[libreoffice-users] Lots of questions! Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-website] Press Clippings

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Italo!  A good list and some interesting reads.  There seems to be a lot of FUD or misunderstandings in quite a lot of the comments under those articles, sometimes minor misunderstandings in the articles but the most important ones seem to be in the comments.  It might be good

[libreoffice-users] Re: RE-NAMING database (Base) tables is broken in LO v.4?

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 08/02/2013 08:00, frofa a écrit : Hi, I have just installed the newly-released LO Version 4.0.0.3 (Build ID: 53fd80e80f44edd735c18dbc5b6cde811e0a15c) and testing with some of my 'split' databases (using HSQLDB v.2.2.8 in 'file mode'). I notice when I right-click on a TABLE NAME (in the

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote Why not make sure that the version of LO work for the current Long-Term-Support version of Ubuntu Unity? … Is there any way to make sure that LO works with 12.04LTS, 12.10, 13.04, and then 13.10? It probably would take plenty of work. As I mentioned, there have been large

[libreoffice-users] Re: RE-NAMING database (Base) tables is broken in LO v.4?

2013-02-08 Thread Tom
Hi :) have you tried renaming your User Profile to get back to factory defaults as that often cures weird things that shouldn't happen https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile The advantage with renaming it is that if it has no effect or makes things worse you can copy the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 It's not a huge issue.  If i can't get it to work in the next couple of days then i can go back to 3.5.4 or even settle on 3.6.? as an upgrade that didn't go quite as far as i'd hoped.  Bear in mind that 4.0.0 still has a .0 at the end and i wouldn't normally upgrade to a new branch

Re: [libreoffice-users] IF w/ Regular Expression

2013-02-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:05 07/02/2013 -0800, Joel Madero wrote: I have enabled regular expressions in LibreOffice settings but still am unable to get this one to work. Here is my line: IF(N200=*regression*,1,0) Not sure what I'm missing. What you are missing, I think, is defining your problem! You have

[libreoffice-users] A (sane) way of doing bullets and numbering

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
Hi list One of the biggest (personal) bugbears I have with LibO (and OOo before this) is the issue of numbering and bulleting. It just seems counter-intuitive to me and is one of the very few areas where I think that MS has a better approach. I have a numbered list in a table and now I want

[libreoffice-users] Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
Hello list Using LibO 3.6.2.2 on Linux Mint: I have enabled the check spelling as you type option under Tools/ Options/ Writing Aids but I can type complete gibberish and the spell checker doesn't recognise this (i.e. no red underlines). How do I fix this please? Thanks -- For

[libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
I seem to have fixed this now by downloading v. 4 from the website and replacing the Linux Mint native version. The spell check is fixed. So case closed. On 08/02/13 13:23, sun shine wrote: Hello list Using LibO 3.6.2.2 on Linux Mint: I have enabled the check spelling as you type option

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
Who is this idiot? Original Message Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:44:41 +0100 From: Claude Fiefel claude.fie...@orange.fr To: sun shine phaedr...@gmail.com JE NE

Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 02/08/2013 01:26 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/08/2013 01:06 AM, e-letter wrote: On 07/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: On 05/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Since 'liberation serif' is

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Lewis
This is obviously a bug in the Linux Mint version. I know that earlier I had the Ubuntu version of LO 3.5.4. When I typed every word was marked as an incorrect spelling. I have no such problems with the version supplied by LibreOffice, itself. --Dan On 02/08/2013 08:52 AM, sun shine

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
On 08/02/13 14:16, Dan Lewis wrote: This is obviously a bug in the Linux Mint version. I know that earlier I had the Ubuntu version of LO 3.5.4. When I typed every word was marked as an incorrect spelling. I have no such problems with the version supplied by LibreOffice, itself. --Dan On

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Original Message Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:56:52 +0100 From: Claude Fiefel claude.fie...@orange.fr To: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com un conseil prenez donc un traducteur en français for me

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
This guy is subscribed to the wrong list and then sends personal emails requesting that emails are sent in French. If anyone can write comprehensible French, please direct an email to him requesting that he unsub this list and re-sub to a French language list. On 08/02/13 14:23,

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
Or .. he is trying to unsub himself (hence finish emails - I think he wants to unsubscribe perhaps? On 08/02/13 14:23, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:56:52 +0100 From:

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure what the French chap was saying.  Anyone know?  Can anyone help?   The problem for me is trying to guess which fonts other people have on their machines.  I carefully installed the font called Ubuntu and it's derivatives (bold, and so on) on all my colleagues machine's and

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread Dries Feys
I'm willing to take contact with him. Can anyone give me the links to the french lists unsubscribe info? Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer On 8 February 2013 15:40, Tom Davies

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) The French website is here http://fr.libreoffice.org/ and their wiki is here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Main_Page/fr but i don't understand enough to find the equivalent of this page http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Regards from Tom :) 

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
On 08/02/13 14:42, Dries Feys wrote: I'm willing to take contact with him. Can anyone give me the links to the french lists unsubscribe info? Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer On 8 February 2013

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
On 08/02/13 14:54, Tom Davies wrote: HI :) The French website is here http://fr.libreoffice.org/ and their wiki is here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Main_Page/fr but i don't understand enough to find the equivalent of this page

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread C. H. D.
Hello! I have just watched the video provided:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bbnyAjMeMfeature=youtu.be I think this video is tidy. (I have not used CMIS.) The voice is nice. I think I have kept my video as short as about two minutes. I think people will not have the patience. (Most

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-08 Thread Andrew
Keynote doesn't. Thankfully! But in this instance (regularly) I have to use LibreOffice. I will get to the earlier suggestion in a few hours from now. Thanks for all the information and assistance so far. Great list :) Andrew Sent from my iPhone On 08/02/2013, at 1:37, Michel Dauchez

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  The girl/lady reading the script has used LibreOffice a couple of times but really had no idea how to do the things she was reading about and still doesn't know.  To be fair neither do i but she has a nice voice so i might listen to it enough to work out what it's about.  It might even

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-08 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel I suspected as much because the slide should be a highlight not the entire text. When I give presentations/lectures/talks I use the

Re: [libreoffice-users] IF w/ Regular Expression

2013-02-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/2/8 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com: At 14:05 07/02/2013 -0800, Joel Madero wrote: I have enabled regular expressions in LibreOffice settings but still am unable to get this one to work. Here is my line: IF(N200=*regression*,1,0) Not sure what I'm missing. What you are

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-08 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 2/8/2013 10:58 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel I suspected as much because the slide should be a highlight not the entire text. When I

Re: [libreoffice-users] IF w/ Regular Expression

2013-02-08 Thread Joel Madero
I actually went to bed thinking crap, that email wasn't very clear lol. My apologies indeed, I should know better! So I have a column N that has keywords, some of them are blank, some of them have items such as regression or regression, bibisect or bibisect, regression etc... What I want to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  Doesn't the text change to white where the background is black or dark?  My menus are all white and i'm not keen to test this idea.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Scott Castaline skotch...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

[libreoffice-users] Microfund your favourite Issue

2013-02-08 Thread Samuel Mehrbrodt
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[libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread alnuwer
Trying to update to LibreOffice 3.6.5 on my XPpro. After install completes and I try to open it, I get a Fatal Error message that says something about Service Manager is not available - Invalid Registry Exception... and tells me to run the setup again to Repair the installation.I ran the repair,

Fwd: [libreoffice-users] IF w/ Regular Expression

2013-02-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Aah, now I see, I did the same mistake I always do on this list, I emailed the OP personally. I do that a lot since this list changed its behaviour, sorry. I never learn, as it seems… Just in case anyone is curious, here is what I wrote this morning (local time), even though it doesn't mean much

Re: [libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-08 Thread Girvin R. Herr
The last I heard, admittedly many years ago for Access 1.x, MS Access uses the JET database server, which is bundled with Access much like Base uses HSQLDB by default. However, you are correct in that MS makes it difficult to connect the Access front-end to an external database server, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's well worth trying the 4.0.0 at this point.  It is waaay before i would normally try a new branch but it is well worth it.  Especially if you are having trouble with the older branch.  The whole point of the older branch is that it's supposed to be less hassle.  So, please try the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
On 08/02/13 19:17, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's well worth trying the 4.0.0 at this point. It is waaay before i would normally try a new branch but it is well worth it. Especially if you are having trouble with the older branch. The whole point of the older branch is that it's supposed to

Re: [libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I was forgetting the Report Builder wizard but i thought it was best to avoid using that anyway?  Your division of Back-end into 2 parts; data and server made a lot of sense.  Using the word Client instead of Front-end also makes sense and is probably more familiar to a lot of people

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
The French email to me was the second emain [different addresses] that had the tag like that looked like they used an iPad to send it. It decided to forward it to the list so someone who might know what should be done with the emails. On 02/08/2013 10:02 AM, sun shine wrote: On 08/02/13

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry about that!  It shouldn't have happened that way!  I think there was a huge disconnect between 11.04 and anything prior to that but that is not usually the way of things and it's unlikely to happen that way again.  Regards from Tom :)  From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
There are a lot of persona[s] I have tried for Firefox that did not work for me. Same will go for LO 4.0.0. There is some easy instructions on the FF site to help people create your own persona[s]. I may be creating a version myself, specifically working for LO 4.0.0. If I do, I will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Caesar
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:22:59 -0800 (PST), alnuwer alnu...@cox.net wrote Re [libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5: Trying to update to LibreOffice 3.6.5 on my XPpro. After install completes and I try to open it, I get a Fatal Error message that says something about Service Manager is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-08 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I was forgetting the Report Builder wizard but i thought it was best to avoid using that anyway? I avoid Oracle Report Builder too! For me, it is a basket case and needs a lot of work. Your division of Back-end into 2 parts; data and server made a lot of sense.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread alnuwer
Tom - I took your suggestion an (reluctantly) install 4.0. The installation went flawlessly. Really wanted a stable release, but life is what it is. Thanks for taking the time and suggestion. Al On 2/8/2013 11:17 AM, Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Hi :) It's well worth

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread alnuwer
Caesar, Thanks for the suggestion. In the meantime, I downloaded 4.0.0, and it installed flawlessly. So guess my installer is ok. On 2/8/2013 12:30 PM, Caesar [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:22:59 -0800 (PST), alnuwer [hidden email]

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Caesar
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:33:32 -0800 (PST), alnuwer alnu...@cox.net wrote Re [libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5: Caesar, Thanks for the suggestion. In the meantime, I downloaded 4.0.0, and it installed flawlessly. So guess my installer is ok. Glad to see that you got it solved. --

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Me too.  I bet that link is useful to someone in the future too so thanks for that :) Regards from Tom :)  From: Caesar cae...@hiwaay.net To: Libre Office List Server users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013, 21:41 Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-users] Value and Date function in Macro

2013-02-08 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I have a macro setup that can easily do the following: pasteValue = mid(currentCellValue,1,4) a string is stored to pasteValue which I then can manipulate how I want. What I want to do is make it actually more like this: pasteValue =

Re: [libreoffice-users] Macro to write a formula

2013-02-08 Thread Rolf Lochbühler
You're probably looking for something like this: Public Sub insertFormula ThisComponent.CurrentSelection.Formula = =TODAY() End Sub -rl Am 2013-02-07 um 21:06 schrieb T. R. Valentine trvalent...@gmail.com: Is it possible? If so, coiuld I get a simple example, something like =TODAY() to

Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working

2013-02-08 Thread Eric Beversluis
Update: happened again today. I shut down my Fedora 15 with LibreOffice running and the password-protected document open (which I do often). When I restarted the computer that document opened with a dialogue that it had been changed and did I want to save the changes? I took a look at 'save as'

Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Macro to write a formula

2013-02-08 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Yet again, I seem to have sent my reply directly to the original poster, sorry again (and again and again…). Here's my reply that I wrote yesterday (2013-02-07), except that I'll do some minor corrections before sending it this time: -- Forwarded message -- From: Johnny Rosenberg

Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working

2013-02-08 Thread Eric Beversluis
The first time this happened (sometime in Dec, as I recall), if I was prompted as I was today (that the document had been changed and did I want to save it), I would have just saved it--and only noticed later that it was no long password-protected. Today, sensitized by the previous experience, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working

2013-02-08 Thread Eric Beversluis
Test 1 -opened theDoc.ods with password. -made changes but didn't save them -shut down Fedora 15--no prompt to save the unsaved document -restarted Fedora 15--document opened w/o prompt for password; the change was there; the 'save with password' was unchecked. -started 'save as'--was prompted

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-08 Thread Andrew K
I agree, Kevin, but we're off the point of what I need to do :) Cheers, Andrew On 09/02/2013, at 3:08 AM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: On 2/8/2013 10:58 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/07/2013 09:37 AM, Michel Dauchez wrote: Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text

[libreoffice-users] Re: Value and Date function in Macro

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
On 02/08/2013 11:15 PM, Joel Madero wrote: Hi Joel, I have some vague recollection that the Date function in Calc (i.e. the one used when entering manually) and the Date function in Basic are not the same... You could always see whether any of the methods used in this Java snippet, taken from