[libreoffice-users] Mac OSX Intel - DOXC with Pictures

2011-07-29 Thread thomi
hi all we have a problem on a Mac OSX intel 10.6.8 with libreoffice 3.4.1. See this file http://db.tt/7tOH9Gb, it contains the following: Example.docx - docx with a embedded picture Example.pdf - the pdf, was created from Example.docx Screenshot-01.png - screenshot in edit mode Screenshot-02.png

[libreoffice-users] Configure LO to use localdisk installation of help manual

2011-07-29 Thread e-letter
Readers, I do not want to rely upon internet access when using LO. Is there a way to configure LO to refer to help documentation installed on the localdisk where LO was installed also? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting question

2011-07-29 Thread Night
Sorry it took so long to get back, I was on vacation, but did get a little time to look into it and while I am going to use everyones suggestions it turns out it's not LO but the site I upload to. It reformats and I have to go in through their editor to fix it. Pain. Anyway, again I am going to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 plus Native MySQL connection

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's not easy to get more than 1 install of LibreOffice/OpenOffice workign on one machine but there are instructions on how to do this here http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Although the 3.4.2 is claimed to be aimed at enterprises i would be wary about abandoning

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: (help macro base)Open form with a button form another form with filter

2011-07-29 Thread rogerio dandrea
Alex , thank you. I will return to the problem when version 3.4.2 is launched (in july) 2011/7/28 Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Le 28/07/11 22:11, rogerio dandrea a écrit : Hi Rogerio, Sorry if this is a silly question but, how do I switch the focus from one form to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 plus Native MySQL connection

2011-07-29 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Tom, As I mentioned in my post, I am staying with 3.3.3 on Windows. My MySQL-database is stored on my Debian-system and accessed via the native MySQL-connection from Windows. This combination is not ideal but it works and I can always fall back to it if the Linux-version (using ODBC at the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 plus Native MySQL connection

2011-07-29 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Here we go again, I run a 4-core-2.4 GHz PC. When working with LO 3.4.2-rc3 for a while, one of the CPUs gets used at between 90 and 100 p.c. constantly. This continues even though NOTHING external happens. When I then try to enter text into an .odt-Textfile performance is obviously

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.07.2011 08:30, Tom Cloyd wrote: As an aside, have you thoughts to share about HSQLDB vs H2? Any good reason to migrate to H2 (a question entirely separate from the db speed question). I'd be interested to hear your thoughts if you have time to share them. The tiny user community of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Could that community be prevailed upon to join TDF and manage the Base part of the project? Presumably they have knowledge of key players and have a good idea of what needs to be done to improve Base? Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 29.07.2011 13:42, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Could that community be prevailed upon to join TDF and manage the Base part of the project? Presumably they have knowledge of key players and have a good idea of what needs to be done to improve Base? Regards from Tom :) Be assured that those guys

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting question

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be more productive to contact their webmaster/mistrees or find the people that develop the site somehow. They might be able to giive better advice on how to format stuff. Regards from Tom :) From: Night lady.larm...@gmail.com To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 plus Native MySQL connection

2011-07-29 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Here we go again, I run a 4-core-2.4 GHz PC. When working with LO 3.4.2-rc3 for a while, one of the CPUs gets used at between 90 and 100 p.c. constantly. This continues even though NOTHING external happens. When I then try to enter text into an .odt-Textfile performance is obviously

[libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Koen van Steekelenburg
Dear readers, I have a document(csv converted to spreadsheet) with bankstatements. Those statements have a date in the form of MMDD (no /'s or -'s). The problem is that I can't make libreoffice recognise those numbers as dates. Can somebody explain how I can make Libreoffice recognise the

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 29 July 2011 12:29, Koen van Steekelenburg koenvansteekelenb...@gmail.com wrote: I have a document(csv converted to spreadsheet) with bankstatements. Those statements have a date in the form of MMDD (no /'s or -'s). The problem is that I can't make libreoffice recognise those numbers as

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
. Hit ”Replace all” or search and replace them one by one. I just tested this on my system (language=Swedish, country=Sweden). I entered 20110729 in one cell and then replaced ^([:digit:]{4})([:digit:]{2})([:digit:]{2})$ by $1-$2-$3. The cell displayed 11-07-29 (since the default date format on my

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Koen, Koen van Steekelenburg schrieb: Dear readers, I have a document(csv converted to spreadsheet) with bankstatements. Those statements have a date in the form of MMDD (no /'s or -'s). The problem is that I can't make libreoffice recognise those numbers as dates. Can somebody explain

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/7/29 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de: Hi Koen, Koen van Steekelenburg schrieb: Dear readers, I have a document(csv converted to spreadsheet) with bankstatements. Those statements have a date in the form of MMDD (no /'s or -'s). The problem is that I can't make

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 29 July 2011 13:36, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: In the csv import dialog is a preview of the data. Click on the column header of the date column. This enables the 'Column type' drop down list. There choose 'Date(YMD)'. Now the dates should be recognized as date already

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Koen van Steekelenburg
Mr. Valentine is right. The document consists of imports of several differently formatted csv-files and added personal notes, so reimport is no option. Koen On 29 July 2011 21:10, T. R. Valentine trvalent...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 July 2011 13:36, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote: Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-clickOpen the dBase Bibliography. All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row set into office documents.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread Regina Henschel
T. R. Valentine schrieb: On 29 July 2011 13:36, Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: In the csv import dialog is a preview of the data. Click on the column header of the date column. This enables the 'Column type' drop down list. There choose 'Date(YMD)'. Now the dates should be

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread NoOp
On 07/29/2011 01:41 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote: Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-clickOpen the dBase Bibliography. All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row set into

[libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

2011-07-29 Thread NoOp
On 07/28/2011 05:13 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/27/2011 06:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote: I only referred to that as it shows making a ~/.fonts folder etc. Please create and put the BakerSignet font in there see if LO picks it up. Not really, as I don't know what

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread ponsiarceds
. tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-07-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:16 29/07/2011 +0300, David Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Juan Carlos juanzeppe...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the same problem with L.O Writer 3.4.1 in Ubuntu 10.10. L.O. uses java 1.6.0_26. Also I downloaded the deb packages from the web page (not from PPA) Is there any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:55 -0700, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread jorge
Hi Thanks you for this tips and to all for Base and data bases tips ! Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El vie, 29-07-2011 a las 17:55 -0700, ponsiarceds escribió: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm

[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-29 Thread Cliff Scott
At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just changed my email address so I had to unsubscribe the old one and subscribe the new

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?

2011-07-29 Thread JeepNut
emarkay wrote: Ya' know the Table one that appears sometimes when you click something in a table. This also happens with other operations; ...snipped if I wanted this menu, I'd already have it there...snipped Bump on this. Exactly what I was looking for an answer to. Doesn't anyone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Cloyd
I'll chime in - thanks indeed. I just removed my current sun-java, and installed sun-java6-bin_6.22-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb and sun-java6-jre_6.22-0ubuntu1~10.04_all.deb Everything seems to run fine. However, the increase in Base/HYPERSQL speed is only about 25%. Disappointing. This still

[libreoffice-users] Turning Off Numbering/Outlining/Bullets

2011-07-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
Okay, I think it's cool that LO, like so many editors now, will jump into an outline or bullet mode automatically, but what if you don't want that? I'm taking a written test and I want to number the items like this: 1) Question one text: (And here is the answer) 2) Question two text: (And here

[libreoffice-users] how to add watermark in a presentation?

2011-07-29 Thread soumalya ray
is there any way to add a watermark to the slides of a presentation from menu directly?i could not find anything. i mean the ability to select something from the menu to add a watermark with custom text and be in something like 80% transparent black by default or similar. is it possible? -- Dr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-29 Thread soumalya ray
thank you 4 sharing On 30 July 2011 07:37, Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net wrote: At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for unsubscribing in the footer of messages on this list is incorrect. I just

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

2011-07-29 Thread soumalya ray
congrats for getting it back in one piece On 30 July 2011 07:55, JeepNut jeep...@zoho.com wrote: Because I really like closure, thought I would post the resolution to the problem of the file I lost. Admittedly a fairly unsophisticated user of the office suite, I overlooked a very easy

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert a number(in format YYYYMMDD) to date

2011-07-29 Thread soumalya ray
awesome,thanks On 30 July 2011 00:06, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Koen, Koen van Steekelenburg schrieb: Dear readers, I have a document(csv converted to spreadsheet) with bankstatements. Those statements have a date in the form of MMDD (no /'s or -'s). The