[libreoffice-users] Possible to write reports with relationship data?

2013-05-14 Thread David Karr
All the report tutorials I've seen seem somewhat primitive, in terms of what kinds of structures can be printed. If I have a main entity, and I have two one-to-many relationships to other tables (FK links from the other tables to the main table), is there any way to generate a report with the main

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread John Meyer
Usually I think of the opening scene in Tom Jones, where the two doctors keep arguing over the patient about what's ailing him until he dies. On 5/14/2013 10:34 AM, anne-ology wrote: and a 'pair of ducks' swim o'er the pond ;-) [well, my mind tends to wander ;-) ] On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening recent Writer documents takes me to start of doc in LibO v.4.0.3.3

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hmmm, I am not getting the same behaviour on 4.0.3.3 under Fedora 18. I just tried a doc I haven't accessed for a couple of weeks and that went straight into the doc (whether that was last saved point I am not sure). However this link throws some light on the matter: http://ask.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Opening recent Writer documents takes me to start of doc in LibO v.4.0.3.3

2013-05-14 Thread sun shine
Hi list In LibO v. 4.0.3.3 Writer when I open existing documents via the File/ Recent Documents menu, the requested document opens at the beginning of the document, and not at the end/ last saved point as expected. This is on GNU/ Linux Mint 14, with LibO 4.0.3.3. Any thoughts about how to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/14/2013 04:46 PM, Tim Deaton wrote: -- Tim === 225 Janice Drive Athens, GA 30606-1638 email: t...@timdeaton.org home: 706-543-0592 cell: 706-248-6544 fax: 888-415-5991 web: www.timdeaton.org === I know the plans I have for you: Plans to prosp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Deaton
-- Tim === 225 Janice Drive Athens, GA 30606-1638 email: t...@timdeaton.org home: 706-543-0592 cell: 706-248-6544 fax: 888-415-5991 web: www.timdeaton.org === I know the plans I have for you: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you; Plans to give y

Re: [libreoffice-users] .doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread Kieran Peckett
Choose File > Export to export to a PDF. On 14 May 2013 14:19, D.R. wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible for a document to be converted to PDF format? > > -- > *Daulat Raikar* > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-14 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Keller wrote: MySQL would rather be...*thinking* ...a Moskvitch? Or a ZIL? Lada? Yugo? Trabant? Pinto? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + mo

Re: [libreoffice-users] .doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/5/14 D.R. : > Hello > > Is it possible for a document to be converted to PDF format? Well, that's been one of the main features of OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for over ten years. Johnny Rosenberg > > -- > *Daulat Raikar* > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] .doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread James Knott
D.R. wrote: Hello Is it possible for a document to be converted to PDF format? Yes, you can export directly from Writer to PDF. There's an icon you can click on for a quick export or click on File>Export as PDF for more options. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libr

[libreoffice-users] .doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread D.R.
Hello Is it possible for a document to be converted to PDF format? -- *Daulat Raikar* -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help with database

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Funny you should say that.  Work has been going on to translate the Handbook from German.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Handbook The Faq had it's Base section finished ahead of all it's other sections https://wiki.documentfoundation.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Arabesque font that is really English

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I had tried various google searches but that one gave the best results.  Tim and Stuart and i think someone else too did get me to some good ones.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Wolfgang Keller >To: Users@Global.LibreOffice.Org >Sent: Tuesday, 14 M

Re: [libreoffice-users] Arabesque font that is really English

2013-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I have a good Arabic font but it's in Arabic.  I've got to get a > poster together for an Arabic ladies coffee morning and having > trouble finding a font that looks vaguely Arabic but is in fact > English.  DOes anyone know of a good free one? https://www.google.de/search?q=arabic+looking+font

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Late last year I converted to MySQL as the Backend and Base as the > Front End. WHAT A DIFFERENCE As I said to people it's like > getting out of your old broken-down, unreliable Beetle and driving > around in the latest Rolls Royce!! Solid, fast, never crashes and is > just fantastic!! MySQL

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: help with database

2013-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> There are mysql objects you can not create > from within LO Base, even if you have already got one table defined. *Any* "generic" (i.e. not vendor-specific) database design/development/etc. tool will always only cover a lowest common denominator in terms of functionality. > LO Base is not FMPro

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry, i was a tad too defensive there!  I know you are NOT an MS fanboi.  Far from it.  It is good to see an objective viewpoint occasionally and i am sorry i jumped on it Apols and regards from Tom :)  > > From: Mirosław Zalewski >To: users@global.l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sort problems

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This sort of thing would work more easily in a database.  I take it that Calc is having the problems?  It might be possible to use Base to read the spreadsheet and then export to an external back-end that would really take care of the data and stop lines from being broken up in that way. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, that sounds like something a bug-report/feature request could address fairly easily.  The coding for it might be a nightmare but getting the request in might be fairly easy.  There might even be one already that perhaps has unanswered questions (such as, would people really find it u

[libreoffice-users] Sort problems

2013-05-14 Thread Carl Paulsen
LO 4.0.3.3 I've had some problems with sorting that may have cost me 6 hours of work. Wondering what's going on. Biggest problem is that when sorting and choosing to "expand selection" it sometimes only expands to some of the columns of data. Why would this happen? I noticed this after a

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-05-15 04:14, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 14/05/2013 at 10:32, 胡小柯 wrote: If I simply apply title1 style, then the paragraph is seen in the table of contents, which is not what I want. I could not just select "Abstract", and apply the title1 style too. It doesn't work, but it works in

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 14/05/2013 at 18:27, Tom Davies wrote: > I'm not sure it does make MSO better. I didn't say it makes MSO better. I said it is one of few areas where MSO Word is better than LO Writer. One must remember that there are other areas as well. In some of these, LO Writer is better than MSO Word.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread anne-ology
and a 'pair of ducks' swim o'er the pond ;-) [well, my mind tends to wander ;-) ] On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) > A paradox is ... > "There is always an exception to every rule." > Regards from > Tom :) > > > -- > *

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A paradox is ... "There is always an exception to every rule." Regards from Tom :)  > > From: anne-ology >To: Tom Davies >Cc: Daulat Raikar ; "users@global.libreoffice.org" > >Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 17:18 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: re. d

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure it does make MSO better.  Their whole handling of styles makes such a horrible mess.  In LibreOffice styles help make documents consistent throughout.  In MSO you suddenly get different languages (EN; Uk/GB suddenly switches back to US) so spell-checkers are unreliable so t

[libreoffice-users] Re: re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread anne-ology
You're right; both of these methods work - when the message stated 'convert', I wasn't thinking 'print' [ oops ;-) ] Yes 'printing to file' is a great way to change any document to an editable one - [I'm sure there are exceptions to this - I've used the word

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloader Not Working

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) New Zealand is an unusual case because it has limited access to the outside world but has high quality links inside the country.  At least, i think that's still the case.  I think there is a University there that was quite quick to act as mirror for various OpenSource projects.  I don't th

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 14/05/2013 at 10:32, 胡小柯 wrote: > If I simply apply title1 style, then the paragraph is seen in the > table of contents, which is not what I want. I could not just select > "Abstract", and apply the title1 style too. It doesn't work, but it > works in MSoffice. So, what should I do ? Any sugge

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloader Not Working

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, that's a problem if you have upload caps but the download size is not really any larger this way.  The torrent file is so tiny it really doesn't have much effect.  Usually caps are on download per month so greater bandwidth for shorter time doesn't usually hurt, does it?  Regard fr

[libreoffice-users] Re: re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Another way, but i think this is only on Gnu&Linux (such as Ubuntu, Mageia, Mint, OpenSUSE, Redhat, Chrome etc) File - Print - "Print to file" this way embeds all the fonts and stuff into the Pdf image.  It's a bit more awkward because you have to play around with the different tabs in

[libreoffice-users] re. doc to pdf

2013-05-14 Thread anne-ology
Yes; to do so: when you open the document, go to the files at the top --> go down list to convert to ... --> one of the options is PDF files; clicking on this will cause a block to appear asking where you desire to save this docume

[libreoffice-users] Re: Untitled 1

2013-05-14 Thread Tinkerer
Many thanks to Brian Barker. Somehow I had managed to delete the default document from the Templates folder, so when starting Writer it loaded the next available template which happened to be a Letter head. Every time I started a new document I first had to delete the address heading. No need to

Re: [libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 5/14/2013 4:32 AM, 胡小柯 wrote: Hi, I want to set the outline level of the selected words same as title1 style, for example: Abstract: LibreOffice is a wonderful office suit as free software. It has been widely used. balabala As you can see above, "Abstract" is in the same paragraph as the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloader Not Working

2013-05-14 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: So torrenting is faster because it automatically chooses all the fastest places to download from and spreads the load between them. If one slows down it automatically switches to using others. The problem is that many of us pay for bandwidth used or have caps. -- To unsubs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Italics and bold in BASE.

2013-05-14 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 14/05/13 10:52, acanela wrote: What´s the problem? What sould I do? I have the feeling that the solution is easy, but I can't find it. I mean for italics and bold in BASE. Set-up your requirements in your Form .. Select Form (Right-Click) Edit Control-Click on any Field Then Double-Click

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloader Not Working

2013-05-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
I have always used torrents to download LO and .iso files as it provides an easy "Set and forget" way to get them, It actually means if I have particularly slow internet (which as tim pointed out is due to my NZ living arrangement) I can download it in sections, say for a couple of hours over a per

Re: [libreoffice-users] Find and Replace Formatting?

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/deleting-hard-returns-tp3541244p3541556.html On 2013-05-14 21:39, Anthony Easthope wrote: Hey I have a document that needs to be formatted to be correctly wrapped - What I was wanting to do was remove the hard breaks at the end of every line. Is there an e

Re: [libreoffice-users] Find and Replace Formatting?

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-05-14 21:39, Anthony Easthope wrote: Hey I have a document that needs to be formatted to be correctly wrapped - What I was wanting to do was remove the hard breaks at the end of every line. Is there an easy way to do this? The symbol looks like a backwards P (Standard non-printing cha

[libreoffice-users] Find and Replace Formatting?

2013-05-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
Hey I have a document that needs to be formatted to be correctly wrapped - What I was wanting to do was remove the hard breaks at the end of every line. Is there an easy way to do this? The symbol looks like a backwards P (Standard non-printing character?) The document is to big for me to go th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Italics and bold in BASE.

2013-05-14 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Please send an empty email to the following address: users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org The whole line is the address to use. You should receive a reply shortly afterwards asking you to confirm, that you really want to subscribe to the list. Just hit the "reply" button and then you're done. ;

[libreoffice-users] Re: Italics and bold in BASE.

2013-05-14 Thread acanela
I tried to suscribe, but I received: Hi, this is the Mlmmj program managing the mailing list. The message from with subject "" was unable to be delivered to the list (The denied message is below.) What´s the problem? What sould I do? I have the feeling that the solution is easy, but I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My main point was that all different ways work.  The 'best' or 'correct' way is simply whichever you choose to use, or like using, or feel comfortable with.  To quote The Levellers "There only one way of life, and that's your own" That's one reason i prefer OpenSource.  It allows you to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Untitled 1

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, that is much more precise and elegant.  Renaming the specific part of the User Profile that is causing problems rather than renaming the whole thing is much better! Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Larry Gusaas >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >S

[libreoffice-users] title1 style used for selected words, not paragraph

2013-05-14 Thread 胡小柯
Hi, I want to set the outline level of the selected words same as title1 style, for example: Abstract: LibreOffice is a wonderful office suit as free software. It has been widely used. balabala As you can see above, "Abstract" is in the same paragraph as the following sentences. I want to set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Untitled 1

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) To "get back to factory defaults" try renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :) - Original Message - > From: Brian Barker > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 2:14 > Subject

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloader Not Working

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Torrenting is built-in to most Gnu&Linux systems and most have a default torrenting-client built-in.  However until you actually try it yourself it's a bit scary.  It sounds like a normal download (so why not stick to that, right?) except for some weird thing where outsiders somehow have