[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Anybody have any ideas? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3773708.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Are all the spreadsheets needed? Do you have formulas that connect all 35 sheets? Or are many of them complete and not updated? If you need all 35 tables, then you are using a spreadsheet as a database :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3774661.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Yes, all of the spreadsheets are needed. I have a main sheet named START wherein all of the data is entered, such as names and birth dates. Then on each of the 35 sheets an array has been created which shows all of the data that was entered in the sheet named START. Butas each sheet is specific to a certain person (and not all people) only that persons data will appear on a given sheet in the cells that I want them to. Does that make any sense? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3774884.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Yes, all of the spreadsheets are needed. I have a main sheet named START wherein all of the data is entered, such as names and birth dates. Then on each of the 35 sheets an array has been created which shows all of the data that was entered in the sheet named START. Butas each sheet is specific to a certain person (and not all people) only that persons data will appear on a given sheet in the cells that I want them to. Here's how it appears- Spreadsheet at the top (starting at A1) (let's call the sheet CARLTON) wherein all of the information from the sheet START appears. Below that spreadsheet CARLTON with all of the data is an array that shows ALL of the data from the sheet START. CARLTON has cells with formulas that get the necessary information/data from the array below it. Does that make any sense? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3774891.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Hi :) Wow! That really does sound like something that would be better handled by a database. Plus it sounds as though you have already made the most difficult step that most people have with databases which is the conceptualisation in your brain. Most people never get that far. Please forgive me my excitement but i just thought this was a heavy and intractable spreadsheet issue which i tend to find very, very dull. The Start sheet would be the table of data. All the other sheets would be Forms/Reports built up from Queries. Initially people would probably feel more comfortable using the Queries directly as they look like a spreadsheet. FormsReports display the same info in a prettier gui so they might get built-up later. Queries are probably easier to work with and are clearer about exactly how they choose which data to show from the table. It's probably easier to modify or tweak Queries if things change in the future. I take it the information in Start is confidential? Is it possible for you to let us see the formulas of 1 or 2 of the other sheets? or even just a couple of the formulae from 1 of the sheets that reads the data? This list doesn't handle attachments so either copy and paste a couple directly into email/message or use Nabble? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 25/2/12, PDA1 pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: From: PDA1 pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 25 February, 2012, 12:49 Yes, all of the spreadsheets are needed. I have a main sheet named START wherein all of the data is entered, such as names and birth dates. Then on each of the 35 sheets an array has been created which shows all of the data that was entered in the sheet named START. Butas each sheet is specific to a certain person (and not all people) only that persons data will appear on a given sheet in the cells that I want them to. Here's how it appears- Spreadsheet at the top (starting at A1) (let's call the sheet CARLTON) wherein all of the information from the sheet START appears. Below that spreadsheet CARLTON with all of the data is an array that shows ALL of the data from the sheet START. CARLTON has cells with formulas that get the necessary information/data from the array below it. Does that make any sense? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3774891.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Hi :) Is the 20 short for 1920? Here is an advert starring the incredible William Shatner just to show off how far in the future the product is, errr was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q There is documentation here http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Guide which can help you fill in the gaps even tho you already have most of the plan already drawn-up. Queries don't tend to have nice layouts and fonts so they look like raw spreadsheets but that is where FormsReports come in. It's best (imo) to have the Queries do the calculations and filtering and then have the FormsReports read the data from them rather than directly from the Table. Some people have the FormsReports do all the calculations and filtering themselves but i find that has a tendency to be less flexible and less easy to fix or modify. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3775158.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Hi :) One advantage of using a database should be greater stability partly due to less ram getting used up. There might be other things like greater control, multi-user (maybe, but i'm not certain), maybe smaller file-size. Vic20 had 16kb of memory. I had a ZX81 and eventually got a 16Kb extension pack that plugged into the back of it. It kept making the machine crash. Accepted wisdom at the time was roughly the same as the cure for a wobbly table. We put a book under the computer and let the expansion pack hang loosely off the back. Magically no more crashes. Well, not so many. http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html Yes, have a good weekend and don't worry about not replying until Monday or whenever. The thread stays here. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3775578.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
Tom, Oh man oh mansign me up for one!nbsp; My very first computer was the Timex/Sinclair TS-1000.nbsp; Thank you for the information about LO Base.nbsp; I'll look it over in a bit. 'Have a nice weekend. Alek On 02/25/2012 10:47 AM, Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Hi :) Is the 20 short for 1920? nbsp;Here is an advert starring the incredible William Shatner just to show off how far in the future the product is, errr was. nbsp; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q There is documentation here http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Guide which can help you fill in the gaps even tho you already have most of the plan already drawn-up. nbsp; Queries don't tend to have nice layouts and fonts so they look like raw spreadsheets but that is where Formsamp;Reports come in. nbsp;It's best (imo) to have the Queries do the calculations and filtering and then have the Formsamp;Reports read the data from them rather than directly from the Table. nbsp;Some people have the Formsamp;Reports do all the calculations and filtering themselves but i find that has a tendency to be less flexible and less easy to fix or modify. nbsp; Regards from Tom :) If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3775158.html To unsubscribe from Too many sheets?, click here . NAML -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3775359.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets?
On 2/25/2012 06:37 AM, PDA1 wrote: snip Another handicap to what I'm doing is largely determined by the speed of the ancient computers I use. Most 'em are trash picked wreckshere...let me take a look at the label on this one...hold on a minuteit says something like, Vic 20. Maybe that's someone's name? (well, I thought it was funny) My son called it the Victim 20 -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
