[libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

2015-03-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 20.03.2015 um 05:56 schrieb Emil Payne: > On 19/03/15 08:28 PM, James wrote: >> Column A has text strings that are DD/MM/ format. >> I want to make them real dates. >> I tried these 2 datevalue formulas but I can't make it work. >> >> 14/03/2015Err:502 >> 14/03/2015Err:502 >> >> >> =

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

2015-03-20 Thread Kaj
DO 2015-03-20 12:00, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 20.03.2015 um 05:56 schrieb Emil Payne: On 19/03/15 08:28 PM, James wrote: Column A has text strings that are DD/MM/ format. I want to make them real dates. I tried these 2 datevalue formulas but I can't make it work. 14/03/2015Err:502 14/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you are using Base with the internal back-end then it is highly likely to be a twisted form of HSqlDb. Apparently it is fairly easy to export an internal database so that you can use an external HSqlDb database program. You would need to install HSqlDb as a separate program. http://hsqld

[libreoffice-users] Re: Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-20 Thread xavier2
Hi there, yes that is right, but what is completely weird is that LibreOffice Base, using a modified SQL don't have a reference book showing all these modifications and notations? then where can we find reference for that modification of the SQL language? -- View this message in context: http:/

[libreoffice-users] barcode generation extension

2015-03-20 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
Is there any alternative to this extension working with fresh branch? http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/barcode Escuelas Libres Comunidad LibreOffice Argentina www.escuelaslibres.org.ar

[libreoffice-users] Re: Using SQL functions in LibreOffice base (notation)

2015-03-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 20.03.2015 um 13:08 schrieb xavier2: > Hi there, yes that is right, but what is completely weird is that LibreOffice > Base, using a modified SQL don't have a reference book showing all these > modifications and notations? then where can we find reference for that > modification of the SQL langu

[libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

2015-03-20 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 20.03.2015 um 12:21 schrieb Kaj: >> > Do you have the used date pattern defined? Look at (menu) - Tools - > Language Settings - Languages at "Date acceptance patterns". > > No. Do you? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.or

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

2015-03-20 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Eric, Eric Beversluis schrieb: thanks. I tried what Tim suggested. It then will break after 'Bruin' until I enter more characters. Then it breaks after 'Bru'. So it wasn't that the manual break wasn't working--it was insisting on breaking automatically before it got to the manual break. So I

Re: [libreoffice-users] barcode generation extension

2015-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Which OS are you using? err, just platform would be good enough tbh; Windows, Gnu&Linux, Mac or Bsd? With Linux (such as Ubuntu/Mint, Redhat, openSuSE, Mageia etc) it might be better to get a separate program to generate QR-codes or bar-codes. Often one package lets you choose either. Re

Re: [libreoffice-users] barcode generation extension

2015-03-20 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
> On 20 March 2015 at 12:49, Daniel A. Rodriguez > wrote: >> >> Is there any alternative to this extension working with fresh branch? >> >> http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/barcode 2015-03-20 10:30 GMT-03:00 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > Which OS are you using? err, just platform woul

[libreoffice-users] Question about a possible bug in writer.

2015-03-20 Thread Michael Tiernan
I'm asking here before I go and hunt down if there's a bug. I've done these steps. Very simple an unsophisticated process. 1) I create a new writer document. 2) I paste into it a load of plain text. 3) Go to first page. Create a footer with "page" of "page number" 4) Go to last page, the footer sa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:00:02 +0100 Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 20.03.2015 um 05:56 schrieb Emil Payne: > > On 19/03/15 08:28 PM, James wrote: > >> Column A has text strings that are DD/MM/ format. > >> I want to make them real dates. > >> I tried these 2 datevalue formulas but I can't make it w

[libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

2015-03-20 Thread V Stuart Foote
Off topic... Thomas Taylor wrote > Please leave original context in replies. Stripping original content > makes it > more difficult to track conversations without going back through the > entire > message thread. Nope--not at all necessary, and in many cases an indiscriminate lack of trimming ma

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about a possible bug in writer.

2015-03-20 Thread Steve Edmonds
What operating system and LO version do you have. Steve On 2015-03-21 04:52, Michael Tiernan wrote: I'm asking here before I go and hunt down if there's a bug. I've done these steps. Very simple an unsophisticated process. 1) I create a new writer document. 2) I paste into it a load of plain te

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about a possible bug in writer.

2015-03-20 Thread Tim Deaton
On 3/20/2015 11:52 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote: I'm asking here before I go and hunt down if there's a bug. I've done these steps. Very simple an unsophisticated process. 1) I create a new writer document. 2) I paste into it a load of plain text. 3) Go to first page. Create a footer with "page" of