[libreoffice-users] Re: base masks

2013-01-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 01/21/2013 09:00 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: Hi Paolo, sorry, wrong translation... I meant formulary, form, questionnaire, the third voice from up on the left in the 'database' menu. if there is a way to open an object without window border / controls, just the object. trying resizing.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 01/20/2013 10:31 PM, Hank Alper wrote: Hi Hank, I restarted, LO blithely announced it was recovering my database. It did, but the new Report and the modifications to a query I made in this session were gone. I think* most* of this behavior is due to Report Builder. Has anyone else

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to format a date in Inpress

2013-01-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 01/20/2013 09:00 PM, Giuseppe Greco wrote: Hi Giuseppe, Is that possible? It looks like only predefined formats can be applied. I can only think of a workaround : Open a writer document, type your phrase and insert the date into it from the Field menu. Then right mouse button click on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to format a date in Inpress

2013-01-21 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Alex, It works :-) Thank you very much! j3d On 2013-01-21 10:32, Alex Thurgood wrote: On 01/20/2013 09:00 PM, Giuseppe Greco wrote: Hi Giuseppe, Is that possible? It looks like only predefined formats can be applied. I can only think of a workaround : Open a writer document, type your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) From what i can gather it is better to have the tables as data in an external database.  Apparently the internal ancient and heavily tweaked version of HSqlDb is a bit problematic but moving the tables to an external proper and more recent version (or to a different back-end entirely) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] PPA for 4.0rc1?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't know if the PPAs are still being maintained now that LibreOffice is in the main official repos for Ubuntu (and most other distros now).  If you want to access different versions of LibreOffice then on the downloads page is an innocuous-looking sentence saying something like to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with IMPRESS - LibreOffice

2013-01-21 Thread reinhol...@t-online.de
hallo regina, ich habe jetzt LIBREOFFICE 3.5.7.2 deinstalliert, dann LIBREOFFICE 4.0.0.1 installiert und jetzt klappt es einwandfrei. vielen dank und beste grüsse chris Von: Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de An: reinhol...@t-online.de Betreff: Re:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 01/21/2013 11:57 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) From what i can gather it is better to have the tables as data in an external database. Apparently the internal ancient and heavily tweaked version of HSqlDb is a bit problematic but moving the tables to an external proper and more recent

[libreoffice-users] Problems with Merge in Draw

2013-01-21 Thread Kai Bettzieche
Dear all, I'm experiencing a problem with Draw's function merge: As you can see in attachment #1 (map_1.png), I'm trying to build a map (yeah, not exactly, what Draw is there for ..) Now I'd like to merge the roads (the long grey boxes) with the corners (the grey circles). Result: see

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Merge in Draw

2013-01-21 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
2013/1/21 Kai Bettzieche kai.bettzie...@gmx.net Dear all, I'm experiencing a problem with Draw's function merge: As you can see in attachment #1 (map_1.png), I'm trying to build a map (yeah, not exactly, what Draw is there for ..) Now I'd like to merge the roads (the long grey boxes) with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Stanton
If you really need to rely on your data keeping its coherency and consistency, my advice would be not to use the default hsqldb/ODB pair that is provided as the default. It is a shame really, as hsqldb in itself, certainly in its 2.0 version, is a capable db engine. It is just the integration

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought the back-end stayed external and Base would just link to it?  Is the connector for this a bit broken too?  Regards from Tom :)  From: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/01/13 16:17, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I thought the back-end stayed external and Base would just link to it? Is the connector for this a bit broken too? It has nothing to do with a connector, I was referring to your question re the possibility of substituting internal hsqldb

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/01/13 16:01, Mark Stanton a écrit : Isn't hsqldb *still* a (relatively) good choice, as long as it is installed and used *external* to Base? That does of course mean it's still not the default setting. As I mentioned in my answer to Tom, if you use an external version of hsqldb,

[libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread anne-ology
... maybe not, but this makes me wonder why they were promoting this new OS and now are plugging a how-to re. it ;-)

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc sliding scale formulae?

2013-01-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
This message never seemed to get thru :( Original Message Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc sliding scale formulae? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:00:19 +0200 From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) hyl...@conacher.co.za Reply-To: LibreOffice Users users@global.libreoffice.org To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc sliding scale formulae?

2013-01-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, On 18/01/13 18:04, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) That was my approach too but then i forgot to send my spreadsheet to Hylton and by the time i remembered Jay had produced an answer that took it to the next level. I think it's good to see these sorts of problems occasionally because it pushes

Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 01/21/2013 10:41 AM, anne-ology wrote: ... maybe not, but this makes me wonder why they were promoting this new OS and now are plugging a how-to re. it ;-)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Merge in Draw

2013-01-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Kai, Kai Bettzieche schrieb: Dear all, I'm experiencing a problem with Draw's function merge: As you can see in attachment #1 (map_1.png), I'm trying to build a map (yeah, not exactly, what Draw is there for ..) Now I'd like to merge the roads (the long grey boxes) with the corners (the

Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread anne-ology
same here; when I had to purchase a new laptop - previous one's HD was failing - I received the free option to upgrade to WIN8, but have no intention of so doing due to all the negative comments I've heard of that OS. Thus, when I saw this item, I thought

[libreoffice-users] #NAME? error in valid formula in xlsx format spreadsheet

2013-01-21 Thread Eric J Owens
TIA! I have an xlsx format spreadsheet with several formulas: =PRODUCT(SUM(months(10/21/2012,NOW(),1),months(11/6/2012,NOW(),1)) ,50) When I close and re-open the spreadsheet, the cell with the formula gives me the #NAME? error. The first time I saw this and after quite a while trying to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems with Merge in Draw

2013-01-21 Thread Tom
Hi :) You can use the Nabble way of viewing the mailing list and upload 'attachments' to Nabble instead. Just either 1. follow the links in this email or 2. from the official LibreOffice website try Get Help - Nabble and then navigate to this thread. Once here start writing a reply and

Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is always 'unexpectedly low' take-up of Windows newest OS when it first gets released.  Historically corporate users have learned to leave it until after at least the first Service Pack gets released.  One time MS tried to boost sales by claiming that Service Pack 1 was included in

Re: [libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/21/2013 03:00 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: Il 21/01/2013 01:48, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/20/2013 05:58 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. using base... is there a way to open masks without borders or tools, just the mask, to make it smaller ? I an not sure I understand what you

[libreoffice-users] Re: missing dialog option in Win7 install?

2013-01-21 Thread NoOp
On 01/20/2013 09:13 AM, Luuk wrote: On 19-01-2013 15:43, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I just noticed a difference in the Tools Options LibreOffice General options in the 3.6.4 versions. With my 64-bit Debian install, there is a section for Print dialogs and the option for that is Use

[libreoffice-users] Re: missing dialog option in Win7 install?

2013-01-21 Thread NoOp
On 01/20/2013 08:27 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 01/19/2013 06:46 PM, NoOp wrote: On 01/19/2013 06:43 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I just noticed a difference in the Tools Options LibreOffice General options in the 3.6.4 versions. With my 64-bit Debian install, there is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-21 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 21/01/2013 23:10, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/21/2013 03:00 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: Il 21/01/2013 01:48, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/20/2013 05:58 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. using base... is there a way to open masks without borders or tools, just the mask, to make it smaller ?

Re: [libreoffice-users] #NAME? error in valid formula in xlsx format spreadsheet

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Are you saying that the problem doesn't happen if you save in Xls or Ods formats?  If the problem only happens with XlsX format then can you 1.  avoid using that format and try to keep an original in either Ods or Xls?  Obviously Ods is the prefered one but if you need to share with MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Maybe you should give the URL for the Linux-based boot repair disk [.iso file download]. I do not remember it it. I have two different disk type/names. boot-repair-disk.iso - 355 MB ubuntu-secure-remix-12.10-32-bit.iso - 787 MB ubuntu-secure-remix-12.10-64-bit.iso - 797.1 MB I think I

Re: [libreoffice-users] is MSFT running scared ...

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, installing a new Windows alongside an existing one still does over-write the Mbr and hides all previous versions of Windows as well as any other OSes you have.  It doesn't matter if the newer version is on a different physical drive or on an external drive or anything else.  One

[libreoffice-users] Re: Where are the nightly builds for Linux?

2013-01-21 Thread NoOp
On 01/21/2013 05:26 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: Hello, Everyone I hope that this is not too off topic, but I was wondering... Where are the nightly builds for Linux? The following three directories are now empty:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems with Merge in Draw

2013-01-21 Thread Kai
Hi Tom thanks for the hint :) Here you will find the attachments: map_1.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4030970/map_1.png map_2.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4030970/map_2.png map_1 shows the map before merging, map_2 shows the map after trying to merge the