[libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Thomas Becker
Hello, I have read that to install a new version of LibreOffice, it is not necessary to uninstall the previous one. I can install over the previous. I am currently using version 4.0.1.2 (and am new to LibreOffice, I never used older versions). I would like to know if during installation of

[libreoffice-users] Math custom function name

2013-05-12 Thread Alaak
Hi, I know there is a command, similar to Latex \operatorname{}, to include custom operators/functions in libreoffce math formulas. Unfortunately writer changes this command if used to Sum, so all my custom functions are replaced by Sum symbols everytime I load my document. This is annoying but I

[libreoffice-users] override the default SAVE action so a custom macro can handle it

2013-05-12 Thread Vieri
Hi, I'd like to override the SAVE toolbar button, the FIle/save(save as) menu items and the X (close) on the top right corner of the window. In other words, I'd like a custom macro to be executed whenever a user wants to either save or exit. This macro will eventually save the document and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it does remember but it would be worth doing the custom install and checking that it does.  Also when you uninstall any version the configurations and settings are all still kept in your User Profile so when you install again it picks up all your previous settings.  The

Re: [libreoffice-users] help with database

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That is a good question.  Ultimately the Tables 'should' be in MySql (or whichever back-end you are using).  One thing i don't know is if you can use the nice GUI front-end in Base to create the Tables and find the Tables are automatically in the external back-end.  If it does work

[libreoffice-users] Re: help with database

2013-05-12 Thread Tom
Hi :) Found the answer to my question ... Dan Lewis wrote snip / Databases and schema must be created within MySQL. snip / --Dan Thanks Dan! Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/help-with-database-tp4055435p4055472.html

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/12/2013 05:55 AM, Thomas Becker wrote: Hello, I have read that to install a new version of LibreOffice, it is not necessary to uninstall the previous one. I can install over the previous. I am currently using version 4.0.1.2 (and am new to LibreOffice, I never used older versions). I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Math custom function name

2013-05-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Alaak schrieb: Hi, I know there is a command, similar to Latex \operatorname{}, to include custom operators/functions in libreoffce math formulas. oper Or do you want to add a symbol to the catalog? Unfortunately writer changes this command if used to Sum, so all my custom functions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Odd problem LO with Mac running 10.7.5

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did you manage to resolve this issue?  Please let us know how its going.  Did switching themes solve it?  Without really looking into it much it kinda sounds to me like you have only 1 screen set-up where you really need to dual-monitor the machine running the slideshow.  I'm not sure

Re: [libreoffice-users] help with database

2013-05-12 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 12/05/13 13:30, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) That is a good question. Ultimately the Tables 'should' be in MySql (or whichever back-end you are using). One thing i don't know is if you can use the nice GUI front-end in Base to create the Tables and find the Tables are automatically in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Thomas Becker
Il 12/05/2013 14.47, Dan Lewis ha scritto: If you are using Windows as your operating system, do a custom install. (The previous installation will not be remembered.) Is there a particular reason why you do not want to install Base? You could do the default install and not ever use

[libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how? Thanks, -Bill -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Find Replace and \t expression [Writer]

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I found this 'old' thread.  Hopefully helps with the current question about searching for Nemo. Regards from Tom :)  From: V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 18:36 Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I use the left-right-centred buttons same as for text Recently i found the right-click Arrange and Align that give more options.  Regard from Tom :)  From: William Drago wdr...@suffolk.lib.ny.us To: LibreOffice List users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It doesn't require java except under certain usage conditions.  You can install LO with Base and just switch off any hint of it needing Java.  It's the built-in back-end that does use java and some of the wizards.  So, steer clear of wizards and you'll be fine.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] help with database

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!!!  That sounds good :) Thanks Ian.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Ian Whitfield whitfi...@telkomsa.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013, 15:41 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] help with database On 12/05/13 13:30, Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] override the default SAVE action so a custom macro can handle it

2013-05-12 Thread Jay Lozier
On Sun, 12 May 2013 06:42:05 -0400, Vieri rentor...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to override the SAVE toolbar button, the FIle/save(save as) menu items and the X (close) on the top right corner of the window. In other words, I'd like a custom macro to be executed whenever a user wants

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
When I highlight the drawing the text object menu disappears and is replaced by the drawing object menu. When I click View Tool Bars Text object, the text object tool bar does come back, but all of its buttons are ghosted. When I right-click the drawing the Alignment menu has one item in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread Dan Lewis
On 05/12/2013 11:38 AM, Thomas Becker wrote: Il 12/05/2013 14.47, Dan Lewis ha scritto: If you are using Windows as your operating system, do a custom install. (The previous installation will not be remembered.) Is there a particular reason why you do not want to install Base? You

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi William, William Drago schrieb: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how? Use the PositionSize dialog from its

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:27 12/05/2013 -0400, William Drago wrote: When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a better way to do this than dragging it around until it looks centered. Can anyone tell me how? o Either select the drawing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0.3.3 non fixed bug] Link with a space Pdf export error (%20 characters - space ones - exported as %2520 ones)

2013-05-12 Thread Carlo Strata
Hi Everyone, Tom: as you red in my previous post in the discuss list yesterday I have opened this issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64428 but, thanking to Andras Timar, I have closed it just now because it probably is an Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.2 bug/issue!!! Take a

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread anne-ology
Do you first position the mouse at the spot you desire the image to go?; at this point, all the menu items should be clickable, including the alignments. When at this point, 'paste' the image from the 'clipboard' to the document - well that works for me

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
Okay, the Position and Size feature does the trick. Thank you very much... -Bill On 5/12/2013 1:12 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi William, William Drago schrieb: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there must be a

[libreoffice-users] Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Oogie McGuire
I'm having a baffling problem. I have several different spreadsheets set up in LibreOffice under Mac OS X 10.6.8 On one of them one of the columns is set to be a date in format MM/DD/ I want to copy the data from that column into another column in another spreadsheet document. I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  I don't know if it will help but when weird things happen it sometimes help to try renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile to get back to factory defaults.  If some Extension or strange combination of settings is doing something strange

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure if there is an incorrect way of getting drawings from Draw into Writer.  There are probably a whole bunch of different ways for different requirements.  I think it's usually a case of keep using 1 that works until you fancy a change or find a better way to do what you want. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/5/11 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org: I have had subtle redraw issues with OO off and on, and I always blamed it on an interaction between applications and the video drivers. Realize that I use nVidia video cards on 64-bit Fedora using the proprietary video drivers. What I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/5/11 David Fletcher d...@thefletchers.net: On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 15:04 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Here's a screenshot with Apache OpenOffice Calc 3.4.1. I added some arrows pointing at the problem areas: http://ubuntuone.com/0wvqcaN38PC5835t4uJVPv The worst thing is when I try to

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, great to hear someone else prefers Unity to KDE!  I think the KDE team are great and doing great stuff and my neighbour thinks it's fantastic.  I just find myself enjoying Unity nowadays but i'm glad KDE is around.  Hmm, do you have to buy a whole new computer just to get a new

Re: [libreoffice-users] Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:00 12/05/2013 -0600, Oogie McGuire wrote: I'm having a baffling problem. I have several different spreadsheets set up in LibreOffice under Mac OS X 10.6.8. On one of them one of the columns is set to be a date in format MM/DD/. I want to copy the data from that column into another

[libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Nino Novak
Am 12.05.2013 21:00, schrieb Oogie McGuire: In the first spreadsheet I select the cells containing the dates I want. copy (command c) move to the spreadsheet where I want to paste them select the cells where they are to be pasted paste (command v) and the data is entered as a date but they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Oogie McGuire
OK following up on the suggestions. First the user profile page linked to doesn't exist so I can't try that. I upgraded my system to the latest LibreOffice in case that was a problem am running 3.6.6.2 (Build ID: f969faf) All data was originally created on the same machine in the US locale not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Take a look at https://help.libreoffice.org/3.6/Calc/Date_and_Time_Functions To me the difference you are getting looks close to the difference between the date bases for day zero. Steve On 2013-05-13 08:45, Oogie McGuire wrote: OK following up on the suggestions. First the user profile

[libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry about that. I had not thought about the commands being slightly different on a Mac but the link should have worked. It should have been clickable. You are not the first to have had troubles with it though. Are you able to do a google search (or similar) to find LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That looks like the winner to me.  Ignore my post Regards from Tom :)  From: Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com To: Oogie McGuire oog...@desertweyr.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013, 22:09 Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] override the default SAVE action so a custom macro can handle it

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/12/2013 06:42 AM, Vieri wrote: Hi, I'd like to override the SAVE toolbar button, the FIle/save(save as) menu items and the X (close) on the top right corner of the window. In other words, I'd like a custom macro to be executed whenever a user wants to either save or exit. This macro

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I always anchor the image as character, then it can be manipulated as a character (so just center it as you would a line of text). On 05/12/2013 12:27 PM, William Drago wrote: All, When I paste a drawing into writer there are no options for centering it left-right on the page. Surely there

[libreoffice-users] Re: ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2013-05-12 Thread mariosv
Hi JOhnny, if you have not done yet, you can do a try with the options in: Menu/Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View - Graphics output. specially with Anti-Aliasing, I remember sometimes have had visible effects on the screen. Miguel Ángel -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

2013-05-12 Thread jomali
Note that the Java security problems are only applicable to the Java browser plug-in, not to the JRE. You can safely use Java extensions. Just don't install a Java browser plug-in. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Thomas Becker tbecke...@tin.it wrote: Il 12/05/2013 14.47, Dan Lewis ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread William Drago
Thanks for the suggestion, Peter, but that doesn't work either. I can anchor the image as character, but as soon as I select the image to center it the text object menu disappears and the image object menu replaces it. If I use Format from the menu bar the expected options for alignment are

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to center a pasted drawing?

2013-05-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 05/12/2013 09:38 PM, William Drago wrote: ...I can anchor the image as character, but as soon as I select the image to center it the text object menu disappears and the image object menu replaces it. If I use Format from the menu bar the expected options for alignment are gone. You place