[libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 27/01/2012 00:30, Gregory Forster a écrit : Hi Gregory, How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In LibreOffice, I File/Open, change the file selection

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening thunderbird adressbook

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 30/01/2012 20:03, NoOp a écrit : I have downloaded the x86 DEB and will try it later. However, I can already report that the Address Datasource Wizard also works for me in 3.4.5 on Ubuntu Oneiric with the Ubuntu supplied version of LO. I can not see a TB/Mozilla addressbook in my list,

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread sonic
ALex, hi are you refering to windows version or linux if windows version yes it's working, but i'm using linux version is not working ? LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 01/02/2012 09:23, sonic a écrit : Hi Sonic, ALex, hi are you refering to windows version or linux if windows version yes it's working, but i'm using linux version is not working ? LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) As I said in my mail provided by Ubuntu, i.e. Linux version. Alex

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread sonic
Hi Alex, FYI, We also have been tested on LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) installer is download from www.libreoffice.org deb installer now going to try RPM installer Currently i'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS sorry i'm newbie in linux ubuntu very sorry about that ... for complaining a problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Time to post a bug-report then, or use the existing one which seems to have got a bit muddled.  In wikipedia i found there is apparently a LotusWord viewer, see bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Word_Pro but if that only helps convert 1 doc at a time then it's pretty

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem pasting spreadsheet cells into Impress

2012-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-31 6:19 PM, TomW tomw...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 2012-01-31 06:42, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-30 3:36 PM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: I tried in 3.4.5 and it works there fine too. Ctrl-V creates a nice Impress-table with the content that I copy from Calc. But... we don't

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 01/02/2012 09:54, sonic a écrit : Hi Sonic, Currently i'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS sorry i'm newbie in linux ubuntu very sorry about that ... for complaining a problem No problem, I didn't feel you were complaining, we just need to try and get to the bottom of the problem. Alex -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Gregory Forster
On 1/31/2012 6:10 PM, NoOp wrote: On 01/30/2012 02:11 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: On 1/28/2012 1:10 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: ... Can you post the file on nabble? A brief check indicates that *.lwp files should open in LO/OOo. I wasn't quite sure how to navigate nabble. I'm not talking of one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Gregory Forster
On 2/1/2012 2:03 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 27/01/2012 00:30, Gregory Forster a écrit : Hi Gregory, How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.01.2012 04:39, sonic wrote: HI, i'm facing a problem which doing mailmerge without using BASE to registered to the data source. This is impossible. Mail merge reads data from a registered Base file regardless of any file formats. For various reasons, spreadsheets are by far the worst

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.02.2012 05:21, NoOp wrote: Your best bet is to simply use a Calc spreadsheet, open that with the MailMerge Wizard, and go from there. With that you neither need Base or Java. As a matter of course, the wizard creates a Base document. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
KeyView for Lotus is a WordPro document viewer. It is probably Windows only, but might work under WINE if you are on linux. NOTE: originally designed for Win95/3.1 (google to find out more) ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/ Download file: Kvlotus.exe Check that it will work

[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.01.2012 17:46, sonic wrote: Dear Tom, yes my problem is after i using spreadsheet creating a data table ,however than registered in data source, now i wan make an easy ways if i wan to edit the data which in table but already registered in data source, but i got no ways to edit the

[libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.02.2012 08:43, Alex Thurgood wrote: And I would state that that is an unusual user setup. The user here wants a relational database with subforms and reports and does not want to use mysql, so where does that leave him her with regard to Base - IMO, with HSQLDB, the stock db engine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
All of you. Thanks very much for your kindness to bother answering - and for the very interesting discussions. My conclusion is that LO-Base (and OO-Base ?) is not yet - and perhaps will not be as mentioned in the desciption at LO-Wikipedia: A database management program

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A big +1 Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 1/2/12, Pertti Rönnberg p...@elisanet.fi wrote: From: Pertti Rönnberg p...@elisanet.fi Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, 1

[libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.02.2012 19:36, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: All of you. Thanks very much for your kindness to bother answering - and for the very interesting discussions. My conclusion is that LO-Base (and OO-Base ?) is not yet - and perhaps will not be as mentioned in the desciption at LO-Wikipedia: A

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:43 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 31/01/2012 22:07, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi Andreas, Am 31.01.2012 20:16, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Yes, the dependency on Java JRE/JDK is a pain in the backside, but unfortunately unavoidable if you want to use Base, at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Hi again, First Tom: I will try. Let us see what comes from the deeps of my mind and if I can find some old projects to investigate so I can give an understandable answer - I'm a little afraid that not. Andreas: Thank you for very interesting info. Please note that I am talking from a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Dan  :) OpenJDK is also owned by Oracle but that might be mitigated by having a community involved.  I'm not sure if normal java has a community too.  Ubuntu 10.04LTS has java 6_20 by default at the moment.  Perhaps you also have one of the good (at least for LO) versions such as 6_21 or

[libreoffice-users] Re: table - automatically copy text

2012-02-01 Thread william drescher
On 2/1/2012 2:30 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. If I understand you correctly, you can create fields and then have them displayed in other locations. I.e. entered in one place and displayed in many. steve On 2012-02-01 11:19, paulwhitehurst wrote: I'm using tables in swriter that have text in

[libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Stefan Gruber
Gregory Forster schrieb am Freitag, 27. Januar 2012 00:30: How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. We have also a lot of old WordPro-Files in my company. Some of them get opened by LibreOffice, but most of them do not and

[libreoffice-users] Mac Issues

2012-02-01 Thread Moore, Rick
Sing a Mac with OX10.7 and Libre 3.5. I keep getting a restore Window Pop-up window that says the following: The application LibreOffice unexpectedly quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try and restore its windows again. You have 2 option - Don't Restore Window and

RE: [libreoffice-users] How to fix error exists on this page PDF error from LibreOffice 3.4 generated documents?

2012-02-01 Thread prashant Patil
Dear Tom, We cannot insert the image and text into the original LibreOffice document, as we receive the ready converted PDF files from the business users. And our application (.NET exe version 3.5) does the insertion in the received PDF files as per the business logic. Kindly suggest any other

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to fix error exists on this page PDF error from LibreOffice 3.4 generated documents?

2012-02-01 Thread Prashant Patil
Tom Davies tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk writes: Hi :) I found the bug-tracking thing for them http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=72954atid=536236 Can you insert the image and text into the original using LibreOffice before exporting as Pdf?  Does that give the same error message?  I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with format in Calc

2012-02-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/2/1 Jean Milot jmi...@dotriver.eu: Hi all, I have a date in a cell : 2012-01-02 I would like to have the day so i change format : Date / but when i change the format. I have the apparition of ' at the beginning of the cell. If i remove it it works i obtain the day. For now,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: table - automatically copy text

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:09 01/02/2012 -0500, William Drescher wrote: On 2012-02-01 11:19, Paul Whitehurst wrote: I'm using tables in swriter that have text in them. I would like to insert text and have the text copied to other cells automatically. I know I can enter numbers and insert a formula that copies the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with format in Calc

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The ' over-rides the formatting and sets it as text.  Did you type the ' or did it just appear magically? Was there a typo when you set the date format? Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 1/2/12, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac Issues

2012-02-01 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-01-31 2:39 PM Moore, Rick wrote: Sing a Mac with OX10.7 and Libre 3.5. I keep getting a restore Window Pop-up window that says the following: The application LibreOffice unexpectedly quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try and restore its windows again. You have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working?

2012-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's a classic case of something that is so nearly perfect and with such huge potential and clever, uncompromising concept.  It's even more frustrating than some broken heap of junk precisely because it's so close but misses (in the fairly rare cases when it does miss).  Most

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with format in Calc

2012-02-01 Thread Thomas Damratowski
changes to the day, but adds a ',' at the end of the day monday,. Running Windows 7 LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) The ' over-rides the formatting and sets it as text. Did you type the ' or did it

[libreoffice-users] RE: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

2012-02-01 Thread sonic
Hi bro, Do you have any alternative ways to do in libre base.. directly is there any tutorial for doing mail merge in libre base. yes i found out already can upgrade or edit data in spreadsheet after registered the spreadsheet in base.. TQ regards, sonic Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:48:18 -0800

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem pasting spreadsheet cells into Impress

2012-02-01 Thread TomW
On 2012-02-01 06:33, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-31 6:19 PM, TomW tomw...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 2012-01-31 06:42, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-30 3:36 PM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: I tried in 3.4.5 and it works there fine too. Ctrl-V creates a nice Impress-table with the content

[libreoffice-users] ppt files not displaying correctly

2012-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Martin
One of my professors makes his powerpoint slides available, but when I load them in Libreoffice they are a little off. Instead of the page number being in the lower right hand corner the page number is in the upper left corner and obscured partially by the slide. When you select the note tab the

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer - Strange behavior of paragraph styles

2012-02-01 Thread John D. Herron
Hi, everyone. Running LO 3.4.3 OOO340m1 (Build:302) on Ubuntu 11.04 (Linux 2.6.38-generic-pae) w/ Gnome 2.32.1. Find myself having to cope with some very strange behavior of paragraph styles, not previously encountered in any version of OOo. I defined my 'Default' style as follows: font

Re: [libreoffice-users] emacs mode?

2012-02-01 Thread lee
anthropornis anthropor...@gmail.com writes: I am curious, which, if any, word processing programs (not text editors) actually have an Emacs mode? Oh I would like to know that, too :) Compared to the broader base of non-techie word processor users, making a word processor behave like Emacs

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

2012-02-01 Thread TJ
On 01/25/2012 01:56 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, Here is more information about this issue: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94173 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15938/libre-office-change-printer-language-type-from-pdf-to-postscript

Re: [libreoffice-users] emacs mode?

2012-02-01 Thread lee
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com writes: On 01/29/2012 03:16 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: emacs seems to me that it is used for mainframe programming editors, not word processors. You can do lots of things with emacs. It´s not at all limited to the

[libreoffice-users] Problem with spreadsheets in Writer

2012-02-01 Thread Andrew Lei
When I insert a spreadsheet containing borders into writer, some of the borders are missing when I convert to .pdf or print. See pages 11-13 of the attachment. Do you know what's wrong, or is this a bug? Andrew Lei -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with spreadsheets in Writer

2012-02-01 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/01/2012 08:31 PM, Andrew Lei wrote: When I insert a spreadsheet containing borders into writer, some of the borders are missing when I convert to .pdf or print. See pages 11-13 of the attachment. Do you know what's wrong, or is this a bug? Andrew Lei Please post the file on nabble or

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer - Strange behavior of paragraph styles

2012-02-01 Thread Cor Nouws
John D. Herron wrote (02-02-12 05:23) [...] FWIW i DID carefully read the manual on styles and templates. [...] As an aside: can anyone tell me what difference there is between 'Default' and 'Text body'? :-D -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: how to create mailmerge with libre base only without using libre calc.

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 02/02/2012 02:04, sonic a écrit : Hi Sonic, Dear BRO, SIR,SIS, May I know is there any other alternative ways to create mail merge with libre base and generate report from libre base without opening other program like libre writer or libre calc to do it.. which mean that , want to using 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Window focus bug when importing a file into Calc

2012-02-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Fabian, Fabian Rodriguez wrote (27-01-12 20:33) The problem: When importing a text file into Calc (eg. CSV), the import dialog does not steal focus as expected [...] This only happend when LibO is already open in the background with another document. As a result, on a busy desktop, the