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

2012-10-09 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 08/10/2012 14:13, John Clegg ha scritto: OK, if I accept everything that has been said, then why wouldn't opening an in-memory r/w copy be the sensible default action? So that when the user would try to save it a Save As dialog would appear ? Sounds good to me. -- Marcello Romani -- For

[libreoffice-users] Calc question - paste special

2012-10-09 Thread IGraham
Hello A Calc question I have a grid of cells 7x20, one row for each day of the week, cells may contain no data today Daily I update the relevant cells I want to copy and paste this grid to another sheet in the same book I select grid and copy, go to other sheet right click a cell, select paste

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

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 09.10.2012 09:14, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 08/10/2012 14:13, John Clegg ha scritto: OK, if I accept everything that has been said, then why wouldn't opening an in-memory r/w copy be the sensible default action? So that when the user would try to save it a Save As dialog would appear ?

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

2012-10-09 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 09/10/2012 11:18, Andreas Säger ha scritto: Am 09.10.2012 09:14, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 08/10/2012 14:13, John Clegg ha scritto: OK, if I accept everything that has been said, then why wouldn't opening an in-memory r/w copy be the sensible default action? So that when the user would

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

2012-10-09 Thread John Clegg
Forgive me, but I thought one of the aims of LO was improvements to usability. I open emails mailed to me dozens of times a day. Doing Save-As, or clicking the edit button takes little time I agree, but why is it so wrong to desire that as the default to save me time? On 9 October 2012 10:18,

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

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Regards from Tom :)  --- On Tue, 9/10/12, Marcello Romani mrom...@ottotecnica.com wrote: From: Marcello Romani mrom...@ottotecnica.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead To: users@global.libreoffice.org

RE: [libreoffice-users] query re. volunteering w/ LO

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 again.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 9/10/12, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: From: V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] query re. volunteering w/ LO To: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 9

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

2012-10-09 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 07/10/2012 20:32, Wolfgang Keller ha scritto: Everything that you get from LaTeX: structure markup instead of spaghetti formatting, parameterized formatting, etc... Instead of clicking through dozens of dialogboxes for each and every line of text, slide title, list item, figure, etc. to get

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

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 09.10.2012 11:24, John Clegg wrote: Forgive me, but I thought one of the aims of LO was improvements to usability. I open emails mailed to me dozens of times a day. Doing Save-As, or clicking the edit button takes little time I agree, but why is it so wrong to desire that as the default to

Re: [libreoffice-users] regexp function

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is there not some way to identify how far along the letter is through one of the count functions?  If so then a +1 should give the required value?  In the interests of release early and release often it might be faster for you to 'just' do a macro since you already have the skill-set for

[libreoffice-users] Re: regexp function

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 09.10.2012 12:24, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is there not some way to identify how far along the letter is through one of the count functions? If so then a +1 should give the required value? In the interests of release early and release often it might be faster for you to 'just' do a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help in LibreOffice 3.5.6

2012-10-09 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry no responses so far! Your post somehow didn't reach the Users List. Directly emailing the list using the email address users@global.libreoffice.org might get better results. Which operating system are you using? Is it Windows? Apols and regards from Tom :) -- View this message

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO fails after installation of version 3.6.2

2012-10-09 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry no responses so far! Your post somehow didn't reach the Users List. Directly emailing the list using the email address users@global.libreoffice.org might get better results. Apols and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] attempting to find an answer and instead ...

2012-10-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks all that responded to this!  Now i'm curious where the phrase raising yourself by your own bootstraps came from.  Is it something to do with horses?  Postal services? Regards from Tom :)  From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To:

[libreoffice-users] Libre office using MSVCR90.dll cause Explorer to crash?

2012-10-09 Thread Carl von Bell
Friends I got this really strange problem affecting Windows Explorer. I noticed that it started happening after I installed a data managing program called FieldWorks and started exporting interlinearized files into LibreOffice .odt format from within that program. I store my LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc question - paste special

2012-10-09 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/09/2012 04:44 AM, IGraham wrote: Hello A Calc question I have a grid of cells 7x20, one row for each day of the week, cells may contain no data today Daily I update the relevant cells I want to copy and paste this grid to another sheet in the same book I select grid and copy, go to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre office using MSVCR90.dll cause Explorer to crash?

2012-10-09 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/09/2012 09:02 AM, Carl von Bell wrote: Friends I got this really strange problem affecting Windows Explorer. I noticed that it started happening after I installed a data managing program called FieldWorks and started exporting interlinearized files into LibreOffice .odt format from

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre office using MSVCR90.dll cause Explorer to crash?

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Säger
[Solved] Dynamic link library MSVCR90.dll missing http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=46996 -- 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 +

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread Viral Orpe
Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be bunched neatly in weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly batches) in candlestick form. Both Excel and Calc do not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread MiguelAngel
El 09/10/12 19:52, Viral Orpe escribió: Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be bunched neatly in weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly batches) in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/09/2012 02:47 PM, MiguelAngel wrote: El 09/10/12 19:52, Viral Orpe escribió: Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be bunched neatly in weekly,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-10-10 06:52, Viral Orpe wrote: Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be bunched neatly in weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly batches) in

[libreoffice-users] Re: documentation for LO base

2012-10-09 Thread Ferry Toth
I agree. I use it at the office for time registration and invoicing. At home for the Taekwon-do club membership. It's actually marvelous in combination with postgresql SDBC driver. And actually useful as it is so easy to get your data to Calc, more useful then I remember Access. It always hurts

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: documentation for LO base

2012-10-09 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/09/2012 05:01 PM, Ferry Toth wrote: I agree. I use it at the office for time registration and invoicing. At home for the Taekwon-do club membership. It's actually marvelous in combination with postgresql SDBC driver. And actually useful as it is so easy to get your data to Calc, more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: documentation for LO base

2012-10-09 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Back in my Mainframe days, I had to write a General Ledger Accounting system in COBOL [not my choice] with a master database file[s] used for more than just accounting. If anyone wants to choose to say packages like Base is not good or some other negative term, ask them to try and write the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread rost52
Could you possibly post somewhere an example of a candle stick chart? On 2012-10-10 02:52, Viral Orpe wrote: Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc question - paste special

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-10 00:54, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/09/2012 04:44 AM, IGraham wrote: Hello A Calc question I have a grid of cells 7x20, one row for each day of the week, cells may contain no data today Daily I update the relevant cells I want to copy and paste this grid to another sheet in the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc question - paste special

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:54 09/10/2012 -0400, Jay Lozier wrote: If A1 has a string (Sunday) the try =if(len(a1)0,,). This will put any empty string in the cell whether the expression evaluates to true or false. Indeed it will! In other words, your formula is identical to just = and does not depend on the

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

2012-10-09 Thread rost52
On 2012-10-09 18:50, Marcello Romani wrote: that's the way it is and that's why currently I don't use LO Writer for anything else than for converting .doc files to .pdf I might just be something a little bit above a IT moron but using LO Writer to convert doc into pdf appears to me like using a

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

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-09 18:24, John Clegg wrote: Forgive me, but I thought one of the aims of LO was improvements to usability. I open emails mailed to me dozens of times a day. Doing Save-As, or clicking the edit button takes little time I agree, but why is it so wrong to desire that as the default to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre office using MSVCR90.dll cause Explorer to crash?

2012-10-09 Thread Carl von Bell
On 10/10/2012 12:06 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/09/2012 09:02 AM, Carl von Bell wrote:Friends I got this really strange problem affecting Windows Explorer. I noticed that it started happening after I installed a data managing program called FieldWorks and started exporting interlinearized