On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:38 am, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:21 -0400, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> >>Brian E. Blandford wrote:
> >>>Dan Lewis wrote:
> >>>>On Monday 05 September 2005 10:19 am, Brian E. Blandford wrote:
> >>>>>I'm late getting to experimenting with 2.0, so apologies if this
> >>>>>query has been answered before, and I haven't noticed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I want to generate a report from calc, but I can't see how to do
> >>>>> it. In 1.1 there is a report auto pilot in the file menu, but
> >>>>> not in 2.0. The task I'm trying to do is to select and print in
> >>>>> my report those cells containing a particular name amongst
> >>>>> others. At the moment, I am having to resort to using the
> >>>>> "find all" button, then laboriously copying and pasting the
> >>>>> results.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I've tried the help file and the google search in OOo's tutorial
> >>>>>pages without finding what I'm sure is a very simple answer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Brian B.
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you tried to register the Calc file as a database and
> >>>> then create the report from the database?
> >>>>
> >>>>Dan
> >>>>
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> >>>It doesn't seem possible to do that: only data files can be
> >>> registered as databases as far as I can see.
> >>>
> >>>I've only just realised that I raised the same issue when 1.9
> >>> first came out. (Having gone back to 1.4 afterwards, I forgot
> >>> about it) The replies to that previous query confirmed that
> >>> indeed reports had been dropped from writer and calc, and I was
> >>> referred to
> >>>http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44411. However,
> >>> on re-visiting that, I see the issue is closed, having been
> >>> declared 'invalid'.
> >>>
> >>>Am I the only one who thinks that is a real loss?
> >
> > Obviously not as I opened the issue in March. However, I have seen
> > since that even having to go via Base wizard is not that big a
> > deal. Awkward and not particularly intuitive but doable.
> >
> >>>Brian B.
> >>
> >>I suspect that it's a loss but I haven't the experience with
> >> version 1 to assert that.
> >>
> >>Colin W.
> >
> > Try the 1.1.x report generator. I is quite nice.
>
> But I'm developing a document using 1.9.125.
>
> Colin W.
Have you read the Section of accessing spreadsheets in the Getting
Started with Base Chapter of the Getting Started Guide? It explains how
to create a database as the front end of your Calc file. Having done
that, you should be able to create your reports. Look for Chapter 10 in
the Getting Started Guide in this web page:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html
Dan
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