[libreoffice-users] do screenshots survive?

[marianne-x]

I am aware that attachments are stripped from posts; what about embedded 
images?


I ask, because of the terrible mess Thunderbird/LO made of my 
immediately preceding post. I copied the subject list from the LO help 
as text, and pasted it into the email; those who have looked have seen 
the resulting formatting, and probably wished they had not.


I can answer my own question, by embedding a screenshot of the original 
list here. I should be able to see for myself whether it survives a 
round trip to Deutschland:






trj

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Re: [libreoffice-users] presumed errors in help text

[Brian Barker]

At 19:14 03/04/2016 -0400, Marianne Keating wrote:
With Win 7, LO 4.4.7.2 (also confirmed with 4.2.7.2) if one does F1 
- shortcut keys - general, one finds a section (here truncated):


Practical Text Input Fields
2. Use the shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+S to open the *Special 
Characters* dialog to insert one or more special characters.
10. The Ctrl+Z shortcut keys are used to undo modifications one step 
at a time; the text will then have the status it had before the first change.


#2 is wrong, and so blatantly wrong in the ordinary context, that I 
have to wonder whether there is some misunderstanding on my part. 
Does the "Text Input Fields" title imply some area of editing other 
than normal document work, where different rules apply?


Yes. It means a Text Input Field as created by Insert | Fields > | 
Other... | Functions | Input Field. Whilst the Input Field dialogue 
is open (either when creating the field or later when editing it), 
Ctrl+Shift+S does indeed open the Special Characters dialogue.


#10 is also wrong as written, or at least incomplete, inasmuch as 
normally multiple ^Z strokes would be needed to return to the 
initial condition.


I suspect the author would claim that this is what is intended by 
"one step at a time" and that "before the first change" refers to 
whichever changes have been undone.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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[libreoffice-users] presumed errors in help text

[marianne-x]

With Win 7, LO 4.4.7.2 (also confirmed with 4.2.7.2) if one does F1 - 
shortcut keys - general, one finds a section (here truncated):


Practical Text Input Fields

1.

   You can open a context menu, which contains some of the most
   often-used commands.

2.

   Use the shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+S to open the *Special Characters*
   dialog to insert one or more special characters.

3.

   Use Ctrl+A to select the entire text. Use the right or left arrow
   key to remove the selection.

4.

   Double-click a word to select it.

5.

   A triple-click in a text input field selects the entire field. A
   triple-click in a text document selects the current sentence.

6.

   Use Ctrl+Del to delete everything from the cursor position to the
   end of the word.

7.

   By using Ctrl and right or left arrow key, the cursor will jump from
   word to word; if you also hold down the Shift key, one word after
   the other is selected.

8.

   INSRT is used to switch between the insert mode and the overwrite
   mode and back again.

9.

   Drag-and-drop can be used within and outside of a text box.

10.

   The Ctrl+Z shortcut keys are used to undo modifications one step at
   a time; the text will then have the status it had before the first
   change.


#2 is wrong, and so blatantly wrong in the ordinary context, that I have 
to wonder whether there is some misunderstanding on my part.


Does the "Text Input Fields" title imply some area of editing other than 
normal document work, where different rules apply?



If we have the error that we appear to have, is there any person/group 
interested in notification?



I have no way to check, but imagine that this text has been this way for 
a long time, implying that there may not be much interest in correction.



#10 is also wrong as written, or at least incomplete, inasmuch as 
normally multiple ^Z strokes would be needed to return to the initial 
condition.



Y.f.t.R.,

trj


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot assign template to existing writer odt file

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 08:09 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > >found: Document Info".  The document in question does have a
> > > Properties window but it does not name the template selected, nor 
> > > is the selected template installed.
> > Same issue here - I can no longer assign a template to an existing
> > document.  This very much impinges on the functionality of Master
> > Documents when working with very large [book like] documents.
> > Version: 5.0.4.2
> > Has anyone figured anything else?  Is the support for features like
> > masters documents fading out of LibreOffice?
> In my Fedora 22 Version 4, there is no "File->Templates->Assign 
> template (current document)" option.
> What seems to work for me is to go to Styles and Formatting -> New 
> Style from Selection -> Load Styles. The "From File" option at "Load 
> Styles" works nicely if the style isn't a template.
> Does this still work in LO Writer 5?

Yes, just tried it - Load Styles still works.  So at least I get styles
of the same name - so if the file is included in a master document I
should get consistency.



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