Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/02/11 00:45, MR ZenWiz wrote: I don't like the ribbon primarily because it takes up a huge amount of vertical screen space You do know you can minimize the ribbon? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
From: Avraham Hanadari avhanad...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 19 February, 2011 7:24:49 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar Le 18/02/2011 22:34, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I think that the View menu on the menu bar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
From: Avraham Hanadari avhanad...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 19 February, 2011 7:12:35 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar Le 18/02/2011 21:46, MR ZenWiz a écrit : On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Avraham

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OP - Fix Tom] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi I don't see why i get the blame for taking the thread off topic when i am only answering the points raised in a previous post to this thread. Your criticism should be directed at the person that first took the thread off-topic. Regards from Tom From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The point i was making was that most people that can't open odt files are using old versions of MS Word. We have an opportunity to help them upgrade to LibreOffice rather than following their default upgrade route to MS Office 2010. The ribbon-bar counts in our favour because our

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread TVCSF Chair
On 19/02/2011 03:32, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 18 February 2011 21:21, Robert Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58:41PM -0600, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 17 February 2011 18:58, Robert Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: You have something against trimming quotes? Too much

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-19 Thread James Wilde
On Feb 19, 2011, at 09:57 , Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 19/02/11 00:45, MR ZenWiz wrote: I don't like the ribbon primarily because it takes up a huge amount of vertical screen space You do know you can minimize the ribbon? My problem with the ribbon - with which I have to help my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-19 Thread James Wilde
On 18/02/11 21:30, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 18 February 2011 10:25,ashl...@arcet.com wrote: The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single customer of ours could open an .odt file, for example, so

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 19/02/2011 11:26, TVCSF Chair a écrit : I have only been on this list, which I am now leaving, Don't. for less than a week [...] More than 50% of the e-mails I have received have been on the subject of how to manage the list, so why not get back to what this was presumably set up for of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Base and recognised 'xbase' file formats

2011-02-19 Thread Simon Cropper
On 19/02/11 12:40, Andreas Säger wrote: Base supports one single type of file which is *.odb. You never open any database in Base. A database may have gigabytes. You connect databases to a database document, some driver requests data snippets (row sets) from the external database and shows the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/02/11 10:44, James Wilde wrote: My problem with the ribbon - with which I have to help my wife on her Windows box - is that, after 20 years of menus, I don't find it intuitive. And apparently neither does she. Let's hope the LibO developers never get seduced into trying to imitate it.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-19 Thread plino
What I meant was: if the original numbers have a mixed number of decimal cases you can't apply my solution because of the base 2 calculations. But I assume that in a table you don't have values with 3 decimal cases mixed with one decimal case? Therefore you could go from 4 decimal cases to 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-19 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 19/02/11 00:38, Robert Prins wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 00:24, plinopedl...@gmail.com wrote: I had never heard of bankers rounding before. Interesting concept. There is no such function in OOo/LO, Excel or Gnumeric... But you can easily create a function

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is there a YUM repository for Redhat users?

2011-02-19 Thread James Harrison
Hi, I didn't see a YUM repository for LibreOffice. Please tell me if there is one. Thanks, James Harrison -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi all, Andreas Säger schrieb: Am 19.02.2011 00:50, Robert Prins wrote: Why is there no standard function to do bankers rounding (aka round-to-even)? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_MROUND_function Indeed, MROUND is not a standard function. It is part

[libreoffice-users] Re: Hardly any movement on the OOo version of this list

2011-02-19 Thread wamiduku
Mac wrote: Hear, hear! (of course I might miss the bickering over the forms of handling replies as I won't follow a forum thread that goes there :chuckle ). I actually found the forum (http://en.libreofficeforum.org/forum) at last. Oddly, there's no link to it from th LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
From: Erik esp...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 19 February, 2011 15:12:21 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Invalid recovery of non-existent files webreg.libreoffice.org at panscend.com writes: LO is starting up with an attempt to recover 2

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/18/2011 11:30 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: The presence of archives, or people coming in to a discussion that's already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:32:42PM -0600, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 18 February 2011 21:21, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58:41PM -0600, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 17 February 2011 18:58, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: You have something against

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:28:03AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: Too much work. One just hits reply, types where the cursor appears (on top) and hits send. Are you *trying* to be irritating or just trolling? Neither. And the fact that the worst offender **agreed** with the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-19 Thread Erik
Tom Davies tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk writes: Thanks Tom. Problem was myself!!! I am not sure where to find the config folder. However I found out I was a victim of habit. I have been using OpenOffice the last couple of years and frequently have had this problem. In OpenOffice I tried several

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-19 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 19 February 2011 14:13, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:28:03AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: I didn't see that you expressed a point. It seemed that you were simply bragging about ignoring email conventions. Perhaps you didn't see my earlier comments on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar

2011-02-19 Thread Michel Gagnon
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Avraham Hanadariavhanad...@gmail.com wrote: The fact that the table tool bar opens when I am in a table, but disappears whenever I move to surrounding parts of the page makes the entire page jump up and down in a most disturbing manner. I use tables a lot and

[libreoffice-users] Accessing the mailing list

2011-02-19 Thread Ken Springer
While looking around for alternatives for reading this list, I thought I saw a page that stated the list could be accessed by a Usenet newsgroup reader. But, I've looked at every link in the LO web site, I think, and find no reference to that. The closest I came is Gmane. Did I miss something?