Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-16 Thread Yanis Zavakos
Dear all, I let LO create a new user profile by renaming the old one. Unfortunately, it didn't work. This was rather expected, because, as I said, the problem appeared in both user accounts (administrator, standard user), so we have to assume that something has corrupted both user accounts

[libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-16 Thread Pedro
Hi Yanis Yanis Zavakos wrote This left me no other choice but to restore the latest system image and be content with LO 4.1.1.2. Between your current 4.1.1.2 and the latest 4.1.4.2 you have 4.1.2.3 and 4.1.3.2 which you can get from here

Re: [libreoffice-users] Editing Custom Styles in Calc

2014-01-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:18 15/01/2014 -0800, James E Lang wrote: Brian Barker wrote: Perhaps explain what you tried, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened? Otherwise, anyone can only guess. Okay, here goes in painful detail. [Lots of unnecessary detail snipped] I press F11. I see a small

[libreoffice-users] problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread leon244
I have a column of terms that I pasted from two text files. I have tried to remove duplicate terms from the list but have the continued problem of having some of the duplicated terms not removed. One example is the term Adrenal hyperplasia and the other duplicate is adrenal hyperplasia. I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Editing Custom Styles in Calc

2014-01-16 Thread James E Lang
Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Perhaps explain what you tried, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened? Otherwise, anyone can only guess. Okay, here goes in painful detail. I wanted several custom styles to highlight values in a range that could be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connection to SQL database

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :) I guess that is part of my question. The original back-end of the database in this case is MySql/MariaDb. Base can normally use MySql/MariaDb as it's own back-end so there would seem to be 2 different routes that might be worth considering; 1. Attach Base directly to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Similar Problem?

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This mailing list might be able to help you migrate your existing tables to an external back-end. There was a looong thread about this a few years ago when Ian (err can't remember his surname [hangs head in shame]). It is roughly what i hope to do = start with the internal back-end and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connection to SQL database

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, actually i've only just realised that a 2nd grab from the 'proprietary' back-end data-tables might not be such a nightmare. Just keep a copy of the current export as it is so that the new grab can be compared against it. Any differences could then be added to the data-tables held

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-16 Thread Yanis Zavakos
Dear Tom and Pedro, It will be a pleasure to test with builds 4.1.2.3, 4.1.3.2 and 4.2.0 and formally report a bug as well. I'll keep you posted. Best regards, Yanis On 16/1/2014 13:03, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Blimey!! Good work doing all that! Sounds like a bit of a nightmare! It is

[libreoffice-users] Re: problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread Pedro
Hi Leon leon244 wrote However, that appears not to be working and I don't understand why. If anyone could help me understand what I am doing incorrectly, I would appreciate it. The good news is that you aren't doing something incorrectly. The bad news is that you just found a Bug in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread Brian Barker
At 04:36 16/01/2014 -0800, Leon Noname wrote: I have a column of terms that I pasted from two text files. I have tried to remove duplicate terms from the list but have the continued problem of having some of the duplicated terms not removed. One example is the term Adrenal hyperplasia and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connection to SQL database

2014-01-16 Thread Carl Paulsen
Tom, Let me clarify what I need to do. I need the raw data to move to a new relational database. I'm not planning on having them work directly on spreadsheets. The data will go into Salesforce, but I don't know how to get the raw SQL data into Salesforce with the changes I need to make to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connection to SQL database

2014-01-16 Thread Jay Lozier
Tom On 1 or 2 you need to the URL/path to the database, the port used if not the default (3306) and the log in credentials. The procedure with Base is the same. If you are do basic read/writes to the database then option 1 is desired. If you are doing development work Option 2 is highly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey!! Good work doing all that! Sounds like a bit of a nightmare! It is really disturbing that the 4.1.4 doesn't work but the 4.1.1 does. We don't normally get that type of regression. We do occasionally get a regression in a newer branch, such as the 4.2.0 (especially when it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: “No default printer found. Please choose a printer and try again”

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Davies
hi :) There is a way of installing multiple versions of LibreOffice alongside each other in parallel https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel It's not quite straight-forwards but hopefully the wiki-guide there makes it easier. The main thing to avoid is having 2 versions open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Similar Problem?

2014-01-16 Thread Vince Radice
It is Thursday morning. I looked and there were 10 empty files in the backup directory from 10:49 pm to 10:50 pm. When I tried to bring the database down this morning, it would not come down - Starter was not responding. I waited several times to see if it would clear up and end. Nothing.

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice in Umbria

2014-01-16 Thread M Henri Day
​LibreOffice users may find the following ZDNet article by Raffaele Mastrolonardo, in which TDF's Italo Vignoli is cited, of interest : ​ http://www.zdnet.com/like-driving-a-ferrari-at-20mph-why-one-region-ditched-microsoft-office-for-libreoffice-725246/ ​ Henri​ -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread leon244
Brian, Thank you, I will try this. I think it is the answer Leon On 01/16/2014 08:18 AM, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: At 04:36 16/01/2014 -0800, Leon Noname wrote: I have a column of terms that I pasted from two text files. I have tried to remove duplicate terms

[libreoffice-users] Re: problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread leon244
Pedro, Thank you. I have reported the bug as you suggested. Leon On 01/16/2014 08:00 AM, Pedro [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Hi Leon leon244 wrote However, that appears not to be working and I don't understand why. If anyone could help me understand what I am

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-16 Thread frank ernest
Also, you should warn microsoft before their docx stuff get in the wild too, as they also use the zip file format. Here I thought that some of the ideas behind opensource was that it would promote better/some kind of standards. It's ok though. There are greater problems out there then lack of

Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Connection to SQL database

2014-01-16 Thread Peter West
Carl, You can export csv directly from MySql. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356578/how-to-output-mysql-query-results-in-csv-format If you need modified data, it seems to me that the best way to do that is to 1) work out the changes you need to the existing data 2) create a new

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-16 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/16 frank ernest do...@mail.com Also, you should warn microsoft before their docx stuff get in the wild too, as they also use the zip file format. Here I thought that some of the ideas behind opensource was that it would promote better/some kind of standards. It's ok though. There

[libreoffice-users] Re: problem removing duplicate string in calc

2014-01-16 Thread Pedro
Hi Leon leon244 wrote Thank you. I have reported the bug as you suggested. Thank *you*. Could you please report on this thread the number of the bug? Apparently this bug is already known (since you reported a new one, then it's a duplicate) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70925