Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-07-24 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 24/07/2012 01:56, anne-ology a écrit : Is there some way, while in Impress, to make the desired font the default for that particular file? it's so frustrating to have to continually re-apply the text's font. Yes, it is. The answer is: styles. In Impress, there are two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: SQL statement in Base query

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If only it were possible to somehow communicate with people from the various back-end projects perhaps even ask them to write-up a brief sub-chapter on how to use their back-end in conjunction with Base.  I wonder if any of them know anything about the use of Sql in their projects.  The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The fact of something appearing in a format dialogue box is not really proof of that format being used!  I've never seen nor heard of the USA way being used in the UK.  Perhaps it's used in the US airbases.  Wouldn't it be a tad confusing if both ways were really being used here?  I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which template categories are built-in, how to name custom ones?

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, Regina's answer was much better.  As always.  There are a few things that are not quite perfect in LibreOffice and people have sometimes managed to get so annoyed about a certain thing that they do re-write it and that improves the project for a lot of people.  I thought that this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Anthony Easthope
I have a comment on the error dialogue. I once got into a heated debate with my ICT teacher earlier on this year and in the debate the comment was made by her that: Microsoft with that error dialogue are really just trying to insinuate that their products are superior to others I in a way kind of

Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Anthony Easthope
I was doing some reading about New Zealand's connection to the world and it turns out we down under tap into some underwater fiber cable and that the Government for some reason hires it from the US government, anyway somewhere in the agreement it mentions that NZ can't exceed a ceartin limit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:41:59 -0400 webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Anyone who really wants to learn how to use Linux as a replacement for Windows, try dual booting a system if you do not have a spare one to try Linux with as its only OS. G'day. The other option for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cropper
On 24/07/12 19:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:41:59 -0400 webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Anyone who really wants to learn how to use Linux as a replacement for Windows, try dual booting a system if you do not have a spare one to try Linux with as its

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/7/24 Anthony Easthope antiso...@myopera.com: I have a comment on the error dialogue. I once got into a heated debate with my ICT teacher earlier on this year and in the debate the comment was made by her that: Microsoft with that error dialogue are really just trying to insinuate that

[libreoffice-users] Batch conversion from csv

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Crider
I have csv files generated from an SQL command-line utility that I am trying to convert to dBase using the batch converter. If I open the csv in LibreOffice, a default option is Quoted fields as text, and if it is saved as another filetype, those fields remain text, but when using the batch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Virtualisation is good but if it's a question of drivers for a particular piece of hardware then it might not work.  It might, but it if the underlaying OS can't see it then i don't see how the virtual machine that is sitting on top of that OS is supposed to see it.  It is possible to

New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  I assumed it was all done by satellites and that was why the connection to the outside world had such limited bandwidth and was so slow.  I remember a few years ago a ship in the meditteranean accidentally ripped up THE single cable connecting Asia to the rest of the world!  or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
The real problem for many people is the hardware and software needs. I still have some USB hardware that does not work on Linux. No working drivers. Then there is the problem of having to use certain software, for work or pleasure, that you either cannot find a good Linux alternative or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Chaim Seymour
Hi I can offer another option, which I find very satisfactory. My previous laptop had windows vista and was unsatisfactory. When I bought a new computer (with Windows 7), I formatted the disk on the old computer and installed Linux. I tried 2 or 3 different linux packages and since my computer

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Mostly it is fiber/copper for world-wide communication. That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to digital to go through the cables to give more lines of communication between countries, i.e. more phone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That sounds the perfect way to try it.  Tim (Webmaster at Kracked Press) made a good point about trying LiveCds to just test-drive various distros.  Trying a few is really ideal.  Ubuntu might be a good one to start with but it is designed to be comparable with the latest Windows so it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: SQL statement in Base query

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 07/24/2012 03:06 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If only it were possible to somehow communicate with people from the various back-end projects perhaps even ask them to write-up a brief sub-chapter on how to use their back-end in conjunction with Base. I wonder if any of them know anything

[libreoffice-users] Re-election of the TDF Membership Committee

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is totally awesome imo.  Quite a few of us never made it to becoming members so we might have some issues with it but basically i think this is all quite awesome.  Most organisations i have ever heard of that intended to become community led never quite got this far.  They almost

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 07/24/2012 10:15 AM, Russell Wilson wrote: try starting with something like 1/4 population of New York, 1000 times its surface area, and 1/4 of 1% of its financial worth Russell Dunedin, New Zealand In the US, there are rural areas that still do not have very fast connections because of

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote: webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to digital to go through the cables to give more lines of communication between countries

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the distance between Australia and New Zealand is surprisingly large.  Nothing like as close as i keep thinking it is.  The Netherlands and Sweden are very atypical of European countries.  I think they have an extremely high tax-rate but that gets put into very high visibility

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread James Knott
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote: webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to digital to go through the cables to give more lines of

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote: webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: I think the distance between Australia and New Zealand is surprisingly large. Nothing like as close as i keep thinking it is. If Sarah Palin lived in NZ, she could see Australia from her home. ;-) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am actually having a lot of trouble with Windows Xp right now trying to get the drivers for an onboard ethernet port.  Ubuntu picked it up right away but Xp claims there is no spoon (oops, i mean connection) Often if 1 distro can pick it up and another can't then it's quite possible to

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Going 'off-topic' in a thread like this is not a problem.  We are not trying to fix a set problem for a specific op.  It's just a chat.  I broke it out of the original question by forwarding it back to the list and i changed the subject-line so that people could filter it out quickly and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Batch conversion from csv

2012-07-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.07.2012 13:34, Michael Crider wrote: I have csv files generated from an SQL command-line utility that I am trying to convert to dBase using the batch converter. If I open the csv in LibreOffice, a default option is Quoted fields as text, and if it is saved as another filetype, those fields

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Lynne Stevens
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Re: [libreoffice-users] SQL statement in Base query

2012-07-24 Thread Mark Stanton
In article 500ea6e8.4030...@gmail.com, Jay Lozier wrote: Actually most users of different backend db will be familiar with the SQL version of that backend. What users need are two things: a connector between Base and the backend and instructions on connecting to that backend. The problem is,

Re: [libreoffice-users] SQL statement in Base query

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 07/24/2012 01:39 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: In article 500ea6e8.4030...@gmail.com, Jay Lozier wrote: Actually most users of different backend db will be familiar with the SQL version of that backend. What users need are two things: a connector between Base and the backend and instructions on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Batch conversion from csv

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Crider
On 07/24/2012 12:16 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 24.07.2012 13:34, Michael Crider wrote: I have csv files generated from an SQL command-line utility that I am trying to convert to dBase using the batch converter. If I open the csv in LibreOffice, a default option is Quoted fields as text, and if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Don Parris
Thanks Chuck! That's pretty helpful. Thanks to the others as well. Again, my focus is more on whether and how people share their documents than on the intricacies of advocacy. :-) Regards, Don On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Chuck Davis cjgun...@gmail.com wrote: To answer your question:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 24/07/12 15:38, Chuck Davis wrote: Cost them some money for new licenses but they upgraded their MS licenses to read my files. You need to be aware that MS Office 2010, while it will read ods files, strips out ALL the formulae - just leaving the last value. Yeah, sure, MS Office reads

[libreoffice-users] Re: Batch conversion from csv

2012-07-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.07.2012 20:11, Michael Crider wrote: which only exports as csv. The reason I attempted other spreadsheet types is because dBase files can be opened directly in Calc, as well as accessed through Base. I am open any suggestions for improving this process. Connect a Base document to your

RE: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
No, it was a mistake. The ODF 1.0 and ODF 1.1 standards did not provide a specification for spreadsheet formulas, so what OpenOffice implemented was implementation-specific and the Office team decided, with some public consultation, to not attempt to match OpenOffice, but to work within the

RE Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Lynne Stevens
omega The Omega sector America's Last Line of Defense *Virtual box is found by typing in Virtual Box into search engine and click on the one which says Download it is by Oracle and get the right one for the O/S you have . . . I have run all kinds of stuff from inside of virtual Box

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where are my custom labels?

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hopefully you mean 3.5.4 as 3.6.anything hasn't been properly released yet (although i think you can beta-test a pre-release if you feel the urge (if not then you're missing out)) With the 3.5.x branch the User Profile changed location but the 3.5.4 'should' have found your old one and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can I populate a whole row in Spreadsheet by importing from Database into only one cell?

2012-07-24 Thread kuuga
Thank you, this was just what I needed. I apologise for the late reply but I have been very busy . I found a really weird problem today when I was rearranging the sheets, to make them easier to read and find important information quickly. I moved the equipment tables with your formula to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the French team focus more on their Faq than on documentation https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications/fr but here is their home-page for LO http://fr.libreoffice.org/ which looks quite full and has a lot of pages.  I'm not sure it really helps this time,

Re: New Zealand connection,was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Anthony Easthope
I must say that we down under are now slowly undertaking a country wide program to get majority of the country connected through fibre. I for one had a digger parked on my front lawn for 2 weeks while they where laying it down my street. only there is a catch to this scheme we are unable to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where are my custom labels?

2012-07-24 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Jerry, Libre User schrieb: I have recently upgraded to LibreOffice 3.6.4 and can't find my custom labels. Using the LO 3.2 family I have been creating labels for museum exhibits. From a museum supplied spreadsheet with the necessary fields, I used an LO Base query sheet and then used

Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-07-24 Thread Dan
And I offered to send you a copy of a slide show which would visually show you how to do many things in Impress. I have not seen any comments about it. It might be talking over your head, or it might not. How will you know unless you got the slide show and studied it? It seems like you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where are my custom labels?

2012-07-24 Thread Libre User
Sorry, should have been 3.4.6. I guess I'm a dyslectic typist. Jerry At 02:54 PM 7/24/2012, you wrote: Hi :) Hopefully you mean 3.5.4 as 3.6.anything hasn't been properly released yet (although i think you can beta-test a pre-release if you feel the urge (if not then you're missing out))

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where are my custom labels?

2012-07-24 Thread Libre User
Sorry, I mistyped. I am using 3.4.6 which I upgraded from 3.2.? which is why I referred to it as the 3.2 family. I just don't remember Jerry At 04:37 PM 7/24/2012, you wrote: Hi Jerry, Libre User schrieb: I have recently upgraded to LibreOffice 3.6.4 and can't find my custom labels. Using

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:16 24/07/2012 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: Also the lag time for satellite can be up to 15 seconds from ground station through a satellite to the ground station. Oh dear: the speed of light must have decreased by a factor of 63 since I was at school! Has someone told the scientific

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can I populate a whole row in Spreadsheet by importing from Database into only one cell?

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:09 24/07/2012 -0700, Kuuga Noname wrote: I found a really weird problem today when I was rearranging the sheets, to make them easier to read and find important information quickly. I moved the equipment tables with your formula to the first sheet and no matter what, the formula only

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread James Knott
Brian Barker wrote: Also the lag time for satellite can be up to 15 seconds from ground station through a satellite to the ground station. Oh dear: the speed of light must have decreased by a factor of 63 since I was at school! Has someone told the scientific community? Probably some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selecting fonts in Impress

2012-07-24 Thread anne-ology
If it shows how to maintain the font style when adding text to each subsequent slide, I'd very much appreciate seeing your presentation. Thank you. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some way, while in Impress, to make

[libreoffice-users] Re: Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread NoOp
On 07/24/2012 03:59 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... Whenever I share office files (mostly spreadsheets) with people I export them to PDF first. People are not supposed to edit my files PDF is not always the panacea some purport it to be... Just a few recent samples:

[libreoffice-users] repeated search

2012-07-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good morning from Japan Currently using LO 3.4.5 on Windows XP. Search: Ctrl + F In this verion now there is a funny little window opening at the lower left corner of the screen, while formerly it used to be new window in the center of the screen. (which was to my taste a lot better) I noticed,

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-07-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I just used Office Word 2013 Preview to open a PDF that I saved from LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word (with conversion) and edited just like a Word document. I was able to save it as a .docx (the default suggestion). I couldn't save as PDF though. That appears to be a glitch in the

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I kinda assumed there would be some lag added due to processing at each end and up there.  Also bandwidth issues and perhaps that the satellites and supporting systems might prioritise military, government, corporate and scientific data-flow above house calls. I doubt it's that photons