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

2013-01-27 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Hank, I haven't been following this thread closely, but it seem like you are experiencing some of the same problems I had using Base HSQLDB. I eventually decided to move my Accounting Project to the H2 Database Engine, (see http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html). Some of the many

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

2013-01-27 Thread Dr. Philipp Walderdorff
Thanks for answer After several trys to delete and reinstall libreOfficeImpress I looked for any file in the computer: sudo find / -name libreoffice* -print and deleted all of them and installed libreOfficeImpress new from ubuntuSoftwareCenter And ... its working :-) In one of these files

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-27 Thread Kolbjørn Stuestøl
Den 26.01.2013 22:59, skreiv upscope: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 08:02:34 PM Johnny Rosenberg wrote: For some reasons I want to try the upcoming version 4.0. On the web page, they say ”You are not recommended to use LibreOffice pre-release builds for mission-critical purposes”. So obviously

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-27 Thread Mark Stanton
And to allay your fears a little Hank, the job of moving your *data* to a new back end can be as easy as dragging and dropping tables. Setting up the new back end might introduce you to some new ideas so it might take a little to get your head around it, but once that's done it might not be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That is something that has been said by quite a fe people so i'm kinda happy to rely on it for migrating the database i'm vaguely working on.  At the moment my main worry is getting a couple of the smaller tables into Base's internal back-end and if i manage that then i hope to just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It should be fine in Ubuntu 12.04.  I'm not sure why people are talking about Windows but this guide covers both anyway https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel (to answer my own questions it's probably because there's been a lot of traffic on-list so people have to skim

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

2013-01-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Preferably before trying the big video please go to Tools - Options - Memory and radically increase the various settings in there so that the program can cope with the video.  Does the whole video really have to be embedded in the slide-show/file or could it just be linked to and then

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

2013-01-27 Thread Dan Lewis
Many of these advantages also apply to HSQLDB if you know what you are doing. I refer to using Base to connect to the database rather than it be embedded. In this case, tables, queries, forms, and reports can be copied from the embedded database to the external one. This is done using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/1/27 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi :) It should be fine in Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not sure why people are talking about Windows That felt strange to me too, since I mentioned my operating system in my original post. Even stranger is that I received that message at all, since I have

[libreoffice-users] Filtered or Conditionally Defined Data Ranges in Charts?

2013-01-27 Thread Matt Price
Hello, I'm having a lot of trouble doing something that I figure is actually pretty simple to do -- I hope folks can help me out! I have a simple dataset (this is from my duaghter's homework assignment actually!) which I've uploaded to a google doc just so you can see what it looks like:

[libreoffice-users] Reset the profile

2013-01-27 Thread C. H. D.
Hello! Regarding this bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59270 What steps should I follow to reset the profile? I have already done: rm -r ./.config/libreoffice/4 on Debian Linux. Any ideas? :) (Basically, I would like to confirm a bug but I do not know how to reset

[libreoffice-users] Left Justification in Stacked Scalable Braces

2013-01-27 Thread Taang Zomi
Writer → Insert → Object → Formula At the Equation Editor at the bottom of the screen, type the following: left lbrace alignc stack {-continuant # -nasal # +voiced } right rbrace And the following will appear in the box in your document: {- continuant} { - nasal} { * voice }

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reset the profile

2013-01-27 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 27/01/2013 at 16:19, C. H. D. webofht-libreoffice...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: (Basically, I would like to confirm a bug but I do not know how to reset the profile except that rm command.) You can use this command: soffice -env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/lo-userprof/ It will tell LO to start

Re: [libreoffice-users] Left Justification in Stacked Scalable Braces

2013-01-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:16 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: Writer Insert Object Formula At the Equation Editor at the bottom of the screen, type the following: left lbrace alignc stack {-continuant # -nasal # +voiced } right rbrace And the following will appear in the box in your document: {- continuant} {

[libreoffice-users] Re: Left Justification in Stacked Scalable Braces

2013-01-27 Thread Taang Zomi
*Brian, Thank you very, very much for your help. You saved my day. Sincerely, Taang Zomi* -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Left Justification in Stacked Scalable Braces

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

2013-01-27 Thread Hank Alper
Hi Noel, Thank you for pointing me to H2. It appears to offer so many advantages over the embedded HSQLDB in LO Base that I shall certainly spend some time examining its possibilities. I'd definitely like to see the tutorial for replacing HSQLDB with H2. Hank On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:36 AM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-27 Thread Kolbjørn Stuestøl
Den 27.01.2013 15:33, skreiv Johnny Rosenberg: 2013/1/27 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi :) It should be fine in Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not sure why people are talking about Windows That felt strange to me too, since I mentioned my operating system in my original post. I thought this

[libreoffice-users] Drop Caps Character Style in Writer

2013-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Brien
I was working on understanding Character Styles in Writer, and it seems mostly straightforward. But I noticed that the Drop Caps style does not seem to do anything at all. Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something here? Thanks, -- Kevin B. O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reset the profile

2013-01-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This link is another way to reset the user profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :)  From: C. H. D. webofht-libreoffice...@yahoo.com.hk To: LibreOffice User Support Mailing List

Re: [libreoffice-users] Drop Caps Character Style in Writer

2013-01-27 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 01/27/2013 02:07 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I was working on understanding Character Styles in Writer, and it seems mostly straightforward. But I noticed that the Drop Caps style does not seem to do anything at all. Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something here? Thanks, What are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Drop Caps Character Style in Writer

2013-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 01/27/2013 03:10 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:07 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I was working on understanding Character Styles in Writer, and it seems mostly straightforward. But I noticed that the Drop Caps style does not seem to do anything at all. Is that a bug or am I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Drop Caps Character Style in Writer

2013-01-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:07 27/01/2013 -0500, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I was working on understanding Character Styles in Writer, and it seems mostly straightforward. But I noticed that the Drop Caps style does not seem to do anything at all. Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something here? I'm guessing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Drop Caps Character Style in Writer

2013-01-27 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 14:07 27/01/2013 -0500, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I was working on understanding Character Styles in Writer, and it seems mostly straightforward. But I noticed that the Drop Caps style does not seem to do anything at all. Is that a bug or am I

[libreoffice-users] Numbering Equations

2013-01-27 Thread Taang Zomi
In LibreOffiice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14, the following is written: *Numbering equations* Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math’s best hidden features. The steps are simple, but obscure: 1. Start a new line. 2. Type *fn* and then press *F3*.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering Equations

2013-01-27 Thread Robert Funnell
It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand the one called Standard. If you scroll down the resulting list, you should see the entry 'Formula Numbering'. Select it and then click on the

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

2013-01-27 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Hank, The URL for the HSQLDB to H2 tutorial is - http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=365296#365296 As you will see, I had asked a series of questions and dacm kindly came up with a very comprehensive set of answers. The steps he listed worked well for me. One point to watch

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-27 Thread NoOp
On 01/26/2013 11:02 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: For some reasons I want to try the upcoming version 4.0. On the web page, they say ”You are not recommended to use LibreOffice pre-release builds for mission-critical purposes”. So obviously I need a stable version as well, like the 3.5.7.2 that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering Equations

2013-01-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:04 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: In LibreOffice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14, the following is written: *Numbering equations* Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features. The steps are simple, but obscure: 1. Start a new line. 2.