FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

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#21

The only problems that top-posting solves is the problem of providing
a quality answer to technical questions. Lazy is as lazy does.

If it's too much work to do a good job, don't do it at all. Sloppy
help is worse than none.

#22

Hi :slight_smile:

Wow! Well, if this list is not going to help people that top-post and are just
going to continue to be rude to them then LibreOffice is definitely not likely
to attract mainstream office workers. I might try to help those i can or at
least be a little more welcoming than you chaps.
'Regards' from
Tom

#23

Refusing to conform to a community's standards is being rude,
especially after having those standards explained.

But it appears you are so busy complaining about the speck in the eyes
of others that you cannot see the beam in your own.

#24

Harold,

Thanks for the information.

You would not credit it but I did double check the help prior to posting. The problem was I searched on row headers, insert headers, etcetera. Searching for "repeating rows and columns" did not come immediately to mind.

I also scoured the menus of Calc to see if the functionality could be found easily. Again I did not expect to see this in the print range dialog so missed it all together.

No matter. I am a happy man now, it's rare to get a feature request addressed so quickly :).

Cheers Simon

    Simon Cropper
    Principal Consultant
    Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
    PO Box 160, Sunshine, VIC
    W: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au

#25

........snip.........

At first i was prepared to accept that there might be technical reasons
why bottom posting is better but now i am beginning to think that anything
except top posting is insane.

That's undoubtedly the reason many mailing lists suggest doing it.

You have something against trimming quotes?

#26

Too much work. One just hits reply, types where the cursor appears (on
top) and hits send.

#27

I don't know if you'd count this as a "technical reason," but archives are a lot more generally useful if threads can be read top to bottom, instead of "somewhere near bottom to bottom," "somewhere higher up than before to where I was before," etc. The presence of archives, or people coming in to a discussion that's already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two parties, or several people who have all been there since the beginning, where everybody just needs to see the most recent addition to the conversation (or occasionally look deeper into the material for reference) and top posting is the most effective way to keep communications going.

But this whole discussion has been held so many times that we're *very* unlikely to come to a fully satisfactory conclusion. It can take on a fervor that always reminds me of Jonathan Swift's Lilliputians and their "big-endian"/"little-endian" wars.

#28

Exactly. That is exactly the way that the vast majority of office workers
work. If we don't want our office suite to be used by office workers then it is
fine to ask people to behave differently, just for us.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#29

That makes much more sense on a FORUM...

But, Barbara, honestly, I guarantee you the vast majority of people who
participate on mail lists do not go to the archives to read entire
threads... ever. They come here to post a question and get an answer.

#30

Please take me off your lists!!!

Phil Woodruff - philandaw@comcast.net

#31

If they use LibreOffice they are behaving differently. It is much more difficult to transition to using LibreOffice than to learn to bottom post with proper clipping.

It takes very little effort to quote and reply properly.

Please fix your quote attributions. Much of the message you replied to appears to be written by you.

Larry

#32

If you take just a fraction of a second to read the footer below
(which happens to get appended to every single message posted to this
discussion list), you'll see how you can remove yourself from the list
- almost no-one who posts here can actually do what you ask (maybe 3
people?).

#33

If they use LibreOffice they are behaving differently. It is much more
difficult to transition to using LibreOffice than to learn to bottom post
with proper clipping.

But some people will claim that this one extra step is just too much
work for them, after making the more difficult transition first.

It takes very little effort to quote and reply properly.

Yes, yes, yes.

Please fix your quote attributions. Much of the message you replied to
appears to be written by you.

That is just one of the many problems caused by top posters who never
edit past their own response.

It's a lost cause - some will, some won't. I plan to ignore the rest.

#34

Are you *trying* to be irritating or just trolling?

#35

Neither. And the fact that the worst offender **agreed** with the
statement proved my point.

#36

<big snip>

This has exactly what to do with the subject of this post?

I'd place thread hijacking/OT drift right up there with top-posting et
al. Please give some consideration to the OP and the thread subject. If
you (and others) have something to contribute to " FEATURE REQUEST: CALC
-- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page" please do. If not, then
please start a new thread or off list with Tom. And no, I'm not a list
moderator or list mom, just a list subscriber that would like to see
threads stay somewhat on topic.

#37

Hi

I don't see why i get the blame for taking the thread "off topic" when i am only
answering the points raised in a previous post to this thread. Your criticism
should be directed at the person that first took the thread off-topic.

Regards from
Tom

#38

I have only been on this list, which I am now leaving, for less than a week, and while I am sure you all give really good advice to people who are having problems using Lo you all seem to be more interested in arguing amongst yourselves about protocol.
More than 50% of the e-mails I have received have been on the subject of how to manage the list, so why not get back to what this was presumably set up for of providing help???

Steve

#39

I have only been on this list, which I am now leaving,

Don't.

for less than a week […]
More than 50% of the e-mails I have received have been on the subject of
how to manage the list, so why not get back to what this was presumably
set up for of providing help???

These arguments happen on all and every list I had subscribed. It is the first time I can see this happen on this list since it was setup, so, I'd say you were out of luck... Pls, be patient and leave the storm alone :wink:

#40

Hi Tom,

<big snip>

This has exactly what to do with the subject of this post?

Lots of people start off their replies with 'Hi Whoever', it is
generally deemed a courtesy...

I'd place thread hijacking/OT drift right up there with top-posting et
al.

And I'd place replying without including quoted text for context in the
same category.

Please give some consideration to the OP and the thread subject.

The OP's question was answered long ago, and he replied as such, so
there was no harm done to the OP.

If you (and others) have something to contribute to " FEATURE
REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page" please do.
If not, then please start a new thread or off list with Tom. And no,
I'm not a list moderator or list mom, just a list subscriber that
would like to see threads stay somewhat on topic.

While I agree with you in general, lots of people commented in that
thread, so there was no need to single me out, you should have just made
a general comment about it.

Regardless, as you are simply a list member, and not a list Mom, I'd
suggest you mind your own business, or send emails like this privately.