Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Form behavior.

2012-12-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
And a (dirty) workaround could be putting a move last and then a move first by code, on form open, isn't it? Il giorno 06/dic/2012 08:06, "Alex Thurgood" ha scritto: > On 12/06/2012 05:08 AM, Hank Alper wrote: > > Hi Hank, > > ith the same result. Is this a bug? Has anyone noticed this type of >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:55 05/12/2012 -0800, Joel Madero wrote: I want to know if there's a way to make a chart range be an entire column so that if I add data I don't have to manually alter the range. For instance, every month I do expenses and the new row would be "MM/" then there's expenses and income lis

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 12/06/2012 02:25 AM, Anthony Easthope wrote: Hi Anthony, You could try looking here : http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/ Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Form behavior.

2012-12-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 12/06/2012 05:08 AM, Hank Alper wrote: Hi Hank, ith the same result. Is this a bug? Has anyone noticed this type of behavior ? Base seems to start out handling records in increments of about 40 records until it finds the end of the file. Strange. Hank Alper This is the programmed behav

[libreoffice-users] Base Form behavior.

2012-12-05 Thread Hank Alper
Hi, I've been composing an LO Base application using Mariano Casanova's excellent tutorial (written for OO Base) as a guide and I'm pleased with the progress I've been able to make thus far. I have observed some strange behavior, however,when using the triangular widgets in the navigation bar at th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Aaron C Johnson
Hello- Are you simply trying to install the latest release of LibreOffice or are you just interested in compiling it? dpkg is the debian package manager so no that command doesn't extract it, it installs the binary to your system. There really is no need to compile it if you are planning on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Don Myers
You are most welcome, Anthony. I ran across this method about 4 years ago to be able to update OpenOffice back then. Once you get past the basics of the terminal, I'm not knowledgeable. Don On 12/05/2012 10:08 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote: Thanks! I'm guess that the "SUDO DPKG" command is meani

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Don Myers
Oops! I should have mentioned that I'm running Ubuntu 12.10. Also, if you are using Unity, click on the Dash button after the install and type Libre and then drag any of the LibreOffice components to the launcher that you would like to have there. Don On 12/05/2012 10:00 PM, Don Myers wro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Anthony Easthope
Thanks! I'm guess that the "SUDO DPKG" command is meaning to extract the files? i keep thinking there was something about a autogen.sh script (I was reading about this somewhere on a compiling tuitorial) Doesn't LO have such a thing? On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, at 04:00 AM, Don Myers wrote: > Hi Anthony,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread anne-ology
Hey, you G-Men ... do you walk each morn' - takes me about 30-45 minutes to walk about 5 miles, care to join me ;-) On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) > +1 > about the body image. Women have travelled miles for just 1 sight of me. > Unfortunately the di

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Don Myers
Hi Anthony, This is how I update to each new version of the Document Foundation version of Libre Office. This is for the 64 bit version, but simply substitute the 32 bit version for the 64 bit. This is for the latest 3.6.4.3 release: Download LibO_3.6.4.3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.g

Re: [libreoffice-users] tab behind end margin

2012-12-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. I am assuming you are meaning to put the note in a frame or text box. (Insert>frame) or drawing tools. You can turn the frame line off so it does not look like a box. Steve On 2012-12-06 15:34, anne-ology wrote: When you set the margins, the text will wrap within that area.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread anne-ology
If this is a poll, I like this feature in g-mail - and others; for those who wish to see all, use the 'all mail' rather than the 'inbox' ;-) If this is a poll, I still detest this list's reply feature ... having to doctor the e-addresses is time-consuming & frustrating; a

Re: [libreoffice-users] tab behind end margin

2012-12-05 Thread anne-ology
When you set the margins, the text will wrap within that area. Are you attempting to write notes within the margins? - if so, then you might be able to write your note, then paste it - as you would an image - where you wish it to be. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:18 AM, meta

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu Libreoffice

2012-12-05 Thread Anthony Easthope
Hey guys I'm back after what seems like ages! anyway encountered a problem which is probably due to inexperience but anyhow. I was wondering if there was a simple way to compile a Tar ball version of LO on ubuntu? I've searched all documentation but its doing my head in! Cheers -- Anthon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a good format. . .

2012-12-05 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I'm not sure what i did. Something fairly hideous. I think i might have used Gimp to make it into a Gif or Png image and then inserted that. I'm kinda flailing around with Pdfs at the moment. Regards from Tom :) Tom, That does sound painful! As a test, I was

[libreoffice-users] Merging with Calc only

2012-12-05 Thread J. Michael Morse
I would like to handout worksheets to students with their names already printed on it. I have a workbook in Calc with two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet is simply a list of names (NAMES). The second spreadsheet is a form with, among other things, a name field (FORM). I would like to pr

[libreoffice-users] Merging with Calc only

2012-12-05 Thread J. Michael Morse
I would like to handout worksheets to students with their names already printed on it. I have a workbook in Calc with two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet is simply a list of names (NAMES). The second spreadsheet is a form with, among other things, a name field (FORM). I would like to pr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a good format. . .

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure what i did.  Something fairly hideous.  I think i might have used Gimp to make it into a Gif or Png image and then inserted that.  I'm kinda flailing around with Pdfs at the moment. Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Girvin R. Herr >To: Tom Da

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a good format. . .

2012-12-05 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There are many different sorts of Pdfs (fdf "and what-not" as Amiko says in interviews on Nasa tele). Sometimes forms can be filled out using a proper Pdf reader such as Foxit (a good Pdf reader in Windows) but sometimes people try to make things difficult so that you a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 05/12/2012 22:55, Alex Thurgood a écrit : >> > > The Base one won't help you at the moment because Charts appear to be > partly broken in the report designer : > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48056 > Hmm, also these : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48251 (dup

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 05/12/2012 21:21, Joel Madero a écrit : Hi Joel, > I'll look into both solutions provided although the Base one kind of goes > outside of the scope of what I'm looking for. This is an issue that has > applied to a lot of spreadsheets for me and an auto update feature would be > really useful.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
I have OSX 10.6.8 and LO 3.5.4.2 and have not had these problems. Did you want to try removing your LO and installing another version. Steve On 2012-12-06 10:18, Oogie McGuire wrote: I have tried with both the default set by restoring to defaults which has Times as the main font in writer and A

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
You are using 3.5.6. Since that time, 3.5.7 was issued to fix a bug but I don't remember why right now. 3.5.7 might not have that problem. Also the newest release is 3.6.3 with 3.6.4 coming soon. 3.6.3 might also not have this problem. I agree that this can be frustrating. I do seem to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Oogie McGuire
I have tried with both the default set by restoring to defaults which has Times as the main font in writer and Arial for Calc and also setting my default fonts to something else. I've modified preferences and also restored them to defaults Doesn't matter what I do I still have the problem where

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/05/2012 12:23 PM, Oogie McGuire wrote: I've searched but none of the threads I can find seem to exactly cover my problem and various possible fixes about verifying the fonts are installed correctly haven't helped. Some fonts on my system suddenly become unavailable to LO. It happens in C

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Joel Madero
I'll look into both solutions provided although the Base one kind of goes outside of the scope of what I'm looking for. This is an issue that has applied to a lot of spreadsheets for me and an auto update feature would be really useful. My spreadsheet structure is like this: A|B|C Date|Income|Expe

Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
I forgot to Reply All, I'm sorry. --- Gabriele Ponzo -- Forwarded message -- From: Gabriele Ponzo Date: 2012/12/5 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column To: Joel Madero What You seem to be looking for is an auto-scaling feature which I don't believe has be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/05/2012 01:55 PM, Joel Madero wrote: Hi All, I want to know if there's a way to make a chart range be an entire column so that if I add data I don't have to manually alter the range. For instance, every month I do expenses and the new row would be "MM/" then there's expenses and income

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. In my mac I see the font file for Geneva is .dfont. For arial (and the others I use) I have a .ttf. (I think I deleted the mac arial and added the ttf because the mac arial threw my spacing out on documents with arial). Don't know if it makes a difference, also tried a document in Geneva a

[libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I want to know if there's a way to make a chart range be an entire column so that if I add data I don't have to manually alter the range. For instance, every month I do expenses and the new row would be "MM/" then there's expenses and income listed, every time I add a new entry I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Oogie McGuire
No preferences for a default font, only the option to set up a font substitution table. Which is empty in the way the system is installed initially. No Idea how to even start setting it to work. . I've also run the font book app and verified that all fonts are ok and there are no duplicates.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 05/12/2012 18:23, Oogie McGuire a écrit : Hi Oogie, > Some fonts on my system suddenly become unavailable to LO. It happens in Calc > and Writer. This has been known to happen, I've seen it with Writer, but don't recall it happening with Calc (yet), possibly because I wasn't using one of th

[libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Oogie McGuire
I've searched but none of the threads I can find seem to exactly cover my problem and various possible fixes about verifying the fonts are installed correctly haven't helped. Some fonts on my system suddenly become unavailable to LO. It happens in Calc and Writer. A typical symptom is that a

[OT] pun/counterpun (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...)

2012-12-05 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote: cute, cuter, cutest ... you're surely t' best. [further comments below] On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote: you took all my puns away ... just doing humanity a service

rsync, dd (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...)

2012-12-05 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If rsync is available on Windows then it might not be so easy to charge people so much for apps that do back-ups.  Unless no-one knew about it of course.  kind of like with LO anyway, there are Windows versions. I tried a back-up utility tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

2012-12-05 Thread anne-ology
dd greps the grub ;-) and just as I thought it was safe to go back in the water ;-) On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) > If rsync is available on Windows then it might not be so easy to charge > people so much for apps that do back-ups. Unless no-one knew

Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

2012-12-05 Thread anne-ology
Ok, I've placed rsync on my todo list ... will 'search' and learn more re. this aspect of these 'glorified typewriters'. Thank you to both you helpful souls! On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) > grsync has a nice pretty gui front-end but uses > rsync > to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer/Draw] How to insert fields into graphic?

2012-12-05 Thread gordom
W dniu 2012-12-05 14:33, gordom pisze: W dniu 2012-12-04 18:18, Regina Henschel pisze: Thank you Regina very much for the answer. I hope I understood correctly. Here is what I did (please correct me if I did something wrong): I simply paste a print screen to my test document and drew few rectan

[libreoffice-users] Re: built-in help - how to activate it

2012-12-05 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
Hi Graham, Finally got it after about 3 de/install cycles. During the installation I have to select English and French, just English isn't good enough:(. After that I can select English in the language settings and then the built-in help is working. Thanks for getting me going Werner --

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer/Draw] How to insert fields into graphic?

2012-12-05 Thread gordom
W dniu 2012-12-04 18:18, Regina Henschel pisze: Do not use the Caption wizard, but set the field manually. My goal is to get something like that: __printscreen__ | | | || 1 | | || | | _ |

[libreoffice-users] Re: built-in help - how to activate it

2012-12-05 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
On 05/12/2012 11:09, Graham Luffrum wrote: Werner, I also have LO 3.6.3 (under Windows 7) which I set up using the installer and help files for English UK, but unlike you I have English UK as one of the possibilities for the "User interface". (If I change the User interface to English US I get

Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If rsync is available on Windows then it might not be so easy to charge people so much for apps that do back-ups.  Unless no-one knew about it of course.  I tried a back-up utility that looked great until i used it to restore a bootable Windows and found the Windows boot-loader was comple

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.3.2/Writer] Split screen in half horizontally?

2012-12-05 Thread Gilles
I agree. I also miss being able to split a document horizontally in two halves. It's very useful when going through a big document. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/3-5-3-2-Writer-Split-screen-in-half-horizontally-tp3991983p4022603.html Sent from the Users m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: built-in help - how to activate it

2012-12-05 Thread Graham Luffrum
Werner, I also have LO 3.6.3 (under Windows 7) which I set up using the installer and help files for English UK, but unlike you I have English UK as one of the possibilities for the "User interface". (If I change the User interface to English US I get the problem you are encountering.) I know it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:00 05/12/2012 +, Tom Davies wrote: At 03:03 05/12/2012 +, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:19 04/12/2012 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: I notice one cannot see one's own posts; is it possible to switch this on? Your problem is not with the LibreOffice list, but with your mail provider Gma

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 about the body image.  Women have travelled miles for just 1 sight of me.  Unfortunately the direction is away from me not towards.  "Reply to all" and then copy&paste?  List manager? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/ errr i don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a good format. . .

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are many different sorts of Pdfs (fdf "and what-not" as Amiko says in interviews on Nasa tele).  Sometimes forms can be filled out using a proper Pdf reader such as Foxit (a good Pdf reader in Windows) but sometimes people try to make things difficult so that you are forced into usin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think there is some default setting when you apply to these lists that sets it so you can't see your own posts except through Nabble or GMane.  So, it's not just GMail that is blocking him.  who's the list-manager again? Personally i think it's

[libreoffice-users] tab behind end margin

2012-12-05 Thread metaphalon
Hi The feature list of LO 3.5 states, that it is possible to set the tab stop behind the end margin, so the following text can continue after the tab stop. I tried this and, I was not able to get it to work, instead a newline is inserted. It would be nice, if anyone could give me a hint or tell m

Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) grsync has a nice pretty gui front-end but uses rsync to do the work, of course.  Rsync works from the command-line and has more options but GRsync is easier for point&click users like me.  One advantage is that it keeps permissions intact whereas copy&paste or drag&drop tend to twist th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Losing own messages [was Re: Pdf import]

2012-12-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think there is some default setting when you apply to these lists that sets it so you can't see your own posts except through Nabble or GMane.  So, it's not just GMail that is blocking him.  Personally i think it's a huge benefit.  I see my own posts in people's replies and notice all