[libreoffice-users] Suggestion for macro

2012-05-09 Thread muu.7oo
Hi all, this is my first post so I want to congratulate for the project and the efforts given to it. I'm writing a merge script for impress slide, based on some Basic code found on various forums. It works but I find difficulties in handling the prompt asking to adapt the slides to the

[libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Sumner
A while back Tom asked people to tell their stories so this is mine. I started with a project to create an application using a DBMS to manage our local currency. This would be used by relatively basic users who would almost certainly want to use Windows. I already had a working knowledge of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: blog with great comparison table between LO and AOO

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think one of the key things missing in the history section is that between the LO's 3.3.0 release and Oracle's 3.4.0 release there had been tons of LO releases and LO merged with a large and significant OOo fork known as Go-oo, which was the 'OpenOffice' used in many distros.  While LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's good to hear about people experiences especially when kept neat and short but i doubt i told or instructed or tried to 'force' anyone to do anything.  I might have suggested using newspapers or magazines to promote your project by inviting reporters to an event or to invite them to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring the images to page inside section.

2012-05-09 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Hi Vit On 09/05/2012 at 05:47, Vit vitr...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Fix position relative to the text, moving with the text. Text should be on the right or on the left of the picture. I can't achieve this using anchoring now. Example: http://dug.im/6ee14 2. I want two different pictures

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello Tony, Funny - I find exactly the opposite: the native MySQL-connector works perfectly well under Windows/Vista with me, but I cannot get it to work under either Debian-Wheezy or Linux/Mint-Lisa. Even though there is a lot of discouragement regarding the usage of JDBC under LO (them

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Fernand Vanrie
On 09/05/2012 10:09, Tony Sumner wrote: A while back Tom asked people to tell their stories so this is mine. I started with a project to create an application using a DBMS to manage our local currency. This would be used by relatively basic users who would almost certainly want to use Windows.

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
What could be the reason for this? One person can use the native MySQL connector to connect in Windows but can not in Linux. Another person use it to connect Linux but can not in Linux. Likely, the first person has the version that should be used in a Windows OS, and the second person has the

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good point!  Swapping the ones that do work and dropping the ones that don't sounds good.  Ideally the Extensions site would have a table with LO version down the side and platform/OS along the top.  There would be a few holes but at least people would know which need to be updated or

[libreoffice-users] Re: My story

2012-05-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/05/12 12:29, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi all, On the LO website, the native MySQL connector has been pulled for all OS's until more work is done on it. But the sad thing is that there is not enough people that can do the amount of work required for keeping this extension updated as

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-09 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Marc, Marc Grober schrieb: It is exact as described in the link: First Insert Object Formula. Now you are in the formula editor. And then Tools Import Formula. Only if yo don't exit the equation editor before selecting Tools-Import, which one might do in as much as the documentation

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Sumner
On May 09, 2012, Dan Lewis wrote: Likely, the first person has the version that should be used in a Windows OS, and the second person has the version that should be used in a Linux OS. Oh, come on. It is obvious which version is which and I had the Windows one. The instructions for creating

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Stanton
I have to put my hand up to the breakdown here too. I was (am) hoping to build this connector but pressure of other work has got in the way for the moment. I'll be back... Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Tony, I have just installed LO 3.5.3 and the native connector worked immediately out of the box on Windows/Vista. Regarding ODBC: yes, my experience tells me -- don't use it under Linux. There are bugs such as not SHOWING default values for columns (even though they are actually stored

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If OOo works then sticking with it makes a lot of sense.  We are not really competing with them except in a reasonably friendly way.  There was a time when Oracle tried competing with us but that was just before they gave up and handed it off to a community organisation.  Now it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It probably doesn't get quite so far into it but the official Math Guide is ready http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide The docs team have done an amazing amount in the last couple of weeks. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 9/5/12, Regina

[libreoffice-users] Re: Queries wizard in Base

2012-05-09 Thread Alexandria Long
On 03/03/2012 10:20 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 16:23 +0100, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 03.03.2012 16:09, Sylvain Bromberber wrote: I do have Java installed. By the way, it worked fine while I was still using Open Office. It works with all versions of OpenOffice.org,

[libreoffice-users] Keyboard shortcuts for changing text size

2012-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
I tried setting keyboard shortcuts for increasing and decreasing text size. I set Control++ as Increase Font. I did not see a corresponding Decrease Font option to set for Control+-. However, pressing Control++ does not increase the size of the text, neither if text is selected nor if it is not.

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-09 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Tom, Tom Davies schrieb: Hi :) It probably doesn't get quite so far into it but the official Math Guide is ready http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide The docs team have done an amazing amount in the last couple of weeks. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oh!  I thought once you had built one connector for one set of circumstances then it would keep working.  So a connector built for LO 3.4.5 on Xp would keep working for anyone that used XP and stuck to LO 3.4.5, and with luck it might work for LO 3.4.6 too although it would be unlikely to

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If it's going to take hours to build it and if it's likely to need to be re-done often then i think it would be better to focus your efforts elsewhere, like making the instructions easier to understand?  They probably are good already with nice coding brackets so people can just copypaste

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-09 Thread Marc Grober
This was one reason I wanted to assist in working on docs, but the curve one needed to address in order to do that proved just too much. A far cry from experience working on wiki based documentation. What often is a problem in such areas is that those used to doing something in a particular

[libreoffice-users] Change help font

2012-05-09 Thread Carlos Pita
Hi all, the fonts in the help screen are looking really awful for me. I know that you can adjust their size changing the html documents zoom level. But I would like to change the font itself. I've been playing a bit with font substitutions to no avail. Is it possible? Thanks a lot -- Carlos --

[libreoffice-users] Formulas...

2012-05-09 Thread Zed
It is so long since I used the Formula I'm looking for that I have forgotten what it is. Here is my problem I have a column, say, D4 in which I have a constant figure, say, 100 Another column E10 , let's call it Production, contains a figure of, say, 79 I can establish that 79 is 79% of actual

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas...

2012-05-09 Thread Marc Grober
D4 and E10 are cells not columns as a result it is unclear what you mean by copy E10 down so that D4 is the constant. What exactly are yo trying to accomplish? On 5/9/12 3:03 PM, Zed wrote: It is so long since I used the Formula I'm looking for that I have forgotten what it is. Here is my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas...

2012-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you need both parts of D$ to stay fixed? $D keeps the D part fixed and then $4 keeps the 4 part fixed so you need =E10/$D$4 (I think) Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 10/5/12, Zed z...@zed.net.nz wrote: From: Zed z...@zed.net.nz Subject: [libreoffice-users] Formulas... To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas...

2012-05-09 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Hi Zed I believe you are looking for =E10/$D$10 -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- 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: IPad?

2012-05-09 Thread The Wolfkin
.docx is rapidly becoming my new most annoying default. Though it will likely never trump hide file extensions by default or even Hide My Computer/My Documents from desktop by default -- Wolfkin http://about.me/wolfkin On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P

[libreoffice-users] Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2012-05-09 Thread The Wolfkin
When you freeze a row or column in Calc http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Freezing_Rows_or_Columns_as_Headers is there a way to save that as a permanent state? I've tried freezing and after a few minutes I managed to get it to work but when I save and close the file it opens again unfrozen. --

[libreoffice-users] Cal default print settings (and general default settings)

2012-05-09 Thread The Wolfkin
another quick one. by default Calc doesn't print the grid or column/row headers. For everyone for whom I suggest LibreOffice this is a huge problem. Is there a way to change settings by default? Speaking of default settings.. on a slightly more off topic. Is there a way, for instance write a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2012-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 20:47 -0400, The Wolfkin wrote: When you freeze a row or column in Calc http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Freezing_Rows_or_Columns_as_Headers is there a way to save that as a permanent state? I've tried freezing and after a few minutes I managed to get it to work but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2012-05-09 Thread The Wolfkin
Well my mom just sent me a spreadsheet she's doing. Created on her MacBook 10.5 i think. Should be the latest version of LO. I was working on my Win7 64bit Dell computer here. Ver 3.4.4. These were .ods files. Simple simple stuff here.. Only using one (of three default) sheet. Less than 100 rows,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared

2012-05-09 Thread Keith Bates
On 04/05/12 17:09, Keith Bates wrote: Thanks Dan. I'm away from home for a few days, but I'll give it a go when I return Keith On 03/05/12 05:12, Dan Lewis wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:16 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: With the new release of Ubuntu last week I received a new release of LO

[libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles for list styles

2012-05-09 Thread Carlos Pita
Hi all, I find this description in the documentation very misleading: Each of the list styles predefined in Writer has four associated paragraph styles. For example, the Numbering 1 list style is associated with four paragraph styles: Numbering 1 Numbering 1 Cont. Numbering 1 End Numbering 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas...

2012-05-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/5/10 Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl: Hi Zed I believe you are looking for =E10/$D$10 Or rather =E10/$D$4… -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring the images to page inside section.

2012-05-09 Thread Vit
I'm very sorry for the images. Here are the examples. 1. Fix position relative to the text, moving with the text. Text should be on the right or on the left of the picture. I can't achieve this using anchoring now. Example: http://dug.im/d7682 2. I want two different pictures positioned after