Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 02/08/11 15:52, JeepNut wrote: Disabled Enable experimental (unstable) features. No idea why I had that enabled. This enables macros. So if you find that you are unable to use macros for some reason this will be why. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://w

[libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-01 Thread JeepNut
Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > > > This file is indeed the crash log of your Java virtual machine. > I suggest you to give a try to the vanilla version of LibreOffice : > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ > > This looked to be a great suggestion but before going down that road (

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word completion as a drop-down list like in IDEs ?

2011-08-01 Thread Hoang Le
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > It might be worth posting a 'bug-report' about it but add  "[wishlist]" into > the > subject line so that the devs know it is a feature request rather than a bug. > This guide might have a better way of posting a feature request. > > ht

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread planas
Ian, On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 17:36 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote: > On 30/07/2011 19:37, Don C. Myers wrote: > > Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your > > instructions for having an older version of Java along side the > > present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with subscript in Impress

2011-08-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Mårten, Mårten Behm schrieb: I am using Impress for lecturing in chemical engineering and subscripts in chemical formulae is a crucial feature. Have you tried to use a Math-object for your chemical formulas? You cannot insert it into a presentation object or a text object. But I use it th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with subscript in Impress

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you tried NeoOffice for Mac? Also which version of LibreOffice are you using? The 3.3.3 should be the best but the ultra new 3.4.2 is worth trying. To install more than one version of OOo, LO or NeoOffice this guide might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: colour of negative numbers

2011-08-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.08.2011 14:14, Guy Voets wrote: #.##0,00:[WHITE]-#.##0,00 is not a valid formatting code. Apart from the colon which should be a semicolon, WHITE is an English colour name while the comma can not be English. All English numerals use point decimals. The English number format #.##0.00;[WH

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sometimes it is better to use the LibreOffice that is in the repositories because they have been tweaked for your specific distro. The .debs should work fine on all Debian family distros but sometimes it's better to have one fine-tuned to your specific distro. Which version of Ubuntu

[libreoffice-users] Problem with subscript in Impress

2011-08-01 Thread Mårten Behm
I am using Impress for lecturing in chemical engineering and subscripts in chemical formulae is a crucial feature. I keep getting the subscripts with a horisontally compressed appearance (about 50%). I have had the problem on and off since the OOo days. Switching from Ubuntu with LXDE to Fedora

[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-08-01 Thread Juan Carlos
Hi David: Actually, even closing correctly the document and without close Ubuntu, when start any of the LO programs (for example Impress) appears again the same dialog box with the recovery tool and the error log (that I can't find in my home folder). I downloaded and installed the debs packages

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, I just tried 1.6.0_21 on my main work computer. I can tell very little difference. I will try it on my slowest computer at home tonight. When 1.6.0_22 was the one used in Ubuntu, my Base was fast. I have over 2600 records in it. If I went from the first record to the last, it was almo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word completion as a drop-down list like in IDEs ?

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be worth posting a 'bug-report' about it but add "[wishlist]" into the subject line so that the devs know it is a feature request rather than a bug. This guide might have a better way of posting a feature request. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Cloyd
Some clarification: The JRE is sufficient (and smaller) if you just want to USE Base. I will absolutely attest to 1.6.0_21's being an order of magnatude faster than BOTH ...0_26 AND ...0_22, for me. The difference is very dramatic. Since running with ...0_21 my Base applications are simply ex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: colour of negative numbers

2011-08-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/1 Guy Voets : > Thanks Johnny! > By the way: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37658 Regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > 2011/8/1 Johnny Rosenberg : >> 2011/8/1 Guy Voets : >>> Hello, >>> >>> In LibO 3.3, I could make negative numbers show in white instead of >>> the defa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Ian, For some reason not all of the previous text I was responding to showed up in that post. This information I used was from a post from ponsiarceds. I'll paste everything below. Just make sure you are consistent with either jre or jdk in the instructions. The instructions have the two m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: colour of negative numbers

2011-08-01 Thread Guy Voets
Thanks Johnny! 2011/8/1 Johnny Rosenberg : > 2011/8/1 Guy Voets : >> Hello, >> >> In LibO 3.3, I could make negative numbers show in white instead of >> the default red colour. >> I used white because of a green background, on which red numbers give >> a strange effect. >> >> In Lib 3.4, this [WHI

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: colour of negative numbers

2011-08-01 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/1 Guy Voets : > Hello, > > In LibO 3.3, I could make negative numbers show in white instead of > the default red colour. > I used white because of a green background, on which red numbers give > a strange effect. > > In Lib 3.4, this [WHITE] code disappears from the Number Format Code, > tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-08-01 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 30/07/2011 19:37, Don C. Myers wrote: Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always

[libreoffice-users] Calc: colour of negative numbers

2011-08-01 Thread Guy Voets
Hello, In LibO 3.3, I could make negative numbers show in white instead of the default red colour. I used white because of a green background, on which red numbers give a strange effect. In Lib 3.4, this [WHITE] code disappears from the Number Format Code, that goes back to #.##0,00:-#.##0,00 wit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :) Regards from Tom :) From: Onyeibo Oku To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 1 August, 2011 12:37:50 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls If you're using BASIC, use 'rem' sent from mobile device -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Onyeibo Oku
If you're using BASIC, use 'rem' sent from mobile device -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:34:14 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls Hi :) Is it possible to write comments i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Yes Put a '#' before the text to make it a comment sent from mobile device -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:34:14 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls Hi :) Is it possible t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is it possible to write comments into a macro? Comments (that don't get executed) can help people reading the code to understand nuances more easily. Regards from Tom :) From: Onyeibo Oku To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak Sent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Onyeibo Oku
On 01/08/2011 02:57, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > I do believe that you have seen AndrewMacro, which contains an example > that demonstrates that yes, you can. Just OR the values together. I > likely show the same thing in OOME. I am currently working through the > Calc chapter as time permits.

[libreoffice-users] Footnote page space (Writer)

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Stanton
The page dialogue gives options for how much page space a footnote can take up, but in reality (for the 18.6mm high page I'm using) it won't allow more than 9.99cm, either by direct entry into the dialogue option or in fact on the page. Has anyone else either noticed this, or found otherwise?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Code snippet

2011-08-01 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Com'on Andreas, please tell me I'm a coder. At least I try for an architect/CG-artist (could be better though). I came into programming from Visual BASIC (I know its procedural and limiting, let's not go there). I did a lot of VBA scripting for Excel then, mainly for result sheets which I'm cur

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls

2011-08-01 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Villeroy to the rescue! Thanks a lot sent from mobile device -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:07:46 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Python Equivalents for some BASIC uno calls import uno form com.sun.star.shee