Re: [users] Howto INSTALL 2.0.1 on Fedora

2006-01-16 Thread Nat Gross
On 1/16/06, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:25 -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > On the download page ( http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.1/ ) there is > a link to the SETUP GUIDE, > http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/

[users] Howto INSTALL 2.0.1 on Fedora

2006-01-16 Thread Nat Gross
Hi; Before posting this question I searched and found the 'worthless' thread but I still don't know how to install. (Listen folks, the guy has a point. There should be an installer in the root of the tar.) Anyhow, I have the 2.01 tar, all I see within is a bunch of rpm's with a readme that does not

Re: [users] Labels, merge, headaches.

2005-11-01 Thread Nat Gross
With this approach I had (and still have) a problem with Mail Merge (Your number 7). I am assuming that you meant the mail merge wizard, which is unstable, and freezes my 1.6ghz (768meg ram) for at least a minute when merging only 78 labels! And.. sometimes it recovers afterwards (correctly filled

[users] Labels, merge, headaches.

2005-10-29 Thread Nat Gross
I finally (after reading many related posts here, and going thru hoops) printed a sheet of Avery labels correctly mail merged from a jdbc source. BUT, feeling lucky, I clicked on the "Do not ask again" checkbox on the dialog that pops up before printing 'warning'/asking do I really want to merge th

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-24 Thread Nat Gross
Brian wrote: Nat Gross said the following on 5/24/2005 11:38 AM: With Java/jdbc I can connect to two different databases simultaneously and copy rows to/from each other. No need to export-import. Since, as you pointed out, a spreadsheet is synonymous with a database (and since ooo so

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Brian wrote: Nat Gross said the following on 5/24/2005 7:28 AM: Hi; Since 2.0 connects so nicely to MySql, and since 2.0 also reads a spreadsheet as a 'database', it seems logical that you should be able to save a spreadsheet to a database, with the sheets being the tables. Bu

Re: [users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Paul wrote: As far as I'm aware (someone on the list will correct if I'm wrong) you cannot do this in either 1.1.4 or 2.0Beta releases. One thing you can do is save the spreadsheet file as a delimited file then import into mysql using sql statements. Problem is that the spreadsheets have man

[users] Can 2.0 [somehow] save a Calc-Workbook to a database?

2005-05-23 Thread Nat Gross
Hi; Since 2.0 connects so nicely to MySql, and since 2.0 also reads a spreadsheet as a 'database', it seems logical that you should be able to save a spreadsheet to a database, with the sheets being the tables. But, I can't find this functionality from the menus. Is this possible 'outta the box