[users] Sorting OO Basic arrays?

2011-04-15 Thread john d. herron
Hi, all. In a Basic procedure i'm building an n-line array in which the first element of each line is a five-digit string. Is there a way to sort the array on that five-digit string ? Couldn't find anything helpful in the manual. Thanks for helping. john herron

Re: [users] Sorting and grouping ? [SOLVED -Kinda]

2009-12-25 Thread JOE Conner
William Case wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 10:29 -0500, William Case wrote: Hi; I may be having a brain cramp but ... In Calc, how do I group some rows together before sorting? For example, I have a small set of data like Col:A Col:B Col:CCol:D row1jkdfa dsajh ociv

Re: [users] Sorting and grouping ? [SOLVED -Kinda]

2009-12-25 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 10:29 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I may be having a brain cramp but ... > > In Calc, how do I group some rows together before sorting? > > For example, I have a small set of data like > > Col:A Col:B Col:CCol:D > > row1 jkdfa dsajh ociv > row2

Re: [users] Sorting and grouping ?

2009-12-24 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/12/24 William Case : > Hi; > > I may be having a brain cramp but ... > > In Calc, how do I group some rows together before sorting? > > For example, I have a small set of data like > >        Col:A   Col:B   Col:C    Col:D > > row1    jkdfa   dsajh   ociv > row2    djafsh  ire     q.e     ab >

[users] Sorting and grouping ?

2009-12-24 Thread William Case
Hi; I may be having a brain cramp but ... In Calc, how do I group some rows together before sorting? For example, I have a small set of data like Col:A Col:B Col:CCol:D row1jkdfa dsajh ociv row2djafsh ire q.e ab row3cd row4

Re: [users] sorting in Calc

2009-12-01 Thread Paul
> No its not the column label that is the trouble but the first line of the > actual entries. When I am highlighting the column I make sure I leave the > label out. > > > You have two options. Select the entire area (including the column labels) and tell calc that the sort area has labels, or not

Re: [users] sorting in Calc

2009-11-30 Thread Franz Wein
Hi Joe mark the area for sorting, select in the mainmenu "DATA" und there sort. You get a popup window with 2 tabs. In the first tab you can select the columns to sort, in the second tab you will find some checkboxes, like area with headlines. Disable this checkbox, and the sort use the whole

Re: [users] sorting in Calc

2009-11-30 Thread Paul
> Hi, trying to sort the first column in Calc but the first line is ignored > and is not sorted. Inserted a blank row but was deleted and same thing > happened as before. All the rest of column is sorted OK. Any ideas? > Tks > If you go to the 'options' tab on the sort dialogue box you can cho

[users] sorting in Calc

2009-11-30 Thread joe g
Hi, trying to sort the first column in Calc but the first line is ignored and is not sorted. Inserted a blank row but was deleted and same thing happened as before. All the rest of column is sorted OK. Any ideas? Tks

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/10/6 Wade Smart : > Brian Barker wrote: >> >> At 22:45 04/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: >>> >>> I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that >>> represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I don't >>> have to do it each week manually. >> >> At 10:03

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-05 Thread Wade Smart
Brian Barker wrote: At 22:45 04/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I don't have to do it each week manually. At 10:03 05/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: For examp

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:45 04/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I don't have to do it each week manually. At 10:03 05/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: For example: B2 and C2 is Team

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-05 Thread Wade Smart
John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.10.04 23:45 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. Well, 'B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19' are of course cells, not columns. Are you saying that every other column (B-D-F-H-J

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread JOE Conner
Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I dont have to do it each week manually. Is there any way to do this other than something like "if this is bigger than this, etc, etc.. "??? Wa

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.10.04 23:45 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. Well, 'B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19' are of course cells, not columns. Are you saying that every other column (B-D-F-H-J-L) is a team, and tot

[users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread Wade Smart
I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I dont have to do it each week manually. Is there any way to do this other than something like "if this is bigger than this, etc, etc.. "??? Wade -- Registered Li

Re: [users] Sorting in Report

2009-09-15 Thread Rob Clement
FamiliaFrazelle wrote: i'm making a report, based on a query. The report is Grouped and Sorted, first on Date, then Neighborhood, then Street. In the detail area, the first control is the house number which, when the report is generated, does not order the house number in ascending order. i'

[users] Sorting in Report

2009-09-15 Thread FamiliaFrazelle
i'm making a report, based on a query. The report is Grouped and Sorted, first on Date, then Neighborhood, then Street. In the detail area, the first control is the house number which, when the report is generated, does not order the house number in ascending order. i've ordered the field in

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet/Brian

2009-07-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:20 10/07/2009 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: Brian Barker wrote: Indeed, if - in your case - you select just a single cell in column W and then go to Data | Sort..., you should find not only that the range has been correctly selected for you but also that "Column W" has already been sugg

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet/Brian

2009-07-10 Thread bg
> At 23:26 09/07/2009 -0700, Peter Dow wrote: > >After you select all the columns and rows you want to sort, ... > > One trick that hasn't been mentioned is that you often don't need to > select exactly the rows and columns which you need sorted. If you > select any *single* cell within the r

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:19 09/07/2009 -0600, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: A spreadsheet has data in rows A through CX. Column W is a column with only numbers. The complete spreadsheet is to be sorted by doing a Descending Sort on column W. When the Sort is done only column W is sorted. Is there some way to have

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Dow
Hi Walter, I'm up late, so I'll jump in. After you select all the columns and rows you want to sort, do NOT click on column W. Instead, click on the Data menu, then click Sort. A window should open up with two tabs on it, with the Sort Criteria tab showing. From the first Sort By drop down l

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Brewster, I did not know there was a Sort choice under Data. I was using the icons to do the sorting. Thank you for the help. Walter On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM, bg wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:55, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: > > Joe, when I select all the cells and then click on colum

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:55, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: > Joe, when I select all the cells and then click on column W, all the cells > become unselected except those in column W. How do I select cells in such > a way that they stay selected when I click on column W to get ready to sort? > > Walte

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
Joe, when I select all the cells and then click on column W, all the cells become unselected except those in column W. How do I select cells in such a way that they stay selected when I click on column W to get ready to sort? Walter On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, JOE Conner wrote: > Walter H

Re: [users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread JOE Conner
Walter Hildebrandt wrote: A spreadsheet has data in rows A through CX. Column W is a column with only numbers. The complete spreadsheet is to be sorted by doing a Desending Sort on column W. When the Sort is done only column W is sorted. Is there some way to have all the columns sorted based

[users] Sorting a spreadsheet

2009-07-09 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
A spreadsheet has data in rows A through CX. Column W is a column with only numbers. The complete spreadsheet is to be sorted by doing a Desending Sort on column W. When the Sort is done only column W is sorted. Is there some way to have all the columns sorted based on column W. For example i

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for American Hoechst a

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-04 Thread Uwe Fischer
John W Kennedy wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for American Hoechst and its successors for 29 years, and I was always i

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for American Hoechst and its successors for 29 years, and I was always instructed to collat

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, On 02/03/09 15:27, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the way in which Openoffice sorts items in alphabetical order. Openoffice applies the “word-by-word” variant of alphabetical order, whereby spaces and certain punctuation marks are sorted before letters (

[users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the way in which Openoffice sorts items in alphabetical order. Openoffice applies the “word-by-word” variant of alphabetical order, whereby spaces and certain punctuation marks are sorted before letters (so that, for example, New Haven comes before Newc

Re: [users] Sorting

2009-01-25 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Bruce Hooley wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me if it is possible to sort entries in a table so that it sorts down the column instead of across? Like a phone book does. I'm working with a number of two and three column tables and so far I have only been able to sort across. Surely it should be poss

Re: [users] Sorting

2009-01-25 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:28 24/01/2009 +1000, Bruce Hooley wrote: Can anyone tell me if it is possible to sort entries in a table so that it sorts down the column instead of across? Like a phone book does. I'm working with a number of two and three column tables and so far I have only been able to sort across. Su

Re: [users] Sorting

2009-01-25 Thread JOE Conner
Bruce Hooley wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me if it is possible to sort entries in a table so that it sorts down the column instead of across? Like a phone book does. I'm working with a number of two and three column tables and so far I have only been able to sort across. Surely it should be poss

[users] Sorting

2009-01-25 Thread Bruce Hooley
Hi! Can anyone tell me if it is possible to sort entries in a table so that it sorts down the column instead of across? Like a phone book does. I'm working with a number of two and three column tables and so far I have only been able to sort across. Surely it should be possible for the program t

[users] Sorting in Calc

2008-01-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
In this example I have two sheets. On of them contains data, and this sheet is also used for adding more data. It's like a database, at the moment it has 22 rows plus a header row. The second sheet is a "copy" of the first, and I use it for sorting the data without affecting the original order of t

Re: [users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread zed
Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Zed, > > zed wrote (26-12-2007 9:09) > > I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting > > columns. Let me explain. > > > > I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second > > (to the right) has Family N

Re: [users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread zed
Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 21:09 26/12/2007 +1300, Zed Noname wrote: > > I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting > > columns. Let me explain. > > > > I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second > > (to the right) has Fa

Re: [users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:09 26/12/2007 +1300, Zed Noname wrote: I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting columns. Let me explain. I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second (to the right) has Family Names, for example AlecMackintosh Cedric Humbl

Re: [users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread Joe Conner
zed wrote: I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting columns. Let me explain. I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second (to the right) has Family Names, for example AlecMackintosh Cedric Humblebee David Whistleton Edward Aldeb

Re: [users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Zed, zed wrote (26-12-2007 9:09) I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting columns. Let me explain. I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second (to the right) has Family Names, for example AlecMackintosh Cedric Humblebe

[users] Sorting columns in Calc ...

2007-12-26 Thread zed
I have recently started using Calc and am having difficulty in sorting columns. Let me explain. I have two columns. The first one has First Names listed and the second (to the right) has Family Names, for example AlecMackintosh Cedric Humblebee David Whistleton Edward Aldeburgh I want

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-20 Thread James Knott
Yep, I certainly wrote a lot of stuff just to get that Imsai going to.  A lot of it I had to assemble by hand, as I didn't have the assembler up & running yet.  Backthen, we knew our computers inside & out!  Ah...  Those were the days!  ;-) noranross wrote: Hi all First personl computer wa

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread noranross
Hi all First personl computer was one i built myself using a cmos chip the 6102. i built 1 k of memory using 2102's *8 . Burnt my own 1702 from a burner built by me as the bootstrap. It was amazing what we could fit into 1k of memory, including an assembler apart from the keyboard and video ro

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 20/11/2007, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Knott wrote: > > Scott Castaline wrote: > >>> > >> Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working > >> PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was > >> an 1100 whatever mfg micro system

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
James Knott wrote: Scott Castaline wrote: Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was an 1100 whatever mfg micro system that stored the code on 8" floppy to boot the PDP-8. I seem to remember we had

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
noranross wrote: hi all it seems there are a few of us here who started in the old paper tape and punch card days of very early machines.Mine were Honeywell. I worked on many different systems, but my first personal computer was an Imsai 8080, which I bought 31 years ago. --

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not act

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
Scott Castaline wrote:   Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was an 1100 whatever mfg micro system that stored the code on 8" floppy to boot the PDP-8. I seem to remember we had written code to

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was br

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread noranross
hi all it seems there are a few of us here who started in the old paper tape and punch card days of very early machines.Mine were Honeywell. Ross bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: > bill purvis wrote: > > Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at > > Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to > > learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was brought up > > on p

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: > bill purvis wrote: > > OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up > > but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling > > mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with > > 'unabl

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the Open

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and reporting that the class 'com

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 19/11/2007 19:33, bill purvis wrote: OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and reportin

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and reporting that the class 'com/mysql/jdbc/Driver' c

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Dan Lewis wrote: > On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: > > Drew, > > I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. > > Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. > > Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits c

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: > bill purvis wrote: > > Drew, > > I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. > > Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. > > Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. > > Then I ente

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: > Drew, > I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. > Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. > Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. > Then I entered: > > apt-get insta

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread LISBET HOGLAND
I dont not of open office - Original Message - From: "Drew Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base) bill purvis wrote: Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread LISBET HOGLAND
I dont anythin about open office - Original Message - From: "bill purvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base) Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on th

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered: apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory. Got the usua

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for Drew Johnson off list. Bill Actually, I am guessing you mean Drew Jensen...and I would just as soon try to answer on list or at http://user.services.openoffice.org That way other people can either help also, or receive help a

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for Drew Johnson off list. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.members.beeb.net | +---+ -

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered: apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory. Got the usual stuff about Reading

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: bill purvis wrote: I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before Bill Hi again, Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. Drew OK, seems like I'll have to wait until Ubuntu

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: > bill purvis wrote: > > I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before > > > > Bill > > Hi again, > > Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. > > Drew OK, seems like I'll have to wait until Ubuntu catches up. Bill --

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before Bill Hi again, Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comman

[users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread bill purvis
I've played around some more with queries, trying to get it to sort on the second field before the first. By turning off the sort, then clicking on the 'visible' box it turns off, then you can turn the sort back on. However, once you try to run it the 'visible' checkbox turns on again. Since I und

Re: [users] Sorting on Openoffice Calc is illogical

2007-11-13 Thread Richard Detwiler
M Singh wrote: Hello, I am using the latest openoffice calc (2.3) on Ubuntu Gutsy. Using Crossover, I also have Microsoft Excel installed on the machine. I had a spreadsheet which was a tabulation of some material properties (one column with the name of the material and three c

[users] Sorting on Openoffice Calc is illogical

2007-11-13 Thread M Singh
Hello, I am using the latest openoffice calc (2.3) on Ubuntu Gutsy. Using Crossover, I also have Microsoft Excel installed on the machine. I had a spreadsheet which was a tabulation of some material properties (one column with the name of the material and three columns with three

Re: [users] Sorting in Calc - possible to change sort order of blank cells?

2007-10-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Friday 12 October 2007 23:13:27 Alan Boba wrote: > Brian, > > It works. > > Yes the cells are empty not blank. And adding a space, " ", to > each cell changed the sort as desired. Have to update formulas in > the worksheet now that the cells are not empty to get the > desired results in the for

Re: [users] Sorting in Calc - possible to change sort order of blank cells?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Boba
Brian, It works. Yes the cells are empty not blank. And adding a space, " ", to each cell changed the sort as desired. Have to update formulas in the worksheet now that the cells are not empty to get the desired results in the formula cells. Though this solution works I would say it is not desi

Re: [users] Sorting in Calc - possible to change sort order of blank cells?

2007-10-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:02 12/10/2007 -0400, Alan Boba wrote: I've got a table in Calc v 2.3.0 that I'd like to sort. One of the columns to be used in the sort contains either a date value or is blank. I'd like to be able to sort the blanks before the dates. Regardless of whether I select ascending or descendin

[users] Sorting in Calc - possible to change sort order of blank cells?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Boba
I've got a table in Calc v 2.3.0 that I'd like to sort. One of the columns to be used in the sort contains either a date value or is blank. I'd like to be able to sort the blanks before the dates. Regardless of whether I select ascending or descending sort for that column the blanks always sort af

[users] sorting columns

2007-07-10 Thread Mary Knight
I seem to have a problem in the tools drop doen menu. I cannot sort any columns as sort is grayed out and I don't know what to do. I know it's probably a minor thing but I'm still learning and I get a apprehensive Mary

Re: [users] Sorting

2007-07-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
Brian Barker wrote: At 17:36 07/07/2007 +0100, K Yogendran wrote: I have just installed Open Office 2.2 and did a few letters etc. I am rather disappointed that after making a list of addresses, I could not sort the names in alphabetical order. I tried Tools, Formatting, Insert and various o

Re: [users] Sorting

2007-07-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:36 07/07/2007 +0100, K Yogendran wrote: I have just installed Open Office 2.2 and did a few letters etc. I am rather disappointed that after making a list of addresses, I could not sort the names in alphabetical order. I tried Tools, Formatting, Insert and various other options without a

Re: [users] Sorting

2007-07-08 Thread Joe Conner
If your list is in CALC then the sort is under DATA drop down. K Yogendran wrote: Dear Sir, I have just installed Open Office 2.2 and did a few letters etc. I am rather disappointed that after making a list of addresses, I could not sort the names in alphabetical order. I tried Tools, Forma

Re: [users] Sorting

2007-07-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:36:28 +0100 "K Yogendran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could not sort the names in alphabetical order. I tried Tools, Look further down under the Tools menu. Sort is about 2/3 of the way down the list. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.co

[users] Sorting

2007-07-08 Thread K Yogendran
Dear Sir, I have just installed Open Office 2.2 and did a few letters etc. I am rather disappointed that after making a list of addresses, I could not sort the names in alphabetical order. I tried Tools, Formatting, Insert and various other options without any success. Could you please help.

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-13 Thread James McKenzie
Bruce & Frances Ardern wrote: For James McKenzie. What I failed to say in previous emails is that the sort runs for me, but the results are all over the place. When you said it ran fine, did you check that the results of the sort put the data

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-13 Thread James McKenzie
Bruce & Frances Ardern wrote: > For James McKenzie. > What I failed to say in previous emails is that the sort runs for me, > but the results are all over the place. When you said it ran fine, did > you check that the results of the sort put the data in correct order > across the board, with the co

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-13 Thread Bruce & Frances Ardern
For James McKenzie. What I failed to say in previous emails is that the sort runs for me, but the results are all over the place. When you said it ran fine, did you check that the results of the sort put the data in correct order across the board, with the correct labels ?   regards, Bruce

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-12 Thread James McKenzie
Bruce & Frances Ardern wrote: > I was having trouble sorting data in Calc where the data was made up of > references to other sheets in a project. James McKenzie was looking at it > for me, any progress James? > Not yet. I was asking what you wanted to do, and now I know exactly what you are do

[users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-12 Thread Bruce & Frances Ardern
I was having trouble sorting data in Calc where the data was made up of references to other sheets in a project. James McKenzie was looking at it for me, any progress James? regards, Bruce - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-08 Thread James Mckenzie
-Original Message- >From: Keith Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 8, 2006 6:43 AM >To: users@openoffice.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet > >G'day "Bruce > >Have you entered the data as numbers -

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-08 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day "Bruce Have you entered the data as numbers - not plain text?? On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:06:48 +1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) "Bruce & Frances Ardern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a spread sheet with data in columns A to M (except for J) and rows 6 > to 25. I want to sort on column

Re: [users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-08 Thread Ross Johnson
Bruce & Frances Ardern wrote: I have a spread sheet with data in columns A to M (except for J) and rows 6 to 25. I want to sort on columns K then L then M (in one sort) shifting the data in columns A to I with the original numbers in K to L I have used Excel to do this before without any proble

[users] Sorting data on spreadsheet

2006-08-07 Thread Bruce & Frances Ardern
I have a spread sheet with data in columns A to M (except for J) and rows 6 to 25. I want to sort on columns K then L then M (in one sort) shifting the data in columns A to I with the original numbers in K to L I have used Excel to do this before without any problems but can't get Calc to do it.

Re: Re: [users] Sorting alphabetically in spreadsheet

2006-07-24 Thread j.titleyjatemgee
your advice about Read Only. Rena > > From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/07/23 Sun PM 11:29:52 BST > To: users@openoffice.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [users] Sorting alphabetically in spreadsheet > > On Sun, 200

Re: [users] Sorting alphabetically in spreadsheet

2006-07-23 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 15:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for assistance, but: > > Read only? No Are you absolutely certain? I ask because unless you have selected the "Edit file" icon you have effectively declared your document read-only. So clarifying this small detail would hel

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2006-07-23 Thread j.titleyjatemgee
Thank you for assistance, but: Read only? No Copied from CD Rom? No. Rena - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] sorting alphabetically in spreadsheet

2006-07-23 Thread j.titleyjatemgee
Dear Dan I think I have solved the problem with your help. When you said "Did you save from a CD" although this was not the case it jogged my memory and I recall I opened the spreadsheet from a MS Works Spreadsheet in order to utilise some of the data already entered on it. I have since opene

Re: [users] Sorting a text doc by headings

2006-05-20 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Paul, Paul_B wrote: Hi. I've got a document that I'd like to sort alphabetically by headings. I've created a ToC which lists each Heading3 style, hyperlinked to the page it's on. I've set the ToC to be manually editable. [...] Is it you want an alphabethical TOC? IN that case, you can copy

[users] Sorting a text doc by headings

2006-05-20 Thread Paul_B
Hi. I've got a document that I'd like to sort alphabetically by headings. I've created a ToC which lists each Heading3 style, hyperlinked to the page it's on. I've set the ToC to be manually editable. But I see no way to move these headings around, in Navigator or elsewhere. In Nav I can't even dr

Re: [users] sorting pages

2006-03-31 Thread CPHennessy
On Thu March 30 2006 15:50, Eric Beversluis wrote: > I have a bunch of pages in Writer (separated with hard page > breaks)--each with info on a particular piece of real estate. First word > on each page is the name of the town. > > Is there any way I can get OOo Writer to sort these pages alphabeti

[users] sorting pages

2006-03-30 Thread Eric Beversluis
I have a bunch of pages in Writer (separated with hard page breaks)--each with info on a particular piece of real estate. First word on each page is the name of the town. Is there any way I can get OOo Writer to sort these pages alphabetically by that town name? I see that if I select all there's

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