RE: [libreoffice-users] Table Format

Are you on a laptop?  Your function keys may have as default actions the control of laptop display 
functions and other provisions.  (These are usually signified by a variety of symbols.)

Usually, there is a way to obtain the F4 key function.  If the legend is in blue, look for a blue 
Fn key down in the bottom row of the keyboard.  Hold that key depressed and then press the F4 key, 
then release them both.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvain Bromberber [mailto:sbromber@MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 17:29
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format

Hi Drew,

Thank you for your long explanatory message, but I seem to miss something 
essential. Whenever I press the F4 key no matter where I am in Libre Office 
Base or Writer I get a set of four windows presuming that I have a projector 
on and giving me options on how to connect to it! I even tried the letter F 
key followed by the 4 one. No cigar! I don't know what this focused data 
control is about. I am puzzled but appreciate the trouble you are taking to 
help me.

Sylvain

-----Original Message----- 
From: drew jensen
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:33 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 15:18 -0500, Sylvain Bromberber wrote:
> Thank you, but I meant my computer screen, not a screen on which the table
> was projected.
Howdy Sylvain

Right and that is what I was speaking to - albeit, too briefly I
suppose.

By-default, with a writer document window the F4 key will open the data
source window, docked, in the top of the document window frame. This is
often referred to as the 'beamer'...a name for whatever reason I just
always liked..

OK - if you have a form definition within an ODB file, when that window
is open (this is just a special case of a writer document window) and
you hit F4 the beamer is displayed - however, as this is now attached to
a Base embedded form it behaves differently.

The record set linked to from the CURRENTLY FOCUSED DATA CONTROL on the
form is displayed in a grid view in the beamer. (important to remember
the bit about the focused control, the forum can have multiple record
sets open at a time)

This is just another live view to the record set, if you can update this
record set in the form you can do so in the beamer. If you use filters
to limit the result set in the beamer it also limits the records in the
form detail control.

I assumed that was what you where talking about.

Best wishes,

//drew

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: drew jensen
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format
>
> On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 21:53 -0500, Sylvain Bromberber wrote:
> > I once opened the table in one of my data bases and it popped up in a
> > format I have not been able to duplicate. The upper half of the screen 
> > was
> > the table in the form of a spread sheet but the lower half had the items
> > of each row in a little table with the items under each other. I have 
> > been
> > unable to duplicate this format, which I really liked. Any suggestions?
>
> With any form open hit the F4 key...that should do it
>
> //drew
>
> > Sylvain
>
>
>
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