Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
For a user that it works, open a terminal and type which libreoffice and see where it finds the program. On an older ubuntu machine it found /usr/bin/libreoffice for my home machine it is /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3 on my machine. There might also be a symbolic link to it. Mine had an older link

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/03/2017 à 08:51, Fiorenza Meini a écrit : Hi, > it tells that libreoffice is non installed. > No error is given. > It sounds like there is a permissions problem with those particular user's setups, especially if other users on the same machine can start LibreOffice without a problem.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Fiorenza Meini
Il 10/03/2017 09:10, Michael D. Setzer II ha scritto: For a user that it works, open a terminal and type which libreoffice and see where it finds the program. On an older ubuntu machine it found /usr/bin/libreoffice for my home machine it is /usr/bin/libreoffice5.3 on my machine. There might

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Fiorenza Meini
Il 10/03/2017 09:34, Alexander Thurgood ha scritto: Le 10/03/2017 à 08:51, Fiorenza Meini a écrit : Hi, it tells that libreoffice is non installed. No error is given. It sounds like there is a permissions problem with those particular user's setups, especially if other users on the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] vlookup case

2017-03-10 Thread Gary Collins
Thanks for very helpful reply. It does seem to be a big drawback with these functions. I'll certainly try it but ive found a workaround that im using at the mo: ive defined two strings in adjacent cells and using string functions to find the position of a character in one string then extract

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: sorting in calc

2017-03-10 Thread Gary Collins
Thanks, yes, theres some really helpful info in this reply. I had thought of using a lower value but it hadnt occurred to me to hide it using formatting (and of course i didnt want it to show). The methods of converting to text are very useful to know. In the end i did indeed use the TEXT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Fiorenza Meini
Il 10/03/2017 10:18, Michael D. Setzer II ha scritto: Not sure what the hashing done means?? On the non-working users what happens if you run /usr/bin/libreoffice5.2 I does not start. you might also want to try running it with strace strace /usr/bin/libreoffice5.2 It might show some info.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 5.2 not starting

2017-03-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/03/2017 à 09:44, Fiorenza Meini a écrit : Hi Fiorenza, > The only difference we can see, is that if I give the command "type > libreoffice5.2 on the working account, I see "hashing done on > libreoffice5.2 (/usr/bin/libreoffice5.2)". > If I give the same commando the NON WORKING account,

[libreoffice-users] Re: must press enter/return thrice to force new paragraph (sometimes)

2017-03-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Dwain Alford wrote: > hello, > > i had this same problem with open office. i don't understand. i set style > prefs and added some new > ones. there is a problem with the new one i call block 0.5. i also created a > new default document. > i set line spacing to single and no bottom

Re: [libreoffice-users] vlookup case

2017-03-10 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I was doing some testing with single characters, but then saw it was three characters. Originally, just used the code of the character, changed code to ascii, but with 3 multiple each value to get a number that matched. In both put the row number in next column. Put the match field in C15 both