Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-15 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 20:09, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > Sorry for my imprecision :-(. I meant references for the negative > impact of Excel on the Human Genom project. Just because Excel had been Neither DDG nor Google are providing appropriate URLs to me, of the research articles that showed where that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread malcolm
Can you change that for all users ? Ta Mal On Friday 13 Nov 2015 22:07:01 Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > It does seem like an usually huge file-size. 150 kb would be more normal! > > There is a "memory" setting that might be useful to increase quite > dramatically. From the "Tools" menu; > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread elderdanlewis
mes E. Lang" <jim+...@lang.hm> Date:11/14/2015 1:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. -Original Message- From: Joel Madero <jmadero@gmail.com> To: toki <t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread Harvey Nimmo
^1: More than one researcher has argued that The Human Genome Project > was a complete waste of money, time, and effort, because of the > numerous > _known_ errors inflicted upon the project, by the use of Excel, and > its > silent translation of data to something other that what the user > wrote.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think so. I have no idea how to do that though. Which OS are you using? Is it a version of Windows? Xp, Win7 or something? Regards from tom :) On 14 November 2015 at 11:20, malcolm wrote: > Can you change that for all users ? > > Ta > > Mal > > > On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread elderdanlewis
Date:11/14/2015 1:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. -Original Message- From: Joel Madero <jmadero@gmail.com> To: toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> Cc: users@global.l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 06:42, James E. Lang wrote: > I have no clue how to design and implement a database to replace the mess. One of the good things about Microsoft Access, was that it was easy for people who knew nothing about databases, to create their own database. I'll grant, that from a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 17:43, Harvey Nimmo wrote: >> ^1: More than one researcher has argued that The Human Genome Project was a complete waste of money, time, and effort, > It would be interesting to have some references for this claim Which claim: * That researchers called the Human Genome Project a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread Harvey Nimmo
On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 19:47 +, toki wrote: > On 14/11/2015 17:43, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > > > > ^1: More than one researcher has argued that The Human Genome > > > Project > was a complete waste of money, time, and effort, > > It would be interesting to have some references for this claim > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread James E. Lang
org> Sent: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 9:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. Documents for LibreOffice: http://wiki.documentationfoundation.org/documentation/publications The Base Guide section contains my writings. The Base Handbook has been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread Joel Madero
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:52 AM, ammorei wrote: > Good afternoon! > > I have a spreadsheet in '.xlsx', with a size around 150Mb and containing > +/- > 40 lines. > I have never seen a 150 mb functional spreadsheet before. I'd like to see the file because I'm relatively

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It does seem like an usually huge file-size. 150 kb would be more normal! There is a "memory" setting that might be useful to increase quite dramatically. From the "Tools" menu; Tools - Options - Memory You can see the settings are mostly all very low so that people can easily use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread toki
On 13/11/2015 19:27, Joel Madero wrote: > I have never seen a 150 mb functional spreadsheet before. That size is not uncommon in environments where Excel is the only office tool that the employees know how to use. > I'd like to see the file because I'm relatively sure that a database is what is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/13/2015 08:23 PM, toki wrote: > On 13/11/2015 19:27, Joel Madero wrote: > >> I have never seen a 150 mb functional spreadsheet before. > That size is not uncommon in environments where Excel is the only office > tool that the employees know how to use. Trust me...I know. I worked

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread James E. Lang
-Original Message- From: Joel Madero <jmadero@gmail.com> To: toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:12 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice. On 11/13/2015 08:23 PM, toki wrote