Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : 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

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

2011-07-30 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 19:25 -0700, JeepNut 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 answer to the problem of recovering the file that

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

2011-07-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Hal, Hal Vaughan wrote (30-07-11 07:32) 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? - Ctrl-Z immediately after the unwanted change - Tools Autocorrect options tab Options Apply

[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 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?

2011-07-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
JeepNut jeep...@zoho.com writes: 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

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

2011-07-30 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think it's more a case of working on several fronts within TDF. 1.   joining the Steering-Discuss mailing list and promoting the cause there. Tom's right. I can definitely recommend taking time out to join the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Cliff Scott ke6...@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 changed

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Congrats at fixing it and thanks for posting the right answer back into this thread. There are a lot of people working hard on LibreOffice and they seldom get much thanks so it's great to hear it. Thanks and congrats from Tom :) From: planas

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

2011-07-30 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Are you suggesting that if you log out of or shut down Windows when you have some component part of Microsoft Office 2010 open then it will just abort and complain next time it is opened? Are you joking? Even

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to have a problem and want you to recover it even if you dealt with

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't know. There is some documentation in the Getting Started Guide http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation But the full Impress Guide is still being worked on. Are you looking for something like a master slide so that the watermark is shown on all pages? Have you explored

[libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons

2011-07-30 Thread bill
On 07/28/2011 01:23 PM, planas wrote: Please file a bug, I do not what the issue is. I have never seen any behavior like this myself. If you could give more details may be (very may be) someone monitoring the list may know what is happening. Here's more detail. I did quite a bit of

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that when you get a new number (or bullet) after hitting the enter key you just press the back-space key (usually just above enter)? I'm not sure tho Regards from Tom :) From: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point out that the information for

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I'm sure the documentation team would appreciate your input on building up a guide for Base. It's a major challenge tho! Regards from Tom :) From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 2:30:00 Subject: Re:

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I get the impression that the different distros are not that hugely different under the bonnet even the ones that are in different families (ie Slackware family vs Debian family). Agreed that it's worth being aware that there might be differences tho. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I agree that moving the : does make it much clearer. I think there must have been some sort of morphic field as i had just posted that in the moderators list at the same time you were posting the idea in here. Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott

[libreoffice-users] help

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Scott
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Re: [libreoffice-users] help

2011-07-30 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Cliff, On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:35:37 -0500 Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net wrote: help with what? Can you be a bit more verbose please? Sigrid -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

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

2011-07-30 Thread David B Teague sr
On 7/29/2011 11:33 PM, Mahesh T Pai wrote: JeepNutjeep...@zoho.com writes: 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] spellcheck in calc

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi ? Sorry but i have completely lost track. Have you managed to solve this problem yet? Regards from Tom :) From: Thomas Blasejewicz tho...@s7.dion.ne.jp To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 3:38:08 Subject: [libreoffice-users]

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In MS Office you can drag them to be the 2nd half of an existing toolbar. By half i mean a variable amount down to perhaps just a thumbs width. Regards from Tom :) PS Q. Is your glass half full or half empty? Zaphod. Hey!!! That's not my glass! Mine was much larger! And it was

Re: [libreoffice-users] help

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ctrl Z a few times to undo? Reboot? Ulp. Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 15:35:37 Subject: [libreoffice-users] help -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

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

2011-07-30 Thread toki
On 07/30/2011 03:54 PM, David B Teague sr wrote: Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space? Drag the offending menu to the middle of the page. Then select View Toolbars; Uncheck the offending

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

2011-07-30 Thread Don C. Myers
Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Cloyd
I may have seen this too late to join in, but I'll make the next one for sure. Thanks very much for the tip. I agree with Tom, too, in theory. The problem is that my resource account is already overdrawn. I have nothing left with which to make a heavy investment, anywhere. If it's just a

Re: [libreoffice-users] help

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:47:41 +0200 Hi Cliff, On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:35:37 -0500 Cliff Scott ae...@qsl.net wrote: help with what? Can you be a bit more verbose please? Sigrid Sigrid, Thanks for asking. That

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread Libre User
At 06:16 AM 7/30/2011, you wrote: ** Reply to message from Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:54:08 +0200 Le 30/07/2011 04:07, Cliff Scott a écrit : At the risk of starting another round of arguments regarding subscribing unsubscribing I would like to point

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

2011-07-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/07/11 11:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, My favourite connector to my MySQL-DB is the native connector. I hoped that it might work under 3.4.2, but it seems that this might not be the case - would be a pity. That's because according to MySQL, it is recommended to

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

2011-07-30 Thread soumalya ray
yeah,i have tried master slide.but that's not what i am talking about.i am talking about an option under,say insert,named,say watermark.on clicking it,a pop-up will open with an option of text/image entry transparency option.the text entered into the box will become the watermark for the

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

2011-07-30 Thread Don C. Myers
One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice message footer

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is some discussion about this on the moderators list http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Instructions-on-how-to-unsubscribe-td3016239.html#a3211580 Feel free to add suggestions and/or indicate which options you would prefer to see. TDF is about finding answers and making progress

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

2011-07-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
That undoes or stops the numbering. It doesn't stop it from happening every time I type something like: 1) Question 1 2) Question 2 and so on. Hal On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think that when you get a new number (or bullet) after hitting the enter key you

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

2011-07-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Hal, Hal Vaughan wrote (30-07-11 07:32) 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? - Ctrl-Z immediately after the unwanted change -

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

2011-07-30 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 29/07/2011 10:41, Andreas Säger a écrit : As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect, query, edit and dump. If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems nobody would notice the change. Could you elaborate, please? If I remove Java, can I

[libreoffice-users] Code snippet

2011-07-30 Thread Bill Gradwohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've searched and can't figure out how to specify the height of a button at execution time via a basic macro. If Sheet1 contains a button name OK, how would I specify a button height of 0.5cm? The only examples I can find are for buttons on forms,

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

2011-07-30 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:34 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The main thing is that you found a way to solve your current problem. Congrats and regards from Tom :) From: Tom Cloyd t...@tomcloyd.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 18:51:02 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be time to cut Base loose. Most versions of MS Office don't include Access. Gnome Office doesn't have a database program. Perhaps Office Suites just don't need an integrated program to do this sort of stuff. Maybe Calc is enough. There are a few alternatives on the market

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

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Cloyd
What I like about this idea is that it frees it up to be picked up by anyone who wants to take it and run with it, and THAT just might work. I do fear for what it might do with people who need an integrated solution. t. ~~ Tom Cloyd / t...@tomcloyd.com /

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

2011-07-30 Thread Вячеслав Лебедев
-Исходное сообщение- From: Tom Cloyd Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:40 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow On 07/29/2011 06:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd

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

2011-07-30 Thread Don Myers
My first database was a dos version. I then moved to Microsoft Office and bought Access to add to it. After a few years I got tired of paying Microsoft prices and got Word Perfect Office Pro which included Paradox. It worked very well. Once Open Office came out, I figured that would ultimately

Re: [libreoffice-users] Code snippet

2011-07-30 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I expect that you need to set this from the sheets draw page ' Gets the Shape of a Control( e. g. to reset the size or Position of the control ' Parameters: ' The 'oContainer' is the Document or a specific sheet of a Calc - Document ' 'CName' is the Name of the Control Function