Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Brewster Gillett
> > bg: > > > > Doesn't work. Whether I enter it as =DATEVALUE($CELL) > > or as =DATEVALUE($THEDATECELL) it still echoes " #NAME? " > > all the way through to the final paste. What am I doing wrong? > > > > Brewster Gene Young wrote: > Try substituting the actual cell reference in place of "THED

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Brewster Gillett
> > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > > > >> Insert a column > >> enter =DATEVALUE($THEDATECELL) > >> copy-and-paste that one cell to the rest of the column > >> copy the date value column > >> paste as values over the old column > >> delete the column you created > >> > > > > bg: > > > > D

Re: [users] Importing (or otherwise) MS Office templates

2010-09-22 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Gordon: I have here about 172 Mb. of templates, partly from MS office and many other applications. A Subset of these are templates from most of the Oo applications, especially Writer and Calc. That subsection is about 144 Mb. would you like a split .7z archive? (this requires 7-zip, wh

[users] Re: question for MailMerge in DevBuild WAS Re: [users] Re: question for Autotext in DevBuild

2010-09-22 Thread NoOp
On 09/22/2010 02:00 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > NoOp wrote (21-09-10 21:40) >> On 09/21/2010 10:28 AM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 09/21/2010 02:11 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: > May I add another performance question? Mail merge. Also 'pretty' slow for me. See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.c

[users] error msg

2010-09-22 Thread Jim Dalhaus
Can anyone tell me what I need to correct this error I get it when opening any document: Error loading BASIC of document file:///C:/users/owner/AppData/roaming/OpenOffice.org/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc/:General Error. General input/output error Using Win 7 32 bit Jim

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Detwiler
Brewster Gillett wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: =DATEVALUE($CELL) will convert a text representation of a date to a date value. bg: Sounds workable, but where and under what screen am I going to enter it in order to apply it to all 678 rows in that column? I tried enteri

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Gene Young
On 9/22/2010 7:17 PM, Brewster Gillett wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: =DATEVALUE($CELL) will convert a text representation of a date to a date value. bg: Sounds workable, but where and under what screen am I going to enter it in order to apply it to all 678 rows in that column? I tried e

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Brewster Gillett
> > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > =DATEVALUE($CELL) will convert a text representation of a date to a date > > > value. > > bg: > > Sounds workable, but where and under what screen am I going to enter it > > in order to apply it to all 678 rows in that column? I tried entering it > > in the ed

Re: [users] Margins

2010-09-22 Thread Barbara Duprey
John, as I mentioned in my earlier response, you set margins by selecting Format from the main menu, then Page, then the Page tab. Dear Mr James Knott Thank your reply and the information re Openoffice, can you let me know where in the index I can find how to incert margins to my specificati

Re: [users] Re: question for MailMerge in DevBuild WAS Re: [users] Re: question for Autotext in DevBuild

2010-09-22 Thread Cor Nouws
NoOp wrote (21-09-10 21:40) On 09/21/2010 10:28 AM, NoOp wrote: On 09/21/2010 02:11 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: May I add another performance question? Mail merge. Also 'pretty' slow for me. See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=114608 Really would appreciate the experience of others

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:34 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: > Brewster Gillett wrote: > > > > Here's what I have. 678-row Calc file, names & addresses and some > > > additional information. One of those is a column for "date on list". > > > Unfortunately the way I get the file, as a CSV, those entr

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Brewster Gillett
Brewster Gillett wrote: > > Here's what I have. 678-row Calc file, names & addresses and some > > additional information. One of those is a column for "date on list". > > Unfortunately the way I get the file, as a CSV, those entries are > > not formatted specifically as dates, even though they all

RE: [users] Margins

2010-09-22 Thread John . R Downham
Dear Mr James Knott Thank your reply and the information re Openoffice, can you let me know where in the index I can find how to incert margins to my specifications? again many thanks John > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:20:20 -0400 > From: james.kn...@rogers.com > To: users@openoffice.org; john

Re: [users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:04 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: > OOo 3.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 Hi, saw your post over on evolution@ :) > Here's what I have. 678-row Calc file, names & addresses and some > additional information. One of those is a column for "date on list". > Unfortunately the way I get

[users] Mass edit in calc field - help!

2010-09-22 Thread Brewster Gillett
OOo 3.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 Here's that dadblasted now-you-see-it-now-you-don't "text indicator" (I seem to recall that's what someone once called it) that I have got to eradicate. Since there are 678 rows in this file, I am not eager to perform the operation individually on each row. Here's what

[users] Multipart/Related Content-type

2010-09-22 Thread Julien CHEVALIER
Dear List, I used to open a spreadsheet having the Multipart/Related Content-type and an .xls file extension. I'm not shure how it was generated, but probably something like Cognos with MS Excel 2002 export option. It's broken since I upgraded to OO 3.2 Can anyone help ? Regards -- Julien Ch

Re: [users] Spellcheck enable/disable on a per-document basis

2010-09-22 Thread Mike.
On 9/21/2010 at 5:30 PM Brian Barker wrote: |At 12:04 21/09/2010 -0400, Mike Noname wrote: |>I like to have spell check enabled in word-processing documents, and |>disabled in spreadsheets. Is there a way to configure Open Office |>such that spell check is |>enabled when I open a new Writer doc