Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3

2013-12-16 Thread Dr. R. O. Stapf - the service institute japan
Hi Tom,Thanks for the hint, I will do with the 4.1.4 version which is scheduled to be released this week.RPresidentthe service institute japan... the service enhancement companywww.tsij.org On 2013-12-14 00:46, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, i think just go for a standard normal reinstall of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recent Documents List

2013-06-20 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Steve, thanks for your hint ROSt52 On 12.06.2013 12:30, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-06-12 13:33, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: On 12.06.2013 07:22, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-06-12 10:15, Dan Lewis wrote: On 06/11/2013 11:53 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 11/06/2013 at 16:09, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recent Documents List

2013-06-20 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 13.06.2013 03:11, Dan Lewis wrote: On 06/11/2013 09:33 PM, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: On 12.06.2013 07:22, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-06-12 10:15, Dan Lewis wrote: On 06/11/2013 11:53 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 11/06/2013 at 16:09, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recent Documents List

2013-06-20 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Keith, also thanks to you! On 13.06.2013 18:30, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Try this: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/941/can-i-access-a-list-of-recent-documents-longer/ Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com 0447 667 468 On 12 June 2013 00:09, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recent Documents List

2013-06-11 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 12.06.2013 07:22, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-06-12 10:15, Dan Lewis wrote: On 06/11/2013 11:53 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 11/06/2013 at 16:09, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does anyone remember how to fix the list of recent documents to be longer than 10? I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging with Calc only

2012-12-06 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Michael, Even if it can be done with Calc、the question, which came to my mind was, why to make a worksheet for students in Calc? Why not in Writer, Draw, or Impress? ROSt52 On 2012-12-06 18:27, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think you do the same thing. It should also work the same way for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.3.2/Writer] Split screen in half horizontally?

2012-12-06 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
This would realy be a good feature. I also miss the possibility to compare to documents side by side and synchronized scrolling. I hate to say it but this is a good feature of MSO. Just hope that our devs can add ti to LibO. On 2012-12-05 20:50, Gilles wrote: I agree. I also miss being able

Re: [libreoffice-users] Second paragraph language

2012-11-29 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Regina, I took the your words from gordom's mail. How can you set the language in the default paragraph style? I could not find a possibility to do so? On 2012-11-29 23:36, gordom wrote: set the desired language in the paragraph style default. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Second paragraph language

2012-11-29 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Thanks for putting my attention to this drop down list. Until now I did not recognize this possibility because switching languages never created a problem using the Tool/Language... menu. On 2012-11-30 01:25, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, Dr. R. O Stapf schrieb: Regina, I took the your words

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem reading Word 2003 document

2012-11-29 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Could not open the file LibO 3.5.7.2 XP pro / SP3 On 2012-11-30 11:26, NoOp wrote: On 11/29/2012 04:05 PM, NoOp wrote: On 11/29/2012 08:45 AM, Chris Carlson wrote: Okay, I must be brain-dead. I misread nabble as nobble. Looking at nabble, it's way more than I need if anyone want's to look

Re: [libreoffice-users] Second paragraph language

2012-11-27 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I running Libo 3.5.7 (English US version) on XP/SP3 GUI: English Default Western language: English Default Asian language: Japanese Language packages are installed for English, German, Dutch and Japanese I am writing documents in English, Japanese, German and Dutch All I am doing is start

Re: [libreoffice-users] [More questions - but some the same as before]

2012-11-24 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Brian, please don't worry. I wrote from Brian and Charles. Ok? On 2012-11-24 13:13, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:51 24/11/2012 +0900, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: On 2012-11-24 12:24, Brian Barker wrote: I have no idea how many users are subscribed this list but let's just say arguendo there are 10

Re: [libreoffice-users] [More questions - but some the same as before]

2012-11-23 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Below texts are from Brian and Charles. I cannot say if 10 people can write about 5 tasks or not. I am willing to write about 3, 5 if I can spare a bit more time. However, it must be organized. We all have other things to do thus duplication must be avoided. This in turn means a working mode

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO crashes when using File - Wizard

2012-11-21 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I am running XP Pro SP3 and LibO 3.5.7 and I don't have crashed as you describe them. On 2012-11-21 17:30, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Windows XP Pro I just installed the very latest version of LO (3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5)) and noticed, that LO crashes EVERY time I try to use File - Wizard

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions]

2012-11-21 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-11-22 12:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 08:12 21/11/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote: These questions raise an interesting design decision made by LibO. When it comes to Autocorrect, I've noticed that, by default, LibO enables all of the Autocorrect options. LibO naturally assumes that, if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-19 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
What a discussion has been started. Great! As for doing revers engineering on binary files, I know how difficult it is. However, it is not impossible. Should the great devs of AOO and LibO be enabled to join forces, there is a tremendous know-how and manpower available. I just hope that people

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: AutoCorrect language resets and sticks to English after Japanese script is inserted

2012-11-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
and set it to be treated as Portuguese, but any new or modified text gets treated as English. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.comwrote: I am not sure if my test matches your situation: I have LibO: - User interface English - Asian language: Japanese

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

2012-11-14 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
to has that behavior. My apologies to Dr. Stapf for the rerun. -Original Message- From: Dr. R. O Stapf Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:22 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart I know that the creation

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] Book Preview button in Print Preview Screen

2012-11-12 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Although I am not writing books the feature described by CVAlkan is a very interesting one. Especially if the settings could be made on a document base, rather than general. On 2012-11-12 02:14, CVAlkan wrote: Just for the record: I'm using Writer 3.6.1.2 on Ubuntu 12.04, but I don't think

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

2012-11-12 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I know that the creation of such a tool would take very important dev resources, but it would be a good tool to promote LIbO Writer. But why to compare with Word 2003? As far as I know a big change has taken place with Word 2007 (or 2010?)/ On 2012-11-13 02:27, charles meyer wrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: AutoCorrect language resets and sticks to English after Japanese script is inserted

2012-11-06 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I am not sure if my test matches your situation: I have LibO: - User interface English - Asian language: Japanese - German dictionary installed - Normally I am using English and Japanese Test: - Opened a new writer document, started typing in German. - The spellchecker showed errors; red wavy

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot save data ranges in spreadsheet other than with .ods files

2012-11-04 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Seems to be a bug. I made a test using XP/SP3 and 3.5.7 Data Range names get lost. If other it could be confirmed in 3.6 version, a bug report appears to be the we can do. On 2012-11-05 09:56, Subscriptions wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on Ubuntu 11.04

[libreoffice-users] bug or missing functionality in Impress/Chart ?

2012-11-04 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I wanted to create a chart in Impress Inserted a chart Opened the chart data table So far all fine and as expected When I wanted to copy data array (2 rows, 5 columns) from Calc into the table, the data of the array selected on copied into the clipboard all get pasted into the cell I selected

Re: [libreoffice-users] export to pdf does not carry over the file name of writer

2012-10-31 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I had the bug today again and thought I have the a possible cause but I could not repeat itClosing LibO did not helpHowever, rebooting the PC helped; pdf-export worked again thereafter..On 2012-10-31 19:33, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :)+1The docs team managed to identify a different

Re: [libreoffice-users] export to pdf does not carry over the file name of writer

2012-10-30 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Maybe it we all try to identify situation in which the pdf-export shows empty file name fields, our devs will get a chance to identify the cause. It would be worth to try it. On 2012-10-31 03:52, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 30/10/2012 16:49, rost52 a écrit : This seems to be a magic

Re: [libreoffice-users] ... not working ...

2012-10-19 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-19 22:53, Joel Madero wrote: On 10/18/2012 11:11 PM, rost52 wrote: This is a very interesting information. I am not really surprised by the ration indicated here. I exepcte finding the cause of a bug takes much more time than final fix. I am grateful to the dev because I know

Re: [libreoffice-users] ... not working ...

2012-10-18 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I don't mean that a single manager makes all decisions and the team has to follow. The word manager could and should be understood also as management team, decision making team, leadership, etc. I am not familiar with the structure of the dev team and decision making processes. Thus, I used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-17 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 17.10.2012 12:38, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/16/2012 09:12 PM, rost52 wrote: I attended last week a seminar on the the legal situation with social networks. The presenting US lawyer mentioned that even in the US asking for FB passwords is illegal. On 16.10.2012 22:59, Jay Lozier wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-17 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I meant xls files in MS EXCEL 2003 when I wrote about the short times needed to open them. I protected them against opening. I never tested a LO file so far - hope I never have to!!! Here are some links I checked, however I don't recall what was the result for each link. Most of the links I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working?

2012-10-17 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 17.10.2012 16:07, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: BRAVO Anne-Ology!! Exactly that message - only in other words -- I have repeatedly tried to tell to the LibO-experts (devs) since January: they must take a brake in developing and take a certain version (e.g. 3.4.xx) and make every module of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working?

2012-10-17 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
It's not falling behind in development. It's about stability and this means productivity.It's like placing an always stronger engine in an F1 car without considering to get the power on the road. What means the best engine when the suspension is not strong enough. With other words I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working?

2012-10-17 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
you have more than a handful of computers to maintain or have limited download, or Well, tons of valid reasons Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 17/10/12, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com wrote: From: Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-16 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
you are perfectly right about this!!! On 16.10.2012 22:22, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Unless you have a lot of time to kill (days, weeks, months, etc), you are much better off not forgetting your password. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 15.10.2012 23:11, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 15.10.2012 15:49, rost52 wrote: LO files can be protected with PWs when doing save as. Fighting currently with an xls file and its lost PW, I wonder how LO files can be cracked? Can the MS related PW remover be used for LO as well? Thanks in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 15.10.2012 23:46, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 15/10/2012 16:30, Dr. R. O Stapf a écrit : [...] However, my question was how to open an LO file if the PW get forgotten (not and MS file)? Hints are welcome for the future. Buy a super-computer, launch a brute force algorithm and pray

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 16.10.2012 02:14, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Ledger Consulting t...@theledgerfirm.com wrote: gvfe ..dtnd e eeir2 What? encrypted message - problem is that I cannot understand it. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
:) --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com wrote: From: Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 15:30 On 15.10.2012 23:11, Andreas Säger wrote: Am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to crack a PW in LO?

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 16.10.2012 09:40, Jean-Louis Oneto wrote: I used the following: http://www.crackpdf.com/ but not the Pro version which allows to make brute force attack, but then, they warn you that it will take _a_long_time_ !!! To remove simple protections, it was really fast, but they unlock the file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia

2012-10-14 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I did not want to express it that explicitly what you wrote is perfectly right.I am often wondering why some members of this forum complain so much about LO instead of exchanging information in non-inflicting-feelings-of-others words, which help other users to solve their

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem happen when import text with Chinese

2012-10-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I made a test I did before (maybetooo long time before) and reported today a bugBug55954-EDITING: copypaste issues - Japanese text from writer into calcWhat I remember from my previous test( I used LO 3.5.4 or 3.5.5)is thatI got what is called in Japanese mojibake and can be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia

2012-10-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I have my still my doubts on graphics, but all the other remarks of Tom I fully agree. By the way is there a list of MSO bugs we can have a look at? I doubt! On 14.10.2012 10:39, anne-ology wrote: same here. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem happen when import text with Chinese

2012-10-11 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
There was recently a thread with Japanese in Calc. Have a look in the nabble mail. Maybe there is a solution. If I am not completely mistaken I made a test with Japanese in Calc myself but don't recall if I reported a bug or not. import means copy and paste from another application like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc question - paste special

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-10 00:54, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/09/2012 04:44 AM, IGraham wrote: Hello A Calc question I have a grid of cells 7x20, one row for each day of the week, cells may contain no data today Daily I update the relevant cells I want to copy and paste this grid to another sheet in the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-09 18:24, John Clegg wrote: Forgive me, but I thought one of the aims of LO was improvements to usability. I open emails mailed to me dozens of times a day. Doing Save-As, or clicking the edit button takes little time I agree, but why is it so wrong to desire that as the default to

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-06 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I think the market share of MSO has nothing to do with the users being idiots or not. The 90% share is caused by 3 things 1 - When you buy a PC you often get the MSO already pre-installed 2 - Not many people know about alternatives. I only learned about OO and LO from my brother who is a IT

Re: [libreoffice-users] name of pdf export

2012-10-06 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-10-05 21:15, Brian Barker wrote: At 19:55 05/10/2012 +0900, Nobody Noname wrote: When I export an LO file to pdf, I would like that the original file name is automatically transferred to become the pdf-file name. As I cannot find any information in the LO documentation I ask you to

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help applying standard layouts to master pages.

2012-09-28 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I understand now Alessandro's situation - at least I assume. I also had the same problem when I created my own template - and still have for next templates I need to make. I wanted to have a title master and 1 slide master. The master view allows currently only 1 master layout (title,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Loosing chart on exporting ods to xls

2012-09-28 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Reading the thread again I understand Vytas' problem is that he loost the chart completely. I did not loose the chart by converting from ods to xls but lost the functionality. This means I could not change in the xls chart and could not change layout of the chart in the xls version I feel it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - Blink animation doesn't work

2012-09-28 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 2012-09-28 23:56, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, rost52 schrieb: Hi, I observe the same bug. Settings Entry: Appear on click Emphasis: Blink after previous 3 times Result All works but only 1 blink independed of the number of blinks set LO 3.5.6.2 XP SP3 Have not yet reported this bug

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiply values BEFORE summing

2012-09-27 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I am not sure if I understand sufficiently good what you try to achieve. Could this be a solution colum A . colum H create a new colum (a*h) and then sum up. If this is not the solution it might be a good idea to express in normal mathematical formulas and words what you want to

Re: [libreoffice-users] custom shows within a slide show - impress

2012-09-26 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
) - The slide from which one jumps to the custom show will start from the beginning. I just hope that there is an enhancement in the near future. On 2012-09-12 14:24, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: @ anne-ology Thanks for the hints 'hiding' is not an option as I want to stay in presentation mode Using

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Magnus, It would be good to know more about what you want to do (chart type you want to use, information you want to get ouf the chart), what you exactly did (chart type you selected, data ranges and all steps you did), and what kind of data do you use for which axis. With this information

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: calc

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I indeed understood that you want to show the y-value of every fifth x-value. However, it seems you don't want to stick with the pattern but want to be more flexible. In general a graph displayes the correlation between a series of x-values and their related y-values. The x-axis is in any

Re: [libreoffice-users] custom shows within a slide show - impress

2012-09-11 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
it, would send you to these slides - when you wish to return to the main show, click on the URL within this sub-show - Hoping this helps, On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.comwrote: Hi and thanks for the first reply. I intend to show the custom show

Re: [libreoffice-users] custom shows within a slide show - impress

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
to appear. If neither, then please explain further. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.comwrote: I have a slide show in Impress and want to run a custom show when clicking on a text box with a keyword. Steps I did: 1 - Created the custom show SlideShow

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug search and replace in half height window

2012-09-07 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I tested in LibreOffice 3.5.6.2 writer-Window approx. half of the screen in height, in width about 90%. Document is 22 pages with text and tables (tables are html-copies of calc-tables), page orientation: portrait for most, and landscape for a few pages, Searching for a word with an appearance

[libreoffice-users] custom shows within a slide show - impress

2012-09-07 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I have a slide show in Impress and want to run a custom show when clicking on a text box with a keyword. Steps I did: 1 - Created the custom show SlideShow / Custom Slide Show. 2 - Selected the text (blue corners appear, right click on frame, select Interaction / Go to page or object Problem: I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing backgrounds on slides regularly

2012-09-07 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
Possible solution: create a new presentation open master create your 12 back grounds close master save as template create new presentation based on this template select View / Task pane (or Ctrl+shift+T) / master pages in the top part (Used in This Presentation) you see all 12 created back

[libreoffice-users] Impress: Text animation in a master slide

2012-06-26 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
I want to set a text animation in the master slide. With this animation I want all slides based on this master slide to show text by the first outline level. Does someone know how to do this? (Searching the manual did not reveal required information.) I am using LO 3.5.4.2 Thanks in advance!