Re: [libreoffice-users] Please update the signature wrt unsubscribing.

2011-05-03 Thread Libre User
If that's what it means then it should say To get unsubscribe instructions send E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org My reading of the signature statement was that the instruction to unsubscribe was to send the email. Brevity may be the soul of wit but it is also the foundation of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Added feature request

2011-05-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) CSV is basically a text-file and doesn't have the capability of storing info about different sheets. It is a limit of the format. Each sheet can be a separate CSV file. That is one advantage that spreadsheet formats such as ods or xls give. They take up extra space because they

Re: [libreoffice-users] batch conversion pdf

2011-05-03 Thread yahoo-pier_andreit
Il 02/05/2011 22:40, Daniel A. Rodriguez ha scritto: Hi guys need to convert a bunch of files into pdf, any way to do it as a batch process? try unoconv, in linux works very well -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format in template

2011-05-03 Thread James Wilde
On Apr 30, 2011, at 13:25 , xwolf wrote: Hi James The following solution might be of interest if you want to permanently change all LibreOffice's behaviour to use the ISO date format. So I did the following (LibreOffice 3.3.2, on Windows XP): ** In a hex-editor (HxD for example), I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print in landscape on Epson in openSUSE

2011-05-03 Thread Stedtlund
Hi, (Little embarrassed...) I'm sorry for the noise, but I have found the problem. I should have done the installation of the drivers more carefully. When I installed the drivers for the printer the ppd wasn't actually made visible to CUPS. So I could never select the correct driver when adding

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please update the signature wrt unsubscribing.

2011-05-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, Helmar wrote (03-05-11 01:08) But as I told in this list before the instructions on the message signature could be more simple. A direct link to unsubscribe just as: To unsubscribe send a blank message to users+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org The instructions message is often confused mainly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print in landscape on Epson in openSUSE

2011-05-03 Thread Tom Davies
WooHoo :) Congrats on fixing this. It is great that manufacturers are beginning to take some responsibility. Hopefully they will put some resources of their own into developing drivers and things for unix-based systems (rather than just paying stacks for an ultra-swish but unhelpful

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

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 14:55, Tod Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, I would very much like to use Base, but I'm at the edge of having sufficient knowledge to make it work. It appears that in order to make Base work for me, I will have to study MySQL and use it as my backend, with base as a front end.

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

2011-05-03 Thread Tod Hopkins
Thanks for the advice. By mixed-mode you mean the use of HSQLDB front end with MySQL (or other) backend? I've been trying to read what documentation there is. Not much. I find that as soon as I get beyond what I already understand, there is a presumption that I that I have a working

[libreoffice-users] Re: Graphic visualisation of spreadheet data

2011-05-03 Thread Jack
Hi Passiday, Passiday wrote: Hello, For example, coordinates of three points (x, y) are calculated, and a triangle in cartesian coordinate system is drawn. Of course, the picture should update itself, whenever the input values are changed. A possible work-around could be to create an

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

2011-05-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Our Documentation Team will need volunteers that have some understanding of Base. There is likely to be help available in transferring OpenOffice's community documentation into our Alfresco content management system. Documentation goes through a series of stages before reaching

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-03 Thread Francis Dollarhyde
I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as text application.

[libreoffice-users] Help file downloaded does not appear

2011-05-03 Thread Francis Dollarhyde
I am running 64 and 32 bit Linux mint 9 (based on Ubuntu LTS 9.04) After downloading the core package. English dictionary and Help file. It tells me Help is not installed. I have used the Synaptic Package manager to re install it to no avail. Thesaurus does not work either. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help file downloaded does not appear

2011-05-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The 9.04 was not an LTS release and might not be supported anymore. That is possibly why you are having trouble accessing the repositories to install programs. There are tricks to upgrading the system to avoid having to re-format the partition. Could you get to a command-line and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help file downloaded does not appear

2011-05-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again :) Oops, you were right (no surprise there) Mint 9 is LTS. So it's got to be their servers problem Regards from Tom :) From: Francis Dollarhyde francis.f.dollarh...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 3 May, 2011 16:06:00 Subject:

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

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
MySQL is quite simple once you get started. Makes it much easier with a tool like Webmin. We started extensively with the old Lotus Approach and then migrated to PHP/MySQL for general cross platform browser access. I keep looking at Base, but it hasn't reached the state of Approach so haven't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Graphic visualisation of spreadheet data

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 4/05/11 2:30 AM, Jack wrote: Hi Passiday, Passiday wrote: Hello, For example, coordinates of three points (x, y) are calculated, and a triangle in cartesian coordinate system is drawn. Of course, the picture should update itself, whenever the input values are changed. A possible

[libreoffice-users] Change default PDF export directory

2011-05-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all. In Kubuntu 10.10 the default save directory for PDF export is here: ~/.libreoffice/3/user/gallery/ How does one change that directory to simply $HOME? Thanks! (note: simply saving in $HOME does not work, upon closing and reopening LO the export directory reverts to the gallery) --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Change default PDF export directory

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
~/ should be your home steve On 4/05/11 6:29 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi all. In Kubuntu 10.10 the default save directory for PDF export is here: ~/.libreoffice/3/user/gallery/ How does one change that directory to simply $HOME? Thanks! (note: simply saving in $HOME does not work, upon closing

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

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 21:25, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Hi John, Why can't Windows screen shots be accepted for the documentation? Is the Windows version of LibO that much different from the Linux and Mac versions? It has nothing to do with differences in versions, but rather Microsoft Corp's

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

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 19:46, Steve Edmonds a écrit : Hi Steve, MySQL is quite simple once you get started. Makes it much easier with a tool like Webmin. We started extensively with the old Lotus Approach and then migrated to PHP/MySQL for general cross platform browser access. I keep looking at Base,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help file downloaded does not appear

2011-05-03 Thread planas
Francis On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 01:06 +1000, Francis Dollarhyde wrote: I am running 64 and 32 bit Linux mint 9 (based on Ubuntu LTS 9.04) After downloading the core package. English dictionary and Help file. It tells me Help is not installed. I have used the Synaptic Package manager to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Change default PDF export directory

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
Sorry, misunderstood the question. My pdf exports are always to the directory of the document. Looking deeper, a new untitled document tries to export to gallery. A saved document or previously opened document that is opened saves the pdf to the directory of the document by default. steve On

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

2011-05-03 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi John, On Tue, 3 May 2011 15:25:35 -0400 John Shabanowitz john...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [...] Why can't Windows screen shots be accepted for the documentation? Is the Windows version of LibO that much different

Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/02/2011 11:42 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi .. (forgotten your name, sorry), webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (02-05-11 17:07) I think my Acer is somewhere about 1280 x 738 - or there abouts. 1280 x 800 is 16:10 [laptop], but my Acer widescreen monitor is 16:9. My Acer TM has

Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/02/2011 02:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Cor, are you using the fglrx driver (ati?) or which driver? Which version number? I think i cheated when i got my 'new' nVidia card. I just opened my favourite package manager and typed in nvidia and picked one that looked about right

Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/02/2011 02:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ok, the trick is to use a LiveCd/Usb to install but when youget to the Partitioning Sectiopn choose the last option at the bottom of the screen to do a manual partitioning sometimes called advanced and now in 11.04 called Something else lol. I use

Re: [libreoffice-users] batch conversion pdf

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:40:52PM -0300, Daniel A. Rodriguezdaniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com  wrote: need to convert a bunch of files into pdf, any way to do it as a batch process? Did you try the --convert-to option? you mean export-to, right? that option create a single .pdf file

[libreoffice-users] [OT] Re: do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread NoOp
On 05/02/2011 06:41 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I am warning people. ... Did you have a question regarding LibreOffice? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ users@libreoffice.org: User support list for LibreOffice users needing help with a problem. I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] batch conversion pdf

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/03/2011 06:57 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:40:52PM -0300, Daniel A. Rodriguezdaniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.comwrote: need to convert a bunch of files into pdf, any way to do it as a batch process? Did you try the --convert-to option? you mean export-to,

Re: [libreoffice-users] batch conversion pdf

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
I have to keep one though. Have you then installed CUPS-PDF? yes, that's what I used to create the pdf. That is my default printer on Ubuntu, even though I have an inkjet Print-Scan-Copy printer and a color laserjet printer. As with Windows, I need to have a PDF printer to save web pages

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Re: do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/03/2011 07:09 PM, NoOp wrote: On 05/02/2011 06:41 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I am warning people. ... Did you have a question regarding LibreOffice? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ users@libreoffice.org: User support list for LibreOffice users

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Re: do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-03 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:20 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 05/03/2011 07:09 PM, NoOp wrote: On 05/02/2011 06:41 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I am warning people. ... Did you have a question regarding LibreOffice?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't get spell check to work.

2011-05-03 Thread planas
Nuzhna, On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:37 -0700, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: --- On Sun, 5/1/11, Jean-Francois Nifenecker jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net wrote: *this* is strange. Are you sure you have set the correct dictionary? Is it listed in the extensions thingy (Tools /Extensions

Re: [libreoffice-users] batch conversion pdf

2011-05-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/03/2011 07:17 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: I have to keep one though. Have you then installed CUPS-PDF? yes, that's what I used to create the pdf. That is my default printer on Ubuntu, even though I have an inkjet Print-Scan-Copy printer and a color laserjet printer. As with

[libreoffice-users] Address Label mail merge/print problem in LO3.3.2

2011-05-03 Thread RDMarr
Am trying to use an existing .xls file as data source to mail merge address labels. Have been able to accomplish this little task with OO 3 the past several months, but the move to LO has raised an issue. In Writer, have gone to New - Labels - Avery 5160, found the xls database and moved over the

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-05-04 02:53, Francis Dollarhyde wrote: I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the

[libreoffice-users] Feature Request

2011-05-03 Thread Goldfish
Hi, Can I ask for a Feature Request using this email: users@libreoffice.org Please let me know. Thanks, Paul -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: