RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

-Original Message- From: At0mic [mailto:atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? >I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and oth

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

e-letter wrote: > >> Solution #1: >> Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange >> spreadsheets in that format. >> > > Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the > suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is > discovered between m$

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and a few other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a ver

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

e-letter wrote: > >> Solution #1: >> Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange >> spreadsheets in that format. >> > > Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the > suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is > discovered between m$ ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2011 01:29 AM, Don Myers wrote: >The reply is always at the top. When I top post, I am 100% guaranteed that the recipient will be utterly clueless about what I am referring to, and what action, if any, I will be taking. > every system I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 09/07/2011 10:33 PM, planas wrote: Hi On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:29 -0400, Don Myers wrote: Reply below: On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote: For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. I realiz(s)e that the e

[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 09/07/2011 07:33 PM, planas wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:29 -0400, Don Myers wrote: ... >> Hi All, >> >> I will respect your wishes about posting at the bottom. I live in the >> US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a lot of work >> e-mails. I never receive any e

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

Hi On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 21:29 -0400, Don Myers wrote: > Reply below: > > On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote: > > For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please > > consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. > > > > I realiz(s)e that the existing: > > http://ww

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 08/09/11 11:29, Don Myers wrote:Reply below:On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote:For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: pleaseconsider bottom posting with interspersed replies.Hi All,I will respect your wishes about posting at the bottom. I live in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x

On 09/07/2011 10:13 PM, Steven Shelton wrote: On 9/7/2011 9:54 PM, Steven Shelton wrote: I also get a crash any time I try to do a search of records. Something about LibreOffice caused an invalid request or something. Actually, just created a bug for this: **Bug 40701*

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x

On 9/7/2011 9:54 PM, Steven Shelton wrote: > I also get a crash any time I try to do a search of records. > Something about LibreOffice caused an invalid request or something. Actually, just created a bug for this: **Bug 40701* *. --- Steven Sh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x

On 9/5/2011 5:01 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > I'm pretty certain it is linked to this change, now if I could only > find the announcement as to when it got fixed... Alex I also get a crash any time I try to do a search of records. Something about LibreOffice caused an invalid request or somethi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 09/07/2011 08:13 PM, NoOp wrote: On 09/07/2011 05:02 PM, NoOp wrote: ... Added Note: I've set the 'Followup-to' on this message to the discuss list as I think that is more the appropriate location for continued discussion of the issue. But I posted here initially on the users list as this i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

Reply below: On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote: For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. I realiz(s)e that the existing: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ doesn't specifically clarify anything w

[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 09/07/2011 05:02 PM, NoOp wrote: ... > > Added Note: I've set the 'Followup-to' on this message to the discuss > list as I think that is more the appropriate location for continued > discussion of the issue. But I posted here initially on the users list > as this is the list that really needs t

[libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. I realiz(s)e that the existing: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ doesn't specifically clarify anything with regards to top/bottom posting. However at the bo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

I don't know what's got "stuffed up" - you're just fine. Apologies absolutely not necessary. I hope I didn't 'sound' angry. :-) LibreOffice Portable works great, btw. Slightly slower than normal, but not bad. Anyway, there is also GIMP, VirtuaWin (I can't stand not having virtual desktops), a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :) Fantastic :) I usually struggle on locked-down systems so having portable apps could really help me when i'm out and about. Thanks for testing this. http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable Regards from Tom :) From: Don Parris To: users@

RE: DIfferent topic: file formats Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Um, the guy I am replying to changed the subject. Sorry, I get beat up by people who thread their mails every time I do that, although it didn't even occur to me here. I'm done on this subject, whatever it is, anyhow. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Cor Nouws [mailto:oo...@nouenof

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc stops refreshing formula halway down the spreadsheet

Hi, On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 06:07 -0700, achristy wrote: > The spreadsheet in question was created in MS Excel. When opened in Libre the > formula works until about halfway through and then just stops refreshing the > data leaving all zeros. This has happened in LibreOffice 3.3.2 and 3.4.3 on > m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

I'm already currently testing it. I'm writing this from Portable Firefox. I just plug in my external drive (with quite a few of the portable apps loaded) and go. It actually seems to work very well so far. :-) Regards, Don On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 18:24, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Sorry i cou

[libreoffice-users] Re: Tools -> options -> General -> Paths problem.

On 09/05/2011 01:34 PM, John Williams wrote: > On 06/09/11 00:18, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: >> >> What OS are you using? Do you use Windows, Mac, or Linux ... > Thanks for your reply. > 1. I'm using Debian Squeeze AMD64 on an ASUS K501 notebook, one hard > drive (dual booting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :) Sorry i couldn't help there. Some people have some really weird ideas! Chrome is more controversial but at least it's faster. Sometimes there is too much risk of losing what you already have. I used the tactic you are planning on one time at least and it worked out fairly well. It mi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

On 07/09/2011, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote: ... >> >> Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to >> improve the xlsx saving abilities of Calc? >> To reiterate, the priority for calc is improvement in native file format behaviour. If yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 20:13, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > It might be worth contacting the IT Staff that are going to install the > systems > and make the point that your work requires using specialist software or > something or that you prefer using Firefox because it's safer and faster > than >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Hi Roelof, Roelof Oomen wrote (07-09-11 09:56) I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors. Could it be

[libreoffice-users] Calc stops refreshing formula halway down the spreadsheet

The spreadsheet in question was created in MS Excel. When opened in Libre the formula works until about halfway through and then just stops refreshing the data leaving all zeros. This has happened in LibreOffice 3.3.2 and 3.4.3 on multiple systems. The spreadsheet loads and refreshes all data norma

[libreoffice-users] CALC 3.4.3 - Column headers are screwed up :-(

I have never seen this behaviour before. I have a simple list of test in column A but Calc is not displaying the columns properly. Comlumn A often overwrites, in view, row 1 and the colunms are not displaying properly. Windows Vista Business/32 Dell Latitude D620, LO v3.4.3 -- Dave Multi-A

DIfferent topic: file formats Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

pls. indicate change of subject. Thanks, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote (07-09-11 20:09) [..] -Original Message- From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions [mailto:webmas...@krackedpress.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 08:46 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calculated fields not showing decimal places in BASE query

Sorry Planas, perhaps I have not explained clearly. I do not want the ID column ( it had to be included to allow me to enter data into the Rental column). The example I gave was to show that if I did a select on the decimal field only it displayed as a decimal but if I preceded the decimal field

RE: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

This had nothing to do with OOXML being accepted as an ISO Standard. It was and is. It had to do with limitations of the ODF 1.0/1.1 specifications (and the ISO IS 26300:2006 standard for ODF 1.0) and deciding what to do about the formula specification in ODF 1.1 being totally implementation-d

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calculated fields not showing decimal places in BASE query

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 17:34 +0100, John Mullen wrote: > This gets weirder. > > Try this:Create a table CONTRACTS with an INTEGER field (ID) as a > Primary key, set to auto fill > and a decimal field (Rental) set to 2 decimal places. > > Add the value 150.00 to the first row. > > Run the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base - form table grid new record on top

Am 07.09.2011 18:00, ncreamer wrote: This is very helpful. My setup is very similar to the example animals/persons/things setup - almost exact. I tried to setup a form where I'm entering new people, while at the same time adding animal and things that may not have previously existed. In other wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calculated fields not showing decimal places in BASE query

This gets weirder. Try this:Create a table CONTRACTS with an INTEGER field (ID) as a Primary key, set to auto fill and a decimal field (Rental) set to 2 decimal places. Add the value 150.00 to the first row. Run the query SELECT "CONTRACTS"."Rental" FROM "CONTRACTS" this returns 150.00

[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragaph Maker not showing

On 09/06/2011 10:45 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > NoOp wrote (07-09-11 04:35) > >> Works for me w/linux 3.3.4& 3.4.3 (same machine). Even changing views. >> That said: >> Tools> LibreOffice Writer> Formatting aid> check Paragraph ends >> is on by default with my configurations. So perhaps that it the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base - form table grid new record on top

This is very helpful. My setup is very similar to the example animals/persons/things setup - almost exact. I tried to setup a form where I'm entering new people, while at the same time adding animal and things that may not have previously existed. In other words, I don't have a pre-populated list

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :) I meant that you wouldn't want to return to something that doesn't have it's level of sophistication. Claws is a lot like ThunderBird and i think it has been ported to Windows too but it's made for low-spec machines. I have heard a lot of good reports about it and only 1 bad so it mig

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Your reason[s] why the problem is there, you may just hit the target. Since MS's "x" formats did not become the International standard, as ODF formats did, it would make sense that MS would do their own thing with their use of ODF. MS wants the world to use their file formats that they cont

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

[quote] Be wary about using it tho because there is no way you could return to Outlook, ThunderBird or such-like after getting used to it. [unquote] I was wondering what you mean by this? I know that TB will run the email files from the Outlook Express folder. Did that before and just neede

RE: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

I have a LibreOffice Calc file that I use every day. I keep it as an ODF (.ods extension) file. If I open it in Microsoft Office AS AN ODF FILE (not saved as .xls or .xlsx), I receive the following warning: "Excel found unreadable content in 'myfile.ods'. Do you want to recover the contents o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Portuguese language pack

Mac has Language packs listed for download, but no Help packs. The question is Brazil's Portuguese or Europe's version? Did not catch if the European version was bad and they used Brazil's or what? The solution was to install Brazil's, it states. On 09/07/2011 09:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :) For an email client i would probably recommend a non-OpenSource but still free (i think) program called "The Bat". For my own requirements ThunderBird or Claws are fine. Claws is much smaller and lighter-weight so it might be faster but maybe has less functionality. Going the other w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

how could this be a libreoffice bug?the 'saved' file could be opened normally by libreoffice and not by MS office.so,the problem should be in MS office.? On 7 September 2011 14:56, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Yes, file a bug-report to try to help pin-point where the problem is so > that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragaph Maker not showing

NoOp wrote (07-09-11 04:35) Works for me w/linux 3.3.4& 3.4.3 (same machine). Even changing views. That said: Tools> LibreOffice Writer> Formatting aid> check Paragraph ends is on by default with my configurations. So perhaps that it the trigger/issue? Does the behaviour change when you ch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Portuguese language pack

Hi :) I thought the Mac version installs all language packs at the same time. I didn't think you could select different ones? Sorry i can't help wih this, i'm just curious because it's interesting. The Brazilians do have a fairly vast community so it makes sense that it works better. Could y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragaph Maker not showing

Hi :) It would be great if that bug-report could be pinned down a bit more from the comments in this thread https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40482 Regards from Tom :) From: NoOp To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 7 September, 2011 3:35:10

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't type below columns in Writer

Hi Linda, Linda L. Hull schrieb: I pasted some addresses to a blank writer page, and did format> columns, selected 3 columns. The columns look fine, but I can't click below them in the page. I tried pasting the material again, same result, and also pasting the material from vi(m). How do I get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :) The crucial thing is that LibreOffice can be installed alongside MS Office. You are not asking them to stop installing MS Office (it would be nice but lets be realistic). They might let you have LO on your main machine there at the very least. Hopefully they might allow it on all the m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

+1 to freedom! - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:05:54 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I repo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Hi :) Yes, file a bug-report to try to help pin-point where the problem is so that people can work on it. This guide can help with buig-reporting http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport It's a good idea to do a search for similar bugs to see if someone has already reported it. maybe you co

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote: I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors. Should I file a bu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

Il 07/09/2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen ha scritto: I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors. Should I file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc

I think you are making heavy weather of this. If the criterion is equality, it does not need to be mentioned: you need just to indicate the cell containing the relevant value. Try: > =SUMIF(A1:A10;X2;B1:B10) > Since you need to fill this down the Y column, you will need to freeze the > row refe

[libreoffice-users] Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors. Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in