[libreoffice-users] Bespoke background images

2012-01-17 Thread chasm
I've created a bespoke bitmap that I wish to use as a tiled page background. How do I add it to the list of background bitmaps that come with LibreOffice? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Bespoke-background-images-tp3665807p3665807.html Sent from the Users mai

[libreoffice-users] Re: Batch for extracting lines into new files in CALC

2012-01-17 Thread tk5ep
Hi Jay, The Calc file has only one sheet, no formulas, only raw datas. I need to extract all lines having the same value (numerical) from one column and create an XLS sheet with these lines. This XLS file must be named with the value used to filter. For example, filter all lines who have 001 in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Libre User
At 01:17 PM 1/17/2012, you wrote: On 2012-01-17 2:47 PM, NoOp wrote: On 01/16/2012 10:26 PM, Julieann Wright wrote: ... Lastly, I tend to write very long documents (several hundred pages) that often require me to backtrack to an earlier page to make a correction. Prior to downloading LibreOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 01/17/2012 06:39 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 18/01/2012 at 00:20, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: thank you for the suggestion but that is one way that doesn't work for me - because, I have to create a pdf which will be printed by a company that will also bind the book. Within the pdf the back p

[libreoffice-users] Re: Triggering reports from html files

2012-01-17 Thread blesko
Hi Drew :-) Jeff has the one you sent me - we're working on the project together. He has it working now, too. Thanks! Beth -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Triggering-reports-from-html-files-tp3654402p3668089.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive a

Re: [libreoffice-users] selection across page boundaries in Writer

2012-01-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 17:19 -0800, lrkeefe wrote: > At some time in the last year, as I have updated from OpenOffice to > LibreOffice on OpenSuSE 11.4, I have lost the ability to select multiple > pages of text by simply left mouse dragging down in the document. If I > cross a page border now, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Triggering reports from html files

2012-01-17 Thread drew
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 06:53 -0800, Jeff West wrote: > How do I change the database for ReportRuner? The drop down only shows > bibliography. hmm - don't know. Do you mind if I send you an update directly? //drew > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Tri

[libreoffice-users] selection across page boundaries in Writer

2012-01-17 Thread lrkeefe
At some time in the last year, as I have updated from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on OpenSuSE 11.4, I have lost the ability to select multiple pages of text by simply left mouse dragging down in the document. If I cross a page border now, the light blue selection highlight for the text in the page d

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Jay Lozier
Sylvia, On 01/17/2012 06:20 PM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: Jay, thank you for the suggestion but that is one way that doesn't work for me - because, I have to create a pdf which will be printed by a company that will also bind the book. I just tested File>>Export AS PDF with a 9 page document and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents in alphabetic order?

2012-01-17 Thread .
On 01/17/2012 03:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Can yo cheat and insert an Index at the front and then just have it index the > chapter headings? > > (Kinda following the old saying "If in doubt, cheat") > Regards from > Tom :) > Tom, Since I've mastered adding a TOC with hyperlinks I was h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 18/01/2012 at 00:39, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > A little scripting may be needed, as well > as "empty" PDF, but it should be very difficult to achieve. Of course I meant that it should *NOT* be very difficult to achieve. Here is example of inserting blank page into existing PDF document usin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 18/01/2012 at 00:20, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: > thank you for the suggestion but that is one way that doesn't work for > me - because, I have to create a pdf which will be printed by a company > that will also bind the book. > > Within the pdf the back pages have to be blanks in order to be prin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Sylvia Schmidt
Jay, thank you for the suggestion but that is one way that doesn't work for me - because, I have to create a pdf which will be printed by a company that will also bind the book. Within the pdf the back pages have to be blanks in order to be printed correctly. On 18.01.2012 00:08, Jay Lozie

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Hi Sylvia Most of time I create documents that are one-sided and honestly I quite don't see where your problem is ;) . If you want to have continuous page numbering, use just one page style - default should do just fine. You should only: (1) adjust margins (left should be bigger, since your th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Jay Lozier
On 01/17/2012 05:53 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 1/17/12 3:25 PM, Pedro wrote: Ken Springer-3 wrote I finally had the time to create a Bugzilla account and file the bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44871 Excellent. I took the liberty of changing the Bug title. "Tables" isn

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Jay Lozier
Sylvia, On 01/17/2012 05:55 PM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote: Hey, I'm trying to create a layout for my thesis in Writer. I know how to work (reasonably well) with page/paragraph styles. My problem is this: I have to hand in my thesis with only one side of the page printed, the back has to be blank

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Pedro
Ken Springer-3 wrote > > Thanks. I was trying to follow the suggestions on the Bugzilla page, > but I don't mind your changes at all. > I see what you mean. Added the keyword TABLES in capitals to the title (Bugzilla calls it Summary) ;) The idea is that the Summary clearly describes the prob

[libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

2012-01-17 Thread Sylvia Schmidt
Hey, I'm trying to create a layout for my thesis in Writer. I know how to work (reasonably well) with page/paragraph styles. My problem is this: I have to hand in my thesis with only one side of the page printed, the back has to be blank. I thought I cloud cheat by only using right page sty

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Ken Springer
On 1/17/12 3:25 PM, Pedro wrote: Ken Springer-3 wrote I finally had the time to create a Bugzilla account and file the bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44871 Excellent. I took the liberty of changing the Bug title. "Tables" isn't very clear (imagine that you are searching

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brilliant, thanks Pedro :)  I really like OpenSource for this sort of thing.  I'm not so keen on the recursive names such as Wine or Gnu but i like that the joke is there even if i don't happen to find it amusing myself.  I always deliberately mis-type typo as tpyo jsut for the fun of it. 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Pedro
Ken Springer-3 wrote > > I finally had the time to create a Bugzilla account and file the bug. > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44871 > Excellent. I took the liberty of changing the Bug title. "Tables" isn't very clear (imagine that you are searching for your own bug). Renamed

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, it doesn't sound normal.  There are sometimes problems with recovering a document.  First it might be good to try renaming your UserProfile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile This resets all your settings back to "factory defaults".  Can you find the folder t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug in Calc?

2012-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) Good work! Thanks for testing this as there was no guarantee of success. It is really great to hear that it did work and that you are havign success with the chart now :) Also thanks for letting us know that you have fixed it. Congrats and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Change default size to insert pictures

2012-01-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 07:56 -0800, mnatiello wrote: > Hallo > I have to insert photographs on a Write document. By dragging the pictures > from > a file manager or inserting them via "insert -> picture -> from file" the > pictures > get a default size: picture width fits page width (A4 portrait).

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Tables and row spacing question

2012-01-17 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Pedro, On 1/9/12 9:07 AM, Pedro wrote: Ken Springer-3 wrote I thought Table>Autofit>Distribute Rows Equally would adjust all of the row heights to fit into the 5.5" height of the table. I think you found a Bug :) The Autofit Columns does exactly what you expected (and in my opinion is

[libreoffice-users] Change default size to insert pictures

2012-01-17 Thread mnatiello
Hallo I have to insert photographs on a Write document. By dragging the pictures from a file manager or inserting them via "insert -> picture -> from file" the pictures get a default size: picture width fits page width (A4 portrait). I want to change this default. I need the pictures to be anchore

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents in alphabetic order?

2012-01-17 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 17/01/2012 at 21:33, Tom Davies wrote: > Can yo cheat and insert an Index at the front and then just have it index > the chapter headings? It does not matter where you put your Index, it indexes whole document (the logic behind it is nicely exposed in LaTeX, when you have to process document

[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL native connector - several databases retrieved?

2012-01-17 Thread fmayo
Le 17/01/2012 09:16, Fernand Vanrie [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] a écrit : > for MySQL it works, but maybe you have to save the odb doc, close (who > must close the connection) and reopen ? Thanks for the advice, Fernand. Good to know that it works fine with MySQL. I tested it that way,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Batch for extracting lines into new files in CALC

2012-01-17 Thread Jay Lozier
Hi, On 01/17/2012 11:23 AM, tk5ep wrote: Hi All, I have a 13 lines CALC file. I need to : - filter the lines according a criterion - export these lines to a new XLS file named after this criterion - email the file this has to be done about 500 times (criterions) Has anybody a solution ??

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) or someone else's name or a fictitious name.  I'm not sure if the work-around works if you just use spaces. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 17/1/12, Tanstaafl wrote: From: Tanstaafl Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents in alphabetic order?

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can yo cheat and insert an Index at the front and then just have it index the chapter headings? (Kinda following the old saying "If in doubt, cheat") Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 17/1/12, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: From: Mirosław Zalewski Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Con

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents in alphabetic order?

2012-01-17 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 17/01/2012 at 15:36, "." wrote: > How can a TOC be put into alphabetic order? (I'm not talking about an > Index) So, are you talking about table of contents or index? ToC's are usually placed at beginning or end of book and contain list of chapters, subchapters, sections, subsections etc.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug in Calc?

2012-01-17 Thread D & L Koch
Just a follow-up on my question a week ago about a possible bug in Calc, specifically for Tom Davies and Cor Nouws who had offered suggestions. The spreadsheet in question was not very large, so one night when I couldn't sleep I re-did the spreadsheet in L.O. (the original was done in OOo). I

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Gérard Fargeot
> there is a way to change the settings in my current version of > LibreOffice to enable my documents to do so automatically? > Hi, Go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User data and enter your first/last name. Gérard -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/L

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-17 2:47 PM, NoOp wrote: On 01/16/2012 10:26 PM, Julieann Wright wrote: ... Lastly, I tend to write very long documents (several hundred pages) that often require me to backtrack to an earlier page to make a correction. Prior to downloading LibreOffice 3.4.4 I had a version of OpenOff

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's not great to be faced with these challenges and questions and no answers when people first write in to the list.  It's scary.  Sadly i don't think there was a way around it this time.  Perhaps John has installed on a lower spec than is really needed for Ubuntu.  Ubuntu really needs

[libreoffice-users] Batch for extracting lines into new files in CALC

2012-01-17 Thread tk5ep
Hi All, I have a 13 lines CALC file. I need to : - filter the lines according a criterion - export these lines to a new XLS file named after this criterion - email the file this has to be done about 500 times (criterions) Has anybody a solution ?? Thanks for any help, -- View this message

[libreoffice-users] Re: Triggering reports from html files

2012-01-17 Thread Jeff West
How do I change the database for ReportRuner? The drop down only shows bibliography. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Triggering-reports-from-html-files-tp3654402p3666323.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instruc

[libreoffice-users] Table of Contents in alphabetic order?

2012-01-17 Thread .
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can a TOC be put into alphabetic order? (I'm not talking about an Index) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPFYdtAAoJEPBpZNn4grcjzgkH/2k

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread NoOp
On 01/16/2012 10:26 PM, Julieann Wright wrote: ... > Lastly, I tend to write very long documents (several hundred pages) that > often require me to backtrack to an earlier page to make a correction. > Prior to downloading LibreOffice 3.4.4 I had a version of OpenOffice that > allowed me to save a d

[libreoffice-users] Re: Best JRE for LibreOffice on a 64-bit system: 32 or 64 bit ?

2012-01-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.01.2012 09:51, Tom Davies wrote: Where it hasn't been written-out it seems their best version is 6_21 or on Windows 6u21 Why? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Po

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Questions

2012-01-17 Thread Julieann Wright
I recently downloaded the 3.4.4 version of LibreOffice and I'm having a few issues with it that I was hoping to resolve. Firstly, I noticed that even if the program had been working properly and closed without issue the previous time I used it, the program behaves as though it had crashed and requ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 16/01/12 20:56, John Black wrote: I just installed Libre Calc and tried to run it. Got the message: ” The application cannot be started. [context="shared"] caught unexpected exception!” What did I do wrong? This is in Ubuntu that I installed yesterday. Thank you John Your post makes no se

Re: [libreoffice-users] Best JRE for LibreOffice on a 64-bit system: 32 or 64 bit ?

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might be able to turn off java completely. Tools - Options - Java Generally and for most programs it is best to have only the very newest JRE.  It is always written with security flaws which we don't find out about until later.  The company that produces it assures us that their newer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL native connector - several databases retrieved?

2012-01-17 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Francois , for MySQL it works, but maybe you have to save the odb doc, close (who must close the connection) and reopen ? Greetz Fernand Le 16/01/2012 18:04, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : fmayo , Use the Tools >> Table Filter in the the odb document to choose the wanted -not wanted databases.