Re: [libreoffice-users] Compute difference

2011-07-23 Thread John B
Thanks Tom Dear Dave It does work - you have to format the input cells as stated. b4 is formatted to Date, 31/Dec c4 is text to d4 is formatted to Date, 31/dec then in E4 =days360(b4,d4,3) then input your 2 dates into b4 and d4 as in just type:- 01/07/2011 and 22/07/2011 and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Given up spellchecking?

2011-07-23 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Both (all in fact) This seems to be the crux of it. On my system Ubuntu/Pinguy 11.04, LO 3.4.1) the spell checker is Hundspell. Hunspell isn't appearing in the list of Available language modules, whereas it does on my Windoze setup. It looks like it's been vaped. But how do I get it

[libreoffice-users] How to import a txt file into an existing Calc sheet?

2011-07-23 Thread George R . Kasica
Hello: I have a currently existing Excel 2007 sheet that I can do a (In Excel) Refresh All for \\APOLLO\e\WeatherLink\JACW3\download.txt which is a test file in the format of: Temp HiLow Out WindWind Hi Hi Wind Heat THSW

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to import a txt file into an existing Calc sheet?

2011-07-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:48 23/07/2011 -0500, George R. Kasica wrote: I have a currently existing Excel 2007 sheet that I can do a (In Excel) Refresh All for \\APOLLO\e\WeatherLink\JACW3\download.txt ... So that's a file available to your system? ... which is a te[x]t file in the format of: [...] and is

Re: [libreoffice-users] help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread David B Teague sr
On 7/22/2011 8:26 PM, planas wrote: Sorry about the problem. One idea I have is make copy of the file and change the extension to txt. My idea is that the formatting data would then be ignored when you open the copy. If it works you may get some formatting gibberish included with the text. --

[libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread JeepNut
Thanks for making a stab at this Tom. Here is the file. Was saved as a common text file originally with Kwrite so it had no file extension. Subsequently I got more complex with it and started edit it in LibreOffice. So I have to assume it saved as an .odt file, but the extension was never

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Oh wait, I have a bad feeling about this. You don't still have the Kwrite file? You took the Kwrite file into LibreOffice and started to edit it? Did it ever get save as a different file, or did you save it atop the Kwrite file, with the original no-file-extension name? I'd like to see

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There should be a system log some place that provides any error codes and information that led to a spontaneous reboot. Perhaps even for a freeze, but less likely. I have the screen flash reboot from time to time and in my case it appears to be either USB faults (related to the Bluetooth

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm. If the graphics card has been there for about a year then that's probably not the issue. If it was older then maybe it's fan might have stopped working and the machine shuts down when the gpu overheats. If the crashes had been happening ever since putting the new card in then

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks for sending me the file. WinZip confirmed that the file is damaged and not usable. I looked at it in a hex editor and confirmed that it is indeed an ODF Text (.odt) file. The initial part of the Zip is there, and then suddenly the data is all zeros starting in the middle of a PNG