Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread jomali
It depends on what you mean by coding and what the requirements of the course are. If she is to be coding in VBA, only Access will do. If she will be required to use Access on tests, only Access wil do. Even the SQL that Access uses has some differences from the SQL used in Base, since Base does

[libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread lalitadatta
Hi, My daughter's in need of Microsoft access for her homework - she's studying computer technology at high school, and she needs Access for coding. Anyone knows if liber office should do the job? Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-website] New to Libre Office

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Tim :) Well, mostly Tim. I really liked that your answer, as the first responder, included Cico so that he/she could see the problem had been picked up by the mailing list and not just vanished into some void. Also i very much liked the last paragraph reinforcing what Cico had said and

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Jordan
Well others will know more than me on this, but from my ltd experience I'd ask what OS your daughter has e.g. I hope it's not Windows 8.1? ATB Philip Jordan UK On 29 January 2015 at 13:45, lalitadatta lalitadatta1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My daughter's in need of Microsoft access for her

[libreoffice-users] Installation of 4.4 on Ubuntu has a slight problem

2015-01-29 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit, I purged the existing version of LO, downloaded the tar.gz for 4.4, and installed as per the /readme /The install procedure did NOT add the module icons to the launcher - I had to search for Write, Calc etc and when they were open, lock them to the launcher. Now going to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/01/15 08:34, Philip Jordan wrote: In some answer to Jonathan's Windows 8.1 queries I'm not really competent to answer them BUT IF you don't know which edition of Win8.1 nor which localization of Win 8.1 you are using, then who does know?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 29/01/15 17:10, jonathon wrote: My guess is that one of the crippleware versions of Win 8.1 was installed, Err there AREN'T any crippleware versions of Windows 8.1 Where on earth did you get that from? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Jordan
Thanks Tanstaafl Reckon you may be right ref Hardware but have no idea on what PEBKAC is?! ATB Philip On 29 January 2015 at 15:33, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Philip, I'm not sure what your particular problem is, but I've installed Libreoffice on multiple Win 8.1 systems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Jordan
In some answer to Jonathan's Windows 8.1 queries I'm not really competent to answer them BUT As I've said I live in the UK to that fact that the Machine is a Toshiba Laptop can I add that it was bought a month ago i.e. with presumably uptodate Software On 28 January 2015 at 21:14, jonathon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Jordan
Thanks Tom Can I say I think you have the picture! Meanwhile, I'll continue to look @ Ubantu etc as helpfully set out by Gordon I'll also *maybe* look at taking my Laptop back to Staples, where I got it a month ago Thanks again Philip Jordan On 29 January 2015 at 09:46, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Harvey Nimmo
The LibreOffice Base is the LO answer to Access. My observation is that there are similarities in concept but they are not compatible with each other. On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:13 +, Philip Jordan wrote: Well others will know more than me on this, but from my ltd experience I'd ask what OS

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry to say that Access is not compatible with almost any other database program. Even down to the sql language under the surface of the Queries it is different from all the rest. Access is also very restricted in what it can do and how it can be used - for example it only supports single

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol +1 I think most other people might well agree with that too! ;) MS Office is only available for Windows and Mac. The Mac version doesn't have Access. LibreOffice is available on most things. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 15:13, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.4, the most beautiful LibreOffice ever

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I haven't taken a huge amount of notice of the detail in announcements in the last couple of years but this one really stood out for me. I really loved it. The best part imo was from the 2nd sentence in the 3rd paragraph where it describes some of the key or interesting advantages of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tanstaafl
Philip, I'm not sure what your particular problem is, but I've installed Libreoffice on multiple Win 8.1 systems with zero problems. Methinks this may be a problem with some crapware that your hardware vendor so thoughtfully installed for you - or possibly a PEBKAC issue... On 1/29/2015 10:13

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, the 40mins does kinda assume that downloads all work correctly and that you have some experience of doing it so that you don't have to stop and read everything and maybe even do a bit of research to check the accuracy or background of the various things that crop up. We could help you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that just installing Firefox or some other web-browser (people seem to like Chrome these days) and LibreOffice deals with most of the problems. I'm not saying the Internet Explorer and MS Office are all bad all the time. I use both quite often myself. I try to avoid them but they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Jordan
Thanks Gordon That's very helpful Philip PS FWIW I know you were replying to what someone else said but that person probably should not have introduced this C word as it could be that it use contravenes human rights etc - bit like Benedict saying what he did recently?! On 29 January 2015 at

[libreoffice-users] got libre

2015-01-29 Thread cliff barney
guess i panicked too soon. the libre download arrived after 15 minutes or so. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Microsoft do seem to make things difficult... First their web browser changes the .msi extension to .man, which their operating system doesn't understand, and then their file browser hides the extension making it difficult to correct! That has come up on this list before, and your earlier

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/01/15 17:14, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Err there AREN'T any crippleware versions of Windows 8.1 Microsoft doesn't talk about it much, but even they inadvertently called one of those editions crippled. They usually use a much more

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-website] ask

2015-01-29 Thread Cico
Da: Gary Gach gary.g...@gmail.com A: hostmas...@documentfoundation.org; webs...@global.libreoffice.org Inviato: Giovedì 29 Gennaio 2015 21:30 Oggetto: [libreoffice-website] ask Dear Friends I tried ask.libreoffice.org but it’s unavailable I have a question about .pdf’s ... Where might I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging columns, not cells

2015-01-29 Thread Mark Howe
Re: Merging the contents of two columns into a single column. For what I am doing this method worked perfectly. I would have loved to have these instructions in the help pages. Thanks Brian and Rob. I am now starting to think of all kinds of ways to use this. -Original Message- From: