[libreoffice-users] Re: Ability to change currency as neededacross a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread floridabrits
thanks Twayne - I'm actually not interested in 'coverting' from USD to pick your currency so exchange rates don't matter at all... all I really need to do is be able to say hey, here's a spreadsheet that's in USD... if you click on this button you can change the currency to pick your currency and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ability to change currency as needed across a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread floridabrits
thanks Jay... I'll look into this and see if this is do-able/works... /g -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ability-to-change-currency-as-needed-across-a-spreadsheet-in-Calc-tp3169381p3170427.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

[libreoffice-users] Re: What is an Office Package?

2011-07-15 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Roland, On 7/14/11 9:19 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: Your bottom posting equates to the IQ of your logic. snip Bottom posters contribute so little to society I've gotten tired of comments about which type of posting is correct. My conclusion is, there is no absolute right or wrong

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ability to change currency as neededacross a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread Stephan Zietsman
floridabrits wrote: thanks Twayne - I'm actually not interested in 'coverting' from USD to pick your currency so exchange rates don't matter at all...  all I really need to do is be able to say hey, here's a spreadsheet that's in USD... if you click on this button you can change the currency

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ability to change currency as neededacross a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread Hladůvka Jiří
Hi, in my spreadsheets there I usually have a special sheet named Parameters where I set some varying values such as - company name - period (weeknumber, year, month etc.) - local currency name or sign - other currencies used - and other ... Besides that I have a Work sheet which remains hidden

Re: [libreoffice-users] What is an Office Package?

2011-07-15 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Roland Hughes wrote: People have been poking at this from different angles based upon what they want, and what they think LibreOffice is or should be. Putting it bluntly, they are all incorrect. At last! Thou is our real, awaited god of IT! Finally show us the Way to the correct way we must

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ability to change currency as needed across a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread Hladůvka Jiří
Let, say that in parameters sheet you have - in A1 some label saying Choose your currency - in A2 some initial valu e.g. USD click to A2 and choose from Data - Validity -bookmark Criteria - field Allow select Cell range and into field source enter link to the range where you have allowed

[libreoffice-users] Re: What is an Office Package?

2011-07-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ken Springer (Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:47:05 -0600) Furthermore, you (yes: You) save a lot of time using this way of quoting: You do not need to repeat what the person you refer to wrote, in order to show the context. You just place your comment after the text you wish to comment upon, and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ability to change currency as neededacross a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-15 Thread floridabrits
Stephan - looking for the currency symbol to change and display in whatever format that current displays in. Jiri - I'll take a look at your ideas too today and see if I can make that work. Thanks for everyone's input so far. Love this forum! :-) Regards, /g -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying Negative Numbers as red in Calc

2011-07-15 Thread Tinkerer
I have an iMac, System 10.6.8 and Libre 3.4.1 In Calc I have no problems with red negatives, two decimal places and comma separated thousands when saved as odf However, when saved as xls, the red negatives are all black, but the thousand separator and the two decimals are OK. In xml, fods,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying Negative Numbers as red in Calc

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That sounds like a bug to me http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport On Ubuntu the LibreOffice 3.3.2 has no trouble. Can you try the 3.3.3 to see if you have the same trouble? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice idea

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This guide might help post a wish-list item http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport A normal bug-report with [wishlist] added into the subject-line can sometimes be enough but the guide might have a more sophisticated way of doing it for LibreOffice. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing OLE problem

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
WoooHoo :) Congrats on fixing the problem. Gif is a good light-weight format that should work easily in MS Office too :) Regards from Tom :) From: purbeckjm j...@purbeck.adsl24.co.uk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 15 July, 2011 17:09:36 Subject:

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing OLE problem

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It strikes me that there is more than that going on here. I bet they are OLEs -- that is how embedding is done, they just present differently in Microsoft Office if Visio is installed (or not). You need to see what they are in the LO document if you are saving them as ODF. Typically, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS - and its Documents

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Brown
John B wrote: Dear Regina You are a cruel person;-) , I downloaded the documents from OASIS you suggested, to find over 1,500 pages. The first 150 pages is just the Index, (it needs an index to the Index) You must think I am Sheldon Cooper. Do you think you could reduce it to say 3

[libreoffice-users] Displaying Negative Numbers as red in Calc

2011-07-15 Thread bikerbrent
I don't seem to be able to display negative numbers red using a comma thousands separator and 2 decimal places . If I go to cell formatting, I have been able to get the negative number red with 2 decimal places, but no separator. However as soon as I save the document (in either .ods or .xml

[libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying Negative Numbers as red in Calc

2011-07-15 Thread bikerbrent
Tom, Yes, it appears to be a bug in 3.4.1. I uninstalled 3.4.1, installed 3.3.3 and the display now works as expected. I will submit a bug report in the near future. Oh, and for what it is worth, I am running Windows 7 64-bit. Thank you. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can I add a custom layout in Impress?

2011-07-15 Thread NoOp
On 07/15/2011 02:33 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/15/2011 07:29 AM, Earl Melton wrote: Hi Y'all, Not a Master Page, but a Layout instead of the one I choose every week and for which, each and every time, have to manually adjust the size and placement of text boxes (or place holders, whatever

Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS - and its Documents

2011-07-15 Thread JOE Conner
On 7/15/2011 2:10 PM, John B wrote: Dear Regina You are a cruel person;-) , I downloaded the documents from OASIS you suggested, to find over 1,500 pages. The first 150 pages is just the Index, (it needs an index to the Index) You must think I am Sheldon Cooper. Do you think you could

[libreoffice-users] Cursos a muy bajo costo - Buenos Aires

2011-07-15 Thread Carlos Jacobs
El Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de Edificios de Renta y Horizontal (SUTERH), pone a disposición de la comunidad los cursos Operador de Procesador de Textos (OpenOffice/LibreOffice): 2 meses Operador de Planilla de Cálculos (OpenOffice/LibreOffice): 2 meses Ambos cuentan con título expedido

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying Negative Numbers as red in Calc

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The guide for installing 2 versions of LO on the same machine might need a bit of thinking about but it should work http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel It is possible to buy Dvd versions to avoid having to download and they tend to be very reasonably priced Regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursos a muy bajo costo - Buenos Aires

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this was spam? IM Translate gave me The Union of Workers in Building Income and Horizontal (SUTERH) offers community courses Word Processor Operator (OpenOffice / LibreOffice): 2 months Operator spreadsheet (OpenOffice / LibreOffice): 2 months Both have certificates issued by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursos a muy bajo costo - Buenos Aires

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ooop, actually it looks like really good news :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 16 July, 2011 0:16:42 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursos a muy bajo costo - Buenos

Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS - and its Documents

2011-07-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol. I don't think John was being serious! It's the kinda thing friends say to each other in jest. No worries. All good :) Regards from Tom :) From: JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 15 July, 2011

[libreoffice-users] NA DVD ISO - soon to be online

2011-07-15 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Just got an email from Drew, In a week or so, there should be a link for the initial ISO based upon the CMS server system of the North American Community DVD. From there we hope to have a final version after this initial ISO is tested. But it is good news that the initial ISO is well ahead

Re: [libreoffice-users] Converting references to non-reference text in LibreOffice Writer: the dumbest possible way?!

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/13/2011 03:15 PM, Sandy Miller wrote: I have LibreOffice documents (written in 3.2/3.3) with extensive field cross-referencing to numbers of tables, numbered paragraphs, numbered sections and chapters, etc. Conversion to Word often messes those up so I wanted to change them all to text.