Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cropper
also has the added benefit of a shared clipboard and being able to work on the same data at the same time (well nearly). -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workflow G

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice & GNOME 3 Compatibility

2012-07-18 Thread Simon Cropper
cise.html I run LO under this desktop without any problems. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CALC - How to count blank cells?

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 09/07/12 20:35, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 09.07.2012 10:22, MiguelAngel wrote: El 09/07/12 3:31, Simon Cropper escribió: On 09/07/12 11:01, Michael Reich wrote: On 7/4/12 11:00 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC - How to count blank cells

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC - How to count blank cells?

2012-07-08 Thread Simon Cropper
data, so will not work if your array or range has blanks (unless the number is static or can be predicted). So in your example... COUNTA(A1:A1000) will return 4, knowing that you start from A1 allows you to extrapolate that the last row is A4. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Specialty Dictionaries

2012-07-05 Thread Simon Cropper
On 06/07/12 05:26, nvrk wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Simon Cropper < simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com> wrote: Yeah, I have thought of both these things. Have hacked a standard file before, particularly in MS Word. Easily done assuming it is a text file and not a binary file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Specialty Dictionaries

2012-07-05 Thread Simon Cropper
tatements and " for quotes. So "it 'should' work" = it probably wont work but 'experts' say it will. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 5/7/12, Simon Cropper wrote: From: Simon Cropper Subject: [libreoffice-users] Specialty Dictionaries To: users@global.libreoff

[libreoffice-users] Specialty Dictionaries

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Cropper
ual words are quite common but the combo is unique (i.e. their are multiple eucalypts and multiple species with vulgaris as a species epithet). -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open S

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CALC - How to count blank cells?

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Cropper
COUNT() or DCOUNTA() rather than looking for the number of blanks, the last cell used and presumably the difference between these two values. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workf

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC - How to count blank cells?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Cropper
ll who helps me with this simple problem. try =COUNTBLANK(range) -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 w/zotero crashing on export?

2012-06-04 Thread Simon Cropper
g -- as I've just demonstrated, I'm not even au fait with using Nabble!) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Is-3-5-4-ready-for-business-users-tp3987579p3988101.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice can't open remote file from samba shared directory

2012-05-27 Thread Simon Cropper
necting a Linux box to another Linux box... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Cropper
he start of the serverless revolution! -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting libreoffice calc to existing sqlite database file

2012-05-22 Thread Simon Cropper
ludes the following data. [mysqlitedb] Description=My SQLite test database Driver=SQLite3 Database=/path/to/the/sqlite/database.sqlite3 # optional lock timeout in milliseconds Timeout=2000 You should now be able to see the database in LibreOffice Base or other pac

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can you exclude spell checking from a style?

2012-05-20 Thread Simon Cropper
On 20/05/12 17:42, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 20.05.2012 09:40, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, Simple situation. I have a range of scientific names dumped from a database. The names are set and should not be changed. None are recognized by the spell checker. I know you can select text and tell LO to

[libreoffice-users] Can you exclude spell checking from a style?

2012-05-20 Thread Simon Cropper
ts of scientific terms, bibliographies, etc. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguide

Re: [libreoffice-users] beware of the m$ subsidiary

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Cropper
. Until then, please avoid creation of m$ formats using LO and continue to promote odf. Which pub? ;) -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [final beta] includes LO 3.5.1.2

2012-04-11 Thread Simon Cropper
other low-memory dependent distro. Once you have chosen a distro then customize it and work through the inevitable issues that appear when setting up a new operating system. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Op

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents with clickable links

2011-12-01 Thread Simon Cropper
See manual. http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Formatting_an_Index_or_a_Table_of_Contents -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides In

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Cropper
On 15/09/11 13:22, James wrote: On 09/14/11 21:50, Simon Cropper wrote: On 15/09/11 11:05, James wrote: On 09/14/11 15:55, NoOp wrote: On 09/14/2011 12:17 PM, James wrote: On 09/14/11 14:58, JOE Conner wrote: On 9/14/2011 11:07 AM, James wrote: 1. Create a new Writer document 2. Create a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: merged cells in Writer (saved as Word 97/2000/xp/2003)

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Cropper
you have a different 'Save As...' routine than other people. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator / Website Administrator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides Introductio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-15 Thread Simon Cropper
On 16/08/11 12:01, NoOp wrote: And don't forget to trim Sorry :) -- Cheers Simon -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundati

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-15 Thread Simon Cropper
On 16/08/11 02:33, Twayne wrote: In news:4e4867e6.8030...@botanicusaustralia.com.au, Simon Cropper typed: On 12/08/11 14:38, planas wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:52 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi Everyone, I have been doing some follow-up investigations that I thought you might like to

Re: [libreoffice-users] export sql to odb?

2011-08-14 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
/forums/forum/73674 -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/deed.en -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

2011-08-14 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
es/PDF-Shuffler.shtml [5] http://mac.lisisoft.com/app-software/250898-PDF-Shuffler.html [SNIP] -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames & Sections questions

2011-08-14 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 15/08/11 12:10, Urmas D. wrote: 1. Is there a way to merge sections in a document? 2. Is there a way to put a frame as inline text (removing it)? Can you explain in more detail what you have done or want to do? -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [FOLLOW-UP; CAUSE IDENTIFIED]

2011-08-14 Thread Simon Cropper
On 12/08/11 14:38, planas wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:52 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi Everyone, I have been doing some follow-up investigations that I thought you might like to be made aware. First, why? Well after testing the file that I recreated by copying the text, formula and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [FOLLOW-UP]

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Cropper
On 12/08/11 14:38, planas wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:52 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi Everyone, I have been doing some follow-up investigations that I thought you might like to be made aware. First, why? Well after testing the file that I recreated by copying the text, formula and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [FOLLOW-UP]

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Cropper
some confused. Was the comment or the image the problem ? or Both ? Regards, Jorge Rodríguez _ El vie, 12-08-2011 a las 13:52 +1000, Simon Cropper escribió: Hi Everyone, I have been doing some follow-up investigations that I thought you might like to be made aware. First, why?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [FOLLOW-UP]

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Cropper
pipe it to sed, where I used regular expressions to find '>' and replace every instance of it with '>\n'. I then compared the contents with Diffuse. On 11/08/11 14:44, jorge wrote: Congratulations,... it was an interesting investigation. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ___

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [SOLUTION]

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
__ El jue, 11-08-2011 a las 11:50 +1000, Simon Cropper escribió: On 10/08/11 16:41, Simon Cropper wrote: *The upshot* Unless someone recognised these symptoms and can put forward some ideas, I am treating this as a corrupt file. I have drawn this conclusion because (a) I can only reproduce the er

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [SOLUTION]

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 16:41, Simon Cropper wrote: *The upshot* Unless someone recognised these symptoms and can put forward some ideas, I am treating this as a corrupt file. I have drawn this conclusion because (a) I can only reproduce the error on the effected file, (b) the comment insert/delete trick

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
On 11/08/11 10:57, NoOp wrote: On 08/10/2011 04:38 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: ... If I could recreate my spreadsheet in a database format that allowed me to quickly develop and easily maintain an application -- I would be developing it now. Pick OS We used to sell it when I was based in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
ts folders on a multi-user system. I have a feeling that you have already tried saving into another folder or onto your own desktop but i am not certain. Regards from Tom :) ____ From: Simon Cropper To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 10 August, 2011 1:46:06 S

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
On 11/08/11 09:47, planas wrote: Simon On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:38 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: On 11/08/11 02:53, Tom Davies wrote: > Hmm, well maybe not the absolute worst. A sieve or broken > floppy disc or an ancient format that no program can read > might be wors

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
tabase format that allowed me to quickly develop and easily maintain an application -- I would be developing it now. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- For unsubscribe inst

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Cropper
On 11/08/11 00:10, Bill Gradwohl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2011 12:41 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Unless someone recognised these symptoms and can put forward some ideas, I am treating this as a corrupt file. When LO can't read its own handwriting,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 13:07, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. On 2011-08-10 14:00, Simon Cropper wrote: On 10/08/11 10:22, Bill Gradwohl wrote: On 08/09/2011 05:46 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: *Has anyone encountered or heard of a similar problem?* *Anyone got some ideas?* Check out the bug I just created at

Re: [libreoffice-users] My secret password recovery procedure

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
wrong but we type the password twice exactly the same without noticing. You'd be surprised how often that happens. - Dennis Are you saying you solved Bob's problem with his 'encrypted' file? -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 10:39, NoOp wrote: On 08/09/2011 04:46 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: ... *Has anyone encountered or heard of a similar problem?* *Anyone got some ideas?* *Is it worth upgrading LibreOffice?* I am running LibreOffice 3.4.1 OOO340m1 (Build:103) on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The java version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 10:22, Bill Gradwohl wrote: On 08/09/2011 05:46 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: *Has anyone encountered or heard of a similar problem?* *Anyone got some ideas?* Check out the bug I just created at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39930 I've been fighting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 10:26, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. On 2011-08-10 12:18, Simon Cropper wrote: Question -- Check if the file is opened as "read only" No it is not and permissions are all OK. Question -- If it is like that you have to save the file with new name for changing it. T

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
On 10/08/11 10:08, planas wrote: Simon, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 09:46 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi, I have an old spreadsheet in ODS format. The file was originally an XLS file then converted to ODS format several years ago *and* has been used weekly over that period without any problems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
name. On 10/08/11 10:03, jorge wrote: Hi Check if the file is opened as "read only" If it is like that you have to save the file with new name for changing it. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez __ El mié, 10-08-2011 a las 09:46 +1000, Simon Cropper escribió:

[libreoffice-users] Calc will not save file after sheet deleted.

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper
ch just happened to be on the system). LibreOffice was manually installed from downloaded DEB files *not* installed from the LibreOffice PPA repository or the Ubuntu Software Centre. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQLite in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
Graham, Excellent. I am glad you got it working. On 09/08/11 19:45, gsward wrote: Thank you. After the steps you suggested and some tweaking of the odbcinst.ini all is working now. I have a SQLite3 file on a 64 bit machine. Graham On 9 August 2011 02:26, Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQLite in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-08 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
linux-header source files. Keep repeating "./configur"e until no more errors are encountered then try "sudo make install". Once you can get the two to work then your ODBC driver should appear. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkf

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
easy to conceptualise the problem and propose solutions. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/deed.en -- For unsubs

Re: [libreoffice-users] New Custom Style in Writer - odd behavior

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
or DefaultDouble and see what happens. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/deed.en -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base and SQLite in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg08871.html -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/deed.en -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
tools Other search criteria: glom, sqlite, datakiosk. The other issue is that this list is for LO, this question is best posed on another forum. Which forum, is dependent on you operating system. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Something strange : settings in Tools -> Options -> Impress - Print

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
est that the configuration file is not updated in >> this instance until LO is restarted. > > Yes, I know you're right, but, > After I restarted LO, > and then I opend "FileNameA.odp" or "FileNameB.odp", > the value was 'default'. > > Ho

Re: [libreoffice-users] password problem

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
ng to open the file the latest version of OO recognised that the file was corrupt and fixed it. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/lice

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO corruption

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
nd unseen characters from the data by filtering them through text editors then reinserted in a clean file. This is how I noticed the degree sign changing to another character. Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides

Re: [libreoffice-users] Something strange : settings in Tools -> Options -> Impress - Print

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
>> Close both of "FileNameA.odp" and "FileNameB.odp" >> >> Step8 >> Create new Impress file >> >> Step9 >> Confirm the setting in Tools -> Options -> Impress - Print - Page >> Options: >> stay

Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
t;connect to an existing database" the list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it includes only: ... That connection is Windows only. Does this explain what you see on your computer? Regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper

Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
# optional lock timeout in milliseconds Timeout=2000 You should now be able to see the database in LibreOffice Base or other packages that can use ODBC drivers. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Frequent crashing

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 02/08/11 15:52, JeepNut wrote: Disabled Enable experimental (unstable) features. No idea why I had that enabled. This enables macros. So if you find that you are unable to use macros for some reason this will be why. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-27 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
ot on what you want to do. To investigate options further you need to clarify exactly what you are doing, what you are trying to achieve and how permanent a solution you are after. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkf

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conditional hide rows in Calc?

2011-07-17 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
umber with current rows reading number, insert a value - e.g. 'END', to represent end of day - then use autofilter to hide the data you don't want to see. The formula would look something like this... =IF(CurrentRowReadingNumber > NextRowReadingNumber, "END", ""

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting question

2011-07-17 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
ost specific questions. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/deed.en -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@gl

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] Create and export chart

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
ram. Once you set this up to work manually create a macro and attach it to a button or something. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides (c) Simon Cropper CC-BY-SA 3.0 Australia http://creativecommon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Simon Cropper
rch for free and open source email clients and review the results. A good start... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: native BibTeX support

2011-07-10 Thread Simon Cropper
btex files. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write

[libreoffice-users] Alternative Find & Replace for Writer not working with latest LO versions

2011-07-04 Thread Simon Cropper
for Writer' by creating a macro to call the normal search-replace dialog in LO (which also uses regular expressions). -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular expressions

2011-06-27 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
Office use the "Alternative Find and Replace for Writer" Plugin. There is an option to remove HTML tags. You can also google html tag removal using bash and Python. Both work. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fos

Re: [libreoffice-users] What Style(s) apply to the leader/fill (dot, dash/hyphen, etc) characters to a tabstop?

2011-06-08 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
t you could probably do a global find and replace (i.e. find tabs then change to tab with format). -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem Copy Image From Website

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
... LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~lucid1 FireFox 3.6.17 -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is this list unmoderated?

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Cropper
sting is out. I vote for moderators to end these off-topic tirades, This morning I count 3 or more threads with multiple emails arguing the same points regarding NetEquitte. Only one person actually answered a question. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus A

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto Editing question

2011-05-30 Thread Simon Cropper
> AutoCorrect -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netique

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Startup with Calc on OSX

2011-05-11 Thread Simon Cropper (The fosGIS Workflow Guides)
template folder on the desktop and/or icons pointing to the templates on your desktop. Opening Calc is simply a matter of clicking on the appropriate icon. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guides -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pronunciation of LibreOffice in English

2011-05-08 Thread Simon Cropper (The fosGIS Workflow Guides)
ir is a majority this should be the preferred pronunciation posted on the FAQ page. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com The fossWorkflow Guide -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http:

Re: [libreoffice-users] exported PDF file size

2011-05-02 Thread Simon Cropper
ombination. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Website Administrator http://www.fossworkflowguides.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: Negative time values

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Cropper
Java Version. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Negative time values

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Cropper
suppose for clarity it would be best to separate 'duration' from 'time-of-day' and treating them separately, depending on your needs. Summary: Put you values in separate fields and use formulas to add and subtract values. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Con

Re: [libreoffice-users] Crash log attached.

2011-04-27 Thread Simon Cropper
On 28/04/11 14:00, Peter Teeson wrote: On 2011-04-27, at 11:41 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: On 28/04/11 13:25, Peter Teeson wrote: Good thought. Here's what Terminal says Last login: Tue Apr 26 22:08:14 on ttys000 Gandalf:~ pteeson$ java -version java version "1.6.0_24" Java

Re: [libreoffice-users] Crash log attached.

2011-04-27 Thread Simon Cropper
and that you appear to be using a 64-Bit Machine. Dumb thought, have you downloaded the correct version of LO? I am not sure, can you actually run a 32 Bit version of LO on a 64 Bit Machine? -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Lt

Re: [libreoffice-users] Crash log attached.

2011-04-27 Thread Simon Cropper
ror. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette L

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc and datapilot

2011-04-27 Thread Simon Cropper
7;. Usually I put this value at the top of the file as a header. This works really well with small to medium datsets but can be slow with larger datasets. 3. For larger datasets consider storing in a database then use Base to import just the 'code' lines you want to each sheet.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Improving performance for working with raster graphics in writer and presentation

2011-03-17 Thread Simon Cropper
s create a PDF of the source document and review that - because the images are all compressed it occupies less memory. Have you tried using the JPG format? Make you images twice the size you need them. Once you scale them down I promise you will not detect any difference between your TIFF or P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Has it all, except... Project Manager.

2011-03-15 Thread Simon Cropper
On 16/03/11 13:13, Glenn wrote: Hi I championed OO/LO and got a strong response that claimed it was "veery buggy." (the double "e" is from a quote). I don't know... On 3/15/11 9:38 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: On 16/03/11 12:00, Bruce Carlson wrote: Remember one of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Has it all, except... Project Manager.

2011-03-15 Thread Simon Cropper
there are - taskjuggler: http://www.taskjuggler.org/ - openproj: http://openproj.org/ All in all there are quite a few alternatives around, even if you still use Windows as your operating system. As Bruce said, none need to be bundled with libreoffice per sae. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: test-drive linux easily - Get a MAC

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Cropper
in the repositories. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www

[libreoffice-users] IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY: in-document hyperlink navigation limited

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Cropper
would be good if the functionality available for the table of contents was available for the other types of indexes. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Separate alignment in TOC

2011-02-25 Thread Simon Cropper
hyperlinks (blue underlines), can be changed using the same method. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archiv

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-23 Thread Simon Cropper
On 18/02/11 16:28, Simon Cropper wrote: On 17/02/11 18:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: [snip] I see you're using JVM 1.6.0_20 (IcedTea), you might want to try updating to Java 1.6.0_22 to see if that resolves the difficulties. Alex, I have switched to Java 1.6.0_22 and that seems to

[libreoffice-users] Marching images

2011-02-23 Thread Simon Cropper
.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.0-1lucid1. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Convert Chart to Bitmap

2011-02-22 Thread Simon Cropper
r put into a file. They both can save to BMP format. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://li

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Accessing the mailing list

2011-02-21 Thread Simon Cropper
rs on manually. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ **

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Accessing the mailing list

2011-02-21 Thread Simon Cropper
nderbird/addon/send-filter/ Thunderbird runs on Mac. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://li

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Base and recognised 'xbase' file formats

2011-02-19 Thread Simon Cropper
package 'dbf'. How then is Base able to show some of my Visual Foxpro 9 tables? So back to my original question, what file types can Base actually access and manipulate, and how? -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-17 Thread Simon Cropper
6-openjdk whereas the newer version is java-6-sun-1.6.0.22 -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.o

[libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-17 Thread Simon Cropper
osting, snipping of text, etcetera. Maybe the list moderator(s) could draft something up, post it on the wiki and provide a link in the footer of future messages. This will go a long way to standardising the email content on the list. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Con

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-17 Thread Simon Cropper
us of Calc to see if the functionality could be found easily. Again I did not expect to see this in the print range dialog so missed it all together. No matter. I am a happy man now, it's rare to get a feature request addressed so quickly :). Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Princ

[libreoffice-users] QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Cropper
o signify? [1] http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au/Documents/LOJavaErr.log I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTR, LibreOffice 3.3.0 [OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.0-1lucid1] -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160

[libreoffice-users] QUESTION: Base and recognised 'xbase' file formats

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Cropper
at editing the field results in no corruption of the data. That is, a VFP table opened that has a memo, data inserted in the memo field, then opened again in VFP showed no obvious corruption. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Lt

[libreoffice-users] FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Cropper
size changes and the tool run again the duplicate headers are removed and the process repeated. This sort of routine would save considerable time manipulating quite sizable tables that can extend over many pages. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia

[libreoffice-users] POSSIBLE BUG: Regular need to 'recover' files

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Cropper
ocument is flagged as needing recovery. If you select start recovery it opens everytime with no errors. It appears as if some sort of 'file has closed ok' flag is not removed from the system when exiting a file. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Aus

Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments of replacing OO with LO

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Cropper
Gordon, I have seen a number of variations on this remove command. None worked on my system, hence the need to use synaptic to mark and remove packages. Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W

[libreoffice-users] SUGGESTION: Varying colours for different types of fields fields

2011-02-13 Thread Simon Cropper
'). All these fields as well as page numbers, table captions and dates all appear the same colour. The preferences section should allow the user to change the colour of these different field types so they can be easily distinguished when reviewing a document. -- Cheers Simon Simon

[libreoffice-users] Comments of replacing OO with LO

2011-02-13 Thread Simon Cropper
and had latest OO -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Principal Consultant Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users

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