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Thanks Tom 

Detailed replies once again from you .... Much appreciated ....

I'm afraid I can't keep up with you !:-) 

1. Posting at other forums ...what do you suggest ? Wait for a week and post same question 
elsewhere ? So that regular readers don't get piss3d off ? Or ? I will at least wait till end of 
weekend 

2. Yes... I have tried this use parallel machines windows and Ubuntu side by side ... Ms office and 
libre side by side  concept. I think this web page data grabbing is the main limitation as far as I 
am concerned ...my usage is concerned. The rest are small inconveniences . I don't k ow for sure. I 
may find more areas. 

3. having two machines , dual boot etc etc ; i hope to hold on to the old windows machine for some 
months, try back and forth, decide if there are some very critical problems / areas not addressed 
by ubuntu etc. but the age of the old machine and other factors may finally decide it ( Dual system 
) ...  I may have to move to a new machine soon. On the new machine I will NOT buy windows and ms 
office because that seems costly to just experiment ..... the machines are just about the same. 
windows and ms office addres some $250 or so on top. so i do not plan to buy windows again on the 
new machine. so the age of the old machine will decide how long I can hold on to windows , ms 
office 

4. My experiments so far tell me that ms office has these additional functions and a large VBA 
library and help forums which may be missing or which may be just under development in libre office 
etc ...that seems to be the catch 


Thanks and regards


Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:49:07 +0100
From: tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to 
grab specific web data into libre calc
To: Hisupiramani@hotmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org

Hi :)
So the official forum is at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
along with a ton of other stuff.  Ubuntu is so huge that it easily supports several communities and 
there is another forum at 
http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php
and there is the cross-distro forum at 
http://www.linuxquestions/org

The Windows way is to slash-and-burn, to completely lose the older system when you want to move to 
something new (or just different).  This means you get stuck with Win7 (or Win8 or whatever) before 
you have any idea how to use it.  

The Gnu&Linux way is to install alongside so that you can keep using the older system so that you 
can keep meeting deadlines but allows you to test-drive the newer system and gradually become more 
familiar with
 it.  

A good migration path into Ubuntu is to 
1.   use some of the same apps in Windows.  So move away from Internet Explorer and start using 
Firefox (so you can still use IE if you need to), install LibreOffice/OpenOffice in Windows but 
keep whatever version of MS Office you use, Gimp instead of Photoshop and so on until you feel 
comfortable with change.  

During that phase it's good to get an old machine out of a cupboard or something so you can try 
installing Ubuntu (or whatever) as a Dual-boot without losing Windows.  It's reasonably easy and 
has a fairly automatic path but it's still a good idea to have a practice.  Ubuntu is one of the 
few that has a cunning way of installing inside Windows but it's better to do a proper dual-boot.  

2.  At first you are probably going to boot into Windows more than Ubuntu.  Don't worry about it.  
Just push yourself into using Ubuntu to
 explore.  

3.  Eventually you will start finding things are faster and often easier in Ubuntu although there 
are probably a couple of things you feel the need to tweak quite a bit.  There may still be one or 
2 odd things that you haven't had time to figure out so it's easier to keep the Windows for those 
rare things.  Probably most of us have a Windows fairly near at hand, although outside of work i 
would be hard-pushed to find mine nowadays.  In work i probably use them about half-and-half.  


When NASA find a new place far from Earth they don't start by trying a landing straight away.  They 
have a 3 step process with each step learning more and more until they know enough to have a 
reasonable chance of a smooth landing rather than just crashing
1.  Fly-by
2.  Orbit
3.  Test-landings

In most engineering disciplines it's generally considered a good idea to build a mock-up
 or prototype before launching into full-scale production.  

So quite why the Windows world wants you to always abandon your working system and replace it with 
something completely new and different is a bit of a mystery.  It makes people nervous about trying 
the new thing if they can't return to their familiar system.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  


        From: Happylibre
 <Hisupiramani@hotmail.com>
 To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
 Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2013, 0:29
 Subject: [libreoffice-users] RE: How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab 
specific web data into libre calc
   
Hi

I'm planning to use Ubuntu

I forgot to add that answer on my earlier reply


Regards


Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:05 -0700
From: ml-node+s969070n4051163h58@n3.nabble.com
To: Hisupiramani@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab specific web
 data into libre calc



    Hi :)

You are asking in the right place and hopefully someone might have a good 

answer for you or be able to point to places that might have more 

detailed knowledge of what you are looking for.  Most of us started with Windows and many of us 
still use it a lot.  



I tried a search for "smb" and then for "web" on our Extensions / Add-ons / Plug-ins site 


http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=&getCompatibility=any&sort_on=positive_ratings&path=%2FLibreOffice-Extensions-and-Templates%2Fextension-center&portal_type=PSCProject&SearchableText=web
but didn't find much.  It might be better to search in OpenOffice's 

Extensions as many of them probably still work well or have maintainers 

that might be interested in updating it in order to make it work in 

LibreOffice.  Also the OpenOffice forums might be a good place to post 

questions but if you do and post here as well then it's polite to let 

both places know when you have found an answer and what the answer was.  



Also most versions of Gnu&Linux (=distros) have their own forums and 

mailing lists so it might similarly be good to post questions there in a similar way.  Which distro 
do you use at the
 moment?  Ubuntu/Mint, 

Mageia, Fedora , openSUSE or which?  DistroWatch is a good place to 

look-up the official forum/mailing-list for your distro

http://distrowatch.com
for example to find the Ubuntu ones try here (it redirects)


http://distrowatch.com/ubuntu
for Fedora find some good links here

http://distrowatch.com/fedora

There is also a general-purpose forum at 


http://www.linuxquestions/org
that covers many, maybe all different distros but often you get answers from people using 
completely different distros, possibly even from different families so you sometimes have to figure 
out how to apply it to yours.  Most programs are either the
 same in each;  LibreOffice/OpenOffice, 

Firefox, Thunderbird and many others.  Sometimes they choose slightly 

different choices such as Chrome, Seamonkey, Opera instead of Firefox, similarly with utilities 
such as your  "package manager" so it doesn't take much to work out how to apply their advice and 
people at LinuxQuestions might even help with that.  



Also there are other LibreOffice places such as AskLibO


http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/

and other places you can find at 


http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/
but i still prefer this mailing-list.  



Good luck and regards from 


Tom :)  







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Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab 
specific web data into libre calc











please take a look at the image at 



http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/




you will see it has 100s of data







copy paste would take ages















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regards











Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:02:08 -0500



Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab 
specific web data into libre calc



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      Could you highlight the area(s) you desire then copy then paste to wherever you wish the 
data?



           that's my system;



      [but I may not be understanding to what you're referring since I have no clue as what smf 
is  ;-)  ]



















On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Happylibre wrote:











Hi















Preamble ...skip if in a hurry







--------------------------------------------







*I've been on the m$ office treadmill for 15 + years







*I've always been scared of Linux and thought it was all command line







*Recently stumbled on Linux and libre office ...so I am  completely new to







libre

 office






*Used it for a few days ... Truly it's a great piece of software and







dispelled most of my doubts on Linux, using Linux, libre office etc etc















Question / request reading







------------------------------------------







*However some specific doubts remain on libre office







*I've been using M$ XL's add on for grabbing web data , called smf add in







*When activated, once could easily grab specific pages, specific cells of







web pages directly into xl ( without opening a web browser)







*This is a great time saver







*The only and only /  excellent  group for using smf add in  can be found at







http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/




*Some  basic write up on using smf add in can be found here







http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/326478-derek-a-barrett/1414481-automating-alpha-getting-started-with-stock-market-functions-smf-add-in-for-excel
















Now, my question is , is there a similar add in for libre office, when







invoked , could help the user  get specific cells ( not the whole web page )







from a URL  into libre xl sheets ? Of course the user supplies the URL















Or is there some app in Linux that can do the same

 ?














How do people grab specific web data ( not entire pages ) but specific data







for web pages into libre calc ?















Request to Moderators ; if I am posting on the wrong area or group please







most this post accordingly























Thanks in advance







Regards















                         



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