Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gary Collins
Ah. We didn't even have computers on the curriculum. there weren't many schools that did.   From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2015, 12:16 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey On

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread James Knott
On 07/23/2015 04:40 AM, Gary Collins wrote: We didn't have computers at all at school We didn't either. I had a FORTRAN class in grade 12 and filled in pencil mark cards, which the teacher took to the board office, to run on the computer there. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gary Collins
Sorry, that should have been The Four Yorkshiremen (I must have miscounted :-) )   From: Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk To: Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2015, 12:45 Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gary Collins
 Yes, I remember those (this is getting a bit like The Three Yorkshire Men!) From: Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2015, 12:37 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey On 23/07/15 09:40,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/07/15 10:22, Vicki Nielsen wrote: Hi, I am having troubles importing csv files from the bank. When I import the files, they do not include decimal figures, only whole numbers, so the system won't balance. Any ideas as to how to get the whole figures imported? Best regards, Vicki

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread elderdanlewis
Original message From: Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk Date:07/23/2015 7:45 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com,users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey Yes, I remember those (this is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-23 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
If the number has a monetary symbol after it, use find-and-replace to add decimal, zeroes and remove symbol in Writer or most document software. Then import. More complex. Use Base to import and then copy to Calc. Hope this helps. On 7/23/2015 5:22 AM, Vicki Nielsen wrote: Hi, I am having

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/07/15 09:40, Gary Collins wrote: We didn't have computers at all at school, neither did welog tables and slide rule! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 23/07/15 10:22, Vicki Nielsen wrote: Hi, I am having troubles importing csv files from the bank. When I import the files, they do not include decimal figures, only whole numbers, so the system won't balance. Any ideas as to how to get the whole figures imported? Best regards, Vicki

[libreoffice-users] No Win x64 builds?

2015-07-23 Thread MR ZenWiz
Can someone explain this one? I looked in the archive, and there are only the x86 builds. What am I missing? Thanks. MR -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

[libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-23 Thread Vicki Nielsen
Hi, I am having troubles importing csv files from the bank. When I import the files, they do not include decimal figures, only whole numbers, so the system won't balance. Any ideas as to how to get the whole figures imported? Best regards, Vicki Nielsen --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, can you open the Csv by right-clicking on it and Open with ... a text-editor such as Notepad or Gedit or Kate or something? Hopefully that might show that the values in the Csv file do have 2 decimal places! If the Csv file doesn't have decimal places in it's values then they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] No Win x64 builds?

2015-07-23 Thread Joel Madero
What archives are you referencing? 64 bit is new so if you're looking at old archives it makes sense that you won't see anything. Best, Joel On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:43 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone explain this one? I looked in the archive, and there are only the x86

[libreoffice-users] Re: [OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu Linux]

2015-07-23 Thread Graham P Davis
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:28:39 -0500 anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed in the movies - filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-) My PC, though quite large, doesn't quite fill the room

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu Linux]

2015-07-23 Thread Piet van Oostrum
anne-ology wrote: true. I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed in the movies - filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-) I worked several years with large computers (CDC Cyber series). One of my old professors

[libreoffice-users] Re: [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Andreas Säger
Linux user since 2002. No smart phones, no social net. At work we are forced to struggle with Windows 7 and 2008 Server. Nice topic demonstrating how much desktop computing, productivity suites and mailing lists have become subject to old farts. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gary Collins
From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 22:38 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey On 07/21/2015 07:15 AM, Gary Collins wrote: My first home computer was a BBC micro (anyone remember

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-23 Thread Gary Collins
The company I used to work for manufactured mass spectrometers and we used PDP 11s with software written in PASCAL to control the instruments and gather and present the data they generated. The biggest pain in the neck was having to use overlays to swap parts of the program code into and out of