Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-13 Thread Charles Jenkins
Christian, You're right. My attempt to fool with options didn't work at first because I misidentified the file's character set, so I thought the "csv" in the filter name was significant and embarked on the quest to convert to CSV. Now that I have the right character set, everything works perfe

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-12 Thread Charles Jenkins
Thank you very much, Eduardo and Christian. I guess I misread that post I linked to, because it left me with the impression that creating those properties couldn't be done in regular VB. Now if only I can find a way to convert my tab-separated .txt file to a comma-separated .csv file, I think

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Jenkins
I'm making some progress. Here's my code so far: == Public Sub OpenExcelFile(excelPath As String) Attempt1: on error goto Fail1 ' The Excel method that doesn't work ' under LO, and which I don't own copyright to exit sub Fail1: resume Attempt2 Attempt2:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Jenkins
Thank you, everyone who offered help with my macro problem in trying to make a worksheet that will open another file as a worksheet. With the live doc link, I found what I think I need and altered the existing macro to try the Excel way first, then with the help of ON ERROR GOTO, try to open t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Jenkins
I'm with you on the UI design, Keith. The way software looks influences how people perceive its capability, and LO looks like something from the 90's. I like your design because it's attractive, yet leaves the menus in place for those users who can't get into using the ribbon. Now on the idea o

[tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-07 Thread Charles Jenkins
This is a story about the usability of LO BASIC and the documentation thereof. And also a plea for help. I'm trying to get LibreOffice to work with SAP Business One (hereafter called B1) in order to eliminate the need to pay for expensive licenses for Microsoft Excel. B1 has a toolbar button t

[tdf-discuss] Getting Action

2012-04-16 Thread Charles Jenkins
Hi, all. A few months ago, we had some good discussion about improvements to Writer's notes feature, in a thread titled "Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges" As a result, Chrisoph added a feature request-- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38244 --and a place to vote for it-- http:/

[tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Versions, Full-Screen, and Resume in OS X Lion

2011-09-08 Thread Charles Jenkins
On 2011-09-08 16:00, Karl wrote: What I know from other platforms (Solaris/Linux) is that autosave saves into a hidden file in the background not destroying your last saved document. Just in case of an unforeseen shutdown of the system, a power outage or a crash of the whole soffice suite, X11 s

[tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Versions, Full-Screen, and Resume in OS X Lion

2011-09-08 Thread Charles Jenkins
I was wrong about something in my earlier email. I suggested that these features, including Resume, would be nice to have someday in LO, after other important bugs and features are dealt with. I take it back about Resume, because making that work would require supporting Autosave -- a feature whi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Versions, Full-Screen, and Resume in OS X Lion

2011-08-08 Thread Charles Jenkins
My two cents on this issue is that Versions and Resume are nice features that will have to be supported one day, but I'd rather see Commenting and Track Changes fixed first because they are needed right now. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38244 I'm sure everyone else out there coul

[tdf-discuss] Bug 36877 - Comments not displayed upon ... opening RTF

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Jenkins
For what it's worth, I have confirmed that bug 36877 still exists as of version 3.4.0 Build 12. I wanted to put an update in FreeDesktop Bugzilla, but I can't tell if it's possible to do that without accidentally marking the bug "fixed." This is another comment-related bug that hampers LibreOffi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-17 Thread Charles Jenkins
M. Henri Day wrote: > > Charles wrote: > > Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the section for voting on > Enhancements to Writer, I'd like to ask everyone with an interest in > this issue to please sign up and add your vote. > > If you use Track Changes to work with an editor, you probably need

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-16 Thread Charles Jenkins
Cristoph wrote: What I'm currently unsure about - how to proceed. Although I'm not that convinced about voting, maybe it should be added to: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement I did it! The wiki finally let me edit the page! Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the sec

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-14 Thread Charles Jenkins
Cristoph wrote: What I'm currently unsure about - how to proceed. Although I'm not that convinced about voting, maybe it should be added to: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement Could you do that, please? Well, I tried to. I made an account, got my email confirmed, close

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Charles Jenkins
Thank you for everyone who commented on this. I'm actually getting a little misty because you liked my idea... Cristoph, heck, yes! Your proposal is perfect. If only, if only we had that, I could delete Word off my Mac and have a party to celebrate. Will you be posting the bug proposal as Thorst

[tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Easier Graphic Insertion

2011-06-10 Thread Charles Jenkins
Hi, everyone! I'm new here. I have a feedback to offer, and I was told this is the place to do it. In my day job as an engineer, I currently use Microsoft Word to write technical documentation which includes screenshot images. I'd like to break the Word habit. I understand that when creating pub

[tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-10 Thread Charles Jenkins
As a fiction writer, I currently must use Microsoft Word on the Mac to exchange documents with editors, because Track Changes and commenting features are a necessity. In Microsoft Word, an editor can mark a section of text and add a comment like, "This is redundant. Recommend deletion." When I cl

[tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Easier Graphic Insertion

2011-06-10 Thread Charles Jenkins
Hi, everyone! I'm new here. I have a feedback to offer, and I was told this is the place to do it. In my day job as an engineer, I currently use Microsoft Word to write technical documentation which includes screenshot images. I'd like to break the Word habit. I understand that when creating pub