[users] Formula keyword un-localized...

2009-12-12 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Hi gurus... - I'm using OOcalc in danish. It annoys me that all formula keywords have been (doh!!) translated into hard to understand danish... I.e., 'if' becomes 'hvis' and worse than that. Is there a way to have OOcalc use standard (english) keywords in calc? --

[users] Re: Who do I have to strangle to get OOo to respect locale settings in Linux?

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: No, my locale is not US English: $ locale LANG=he_IL.utf8 This is the only relevant setting which is read from the OS when a default locale has to be evaluated. I figured that I could get away with not posting that as I posted this: $ date +%x 2009-12-08 The program

[users] Re: Calc formula

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
John Meyer wrote: On 12/9/2009 10:25 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2009/12/8 John Meyerpueblonat...@opensuse.us: Have you tried =CELL(…)? Doesn't have an infotype returning the sheet name. My default template for Calc has 2 named references: 1. InsertNamesDefine...[Ctrl+F3]

Re: [users] Converting Base to Access

2009-12-12 Thread Pierre
Terry Ehrhart wrote: Is there a way to convert a Base file back to Access. I have a program that only recognizes an Access data file. I should think that if you can connect to both databases it shouldn't be too difficult to pump the table data from one to the other. I don't use OpenOffice

[users] Re: Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: Input masks are made for database forms where you have fields and records rather than cells: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22506p=102636#p102636 I knew that I was using the wrong term, but what I meant was: a way to tell the computer that an

[users] Re: Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Brian Barker wrote: At 10:23 08/12/2009 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a column formatted as HH:MM. When the user enters 14 I need it to be registered as 14:00 assuming a 24-hour clock. How can this be achieved? One obvious workaround is to have two columns: one in which the user enters

[users] Re: Daten Sortieren Bereich enthält Spaltenbe schriftungen dauerhaft anwählen

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Harald und Doris Kral wrote: Hallo, ich nutze Windows XP Home Edition, Open Office 3.1.1 Da ich viele Tabellen mit Spaltenbeschriftungen habe, wollte ich gern die Option: Daten/Sortieren/Bereich enthält Spaltenbeschriftungen/ dauerhaft anwählen, was aber leider nicht funktioniert. Bei jedem

[users] Re: calculating fields with a macro in a database

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
menu:InsertQuery (SQL)... SELECT *, UPPER(Name) AS NAME FROM Your Table Selects all the fields from a table named Your Table plus a calculated field labeled NAME having the upper cased value of a text field named Name. Just replace the quoted object names with you actual ones. This type of

[users] Re: Loading truetype fonts into OO

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Frank Lee wrote: Thanks Dave, I found /fonts/ in the windows folder. In windows 7 a Load Fonts button magically appeared. Work related files seem to hold format in OO. Now I will try the same OO edited files at work in MS Word. Next Ill try excel. If it works my bussiness will go off MS O!!!

[users] Re: Formula keyword un-localized...

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi gurus... - I'm using OOcalc in danish. It annoys me that all formula keywords have been (doh!!) translated into hard to understand danish... I.e., 'if' becomes 'hvis' and worse than that. Is there a way to have OOcalc use standard (english) keywords in calc?

Re: [users] Converting Base to Access

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:04 12/12/2009 +1100, Pierre Noname wrote: Terry Ehrhart wrote: Is there a way to convert a Base file back to Access. I have a program that only recognizes an Access data file. I should think that if you can connect to both databases it shouldn't be too difficult to pump the table data

Re: [users] Diary/Calender

2009-12-12 Thread John Meyer
On 12/11/2009 7:14 AM, James Wilde wrote: You're losing it. ;) Once upon a time around the end of the last century there was a calendar, but I think you have to go back to version 1 or even 0.x for that. Since then there's been none. Evolution is free or, if you are a Mozilla man,

Re: [users] Diary/Calender

2009-12-12 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/12/2009 8:51 AM, John Meyer wrote: On 12/11/2009 7:14 AM, James Wilde wrote: You're losing it. ;) Once upon a time around the end of the last century there was a calendar, but I think you have to go back to version 1 or even 0.x for that. Since then there's been none. Evolution is

Re: [users] Re: Who do I have to strangle to get OOo to respect locale settings in Linux?

2009-12-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
No, my locale is not US English: $ locale LANG=he_IL.utf8 This is the only relevant setting which is read from the OS when a default locale has to be evaluated. Really? In my opinion it is wrong behaviour to ignore the user's specifically-set Time and other settings. Is there a place where

Re: [users] Re: Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
I knew that I was using the wrong term, but what I meant was: a way to tell the computer that an integer [0,23] should be read as belonging to the hour. If [0,23] means two integers 0 and 23 to be read as hours and minutes: A1: 0 B1: 23 other cell, formatted as time: =A1/24+B1/1440 No,

Re: [users] Re: Loading truetype fonts into OO

2009-12-12 Thread Frank Lee
Andreas Do you know if there any help-FAQ on how? some equivalent (ToolsOptions...Fonts...). On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.dewrote: Frank Lee wrote: Thanks Dave, I found /fonts/ in the windows folder. In windows 7 a Load Fonts button magically

[users] Re: Re: calculating fields with a macro in a database

2009-12-12 Thread Jonathan Kaye
jomali wrote: Your answer leads me to believe that you haven't really investigated the possibilities of using the database facilities for solving your problem, since you aren't even aware that OOo provides HSQLDB as its default, not MySQL. If you really need to use a database to manage your

[users] PHP - Open Office

2009-12-12 Thread william drescher
If you need to produce documents from php data the class: OpenTBS is great. http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/5797.html It is a plugin to the TinyButStrong php class that merges XML documents. http://www.tinybutstrong.com/ OpenTBS will open OpenOffice documents as templates, merge

[users] Re: calculating fields with a macro in a database

2009-12-12 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Andreas Saeger wrote: menu:InsertQuery (SQL)... SELECT *, UPPER(Name) AS NAME FROM Your Table Selects all the fields from a table named Your Table plus a calculated field labeled NAME having the upper cased value of a text field named Name. Just replace the quoted object names with you

[users] Re: Who do I have to strangle to get OOo to respect locale settings in Linux?

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: Where is there an outline of which locales provide which formatting? I have gone through quite a bit of the docs as support.openoffice.org but I find nothing. Any number format dialog in this office suite shows all the built-in formattings with format codes for all the

[users] Re: Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dotan Cohen wrote: I knew that I was using the wrong term, but what I meant was: a way to tell the computer that an integer [0,23] should be read as belonging to the hour. If [0,23] means two integers 0 and 23 to be read as hours and minutes: A1: 0 B1: 23 other cell, formatted as time:

[users] Re: calculating fields with a macro in a database

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Andreas Saeger wrote: menu:InsertQuery (SQL)... SELECT *, UPPER(Name) AS NAME FROM Your Table SELECT *, Charis(ENTRY Sorting) AS Beaut FROM Table1 SQL is not a programming language. It is more like a command line environment to manipulate most relational databases

Re: [users] Converting Base to Access

2009-12-12 Thread Pierre
Brian Barker wrote: Though no doubt well meant, I think this and other replies may have missed the point. As I read the original query, the questioner has OpenOffice installed but not Access. S/he also has some third-party software that expects its data in the form of an Access database

Re: [users] Re: Calc cell formatting: hours

2009-12-12 Thread JOE Conner
Dotan Cohen wrote: BIG SNIP Simple, flat database table used in a spreadsheet: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21099p=96427#p96427 (input form, user defined filter form, data pilot, free of macro code) This is a great link and I will make use of it in the

Re: [users] Re: Who do I have to strangle to get OOo to respect locale settings in Linux?

2009-12-12 Thread James R. Liebert
20091212.1714, or 2009-12-12.17:14, or 2009.12.12, 1714h, or 2009/12/12; whatever, Akron, Ohio, US; You and I are not going back to pencil and paper. I say to configure it the universal way our tools will sort. This [should be] the end, my friend, of obsolescent convention. James Liebert

[users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Sean
How do I make OOo recognize file extensions? I'm currently using OOo 3.2 build 9460 (soon to be 9466) and I'm having a little trouble with this. I've had to assign each filetype manually but I was hoping there was a better way. I thought someone said that it can be done in a release version rather

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/12/2009 4:39 PM, Sean wrote: How do I make OOo recognize file extensions? I'm currently using OOo 3.2 build 9460 (soon to be 9466) and I'm having a little trouble with this. I've had to assign each filetype manually but I was hoping there was a better way. I thought someone said that

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Sean
- Original Message - From: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Sean u...@frightenstein.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [users] File extensions Ditto to you, my friend. But what is that supposed to mean?

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread John Meyer
On 12/12/2009 6:57 PM, Sean wrote: Ditto to you, my friend. But what is that supposed to mean? If you're responding to the thread, what operating system are you using? - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Re: File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Andreas Saeger
Sean wrote: How do I make OOo recognize file extensions? I'm currently using OOo 3.2 build 9460 (soon to be 9466) and I'm having a little trouble with this. I've had to assign each filetype manually but I was hoping there was a better way. I thought someone said that it can be done in a release

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Sean
- Original Message - From: John Meyer pueblonat...@opensuse.us To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] File extensions On 12/12/2009 6:57 PM, Sean wrote: Ditto to you, my friend. But what is that supposed to mean? It's supposed to

Re: [users] Re: File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Sean
- Original Message - From: Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:21 PM Subject: [users] Re: File extensions 3.2 is a version that has not been released to the public yet. It has been released as an unstable version to be

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/12/2009 9:42 PM, Sean wrote: - Original Message - From: John Meyer pueblonat...@opensuse.us To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] File extensions On 12/12/2009 6:57 PM, Sean wrote: Ditto to you, my friend. But what is

Re: [users] File extensions

2009-12-12 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/13/2009 12:26 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: Then it should already be associated with all the OOo files. Never mind, didn't know that dev versions don't grab file association. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature