[libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Eric Beversluis
I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word highlighted, but there's no way I can get it to move the hyphen. If I put my

[libreoffice-users] Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-19 Thread xavier2
Hello I need to insert the current date from my computer into a field from a database. SQL has a function called NOW() which introduce the current date into a field. However, I don't know very well how this work. I tried to visit a website giving code examples in SQL... w3schools.com however I

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Doug
On 03/19/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word highlighted, but there's no way I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-19 Thread Justin Musgrove
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 15:15 -0700, xavier2 wrote: Hello I need to insert the current date from my computer into a field from a database. SQL has a function called NOW() which introduce the current date into a field. However, I don't know very well how this work. I tried to visit a website

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Business Cards - Printing - Libre Writer version 4.3.5.2

2015-03-19 Thread MySpam
There is a program called gLabels. I use it to create mailing labels. Re: business cards, I would avoid laser, as business cards are usually stacked together, so they rub. They will wear off the laser toner. Ink is soaked into the paper so it won't come off. That would interfere with the

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 are no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry! I don't have a good answer for this except the weird work-around that is not helping you in this case. :( It might be good to post a bug-report about it. I'm not sure who to but if you post to LibreOffice bug-reporting system the QA Team might be able to help. Apols and regards

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 the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-19 Thread Justin Musgrove
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 19:21 -0700, xavier2 wrote: Hi, seems to be LibreOffice base it's using HSQLDB... However, I don't know if there is available any website describing examples of code of HSQLDB for LibreOffice Base... someone here knows any? There is a good tutorial that helped me

Re: [libreoffice-users] converting txt to dates

2015-03-19 Thread Emil Payne
On 19/03/15 08:28 PM, James wrote: Column A has text strings that are DD/MM/ format. I want to make them real dates. I tried these 2 datevalue formulas but I can't make it work. 14/03/2015Err:502 14/03/2015Err:502 =DATEVALUE(TEXT(A1,##/##/)) =DATEVALUE(A2) Highlight the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Robert Funnell
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Doug wrote: On 03/19/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word

[libreoffice-users] Re: Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-19 Thread xavier2
Hi, seems to be LibreOffice base it's using HSQLDB... However, I don't know if there is available any website describing examples of code of HSQLDB for LibreOffice Base... someone here knows any? -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] converting txt to dates

2015-03-19 Thread James
Column A has text strings that are DD/MM/ format. I want to make them real dates. I tried these 2 datevalue formulas but I can't make it work. 14/03/2015Err:502 14/03/2015Err:502 =DATEVALUE(TEXT(A1,##/##/)) =DATEVALUE(A2) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Eric Beversluis
thanks. I tried what Tim suggested. It then will break after 'Bruin' until I enter more characters. Then it breaks after 'Bru'. So it wasn't that the manual break wasn't working--it was insisting on breaking automatically before it got to the manual break. So I need some way to stop it from

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Doug
On 03/19/2015 09:19 PM, Robert Funnell wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Doug wrote: /snip/ As I read the manuals, I should be able to just use 'ctrl plus -' to manually place a hyphen. But this doesn't work either. /snip/ This sort of thing is _exactly_ why I won't use LO or AOO! --doug

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:26:26 -0400 Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org dijo: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-19 Thread Tim Lloyd
Here is a what I saw. * I enter the word bruinsma * place cursor between 'n' 's' * CTRL + '-' nothing happens. However if I add text which pushes that word to straddle 2 lines, a hyphen appears between 'n' 's' and stays in the word for the foreseeable. Is this what you are attempting?

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-19 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.03.2015 um 11:37 schrieb hw: For a LibreOffice user there is only one built-in tool to do reporting with pictures. It is the report tool. Hm, I'm not too happy with that because the defaults aren't too useful, and when I wanted to make a report to display data from a table, the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-19 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/19/2015 05:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sorry! I don't have a good answer for this except the weird work-around that is not helping you in this case. :( No problem. Thanks for trying. It's not a game breaker just an oddity I noticed. It might be good to post a bug-report about

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-19 Thread 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 you have write access) and paste. A dialog pops up