Re: [libreoffice-users] Something strange : settings in Tools - Options - Impress - Print

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
Hi Hirono, You are right, on reopening saved versions it seems to reset the value back to default. At least now it does. If I open LO then change, save and reenter Impress Print Setting in LO the setting is retained. If I open LO save a file after previously setting the Impress Print Setting,

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice base - cannot make a convenient form to add data

2011-08-05 Thread 3flight
I'm trying to make a small base with a couple of forms to view and add data. For instance, I have a table Objects and it has two fields location and assigned to of type INTEGER, because they are linked to ID fields of tables locations and people respectively. It is inconvenient to enter digits in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-05 Thread ponsiarceds
Walt wrote: Hi Anyone know how to get native pgsql support on base - it seems missing from the connect to an exsitng database options. I've checked under both Linux and Windows. There was a special driver in a zip file available from the old openoffice.org site. It was an extension

Re: [libreoffice-users] Something strange : settings in Tools - Options - Impress - Print

2011-08-05 Thread Hirono Moi
Hi Simon, Thank you very much your repeated tests and advice. I entirely agree with your view. I would like to know a workaround ofsome kind, if you have any idea. Regards, (2011/08/05 15:11), Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides) wrote: Hi Hirono, You are right, on reopening saved

[libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 Calc - charts don't automatically refresh

2011-08-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
(This happened with the previous release of 3.4 as well) I add data to the sheet but the chart based on that data doesn't automatically reflect the additional data - I have to double-click on the data lines in order to refresh the chart. Am I missing something here? (The data ranges in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 Calc - charts don't automatically refresh

2011-08-05 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello Gordon, On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:37:32 +0100 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: (This happened with the previous release of 3.4 as well) I add data to the sheet but the chart based on that data doesn't automatically reflect the additional data - I have to double-click on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: looking for help on Base

2011-08-05 Thread Roberto Scotti
Il giorno gio, 04/08/2011 alle 09.45 -0700, NoOp ha scritto: On 08/04/2011 01:19 AM, Roberto Scotti wrote: the site http://www.libreoffice.org/features/base/ states ... provides native-support drivers for some of the most-widely employed multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.2 Calc - charts don't automatically refresh

2011-08-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 05/08/2011 08:57, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hello Gordon, On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:37:32 +0100 Gordon Burgess-Parkergbpli...@gmail.com wrote: (This happened with the previous release of 3.4 as well) I add data to the sheet but the chart based on that data doesn't automatically reflect the

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4.2.3 without sane?

2011-08-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Hello. I am a Gentoo user and I just subscribed to this list. Today libreoffice 3.4.2.3 was added to portage and sane-backends appeared as a new dependency. From my research I guessed that this is controlled via the --with-system-sane configure flag, but I tried adding --without-system-sane to

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4.2.3 without sane?

2011-08-05 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jesús, This is a good question for the dev-list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice Regards, Cor Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote (05-08-11 11:52) Hello. I am a Gentoo user and I just subscribed to this list. Today libreoffice 3.4.2.3 was added to portage and

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 3.4.2.3 without sane?

2011-08-05 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Thank you. I just posted this same question to that list. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to Bill Gates]. Since all these big wigs in Microsoft get large blocks of stock in the company, which he most likely still has, this

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Is this for real? This is terrible news - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:39:47 To: LibreO - Users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I have not been following this thread, but the original question is something that happened to me once. What I did was: uninstall LibreOffice. delete the hidden folder .libreoffice [for Ubuntu] or delete LibreOffice's Program Files folder [for Windows]. reinstall LibreOffice That fixed the

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US slavishly. It's not the government, it's just a government. Many other countries push OpenSource or at least non-MS, sometimes just because they don't see any need to make a foreign company richer, sometimes to

[libreoffice-users] width of com.sun.star.awt.grid.GridColumn

2011-08-05 Thread alex bodnaru
hello friends, com.sun.star.awt.grid.GridColumn has a width field, but setting it doesn't seem to have a benefic effect. what unit does this field have? how can i convert map appfont (ma) units to this unit? thanks in advance, alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Activex control in LibreOffice 3.4.2?

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/04/2011 11:34 PM, NoOp wrote: On 08/04/2011 01:49 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There is an extension or add-on for FireFox but i doubt there is an ActiveX for Internet Explorer. ActiveX is fairly often used to infect or compromise systems so it's good to avoid it. ... Do you *ever* test

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Stan Goodman
On 08/05/2011 02:39 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to Bill Gates]. Since all these big wigs in Microsoft get large

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Renaming the .libreoffice or even better, one of it's sub-folders (such as the user/3), has the same effect as deleting it except that you are able to have a look at your old stuff even tho LibreOffice can't see it. It effectively quarantines your old set-up. I have tried installing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/05/2011 12:22 AM, planas wrote: Hi On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 23:49 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: So, would it be better to use the Oxford English or the British English form of spelling? Here in the USA, if we do not use proper American spelling our papers are

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 But to be fair on them they do need to push US companies into becoming more profitable and MS has not grown as fast as they hoped in certain areas such as tablets, netbooks (and even notebooks), mobile devices, smart-phones, servers, Cloud, search engine and have lost ground in areas

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
How real it is and going to become depends on the new Chief of Technology. Here is the article about the naming of the new Chief. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/technology/white-house-picks-new-information-chief.html?_r=3ref=technology

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Ok, so i object to having to type out the whole of though and shorten it to tho. Oddly i like the extra unnecessary u in colour and things tho (oops). Shakespeare was only about 400 years ago btw. 21st C - 17th C = 400. My maths was wonky yday. regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread rogerio dandrea
new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0) thanks Pitonyak for the excellent work :0) From Brazil -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Sorry, but the only monitor connection that I have is the standard VGA cable which is attached to the motherboard. Plus the Acer monitor uses VGA cable as well. Now my 19 inch flat scree TV can use VGA or HDMI cables. I have a VGA cable plugged into it for working with showing stuff from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Activex control in LibreOffice 3.4.2?

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) On linux systems it might be easier to install mozilla-libreoffice I'm not sure what to do for Windows or Mac but it was interesting to see that there is an ActiveX thing for LibreOffice :) It's probably safer than most ActiveX controls as i would guess that it's written with the usual

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/05/2011 08:49 AM, rogerio dandrea wrote: new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0) thanks Pitonyak for the excellent work :0) From Brazil 498 pages worth of Macros Explained could help a lot of people on these lists. Have downloaded it and exported it as a PDF file. --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Tada! :) Vga strikes again. It was such a fantastic thing for so many decades that they had to create a problem for it with the new-fangled flat-screen tech. I don't remember being given a choice of DE for 11.04 but switching is so easy for me that i might not have noticed.

[libreoffice-users] Problem using a name as Source cell range in a combo box control

2011-08-05 Thread Jean-Louis Oneto
Hello, I tried to define a combo box in Scalc which take its source cell range from a table. When I enter the cell reference directly, it works as expected. I defined a name for the table, but when I try to used it instead of the direct cell reference, I just get a blank combo box. I tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Well said Stan. On 08/05/2011 08:26 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/05/2011 02:39 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All As I reported recently I wrote to a contact I have in regard to this thread. Part of what I said was . /*PLEASE DO* follow up on this - I think it is _VERY_ important for many users and some 'Official' Feedback' is VERY necessary. There are lots of very important points made in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Removal of unwanted dictionaries

2011-08-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-08-04 5:00 PM, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: Original Message From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:04:42 -0400 On 2011-08-04 2:11 PM, nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) Can't you just set the

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-05 Thread Tony Royston
Ian, On behalf of all Base users, thanks for trying! As you infer, it would have been encouraging to receive a more pro-active reply, especially from a Founder of TDF (and long-time ex-oOo active member). Perhaps it's difficult for him to say much else, if there are very few Base Developers.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Ian, thank you from me also. When I see the number of people asking questions about Base on this forum it seems there is a lot of interest in having a database. So far the side by side install of the second, older version of Java has been working very well for me. On 08/05/2011 11:01 AM, Tony

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread alex bodnaru
thanks andrew for keeping up this great work. though a lot has been changed since your first book, would you consider inserting the new grid control in this new edition? best regards, alex On 08/05/2011 03:49 PM, rogerio dandrea wrote: new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0)

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Cloyd
Thanks, Tom, for this hope-inducing update. Fascinating! Tom C. On 08/05/2011 06:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US slavishly. It's not the government, it's just a government. Many other countries push OpenSource or at

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-05 Thread thomasjk
I see this same issue with US English. There are no Blue check marks and ABC in any of the settings. Going back to V3.4.0 solves the problem for me. I did not try V3.4.1. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-2-tp3218560p3229275.html Sent from the

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread upscope
On Friday, August 05, 2011 05:26:54 AM Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/05/2011 02:39 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-05 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 19:06, thomasjk wrote: I see this same issue with US English. There are no Blue check marks and ABC in any of the settings. Going back to V3.4.0 solves the problem for me. I did not try V3.4.1. Maybe, please check up: Bug 37195 - Dictionary access lost after LibO

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-05 Thread thomasjk
Thanks but I'll stick with 3.4.0 until this bug is fixed. I'm a fairly knowledgeable user of LO and this change is just too much to bother with right now. I agree with the comment that it should have been fixed before release. How can they expect average users to make a change like this?

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread planas
Tom and all On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:08 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US slavishly. It's not the government, it's just a government. Many other countries push OpenSource or at least non-MS, sometimes just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-05 Thread planas
Hi On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 08:32 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 08/05/2011 12:22 AM, planas wrote: Hi On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 23:49 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: So, would it be better to use the Oxford English or the British English

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread toki
On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote: our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace all the MS stuff with open source software. If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom ruled today that effective 1 January 2012, only FLOSS may be used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: (help macro base)Open form with a button form another form with filter

2011-08-05 Thread rogerio dandrea
the basetools extension (0.0.5) works in libreoffice 3.4.2 ? 2011/8/4 rogerio dandrea rolemo...@gmail.com well now with 3.4.2 ubuntu11.04 64bits and use hsql now I have error mensage in filter Why? 2011/7/29 rogerio dandrea rolemo...@gmail.com Alex , thank you. I will return to

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I am actively adding content to this release of the book. I am currently working through the Calc section. When I finish with that, I will move on to the next section, which is not yet in the document. The German translation is on chapter 7 I believe. On 08/05/2011 08:49 AM, rogerio dandrea

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/05/2011 08:59 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 08/05/2011 08:49 AM, rogerio dandrea wrote: new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0) thanks Pitonyak for the excellent work :0) From Brazil 498 pages worth of Macros Explained could help a lot of people on

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
It might happen. I expect that to exist in the context of a Base document, however. Currently, OOME does not have BASE coverage. If I added it, it would likely include content from say AndrewBase.odt, which is rather out of date at this point. On 08/05/2011 11:37 AM, alex bodnaru wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-05 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 04.08.2011 09:03, Onyeibo Oku wrote: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the sheet creation runs faster although there's more lines of code running. Whereas the sheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] password problem

2011-08-05 Thread Bob S
On Thursday 04 August 2011 23:54:24 Bill Gradwohl wrote: On 08/04/2011 08:44 PM, Bob Stia wrote: I have a document that I have had for years. Time to time I must open it, edit it and close it again. It is Libreoffice password protected. A few days ago I opened the fdocument and then after

[libreoffice-users] Need Calc help

2011-08-05 Thread Preston Smith
Hi, Hopefully someone can help me out. I maintain in Calc the regional section of a National membership file of Alumni. There are about 650 members in my regional Calc file. Each record is keyed to an unique College number and consists of about 26 fields of data including First/Last names,

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread jorge
Thank You Mr. Pitonyak for your Book. El vie, 05-08-2011 a las 09:49 -0300, rogerio dandrea escribió: new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0) thanks Pitonyak for the excellent work :0) From Brazil -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Printing

2011-08-05 Thread Alaric
Can anyone help with a print problem. I cannot print landscape. The page style says landscape, the printer settings menu says landscape, the printer properties menu says landscape and the preview screen says landscape but the printer says portrait and prints accordingly. This is specific to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need Calc help

2011-08-05 Thread jorge
Hi There are two programs that you can use for check the diferences between both files: 1) Meld 2) Kdiff3 Both programs are in the Ubuntu repository. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez __ El vie, 05-08-2011 a las 19:50 -0300, Preston Smith escribió: Hi,

[libreoffice-users] Re: looking for help on Base

2011-08-05 Thread NoOp
On 08/05/2011 01:25 AM, Roberto Scotti wrote: Il giorno gio, 04/08/2011 alle 09.45 -0700, NoOp ha scritto: On 08/04/2011 01:19 AM, Roberto Scotti wrote: the site http://www.libreoffice.org/features/base/ states ... provides native-support drivers for some of the most-widely employed

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread planas
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 20:53 +, toki wrote: On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote: our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace all the MS stuff with open source software. If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom ruled today

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-05 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.08.2011 00:50, Preston Smith wrote: Hi, Hopefully someone can help me out. I maintain in Calc the regional section of a National membership file of Alumni. There are about 650 members in my regional Calc file. Each record is keyed to an unique College number and consists of about Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-05 Thread twohot
On 05/08/2011, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 04.08.2011 09:03, Onyeibo Oku wrote: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the sheet creation runs faster although

Re: [libreoffice-users] new book

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Your very welcome! On 08/05/2011 09:22 PM, jorge wrote: Thank You Mr. Pitonyak for your Book. El vie, 05-08-2011 a las 09:49 -0300, rogerio dandrea escribió: new book http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.odt :0) thanks Pitonyak for the excellent work :0) From Brazil -- Andrew Pitonyak

[libreoffice-users] how to have output in table from calc data?

2011-08-05 Thread soumalya ray
hi, i searched for this but since i am totally new to calc i could not even understand what to search for. i have calc sheet named students demography with the name,age,gender,wt,height,BMI,sponsored candidate or not etc.now i need to make tables for comparing the data.say the row header contains

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/06/2011 01:14 AM, twohot wrote: On 05/08/2011, Andreas Sägerville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 04.08.2011 09:03, Onyeibo Oku wrote: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the