[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread infinityplusb
Thanks everyone. I suspected it might be something specific to 4.4 I'll try find my way to raising a bug and I'll download a previous release to open the files. Thanks again. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread Italo Vignoli
The datasheet contains open links to other datasheets which are hosted somewhere in Australia, and is trying to update the numbers when it opens. LibreOffice hangs during this operation. Unfortunately, I do not have a workaround for this problem, but maybe someone other has some ideas. On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Goggin
Much of the e-mails on Base have focussed on negative aspects. It is worth remembering that for moderate size data bases (a few thousand records, a dozen tables) it is perfectly adequate. I have now converted all of my data ase applications for MS Access to run on Base with its internal data

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't see this thread as having been entirely negative at all! Base is pretty fantastic despite having so few devs and being the most unpopular module/program to work on out of the whole suite. The devs who are working on it are fantastic and heroic imo. The only real problems are when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oops!! Sorry for the rant! Also the tpyos in the 5th paragraph! (4th from the end!). I should have deleted some of it (or the whole email tbh) down to; Base neatly avoids ALL that nightmare by allowing database-designers to use Writer or Calc to create Reports or Forms so that people

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not quite sure what level of co-operation you are asking for. There is always a potential for more, of course. At the moment, and hopefully on into the future, they are independent of each other and each has their own advantages and peculiar quirks. They gain the advantages of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 One advantage of Base is that it can connect to such a wide range of other database programs. It is kinda the default way of using Base. MS Access can be twisted into using an external database but it's not as easy to set-up that way as Base. Kexi and other front-ends can be used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Heinrich Stöllinger
Hello, I am an old DB-User in the real sense of the word (I am over 70!). In the 90ies I got into DB2 as a systems engineer at IBM. Then, around the turn of the millenium, I set up a database for the administration of a 50-piece wind band, using Lotus-Approach (DBase...). It was fine but I wanted

Re: [libreoffice-users] first step forward

2015-03-03 Thread Ralf Kersanach
Hi Tom, would you mind sending me the link to this book in german or is it only available in hardcopy? Thanks Ralf -- Laboratório de Biodiversidade Genética Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG Av. Itália, s/n, Carreiros 96201-900, Rio Grande, RS -

[libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 03.03.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Peter Goggin: Much of the e-mails on Base have focussed on negative aspects. It is worth remembering that for moderate size data bases (a few thousand records, a dozen tables) it is perfectly adequate. I have now converted all of my data ase applications for MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Heinrich, I've been reluctant to join this discussion, but you comment about the need to have ... a stable, scalable interface to REAL databases (with sometimes millions of DB-tuples) ..., has prompted me to say that I believe one such database already exists - it is called H2. See -

Re: [libreoffice-users] first step forward

2015-03-03 Thread Ralf Kersanach
Hi Tom, many thanks for the links. Ralf -- On Tuesday 03 March 2015 23:32:21 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The link to the English translation is; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_B ase_Handbook The original in German is;

Re: [libreoffice-users] first step forward

2015-03-03 Thread Alan B
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:24 AM, an...@neostrada.pl wrote: Thank you, Allan for the prompt reply, ... The sample is simply enough, I belive, so the point is how to proceed it to get output in several seperate SS or database tables, preserving the sequention in row position. Unfortunately I

[libreoffice-users] Check (tick) box.

2015-03-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Is there a way to add a check box (click it and a tick or x appears, click it again and it becomes empty) to a writer document. This does not need to be a form. Word has these and they work in LO when I open the word doc but I can't copy paste one to a writer document. Form controls are

Re: [libreoffice-users] first step forward

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might find this website more useful; http://pl.libreoffice.org/ Also the Polish language mailing list might be easier as you can use Polish; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Local_Mailing_Lists#Polish or if your main language is something else then there is probably a different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-03-03 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
Hi Tom, Interesting. Given similar, huge challenges, would you see areas of cooperation with Kexi? On 3 March 2015 at 14:33, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) +1 One advantage of Base is that it can connect to such a wide range of other database programs. It is kinda the default

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread TomW
On 2015-03-02 20:16, infinityplusb wrote: Hi allI'm trying to open an .xls file (actually a number of xls files) I downloaded from the Australia Statistics agency website and want to check if other people can open it before I raise it as an issue with ... someone.The file is attached

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nice one TomW! :) Good to know LibreOffice can fix the file :) This has been reported as a good way of helping MS Office users share documents that they initially have trouble with in MS Office. The LibreOffice user acts as a stepping stone to solve incompatibility issues between

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread Pedro
The file is not corrupted. It open correctly in MS Office 2010. However it will not open in LibreOffice 4.4.1 under Windows 7 x64 but it will open in 4.3.6 Therefore this seems to be a regression in the 4.4 branch The workaround is to use a release from the previous branch. Under Windows there are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't open .xls files in LibreOffice 4.4 calc

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, before you raise a bug (if you could). It would be helpful to log a few things: * last version it actually worked with * if you save with the working version, can you open with 4.4 Cheers On 03/03/15 19:48, infinityplusb wrote: Thanks everyone. I suspected it might be something