Hi There,
I've researched and experimented with this, and I'm out of ideas.
For starters: LibréOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1 (Build: 2)
Before anybody suggests a newer version: I'm currently on Ubuntu
10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), so I'm stuck with it. (Even my much newer
Linux Mint desktop install
Is it that you want a single form, comprised of sub forms, whereby
> you can filter assets according to their status i.e. "deployed" or
> "in stock"; from the results given select a specific asset which
> presents the result, of that one asset, in a sub form from which
&
[N.B.: Switching to in-line reply format to eliminate the cruft and
because the question stands on its own.]
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:42:44
+ Alex Kempshall wrote:
> Jim
>
> You stated that you could generate a query to do what you require.
> Have you based your form on the query?
[big snip]
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:00:45 +0100
Alex Thurgood wrote:
> Le 22/02/2014 19:11, Jim Seymour a écrit :
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> >
> > For starters: LibréOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1 (Build: 2)
> >
> > Before anybody suggests a newer version: I'm currently on
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:16:50 -0500
Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2014-02-24 1:10 PM, e-letter wrote:
> > You are unaware of the numbers of m$ fans that pollute this list
> > demanding that the priority of LO is not to produce high quality
> > native odf output,
>
> Never ever seen anyone say anything l
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:21:29 -0500
"Virgil Arrington" wrote:
[snip]
>
> I often have to write documents that are sent to colleagues who are
> using M$. What I write *must* be readable by their chosen program.
> They are not going to listen to an LO evangelist proclaiming the
> gospel of ODF.
[sn
As an aside: The following is why things are they way they are in
business, any more.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:54:35 -0500
"Virgil Arrington" wrote:
> Since the IT department was
> under the authority of the finance department, ...
[snip]
We've avoided IT falling under control of the bean counter
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:27:58 -0500
Jay Lozier wrote:
> Pedro
>
> I stand corrected. Thanks,
>
> I in the US where I am and the US tech press rarely mentions Europe
> is moving towards ODF. (Snide comments about faux journalists being
> MS lap dogs).
[snip]
More a case of the U.S. being U.S.-ce
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:36:51 +
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
[snip]
> The IT dept refused to install it, saying they hadn't been
> "consulted". One example of the organisation existing for the IT
> dept's benefit, rather than the other way round! ;-)
I guess I was being too subtle, by far :).
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:12:13 +0100
Walther Koehler wrote:
[snip]
>
> As our English is a free and open standard independent of company
> interests so it should be on the technical level of communication.
[snip]
Brilliantly-put, Walther!
May I have your permission to use that in a .sig line? W
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:34:59 +
Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Please use "Reply to all" when replying to mails from this mailing
> list. That way everyone gets to see what is going on so far and
> might be able to add the next bit to build up the complete answer
> or provide a different approach
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:25:36 -0500
Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 3/2/2014 1:53 PM, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > In fact: Because some people, for some reason, feel the need to set
> > "Reply-to" to their own email address: I've a procmail rule that
> > resets those to the
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:46:06 -0500
Tanstaafl wrote:
[snip]
>
> If you cannot see the difference then I guess we have nothing more to
> discuss, because I don't (try to) discuss things with stupid people.
[snip]
Then you need reply to me no further. On any subject. Here or
elsewhere. Ever.
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:14:04 +0100
yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
[snip]
> >
> dear jim, I'm using thunderbird, and I have the same problem, if I
> press
> ctrl>R the reply is to the sender non to the list, and I would like
> ctrl>to
> reply to the list not to the sender, so I have to use reply to l
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:31:06 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "Tom Davies":
>
> Do you think ODF stands a chance with its incompatible changes
> between 1.0 and 1.1, or formulas fiasco?
> Or the lack of documentation and a heap of undocumented extensions
> AOO/LO uses?
Do you think .doc[x] stands a chance
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:46:00 +
Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> [sighs deeply] So some people on this mailing-list demand that we all
> change which email-client we use to the one that they use and then set
> it to a non-default way.
[snip]
I only recall seeing one suggestion that people change t
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:42:20 -0500
Virgil Arrington wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I just have to ask.
>
> Are you the same Jim Seymour who used to do battle with John Dvorak
> in the PC magazines?
[snip]
Been quite a few years since I got this question.
That could be only if I was
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro wrote:
> nabbler wrote
> > Please go to m$ and ask if m$office is compatible with the ODF
> > standard of LO
>
> THAT is exactly the problem! There should never be an "ODF standard
> of LO".
[snip]
I read that as "compatible with the ODF standard,
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro wrote:
> Hi Jim, all
>
>
> Jim Seymour wrote
> > I read that as "compatible with the ODF standard, as implemented
> > in LO." I.e.: LO uses the ODF standard. Does MS Office?
> >
> > Did I read that
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:12:51 +0100
Werner wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
[snip]
>
> My understanding as a normal/basic user of LO is that it supports
> the different ODF standards which exist, some of them approved by
> OASIS and others not yet approved.
>
> E.g. in writer you can select the ODF version s
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote
> > No offense intended, but that's weasel-word way of saying LO is
> > non-standard.
>
> I can't figure out how calling someone a weasel can be *not*
> offensive...
[snip]
My apo
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:49:32 -0700 (PDT)
Owen Genat wrote:
[snip]
> There is a statement on the OASIS website (which
> unfortunately I cannot find at present) which indicates that in
> order for a new feature to be included in ODF-Next by OASIS, it
> must first be implemented in a few different pi
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
Pedro wrote:
[snip]
>
> In fact it is impossible that any other office suite produces 100%
> compatible ODF documents since by definition LO is one of the
> products defining the ODF characteristics...
[snip]
Once again: Putting the cart before the horse
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:43:09 +
e-letter wrote:
[snip]
>
> The original question asked whether LO is compatible with m$, hence
> the reciprocal question as the answer.
>
> It is not known why the original poster (HB) asked this (silly)
> question: ...
[snip]
I don't think the OP's original
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:57:48 -0400
James Knott wrote:
> Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
> >> Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe
> >> either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written
> >> by Microsoft. I seem to
>
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:43:46 -0400
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
[snip]
> I hated CP/M
[snip]
It was nearly indistinguishable from DOS, or DOS was nearly
indistinguishable from it, depending upon ones perspective.
> The other rooms had old Apple [before Macs] and they had
> CP/M OS options, .
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:04:42 +0200
Jean-Louis Oneto wrote:
> The
> DRI CP/M80 then CP/M86 were nothing but vaporware,
I think you must have CP/M and CP/M-86 conflated with something
else. CP/M-80 was anything *but* "vapourware." In the mid-70's to
early 80's, 8080- and Z-80 systems ran on not
I have to correct myself...
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 17:14:12 -0400
Jim Seymour wrote:
[snip]
> No, they didn't. Early Apple PCs ran the MOS Technologies (later:
> Mostek) 6502. CP/M never ran on anything but the Intel 8080 and
> Zilog Z80. (And only on the latter because it was a s
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
CVAlkan wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments -
>
> By the way, are you the same Jim Seymour who used to have a column
> in PC-Mag (I think that was it - along with Dvorak and others)?
Somebody *just* asked me that question, here, a couple w
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:47:03 -0400
charles meyer wrote:
> Might anyone on the list be using a Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2?
>
> I've been "enjoying" a Dickens of a time trying to get it to sync
> with my PC so I can transfer a video file *from* the tablet to the
> PC.
[snip]
This question would be b
On Sat, 03 May 2014 13:12:47 -0600
Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Re: status of forum participant "Urmas" -
>
> I've examined the past 3 months' posts by this individual -
> approximately 25% of them are slams of LO software or insults to
> some individual participating in this forum.
Yeah, he's pretty mu
On Fri, 09 May 2014 11:05:01 -0600
Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I disagree, Tom, in the strongest possible terms.
>
> I've been extremely busy this week, doing what I do - taking care
> of victims of interpersonal abuse of all sorts.
>
> This Urmas matter is far from resolved, as far as I
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:52:18 +0100
Tom Davies wrote:
[snip]
>
> On a side-issue ...
> The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical. That
> raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially
> clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that
> many engin
On Sun, 18 May 2014 16:30:24 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "Jiergir Ogoerg":
>
> Is there any option in LibreOffice to make it generate _formatted_
> underlying XML files?
>
> The XML files by LO are consisting of one long line deliberately to
> hamper interoperation with a certain well-known competi
Hi All,
I'm not much of an office suite guy, so please forgive me if I'm trying
to do something utterly stupid :)
Scenario: Just yesterday our Canon copier/printers were swapped out for
newer models. (It didn't go as smoothly as was promised.) Now one of
my users cannot print to 11x17 paper.
A
On Tue, 20 May 2014 23:13:11 +0100
Brian Barker wrote:
[snip]
>
> >Scenario: Just yesterday our Canon copier/printers were swapped out
> >for newer models. (It didn't go as smoothly as was promised.) Now
> >one of my users cannot print to 11x17 paper. That's on a Win7 box.
>
> Was the corre
On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:42:44 +0100
Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Is there some way of rolling out the paper size to all documents or
> is it now fixed in them all and needs changing for each and every
> document?
As to the first part: I've no clue. I've never heard of a way to do
what you're sugg
I think I see the problem. Unfortunately: There are no other paper
sizes with which to test my theory. No other paper sizes that have
different designations in Format -> Page -> Page -> Format and in the
printer dialogues.
I *suspect* the problem is that LO has a paper size named "Tabloid" and
t
On Wed, 21 May 2014 18:49:15 -0600
Denis Navas wrote:
> El 2014-05-21 07:27, Jim Seymour escribió:
[snip]
>
> I usually print to pdf and use it later, to print phisically.
[snip]
And that turned out to be the work-around: Print to PDF, then, when
printing the PDF, set the size
On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:32:17 +1000
Keith Bates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in unfamiliar territory, searching a QIF file for a single badly
> formatted transaction. I've exported the original moneydance file to
> a tab limited file with the thought of searching for a non-numeric
> character in the tran
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 08:37:46 +0100
Tom Davies wrote:
[snip]
> * Some distros have already moved from MySql to MariaDb
[snip]
How does a distro "move from" one dbms to another? Admittedly: I
don't keep track of all the latest & greatest stuff on the FOSS world
(I presume MariaDb is FOSS?), but I
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100
Tom Davies wrote:
[snip]
>
> Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can
> write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to
> re-write existing java packages!
[snip]
How sad :(
Java had such great promise. Java was *supp
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:07:56 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "Charles-H. Schulz":
>
> > The migration process is implimented with the support of Zyxware
> > Technologies[2]
>
> Another story of embezzling of funds veiled as 'free software
> migration.'
How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a sto
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:16:24 +0200
Paul wrote:
> Pay no attention to Urmas, he's a known troll / MS shill, he's always
> coming out with antagonistic, and usually easily seen through,
> statements.
[snip]
Been here since February. I know what Urmas is :)
Regards,
Jim
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:44:39 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "Jim Seymour":
>
> > How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a
> > government body switching to open standards?
>
> By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best ki
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:21:36 +1000
Tim Lloyd wrote:
> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
>
> the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues
>
Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :)
Regards,
Jim
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:54:14 +0200
Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:33:24 +0700
> "Urmas" wrote:
>
> > A lout known as "Charles-H. Schulz":
>
> making note of this...
[snip]
Best thing you can do, IMO, is what I did after somebody recently
chided me for attempting to engage the troll in d
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:55:48 +0200
Wolfgang Keller wrote:
[snip]
>
> I never understood why anyone halfway sane in their minds would use an
> "embedded" database anyway or why the developers of StarOffice/LO/OO
> even considered it.
Convenience, with a dash of necessity.
Average end-user is ch
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:39:37 +0100
Jon Harringdon wrote:
> The LO users mailing list is the only one I've ever encountered
> where people are MUCH more interested in debating "Office politics"
> and Administrivia than actual product features, bugs, workarounds
> etc.
That's not my impression. I
At the risk of adding to the "political" noise...
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:46:12 -0400
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
[snip]
> For MS Office, the formats ending with
> "x" is a problem even for their older version. MSO 2007 might have
> trouble reading DOCX files created from the newer versions,
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 09:51:02 -0500
anne-ology wrote:
>... this is an example of the inanity;
> rather than responding, as 1 thoughtful soul did do,
> this person decides to ridicule me.
[snip]
Do you mean Charles' "Are you asking this question because.."
question? Maybe it'
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:01:27 -0400
Pikov Andropov wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote on 8/9/2014 10:48 AM:
> > At the risk of adding to the "political" noise...
> >
> > As for home: I solved the entire problem once-and-for-all by
> > replacing my wife's MS-
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:50 +0200
Errol Goetsch wrote:
[snip]
>
> Thank you to the developers who have given so much to so many for
> so little.
[snip]
Hear, hear!
Regards,
Jim
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:44:49 +0200
"hdv@gmail" wrote:
> On 2014-08-29 13:59, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Hm, but Ubuntu has no troubles with network files. I thought i
> > was on LO 3.5.7 but i might have upgraded. I'm out of the office
> > for a few hours again but could check later.
> >
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 06:41:44 +1200
Steve Edmonds wrote:
>
[snip]
> Did you notice the permissions and owner on the server of the older
> files and newer ones. Did the permissions change when you copied
> the files. There is also a tick box in options>General to use LO
> open/save dialogue boxes
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100
Brian Barker wrote:
> At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> >Is there a way to get Writer to preserve the tab indenting from
> >the previous line on which I was typing?
>
> I hope not. If you indent the first line of a paragraph using a tab
> charac
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:23:40 +0100
Brian Barker wrote:
> At 08:46 13/09/2014 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> >On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100 Brian Barker wrote:
> >>At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> >>>Is there a way to get Writer to preserve th
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:31:39 -0500
Eric wrote:
[snip]
> >
> not yet, I just detest sql and am campaigning to relegate it to
> COBOL status. (something you never admit to knowing or using :)
Good luck with that. Probably has less chance of success than my
Quixotic campaigns to get the U.S. to sw
(Kind of wandering off the mailing list's topic, but...)
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:25:17 -0500
"Eric S. Johansson" wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> No problem, I appreciate the input. Unfortunately, my experience
> with SQL over the past 30 years has taught me to stay away from SQL
> as far as absolutely poss
Hi All,
End-users are asking for the ability to edit PDFs. Spotted this:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:57:44 -0500
charles meyer wrote:
> I've discovered, at least with my new Libre Office 4.3.5.2, that I can
> open a PDF or .jpg in Writer and not have to open Draw.
>
> I can also insert images (fro
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:43:20 -0700 (MST)
V Stuart Foote wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote
[snip]
> >
> > Question: Do recent (i.e. 4.3.x.x and later) versions of LO
> > *capably* allow the opening/editing/saving of PDF files that are
> > writable and not encrypted or other
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:41:42 +
Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Nicely handled. Thanks for the apology! It hadn't bothered me but
> thanks again :)
>
You're welcome. Figured it might cause a bit of "What the...?"
[snip]
>
> I guess best advice to anyone else finding they appear to be
> send
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