Re: [libreoffice-users] Do Macros run serially or in parallel?

2014-04-05 Thread Alex McMurchy
Hi Noel So are you trigering these events and running the macros to populate a form from two separate tables? Alex On Sunday 06 Apr 2014 00:13:31 Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry I've been slow to respond to all your posts. It has taken me a while > to sort out what I think is happ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:20:24 -0700 (PDT) CVAlkan wrote: > Thanks for all the comments - > > By the way, are you the same Jim Seymour who used to have a column > in PC-Mag (I think that was it - along with Dvorak and others)? Somebody *just* asked me that question, here, a couple weeks ago. No.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
I have to correct myself... On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 17:14:12 -0400 Jim Seymour wrote: [snip] > No, they didn't. Early Apple PCs ran the MOS Technologies (later: > Mostek) 6502. CP/M never ran on anything but the Intel 8080 and > Zilog Z80. (And only on the latter because it was a superset of the >

Re: [libreoffice-users] RE : Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:04:42 +0200 Jean-Louis Oneto wrote: > The > DRI CP/M80 then CP/M86 were nothing but vaporware, I think you must have CP/M and CP/M-86 conflated with something else. CP/M-80 was anything *but* "vapourware." In the mid-70's to early 80's, 8080- and Z-80 systems ran on not

[libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread CVAlkan
Thanks for all the comments - By the way, are you the same Jim Seymour who used to have a column in PC-Mag (I think that was it - along with Dvorak and others)? Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Microsoft-Revisits-the-80s-With-MS-DOS-Word-for-Windows-

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:43:46 -0400 Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: [snip] > I hated CP/M [snip] It was nearly indistinguishable from DOS, or DOS was nearly indistinguishable from it, depending upon ones perspective. > The other rooms had old Apple [before Macs] and they had > CP/M OS options, .

[libreoffice-users] RE : Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jean-Louis Oneto
The first floppies where 8", single sided, single density and were lade for punch card substitute: the 80kB capacity was then equivalent to a rack of 1000 80 columns punched cards. That was in the early 1970's. Before that, there was 14" amovible HDD, with a capacity of 2.5 MB, made by several m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 04/05/2014 03:05 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:57:48 -0400 James Knott wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote: Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bar chart extending from a low to a high value?

2014-04-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 04:00 06/04/2014 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: I want to create a chart from a table that has just a low and a high value for each category - so each end of the bar, for each category, corresponds to the low or the high value for that category - this does not look possible as far as I can see

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:57:48 -0400 James Knott wrote: > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > > On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote: > >> Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe > >> either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written > >> by Microsoft. I seem to >

[libreoffice-users] Bar chart extending from a low to a high value?

2014-04-05 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I want to create a chart from a table that has just a low and a high value for each category - so each end of the bar, for each category, corresponds to the low or the high value for that category - this does not look possible as far as I can see? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GP

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote: >> Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe either DOS >> (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written by Microsoft. I >> seem to >> recall that both were purchased and re-branded. DOS was bought f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Modifying Styles

2014-04-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Dunno if you're talking to me or to the OP, anyway, here goes :) Le 04/04/2014 18:01, CVAlkan a écrit : > Just a thought: > > In the Tools|Options dialog, there is a section under LibreOffice|General > titled "Document Status." > > Under that is a check box labelled: "Allow to save document even

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote: Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written by Microsoft. I seem to recall that both were purchased and re-branded. Word for MS-DOS was typical of the approach Microsoft would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do Macros run serially or in parallel?

2014-04-05 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 04/05/2014 09:13 AM, Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: Hi, Sorry I've been slow to respond to all your posts. It has taken me a while to sort out what I think is happening. Many of us are very busy and totally understand when it takes time to respond! Fernand, thanks for your code suggestion

Re: [libreoffice-users] Do Macros run serially or in parallel?

2014-04-05 Thread Marion & Noel Lodge
Hi, Sorry I've been slow to respond to all your posts. It has taken me a while to sort out what I think is happening. Fernand, thanks for your code suggestion. I pasted it into the start of my macros and the Wait() statement worked perfectly. Then I incorporated it into my Init macro and disco

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intentionally crashing LibreOffice when frozen/LibreOffice will not start.

2014-04-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Try Gnumeric; http://www.gnumeric.org/download.html It's a dedicated spreadsheet program with a tiny footprint that uses minimal resources, so it's faster, lighter and more robust than Excel or Calc. Many people find Gnumeric to be better than Calc or Excel for serious or hefty spreadsheets