[libreoffice-users] Re: Local data in writer pulldown list

2016-10-24 Thread ponsiarceds
Gary Dale wrote > It's actually a little more complicated. In order to create the list > box, you need to select a data source. No, using LO 5.2.2 I simply open Writer and 1. selected the listbox icon from the Form Controls toolbar then 2. clicked and dragged the outline of a listbox on the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Local data in writer pulldown list

2016-10-22 Thread ponsiarceds
1. Right mouse click on the list box, choose control 2. On the 'General' Tab, choose List entries. 3. type your first entry BUT press Shift+Enter to make non-breaking space for the 2nd entry 4. repeat as necessary. 5. Choose File>Export as PDF. 6. Select the 'Create PDF Form' option. I left the

[libreoffice-users] Re: updating a bookmark using a basic macro

2015-12-07 Thread ponsiarceds
I half-remember coming across something like this before: From section 14.11.1 Bookmarks in Andrew Pitonyaks OpenOffice Macros Explained (http://www.pitonyak.org/OOME_3_0.pdf): /A bookmark is text content that is accessible based on its name. A bookmark may encompass a text range or a single

[libreoffice-users] BASIC, Writer Table Cell Selection: Numbering/Bullets interfere with TextTableCursor

2015-08-14 Thread ponsiarceds
Hello, I'm trying to return a cell range for some cells selected in a Writer text table. From what I've read in Andrew Pitonyak's documentation, the method getRangeName() from a TextTableCursor seems to be the way to do it. However oSels.supportsService(com.sun.star.text.TextTableCursor)

[libreoffice-users] Daily Master 64bit deb Install Failure

2014-10-04 Thread ponsiarceds
Hello, I'm using debs from http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF/current/ on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit LO 4.2.6, 4.3.2 and the installs have been failing regularly (every weekend or so) for the past two-three months. Package lodevbasis4.4-core05 is always

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature Request for Calc - input forms and reports

2014-08-21 Thread ponsiarceds
For input forms, you could try this: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/dataform http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/dataform - Ubuntu 14.04 64bit : LibreOffice: 4.2.6.2, 4.3.1.1 -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: v3.5 vs RC3

2012-02-15 Thread ponsiarceds
Is LO3.5 the same as release candidate 3, or should I download 3.5??? Thank you. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA From http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/ : /This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.5.0 Release Candidate 3, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have

[libreoffice-users] Re: Copy calc data to writer table

2011-08-18 Thread ponsiarceds
Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I am just copying some data from a calc sheet into a table in writer without wanting to embed it as a calc8 item. snip Is this logical or am I missing something, would a feature request to add another paste special item Paste to table be useful or a more

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-06 Thread ponsiarceds
No luck with the sdbc driver. I disabled the driver then removed it. I even went so far as to rename my /.libreoffice dir, re-install it start afresh. Looking at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35784 the driver is currently broken. JDBC works, but it might be slower. -

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base / Postgresql support

2011-08-05 Thread ponsiarceds
Walt wrote: Hi Anyone know how to get native pgsql support on base - it seems missing from the connect to an exsitng database options. I've checked under both Linux and Windows. There was a special driver in a zip file available from the old openoffice.org site. It was an extension

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

2011-07-29 Thread ponsiarceds
. tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Ug. This is getting ugly really fast. I'm really not on home ground here at all. FWIW, here is a relatively painless way to install an older JRE along side the default Ubuntu one. ( I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit ) It