Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux

2014-12-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I get the feeling there isn't anything really new but maybe updates have changed things a little. It's mostly just that there have been a few things out there that might suit different requirements. Regards from Tom :) On 4 December 2014 at 02:34, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LO and Mac

2014-12-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This question has gone to the Accessibility Mailing List but i wondered if anyone here has tried VoiceOver? Amazing how 2 similar questions arise quite close together after years of barely being mentioned! Regards from Tom :) On 2 December 2014 at 23:52, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe mengualjean

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux

2014-12-03 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2014 at 04:55, Walther Koehler walther.koeh...@posteo.de wrote: High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under

[libreoffice-users] Voice Recognition

2014-12-03 Thread Tom Davies
in scale somewhat that could change. Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2014 at 13:56, Niklas Johansson sleeping.pil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jean-Philippe Well, I'd say that we have basic working accessibility support on Mac. It is by far the platform that needs most love when it comes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux Users - Sphinx use

2014-12-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's kinda ok to ask Linux questions in here but not all of us use it. So you might prefer a more general Linux forum instead. On the other hand quite a few of us do seem to use various different distros so it can often be worth asking. Both my links below worked. Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux Users - Sphinx use

2014-12-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A good general purpose Linux forum is http://www.linuxquestions.org or is it https://www.linuxquestions.org now? Regards from Tom :) On 2 December 2014 at 05:45, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Can you be more specific? Numerous packages named Sphinx, could

Re: [libreoffice-users] stopping windows raising

2014-12-02 Thread Tom Davies
could you give us a link so we can check it out? Regards from Tom :) On 28 November 2014 at 13:51, Julian Bradfield jlibreus...@stevens-bradfield.com wrote: A very simple question, but one I can't find an answer to. When I use libreoffice, it insists on raising its window to the top of my

[libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux

2014-12-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Got a nice reply from Charles Meyer which i think might do better on-list so i'm sending it back here (please see below) Regards from Tom :) On 2 December 2014 at 16:42, charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrew and Tom, Thank you both for your posts. Many Linux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base knows SQL functions?

2014-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
quite a lot about Base but you are definitely one of them. Regards from Tom :) On 28 November 2014 at 09:03, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: It seems that Base has a list of keywords and functions for SQL, is that right? On the one hand it might be a good thing, on the other

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupted characters in Ubuntu

2014-11-27 Thread Tom Davies
and then reset the language in the top box to the one they have as their locale. I sometimes have to go back into English (Uk) as a stepping stone before getting the right language. Regards from Tom :) On 27 November 2014 at 08:14, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: Hi All, this one has been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress videos on wrong screen

2014-11-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think we often find it difficult to answer questions about Impress. Is the Guide any help? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications We might be able to point you to other places that are able to help more. Regards from Tom :) On 27 November 2014 at 14:46, Malcolm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Lost Pass Word

2014-11-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I really like the way people on this mailing list go that extra mile for people. Even if it's a Frankenstein's monster it might well be a good start Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 26 November 2014 at 21:49, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-26 21:41 GMT+01:00 jonathon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Setting up Hyperlink Color in Impress

2014-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure how to get a style to roll out all the way through a presentation. It seems to be more difficult in a presentation than in a writer document. Regards from Tom :) On 25 November 2014 at 20:37, Csányi Pál csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: From: csanyipal csanyi...@gmail.com Date

Re: [libreoffice-users] Lost Pass Word

2014-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
it, and later i found the document had supposedly been password-protected (but not encrypted). Regards from Tom :) On 26 November 2014 at 16:06, Mailer Daemon extremegroundmai...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/11/14 01:39 AM, Isaac Cajina wrote: I need to open some documents and I do not remember my pass

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Report in Base not executed

2014-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nicely done! :) Errr, have you been able to temporarily work-around by going back to an older version of LibreOffice or have you had a chance to test-drive a newer version, maybe as a parallel install? I dunno if that might help but it might be worth a try! Regards from Tom :) On 22

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-24 Thread Tom Davies
that has been running successfully for years gets broken! To me that is upside-down. It should be the techie people that make things easier for the normal end-users rather than the other way around. However we hit a brick-wall that way Regards from Tom :) On 23 November 2014 at 23:44, Paul

Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-24 Thread Tom Davies
). The consultant would probably be able to tell which way they would prefer, and therefore which is likely to be the cheapest route. Regards from Tom :) On 24 November 2014 at 14:41, Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote: On 11/24/2014 3:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: RHEL-5.11 is just a couple months old

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
be relieved you asked and it gives some other new people a chance to help (ie maybe good for morale). At the very least it's a good time for the rest of us to at least test-drive the new branch Regards from Tom :) On 22 November 2014 at 15:47, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: Oops

Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
bugs are all neatly filed and stuff so that the devs can focus on the coding rather than getting bogged won with filing and routine stuff. Regards from Tom :) On 21 November 2014 20:07, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote: Hi: I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 with a parallel installation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this is tooo new so no-one really knows yet! Is there a difference between freshly created new documents done in the 4.4.0 compared with documents created in previous branches? Does that help with figuring out a pattern or is that a red herring? Regards from Tom :) On 20

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Tom Davies
regardless of what opened them. Regards from Tom :) On 21 November 2014 10:43, Paddy Landau pa...@landau.ws wrote: TomD wrote I think this is tooo new so no-one really knows yet! Is there a difference between freshly created new documents done in the 4.4.0 compared with documents

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How does 4.4 compress PDFs so well? Is there a quality problem?

2014-11-21 Thread Tom Davies
of accidentally fixing other things at the same time. It's not always worth trying to find which weird and obscure use-cases have been fixed in this way but it's hoped that users might sometimes write in somewhere and let people know. Regards from Tom :) On 21 November 2014 12:49, Paddy Landau pa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with writer

2014-11-21 Thread Tom Davies
but you can gradually copy back bitsbobs until LO breaks again which can be a give away for pin-pointing the cause of the trouble. Regards from Tom :) On 21 November 2014 14:12, Jay Ridgley jridgl...@austin.rr.com wrote: Folks, One of my systems has developed a problem with writer and I am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Tom Davies
much of a standard. You can grumble that it's everyone else's fault as much as you like but that doesn't improve the implementation in anything. You never quite know what to expect when opening an Rtf in any program other than whatever it was written with. Regards from Tom :) On 20 November 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre office

2014-11-20 Thread Tom Davies
' in MS Office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 365 - none of which seems happy to open 'strict' OOXML (unlike LibreOffice (and other non-MS programssuites) which handles strict DocX fine too). Regards from Tom :) On 20 November 2014 21:30, Luuk luu...@gmail.com wrote: On 20-11-2014 21:49, Andreas Säger

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Help Anyone

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
to quite grasp that simply 'selling' Base as being much like Access is actually quite damaging and completely misses the huge advantages that Base offers. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 09:39, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: Tom, I'm not entirely sure, when you said So

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Report in Base not executed

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Crashing is usually due to some 3rd party Extension or some weird tangle of settings in the User Profile. Renaming the User Profile is usually fairly quick and easy, once you've figured it out first time https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile The 2nd most likely cause has tended

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
openly available from OASIS or (for a small fee) from the ISO people. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 13:05, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Andreas Säger: Which non-MS application can handle every flavour of RTF you throw at it? The degree of support RTF in application

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
/OpenOffice tend to become the best tool for dealing with most formats that become abandoned by everyone else. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 14:49, Virgil Arrington arringto...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/19/2014 8:14 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 19.11.2014 um 13:33 schrieb Virgil Arrington

Re: [libreoffice-users] macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers I'm not sure they will help for this specific use-case but they might help generally. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 16:05, Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to add a really simple macro that I can bind to a key. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
\fs24\lang2057{\rtlch \ltrch\loch asdfdf} \par } Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 16:16, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-19 16:58 GMT+01:00 Virgil Arrington arringto...@gmail.com: That's one of the things I've always liked about RTF. In a pinch, one could open an RTF

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
shouting at once Oh yes it is this goes back-and-forth several times until the audience is inevitably proven right) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 15:40, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 19.11.2014 um 15:49 schrieb Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, right. Now i'm kinda regretting using 4-6 random letters but not enough to repeat the experiment. I suspect my adfs (or whatever) is probably something like E0\85\9F\F2\F9Oh \AB\91 Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 17:40, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, ok. If that counts as plain text of a 5 (ish) letter document then that explains a few misunderstandings i've had. Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 17:44, jomali jomali3...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, Tom, that is plain text, just like HTML is plain text. Yes, it contains

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: macro to add annotation to selected text range

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Davies
the command can do. So; man ls man dir Also just typing help info often gives quite a bit of general help. Is there anything like that for macros? Regards from Tom :) On 19 November 2014 17:59, Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com wrote: Jim, That was it! Or, almost. I changed the line

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Help Anyone

2014-11-18 Thread Tom Davies
are often used. Regards from Tom :) On 18 November 2014 13:59, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 11/18/2014 07:32 AM, Alan B wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Alan Pedder alanped...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I have been using Base to provide a database for my

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Libo 4.3.4.1/We're Cooking

2014-11-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought people here might like to see that accessibility issues are being handled increasingly better. Regards from Tom :) On 18 November 2014 15:02, David Goldfield dgold...@asb.org wrote: To quote the Beatles, I have to admit it's getting better. Installation of the official

Re: [libreoffice-users] rtf files

2014-11-18 Thread Tom Davies
case. So it's good if LO can use it with some confidence despite all it's problems. It's going to be quite amusing when it's only non-MS packages are still supporting the mess of old unreliable formats that MS scatters behind it. Regards from Tom :) On 16 November 2014 08:34, Tim Lloyd tim.ll

Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-17 Thread Tom Davies
database and are looking for a front-end then it's a different story. Regards from Tom :) On 16 November 2014 22:16, Jaroslaw Staniek stan...@kde.org wrote: On 16 November 2014 21:57, Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote: I've googled a bit and did not find anything. Has anyone coupled mongodb

Re: [libreoffice-users] Audit Trail

2014-11-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you looked into using Zotero? I think it works well with Writer and Word. Regards from Tom :) On 17 November 2014 17:25, rs400 russell.tay...@gmx.com wrote: I am trying to create a record of each of the entries I make when researching my thesis. Is it possible to get either

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Report in Base not executed

2014-11-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Here's a link to help you follow Alex's advice https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile It often helps fix a wide variety of weird problems. I hope it helps with this one too! :)) Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 16 November 2014 09:36, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wikipedia is often a good place to get some sort of idea but the important bit is to use their External Links. For some of the languages w3schools can be useful but some people say they tend to teach some bad habits. Regards from Tom :) On 16 November 2014 23:57, anne-ology lagin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Notepad is possibly the most difficult text-editor to use. It doesn't have any of the fancy colour-coding that almost every text-editor has. Regards from Tom :) On 16 November 2014 23:53, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: The problem - and a major one to my way of thinking

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-15 Thread Tom Davies
for print. Regards from Tom :) On 15 November 2014 00:27, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I use to hand code everything and then check my work in a browser. Now with more complex pages, it can be very hard to keep one edited without using a WYSIWYG editor. Yes

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer page numbering resets itself halfway through document

2014-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
in running it even without having made a back-up, but i'd still make a back-up anyway. Regards from Tom :) On 14 November 2014 20:05, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On a whim, can you run the macro below. As a paranoid sort, I would say... 1. Save your document. 2. Run this macro

Re: [libreoffice-users] customise character order for comparisons?

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
but i'm not sure about ancient ones. Sorry i can't help with this but hopefully one of those tangents isn't tooo wrong for what you need! Regards from Tom :) On 13 November 2014 10:00, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi,this is a bit of an unusual request , I know, but I'm wondering

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
of code into document. Kate and the rest probably have similar features. Regards from Tom :) On 13 November 2014 11:18, Kolbjørn Stuestøl kolbjo...@stuestoel.no wrote: When saving your document, select HTML Document (Writer) (.html) in the File type: drop down list in the Save dialog. Kolbjoern

Re: [libreoffice-users] customise character order for comparisons?

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that's h before H and a before A Regards from Tom :) On 13 November 2014 11:58, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [Thanks for reply. I posted this earlier, but it might have gone offlist. Apologies if this is a duplication.] Hi,thanks for reply, I'll have a look

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 13 November 2014 13:31, Steve Wolf swolf...@gmail.com wrote: To keep things simple you will only be able to edit html files created and saved in Libre Office. To edit all other html files please use a simple text editor like notepad for windows or gedit for linux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LO Writer to edit HTML

2014-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
type of coding work. Of course when you print or show the code to someone on Windows they don't see the clever colour-coding. Regards from Tom :) On 13 November 2014 15:03, Ian Whitfield whitfi...@telkomsa.net wrote: Thanks all. Well it looks as if the PClinuxOS version of LO has omitted

[libreoffice-users] ooow:=[.$C$1] instead of =$C$1

2014-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
-by-chapter basis as individual chapters get completed) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) On 12 November 2014 01:26, Bill Kuns am...@cybermesa.com wrote: Dear List: What the heck is this: ooow:=[.$C$1]? Why do I get that instead of =$C$1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New LibreOffice user Question

2014-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
the normal users could be using Writer and be happily in their familiar environment without a hint of scary database-design tools. Regards from Tom :) On 12 November 2014 15:59, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: Dave Asaibene wrote ... Is there a place I can get an older copy

Re: [libreoffice-users] nabble issue

2014-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, that explains a lot! Thanks Sophie! Regards from Tom :) On 10 November 2014 13:18, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tim, Le 10/11/2014 00:13, Tim Lloyd a écrit : [...] Hi Sophie, any news on this? It would be good to close off the bugzilla item. So I opened

Re: [libreoffice-users] outline numbering

2014-11-08 Thread Tom Davies
up to Help - About what version of LibreOffice does it say the file is open in? Regards from Tom :) On 8 November 2014 02:02, Virgil Arrington arringto...@gmail.com wrote: I've used LO and its predecessors for about 15 years now. I recently noticed that the dialog boxes for outline

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Default Alignment for Inserted Images

2014-11-07 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) +1 There are many other contributors whose answers are always of a similarly high quality. I save answers from quite a few people here. Regina, for example - but i'd be hard-pushed to name anyone as prolific over such a long time-span as Brian. Regards from Tom :) On 7 November 2014 21

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
(Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian) but not on windows. Plus versions; I have tried a few old versions on Fedora and I can see that the problem occurs between 4.2.3 and 4.2.4. In 4.2.3 step 6 will not activate Bold Regards from Tom :) On 6 November 2014 04:25, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Office suites on linux... interesting discuss on LinkedIn

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
it's easier for people to grumble outside of the project in a place where they are unlikely to get any help rather than to risk finding their problem has an easy answer. Regards from Tom :) On 6 November 2014 10:06, Carlo Strata carlo.str...@tiscali.it wrote: Hi Everyone

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 on OSX 10.10

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry! That path won't work on Macs. I'm not sure how to get to the preferences on a Mac but once you do it's probably the Advanced section you'll need. But it kinda gather you already know that. Regards from Tom :) On 6 November 2014 18:34, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 on OSX 10.10

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
, but in this case you'll probably find a whole bunch of other stuff also has problems with the same version of java. Regards from Tom :) On 6 November 2014 16:03, Marc Grober m...@interak.com wrote: As this was just recently a topic of heated discussion, I thought I would mention

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Solved] Re: Setting Base to open with a slected form

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Andreas and Peter for saving my bacon there! Now we have 2 good ways to do it :)) Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 18:36, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 05.11.2014 um 02:51 schrieb Mark LaPierre: Hey Tom, It would be nice to post the solution

Re: [libreoffice-users] Java LO and OSX

2014-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, don't the installers for java try to uninstall previous versions, if it can find them (which it often fails to do)? Interesting that 8 manages to find and block 6, does it manage to uninstall it? Regards from Tom :) On 6 November 2014 17:04, Marc Grober m...@interak.com wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
without having to spend hours setting it up. That hopefully gives you more time to improve on your styles to make more time-savings and/or to make your documents look better. Regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 00:23, Virgil Arrington arringto...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/4/2014 12:46 PM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
for when the problem first appeared. If you post a clickable link back to this thread then maybe someone here can help add something useful later on. Regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 07:23, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: I just did the same as Dan and got the same results. When I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's be nice if certain users could set the style for all users on that machine. So 2 option rather than just the one, maybe. Regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 16:31, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.com wrote: Correction: Change this style permanently? should be Change your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
much easier it is than the guides or reputation makes it sound! ;) Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 20:50, jerryvb jerry...@gmail.com wrote: timllloyd wrote I just did the same as Dan and got the same results. When I press Ctrl+B at the end of a line, LO respects

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
person especially when it comes to suggesting possible improvements! Regards from Tom :) On 5 November 2014 21:17, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.com wrote: Sounds good to me! On 11/5/2014 2:21 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's be nice if certain users could set the style for all

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It does sound like a bug and maybe worth posting a bug-report about it before it settles in for the long haul! Go for it! :) Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 23:41, jerryvb jerry...@gmail.com wrote: I have found a strange action by Writer. I think it might be a bug, but I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
of LibreOffice. Are you sure you switched Bold off? Regards from Tom :) On 4 November 2014 07:49, Graham Luffrum grhmlf...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to recall that this has always been the case, at least under Linux Mint with various versions of LibreOffice. Interestingly, if on the second

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting Base to open with a slected form

2014-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
chapters that need reviewing but it's tough work so just proof-reading those already done would be great and could be done by almost anyone. Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 21:40, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Has anyone had any luck trying to find the thread Noel

Re: [libreoffice-users] RuntimeException on Installing Extension

2014-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
only think of trying to find the Devs Mailing List, or in their case they seem to use an irc channel (whatever one of them is)! (see bottom of the page in this link) http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/ Apols and regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 17:17, X Roemer x-roe

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

2014-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, i'm now on Ubuntu 14.04 with LO 4.2.6 and do have the problem but earlier on 3.5.7 i wasn't getting it. Hmm, is this something to do with styles? Is it that the style is staying the same and so the boldness is staying on? Regards from Tom :) On 4 November 2014 16:12, Graham

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ppt, appending file error ( korean user)

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) kk, thanks Urmas :) I didn't recognise the name so i thought it was worth giving them a fair shot. It's good to hear that posting to them might not result in getting tons of spam tough! Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 04:20, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
reliably re-create a set of conditions where images have the read error then please post a bug-report! Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 00:54, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com wrote: Hi. On 2014-02-27 16:43, Dale Rebgetz wrote: There is a 10 MB file size limit, which my book

Re: [libreoffice-users] nabble issue

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
Debian family probably have the same result as me. Someone in the thread already tried with Fedora. So ideally if you are using something else it might help more. Windows anyone? ;) Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 01:13, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: Hi All, I wonder if anyone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Simple address data and 3 sheets

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
see any of the under-laying Base design. Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 20:24, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, First of all, no professional IT person would do in a spreadsheet what you perfectly describe as a relational database. VLOOKUP is the key to mis-use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting Base to open with a slected form

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
instead of into a design view? Is this something that might be better done using a form that is made in Writer? Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2014 09:26, Marion Noel Lodge lodg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, This question was asked recently. If you go to - http

Re: [libreoffice-users] nabble issue

2014-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
might have nailed it down. Good work folks! Regards from Tom :) On 3 November 2014 22:44, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: V Stuart Foote has suggested a workaround so let's see how the OP responds. Thanks All https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85652 On 03/11/14 22:47, Brad

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Estimating size of page with Calc

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
experimenting with as it could make things even easier. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 20:46, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Hi everyone, Le 2014-11-02 15:27, Andreas Säger a écrit : Am 02.11.2014 um 15:51 schrieb Marc Paré: Is there a way to have the sheets show as pages

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gliffy- and Tango-inspired palette - https://github.com/sentientmeatnet/glyphic-tang

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
page for the NA DVD Project (North American DVD Project). Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 01:57, DC Elzinga dcelzi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I spent a couple days obsessing and built an alternative palette to the default color palette in LibreOffice Writer and Draw. I uploaded

Re: [libreoffice-users] ppt, appending file error ( korean user)

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
coding to make it easier to read, hopefully! Do my messages contain a lot of coding tags too? Hello! . Libre User to open the ppt does not open an attachment in MS, torn, Makes sense to the computer down! Is there any plan will solve? Okay, thank you! Regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
having to duplicate the tools? Also GitHub looks a lot more elegant and professional than i expected. I was expecting it to look bad but have tons of power under the bonnet. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 22:18, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I know it was only an alpha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
image's byte-size far more. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2014 21:56, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: The odt file is a compressed zip archive. Compressing the contained pictures would hardly reduce the file size. That's not true. The point was (if I remember this thread correctly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
it easier to find imo. Regards from Tom :) On 5 March 2014 11:44, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-05 6:57 GMT+01:00 Thomas ny...@hb.tp1.jp: (2014/03/05 12:23), Cley Faye wrote: 2014-02-28 2:16 GMT+01:00 Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com: If anyone want to give it a try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommended version of Java?

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 09:07, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 31/10/2014 21:12, Andreas Säger a écrit : Huh? Really? Which issue number was that? I can't believe that any LO version had been released with such a show stopper issue. Well, please reconsider

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
that almost all of them do. Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 13:33, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with your method ... congratulate you on obviously being a bright teacher. Now ... I'm curiously wondering how using 'styles' differs from

[Solved] Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc question...

2014-11-01 Thread Tom Davies
so this thread is really closed now isn't it? ;) Regards from Tom :) On 1 November 2014 12:04, Andrew Sullivan andrew.t.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that - I'll just move the chart! On 31 October 2014 21:16, Mark Bourne libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: I think freeze

Re: [libreoffice-users] Macro to abandon edits

2014-10-31 Thread Tom Davies
the command-line as possible but occasionally find myself doing odd things there. Regards from Tom :) On 31 October 2014 14:05, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.com wrote: You might have to run a logout script from some type of .rc file. This is not the actual command

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
be possible to use; Tools - Options - Advanced to switch off java. Hopefully no data-loss occurs and it just grumbles when something does need Java. If you do get such an error message then it should be reasonably easy to switch java back on and re-try the task. Good luck! Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] request

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
back-up person ready to step-in to take over such things and a steady turn-over of people. Sadly it rarely works that way. So it might be possible for you to join the marketing team and get involved in taking on that task. Regards from Tom :) On 30 October 2014 11:15, Tomáš Matýs thommat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommended version of Java?

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Davies
. There is an openJDK project. It's also owned by Oracle but has had quite a big community to iron-out some of the problems that mainstream Java has Regards from Tom :) On 30 October 2014 15:11, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I really hate it when people try to tell me something 'for my

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
to apply consistent styles to the whole thing later on. Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2014 07:30, M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote: ​I take the liberty of forwarding the URL of an article, entitled *Escape from Microsoft Word*, by Edward Mendelson​ in the current issue of the *New York

Re: [libreoffice-users] «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
majority of people to understand instead of getting bogged down in the usual sort of things that articles go on about. Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2014 10:34, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) If Weltanschauung = world view, ideology, philosophy of life then LibreOffice has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Conditional Macro Please

2014-10-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you can add extra characters in speech-marks can't you? Something like; =CONCATENATE(C2, ,D2, ,TEXT(E2,dd/mm/yy), ,TEXT(F2,dd/mm/yy)) Regards from Tom :) On 26 October 2014 19:44, Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: On 26/10/14 18:31, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:14 26/10/2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another spreadsheet destroyed.

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, have you tried creating a new file / work-book and copypaste the coding from there in the old one into the new one? Regards from Tom :) On 24 October 2014 21:26, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-24 11:57 GMT+02:00 James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm: Pardon my

[libreoffice-users] Question about upcoming 4.3.3 release

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Williams
at bug #66701, it's still in New status and is targeted for release 4.4.0. Who can I notify to see about getting the release notes corrected? Thanks! Peace... The Other Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about upcoming 4.3.3 release

2014-10-25 Thread Tom Williams
On 10/25/2014 09:50 AM, Sophie wrote: Hi Tom, all, Le 25/10/2014 18:28, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello Tom, Le Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:59:35 -0700, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net a écrit : Hi! I was looking at the fixed bugs section of the release notes for LO 4.3.3 RC1 (https

Re: [libreoffice-users] Emailing documents...

2014-10-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Does Chapter 10 in the Getting Started guide help at all? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Hopefully someone else can give a more tailored answer or maybe just ask the right questions in order to incover the answer. Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 23

Re: [libreoffice-users] Emailing documents...

2014-10-23 Thread Tom Davies
interface. Alternatively just copypaste the most helpful answer into the thread that didn't quite get there in time. Regards from Tom :) On 23 October 2014 10:02, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 23 October 2014 06:12, David Love z...@zed.net.nz wrote: Using LO v4.2.6.3

Re: [libreoffice-users] 10 ways to help users move from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice - TechRepublic

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 21 October 2014 20:12, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: This could be useful to users of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ways-to-help-users-move-from-microsoft-office-to-libreoffice/?tag=nl.e011s_cid=e011ttag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another spreadsheet destroyed.

2014-10-22 Thread Tom Davies
-report but you'd probably need an example spreadsheet showing how it goes wrong. Also it's a fairly rare use-case, to expect a spreadsheet to last so long without major revamps. Congrats on keeping it going! Regards from Tom :) On 22 October 2014 20:00, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com

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