Re: [libreoffice-users] testing out 2 new large word list English dictionaries.

webmaster: Possibly a convenient language for comparing the word lists would be Python. --- Python has a data structure "dict" (dictionary, hashtable, associative array). --- Python has a data structure "set". If you wish, I can email you short, working, example code. Winston On 11/05/2011

Re: [libreoffice-users] testing out 2 new large word list English dictionaries.

I have been "offline", think near hospital stay illness, since just after I posted this list. So I have gotten back to answering the replies. Thanks for Tom to give the help/hint on installing the file to Windows. The .zip issue was due to the Extension Center for LO and a Mime-type error w

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Conflicts with OOo

On 11/03/2011 10:00 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: >>"NoOp" wrote in message ... >>Harold, check your attributes. I didn't with *any* of what you just >>quoted. > > No, you didn't. That was a mistake. Apologies. ... No worries Harold... I was having a bad 'no hair' day. All the best. Gary -- For un

[libreoffice-users] name-define-edit causes crash in LO Calc v3.4.3

Context: in Calc of LO v3.4.3 on Windows XP Pro. I I record my checkbook into Calc. Four columns are, Check #, Debit$, Credit$, Balance. Each month adds about 40 rows (checks and other transactions) to the columns. At the end of each month some of the transactions have not yet cleared th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Upgrading

On 11/02/2011 05:07 AM, soumalya ray wrote: > @ahalin,yes it could be done.have a look at this link-- > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel > regards, While it's a good idea to do a full parallel install, it's not necessary in this case. The OP has LO 3.3 from his package man

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheet Request

Nicolás Adamo wrote (06-11-11 00:26) 2011/11/5 Cor Nouws: Nicolás Adamo wrote (05-11-11 19:44) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42629 Looks as if you have been at T-Dose today? Thanks for the report :-) Man, I feel honoured to hear that You're welcome. I'm from Argentin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheet Request

2011/11/5 Cor Nouws : > Hi Nicolás, > > Nicolás Adamo wrote (05-11-11 19:44) >> >> Hi all! I just filled a request: >> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42629 > > Looks as you have been at T-Dose today? > Thanks for the report :-) Man, I feel honoured to hear that I'm from Argent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to install LibreOffice 3.4.3

Hi :) http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/60028-windows-installer-error-1719-a.html I am never completely confident about Windows forums but there seem to be quite a few positive responses to the early answers given in that one. My gut feeling was to update the OS from the microsoft.com website a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheet Request

Hi Nicolás, Nicolás Adamo wrote (05-11-11 19:44) Hi all! I just filled a request: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42629 Looks as you have been at T-Dose today? Thanks for the report :-) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h..

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit

Hi :) I don't have any Win98 machines to worry about luckily but i know a couple of people that keep installing it for their clients. I tend to find lighter-weight Gnu&Linux distros are more up-to-date with drivers and stuff. Wine makes it possible to run most apps designed for Windows altho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 20:19, Tom wrote: > Hi :) > That seems to list all the supported versions/distros of Windows but doesn't > included unsupported ones such as Win98.  Does that mean Win98 is safe or > just that they don't bother to look to see if it's vulnerable? > Windows 98 is vulnerable.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Moving and copying table rows

Hi :) There might be some guides here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Programmers There is an excellent one about macros by Andrew Pitonyak but i think i have lost track of where it is. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 5/11/11, stuartsimon wrote: > From: stuartsim

[libreoffice-users] Re: Moving and copying table rows

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Cor Nouws [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Stuart Simon wrote (05-11-11 08:45) > > > > I don't write this to discourage you. It is more about expectations and > reality. Of course it is well possible to help, once someone shows > inter

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving and copying table rows

Hi Stuart, Stuart Simon wrote (05-11-11 08:45) First of all, thank you so much for opening the gates to improve the open-source office suite to far greater an extent than OpenOffice.org or even Go-OO could ever do. Forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place, I think it is perfectly right t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Headers in calc

Il 05/11/2011 03:05, jorge ha scritto: Hi I'm sorry but I think it is wrong because Background is different to Hedears. If you use background image what everthing that you put in a cell appear in the image. I understood that he needs to put as header (out of the rest of the sheet- on the top -)

[libreoffice-users] Spreadsheet Request

Hi all! I just filled a request: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42629 And posted here because I know most of us don't watch the bug tracker very often :) Thanks -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-h

[libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit

Hi :) That seems to list all the supported versions/distros of Windows but doesn't included unsupported ones such as Win98. Does that mean Win98 is safe or just that they don't bother to look to see if it's vulnerable? Tbh my interest suddenly dropped away when i found that LO is safe even if w

RE: [libreoffice-users] MS font exploit

There are two microsoft.com pages that relate to this situation. The problem is that the exploit happens against the kernel (in GDI, etc.) so there is not much to do about it in any applications. The knowledge-base KB article is the most helpful in terms of mitigation. Any application that ha

[libreoffice-users] Re: Moving and copying table rows

I know. One of my original points was that I was trying to get developers to read and make changes to bug # https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35570 35570 , which describes a situation that has existed for the history of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org. I should have been more succinct, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS font exploit

On 04/11/11 22:54, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :( Bad news from MS again. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2639658 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639658 http://www.symantec.com/connect/w32-duqu_status-updates_installer-zero-day-exploit I'm not sure what they mean by "Unfortunat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Headers in calc

Hi :) It's good to have a different answer or to stop people taking a wrong direction. Headers look very different in Calc from the way Writer or Draw handles them. I can't see a way of gettign an image into their headers :( Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 5/11/11, jorge wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Best Business Performances LibreOffice

Hi :) I thought both of NoOp's links were good so i added Leif Lodahl's one to the page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Corporate_Users NoOp wrote: > > Those parameters seem to be popular: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Speed_up_LibreOffice >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Best Business Performances LibreOffice

NoOp wrote (05-11-11 03:27) Perhaps this will be of some help: and Leif Lodahl can assist. Indeed, very good info and author! With this info as starter, when necessary you'll find more info on the web. My _guess_

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011

Hi :) The documentation team do have a person or 2 trying to work on Base documentation but it's slow going and tough work. Base is quite quirky with apparently some problems being different in different releases. Even though there have not been many "commits" to the code base there do seem to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011

Hi :) I have not done it either but i have seen comments here from people that have used MariaDb and/or MySql. It would be great to get some MariaDb people in here to write-up how to use MariaDb. They might need some help with using Base as a front-end although a lot of them are very experie

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011

Hi Tom Interesting news!! I for one would like to try this but I have in the past "poked around" with linking to another back-end and got nowhere fast!!! Seen as you seem to have done this how about a Step-by-Step tutorial on doing it for us AND then some notes on moving your data to the new

[libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011

Hi :) MariaDb is an excellent back-end for Base and we might be able to build up the team that is working on Base by building up some sort of relationship with them. MariaDB is to MySql as LibreOffice is to OpenOffice except that MySql is still owned Oracle so the relationship is not particula

Re: [libreoffice-users] function aliases in calc

Hi Jason, Jason Paul Joines schrieb: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Kubuntu 11.04. Is there any way to create an alias to an existing function in Calc? I also use R regularly. When using Calc I'm continuously mistyping =mean() instead of =average() when trying to enter a formula for the mean. I

[libreoffice-users] Get origin and unit of a page in Draw in a Basic macro

Hi all, I want to set the center of arc, sector or segment with a dialog. Currently you can set only the center of the shape but not the center of the underlying ellipse in Position&Size. The value input should be possible in the actual coordinate system of the page. Therefore I need the unit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Personal settings causing calc to crash

At my age it's called OleTimerz :-) On 11/05/2011 01:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Errr, asking this list was a good 1st move and is probably what i would do. Hopefully someone might appear that does know exactly what caused it. It's difficult to know how flustered someone is or how experie

Re: [libreoffice-users] function aliases in calc

2011/11/5 Jason Paul Joines : >    I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Kubuntu 11.04.  Is there any way to create > an alias to an existing function in Calc?  I also use R regularly.  When > using Calc I'm continuously mistyping =mean() instead of =average() when > trying to enter a formula for the mean

[libreoffice-users] Unable to install LibreOffice 3.4.3

I am unable to install LibreOffice version 3.4.3. Below is the procedure I have taken to install 3.4.3 and the problems I have encounted. 1. Download LibreOffice from www.libreoffice.org/download/ The file is called LibO_3.4.3_Win_x86_install_mu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing SVGs

On 03/11/2011, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi all. > > I am trying to import an SVG file which contains text and forms. The > forms are displayed correctly but the text is not shown at all. > Are "forms" images? Anyway confirmed the same behaviour; suggest you submit a bug notification. Perhaps bett

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Won't Remember Printer Settings

Bad2theBone wrote: > > How about Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> General; under Document > Status check Printing set "document modified" status? Thanks very much for that suggestion, but that does not work either. I think the key thing is that when I make a change in File > Printer Settings

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving and copying table rows

Hi :) It might be a good idea to post a bug-report against LO http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport LibreOffice devs probably prioritise LO bugs and seem to be able to work more effectively than in other projects. The Go-OO team are one of the core parts of TDF. Regards from Tom :) -

[libreoffice-users] Moving and copying table rows

Dear LibreOffice Community: First of all, thank you so much for opening the gates to improve the open-source office suite to far greater an extent than OpenOffice.org or even Go-OO could ever do. Forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place, but I believe that somebody will be able to finally solv