Re: [Bulk] Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 4.4.0.2 on opensuse 13.2 tumbleweed, kde 4.14.4

2015-01-27 Thread Mark Bourne
ianseeks wrote: On Monday 26 Jan 2015 19:18:24 Tim Lloyd wrote: Hi Ian, I am assuming this is an existing document. Not new? Any document in particular or any? An exisitng ODT, nothing complicated in the file, just text Is the CTRL-C the first thing you do? Highlight with mouse then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Product support question please!

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
dpregan54 wrote: PLEASE NOTE = Please forward this email to the people who handle product support questions for LibreOffice Writer. Dear Sir or Ms., I have been a very please long time user of your various products especially your writer product but now I have a question which I can not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
WEDLOCO wrote: Thanks Tom for your quick response and suggestion - and also all others who have contributed. Downloaded the Still version 4.2.8 but same thing is happening. Worked 1st time I entered a value in find and then when I changed the amount Search key not found. I entered different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Dec 2014, at 18:11, Mark Bourne libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: WEDLOCO wrote: Thanks Tom for your quick response and suggestion - and also all others who have contributed. Downloaded the Still version 4.2.8 but same thing is happening. Worked 1st time I entered a value in find

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unsubscribe

2014-12-18 Thread Mark Bourne
juliejohn scott wrote: Please unsubscribe me now (if you can) because I have had my question answered and my e-mails are becoming excessive.Happy Christmas,John Scott. We're just other users, helping each other, and don't have access to unsubscribe you. You'll need to do that yourself,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: image anchoring

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Bourne
That's not surprising really... the link to View this message in context shows it was a reply to a 2-year-old thread! Mark. Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I do not remember seeing the original post with the question included. For single page documents, I use Anchor to Page. For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing options.

2014-11-29 Thread Mark Bourne
Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2014-11-26 13:56, Doug wrote: On 11/25/2014 07:25 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. In File Printer Settings, under options is the device printer language setting (PDF/Postscript). Is this a Libreoffice configuration or a system configuration. I ask because some documents

Re: [libreoffice-users] date acceptance patterns not sticking

2014-10-17 Thread Mark Bourne
bunk3m wrote: Thanks so much for taking time to answer my question. I never thought about the 12.6 issue messing up the decimal number format as it never happened in Excel. As I've moved over to using LO, I've learned some Excel behaviours really don't translate very well. A bit more below.

Re: [libreoffice-users] date acceptance patterns not sticking

2014-10-15 Thread Mark Bourne
bunk3m wrote: Libreoffice is driving me nuts. I am in Canada. UI is set to English US; Locale settings to English Canada and Default Currency is CAD. I have my Mac set dates to dd.mm.. (OSX 10.9.x) For some reason Libreoffice (4.3.1.2) will only accept dates in the -MM-DD format. I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

2014-10-15 Thread Mark Bourne
Marc Grober wrote: Intriguing idea, but it would still require the use of anchored linked frames, and if I am going to use anchored linked frames, I don;t need Calc. I think the idea with Calc would be to start with the text for one language in cell A1, and the text for the other language in

Re: [libreoffice-users] zoom in and out bound to a key

2014-10-07 Thread Mark Bourne
Uwe Brauer wrote: Mark == Mark Bourne writes: A couple of possibilities... Thanks for your answer. 1. Your operating system might do something with those shortcut keys, and not pass them on to LibreOffice. Other shortcut keys I have set work fine (I am on Linux Kubuntu 10.04

Re: [libreoffice-users] zoom in and out bound to a key

2014-10-03 Thread Mark Bourne
Uwe Brauer wrote: Hello LO has a nice button down right which allows to zoom in and out using the mouse. However I would prefer to bind zoom in to a key and zoom out to another say Crt-+ and Crtl-- but when I go to Customize--View--Zoom in and bound it to say Crtl-+ nothing happens,

Re: [libreoffice-users] To open a second Sheet with one mouse click from the first Sheet in same document?

2014-09-26 Thread Mark Bourne
csanyipal wrote: Hello, I'm using LibreOffice 4.2.6.3 Build: 4.2.6.3 Arch Linux build-4 Is it possible to create a hyperlink in a cell ( text or button ) in one Calc Document on one Sheet so if one click on that hyperlink then get focused another Sheet in the same Document? The purpose of

Re: [libreoffice-users] CANNOT INSTALL LIBRE OFFICE SUITES

2014-09-24 Thread Mark Bourne
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) We went off on a tangent around here somewhere. There still seems to be a problem installing LibreOffice on this Windows 7 machine. The download is an msi so that IE issue doesn't seem to be the problem. The installer's file-size is 215,652kb, so that's around the 220Mb

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing Brochure with Writer -- margins

2014-09-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Marc Paré wrote: As far as I can tell, even if I change the body length ... for example set the 8.5X11 inch page to a top and bottom margin of 0.00 inches ... the brochure (booklet) will still be printed with the same top/bottom gaps of spaces at the top/bottom of the booklet. It would be very

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: Find has never worked for me

2014-09-18 Thread Mark Bourne
John R. Sowden wrote: On 09/17/2014 11:27 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: John R. Sowden wrote: I have been using LO from the 'beginning'. I have never be able to get the menu command 'Find' to work. Just to be sure I just tried again. The Edit-Find Selection has the three dots after it, telling me

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: Find has never worked for me

2014-09-17 Thread Mark Bourne
John R. Sowden wrote: I have been using LO from the 'beginning'. I have never be able to get the menu command 'Find' to work. Just to be sure I just tried again. The Edit-Find Selection has the three dots after it, telling me that a dialog box/menu will open. Nothing happens, anywhere on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] My organization is new to Libre. Looking for cheat sheets

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul Auger wrote: Hi all. We are brand new to Libre. We are used to MS office. Is there a cheat sheet that says If you do this in office these here the steps you need to take to do the same thing in Libre? Not sure about that; hopefully others can help there. I've always found LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Alex Thurgood wrote: My experience on several occasions has unfortunately been that the Default style in Writer has hard formatting characteristics which cause application of Heading 3 not to work correctly, and it seems hard to be able to ascribe any particular sequence of actions to make it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Stef Bon wrote: Hi Mark an others like Tom, first of all there seams to be a misunderstanding. I meant with template a guide given by the teacher to me, as a layout the teachers expect the results will have. So not the technical term for it, it's just a document in the docx format. Yes, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-11 Thread Mark Bourne
Stef Bon wrote: Hi, I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open it using LibreOffice. I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer did show the table totally wrong. The .docx format changes slightly with each version of MS Office.

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to turn off read only

2014-09-07 Thread Mark Bourne
John R. Sowden wrote: More data: At the OS level: User: R/W, Group: R/W, Others: RO Opened the file. went to file/properties/security: RO checked, grayed out. Used the Edit Icon, made a change, the change was allowed, I was able to save using the 'Save' command, exited LO, confirmed no RO

Re: [libreoffice-users] write frustrations

2014-09-05 Thread Mark Bourne
John R. Sowden wrote: Below is why I still use WordStar 5.5 in my office: I am creating a form (an invoice for my ebay purchases because many sellers don't send one). 1) ebay lower cases their name. I type 'ebay'. LO corrects me to make it Ebay. (Note that while eBay's logo is all lower

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-09-05 Thread Mark Bourne
kajdna wrote: *My* My gripe with libreoffice are its stupid algorithims that constantly find false errors in what I type. If I type *** as a break between sections I get a bold line If I type cat --help I get Cat --(dash)help Is there ONE place where I can turn off ALL automatic overrides?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting Writer formula bar fields

2014-08-31 Thread Mark Bourne
Chris Cameron wrote: Hi, Often I use Writer's Formula Bar (By hitting F2) to do some math inside my Writer document and have the output displayed. The default formatting for this output is to 2 decimal places, which is often less than I want. So every time I must right click the field, click

Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

2014-08-31 Thread Mark Bourne
Vincent Rubiolo wrote: Hello Brian On 08/25/2014 10:28 PM, Brian Barker wrote: One possibility here is that structure of your document is more complex than simply cells of table. Have you perhaps got a table - even if only of a single cell - inside a cell of another table? If so, you may have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-08-25 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

2014-08-24 Thread Mark Bourne
Vincent Rubiolo wrote: Dear LibreOffice users, I am running LO 4.2.6.2 on Fedora 20 (4.2.6.2-1.fc20) and I am updating Writer a document originally coming from OpenOffice. It is a one page list of errands, with contents in 2 tables. I can edit part of the document correctly (one table) but the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Link to external data question

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Jim Byrnes wrote: On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data dialog Put http://finance.yahoo.com/d

Re: [libreoffice-users] linking in data from a file

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Gregory Smith - Oracle Sparc Verification wrote: All I have an analysis spreadsheet that pulls data from sheets of several other spreadsheets.Under StarOffice, the technique I used was to open both spreadsheets, do a copy of the data in the source spreadsheet, go to a blank

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Owen Genat wrote: TomD wrote Apparently at least many of the Autocorrect stuff is kept in a .dat file somewhere. Does anyone know where? Can it be edited? These locale-specific files are stored under share/autocorr/ in the install location. The XML files in each DAT can be extracted using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Issue with INDEX function

2014-08-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Gregory Smith - Oracle Sparc Verification wrote: AllI have created a one dimensional array called CATEGORY.When I do this function: =Index(Category,25,0)I get the contents of that index - lets say it is the word catsWhen I do this function =if((index(category,25,0)=cats),1,0)I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation, and at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for people that occasionally need to enter some text that should stay verbatim and uncorrected. You can disable spell checking for selected text, whole

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: Thirdly, it can get stuck in a repetitive cycle: Open a blank Writer document and type cat followed by enter. See the initial c get capitalized. Press ctrl-z to undo the enter, and again to undo the capitalization. That doesn't look right to me... If you type a space and it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Mark Bourne wrote: Paul wrote: Thirdly, it can get stuck in a repetitive cycle: Open a blank Writer document and type cat followed by enter. See the initial c get capitalized. Press ctrl-z to undo the enter, and again to undo the capitalization. That doesn't look right to me... If you type

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:43:50 +0100 Mark Bourne libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul wrote: I think the language settings need an overhaul and consolidation, and at least a way to toggle it all off and on in one shot, for people that occasionally need to enter some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Proofreading problems...

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Perhaps check that: Tools Options LibreOffice Writer View Display Comments is enabled? Also Edit Changes Show might have some effect on comments from a Word document? I think in Word visibility of comments and tracked changes are toggled together by the same option. Not sure if that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Link to external data question

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data dialog Put http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPLf=a in the URL box The OK button stays greyed out I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error at the time of auto saving process.

2014-08-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Farhad Ahmad wrote: I was doing work on Libre office for page crop and contras like edit of a PDF book made from scanned image, at the time of auto saving process the software uses to stop working, it saved the file and after some page there was just a small icon instead of the original page.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: So I was interested, and did a little more digging. I figured I would share the info. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:48:43 +0100 Mark Bourne libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: I don't know to be honest, not having a lot of experience in database design. I've only ever really

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Mark Bourne
It looks like each book should only have one of the ReadStatus flags set, so I'd make that an enum field on the BookInformation table, with possible values of Not Read, Reading and Read. You can set the default value for the field to Not Read so a new record will be set to that status if no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-10 Thread Mark Bourne
Gnucash as well as many personal medical and financial files (IRA spreadsheet). But, as I told Tom, I've completed my IRA spreadshheet, so now I have to think up of some other elaborate spreadsheet. Greg On 8/6/2014 11:42 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: To rule out the keyboard possibility, perhaps try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:30:18 +0100 Mark Bourne wrote: It looks like each book should only have one of the ReadStatus flags set, so I'd make that an enum field on the BookInformation table, with possible values of Not Read, Reading and Read. You can set the default value

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-06 Thread Mark Bourne
To rule out the keyboard possibility, perhaps try a different keyboard, plugged directly into the PC (no USB hubs or other cables in between). I've previously found that a faulty keyboard (or USB cable or hub between keyboard and PC) can act as if keys get stuck down (seems like the PC

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Mark Bourne
Tom Davies wrote: I am beginning to like the sound of mature branch and young branch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mature_technology : A mature technology is a technology that has been in use for long enough that most of its initial faults and inherent problems have been removed or reduced

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page break is not correct with printing

2014-08-03 Thread Mark Bourne
Albert Oszkó wrote: Hi all, I am new to this list, and I subscribed to try to get some help previously asked on the opensuse forum, but could not get a good answer yet. I copy some of my letters sent to that list In every month I get a kind of form, an Excel sheet which should be filled,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-27 Thread Mark Bourne
I'd always seen LO as being simply an abbreviation for LibreOffice in the same way that OOo was an abbreviation of OpenOffice.org. I'd never associated it with any suggestion that LibreOffice is lo(w) quality. As for MS, a single acronym can have many different meanings. It's one of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] scale a Writer document to print on one page

2014-07-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: As for your description of A-size - - - 8.5 x 11 inches is not an A size that I have heard of. It is US Letter. I have never seen any reference that US Letter described as A size. The closest is A4, but A4 is a little narrower and a little taller. B is 11x17

Re: [libreoffice-users] MAIL MERGE: Default fields Topic and Subject are only printed in first document

2014-07-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Number of the bug Sven raised is 81782: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81782 Mark. Sven Schüring wrote: Hi Alex, thanks for your confirmation. I've raised a bug to writer component as followed: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/ regards, Sven On Sat, Jul 26, 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Auto fill stepped cell reference

2014-07-26 Thread Mark Bourne
IGraham wrote: Hello and good morning Calc Is it possible to auto fill a stepped cell reference ? I've been trying without result What i want is in a cell (or two ) a cell reference, to highlight that cell and drag down So the first few cells might be A1 A8 A16 highlighting and dropping would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with standard filter

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Bourne
Ah yes, I didn't mention that bit on my addition to #46062. A workaround for that case is: - Select Standard Filter... rather than any tick boxes - Set the Field name to - none - - Click OK I notice you've mentioned on #46062 that Excel includes a (blanks) option. That's the kind of thing I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with standard filter

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Bourne
Ah yes, I didn't mention that bit on my addition to #46062. A workaround for that case is: - Select Standard Filter... rather than any tick boxes - Set the Field name to - none - - Click OK I notice you've mentioned on #46062 that Excel includes a (blanks) option. That's the kind of thing I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with standard filter

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Bourne
Sorry - replied from the wrong account; I've resent from an address subscribed to the list. Please don't forward the moderated copy to the list. Thanks, Mark. Mark Bourne wrote: Ah yes, I didn't mention that bit on my addition to #46062. A workaround for that case is: - Select Standard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with standard filter

2014-07-23 Thread Mark Bourne
Urmas wrote: Rob Jasper: If I unselect ALL, aaa gets unselected too (reasonable, since that the gebaviour for more the one slection values too) If I now select aaa, the ALL mark is also automatically selected!! This looks plain wrong to me since no filtering is different then filtering on 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File corruption on OSX and LO 4252

2014-07-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Owen Genat wrote: Alex Thurgood wrote ... file corruption when writing to an external disk drive. ... I have an external FAT formatted LaCie hard drive to store my files on. ... I was working from a USB external hard disk. First question which occurs to me - Have you had problems with other

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small bug(?) when loading file into Writer

2014-07-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Jon Harringdon wrote: (Aside: in fact, I looked into putting this through the LO bug reporting system. However, after a few quick glances I was left with the impression that the system seemed designed to actually keep non-IT people from posting bugs than to support them in doing so.) The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with standard filter

2014-07-19 Thread Mark Bourne
Rob Jasper wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help me with this... I have a spreadsheet with around 4000 rows in it. It has an autofilter in de co;umn headings. In column B I have some 10 fields containing aaa, and 3 fields bbb. Now I filter on bbb I clear the 3 fields If I mark all (it is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Linux Bug 80661 Filed] Re: LO Draw crashes importing Microsoft Publisher file (ping Brennan/Fridrich/Valek?)

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Bourne
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Draw didn't import my .pub files perfectly but it was close enough and the misses are areas that also cause problem in MS Office. It looked like i only got 1 page out of the 2 but i didn't poke around much so that is probably user-error and i'll probabl stumble on the

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ni podprto na drugih računalnikih/Not supported on other computers

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Bourne
For replies in Slovenian, try the mailing lists at: https://sl.libreoffice.org/po-pomoc/ To translate from English to Slovenian: https://translate.google.com/#en/sl/ Google Translate makes a bit more sense when spaces are put in after the full-stops in the original (Slovenian, according to

[libreoffice-users] Can't see files on newwork share [Was: Loading each document about 3 minutes]

2014-06-30 Thread Mark Bourne
Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2014-06-21 10:19, Cigydd wrote: Alternatively, I just remembered Steve Edmonds pointed out in another recent thread that there's an option under Tools Options Load/Save General Load printer settings with the document. Turning that off (together with setting the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: optimal column width

2014-06-29 Thread Mark Bourne
Thomas wrote: Good morning I have tried this a million times, but it works (worked) only rarely: there are columns that need to be adjusted in width, preferrably to make the longest entry fit. However: * select colum * right-click - select optimal column width * try with Default on or off - NO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 3.6.2.2 - downloads

2014-06-25 Thread Mark Bourne
charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I receive the digest of messages in the middle of the night so could you could please e-mail me privately as well as the list? I need to download the older version 3.6.2.2. Google revealed it was located here...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Loading each document about 3 minutes

2014-06-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Cigydd wrote: Other news. Displaying the print dialog delays 1min 20s or 1min 40s when the disconnected printer is set as default in the system and regardless of what document is loaded. When PDF Creator is set as the default, the print dialog displays without delay. But opening the bad ODS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Loading each document about 3 minutes

2014-06-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Mark Bourne wrote: I think the last-used printer settings are saved within the file. For new files, or where the printer saved in the file isn't installed, I expect LO would use the default (PDF Creator in your case). If the last-used printer saved in the file is installed, but not currently

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default printer issues in Writer

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Bourne
musik7 wrote: I have an issue with one of my end users where Writer is not defaulting to the printer which is set as default in Windows. I have tried a number of things including reinstalling LibreOffice and reinstalling the printer. Initially, reinstalling the printer resolved the issue for

Re: [libreoffice-users] table not appearing in .doc format in MAC

2014-05-23 Thread Mark Bourne
Bala subramanian wrote: Friends, I am using the Libre office 4.2.4 version on a linux machine with Unbuntu 12.10. I have .odt file where i copied a table from libreoffice Calc. Then i saved the file in .doc file. Opening the .doc file in macbook does not show the tables. Is there any way to

[libreoffice-users] soffice --help dialog display issues [Was: Using LibreOffice on the command line to batch convert .htm files to .html files]

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Bourne
Paul wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:06:51 -0500 Joe B paperba...@gmail.com wrote: This bug desperately needs to be fixed. Yes, I agree. Should someone open a bug report, or is there one already? Anybody know more about this? I haven't actually gotten as far as registering an account for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Non-PDF Portable Document Formats (Exporting from LO)

2014-04-02 Thread Mark Bourne
Hal Vaughan wrote: I’m working on an e-reader for special purposes. While I don’t want to go into a discussion of the point of this program and why I’m doing another, a brief summary may help. As a writer, I don’t like sending my work over email or other insecure methods of internet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font in Default Character Style

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Bourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: Another off the wall question. How does one change the font in the Default Style in character styles? Right now, the font in my default character styles is Century 731BT. This is a font I used years ago, but haven't for quite some time. It does not correspond to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: On 3/25/2014 5:34 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: How would you define a paragraph style to handle a dictionary entry such as this: *canuscere*/v.t./ to know, to be familiar with. I see my formatting was lost on that example. The headword canuscere would be in 11 pt.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge with custom fields in LibreOffice 4.2

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Bourne
Alternatively, to save copying data into a common .ods file, you can keep one .odb file (e.g. mergesource.odb) but change which .ods file it points to. Open mergesource.odb, then Edit Database Properties, and change the path to spreadsheet document. Saves a bit of copying data around, but I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Clarification about ODF Extended

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Bourne
e-letter wrote: On 17/03/2014, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing happens when XML tags are ignored, to systems which are not supporting the ODF 1.2 Extended document format. This is the reason why we can suggest to use ODF 1.2 Extended as the preferred format, because

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Turning spreadsheet data into legible report?

2014-03-19 Thread Mark Bourne
How about using a single sheet for the data, and add an extra column for year? Something like: Year Last NameFirst Name... 2012-2013Doe John ... 2013-2014Doe Jane ... Then mail merge on that. I don't know about Word, but in LO

[libreoffice-users] Re: Field names not being retained

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Bourne
A wrote: Interestingly, the field names seem to have changed seemingly for the better. Whereas before it was inserting things something like filename.databasename.sheetname.fieldname, now I get fieldname. Unfortunately, after running the mailmerge, it seems to have made the values in the first

Re: [libreoffice-users] need CONFIRMATION about images linked to a http location

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Bourne
Fernand Vanrie wrote: With 4.2.2.1 windows Pictures in Writer and Html documents linked to a http location no longer opens and can no longer been inserted what makes the use of images in a HTML doc imposible A picture linked to http://pmg.pmgroup.be/enews/idb/grafiek9.jpg; can been opened and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress won't save changes in master slide

2014-03-06 Thread Mark Bourne
HdV wrote: On 2014-03-06 09:41:11 you wrote: Hi all, When trying to fix the problem with the disappearing footers (see previous message) I noticed something strange. I edited the slide master (resized the auto-layout areas for the title and outline) and saved the file. When re-opening that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Bourne
Coincidentally, I was looking for something else at the weekend, and came across some notes from about 5 years ago when I got a 30MB presentation down to 6MB by doing that. Had completely forgotten about it. That was with quite an old version of OpenOffice, and I may not have inserted the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart legends

2014-03-02 Thread Mark Bourne
Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, I inserted a chart from a Calc table in LO 4.2.1, running Linux-Mint-16. Now I find that I cannot change the text displayed within the legend. It simply displays Row 1, Row 2, Row 3...). As far as I can see, one can only change the position of the legend. How

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-03-01 Thread Mark Bourne
Sure, but how did you then get those images into LibreOffice? If you use Insert Picture From file, LO knows that the file is a JPEG and probably even copies the file as-is into the ODF file. If you open the JPEG file in another application (such as an image editor), then copy from there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-02-28 Thread Mark Bourne
Ra wrote: Hello, I have noticed some unexpected (and possibly inconsistent) behavior of documents producet with LO Writer. Here's my scenario: I have several frames in the document and each of them has a JPEG photo as the background. Each frame has a different image as a background. There are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - how to move (drag-n-drop using mouse) or cut/insert rows/columns

2014-02-27 Thread Mark Bourne
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2/27/2014 1:25 PM, Tim Deaton t...@timdeaton.org wrote: Some time ago I created bug 39936 asking asking for an enhancement that would work the way Excel does. Maybe some more encouragement on that issue might move it up in terms of priority. Did you miss my request for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - how to move (drag-n-drop using mouse) or cut/insert rows/columns

2014-02-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Pedro wrote: Hi Brian Brian Barker wrote What happens if you: o Select the row or column. o Drag it to the new position. o Hold down the Alt key whilst you drop? Yes! That works! I'm glad there is an easy way to do it! Thanks!!! Unfortunately (for LO) it is not obvious even for advanced

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.2.1 Math/Formula Format/spacing issue

2014-02-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Clarence, Clarence W. Robison schrieb: On 2/26/2014 9:55 AM, Clarence W. Robison wrote: I am not sure that this is a bug or I do not know were to find the setting to adjust vertical spacing of scalable bars. If I have the following formulas defined: abs{ x - y }

Re: [libreoffice-users] read-only problem

2014-02-20 Thread Mark Bourne
edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. How did you do this? e.g.: - saved the file, then from Windows Explorer set the read only attribute? - set File Properties Security Open file as

Re: [libreoffice-users] help pack configuration for other language

2014-02-09 Thread Mark Bourne
Cristian Baboi wrote: Hi! I've installed LibreOffice with the english help pack because it is not available for my language. Is there a way to activate offline english help without changing the language of the interface? The interface is translated. Thanks. You could try finding the folder

Re: [libreoffice-users] All of the messages in Nabble are suddenly going into the AndrOpen Office thread!

2014-02-07 Thread Mark Bourne
null wrote: Hello, Well, if this appears as a separate subject (in the Users archive on Nabble), then the problem was fixed. It seems as if all of the posts (even different subjects and conversations) are going into the What do you think of AndrOpen Office? thread on Nabble. A conversation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Bourne
Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing //EN from the end). The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, so cannot check, but try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-04 Thread Mark Bourne
Brian Barker wrote: At 06:56 04/02/2014 +0100, Erik Erlandsson wrote: Still, ticking Precision as shown does no difference at all to the result even after closing and reopening. That's odd, as it's not how it behaves for me and definitely not how it is supposed to work. It may depend a bit

Re: [libreoffice-users] google images and librewriter crash

2014-02-04 Thread Mark Bourne
Rich Giorgio wrote: I was searching for images on Google images and when I right click on an image and paste it into librewriter, the cpu usage goes to 100% and I have to force quit librewriter. This happens on all versions of librewriter from 3.x to 4.2 on Ubuntu (10.04 to 13.1). I've also seen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with libre

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Bourne
Some mailing lists insist on inline replies (and deleting parts not relevant to the response), since it's easier to follow the flow of a conversation and which part of the original message the reply relates to. This LibreOffice list is rather more tolerant though ;o) Where there are already

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting Errors in Calc

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Bourne
James E Lang wrote: LibreOffice Version: 4.1.3.2 Build ID: 410m0(Build:2) on Kubuntu 13.10 Background: I use KingSoft Office Spreadsheet for Android on my phone because regrettably LibreOffice Calc for Android is not usable. KingSoft uses and saves .xlsx files. From time to time I upload one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error 2908 and 1935 after installing .Net 4.5.1 and attempting to update Libreoffice to 4.0.4

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Tanstaafl wrote: Subject says it. I uninstalled the old version (3.6.3 I think it was), then installed .Net 4.5.1, and when I tried to install Libreoffice 4.0.4, the installation failed, first got the error 2908, then the 1935. Hope there is an easy fix, because this is the Boss's computer.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

2014-01-11 Thread Mark Bourne
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :( Sorry about that! I just tried opening the file here but it would open. Then i renamed the file-ending from .odt to .zip but that wouldn't open. I tried changing it to .docX on a whim but without MS Office that was never going to be any different so i don't know why i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

2014-01-11 Thread Mark Bourne
Jacob Marioni wrote: -I tried changing my user profile, but that didn't work -When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language: Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤ That's because Notepad is interpreting the file as Unicode text. From Notepad, if you go File Open, change

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with libre

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Bourne
David M. Pelly wrote: Hello Libre office Foundation, Just for information, most people on this mailing list are other users helping each other out, so you may get several replies with different ideas. Most of us aren't associated with LibreOffice in any official sense, just trying to help

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Doug wrote: On 11/21/2013 02:00 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/21/2013 01:59 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: David Gast wrote: I have two ideas. Interestingly, Windows Vista's Character Map utility (and probably also Windows 7's?) has similar ideas... 1. Highlight the categories, so it is easy to tell where the category

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Ruth Ann wrote: OT maybe, but does anyone know the name for @ ? Something I have been trying to discover for years :-) Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH USA It depends who you ask, and in what language ;o) Unicode calls it commercial at. The article about it on Wikipedia is titled At sign, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly known as hash or number sign. For us, pound sign usually

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expected Behavior

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Joel Madero wrote: I agree about his second step - I should have clarified. What he means that if you go to the end of the first line of the new page (ie. you've pushed enter after a line test and all the text below it jumps down to the next page. Heading 1 style has its Next Style set to Text

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