Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...

2012-02-06 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Mark , For proper mailmerging, read personalysing your output, macro's are the only way to go a good start can be to google for a French tool (set of macro's) publipostage OpenOffice Hope it helps Fernand Ok, I've got mailmerge working, fairly well, ish. It seems a little unhelpful that

Re: [libreoffice-users] .doc set by default problem

2012-02-06 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
The options you changed is only for inside libreoffice. It is used when you save a new document you're currently editing. If you're using Right click-new-text document from outside, like in the windows explorer, it's not taken into account. Instead it use an empty template file set-up during the

[libreoffice-users] Restore Windows Dialogue Problems

2012-02-06 Thread Charles Bierwirth
Hello, I'm running Libreoffice 3.4.5 on OSX Lion 10.7.2. Recently, I had to forcefully restart my computer. Since then, every time I open Libreoffice the Restore Windows dialogue pops up. (see attached screenshot). No matter which button I click, no matter how many times I click it, it won't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Windows Explorer Extension

2012-02-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Boostland wrote (06-02-12 00:21) I already made a comment on a existing bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39887 thanks. I've added some comment there. Obvious that I can't understand /see / reproduce what the problem is. -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For

[libreoffice-users] Re: JavaMail?

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.02.2012 00:36, Stuart Simon wrote: Hello: I am trying to do an e-mail merge with LibreOffice Writer on Mac OS X Lion. I know I need JavaMail, so I downloaded it. Where on my hard drive do I need to place it so that it works with LibreOffice? Thanks! What is JavaMail and why do you think

[libreoffice-users] Re: JavaMail?

2012-02-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/02/12 00:36, Stuart Simon a écrit : Hi Stuart, Hello: I am trying to do an e-mail merge with LibreOffice Writer on Mac OS X Lion. I know I need JavaMail, so I downloaded it. Where on my hard drive do I need to place it so that it works with LibreOffice? Thanks! You don't need

[libreoffice-users] database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread e-letter
Readers, There was an interesting discussion which seemed to be about using accounting principles/conventions with computer software. Clearly the original poster forgot to dispense with traditional thought processes and think critically about how new tools (first the computer, then more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Windows Dialogue Problems

2012-02-06 Thread Jay Lozier
Charles, On 02/05/2012 05:23 PM, Charles Bierwirth wrote: Hello, I'm running Libreoffice 3.4.5 on OSX Lion 10.7.2. Recently, I had to forcefully restart my computer. Since then, every time I open Libreoffice the Restore Windows dialogue pops up. (see attached screenshot). No matter which

Re: [libreoffice-users] database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Everybody knows how write simple math statement as a formula. Everybody doesn't know how to right an SQL statement. The largest failure to using database vs. spreadsheet is the refusal to allow tables to set up formulas in databases as they are in spreadsheets. A formula interpreter would

[libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.02.2012 18:24, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Everybody knows how write simple math statement as a formula. Everybody doesn't know how to right an SQL statement. My users can not fill out spreadsheets properly. They have no idea how to write formulas, they don't understand cell formats,

Re: [libreoffice-users] database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Or maybe the failure is the refusal to understand the purpose for each part of a database. Tables and forms are for adding, modifying, and deleting data. Queries and reports are for data output. If you want to enter data, you use a table or form. If you want to manipulate data, you use

[libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.02.2012 19:22, Dan Lewis wrote: I wonder how many people who use LO have read chapter 8 of the Getting Started Gude, Getting Started with Base? I know that I have very seldom seen a comment about its contents. (I wrote it and am presently updating it. I'm also working on the Base

Re: [libreoffice-users] database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 06/02/2012 15:37, e-letter wrote: Readers, There was an interesting discussion which seemed to be about using accounting principles/conventions with computer software. Clearly the original poster forgot to dispense with traditional thought processes and think critically about how new tools

[libreoffice-users] Writer - Dotted grid background

2012-02-06 Thread Jakub Niemiec
Hello, I am using Libreoffice on Ubuntu 11.10. It works perfectly well, however lately I have noticed a dotted grid in the background and for some reason it appears there and loads itself whenever I open the program. I can write normally, it is not a table rather it looks like a part of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/06/2012 01:22 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: Or maybe the failure is the refusal to understand the purpose for each part of a database. Tables and forms are for adding, modifying, and deleting data. Queries and reports are for data output. If you want to enter data, you use a table or form.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Dotted grid background

2012-02-06 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Jakub, On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jakub Niemiec wrote: Hello, I am using Libreoffice on Ubuntu 11.10. It works perfectly well, however lately I have noticed a dotted grid in the background and for some reason it appears there and loads itself whenever I open the program. I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Dotted grid background

2012-02-06 Thread Jakub Niemiec
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:51 +0100, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 06.02.2012 19:22, Dan Lewis wrote: I wonder how many people who use LO have read chapter 8 of the Getting Started Gude, Getting Started with Base? I know that I have very seldom seen a comment about its contents. (I wrote it

[libreoffice-users] Installing MySQL Connect

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Sumner
I hope MySQL isn't OT. I am trying to set up a MySQL database with LibreOffice Base as a front-end. I have installed MySQL in Windows XP and I can create tables and so forth and the next thing is to connect to MySQL. I have downloaded the MySQL ODBC Connector but when I try to run it I get a

[libreoffice-users] Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread Donald Craig
Running LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Windows 7 Home Premium laptop. Downloaded LO last week and all is fine so far with Write and Calc. But when I try to connect to an Access DB. I get an 'unable to connect, maybe necessary data provider is not installed'. What data provider would I need and where can

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.02.2012 21:16, Donald Craig wrote: Running LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Windows 7 Home Premium laptop. Downloaded LO last week and all is fine so far with Write and Calc. But when I try to connect to an Access DB. I get an 'unable to connect, maybe necessary data provider is not installed'. What

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure how that link is supposed to help Donald with his question?  Access uses something called Jet and something called MDAC?  How can Donald find out which version of Jet is being used in their Access?  Would finding out even be relevant to Donald's question, or would it only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread drew
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:07 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I am not sure how that link is supposed to help Donald with his question? Access uses something called Jet and something called MDAC? How can Donald find out which version of Jet is being used in their Access? Would finding out

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/06/2012 02:45 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:51 +0100, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 06.02.2012 19:22, Dan Lewis wrote: I wonder how many people who use LO have read chapter 8 of the Getting Started Gude, Getting Started with Base? I know that I have very seldom seen a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread MiguelAngel
El 06/02/12 22:25, drew escribió: On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:07 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I am not sure how that link is supposed to help Donald with his question? Access uses something called Jet and something called MDAC? How can Donald find out which version of Jet is being used in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing MySQL Connect

2012-02-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 20:09 +, Tony Sumner wrote: I hope MySQL isn't OT. I am trying to set up a MySQL database with LibreOffice Base as a front-end. I have installed MySQL in Windows XP and I can create tables and so forth and the next thing is to connect to MySQL. I have downloaded the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread Dan Lewis
OK, where to download has been established. But what file on that page should the OP download and install? That has not been answered by anyone yet. --Dan On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 16:25 -0500, drew wrote: On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:07 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I am not sure how that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing MySQL Connect

2012-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is not one for Windows yet.  It would need to be built.  The ones for Mac and GnuLInux are here http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-mac-osx No-one with Windows has built and uploaded their one yet.  I think there are instructions on how to

[libreoffice-users] [Put on shelf] Re: Unable to connect to Access DB

2012-02-06 Thread Donald Craig
Thank you all for contributing. I checked the link originally provided and it seems to be download links to various Data Access Components that were not included in some of the older versions of Windows. Since the Help files I opened didn't mention Windows Vista or Windows 7, I am under the

Re: [libreoffice-users] [PDF instead of Postscript - Printing] Re: Problem printing an .xls file

2012-02-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (04-02-12 04:13) I suspect that your issue is the same as John Jason Jordan's issue (Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript thread). A possible workaround: [...] Thanks for the info and more :-) I've added some info issues to the 3.5 most annoying one:

[libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.02.2012 20:45, Dan Lewis wrote: You obviously have a very in dept knowledges of database and can do many things with them that others can not do. But that does not mean others have to have a detailed knowledge of databases before they can create them. Not everyone has a need for a fairly

[libreoffice-users] Re: Windows Explorer Extension

2012-02-06 Thread Boostland
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