Re: [libreoffice-users] Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge
Hi :) Documentation? Writer Guide, Chapter 11 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Errr, i take it the guide for 3.4.x is not working on your system? The docs team are working on the 3.5.x guides now so it would be good to know if there is a problem or a change so that they can make a note of it for when they get that far. Could you let us know which version of LO are you using and which OS? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 24/6/12, Charles218 wrote: From: Charles218 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 24 June, 2012, 6:03 I've spent several hours going around in circles trying to get mail merge setup and running in LibreOffice. It was working fine in OpenOffice, but OO starting crashing and is currently unusable on my Mac. Using the "Address Data Source" wizard, I can not get everything in place. I have a data document that is exported from Filemaker Pro, I tried "tab" and "csv" both. Is there a correct file type that I should use? Here are the steps that I am taking, Address book type - "other external data source" Connection Settings - I click on "Settings" Database type - I select "Text" from the drop down menu Path to the text files - I browse to the file that Filemaker exported, but it is greyed out. I can only select the folder that contains the exported csv or tab file. I can then specify the type of file, and the field separator, etc., but the actual file never gets selected. I would appreciate any help with this, after several hours trying every combination I could come up with, I'm at a lost. Thanks! Charles -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Need-Help-Setting-Up-Mail-Merge-tp3991923.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For 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 -- For 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] Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge
I've spent several hours going around in circles trying to get mail merge setup and running in LibreOffice. It was working fine in OpenOffice, but OO starting crashing and is currently unusable on my Mac. Using the "Address Data Source" wizard, I can not get everything in place. I have a data document that is exported from Filemaker Pro, I tried "tab" and "csv" both. Is there a correct file type that I should use? Here are the steps that I am taking, Address book type - "other external data source" Connection Settings - I click on "Settings" Database type - I select "Text" from the drop down menu Path to the text files - I browse to the file that Filemaker exported, but it is greyed out. I can only select the folder that contains the exported csv or tab file. I can then specify the type of file, and the field separator, etc., but the actual file never gets selected. I would appreciate any help with this, after several hours trying every combination I could come up with, I'm at a lost. Thanks! Charles -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Need-Help-Setting-Up-Mail-Merge-tp3991923.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For 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
[SOLVED] Re: [libreoffice-users] New brothers printer does not appear to print Landscape.
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:14:16 -0700 upscope wrote about Re: [libreoffice-users] New brothers printer does not appear to print Landscape.: > On Thursday, June 21, 2012 04:56:29 PM Mieszko Kaczmarczyk wrote: > > W dniu 2012-06-21 14:55, upscope pisze: > > > LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 > > > Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) > > > > > > Has printer administration been removed or the name changed in > > > version 3.5.3? > > > > > > KDE applications print good with CUPS and LPR. > > > > > > > > > Russ > > > openSUSE 12.1(3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version > > > > What model of Brother do you use? Which driver? > > > > I see you use 64bit version of system like me, but there is problem > > inside driver - the same configuration in 32bit works OK. > > I cannot print in landscape but also from other programs. > > > > In 64bit the LO print in landscape on virtual printer-PDF and other > > printer (HP) full OK. > > > > I have got printer DCP770CW. > > > > > > -- > > Mieszko Kaczmarczyk > > Administrator IT > > -- > > -- Wetzel Sp. z o.o. > > Duchnów, ul. Kresowa 8 > > 05-462 Wiązowna > > Phone: +48 22 780-20-00 ext.219 > > Direct: +48 22 780-20-19 > > Fax:+48 22 780-20-03 > > Kapitał zakładowy: 600.000,00 zł. > > Sąd Rejonowy dla M.ST. Warszawy w Warszawie, XXI Wydział Gospodarczy > > Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego > > NIP: 951-00-43-131 > > Regon: 010799082 > > KRS: 058229 > > Zarząd Spółki: Prezes Zarządu - Ewa Dzwonkowska, Członek Zarządu - > > Detlev Liebschwager > > Part of the WETZEL PROCESSING GROUP: Group Management - Martin > > Hellweg, Detlev Liebschwager, Aglaia Lüthy > > > > /Save a tree - only print this message if it's absolutely necessary! / > > > > > > -- > > For 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 > > My printer is a MFC-J6710DW. > Prints portrait ok. No landscape printing. > > Russ > openSUSE 12.1(3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version > 4.8.3 (4.8.3) "release 504"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB > DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53) > > Thanks to the tip from Helen I can now print in landscape mode though a few extra steps are required. I'll get in touch with Brother about the fix. Tom -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.4, FF 13.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- For 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: "English" dictionary extension
On 2012-06-23 12:53 PM webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that would make the same people more angry at me. I really appreciated your large word list for the Canadian English dictionary. I was not angry over a couple of mistakes, and you did correct them quickly. However, the version you give a link to in this post makes it useless. NOW - what I did. . . . --- http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt --- I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could be wrong, but that is what I came up with. You have combined all the spelling variants into one dictionary. This makes it useless for spell checking. How do I know which of these are the correct spellings in Canadian English? color/colour, favor/favour, defence/defense, defencible/defensible, dialog/dialogue, program/programme, tuque/toque Unless the spell checker gives the normal spelling for my country it is useless. AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, that is easy . . . . A spell checker needs to matched the normal spellings for the country it is being used in. Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word differently and still be correct. That is not the issue. The there are major differences in spelling between GB English and US English. Having both spellings show as correct in a spell checker makes it useless. In fact, it is no longer a spell checker. If you go to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions. You want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words correctly? Irrelevant. No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each variation. Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I use? No. But the spell checker for the version of the English language I use should tell me. That is the purpose of a spell checker. Mine show "colour" as correct and "menue" as incorrect. They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings are not to be used anymore. A spell checker needs to show the preferred spelling for the version of English you are using. -- _ Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese -- For 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: apols Re: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension
To be honest, if you have a base/template for your language, you can great a version of that dictionary for yourself. If I was given a list of Geology words/terms, I could create a dictionary for just those words. I looked into All of the different English language dictionaries available when LO was new and figured out what I could change in the parts that were not the list of words and not break it. There are a lot of parts I did not try to change. Once I figured out enough, I looked for a larger set of words to add to the original one, but decided to just replace the list/file with a different one and not just an edited version of the original file. I do not know the controls used inside the .dic file. I searched for some documentation, but OOo seemed not to have it and the other spelling systems that the original OOo dictionaries were based off of seemed as hard to find. SO I decided to just use words and not words with controls/commands ["word" and not "word\3" or whatever]. It made life easier. As far as I can see, the only reason to use the controls is to reduce the disk size of the .oxt file. I am not worried about that. SO, I once stated I could/would create a specialized dictionary for specific English terms/words. Look where it ended up. I once made a word list with over 1 million English words with common and "rare" spelling of words. There are a lot of words out there and every one that I checked in one day to the biggest online spelling and "meaning of word" dictionary sites, I did not find one word that was not spelled that way, if you started from the base/root and added the prefixes and suffixes that were used to create that word form. They most were words I never seen before, but by all the rules were correctly spelled and listed in at least one online system [if you took a valid prefix or suffix off]. [ I lost all that work last year trying to move data files around drives while I was suffering from an illness (with some pre-stroke signs/symptoms involved and have had 3 small ones already). Lost a lot of personal and working files that week. I hope to be able to buy enough USB drives to backup, and keep backed up my full 3-TB main system. ] I still would like to create the specialized .oxt spelling dictionaries, but it is not big on my list of work with my current limited time I now have at my desk. With the word list, it takes a short time to build a new dictionary and modify the needed parts of the internal .oxt dictionary system. [if you need a good offline dictionary - for word meanings - try Artha] On 06/23/2012 06:34 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 06/23/2012 06:11 PM, Libre User wrote: As one of those who is enjoying the benefits of all the work you put into these dictionaries, THANK YOU.!!! Jerry +1 At 01:22 PM 6/23/2012, you wrote: So, clearly there are a lot of people out there quietly enjoying using your works. Regards from Tom :) -- For 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: apols Re: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension
On 06/23/2012 06:11 PM, Libre User wrote: > As one of those who is enjoying the benefits of all the work you put > into these dictionaries, THANK YOU.!!! > > Jerry +1 > > At 01:22 PM 6/23/2012, you wrote: >> So, clearly there are a lot of people out there quietly enjoying >> using your works. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> --- On Sat, 23/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P >> wrote: >> >> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension >> To: "LibreO - Users Global" >> Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 19:53 >> >> >> With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list >> dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that >> would make the same people more angry at me. >> >> If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not >> need to. Use someone else's. I just thought I could help LO in my >> own little way. If all people who want to help is made to feel like >> I have over my work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I >> would wonder why people would want to help make LO better. So, for >> those who do not like my work, do not use it. >> >> NOW - what I did. . . . >> >> --- >> >> http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt >> >> >> --- >> >> I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - >> and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 >> words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could >> be wrong, but that is what I came up with. >> >> Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word >> list to make it a total of 790,673 words. I planned to add the >> medical and chemical words at a later date, but I did so now >> instead. I still have more words to add, but I will have to wait to >> rebuild that list of new words [since I deleted my work when I was >> sick last year and was switching drives for storage of these working >> files]. >> >> I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I >> will tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public >> License" sources or equivalent. >> >> If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have >> found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the >> creation three versions of the English Language spelling >> dictionaries. Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want >> to do so. >> >> -- >> >> AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, >> that is easy . . . . >> >> >> Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word >> differently and still be correct. >> >> >> If you go to >> >> http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries >> >> and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions. >> You want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words >> correctly? No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each >> variation. Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the >> correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I >> use? They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, >> BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does >> not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings >> are not to be used anymore. The people in my building who saw >> "menue" spelled this way could not tell me that is was not correct, >> when it is not the "most preferred" spelling method. >> >> Look at the French. As far as I was told, they have revised their >> spellings of some words and now teach this new spelling method in >> their schools. But, the old ways are still going to be out there in >> books and other printed documents. Look at what Oxford English is >> vs. British English. "They" are changing the way you spell many >> common words [my opinion for common words and spelling] but if the >> public do not want to use the newest version of the words, then who >> will force them? If the public think it is not a good idea to use >> the newest ways to spell the words, then is the public wrong or the >> people who thought up the new ways of spelling of the words? Look >> into the past of the "English" language. It has not been around for >> 2000 years, 1000 years, or even 500. The "English" language grew out >> of communities coming in contact with each other and sharing their >> words. These groups of larger communities share with others and >> slowly a new >> language grows out of the older ones. ALSO smaller communities form >> and over time the words they use, and their spelling of those words, >> will change. As far as my English professors understands, this will >> always happen. Language Evolves. >> >> How many "English" words actually
Re: apols Re: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension
As one of those who is enjoying the benefits of all the work you put into these dictionaries, THANK YOU.!!! Jerry At 01:22 PM 6/23/2012, you wrote: So, clearly there are a lot of people out there quietly enjoying using your works. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Subject: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension To: "LibreO - Users Global" Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 19:53 With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that would make the same people more angry at me. If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not need to. Use someone else's. I just thought I could help LO in my own little way. If all people who want to help is made to feel like I have over my work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I would wonder why people would want to help make LO better. So, for those who do not like my work, do not use it. NOW - what I did. . . . --- http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt --- I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could be wrong, but that is what I came up with. Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word list to make it a total of 790,673 words. I planned to add the medical and chemical words at a later date, but I did so now instead. I still have more words to add, but I will have to wait to rebuild that list of new words [since I deleted my work when I was sick last year and was switching drives for storage of these working files]. I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I will tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public License" sources or equivalent. If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the creation three versions of the English Language spelling dictionaries. Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want to do so. -- AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, that is easy . . . . Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word differently and still be correct. If you go to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions. You want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words correctly? No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each variation. Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I use? They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings are not to be used anymore. The people in my building who saw "menue" spelled this way could not tell me that is was not correct, when it is not the "most preferred" spelling method. Look at the French. As far as I was told, they have revised their spellings of some words and now teach this new spelling method in their schools. But, the old ways are still going to be out there in books and other printed documents. Look at what Oxford English is vs. British English. "They" are changing the way you spell many common words [my opinion for common words and spelling] but if the public do not want to use the newest version of the words, then who will force them? If the public think it is not a good idea to use the newest ways to spell the words, then is the public wrong or the people who thought up the new ways of spelling of the words? Look into the past of the "English" language. It has not been around for 2000 years, 1000 years, or even 500. The "English" language grew out of communities coming in contact with each other and sharing their words. These groups of larger communities share with others and slowly a new language grows out of the older ones. ALSO smaller communities form and over time the words they use, and their spelling of those words, will change. As far as my English professors understands, this will always happen. Language Evolves. How many "English" words actually came from words in the French and German regions of Europe? Language shares words and the use can become part of their "communal" language. You can tell me I am wrong, and I can say that you are. We are both neither right or wrong. The lady who was born and raised 200 miles
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Changes oddity
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:47:43 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies wrote about Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Changes oddity: > Hi :) > I tried > > Alt Space-bar > > and that seemed to work. It took me a while to work it out. I was hunting > around > the _ and | and that weird button just before the 1. Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > --- On Sat, 23/6/12, Thomas Taylor wrote: > > From: Thomas Taylor > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Changes oddity > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 4:59 > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:01:15 +0200 > Nino Novak wrote about [libreoffice-users] Re: Changes > oddity: > > Am 22.06.2012 07:57, schrieb Sandy Harris: > > > > > However, the window that opens for Changes->accept/reject has > > > gone to full screen and I cannot get it back so that I can see the > > > text in order to decide on what to do with changes. It covers the > > > whole text window. > > > > Two suggestions: > > > > 1- click somewhere inside the Accept/Reject window so it gets active, then > > press > > ALT+BLANK. In my setup this opens the window context menu, where you can > > select > > "Resize Window" (or similar). Then resize the window with mouse or arrow > > keys. > > > > ¿¿ what is "BLANK" ?? > Nothing like that on my keyboard. > > Tom > < snip > > Thanks Tom from Tom B<))) -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.4, FF 13.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- For 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: apols Re: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension
There was no "betrayal". There are people who do not seem to believe others can be correct about things. How you can spell the same exact word in a language is regional. The "language" region can be as large as a country, but can be a small as a few blocks in a city. Actually, as for the included English spelling dictionary for LO, there are a lot of English regions available according to the default spell checking system with no additions. I have listed in the default language for the text - English (USA), but the following are all listed as my default language options [for English] without any other English dictionary enabled except for the included "locked" one: Australia, Belize, Canada, Eire, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Namibia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Trinidad, UK, USA, Zimbabwe. SO, if people tell me a word has to be spelled in one way, then what about all of the other regions? Do they no longer count? There are a lot of words that are weird to me. It all depends on the root of that word, so I am told. If you start from two slightly different forms a the word and add prefixes and suffixes, then they can not make sense to you. It does not mean that the word is not correctly spelled for that region. There are times where there are many correct spellings of the same sounding and meaning word. That is the nature of a complex language like "English". On 06/23/2012 04:22 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hey Tim i am really sorry if anything i said sounded like a betrayal. I do very much appreciate your works but i also appreciate that some people may be oddly picky about things in one direction or another. As you point out those people can try to find alternatives. I remember saying so to someone in a way that you may easily have seen as a betrayal. From what i have seen on these lists your dictionaries solve a lot of problems and are far more accurate than any others that people mention. I thought your plan was to keep your specialist dictionaries separate so that people could mix&match different ones or just stick to the standard one. I hadn't realised people could have more than one and it made me think it would be great to start creating a custom dictionary at my workplace in order to keep all the company names (and such) separate from the proper dictionaries. I am fairly sure that a few people have asked us why on earth we don't have your dictionaries as the default ones to replace the ones that seem to generate problems. So, clearly there are a lot of people out there quietly enjoying using your works. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Subject: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension To: "LibreO - Users Global" Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 19:53 With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that would make the same people more angry at me. If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not need to. Use someone else's. I just thought I could help LO in my own little way. If all people who want to help is made to feel like I have over my work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I would wonder why people would want to help make LO better. So, for those who do not like my work, do not use it. NOW - what I did. . . . --- http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt --- I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could be wrong, but that is what I came up with. Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word list to make it a total of 790,673 words. I planned to add the medical and chemical words at a later date, but I did so now instead. I still have more words to add, but I will have to wait to rebuild that list of new words [since I deleted my work when I was sick last year and was switching drives for storage of these working files]. I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I will tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public License" sources or equivalent. If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the creation three versions of the English Language spelling dictionaries. Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want to do so. -- AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, that is easy . . . . Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word differently and still be
[libreoffice-users] about adding line numbers by terminal command in ubuntu
Hi all, I'm converting documents(usually *.docx*) to *.pdf* files in my ubuntu server 12.04. I'm using terminal commands because I'm doing it on PHP code. Here's code I use: ** I saw that it's possible to add line numbers like this: http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Adding_Line_Numbers Can I insert line numbers with a terminal code in Ubuntu, too? Regards, --- Kubilay Erdogan iOS/.Net Developer http://kubilayerdogan.net -- For 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
apols Re: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension
Hi :) Hey Tim i am really sorry if anything i said sounded like a betrayal. I do very much appreciate your works but i also appreciate that some people may be oddly picky about things in one direction or another. As you point out those people can try to find alternatives. I remember saying so to someone in a way that you may easily have seen as a betrayal. From what i have seen on these lists your dictionaries solve a lot of problems and are far more accurate than any others that people mention. I thought your plan was to keep your specialist dictionaries separate so that people could mix&match different ones or just stick to the standard one. I hadn't realised people could have more than one and it made me think it would be great to start creating a custom dictionary at my workplace in order to keep all the company names (and such) separate from the proper dictionaries. I am fairly sure that a few people have asked us why on earth we don't have your dictionaries as the default ones to replace the ones that seem to generate problems. So, clearly there are a lot of people out there quietly enjoying using your works. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Subject: [libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension To: "LibreO - Users Global" Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 19:53 With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that would make the same people more angry at me. If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not need to. Use someone else's. I just thought I could help LO in my own little way. If all people who want to help is made to feel like I have over my work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I would wonder why people would want to help make LO better. So, for those who do not like my work, do not use it. NOW - what I did. . . . --- http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt --- I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could be wrong, but that is what I came up with. Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word list to make it a total of 790,673 words. I planned to add the medical and chemical words at a later date, but I did so now instead. I still have more words to add, but I will have to wait to rebuild that list of new words [since I deleted my work when I was sick last year and was switching drives for storage of these working files]. I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I will tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public License" sources or equivalent. If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the creation three versions of the English Language spelling dictionaries. Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want to do so. -- AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, that is easy . . . . Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word differently and still be correct. If you go to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions. You want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words correctly? No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each variation. Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I use? They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings are not to be used anymore. The people in my building who saw "menue" spelled this way could not tell me that is was not correct, when it is not the "most preferred" spelling method. Look at the French. As far as I was told, they have revised their spellings of some words and now teach this new spelling method in their schools. But, the old ways are still going to be out there in books and other printed documents. Look at what Oxford English is vs. British English. "They" are changing the way you spell many common words [my opinion for common words and spelling] but if the public do not want to use the newest version of the words, then who will force them? If the public think it is not a good idea to use the newest ways to spell the words, then is the public wrong or the people who
Re: [libreoffice-users] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Hi :) I think the _31 or was it the _29 was a tfn for some Apples? Surely part of the reason for writing-out dependence on Java is the way it has become a bit of a pain over the last couple of years? The _32 should be fine on a Gnu&Linux such as Ubuntu but i agree it's a good idea to avoid java, if that is possible. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, Girvin R. Herr wrote: From: Girvin R. Herr Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 20:23 Tom, For the record, I just checked my Mozilla Firefox add-ons and it reported my Java 1.6.0_30 has bad security vulnerabilities. So, stay away from it. Your _32 suggestion is a good one. Girvin Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Sorry, just noticed that java version is fairly old already. I don't think > it usually creates problems in LO 3.5.x but it used to in 3.3.x and i think > in 3.4.x. It might be worth upgrading your version of java if you do want to > use java with LO. I think the _32 is probably the most recent version that > is reasonably easy to get in your Ubuntu. Regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: > > > > java 1.6.0_26. > I now have the monitor up in a corner I watch it as activity occurs in > thunderbird. I haven't tried it in LO yet. I thought LO was written in > Java, so turning it off I thought was not an option. > What do I loose when I turn it off, and how do I do that? > > John > > > -- For 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 -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Tom, For the record, I just checked my Mozilla Firefox add-ons and it reported my Java 1.6.0_30 has bad security vulnerabilities. So, stay away from it. Your _32 suggestion is a good one. Girvin Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sorry, just noticed that java version is fairly old already. I don't think it usually creates problems in LO 3.5.x but it used to in 3.3.x and i think in 3.4.x. It might be worth upgrading your version of java if you do want to use java with LO. I think the _32 is probably the most recent version that is reasonably easy to get in your Ubuntu. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: java 1.6.0_26. I now have the monitor up in a corner I watch it as activity occurs in thunderbird. I haven't tried it in LO yet. I thought LO was written in Java, so turning it off I thought was not an option. What do I loose when I turn it off, and how do I do that? John -- For 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: Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
On 06/23/2012 12:05 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 23.06.2012 20:54, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Open Lo and go to Tools - Options - Java Once again: Not a single built-in Calc feature depends on Java. Like any other type of document, spreadsheets can be exported to XHTML which depends on Java, but all this has nothing to do with the creation, editing, and normal operation spreadsheet documents. Well, I turned off Java. If that is the problem, I will know in a few days of use. I'll report back so others can benefit from all of this. Of course, if the 'gray outs' continue, I guess it wasn't Java after all. Thanks for all of the help. John -- For 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: Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Am 23.06.2012 20:54, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Open Lo and go to Tools - Options - Java Once again: Not a single built-in Calc feature depends on Java. Like any other type of document, spreadsheets can be exported to XHTML which depends on Java, but all this has nothing to do with the creation, editing, and normal operation spreadsheet documents. -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Hi :) Sorry, just noticed that java version is fairly old already. I don't think it usually creates problems in LO 3.5.x but it used to in 3.3.x and i think in 3.4.x. It might be worth upgrading your version of java if you do want to use java with LO. I think the _32 is probably the most recent version that is reasonably easy to get in your Ubuntu. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: java 1.6.0_26. I now have the monitor up in a corner I watch it as activity occurs in thunderbird. I haven't tried it in LO yet. I thought LO was written in Java, so turning it off I thought was not an option. What do I loose when I turn it off, and how do I do that? John -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Hi :) Open Lo and go to Tools - Options - Java At the very top of the page is a tick-box or something that lets you not "use a java runtime environment". One of the main missions of the devs has been to write-oput any dependance on Java. Some of the Extensions still need it and Base (if you use the embedded HSqlDb) but most of the rest is completely free of it now :) f you try to do soemthing that does need it then an error message pops-up and grumbles so you just go and switch it back on and then re-try whatever strange unusual thing you were doing that earned the grumble. I am fairly sure you don't lose data but i would always try to keep a reasonably recent back-up jic of fire, famine or floods anyway. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: On 06/23/2012 11:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > In Ubuntu you can get that "task monitor" by > > System - Administration - "System Monitor" > > You can change which version of java you are using in LibreOffice by > > Tools - Options - Java > > or even switch it off completely from there. If the thing still works but > the slow-downs stop then you know it's java slowing it down. It would be > interesting to know which version of java you are using. > Regards from > Tom :) > > java 1.6.0_26. I now have the monitor up in a corner I watch it as activity occurs in thunderbird. I haven't tried it in LO yet. I thought LO was written in Java, so turning it off I thought was not an option. What do I loose when I turn it off, and how do I do that? John -- For 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 -- For 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] "English" dictionary extension
With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that would make the same people more angry at me. If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not need to. Use someone else's. I just thought I could help LO in my own little way. If all people who want to help is made to feel like I have over my work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I would wonder why people would want to help make LO better. So, for those who do not like my work, do not use it. NOW - what I did. . . . --- http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt --- I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and compared them. As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words that were not in at least two out of the three lists. I could be wrong, but that is what I came up with. Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word list to make it a total of 790,673 words. I planned to add the medical and chemical words at a later date, but I did so now instead. I still have more words to add, but I will have to wait to rebuild that list of new words [since I deleted my work when I was sick last year and was switching drives for storage of these working files]. I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I will tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public License" sources or equivalent. If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the creation three versions of the English Language spelling dictionaries. Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want to do so. -- AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, that is easy . . . . Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word differently and still be correct. If you go to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions. You want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words correctly? No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each variation. Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I use? They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings are not to be used anymore. The people in my building who saw "menue" spelled this way could not tell me that is was not correct, when it is not the "most preferred" spelling method. Look at the French. As far as I was told, they have revised their spellings of some words and now teach this new spelling method in their schools. But, the old ways are still going to be out there in books and other printed documents. Look at what Oxford English is vs. British English. "They" are changing the way you spell many common words [my opinion for common words and spelling] but if the public do not want to use the newest version of the words, then who will force them? If the public think it is not a good idea to use the newest ways to spell the words, then is the public wrong or the people who thought up the new ways of spelling of the words? Look into the past of the "English" language. It has not been around for 2000 years, 1000 years, or even 500. The "English" language grew out of communities coming in contact with each other and sharing their words. These groups of larger communities share with others and slowly a new language grows out of the older ones. ALSO smaller communities form and over time the words they use, and their spelling of those words, will change. As far as my English professors understands, this will always happen. Language Evolves. How many "English" words actually came from words in the French and German regions of Europe? Language shares words and the use can become part of their "communal" language. You can tell me I am wrong, and I can say that you are. We are both neither right or wrong. The lady who was born and raised 200 miles south of me who spells "menue/menu" her way is not wrong, but she grew up in a different sub-community in the USA than I did. There were more of one ethnic group that moved into her region of the country than did in mine. My father was raised on a different region than my mother. We all were taught how to speak in areas of different ethnic diversity. Our words we used were different for some common things, AND so was some of the ways that those words we
[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - concatenate text & fields
1) Depending on the type of database backend you may do that in a query. SELECT CASE WHEN ... THEN ... ELSE ... END AS "Name", ... FROM "Table" 2) Everything you may ask about mail merge: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/mail_merge/ May 02, 2007 Suppressing Blank Address2 Fields in OpenOffice.org Labels, Envelopes, or Other Documents, for Mail Merges -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
On 06/23/2012 11:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) In Ubuntu you can get that "task monitor" by System - Administration - "System Monitor" You can change which version of java you are using in LibreOffice by Tools - Options - Java or even switch it off completely from there. If the thing still works but the slow-downs stop then you know it's java slowing it down. It would be interesting to know which version of java you are using. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: From: John R. Sowden Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 18:31 On 06/23/2012 10:04 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: John, On 06/23/2012 12:15 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I am running Ubuntu 12.04, the Libre Office 3.5.3.2 with 1 GB ram. I rarely go into my swap partition. When in calc, often the system grinds to a halt. Usually it takes about 15 seconds to allow mouse pointer change, etc. Meanwhile, I can run Freecell with no slowdown while I am waiting, so that tells me it is not as universal as an overutilized processor or low on ram, or an Ubuntu issue. Help? John I notice hanging when working with relatively large files in Calc. Also, I have seen spreadsheets "hang" when there are complex calculations being done. How big is your spreadsheet? Also, can you post a copy to nabble? I understand if you can not post because of the nature of the information. I went back to see which sheets were giving me problems, but I could not remember specifics, so: Most of my calc files are 3-5 pages long. I have simple math (MDAS) type calcs, sometimes with links between pages. My payroll file is about 25 pages long. I use it twice a month minimum and I haven't had a problem with it. This all just started about a month ago. I have been using this box for about 2 years. Of course Ubuntu 12.04 is also about a month old. I wonder if this is a Java issue. When I ran Suse, there was a monitor that I could have on the screen showing CPU use, Swap use, Ram use, etc. graphically. It would be nice to be able to go backwards in time about 10 minutes to see what was the issue. John -- For 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 java 1.6.0_26. I now have the monitor up in a corner I watch it as activity occurs in thunderbird. I haven't tried it in LO yet. I thought LO was written in Java, so turning it off I thought was not an option. What do I loose when I turn it off, and how do I do that? John -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
Hi :) In Ubuntu you can get that "task monitor" by System - Administration - "System Monitor" You can change which version of java you are using in LibreOffice by Tools - Options - Java or even switch it off completely from there. If the thing still works but the slow-downs stop then you know it's java slowing it down. It would be interesting to know which version of java you are using. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 23/6/12, John R. Sowden wrote: From: John R. Sowden Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2012, 18:31 On 06/23/2012 10:04 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: > John, > > On 06/23/2012 12:15 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> I am running Ubuntu 12.04, the Libre Office 3.5.3.2 with 1 GB ram. I >> rarely go into my swap partition. When in calc, often the system >> grinds to a halt. Usually it takes about 15 seconds to allow mouse >> pointer change, etc. Meanwhile, I can run Freecell with no slowdown >> while I am waiting, so that tells me it is not as universal as an >> overutilized processor or low on ram, or an Ubuntu issue. >> >> Help? >> >> John >> >> > I notice hanging when working with relatively large files in Calc. Also, > I have seen spreadsheets "hang" when there are complex calculations > being done. > > How big is your spreadsheet? Also, can you post a copy to nabble? I > understand if you can not post because of the nature of the information. > I went back to see which sheets were giving me problems, but I could not remember specifics, so: Most of my calc files are 3-5 pages long. I have simple math (MDAS) type calcs, sometimes with links between pages. My payroll file is about 25 pages long. I use it twice a month minimum and I haven't had a problem with it. This all just started about a month ago. I have been using this box for about 2 years. Of course Ubuntu 12.04 is also about a month old. I wonder if this is a Java issue. When I ran Suse, there was a monitor that I could have on the screen showing CPU use, Swap use, Ram use, etc. graphically. It would be nice to be able to go backwards in time about 10 minutes to see what was the issue. John -- For 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 -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
On 06/23/2012 10:04 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: John, On 06/23/2012 12:15 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I am running Ubuntu 12.04, the Libre Office 3.5.3.2 with 1 GB ram. I rarely go into my swap partition. When in calc, often the system grinds to a halt. Usually it takes about 15 seconds to allow mouse pointer change, etc. Meanwhile, I can run Freecell with no slowdown while I am waiting, so that tells me it is not as universal as an overutilized processor or low on ram, or an Ubuntu issue. Help? John I notice hanging when working with relatively large files in Calc. Also, I have seen spreadsheets "hang" when there are complex calculations being done. How big is your spreadsheet? Also, can you post a copy to nabble? I understand if you can not post because of the nature of the information. I went back to see which sheets were giving me problems, but I could not remember specifics, so: Most of my calc files are 3-5 pages long. I have simple math (MDAS) type calcs, sometimes with links between pages. My payroll file is about 25 pages long. I use it twice a month minimum and I haven't had a problem with it. This all just started about a month ago. I have been using this box for about 2 years. Of course Ubuntu 12.04 is also about a month old. I wonder if this is a Java issue. When I ran Suse, there was a monitor that I could have on the screen showing CPU use, Swap use, Ram use, etc. graphically. It would be nice to be able to go backwards in time about 10 minutes to see what was the issue. John -- For 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] Writer - concatenate text & fields
Hi, I have googled repeatedly for this, and found suggestions, but nothing that works. It involves conditional statements in a writer document that is merged with a database, for example: IF(db.table.name EQ "", We do not have your name, db.table.name) works just fine, but what I want to do is more like: IF(db.table.fullname EQ "", We assume your full name is: db.table.firstname db.table.lastname, Your full name is: db.table.fullname) All these are entered through Insert->Fields->Functions->Conditional Text. This does not work on a couple of levels. If just db.table.firstname db.table.lastname is tried, the code is produced verbatim, i.e. the contents of the fields is not seen, just the string as shown. Furthermore the concatenation of text and a field produces the text and the string "db.table.fieldname." I have tried concatenation symbols such as "+" "&" and "||". None works. I have also tried single and double quotes on the text and the field description which fails. Is this not possible or is there a way to do this? For custom letters such concatenations can make things more fluid and personal. Thanks, Jim -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
John, On 06/23/2012 12:15 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 12.04, the Libre Office 3.5.3.2 with 1 GB ram. I > rarely go into my swap partition. When in calc, often the system > grinds to a halt. Usually it takes about 15 seconds to allow mouse > pointer change, etc. Meanwhile, I can run Freecell with no slowdown > while I am waiting, so that tells me it is not as universal as an > overutilized processor or low on ram, or an Ubuntu issue. > > Help? > > John > > I notice hanging when working with relatively large files in Calc. Also, I have seen spreadsheets "hang" when there are complex calculations being done. How big is your spreadsheet? Also, can you post a copy to nabble? I understand if you can not post because of the nature of the information. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For 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] Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops
I am running Ubuntu 12.04, the Libre Office 3.5.3.2 with 1 GB ram. I rarely go into my swap partition. When in calc, often the system grinds to a halt. Usually it takes about 15 seconds to allow mouse pointer change, etc. Meanwhile, I can run Freecell with no slowdown while I am waiting, so that tells me it is not as universal as an overutilized processor or low on ram, or an Ubuntu issue. Help? John -- For 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: [OT] quality of drivers - was: [New brothers printer does not appear to print Landscape]
Le 2012-06-22 15:37, Mieszko Kaczmarczyk a écrit : W dniu 22.06.2012 16:13, Marc Paré pisze: I had the same problem with my Samsung printer that quit doing Landscape with my Mageia Linux distro. I found that it was not in fact a bug with LibreOffice but a problem with the printer driver. [OT] There we collect info - IMHO very useful - to not buying Brother & Samsung. Both companies made advertisement about their drivers for Linux, but the quality of this drivers is down. In practice the only HP & Konica (not all models) works with Linux - of course if selected model support PCL and/or PostScript. Regards Mieszko Kaczmarczyk Actually, I would recommend to check with the OpenPrinting.org project if people are really concerned with printer compatibility, but, on the whole, this is just a recent glitch. I am sure it will be fixed. I suspect it is not really a problem with the actual drivers but with the dependencies that are needed with the SPL drivers. I usually recommend Samsung as a good choice for printer and my son has a brother printer that worked 'out of the box' without any problems on Linux (it is an older model). Cheers, Marc -- For 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
