Re: [libreoffice-users] Label creation Q

2013-12-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:35 17/12/2013 -0800, John R. Sowden wrote: With the recent messages re: the label function, I created a shipping label. Worked very nicely. Is there a feature to populate the rest of the labels on a sheet (on the screen), from the top left one, so they are all the same? That depends

Re: [libreoffice-users] Additions

2013-12-18 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
2013/12/18 Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com Dear Sirs/Madame: I wonder if I could make a suggestion for improvement to the program. Somehow, early on, Microsoft built into Word an ability of the program to suggest various ways to correct grammar. I wonder if the same could be done

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label creation Q

2013-12-18 Thread Don Myers
Yes, if you are using the table style templates. Don On 12/17/2013 08:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Errr, Copypaste? Regards from Tom :) On 17 December 2013 19:35, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: With the recent messages re: the label function, I created a shipping

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com on Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:53:17 -0500 Don, Initially I just want a sheet with all the labels the same. Being able to fill a sheet with addresses from a database or even directly print envelopes may be in the future. For now I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] State of password support.

2013-12-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/17/2013 10:12 AM, Massimo Del Zotto wrote: However, I recently had a problem with OOo password protection. Somehow it disabled password protection for a file I was working on and it took me a while to restore it. Asking for help on OOo forum, I have been informed password protection is

Re: [libreoffice-users] State of password support.

2013-12-18 Thread Eric Beversluis
I don't know if this is relevant to Massimo's case but it might be: I had a problem a while back with Fedora 15 (and I don't remember which version of OO or LO): I would discover that I could open a password-protected spreadsheet without being prompted for the password. It turned out that it had

Re: [libreoffice-users] Issues downloading LibreOffice Portable

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This link might help https://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/ There is another portable apps type of place that has every version of LibreOffice but i'm not sure of the address. The marketing team were going to put their link on the same page as the link i just gave but i didn't read

[libreoffice-users] using database

2013-12-18 Thread Keith Armbruster
Is there any written document that I could get for creating/using the database feature? Or...a phone number I could use to BRIEFLY contact and speak to someone there about the same issue? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] video in impress presentation mode

2013-12-18 Thread Jay Tasson
Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply. I tried memory. It's set to several times the size of the video and matches the desktop settings. I tried changing it with no improvement in the result. I'd love to hear any other ideas you or others might have. I will also try the whole user profile later.

Re: [libreoffice-users] video in impress presentation mode

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps copy your old User Profile from your old machine to your new one? I'm specifically think about the memory settings Tools - Options - Memory and just bump them right up, not by a small fraction but by setting things to 100MB or however large the video-file is (well a little bit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:46 18/12/2013 -0600, Cliff Scott wrote: Initially I just want a sheet with all the labels the same. [...] For now I can obviously copy/paste to each label, but the wizard's way of entering data for one then propagating it to all is handy for like a set of return address labels. If you

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread tk
James E Lang wrote: I really wish there were a LO Calc implementation for Android to use in place of Kingsoft Office. I don't feel secure using a proprietary office product; especially one from China. There is AndroidOpenOffice. Whilst closed source, it is based upon Apache Open Office, to the

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread James Knott
tk wrote: There is AndroidOpenOffice. I tried that a while ago, on my Nexus 7, and it didn't work very well. I uninstalled it. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

[libreoffice-users] with styles, is not master document functionality unnecessary+

2013-12-18 Thread e-letter
Readers, Suppose a collection of documents each about 100kb size. What is the benefit of using master document function (presumably a gratuitous copy of m$), when styles function is available in LO? Surely it would be more stable and easier to manage if these files were imported into one new

[libreoffice-users] multiple file import

2013-12-18 Thread e-letter
Readers, Is there a way to import multiple files into a new document? The existing function only allows multiples files to be imported successively, which is inefficient. If a directory contains file1 file2 file3 it would be beneficial to be able to select all files in the import dialogue

Re: [libreoffice-users] with styles, is not master document functionality unnecessary+

2013-12-18 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
2013/12/18 e-letter inp...@gmail.com Readers, Suppose a collection of documents each about 100kb size. What is the benefit of using master document function (presumably a gratuitous copy of m$), when styles function is available in LO? Surely it would be more stable and easier to manage if

Re: [libreoffice-users] with styles, is not master document functionality unnecessary+

2013-12-18 Thread Virgil Arrington
Another benefit of master documents is that it forces all styles of the same name to appear the same. For example, suppose I have written five documents, all having a style called BodySingle. But, in one document, my BodySingle style uses a Consolas font (good for on screen editing). In

[libreoffice-users] Bonus calculator in Calc

2013-12-18 Thread John Meyer
A while back I posted up about calculating bonuses based upon a lookup. now, I need to add an additional step. Every once in a while, agents get additional bonuses for sales outside of the normal commission ladder. Here's the layout of the main sheet A B C

Re: [libreoffice-users] multiple file import

2013-12-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:13 18/12/2013 +, Nobody Noname wrote: Is there a way to import multiple files into a new document? The existing function only allows multiples files to be imported successively, which is inefficient. If a directory contains file1 file2 file3 it would be beneficial to be able to

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread tk
James Knott wrote: There is AndroidOpenOffice. I tried that a while ago, on my Nexus 7, and it didn't work very well. It is very inconsistent in how well it works. The updates, bug-fixes, etc. can either be much better, or much worse than the previous version. For the most part,

Re: [libreoffice-users] using database

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is a handbook https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications and the 1st 3 chapters of the full guide. Also the Faq wiki has a section about Base https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Regards from Tom :) On 18 December 2013 12:42, Keith Armbruster keith...@bex.net

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Cliff, When you use the table style templates, the wizard does not work. It is designed for the frame style. What I do is fill in one label. Then if you have a 30 label sheet with 3 columns and 10 rows, I copy and paste it to the nest two labels to the right. Then I copy all three of those

[libreoffice-users] Re: Label creation Q

2013-12-18 Thread John R. Sowden
Good morning: (Nice Farm Site Don) I do not know what ya'all mean by 'table' unless you are saying that I might get the name address data from a database. I am not. I am creating a shipping label to put on large (9 x 12) envelopes for my security system proposals. I am using equivalent

Re: [libreoffice-users] with styles, is not master document functionality unnecessary+

2013-12-18 Thread tk
e-letter wrote: What is the benefit of using master document function (presumably a gratuitous copy of m$), when styles function is available in LO? For all practical purposes, the advantages and virtues of using Master Document functionality is completely irrelevant to the advantages and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bonus calculator in Calc

2013-12-18 Thread John Meyer
I know it's a relational database. ;-) Is there any way to design this to work on a spreadsheet? On 12/18/2013 4:40 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) That is very much like a relational database. The 1st sheet is the main table. The 2nd sheet would be a separate table but would be linked by a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bonus calculator in Calc

2013-12-18 Thread John Meyer
Let's assume I can't get IT to install the JRE for database access. On 12/18/2013 4:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Why not use Base to read the 2 existing sheets? Then let it do the bit it does best? Regards from Tom :) On 18 December 2013 23:46, John Meyer johnme...@pueblocomputing.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:09 18/12/2013 -0500, Don C. Myers wrote: When you use the table style templates, the wizard does not work. It is designed for the frame style. What I do is fill in one label. Then if you have a 30 label sheet with 3 columns and 10 rows, I copy and paste it to the nest two labels to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Don Myers
Hi Brian, That is a much better solution. Thanks for suggesting it. Don On 12/18/2013 10:00 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:09 18/12/2013 -0500, Don C. Myers wrote: When you use the table style templates, the wizard does not work. It is designed for the frame style. What I do is fill in one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Label creation Q

2013-12-18 Thread Peter West
Too cranky, Brian. Mr Sowden thought table referred to a database table. Peter West For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. On 19 Dec 2013, at 1:00 pm, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 15:10 18/12/2013 -0800, John R. Sowden wrote: I do not know what ya'all mean by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bonus calculator in Calc

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Why not use Base to read the 2 existing sheets? Then let it do the bit it does best? Regards from Tom :) On 18 December 2013 23:46, John Meyer johnme...@pueblocomputing.com wrote: I know it's a relational database. ;-) Is there any way to design this to work on a spreadsheet? On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bonus calculator in Calc

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That is very much like a relational database. The 1st sheet is the main table. The 2nd sheet would be a separate table but would be linked by a relationship between both column As. The 3rd sheet would actually not be a table as such, it would be a Query that takes data from the 2 tables

Re: [libreoffice-users] multiple file import

2013-12-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I've not tried this either but in a similar case i often find it's more efficient to drag the last one in first and then it's easier to drag in earlier and earlier ones into the same place each time without having to scroll through Regards from Tom :) On 18 December 2013 20:32, Brian

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Label creation Q

2013-12-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:12 19/12/2013 +1000, Peter West wrote: Too cranky, Brian. Not cranky at all. Mr Sowden thought table referred to a database table. And hopefully he now knows what people have been talking about. I'm happy to have been the one to help him. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] State of password support.

2013-12-18 Thread Massimo Del Zotto
2013/12/18 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem with passwords? No, I am referring to OOo. I am considering to switch to LO because of this problem and I'm trying to figure out if this problem is considered more important

Re: [libreoffice-users] State of password support.

2013-12-18 Thread Massimo Del Zotto
Yes Eric, those problems are surely related as crashes are involved in my case as well (and I fixed it in the same way). The implication is that temporary saves are not encrypted. Given the modest size of **usual** files this could probably be done with little performance loss but after all, this