Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 21:40 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 06/18/2011 07:52 PM, planas wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: snip There you go: When you need a particular feature, you must have it. When you

[libreoffice-users] BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Cloyd
I seem to have found a glitch. I have set up a table with two fields only, and the table cannot be updated. Opened, no new records can be added. To replicate: 1. Make first field a key with autovalue-yes. 2. Make second field a text (VARCHAR) field, with entry required = No, and give it a

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 10:23, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, 1. Make first field a key with autovalue-yes. 2. Make second field a text (VARCHAR) field, with entry required = No, and give it a default value - some text string. You do have a primary key defined as the autovalue field (since you say that

[libreoffice-users] List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Cloyd
I know this is complicated, but I'll try to be simple and clear. I'm building a form that displays a single record at a time from a table, as a set of text boxes. The form displays all data in the table by moving successively to each record. Every field except the primary key field can be

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread Frieder
Am 19.06.2011 01:52, schrieb planas: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: Lee, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 21:42 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: I believe that the 80/20 is somewhat misleading. As noted earlier must use

[libreoffice-users] Re: List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 11:07, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, Possibly any one of these might shed some light : http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96703 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=55208 http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/ooo-help/r2.1/en-US/WIN/shared/02/01170203

Re: [libreoffice-users] List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-19 Thread Frieder
Am 19.06.2011 11:07, schrieb Tom Cloyd: I know this is complicated, but I'll try to be simple and clear. I'm building a form that displays a single record at a time from a table, as a set of text boxes. The form displays all data in the table by moving successively to each record. Every field

Re: [libreoffice-users] List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hopefully this is in Base rather than Calc. The 2 tables need to be connected by some sort of relationship. I don't think spreadsheets work as relational databases? One of the 'obvious' 'easy answers' (and therefore most commonly missed) is if the relationship is not defined in Base.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing With OSX 10.6.7

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Reich
On 6/17/11 users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing With OSX 10.6.7 From: Tinkerer j_taylo...@btinternet.com Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:05:51 -0700 (PDT) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Michael I only have the one printer in Snow Leopard,

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread lee
planas jsloz...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planas jsloz...@gmail.com writes: When you need to package 80--90% of all features anyway, how important is it to put effort into packaging only 10--20% of all features seperately? The current

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing With OSX 10.6.7

2011-06-19 Thread Tinkerer
Michael Print with Last Printer Used is definitely a Mac OSX call. Why LibreO should change that I don't know. Does it default to the Last Printer Used by LibreO? Tink. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Printing-With-OSX-10-6-7-tp3064709p3082879.html Sent

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread Roland Hughes
The problem is that the programmers _never_ test with the extensions, so, when they make changes, the extensions quit working. Then the maintainer quits maintaining the extension. You want a shining example? Download, install, and try the SUN Weblog Publisher. On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 02:18

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the page number on the right or left depending on whether it's a right or left page, and also centred text (on

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:19 15/06/2011 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the page number on the right or left depending on whether it's a right or left page, and also centred text (on the same line). I think the

RE: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Do tab settings not work in header lines? Is there not a center on me tab? -Original Message- From: Mark Stanton [mailto:m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 02:20 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar To reproduce a

[libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Stanton
To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the page number on the right or left depending on whether it's a right or left page, and also centred text (on the same line). I think the first bit isn't too hard (is it?), but I can't

[libreoffice-users] Re: *dbf files open in Calc not Base

2011-06-19 Thread NoOp
On 06/18/2011 10:53 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: ... 3) A workaround is to use the Wizard for the AddressBook datasource FileWizardDefine Address Book. You should see in the list of supported db's that be default the wizard selects dBase. You can actually name your db anything you like, all

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 20/06/11 4:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:19 15/06/2011 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the page number on the right or left depending on whether it's a right or left page, and also

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Davies
From: Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 19:27:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar On 20/06/11 4:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:19 15/06/2011 +0100, Mark Stanton

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread planas
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:09 +0200, Frieder wrote: Am 19.06.2011 01:52, schrieb planas: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: Lee, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 21:42 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: I believe that the

[libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew Foss
I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many times in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying to open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the programmers have gone to great lengths to stop one doing what you wants and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread planas
Andrew, On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 12:35 -0700, Andrew Foss wrote: I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many times in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying to open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the

RE: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I just checked the file-open dialog from within Calc in LibreOffice 3.3.2. The .txt extension is listed under both Spreadsheets and Text document. If it doesn't work, it definitely seems to be a bug. I am surprised there is no File | Import ... Calc menu item for this and similar cases. It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Where do you get the tab delimited file from? Does it offer a Csv (comma separated values) option as well? If so then Csv is the more normal method of transferring data. Proprietary systems do try to throw a curved ball into the mix to force people to go over to their systems for

RE: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I see the Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt) now. When I checked the File | Open ... dialog before, the scroll bar was off the right of my display [;). That is *way* down there, huh? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Nuno J. Silva [mailto:nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.06.2011 21:35, Andrew Foss wrote: I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many times in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying to open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the programmers have gone to great lengths

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-19 Thread Twayne
In news:1308412490832-3080029.p...@n3.nabble.com, aqualung xfekdcugj...@mailinator.com typed: Cor Twayne, Thank you for your replies. Twayne wrote: If you think about the preceding paragraph, it's saying that both OOo and LO use the same file types and thus there could be confusion to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Nuno J. Silva [mailto:nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt] wrote: On 2011-06-19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: The problem is that both Writer and Calc accept .txt, according to the selections in the File | Open menu, but there is apparently no way to prevent the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-19 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 17.06.2011, 16:20 Uhr, schrieb Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com: If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs on this issue. They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement WordPro windows for documents. Right now they have taken the brain

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-19 Thread Zak McKracken
So what is the decision on the svg embedding? For me at lest SVG support is even more important than EPS support. Todd Hi :) I don't think there is a definite final answer yet. It seems that Svg work is scheduled for Googles' Summer of Code (GSoC). The GSoC work is SVG export (not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-19, Andrew Foss wrote: Choosing Spreadsheets does not work but CSV does if you can find it, it took some time and I doubtless would not have found it if I had not known it was there. The app should be able to tell that the Calc UI has been selected by the user which means they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-06-20 09:19, planas wrote: Tom On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 22:07 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Where do you get the tab delimited file from? Does it offer a Csv (comma separated values) option as well? If so then Csv is the more normal method of transferring data.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-19, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-06-20 09:19, planas wrote: On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 22:07 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: From: Andrew Foss shrisou...@yahoo.ca I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc.[...] Where do you get the tab delimited file from? Does it offer a Csv

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:52 19/06/2011 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: On 20/06/11 4:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote: To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the page number on the right or left depending on whether it's a right or left page, and also

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread lee
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: On 2011-06-19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Nuno J. Silva [mailto:nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt] wrote: I see the Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt) now. When I checked the File | Open ... dialog before, the scroll bar was off the right of my display [;). That is

[libreoffice-users] Double clicking .ODT file opens it in WordPad!

2011-06-19 Thread Bazsl
I uninstalled Open Office and installed LibreOffice. Now if I click on a .ODT file it opens in WordPad instead of Writer. How can I easily fix this for all LibreOffice apps on Win7 Pro 64 bit? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-19 Thread Roland Hughes
It won't be anywhere near close. Get a copy of SmartSuit 98 or later and see what a word processor was supposed to be. On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 23:20 +0200, Zak McKracken wrote: Am 17.06.2011, 16:20 Uhr, schrieb Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com: If you visit the bug report site,

[libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-19 Thread lee
Hi, how do I set a default pasting type so that when pasting, only the text itself is pasted and not the formatting with it? How do I make it so that text, when pasted with the mouse, is inserted at the position of the text cursor where it´s supposed to be inserted, rather than where the mouse

RE: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Roxy Robinson
I haven't had to do this in quite some time. Also, don't know for sure if just tabs will work or not. What I did in the past with Word 2000 (I think, could have been earlier) was insert a 1 X 2 table in the header. The page number would go in on cell and the text in the other cell. I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to do this header bar

2011-06-19 Thread Roxy Robinson
Boy, that makes it pretty simple from the way I used to do it many years ago in Word. I keep forgetting about this Styles thing. Roxy At 10:19 15/06/2011 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: To reproduce a very common printing style I want to have a header line (on every page) in my document with the

[libreoffice-users] Base and SQL problems

2011-06-19 Thread Denis Poitras
Hi, I'm new with Libre Office base and there is my actual problem... (excuse my english, I speak french) I have a base with a lot of tables. Tables for Prefix, first name (prenoms) and Family names (Noms) In another table, I have PERSONS table: build from the 3 previous table. So on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Double clicking .ODT file opens it in WordPad!

2011-06-19 Thread Roxy Robinson
Right click on a .odt file and select open with. This will bring up a window where you pick what program to open the file with. If LO is there you can browse to the run file and put LO in the selection window. Select LO Writer and be sure to tick the very small box on the left side of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-19 Thread Roxy Robinson
From what I know you have to use Paste Special for what you want to do. Paste Special has several options that you must choose from, so you cannot set it to do only one of those things every time. Hmmm. On the second one, I don't ever remember seeing that happen. But then I am usually using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Delete key in the IDE does nothing

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/20/2011 12:12 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 20/06/2011 04:35, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak a écrit : In the Macro IDE the DEL key does nothing. Can someone else verify this in LO as working or broken? Note that in OOo is works as expected. I verified that the DELETE key is set to Delete

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-19 Thread aqualung
Twayne wrote: IIRC, the use is given the choice of not affecting any other file associations during the install. Or, it can take over all of them depending on which you choose at install time. O.K., good. So, LibO already gives the three-way choice dialog box that I envisioned? I am not