Re: what is the jre environment looking for?

2016-10-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 10/15/2016 12:38 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 10/15/16 13:15, Gary Aitken wrote: After re-installing my os (freebsd 10.3), aoo (4.1.2), mysql (5.6), and java (openjdk7, 8) when I attempt to open a database I get the message "No Java installation found..." ok... The

Re: location of icons

2016-10-11 Thread Girvin R. Herr
I have Slackware Linux, not freebsd, but on my system the icons are cached and there is a program called /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache, which is supposed to update the cache when new icons are stored in /usr/(local/)share/icons/hicolor. I have a manpage on it, so you could try it to see if

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-04 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 10/04/2016 04:17 PM, John Hart wrote: On 10/4/2016 12:12 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Just because styles are powerful, doesn't mean they have to be hard to use. >A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would bemost useful. Does such a document exist? > >jrh > See

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-03 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 10/02/2016 11:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:41:17 -0700 John Hart wrote: On 10/2/2016 2:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Page numbering question: Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? Inserting a page number worked, but

Re: saving certain pages to a document

2016-08-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 08/14/2016 03:16 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, James Plante wrote: snip I wasn't aware of this resource! fact is, I had installed an extension called 'template-changer' for a similar purpose but this 'style import' utility is built-in and seems to work smoothly. snip

Re: help with tabs

2016-08-04 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 08/04/2016 09:04 AM, char...@drmannem.com wrote: Hi good morning, I lost some tabs at the bottom of my spreadsheet and dont know how to get them back. one day i opened it and they were gone! So the spreadsheet has different pages to insert different calculations. we are in a panic since

Re: Languages Office Writer

2016-07-08 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Don, There is a way to add words to the dictionary. I use it rarely, so it may or may not be what you want. To add a word: enter your word -> after spell-check red-underlines your word, right click on the word -> Choose Add -> standard.dic The red underlining should go away, indicating

Re: oracle-report-builder

2016-07-02 Thread Girvin R. Herr
... On 07/02/2016 01:22 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: [orcmid] I think this tells most of the story: . The code was imported into the Apache OpenOffice source-code tree in 2011. Since then, it has only been touched

Re: oracle-report-builder

2016-07-02 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 07/02/2016 08:25 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 6:26 AM, T.H.A. Jenniskens wrote: LS, I have a problem with oracle-report-builder. Until a few days ago it functioned properly. Now it turns out suddenly that the report-bilder is gone. If

Re: Quick question

2016-06-10 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 06/10/2016 04:45 PM, toki wrote: Info wrote: Is there a way to prevent text from spilling/overflowing over into the next cell without wrapping it?? The simplest solution is to make the cell in row 30 contain a blank space, with no other glyphs in it. jonathon I don't think that will

Re: can't open 2 programs at once

2016-06-06 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 06/06/2016 11:58 AM, jd1008 wrote: On 06/06/2016 12:53 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: jd1008 schrieb: [..] One way is to simply click on file -> open ... and open the text document in question - you do not need the 8 choice menu all over again - however, and unfortunately, aoo does not seem

Re: Unable to Get Page Break Preview

2016-06-03 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Vince, By my experience this is the other way around. To be able to print a sheet, a print range must be defined for that sheet, and defining a print range for one sheet does not apply to the remaining sheets. If you want to print all sheets, then all sheets must have a print range

Re: Referencing a cell from previous worksheet in same spreadsheet file...

2016-06-03 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Clay, I use renamed sheets and it works for me, but be absolutely sure there is no space to the left of the "=" in the expression. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this before I realized I had a space before the =. The symptom is that the cell displays the expression (text), not the

Re: [PROPOSAL][WRITER] Tables wider than page

2016-05-17 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 05/17/2016 04:29 AM, Axel Schubert wrote: Dear Brian, I'm also aware that I'd need to adjust the starting position manually if I want the table to start on a left page (At least I'm not aware of a feature like section break where I could force a new left or right page.)

Re: Custom number format code problem

2016-05-16 Thread Girvin R. Herr
test this also with Calc and it has the same problem. Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2016, at 5:53 AM, Girvin R. Herr <gherr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Dennis et al, A specimen file is no problem. It is repeatable and can be verified in any writer file. As a test, I just opened a new

Re: Custom number format code problem

2016-05-16 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Done. Issue #126973 Girvin On 05/16/2016 01:00 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: Yes this is a bug and you should report it in bugzilla <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/> On 16/05/16 6:11 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, AOO 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 14.0 (K3.10.17). I seem to be

Re: Custom number format code problem

2016-05-16 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Custom number format code problem Yes this is a bug and you should report it in bugzilla <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/> On 16/05/16 6:11 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, AOO 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 14.0 (K3.10.17). I seem to be having a problem with a custom number format in Wri

Re: Custom number format code problem

2016-05-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 05/15/2016 01:11 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, AOO 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 14.0 (K3.10.17). I seem to be having a problem with a custom number format in Writer table cells in a template. What I want is to display 2 digits to the right of the decimal point if the value's third

Custom number format code problem

2016-05-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, AOO 4.1.2 on Slackware Linux 14.0 (K3.10.17). I seem to be having a problem with a custom number format in Writer table cells in a template. What I want is to display 2 digits to the right of the decimal point if the value's third digit and beyond is zero and 3 digits if the

Re: Thunderbird

2016-05-11 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 05/11/2016 01:05 PM, Doug wrote: A program called FossaMail is a fork of an older version of Thunderbird, available for Windows and Linux. It is possible to print the address book out of FossaMail. Also, it will not change every six weeks, like Thunderbird! I have been using it on

Re: [Grid lines in Calc]

2016-05-04 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 05/04/2016 01:03 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2016-05-04 19:23 GMT+02:00 Girvin R. Herr <gherr...@sbcglobal.net>: You forgot the file global print grid option: Format | Page | Sheet and check the Print | Grid box That will print the grid on all rows that contai

Re: [Grid lines in Calc]

2016-05-04 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 05/03/2016 08:53 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:42 03/05/2016 -0400, John Caruso wrote: I have given up on OO because I could not get grid lines in Calc 4.1.2, I found an old copy of office10 and installed it and now I get grid lines in Excel with no problem I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: Can default setting be changed?

2016-04-11 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 04/11/2016 12:46 PM, B. Smith wrote: Hello. I'm using apache open office. It's a good and usefull product. I need to see if I can get your assitance with a challenge I'm having with it. As I've been using a dated ( but still working) version of microsoft word, I've

Re: OpenOffice Database

2016-03-26 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 03/26/2016 10:36 AM, Lauren Kuhr wrote: I am a student at Kent State University and I am trying to create a database using your software. I am supposed to click on Tables and then Create Table in Design View which is supposed to bring up a table for me to use but I cannot click on it and

Re: no backup

2016-03-26 Thread Girvin R. Herr
On 03/26/2016 10:00 AM, Ron Patterson wrote: Open Office 4.1.2 - spreadsheets - hard to make backups. I checked the backup box in tools\options\load-save\general\always create backup - However the only way I can create a backup is similar to MS Word. I have to save the srpeadsheet. Make

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: OpenOffice 3.3 and Java 7

2013-07-04 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Don wrote: On 7/3/2013 5:06 PM, Steele, Raymond wrote: Is OpenOffice asking you to enable JRE when you use OpenOffice? Do you have the Use a Java runtime environment checkbox checked under Tools - Options -Java? If so, are any JRE's listed? -Original Message- From: Don

Re: Auto Recovery

2013-06-12 Thread Girvin R. Herr
The backup files are stored where the backup path setting is set to. See: Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Paths and look for the Backups entry in the list. That will tell you where the backups are stored. Also, the option Always create backup copy must be selected in: Tools - Options

Re: confirm subscribe to users@openoffice.apache.org, users-sc.1366635716.lfamgbdmkaaljgofdhjg-moborisn=gmail....@openoffice.apache.org

2013-04-24 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Nicholas, I am not a forum person, but it looks to me like you confirmed to the user's group itself and not the address supplied in the automated confirmation message. As the original automated message says: please send a short reply to this address:

Re: Deleting pages

2013-03-12 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Your message is not clear if your blank pages are in Writer or the printed output. If the latter, another cause may be when jumping to another right or left page from the same page style. Writer inserts a blank page to make that jump. See also Printer Options - Other - Print Automatically

Re: can't install report builder extension after upgrading to oo 3.4.1

2012-12-19 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Reizinger Zoltán wrote: 2012.12.19. 4:01 keltezéssel, Avner írta: Avner Stein avnermstein at gmail.com writes: I get an error occurred during file opening after clicking Accept for the license agreement for oracle-report-builder.oxt I uninstalled oo 3.4.1 and reinstalled oo 3.4, but I

Re: Oracle Bad news JDK 6 will no longer be free which screws AOO usage

2012-12-14 Thread Girvin R. Herr
upscope wrote: On Thursday, December 13, 2012 06:11:01 PM Girvin R. Herr wrote: upscope wrote: snip snip These client libs are available from the openSUSE repo's. Maybe slackware has something equal. [Code] rpm -qa |grep libmysqlclient libmysqlclient_r18-5.5.25a-102.1.x86_64

Re: Oracle Bad news JDK 6 will no longer be free which screws AOO usage

2012-12-13 Thread Girvin R. Herr
upscope wrote: snip I am running openSUSE 12.2 with LibreOffice 3.6.4 from LO website and LibreOffice 3.6.3 from openSUSE repo's with Java_7_0-openjdk from SuSE repo's with no issues. I do not use Base, I use MySQL, so I'm not sure about it. All other office items work. I am not sure

Re: Oracle Bad news JDK 6 will no longer be free which screws AOO usage

2012-12-12 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Scooter C wrote: Why has this issue not been mentioned? last publicly available release of Oracle JDK 6 is to be released in *February, 2013*. This means that after February 19, 2013, all newsecurity updates #, patches and fixes for Java SE 6 and Java SE 5 will only be available through My

Re: A Tale of Two Office Suites

2012-12-11 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:45:00AM +, Mike Lish wrote: Hi Carol, You are definitely NOT out of line. I'm not desk based and use OoO for the basics. I come from a military and hands on manufacturing environment (now retired) where there must be established

Re: A Tale of Two Office Suites

2012-12-11 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:01:21PM -0800, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Choice allowed me to continue updating the office suite! I was using OpenOffice 3.3.0 when Apache took over. When Apache released 3.4, I discovered Apache made some, IMHO bad, decisions