Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
so that it is applied to the first paragraph (empty paragraph in this case. Copy the text. Paste special (Control+Shift+V). Select Unformatted text. All the text will be pasted with your default font. --Dan On 10/19/2012 11:37 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, Have you figured out if Libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting a code for today's date

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
an even create your own format if you want. --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiq

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/19/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:08 19/10/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: From: Charles Meyer Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default styl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - need to re-point a form

2012-10-20 Thread Dan Lewis
This opens a dialog in which you can enter SQL statements and execute them. This would also require getting the HSQLDB guide for version 1.8. The version on the hsqldb website is for 2.8. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://

Re: [libreoffice-users] image anchoring

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Lewis
i am finally writing this email. Does anybody know a way to go, i.e. setting the default anchoring to 'as text' after an image insertion ? thanks, The default setting for anchoring an image is "to paragraph". What you want to use is "as character". --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suitability of Lo in Small organisations

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Lewis
learning to use Base? Knowing which version is the most reliable and stable is very important. Perhaps knowing where to find the resources to use makes the program much more useful. --Dan On 10/21/2012 04:51 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Best all you LibO experts and Devs! What Webmaster now says

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot add primary key after saving without primary key.

2012-10-22 Thread Dan Lewis
, but you can select any value you want. Personal comments: A database should be well planned and designed before Base is ever opened to create it. As far as experiments are concerned, I periodically do this myself just to see what will happen. And if something does not go right, I know not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.7

2012-10-29 Thread Dan Lewis
hose Dutch. This led me to the download page again. Clicking Download button, I went to the page with the downloads mentioned above. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Searchable PDFs from Graphite fonts

2012-10-31 Thread Dan Lewis
hings. As you mentioned, an "i" looks like a "hi" to it. The only real solution is to not use any of the Graphite fonts in a PDF. But if you want to search the PDF, have you opened it in Draw and search for the text in it? --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2012-11-01 Thread Dan Lewis
e I no longer use MySQL 5.1. When I updated my Ubuntu OS, it installed MySQL 5.6. But I do know from personal experience that you can not access a database using a user name until you have entered what Schema it can access and what privileges it has for specific databases within t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/06/2012 02:41 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Thanks Guys!! (Girvin, Henirich, Dan, Mas and maybe others!!) You have all added some pieces to the Jigsaw and I'm pleased to say.. *I now have Base working with a MySQL Database (at last!!)* As Girvin would say "My Bad&quo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
data source. I don't have time right now to upload this to the LO Wiki, but I will be doing it in about 6 hours or so. Warning: it is a draft copy, but you are free to study it and make any suggestions or comments about it. --Dan On 11/06/2012 04:34 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Hello

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications This is the link to the LibreOffice guides. The Base section contain links to the first 3 chapters of the Base Guide. Chapter 1 has been published. Chapter 2 & 3 are still in draft form. --Dan (Eastern US) On 11/06/201

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image?

2012-11-07 Thread Dan Lewis
LibreOffice. As a test, I opened an .odt file using Abiword which is suppose to use ODF formats. It had some graphics that Abiword rendered as small thumbnails. It had a numbered list that covered several paragraphs. Abiword put them into a single paragraph while wrapping text. --Dan -- For unsubs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
base. Could we have more information, please? --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
e also installed the latest Gnome. I use it on LO 3.4.6, and 3.5.7. It may or may not work on openSUSE though. Enjoy! --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guid

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 08:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:35 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: <http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer> I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Links in a writer document

2012-11-09 Thread Dan Lewis
tion.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide --Dan -- 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.documentfoundatio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer

2012-11-09 Thread Dan Lewis
tyles. I use the Debian LO download from LibreOffice. I do not know whether keeping the Styles pane open all of the time will make "Hierarchal Styles" the default value on a Windows OS. It does seem to work on Ubuntu. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@glob

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to show cell value with text

2012-11-11 Thread Dan Lewis
2012 or Nov 10, 2012? Please be more specific. --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List ar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to show cell value with text

2012-11-13 Thread Dan Lewis
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Download the Calc Guide from this link. It may help. --Dan On 11/13/2012 08:06 PM, Viral Orpe wrote: Hi Johnny, May be I should go through Calc documents/ How to use Calc or something similar! I have used Excel/Calc in a hands on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Lewis
images remained where they were anchored. --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette Lis

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

2012-11-21 Thread Dan Lewis
s added so that the new chapter begins as an odd page. How did you create the master document? If we had your steps, someone might be able to discover what has to be done differently. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-21 Thread Dan Lewis
for share/autocorr to find it. This folder contains dat files with the language indicated in the name of the file. They contain all the settings of AutoCorrect. It seems that you could save this file and put it in this same autocorr folder. --Dan On 11/21/2012 08:12 AM, VA wrote: These

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

2012-11-21 Thread Dan Lewis
in the XML. It may seem that it is there, but it is not. --Dan On 11/21/2012 09:15 AM, Walther Koehler wrote: Hi, no rule without exception: I never was able to find out which special sequence gives rise to this error: Deleting the content of the last cell in a writer table, the paragraph

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

2012-11-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/21/2012 10:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 08:52 21/11/2012 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/21/2012 06:07 AM, Barry Say wrote: Is it the case that a document **must* *end with a paragraph mark. I am editing a publication which is a master document and I would like to specify that for a

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Colour settings in Form design.

2012-11-23 Thread Dan Lewis
nce in using macros, so I can not make any suggestions as to the required macro's content. From what little I have seen, it may contain some lengthy lines of code. Others with macro experience may be able to point you in the right direction. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] No more, please!

2012-11-26 Thread Dan Lewis
but I don't know why. --Dan On 11/26/2012 09:13 AM, Ken-GSS wrote: When I try to unsubscribe, I receive the following... "Hi, this is the mlmmj program managing the mailinglist users@global.libreoffice.org To confirm you want the address: ken_ha...@globalsouthservices.com removed

Re: [libreoffice-users] cropped images in docx file not formatted correctly

2012-11-26 Thread Dan Lewis
a picture, I have to use another program, mostly gimp. --Dan On 11/26/2012 12:14 PM, Joel Madero wrote: I'd suggest looking at bugs.freedesktop.org and search for similar problems. I know that image placement has been reported before and .docx is a nightmare to work with (Microsoft isn&

Re: [libreoffice-users] Converting html into text

2012-11-28 Thread Dan Lewis
below the frame. Then click the line of the frame to highlight it. Delete it. Next do the same thing to the next frame up. Continue this process until you have deleted all of the frames. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] hello

2012-11-29 Thread Dan Lewis
ogram people), the documentation group (these write the guides for LO), and Quality Assurance (these help test new versions verifying their usability and help verify the bugs filed). --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart Range Entire Column

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
using Base as a front end and HSQLDB as the back end. I would be curious as to the structure of your chart (columns and rows) to see if I could create a report for my personal financial database. I might even be able to add this to chapter 4 of the Base Guide for others. --Dan -- For unsu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
zes for specific categories. If I had my choice, I would use the Styles and Formatting window for changing fonts and their sizes. I have been doing this on my Mac for the past 4 years with no problems with originally OpenOffice.org and lately LibreOffice. --Dan -- For unsub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Issues Mac OS X

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lewis
seem to remember of your problem with help some time in the past, but I don't remember what the problem was. I'm not even sure how to even search for it on the Internet. Sorry. --Dan On 12/05/2012 04:18 PM, Oogie McGuire wrote: I have tried with both the default set by restoring to

Re: [libreoffice-users] 3.6.4.3 and Wheezy.

2012-12-06 Thread Dan Lewis
the Ubuntu version completely using Synaptic. Unfortunately this has to be done every time I go to the newest version of Ubuntu. Fortunately, that is only once every 2 years. Daily upgrades from Ubuntu do not bother my versions of LibreOffice. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread Dan Lewis
box labeled "Register-true". 7. Click OK. This is the setting that printers use to make sure the lines of adjacent pages line up. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base date entry less flexible

2012-12-29 Thread Dan Lewis
ognized by both Base and Calc. (Probably by most databases and spreadsheets. --Dan -- 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] Sorry about my double Post

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
u go to the Gmail in the Google web site. They will also show if your email client accesses your emails through IMAP. (This does require that you set up your email client to use IMAP. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoff

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Compact and Shutdown

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
al for 5.1? The latter is the one that has the information that you need to shutdown MySQL. It also describes how to compact any or all of the databases on the MySQL server. This manual is available in a variety of formats. (I have the manuals for 5.1 and 5.6 versions in ePUB format.)

Re: [libreoffice-users] ubuntu libreoffice bugs tracking

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
ories. Some are problems that are common to both. --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette Lis

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to calculate a grand total for entire report

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
quantities for each item, a column containing the prices for the items, and a column containing of the quantity for each item times the price of each. In the report, you can use Report Builder's accumulation function to add all the products in the report footer. This is rather simplistic

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to calculate a grand total for entire report

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/30/2012 04:13 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 12/30/2012 12:34 AM, Yahoo Account wrote: I am using LO 3.6.4 in Mac OS X 10.8.2. In Base I have a very simple, single table assets database. In a report, I am trying to calculate a grand total for all records. I have a text field for each record

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Compatibility with xlsm

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Lewis
o do this download the files into a special folder that will only contain files for this course. Then listed the folder as a trusted source. When you do this, macros will run in any file in this folder. Just make sure files in this folder contain only macros that are safe to run. --Dan -- For un

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Compact and Shutdown

2012-12-31 Thread Dan Lewis
s also available, MySQL Workbench serves the same purpose. (MySQL Navigator 5.6 can perform some duties such as create new databases and their tables.) --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-list

Re: [libreoffice-users] calculating time differences

2012-12-31 Thread Dan Lewis
opened Calc and formated column A with HH:MM:SS.000 in the Format code box. Then I clicked the green check. What I saw in the Format list was 13:37:46.000. Then I entered times in A1 and A2. Finally I entered =A1-A2 in A3. I got an answer in the format I had created for column A. --Dan -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] problems with "update style" on some headers

2013-01-01 Thread Dan Lewis
hing you need to do is to select the header and clear direct formatting. Then follow the instructions in the Getting Started with Writer chapter to change styles. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base date entry less flexible

2013-01-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/29/2012 07:46 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 12/29/2012 03:28 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I noted that after I updated LO from 3.5.7 to 3.6.4, the Base date entry format flexibility has changed. With a 3.5.7 (and before) Base form, I could enter 12-29-12 and it would be changed to 12

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing time format in Calc header

2013-01-08 Thread Dan Lewis
not see any way to change the time format either. I know there is for a text document, but someone forgot to enable this for a Calc Header or Footer. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base scenario

2013-01-08 Thread Dan Lewis
re defined in views, queries, and forms. All of these are written to the Base field (.odb). What I think may work is to create a view that uses the essential fields from your 'Member' table and the needed fields from the 'eMail' table. Then you could create a form for th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base scenario

2013-01-08 Thread Dan Lewis
Comment inline below. --Dan On 01/08/2013 07:07 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Ian, Have you actually drawn any relationships? Base will not do that for you. Just adding the tables in the 'Relationships Window' will not create the relationships automagically. You must click and ho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base: Action Queries

2013-01-11 Thread Dan Lewis
luding space. In a quoted identifier use "" (two double- quotes) to create a " (one doublequote). With quoted identifiers it is possible to create mixed-case table and column names. --Dan On 01/11/2013 04:42 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Thanks guys :) Ok, so i am starting ou

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No version named 4.0.0.0 RC1

2013-01-11 Thread Dan Lewis
tps://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED> Does it make any difference if you use LibreOffice 4.0.0.1 RC1? --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-li

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base: Action Queries

2013-01-11 Thread Dan Lewis
fault value JDBC. --Dan On 01/11/2013 08:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think i need to explore this a bit more tomorrow. I tried both types of quotes and no quotes. Then i made the field names unique and all lower-case and i tried using a query as the source rather than a table. Then i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Changing & restoring (Default) font

2013-01-13 Thread Dan Lewis
also were changed to Liberation Sans. So, change your OS fonts to what you want the Base fonts to be. --Dan On 01/12/2013 07:48 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I am not well versed in the "Styles" department, but that may be more towards what you want. Make a "style" and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Embedded Java

2013-01-13 Thread Dan Lewis
sabled the JVM add-on. Check Tools -> Add-ons for it if you use Firefox. Also check the Help section for specific information about how to disable Java in your browser. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Setting the default listbox entry

2013-01-13 Thread Dan Lewis
oined table. To make this work, both tables have to be edited. Field A of Table B has the list box. Field C of Table D provides the entries for the list box. The default value desired for the list box is the dash character (-). I edited Table B making the dash character the default

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Embedded Java

2013-01-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/13/2013 10:44 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: Does this update fix the Java plugin for Firefox? No it does not. A recent update for Firefox disabled the Java plugin as explained in the Firefox Help. I suggest you read what Firefox Help has to say about the Java plugin. --Dan

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I joined recently. How can I help?

2013-01-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/14/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The docs team is currently working on 2 sets of documentation for Base. A full guide and a short(ish) handbook (this latter is being translated from the German one). Dan has just completed 2 chapters for the full guide but the team would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recent Documents list

2013-01-15 Thread Dan Lewis
=en-US. Search for History Manager. It is suppose to work on AOO and LO. --Dan -- 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Did you get my Hyperlink message?

2013-01-15 Thread Dan Lewis
Without knowing what the correct log in is, it is impossible to look at your video. --Dan -- 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.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Did you get my Hyperlink message?

2013-01-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/15/2013 09:28 PM, rjh wrote: sorry everyone I have made it public now :-) http://youtu.be/T3XH5AO2jws I think you have found a bug! You need to file a bug report. The hyperlink is not working like it should. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Did you get my Hyperlink message?

2013-01-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/16/2013 06:58 AM, rjh wrote: How do I report it? Thanks Use this link: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/. Then create an account followed by coming back to this web page. Follow the steps to report the bug. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-16 Thread Dan Lewis
reformat it. Another suggestion: Keep this document as a .odt file. Make any changes that are needed. Then do a Save As to create a file using .doc when one is needed. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selection List editing

2013-01-16 Thread Dan Lewis
f data. But you also refer to a pulldown list. This implies a cell has a listbox or combo box. Would you please explain a little further what you want to do. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-list

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Dan Lewis
u mention what version you are using again please? --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette Lis

Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

2013-01-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/17/2013 10:53 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: I'm not sure about this: Where did you get your copy of LibreOffice? Via the Xubuntu Linux distro, 64-bit X86, 3.5.something kernel. And would you mention what version you are using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc sliding scale formulae?

2013-01-18 Thread Dan Lewis
very simple division problem.) Hint: I have asked you for 5 formula, and that is also the number of cells you will need: one cell per formula. You will be using a result in some cells in the formula in another cell. --Dan On 01/18/2013 07:00 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: It has been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird Address Book as Data Source

2013-01-18 Thread Dan Lewis
I used Base to connect to my Thunderbird address book: If you create mailing lists within the Personal Address Book, each of these lists appear as separate table. This permits you to separate all of your addresses in one table into smaller tables, one for each specialized list of addresses. --Dan -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Database sort problem

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Lewis
s YY/MM/DD. You could change your date format to MM/DD/ to see if the dates then matches this format such as 24/10/12 becomes 24/10/2012. If it does not change, this is likely where the problem lies. Second possibility: what you think is a date format is really a text format.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-20 Thread Dan Lewis
a SOL command? It closes the database files, rewrites the script file, deletes the log file and opens the database. If CHECKPOINT DEFRAG is specified, this command also shrinks the .data file to its minimal size. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-20 Thread Dan Lewis
until you find the Font property. Click the ellipse (...) for the Font property to open the Character dialog. Reduce the size of the text, and click OK. If this is not what you want, will you please be more specific about what you have and what you want to do. --Dan -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder

2013-01-20 Thread Dan Lewis
bit more appropriate than an embedded hsqldb... The date on the above email was a couple of weeks ago. So, this statement likely does not apply to LO 3.6.4.3. --Dan On 01/20/2013 10:04 PM, Hank Alper wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for your quick response. I"m using LO version3.6.4.3 Build I

Re: [libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 01/21/2013 03:00 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: Il 21/01/2013 01:48, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/20/2013 05:58 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. using base... is there a way to open masks without borders or tools, just the mask, to make it smaller ? I an not sure I understand what you mean

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: calendar project - should i use writer or calc

2013-01-24 Thread Dan Lewis
Having viewed your links, I think the Writer would be a better choice. --Dan On 01/24/2013 12:11 PM, anne-ology wrote: I think you meant to send this to the list, so am forwarding this on to them. As for me, I haven't a clue as to how to use the calc pr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Query Sort and Reports

2013-01-24 Thread Dan Lewis
d it come with a Linux distribution? If so, which one? I ask these questions because I have not been able to duplicate your problem using LO 3.5.7 from the LibreOffice website. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.6.4 Romanian installer translation is HORRIBLY broken

2013-01-24 Thread Dan Lewis
ations about how terrible something is. What about some specifics of what was translated incorrectly? What should the correct translation be? --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.6.4 Romanian installer translation is HORRIBLY broken

2013-01-24 Thread Dan Lewis
an. 5) Download LibreOffice and install it. 6) If you want the built-in help files in Romanian, download it from this same page. (Install this after installing LibreOffice.) See if this will correct the problem. --Dan On 01/24/2013 02:06 PM, zugu wrote: Well, I'm trying to start the in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Urgent Base problem

2013-01-24 Thread Dan Lewis
the Installed Version column and begins with 1:3.5.4-0Ubuntu. If you want some suggestions as to how to install LO 3.6.4.3 from the LO site, let me know. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-26 Thread Dan Lewis
ce/3/. This prevented me from running the Ubuntu version and LO 3.6.X from the LO website at the same time. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-27 Thread Dan Lewis
B 2.8, and 4.0.0 for embedded databases). The draft of chapter 3 of the Base contains discussion of this in the last section. --Dan On 01/27/2013 04:36 AM, Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: Hi Hank, I haven't been following this thread closely, but it seem like you are experiencing some of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Include movie in PDF export?

2013-01-28 Thread Dan Lewis
breOffice on a thumb drive (USB): http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable. This is the portable version of LO 3.6.4 for Windows. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Lewis
I checked my LO versions. LO 3.5.7, 3.6.5, and 4.0.0.2 have it. I don't know when LO started putting this AutoText in the AutoText dialog, so if you have a version earlier than I do, you may not have it. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing text color

2013-01-31 Thread Dan Lewis
o change the color of the selected text. We need your specific steps. The font color can also be changed using Character styles (Format -> Character): 1. Highlight some text. 2. Format -> Character 3. Select the color you want to use. 4. Click OK. --Dan -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copy Paste Calc Writer

2013-01-31 Thread Dan Lewis
Ad Kurvink What version of LibreOffice are you using? When I use 2.5.7 or 4.0.0.2, I can paste special (Edit -> Paste Special) a graphic into a Writer document that I copied from a spreadsheet. Bitmap was one of the choices available when I used paste special. --Dan -- For unsubscribe i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving to an ascii file

2013-01-31 Thread Dan Lewis
h its data separated by commas. It can be opened with any text editor. --Dan -- 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.documentfoundation.org/

Re: [libreoffice-users] VLOOKUP Problem

2013-02-02 Thread Dan Lewis
o" in the mail headers). It uses IMAP and POP. (I have recently learned how to use the former.) The point is: there are email clients other than Thunderbird that give you the ability to reply to a list. --Dan On 02/02/2013 12:12 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2013/2/2 John Meyer: BTW, th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Dan Lewis
ver the similar appearances of cell phones and the billion dollar judgment? Being similar to something that is copyrighted is grounds for legal actions. Besides, why should LIbreOffice be a MS Office look alike? --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-04 Thread Dan Lewis
this email thread until she does. --Dan On 02/04/2013 06:25 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Perhaps a couple of people could do this as an Extension/Add-on rather than making LibreOffice dependant on it? Regards from Tom

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] [solved] Re: Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Lewis
This is obviously a bug in the Linux Mint version. I know that earlier I had the Ubuntu version of LO 3.5.4. When I typed every word was marked as an incorrect spelling. I have no such problems with the version supplied by LibreOffice, itself. --Dan On 02/08/2013 08:52 AM, sun shine

Re: [libreoffice-users] A (sane) way of doing bullets and numbering

2013-02-09 Thread Dan Lewis
g followed by" of the level above it. Set "Numbering followed by" to be greater than the longest sub-number for this level. Set "Aligned at" to equal "Numbering followed by". One additional point. You probably want the difference between "Numbering fo

Re: [libreoffice-users] explorer prewiew

2013-02-09 Thread Dan Lewis
-> Options -> Internet -> Browser Plug-in. (It exists there for me using Ubuntu.) --Dan -- 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 + m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-09 Thread Dan Lewis
e top panel. Within it, I have the icons (tools?) that will open the particular version of a program such as LO that I want. You have to edit the Applications menu first creating a new menu. Then add the new menu to the top panel. (There is a little more to do with this though.) file:///home/dan

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0: intrinsic database: relations only between primaries keys?

2013-02-11 Thread Dan Lewis
in to normalize the table.) Without knowing all of the fields that you are using, it would be difficult to know what fields these might be. FYI, very seldom will two tables have a 1:1 relationship (linking the primary keys of the two tables). Very likely, yours doesn't either. Most ofte

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-11 Thread Dan Lewis
Extract the installation folder and always place it in the same location. (This is important for the contents of the script file.) Example of the script file: #!/bin/sh cd /home/dan/Downloads/LO/LibO_3.6.5.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/ sudo dpkg

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Dan Lewis
in Writer or Calc. Base forms are created using Writer, but they are *not* the same thing as X-Forms. The purpose of forms in Base is to enter data into the tables of the database. This is not a purpose that X-Forms in Writer nor anything in Calc can provide. --Dan With macros i think the

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging Users in the LibreOffice Project

2013-11-01 Thread Dan Hall
*ditto* -Original Message- From: Dale Erwin [mailto:d...@casaerwin.org] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 6:04 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging Users in the LibreOffice Project On 11/1/2013 2:05 PM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 11/1/13 7:04 AM,

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-11 Thread Dan Hall
For what it's worth... I'm just a casual user of LO. It was installed on my new computer when I bought it a year and a half ago. I got on this list because the spell checker wouldn't work. I've remained here because a) I sometimes learn stuff and b) I like it when you guys disagree with one an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Display running total of Table Control in LibreOffice Base form

2013-12-19 Thread Dan Lewis
I can limit the data to the rows which have a check. Then I can add, multiply, and divide in the query to get the results I want. --Dan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guide

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Table Relation

2014-01-30 Thread Dan Lewis
ects (Tables, Views, and Queries.) There are screenshots of the tools to help you. --Dan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http

[libreoffice-users] Possible Bug in 4.2.0.4 Copy Paste in Firefox ESR 24.3ESR

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Czuchra
ust so you know, we're running: Windows 7 SP1 Pro (x64) w/ the latest patches Java 7 u51 Flash 12.0.44 Firefox 24.3 ESR Let me know if you need more info. Dan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailin

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