[libreoffice-users] LO keeps trying to recover files that don't need recovery

2024-02-07 Thread hw
Hi, ever since I changed the directory for temporary files in the settings from /tmp to another directory, LO always wants to recover a file, or some files, when it's started despite these files don't need any recovery. The recovery fails. It is a very bad idea to use /tmp as the directory from

SOLVED: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-13 Thread hw
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 08:25 -0400, James wrote: > You need to turn on macros in the settings (google how, I forgot) and > the > setting is enabled to record it (google where :-)). I think you can > assign the macro to a key. Thank you very much! I have enabled macro recording, recorded a macro

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-13 Thread hw
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 11:41 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:09:29 +0200 > hw wrote: > > Hello hw, > > > Why can't that happen automatically when loading a file, or at > > least > > IME 'optimal width' results in a cell that is too wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-13 Thread hw
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 07:51 -0500, Michael H wrote: > "function" here would mean an action somewhat related to the > advertisement > in the menu name. The empty field does not have a menu, or does it? Function would mean that something happens when you right or middle click the empty field.

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-12 Thread hw
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 10:35 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:13:41 +0200 > hw wrote: > > Hello hw, > > And adding to my previous; > > If you select the entire sheet, then right click on a column and select > "Optimal Width...", guess wha

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-12 Thread hw
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 10:18 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:13:41 +0200 > hw wrote: > > Hello hw, > > > field at the top left sets all columns to optimal width. That field > > currently has no function at all. > > It selects the enti

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-12 Thread hw
On Tue, 2023-07-11 at 15:07 -0400, James wrote: > It's a great idea for a feature. > > I don't know how hard it would be to add a checkbox beside column type > to make the column the automatic width. No checkbox needed, just make it so that a right click on the empty field at the top left sets

Re: [libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-11 Thread hw
Nobody has an idea? It should be possible using a macro, shouldn't it? On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 11:50 +0200, hw wrote: > Hi, > > how can make it so that when opening files, especially CSVs, with calc, > the whole sheet is automatically being set to optimal column width? >

[libreoffice-users] optimal width always

2023-07-09 Thread hw
Hi, how can make it so that when opening files, especially CSVs, with calc, the whole sheet is automatically being set to optimal column width? I have to do that manually every time and that's really annoying, especially since there's no easy way to do that, like right-clicking on the top left

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-18 Thread hw
Am 14.05.2015 um 11:55 schrieb Brian Barker: At 20:32 12/05/2015 +0200, Honly Wonly wrote: Am 12.05.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Brian Barker: At 12:45 12/05/2015 +0200, Honly Wonly wrote: I need, of course, formulas to be case sensitive. This can be set in the options for calc. The option is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-18 Thread hw
Am 15.05.2015 um 10:03 schrieb Brian Barker: Another contributor suggested that the original enquirer's problem may have been caused by (unwisely) saving spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format, and it appears that this may well have been so. My experiments suggest that spreadsheets saved with

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-18 Thread hw
Am 15.05.2015 um 08:58 schrieb Mike Scott: Now, if I reload doc1 and doc2 simultaneously, showing in 2 windows, both spreadsheets show the same results as before. Furthermore, checking the (expected-to-be-global) Tools option for case sensitivity shows different values when the dialogue is

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-12 Thread hw
Am 12.05.2015 um 19:53 schrieb Brian Barker: At 12:45 12/05/2015 +0200, Honly Wonly wrote: I need, of course, formulas to be case sensitive. This can be set in the options for calc. The option is not saved permanently and every time I open a spreadsheet, I need to set the option again. I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-12 Thread hw
Am 12.05.2015 um 13:16 schrieb Gary Collins: To make a formula that is case sensitive, you should be able to use the string functions (I think) to convert to a known case before performing the comparison, e.g. if(UPPER(A1) = X;...) That would make the formula case insensitive. -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-12 Thread hw
Am 12.05.2015 um 12:45 schrieb hw: Hi, I need, of course, formulars to be case sensitive. This can be set in the options for calc. The option is not saved permanently and every time I open a spreadsheet, I need to set the option again. How can I save this option permanently so I don't

[libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-12 Thread hw
Hi, I need, of course, formulars to be case sensitive. This can be set in the options for calc. The option is not saved permanently and every time I open a spreadsheet, I need to set the option again. How can I save this option permanently so I don't need to set it over and over again?

[libreoffice-users] zooming to a larger version of an image on mouse-over

2015-05-12 Thread hw
Hi, how can I add an image to a spreadsheet cell in such a way that when the mouse pointer is over the image, a larger version of the image is displayed? The larger, original version of the image resides on a web server. The scaled down image is inserted into the spreadsheet with the

[libreoffice-users] include images into spreadsheets, texts or reports

2015-04-07 Thread hw
Hi, so far, I have had no success whatsoever with including images into spreadsheets, texts or reports. Such images either reside in a directory on a server and are accessible via a samba share and http, or they are generated on the fly and accessible via http. Putting a hyperlink into a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-04-07 Thread hw
Am 23.03.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Brian Barker: At 17:01 23/03/2015 +0100, Honly Wonly wrote: Am 16.03.2015 um 18:07 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb Honly Wonly: Creating LO documents directly would be nice and might have the advantage to be able to specify some

Re: [libreoffice-users] include images into spreadsheets, texts or reports

2015-04-07 Thread hw
Am 07.04.2015 um 16:43 schrieb Brad Rogers: On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:20:57 +0200 hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote: Hello hw, Is it entirely impossible to integrate images? No. Insert menu - Image... - From File... Does it for me. The image is created on demand with a cgi-script

[libreoffice-users] how to put images into a report

2015-03-27 Thread hw
Hi, how can I put images into a report? I have a query on a database that, amongst others, has a field with the file name of an image. All images are stored in a particular directory, so the relevant table in the database holds the file name of the image, for example abc.jpg. I need the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-23 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 18:07 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb hw: Creating LO documents directly would be nice and might have the advantage to be able to specify some formatting --- which I might need to do sooner or later. Formatting is a matter of style, cell styles

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-23 Thread hw
Am 19.03.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 19.03.2015 um 11:49 schrieb hw: Copying icons? Indeed. In order to copy table or view contents from one DB to another DB you copy the table _icon_ from one database window, select the table icon in the other database window (the DB where

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-19 Thread hw
Am 17.03.2015 um 21:41 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 17.03.2015 um 13:36 schrieb hw: Sorry, this is the wrong answer to the right post --- still a question, though. The answer to this post should have been that I would need the images to appear in the spread sheet. Pictures in Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-19 Thread hw
Am 17.03.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 17.03.2015 um 13:22 schrieb hw: Ok, so I want to import data from a CSV file and would like to have some formatting applied automatically, like specifying a particular width and conditional formatting for some of the columns when I open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb hw: Some experimentation is required at this point ... Thank you for all the replies so far! Ok so I made a new spreadsheet and dragged a query from the datasources view into it. Apparently that fills rows in the spreadsheet with the data obtained from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:21 schrieb hw: Without any coding it is be possible to create a field of hyperlinks. Just add a HYPERLINK formula next to the import range. The adjacent field expands to the size of the import range. You mean to the size

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:18 schrieb hw: Exactly: What the perl script does is way beyond the capabilities of a query and of formulas in a spread sheet. In which way? You are rather unspecific about your requirements. That's partly because

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 17.03.2015 um 13:22 schrieb hw: Am 16.03.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:21 schrieb hw: Without any coding it is be possible to create a field of hyperlinks. Just add a HYPERLINK formula next to the import range. The adjacent field expands to the size

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-16 Thread hw
Am 06.03.2015 um 09:08 schrieb Alex Thurgood: Le 04/03/2015 10:59, hw a écrit : Hi, In a future step, I would like to integrate graphics into the spreadsheet which could be created by a perl script with gnuplot from data in the database; the images could reside in a directory and rows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-16 Thread hw
Am 06.03.2015 um 15:44 schrieb Alexander Thurgood: Le 06/03/2015 10:18, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi Andreas, In a future step, I would like to integrate graphics into the spreadsheet which could be created by a perl script with gnuplot from data in the database; the images could reside in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-16 Thread hw
Am 06.03.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 04.03.2015 um 10:59 schrieb hw: In a future step, I would like to integrate graphics into the spreadsheet which could be created by a perl script with gnuplot from data in the database; the images could reside in a directory and rows

[libreoffice-users] database2spreadsheet

2015-03-04 Thread hw
Hi, how would I create a spreadsheet from a table in a database? I know I can copy and paste, and I want to avoid that. Basically, users should be able to click an icon in LO (or on their desktop) and be presented with a spreadsheet which displays an export from a table I have in a mysql

Re: [libreoffice-users] making self-defined functions available for all spreadsheets

2015-02-28 Thread hw
Am 25.02.2015 um 17:14 schrieb Regina Henschel: Hi, hw schrieb: Hi, how can I make a self-written function (i. e. a macro) available for all spreadsheets so that I can use this function for any spreadsheet I create or load and modify? Ideally, this should work with multiple users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: making self-defined functions available for all spreadsheets

2015-02-25 Thread hw
Am 23.02.2015 um 13:20 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 23.02.2015 um 13:02 schrieb hw: Would it be possible to have one file this Standard library is saved in for multiple users, or would that give problems with several users accessing the same file? Perhaps I could put it on a network share

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: making self-defined functions available for all spreadsheets

2015-02-23 Thread hw
Am 21.02.2015 um 21:02 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 21.02.2015 um 19:17 schrieb hw: Hi, how can I make a self-written function (i. e. a macro) available for all spreadsheets so that I can use this function for any spreadsheet I create or load and modify? Ideally, this should work

[libreoffice-users] making self-defined functions available for all spreadsheets

2015-02-21 Thread hw
Hi, how can I make a self-written function (i. e. a macro) available for all spreadsheets so that I can use this function for any spreadsheet I create or load and modify? Ideally, this should work with multiple users in that I'd like to deploy the macro(s) somewhere central for others to