Re: [libreoffice-users] How to install medical dictionary? - Envelope

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Taylor
Hi Mfq; I'm not sure why you think there should be an icon since there isn't one. For an envelope click on Insert, then select Envelope from the drop down menu. That will bring up a dialog box where you can enter the address information. Tom B))) On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:00:16 -0400 (EDT) Mqf

[libreoffice-users] Bar charts with user-defined x-axis

2012-06-25 Thread prino
Suppose I've got the following data: Year KM 1980 2,981.2 1982 7,901.6 198312,021.6 1985 8,529.9 1986 5,903.7 1987 1,951.7 1988 8,152.8 1989 6,528.1 199015,346.3 1991 6,120.6 199211,389.0 199313,186.1 199415,542.9 199521,593.5

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bar charts with user-defined x-axis

2012-06-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Tick the box First Column as Label Steve On 2012-06-25 18:21, prino wrote: Year KM 1980 2,981.2 1982 7,901.6 198312,021.6 1985 8,529.9 1986 5,903.7 1987 1,951.7 1988 8,152.8 1989 6,528.1 199015,346.3 1991 6,120.6 199211,389.0 1993

[libreoffice-users] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread henri
Hello, I have just switched from LiBo V 3.4.5 to LiBo V 3.5.4.2 without any apparent problems except for the following : I use mostly WRITER to print and fax. Until the upgrade ,I would ,on completing a document, press the shortcut CTRL-P ,select the required printer and print or fax depending

[libreoffice-users] Re: Screen goes dark gray, Libreoffice stops

2012-06-25 Thread chimak111
John R. Sowden wrote ... When I ran Suse, there was a monitor that I could have on the screen showing CPU use, Swap use, Ram use, etc. graphically. It would be nice to be able to go backwards in time about 10 minutes to see what was the issue. John ... John, you could install

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bar charts with user-defined x-axis

2012-06-25 Thread prino
Thank you, this works! It shows every third year as label (1980/1983/1986...) Is there a way to show only every n-th year? For this chart n=5 would be my choice. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Bar-charts-with-user-defined-x-axis-tp3992054p3992128.html

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help AGAIN with Mail Merge

2012-06-25 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.06.2012 23:21, Charles218 wrote: Tom, I checked the View - Fields command and it is not enabled. The view status of the place holders should not matter at all. It toggles between Field Name and Database.Table.Field Name. The latter lets you prove that each field is connected to the

[libreoffice-users] [3.5.3.2/Writer] In tables, move rows?

2012-06-25 Thread Gilles
Hello, From two tables in the same document, I need to move several rows from one table to another, preferably through keyboard shortcuts as it's much faster. Here's what I wanted to do: 1. Select one or more rows, through ALT in case they're contiguous, through CTRL if they aren't 2. Cut with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bar charts with user-defined x-axis

2012-06-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi prino, prino schrieb: Thank you, this works! It shows every third year as label (1980/1983/1986...) Is there a way to show only every n-th year? For this chart n=5 would be my choice. Set chart in edit mode. Format Axis x-Axis Dialog page Scale. Set Type to 'Date'. Then you get

[libreoffice-users] How to export the bibliography DB to Zotero?

2012-06-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I have a database of ~3000 entries that I would like to export to Zotero. What would be the recommended way of doing this? I can't seem to find such information in Zotero forums. I thought I'd ask here as I know my way around LibreOffice better

Re: [libreoffice-users] Folders for QUERIES in the DATABASE window?

2012-06-25 Thread Dan
frofa wrote: Is it possible to create virtual FOLDERS in the QUERIES pane of the BASE database window - as one can in the FORMS and REPORTS panes? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Folders-for-QUERIES-in-the-DATABASE-window-tp3992040.html Sent from the Users

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bar charts with user-defined x-axis

2012-06-25 Thread prino
Hi Regina, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Regina Henschel [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] ml-node+s969070n3992144...@n3.nabble.com wrote: prino schrieb: Thank you, this works! It shows every third year as label (1980/1983/1986...) Is there a way to show only every n-th year? For

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to install medical dictionary? print envelope

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is probably best to avoid customising your toolbars but it might be smart to create a new tool-bar that does have only what you want on it.  Taht way it's easier to get back to the standard toolbars if something goes wrong.  So, Tools - Customise Documentation is handy to look

[libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi all. Well the subject pretty much says it, I got a notification there was an update to Java, I believe it is java 7 update five. Once I did the update my install of Libre Office no longer works. As soon as I try to start the program I get the standard windows 7 message about a problem has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Folders for QUERIES in the DATABASE window?

2012-06-25 Thread drew jensen
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 19:14 -0700, frofa wrote: Is it possible to create virtual FOLDERS in the QUERIES pane of the BASE database window - as one can in the FORMS and REPORTS panes? Hi Frofa, No - that is not implemented for query definitions, only forms and reports. //drew -- View this

[libreoffice-users] New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, so grub2 has had a lot of releases and updates in the last year or so but this is the big one (well big 2 i guess).  If you don't know what Grub is then just ignore this thread as it probably doesn't affect most people here.  If anyone is interested in testing this pre-beta release

Re: [libreoffice-users] New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread upscope
On Monday, June 25, 2012 03:39:18 PM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ok, so grub2 has had a lot of releases and updates in the last year or so but this is the big one (well big 2 i guess). If you don't know what Grub is then just ignore this thread as it probably doesn't affect most people here.

Re: [libreoffice-users] New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Windows uses NtLdr instead of Grub so i guess you are talking about not having a dual-boot system.  Hmm, not sure about Win7 and Vista but perhaps still the same one.  Most system running Grub2 are actually on Grub 1.98 or around there.   I don't know how to find out what i am on. 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help AGAIN with Mail Merge

2012-06-25 Thread Charles218
Andreas, In going through the print procedure again, this time following your step by step directions, I believe that the problem is solved. There are two ways to get to the mail merge area, one is by using the Print command and responding yes to the do you want to print a form letter dialog.

[libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread chimak111
Tom wrote ... Most system running Grub2 are actually on Grub 1.98 or around there.   I don't know how to find out what i am on.  Regards from ... *grub-install -v* should do it. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Andreas Säger
LibreOffice works well on any system without any Java being installed. If it does not start because of anything related to Java, this is a clear bug. You may have replaced Java while the office was running (thanks to that completely useless quick-starter). Does a reboot of the whole system

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Dave Richardson
Thank you for responding. I have a dialup connection and after 5 or 6 attemps over three days I never got more then 20 mg download when the mindspring shut me down. My son says he can download 208 mg into a CD in less then 10 minutes but... I am retired now and Libreoffice still lets me play.

[libreoffice-users] [3.5.4.2/Writer] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread henri
Hello, I have just switched from LiBo V 3.4.5 to LiBo V 3.5.4.2 without any apparent problems except for the following : I use mostly WRITER to print and fax. Until the upgrade ,I would ,on completing a document, press the shortcut CTRL-P ,select the required printer and print or fax depending

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.5.4.2/Writer] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread Dan
henri wrote: Hello, I have just switched from LiBo V 3.4.5 to LiBo V 3.5.4.2 without any apparent problems except for the following : I use mostly WRITER to print and fax. Until the upgrade ,I would ,on completing a document, press the shortcut CTRL-P ,select the required printer and print or

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Bjørn K Nilssen
På Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:24:03 +0200, skrev Tom Randall kf6...@comcast.net: Hi all. Well the subject pretty much says it, I got a notification there was an update to Java, I believe it is java 7 update five. Once I did the update my install of Libre Office no longer works. As soon as I try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Don C. Myers
My Ubuntu 12.04 installs show Grub 1.99 On 06/25/2012 11:35 AM, chimak111 wrote: grub-install -v -- ** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] Downloading LibreOffice

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Dave :) Errr, that was your 1st post to the list!  I can guess at your original question which appears to have been lost in the ether.  There are a lot of possible different reasons why downloading doesn't work.  The easiest work-around might be to get yoru son to download LibreOffice onto

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My U 10.04 shows Grub 1.98 so that was a good guess!  Thanks Chimak :)  I chickened-out of testing the Grub 2.00-rc1 alpha.  There doesn't seem to have been any problems over the weekend but i just wouldn't know how to push it.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Don C. Myers

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Don C. Myers
Thank you to Chimak from me also. It was with Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 on one machine that I left updates update the boot loader. That was a big mistake!!! It seems much easier to fix now than back then, and if I was retired and wanted to play with something I would, but I don't need to take

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help AGAIN with Mail Merge

2012-06-25 Thread Gilles SICHE
Thank you to all of you who answered Charles' question, I asked more or less the same some weeks ago, got many useful answers (thank you Andreas) but it was only today that I discovered the F4 button, which works great. Another query about the same functionality, does anyone know why you end up,

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.5.4.2/Writer] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread henri
Dan, Thanks for the reply. The problem is not so much that I CANNOT set the option NONE in the drop down list of the PRINT options(although that appears to be a bug) but that the key shortcut CTRL-P freezes and does not go into the print dialogue and therefore I have no drop down option of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New release of Grub2.00 for alpha testing

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Don't worry.  It's not such a big jump this time!  The jump from Grub1 to Grub'2' in Ubuntu 10.04 caught a lot of people out.  I don't think people were ready for it and it wasn't great back then.  The massive advantage with Grub'2' is that it is modular so small chunks can be developed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading LibreOffice

2012-06-25 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Hi Dave. I run the Libreoffice-na.us site. It is not an official download path, but a site for a DVD project with it accessible online as well as on a physical media. I found that the problems I had with downloading from LO's site due to a problem with the mirror system of downloading.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading LibreOffice

2012-06-25 Thread John Kennedy
Will you send an email to the list when version 5 is available. I would definitely burn it to give to friends and family... John John Kennedy On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Hi Dave. I run the Libreoffice-na.us site. It is not an

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.4.2/Writer] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread Andreas Säger
Because [Esc] takes you back to the edit window, I think that the print dialog is active but its position is out of visible bounds. Alt+Space_Key might open the window-menu for the active but hidden dialog. There you might find some way to move it by means of arrow keys. I don't use Windows

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help AGAIN with Mail Merge

2012-06-25 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 25.06.2012 21:49, Gilles SICHE wrote: Thank you to all of you who answered Charles' question, I asked more or less the same some weeks ago, got many useful answers (thank you Andreas) but it was only today that I discovered the F4 button, which works great. Another query about the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading LibreOffice

2012-06-25 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Any day now it will show up here, hopefully, instead of version #1. All of the updates for version 5 are online at the online version of the DVD. Mostly it has updated extras like; documentation, updated foreign language spell checkers, etc..

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.4.2/Writer] CTRL-P shortcut freezes LiBo V 3_5_4_2

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think on Windows and on GnuLinux yiou can right-clcik on it's button (if it has one) in the taskbar/panel (= that strip along the bottom of the screen in Xp that has the Start button and the clock on it).  If you right-click on the button there you get a choice to Move.  Don't press any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Andreas, Unfortunately I do have to use java because the accessibility functionality of libre office depends on it, so disabling java is not an option. Thank you for the suggestion though as it might be useful to those who don't have to run java. Best regards, Tom -Original

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Thank you very much for this, this has at least fixed it so L.O. will at least start up again so that is half the battle. I am still going to have to install java 631 once I actually find it because L.O. definitely does not like this java 7 update. If I try to enable accessibility it says

[libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread V Stuart Foote
Tom, Activating a Java Runtime Environment in LibreOffice 3.5.4 took a little while to complete its initial load following upgrade, but the JRE 1.7 update 5 does function correctly with JAB 2.02 installed with LibreOffice 3.5.4 on 64-bit Windows 7. So, not a problem with the LibreOffice

[libreoffice-users] Read-only fields

2012-06-25 Thread Mark McDougall
Hi all, I've Googled and also searched the mailing list archives but can't find a solution to this that works for me. Opened a word document and saved (copy) as odt. I'm heavily editing the file and have come across a couple of 'fields' in the footer that I can't edit or delete. Attempting to

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Wu
A bug report is already filed with the number 50863. However, no further status is given. Regards Michael --- 原始郵件 --- 主旨: Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office. 從: Tom Randall kf6...@comcast.net 到: users@global.libreoffice.org 日期: Mon, 25 Jun

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Stuart. It seems that some people are having this problem and others are not. That is strange. I have tried both your suggestion of renaming my profile folder and Bjørn's suggestion of renaming that settings file. In both cases it still says that the JRE is defective when I try to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Read-only fields

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Lozier
Mark, On 06/25/2012 11:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote: Hi all, I've Googled and also searched the mailing list archives but can't find a solution to this that works for me. Opened a word document and saved (copy) as odt. I'm heavily editing the file and have come across a couple of 'fields'

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be worth adding extra comments to the bug report, such as which system it does work on and which it doesn't.  If the devs are able to narrow-down the problem then it might be easier for them to fix.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Tue, 26/6/12, Michael Wu m...@tercel.com.tw

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this is the way forwards.  We used to keep older versions of java back in the LO 3.3.x line because any version of java more recent than about 4 versions old seemed to break LO.  We stopped doing that because various users complained that older java meant more vulnerable and there