> At 13:12 08/01/2011 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote: > >I have explicitly followed the OOHelp instructions - FORMAT-PRINT > >RANGES-EDIT, done the instructed highlighting for the top two rows > >that I seek to have printed on every page, and have gotten the echo > >that is displayed on the help screen - $1:$2. But when I go to exit, > >I get a tiny popup that informs me: > > > > "invalid sheet reference" > > > >In searching the list of error messages for Calc, I find no specific > >mention of "invalid sheet reference". I went back and attempted > >various combinations of A1 and A2, and kept getting the same message. > > > >What am I missing, here?
Brian Barker wrote: > > Are you using OpenOffice version 3.1 as provided by/with > Ubuntu? This appears to have been a bug in that version. See > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/+bug/374708 . brewster: My apologies for not including version and platform information - I should know better. Using Open Office 3.2 (build:9483) running under Ubuntu 10.04. I guess that I must assume that 3.1 bug was not fixed since it is still reproducing under my later lashup. barker: > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker brewster: Actually it helped on a couple of counts; I'd always rather find out that it's a bug instead of my lack of competence :-)....... ... and your bug-blog link had a workaround that someone had discovered, that appears to do the trick. The lesson for me is that when a problem seems intractable or has no plausible explanation, check the bug reports first. Thanks, Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
