Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0

2013-01-17 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello friends, Since my main job (after 30 years at IBM as a systems engineer) is running a 50-piece wind band (I would love to give a sample of it in the U.S., England, etc., etc.!) I don't have the time to do any compiles at the moment - even though I do feel confident I could do so. I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I joined recently. How can I help?

2013-01-17 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, I just joined the list on Monday so I am not across all the various protocols yet. Like, I don't know whether you have to put your hand up for this sort of thing or just do it. Nevertheless, I am 2/3 of the way through chapter 3 and I have made some notes/changes to the doc. I could very

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: remove/merge pages

2013-01-17 Thread IGraham
Hello again Thanks for the help, the problem seems to be resolved I did un-tick Java (only one version in the Java list) Double memory settings Copy paste to new document Rename profile - so Libreoffice could 'rebuild' the profile After about an hour of work it did crash, but hasn't again so is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I joined recently. How can I help?

2013-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!!  Thanks :)  Generally you can just write comments to whichever list as and when you feel like it.  Storing closely related comments and sending the whole lot in one go is probably better but is not easy!  However, given the amount of work you have done it would be ideal if you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Ah, so if it's never been touched by MSO is you Odt version as up-to-date as your Doc version?  It's best to do all editing in the Odt and then only save a snapshot for sharing as Doc but then keep editing the Odt rather than the Doc.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Ahah, if AbiWord, or any other OpenSource office program, reads it fairly well then there is something wrong with LibreOffice. It is very unusual for LO to have such an extreme reaction to a file. Can i recap

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Ah, so if it's never been touched by MSO is you Odt version as up-to-date as your Doc version? Not even close. There are .doc backups that are closer, but not up-to-date. It's best to do all editing in the Odt and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch, sorry :(  If it's any comfort it was the same for me.  Back then people were adamantly telling me that i should do things that way and i adamantly refused to take any notice and tried to stick with MS formats not realising how capricious they seem to be.  Apols and regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/17/2013 06:24 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Ah, so if it's never been touched by MSO is you Odt version as up-to-date as your Doc version? Not even close. There are .doc backups that are closer, but not up-to-date.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) I found it Sandy Harris wrote L-O 3.6 on Xubuntu Linux, with all updates Xubuntu provides. ... Formatting is not remarkably complex; headings and bulleted lists but no graphics or tables. So it's the version from the Xubuntu repositories rather than a downloaded one from upstream

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0

2013-01-17 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Michael , others, the MySQL native connector is installing and working well on LO 4.0 dev with Windows XP but as Michael says, not on LO 4.0 rc1 with Windows 7 (LO 3.6 is working) and also NOT on LO rc1 with Windows 8, failed to install due to some pathsettings. the latest Connector

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0

2013-01-17 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Who is filling the issue ? Michael , others, the MySQL native connector is installing and working well on LO 4.0 dev with Windows XP but as Michael says, not on LO 4.0 rc1 with Windows 7 (LO 3.6 is working) and also NOT on LO rc1 with Windows 8, failed to install due to some

[libreoffice-users] Re: Table of contents indexing body text

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Many apologies for the lack of replies! For some reason this question didn't reach the Users List. Did you subscribe to the Users List and follow the instructions in the confirmation email. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.6/Win] How to view and remove macros?

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses. Have you been able to solve this yet? There is a chapter on Macros in the Getting Started guide on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications and further down is some excellent 3rd party documentation on macros by Andrew Pitonyak.

[libreoffice-users] Re: AutoRecover

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses so far! The message didn't reach the mailing-list. Did you subscribe to the mailing list and respond to their confirmation email? Typically recovery happens when you close and re-open LibreOffice. You might be able to find the path from Tools - Options -

[libreoffice-users] Re: Change Load/Save Settings at Server or Domain Level?

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses! Did you manage to solve the problem? There is a little help for corporate users through some 3rd party documentation at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Corporate_Users but i am not sure how good they are. If you are still

[libreoffice-users] Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Buttons in Base

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses from the Users List! Have you been able to solve this issue or move on or are you still hunting for an answer. Please let us know and we might try to be better at answering this time. New Year was a bit hectic for a lot of us. Regards from Tom :) --

[libreoffice-users] Re: Static Time Stamp in Calc

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses so far. Surely something like DATE or TIME do the job? Hopefully tons of people will now write in to let us know how wrong i am and what the right answer is because tbh i haven't a clue and haven't checked! Sorry, i know that's outrageous! Many apols and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice API

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry no-one responded to this at the time. Quite a few people were busy on the 25th and also the message never reached the User's mailing-list. Have you been able to contact the devs list and try to get answers from them? THis question was wy beyond the scope of most of us here but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Buttons in Base

2013-01-17 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Noel, Sure, for a button in the label add a tilde ~ before the letter you want to use as the keyboard accelerator. In the case of a data control on a form you do similar, add a label control, in the text for the label add the ~ before the character you want to use and then for the actual

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO cannot read XLS export from Apple Numbers

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) This shows up in Nabble as having received no replies but i vaguely remember people working on it. Has the problem been solved or do you still need help? The mailing list doesn't accept attachments but you can always upload files to Nabble. One of the More buttons has a top option to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Create interactive forms in writer without database

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses! The User's mailing list didn't get this message so perhaps something went wrong with your subscription to the mailing list? Did you get a confirmation email and were you able to follow it's instructions? Do you still need help with this or did you work

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice no longer works with Windows 1252 encoding ?

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses. Hopefully you have been able to work around the problem or even better been able to solve it? If you are still having trouble please let us know so that we cna try better to ehlp you. Apols and regards from Tom :) Fernand Vanrie wrote Maybe not the

[libreoffice-users] Re: [Fwd: Referring to an input list variable]

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry for the lack of responses! It was a little hectic for most of us back around then. Have you managed to work-around the problem or do you still need help with this? I have seen a few interactive PDF forms but they seem monumentally awkward and a lot of Pdf readers really struggle

Re: [libreoffice-users] sparklines under LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) on Windows

2013-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sparkle-lines look like they might be hugely useful but i have no idea how they work nor how to get the 3rd party Extension to work either.  Have you been able to contact the Extension's Maintainer?  Is there one? Regards from Tom :)  From: Boris

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.6/Win] How to view and remove macros?

2013-01-17 Thread Regina Henschel
Gilles schrieb: Hello Someone sent me a Word document that triggers the familiar This document contains macros warning when opened in LibreOffice. It's also displayed after I save the DOC into ODT. How can I... 1. View what macros the document contains? Tools Macros Organize Macros

[libreoffice-users] Re: Change Load/Save Settings at Server or Domain Level?

2013-01-17 Thread CdnGuy
Went through the documentation found at that link. Mostly, it seems to be for OpenOffice, and the configuration files that the docs mention don't seem to exist for LibreOffice. Surely there must be an XML configuration file somewhere where some options for Save As Type can be deleted or commented

[libreoffice-users] Re: Change Load/Save Settings at Server or Domain Level?

2013-01-17 Thread CdnGuy
I seem to have found where the configuration takes place, and how to change it. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=349 The XML configuration files are found at C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\registry\ They are named for the program they control, ex.:

[libreoffice-users] Problem with IMPRESS - LibreOffice

2013-01-17 Thread reinhol...@t-online.de
PORTABLE COMPUTER Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2TQ (Core i3-380M, 2.53 GHz, 4096 MB RAM) GERMAN Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 (OS is up to date) GERMAN LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 installed from LibreOffice-Box CD hi everybody, to make it easier for me, i only write in small letters, sorry for that.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with IMPRESS - LibreOffice

2013-01-17 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Chris, you can use us...@de.libreoffice.org as well. reinhol...@t-online.de schrieb: PORTABLE COMPUTER Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2TQ (Core i3-380M, 2.53 GHz, 4096 MB RAM) GERMAN Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 (OS is up to date) GERMAN LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 installed from LibreOffice-Box

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with IMPRESS - LibreOffice

2013-01-17 Thread reinhol...@t-online.de
Hallo Regina, danke schonmal für deine Antwort. Ich schreibe in Deutsch weiter, wenn es Recht ist. Ich habe nun folgendes versucht: IMPRESS gestartet und über das Menü Datei - Öffnen versucht, direkt aus dem Programm die *.ppt Datei zu öffnen. Klappt leider

[libreoffice-users] Re: Selection List editing --SOLVED

2013-01-17 Thread JeepNut
Mr. Quadri guessed exactly what I was meaning as well as having the correct solution to my particular issue. Gracious thanks also to Mr. Barker for clarifying that selection list will mean something different in different circumstances and explaining the differences. I was refering to his first

[libreoffice-users] Re: Quality Assurance

2013-01-17 Thread NoOp
On 01/15/2013 05:28 PM, C. H. D. wrote: Hello! Thanks for this idea. I report a bug related to LibreOffice. Thanks for that. When you report a bug, it's always helpful to give the link to the bug so that others can view/contribute. The link to the bug report is:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread NoOp
On 01/16/2013 06:07 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: I've been editing a file that is in Word .doc format using L-O 3.6 on Xubuntu Linux, with all updates Xubuntu provides. File was created by L-O on this system as ODF, later converted to Word format for some sharing. Formatting is not remarkably