Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-05 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/05/2012 10:13 PM, Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: > I discovered one useful feature of the SQL Button. I like to format my SQL > queries by putting SELECT, FROM, WHERE etc. each on a separate line, plus I > use tabs to line up the various table names, again on their own line. I > find this make

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-05 Thread Marion & Noel Lodge
I discovered one useful feature of the SQL Button. I like to format my SQL queries by putting SELECT, FROM, WHERE etc. each on a separate line, plus I use tabs to line up the various table names, again on their own line. I find this makes complex queries much more readable. If the SQL Button is

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Doug
On 10/05/2012 05:55 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/05/2012 04:11 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/05/2012 01:34 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/05/2012 12:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes". Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and important music of th

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/05/2012 04:11 PM, Doug wrote: > On 10/05/2012 01:34 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: >> On 10/05/2012 12:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >>> Hi :) >>> Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes". >>> >>> Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and >>> important music of the 20th Century and "The

[libreoffice-users] Using photos within a Mail Merge setup??

2012-10-05 Thread robertjm
Hi all, I'm setting up to print some cards, which will have names, ages and a photo of an individual. While I understand how to insert the name and ages text from a Calc spreadsheet, I'm not clear on how to automate the photo insert. Is it as simple as adding a URL link into a cell within Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Doug
On 10/05/2012 01:34 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/05/2012 12:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes". Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and important music of the 20th Century and "The Spice Girls" got in at number 1. Does that really mean

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening hybrid pdf in LO 3.6.0.2 results in gibberish

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, people often send me their posters as Pdfs and even if i spend ages trying to clean them up in Gimp they still look a bit wobbly compared to the way their original looked in Word or whatever.  It drives me nuts that i can't ask them to send me their original without totally confusing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening hybrid pdf in LO 3.6.0.2 results in gibberish

2012-10-05 Thread M Henri Day
2012/10/4 Tom Davies > Hi :) > Did work for me on Win Xp Sp3, LO 3.5.4 > > Not working on Ubuntu 12.04, LO 3.5.4 = asks for Utf encoding and defaults > to 8 and guesses at font = Times New Roman. > Regards from > Tom :) > Running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04, I downloaded the file to my Downloads folder.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If only you could be strict with those people and demand 1.  a Pdf so you can see how it's meant to look 2.  Images as separate files in image formats 3.  The article in .doc format For me that would be just about perfect.  Even with .docs the formatting some people fall into is fairly ins

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have a nice weekend too :) and to everyone else out there too Many regards from Tom :) > > From: Pertti Rönnberg >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 5 October 2012, 18:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems > >Hi Wolfgang, >Most c

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/05/2012 12:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes". > > Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and important music > of the 20th Century and "The Spice Girls" got in at number 1. Does that > really mean they really were the most infl

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Hi Wolfgang, Most certainly you must be right. I only cannot understand what you mean and on what arguments. But don´worry, be happy! and have a nice weekend. Pertti Rönnberg On 5.10.2012 19:12, Wolfgang Keller wrote: If MSO is a 90% market leader all its users cannot be complete idiots. Th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-05 Thread John Clegg
That button, according to the help file, toggles whether the SQL is passed directly to the database engine or handled by Base first. I'm not quite sure what that means in effect! On 5 October 2012 18:12, David S. Crampton wrote: > John and the others who responded, > > It took me a while to real

[libreoffice-users] Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-05 Thread David S. Crampton
John and the others who responded, It took me a while to realize that the useful SQL menu is available only on the main / opening window of the db. The SQL button in the Query Design view still appears to do nothing. I'm finally getting some traction. I acknowledge and appreciate the "stylistic"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Doug
On 10/05/2012 05:07 AM, John Clegg wrote: One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO behaves differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it places a copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always opens it read-only whereas Excel opens it as read-wr

[libreoffice-users] Special characters help

2012-10-05 Thread Ken-GSS
In the T language project, we are using Libre Office 3.5.5.3 and would like to use the special characters needed for several of the languages. For example in one of the languages we need a special “l”. The Unicode of that character is an l with a superscripted macron. The combined characters

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes".  Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and important music of the 20th Century and "The Spice Girls" got in at number 1.  Does that really mean they really were the most influential?  Is there any validity in disagreeing with

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> If MSO is a 90% market leader all its users cannot be complete idiots. Thank you for this statement that clearly illustrates the typical "pointy haired think" (i.e. un-think) of "leaders" (and their followers). > The very simple fact is: LibO has to become better in a SWOT > analysis! And w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 05/10/2012 16:31, webmaster-Kracked_P_P ha scritto: On 10/05/2012 10:10 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 05/10/2012 11:07, John Clegg ha scritto: One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO behaves differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it places a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 10/05/2012 10:10 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 05/10/2012 11:07, John Clegg ha scritto: One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO behaves differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it places a copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 29/09/2012 20:10, Wolfgang Keller ha scritto: - actually useful formatting concepts for presentations like e.g. LaTeX Beamer provides. Could you elaborate? I don't know Beamer (I have heard the name, but never really used it) and I am interested in knowing what it has to offer that LO is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 05/10/2012 11:07, John Clegg ha scritto: One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO behaves differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it places a copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always opens it read-only whereas Excel opens it as read-

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-05 Thread John Clegg
I am going to stick my head above the parapet and say it should have an embedded database functionality that is secure and reliable. That is an essential requirement for entry-level users that have only ever used Access. On 5 October 2012 13:34, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I agree

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-05 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Hi everybody, I agree with Mark. The question itself is interesting but an answer does not explain anything relevant. Let us turn the question around:how many people should use LO-Base if there was a LibO-version available that is ready to use, reliable, and free of problems (bugs). If i

Re: [libreoffice-users] name of pdf export

2012-10-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:55 05/10/2012 +0900, Nobody Noname wrote: When I export an LO file to pdf, I would like that the original file name is automatically transferred to become the pdf-file name. As I cannot find any information in the LO documentation I ask you to please give me a hint how this can be done.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread John Clegg
I thought LO was emulating MSO 97?? On 5 October 2012 13:00, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 05/10/12 10:07, John Clegg wrote: > >> whereas Excel opens it as read-write. >> > That behaviour has changed in MS Office 2010 - email attachments are > opened as read-only by default.. > -- > > Regist

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ZOOM: strange or bug??

2012-10-05 Thread manuel_songokuh
hi TOM please check my old email, i dont wrote : i click, i'm not scrolling the mouse-wheel, or pressing buttons. i repeat : WHEN i move my HAND on my mouse(this is normal), move cross(where?) to AREA ZOOM (i dont know what is name,i did sent my little screenshot to old email ok?) is activ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 05/10/12 10:07, John Clegg wrote: whereas Excel opens it as read-write. That behaviour has changed in MS Office 2010 - email attachments are opened as read-only by default.. -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXMLhtt

Re: [libreoffice-users] name of pdf export

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you use File - "Export to Pdf" or are you using "Print to file" and then choosing the Pdf format? The "File" route seems to automatically put the right file-name in just as you want but i think the printing route might not.  I've never needed the printing route although i think it's so

[libreoffice-users] name of pdf export

2012-10-05 Thread rost52
When I export an LO file to pdf, I would like that the original file name is automatically transferred to become the pdf-file name. As I cannot find any information in the LO documentation I ask you to please give me a hint how this can be done. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have a similar(ish) issue with files stored on a network share and then read by a mix of Ubuntu and Windows machines.  Each time one OS reads it the other can only open read-only.  However that forces us to use a simple versioning system and means we always have lots of back-ups.  So, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread John Clegg
One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO behaves differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it places a copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always opens it read-only whereas Excel opens it as read-write. I would like at least an option to get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-05 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 04/10/2012 at 12:54, rost52 wrote: > I am missing (compared to MSO) a few features > in IMPRESS badly Could you tell which features do you mean, exactly? I am always interested in such comparisons. People all over the web say "LO is missing some features", but such statements tend to not be

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Data to Fields is not working

2012-10-05 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 05/10/2012 at 01:44, Dan Lewis wrote: > Question: Did you click a different row to highlight the whole row > before clicking "Data to Text" button? (Click the rectangle at the left > end of the row.) Unless you select another row, you will see no changes. Oh, now I see what you meant. No, I