I'm asking here before I go and hunt down if there's a bug.
I've done these steps. Very simple an unsophisticated process.
1) I create a new writer document.
2) I paste into it a load of plain text.
3) Go to first page. Create a footer with page of page number
4) Go to last page, the footer says
On 3/21/15 7:51 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I just tried recreating this problem with my system, and all worked well.
I'm using LO 4.3.6.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.
Thanks to all for the replies.
Since no one jumped up yelling that they've seen it I'll assume it's
my fault/problem.
Let me recreate a
I've done a lot of searching including the list archived and I've found
no answers yet.
I've been able to take a document and turn it into a form and export it
as a PDF form for filling in.
I'm looking to find out if anyone's (successfully I hope) created a PDF
form this way which *includes a
On 3/25/15 8:12 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote:
at this point in the game this particular menu option can not be changed.
See, now *THAT* is an answer we can live with. Thank you!
I hate it but now I know what the problem (behind the scenes) is.
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On 3/25/15 6:53 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
I have 4.2.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and you are correct, sort is not working.
When I reported it, I provided a great deal of information about it and
was told Not a bug and works for me by those who have the power to
close bugs.
My argument was/is that if you use
I can create a document and thereby create a style for use in it.
I can then, after saving it, create another document and load those
styles in for use in this new document.
I assume I'm doing this wrong but it *seems* that I can create a List
type in that first document but it seems that I
On 3/30/15 1:10 PM, Barry Say wrote:
In 'Styles and Formatting' (F11), the top left New Style button has
a Load Styles option.
The next window has a From File' option.
That's what I was doing and it works for everything BUT the list styles.
(Or so it seems.)
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I'm working on improving my formatting skills. I'm using a ~10pg
document as my test.
My first problem is to figure out a specific part of styles. I can
format the document to have a heading (specifically heading 2) at the
start of each section. Looks nice. Copied the existing style, made a few
On 3/27/15 6:03 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
You are looking for a numbering of headings. For that purpose List
is always wrong.
(*WHEW*) i feel better. :)
Thanks for the answer.
Do you have already download the tutorials?
Got them now and am going to get started on them
If you are not very
On 3/28/15 6:20 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
That is exactly the most perfect use-case that would be better in a
database than in a spreadsheet.
Not really since, while for me the prospect of using a DB back end isn't
daunting, for most it is.
Secondly, this is the perfect use-case where a DB back
I meant to say, I'd be happy with the menu buttons performing the sort
using the last chosen options.
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On 3/27/15 8:01 AM, Nino Novak wrote:
1) This seems to be an old known problem (see e.g. [1])
It's older than that by a bit, I reported it back in 2012 I think. (I'd
have to hunt it down.) However, known isn't as accurate as we'd like
if people seem to find this as new on a semi-regular basis.
I just want to double check the language used on the website.
Is the release 5.3.4 a "Stable" release or still in development? I don't
see language on the website differentiating the "stable" releases verses
the "prerelease" or "release candidate" flavors.
Any place I should have been
Instead of my breaking my neck trying to figure it out, I thought I'd ask.
Has anyone come up with a macro/formula/method for deriving the date
(-mm-dd) of the Nth weekday of a month?
Example:
The second Tuesday of each month of 2017 would be:
2017-01-10
2017-02-14
2017-03-14
etc.
Thanks
On 10/11/17 10:17 PM, Mike Adams wrote:
(*snip*)
First off, thanks to everyone who did respond! It has been very
educational seeing different approaches to this same problem.
Mr Thurgood's reference to that online book is helpful to say the least.
Thanks!
The approach Mr Faye offers
Sorry for the untrimmed quote and top post Gmail client forces it like
this.
I started to write a macro (and failed miserably) because I wanted to, in a
spreadsheet, enter today's date and time in a column (or two) that then
*never* updates again. All of my attempts at getting this to work (via
I went through a lot of work to set up a drawing page with lots of guide
lines but now that I have that done I can't figure out how to lock them in
place so that they don't accidentally get moved around. (Which happens a
lot.)
So my question is:
Can guides be locked down?
If so, where do I learn
I've been banging away at this problem and I don't think the problem is
at the ODBC level but LOs attempts to generate SQL statements correctly.
I don't have the wherewithal to isolate the problem further than to have
seen an error in the code (sqllite SQL request string) so I'm trying to
Wow! Where'd you find that referenced?
Yes, that fixed the fundamental problem allowing the form to work.
Thank you so very much!
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On 7/17/18 9:23 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
Anyone able to offer a breadcrumb for me to follow?
Thanks for the suggestions!
I think I've figured out that it's the ODBC setup.
I'm going to go back to the start to make sure I have it right.
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I have a fairly simple form that queries a DB.
I have a form and a subform.
I "linked" the two fields for the subform and when I execute the form, I
get the error message:
SQL Status: HY000
Error code: 1
parameter marker count incorrect
I assume it should be obvious but I can't figure out
The question is not "Is there a better way to do this" because a working
(but klunky) solution exists. I'm asking about specific capabilities of LO
forms. Particularly with relation to printing a filled-in form.
I'd like to build a form with the usual assortment of data collection
fields /but/
That answer was the perfect length.
Thank you very much for clearing that up for me!
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I got asked to help someone solve a simple problem in a simple manner *and*
provide a steppingstone for someone to learn more about scripting LO.
Has anyone seen an example that is a form for taking simple input and then
outputs the form data in one of two manners, either as a simple text file
of
Thanks for e everyone's response.
I'm going to look at the pointers you've provided.
What I'm convinced they want to do (I know, not right tool for the right
job) is have a form doc that can be opened on demand, filled in by the
operator then printed. I'm being led to believe that they don't
On 9/16/19 4:38 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
Hi Michael.
I use Fields for this purpose.
Interesting idea! Thanks for that!
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I thought that this might be a good place to ask this question which in
turn may help others.
I have a project that I'm working on and it occurred to me that there
might be a smarter way to arrive at a solution.
First, the objective is to write a "night watchman's alarm manual" for a
series
And I *knew* not to put a picture in the message. :(
Duh. Here's a link to the intended graphic:
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On 7/2/20 2:06 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
I've been trying to take a formula that calculates the difference between to
dates into years/months/days.
I'll ask if anyone has a macro or formulae that would do almost the same
thing but allow it to be expressed further out to include "hours"
This is being offered as a "data point" to the user interface development.
It may very well be "as expected" but it seemed odd so I thought I'd
mention it to see what other folks thought.
Here's a sequence of operations I'll call "Case 1":
I create a spreadsheet. Column A starts at a number
The thing I've noticed is that even of the checkbox for "always save new
version" is set it doesn't do, as I supposed, save a new version when you
hit "Save", you actually have to go into the versions box and force it.
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Just checking before I file a bug report, anyone else seen (or know of)
a fairly repeatable crash of LO when using a spreadsheet as the DB when
creating a query or form?
In short, I have a simple(istic) spreadsheet with 27 columns, and
(currently truncated to 16 rows).
When I attempt to
On 4/2/21 7:36 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
Just checking before I file a bug report,
As someone pointed out, I wasn't at the newest version.
My apologies for wasting folk's time.
I'll update and revisit this.
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This was a wacky crash. I've downloaded the newest beta to try it out and
it seems to not have behave the same way so, to use Rosannana Danna's
overused phase "Never mind!" ;)
Thanks to everyone!
I'm going to start over with this.
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I have a request to create a table *like* entry in Writer that would look
like this:
Revision Date Author
Description
so that if done, it would look sort of like this: (Newest on top).
V1.4 21-July-80Fred Farkle
Long verbose description of all the
I was recently working on a form for a database and I ran into some quirks
that had me cursing and I wondered if anyone wants the feedback (more
nicely worded of course) on the things that irked me during the build
process?
If so, where/how should this be channeled?
Thanks for everyone's time.
I have a couple of BASIC macros in a spreadsheet.
I keep thinking that there must be a "init" function that isn't being
called because each time I open the spreadsheet, the macros don't run. I
have to mess about a bit and then force each cell to recalculate
manually. (I'm sure that there's a
On 12/23/22 11:02 AM, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
If you are looking to cause functions to recalculate,
Thanks for the reply.
Here's the thing. It's not that I want to force a recalculate, it's that
I have to in order to get the macros to respond.
Here's an example: (What I expect when the
Using Libreoffice:
Version: 7.5.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 53bb9681a964705cf672590721dbc85eb4d0c3a2
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.3; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
I have two displays, the laptop and an external with it.
When attempting to muddle about with some data from a google form.
First, the version info is:
Version: 7.5.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID:
53bb9681a964705cf672590721dbc85eb4d0c3a2 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X
13.3; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI:
I have a master document which has a number of styles in it.
I have a "Page/Section" template that I distribute to others to create
sections for inclusion into the master.
One of those people (correctly) fixed a mistake of mine and sent it back.
I can absorb those changes by loading the
On 1/13/24 5:39 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote:
The question is :
In document C.odt I put the definition of electrical *connector* and
give an antonomasia *WAGO*.
In the W.odt document I put *WAGO*: electrical connector whose name
is that of the manufacturer.
I would like to put a link from
Okay, here's what I've "figured out so far." Based on some *very* limited
knowledge. Just from my point of view.
1) I'm going to (next time I try this) start by duplicating any style I
want to use and prefix it with my project name so I can keep them easier to
identify. (I don't have to go
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 12:03 PM Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
> On 14-01-2024 17:02, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> > I have a master document which has a number of styles in it.
> >
> > I have a "Page/Section" template that I distribute to others to create
> > s
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 6:03 PM Michael Tiernan
wrote:
>
> 1) I'm going to (next time I try this) start by duplicating any style I
> want to use and prefix it with my project name so I can keep them easier to
> identify.
>
Now that I understand it better I'll answer the two
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