Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing selected rows from a spreadsheet
At 17:24 12/02/2014 -0500, Tim Deaton wrote: Years ago I frequently had the same problem. My first spreadsheet (1987) was a shareware product called ExpressCalc. It had a very convenient function called NOPRINT. If I put that function (or a formula that evaluated to that function) in any cell on a particular row, that row would be skipped when I printed the spreadsheet. This function was very handy whenever I wanted to build a re-usable table that might allow for 100 rows of data entry & related calculations, but in which not all rows are likely to be filled every time. For instance, I might have an invoice sheet listing 30 different possible items, but I only want the 5 that happen to have quantities filled in to actually show up on the printout. Wouldn't you do that a different way? Create a table of items, possibly with other data such as unit prices. Set up the invoice separately. Enter item codes or names manually, or - better - use Data | Validity... | Criteria | Allow | Cell range to create drop-down menus in the invoice, where you could easily select the five or so items you needed each time. In any case, you would then use VLOOKUP() to harvest any associated data, such as item unit price. This sounds much easier to me. If you suppress rows you don't need, wouldn't the invoice end up a different length depending on how many items you happened to include? I think my way suggested above would keep the format of the invoice consistent, no matter how many lines were included; unfilled lines would be blank. And Brian, I'd be interested in knowing that hint you gave Muriel. She said File | Print... | Print | Selected cells wasn't working for her. I didn't know why, so didn't have a solution, but I suggested a number of possible workarounds: o Copying the relevant rows to another sheet - perhaps temporarily - and printing that sheet. o Selecting the rows using a filter, in which case only the filtered rows would be printed. o Defining a print range consisting only of the required rows; then only those rows would print. o Using the Export as PDF function's Selection option and then simply printing the resulting PDF. In fact, she chose to select the required rows, copy them to a text (Writer) document, and print that. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing selected rows from a spreadsheet
Years ago I frequently had the same problem. My first spreadsheet (1987) was a shareware product called ExpressCalc. It had a very convenient function called NOPRINT. If I put that function (or a formula that evaluated to that function) in any cell on a particular row, that row would be skipped when I printed the spreadsheet. This function was very handy whenever I wanted to build a re-usable table that might allow for 100 rows of data entry & related calculations, but in which not all rows are likely to be filled every time. For instance, I might have an invoice sheet listing 30 different possible items, but I only want the 5 that happen to have quantities filled in to actually show up on the printout. When I upgraded to Excel (1995), I chose Excel because (with help from their tech support) I could do much the same thing using a couple of macros. I've recently opened a feature request (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74101) in hopes that the folks with the programming skills would notice and add similar functions to LibreOffice. If you think such a feature would be helpful to you, please go to that bug and say so. And Brian, I'd be interested in knowing that hint you gave Muriel. Thanks, -- Tim === 225 Janice Drive Athens, GA 30606-1638 email: t...@timdeaton.org home: 706-543-0592 cell: 706-248-6544 fax: 888-415-5991 web: www.timdeaton.org === I know the plans I have for you: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you; Plans to give you hope and a future. --- God (Jeremiah 29:11) On 1/20/2014 12:11 AM, Muriel Parker wrote: Thank you, all. I have figured a roundabout way to accomplish this, after a hint from Brian Barker. Muriel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Printing selected rows from a spreadsheet
Thank you, all. I have figured a roundabout way to accomplish this, after a hint from Brian Barker. Muriel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
