Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I don't know how big your numbers are but ... The spreadsheet in question sees rounding in two places. In one sheet, this number 317907988 was rounded to 317908000 in one row, but in a later row was not rounded. In another sheet, the number 330476211 was rounded to 330476000. All these fields

[users] Re: Add text next to a table?

2009-07-14 Thread PJH
Brian Barker wrote: At 20:55 13/07/2009 -0400, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: I created a table by inserting a CSV file and using convert text to table. The resulting table was full-width. I made it narrower hoping to be able to add text to the right of that table, but I cannot get an insertion

[users] Re: OOo will not open default email client

2009-07-14 Thread PJH
Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:15, Girard Aquino wrote: Hi. I wonder if someone could help me out. I just discovered a problem with OOo having trouble opening my default email client (thunderbird) when choosing to send the document as email. I have OOo 3.1 on XP. I've

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/7/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com I don't know how big your numbers are but ... The spreadsheet in question sees rounding in two places. In one sheet, this number 317907988 was rounded to 317908000 in one row, but in a later row was not rounded. In another sheet, the number

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
Have you still got the sheet with the number correct in one cell and rounded in another? If so you could have a look in the content.xml [sub-]file to see how they are being stored. To do this, open the .ods file with something like WinZip or gzip or 7-Zip and look at the content.xml file it

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/7/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Have you still got the sheet with the number correct in one cell and rounded in another? If so you could have a look in the content.xml [sub-]file to see how they are being stored. To do this, open the .ods file with something like WinZip or

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
There are options in the Paste Special menu that add/subtract/multiply/divide the copied value to/from/by/by the target cell before overwriting that cell. So, if you Copy 100 and Paste Special with Subtract turned on into a cell containing 1234567 you'll end up with 1234467. Paste Special

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/7/14 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com There are options in the Paste Special menu that add/subtract/multiply/divide the copied value to/from/by/by the target cell before overwriting that cell. So, if you Copy 100 and Paste Special with Subtract turned on into a cell containing

[users] php shell script questions

2009-07-14 Thread bill
I need to run a php script from cron. I will be developing it from the console using the cli. for debugging use, do echo statements echo to the console or do I need to explicitly open the console for output ? when I finish the testing and want to start it from cron, would I use php

Re: [users] php shell script questions - sorry about that

2009-07-14 Thread bill
I have to many users groups - this was obviously intended for a ubuntu group, sorry. -- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

Re: [users] Re: OOo will not open default email client

2009-07-14 Thread Gene Young
PJH wrote: Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:15, Girard Aquino wrote: Hi. I wonder if someone could help me out. I just discovered a problem with OOo having trouble opening my default email client (thunderbird) when choosing to send the document as email. I have OOo

Re: [users] Re: [Solved] Sun Presenter Console Problem with Vista Dual Extended Monitor Setup

2009-07-14 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 07/14/09 03:00, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 01:18, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 00:38, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: I finally remembered that there is an option to choose which monitor is used for the presentation. ... ... I'm surprised your Sun Console

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Per
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Re: [users] UNSUBSCRIBE ME

2009-07-14 Thread MIANDIE
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Re: [users] UNSUBSCRIBE ME

2009-07-14 Thread Gene Young
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Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dave Post
On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Per wrote: Is it a sort of handling the numbers in Works, Calc and Excel that causes the round-up effect??? I think these results are more correctly called truncation and result from the inherently limited numerical precision of digital computers. It's not

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I think these results are more correctly called truncation and result from the inherently limited numerical precision of digital computers. It's not surprising that Excel and Calc exhibit the same problem if they use the same precision (i.e., single, double, whatever) for storing numbers in

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Per
My goal is not to recover the data, Harold, as I already have it. My goal is to figure out why the numbers are rounded. Dohan.. Is the numbers being rounded up at once when the users put them in the spreadsheet ??? Is there any strange formats in the row to the left of the numbercolumn???

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/07/09 17:45, Per wrote: 1234567898765 1234567898765 12345678987654 12345678987654 123456789876543123456789876543 *1234567898765432 1234567898765430 * I´ve just tried Excel (version 2002, aka MS Office XP, on a WIN XP machine, SP3) I got just the same result, see

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/07/09 18:32, Dave Post wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Per wrote: Is it a sort of handling the numbers in Works, Calc and Excel that causes the round-up effect??? I think these results are more correctly called truncation and result from the inherently limited numerical precision

Re: [users] Re: [Solved] Sun Presenter Console Problem with Vista Dual Extended Monitor Setup

2009-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/07/09 13:50, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 07/14/09 03:00, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 01:18, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 00:38, Gene Kohlenberg wrote: I finally remembered that there is an option to choose which monitor is used for the presentation. ... ...

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread JOE Conner
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/07/09 17:45, Per wrote: 1234567898765 1234567898765 12345678987654 12345678987654 123456789876543123456789876543 *1234567898765432 1234567898765430 * I´ve just tried Excel (version 2002, aka MS Office XP, on a WIN XP machine, SP3) I got just

Re: [users] Calc rounding numbers: another case

2009-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is the numbers being rounded up at once when the users put them in the spreadsheet ??? No, this is data that was entered somr time ago, and just now discovered to be rounded. Is there any strange formats in the row to the left of the numbercolumn??? If so, could this cause the round up..

Re: [users] Re: Add text next to a table?

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Barker
At 04:51 14/07/2009 -0400, Ponly Jonly Honly wrote: Brian Barker wrote: o Format your page in two columns, with the table in one and the text in the other. If necessary, insert a section with two columns, so that this can apply only to part of a page or pages. Have to be sure table reaches

[users] import pictures/clip art

2009-07-14 Thread Kathy Brown
Hi there,   I really appreciate all the help here.I'm trying to make an ebook and I want to import a picture to my text document, how do I do that? Also, how do I import clip art? I'm guessing it's the same function but just in case.   thanks so much, Kathy ~Be good to yourself - the

Re: [users] import pictures/clip art

2009-07-14 Thread Andy
Kathy Brown wrote: Hi there, I really appreciate all the help here.I'm trying to make an ebook and I want to import a picture to my text document, how do I do that? Also, how do I import clip art? I'm guessing it's the same function but just in case. thanks so much, Kathy Kathy,

Re: [users] OOo will not open default email client

2009-07-14 Thread Girard Aquino
Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:15, Girard Aquino wrote: Hi. I wonder if someone could help me out. I just discovered a problem with OOo having trouble opening my default email client (thunderbird) when choosing to send the document as email. I have OOo 3.1 on XP.

[users] Open/Convert Access 2000 or 2003?

2009-07-14 Thread Kirk Bowden
I was testing OpenOffice for using it at our local Red Cross office. MS Office is just too pricy for a small chapter. I could only find the ability to open an Access 2007 database. Ours is in Access 2000, but could become 2003 for conversion to Base. Any Suggestions? Methods? Thanks

[users] Question

2009-07-14 Thread Daiana Leporatti - NETCOM
Dear Support i write for two personal problem using open office writer. first - i need to adapt width of a column during word's writing. i find only the function optimal width but after writing but not during the process. second - i need to make a rectangle around a word for evidence it but not

Re: [users] document does not exist

2009-07-14 Thread Saundra Martinez
Yes the automatic file extension is turned on, and the files are saved odt. I finally got it to work by uninstalling the OO program and reinstalling it. I don't have a clue what happened to cause this, but it seems to be working now. Thanks for the reply Saundra - Original Message -

[users] [calc] Disabling regular expressions for one cell

2009-07-14 Thread Harry Schmidt
Hi, is it possible to disable the expansion of a regular expression for just one cell (or a group of cells)? Let's say the cell A1 holds 3+ and I want to use some VLOOKUP(A1;). I'd like to supress the expansion of 3+ as a regular expression just for this single cell (or for

[users] registration

2009-07-14 Thread marleen jongen
Dear Madam, Sir, Having already registred with Sun when downloading OpenOffice 3.1 on May 7th,09, I don't succeed in registering again with password and email address, after some software program (safety) removed this entry in my PC. As a result, I cannot open my database anymore. Do you have a

[users] Can't embed animated GIFs or mov.'s in Writer anymore

2009-07-14 Thread James Greenidge
Greetings: I haven't done so for years, but recently I tried to inert an animated GIF into my Writer documents (Mac 3.00 and up under 10.4.11) and found out that it doesn't actually embed self-contained media files in the document anymore like the old versions did, but instead relies on media

[users] Can't find Basic Macrobar anymore

2009-07-14 Thread Don Daugherty
As I returned to macro programming after some time away from it, I find I can no longer access the Macro toolbar in the Basic IDE editor. Everything I was accustomed to seeing on the fourth line of the editor, i.e. immediately below the Title bar, the Menu bar, and the Standard toolbar with

[users] printing a database

2009-07-14 Thread Dennis Early
i have open office 3.1and using it with windows xp home. the problem is that when i try to print i only get the first 20 or so items not the 167 in the database. any ideas on how to print all of it? thanks

[users] Re: More Date Problems -- Tables This Time

2009-07-14 Thread NoOp
On 07/13/2009 10:20 PM, Tamblyne wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:13:43 -0500, Tamblyne tambl...@gmail.com wrote: I've taken a break from trying to do these cemetery transcriptions in a spreadsheet. The date formatting tricks worked great, but it was too clunky otherwise. So I switched to a

[users] Use OOo on web to collect Opt-in or custom GUI or MySQL

2009-07-14 Thread The Beaver
Hi, I want to send a newsletter to people that Opt-in to get it. Nothing fancy. Name, address, email, phone, fax, maybe a couple check boxes if they want something else, also. Should I use OOo to get the data input and use MySQL for the back end? Or should I use OOo for the whole thing?