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nwr
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Message 46 of 236 (754268)
03-25-2015 6:18 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by PaulK
03-25-2015 10:34 AM


Re: In Defense of Us Luddites
It comes down to Sun owning OpenOffice and Oracle buying out Sun.
If it is open source, then one doesn't own it.
More correct would be that Sun owned "Star Office", and they opened up what they could give away (not licensed from anyone else) for "Open Office".

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Message 47 of 236 (754363)
03-26-2015 2:16 AM
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Re: In Defense of Us Luddites
Sorry, that isn't true. Sun controlled Open Office. The only way to get out of that control - without Sun relinquishing it - was to fork it. And that's what happened.

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Message 48 of 236 (754370)
03-26-2015 8:45 AM
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03-25-2015 12:13 PM


Re: open source office suite programs
Remember that excel formula you helped me with a while ago? Well, I loaded that document into both of these programs and I liked Libre better here too. ...
I do, and that is one place where MS is better because in Libre you have to manually insert the $ signs. The way they move and copy cells is also a little different.
Based on these little things, I think I'd use Libre over Apache. But I still can't get over them both lacking the asterisks for footnotes... it's so strange.
Curiously I went to insert footnote and chose the "character option" and entered "*" and it worked fine?
quote:
this is a test* of how to footnote**
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* just a test
** with asterisks

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Message 49 of 236 (754371)
03-26-2015 8:51 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by RAZD
03-25-2015 10:38 AM


Re: open source office suite programs
RAZD writes:
It does word documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, draw and all can be saved in microsoft formats just as all microsoft documents can be openned and used in Libre\Open Office programs.
What about excel documents that use VB programming to do stuff, is that also compatible/convertible?
Can you do the same VB stuff in Libre spreadsheets as you can in Excel?

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Message 50 of 236 (754373)
03-26-2015 9:15 AM
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03-26-2015 8:51 AM


Re: open source office suite programs
I haven't used VB
he help says this about VBA
quote:
Load Basic code
Loads and saves the Basic code from a Microsoft document as a special LibreOffice Basic module with the document. The disabled Microsoft Basic code is visible in the LibreOffice Basic IDE between Sub and End Sub. You can edit the code. When saving the document in LibreOffice format, the Basic code is saved as well. When saving in another format, the Basic code from the LibreOffice Basic IDE is not saved.
Save original Basic code
Specifies that the original Microsoft Basic code contained in the document is held in a special internal memory for as long as the document remains loaded in LibreOffice. When saving the document in Microsoft format the Microsoft Basic is saved again with the code in an unchanged form.
When saving in another format than Microsoft Format, the Microsoft Basic Code is not saved. For example, if the document contains Microsoft Basic Code and you save it in LibreOffice format, you will be warned that the Microsoft Basic Code will not be saved.
The Save original Basic code checkbox takes precedence over the Load Basic code check box. If both boxes are marked and you edit the disabled Basic Code in the LibreOffice Basic IDE, the original Microsoft Basic code will be saved when saving in the Microsoft format. A message appears to inform you of this.
To remove any possible Microsoft Basic macro viruses from the Microsoft document, unmark the Save Original Basic Code check box and save the document in Microsoft format. The document will be saved without the Microsoft Basic code.
You'd have to try it to see.
Let me know if you do?
Thanks
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Message 51 of 236 (754379)
03-26-2015 10:11 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by RAZD
03-26-2015 8:45 AM


Re: open source office suite programs
Curiously I went to insert footnote and chose the "character option" and entered "*" and it worked fine?
Yes, but MS does it automatically, keeping track of which footnote you're on. Which is especially helpful, because once you get to the daggers, the only way to insert them is through the character menu. Word counts up just like with numbers, only using the symbols, going from asterisk to dagger, etc.
I do, and that is one place where MS is better because in Libre you have to manually insert the $ signs.
Maybe your version is older than mine, but I can enter -50 in a cell formatted for currency, and it will automatically switch to ($50.00).

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Message 52 of 236 (754389)
03-26-2015 11:26 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by Jon
03-23-2015 5:01 PM


Re: In Defense of Us Luddites
That won't be for at least till 2020, so I won't worry about it till then.

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Message 53 of 236 (754400)
03-26-2015 11:55 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by ramoss
03-26-2015 11:26 AM


Re: In Defense of Us Luddites
That won't be for at least till 2020, so I won't worry about it till then.
That's only five years from now ...

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Message 54 of 236 (754405)
03-26-2015 12:06 PM
Reply to: Message 51 by Jon
03-26-2015 10:11 AM


Re: open source office suite programs
I do, and that is one place where MS is better because in Libre you have to manually insert the $ signs.
Maybe your version is older than mine, but I can enter -50 in a cell formatted for currency, and it will automatically switch to ($50.00).
Sorry, I was not clear: I was referring to absolute as compared to relative references. In a cell formula you can use "D3" but when you copy it two cells over and one down it will reference "F4" but if you used "D$3" it will reference "F$3" and if you used "$D3" it will reference "$D4" and finally if you used "$D$3" it will reference "$D$3" -- in ms you could tab through these options quickly.
I have now found the same functionality in Libre using shift+F4 -- thanks for making me look.

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Message 55 of 236 (754467)
03-26-2015 8:32 PM
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03-26-2015 11:55 AM


Re: In Defense of Us Luddites
Since my PC is 6 years old, in 2020, it will be 11 years old. That's plenty of use for what I paid for it (assuming it lasts that long).

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Message 56 of 236 (757444)
05-08-2015 11:45 PM


Making bitrate attribute display a default
We're starting a local low power FM radio station, and we have a hoard of albums as computer files.
I'm in the process of cross checking a hard drive's content versus a partial database we have, adding finds to the database and noting database listed albums that are not on the hard drive.
One thing I am doing is noting the bitrates of the albums. The bitrate is not one of the attributes displayed by default, thus I have to left ciick to open the attribute selection box, and then right click to select the bitrate attribute.
Now you may say, "that's just a little mouse movement and a couple of clicks". But I'm doing literally thousands of albums and that little action adds up to significant effort and time.
Is there some way to set a default, such that the bitrate (and maybe also the time length) attribute will automatically display?
Running Windows 7.
Please, someone tell me how. I might save a portion of my already limited mental capabilities.
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Message 57 of 236 (757448)
05-09-2015 1:00 AM
Reply to: Message 56 by Minnemooseus
05-08-2015 11:45 PM


Re: Making bitrate attribute display a default
Try this:
  • Show Details view
  • Right-click where the detail headings are; select 'More'
  • Add the options you want to display
Any luck?
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Message 58 of 236 (757450)
05-09-2015 1:26 AM
Reply to: Message 57 by Jon
05-09-2015 1:00 AM


Re: Making bitrate attribute display a default
Doesn't help.
If I do that in the root folder, all the subfolders then have a "bitrate" attribute column, but there is no such attribute to display. The "bitrate" column isn't displayed in the subsubfolder, nor for the audio files withing that subsubfolder.
Nice try though.
For what it's worth, the drive structure is:
Drive
Artist name folder
Album name folder
Tune file listing
In other words, I click on an artist name folder, and it opens to display 1 or more album name folders.
I then click on an album name folder, and it opens to display the list of audio files for which I'd like a bitrate attribute displayed by default.
The (4) default attribute columns are Name (as is file name) - # (as in track number) - Contributing artists - Album
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Another added by edit:
The scope of my project:
I'm currently working on the M-Z drive. There are 1660 artist name folders, plus a various artist folder containing many subfolders (approximately 1/4 of the drive total content). The database currently has about 7000 entries (A-Z), and it's growing. I've already added 467 albums, and I've only covered A-E so far.
The M-Z drive also has a lot of A-L because it originally was artist by first name then last name. I had to go through an chanage things to last name, first name. There were also a lot of "The" band names - Eg. "The Allman Brothers Band" got changed to "Allman Brothers Band, The"
This is looking to be a several hundred hour project.
Edited by Minnemooseus, : Add last sentence.
Edited by Minnemooseus, : Another added by edit.
Edited by Minnemooseus, : Minor tweak.

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Message 59 of 236 (757457)
05-09-2015 10:14 AM
Reply to: Message 58 by Minnemooseus
05-09-2015 1:26 AM


Re: Making bitrate attribute display a default
Maybe a glitch?
Mine works fine.
I know this sounds simple, but are you sure the window has been made wide enough to show all of the data you are looking to show?
ABE: Never mind what I just said, I realize now you can see it in some places.
I think I found the solution. Open the folder where you've displayed bitrate, etc. Click Tools>Folder Options>View>'Apply to All Folders'
This will apply the view settings to all the folders on your computer.
I got it from here: Winhelp.us
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Message 60 of 236 (757522)
05-10-2015 12:00 AM
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05-09-2015 10:14 AM


Re: Making bitrate attribute display a default
Well, I sort of got in the vicinity of what your talking about, albeit a different path. Still didn't work though.
One problem is, your descriptions and the photos at the link don't look like what I see on my screen. Nothing above the address line shows for my set up, including the menu line containing "tools". I presume there's a way to get that to display, but I can't figure out how.
----- More Googling happens -----
OK, I now got the menu bar to display, complete with the "tools". It seems that I can set things to have a bitrate column for all the folders and subfolders, which is worthless since folders and subfolders don't have a bitrate attribute. But when I open a subfolder containing music files, there is still no bitrate attribute column displayed. Pretty much and probably exactly the results I got before activating the menu bar.
Somewhere it must be defined that "Name", "#", "Title", "Contributing Artists", and "Album" all automatically display in folders that are all or dominantly music files. Now, if I could only get "Bitrate" added at that "somewhere".
Moose
ABE - Damn, did some more futzing, the same things I thought I did before, and now the bitrate column is showing up for all the music files.
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