Re: [libreoffice-users] new version of LO gives gibberish for excel file.

2013-03-01 Thread Don C. Myers
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Rea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Preparing mailing labels from list (database)

2013-04-25 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Muriel, I have a Base data base, and different form letters and labels in Writer. They work very well. It sounds to me like Writer is not recognizing your data base, and that it needs to be added. In Writer, go to tools, options, Base, and list of databases. Add in the one which you have t

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 64-bit DEB removed my extensions, but Windows version did notI

2013-05-10 Thread Don C. Myers
nsions and persona. On 13.04 I did not have that issue, but an install problem until I removed all of the LO files with the Package Manager. But it kept the extensions and persona. -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Uninstall LibreOffice 4.0.2

2013-05-16 Thread Don C. Myers
Below is the method I've used for originally OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice. This is for a 64 bit install. I've done 3 clean installs of Ubuntu 13.04, and replaced the Ubuntu version of LibreOffice with the Document Version of 4.0.3.3 on each machine without issue. This method has never failed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-26 Thread Don C. Myers
toria, South Africa. -- *~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base

2012-07-27 Thread Don C. Myers
n the other hand, writer, impress, calc, etc. DOES appear. Any idea what might be the cause? Thanks H. Stoellinger -- *~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Col

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

2012-07-27 Thread Don C. Myers
you live or work here - and can prove it. I will install 3.5.5 on my laptop in a few minutes and see what happens with Base. On 07/27/2012 10:00 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, I run Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Did you download LO 3.3.5 from LibreOffice, or are you using the Ubuntu repository versio

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

2012-07-27 Thread Don C. Myers
breoffice This ppa is updated within a couple of days of a release of a new version of LO. Thus your update manager will keep track of LO for you. -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager,

Solved Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

2012-07-27 Thread Don C. Myers
suggest in your post and after installing the downloaded packages using dpkg - *deb everything works beautifully. Thanks again H.S. P.S.: As usual - it's not necessary to know everything (!?) but it's good to know somebody who knows or knows somebody who ... On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:23

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

2012-07-27 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Jay, Thank you. Don On 07/27/2012 03:31 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/27/2012 02:01 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for that information. I was aware of that. I have two concerns with using it. First, it may update me when I don't want to be updated, like from 3.5.x to an

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf creation issue on a single file?

2012-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
e are no special characters in the sheet names bar possibly a space. I will gladly send this file to anyone who can assist as I need to create and post to a public user mailing list a PDF at the end of the month. Help is much appreciated Hylton -- *~~~~~~~~

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Don C. Myers
`address`.`iParentId` JOIN `textvalues` ON `textvalues`.`Id` = `subscription`.`Type` WHERE `issues`.`Issue` = '74' AND `sent`.`sent` = 0 AND `Delivery` = 1 AND `textvalues`.`Field` = 'CBOSUBTYPE' ORDER BY `FirstName`, `Surname` -- *

Re: [libreoffice-users] quotes about Freedom

2012-11-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, Thank you for these words, Tom. Words well spoken with our elections in the USA next Tuesday! Don On 11/02/2012 09:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Searching through photos for the cover of my company's AGM i stumbled on some great images (sadly i can't share) and this quote "To be free

Re: [libreoffice-users] quotes about Freedom

2012-11-02 Thread Don C. Myers
will have their change to vote and the ability to easily get to the poling areas that are set up for them. On 11/02/2012 02:19 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, Thank you for these words, Tom. Words well spoken with our elections in the USA next Tuesday! Don On 11/02/2012 09:04 AM, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-19 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Everyone, When the Microsoft formats were approved as an ISO standard, wasn't that supposed to make the information on their formats available to everyone else? From what I've read through the years, they have failed to implement their own ISO standards. Shouldn't there be some way to enfo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-19 Thread Don C. Myers
possible, is one of the principle tasks of government Henri -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-20 Thread Don C. Myers
On 11/20/2012 06:15 AM, James Knott wrote: Don Myers wrote: I have never purchased a copy of Windows either. I only get it when it comes on a computer. Microsoft charges computer companies less than what the public pays, but the last time I heard anything it was something like $50 per compute

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS?

2012-11-20 Thread Don C. Myers
On 11/20/2012 01:17 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 11/20/2012 10:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote: 2012/11/19 Paolo Debortoli hi all. i had the same problem receving via email from an office .docx files. when I try to import the file in libreoffice it crashes and does not allow to import in

Re: [libreoffice-users] A Tale of Two Office Suites

2012-12-10 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Virgil, The default label templates in LibreOffice and OpenOffice are frame based. About 4 years ago I ran across table style label templates that someone developed for OpenOffiice. The have worked great for me in both LibreOffice and OpenOffice without the problems of the frame based temp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 0xc0000005 error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin

2012-12-12 Thread Don C. Myers
There are a lot of results if you do a Google Search: 0xc005 error in RPCRT4.dll from soffice.bin Some are from this thread, and some are from prior incidents. Don On 12/12/2012 11:22 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be a known problem. It might be worth trying to post a bug-report b

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

2013-02-11 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi All, A simple copy and paste works really well!! No typing necessary. Just make sure you have the file saved as a .txt that you open with GEdit. When I was new to Linux (Ubuntu) and didn't understand anything about what the system was really doing or about the file structure, OpenOffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?

2013-08-26 Thread Don C. Myers
In Ubuntu 13.04, the package in the software center is called: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts Don On 08/26/2013 08:00 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There used to be a package called something like "ms core fonts" which had arial, times new roman, trebuchet, verdana and maybe a coupl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Automatically Open a Form?

2013-09-06 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tod, I asked the same question about 5 or 6 years ago in an Open Office forum, and didn't receive an answer. I'll be very interested to see if anyone here has a suggestion. Don On 09/06/2013 05:49 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote: I am looking for a method to automatically opening default form whe

Re: [libreoffice-users] EMail mailmerge - does it work?

2013-09-16 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Fabian, I started using mail merge using OpenOffice approximately 10 years ago using base and writer. As I recall, I set up the writer label forms without using the wizard. There were several minor issues I dealt with back then, but since then it has worked perfectly. I do have Java instal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing in LO Writer

2013-10-03 Thread Don C. Myers
On 10/03/2013 10:16 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 03/10/13 14:39, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 10/03/2013 09:17 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 03/10/13 08:48, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All This past week I was given a small job to do to produce some 40-odd individual labels. I rem

Re: [libreoffice-users] duplicate open buttons

2013-10-26 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I always run the latest version of Ubuntu on 4 computers, and also once a LibreOffice version reaches the x.02 line, am running the latest LibreOffice. I've been running Ubuntu for 5 years, and used Open Office initially, and as soon as LibreOffice was released, switched to LibreOffice. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with

2013-11-08 Thread Don C. Myers
with the text as it is. Any help appreciated Stephen -- *~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with

2013-11-08 Thread Don C. Myers
e Cinnamon Settings >> Appearance >> Fonts Jay -- *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug report -- Libre Ofice version 4.1.3.2

2013-11-23 Thread Don C. Myers
t want it to change. Of course fixed dates and times can also be manually inserted in cells. Cliff -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-16 Thread Don C. Myers
sages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Don's E-mai

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-16 Thread Don C. Myers
u for this. I knew I had seen something like that before. LO uses a frame based label template. I agree that a table based template makes far more sense. Virgil -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 7:34 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subjec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-17 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Cliff, Are you using fields from a data base, or do you simply want something like return labels where every label is the same? Don On 12/17/2013 10:06 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from "Don C. Myers" on Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:48:12 -0500 Don, Thanks for the l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge and Labels

2013-12-18 Thread Don C. Myers
labels on row 1, and paste into the complete second row. Then I copy rows 1 and two and paste into rows 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, and 9 & 10. It really goes pretty fast that way. Don On 12/18/2013 08:46 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from "Don C. Myers" on

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice writer freezes in ubunt 12.04

2013-12-31 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I have no problems with LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 in Ubuntu 13.10 on several different computers.I use the version from The document foundation, and not from Ubuntu. If you are using the Ubuntu version and wish to try The Document Foundation version, you must purge your system of all of the Ubu

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice writer freezes in ubunt 12.04

2013-12-31 Thread Don C. Myers
PS - I'm running Unity with Ubuntu 13.10. On 12/31/2013 12:43 PM, tk wrote: Bala subramanian wrote: I am using libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 in ubuntu 12.04. I am able to Known bug in Ubuntu 12.04. AFAIK, the only work around is to use a different distro. Specifically a distro that nebver

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 2014 LibreOffice themed 12 page calendar - some US holidays included

2014-01-02 Thread Don C. Myers
g out of it so that we have an actual design. -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don's Cell Phone: 814-571-9518, Don's Home Phone: 814-422-8

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Icons in Ubuntu disappear after loading file

2014-01-03 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I've not had any issues with LO 4.1.4.2 (Document Foundation Version) on Ubuntu 13.10 with Unity on several machines. Since 4.2 is still in beta you might want to try 4.1.4.2 and see if the same thing happens. If 4.1.4.2 works fine, odds are it is a bug in 4.2. If you have the same issues

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life!

2014-01-04 Thread Don C. Myers
On 01/04/2014 04:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/04/2014 11:21 AM, Terrence Enger wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 22:45 +0700, Urmas wrote: "Vitorio Furusho - LibreOffice": Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life! Do you call the absolute dependence on developers' powertrips and their

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-29 Thread Don C. Myers
er means "loud thunder") -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Limited-Unicode-Support-in-LibreOffice-4-1-4-2-Character-insertion-non-zero-SMP-SIP-planes-and-multi-tp4094290p4094493.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- *

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems between LO and CUPS

2014-02-14 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Malcolm, I haven't had the same issue as described in this thread, but it may be related. I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and LibreOffice 4.1.5.3 presently. This situation has happened with all Ubuntu versions and LibreOffice versions in the last at least year and a half, as I update Ubuntu every

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large fonts

2014-02-21 Thread Don C. Myers
HIS before eating carbs (every time) 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar & decrease fat storage http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5307b52a9fc09352a6bb0st03duc -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Proper

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Charles The attachment displayed fine for me in 4.2.1.1 from The Document Foundation running in Ubuntu 13.10. Don On 02/22/2014 01:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376 S

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-02-27 Thread Don C. Myers
On 02/27/2014 10:13 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:01 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/26/2014 10:43 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote: There is a 10 MB file size limit, which my book exceeds due to the included pictures. Thomas, beginning with LibreOffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-02-27 Thread Don C. Myers
On 02/27/2014 11:58 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 11:40 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:13 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/27/2014 10:01 AM, Dave Barton wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/26/2014 10:43 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote: There is a 10 MB

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: copy & paste into Thunderbird

2014-03-14 Thread Don C. Myers
unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~~~~~~~~~*

[libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu

2014-03-16 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Everyone, I recently just bought an Acer Chromebook C-720, and used Chrubuntu to install Ubuntu 13.10 on it. On my other Linux machines when I do a clean install I completely purge the system of the Ubuntu LO version, and then install The Document Foundation version. I'm presently running 4

Re: [libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu

2014-03-17 Thread Don C. Myers
even if it does) then hopefully the command-line should show some error messages which might give some clue about what's gone wrong. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2014 01:02, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently just bought an Acer Chromebook C-720, and used Chrubuntu to instal

Re: SOLVED Re: [libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu

2014-03-18 Thread Don C. Myers
sole. Then the command soffice should open LIbreOffice. If it doesn't (or maybe even if it does) then hopefully the command-line should show some error messages which might give some clue about what's gone wrong. Regards from Tom :) On 17 March 2014 01:02, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi E

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge with custom fields in LibreOffice 4.2

2014-03-19 Thread Don C. Myers
.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Don

Re: [libreoffice-users] do not upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 with standard resolution widescreen monitor

2011-05-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I've upgraded 5 computers so far from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, all with wide screen monitors, and have not had any issues at all with screen display. Four systems were upgraded using the traditional procedure. One was upgraded using the live CD. I tried doing a second one with the live CD,

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

2011-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, When the first problems showed up for me about 6 months ago, it was recommended to go back to the Java 1.6.0.22 from 1.6.0.24. I have my database on 4 computers, and could never make things work with getting a previous version installed, so I gave up and just tolerated the situation.

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

2011-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, Different ones of us have tried this. It is a Java issue. I keep my database compacted on a regular basis. Thank you for trying to be of assistance. Don On 07/28/2011 12:45 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Has anybody suggested that this command should an option when saving when ever records

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

2011-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
about the current situation? It's not right for us to keep this information only on this list. Now I'm off to fully regress my java (I don't see a problem with this), while I work on getting sqlite and Base to play together. Tom On 07/28/2011 09:16 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi T

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

2011-07-30 Thread Don C. Myers
Magnificent!!! Thank you, ponsiarceds! I followed your instructions for having an older version of Java along side the present one. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 with the LibreOffice version of 3.4.1. Now base works really fast like it always did. Then only thing I did differently wa

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

2011-07-30 Thread Don C. Myers
One thing to be careful of. You can use either the jre or the jdk. The jdk is basically for developers and not needed by most folks. Make sure when you follow the instructions below you use one or the other. On 07/29/2011 08:55 PM, ponsiarceds wrote: . tomcloyd wrote: , On 07/28/2011 12:53 AM

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

2011-08-01 Thread Don C. Myers
quot;sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_21/ -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-record-access-unacceptably-slow-tp3202820p3211034.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Don On 08/01/2011 11:36 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: On 30/07/2011

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

2011-08-01 Thread Don C. Myers
difference is very dramatic. Since running with ...0_21 my Base applications are simply excellent. So, I would urge you at least to compare the two. For me ...0_22 was only about 25% faster, which really didn't fix the problem. Tom On 08/01/2011 09:54 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Ian,

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

2011-08-02 Thread Don C. Myers
very dramatic. Since running with ...0_21 my Base applications are simply excellent. So, I would urge you at least to compare the two. For me ...0_22 was only about 25% faster, which really didn't fix the problem. Tom On 08/01/2011 09:54 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Ian, For some reason not

Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

2011-08-04 Thread Don C. Myers
e-support driver available? Many thanks, Roberto Scotti -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue,

Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

2011-08-04 Thread Don C. Myers
only. Does this explain what you see on your computer? Regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Well said Stan. On 08/05/2011 08:26 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: On 08/05/2011 02:39 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to Bill

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

2011-08-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Ian, thank you from me also. When I see the number of people asking questions about Base on this forum it seems there is a lot of interest in having a database. So far the side by side install of the second, older version of Java has been working very well for me. On 08/05/2011 11:01 AM, Tony

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base 3.4.2 doesn't run on Windows 7

2011-08-11 Thread Don C. Myers
tp://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2 Spellcheck Not Working....

2011-08-12 Thread Don C. Myers
Works fine here: Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice 3.4.2 I'm running the official LibreOffice version. In past times, Ubuntu only updated to new versions of OpenOffice (before LibreOffice existed) when a new version of Ubuntu came out. This has changed since then. But to get the updated version, I woul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-12 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, Open Office had form templates which an enterprising individual developed based on tables instead of instead of the block style that came with Open Office and like what Microsoft Word uses. I've used the US sizes and they work perfectly. It is super easy to adjust the column width by just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-12 Thread Don C. Myers
ng to find someone to bring them into LibreOffice properly (assuming they are copy-left rather than copyright licensed). Regards from Tom :) ____ From: Don C. Myers To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 22:17:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pimaco extension for labels

2011-08-13 Thread Don C. Myers
s not that surprising.) - Dennis PS: For fun, I dug inside one of these. They were produced with OpenOffice.org 2.0 near the end of 2005. Remarkable. -Original Message- From: Don C. Myers [mailto:donmy...@myersfarm.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 16:27 To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selecting record range in mail merge.

2011-08-22 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I don't know if this might help anyone or not. I had an OpenOffice form problem using the table template with a standard 30 label sheet (3 x 10). I have all of our Christmas card addresses in an OpenOffice database. I have the form setup, etc, to automatically pull the address information

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined

2011-09-01 Thread Don C. Myers
nd cannot be deleted -- *~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined

2011-09-01 Thread Don C. Myers
like to give Oracle my name, address, phone, email, etc., etc., just to download a JRE. I do not know how many others would like that either. On 09/01/2011 12:03 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi all, Here is the address for finding older versions of Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline - no need for Oracleaccount

2011-09-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Dave and all, I only run LibreOffice in Linux, specifically Ubuntu 11.04. Java versions 1.6.0_24 and 1.6.0_26 essentially broke base. I have a database with about 2600 records in. Before the two releases mentioned, going from the first record to last record took a second. With either of tho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Platform cross-compatability

2011-09-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Alexander, I was found the statement and with some kind of cache issue preventing user configurations from working properly when trying to use an ODB file produced on another machine of interest. I've been using Base since it first came out, so probably 8 years, +/-. Prior to that I used Pa

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Microsloth Winblows was: Re: Lotus Wordpro files

2011-09-02 Thread Don C. Myers
ts multiple operating systems, Microsoft Windows being one of them. I use linux (also test in MS Windows), and I don't find the need to slam other OS's in the process. What OS the user selects is their own personal choice (we now have that option). -- *~~~~~~~~~~~~

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defective layout in Base with libreoffice 3.4.x

2011-09-02 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi All, When I went from OpenOffice to the first LibreOffice release, 3.3.x, I changed the size of all my fields in the Base forms since the display area became larger, and not all of the text I had entered would display. When I went to the 3.4 series, I had to increase the size of the page s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formating fields in mail merge

2011-09-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us!! This is what makes the LibreOffice community a community! Don On 09/05/2011 10:37 AM, David Buckley wrote: I have been trying to format currency fields in libreoffice using fields from tables and queries in base, after many tests

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-08 Thread Don C. Myers
On 09/08/2011 07:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Nothing to do with countries - only to do with laziness vs spending a few extra seconds intelligently crafting your responses. Thank you!! -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-08 Thread Don C. Myers
will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted Can't you at least delete signatures? -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, Sta

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-08 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi All, On 09/08/2011 04:23 PM, Ken Springer wrote: *My Big Concern* here is how are we being perceived by those who come here for help by the amount of time that has been spent on this thread today. I was one of the first responders last night. Never did I dream when I went to bed last night my

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on Lucid...

2011-09-20 Thread Don C. Myers
O... Keep up the great work... so people will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them. ;( -- Barry Smith e bnsmith...@gmail.com w http://bit.ly/l8QJup -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Associa

[libreoffice-users] Slow Opening of LibreOffice in Ubuntu

2011-09-20 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi All, Tom has mentioned several times about disabling Java so LibreOffice would open faster. I started using LibreOffice when it first became available. It opened very slowly compared to OpenOffice. I ran across the following when I researched the issue. It was due to LibreOffice calling ho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto Filling Drop Down Boxes

2011-09-24 Thread Don C. Myers
-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~* D

Re: [libreoffice-users] Boarders in calc

2011-09-24 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, If you right click on a cell and choose format, and then borders, you can choose from several double lines. Don On 09/24/2011 04:43 PM, Rasmus Højbjerg wrote: Hi LibreOffice team I really like LibreOffice, but i think that Calc can be made better. If you put double underline in boarders

Re: [libreoffice-users] Boarders in calc

2011-09-24 Thread Don C. Myers
back into LIb O and tried again. It shows the keys are assigned but they don't elicit the correct response. What do I need to do for LibO to accept the shortcut keys,please? garrymo --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Don C. Myers wrote: From: Don C. Myers Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Boarde

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc and Base problems.

2011-09-30 Thread Don C. Myers
nd decompress. I use to declare ~/.libreoffice/3/user/temp/ as temporary directory for the office suite. All embedded HSQLDB installs into this directory. -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc and Base problems.

2011-09-30 Thread Don C. Myers
On 09/30/2011 11:29 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 30.09.2011 16:03, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Ian, First, there are far more knowledgeable people responding here than I am. But here are a few thoughts from reading this thread. These suggestions are from my having used a database similar to yours

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, ycor wrote: Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context: http:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Roxy, I'm 95% Linux (Ubuntu), but part of the 5% left in windows is my video editing program, which is Ulead. Te current version is called Corel Video Studio I believe. Instead of capturing video to edit, I can just put in pictures from my hard drive. The reason I still do this in Windows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Roxy, I've used Impress and Power Point very, very little. I'm sorry I couldn't be of better help here. Good Luck!!! Don On 10/05/2011 07:31 PM, ycor wrote: Don, I guess if I had pictures of each slide that would probably be the way I go, but they are just simple slides I've done wit

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)

2011-10-18 Thread Don C. Myers
reoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 1

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) and Base/Java on 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Don C. Myers
s the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, Don C. Myers wrote: From: Don C. Myers Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) and Base/Java on 11.10

2011-10-19 Thread Don C. Myers
On 10/18/2011 10:10 PM, NoOp wrote: On 10/18/2011 06:30 PM, Don Myers wrote: On 10/18/2011 07:35 PM, NoOp wrote: If you would have/read/ what it said, you would have seen that it was *openJDK* version 1.6.0_23 (which of course is the Sun/Oracle package) - bottom of the Java options panel: L

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)

2011-10-19 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both

Re: [libreoffice-users] Your mailing list thinks my subscription attempt is spam!

2011-11-11 Thread Don C. Myers
On 11/11/2011 08:58 AM, Mas/_gemini wrote: Hi Jez On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Jeremy Morton wrote: Hi. I have signed up to this mailing list with my Gmail account because I wasn't sure how else to get a message to you. I'd like to sign up from my ad...@game-point.net address, but whene

Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: business cards w/ tables - duplicate cells

2011-11-21 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, On Saturday I promised I would get back to you relative to the labels. I had two issues, with one being the blank page between sheets, and the second being that if I was pulling the label information from a data base (Base), between sheets, one record would be missing. Here is what I wrot

Re: [libreoffice-users] Labels

2011-12-03 Thread Don C. Myers
y produces a page for one address and none of the others Any help would be appreciated Tks Duncan dun...@rowans.clara.co.uk -- *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow startup time

2011-12-09 Thread Don C. Myers
On 12/09/2011 02:53 PM, David Woodfall wrote: I've noticed a very slow startup time. I'm using 3.4.4 and I found this post that suggests that somehow LO is trying to do something with the network up, and turning off networking speeds it up: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22693 I've tried thi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow startup time

2011-12-09 Thread Don C. Myers
On 12/09/2011 03:31 PM, David Woodfall wrote: On (15:07 09/12/11), Don C. Myers put forth the proposition: On 12/09/2011 02:53 PM, David Woodfall wrote: I've noticed a very slow startup time. I'm using 3.4.4 and I found this post that suggests that somehow LO is trying to do

[libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem

2011-12-15 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Everyone, I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreOffice) 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 11.10. I tried printing 75 copies of a single sheet with significant graphics (large file size) on a black and white Konica-Minolta PagePro 1400w laser printer. I had no idea that LibreOffice would be sen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem

2011-12-15 Thread Don C. Myers
chance to check to see if there is already a bug-report about this? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 15/12/11, Don C. Myers wrote: From: Don C. Myers Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem

2011-12-15 Thread Don C. Myers
t Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 15/12/11, Don C. Myers wrote: From: Don C. Myers Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing Multiple Copies Problem To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 18:07 Hi Everyone, I'm running LibreOffice (version directly from LibreO

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