RE: [libreoffice-users] password problem

2011-08-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Bob, the META-INF/manifest.xml file should be a text file. Why do you think it is a binary file? It should be in a META-INF folder where you extracted Experience.zip. The manifest.rdf file is encrypted (so it looks like binary). That is not the one that matters. In fact, one of the first

[libreoffice-users] problem with columnwidths in grid

2011-08-07 Thread alex bodnaru
body p { margin-bottom: 0.3cm; margin-top: 0pt; } hello friends, i'm asking for help with setting the column widths for a grid control. anyone with some insight could help. thanks in advance, alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread Stan Goodman
On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS product.though obviously US is a much bigger cat. for example,during my post-graduate entrance exam form filling up,the site ( www.aiimsexams.org) told me that only IE is

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread soumalya ray
actually in india very few govt agency check their email,if any. but you are right,they could have made it impossible On 7 August 2011 13:46, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A lot of times it's just because they are ignorant about alternatives. It's quite possible that the web-designer was not allowed to write something sensible they were probably told exactly what to write. The decision-makers that decided what was to be written probably don't know any of

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
The problem with government policies, is that they can change with each new person at the helm. If there is a guy who was one of Gate's Executives before he was asked to go into government work, then he will not be one that is motivated to keep the open-source policies of the last person in

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS product.though obviously US is a much bigger cat. for example,during my post-graduate entrance exam form filling up,the site (

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base 3.4.2 doesn't run on Windows 7

2011-08-07 Thread Juan Antonio
Solved . The problem was *Java*. It wasn't correctly installed in my pc. I've desinstalled Java and then installed the last version, and LibreOffice Base runs normally. Regards! -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Andreas Säger
How do the data get into spreadsheets? Can't you simply avoid all spreadsheets? Spreadsheets are the worst file format to store interrelated table data. Even plain text files can be more suitable for data processing as suggested by Jorge. Databases are development tools which save you and you

[libreoffice-users] Re: looking for help on Base

2011-08-07 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.08.2011 19:25, NoOp wrote: I finally managed to get Base to connect to the Access file (old Office 97 Northwind example .mdb) and even list the tables in the file. Wow. That's great news. However when I attempt to view the table LO (and OOo) crashes with no apparent crash info (i.e.,

[libreoffice-users] Right Tab not working

2011-08-07 Thread 20rdj04
In my doc I have 4 tabs set. Decimal 3.0, Right 3.5, Dec 4.2, Dec 5.5. I want my text to end at 3.5 inches. In the past (other word processors) I tabbed to the decimal or right tab, and then, as I typed the words/numbers, the line would move to the left. Or, with a previously typed line, the

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: password problem

2011-08-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I agree, seeing if there is something to repair in the manifest is definitely worth trying. - Dennis PS: I decline your invitation to bottom post. -Original Message- From: NoOp [mailto:gl...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 17:49 To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread twohot
On 06/08/2011, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:31 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: 1) True but what I'm doing is more computational than relational though the end result will be a material for building a proper database. A spreadsheet is more suited for this ... Trust

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Would like to see Insert Cut Cells Insert Copied Cells Added to Right-Click Menus

2011-08-07 Thread grfried
It is not clear to me why Insert Cut Cells following a previous Cut and Insert Copied Cells following a previous Copy are not available in the right-click menu in LibreOffice Calc as they are in Microsoft Excel. I use them very frequently to re-order a set range of rows where sort is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Betti Ann and Preston Smith
Hello Andreas, In no way do I want you to do my work and I am sorry if that is the way you feel. I am prepared to learn how to work with data bases and it is with that intent that I am asking questions. If you feel that I want you to do my work, then please do not respond to my queries.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base 3.4.2 doesn't run on Windows 7

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I remember something about Sun/Oracle older version of Java having problem with LibreOffice, but there is an open-source version that would instead. The one on my Ubuntu system states it is Sun's Java, but the file's name [folder's name] of the runtime engine seems to be Java-6-openjdk. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Betti Ann and Preston Smith
On 8/6/2011 5:28 PM, planas wrote: Preston On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:22 -0300, Preston Smith wrote: Hi Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion I know nothing about databases however I just successfully imported an xls file into LO's Base. I assume the next step is to import the second xls file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Onyeibo Oku
What is the best way to use Spreadsheets sef? Can someone explain (with examples). It seems it is a becoming a redundant tool for dBase pros. When is it right to use it? - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice won't open files

2011-08-07 Thread Dave Howorth
I've had a strange experience recently - libreoffice won't open files. That is File/Open doesn't bring up a dialog box. File/New works and so does using a filename on the command line when starting libreoffice. Libreoffice previously worked fine. Does anybody know what this might be? Or how to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Onyeibo Oku schrieb: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the sheet creation runs faster although there's more lines of code running. Whereas the sheet removal macro is just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Would like to see Insert Cut Cells Insert Copied Cells Added to Right-Click Menus

2011-08-07 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-07, grfried wrote: It is not clear to me why Insert Cut Cells following a previous Cut and Insert Copied Cells following a previous Copy are not available in the right-click menu in LibreOffice Calc as they are in Microsoft Excel. I use them very frequently to re-order a set range

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Would like to see Insert Cut Cells Insert Copied Cells Added to Right-Click Menus

2011-08-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/7 grfried throwawa...@sc.rr.com: It is not clear to me why Insert Cut Cells following a previous Cut and Insert Copied Cells following a previous Copy are  not available in the right-click menu in LibreOffice Calc as they are in Microsoft Excel. I use them very frequently to re-order a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Would like to see Insert Cut Cells Insert Copied Cells Added to Right-Click Menus

2011-08-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/7 Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt: On 2011-08-07, grfried wrote: It is not clear to me why Insert Cut Cells following a previous Cut and Insert Copied Cells following a previous Copy are  not available in the right-click menu in LibreOffice Calc as they are in Microsoft Excel. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Would like to see Insert Cut Cells Insert Copied Cells Added to Right-Click Menus

2011-08-07 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-08-07, grfried wrote: Is this the right forum for posting requests for features? Technically, this is not a forum, but a mailing list. But I see you're posting through a webforum-like interface. Although this is a good place to discuss features, feature requests should be added to the

[libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all the mirrors I have searched so far start with 3.3.3. Peter HB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fw: how to have output in table from calc data?

2011-08-07 Thread soumalya ray
thanks for the help.most of the queries solved.particularly the COMANDIF function is really a brilliant one.now stuck in one last table.could not understand how to solve this one?went through *output revised* ,but still... in this i need to express the BMI data wrt age(the row contains 30yrs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/07/2011 10:23 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all the mirrors I have searched so far start with 3.3.3. Peter HB On my system - 3.3.0 .deb 64-bit was downloaded Jan 25th 3.3.0 .deb

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread soumalya ray
ideally it should have been browser independent,but it is not so. the reason--frankly speaking,I don't know.your guess is as good as mine. On 7 August 2011 16:12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice - edited

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
edited: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan Here is the originally planned release dates. I was right, there was no version 3.2.1 released. release - - - - - - freeze - - - - - - - - - publishing 3.3.0 - - - Nov 30, 2010 (Tue) - - - Jan 25, 2011 (Tue) 3.3.1 - - - Feb 7, 2011

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 16:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all the mirrors I have searched so far start with 3.3.3. Version 3.2.1? Do you mean v3.3.1?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread twohot
On 07/08/2011, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, Onyeibo Oku schrieb: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the sheet creation runs faster although there's

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-07 Thread Brian Grawburg
I agree with Roland. When I used to work for a local analytical laboratory I wrote a very large application that tracks incoming samples, customers, and related data. They used it for almost 9 years until last October when they decided to implement a LIMS (laboratory information management

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Andreas Säger
The format and content of the files in question (which I described in my first message) is beyond my control. Let me retry your request in this way: 0) Technical prerequisites: Running LibreOffice 3.3.3 under WinXP I have a spreadsheet with 2 tables imported from text files which I receive

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/07/2011 11:09 AM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 16:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all the mirrors I have searched so far start with 3.3.3. Version 3.2.1? Do you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Thanks for your response. On 07/08/11 16:09, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 16:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all the mirrors I have searched so far start with 3.3.3.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Onyeibo, twohot schrieb: On 07/08/2011, Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, Onyeibo Oku schrieb: I did a python macro that adds sheets, renames them and fills in some formula in select cells. It also has a portion that deletes the sheets. I find that the sheet creation runs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Slow Calc Macros

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi, On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 10:53 +0100, twohot wrote: On 06/08/2011, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:31 +, Onyeibo Oku wrote: 1) True but what I'm doing is more computational than relational though the end result will be a material for building a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Preston On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 10:02 -0300, Betti Ann and Preston Smith wrote: On 8/6/2011 5:28 PM, planas wrote: Preston On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:22 -0300, Preston Smith wrote: Hi Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion I know nothing about databases however I just successfully

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 06:42 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS product.though obviously US is a much bigger

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice won't open files

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Dave On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 14:49 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: I've had a strange experience recently - libreoffice won't open files. That is File/Open doesn't bring up a dialog box. File/New works and so does using a filename on the command line when starting libreoffice. Libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] problem with columnwidths in grid

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Alex, On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 11:11 +0300, alex bodnaru wrote: body p { margin-bottom: 0.3cm; margin-top: 0pt; } hello friends, i'm asking for help with setting the column widths for a grid control. anyone with some insight could help. thanks in advance,

[libreoffice-users] New Custom Style in Writer - odd behavior

2011-08-07 Thread jdh111
I created a style (Default_2, next style also Default_2) which I based on the standard Default style. The only difference between the two is that Default has single line spacing whereas for Default_2 I calls for double spacing. When I assign Default_2 to a paragraph from Styles and Formatting, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/07/2011 12:35 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Thanks for your response. On 07/08/11 16:09, Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 16:23, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I need to get hold of the Linux (.deb) versions starting with 3.2.1. Can anyone point me to an archive - all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Right Tab not working

2011-08-07 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:58 -0700, 20rdj04 wrote: In my doc I have 4 tabs set. Decimal 3.0, Right 3.5, Dec 4.2, Dec 5.5. I want my text to end at 3.5 inches. In the past (other word processors) I tabbed to the decimal or right tab, and then, as I typed the words/numbers, the line

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice won't open files

2011-08-07 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 13:53 -0400, planas wrote: I have never seen this problem on Ubuntu. I wonder if something that was installed unintentionally broke or garbled something in LO. You user data is in a hidden folder .libreoffice and specifically in the subfolder 3. You can copy the data

[libreoffice-users] Virtual bold not workign when printing

2011-08-07 Thread BKh
Is there a problem in Libre Office with fonts that don't have a proper bold version? I have used a particular font for years and never even noticed that it didn't have a proper bold version. Now when I print directly from Libre Office the font renders as regular even when it looks bold on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 07/08/11 19:41, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: [cut] Is this the one you want? I do not have the 32-bit version. OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz 160 MB file. No, I'm fine now but thanks for the offer(s). Peter HB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Virtual bold not workign when printing

2011-08-07 Thread BKh
Apologies. I should have known better. Here goes: Windows XP service pack 3 LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19 (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1 PRINTER: Samsung SCX-4x28 Series PCL 6 The font is Akkhara Regular.ttf. It is no longer available from the original source, but it seems to be at this

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Andreas Säger
For me this is the ultimate tutorial on databases in the Base context: http://openoffice.org/projects/documentation/downloads/directory/Base/Mid%20level%20Base%20tutorial There are small tutorials and lots of example documents in the community forum:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Yum Repository for install and upgrades

2011-08-07 Thread Walt
Thanks for your feedback. Would be useful to have to allow automatic updates etc.. maybe in the future! :) Reason is to bypass the distro of course - as even if they support LO it is unlikely to be the most recent version going fwd. Cheers -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-07 Thread Walt
Thanks for all the comments. Just thought I'd raise it as is a key feature on http://www.libreoffice.org/features/ Couldn't see a postgresql support via the extension manager and the version on the http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql openoffice wiki is about a yr old. I think I will

[libreoffice-users] LO Lockdown

2011-08-07 Thread Walt
- Just thought I'd ask and see if anyone has any experience locking LO down - user installed extensions seem to me to be a major issue from a school or coporate view - I've seen other programmes with a config file in the program directory that overwrites any user settings (including disabling

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQLite in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-07 Thread NoOp
On 08/07/2011 12:50 PM, gsward wrote: Does anyone have a set of instructions (or point me to a clear guide) for setting up access to an SQLite database with Base? I am running Base on Ubuntu 11.04. What addtional components are needed and how do I set up the ODBC connection? ... I found

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base and SQLite in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 08/08/11 05:50, gsward wrote: Does anyone have a set of instructions (or point me to a clear guide) for setting up access to an SQLite database with Base? I am running Base on Ubuntu 11.04. What addtional components are needed and how do I set up the ODBC connection? Thanks, Graham --

Re: [libreoffice-users] New Custom Style in Writer - odd behavior

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 08/08/11 04:42, jdh111 wrote: I created a style (Default_2, next style also Default_2) which I based on the standard Default style. The only difference between the two is that Default has single line spacing whereas for Default_2 I calls for double spacing. When I assign Default_2 to a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 08/08/11 02:12, Andreas Säger wrote: The format and content of the files in question (which I described in my first message) is beyond my control. Let me retry your request in this way: 0) Technical prerequisites: Running LibreOffice 3.3.3 under WinXP I have a spreadsheet with 2 tables

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice won't recover file

2011-08-07 Thread NoOp
On 08/07/2011 12:21 PM, waseem wrote: I have libroffice3 installed with Ubuntu 11.04, my power plug was UN-plugged accidentally while I was working on an important report, I tried to access the file after booting my machine but libreoffice show me a dialog to recover but it just show

[libreoffice-users] Re: Older versions of LibreOffice

2011-08-07 Thread NoOp
On 08/07/2011 01:58 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 07.08.2011 18:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I meant 3.2.1, but had forgotten that that was OpenOffice. What I'm trying to do is establish when the inability to use an address data source (in Linux) was introduced. It seems from the thread that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Something strange : settings in Tools - Options - Impress - Print

2011-08-07 Thread Hirono Moi
Simon, Thank you very much for your advices. Yes, I posted a bug report with more result of my tests: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39854 It seems that the behavor chages depending on the presence or absence of soffice.bin. Thank you, again. (2011/08/06 0:17), Simon Cropper