Re: [libreoffice-users] m$ office to gnu/linux rumour

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Shorter answer is that it's vapour-ware.  It's a good tactic for trying to dilute one of LibreOffice's top "unique selling point"s.  Wasn't there a typical Steve Ballmer 'speech' with him saying that MS Office 2013 would not even become available on Macs?  Regards from Tom :)  >___

Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org

2013-02-24 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi Tom, the last 2 links work fine. http://www.oooforum.org/ not so. Which is a bit of a bummer as that is the link referenced in the "getting started" guide :( No worries. I'll sleep on it and see if the server resets itself overnight (or I guess while the rest of the world is beavering away f

Re: [libreoffice-users] m$ office to gnu/linux rumour

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I doubt they would manage to port it.  Going in that direction is a major pita because they suddenly have to deal with being serious about security from the ground up rather than botching a patch on after-the-fact or they would have to try to break the OS down somehow into allowing them to

[libreoffice-users] Re: default & converted headers

2013-02-24 Thread edo1
Right, thanks. The personwho supplied the docx I'm working on didn't know about styles, and messed up the headers. I've found my way through them now. Brian Barker wrote > At 15:49 24/02/2013 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote: >>When I open docx files (originally written in Word) in LO, I notice >>that

[libreoffice-users] promotion possibility for LibO

2013-02-24 Thread rost52
Accidentally I found the following link:http://openclipart.org/and there I found following textHow can I use these images in OpenOffice.org? -- OpenOffice.org(up to version 2.3) does not natively support SVG files, howev

Re: [libreoffice-users] default & converted headers

2013-02-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:49 24/02/2013 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote: When I open docx files (originally written in Word) in LO, I notice that choosing Insert > Headers or Insert > Footers gives me two choices "Default" and "Converted1". I haven't found an explanation of these, or how one is to chose between them.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3 & 4 on same machine

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My deepest apologise for that!  >From where you are now, to recover, you might only need to run the 3.6.5 >installer again and choose the repair option.  That should fix it.  This link >is to the 3.6.5 English (US) version http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=win-x86&lang=en-US&versi

[libreoffice-users] m$ office to gnu/linux rumour

2013-02-24 Thread e-letter
Readers, Rumours (kool-aid for the internet!) abound that m$ considering office 2014 for gnu/linux. Any substance anyone? Nice competition for LO? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns

Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  The address seems to be working now if you do a google search for OpenOffice forums and click on their links.  Clicking on the link in your email doesn't work though and directly typing the address into the url-bar doesn't work either.  Between 2010 and a few months after Apache we

Re: [libreoffice-users] Exporting Text File to PDF (One Page At A time)

2013-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:53 AM, "John D. Herron" wrote: > I believe you can print your ODT files to PDF either as one single file or as > a collection of one-per-page files. The trick is finding the settings so you can specify which page or pages from within a macro. But I've got it all worke

Re: [libreoffice-users] Exporting Text File to PDF (One Page At A time)

2013-02-24 Thread John D. Herron
I believe you can print your ODT files to PDF either as one single file or as a collection of one-per-page files. jdh On 02/23/2013 09:16 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Dec 28, 2012, at 5:01 AM, lordmax tdf wrote: Hi to all Il 28/12/2012 02:02, Girv

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3 & 4 on same machine

2013-02-24 Thread Miss Keating
On 2/24/2013 6:37 PM, edo1 wrote: I'm currently running LO ver 3 on Vista x64. Before I commit to ver 4 I'd like to run both versions for a while. Will this work if I load ver 4 in a separate Program Files folder? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-4-on-s

[libreoffice-users] oooforum.org

2013-02-24 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, not an issue with LO but hopefully someone has some feedback. I am just flicking through the LO4.0 "getting started" guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Double Underline Problem

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Wu
Jay Ridgley 提到: > Hi Y'all, > > I just subscribed to the list. I have a question/problem wto Double > Underlining. > > In several of my spreadsheets I use this and until recently (last set > of updates) it worked as I wanted. However, they now appear as a heavy > black line. > > Details: > > Format

[libreoffice-users] default & converted headers

2013-02-24 Thread edo1
When I open docx files (originally written in WORD) in LO, I notice that choosing Insert > Headers or Insert > Footers gives me two choices "Default" and "Converted1". I haven't found an explanation of these, or how one is to chose between them. Can someone point me to a help page? Thanks - edo1

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3 & 4 on same machine

2013-02-24 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, there is a brief tutorial here. I haven't tried it under windows but it works under linux. Good luck https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel - Original Message - From: edo1 Sent: 02/25/13 10:37 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3 &

[libreoffice-users] LO 3 & 4 on same machine

2013-02-24 Thread edo1
I'm currently running LO ver 3 on Vista x64. Before I commit to ver 4 I'd like to run both versions for a while. Will this work if I load ver 4 in a separate Program Files folder? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-4-on-same-machine-tp4039849.html Sent f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i meant the docs team are good at supporting and helping people that want to do documentation tasks.  They are not precious about it or offended if people go off and do their own thing.  Btw those links look good.  Please can you add the links to the 3rd party wiki? https://wiki.docu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 19:56 +, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > The documentation team needs a LOT more people. At the moment it > barely has enough to just work on the guides (which were extremely > well received at Scale btw). > If these other attempts at documentation are done through by > ind

Re: [libreoffice-users] Going to an "OnExit' Routine On Dialog Button Event

2013-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > On 02/23/2013 03:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I have a macro in LO BASIC that sets up a dialog, then, instead of executing >> it, I do: >> >> oDialog.setVisible(TRUE) >> >> This dialog box contains a progress bar and, while tes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahah, could someone add links to those on the 3rd party wiki page? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Alex Thurgood >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Sund

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 02/24/2013 04:05 PM, Ian Whitfield wrote: > Is there another way to input the CSV data if it is a bug?? > http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-how-to-use-mysql-fast-load-data-for-updates-1753.html -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffic

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 02/24/2013 04:05 PM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi Ian, > You could be right Alex!! I KNOW one of these two ways worked for me > last time!! > Is there another way to input the CSV data if it is a bug?? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 02/24/2013 08:32 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Hi all, > I've even attempted to make several runs at it. The documentations is a > *@(^&@*$^&@*# crime. There are silly trivial "Hello World" examples, > and there is the dump of the API. And nothing in between. mailmerge.py LibreLogo.py L

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  If the documentation is available but needs pulling together and de-geekifying then the Docs Team are a good place to do that.  If it needs writing from scratch (scuse the pun) then some devs probably need to be involved too.  Writing code and writing documentation for technical reade

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The documentation team needs a LOT more people.  At the moment it barely has enough to just work on the guides (which were extremely well received at Scale btw).  If these other attempts at documentation are done through by individuals through blogs and personal spaces then when/if those

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Joel Madero
On 02/24/2013 11:32 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:56 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: If I'm incorrect, please let me know what is correct - but I'm pretty sure that someone with some PyUno skills will be needed. I would guess that those are rare, since PyUNO is at about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:56 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > If I'm incorrect, please let me know what is correct - but I'm pretty > > sure that someone with some PyUno skills will be needed. > I would guess that those are rare, since PyUNO is at about the best > kept secret of LO(/OO). +1 +1 +1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Double Underline Problem

2013-02-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:01:02 -0600 Jay Ridgley dijo: >Hi Y'all, > >I just subscribed to the list. I have a question/problem wto Double >Underlining. > >In several of my spreadsheets I use this and until recently (last set >of updates) it worked as I wanted. However, they now appear as a heavy >bl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Looking for PyUno Contributor(s)

2013-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> If I'm incorrect, please let me know what is correct - but I'm pretty > sure that someone with some PyUno skills will be needed. I would guess that those are rare, since PyUNO is at about the best kept secret of LO(/OO). Sincerely, Wolfgang -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Going to an "OnExit' Routine On Dialog Button Event

2013-02-24 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Op 24/02/2013 15:32, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schreef: On 02/23/2013 03:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a macro in LO BASIC that sets up a dialog, then, instead of executing it, I do: oDialog.setVisible(TRUE) This dialog box contains a progress bar and, while testing it, I realized it's fru

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-24 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I think part of the problem is that LO does place fonts in a folder that is not the system's font folder. So if the user has some DejaVu fonts already installed, LO may use its version of fonts over the ones the user installed. Also there would be some fonts in the LO list that are not in t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 24/02/13 15:21, Alex Thurgood wrote: Which version of LO are you using, in particular, are you using the PCLinuxOS version of LO, or one from the official LO download page ? It might be a bug in that version. You could be right Alex!! I KNOW one of these two ways worked for me last ti

Re: [libreoffice-users] Going to an "OnExit' Routine On Dialog Button Event

2013-02-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/23/2013 03:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a macro in LO BASIC that sets up a dialog, then, instead of executing it, I do: oDialog.setVisible(TRUE) This dialog box contains a progress bar and, while testing it, I realized it's frustrating for longer documents to have a progress bar an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Double Underline Problem

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Usually if weird things suddenly start happening then it's worth renaming the User Profile to "get back to factory defaults" https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jay Ridgley >To: users@global.libre

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 24/02/2013 14:05, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, As per the WebSite I opened my already prepared DB Table and tried the instruction to "Drag the Calc Sheet from Calc to the open DB Table". All I get is a red circle with a line through it which I interpolate as meaning "Not Allowed". So I w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Alex and Girvin - Very much appreciated!! Girvin - Thanks for all your kind comments and suggestions!! I WILL do something like this once I have everything sorted out. I like your idea of a spare drive and I do have a couple of "Drive Bays" here although I also have two external USB Har

[libreoffice-users] Double Underline Problem

2013-02-24 Thread Jay Ridgley
Hi Y'all, I just subscribed to the list. I have a question/problem wto Double Underlining. In several of my spreadsheets I use this and until recently (last set of updates) it worked as I wanted. However, they now appear as a heavy black line. Details: Format cells > Line Style: double under

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 23/02/2013 11:56, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, > I have accepted what has happened and am busy re-building my DB from > scratch! IMHO it is still WRONG to store Data in an area that gets > overwritten every time you do a upgrade or re-install. In over 30 years Usually, an simple upgrade of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Win7 and Xp are so different from each other that each would qualify as a separate distro.  They are a bit like 2 distros from different families.  It's not even as close as Mint or Ubuntu to Debian.  Errr, the answer was Win7 but i think that was given later in this thread.  Reg