[libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.05.2015 um 21:56 schrieb Andreas Säger: Am 28.05.2015 um 20:27 schrieb toki: On 28/05/2015 16:38, James Knott wrote: That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. With OS/2, you could create a Work Area folder and whenever that folder was opened, whatever was in it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread James Knott
On 05/28/2015 01:12 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 18:57 schrieb James Knott: On 05/28/2015 12:38 PM, James Knott wrote: On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread toki
On 28/05/2015 16:38, James Knott wrote: That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. With OS/2, you could create a Work Area folder and whenever that folder was opened, whatever was in it would also open. Write a utility that creates a Work Area folder, regardless of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Cley Faye
Something I'm not getting there... To launch LibreOffice, you either use a shortcut of some sort, or directly run a command in a run dialog. That's true for any OS. There where solution proposed for either cases, on different OS. You can either create a new shortcut to open documents to your

[libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.05.2015 um 20:27 schrieb toki: On 28/05/2015 16:38, James Knott wrote: That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. With OS/2, you could create a Work Area folder and whenever that folder was opened, whatever was in it would also open. Write a utility that

[libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.05.2015 um 18:57 schrieb James Knott: On 05/28/2015 12:38 PM, James Knott wrote: On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would use links instead of the real files. Open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread James Knott
On 05/28/2015 01:08 PM, Cley Faye wrote: To launch LibreOffice, you either use a shortcut of some sort, or directly run a command in a run dialog. That's true for any OS. No, as I mentioned, it's not true with OS/2 and work area folders. If you had a document in that folder opened, then closed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2015-05-29 05:23, James Knott wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:12 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 18:57 schrieb James Knott: On 05/28/2015 12:38 PM, James Knott wrote: On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files

[libreoffice-users] Copy Paste problem in tables with Writer 4.4

2015-05-28 Thread Patrick Frost
I'm experiencing a change in behavior. Is it a bug or by design? Steps 1) Open a new Text Document in Writer 2) Insert a new Table (Ctrl+F12) with 1 row and 1 column 3) Type some text into the cell 4) Select the entire cell, not just the text within the cell, and Copy the cell (Ctrl+C) 5)

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Mike Scott
On 28/05/15 09:12, toki wrote: In theory, something like that should be doable on Windows. In practice, maybe not. I don't use windows routinely now - but I did (and still do) use perl an awful lot to make up for the system's own scripting deficiencies. It wouldn't be hard to write one

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread James E Lang
Hi Toki, That is a Linux shell script is it not? I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file. I am guessing that it exists in the user's file system once LO is installed and that it is invoked when

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread toki
On 28/05/2015 07:18, James E Lang wrote: I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. FWIW, the OP said they used both Windows and Linux. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file The quoted Linux file is /opt/libreoffice4.4/program/soffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 05/28/2015 02:25 PM, toki wrote: On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote: This is still not what the OP wants. What he wants to know, is how to edit Good afternoon. I do not want to be rude, but THAT is definitely NOT want I want(ed). I was looking for a SIMPLE / EASY / PRACTICABLE way

[libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Pedro
Hi Thomas Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote In case there is a stand-alone spreadsheet program (NOT Excel!) that can do this trick .. I would love to learn its name. Interesting feature. That wasn't available in the Lotus DOS days probably because you could only open one file at a time :) The

[libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.05.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Thomas Blasejewicz: In case there is a stand-alone spreadsheet program (NOT Excel!) that can do this trick .. I would love to learn its name. I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2015-05-28 9:18 GMT+02:00 James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm: Hi Toki, That is a Linux shell script is it not? I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. I quote a section from the OP's second post in this thread: ”Windows XP (about to be decommisioned) Windows 7 Windows 8.1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread James Knott
On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would use links instead of the real files. Open that folder, hit Ctrl+A and Enter to open all the files with the default application. That

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread James Knott
On 05/28/2015 12:38 PM, James Knott wrote: On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: I don't understand why any application should do this. Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would use links instead of the real files. Open that folder, hit Ctrl+A and Enter to open all