pens. To put this in some sort of perspective, I left school in 1962 aged 18. Did they have slide rules way back then? ;-) We used them in physics and electricity electronics classes. Yes, that was shortly after they finally ditched the abacus and thus ends this excursus into archaic calculation devices. (though I do wonder when people learned to use fingers or digits to count...g.) f. This seems to be degenerating into the the Four Yorkshiremen -luxury! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[SOLVED] [libreoffice-users] General Input Output Error
After fiddling for some time and seeing that there is no option to install a new database, or view data sources, I remembered that from some reason Ubuntu does not install the base component by default. Installing the base component fixed the problem. Keith On 26/04/16 21:39, Kruno wrote: First check file permissions, should be read/write, I/O error can occur due to insufficient privileges since it's a new Ubuntu install. I can't open half of search results from link below. Didn't read your previous mails and don't know if that was discussed already, but that's how I fixed it. Although, you might have different I/O error. Kruno 26.04.2016 u 11:26, Keith Bates je napisao/la: Thanks, Tim. I did actually do a search before posting to the list. Nobody has described quite the problem I have though. On 26/04/16 17:21, Tim Lloyd wrote: a few hits on DDG https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libreoffice+General+Error.+General+input%2Foutput+error I haven't read through them all but a few suggestions posted Cheers On 26/04/16 16:25, Keith Bates wrote: General Error. General input/output error -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] General Input Output Error
Thanks, Tim. I did actually do a search before posting to the list. Nobody has described quite the problem I have though. On 26/04/16 17:21, Tim Lloyd wrote: a few hits on DDG https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libreoffice+General+Error.+General+input%2Foutput+error I haven't read through them all but a few suggestions posted Cheers On 26/04/16 16:25, Keith Bates wrote: General Error. General input/output error -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice
From the "About" screen on LO on my fresh install Ubuntu 16.04 Version: 5.1.2.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.2-0ubuntu1 Keith On 27/04/16 09:26, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I am currently running 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04LTS [with MATE desktop] on 2 laptops. I am currently have issues with my install of LO 5.1.2.2 version with areas in the "menu taskbars" graying out when I switch to its window from a window like Firefox or other package that I am running. I did not have this running Ubuntu 15.10. I also wonder which version of LibreOffice Ubuntu 16.04 includes. I have found that, in the past, no matter which LO version I have installed the upgrading of Ubuntu removes my install and installs the one they have in their repository. This did not happen this time, since my spare laptop had LO 5.0.x and still has it. The laptop I am typing from now has 5.1.2.2, which I installed before I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04. So which version is included with the newest version of Ubuntu? Since 16.04LTS will be supported through 2021, according to a e-news report, will there be any "push" by LO/TDF to keep Ubuntu's repository updated to the current LO versions from now till 2021 when this long term supported Ubuntu OS will no longer be supported by Ubuntu's creators. -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] General Input Output Error
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 yesterday and now cannot open any database files. When I open any .odb file U get the error message "General Error. General input/output error." Other files open normally. I tried removing the config file but this does not solve the problem -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Embedding Video Files
Earlier this week, I produced a presentation with embedded video for use in a school classroom (NSW Department of Education, in case anyone has personal knowledge of their set-up). I am using Libre Office 5.3 and Ubuntu 17.04. I checked that the presentation worked, including the video. I saved it in .ppt format onto a USB stick with the video file, "just in case". This turned out to be a good thing. The classroom has an old version of MS Office (2010, I think I saw), a projector and a smart board. I don't know what version of Windows they are running. When I ran the presentation, everything went as expected. Touching the white board progressed the slides as expected. However I couldn't get the video to work from within the presentation, and had to run it from the media player. It's not a big problem, and I can work around it, but when you have a classroom of Year 4 and 5 kids, you don't want to get too distracted by the technology. Any ideas about how to make it work? Keep in mind that I have no access to their computer outside of my lesson time. Thanks. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Embedding Video Files
Thanks. I might give it a go. Keith On 09/06/17 18:48, Rob Jasper wrote: For this reason I always have a usb stick with LibreOffice as portable app. This can fe found on https://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable I've done this for years now, since Powerpoint different versions played tricks on me displaying black characters on black background. Rob Jasper On 9 jun. 2017, at 03:50, Keith Bates wrote: Earlier this week, I produced a presentation with embedded video for use in a school classroom (NSW Department of Education, in case anyone has personal knowledge of their set-up). I am using Libre Office 5.3 and Ubuntu 17.04. I checked that the presentation worked, including the video. I saved it in .ppt format onto a USB stick with the video file, "just in case". This turned out to be a good thing. The classroom has an old version of MS Office (2010, I think I saw), a projector and a smart board. I don't know what version of Windows they are running. When I ran the presentation, everything went as expected. Touching the white board progressed the slides as expected. However I couldn't get the video to work from within the presentation, and had to run it from the media player. It's not a big problem, and I can work around it, but when you have a classroom of Year 4 and 5 kids, you don't want to get too distracted by the technology. Any ideas about how to make it work? Keep in mind that I have no access to their computer outside of my lesson time. Thanks. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reports Libre Base
I use Ubuntu 17.04 also, including the Libreoffice packages installed directly from Ubuntu. The default install excludes Base, and if you can't open a database, it seems like you don't have Base installed. sudo apt install libreoffice-base should fix that, For reports the packages you need are libreoffice-report-builder and libreoffice-report-builder-bin. Use sudo apt install libreoffice-report-builder* and they should install. Keith On 28/11/17 08:45, Peter wrote: I reinstalled Libre Office Base from the Ubuntu repository. I assumed that this wouls automatically install all necessary packages. a=There is nothing that I can find in the__Ubuntu Software Repository that appears to relate to reports for LibreBase. How can i find out what packages I have installed and what packages are required forreports to work. I have an old data base which has not been uses since January 2015 which I tried to open today. This will no longer open for any thing , no forms or views or tables can be opened. Peter On 28/11/17 04:50, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Peter, Libre Base 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2 Ubuntu 16.4 When I first found the problem I removed LibreBase and reinstalled it but the problem with reportsremained the same. This is a special Ubuntu-version of LO. Have a look into your packagemanager. Did you install all packages for the libreoffice-report-builder? Have heard there isn't only one package, which should be installed for reports with the Ubuntu-version of LO. Regards Robert -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Is Report-Builder Broken?
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 and I discovered that the report builder module seems to be broken, or at least it does not execute reports created with earlier versions of LO. I am using the Ubuntu version of LO The "About" screen says: Version: 6.1.2.1 Build ID: 1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded When I try to execute the report I get the following error messages SQL Status: S1000 An error occurred while creating the report. An exception of type com.sun.star.loader.CannotActivateFactoryException was caught. Can not activate the factory for org.libreoffice.report.pentaho.SOReportJobFactory$_SOReportJobFactory Can anyone help me with this? Thank you Keith -- -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Is Report-Builder Broken?
Typical newbie error after I don't know how many years! With the upgrade I had to set a Java version. After that it works :) As you say, Robert, the label fields all showed "Label", but it only took a few minutes to change them. Everything else is now good. Keith On 1/11/18 7:03 pm, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Keith, Version: 6.1.2.1 Build ID: 1:6.1.2-0ubuntu1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded You are using the LO-version from Ubuntu, not directly from LO. So it could be LO is missing some packages. But: ReportBuilder of LO 6.1.2.1 has indeed bugs. The most important bug here is: Label-fields don't show the right label, only the text "Label". It has been fixed for LO 6.1.3.2 Regards Robert -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Changing Background in Impress
Hi I recently upgraded to LO 6.1.2.1 and Ubuntu 18.10 and have a problem. When designing impress screens, I cannot change the background colour. Everything remains stubbornly white. I right click on the page, select "Properties" then Background, Colour. But instead of filling the screen it leaves it white. Selecting other options on that dialog, such as Bitmap or Hatch still results in plain white. How can I change this? Thanks -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[SOLVED] Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing Background in Impress
Thank you Regina! That indeed was the problem. Keith On 29/11/18 12:50 am, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Bates schrieb am 28-Nov-18 um 05:15: Hi I recently upgraded to LO 6.1.2.1 and Ubuntu 18.10 and have a problem. When designing impress screens, I cannot change the background colour. Everything remains stubbornly white. I right click on the page, select "Properties" then Background, Colour. But instead of filling the screen it leaves it white. Selecting other options on that dialog, such as Bitmap or Hatch still results in plain white. How can I change this? There exists a check box "Master Background" in the side bar. It should be checked. Is it? Kind regards Regina * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Regular Expressions
I have a text document that contains various mark up tags such as . It s a list of song lyrics from OpenLP. I want to strip off all the tags- the <,> and the text between. I know search and replace with Regular Expressions will do it for me, but I have a brain block when it comes to Reg Ex. Can somebody please tell me how to do this? Thank you. -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular Expressions
Thank you, Brian. That was exactly what I needed Keith On 10/5/19 1:46 pm, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:13 10/05/2019 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: I have a text document that contains various mark up tags such as . It's a list of song lyrics from OpenLP. I want to strip off all the tags- the <,> and the text between. I know search and replace with Regular Expressions will do it for me, but I have a brain block when it comes to Reg Ex. Can somebody please tell me how to do this? Search for: <[^>]*> Replace with: (nothing) Explanation: [^>] matches any character except ">". [^>]* matches zero or more of such characters. <[^>]*> matches "<", any text not including ">", and ">", i.e. everything from "<" up to and including the first ">" thereafter. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade
Hi all So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal. After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log files and found the offending files, all was well. Except Libre Office. Everything important seems to work unless you try to use templates- either through the opening screen or through File- Manage Templates. At that point the program freezes. Eventually a message window opens to say that "Libre Office 6.2 Writer is not responding" with options to Force Quit or Wait. I have tried the usual things: * remove configuration files * re-install * downloaded the DEBs from the Libre Office web site and tried to install over the existing installation. So far nothing has resolved the issue. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[SOLVED] [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade
You wouldn't believe how simple this was to fix! I considered doing the complete removal then re-installation but what put me off that was it wanted to remove gnome for some reason. Even removing just some of the components dragged gnome with it, and I am not keen on using linux without a desktop environment. I had a spare log-in profile already, and LO works in that profile. The thought of using one log-in to access software installed on a different log-in just seems too prone to messing up, but at least I knew there was an option there. In the end, I thought about it and realised that it is only templates that are the issue here, so let's examine the templates issue. I looked at the Path options in Tools-Options-Libre Office- Paths. It appears that for some reason LO had added my home directory as a path for templates, as well as the default path. I deleted the home directory, recreated the template folder in my config folder then copied my templates back in and now it's all working. Thank you for all the suggestions Keith On 21/4/19 8:56 pm, Keith Bates wrote: Hi all So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal. After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log files and found the offending files, all was well. Except Libre Office. Everything important seems to work unless you try to use templates- either through the opening screen or through File- Manage Templates. At that point the program freezes. Eventually a message window opens to say that "Libre Office 6.2 Writer is not responding" with options to Force Quit or Wait. I have tried the usual things: * remove configuration files * re-install * downloaded the DEBs from the Libre Office web site and tried to install over the existing installation. So far nothing has resolved the issue. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph
I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing. I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document and convert it to upper case. I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and "regular expressions" boxes ticked. Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad replacing manually? Thank you Keith -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph
To answer my own question: 1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All". 2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog. 3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote: I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing. I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document and convert it to upper case. I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and "regular expressions" boxes ticked. Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad replacing manually? Thank you Keith -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph
Thanks, Brian. That is very good. On 5/3/20 8:52 pm, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:28 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing. I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document and convert it to upper case. I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and "regular expressions" boxes ticked. Is there a way to do this other than going through the document and replacing manually? At 20:00 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: To answer my own question: 1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All". 2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog. 3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case Does this also work? o Find: ^. (caret-dot) o Replace: & (ampersand) o Tick "Regular expressions". (No need for "Match case".) o With the cursor in the Replace box, click Format... . o On the Font Effects tab, for Effects select Capitals. o Replace All. o Voilà! Brian Barker -- *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au <mailto:chu...@new-life.org.au> w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph
Thanks, John. You are right. I always have to complicate things! On 6/3/20 4:33 am, John Kaufmann wrote: On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote: I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing. I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document and convert it to upper case. I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and "regular expressions" boxes ticked. Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad replacing manually? On 2020-03-05 04:00, Keith Bates wrote: To answer my own question: 1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All". 2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog. 3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case Keith, I like your solution (and Brian's, which is as elegant as the way he presented it), but am confused about step 3: do you /really/ right-click (for context menu)? From step 1, you already have the first letter of each paragraph in focus; don't you just go from there to the main menu ? [The order of steps 2 and 3 has no effect - or, to put it another way, step 2 is not essential to your solution.] John -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Connecting Document to Database
I have just done a fresh install of Ubuntu. I saved most of my stuff in the process, so that's a win. I am having a problem with a form for a database that I constructed without the help of the form wizard, many years ago. I know that I have to link or connect the form to the database but I can't find out how to do it. Can someone please refresh my memory? Thank you Keith -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting Document to Database
Hi Robert, I did that. It didn't connect at the time, but after restarting LO it has now connected Thank you Keith On 29/5/22 17:59, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Keith, I am having a problem with a form for a database that I constructed without the help of the form wizard, many years ago. I know that I have to link or connect the form to the database but I can't find out how to do it. It is a standalone form, isn't it? Database is an internal database (only a file *.odb)? Have a look for the Base file (*.odb). Go to Tools → Options → LibreOffice Base → Databases and register the database. Regards Robert -- Schools Ministry *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Issue
Thanks Howard, but that wasn't the issue. I fixed the problem about 20 minutes after I sent the email, like I usually do I turned the printer off and back on. Problem solved. I just need to remember that next time, before I try every other fix imaginable Keith On 13/6/23 17:47, Howard Barr wrote: This might help... To Suppress the Printout of Empty Pages If two even or two odd pages directly follow each other in your document, Writer will insert an empty page by default. You can suppress those automatically generated empty pages from printing and from exporting to PDF. Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - Print. Remove the tick mark from Print automatically inserted blank pages. On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 15:48, Keith Bates wrote: This is a bit weird. I have been using Libreoffice (7.5.3.2), Ubuntu (23.04) and an HP Pagewide Pro MFP 477dw printer for a few years. It all played together nicely, until today. I don't know what is different, but now it spits out a blank page when printing from LO. Other applications print fine. If I export my document from LO to a pdf, it will print fine from any pdf viewer. I have tried using different ppd files, but same result each time. Any suggestions? -- Schools Ministry *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e:chu...@new-life.org.au w:www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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:https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy:https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- Schools Ministry *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Printing Issue
This is a bit weird. I have been using Libreoffice (7.5.3.2), Ubuntu (23.04) and an HP Pagewide Pro MFP 477dw printer for a few years. It all played together nicely, until today. I don't know what is different, but now it spits out a blank page when printing from LO. Other applications print fine. If I export my document from LO to a pdf, it will print fine from any pdf viewer. I have tried using different ppd files, but same result each time. Any suggestions? -- Schools Ministry *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Speech bubble with two arrows?
Hi Peter I just did a search for "cartoon double speech bubble" and found this among others https://www.dreamstime.com/illustration-speech-bubble-double-cartoon-design-balloonrn-image215793308#_ Keith On 17/6/23 07:26, . wrote: Using Writer I need to have a speech bubble (like you see in a comic book) that has 2 arrows pointing at two people, who are saying the same thing. The stock callouts are somewhat ok but there's no way to have two arrows pointing. Any ideas? Thanks, Peter -- Schools Ministry *Keith Bates** **Senior Pastor *p: 02 67924890 s: 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri, NSW 2390 w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly e: chu...@new-life.org.au w: www.new-life.org.au <http://www.new-life.org.au> * * -- 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: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
