Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
When I wrote my comment I was not thinking about the change of a font, but getting something which helps to understand how Writer work and a support to unlearn Word. I am currently struggling with unlearning Word and Power Point. On 2012-11-13 22:56, VA wrote: Yes, MS completely redesigned

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting an OLE as an Icon and Create Package

2012-11-14 Thread rost52
I am still using 3.5.7, thus cannot make a test. However, seeing that you are still using 3.6.0 I would got and try 3.6.3 which is released. On 2012-11-13 22:48, Gopi Krishna V wrote: Hi I am trying to insert an object in OLE. The steps i am following: Insert - Object - OLE Object - further

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi:) I think just working through the Getting Started guide helps hugely.  Pay special attention to the Styles chapter.  wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications I had to help someone tidy up a Word document yday and it was a total Pita.  Fortunately they are very unfamiliar with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Paying special attention to the Styles Chapters is definitely important; maybe the most important chapters to look at.A guidance for LibO beginners could help to move people from MSO to LibO. I observe that many people are sticking with MSO because with huge efforts they learned to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
WE do need to have some document comparing MSO [2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013] with LibreOffice as part of a Marketing Tool. We need to be able to show our users that what they are using MSO for, they can use LO to do the same. There are many advantages in using LO instead of MSO, besides the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to show cell value with text

2012-11-14 Thread Viral Orpe
Thanks Dan, Link/Guides look good :) Regards, Viral Orpe From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is it possible to show cell value with text

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 They often seem to think it's going to take them just as long to learn LO as it took them to learn MSO.  Of course it takes a lot less time because most of the ideas are the same or similar.  I'm currently struggling with a lady that seems determined to use the space-bar instead of;

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I think LO is easier to use than MSO2003. That was before the Ribbon UI was created. What I hated about MSO-2003-Word, was how long it took to be to the point where I could do anything. Then there were all these side-bar options that I could not get to stop showing up and slowing down my

RE: [libreoffice-users] Diwali

2012-11-14 Thread Rai, Neeraj
Just to add to number of ways you can say it : Happy The Wall-E (refer : https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Wall_E?id=5RcNwlq7JSwfeature=nav_result#?t=W10.) I can get my daughter more interested in it saying it this way :-) -Original Message- From: Joel Madero

[libreoffice-users] Re: Downloading the new LO

2012-11-14 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Ian Le 2012-11-13 09:10, Ian Whitfield a écrit : *SO* - Bottom line Where can I find a plain old .exe installer for LO 3.6.3? *PS* - I'm also wanting to upgrade my PCLinuxOS version as well - so where are the plain rpm files for this?? Thanks for any help. IanW Pretoria RSA. If you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Downloading the new LO

2012-11-14 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 11/14/2012 11:43 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Ian Le 2012-11-13 09:10, Ian Whitfield a écrit : *SO* - Bottom line Where can I find a plain old .exe installer for LO 3.6.3? *PS* - I'm also wanting to upgrade my PCLinuxOS version as well - so where are the plain rpm files for this?? Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Downloading the new LO

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the main problem was with the button-that-is-not-really-a-button.  Each thing that looks like a button has 2 or 3 choices within it.  The aim was to reduce confusion but every once in a while someone gets thrown by it. [shrugs]  More people were more confused by the previous way

[libreoffice-users] Sun Report Builder on LibreOffice Base?

2012-11-14 Thread Vincent
Hi All, I'm using LibreOffice 3.5 on Linux Mint 13 KDE and downloaded the sun report builder which I've used on OpenOffice with success. The download appears to have gone well and Base has added the option to create a report with the design function, but that’s as far as it goes. When

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sun Report Builder on LibreOffice Base?

2012-11-14 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 11/14/2012 12:30 PM, Vincent wrote: Hi All, I'm using LibreOffice 3.5 on Linux Mint 13 KDE and downloaded the sun report builder which I've used on OpenOffice with success. The download appears to have gone well and Base has added the option to create a report with the design function,

e: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread charles meyer
There are still many Word 2003 users as 2007 did not offer many spectacular advances (especially for the price so many businesses, educational and nonprofit orgs, gov't, etc. did not upgrade to the ribbons. I found the ribbons at work not to be a problem as others did but there are plenty of 2003

Re: e: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
I like that idea charles. I remember the Wordperfect sheet and even shor tcuts you stuck on the top of the keyboard. I have not used word past 6.0 for dos, so for me it would be useful for me to explain to someone using word what I am doing in LO. steve On 2012-11-15 09:17, charles meyer

[libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. There has been previous discussion on anchoring images in LO. Certainly an area for improvement, I have a document with many images, anchored to page as anchoring to paragraph and anchoring to character are not working well. Now I need to insert 2 pages but my images won't stay anchored to

Re: e: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/14/2012 04:03 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: I like that idea charles. I remember the Wordperfect sheet and even shor tcuts you stuck on the top of the keyboard. I have not used word past 6.0 for dos, so for me it would be useful for me to explain to someone using word what I am doing in LO.

Re: [libreoffice-users] - novice question about scalc and C++ uno objects

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Remember, I have never done this, but, you want to know how to cast an object to the required interface. So, I simply looked for a few examples http://moutou.pagesperso-orange.fr/MyUNODoc_HTML/UNOCppAPI4.html I found this in listing 4.16 *// Don't forget to add : #include

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/14/2012 05:35 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. There has been previous discussion on anchoring images in LO. Certainly an area for improvement, I have a document with many images, anchored to page as anchoring to paragraph and anchoring to character are not working well. Now I need to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Alternatively just insert the pages and then cutpaste the images back to the correct page.  Their position on the 'new' page remains exactly the same as it was. Regards from Tom :)  From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To:

Re: e: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Bradley
Actually, Jay, I have found the transitions from MSOffice normally quite easy, both with LO and OO; it may be that I automate so few things, and I certainly would appreciate a cheat sheet, but it's not a deal killer for me personally. Sometimes I think people TELL you they don't want to change

RE: [libreoffice-users] - novice question about scalc and C++ uno objects

2012-11-14 Thread Rai, Neeraj
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the links. I got bogged down by too much documentation. The below link is helpful. Neeraj -Original Message- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:15 PM Cc: 'users@global.libreoffice.org' Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-11-15 12:35, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:35 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. There has been previous discussion on anchoring images in LO. Certainly an area for improvement, I have a document with many images, anchored to page as anchoring to paragraph and anchoring to character

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
Thanks Tom, that would have saved me some time. It is a pity there is no Insert page as opposed to a shove all text down one page. Also be nice if you could specify the paragraph or character to anchor to when anchored that way. Steve On 2012-11-15 12:44, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:59 15/11/2012 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: Also be nice if you could specify the paragraph or character to anchor [an image] to when anchored that way. You can. Click the image to select it - so that you see the eight coloured handles. You will now also see the anchor symbol, and you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Anchoring images and inserting pages.

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. But the anchor cannot be below the image or above another paragraph that is above or in line with the image. Put 2 images on the right of the page so text wraps left of them. Have 3 or 4 paragraphs in the space to the left of the images. Anchor both images to the top paragraph. Unless