Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] MS plans to force OEMs to add boot feature that blocks use of Linux and free software.

2011-10-19 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 12:43 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote: On 10/19/2011 12:11 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: On 19 October 2011 16:59, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Please read the linked article. [below] If Microsoft gets away with this, then no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] MS plans to force OEMs to add boot feature that blocks use of Linux and free software.

2011-10-19 Thread planas
Scott On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:42 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote: My comments were based on articles written when this first hit. At that time M$ was pushing for no option available to disable this function and their explanation was that it would allow breaking of their system. The option

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)

2011-10-18 Thread planas
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 08:16 -0700, chimak111 wrote: Hi Tom, thanks for replying. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) with Unity 3D. I'd have preferred to have uninstalled it via LibreOffice itself but I'll give your suggestion a try and hope I don't break anything. I'm not vastly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base slowness and Java update

2011-10-14 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 13:41 +0200, Ferry Toth wrote: All this is true, but you might want to consider if you really want to use the built-in HSQLDB database for serious stuff. It is all java, which will never be really fast. Even with the java issues solved. With an external database

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base slowness and Java update

2011-10-14 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 15:52 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, Has anything happened lately (within the past two to three weeks) with the native MySQL connector? I tried it and still cannot activate it. Talking MySQL: My fingers itch to try out MariaDB. It supposedly is a drop-in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base slowness and Java update

2011-10-14 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 14:17 +0100, John Talbut wrote: On 14/10/11 12:18, Mark Stanton wrote: I think you will find that most of the industry, and nearly all of the open source community will be very unlikely to believe what Oracle says on this subject. It would be wise to consider that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-13 Thread planas
John On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 07:14 +0100, John Talbut wrote: Hi OK, let me go back to square 1. First of all I am not talking about a situation in which LibreOffice base needs to access data tables in separate files that use different database structures, e.g. one table is in MySQL and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external database tables

2011-10-13 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:39 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: I think the simple answer to your question (Is this the same in LO) is yes. But, as others have suggested, it is because you haven't quite got the right way of looking at it. Using a database rather than a spreadsheet allows you to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external databases

2011-10-12 Thread planas
John On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:52 +0100, jowyta wrote: Regina Henschel wrote jowyta schrieb: A long unresolved problem with OpenOffice.org base was its inability to link to more than one external database at a time. See: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42464 It is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Flat xml format (.fodt) broek/unsupported on LibreOffice writer 3.4.3, Windows 7 ?

2011-10-11 Thread planas
Marc On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 14:35 +0200, Marc Bannelier wrote: I would like to use the .fodt format in LibreOffice with SVN for a documentation system. After a fresh installation, the format doesn't appear in the Save as.. box in version 3.4.3 on Windows 7. Is it temporarely broken ? Do I

Re: [libreoffice-users] bi-directional button in LibreOffice writer (for information)

2011-10-11 Thread planas
Chaim On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 18:38 +0200, Chaim Seymour wrote: Hallo all I had to rebuild my disk. I re-installed LibreOffice. I have Hebrew support and previously there was a bi-directional button, so that the Writer can be used from left to right or from right to left. The problem was

Re: [libreoffice-users] No spellcheck, No Dictionaries - in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-10-11 Thread planas
Linda, On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 12:23 +0100, Linda L. Hull wrote: This is a different problem than the one that affects Windows versions. I *had* 3.3.3 I deleted and all parts. I downloaded several other things and have ended up with LibreOffice: 3.3.4 My computer is a Ubuntu 11.04

Re: [libreoffice-users] Working on an archive site/pages for LO and the DVD[s] I have been working with

2011-10-09 Thread planas
Cor On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 12:05 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote (08-10-11 12:10) At this point we could probably start thinking about longer-term support than just 1 year. A lot has changed this year and the future seems much more solidly certain for TDF and LO.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Working on an archive site/pages for LO and the DVD[s] I have been working with

2011-10-09 Thread planas
serious discussion. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ___ El dom, 09-10-2011 a las 12:05 -0400, planas escribió: Cor On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 12:05 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote (08-10-11 12:10) At this point we could probably start thinking

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which Conflicts?

2011-10-08 Thread planas
Onyeibo, On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 10:12 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: I made a mistake yesterday and installed 32bit packages (RPM) downloaded from Libreoffice website onto a 64bit machine. I thought that wouldn't matter much but I was wrong. The icons wouldn't surface on the overview mode

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which Conflicts?

2011-10-08 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 14:19 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:39:14AM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! Perhaps just reboot the machine (rofls). That typical Windows answer has actually helped me in Ubuntu sometimes which was worrying! Just closing and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Working on an archive site/pages for LO and the DVD[s] I have been working with

2011-10-07 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 21:12 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I have had the idea for a few months now, so I figured it was time to start working on it. The original NA-DVD site has a set of archive pages for the installs that went into the NA-DVD[s]. There are all

Re: [libreoffice-users] converting ppt documents to pptx in headless mode

2011-10-07 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 02:03 -0700, aneesh.vemuri wrote: I searched for documentation of converting ppt documents to pptx format in headless mode and I only saw examples of converting to pdf. Can someone please help me with the parameters to be passed for this. I have ppt files coming in and

Re: [libreoffice-users] data base program

2011-10-06 Thread planas
are 3 that don't work well. Rgards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 5/10/11, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] data base program To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 5 October, 2011, 15:11 Chaim, On Wed, 2011

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: disable base query auto-correction

2011-10-06 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 12:19 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 06/10/11 11:40, Daniele Palumbo a écrit : Hi Daniele, i have a query (see thread problem in sql query) that is not standard, and libreoffice change it according to its standard when i open it in structure view, a sort of

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help how to save file into text file or CSV file

2011-10-06 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 15:41 +0200, Stephan Zietsman wrote: toto wrote: I want to save file from Calc into CSV file or text file using macro, but before that I want to change the content and use semicolon as delimiter. Anyone can help or have some reference on it? Not sure if I

Re: [libreoffice-users] data base program

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Chaim, On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 13:57 +0200, Chaim Seymour wrote: Hi all I set up Fedora 15 on my second computer and the Libre Office is included. As a fountain pen collector, I started building a database for my collection. I defined the fields and built a table. I started filling the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Kevin On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 16:34 -0400, Op Ed wrote: OK, here's me, replying to myself. Further little problem. Not yet solved. Because the program does not appear in the programs list, it is not an option when trying to open a .odt file (or any kind of file) from the file system.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google just cheats :) It only allows 10 decimal cases. Since the first error in Excel at 4.0 requires 14 decimal cases to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 18:55 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On 05/10/11 07:01, Cor Nouws wrote: NoOp wrote (05-10-11 03:20) Each of us may 'plonk' him/her, but thousands of others will still see the posts. I'd suggest that it's time for an LO list moderator step in and block

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress PowerPoint

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:41 +0200, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 05/10/2011 09:16, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) +1 Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful. Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too. Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 11:30 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-10-06 10:52, planas wrote: Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:54 -0700, Pedro wrote: Steve Edmonds wrote: Thats interesting. In Calc I get 16.430001676 and in Kcalc I get 16.43 (to 20 decimal places) That is expected. Because calculators have a limited number of functions they use finite precision (instead of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem in sql query

2011-10-04 Thread planas
Hi On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 17:00 +0200, Daniele Palumbo wrote: hi all i am using eloquence database, linked with base. this query is working: SELECT TORD.NUMORD AS ORDINE, CONCAT( CONCAT( CONCAT( CONCAT( CONCAT( TORD.GGORD, '/' ), TORD.MMORD ), '/' ), '20' ), TORD.AAORD ) AS

Re: [libreoffice-users] equal width columns

2011-10-03 Thread planas
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 01:48 +0200, MiguelAngel wrote: El 04/10/11 1:27, James escribió: I want the columns to each be the same width (the width of the selected columns divided by the number of selected columns). I found this: Space Columns Equally Adjusts the width of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Default file save format to MSOffice (doc, xls, ppt) etc..

2011-10-02 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 13:31 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 02/10/2011 13:01, Pedro a écrit : [...] Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Work in ODF, save in ODF and, if you have to send your file, choose an export format accordingly to the usage of the file. If receiver of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Impress Crashing

2011-10-02 Thread planas
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:21 -0500, Mr. Jack Nash III wrote: All, Anyone having issues with LibreOffice Impress crashing? For some reason, Impress frequently shutdown, crashes. I have the have to reopen it, go through the recovery process, and wait until the next crash comes along.

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy and paste zotero citations within writer document

2011-10-01 Thread planas
Jason On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 15:51 -0500, Jason Paul Joines wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 with Zotero 2.1.10, Zotero OpenOffice.org Integration 3.5b1 extension and FireFox 7.0.1 on Kubuntu 11.04. If I copy text containing citations and paste it within an existing document,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice auto resizing jpg files and adding borders

2011-10-01 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 19:08 -0400, Jonathon Waterman wrote: I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

2011-10-01 Thread planas
Dag, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2 calc horizontal scroll bar don't works[SOLVED]

2011-09-29 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:48 +0200, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: Il 29/09/2011 02:28, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) It might be worth re-naming the user-profile? In suse it is probably /home/home/username/.libreoffice/3/user The . at the front of libreoffice makes it a hidden folder and to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2 calc horizontal scroll bar don't works

2011-09-28 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 18:34 +0200, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: on my suse 11.4 with kde 4.7.1 and LibreOffice 3.4.2 : If you open a calc spreadsheet and try to move the horizontal scrollbar it doesn't move, have you similar problem or a solution? thnx PLA The scroll bar works fine form

Re: [libreoffice-users] use of flat xml formats

2011-09-27 Thread planas
Regina On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 17:22 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi planas, planas schrieb: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 14:41 +0100, e-letter wrote: Readers, Is there a logical reason why xslt filters need to be selected manually for installation? Flat xml file formats are a very good

Re: [libreoffice-users] Real Usenet newsgroups

2011-09-26 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:19 -0400, dave boland wrote: I'm not interested in a web based system -- too slow, reg, req'd., etc. Make it regular newsgroups like Ubuntu and Mepis. Dave, +1, I even download my gmail using a pop connection. On Monday, September 26, 2011 4:55 PM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Real Usenet newsgroups

2011-09-26 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:50 -0400, jomali wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:38 PM, dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm wrote: This is why I r e a l l y think that it is time to go to regular newsgroups -- a lot less fussing for the user. I have been on the gmane sight twice, and I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF files rendering: huge differencies in LO 3.4.2 and MSO 2010 -- bug?

2011-09-21 Thread planas
Hi all On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:06 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 09/21/2011 09:02 AM, Arkady wrote: Hi all! There's a trouble opening simple RTF file in LO 3.4.2. It is opened, but it's rendering is incorrect. Same file is correctly opened by MSO 2010. May someone provide feedback on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Solved] Auto Filling Drop Down Boxes

2011-09-21 Thread planas
Hi, On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:02 -0700, stripedtomato wrote: Thanks for the help by providing the links and your insight. I thought the community here was larger. I will stay with Access for now and maybe convert to Base in the future. The rest of LibreOffice works like a charm for me.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-21 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:29 -0700, gomadtroll wrote: I use GNU Linux Debian and LO is the same code many developers as the previous OO that was released with this distro. That said , the LO devs are doing a lot of work on the code, cleanups, their words, and I have noticed some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel file in LibreOffice Calc

2011-09-21 Thread planas
Hi, On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 13:25 -0300, Luciano R. Moreira - Desenvolvimento wrote: Hi, I am a software developer Folhamatic Systems Company in Brazil I'm having problem saving the report generated by my system developed in Delphi 7 to Excel (XLS) using the component with component

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

2011-09-20 Thread planas
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:25 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be uploaded somewhere for other people to use? If so could it be uploaded to the new LO Extensionstemplates site? How generic are builds? Would it cover the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Dead End or Evolution?

2011-09-20 Thread planas
Owen, On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 05:39 -0700, owen wrote: I'm behind on the issue of the demise of Open Office and the emergence of Libreoffice. Will the installation of Libreoffice recognize all my OpenOfffice files. Will utalizing Libreoffice end up with both OpenOffice and Libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Lo 3.4.3 Recovery mode

2011-09-20 Thread planas
Simon On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:28 -0400, Simon Johnson-Bégin wrote: Hi, I just installed LO 3.4.3 on Linux Mint 11 Lxde. I then opened my thesis file in writer, closed it and then reopened it and never made any change to the document. Even so, when I reopen the document, Lo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

2011-09-20 Thread planas
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:07 +0200, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 17/09/2011 14:30, David B Teague sr ha scritto: On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office then about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

2011-09-19 Thread planas
Hi Heinrich On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 17:59 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hi Drew, As I mentioned before -- the problem is that activating the native MySQL connector after making the correct selection for the odb-file doesn't work, at least not on my Debian Wheezy system. I keep getting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

2011-09-18 Thread planas
Brian On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 16:17 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:30 -0400, David B Teague sr wrote: The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO and OO.o) used almost exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to me that OO.o should

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MariaDb / MySQL Native Connector

2011-09-18 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 21:19 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I don't think it's urgent but it is worth researching http://mariadb.org/ I am not sure if you can have both on the same system at the same time. It might be worth setting up a virtual machine and testing it that way if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

2011-09-17 Thread planas
David, On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:30 -0400, David B Teague sr wrote: On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office then about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's more like about 100% of users. Most

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice-Base CPU usage

2011-09-17 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:30 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Thanks Don. I think you might be able to convert/export/migrate your back-end to a different one. I don't think you have to stick with HSql. I'm not sure if it's possible to remove java dependence when using HSql, i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

2011-09-15 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 17:25 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 15/09/11 11:57, Guy Voets a écrit : Hi Guy, So what went wrong? My current experience of importing and exporting docx format files is one of hit or miss... I have gone back to NeoOffice 3.1.2 and OpenOffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Help

2011-09-13 Thread planas
Boyd, On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:59 -0700, Boyd Tong wrote: I am using Libre Office 3.3.3, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2. I am new to Base and have created a database containing reports derived from queries. When I create a report using legal size with landscape, page one is correct but

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adopting LibreOffice in Corporate Environments

2011-09-12 Thread planas
Simon On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:32 -0400, Simon Johnson-Bégin wrote: Hello, I agree with all of your conclusions about the A, B, C users. But there are also some issues with the C users who learned something in a specific way and do not want to learn another way, even if it is for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rountrip Conversion Problems (was Re: Should LibreOffice ... secret formats?)

2011-09-11 Thread planas
Spencer On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 17:28 -0700, Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, Dennis: Thanks very much. Should I do something to file bug reports on these items? Spencer I would go ahead a file a bug report. The address is https://bugs.freedesktop.org. You will need to set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-11 Thread planas
Edwin On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 20:28 -0400, Edwin Powell wrote: If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office file formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are the defacto industry

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-11 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:32 -0400, Don Myers wrote: This is a general replay to Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats? illustrating my personal situation, and why my answer is *yes*. I moved from Microsoft Office Professional to Word Perfect Office Professional

Re: [libreoffice-users] odf purists mailing list request

2011-09-10 Thread planas
HI On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 12:37 -0400, Tim Deaton wrote: On 9/9/2011 3:48 PM, e-letter wrote: Readers, Analogous to the creation of LO, it is time to consider an odf purists mailing list for users such as yours truly who are tired of the m$ groupies yearning for a free m$ clone.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do LO installers have Java Runtime?

2011-09-09 Thread planas
David On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 23:32 -0400, David B Teague sr wrote: I run W7 64 bit, 4 gig RAM. jre-6u19-windows-i586-s.exe I have three questions: Do I want to install LO 3.4.3 or LO 3.3.4? The two series are very similar and stable. 3.3.4 tends to favor a slightly more conservative

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Encrypted MSO files (docx,xlsx) in Libo

2011-09-09 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 21:51 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 09:27 -0700, NoOp wrote: Really? I see nothing hidden here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313071%28v=office.12%29.aspx

Re: [libreoffice-users] Persistent Restore Windows Window

2011-09-09 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 20:56 -0700, squareproduce wrote: I work in OSX 10.7.1. LibreOffice unexpectedly quit. When reopening it, a window popped up that reads, Restore Windows, The application “LibreOffice” unexpectedly quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

2011-09-08 Thread planas
Atomic On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:26 -0700, At0mic wrote: Onyeibo Oku-2 wrote: Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before taking a side See, this is what I don't like about the open-source

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF 1.2 Approval and Extensions (was RE: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx f...)

2011-09-08 Thread planas
Dennis On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 19:48 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I agree. I think the question was asked better here, in terms of what the consequences for user choice are. I also think the answer about Draw and Impress is nicely concrete. The only way I can think of other than

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calculated fields not showing decimal places in BASE query

2011-09-07 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 17:34 +0100, John Mullen wrote: This gets weirder. Try this:Create a table CONTRACTS with an INTEGER field (ID) as a Primary key, set to auto fill and a decimal field (Rental) set to 2 decimal places. Add the value 150.00 to the first row. Run the query

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc stops refreshing formula halway down the spreadsheet

2011-09-07 Thread planas
Hi, On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 06:07 -0700, achristy wrote: The spreadsheet in question was created in MS Excel. When opened in Libre the formula works until about halfway through and then just stops refreshing the data leaving all zeros. This has happened in LibreOffice 3.3.2 and 3.4.3 on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-07 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:29 -0400, Don Myers wrote: Reply below: On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote: For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. I realiz(s)e that the existing:

RE: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

2011-09-06 Thread planas
Bruce On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 12:28 +1000, Bruce Carlson wrote: HI, I agree with Tom. It is difficult to get IT people who have never worked with anything other than MS products to accept that there is a better alternative, especially younger IT staff. Older IT workers have mostly had

Re: [libreoffice-users] cstom list bullet not export to .doc

2011-09-05 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 22:55 +0530, soumalya ray wrote: while saving into .doc , some formatting will be lost.i don't know how to bypass it.may be somebody else will be able to provide a better answer. by the way,does not office 2010 support .odt (1.1) too?? regards, I believe you are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x

2011-09-03 Thread planas
Hi, On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 22:53 -0700, akrobaticone wrote: I think that Base is an important part of Libreoffice like Acces for MS office Many people says that Acces is a terrible software( i think this), but many users use it because is very simple to designe little DB and in many little

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline- no need for Oracleaccount

2011-09-03 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 18:49 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: snip / Luckily Ubuntu is not targeted to the degree that MS Windows is and thus you have a lesser degree of exploitation. Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Wishlist: LibreOffice 3.4.3

2011-09-02 Thread planas
Robert, On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 20:26 -0700, Robert Schiele wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 and love the product running on Windows 7 64-bit box. It works as advertised, but I would like to see one change. That is that changes made under Tools/Customize should be saved in same way as they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined

2011-09-01 Thread planas
Marius, On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 07:07 +0300, Marius Popa wrote: It does not work! While it is loading, it crashes. What OS are you using? You might need to uninstall an earlier version, depending on the OS. Some Linux use 3.3.x and others 3.4.x. On 31 August 2011 21:13, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search and replace

2011-08-31 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:42 -0400, Cecilieaux wrote: New here. I'm looking for a way to search and replace carriage returns. For example, if there are 3 hard returns in a row between every paragraph and I want to change it to 2, or viceversa. I downloaded an extension called AltSearch,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spell checking not working in LBO 3.4.3

2011-08-31 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:15 -0700, Andreas Säger wrote: What happens when it is not working? Do you see the dialog? If so, which text language does it assume? See an error message? What does it say? Wrong positives? Which ones? Wrong negatives? Which ones? ToolsOptionsLanguage

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Help file in Windows 7

2011-08-29 Thread planas
Tink On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 04:15 -0700, Tinkerer wrote: A friend has installed Libre 3.4.2 on his Windows 7 computer. He then installed the Libre Help file and Windows put it in Documents. It does not work. Where should it be? There is a default location for the help file that is used. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] French popup

2011-08-27 Thread planas
Bill, On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:22 -0700, Bill.M wrote: On 26/08/11 09:06 PM, planas wrote: Bill On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:38 -0700, Bill.M wrote: Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem with a popup in the English version of LibreOffice. I keep getting the Aide du Correcteur

Re: [libreoffice-users] French popup

2011-08-27 Thread planas
was with the MimOOo dvd image. Just uninstall or deactivate th extensions. Regards, JFL On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 06:07 -0700, Bill.M wrote: On 26/08/11 11:06 PM, planas wrote: Do you have multiple languages installed or the French help pack installed? I assume you installed LO from the repository. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Lion?

2011-08-26 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 08:28 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: 3.4.3 out August 31st and 3.4.4 out October 5th, then 3.4.5 - November 23rd and 3.4.6 - February 22nd. The 3.3.x line stops at 3.3.5 due out on October 19th. The 3.5.x line starts February 8th 2012. It will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB

2011-08-26 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 06:42 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Question: Which version of LibreOffice are you using? 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.1, 3.4.2? Many issues/bugs have been fixed in the 3.4.x line that has not yet been fixed in the 3.3.x line. 3.4.x reads MS formats

Re: [libreoffice-users] French popup

2011-08-26 Thread planas
Bill On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:38 -0700, Bill.M wrote: Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem with a popup in the English version of LibreOffice. I keep getting the Aide du Correcteur Terminologique popping up IN FRENCH. At least this is what title of the help screen in french. I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writing programs for Base

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:19 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: To be honest, I have written a database program for a mainframe. I really like the backend/frontend type. You can choose what database you want to use that is best for your needs. MySQL seems to be the

Re: [libreoffice-users] working on a CD distribution disc for LO

2011-08-25 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:42 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: With working on the old P-III system, I decided to make a simple stripped down CD distribution/install disc for LibreOffice. It is not browser based like the original NA-DVD, but these old CD only systems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base List Tables Questions

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Dave On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:46 -0400, dave boland wrote: I'm creating a database that has a main table and a few list tables to supply data for list boxes. I have been following the User Guide and created three list tables. When I go to link them I get errors about the keys. The errors

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writing programs for Base

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Raymond, On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 20:27 +0200, L O wrote: I am surprised that Base is not a database program. I thought it was meant to be something like MS Access? Why is it included then in Libre Office? I am also trying to create a database in Base (as I did before in Access), however I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writing programs for Base

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Andreas On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:08 -0700, Andreas Säger wrote: You are right. It is a mere frontend. Mainly it is a bridge between tabular data and office document. Tabular data include address books from various mail clients, csv, dBase, spreadsheets and all kinds of databases via ODBC,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base List Tables Questions

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Dave On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:25 -0400, dave boland wrote: planas, I suspect you are on to something here. The error (detailed version) is: SQL Status: S0011 Error code: -170 Primary or unique constraint required on main table: tEmployeeType in statement [ALTER TABLE tMainTable

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Kexi

2011-08-25 Thread planas
Jaroslav On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 23:28 +0200, Jarosław Staniek wrote: Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Kexi is the database app in Calligra. Calligra is a fork of KOffice. KOffice gave all their remaining database devs to Calligra and dropped their version of the database. Calligra seems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc cell reference unexpected behavior.

2011-08-24 Thread planas
Steve. Good question, this behavior will catch the unwary because they are using relative reference when they want to use absolute referencing. Often users forget they can use to absolute referencing to control the location the formula uses. On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 09:55 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote:

RE: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility problems between LO Calc and EXCEL 2007 and 2010 (XLSX)

2011-08-23 Thread planas
Stanislav, On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 14:54 +0200, Stanislav Franěk wrote: We have mix of Computers with various versions of MS Office (2007 and 2010) and LO (3.4.2) in our company installed. Now I make some steps, which eliminate using mix MS Office and LO upon one shared document in workgroup.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where to report a bug with Tamil text rendering in LibreOffice?

2011-08-22 Thread planas
Shriramana On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 18:56 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: I am using LibreOffice 3.3.3 on Kubuntu Natty and 3.4.2 on Windows XP. On both installations I observe the following bug: In Tamil, vowelless consonants are considered independent grapheme clusters on their own as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: There was a problem connecting to the server servername

2011-08-21 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 08:35 -0700, noibs wrote: A little additional information on the above-- I get that message at least twice while the Open/Save as... dialog box is open but only when doing a Save as... If I pick another file format (such as Microsoft Office) to save the file in,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: There was a problem connecting to the server servername

2011-08-21 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 15:38 -0700, noibs wrote: Thanks for the reply. I had one custom path that I redid a few minutes ago. I went to my office today (where the server is located) and found three LibreOffice documents (one writer and two calc) where, if they were opened, would also

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ipad

2011-08-21 Thread planas
Hi, On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 10:30 -0400, guin...@aol.com wrote: Can i download libre office to an iPad ? I do not think the iPad is supported, but the Mac is definitely supported. I am not sure what would happen if tried to install LO on an iPad because I am not sure of the differences

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc, serious problem/bug in formulas when adjusting cells used

2011-08-21 Thread planas
Hi, On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 00:38 -0700, 10o wrote: In Ubuntu 11.04 I am using serveral spreadsheets that come from OpenOffice, which came with previous versions of Ubuntu. I recently noticed that formula cells are not always automatically adjusted according to changes in cells used in that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-08-18 Thread planas
Hi, On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 04:52 -0700, ncreamer wrote: CREATE TABLE Vulnerability ( Vuln ID INTEGER NOT NULL, Vulnerability INTEGER NOT NULL, VulnInstance NUMERIC(10) DEFAULT 1, CONSTRAINT PK_ISSUE PRIMARY KEY (Vulnerability, Vuln ID ), CONSTRAINT FK_ISSUE FOREIGN KEY (Vulnerability)

RE: [libreoffice-users] Help

2011-08-18 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 17:23 -0500, Marianne Herrera wrote: Hi Please, You know if SQL Server 2008 is as compatible with Libreoffice, as Office es compatible with SQL, because is important manipulate the Data Bases and see the information wh office in your job. Thank you very much for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - embedded DB backup and restore

2011-08-18 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 07:28 -0700, ncreamer wrote: I'm working through the Base_Tutorial to create a small, single-user database. The guide teaches me to create my tables using SQL. The commands have me drop table as I make changes and warns that all data will be lost - fair enough.

Re: [libreoffice-users] ReDim of a variable of a custom type

2011-08-18 Thread planas
Johnny, On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 18:11 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I was, in a reply to another question, told that my questions were way too basic for the d...@api.openoffice.org list, so I'll give it a try here instead. I wrote some example code: REM * BASIC * Option

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