Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
yes, I agree I messed up ... & yes, I agree I, at least, learned something about how these scammers operate. From: Tom Davies Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: Sophie Gautier Cc: anne-ology , "users@global.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
yes, I agree with you; I put in the wrong e-address ;-( From: Sophie Gautier Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: anne-ology Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi, Le 16 mars 2015 15:43, "anne-ology" a écrit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
very interesting & informative; thank you. From: Tom Davies Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: anne-ology Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" Hi :) Some of this is probably obvious but some of it might not be. Each

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/17/2015 02:08 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There is a weird quirk about LibreOffice. If you open a document and fill in some data (even spaces and made-up stuff seems to kinda work) and then save the document it does a much better job of remembering what size window it was last time it was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread jonathon
On 17/03/15 19:25, Tom Davies wrote: > Ahh, that is interesting. I thought it didn't exist and that was one of Back when DNS started, the register would not provide any of the three letter TLD, unless the applicant already at least two 2-letter TLDs. (A requirement that was usually honoured in th

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.03.2015 um 13:36 schrieb hw: > > Sorry, this is the wrong answer to the right post --- still a question, > though. > > The answer to this post should have been that I would need the images to > appear in the spread sheet. > Pictures in Calc are no spreadsheet data. Pictures are decorativ

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.03.2015 um 13:22 schrieb hw: > > > Am 16.03.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Andreas Säger: >> Am 16.03.2015 um 16:21 schrieb hw: >>> Without any coding it is be possible to create a field of hyperlinks. Just add a HYPERLINK formula next to the import range. The adjacent field expa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Ralf Kersanach
Hi folks, I got probably an idea. If you do an continuous table which could fill several linked text frames, so you would change for example column size in the first frame and it would affect the size of that column through out every frame. Two points must be taken in consideration: 1- If hea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, that is interesting. I thought it didn't exist and that was one of the little alarm bells for some people. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 19:05, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:43:50 + > Tom Davies wrote: > > Hello Tom, > > >Some of this is probably obvious

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Grrr, got distracted - sorry! The place to fill in a bit of data is; File - Properties - Description Like i say it shouldn't work but apparently it does make a difference. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 19:08, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > There is a weird quirk about LibreOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is a weird quirk about LibreOffice. If you open a document and fill in some data (even spaces and made-up stuff seems to kinda work) and then save the document it does a much better job of remembering what size window it was last time it was open. It's one of those weird things that s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:43:50 + Tom Davies wrote: Hello Tom, >Some of this is probably obvious but some of it might not be. Each >country (except the US) has a different code at the end of addresses, >so you get; Each country, *including* the US has a different code, but the .us ending for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't think it bothered anyone here and i think some of us learned some useful stuff as a result. In general i agree but this was an unusual case imo. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 18:58, Sophie Gautier wrote: > Hi, > Le 16 mars 2015 15:43, "anne-ology" a écrit : > > > >

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu **SOLVED**

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey! Nicely done! :) Thanks for letting people know too :)) Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 15:52, Jay Ridgley wrote: > On 03/17/2015 10:44 AM, Jay Ridgley wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> Early this morning everything was fine... >> >> I just applied the latest updates for 14.04.2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi, Le 16 mars 2015 15:43, "anne-ology" a écrit : > >is this for real or not? >I cannot believe this is for real therefore I'm ignoring it; > yet I'm curious as to how these inane ideas occur to some folks. > > Please post these questions on the moderator's list, you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can you boot-up a LiveCd or LiveUsb and see if the files open fine that way - or alternatively login as Guest but then you'd have to have the files on a usb-stick or something. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2015 at 16:07, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: > You may be able to trouble shoot a bi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Some of this is probably obvious but some of it might not be. Each country (except the US) has a different code at the end of addresses, so you get; In the Uk ... www.wonderfulwebsite.org.uk = charitable www.wonderfulwebsite.co.uk = business that aims to make money www.wonderfulwebsite.g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i thought Writer, Calc etc could only look-up data and could not input or edit data. I thought that was where the Base's internal Forms and Reports were really useful? So normal users could be kept in their safe familiar environment with no fear of accidentally breaking anything much.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is this becoming something that could be posted as a "feature request"? It does sound like something that could be really useful and i'm surprised no-one has thought of it before. Perhaps they have and made an Extension? I doubt that too tbh. http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ Regards fro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Steve Edmonds
It is a pity you can't use a variable field in the formatting dialogues. That could be useful in a range of places. On 2015-03-18 02:34, fang wrote: Hi Tom, I’ve looked at styles and it’s not possible to modify table properties such as column widths using styles. There are Page, Paragraph an

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.03.2015 um 16:37 schrieb hw: > > > Am 16.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb hw: >> Some experimentation is required at this point ... Thank you for all >> the replies so far! > > Ok so I made a new spreadsheet and dragged a query from the datasources > view into it. Apparently that fills rows in t

[libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 17.03.2015 um 13:14 schrieb hw: > > > Am 16.03.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Andreas Säger: >> Am 16.03.2015 um 16:18 schrieb hw: >>> >> >>> Exactly: What the perl script does is way beyond the capabilities of a >>> query and of formulas in a spread sheet. >>> >> >> In which way? You are rather unspec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
Thanks for this information. I thought .us was similar to .gov ;-) From: elderdanlewis Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" This is Phishing. Look at the email address of t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
I can now understand why ;-( From: Cley Faye Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification To: anne-ology Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" 2015-03-16 15:42 GMT+01:00 anne-ology : is this for real or not? >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verification

2015-03-17 Thread anne-ology
Well, I now understand how some folks can be suckered into believing these scams - it looked legitimate except I couldn't understand why it was being sent out ;-) From: Tom Davies Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: E-mail Account Verific

Re: [libreoffice-users] Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu

2015-03-17 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
You may be able to trouble shoot a bit. Unzip your odt and open files to see if the characters are also there with regular editor. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LibreOffice about half way down page. This will give you something to submit to both Ubuntu and/or LibreOffice. If you start

[libreoffice-users] Re: Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu **SOLVED**

2015-03-17 Thread Jay Ridgley
On 03/17/2015 10:44 AM, Jay Ridgley wrote: Folks, Early this morning everything was fine... I just applied the latest updates for 14.04.2 LTS and there are a bunch of bold characters & numbers showing up in various locations. These seem to be almost random and are usually single occurrences (ch

[libreoffice-users] Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu

2015-03-17 Thread Jay Ridgley
Folks, Early this morning everything was fine... I just applied the latest updates for 14.04.2 LTS and there are a bunch of bold characters & numbers showing up in various locations. These seem to be almost random and are usually single occurrences (character and/or number) in a field. I ha

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/17/2015 10:18 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Actually i did get the same results as you on Ubuntu 14.04 and LibreOffice 4.4.1. I've not tried many layers but if i close 2 documents and then open either one of them or something else then the newly opened document uses the same place and size a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb hw: Some experimentation is required at this point ... Thank you for all the replies so far! Ok so I made a new spreadsheet and dragged a query from the datasources view into it. Apparently that fills rows in the spreadsheet with the data obtained from the q

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Actually i did get the same results as you on Ubuntu 14.04 and LibreOffice 4.4.1. I've not tried many layers but if i close 2 documents and then open either one of them or something else then the newly opened document uses the same place and size as whichever document i happened to close las

[libreoffice-users] Re: Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 03/17/2015 06:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is this set by the OS rather than by LibreOffice? Oddly it does work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. It does for me to as far as the OS part of it goes, I did a poor job of asking my question. If I have 2 spreadsheets A & B. A is run full screen and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Business Cards - Printing - Libre Writer version 4.3.5.2

2015-03-17 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I tend to use the free templates from Avery for Avery paper stock. They are in .doc format, though. I do have some printing issues though, due to printer and paper alignment. I have only one printer that get the paper alignment correct more than 97% of the time. The issue is the printers

[libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread fang
Hi Tom, I’ve looked at styles and it’s not possible to modify table properties such as column widths using styles. There are Page, Paragraph and Character styles but no Table styles. Thanks for the suggestion, Steve > On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:02 AM, TomD [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multiple Tables In Writer Document

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I wonder if there is a "Style" for that sort of thing? Chapter 3 in the "Getting Started Guide"; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) On 16 March 2015 at 19:43, fang wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but that's sad. I'm using the tables to for

[libreoffice-users] Inkscape support on LibreOffice mailing-list!

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I know all this got a little off-topic in some ways but it was really helpful to me ! :) I think it is good to have a mailing list that deals with other office issues. We have helped people deal with issues that are really their OS rather than really being a LibreOffice issue (although tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 17.03.2015 um 13:22 schrieb hw: Am 16.03.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:21 schrieb hw: Without any coding it is be possible to create a field of hyperlinks. Just add a HYPERLINK formula next to the import range. The adjacent field expands to the size of the i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:21 schrieb hw: Without any coding it is be possible to create a field of hyperlinks. Just add a HYPERLINK formula next to the import range. The adjacent field expands to the size of the import range. You mean to the size of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

2015-03-17 Thread hw
Am 16.03.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 16.03.2015 um 16:18 schrieb hw: Exactly: What the perl script does is way beyond the capabilities of a query and of formulas in a spread sheet. In which way? You are rather unspecific about your requirements. That's partly because the r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Size of calc window

2015-03-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is this set by the OS rather than by LibreOffice? Oddly it does work for me on Ubuntu 14.04. However that might be due to installing the entire KDE desktop. It's tons of bloat but gives me the advantage that other people logging into my machine can use the more familiar environment. I pro