Leslie,
I am running AOO 4.1.14 under Slackware Linux 15.0 with gtk2 and gtk3
and I am not having this problem. I checked my system and although there
is a "soffice.bin" file in "/opt/openoffice4/program/", there is no
"soffice.bin-gtk-tqt-application" file there. I also did a "find" from
"/"
Linda,
I had this problem a few years ago and at that time, iirc, I had to
unsubscribe using my old email address and after waiting for a
confirmation from that, re-subscribe under my new address. Of course,
you need your old address active to unsubscribe from to be successful.
If not, there
top.
Xfce4 in my case, KDE, or whatever your system is using. Most likely,
you need to look there.
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr
On 5/9/23 1:14 AM, Dr. Martin Senftleben wrote:
Hi,
I try to attach an image, because it's otherwise difficult to
describe. You see in that image that the GUI
KV,
First, I hope you have created your own dictionary containing your
words, not just add your words to the OpenOffice dictionary distributed
with OpenOffice. The latter stands a good chance of losing your words at
the next update. Creating your own dictionary should prevent such loss.
I di
Harry,
Maybe. Check Tools -> Options -> Load/Save "Always create backup copy".
You might also consider "Save AutoRecovery information every"... on the
same dialog and select a time. The periodic autorecovery saving can be
annoying, but it is better than losing data and time.
Note the backup
On 9/15/22 8:30 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:51 15/09/2022 -0700, you wrote:
I would like to import the table structure (_Not_ the data), SQL
queries, data entry forms, and maybe as a bonus, the reports, from
one of the databases into the other database.
I'm no expert, but how about duplic
solved.
Girvin
On 10/15/22 4:08 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Here is an addendum:
Since I posted this thread, I copied a form from another database and
the new form was put at the bottom of the list, even though it should
have gone in somewhere in the middle if sorted (unless I switched
universes
these
names are in some sort of chronological order of creation, rather than
sorted. If not sorted, is there a way to manually edit where these names
are stored in order to manually sort them?
Thanks.
Girvin
On 10/15/22 12:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Greetings,
I am using AOO 4.1.12 under
Greetings,
I am using AOO 4.1.12 under Slackware Linux 4.4.301, xfce4, mariadb
1.0.38, mysql-connector-java 5.1.42. Note that I am not using the AOO
Base internal server, but mariadb as an external server and the mysql
connector in the middle.
I am getting some strange, inconsistent with sor
Greetings,
I am running AOO 4.1.12 under Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.301), with
Mariadb 10.0.38 and mysql-connector-java 5.1.42.
I have two databases (separate mariadb database files and separate AOO
.odb files) which I would like to work on and I have two questions about
that work:
1. I wo
Greetings,
I am using AOO 4.1.12 under Slackware Linux 4.4, XFCE4, and Mariadb 10.
I am using the Oracle MySQL-connector-java driver to access my Mariadb
10 database server with AOO. This has been working well for some years.
However, I am now looking into switching to the Mariadb Connector/J
Matthias,
Reload refreshed it and it is now showing 4.1.12 in the selection box.
Thanks.
Girvin
On 5/5/22 2:18 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
Hi,
I would suggest to clear the browser cache...
Regards,
Matthias
Am 05.05.22 um 23:07 schrieb Keith N. McKenna:
Girvin Herr wrote:
Greetings
Greetings Keith,
Yep! That's got it. Downloading now...
Thanks.
Girvin
On 5/5/22 2:07 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
Girvin Herr wrote:
Greetings Carl,
Umm. It might be nice to update the web page (
https://www.openoffice.org/download/ ) to allow downloading 4.1.12.
It is still stu
Greetings Carl,
Umm. It might be nice to update the web page (
https://www.openoffice.org/download/ ) to allow downloading 4.1.12. It
is still stuck on 4.1.11 as the latest.
Girvin Herr
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On 2/13/22 1:30 PM, D. A. wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded Apache OpenOffice to my iPad and I have absolutely no idea where
it is so I can actually open it and use it. I see it when I click on
“Downloads” on my Firefox browser but it doesn’t do anything or go anywhere. I
don’t see anything so bas
Welcome to fun with AOO Base, ptillery!
You need to get the form into edit mode by right-clicking on the form
name in the main Base window and selecting "Edit". Then you may need to
open the form properties window by clicking on the "Form" icon (3rd one
down from the arrow icon on the left too
On 6/28/21 4:55 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
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On Jun 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
On 6/28/21 3:36 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:55 28/06/2021 +0100, David Deeks wrote:
Thanks very much for your explanation re the Text to Columns facility Brian.
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Greetings,
I am not sure this is a bug, but it looks suspect.
I am using AOO 4.1.10 A004110m2(Build:9807) Rev. b1cdbd2c1b 2021-04-19
18:17 - Linux i686 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (k4.4.261).
Preparation:
Since I need to insert many field cross-references to a table, I have
the insert-fields-o
On 5/3/21 8:48 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
Such users will also miss facilities present in the new product that
they know nothing of. Here's an example. Suppose you want to
concatenate the text in two adjacent spreadsheet cells into a single
cell. In OpenOffice, you can merge the two cells - whe
Greetings,
I am using AOO 4.1.6 under Slackware Linux 14.2.
In Writer, I am trying to create a blank data entry form or template
with a table to be filled out later, so all of the to-be-entered values
in the table's cells are zero or null. In a few cells I want to create a
formula that in par
n case it may help, here is a screenshot of the style settings
available in xfce4:
HTH.
Girvin
On 6/11/20 4:41 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Slackware Linux 14.2 (32-bit k4.4) and xfce4.
I believe this "problem" has been brought up recently before. IIRC
That thread resolved the problem to t
Slackware Linux 14.2 (32-bit k4.4) and xfce4.
I believe this "problem" has been brought up recently before. IIRC That
thread resolved the problem to the height of the horizontal scroll bar
on the bottom right, which is in the same horizontal field of the window
as the sheet tabs and as such, d
Chapter number prefix type
of numbering, such as "2-1", as in Chapter 2, Page 1, but that is not
quite what I want. Is there a way to add such an arbitrary prefix to
page numbers and have the entire page number, including
John,
You can find the backup file location at:
Tools > Options > OpenOffice > Paths > Backups
Also, you need to enable backups:
Tools > Options > Load/Save > General > Save
and make sure "Always create backup copy" is checked.
You can change the backup path above, if the current path is not
On 11/21/19 9:28 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:21:41 -0700
David Belina wrote:
As to USB stick usage:
For setup, just answer yes to all prompts if you want the default configuration.
as to USB drives and how to use them:
USB flash drives can withstand between 10,000 to
On 10/31/19 11:35 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Den ons 30 okt. 2019 kl 23:29 skrev Stag Mist :
Dear OpenOffice Team,
I'm using OpenOffice on a Mac. My problem is that when I open the app it
automatically opens a Text Document. Is there any option to change it from
opening a Text Document to a
Dave,
In addition to these good replies, may I ask if you tried Ctrl-P and
selected "All sheets"? Calc seems to default to printing the "selected"
sheet, which is the one you are currently looking at. Using the "quick"
print icon on the toolbar will also default to the "selected" sheet and
no
Greetings,
I am using AOO 4.1.6 under Slackware 14.2 Linux.
I am having a problem with my document's headers in Writer. I set both
Left Page and Right page styles' header to "Same content left/right".
However, when I change the header on a right page, the header on the
left page does not refl
Vince,
Try Ctrl-Enter
Girvin
On 4/14/19 2:24 PM, WA.TWORSX via AOL wrote:
AOO415m1(Build:9789) - Rev. 1817496
2017-12-11 17:25, CALC
_
DELL desktop PC, Windows10x64 Home
_
Calc Users:
What is the required keystroke combinat
Todd,
Do you have a Print Range specified? OpenOffice Calc will default to
printing nothing if no print range is set:
Format > Print Ranges > Edit
And if under "Print range" you see "none", then change it to "Entire
sheet". You can change the rows and columns to repeat, if needed. But
they
"Continue Previous
Numbering" option is there also. I don't know why I didn't see that
option before posting my message. That is the solution.
Girvin Herr
On 2/5/19 12:11 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Greetings.
I am using AOO 4.1.6 under Slackware Linux.
I have a document I created
ot;Heading 2".
Note also that this happens when I set the paragraph style to "Heading
3". I get 1.1.1.
Is there somewhere else that I need to change to continue the outline
numbering from the last Heading?
I do have the copy workaround to this problem, but I would like to
understand why this is not working correctly or what I am doing wrong.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr
Alan B,
Thanks for the ProjectLibre link. One caveat is that the Sourceforge
download page indicates that this free version will not print. That may
be a deciding factor for some people here, including the OP. Despite
that, I downloaded it and will check it out as an alternative to
OpenProj.
Oops, I deleted the thread where I mentioned the latest win10 update
wiping out files. So I am starting a new thread. I was searching for an
unrelated subject and ran into this:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-file-wiping-bug-what-happens-if-youre-affected/
HTH.
Girvin Herr
going missing on this and the LibreOffice forums. This could be
related.
Girvin Herr
On 10/21/18 8:34 AM, Satyabrata Datta wrote:
Dear Sirs,
I am an user of Open Office for Windows since its inception.
At present I am using Version 4.1.5 installed in Windows 10. I was facing
problems with auto
be a
show-stopper to my work flow, but it does hinder my productivity a lot.
I am in search of an alternative/backup for this function, so I thought
I would try AOO report building again.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr
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ot;Print Ranges" (Format > Print Ranges > Edit) shows
"entire sheet" in "Print range", otherwise nothing will be printed.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 08/29/2018 11:01 AM, dewe...@gmail.com wrote:
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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said, try opening a new document and choose
Insert -> Envelope and under "Size", select "Format" and then select #10
and see if this works for you. If it does, then save it as a template
for your future use. If not, you can fiddle with margins, page size,
etc. to mak
rnal server, but there are additional steps needed to connect
AOO Base to an external server.
Have you "registered" the database?
Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice Base -> Databases
Use "New" to add (register) a database.
Then you should be able to bring up Base on tha
Andrea,
Must have been. You are most likely correct. I did prefix my assertion
with "IIRC" after all. I am probably mixing up AOO with LibreOffice or
maybe OO before Apache.
Thanks for clearing that misperception up.
Girvin
On 02/05/2018 11:39 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Girvin
On 02/04/2018 07:32 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 04/02/18 6:23 AM, Girvin Herr wrote:
On 02/02/2018 07:30 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 03/02/18 12:05 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Kathleen,
I am assuming you are concerned about the files listed in File ->
Recent Documents as y
.
Girvin Herr
On 02/04/2018 09:47 AM, James Knott wrote:
As I mentioned, just go to www.openoffice.org and download for free. I
have no idea where that fee suggestion came from, as I've never seen it.
On 02/04/2018 12:43 PM, susan leelike wrote:
the free open office was available for many
On 02/02/2018 07:30 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 03/02/18 12:05 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Kathleen,
I am assuming you are concerned about the files listed in File ->
Recent Documents as your "...folder icon in Open Office". Unless
someone else here knows more, from my e
That would delete the file off the system, not delete the file from the
AOO recently used file list. I am not sure that is what the OP wants to do.
Girvin Herr
On 02/03/2018 05:54 AM, James Knott wrote:
One method is to use File > Open to find the file. Then right click on
it and sel
fferent files until the unwanted file is
scrolled off the bottom.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 02/02/2018 04:41 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Sent from my mobile device.
On 2 Feb 2018, at 11:21 pm, Kathleen Q wrote:
How can I delete a text document I do not want listed on my folder icon in Ope
stead of /usr/bin/soffice.
Try running openoffice4 from an xterm in your desktop and see if there
are any messages spit out on the xterm. If so, the message may give you
a hint.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 01/26/2018 05:12 PM, JD wrote:
Hi all,
1. I first UNINSTALLED LibreOffice, only to find 2 mate de
you may need to change your ~/Desktop files to change the
filenames and possibly your desktop icons to change the filenames to the
new names in /usr/bin.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 11/19/2017 01:55 PM, Wroger Wroger wrote:
How to fix this?
Possibly uninstall open office - (older version) do the
are having
with AOO. Keep in mind, the forum is made up of users like yourself, who
may or may not, have more experience than yourself to help out. Note
that there are other ways to access this forum, but I have no experience
with them. Perhaps someone else can address that.
HTH.
Girvin He
On 10/26/2017 03:33 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 27/10/17 8:04 AM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Louis,
The short answer is: you can't from OpenOffice. There is no Report
Generator bundled with OpenOffice. There used to be a Report
Generator extension, but that was not maintained and
ture. If you mean to join a user's group, then that is
your choice. But if you do not join the user's group, you may not see
the responses to your questions.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 10/26/2017 01:41 PM, Louis Daigle wrote:
How can I get a report to run from a querry?
Also, do
also try bringing up the app in a shell window. Sometimes that will
display app error messages in the shell window.
You might also look at the OpenOffice command line arguments with
openoffice3 -h
There may be something there that you could use.
Good luck.
G
lt. Much better than verifying each and every character in
the long md5sum.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
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can follow for other columns or in a spread sheet you can "copy" the result cell and
"paste special" to other columns' result cells.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 13, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Steven,
I just tried both, and with and without the <> and go
On 07/14/2017 03:34 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
Aha! I wasn't using the Sum icon, and it does indeed lead to a formula
listing the cells in the range individually - instead of as a range. I
don't see why this should be. This indeed makes subsequent dragging
problematic. And I now see where your
On 07/13/2017 04:58 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:11 13/07/2017 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
I have a Writer document with about 50 rows in a table. At the bottom
of the table, I want to sum the above column of cells in each row (a
total). Currently, the only way to add a new row or rows to
iPhone
On Jul 13, 2017, at 3:11 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Greetings,
I have a Writer document with about 50 rows in a table. At the bottom of the table, I
want to sum the above column of cells in each row (a total). Currently, the only way
to add a new row or rows to this sum is to add the cel
cells to the sum. A way of specifying a range of
cells is perfect. As I now do it, the more rows I need to add, the more
tedious and error-prone this process becomes.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr
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Gregory,
Have you tried "Caps Lock"? Maybe it was set or is set now and so the
password capitalization is not matching. That has happened to me in the
past.
Other than trying such things, you are hosed. From what I read, there is
no practical way to recover such a document.
H
On 05/28/2017 04:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:38 28/05/2017 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
On 05/28/2017 04:22 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Go to Insert -> Header once the Header is inserted place your mouse
inside the Header and go to Insert -> Fields -> Page Number. If you
dou
remains. Bug?
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ne is set to the default of 15 minutes. It is a bit
obnoxious when it saves in the middle of some operation, but the
alternative of loosing data if it crashes is far worse.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
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Alternately, use Format -> Page -> Sheet tab
Then check "Grid"
Girvin Herr
On 05/03/2017 12:48 PM, Bruce Pierson wrote:
In the FILE menu select PRINT PREVIEW
Then select FORMAT PAGE Check the box for GRID
That should do it.
*"I would rather be lost in the woods, t
overwriting a document backup with a spreadsheet backup of the same
name. That should not happen and may be a bug. Before someone flames
AOO for this, this is not unique to AOO, LibreOffice has the same
"features".
Girvin Herr
something I already have.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
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g the left mouse button down, drag the mouse down
the number of rows you want to insert and release the left button.
Right click somewhere on the selected row numbers and select "Insert
rows". The number of rows selected should shift down and create the
number of blank rows for yo
On 02/06/2017 01:56 PM, James Plante wrote:
On Feb 6, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Girvin Herr <mailto:ghe...@fastmail.com>> wrote
2. AOO does not include a database report generator, which is crucial
to my work. You can create the database, but there is no way in AOO
to print it out ni
re my observations. None of these observations keep me from
using either one to do useful work. As I said above, I use the best
tool for the job.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
LibreOffice has its own set of problems. I keep them both installed in
order to use the best tool for the job. I would hate to see either one
"die".
Girvin Herr
On 01/29/2017 11:29 AM, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
Yet another instane of a long festering defect in the OO "organi
On 01/17/2017 06:32 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
On 18/01/17 10:32 AM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Yes, I have seen that too. Usually a new spreadsheet may print until
at some unpredictable time in the future, it stops printing. I don't
know why it changes. I have not tested it. IMHO
vin
On 01/17/2017 09:33 AM, tedandel...@cox.net wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. It worked! Don't know why after several years of
doing things one way they mysteriously don't work anymore.
Ted
Girvin Herr wrote:
Ted,
Do you have a "Print Range" defined?
If
On 01/16/2017 01:13 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 10:59 16/01/2017 -0800, Girvin Herr wrote:
On 01/15/2017 10:50 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
[...]
Go to Tools | Detective > | Remove All Traces.
This "Detective" interested me, so I took a look at my AOO 4.1.3 for
Linux version an
this
OS-dependent or is it not OpenOffice?
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ed" under "Rows to Repeat" and/or enter a row
designation (i.e. $1 for row #1) in the box to the right.
Note that this is required on a sheet-by-sheet basis, so if you have
more than one sheet to print, then you must select the print range for
each sheet.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
O
it will work with Base?
I also installed java 1.8u112, previously 1.8u40.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr
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d bet that even if you delete this file (folder?), TB would
recreate it. I am not sure what it does for TB, but POP is a type of
email service and I would expect TB to store the state of a POP
connection in this file.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 01/02/2017 08:57 AM, VinceB. wrote:
I have managed
while back and I spent hours trying to figure why some cells had the
correct result value and others had the formula displayed.
HTH
Girvin Herr
On 12/20/2016 01:27 PM, Alan B wrote:
Tony,
If you mean that you see the text "=SUM(xxx:xxx)" displayed instead of the
number result th
Paul,
It is good to hear someone who takes computer security seriously. Your
questions are valid.
I will try to answer your questions below.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 12/11/2016 03:28 PM, Paul wrote:
Hi,
I'm a regular user of Open Office. Since a recent update (4.1.3), each
time I left
he "Footer on" and/or "Header on" boxes in the Header and Footer tabs.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 12/08/2016 11:12 AM, Bill Dearling wrote:
Hi there
when I go to print a page, the sheet # appears at the top and the page #
appears at the bottom. it also prints when I print the s
Search for your new
template and select it, then "Open". Your new template should then
appear in the list of templates (i.e.: New -> Templates and Documents).
I am not sure if you can delete the downloaded template file after it
is imported. I suspect you can, but I am not sure.
quot; will
skip printing that sheet.
I am not sure why this does not default to "Entire Sheet" for all
sheets, but sometimes it doesn't.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 05/05/2014 06:03 AM, Carson Chittom wrote:
I'm using Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 (on Slackware, if it matters).
I have a
it and select "Add to
desktop".
(Replace "Start menu" with "K menu".)
HTH
Girvin Herr
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" should show up in the right pane. You should be able to
"install" it there.
But the best thing is to enable it in the CUPS driver as default. If you
are not using CUPS, then I am not sure this applies.
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr
.
Girvin Herr
On 11/22/2013 03:41 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Dim iNumber As Integer
iNumber = Freefile
Open sFilePath For Output As #iNumber
Print #iNumber, "Line 1"
Print #iNumber, "Line 2"
Close #iNumber
The file now looks like this (in hex values):
4C 69 6E 65 20 31 0A
4C 6
the same
desktop file in their package. If not, well then maybe the subject is
not so "hell bent".
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr
networked.
I may note that this problem started when I upgraded to Slack 14.0 with
the new 3.x kernel. It may be that the newer Postscript causes the
older Postscript engines in the relatively old HP printers to hang up.
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr
On 09/06/2013 04:16 PM, Doug wrote:
I
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