Bright ideas/help re images in Calc

2015-10-26 Thread Mike
Hello! I want to make a list of maybe 400-600 items, each with a thumbsize image. Other data includes a major and minor category name, and descriptive text. I want to be able to sort the list on the category names, at least. I have been experimenting with Calc and have of course come up ag

Unwanted interference in text formatting.

2015-10-26 Thread Donald Miller
Unwanted interference in text formatting. In plain text editors, I can manually control formatting, spacing, numbering, indent, et cetera. For example, it is straightforward 1. to start a number list, 2. and continue without any unwanted indents or font changes, like a typewriter. LibreOffice

Re: Open office for Apple iMac version 10.11.1 El Capitan

2015-10-26 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2015-10-26, 11:16 AM Paul Smith wrote concerning "Open office for Apple iMac version 10.11.1 El Capitan": Dear Sir/Madam I have attempted to download Open Office for my iMac with OS X version 10.11.1, Al Capitan but all that happens is that I get a virtual hard drive on my desktop and nothi

Open office for Apple iMac version 10.11.1 El Capitan

2015-10-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear Sir/Madam I have attempted to download Open Office for my iMac with OS X version 10.11.1, Al Capitan but all that happens is that I get a virtual hard drive on my desktop and nothing in the applications folder, which is where I would expect it to be after downloading. I am new to Apple, I

Re: OpenOffice Base Problems

2015-10-26 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 25-Oct-15 03:27, Ian Gow wrote: Hi I’ve just spent the last 5 days putting constructing a database for my business accounts and persevered despite the many problems I’ve had with V4 on my iMac. The most common is the crashing without reason in various areas. I put up with this as I could

Re: open office suite

2015-10-26 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2015-10-25 23:01 GMT+01:00 Lee Fisher : > On 10/25/2015 12:38 AM, adam wrote: > > Guys, > > > > your product is open and free but it's by no means mature - it takes me > > back to the MS Office 4.2 that I was running under a Win NT on a crappy > > 386 back in the aerly ninenties - I had a "save a