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

2011-08-18 Thread planas
Johnny, On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:46 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/8/18 planas jsloz...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-17 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 09:52 +0530, soumalya ray wrote: this reminded me my experience,not this much serious though. while creating a presentation,i found LO unresponsive.i was a bit scared.waited for few minutes and it was working again.later,i found that LO was making a back-up copy at

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

2011-08-17 Thread planas
Hi, On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 11:53 -0700, ncreamer wrote: Helpful thread - thank you. Any idea why not even the SQL tool will set a default value for me? I spent lots of time in the Base_Tutorial and created tables with SQL. The field that follows does NOT have a default value of 1 and, as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

2011-08-14 Thread planas
Hi Derek, On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 22:22 -0400, R. Derek Pattison wrote: Hi Jorge, Basically I want to do some minor editing of the pictures in the PDF. Delete some pages, move some from one document to another, delete parts of pages. The problem is that LibreOffice is trying to interpret

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 12:54 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Thanks Sigrid. Copy-left agreements such as the Creative Commons used in artworks, video, documentation and elsewhere is a very new concept that can allow people to copy, modify and redistribute. The traditional idea

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-12 Thread planas
Hi :) On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 21:21 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, it does crop up quite often but it is still a legitimate question. Ideally convert things to doc format if that is possible. DocX is designed to be incompatible with non-MS products imo. However the LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New user to BASE

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:01 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 11/08/11 15:46, Wayne a écrit : Would you include Python in that list? Wayne Sure, any programming language that allows you to build a graphically driven frontend. AFAIK, Python can do that with tcl, wx, gtk, and no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening xls file with xhtml embedded

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 06:11 -0700, msaum@smi wrote: We have main frame reports that are generated using xhtml and saved as extension xls. When the user gets the report they would typically just open them with excel, no problem... Calc does not open them properly. When I ope CALC and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date Format in Writer

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Johnny On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:36 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/8/11 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi :) Ahhah, great. I prefer dashes - because after reading too much for too long my eyes get a bit muddled when people use / and dots still seem to confuse obscure

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Gordon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:24 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Yes it's true! I see this more and more - LO being recommended to people who've bought a computer with a Trial version of Office 2010 that's expired... +1 Where is this happening? -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] unopkg error

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Lars On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:23 +0200, Lars Callenbach wrote: Hi Jay, I have modified the QuantLib addin code so that it runs under Linux and Windows XP (using Openoffice 3.2.1). Under Libreoffice the code compiles and the oxt file will be created but loading of the addin (using the

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I build only libreoffice-writer instead of whole office suite ?

2011-08-11 Thread planas
Partha, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 18:07 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: Hallo all.This is my first post to the list. I have successfully build libreoffice-3.3.3.1 form source.However, I need office only to open and edit word documents and nothing else. So I want only to build the writer part

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Macro not active when the document start

2011-08-11 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:17 +0200, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.08.2011 09:23, toto wrote: I'm using macro's function and it doesn't start when the document start. It would start if I change the value of the variabel at the function. The code is to change numeric value to string. If I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!

2011-08-11 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 01:07 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote: On Friday 12 August 2011 00:22:12 planas wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:59 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/08/2011 20:43, planas wrote: Gordon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:24 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [FOLLOW-UP]

2011-08-11 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:52 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi Everyone, I have been doing some follow-up investigations that I thought you might like to be made aware. First, why? Well after testing the file that I recreated by copying the text, formula and styles I could not cause the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread planas
Simon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:38 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: On 11/08/11 02:53, Tom Davies wrote: Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst. A sieve or broken floppy disc or an ancient format that no program can read might be worse but yes, databases with an audit-trail are much

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread planas
Simon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:30 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: On 11/08/11 09:47, planas wrote: Simon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:38 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: On 11/08/11 02:53, Tom Davies wrote: Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst. A sieve or broken floppy disc

Re: [libreoffice-users] unopkg error

2011-08-10 Thread planas
Lars, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:22 +0200, Lars Callenbach wrote: Hello, I have compiled an addin which works find under openoffice 3.2. Using either libreoffice 3.3 or 3.4 the following error message appears: ERROR: Fehler beim Hinzuf�gen von:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inconsintent behaviour of libreoffice with master document and python

2011-08-09 Thread planas
Alberto, On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 15:32 +0200, Alberto wrote: Hi all, I see a very strange behaviour behaviour in libreoffice when creating the pdf from a master document. Using this: dispatcher.executeDispatch(frame, .uno:UpdateAll, , 0, ()) In some case I see all the various sub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-09 Thread planas
Hi Onyeibo; On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 15:49 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote: On 09/08/2011 10:17, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 09.08.2011 00:57, Betti Ann and Preston Smith wrote: I have uploaded the information to the Calc Section of the OpenOffice Forum - it is titled 'Compare Two Files' Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread planas
Simon, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:46 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, I have an old spreadsheet in ODS format. The file was originally an XLS file then converted to ODS format several years ago *and* has been used weekly over that period without any problems. When I try an delete a

Re: [libreoffice-users] add ttf fonts to LibreOffice

2011-08-09 Thread planas
Hi On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 21:05 -0700, SillyOne wrote: My question is really basic, but I couldn't find anything about it, sorry. So here goes. Adding fonts to the windows version of LE is simple, just add them to the c:/windows/fonts folder (or install via control panel), and you

Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files

2011-08-08 Thread planas
Graham, On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 18:23 +0100, Graham Mullan wrote: One area where M$ Word still scores over LO is in the use of track-changes. I know many editors and authors who stay with M$ because the in-text change tracking that LO (and OO) use is much trickier to use than the in-margin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi, On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 10:53 +0100, twohot wrote: On 06/08/2011, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:31 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: 1) True but what I'm doing is more computational than relational though the end result will be a material for building

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Preston On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 10:02 -0300, Betti Ann and Preston Smith wrote: On 8/6/2011 5:28 PM, planas wrote: Preston On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:22 -0300, Preston Smith wrote: Hi Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion I know nothing about databases however I just successfully

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 06:42 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS product.though obviously US is a much bigger

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice won't open files

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Dave On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 14:49 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: I've had a strange experience recently - libreoffice won't open files. That is File/Open doesn't bring up a dialog box. File/New works and so does using a filename on the command line when starting libreoffice. Libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem with columnwidths in grid

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Alex, On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 11:11 +0300, alex bodnaru wrote: body p { margin-bottom: 0.3cm; margin-top: 0pt; } hello friends, i'm asking for help with setting the column widths for a grid control. anyone with some insight could help. thanks in advance,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Right Tab not working

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:58 -0700, 20rdj04 wrote: In my doc I have 4 tabs set. Decimal 3.0, Right 3.5, Dec 4.2, Dec 5.5. I want my text to end at 3.5 inches. In the past (other word processors) I tabbed to the decimal or right tab, and then, as I typed the words/numbers, the line

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to have output in table from calc data?

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 11:06 +0530, soumalya ray wrote: hi, i searched for this but since i am totally new to calc i could not even understand what to search for. i have calc sheet named students demography with the name,age,gender,wt,height,BMI,sponsored candidate or not etc.now i need

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 18:44 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Moving to OpenSource for a type of product is a one-time major migration but it can be done in baby-steps. Staying with proprietary systems ensures that a similar level of disruption is guaranteed every 3-5 years as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Preston On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:22 -0300, Preston Smith wrote: Hi Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion I know nothing about databases however I just successfully imported an xls file into LO's Base. I assume the next step is to import the second xls file to create a second table.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:31 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: 1) True but what I'm doing is more computational than relational though the end result will be a material for building a proper database. A spreadsheet is more suited for this ... Trust me on this. 2) All the macro does is create

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Hi Walt On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:05 -0700, Walt wrote: Hi Anyone know how to get native pgsql support on base - it seems missing from the connect to an exsitng database options. I've checked under both Linux and Windows. Also is it possble to mix and match datasources on one base

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Wayne On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:55 -0400, Wayne wrote: Hi, A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion as to what would be a

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread planas
Tom and all On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:08 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US slavishly. It's not the government, it's just a government. Many other countries push OpenSource or at least non-MS, sometimes just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-05 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 08:32 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 08/05/2011 12:22 AM, planas wrote: Hi On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 23:49 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: So, would it be better to use the Oxford English or the British English

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 20:53 +, toki wrote: On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote: our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace all the MS stuff with open source software. If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom ruled today

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-04 Thread planas
Walt, On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:05 -0700, Walt wrote: Hi Anyone know how to get native pgsql support on base - it seems missing from the connect to an exsitng database options. I've checked under both Linux and Windows. Also is it possble to mix and match datasources on one base

Re: [libreoffice-users] Yum Repository for install and upgrades

2011-08-04 Thread planas
Walt On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:51 -0700, Walt wrote: Hi Is there an official libreoffice Yum Repository for the major linux distros (in my linux rpm with rhel desktop integration)? -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-04 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 23:49 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: So, would it be better to use the Oxford English or the British English form of spelling? Here in the USA, if we do not use proper American spelling our papers are rejected for sloppiness. I wrote colour

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing SOLVED

2011-08-02 Thread planas
Hi On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 22:52 -0700, JeepNut wrote: Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: This file is indeed the crash log of your Java virtual machine. I suggest you to give a try to the vanilla version of LibreOffice : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ This looked

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving form letter

2011-08-02 Thread planas
Steve, On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 07:07 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I have set up a form letter to merge data from a sheet into a form. This works well and I now want to send the files for another person to use. On the receiving end I found I had to add the data source again

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread planas
Ian, On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 17:36 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 30/07/2011 19:37, Don C. Myers wrote: Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice: text is displayed incorrectly after being selected

2011-07-31 Thread planas
Hoang, On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 21:19 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: I used LO 3.3.3 before and got this problem. Then I upgraded to 3.4.1 when I saw in the release note something like better text rendering but it doesn't solve the problem so far I am running Windows, previously XP, now 7. In

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice: text is displayed incorrectly after being selected

2011-07-31 Thread planas
Hoang On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 00:50 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: I have not noticed this problem with LO either in 3.3.2 or 3.4.1, I have seen occasionally a similar problem; letters not being shown in text. This problem seems to be an OS rendering problem because it is not limited to LO. An

Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe

2011-07-31 Thread planas
Leon On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 18:53 +0100, Leon Cych wrote: Unsubscribe To unsubcribe send an email for instructions to users +h...@global.libreoffice.org They will send you an email with instructions and confirming you want to unsubscribe. We can not unsubscribe anyone from the list

Re: [libreoffice-users] Code snippet

2011-07-31 Thread planas
Andrew, On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 21:49 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/31/2011 02:19 PM, Bill Gradwohl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/2011 10:57 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I expect that you need to set this from the sheets draw page

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering? SOLVED

2011-07-30 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 19:25 -0700, JeepNut wrote: Because I really like closure, thought I would post the resolution to the problem of the file I lost. Admittedly a fairly unsophisticated user of the office suite, I overlooked a very easy answer to the problem of recovering the file that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-07-30 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:34 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Both things happen. Windows sometimes makes a bit of a fuss about not shutting down when asked to. It prefers to find excuses and panicks about open documents. If you did have an open document then it will often tend to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-29 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:55 -0700, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Heinrich, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:15 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hi Tom, Just my - maybe naive - 2 pennies worth of comments: As I mentioned before, I have been using OO/LO for years together with BASE with MySQL (which - also sigh) now belongs to Oracle as well. As a connector to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Biil On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 10:57 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a spreadsheet containing 39 sheets, of which 21 are duplicates of one another. They represent tables in a restaurant. On an average laptop or desktop, everything is fine.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc row filter extraction

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Hi Hylton, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 21:50 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi all, I have a 'data' spreadsheet sheet for my family medical aid on LO 3.3.1 with multiple columns and different information in each column. Please see the text example I include below. What I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Given up spellchecking?

2011-07-22 Thread planas
Mark On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 20:36 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: Writer seems to have stopped spellchecking, even though I have the standard dictionary set correctly (I think, to English -UK), and all the other language options I can find being set correctly, and in fact set the same way as

Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes

2011-07-22 Thread planas
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog

Re: [libreoffice-users] automatic updates?

2011-07-18 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:03 -0400, Paul W wrote: Sorry, I dont' get what you're saying. I just meant that when there's a new version available LO would notify the user and give the user the option to or automatically download and install any updates. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw - position and size

2011-07-18 Thread planas
Hi On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 02:56 -0700, w.nayland wrote: When setting position and size I get an image 10 times greater than requested. ie. I request a 2.5 cm circle the ruler and the relative size on the page indicate the circle actually drawn is 25 cm. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ability to change currency as needed across a spreadsheet in Calc?

2011-07-14 Thread planas
Hi Geoff, On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 08:04 -0700, floridabrits wrote: Hello LibreOffice fans... I'm looking for some help with calc on a spreadsheet that I have set up. I'm not sure if it needs a macro set up, or if there's something in LibreOffice that will do this for me, or if I have to seek

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread planas
Lorenzo On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:45 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Hi, Shane Van Loenen wrote: I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that can be used in the enterprise, but since there is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:19 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: On 13/07/11 10:41, Tom Davies wrote: I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that can be used in the enterprise, but since there is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?

2011-07-09 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 14:40 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files? Never used, what about SourceForge or LO main site? I was thinking that seems the only place that may allow these large files to have a home for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc importing csv

2011-07-09 Thread planas
Luuk, On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 14:41 +0200, Luuk wrote: Hi, I tried to import some CSV-data the source is here: http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/investors/share_price_information/historical_share_price.asp i selected (it was auto-suggested) from 28-dec-1995 to 09-jul-2011 The start

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Find in 3.4.0

2011-07-08 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 19:09 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: I recently upgraded to LO 3.4.0 and I noticed a few days ago that the Find command no longer works the way it used to, or even at all. Find and Replace (which used to be the same window as Find, shortcut ctlF) is not ctlaltF, and ctlF

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge formatting

2011-07-07 Thread planas
Cor On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 23:31 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Lee, lee wrote (07-07-11 23:06) Steve Edmondssteve.edmo...@ptglobal.com writes: I am trying to perform a mail merge with numbers but can't seem to control the number format. As you may have seen, Steve is both helped and

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice DOES NOT open .docx files

2011-07-05 Thread planas
Graham On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:39 -0500, Graham Martin wrote: I have attached a docx file generated with Adobe's ExportPDF service (as well as the PDF from which it was generated). I would love to be able to use that service with LibO, but the docx output just opens as a blank document (to

Re: [libreoffice-users] .xlsx libre issue

2011-07-05 Thread planas
Marc On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 16:10 -0700, marc moran wrote: I have a .xlsx file which once had 9 tabs, that, after a save in libre 3.3.3 ... now it seems to have one. needless to say, the formatting is jacked up too. i've tried opening in ms/ms for mac 2008/google docs ..etc. It is also

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .xlsx libre issue

2011-07-05 Thread planas
Marc On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:25 -0700, Marc Moran wrote: save as pdf. from excel 2008 for mac creates individual pdfs per sheet. thankfully. On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:10 PM, marc moran wrote: I have a .xlsx file which once had 9 tabs, that, after a save in libre 3.3.3 ... now it seems to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: xls file causing crash

2011-07-04 Thread planas
Hi On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:41 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 4 Jul 2011 at 11:24, Dave Griffiths wrote: To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Dave Griffiths dave.griffith...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: xls file causing

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-07-01 Thread planas
John On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 08:42 -0700, John Thaden wrote: --- On Thu, 6/30/11, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com wrote: Hi. There is a bug for auto recovery if the document being edited is a .doc https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34805 I have turned auto recovery

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTF support

2011-07-01 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 16:25 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: I don't (entirely) disagree with you on the dirty trick front. But what an interesting world we live in when an unpleasantly dirty trick like that is seen as a legitimate tool... Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... Part

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 06:33 -0700, tracey002 wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Since then I always make sure no RTF files comes near me ever. I have all due respect for your opinion and choice and I am glad you have the option to do that. I had never thought of saving all documents in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc - 3.4 Final version can not open (hyper)links anymore

2011-06-30 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 03:09 -0700, beta990 wrote: Dear LibreOffice, I have downloaded the new 3.4 Final version of the new LibreOffice. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit), everything runs, have the PPA in the repositories. The only problem I have is that hyperlinks on a Calc sheet are not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-29 Thread planas
Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread planas
Eric On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:59 -0700, Eric wrote: Hi Jay, I unfortunately must keep this document as a docx file, because it's a working document that I need to check and modify, before sending it back to his owner (who obviously uses MS Word). -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-28 Thread planas
Eric On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 20:00 +0200, Eric wrote: Hi, I've got one issue with LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5). I'm trying to edit a docx file, but writer crashes randomly, so I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-28 Thread planas
Hi On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 15:55 +0200, Davide Dozza wrote: Il 28/06/2011 15:50, Stefano Fraccaro ha scritto: Hi Ernest, in our company we don't have any crash at all with LibreOffice 3.4.x . How many pc have this behaviour? Which is the system configuration? 3.4.x is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reduce the size of LibreOffice for headless use only

2011-06-28 Thread planas
Petroy, On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 08:50 -0700, Petroy wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use LibreOffice in combination with JODConverter (or just via command-line) to convert some ODT files that my Java application generates to PDF. It would be great if the users didn't need to have LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and Microsoft Office files - MIME type problem

2011-06-28 Thread planas
Ian, On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Ian Long wrote: Hi, I have looked for a solution to an issue I am seeing, but without any luck - hopefully someone has seen this before and can provide a workaround. A client is using LibreOffice on Windows XP PCs, running IE8. They use LO to

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTF support

2011-06-27 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:15 -0700, tracey002 wrote: I had discovered that Open Office Writer does NOT really support functional RTF features (the ones that I tried anyway). When I posted issues to an OpenOffice Users Group, I was re-directed to Libre Office. Can I help in some way? Please

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-27 Thread planas
Tracey On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:46 -0700, tracey002 wrote: Is Libre Office the same/identical application as Open Office or are they separate projects? The names and icons of the applications look identical. If not, can you briefly explain the difference. Thanks, Tracey -- View this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread planas
Hi Vladimir, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 15:36 +0600, Vladimir Drobyshevsky wrote: Hello! I'm trying to create a form with master\slave relation. My tables linked to external PostgreSQL database, so I'm getting data for master and slave forms from queries. I make the relation by choosing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread planas
Vladimir, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:57 +, Vladimir Drobyshevsky wrote: Have a nice day, Jay! planas jslozier at gmail.com writes: Hi Vladimir, ... Is it possible to change the way of LO making relation's query or to find an another way to solve my problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with paths

2011-06-26 Thread planas
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 13:49 +, Herbert Fromme wrote: On 13/04/2011 12:01, Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm using the portable build of LibreOffice from portableapps.com on a WinXP system. I'm trying to change the documents directory that LibreOffice uses. I go

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Format

2011-06-25 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 20:42 -0700, badaveil wrote: Firstly, the default paper format is Letter but I want it set to A4 so that every time I open the text document, it automatically sets paper format to A4. Secondly, the default page margin is 0.79inch but I want it set to 1 inch so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: using fields in a text document

2011-06-24 Thread planas
Hi Lee On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 16:18 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 24/06/11 15:13, lee a écrit : Hi Lee, Now I would like to make it so that I can press a button and be presented with a form or the like that lets me fill in the variable data, inserts the data at the appropriate

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Hi all, On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:22 +0100, John B wrote: Hi Alex One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have brilliant email filters built in to them. When I signed up to [libreoffice-users], I had no idea the of the good quality especially the quantity of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Error saving LibreOffice Documents under MacOSX 10.7

2011-06-22 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 14:26 +, Andreas Ender wrote: planas jslozier at gmail.com writes: Which version of LO are you using? Can you replicate this problem with same version of LO on another Mac OS version? Same issue here with LibreOffice 3.4.1 OOO340m1 (Build:101

Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-21 Thread planas
Stephan On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 10:17 +0200, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Stephan Zietsman wrote: How did you create an icon like that? At first I thought it should be fairly easy, but when I tried, I couldn't find a way. Never mind, I found it. Right-click on any toolbar - Customise

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQL problems

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Roxy, On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:47 -0400, Denis Poitras wrote: Le 2011-06-20 à 13:01, Roxy Robinson rocma...@ranchwireless.com a écrit : From what I've seen on this list since signing on about 10 days ago, there should perhaps also be a split list between Windows users and Linux users!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQL problems

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Denis, On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:57 -0400, Denis Poitras wrote: Hi François, In fact, I'm rebuilding a database that I can't no more using in my old program (Helix). In the other program I had pop menu in each field from differents tables: prefix, first name, name, etc. Same thing for

Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Hi, On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:35 +0200, lee wrote: Manfred J. Krause courrier.oou.fr@googlemail.com writes: Hi, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 20:41, Roxy Robinson wrote: Oh, yes, I see. That calls the Paste Special command, which opens the selection window; then U selects

Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Roxy I need new glasses or eyeballs, I never noticed the arrow, thanks for the tip! On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 16:23 -0500, Roxy Robinson wrote: See my later post on how I do it using the toolbar Paste Drop Down Arrow. Pretty simple, pretty easy, pretty quick. Don't how you could get much better

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tutorial for Base Design Forms

2011-06-20 Thread planas
John On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 11:19 +0100, John B wrote: Hi Alex I am hopeless. I tried the wizard in 3.3.3, sure enough the fields were added but displayed as a spreadsheet (as is data) instead of a re-designable format for just one record, AND the design /edit button is greyed out (as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Hi, On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:50 -0700, aqualung wrote: Twayne wrote: IIRC, the use is given the choice of not affecting any other file associations during the install. Or, it can take over all of them depending on which you choose at install time. O.K., good. So, LibO already

Re: [libreoffice-users] Enabling Macros - misleading labelling

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Roxy, I thought the labeling strange the first time I heard of it. I would never have tried selecting the check box. A more accurate description should be used. I have submitted a bug report (38509) suggesting the label be changed. On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 17:29 -0500, Roxy Robinson wrote: And

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Earl On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:16 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 21:40 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 06/18/2011 07:52 PM, planas wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: snip There you go: When you need a particular feature, you must have it. When you

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

2011-06-19 Thread planas
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:09 +0200, Frieder wrote: Am 19.06.2011 01:52, schrieb planas: On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:39 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: Lee, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 21:42 +0200, lee wrote: planasjsloz...@gmail.com writes: I believe that the 80

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-19 Thread planas
Andrew, On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 12:35 -0700, Andrew Foss wrote: I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many times in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying to open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the

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