+1 aside Fw: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Traditionally a binary digit is usually thought of as +1 or 0, on or off, that sort of thing. So i hadn't really thought of what the opposite of a +1 is but voting is not binary anyway and -1 makes more sense.  Regards from Tom :)  - Forwarded Message - From: Felmon Davis

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I never use a (c) in a list.  It would be a bit of a pain for me if the easy way to create a copyright symbol was lost.  When i do bulleted or numbered lists i use the tool that is designed to do that because then it's easier for me if i need to re-arrange or delete or add items to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] using jodconverter to call libreoffice, to convert xlsx files to PDF file

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't know why but the message got really badly garbled at this end.  I copypasted into the Gedit text-editor to decypher it and got this as the original message I am using jodconverter to call libreoffice, to convert xlsx files to PDF file, if the xlsx file is empty documents, will

[libreoffice-users] regression: some changes to documents in MS format (doc) aren't saved

2012-11-23 Thread CETIM
Hi! I'm new to the LO community. We encountered a bug which wasn't in OO and which is in my biased opinion quite serious. A quick Google led me to an uncomfirmed bug filed in July: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52515 It seems the bug got no attention. Maybe I can't search... is it

[libreoffice-users] LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have a Membership Database running on MySQL 5.1 with an LO Base Front end Ver 3.6.2.2. All running on PCLOS 2012. My Members fall into two or three different Categories and I would like to be able to show this on screen. SO - Is it possible to add in a statement to the Form design

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Ian , When using macro's to add the data to your form it can easly been done, without macro's ?? Greetz Fernand Hi All I have a Membership Database running on MySQL 5.1 with an LO Base Front end Ver 3.6.2.2. All running on PCLOS 2012. My Members fall into two or three different

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Ian , or maybe just place a listener on the filed who contains Cat data. on changing the field content place a event who run a macro: The eventlistner produce a oEvent object who contains the source = field object and the source.context = Form object IF Oevent.source.model.text = abc THEN

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/23/2012 10:24 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All I have a Membership Database running on MySQL 5.1 with an LO Base Front end Ver 3.6.2.2. All running on PCLOS 2012. My Members fall into two or three different Categories and I would like to be able to show this on screen. SO - Is it

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/11/12 16:24, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, SO - Is it possible to add in a statement to the Form design so that the background colour of the Form will change depending on the value set in a field called 'Cat'? No, not directly. As others have said, you can only change colour settings

[libreoffice-users] 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I just finished uploading the new dictionaries and edited the new NA-DVD 3.6 dictionary page. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.6-installs/dictionary.html#english en_CA - Canadian English - 674,277 words kpp-canadian-english-dictionary-674277-word-list.oxt [added 35,164 words] en_GB -

[libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Steven Dayton
Can I lock a row in spread sheet so it doesn't move out of view when I scroll down in long documents. I can do this in Excel but I haven't been able to find a way to do this in LibreOffice Calc. I have set up the first row in the spread sheet as a column titles row and I have over a 150 lines in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Exactly the same way as it happens.  Select the cell below and to your right of the column(s) that you also want to freeze.  From the Menu Bar choose Window - Freeze Regards from Tom :)  From: Steven Dayton daytonmeis...@gmail.com To:

RE: [libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It works similarly to Excel. Select the cell that is just below the rows you want repeated as row headings and just to the right of the columns you want repeated as column headings. On the toolbar select Window | Freeze To change it or remove it, just select Window | Freeze (it will show as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/23/2012 12:18 PM, Steven Dayton wrote: Can I lock a row in spread sheet so it doesn't move out of view when I scroll down in long documents. I can do this in Excel but I haven't been able to find a way to do this in LibreOffice Calc. I have set up the first row in the spread sheet as a

Re: +1 aside Fw: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-23 Thread Felmon Davis
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Traditionally a binary digit is usually thought of as +1 or 0, on or off, that sort of thing. So i hadn't really thought of what the opposite of a +1 is but voting is not binary anyway and -1 makes more sense.  Regards from Tom :)  yeah, I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Steven Dayton
Thanks everyone for the input. If I had spend more time poking around I might have checked the Window menu. As a novice I wasn't expecting to go to that menu since I was working with cells and rows I was expecting to go to format or cell properties. Come to think of it I had to poke around Excel

[libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-23 Thread charles meyer
Hi webmaster, I think we can all contribute to this Quick Start Guide/FAQ/chart so it does not devolve down to just you developing it. For organizational purposes, maybe we can start by sharing/compiling a list of the most frequent tasks we use Libre Writer for and then each of us share how we

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
FYI, I think Tom has also indicated that these are also available on the extensions site. Tom: Thanks for this as well as the work you do on the EN DVD. Awesome! Cheers, Marc Le 2012-11-23 11:56, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : I just finished uploading the new dictionaries and edited the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The devs team has a list of Easy Hacks.  The docs team are working at producing something similar.  The marketing team have a list of specific tasks from fairly simple to quite complexinvolved.  I imagine the design team have something similar but you never know with artists.  The website

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :D  I think you meant Tim@KrackedPress.  Tim's the one that really deserves the praise and +1 from me too :) Nicely done Tim! :) Regards from Tom :) From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I lock a row so it doesn't move when scrolling?

2012-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Reply to all  is the new way so you did that perfectly.  Everyone that answered got your thanks from 1 message so that's good on at least 2 counts :)  If you don't remember you can always ask again.  There is some documentation at

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
This is useless as a spell checker. It has both US and Canadian spelling for many words. o vs. ou, -ise vs. -ize. Double l vs. single l when adding suffixes. Use of s or c in spelling. Absolutely useless for checking the spelling of documents. A Canadian English dictionary should have only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
For now the 3 new versions of my dictionaries will be only found on the NA-DVD dictionary page. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.6-installs/dictionary.html#english In a few days or a week or so from now, I will go and wade through the process to upload the new versions to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-23 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
How about someone go and deal with creating a Wiki page[s] that will be the place to place all of the things people will want to see on a 6 page worth of shortcuts and other things that could be, should be, on the quick guide sheets. I have just completed the creation of the new versions of

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-11-23 3:07 PM webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: A poster has stated that there may be problems with the Canadian dictionary. Something about some specific word spellings that they do not think is pure Canadian words, but American word spellings. For my part, I did not choose the words in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 23/11/2012 at 22:27, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: Since you do not give credit to your sources you are guilty of plagiarism. I believe that you really can't plagiarize language. These are just words. They are common good (or public domain, if you prefer more strict term). But

Re: [libreoffice-users] Collate print option not working

2012-11-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, I finally got time to work on this problem. As a result of some helpful replies to my original posting, I have made some progress with this subject problem and I am making this posting in case it may help others. I changed my CUPS printer driver from the HP Laserjet 8150 Series

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-11-23 4:01 PM Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 23/11/2012 at 22:27, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: Since you do not give credit to your sources you are guilty of plagiarism. I believe that you really can't plagiarize language. These are just words. They are common good (or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
You cannot own a copyright on words or your language. You copyright the order they are used in a document. The published definition type of dictionaries copyright the text of their definitions, and not the words themselves. You copyright War and Peace but not the words used in that very

Re: [libreoffice-users] Collate print option not working

2012-11-23 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
As I stated many times before [or tried to get the words out with my stroked brain interfering sometimes], LO will not work with the duplex of my Epson Artisan printer, but will for my HP Laserjet 2300n printer that has the duplex option included. I have used several drivers for the Epson

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 24/11/2012 at 00:01, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: Every book, essay, article, etc. written is just words. Copyrighted are not words per se, but very specific order of these that creates unique work. And, going further, ideas submitted in these words. Or ideas in general, since

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-11-23 5:20 PM webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Now please do not call someone guilty of plagiarism unless you have proof of that act and not just opinions. You have admitted taking word lists from multiple sources without giving attribution to the sources. That is plagiarism. Your

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 02:53 23/11/2012 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Brian Barker wrote: At 08:23 22/11/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote: The fact that the original questioner on this thread had to ask how to disable so many autocorrect features, I think, proves my point. No - it just shows

Re: [libreoffice-users] [More questions - but some the same as before]

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:27 23/11/2012 -0500, Charles Meyer wrote: We could have them listed alphabetically so if you're searching for a particular task you can search it by task name - e.g. from Auto-correct to Word Count. Or we could have the alphabetical list built into the software itself. Oh, look:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [More questions - but some the same as before]

2012-11-23 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Below texts are from Brian and Charles. I cannot say if 10 people can write about 5 tasks or not. I am willing to write about 3, 5 if I can spare a bit more time. However, it must be organized. We all have other things to do thus duplication must be avoided. This in turn means a working mode

Re: [libreoffice-users] [More questions - but some the same as before]

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:51 24/11/2012 +0900, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: On 2012-11-24 12:24, Brian Barker wrote: I have no idea how many users are subscribed this list but let's just say arguendo there are 10. If each of us 10 users contributed just 5 tasks they performed regularly in LW (and how those tasks are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread MR
Can you take this personal argument off the list, please? You are wrong about what constitutes plagiarism, and this is now completely off topic. Thank you. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-11-23 5:20 PM webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Now

[libreoffice-users] messages returned

2012-11-23 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good afternoon I am trying to post a message, or rather repons to another one, but my messages are rejected. Although I DID sent a message from this computer / mail address a few days ago. (I did not change anything here on my computer ...) What is it, that I am making wrong this time? Below the

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-11-24 12:04 AM MR wrote: Can you take this personal argument off the list, please? It is not a personal argument. It is a matter of principal You are wrong about what constitutes plagiarism, and this is now completely off topic. Taking someone's work without giving attribution for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/24/2012 01:23 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-11-24 12:04 AM MR wrote: Can you take this personal argument off the list, please? It is not a personal argument. It is a matter of principal What principal? You are wrong about what constitutes plagiarism, and this is now completely off

[libreoffice-users] Re: Collate print option not working

2012-11-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/11/12 00:36, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : Hi all, with packages other than LO. It is up to the developers to get the print commands in LO and the commands from the OS commands for the printers to match up. The problem is that the developers do not have all of the 1,000 or more

Re: [libreoffice-users] messages returned

2012-11-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/24/2012 01:19 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Good afternoon I am trying to post a message, or rather repons to another one, but my messages are rejected. Although I DID sent a message from this computer / mail address a few days ago. (I did not change anything here on my computer ...) What

Re: [libreoffice-users] Collate print option not working

2012-11-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/23/2012 05:25 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I finally got time to work on this problem. As a result of some helpful replies to my original posting, I have made some progress with this subject problem and I am making this posting in case it may help others. I changed my CUPS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Collate print option not working

2012-11-23 Thread Walther Koehler
Hi, Debian 5, CUPS, Brother HL6050D I solved printing problems by 1) add a cups-filter to the ppd, that manipulates the final postscript file (in my case I added a PJL reset command) 2) use a basic makro (see oo bug 88333) arg(1).name=Collate arg(1).value=true arg(0).name=CopyCount

[libreoffice-users] Re: 3 new very large English dictionaries are now online

2012-11-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-11-24 1:14 AM Jay Lozier wrote: On 11/24/2012 01:23 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: It is not a personal argument. It is a matter of principal What principal? Principle. Stupid typo. Taking someone's work without giving attribution for it is plagiarism. Period I think you do not what