Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Adams
[snip] On Tuesday 22 November 2011 20:49, doug wrote: Thanx to the responders. I'm using Linux. In Windows I usually use WordPerfect. AFAIK, Microsoft can read rtf. Two people whom I recently sent odf to said they couldn't read it. I'm told by people familiar with MS Word that not all

Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Stephan Zietsman
doug wrote: AFAIK, Microsoft can read rtf.  Two people whom I recently sent odf to said they couldn't read it.  I'm told by people familiar with MS Word that not all .doc files are compatible, there having been a change somewhere along about 1998 or so. (I don't use anything Microsoft when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 22/11/2011 08:16, doug ha scritto: I'd like to make LO Writer default to saving everything in .rtf format. The .odf is not readable by people with Microsoft software, which is most of the world. If so, how? (Running version 3.4.4) Thanx--doug FWIW, my ideal setup is to use odf and save in

[libreoffice-users] Re: can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Pedro
doug-2 wrote AFAIK, Microsoft can read rtf. Two people whom I recently sent odf to said they couldn't read it. I'm told by people familiar with MS Word that not all .doc files are compatible, there having been a change somewhere along about 1998 or so. (I don't use anything Microsoft

[libreoffice-users] Re: can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Tom
Hi :) +1 to most of all that people have said previously. The best work-around is to give people the link to the download page for LibreOffice. It is easily possible to install LibreOffice alongside MS Office. The default settings set LO up like that. At one of the last screens of the

[libreoffice-users] SUMIF on certain values

2011-11-22 Thread razor7
Hi, i'm trying to calculate sum of a column on certain values of other column. I want to sum all the values from column value only if corresponding id column value is 9, 10 or 11. My SUMIF functin looks like this *=SUMIF(D2:D187;9,10,11;E2:E187)* where D2 is id column and E2 is value column.

[libreoffice-users] Re: SUMIF on certain values

2011-11-22 Thread Gérard Fargeot
Hi, razor7 wrote Hi, i'm trying to calculate sum of a column on certain values of other column. I want to sum all the values from column value only if corresponding id column value is 9, 10 or 11. My SUMIF functin looks like this *=SUMIF(D2:D187;9,10,11;E2:E187)* where D2 is id

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SUMIF on certain values

2011-11-22 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Gérard, Gérard Fargeot schrieb: Hi, razor7 wrote Hi, i'm trying to calculate sum of a column on certain values of other column. I want to sum all the values from column value only if corresponding id column value is 9, 10 or 11. My SUMIF functin looks like this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SUMIF on certain values

2011-11-22 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Gérard, I've found what is wrong in the formula. Gérard Fargeot schrieb: =SUMIF(A2:A7,9|10|11,B2:B7) With Regular expressions enabled in Tools Options LibreOffice Calc Calculate. It should be not comma but semicolon as function separator. =SUMIF(A2:A7;9|10|11;B2:B7) It is a nice

Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread doug
On 11/22/2011 04:54 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 22/11/2011 08:16, doug ha scritto: I'd like to make LO Writer default to saving everything in .rtf format. The .odf is not readable by people with Microsoft software, which is most of the world. If so, how? (Running version 3.4.4) Thanx--doug

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread doug
On 11/22/2011 05:34 AM, Pedro wrote: doug-2 wrote AFAIK, Microsoft can read rtf. Two people whom I recently sent odf to said they couldn't read it. I'm told by people familiar with MS Word that not all .doc files are compatible, there having been a change somewhere along about 1998 or so. (I

Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/22/2011 02:39 AM, Stephan Zietsman wrote: doug wrote: I'd like to make LO Writer default to saving everything in .rtf format. The .odf is not readable by people with Microsoft software, which is most of the world. If so, how? (Running version 3.4.4) To change the default format when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Images get smaller and deformed in .doc

2011-11-22 Thread José Antonio Moray Serrano
Yes, that is what happens. But I never added a border but when I look the image properties, it's not supposed to be any border. Anyway, when I select No borders, the image gets OK again. But this is strange, and I can't do this with every image everytime I open a document. I don't know if

[libreoffice-users] Support Required

2011-11-22 Thread Vidya Panthalil
Hi,   I am evaluating to use Libre Office to do inline editing of office documents in WPF application. I am looking to check the feasibility of doing the following tasks 1.   Open office documents(word, excel, powerpoint, etc) in the same application window (Inline editing of documents) 2.  

[libreoffice-users] Calc 3.4.3: CSV Formating

2011-11-22 Thread Rich Shepard
I save a file as .csv and the first time a dialog box opens asking for the field separator and quote mark. However, text is not quoted and subsequent save attempts do not produce that dialog box. Pointers appreciated on how to remedy this situation. Rich -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc 3.4.3: CSV Formating

2011-11-22 Thread Pedro
Rich Shepard wrote I save a file as .csv and the first time a dialog box opens asking for the field separator and quote mark. However, text is not quoted and subsequent save attempts do not produce that dialog box. You need to choose Save As and check the option Edit filter settings so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc 3.4.3: CSV Formating

2011-11-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Pedro wrote: You need to choose Save As and check the option Edit filter settings so that LO asks you about field separator, etc. Pedro, I did not notice that check box tucked away in the lower left before. Thanks for pointing it out to me. To get the text cells

Re: [libreoffice-users] Personal settings causing calc to crash

2011-11-22 Thread Scott Castaline
I just realized that on Fedora 16 at least with the LXDE DE the .libreoffice folder is kept under the .config folder in the users home folder. It used to be directly in the home folder. Anyway I did get it to crash again when closing this one and only one spreadsheet. Through several trial and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc 3.4.3: CSV Formating

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Trigg
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Pedro wrote: To get the text cells quoted,  on the following dialog (named Export Text File, you must check the option Quote all text cells  Ah, silly me. :-) I assumed that selecting a text

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread doug
See below. Doug: I open the RTF in Word on both the Mac and the PC. It worked fine on the PC. I will try it on Mac next and let you know. Bob On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:17 PM, doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: Hi, Bob-- I'm forwarding this to you

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf typo correction

2011-11-22 Thread doug
On 11/23/2011 01:22 AM, doug wrote: /snip/ I work with Bob on a Newsletter (I'm the editor) and we exchange text files in rtf regularly. Until recently, LO, and OO before it, had an occasional problem with text formatting, but the latest version LO that I have--3.4.4-- works very nicely.

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

2011-11-22 Thread Pedro
Hi Doug Thank you for your update post. This is what the true spirit of community is all about. You have a problem, you ask for help on a forum (mailing list, whatever) of people who give their best to help you based on their experience, you use one or some of the answers to solve your problem