Re: [libreoffice-users] profiles

2014-10-16 Thread Tim Lloyd
and the ever helpful twitter feed provides a link to the solution (see, it was there in the first place Tim. Doh!) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile On 14/10/14 22:06, Cley Faye wrote: Usually, moving/renaming profiles is very scarcely done, only in case something goes wrong.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A fork is often a single piece of metal. The handle is usually a single, slightly wider cylinder (ish). The 2, 3 or 4 prongs are typically a corresponding fraction of the width of the handle section. With 2 or 4 prongs (tines?) it is usually difficult to identify any 1 of them as being

[libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Anyone ever encountered this? I finally decided to convert a few of our PDF forms into PDF fillable forms, and thought this was going to be easy. No luck with the existing documents, so I tried with a brand new blank writer document... I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Sophie
Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : Anyone ever encountered this? I finally decided to convert a few of our PDF forms into PDF fillable forms, and thought this was going to be easy. No luck with the existing documents, so I tried with a brand new blank writer document...

Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 That seems the most sensible. Regards from Tom :) On 15 October 2014 20:59, Kevin O'Brien zwiln...@gmail.com wrote: I think using Frames that are linked would do what Marc wants. Regards, On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Actually i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:32 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in the document, it will appear then. Hah!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Sophie
Le 16/10/2014 13:35, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/16/2014 7:32 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem importing xls files

2014-10-16 Thread Leonardo M. Ramé
El 16/10/14 a las 01:21, Urmas escibió: Leonardo M. Ramé: I'm using 4.2.6.3 on Ubuntu 14.04. It is bug 78731, and problem character in your case is 'Ñ'. Great to know that!. -- Leonardo M. Ramé Medical IT - Griensu S.A. Av. Colón 636 - Piso 8 Of. A X5000EPT -- Córdoba Tel.:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:39 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: You're welcome :) to access the properties of the control, right click on it and choose Control. In the dialog you have a lot of things you can set. Awesome... One question though. In my first test, when a user dbl-clicks the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 8:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? Hmmm... but I would also like the newly created/saved copy to *not* act like a template any longer (s0, basically the same way that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Sophie
Le 16/10/2014 14:25, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/16/2014 8:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? Hmmm... but I would also like the newly created/saved copy to *not* act like a template

[libreoffice-users] Calc will not open tsv files in Linux

2014-10-16 Thread Quinze
I cannot open a .tsv (tab separated values) file in the Linux version of Calc, it opening in Writer instead. However, it works fine in Windows. The file association for .tsv goes to Calc and even if I try to open the file from within Calc it still goes to Writer to display the file. I know I could

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not open tsv files in Linux

2014-10-16 Thread Sophie
Hi, Le 16/10/2014 17:05, Quinze a écrit : I cannot open a .tsv (tab separated values) file in the Linux version of Calc, it opening in Writer instead. However, it works fine in Windows. The file association for .tsv goes to Calc and even if I try to open the file from within Calc it still goes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem importing xls files

2014-10-16 Thread Doug
On 10/16/2014 12:21 AM, Urmas wrote: Leonardo M. Ramé: I'm using 4.2.6.3 on Ubuntu 14.04. It is bug 78731, and problem character in your case is 'Ñ'. I didn't see any earlier post in this thread, but if you set up a Compose key (Linux) or the equivalent in Windows (AllCompose,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not open tsv files in Linux

2014-10-16 Thread Quinze
Thank you, Sophie. I've updated and the bug's gone. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-will-not-open-tsv-files-in-Linux-tp4126010p4126018.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-16 Thread upscope
On Saturday, October 11, 2014 11:49:23 AM Dan Lewis wrote: These connectors are available as Release Candidate #1. They have been tested against both MariaDB and MySQL databases. I would like to have a few more people see if these work as well as they have so far been described.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread anne-ology
au contraire This conversation has been fascinating informative ... and BTW I too started, as Tim did, with OO - although I'd thought back-then it had merely changed its name ;-) From: Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:42 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread anne-ology
and then there's ... The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874–1963) TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread James Knott
On 10/16/2014 01:17 PM, anne-ology wrote: and then there's ... The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874–1963) And there's ... When you come to the fork in the road, take it! Yogi Berra -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Effectively yeh it was just a name change and updating/recreating the infrastructure. A bit like when Star Office became OpenOffice. Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. So it can't really count as

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

2014-10-16 Thread James Knott
On 10/16/2014 01:31 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. So it can't really count as a fork any more and may not even be usable at all these days. StarOffice was the version of

[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-16 Thread Stefan Gruber
Hi, Tom Davies schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2014 17:50: Has anyone been able to test this out yet? Is it possible to test-drive these connectors without breaking an existing database? Errr, i'm not going to be able to test them myself so i was just mildly curious. I just installed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL/MariaDB Native Linux connector for LibreOffice 4.2 and 4.3 (32 and 64 bit)

2014-10-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/16/2014 04:21 PM, Stefan Gruber wrote: Hi, Tom Davies schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2014 17:50: Has anyone been able to test this out yet? Is it possible to test-drive these connectors without breaking an existing database? Errr, i'm not going to be able to test them myself so i was