[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/06/11 17:41, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi all, Better off looking here first : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+database As you can see, there are a good number of Base bugs, many of which have are still unresolved since the very first releases of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Currency?

2011-06-05 Thread me sub
Hi, The problem that my country is not listed there, and only 5 arabic country is listed in the local settings! By the way, all arabic countries speaks one language, so I does not matter which language to select, but the country currency symbol important! *add the language localizations for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Currency?

2011-06-05 Thread planas
Toki, On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:02 +0300, me sub wrote: Hi, The problem that my country is not listed there, and only 5 arabic country is listed in the local settings! By the way, all arabic countries speaks one language, so I does not matter which language to select, but the country

[libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.0 Writer and Modifications

2011-06-05 Thread jmarcgby
Text deleted with Modifications does not appear when new text inserted, See Image http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3025523/ScreenShot002.bmp Work fine wit LO Writer 3.3.2 Thank you (and excuse my english) -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.0 Writer and Modifications

2011-06-05 Thread Jean-Michel Halloy
Just trying it from writer with the same result crashed at time of device selection. Regards On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, jmarcgby jmarc...@orange.fr wrote: Text deleted with Modifications does not appear when new text inserted, See Image

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.0 Writer and Modifications

2011-06-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 09:32, jmarcgby wrote: Text deleted with Modifications does not appear when new text inserted, See Image http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3025523/ScreenShot002.bmp Work fine wit LO Writer 3.3.2 Thank you (and excuse my english) Please have a look at

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.0 Writer and Modifications

2011-06-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Addendum (Correction): [...] (« Notes de version LibreOffice 3.4.0 Finale (03-06-2011): Il reste quelques bogues dans cette version, qui seront pris en compte dans les prochaines mises à jour : Impossibilité de restaurer le texte supprimé avec le suivi des modifications (fdo#37584) [...] » [3])

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not understood properly by MS Office 2010

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Probably best to avoid this argument about top vs bottom posting again!! Some of the old-boys and vital devs might get upset again! Please, lets try to minimise such arguments from now on. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: At0mic atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not understood properly by MS Office 2010

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You are welcome [bows]. It was Dennis' answer that gave the biggest nudge towards sorting the problem but there is no way of crediting him with points or anything. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: At0mic atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] error in menu for tools/language/for selection or for paragraph

2011-06-05 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, Thanks for reporting. webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (04-06-11 23:13) On 06/04/2011 09:48 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: ToolsLanguageFor Selection or For Paragraph. I am using 3.3.2 DEB 64-bit When I try to select a language to for a selected text

[libreoffice-users] newbe at LibreOffice HELP please

2011-06-05 Thread captkirk1nd
I just got a new computer with Windows 7 and I am having problems with LibreOffice. After writing several documents and closing out Libre I cannot re-establish contact with my documents unless I first close down my computer and reboot. The message that I get is the Libre is running but I know that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread PLO
Hello Tom, On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:22:50 +0100 (BST) (your time) you said: ... i played around with Format Cells. I couldn't get an ideal answer that shows a - even when the cell is empty but i could get one when the cell has 0 value. Well, too much time later and I haven't been able to work

[libreoffice-users] Re: newbe at LibreOffice HELP please

2011-06-05 Thread randy janur
hello Bree, This solution is really stupid but will hopefully save you rebooting your system to just open the documents(till someone finds a better way).press ctrl+shift+esc keys,a window called task manager will open up.it will have various tabs,look up for libreoffice under applications

Re: [libreoffice-users] newbe at LibreOffice HELP please

2011-06-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
First, Thanks for trying LibreOffice. Next, we need to ask What version of LibreOffice are you using? Currently we have version 3.3.2 and version 3.4.0 out. Next, do you have the Quick Start active? I do not know where the icon will be on Win7, but on earlier Windows version it was on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] error in menu for tools/language/for selection or for paragraph

2011-06-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:56, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi, Thanks for reporting. webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (04-06-11 23:13) On 06/04/2011 09:48 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: ToolsLanguageFor Selection or For Paragraph. I am using 3.3.2 DEB 64-bit

Re: [libreoffice-users] error in menu for tools/language/for selection or for paragraph

2011-06-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Addendum (sorry, wrong link for Bug 36091) On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:49, Manfred J. Krause wrote: [...] Bug 36091 - Bringing up dialogue for a different language for selection or paragraph only brings up text formatting instead https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36091 [...] mjk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
--- On Sat, 5/28/11, Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com wrote: MySQL is NOT owned by Oracle. WTF? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql#Corporate_backing_history Nuzhna -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/11 10:20, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, Well after fiddling around deleting odd bits here and there and still getting no further, I decided to delete the whole LibreOffice user profile and then restart LibreOffice. It meant I had to re-install the mysql connector again,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello Alex, I have in the meantime switched to using odbc. However, I still would prefer to use the native connection. How do you delete the whole LibreOffice user profile? Thanks for your help. Regards Heinrich On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:42:45 +0200, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com

[libreoffice-users] Consistent 3.4.0 crash in Calc when Linking to External Data

2011-06-05 Thread Andy M
I have some spreadsheets with embedded links to HTML web page data, and in 3.4.0 (to which I just upgraded) they cause Calc to crash when I open the spreadsheet and they try to update. I can recreate this bug with apparently any link to a web page, just by opening a blank spreadsheet, selecting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It depends on which OS. For Ubuntu and other gnulinux distros it's /home/user/.libreoffice Replace user with your user-name. However you can probably do the same thing with greater precision by finding the relevant folder in it's sub-folders /home/user/.libreoffice/3/user Personally i

Re: [libreoffice-users] error in menu for tools/language/for selection or for paragraph

2011-06-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/05/2011 08:53 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Addendum (sorry, wrong link for Bug 36091) On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:49, Manfred J. Krause wrote: [...] Bug 36091 - Bringing up dialogue for a different language for selection or paragraph only brings up text formatting instead

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey!! Good work! Hopefully that might help with other issues later even if it couldn't solve this problem this time. Thanks and regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: PLO protect.libreoff...@inboxshield.co.uk To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 5 June, 2011

[libreoffice-users] Re: Consistent 3.4.0 crash in Calc when Linking to External Data

2011-06-05 Thread Andy M
Sorry, I meant to state that I am running on Windows XP SP3. If it makes any difference, I was using LibreOffice 3.3.2, and just recently upgraded to 3.4.0. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] error in menu for tools/language/for selection or for paragraph

2011-06-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 16:27, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 06/05/2011 08:53 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: [...] Thanks, I thought it must have been reported before. I just never tried to use it with non-English language words in the text before. It is very nice

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-06-05 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
--- On Sat, 5/28/11, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: 2. I sometimes need to work in cm, and sometimes in inches. How do I change from one to the other? Again, I recall that this was easy to set in Excel. Tools → Options… → LibreOffice Calc → General Missed that (I don't

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.0

2011-06-05 Thread tronkel
Has anyone had a printing problem with 3.4.0? 3.2.2 was fine in this regard 3.4.0 shows a correctly installed CUPS printer but refuses to actually print the job. What has changed between the two versions? -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/06/11 16:27, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) It depends on which OS. For Ubuntu and other gnulinux distros it's /home/user/.libreoffice And on Mac it is /Users/username/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice. Yes, renaming instead of deleting makes sense if you have a lot of

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-06-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/6/5 Nuzhna Pomoshch nuzhna_pomos...@yahoo.com: --- On Sat, 5/28/11, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: 2. I sometimes need to work in cm, and sometimes in inches. How do I change from one to the other? Again, I recall that this was easy to set in Excel. Tools →

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Roland Hughes
I stand corrected. I had forgotten Oracle purchased SUN and SUN had purchased MySQL. My information was correct up until 2009. Now you have to use MariaDB if you want the community version of MySQL. On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 06:38 -0700, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: --- On Sat, 5/28/11, Roland Hughes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not understood properly by MS Office 2010

2011-06-05 Thread Roland Hughes
Wasn't an argument, it was the truth. If the message doesn't show up in the little window without my having to scroll, it gets nuked and the poster, in most cases, kill-filed in the genetically obsolete file. On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 10:01 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Probably best to avoid

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Tom, For me, the suggestion to delete the user directory did not work. The weird thing is that when downloading and then trying to activate the mysql-connector, I get the message that loading mysqlc.uno.so failed. That module is present in the directory mentioned in the message. As I mentioned

[libreoffice-users] Multuple rules/conditions to range of cells

2011-06-05 Thread PLO
Hello LO Users, I've been trying - without success - to apply five separate conditional formatting rule to a column based on their value. Each of the 365 cells in the column contain a simple formula. E.g =SUM((N151+L152)-(P152+R152)) I need the result in each of the cells to be formatted

[libreoffice-users] Re: Document in Use when opening saved document

2011-06-05 Thread AvLieshout
It looks like this is the same problem as mentioned in your second link, and the solution is more or less the same. Instead of commenting out a whole block of code, the removal (via commenting out) of two lines in /opt/libreoffice/program/soffice does the trick. The lines commented out are: #

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Roland Hughes
I don't think it is a bug...I'm willing to bet the connector you have is for a different version of MySQL or a different version of the client. What distribution are you using? Not all Linux distros delete /tmp on boot. You need to ensure that your distro is deleting /tmp on boot, delete the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Heinrich If it works, use it :) If it's awkward to use odbc then you can always look at the issue again later. Hopefully things will have moved on by then although Base is not developing fast right now. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: Roland Hughes

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.0

2011-06-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/05/2011 11:06 AM, tronkel wrote: Has anyone had a printing problem with 3.4.0? 3.2.2 was fine in this regard 3.4.0 shows a correctly installed CUPS printer but refuses to actually print the job. What has changed between the two versions? What Linux distro are you using? I have to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Roland, I use Debian-Squeeze at the moment. Having spent too much time already doing things where I don't understand all the possible ramifications - I hesitate to delete /tmp. Is it o.k. for sure to do so or might I hurt something in doing so down in the depth of Linux? Regards H On Sun, 05

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Tom, It isn't awkward to use myodbc/unixodbc at all. I had used it for quite some time before trying JDBC (and giving up on it!). The installation is somewhat more involved (odbc.ini und odbcinst.ini...). But then it works beautifully. Naturally I would in the end prefer to use the native

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Baxter
Since installing 3.4 when i boot it shows the startscreen (the screen where u can open templates , docs etc) i have the option checked start libreoffice at system start but this used to be just the icon in the taskbar , not the screen which i always have to close now. This appears to be a

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Alan, Alan Baxter schrieb: Since installing 3.4 when i boot it shows the startscreen (the screen where u can open templates , docs etc) i have the option checked start libreoffice at system start but this used to be just the icon in the taskbar , not the screen which i always have to

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be good to post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Perhaps you could forward that link to the forum thread so someone can see if someone ahs already posted a bug-report there? Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: Alan Baxter

[libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Baxter
Thank you for the confirmation, Regina. I never use quickstarter. Are you sure you need it? I use an icon on the desktop to start LO. quickstarter is worse than useless now. Thank you for suggesting a workaround. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No, you don't need quick-starter running. Some people think they want it but it's not vital. LibreOffice still starts up just about as quickly even if it's not always running in the background like that. You can switch it off from inside LibreOffice Tools - Options - LibreOffice -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread PLO
Hello Tom, On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:05:49 +0100 (BST) (your time) you said: ... You can switch it off from inside LibreOffice Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Memory - Enable Systray Quickstarter Just untick it I never install it, but just looked and there isn't an option for it under Memory.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.4 shows start screen when starting PC

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oh :( It's the bottom option there in 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: PLO protect.libreoff...@inboxshield.co.uk To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 5 June, 2011 22:20:58 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3.4 shows start

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multuple rules/conditions to range of cells

2011-06-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 05/06/2011 18:47, PLO a écrit : Maybe there is another way in LibreOffice but I can't find it. There's a STYLE() function. Could it be of any use here? -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread prholland
I have a solution to the specific problem, based on Michael D. Setzer II's suggestion (see below): =IF(AND(ISNUMBER(C227), ISNUMBER(B227)),IF(C227-B2270,C227-B227,0), 0)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Consistent 3.4.0 crash in Calc when Linking to External Data

2011-06-05 Thread Andy M
I was able to try this on a different system, Win 7 64-bit, and there was no crash. I'll try a clean uninstall/reinstall on the XP system, and see if I can correct the problem. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multuple rules/conditions to range of cells

2011-06-05 Thread PLO
Hello Jean-Francois, On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:07:34 +0200 (your time) you said: There's a STYLE() function. Could it be of any use here? Thankyou! You pointed me in the right direction and I finally got there...I think :-D Just been testing it and this seems to work:

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4 Base Form Background Colour

2011-06-05 Thread dreamquartz
Cannot select background colour when starting form in LO 3.4 Base. Any thoughts? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-Base-Form-Background-Colour-tp3028636p3028636.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: LibreOffice 3.4.0

2011-06-05 Thread tronkel
Hello Krackedpress The 2 systems on which I have tried LO 3.4.0 are Slackware 13.37 and Puppy Linux Wary 5.1.2. The printer itself is a Brother DCP7030 whose linux driver is supplied via the Brother website. Neither of these systems have a printing problem with LO 3.2.2. LO has never before

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multuple rules/conditions to range of cells

2011-06-05 Thread Lynn Wilde
I don't know why I got this e-mail. Please don't send me such e-mails again. I do have a question. I copied a book that I wrote with MS Word on to LibreOffice, but none of the pictures transferred, only boxes where the pictures would be. The computer on which I wrote the document ran Win XP