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From: Will Honea on 25 Jan 2010 02:44 I'm having a problem with a spread sheet in oo. When I enter the path to another spread sheet in a formula, Calc forces the entire path to all lower case. That's a real PITA when openSUSE creates the default user folder "Documents" and/or the linked file name is upper/mixed case. I've used this spread sheet for several years but it only gets dusted off about once a year when the wife needs grade stats for all her classes (she teaches elementary music so that maps to 25 classes with some 700 students - no fun to work piecemeal!) so I just now caught the error. I've got oo versions back to 3.0.0.9 loaded around here so this has to have crept in at or before that since I've used Calc with this for at least 6 years. Has anyone else seen this? If so, any ideas on how to beat it? Short of a work around, I'm going to have to revert one of these boxes to something like 2.4.3 just to save myself lots of grief - or see if I can make it work in Excel. -- Will Honea
From: Baron on 25 Jan 2010 06:03 Will Honea Inscribed thus: > I'm having a problem with a spread sheet in oo. When I enter the path > to another spread sheet in a formula, Calc forces the entire path to > all lower > case. That's a real PITA when openSUSE creates the default user > folder > "Documents" and/or the linked file name is upper/mixed case. I've > used this spread sheet for several years but it only gets dusted off > about once a year when the wife needs grade stats for all her classes > (she teaches elementary music so that maps to 25 classes with some 700 > students - no fun to work > piecemeal!) so I just now caught the error. I've got oo versions back > to 3.0.0.9 loaded around here so this has to have crept in at or > before that since I've used Calc with this for at least 6 years. Has > anyone else seen > this? If so, any ideas on how to beat it? Short of a work around, > I'm going to have to revert one of these boxes to something like 2.4.3 > just to save myself lots of grief - or see if I can make it work in > Excel. > Create a link to the required file and then call the link. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: Will Honea on 25 Jan 2010 13:58 Baron wrote: > Will Honea Inscribed thus: > >> I'm having a problem with a spread sheet in oo. When I enter the path >> to another spread sheet in a formula, Calc forces the entire path to >> all lower >> case. That's a real PITA when openSUSE creates the default user >> folder >> "Documents" and/or the linked file name is upper/mixed case. I've >> used this spread sheet for several years but it only gets dusted off >> about once a year when the wife needs grade stats for all her classes >> (she teaches elementary music so that maps to 25 classes with some 700 >> students - no fun to work >> piecemeal!) so I just now caught the error. I've got oo versions back >> to 3.0.0.9 loaded around here so this has to have crept in at or >> before that since I've used Calc with this for at least 6 years. Has >> anyone else seen >> this? If so, any ideas on how to beat it? Short of a work around, >> I'm going to have to revert one of these boxes to something like 2.4.3 >> just to save myself lots of grief - or see if I can make it work in >> Excel. >> > > Create a link to the required file and then call the link. > I thought of that. It gets messy even that way since the entire path to the link pasted into the spread sheet has to be all lower case but on further thought that does suggest a change to the spread sheet that addresses another aspect. In practice, the data source files change names every year as teachers shuffle in and out or change assignments and some submit data files in .xls (Excel format) while others have seen the light and use oo and submit .ods files. The link idea (if it works) would take care of having to change the spread sheet in multiple places - which means you always miss a few - every time a data source changed file name/location/format. Change the link in a single place and not the spread sheet in multiple places - that I like! -- Will Honea
From: Lew Pitcher on 25 Jan 2010 14:22 On January 25, 2010 02:44, in alt.os.linux.suse, whonea(a)yahoo.com wrote: > I'm having a problem with a spread sheet in oo. When I enter the path to > another spread sheet in a formula, Calc forces the entire path to all > lower case. [snip] I can't recreate your problem in my OpenOffice Calc. But, then again, I've fiddled with the default settings to get it to work the way I want. Perhaps one of the default settings is fouling your spreadsheet up. Check the values in Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids Uncheck the options that have to do with capitalization, and see if that makes a difference. FWIW, I have Check spelling as you type, Check uppercase words, Check words with numbers, and Check capitalization all unchecked. HTH -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 Me: http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | Just Linux: http://justlinux.ca/ ---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------
From: watnne on 25 Jan 2010 14:23
Use Excel! On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:22:03 -0500, Lew Pitcher <lpitcher(a)teksavvy.com> wrote: >On January 25, 2010 02:44, in alt.os.linux.suse, whonea(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> I'm having a problem with a spread sheet in oo. When I enter the path to >> another spread sheet in a formula, Calc forces the entire path to all >> lower case. >[snip] > >I can't recreate your problem in my OpenOffice Calc. But, then again, I've >fiddled with the default settings to get it to work the way I want. Perhaps >one of the default settings is fouling your spreadsheet up. > >Check the values in Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids >Uncheck the options that have to do with capitalization, and see if that >makes a difference. > >FWIW, I have > Check spelling as you type, > Check uppercase words, > Check words with numbers, and > Check capitalization >all unchecked. > >HTH >-- >Lew Pitcher >Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 >Me: http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | Just Linux: http://justlinux.ca/ >---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------ > > HELP! I CAN'T STOP TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS UNDER WINDOWS! |