Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Numbers in TOC

2017-08-27 Thread Ian Whitfield
Sorry - My mistake. Thanks Piet!! On 08/26/2017 09:27 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Ian Whitfield <whitfi...@blinkmail.co.za> writes: Hi All I have been watching this thread and hoping a problem I have with this might be mentioned!! I produce a monthly "Journal" and also mak

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Numbers in TOC

2017-08-25 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have been watching this thread and hoping a problem I have with this might be mentioned!! I produce a monthly "Journal" and also make use of the TOC to list the contents. It works fairly well (with a bit of editing) but the one problem I have is as follows. The first two pages of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pop Up Notifications

2017-04-24 Thread Ian Whitfield
If you use Thunderbird for your eMail add the extension "ReminderFox" - It does this kind of thing perfectly!! On 04/24/2017 07:13 PM, charles meyer wrote: My esteemed listmates, I’m wondering if in Libre Writer or Calc a user can set up a sound or pop-up notification of an approaching

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting Defaults [SOLVED]

2017-04-24 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Thanks Cley* That did it for me - It was not the 'Local' or the 'User Profile' that was out - but thanks to others for the suggestions!! It was just the convoluted (IMHO) way that LO works to achieve this. I my World I would suggest that a better way to do this is to have a "Default" set of

[libreoffice-users] Setting Defaults

2017-04-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have a MAJOR problem setting some defaults in LibreOffice!! The first one is the Default Font - I have battled with this for some time now and discussed it on the Forum and tried ALL the suggestions but can not get rid of 'Liberation Serif' as the default!! This should be a quick

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default font in LO calc

2017-02-21 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Thank you, Thank you Piet and Brian* That did it - Magic!! Just what I wanted. You have made my frequent use of Calc so much better!! I still think it is a convoluted way of doing things but I'm very happy to have the answer at last. With much appreciation!! Ian Pretoria RSA On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default font in LO calc

2017-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Thanks Everyone* I seem to have stirred-up a real Hornets Nest here - but to me it just shows how badly this part of LO is!!! It's a GREAT program except for this problem and of course the orphan child Base!! Anyway - still no luck here - I tried the Side-Bar method first of all but my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default font in LO calc

2017-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
Bar for Templates or Edit Templates. So where do you find this and edit it?? This should be as easy to do as it is in Scribus!!! Why make things so difficult?? Thanks all On 02/20/2017 06:27 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Ian Whitfield wrote: > *Thanks Bruce* > > BUT that does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default font in LO calc

2017-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
b select your desired font. You might want to save this as a template and use as your default template. On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Ian Whitfield <whitfi...@telkomsa.net> wrote: *Hi All* _PLEASE_ can someone tell me how to change the *&%$# Default Font in Calc!! I have tried ma

[libreoffice-users] Default font in LO calc

2017-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Hi All* _PLEASE_ can someone tell me how to change the *&%$# Default Font in Calc!! I have tried many times to do this, Googled lots of suggestions but NOTHING WORKS!! And there are many different sets of instruction on how to do this. It is one of the most frustrating things in LO Calc and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with LO Forms

2017-02-16 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Guys - Appreciated!! But I'm confused. The Handbook says Calc can be used as the datasource for a Form in Writer. But even Alexander's method still gives me no option to select the Registered Spreadsheet (The options box remains empty)!! The other replies tell me Calc can _NOT_ do

[libreoffice-users] Help with LO Forms

2017-02-16 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Hi All* I need some help with Forms for LO. I have a Spreadsheet of Data and I have prepared a Form in Writer to display and edit this information. As per "Getting Started with LO", Chapter 15 I select - New - Database, Connect to existing DB, select the Spreadsheet and Register it I then go

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-01 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Hi all* *Re: The LO Base discussion* - just my "Penny's Worth"!!! After a 5+ years effort to use LO Base I have given up completely!! It is *NOT* usable at all in it's "out of the box" set-up, ie with the HSQL engine. It is totally unstable, crashes frequently AND - *MORE IMPORTANT* -

[libreoffice-users] LO Base - Dropdown boxes

2016-06-26 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi all I'm trying to use LO Base - linked to a Spreadsheet and so far all is going well. However I don't seem to be able to get Dropdown Boxes to work. On my 'User Form' they are greyed out and do not react when clicked. I have set them to be Dropdown, entered the list of options and set the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc as a Flat File Database

2016-03-19 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Alexander On 03/17/2016 05:59 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: So Alexander has told me how to save my Form (that helps a lot) and I >decided to get back into Base as it seems to be the only way to go for >me. But MySQL is giving me up-hill. It does not seem to want to save an >empty Table for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc as a Flat File Database

2016-03-16 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Alex On 03/10/2016 01:11 PM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Why not separate out your forms from the ODB file if you are concerned about the stability of the ODB file itself ? It is perfectly possible, you can still link to a mysql db and you won't have the issues of screwing up your ODB just because

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc as a Flat File Database

2016-03-09 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Dan and Alan I know about the Base > Calc link but I have been using Base since about 2010 and had many, many crashes where in most cases the crash takes out the data as well and you need to spend hours and hours re-building the Database and re-designing your Forms etc. This has

[libreoffice-users] Calc as a Flat File Database

2016-03-08 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I was thinking the other day about using Calc as a Flat File Database - ie with no relationships. Many users make use of a Spreadsheet as a kind of Database but the problem is viewing the data. So I was wondering if there is and Add-On or Extension available to give you a "Form" to

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Base and MySQL

2016-01-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have been trying to import a CSV file from Calc into MySQL to run with Base for over a week now and can not believe this is so difficult to do so I'm hoping some other Base users might have cracked this one!! My OpSys is PClinuxOS - 32-bit and MySQL is ver 5.1.73. Everything is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linking a Form to another table

2016-01-07 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I take from the lack of any replies to my post of a few days back that either anyone who can help out is still on Christmas Holidays or this just can not be done ?? Ianw Pretoria RSA -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Linking a Form to another table

2016-01-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have another table of data that I would like to link to an existing Form. The Form was originally linked to Table "ABC" but I now want to link it to table "Name/DEF". Is this possible and how would I do this please?? Thanks for any help (I'm using PClinuxOS and LibreOffice 5.0.0.2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Lost connection to Database.

2015-11-19 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Alex Sorry have been away from the computer for some days due to work and other personal reasons!! I seem to be getting somewhere but I sit with the problem that the DB will not accept the old username and/or Password. Is there a way to reset this at all?? -- To unsubscribe e-mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Lost connection to Database.

2015-11-02 Thread Ian Whitfield
Up-date I have been busy with other things and just got back to this problem. I found that the link to the Class file was not working so corrected that and the whole set-up now works fine. But when I try to open the Database it opens the input Form and pops up an error - "The data content

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Lost connection to Database.

2015-10-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 10/22/2015 03:31 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Is the mysql server actually running ? mysqld is running, (start on boot) in Services. Is your JDK recognized by LO (Tools - Options - Advanced) ? YES- /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-sun-1.8.0.60/jre -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Lost connection to Database.

2015-10-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Alex and Dan. I had forgotten to do that - so have downloaded 5.1.37 and set it up in LO but I still get the same error. I notice also that when checking Services I have no htppd available to switch on!!?? Any other ideas please? Thanks a lot. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Lost connection to Database.

2015-10-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Due to problems with Kernel updates I have rebuilt my system using the last ISO disk I had, (2014-12). I re-installed the ISO formatting the complete drive, updated the system via Synaptic to bring it up to date and restored all my backed-up data to /home. I then restored the MySQL

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-26 Thread Ian Whitfield
/On 26/07/2015 14:50, Erik Jan wrote:// / /To tell you the truth: I still use my slide rule, very easy and useful for calculations that need only to be about 95% accurate with the correct order of magnitude. I even once corrected errors in an Excel spreadsheet with the help of my log tables

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
_**_ *Hi All *After 25+ years in the Computer business I retired in the early 2000s. I had been involved with CP/M, DOS and Windows during this period and even did a Xenix Course at one time which I found interesting, (Unix was a propitiatory name in those days!!). I also played with Coral

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

2015-07-18 Thread Ian Whitfield
I couldn't find a good OCR solution for linux either. Project for someone? Cheers Harvey I also battled to find a good OCR program for a couple of years on my Linux System (PClinuxOS)!! Then about two years or eighteen months back I came across the combination of YAGF with Tesseract.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office Base

2015-07-17 Thread Ian Whitfield
I posted this 2 days back but don't see it coming up on the Form - Let's try again . Hi Gabriele On 16/07/2015 10:45, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: /It is, more or less, in the GUI: You just have to open the Form's properties dialog box and correct the already present query (or insert, not

[libreoffice-users] Libre Office Base

2015-07-15 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm running two copies of LO Base here - and old one using HSQL embedded and a new one using MySQL. Firstly I notice is that if I sort the DB the sort only holds for the duration of the session. Is it possible to make a sort order stick. ie - I sort into Lastname then First Name and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
Ditto!!! +1 It has cemented the decision I took last year to move to Base+MySQL - which works very well indeed!! IanW Pretoria RSA On 03/05/2015 04:08 PM, HBarr wrote: Just want to say this thread has been so helpful and enlightening, I have learned a lot about base, mysql and databases.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-02 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Peter Noted on your comments and others I can confirm that using the embedded DB in Base is a disaster - I battled with it for a couple of years until I found out about using an external engine - I use MySQL and have had _NO_ problems, (except my own finger problems!!) since then.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem [SOLVED]

2015-02-24 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Alex and Paul!!! We have cured the problem!! Alex - your correction still gave me the SQL Error as before. Paul - your correction was on the nail!! Worked like a charm and my RecordID now Auto-Increments!! I appreciate GREATLY all this help guys!! As I mentioned I'm not - and don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 02/22/2015 03:20 PM, Alex Thurgood wrote: You could try using : ALTER TABLE Members CHANGE RecordID1 INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY; Thanks Alex I gave this a try in MyAdmin and got ... Error *SQL query:* || |ALTER TABLE Members CHANGE RecordID1 INT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-21 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Alex But I fear this is getting nowhere. As per your suggestion I built a new ODB file and it showed the same problem. i have run the MySQLcheck program and it confirms the DB is OK. Maybe it is a funny in Base itself??? And it may come right with the next release?? In itself the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Alex I really appreciate your help here!! But still no luck - My replies are below. A quick, alternative possibility : Create a new ODB file that connects to your database. Save it under a new name. Open the newly named (and currently empty, at least with regard to forms, queries,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 02/20/2015 04:47 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Try mysqlcheck -A -p Thanks for the explanation Alex. This is what I get . FedSaints.Members OK mysql.columns_priv OK mysql.db OK

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-19 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I've spent today trying to cure this problem. I have only ONE table in my Database and needed to make the RecordID field Auto-incrementing. (I forgot when I set it up) Using the Base Front End it will *NOT* change the setting - as soon as you save it reverts to 'No' Using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base Problem

2015-02-18 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 02/18/2015 05:35 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 18/02/2015 15:23, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Yesterday I found I had not set my Keyfield (RecordID) to Auto Increment so I set a new field with phpMyAdmin called 'id'. And this is now working fine and Auto incrementing. I deleted the old

[libreoffice-users] LO Base Problem

2015-02-18 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Hi All* I have been rebuilding/revamping my Database over the past few weeks and everything has been going great. I'm using LO 4.3.5.2 and MySQL 5.1.73 on PClinuxOS (latest). Yesterday I found I had not set my Keyfield (RecordID) to Auto Increment so I set a new field with phpMyAdmin called

[libreoffice-users] MySQL - LO Base question.

2015-01-23 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have been running a MySQL Database with LO Base as a front-end for some time now - and VERY successfully indeed compared to the built-in engine in LO Base!! (My OpSys is PClinuxOS 32-bit) For a variety of reasons I decided to rebuild my system last week. I have a back-up of my

Re: [libreoffice-users] File-Send-Document As doesn't!

2015-01-12 Thread Ian Whitfield
I had to add the /usr/bin/thunderbird and then it worked fine. But I agree this should be automated some how. My OpSys is PClinuxOS IanW Pretoria RSA -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Problem Installing/Updating LO

2014-12-08 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Hi All* Since I upgraded to LO 4.3.4 I have a problem with LO Manager!! Whenever I start it it shows the error - /Please close your package manager 'synaptic' // // and then run LibreOffice Manager again.// // // Exiting../. Synaptic is _*NOT*_ running - So am unable to update the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem Installing/Updating LO

2014-12-08 Thread Ian Whitfield
*Thanks Paul - answers below ...* On 12/08/2014 05:18 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: This sounds like LO Manager is calling to synaptic twice. Did you confirm synaptic is not running by process status command ps that includes all processes before starting LO Manager? /*- YES NOT RUNNING*/ Try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-17 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Regina On 11/13/2014 09:13 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Ian, try this: 1. menu File New HTML Document. Now you should have an HTML-source-icon between ABC-icon and Print-Preview-icon. If it is not there, see below. 2. menu Insert Document. 3. Click on the HTML-source-icon. You have

[libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Can I get some help on this please?? I have read about, and looked-up, the possibility of editing HTML documents in Writer but can not get it to work!! No matter what I do I can not fine 'HTML Mode' or 'View HTML' as talked about ion the help files. I can load my document but can not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
saving your document, select HTML Document (Writer) (.html) in the File type: drop down list in the Save dialog. Kolbjoern Den 13.11.2014 11:18, skreiv Ian Whitfield: Hi All Can I get some help on this please?? I have read about, and looked-up, the possibility of editing HTML documents

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks all. Well it looks as if the PClinuxOS version of LO has omitted or taken out this function. No matter which way I open the file I get _NO_ option in 'View' that has anything to do with HTML!! I even tried a 'Save as selecting HTML and still no luck. (Although doing this changed the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 11/13/2014 05:28 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:03 13/11/2014 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote: Well it looks as if the PClinuxOS version of LO has omitted or taken out this function. No matter which way I open the file I get _NO_ option in 'View' that has anything to do with HTML

Re: [libreoffice-users] nabble issue

2014-11-03 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 11/03/2014 11:44 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Can other people try on other systems? Mint and other Debian family probably have the same result as me. Someone in the thread already tried with Fedora. So ideally if you are using something else it might help more. Windows anyone? ;) Loads

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 10/30/2014 11:02 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 10/30/2014 04:12 PM, Paul wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: And Tom is a phony idiot who knows nothing. I hope that you personally know Tom very well, and know that he is ok with you

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug segnaled in 4.3

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 09/28/2014 11:53 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: a debian user has written on a mailing list that differently from version 4.2, in the last 4.3.2.1 version the ordering function (right click - sort) in calc is not working yet (I haven't verified it by myself at the moment actually). It works

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base questions

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 08/04/2014 04:15 PM, dave boland wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014, at 09:10 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 04/08/2014 14:51, dave boland a écrit : How does switching to Firebird solve the issue of an embedded, all in memory database? I would be happy if LO offered an option (when

[libreoffice-users] Text in an IF function

2014-07-29 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm using a lot of IF functions in my Spreadsheets to limit DIV and NAME errors with rows that don't have values in them yet. I came across a situation today where I need to test text - ie I need to test for a month's name. I tried =IF(Cell Ref=AUG,do calculation.) But this gives

Re: [libreoffice-users] Text in an IF function

2014-07-29 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 07/29/2014 10:45 PM, Brian Barker wrote: The only thing wrong with your example is the dot separating the second and third arguments - which presumably should be a comma. There is nothing in the basic structure you are illustrating here that would stimulate a #NAME? error, so the problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 07/11/2014 04:21 PM, dave boland wrote: Thank you Noel. I will check this out. My head is spinning right now with all of the choices. I need to get something together for next Fri., so I'm going with LO Base for now. Seems like a decent choice because I will be the only user for most of

[libreoffice-users] LO Calc - Only display results on active row?

2014-07-09 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have several of Spreadsheets that work with monthly figures. They also have columns with calculations of these figures. (ie Totals, averages etc). At the moment I get a lot of 'DIV by Zero' results and the current total repeating BELOW the current month. Is there a way to only show

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc - Only display results on active row?

2014-07-09 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 07/09/2014 11:28 AM, Brian Barker wrote: Yes: there is the IF() function: is that a close enough equivalent? Just put =IF(condition;expression-for-true;expression-for-false) . Your expression for false may well be consecutive double-quote marks, representing the null string. Thanks Brian

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc - Only display results on active row? [SOLVED]

2014-07-09 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 07/09/2014 12:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Yes - but you don't say what the controlling factor might be. There must be some aspect of the list that indicates the point at which you want the totals to stop. Instead of using =X100-X99 you need something like =IF(condition;X100-X99;) with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with Base

2014-05-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
+100 Wolfgang!!! I fell in the same hole!!! PostgreSQL or MySQL is the ONLY way to go. IanW On 05/05/2014 05:44 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: I'm new user of LO Base, we are transitioning from MS Access, and I need to redesign our db from it. One word of advice based on experience: Avoid use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 02/13/2014 08:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think some people here do read the manuals https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications But i agree that it might be good for certain people (mostly thinking about me tbh) to dip in and read-up even on just 1 feature per week

[libreoffice-users] MySQL/LO Base problem

2014-02-12 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm looking for someone to help me out with a serious and URGENT mySQL/LO Base problem please. I prefer to do it Off-List but am happy to post the end result on the Forum later. I did write to Alex Thurgood directly but got no reply - maybe he's busy of away?? My direct eMail is

[libreoffice-users] LO Base/MySQL questions

2014-02-07 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I've been using the Base/MySQL combination since mid-last year now and it is fantastic!! It is much faster, never crashes or freezes and just works the way it is supposed to. I can definitely recommend it to anyone!! (In my opinion this should be the standard and HSQL should be

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base/MySQL questions

2014-02-07 Thread Ian Whitfield
Sorry All I'm running PClinuxOS (latest) and LO 4.1.2.3 and MySQL 5.1.55 A MySQL 'expert' was telling me recently that HSQL is only meant to be a prototyping utility and should *NEVER* be used for any proper work - - interesting!!?? I can confirm that when it crashes it takes everything

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pasting plain text into Calc changes row height and undo doesn't revert

2013-12-04 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 04/12/13 16:48, whatever wrote: Tom Davies wrote You can double-click on the line between the row headers to make it auto-adjust the height of the row. THANKS TOM!! I've been wanting this function for a long time and could not find it. BTW - I think you mean auto-adjust the WIDTH of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the TOC/Index function.

2013-11-28 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks for the comments Tom You are right - I was meant to send it to the Scribus Forum but I selected the wrong eMail address!! My Bad as they say these days!! Regarding your comments - what you say makes a lot of sense. All the best -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Using the TOC/Index function.

2013-11-27 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi all I've been looking for a way to index my monthly Journal I edit in Scribus. I have managed to get the Scribus function working, (after a battle), but two problems remain. 1) In all my Paragraph Styles the 'Fill Character' is greyed-out!! How do I activate this? 2) The created Index is

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Sub Forms

2013-10-18 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I've had some success at last!! Using Shane Piper's Tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcudVETPePY I have got my sub-Forms working fine. My last problem was with Opening a Form with a Button and again Shane has a Tutorial on this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zmd-zidIvg

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Sub Forms

2013-10-16 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 15/10/13 22:41, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: If I remember correctly (and I have not looked at this in a while), I think that you need to link the master and slave fields. So, if you open your form in edit mode, load the form navigator, right click on your sub-form and choose

[libreoffice-users] LO Base Sub Forms

2013-10-15 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm still stuck with LO Base Sub Forms!! I've been at this for some time, off and on, but over the past few months I have been very busy converting, editing and checking/updating my DB to now run on MySQL. I must say it is a GREAT improvement!! OK - My OpSys is PClinuxOS 2012-10. LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing in LO Writer {SOLVED]

2013-10-03 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks to all for the input - appreciated!! Pedro contacted me directly and has put me right and I now have it working 100%. He picked up my error and said The trick is that the 'Pitch' means the label width PLUS any following space whereas I was putting in only the gap between the labels,

[libreoffice-users] LO Base - Pushbutton on Form not working.

2013-09-30 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All After some time working on other aspects of my Database I'm back to trying to get a Pushbutton working to open a SubForm. PClinuxOS 2013.08; LO Base 4.1.1.2; MySQL 5.1.55 My Database - FSNew Tables - Members Story Forms - FSNew.Members FSNew.Story The Pushbutton on the Members Form

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade?? [WORKROUND]

2013-09-11 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks to Andrew and Mark for their input I thought about this over the past few days and did not want to wind back to the earlier version of LO and have the problem of getting the link to my SQL Database working again. So yesterday afternoon I came up with a Workround!! I converted all the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Andrew On 05/09/13 23:09, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Is it possible that the form is in edit mode? As in, you are editing the control? It is a long shot guess... On 09/05/2013 04:47 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All I use here PClinuxOS 2013 (up-to-date), My SQL 5.1.55 and have just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 06/09/13 10:58, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 05/09/13 10:47, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, Has anyone seen this effect or got any idea how to fix it please?? This has also been reported on the French users mailing list. Sounds like a bug to me. So how do we, or can we, report

[libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I use here PClinuxOS 2013 (up-to-date), My SQL 5.1.55 and have just upgraded my LO Office to 4.1.2. Everything seems to be fine EXCEPT The Check Boxes in my LO Form no longer work - you can not edit them or add to them. If you click on one a tick appears in the box but as you select

[libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Whitfield
FIRST POST DID NOT SEEM TO GET THROUGH - RE-SENDING ... Hi All I use here PClinuxOS 2013 (up-to-date), My SQL 5.1.55 and have just upgraded my LO Office to 4.1.2. Everything seems to be fine EXCEPT The Check Boxes in my LO Form no longer work - you can not edit them or add to them. If

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting a MySQL Database

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Noel On 29/08/13 06:12, Marion Noel Lodge wrote: Hi Ian, With a Form, I have found the following is the way to lock in the Form's sort order - 1. Open the Form in Edit mode 2. Right click on the form and from the dropdown choose Form... 3. Click on the Data Tab 4. The contents field

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting a MySQL Database

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Noel On 29/08/13 06:12, Marion Noel Lodge wrote: Hi Ian, With a Form, I have found the following is the way to lock in the Form's sort order - 1. Open the Form in Edit mode 2. Right click on the form and from the dropdown choose Form... 3. Click on the Data Tab 4. The contents field

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting a MySQL Database

2013-08-27 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Jay On 26/08/13 15:54, Jay Lozier wrote: Ian, Is there an id key field? If there is the default sorting is by the id key (usually numerical order). In SQL you can add the line: ORDER BY Last-Name, First-Name The default order is ascending (ASC) if descending is needed ORDER BY

[libreoffice-users] Sorting a MySQL Database

2013-08-26 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I now have my new MySQL/LO Base Database up, running and fully edited from the old one. And what a pleasure it is to work with!! This IS the way to go, One question - It seems to have a strange way of sorting the Data as displayed in the Form I designed and I have to select 'Sort' in

[libreoffice-users] Variables in Libre Office

2013-06-26 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Very interesting article on using variables in LO that I just came across. Worth a read http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/three-great-ways-to-use-variables-in-libreoffice-and-openoffice/4446?tag=nl.e101s_cid=e101ttag=e101ftag= IanW Pretoria RSA -- To unsubscribe e-mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calv - Vertical Split

2013-06-19 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks to everyone who has helped me out in the last week or so - appreciated!! It's fantastic to have a Forum like this, (as is the Scribus Forum that I also use). A week or so back I asked about 'Searching in a Column' so thanks to Suo, Tom and Luuk for that help - Not exactly how I would

[libreoffice-users] LO Calv - Vertical Split

2013-06-17 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have LO 3.6.5.2 on PCLOS 2013 Is it possible to do the following in Calc?? I have two list of names (and other data) side-by-side in a Spreadsheet and I want to Split the Spreadsheet vertically to show the LH part on the left and the RH part on the right. This I can do but the two

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calv - Vertical Split

2013-06-17 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 17/06/13 13:20, Regina Henschel wrote: Do not use split or freeze options, but from the menu 'Window' the item 'New Window'. You get a new UI, but on the very same document. So the content changes in one Window will be in the other window too. That are not two documents but only one

[libreoffice-users] LO Calc - Find in a column

2013-06-07 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Is it possible to get Calc to search/Find in a specific column?? I have a three column list of names, (A=First, B-Surname, C=Former Name), with about 3000 entries and want to get the Search function (CTRL-F) to look in just the specific column related to the Search. I have tried to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Calc - Find in a column (SOLVED - sort of!!)

2013-06-07 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks to everyone on this!! Appreciated!! On 07/06/13 11:52, Luuk wrote: On 07-06-2013 11:35, Suo Kunlong wrote: 06/07/2013 05:07 PM, Ian Whitfield : Hi All Is it possible to get Calc to search/Find in a specific column?? I have a three column list of names, (A=First, B-Surname, C=Former

[libreoffice-users] LO Base/MySQL Backup??

2013-05-27 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm now using the MySQL back-end (5.1.55) with LO Base (3.6.5.2) as my front-end - all on PCLOS 2013. I've been messing around since late last year getting this all right, (with lots of GREAT help from the Forum!!) My question now is - Where does MySQL store the Database and how do

[libreoffice-users] LO Base - Question about Query

2013-05-25 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I have a Database with about 3000 addresses in it and need - from time-to-time - to check how many different Countries are listed in it. I have a Query that extracts this for me but naturally it pulls out EVERY entry for EVERY Country. Is there a way for a Query to do this BUT only

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Question about Query [SOLVED]

2013-05-25 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thanks Noel !!! On 25/05/13 11:58, Marion Noel Lodge wrote: Assuming your field is 'Country', try this - SELECT Country, Count(Country) AS 'Count' FROM your Table name GROUP BY Country ORDER BY Country I had a problem, at first - as I always seem to do - with 'Syntax Error'!!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Italics and bold in BASE.

2013-05-14 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 14/05/13 10:52, acanela wrote: What´s the problem? What sould I do? I have the feeling that the solution is easy, but I can't find it. I mean for italics and bold in BASE. Set-up your requirements in your Form .. Select Form (Right-Click) Edit Control-Click on any Field Then Double-Click

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help with database

2013-05-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm sure Alex is right - so thanks for pointing out the 'bits' that don't work from Base!! As a plain ordinary - everyday Front-End I have so far found Base to be adequate... so far (??) But I note the comments made. Must say I've been busy with other things for some days and have

Re: [libreoffice-users] help with database

2013-05-12 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 12/05/13 13:30, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) That is a good question. Ultimately the Tables 'should' be in MySql (or whichever back-end you are using). One thing i don't know is if you can use the nice GUI front-end in Base to create the Tables and find the Tables are automatically in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-10 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Tom says ... I'm fairly sure that quite a few people have had troubles with the internal back-end that were solved by 'just' moving to an external back-end. I vaguely remember someone even suffering data-loss using the embedded/internal back-end. Was there a bug-report? Should

[libreoffice-users] Check Box size in LO Base

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All Question regarding LO Base, (being used as a Front End to a MySQL Database). (PCLOS, LO 3.6.5.2) I have eight 'Check Boxes' on my Form that work just fine but I find them a little small and can find no way to make them larger. I tried pulling them out and changing the Font size but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Check Box size in LO Base

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 30/04/2013 12:43, Ian Whitfield wrote: Is there a way of adjusting the Check Box size at all? On 30/04/13 14:54, Fernand Vanrie wrote: The model must have a Height and Width property ? Changing this only seems to enlarge the background colour. The Check Box itself DOES

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using a Button to activate Subform. Relationships

2013-04-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thank you Dan and Alex!!! This is the kind of help I was needing to understand the problem. I knew one of you DB Boffins would point me in the right direction. Dan I will try your method but first I must investigate what Alex says about MyISAM and InnoDB. So - That leaves me now with two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using a Button to activate Subform. Relationships

2013-04-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
Thank you both (Dan and Alex) I will follow these routes. Appreciate the help!! IanW Pretoria RSA -- 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] Using a Button to activate Subform. Relationships

2013-04-18 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I posted the question below on the 13th but have seen no comments or replies. Surely someone has an idea or a thought on this?? Thanks a lot. On 13/04/13 17:29, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All You will have seen my question to Noel about Relationships and his reply. I just tried again

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