On Monday 27 June 2005 02:51 pm, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dan> On Monday 27 June 2005 01:45 pm, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> Ok I see now what you mean, I see this in my 1.1.3
> >> Debian version, however this has never (as far as I
> >> remember can remember) been active, the help is not
> >> particularly helpful, can you give me a more specific pointer
> >> please, because may be there is some important feature I
> >> failed so far to recognise.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Uwe
>
> Dan> You are right. I forgot to mention the most
> important Dan> part. To make
> Dan> this icon active, you need to select one or more rows
> to Dan> highlight them. To select a row, click the gray rectangle in
> Dan> front of that row. Clicking the "Data to text ..." icon then
> Dan> opens a window in which you can make several choices as to
> Dan> what you want to do and how it will look. You can choose
> Dan> adjacent rows by selecting the first row you want by clicking
> Dan> its gray rectangle and selecting the last row you want while
> Dan> holding down the Shift key. If you want to select
> Dan> non-adjacent rows, hold down the Control key while selecting
> Dan> the rows you want. (Only the selected rows will be
> Dan> highlighted.) Thank you for being persistent. This is
> Dan> something that I need to add to the Getting Started section
> Dan> of the User's Guide for version 2.0. I would not have
> Dan> thought this was this important if you had not asked. Thank you
> for your detailed answer. A last remark/question.
>
> As I understand there are two ways of copying data from the data base
> to scalc. I refer here to the entire table (that's what I am
> interested in most.)
>
> 1 using the right mouse bottom, select copy go to scal do paste.
>
> 2 selecting the table and drag and drop it over the scal.
>
> In the last case, the icon is hightlighted while in the first it
> is not. So I wonder what is the difference technically between both?
> I thought one is a link (poss 2) while 1 is not, but what does this
> mean, it seems that any change I make in the database is not
> reflected in the scal, even if the operation was a link. Most likely
> I misunderstood something fundamental.
>
> Uwe
>
In version 1.9.104 and 1.1.4, the two are linked. If you make a
change in the database, it will also show up in the spreadsheet if you
do this: Data > Refresh Range in the top toolbar. This works for me in
both the cases you mentioned.
Dan
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