Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Virgil Arrington
Tom wrote: Mac Airlines All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents are all friendly and attractive but all look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading Latest Windows Release

2013-10-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:23 06/10/2013 +0100, Brian Grainger wrote: Trying to download and install the latest Windows version of LibreOffice from a machine in the UK running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Using the standard process for downloading from the download page the LibreOffice install file came as a

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/08/2013 08:14 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Tom wrote: Mac Airlines All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents are all friendly and attractive but all look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I think we would have more Linux users if packages like LO can be installed with one click of the mouse onto the install file as Windows does with the .msi file. That can already be done. Generally, if a package is available as an RPM or DEB file, then clicking

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Jay Lozier
-Original Message- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:57:18 -0400 On 10/08/2013 08:14 AM, Virgil

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nicely said :)  I asked the postmaster about it and the problem seems to have stopped since then.  At least, for me it's stopped.  Is anyone else still getting extra duplicates a day or few after the original posts?   Regards from  Tom :)   - Original Message - From: Wolfgang

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Jay Lozier wrote: My observation is that for the many users of Linux, Windows, and Macs will have about the same experience once installed and configured. I have a couple of friends who have me take care of the Linux boxes. They do not seem to have any trouble with Linux once I got it set up

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Is anyone else still getting extra duplicates a day or few after the original posts? They seem to have stopped for me. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/08/2013 10:11 AM, James Knott wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I think we would have more Linux users if packages like LO can be installed with one click of the mouse onto the install file as Windows does with the .msi file. That can already be done. Generally, if a package is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-08 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I had a few again today and some yesterday. Sporadic is the key work here. On 10/08/2013 06:13 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Nicely said :) I asked the postmaster about it and the problem seems to have stopped since then. At least, for me it's stopped. Is anyone else still getting extra

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Have you tried to do that for LO? How many package files need to be run to install LO on a Linux box? There are 52 .deb files to run/install in the 4.1.2 64-bit Debian install, plus the help pack, plus the language pack if needed. Like to do a single click or

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That is comparing apples and oranges.  Installing a whole DE is more like setting up an OS and not at all just installing a simple program.  Windows doesn't allow people to use a different DE, which is what a lot of the fuss is about wrt Win8.  For most normal programs i use the more

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

2013-10-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
I use Writer daily, but practically never use Calc, so I am pretty helpless. Now I have a problem that calls for a spreadsheet; actually, a script or plug-in or something to Calc. The problem is that I need to calculate an amortization chart for a loan of regular payments with an odd number of

[libreoffice-users] Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, So I stumbled across instructions on how to do this in Excel but can't get the same result in LibreOffice. http://www.get-digital-help.com/2009/03/30/how-to-extract-a-unique-list-and-the-duplicates-in-excel-from-one-column/ Suggestions appreciated as always All the best, Joel --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:43 08/10/2013 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: So I stumbled across instructions on how to do this in Excel but can't get the same result in LibreOffice. http://www.get-digital-help.com/2009/03/30/how-to-extract-a-unique-list-and-the-duplicates-in-excel-from-one-column/ Suggestions appreciated

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Joel Madero
The first formula given at that web page worked for me once I'd tinkered with the details to fit my actual case. And I needed to replace commas by semicolons. (The formula as given will not find instances of zero in the list.) Note that it is an array formula, so you need to complete it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

2013-10-08 Thread Joel Madero
I actually made a template for this back in the day, it automates the process, might work for you: http://templates.openoffice.org/en/template/loanannuity-calculator-amortization All the best, Joel On 10/08/2013 09:46 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: I use Writer daily, but practically never use

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Virgil Arrington
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I think we would have more Linux users if packages like LO can be installed with one click of the mouse onto the install file as Windows does with the .msi file. Having to do the terminal commands like sudo dpkg -i *.deb tends to make it a little harder. Maybe

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 it's a historical problem.  LibreOffice is moving towards a more normal installer.  Sun wasn't keen on such gimmicks when developed by the community.  Go-oo didn't need a decent installer because it didn't develop so fast = so it could settle on whichever version was supplied in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink not active on images

2013-10-08 Thread Contini Luciano
Hi Tom, thanks for your answer. When you Export to Pdf does the link work in the Pdf even without using the ⌘ ? no, it doesn't work In the editable file when you do the equivalent of right-clicking the image and get the pop-up dialogue box and then click on the relevant tab does it

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Girvin Herr
I am coming late to this thread, but this talk of a single-button install scares me. I take the downloaded Linux binary LO package and re-package it into a Slackware Linux installation package. I use a script I created to do this and all I have to do when a new LO release comes out is to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread mariosv
Hi Joel, if you do not want to use formulas, there are at least three options to do it in a simple way. 1) Menu/Data/Pivot Table http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4077276/Captura.png 1) Menu/Data/Consolidate http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4077276/Captura.png 2)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Joel Madero
On 10/08/2013 01:33 PM, mariosv wrote: Hi Joel, if you do not want to use formulas, there are at least three options to do it in a simple way. 1) Menu/Data/Pivot Table http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4077276/Captura.png 1) Menu/Data/Consolidate

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Jay Lozier
On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 13:22 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: I am coming late to this thread, but this talk of a single-button install scares me. I take the downloaded Linux binary LO package and re-package it into a Slackware Linux installation package. I use a script I created to do this and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink not active on images

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  When you Export to Pdf does the link work in the Pdf even without using the ⌘ ?  In the editable file when you do the equivalent of right-clicking the image and get the pop-up dialogue box and then click on the relevant tab does it still show the url starting with http?  I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Going with the line-by-line approach but with a fast twist.  Each line has identical calculations with the result feeding into the next line and then having the same calculation repeated doesn't it?  So it's something like C1 = A1 * B1 A2 = C1 B2 = B1 C2 = A2 * B2 A3 = C2 B3 = B1 C3 =

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:33 08/10/2013 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: Indeed in B2 (first enter) it seems to work fine. I should have clarified, when I copy/paste in selected range (B column starting at B3) the value in B2 just gets repeated (ie. it's not finding unique values, instead it's just repeating the first

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Paul
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 14:59:05 -0400 Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: This is painfully apparent in the various program managers and repositories. At first, I thought it was really cool to use, say, an Ubuntu software manager to simply search for and

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Paul wrote: There is nothing inherent in linux that makes it harder (barring the sheer number of distros; see below), it depends purely on how much effort the developers are willing to go to for any particular linux distro. Don't forget, LO is included in many distros. It might not be the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

2013-10-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:05:54 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Going with the line-by-line approach but with a fast twist.  Thanks, that worked great - all except for the dates column. But I can just enter the date manually for the first of each year and leave the rest of the

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Girvin Herr
On 10/08/2013 01:48 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 13:22 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: I am coming late to this thread, but this talk of a single-button install scares me. I take the downloaded Linux binary LO package and re-package it into a Slackware Linux installation package. I

[libreoffice-users] Error saving the document ...

2013-10-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
Writer document of a little over one page that has been saved repeatedly without a problem as I created it over the past two days. It is almost finished, and suddenly I got: Error saving the document filename: Write Error. Error in writing sub-document content.xml. I also tried Save As, but get

[libreoffice-users] extra lines spaces when exporting to .doc

2013-10-08 Thread Info/UX
Hi, I'm having a recurring problem with extra line spaces being inserted when I export to .doc. This happens between paragraphs, often in the footer where the page number is, and most frustratingly in the endnotes — each endnote is placed one or two lines down from the number and I have to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generate Unique List from Values in Column

2013-10-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:11 08/10/2013 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:43 08/10/2013 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: So I stumbled across instructions on how to do this in Excel but can't get the same result in LibreOffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You are welcome :)  I wanted to try the template idea but i've never been much good with them and managed to stuff-up this one too.  I tend to find it easier to build it from scratch for myself because then when it goes wrong i sometimes have a vague idea what i did wrong and it's easier

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I suspect that a lot of your concerns and more besides are shared by the LO devs and in some cases by the companies they work for.   My guess is that is part of the reason we don't already have 1-click installers.  We already have at least 2 systems that work (repos and copypaste from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error saving the document ...

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure what the problem is but might be able to shed some light on the error message.   If you create a copy of the file and rename the file-name's ending from .odt to .zip and then double-click on the .zip then the file opens in your archive manager.   (Ok, so in Xubuntu and most

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error saving the document ...

2013-10-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 03:53:14 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) I am not sure what the problem is but might be able to shed some light on the error message.   If you create a copy of the file and rename the file-name's ending from .odt to .zip and then double-click on the