Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-07-01 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Stephan, On 01/07/11 10:00, Stephan Zietsman wrote: I've had a look at the spreadsheet, and tried a few formulas. It seems that to do this with formulas is quite tricky and unfortunately I couldn't get it done. I tried a few different approaches and I think it is technically possible.

[libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi all, Is the operation in the subject line possible? More info (maybe I'm asking the wrong question): I have a (long) list of URLs, and want to categorise them. The categories themselves could be pretty broad: news sites, search engines, music sites, etc. Similar URLs (different pages on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Stephan, On 30/06/11 15:22, Stephan Zietsman wrote: could you possibly upload a sample file to look at? I have a possible idea of what to do, but I think the best way for me to check would be by using an example. Thank you very much for the offer (and the upload site tip).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Jorge, On 30/06/11 17:16, jorge wrote: El jue, 30-06-2011 a las 10:09 -0600, jorge escribió: I would suggest to do as this (If you have order the information as you explain and show in your e-mail): 1) Sheet 1: [...] Thanks for your explanation. I get what you were saying, but what I'm

[libreoffice-users] Preserve non-sequential numbering?

2011-05-19 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello all, Rather than spending a lot on statue books I'll only use once, I'm compiling a collection of legislation I need for an upcoming exam by taking the relevant provisions from a government website and arranging them in LO. I've defined a Numbering Style for all headings: Act title,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same-line headings? (feature discussion)

2011-05-12 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 12/05/11 05:24, toki wrote: On 11/05/2011 16:19, Ryan Jendoubi wrote I've seen in certain textbooks a style where a 'heading' will take the form of the first sentence of a paragraph. This seems impossible to do in LO, Tutorial can be found at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum

[libreoffice-users] Same-line headings? (feature discussion)

2011-05-11 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello all, I've seen in certain textbooks a style where a 'heading' will take the form of the first sentence of a paragraph. This seems impossible to do in LO, since all Heading styles used for Outline purposes are paragraph styles. Is there any way around this? I can't think of one; I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

2011-04-16 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 16/04/11 07:09, aqualung wrote: [...] It could be risky for them to reveal much while the situation is in flux. At the same time there are hundreds of thousands of users who are probably quite anxious to find out what's in the cards for their preferred office software. I thought ODF was

Re: [libreoffice-users] question

2011-04-13 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Csenger, On 13/04/11 09:06, Csenger Attila Szabó wrote: I know that those who get used to the menu-style won't like any other solution, but you are not the only ones. So what about the plugin/extension thing? To answer your original question, I think it's safe to say that no-one is

Re: [libreoffice-users] question

2011-04-13 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Csenger, On 13/04/11 09:55, Csenger Attila Szabó wrote: Unfortunately I can't program in any language, yet, because in this year I'll go to university and learn it. :) Y'don't need no fancy university to learn coding! Go search learn C++ or C++ tutorial and get started :-) I've never

Re: [libreoffice-users] INCLUDETEXT

2011-04-09 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
be too difficult, but it's not the same as browsing and clicking.) I am in complete agreement with you there. All the best, -r Joe On 1:59 PM, Ryan Jendoubi wrote: Hi Joe, On 28/03/11 19:39, Joe Nierenberg wrote: I would like to include text from a closed file into the open file

Re: [libreoffice-users] I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

2011-04-07 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Landis, On 07/04/11 16:34, Landis Gurney wrote: Is there a module like MS Outlook, that can be tied into MS Exchange mailboxes? I also use MS Access to tie into another database's tables through ODBC, is that feature available? LibreOffice doesn't include an email client. I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

2011-04-07 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Diane, On 07/04/11 17:25, Diane Marie wrote: I have no idea what this means: LibreOffice doesn't include an email client. I would suggest you try out Mozilla Thunderbird instead :-) Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express are just email clients. Email clients are just programs that you run

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pie chart in .doc not showing.

2011-04-05 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi again Steve, On 30/03/11 22:14, Steve Edmonds wrote: I have a report in .doc format that has some pie charts (which seem to be from an embedded sheet). These show the labels but no pie in Suse 11.0 X-64, LO3.3.0, 3.3.2, OOO3.2.1. These show ok in OSX 10.6.7, LO3.3.1 Just upgrading the mac

Re: [libreoffice-users] The text:s/ tag

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi James, On 04/04/11 08:31, James Wilde wrote: If this is a double post I apologise. I can't see that the original message has appeared, neither in my in-box (no, I don't use gmail) nor in nabble. I didn't see a double post :-) I have had a problem arise in connection with converting an

Re: [libreoffice-users] broken documenatation link

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi \_w_/, On 04/04/11 05:47, * William wrote: I want to report a broken link on the get-help page. This link to 'download documenation' falls over: - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-helphttp://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ (works) -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't open files with special characters on their pathname

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Gabriel, On 01/04/11 14:15, gabspeck wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.10 (with the packages from the official PPA). Whenever I try to open a file with special characters on their pathname (such as é, á), LibreOffice pops up the following message: does not exist.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Some ideas regarding LibreOffice development

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Ilya, On 30/03/11 23:48, Ilya Chernykh wrote: I just want to propose two ideas regarding LibreOffice which I feel important. First, I think it would be great if LibreOffice set had its own browser. With respect, I think this is a bad idea :-) Nothing makes a bad application like feature

Re: [libreoffice-users] About some problems

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Rezwan, On 30/03/11 12:18, Md. Rezwan Saki Alin. wrote: But, I face to some problem. When I type anything with 'Avro Bangla Keyboard' then 'qutation' and some other items are broken. They are mixed with the words. *Main problem about 'Unicode Bangla Typing' are not support with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add to Dictionary with Right Single Quote as Apostrophe

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi ssanders On 30/03/11 18:10, ssanders wrote: When I spell-check and add to dictionary, LibO fails to add any word with a right single quote (’) as the apostrophe. If I change the right single quote to a straight one ('), LibO will add the word, plus it will remove the red underlines from any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem selecting objects

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Linus, Did you manage to solve your problem after upgrading to 3.2.2? On 28/03/11 11:30, Linus Paulsson wrote: Example: 1. I start a blank text document. 2. I insert a textField (textField A). --- There is no problem selecting and deselecting textField A. 3. I import page style from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Impress.

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 04/04/11 18:10, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: Ok. I manually imported an image. I then stretched it to take up the full size of the slide. I then sent to back. I saved it and re-opened it and it appears now. However, in my mind, we shouldn't have to do it that way. It's a pain and not very

Re: [libreoffice-users] INCLUDETEXT

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Joe, On 28/03/11 19:39, Joe Nierenberg wrote: I would like to include text from a closed file into the open file. However, rather than have all of the text there, reproduced in the open file, I want only the field name. (The reason is that it is conditional text, that might not always be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Debug information

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Daniel, On 24/03/11 23:46, Daniel Espinosa wrote: I'll try... Any luck creating a minimal example? I'm afraid I don't have a copy of MS Office to try with. Does the problem occur when editing just any footnote created with Word, or is there something else unusual about the document?

Re: [libreoffice-users] request a feature

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Sorry to revive an old thread, but in case any dev-minded people are watching... On 24/03/11 03:47, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Yes, you can do THAT. But ...It switches lower case to upper case, but does not TOGGLE between those two states. You need to assign lowercase (or initial caps for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pie chart in .doc not showing.

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Steve, On 04/04/11 22:42, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-04-05 04:12, Ryan Jendoubi wrote: Hi Steve, On 30/03/11 22:14, Steve Edmonds wrote: I have a report in .doc format that has some pie charts (which seem to be from an embedded sheet). These show the labels but no pie in Suse 11.0 X-64

Re: [libreoffice-users] OpenOffice Spreadsheet LibreOffice Calc

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello rrand, On 24/03/11 00:27, rrand wrote: There is a difference in the way these two handle linked cells. If you have a cell linked to another spreadsheet in OpenOffice then if you open it in LibreOffice the value is not automatically updated if it changes/or has changed in the spreadsheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Filelist to short, option to show only filename?

2011-04-04 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Lennart, On 23/03/11 08:51, Lennart Aangeenbrug wrote: The filelist in File recently used files is too short for me. I've several files on a server and i see only the first 40 (?) characters. When i've opened 8 files from the server, i see 8 times the path to the server and some dots.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug in calc?

2011-03-28 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 28/03/11 18:33, MR ZenWiz wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem or something like it? I can try some more testing along these lines when I get back home later, but I was curious if I'm alone on this one. I'll file a bug if anyone else can confirm this (didn't see one just now yet).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug in calc?

2011-03-28 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 29/03/11 00:51, MR ZenWiz wrote: Clarification - Maverick 64-bit, LibO from TDF debs. PS: Thanks for the Not seen here responses, but I don't really need to know that. I will assume a lack of response constitutes a negative. :-) Noted - although if people posted enough detail about their

Re: [libreoffice-users] build forms: how to

2011-03-27 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Renato, On 26/03/11 16:39, Renato Pontefice wrote: I would use Form, to made mask to insert data on table. I've many prob. Is there some good guide to use it http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ Download chapter 8, about Base. The stuff about forms starts on page 16. Don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress: Importing multiple pictures, one per slide?

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jeff Praterj...@thoughtreactor.comwrote: I need to make a presentation w/ 300 pictures. This is going to be a relatively simple presentation--one picture per slide. Is there a way to do this in Impress? I can't find an option to do this. I found a macro called

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ignore spacing before and/or after paragraph possible for paragraphs of same style?

2011-03-19 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
On 18/03/11 16:16, Sisyphos wrote: is it possible to set this in writer? I would like to have no space between several headlines, lists or numbered lists without the need to define for each of that cases a new paragraph style. I've had need for this recently too, would be interested to hear

[libreoffice-users] Styles and keyboard shortcuts: best practices?

2011-03-19 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi all, Would like your opinion on the following. When I'm make styles for a new template, I always create New styles, usually with a common prefix in the name, to avoid some hypothetical namespace conflict in the future, e.g. when copying or including parts from one document to another.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Has it all except ... #2

2011-03-15 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Mark, On 15/03/11 08:14, Mark Stanton wrote: [...] I'm trying to shift away from Windoze and VA is one of my few remaining apps there, so moving it to include other platforms would be a big plus from my pov. [...] Point taken about Thunderbird and the need, or not, of having a mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] Outline Numbering

2011-03-14 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hello Mr Sochet, I'm a law student, would also be interested in finding answers to the points you raise. This long email doesn't provide any, but hopefully provides some possible ways of solving the problems. On 11/03/11 00:23, gmanrpi wrote: 1) If I use Roman Numerals for my Article