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

2011-08-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Hoang, Hoang Le wrote (01-08-11 05:43) [...] The current completion feature only suggests one word among many possible matches, making typing much slower than it could be. [...] Have you tried Ctrl-Tab? For me, that travels through the list of words for that specific case of word completio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-02 Thread planas
Hi On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 22:52 -0700, JeepNut wrote: > 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/ > > > >

[libreoffice-users] Table macro problem in 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread AlanE
Tables created by macro in Writer have appeared correctly in OOo and LibO 3.3.3 but do not appear correctly in 3.4.2. Is this a bug? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Table-macro-problem-in-3-4-2-tp3218300p3218300.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive a

[libreoffice-users] Add page after endnotes

2011-08-02 Thread Kalev Takkis
Hi, This is what I need my document to look like: 1. Text 2. Endnotes for Text 3. Some more text 4. Possibly endontes for 'Some more text' Pretty standard case I presume. I figured out how to use sections and I think, starting with clean document I could accomplish this. However, I already have

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

2011-08-02 Thread David Nelson
Hi Juan, On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Juan Carlos wrote: > 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 > h

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread Rob & Lesley McCormick
Hi We live in Australia and have just installed Libreoffice 3.4.2 on two of our home computers (Windows XP Home SP3), but unfortunately the spell checker is not working - your help would be appreciated. Rob & Lesley McCormick 28 Tumbi Creek Road Berkeley Vale NSW 2261 Australia Email: l...@iine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) 1. The Java 1.6.0_26 seems to cause a few problems. The best one seems to be the 1.6.0_21 although the 1.6.0_22 is ok too. It's odd because your web-browser probably uses the 1.6.0_26 with no trouble but it causes a lot fo problems with LibreOffice so it's worth having both installed a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-02 Thread Rob & Lesley McCormick
Hi Tom Thank you for your prompt response - we have never had a problem before with LibreOffice (from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1), and 3.4.2 is perfectly stable; but when attempting to check spelling no language is shown (i.e. no English US or English UK or English AUS). Your help would be appreciated.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add page after endnotes

2011-08-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-02, Kalev Takkis wrote: > This is what I need my document to look like: > > 1. Text > 2. Endnotes for Text > 3. Some more text > 4. Possibly endontes for 'Some more text' > > Pretty standard case I presume. I figured out how to use sections and I > think, starting with clean document I

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

2011-08-02 Thread Hoang Le
> Have you tried Ctrl-Tab? For me, that travels through the list of words for > that specific case of word completion. Yes, but I only use it for long words, because I must look at the suggested word every time I press ctrl+tab. I'd rather continue typing a few more letters. Best regards, Hoang

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add page after endnotes

2011-08-02 Thread Kalev Takkis
I had "Collect at end.." options checked but your answer helped me figure out what I did wrong. When I selected the whole text, I didn't have any free space left, so no matter what I tried, I created section 2 inside section 1, that's what caused the trouble. Thanks for the quick help. Best, Kalev

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

2011-08-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, I installed 1.6.0_21 on my home computer last night and compared it to 1.6.0_22. This is a 5 year old laptop with an AMD T-50 processor and 2 gigs of ram. It is far from a powerhouse, but it works very will with Ubuntu. Both versions of Java work very well with Base. 1.6.0_21 is a sec

[libreoffice-users] how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-02 Thread ron.vandenbranden
Hi, I am trying to install the gb_oed dictionary from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890 . I successfully downloaded and installed this extension, but can't find out how to select this dictionary for spellchecking. The language

[libreoffice-users] Calc charts -- per-data series data labels

2011-08-02 Thread Justin Willmert
I have a question regarding the data labels feature in a Calc XY (Scatter) chart. I have a chart with two data series plotted, each originating from a different sheet, with the chart saved on a sheet of its own. In order to identify each of the data points once the plot had been printed, I want

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

2011-08-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/1 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. Work

[libreoffice-users] Trying to learn how to program LibO - Trouble getting started

2011-08-02 Thread zzyzcx
I'm running LibO 3.3.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I've got NetBeans 6.8 installed with the OpenOffice.org API plugin, version 2.0.6. I'm trying to learn the basics of how to build client applications and add-ons for LibO, and so I'm working my way through the DevGuide and running the example programs.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc charts -- per-data series data labels

2011-08-02 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Justin, Justin Willmert schrieb: I have a question regarding the data labels feature in a Calc XY (Scatter) chart. I have a chart with two data series plotted, each originating from a different sheet, with the chart saved on a sheet of its own. In order to identify each of the data points onc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc charts -- per-data series data labels

2011-08-02 Thread Justin Willmert
On 08/02/2011 10:58 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Justin, Justin Willmert schrieb: I have a question regarding the data labels feature in a Calc XY (Scatter) chart. I have a chart with two data series plotted, each originating from a different sheet, with the chart saved on a sheet of its own.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Trying to learn how to program LibO - Trouble getting started

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the devs list is just very busy and they might have just missed your question. If they haven't answered after a day or 2 then it might be worth re-posting. However you might find some of the documentation useful from the bottom of the Documentation wiki http://wiki.documentfounda

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. We have that here in NZ too. What I do is to install the English GB language pack (may be that is already there in windows). I go into options (preferences) under language settings>languages and set the default language for documents to English GB. It needs to be an English with a ABC tick

[libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Yuan Yuan
Hi, I'm a first-time Base user who ran into a serious problem almost right away. I created a new database with one table with only a handful of fields. I used the wizard to create a form for that table and tried to add records to it. I was only able to add one record; when I tried to save

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

2011-08-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Ron, ron.vandenbranden wrote (02-08-11 14:53) I am trying to install the gb_oed dictionary from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890 . I successfully downloaded and installed this extension, but can't find out how to select t

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry i haven't been able to help. I don't really know how to fix it when the spelling checker doesn't work. Chapter 2 of the "Getting Started Guide" http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation page 23 is "Choosing Language Settings". Apparently it is also worth seeing the Writer

[libreoffice-users] Moving form letter

2011-08-02 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. I have set up a form letter to merge data from a sheet into a form. This works well and I now want to send the files for another person to use. On the receiving end I found I had to add the data source again (understandable) but also found I had to re-identify every field in the document to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Apparently Base is very difficult to work with. MS Access is much easier. It's not being as actively developed as the other apps in LibreOffice and each version has it's own quirks. Do you know which version of Base you are working with? 3.4.2, 3.4.1, 3.3.3? Also which operating s

[libreoffice-users] Re: Table macro problem in 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread Tom
Hi :) No, no idea when. Until it does get fixed you might find it a good idea to run the stable 3.3.3 release alongside the 3.4.2 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/T

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Yuan Yuan
Hi Tom, Hmm, that's too bad about Base. Do you happen to know anything about Kexi? It sounds like a KDE equivalent. It looks like I'm using version 3.3.2 (the latest available from the Ubuntu repo). I'm running it on Ubuntu 11.04. - Clara On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:17:29 -0400, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Yuan Yuan schrieb: Hi, I'm a first-time Base user who ran into a serious problem almost right away. I created a new database with one table with only a handful of fields. What kind of data base engine do you use? When you have opened the odb-file you see it left in the status bar. I gue

[libreoffice-users] Re: Footnote page space (Writer)

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Stanton
This obviously really caught the general interest... Not. I've looked a little further, and it seems to be a fixed limit, 9.99 cm maximum space for footnotes, despite the default option when suggests most of the page could be available. I tried changing the display units to inches, in case the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That is the best version to stick with. It might be worth changing which version of java you are using or better still avoid using it at all. On my Ubuntu 10.04 i use LibreOffice 3.3.2 too and in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Java I am on 1.6.0_20. Apparently the _21 is slightly bett

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Yuan Yuan
Hi Regina, What kind of data base engine do you use? When you have opened the odb-file you see it left in the status bar. I guess it is "Embedded database HSQL database engine". Yes, the status bar says 'Embedded database' and 'HSQL database engine'. Do you have set a primary key for your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Out of memory error trying to add new record

2011-08-02 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Tom, Tom Davies schrieb: Hi :) Apparently Base is very difficult to work with. MS Access is much easier. Do you have experience in both? It's not being as actively developed as the other apps in LibreOffice and each version has it's own quirks. It is better than you purport. But it n

[libreoffice-users] Re: Table macro problem in 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread AlanE
It seems there is a bug: Bug 38542 Formatting Table double border incompatibility with old LibO /OOo versions. Any idea when this will be fixed? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Table-macro-problem-in-3-4-2-tp3218300p3218713.html Sent from the Users mailing li

[libreoffice-users] text width measurement

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
hello friends, i wish to put fields, buttons and fixed text on a dialog built by a macro. the location will be automatically calculated, based on the width of the labels and fixed text, and given width of the input fields. same with combo boxes and column widths of a grid. how can i measure the

[libreoffice-users] Extensions admin only

2011-08-02 Thread ed...@full-circle.co.uk
Need to disable extensions for users. (Only have extensions under the program directory / only admin can install extensions) Was hoping there was something like a config option / file under the program directory that would cover this sort of thing and override any standard user options. Being ab

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

2011-08-02 Thread Mårten Behm
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 the other way r

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

2011-08-02 Thread Juan Carlos
David: I use ubuntu 10.10, which contains openoffice for default, so I had to de-install it and download the deb packages from libreoffice.org. Also I tried to download and install it from the PPA (ppa:libreoffice/ppa) and occurs the same problem. Recently installed the 3.4.2 version and still occ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Footnote page space (Writer)

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol, a classic! You could probably do it with text-boxes in Draw but that would make it a lot more complicated for no really good reason. What is the paper-size set at? Are you usign Format - Page to set the margins, paper-size and footer size? Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving form letter

2011-08-02 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
I'm doing this from memory, but should be pretty close Open Writer Click on ,menu , In window on right, click on button. Find new database .odb and select it. Select the new database on right side, hit '+' to expand and pick source. Click on button. This will update all fields except . To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Table macro problem in 3.4.2

2011-08-02 Thread Cor Nouws
AlanE wrote (02-08-11 13:45) It seems there is a bug: Bug 38542 Formatting Table double border incompatibility with old LibO /OOo versions. Any idea when this will be fixed? I thought I'd seen a fix passing for this, or something closely related ... yes, found: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/sh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving form letter

2011-08-02 Thread planas
Steve, On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 07:07 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi. > I have set up a form letter to merge data from a sheet into a form. > This works well and I now want to send the files for another person to use. > > On the receiving end I found I had to add the data source again > (unders

[libreoffice-users] Bug report: Comments in LibreOffice do not save

2011-08-02 Thread Nicholas Schade
To whom it may concern: I have noticed that when I add comments to a document (.docx format, if that matters) in LibreOffice and then save the document, close it, and reopen it, the comments do not reappear. If there's some way to retrieve these added comments (they have to be made visible upon r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug report: Comments in LibreOffice do not save

2011-08-02 Thread planas
Nick, On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 18:17 -0400, Nicholas Schade wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > I have noticed that when I add comments to a document (.docx format, if that > matters) in LibreOffice and then save the document, close it, and reopen it, > the comments do not reappear. If there's s

[libreoffice-users] fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
hello friends, i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an empty structure: (com.sun.star.awt.FontDescriptor){ Name = (string)"", Height = (short)0x0, Width = (short)0x0, StyleName = (string)"", Family = (short)0x0, CharSet = (short)0x0, Pitch = (short)0x0, CharacterWidth =

[libreoffice-users] Does this macro work for non en-US locale?

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
My Macro book contains the following macro, which works just fine for me: Sub ExampleDatePart Dim TheDate As Date Dim f Dim i As Integer Dim s$ TheDate = Now f = Array("", "q", "m", "y", "w", "ww", "d", "h", "n", "s") s = "Now = " & TheDate & CHR$(10) For i = LBound(f) To UB

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Footnote page space (Writer)

2011-08-02 Thread soumalya ray
On 3 August 2011 01:28, Mark Stanton wrote: > This obviously really caught the general interest... Not. > > I've looked a little further, and it seems to be a fixed limit, 9.99 > cm maximum space for footnotes, despite the default option when > suggests most of the page could be available. > > I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Trying to learn how to program LibO - Trouble getting started

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I have only done these things in Basic, so I cannot comment on your main problem On 08/02/2011 11:57 AM, zzyzcx wrote: P.S. I tried posting a similar question in the Developer's list-serve, but I got no responses - I believe it's a bit too basic for the kind of work they are doing over ther

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does this macro work for non en-US locale?

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
On 08/03/2011 03:56 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > Sub ExampleDatePart > Dim TheDate As Date > Dim f > Dim i As Integer > Dim s$ > TheDate = Now > f = Array("", "q", "m", "y", "w", "ww", "d", "h", "n", "s") >s = "Now = " & TheDate & CHR$(10) > For i = LBound(f) To UBound

[libreoffice-users] Re: fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
On 08/03/2011 02:38 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: > hello friends, > > i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an > empty structure: > (com.sun.star.awt.FontDescriptor){ Name = (string)"", Height = > (short)0x0, Width = (short)0x0, StyleName = (string)"", Family = > (short)0x0, C

Re: [libreoffice-users] text width measurement

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
This might get you started, I saw this on the forum first http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=438305#438305 On 08/02/2011 08:54 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: hello friends, i wish to put fields, buttons and fixed text on a dialog built by a macro. the location will be automatically calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does this macro work for non en-US locale?

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/02/2011 09:47 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: On 08/03/2011 03:56 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Sub ExampleDatePart Dim TheDate As Date Dim f Dim i As Integer Dim s$ TheDate = Now f = Array("", "q", "m", "y", "w", "ww", "d", "h", "n", "s") s = "Now = "& TheDate&

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: On 08/03/2011 02:38 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: hello friends, i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an empty structure: (com.sun.star.awt.FontDescriptor){ Name = (string)"", Height = (short)0x0, Width = (short)0x0, StyleName =

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
On 08/03/2011 05:00 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 02:38 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: >>> hello friends, >>> >>> i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an >>> empty structure: >>> (com.sun.star.awt.FontDescripto

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug report: Comments in LibreOffice do not save

2011-08-02 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 00:17, Nicholas Schade wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > I have noticed that when I add comments to a document (.docx format, if that > matters) in LibreOffice and then save the document, close it, and reopen it, > the comments do not reappear. That (already reported

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread alex bodnaru
On 08/03/2011 05:00 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 02:38 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: >>> hello friends, >>> >>> i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an >>> empty structure: >>> (com.sun.star.awt.FontDescripto

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug report: Comments in LibreOffice do not save

2011-08-02 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Sorry for creating confusion... ;) On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 04:17, Manfred J. Krause wrote: > [...] > > That (already reported) bug has not been fixed yet. > > Bug 35602 - .docx no comments saved > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33463 Bug 33463 - Comments are lost after FILESAVE as DO

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

2011-08-02 Thread David Nelson
Hi Juan, On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Juan Carlos wrote: > I use ubuntu 10.10, which contains openoffice for default, so I had to > de-install it and download the deb packages from libreoffice.org. Also I > tried to download and install it from the PPA (ppa:libreoffice/ppa) and > occurs the sa

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

2011-08-02 Thread Roland Hughes
Move to OpenSuSE. Your life will be a lot better. Ubuntu has lost its way. On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 07:00 +0300, David Nelson wrote: > Hi Juan, > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Juan Carlos wrote: > > I use ubuntu 10.10, which contains openoffice for default, so I had to > > de-install it and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: fontdescriptor seems to be empty

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 08/02/2011 10:17 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: On 08/03/2011 05:00 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 08/02/2011 09:52 PM, alex bodnaru wrote: On 08/03/2011 02:38 AM, alex bodnaru wrote: hello friends, i wish to use the fontdescriptor of a control, but i'm receiving an empty structure: (com.s