Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/18/netcraft_heartbleed_browser_extension/ "Netcraft's updated browser extension is available as a free download for Firefox 1.0 and later; Chrome 26 and later on Windows, OS X, and Linux; and for Opera 15 and later on OS X and Windows. Versions for other

Re: [libreoffice-users] Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of "MS Word only"?

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, going back to the original post i realised the question was about becoming a tutor rather than becoming a student. So, it's still a case of having to use all-MS systems but we all have to earn money somehow. At least if it's someone fairly honourably and aware of alternatives then it o

[libreoffice-users] Date format resists conditional format

2014-04-19 Thread office76#xt
Hi, I have a column of dates in Calc that look like this: 01.07.1986 02.07.1986 03.07.1986 04.07.1986 This is a day, month, year format. Normally I could conditionally format the column to say detect all the days in the column that fall on the 4th day of the month, and turn the background of

[libreoffice-users] Re: cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread Owen Genat
M. Fioretti wrote > Summarizing, it seems I need some efficient way to tell Calc, when it > opens that file, that all the cells of a certain column, except the > header, are NUMBERS, not text, in the -1234.12 format. What Mirosław Zalewski has suggested upthread is essentially correct. The data fo

Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 20:05:40 PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > I have the problem below with LO 3.5.7.2 on a Fedora box. > > I have a shell script that generates and save to a text file called > synthesis.csv many lines like this: thanks to all who quickly answered yesterday. He

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-19 Thread Toki
On 4/18/2014 3:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Perhaps zoom out so that you get multiple pages on-screen and just race through to see if anything stands out as being horribly wrong? That is what I was doing, and nothing looked wrong. Then I looked at the PDF, and discovered a plethora of minor issu

[libreoffice-users] Re: cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread Luuk
On 19-4-2014 20:05, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, I have the problem below with LO 3.5.7.2 on a Fedora box. I have a shell script that generates and save to a text file called synthesis.csv many lines like this: |||2013-02-15|Payment A|-100.25|008|fae| |||2013-03-15|Payment B|-50.25|008|fae|

Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Dnia 2014-04-19, o godz. 20:05:40 "M. Fioretti" napisał(a): > What is happening, Judging by your name, I suppose you are Italian. I assume that you are using LibreOffice in your native language, and in Italy, as in most of Europe, you are using coma as decimal number separator. And here is answ

Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:05 19/04/2014 +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: I have the problem below with LO 3.5.7.2 on a Fedora box. I have a shell script that generates and save to a text file called synthesis.csv many lines like this: |||2013-02-15|Payment A|-100.25|008|fae| |||2013-03-15|Payment B|-50.25|008|fae| C

[libreoffice-users] cannot convert text to number in spreadsheet from csv file

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have the problem below with LO 3.5.7.2 on a Fedora box. I have a shell script that generates and save to a text file called synthesis.csv many lines like this: |||2013-02-15|Payment A|-100.25|008|fae| |||2013-03-15|Payment B|-50.25|008|fae| Calc loads that file without problems, w

[libreoffice-users] Re: Getting back to the Start screen

2014-04-19 Thread dollyp
Thanks Tom. Actually it got an 'interested' comment from a dev within a couple of hours. My comments were slightly tongue-in-cheek and I wasn't necessarily suggesting that LO devs would be off-hand. Since moving to Linux however I've found that bug handling sites can be belittling places for a begi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't download from TDF

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, it should. Sadly what 'should' be is often different from what is although i've rarely had problems with LibreOffice. Midori on Ubuntu 12.04 had no problem with the download. Hmm, actually the page seemed to think i was on a Mac so it gave me a .dmg to download but that worked. Then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Davies wrote: Anyone continuing to use Internet Explorer deserves whatever they get now more than ever. In what way does Heartbleed affect IE users any more than others? Heartbleed is a bug in server-side software, and affects anyone using affected sites regardless of their browser. In fa

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) From the "Portable Apps" http://portableapps.com/ http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app As far as I'm aware, the Portable Apps builds only run on Windows. From the above link (http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app): "A portable app is a co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't download from TDF

2014-04-19 Thread Cley Faye
2014-04-19 4:19 GMT+02:00 MR ZenWiz : > Fixed, sort of - I went to the archive and could get it from there. > > But, really, shouldn't the download page just work? > ​If works for me (at least for the windows version). Maybe you hit a temporary downtime? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Heartbleed checker for websites

2014-04-19 Thread M Henri Day
2014-04-18 17:15 GMT+02:00 Paul D. Mirowsky : > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/18/netcraft_ > heartbleed_browser_extension/ > > "If the Netcraft extension determines that a site was vulnerable before > news of Heartbleed broke, it checks the date on the site's SSL certificate > to make sure

Re: [libreoffice-users] Any thoughts on Tutor.com's policy of "MS Word only"?

2014-04-19 Thread M Henri Day
2014-04-18 15:03 GMT+02:00 Virgil Arrington : > > On 04/18/2014 05:35 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> The courses seem to be entirely about MS products and their own languages >> and stuff like silverlight. They even seem to expect you to use Internet >> Explorer. >> >> There are Open Source