Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Please read more carefully the text of the footer. It does not tell you the address where to send a message to unsubscribe but the address where to write to get the instructions how to unsubscribe. I guess this indirect procedure is useful because you need to be informed that you will have to answer to the confirmation request. Best regards JBF -- Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering? SOLVED
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 19:25 -0700, JeepNut wrote: Because I really like closure, thought I would post the resolution to the problem of the file I lost. Admittedly a fairly unsophisticated user of the office suite, I overlooked a very easy answer to the problem of recovering the file that crashed and ended up being completely empty Find the backup copy. I didn't even realize one existed! But after continuing to review posts in this excellent forum and getting a few ideas here and there about how to stabilize my also-frequently-crashing office suite, I became aware of the option in the Tools / Options menu that allows for a backup copy to be saved. Once I found the Paths option and located the hidden subfolders where backups and various other LibreOffice system files are saved, I discovered (to my great joy!) the most recent backed up copy of that trashed file! I thank all the folks that attempted to recover the document and offered suggestions. But in this case, the simplest answer of all seems to have been just overlooked by everyone. It's a complex set of tools and software, so it's not surprising that there is a lot to learn if one wants to become a proficient user. The experience and subsequent follow-up has taught me a lot. I just really appreciate the hard work and dedication of the entire team of folks who have made this open source solution even POSSIBLE and I thank you all for your continued efforts at improving it. Overall satisfactory and very beneficial results have been achieved. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/help-recovering-tp3191906p3211104.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Thanks for the comments, sometimes one needs to look for the simplest answer first. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets
Hi Hal, Hal Vaughan wrote (30-07-11 07:32) Okay, I think it's cool that LO, like so many editors now, will jump into an outline or bullet mode automatically, but what if you don't want that? - Ctrl-Z immediately after the unwanted change - Tools Autocorrect options tab Options Apply numbering/symbol Kind regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Is there a way to get whomever is in charge of the mail list program put the correct information in the footer? It would save a lot of hassle for people. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?
JeepNut jeep...@zoho.com writes: emarkay wrote: Ya' know the Table one that appears sometimes when you click something in a table. This also happens with other operations; ...snipped if I wanted this menu, I'd already have it there...snipped Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to. Doesn't anyone know how to keep those pop-outs from popping? I simply drag the pop ups to a menu bar, where they become a part of the menu. They never pop up again. HTH. -- Mahesh T. Pai || -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think it's more a case of working on several fronts within TDF. 1. joining the Steering-Discuss mailing list and promoting the cause there. Tom's right. I can definitely recommend taking time out to join the SC's twice-weekly call conferences and raising the issue there. At all the confcalls I've attended, there has almost never been a member of the user community there to raise questions, yet that was one of the central things that the confcalls were designed to cater to. The SC people are very approachable and eager to listen to people, so you will find interested ears. You can participate in the calls via phone or Skype (Skype has always worked for me). Details are here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Dial-in_Details Like you guys, I'm very keen to see Base well-maintained. There's a confcall today, Saturday, July 30, and I'll raise the question. If others do the same, it will add weight to the issue... -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Is there a way to get whomever is in charge of the mail list program put the correct information in the footer? It would save a lot of hassle for people. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted You're perfectly right, and I've forwarded a message to one of the ML admins. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering? SOLVED
Hi :) +1 Congrats at fixing it and thanks for posting the right answer back into this thread. There are a lot of people working hard on LibreOffice and they seldom get much thanks so it's great to hear it. Thanks and congrats from Tom :) From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 8:04:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering? SOLVED Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 19:25 -0700, JeepNut wrote: Because I really like closure, thought I would post the resolution snip / Find the backup copy. I didn't even realize one existed! But after continuing to review posts in this excellent forum and getting a few ideas here and there about how to stabilize my also-frequently-crashing office suite, I became aware of the option in the Tools / Options menu that allows for a backup copy to be saved. Once I found the Paths option and located the hidden sub-folders where backups and various other LibreOffice system files are saved, I discovered (to my great joy!) the most recent backed up copy of that trashed file! I thank all the folks that attempted to recover the document and offered suggestions. snip / I just really appreciate the hard work and dedication of the entire team of folks who have made this open source solution even POSSIBLE and I thank you all for your continued efforts at improving it. snip / View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/help-recovering-tp3191906p3211104.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Thanks for the comments, sometimes one needs to look for the simplest answer first. Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery
Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort and complain next time it is opened? Are you joking? Even if you have an unsaved document open, Word (or whatever) - being closed by Windows - will challenge you to save or discard your changes. You may have a good reason to choose your operating system and application software, but made-up stories about others is not. It will not *abort*, but the next time Word, for instance, opens you will definitely be prompted to check whether you want to recover the last doc(s) you were working on, even if you carefully saved the doc(s) before ending your last session. Try it and see. Microsoft Office and LibreOffice function fairly similarly from this viewpoint, and it does help to prevent data loss when crashes or accidents happen. BTW, I am *not* getting into a Word versus Writer stand-off here... :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery
Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to have a problem and want you to recover it even if you dealt with those error pop-ups neatly during shut-down. Neither thing always happens but one or the other or both do happen fairly often. I once shut-down halfway through writing something in a GnuLinux, got a brief warning that i ignored and it quickly timed out and continued with the shut-down. Then i installed a completely different gnulinux over the top of my OS and opened the text-editor to find it reopened the unsaved text-file with only a few words missing. Sadly it was a very unimportant note and i've not repeated the experiment because it's too risky to do stuff like that. It shouldn't work so it was quite a surprise. Regards from Tom :) From: David Nelson li...@traduction.biz To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 10:41:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort and complain next time it is opened? Are you joking? Even if you have an unsaved document open, Word (or whatever) - being closed by Windows - will challenge you to save or discard your changes. You may have a good reason to choose your operating system and application software, but made-up stories about others is not. It will not *abort*, but the next time Word, for instance, opens you will definitely be prompted to check whether you want to recover the last doc(s) you were working on, even if you carefully saved the doc(s) before ending your last session. Try it and see. Microsoft Office and LibreOffice function fairly similarly from this viewpoint, and it does help to prevent data loss when crashes or accidents happen. BTW, I am *not* getting into a Word versus Writer stand-off here... :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] how to add watermark in a presentation?
Hi :) I don't know. There is some documentation in the Getting Started Guide http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation But the full Impress Guide is still being worked on. Are you looking for something like a master slide so that the watermark is shown on all pages? Have you explored styles and templates? Regards from Tom :) From: soumalya ray drsouma...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 6:35:29 Subject: [libreoffice-users] how to add watermark in a presentation? is there any way to add a watermark to the slides of a presentation from menu directly?i could not find anything. i mean the ability to select something from the menu to add a watermark with custom text and be in something like 80% transparent black by default or similar. is it possible? -- Dr soumalya ray http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com drsouma...@gmail.com MBBS,MD(PGT)C.Medicine,Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp http://twitter.com/docbkp -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons
On 07/28/2011 01:23 PM, planas wrote: Please file a bug, I do not what the issue is. I have never seen any behavior like this myself. If you could give more details may be (very may be) someone monitoring the list may know what is happening. Here's more detail. I did quite a bit of experimentation on this so please bear with me. I developed the spreadsheet on a large laptop with a very high res display. When I run the spreadsheet on a low res netbook (1024x600) at 100% scaling factor everything starts out fine, but as the spreadsheet is used, the buttons I have on the 21 sheets start getting smaller and smaller vertically (Height) until some are so small you can't hit them. Width stays as originally intended. I have no code that attempts to manipulate the buttons. I created the buttons (3 of them) on one sheet and then copied them to the other 20 sheets on my development laptop. Even stranger is the fact that as these buttons are arranged one above the other vertically, within 1 large merged cell, its always the bottom button that shrinks to near invisibility. The middle button also shrinks but not as much, and the top button shrinks even less. Once the bottom button gets to its minimum size, (.02cm) shrinking seems to cease. If the spreadsheet is saved and reopened, the buttons are still shrunken. Something is rewriting the height of the buttons and a save keeps the shrunken height. The spreadsheet becomes unusable until I blow the buttons away and recreate them as that's easier than fixing them individually. After 12 hours of continuous use, with periodic saves, the bottom button on every one of the 21 sheets is invisible on a netbook. If I use the original undamaged spreadsheet on my laptop or a higher res desktop, this does not occur. This happens across 21 sheets and many of those sheets never get used as its slow season here and we only use about 5 sheets a day that represent the dining room tables for restaurant guests. I suspect its because I copied the 3 buttons from one sheet to the other 20 that they are somehow tied together and whatever is shrinking one shrinks them all. Having said that, a contra indication is that not all buttons shrink to the same size. There appears to be some randomness to the process that gets one button down to .02cm and the same button on another sheet down to only .06cm. Some other anomalies. In the same .ods file, I have a sheet that provides a composite view of the other 21 sheets to a limited extent. I have 21 buttons on that sheet arranged vertically that when hit bring up that particular sheet (dining room tables order). The last 7 buttons, shrink in height so that the bottom button is the smallest (but not completely invisible) and each above it is just a bit greater in height until we hit the 8th button from the bottom which is full height. These last 7 buttons represent dining room tables we're not using. We never hit those sheets and yet something is shrinking the last 7 buttons on my overview sheet. The difference in height between button 21 to button 20, between button 20 and button 19, ... towards the full size button is a constant. Its as though some loop is subtracting a constant height from the bottom 7 buttons. On my development machine, the above does not occur. It has something to do with the low res on the netbook. However, even on my mighty development laptop, if I delete any one of the 21 sheets, I loose every button on every remaining sheet. They all disappear. If I move a sheet from one position to another position, everything is OK till I save and reacquire the spreadsheet. At that point the entire spreadsheet is trashed as it won't open with some bogus internal password error. The unbroken spreadsheet is 254KB. I can upload it and provide the passwords used in it via a private email as I don't want the whole world knowing my business. Its occurred on Fedora 14 as Open Office 15 as Libre Office. We don't use Windows at all. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets
Hi :) I think that when you get a new number (or bullet) after hitting the enter key you just press the back-space key (usually just above enter)? I'm not sure tho Regards from Tom :) From: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 6:32:55 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets Okay, I think it's cool that LO, like so many editors now, will jump into an outline or bullet mode automatically, but what if you don't want that? I'm taking a written test and I want to number the items like this: 1) Question one text: (And here is the answer) 2) Question two text: (And here is answer 2) But with the automated bullets and lists, there is no way I can do that and hit RETURN at the end of a paragraph without it going into outline mode. I looked this up in Help and basically it looks like I turn it off AFTER I type what I need to. Is there any way to turn off this mode in a document? This is totally absurd if you don't want it! Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Please read more carefully the text of the footer. It does not tell you the address where to send a message to unsubscribe but the address where to write to get the instructions how to unsubscribe. I guess this indirect procedure is useful because you need to be informed that you will have to answer to the confirmation request. Thank you. That was also pointed out to me by someone else. I took it to mean the actual address which it is not. Possibly it could be clarified by putting it similarly to this: For unsubscribe instructions email to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org or something to that effect. From all the hassle I've seen others go through in the past I'm not the only one to misinterpret the present wording. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi :) +1 I'm sure the documentation team would appreciate your input on building up a guide for Base. It's a major challenge tho! Regards from Tom :) From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 2:30:00 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:55 -0700, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR R JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Thank you for the step by step instructions, I am sure many will find them useful -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions
Hi :) I get the impression that the different distros are not that hugely different under the bonnet even the ones that are in different families (ie Slackware family vs Debian family). Agreed that it's worth being aware that there might be differences tho. Regards from Tom :) From: NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 0:53:45 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions On 07/28/2011 05:13 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/27/2011 06:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote: I only referred to that as it shows making a ~/.fonts folder etc. Please create and put the BakerSignet font in there see if LO picks it up. Not really, as I don't know what the astrisk is in '1152a___.*' - I know of no fonts that are listed as .* Nor are there any fonts that use a .atm extension. .atm is used for the Adobe Type Manager font catalog/file ATM fonts are generally Type 1 fonts with an .pfb, .afm and .pfm (and possibly .pfa) files. So I'm still confused. The asterisk means multiple suffixes. In this case, 1152a___.afm, 1152a___.inf, 1152a___.pfb, and 1152a___.pfm. I mistyped afm as atm. Got it. Well, I guess LO is different from other apps in that it cannot see fonts in /usr/share/fonts, but does in ~/.fonts. Very strange. Regardless, I will make softlinks in ~/.fonts to the directories in /usr/share/fonts. ... Might be an issue with the slackware build - you might consider filing a bug report. It gets even more interesting; I was experimenting with some old Adobe FrameMaker .pfb files used FontForge to convert a .pdb to the respective .pfa .afm files. Placed those in ~/.fonts and LO 3.3.3 and OOo 3.2.1 pick up the font just fine. However, LO 3.4.2 rc2 (pre-release) and OOo-Dev 3.4.0 do not. I'll file a bug on those if I get time in the next few days. Even stranger... I created .afm files for 400 postscript fonts (licenced of course) and had those in ~/.fonts (the .pfb and .afm files) and LO 3.3..x picked them up fine, but LO 3.4.x did not. So I moved them to /usr/share/fonts/PSFONTS, updated the fc-cache, and now LO 3.4 is picking them up as well. Duplicated on a different machine w/o issue, so I reckon that I'll pass on filing the bug. Note that my system is Ubuntu (debian based) and not slackware, so this info may not be of use to Rich and his system. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
Hi :) I agree that moving the : does make it much clearer. I think there must have been some sort of morphic field as i had just posted that in the moderators list at the same time you were posting the idea in here. Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 13:16:58 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer ** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Please read more carefully the text of the footer. It does not tell you the address where to send a message to unsubscribe but the address where to write to get the instructions how to unsubscribe. I guess this indirect procedure is useful because you need to be informed that you will have to answer to the confirmation request. Thank you. That was also pointed out to me by someone else. I took it to mean the actual address which it is not. Possibly it could be clarified by putting it similarly to this: For unsubscribe instructions email to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org or something to that effect. From all the hassle I've seen others go through in the past I'm not the only one to misinterpret the present wording. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] help
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Re: [libreoffice-users] help
Hi Cliff, On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:35:37 -0500 Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net wrote: help with what? Can you be a bit more verbose please? Sigrid -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?
On 7/29/2011 11:33 PM, Mahesh T Pai wrote: JeepNutjeep...@zoho.com writes: emarkay wrote: Ya' know the Table one that appears sometimes when you click something in a table. This also happens with other operations; ...snipped if I wanted this menu, I'd already have it there...snipped Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to. Doesn't anyone know how to keep those pop-outs from popping? I simply drag the pop ups to a menu bar, where they become a part of the menu. They never pop up again. HTH. I have never found these pop up menus to be useful. But that's just me. Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space? --David -- nil significat nisi oscillat -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] spellcheck in calc
Hi ? Sorry but i have completely lost track. Have you managed to solve this problem yet? Regards from Tom :) From: Thomas Blasejewicz tho...@s7.dion.ne.jp To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 3:38:08 Subject: [libreoffice-users] spellcheck in calc Good morning I have noted this in the past already several times, but since this is not something I use frequently just ignored it. I am trying to spellcheck in Calc. Set the language to German (English seems to (?) work). Start spelling. Speller encounters unknown term - instruct to ignore once For reasons unknown it hangs up here. Where the button ignore once was, now Resume is displayed. Click Resume - unknown term - instruct to ignore once - Resume Once this cycle starts the speller NEVER gets out of that cell again. And if this happens say in the third cell of a 5,000-cell sheet --- it renders the spell checker completely useless. Is there a way of telling the spell checker it has more work to do? *** Also - sorry for the confusion - but, ... the function ignore all seems not to be working. Since I constantly get those funny viscious cycles mentioned above I am not really sure about Calc, but in Writer this is a constant + persistant behavior. Regarding THIS behavior, I have to admit I was very much annoyed by it in Wordperfect, Word and other software too. I wish there were a magic spell that could fix these very counterproductive ticks. Thank you in advance Thomas -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?
Hi :) In MS Office you can drag them to be the 2nd half of an existing toolbar. By half i mean a variable amount down to perhaps just a thumbs width. Regards from Tom :) PS Q. Is your glass half full or half empty? Zaphod. Hey!!! That's not my glass! Mine was much larger! And it was full. From: David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 16:54:23 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus? On 7/29/2011 11:33 PM, Mahesh T Pai wrote: JeepNutjeep...@zoho.com writes: emarkay wrote: Ya' know the Table one that appears sometimes when you click something in a table. This also happens with other operations; ...snipped if I wanted this menu, I'd already have it there...snipped Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to. Doesn't anyone know how to keep those pop-outs from popping? I simply drag the pop ups to a menu bar, where they become a part of the menu. They never pop up again. HTH. I have never found these pop up menus to be useful. But that's just me. Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space? --David -- nil significat nisi oscillat -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] help
Hi :) Ctrl Z a few times to undo? Reboot? Ulp. Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 15:35:37 Subject: [libreoffice-users] help -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?
On 07/30/2011 03:54 PM, David B Teague sr wrote: Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space? Drag the offending menu to the middle of the page. Then select View Toolbars; Uncheck the offending menu; You may have to repeat this three or four times, before LibO gets the idea that you really don't want those menus to be displayed. Sometimes you have to guess as the name of the menu. (I have more than fifty menus for extension that are of the pattern Add On ##, where ## is a number between 1 and 50. Personally, I think that extensions whose menu is of that pattern, should be pulled from distribution until the developer learns how to create extensions that don't require users to write their own documentation, to determine which menu goes with which functionality they were looking for.) jonathon -- If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting. If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth requesting. DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently was I used the 1.6.0_22 version since I knew it worked well. Thank you again so much! On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
I may have seen this too late to join in, but I'll make the next one for sure. Thanks very much for the tip. I agree with Tom, too, in theory. The problem is that my resource account is already overdrawn. I have nothing left with which to make a heavy investment, anywhere. If it's just a matter of joining a call, well, I can do that, and I'll have no problem with articulating my concerns re: Base. T. ~~ Tom Cloyd / t...@tomcloyd.com / (435) 272-3332 On 07/30/2011 03:25 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think it's more a case of working on several fronts within TDF. 1. joining the Steering-Discuss mailing list and promoting the cause there. Tom's right. I can definitely recommend taking time out to join the SC's twice-weekly call conferences and raising the issue there. At all the confcalls I've attended, there has almost never been a member of the user community there to raise questions, yet that was one of the central things that the confcalls were designed to cater to. The SC people are very approachable and eager to listen to people, so you will find interested ears. You can participate in the calls via phone or Skype (Skype has always worked for me). Details are here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Dial-in_Details Like you guys, I'm very keen to see Base well-maintained. There's a confcall today, Saturday, July 30, and I'll raise the question. If others do the same, it will add weight to the issue... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] help
** Reply to message from Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:47:41 +0200 Hi Cliff, On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:35:37 -0500 Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net wrote: help with what? Can you be a bit more verbose please? Sigrid Sigrid, Thanks for asking. That email was not supposed to go to this list. I was just seeing what the Unsubscribe email address in the message footers would do and found that the format of the email address is not read correctly by my email client so it takes the +help off the address and puts it into the subject. I didn't catch that until it went. Cliff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
At 06:16 AM 7/30/2011, you wrote: ** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Please read more carefully the text of the footer. It does not tell you the address where to send a message to unsubscribe but the address where to write to get the instructions how to unsubscribe. I guess this indirect procedure is useful because you need to be informed that you will have to answer to the confirmation request. Thank you. That was also pointed out to me by someone else. I took it to mean the actual address which it is not. Possibly it could be clarified by putting it similarly to this: For unsubscribe instructions email to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org or something to that effect. From all the hassle I've seen others go through in the past I'm not the only one to misinterpret the present wording I think this problem illustrates the same mindset that a lot us of find bothersome in most MS products. That is the inability of Developers to put themselves in the place of Users. The developer knows the line means: Here is how you obtain the instructions on how to unsubscribe. The less sophisticated user, seeing the same line reads it as: Here are your instruction on how to unsubscribe. Instead of the developers insisting that the information is correct and not changing it, they should realize that the less sophisticated users ARE interpreting it erroneously and that they need to change the wording to reflect how users are actually seeing it. Jerry . -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4.2 plus Native MySQL connection
Le 29/07/11 11:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, My favourite connector to my MySQL-DB is the native connector. I hoped that it might work under 3.4.2, but it seems that this might not be the case - would be a pity. That's because according to MySQL, it is recommended to recompile the library for the libmysql Connector, each time a version change is made to the app on which the integrated library is supposed to run. AFAIK, the connector extension is not built by anyone from the dev group for LibreOffice, it is entirely left up to the distros to do this as part of their non-bundled extensions package offer. I have built a recent version of the mysql connector from master on Mac, but unfortunately it is OS specific, i.e. it won't work on other OSes. You can see this from the OOo extensions site where there is a download for 32 and 64 bit Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. You need to be able to find someone who builds LibreOffice on Linux, and add the build switch with the connector so that it gets compiled and an up to date version is released. If I had the time, I'd set this up, but am rather busy and short of disk space on my Linux box at the moment. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] how to add watermark in a presentation?
yeah,i have tried master slide.but that's not what i am talking about.i am talking about an option under,say insert,named,say watermark.on clicking it,a pop-up will open with an option of text/image entry transparency option.the text entered into the box will become the watermark for the slide.something like that. On 30 July 2011 17:42, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I don't know. There is some documentation in the Getting Started Guide http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation But the full Impress Guide is still being worked on. Are you looking for something like a master slide so that the watermark is shown on all pages? Have you explored styles and templates? Regards from Tom :) From: soumalya ray drsouma...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 6:35:29 Subject: [libreoffice-users] how to add watermark in a presentation? is there any way to add a watermark to the slides of a presentation from menu directly?i could not find anything. i mean the ability to select something from the menu to add a watermark with custom text and be in something like 80% transparent black by default or similar. is it possible? -- Dr soumalya ray http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com drsouma...@gmail.com MBBS,MD(PGT)C.Medicine,Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp http://twitter.com/docbkp -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Dr soumalya ray http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com drsouma...@gmail.com MBBS,MD(PGT)C.Medicine,Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp http://twitter.com/docbkp -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- *** * -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer
Hi :) There is some discussion about this on the moderators list http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Instructions-on-how-to-unsubscribe-td3016239.html#a3211580 Feel free to add suggestions and/or indicate which options you would prefer to see. TDF is about finding answers and making progress rather than getting bogged down in entrenched opinions. People do work hard and develop loyalties in the teams but hopefully are often open to new developments. Regards from Tom :) From: Libre User libreu...@earthlink.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 19:10:05 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer At 06:16 AM 7/30/2011, you wrote: ** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new one. It all went without a hitch because I checked first at the get-help page on the Libreoffice.org website and found out that the correct unsubscribe address is users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org, NOT users+h...@global.libreoffice.org. Please read more carefully the text of the footer. It does not tell you the address where to send a message to unsubscribe but the address where to write to get the instructions how to unsubscribe. I guess this indirect procedure is useful because you need to be informed that you will have to answer to the confirmation request. Thank you. That was also pointed out to me by someone else. I took it to mean the actual address which it is not. Possibly it could be clarified by putting it similarly to this: For unsubscribe instructions email to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org or something to that effect. From all the hassle I've seen others go through in the past I'm not the only one to misinterpret the present wording I think this problem illustrates the same mindset that a lot us of find bothersome in most MS products. That is the inability of Developers to put themselves in the place of Users. The developer knows the line means: Here is how you obtain the instructions on how to unsubscribe. The less sophisticated user, seeing the same line reads it as: Here are your instruction on how to unsubscribe. Instead of the developers insisting that the information is correct and not changing it, they should realize that the less sophisticated users ARE interpreting it erroneously and that they need to change the wording to reflect how users are actually seeing it. Jerry . -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets
That undoes or stops the numbering. It doesn't stop it from happening every time I type something like: 1) Question 1 2) Question 2 and so on. Hal On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think that when you get a new number (or bullet) after hitting the enter key you just press the back-space key (usually just above enter)? I'm not sure tho Regards from Tom :) From: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 6:32:55 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets Okay, I think it's cool that LO, like so many editors now, will jump into an outline or bullet mode automatically, but what if you don't want that? I'm taking a written test and I want to number the items like this: 1) Question one text: (And here is the answer) 2) Question two text: (And here is answer 2) But with the automated bullets and lists, there is no way I can do that and hit RETURN at the end of a paragraph without it going into outline mode. I looked this up in Help and basically it looks like I turn it off AFTER I type what I need to. Is there any way to turn off this mode in a document? This is totally absurd if you don't want it! Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Hal, Hal Vaughan wrote (30-07-11 07:32) Okay, I think it's cool that LO, like so many editors now, will jump into an outline or bullet mode automatically, but what if you don't want that? - Ctrl-Z immediately after the unwanted change - Tools Autocorrect options tab Options Apply numbering/symbol I never thought it'd be in Autocorrect -- found it and fixed it. Thank you -- and I like that I can turn it on and off so easily. I kind of wish there were a way to make that preference stay with the document, though -- that way I could specify that on some documents and levee the rest the other way. That fixes it -- help is appreciated! Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Le 29/07/2011 10:41, Andreas Säger a écrit : As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect, query, edit and dump. If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems nobody would notice the change. Could you elaborate, please? If I remove Java, can I open the Base module and create a query in design mode? I happen to think I can't but I might be mistaken. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Code snippet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've searched and can't figure out how to specify the height of a button at execution time via a basic macro. If Sheet1 contains a button name OK, how would I specify a button height of 0.5cm? The only examples I can find are for buttons on forms, not on a sheet itself. - -- Bill Gradwohl Roatan, Honduras -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk40jisACgkQ7Orvev+eC8rGHQCgmq3OwAJmVey+UVF051lvj9nj agYAoIiZ3ZEl5074W6+CpTowdUxilfcl =U2Iw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery
Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:34 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to have a problem and want you to recover it even if you dealt with those error pop-ups neatly during shut-down. Neither thing always happens but one or the other or both do happen fairly often. I once shut-down halfway through writing something in a GnuLinux, got a brief warning that i ignored and it quickly timed out and continued with the shut-down. Then i installed a completely different gnulinux over the top of my OS and opened the text-editor to find it reopened the unsaved text-file with only a few words missing. Sadly it was a very unimportant note and i've not repeated the experiment because it's too risky to do stuff like that. It shouldn't work so it was quite a surprise. Regards from Tom :) From: David Nelson li...@traduction.biz To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 10:41:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort and complain next time it is opened? Are you joking? Even if you have an unsaved document open, Word (or whatever) - being closed by Windows - will challenge you to save or discard your changes. You may have a good reason to choose your operating system and application software, but made-up stories about others is not. It will not *abort*, but the next time Word, for instance, opens you will definitely be prompted to check whether you want to recover the last doc(s) you were working on, even if you carefully saved the doc(s) before ending your last session. Try it and see. Microsoft Office and LibreOffice function fairly similarly from this viewpoint, and it does help to prevent data loss when crashes or accidents happen. BTW, I am *not* getting into a Word versus Writer stand-off here... :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted I think the default is to assume there was a problem that caused an unexpected shutdown of any open documents. I think it is more when power goes off or the OS decides it must reboot than when a user forgot to shutdown the application correctly. It is very difficult for an application to know why it shutdown unexpectedly so good practice is to assume a problem occurred and any open files need to be recovered. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi :) The main thing is that you found a way to solve your current problem. Congrats and regards from Tom :) From: Tom Cloyd t...@tomcloyd.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 18:51:02 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow I may have seen this too late to join in, but I'll make the next one for sure. Thanks very much for the tip. I agree with Tom, too, in theory. The problem is that my resource account is already overdrawn. I have nothing left with which to make a heavy investment, anywhere. If it's just a matter of joining a call, well, I can do that, and I'll have no problem with articulating my concerns re: Base. T. ~~ Tom Cloyd / t...@tomcloyd.com / (435) 272-3332 On 07/30/2011 03:25 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think it's more a case of working on several fronts within TDF. 1. joining the Steering-Discuss mailing list and promoting the cause there. Tom's right. I can definitely recommend taking time out to join the SC's twice-weekly call conferences and raising the issue there. At all the confcalls I've attended, there has almost never been a member of the user community there to raise questions, yet that was one of the central things that the confcalls were designed to cater to. The SC people are very approachable and eager to listen to people, so you will find interested ears. You can participate in the calls via phone or Skype (Skype has always worked for me). Details are here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Dial-in_Details s Like you guys, I'm very keen to see Base well-maintained. There's a confcall today, Saturday, July 30, and I'll raise the question. If others do the same, it will add weight to the issue... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Hi :) It might be time to cut Base loose. Most versions of MS Office don't include Access. Gnome Office doesn't have a database program. Perhaps Office Suites just don't need an integrated program to do this sort of stuff. Maybe Calc is enough. There are a few alternatives on the market for people that really need a database. To move forwards Base needs a serious commitment and a strong vision of where it wants to get to. If we cut it loose then LibreOffice as a whole is freed from a lot of dependencies and stuff that the other apps don't need. So, lets just drop Base. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 9:41:30 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote: Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-clickOpen the dBase Bibliography. All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row set into office documents. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/ quote For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required. Java is notably required for Base. /quote As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect, query, edit and dump. If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems nobody would notice the change. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
What I like about this idea is that it frees it up to be picked up by anyone who wants to take it and run with it, and THAT just might work. I do fear for what it might do with people who need an integrated solution. t. ~~ Tom Cloyd / t...@tomcloyd.com / (435) 272-3332 On 07/30/2011 06:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be time to cut Base loose. Most versions of MS Office don't include Access. Gnome Office doesn't have a database program. Perhaps Office Suites just don't need an integrated program to do this sort of stuff. Maybe Calc is enough. There are a few alternatives on the market for people that really need a database. To move forwards Base needs a serious commitment and a strong vision of where it wants to get to. If we cut it loose then LibreOffice as a whole is freed from a lot of dependencies and stuff that the other apps don't need. So, lets just drop Base. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 9:41:30 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote: Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-clickOpen the dBase Bibliography. All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row set into office documents. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/ quote For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required. Java is notably required for Base. /quote As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect, query, edit and dump. If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems nobody would notice the change. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
-Исходное сообщение- From: Tom Cloyd Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:40 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow On 07/29/2011 06:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It definitely sped up my Base table browsing, but then I don't have any binaries embedded in my tables. It has the bonus of not messing with the existing JRE Overview: 1. Download the JRE archive (approx. 20 mb) 2. Extract in /tmp 3. as root, copy the extracted directory to /usr/lib/jvm 4. set this JRE as the JRE of choice in LO (ToolsOptionsJava) 5. Exit LO restart Instructions: 1.Download jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin (for i386) or jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin for x86_64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u21-b07-oth-JPR JRE archive at ORACLE . Save to /tmp 2.run it using: sh jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin . The JRE is now extracted to /tmp/jre1.6.0_21/ 3. copy to /usr/lib/jvm sudo cp -a jre1.6.0_21/ /usr/lib/jvm 4. Exit restart office. In ToolsOptionsJava, choose 1.6.0_21. Exit restart office 5. Load you Base file compare the speed. If you want to remove it simply set the JRE back to the old one in ToolsOptionsJava sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. OK, NOW I'm blown away. I had jdk v.22 (from Ubuntu archives) installed as an attempted improvement, and got about a 25% increase in speed. Running now with v. 21 Base is unbelievably snappy and crisp. I've NEVER had it perform like this for me. THIS is exactly what it needs to be. Wy better than v. 22. So, dammit, what will it take to get this fixed, I'm wondering...? I'll follow through with that Steering committee phone call business, but if the problem's java, then Oracle has to fix it. Well, this is quite a bit above my pay grade. What a fascinating thread this has been. Thanks to all. T. Tom Cloyd, MS MA t...@tomcloyd.com (435) 272-3332 St. George/Cedar City, Utah -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted Hi, Tom I am glad to receive your reply so soon. Tell me please why LibreOffice do not want to open RTF document file. Would appreciate your soonest reply Regards Slava -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
My first database was a dos version. I then moved to Microsoft Office and bought Access to add to it. After a few years I got tired of paying Microsoft prices and got Word Perfect Office Pro which included Paradox. It worked very well. Once Open Office came out, I figured that would ultimately be the end of Word Perfect, so I moved to it, but kept the Word Perfect Suite because I needed a database which was not initially included in OpenOffice. I was delighted when OpenOffice added base, and converted my database from Paradox to Base. My needs are relatively basic for a database. It is mainly for keeping records and also mail merge with LibreOffice writer. I've never had any issues with mail merge. In the back of my mind I really wanted to move to Linux and knew that time would happen sometime, so I tried to have as many programs cross compatible as possible. Almost 2 1/2 years ago I began my Linux journey. I chose Ubuntu because I figured it had the largest user base, and therefore if I had a problem somebody else also probably had the same problem. I don't have time to play with the different flavors of Linux to give them a try, so as long as Ubuntu does the job, I will stick with it. With Open Office having a full suite for Window and Linux, it made the move to Ubuntu almost painless for the OpenOffice programs including Base. I do not know if it is best for Base to stay with LibreOffice or not, but it was a tremendous help to me to have everything all together. Don On 07/30/2011 08:49 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: What I like about this idea is that it frees it up to be picked up by anyone who wants to take it and run with it, and THAT just might work. I do fear for what it might do with people who need an integrated solution. t. ~~ Tom Cloyd / t...@tomcloyd.com / (435) 272-3332 On 07/30/2011 06:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be time to cut Base loose. Most versions of MS Office don't include Access. Gnome Office doesn't have a database program. Perhaps Office Suites just don't need an integrated program to do this sort of stuff. Maybe Calc is enough. There are a few alternatives on the market for people that really need a database. To move forwards Base needs a serious commitment and a strong vision of where it wants to get to. If we cut it loose then LibreOffice as a whole is freed from a lot of dependencies and stuff that the other apps don't need. So, lets just drop Base. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 9:41:30 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote: Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-clickOpen the dBase Bibliography. All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row set into office documents. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/ quote For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required. Java is notably required for Base. /quote As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect, query, edit and dump. If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems nobody would notice the change. -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Website at www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/_ _View Don's farm website: www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/ *~~* -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Code snippet
I expect that you need to set this from the sheets draw page ' Gets the Shape of a Control( e. g. to reset the size or Position of the control ' Parameters: ' The 'oContainer' is the Document or a specific sheet of a Calc - Document ' 'CName' is the Name of the Control Function GetControlShape(oContainer as Object,CName as String) Dim i as integer Dim aShape as Object For i = 0 to oContainer.DrawPage.Count-1 aShape = oContainer.DrawPage(i) If HasUnoInterfaces(aShape, com.sun.star.drawing.XControlShape) then If ashape.Control.Name = CName then GetControlShape = aShape exit Function End If End If Next End Function So, how do I call it? Sub gcs Dim oSize oSize = GetControlShape(ThisComponent.Sheets(0), button1).Size Print oSize.Height Print oSize.Width End Sub In this example, I pass the sheet containing the button with the button name to the GetControlShape function. I forget the unit of measure. Hmm, oh yeas, 1 = oSize.Height / 2540 But wait, your units metric. I think life just got easier for you :-), just set to 500 for 1/2 CM I believe. On 07/30/2011 07:05 PM, Bill Gradwohl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've searched and can't figure out how to specify the height of a button at execution time via a basic macro. If Sheet1 contains a button name OK, how would I specify a button height of 0.5cm? The only examples I can find are for buttons on forms, not on a sheet itself. - -- Bill Gradwohl Roatan, Honduras -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk40jisACgkQ7Orvev+eC8rGHQCgmq3OwAJmVey+UVF051lvj9nj agYAoIiZ3ZEl5074W6+CpTowdUxilfcl =U2Iw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
