RE: [libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-30 Thread Bruce Carlson
Hi Tom Thinking outside the square you are correct there are proberbly many apps that could do this along the principle of a snapshot or capture tool. Being a big fan of gimp I will have to try a few ideas that your suggestion provokes. Good advice. Thanks. Cheers, Bruce. -Original

[libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread tracey002
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Since then I always make sure no RTF files comes near me ever. I have all due respect for your opinion and choice and I am glad you have the option to do that. I had never thought of saving all documents in RTF (maybe not a bad idea), but I do find RTF very useful for

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-30 Thread Gilles
I used LibreOffice to save the PDF as TIFF, opened it in PaintShopPro (7), and removed the section. But when I re-open the TIFF in LibreOffice so I can save it back to PDF, it's displayed as a very tiny image (about 1/3 of the original as displayed in PaintShopPro), even with Zoom=100%. Does

[libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread tracey002
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Since then I always make sure no RTF files comes near me ever. I have all due respect for your opinion and choice and I am glad you have the option to do that. I had never thought of saving all documents in RTF (maybe it's not such a bad idea), but I do find RTF very

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Inserting Info - Move in a 'Z' formation...

2011-06-30 Thread Stephan Zietsman
Llweyn wrote: That would prefect, you'll just have to walk me through it. I'm familiar with what macro is, however I have never had the occasion to use such parameters. I'm a quick study though. :-) Let me know what is the next step and thank you! Ok, if a macro would work, I'll just need

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: Cross-references in complex documents

2011-06-30 Thread lee
Frieder Delor delo...@googlemail.com writes: Hi Ric 2011/6/28 rdb rdbus...@gmail.com I'm trying to write a fairly long book with OpenOffice and in general things go very smoothly. So far, I'm pretty happy that I ditched Word (very fickle with long documents) for LibreOffice. The problems

Fw: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Since you don't seem to have had much help from the users list and since Impress can cause troubles sometimes and because the guide is not quite ready yet i forwarded this to the Documentation Mailing List. It's not usually a good idea to post requests there as they are very busy and

Re: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread tpe
Well, after all, it seems that it is not possible in OO 3.3, (so, I suppose in LO 3.3 too), to use the master slide and set the animation of each text element. Chapter 9, Page 10, it is clear that we cannot do it. Guys, thank you for your help. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi all, Is the operation in the subject line possible? More info (maybe I'm asking the wrong question): I have a (long) list of URLs, and want to categorise them. The categories themselves could be pretty broad: news sites, search engines, music sites, etc. Similar URLs (different pages on

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-30 Thread Gilles
Tanks for the tip. TIFF seems to be an OK format to export from LibreOffice and open the file in eg. PaintShop. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/3-4-Cutting-section-in-PDF-file-tp3121575p3125900.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

[libreoffice-users] Combining Fields in Base.

2011-06-30 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm redesigning my DB in LO Base 3.3.3 and have the following question... I want to 'link' to the photos, (2 for each record), in place of the default embedding to help reduce the size of the DB and for this I need a path to be specified in each record for each photo. In place of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Stephan Zietsman
Ryan Jendoubi wrote: Is the operation in the subject line possible? More info (maybe I'm asking the wrong question): I have a (long) list of URLs, and want to categorise them. The categories themselves could be pretty broad: news sites, search engines, music sites, etc. Similar URLs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 06:33 -0700, tracey002 wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Since then I always make sure no RTF files comes near me ever. I have all due respect for your opinion and choice and I am glad you have the option to do that. I had never thought of saving all documents in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/27/2011 10:24 AM, Twayne wrote: AFAIK, 3.4 is NOT recommended for production use yet? Use caution here. I'm confused as to why 3.4 is labeled as Final on the site, but it's not recommended for production use. What gives? Is this final really

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi tpje, tpe wrote (30-06-11 08:56) I have an extremely urgent support request! Great that you trust us volunteers on this short notice :-) I need to create a presentation by Friday. I have selected the template, the elements etc. But, I have to add transition between each text Outlines

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Stephan, On 30/06/11 15:22, Stephan Zietsman wrote: could you possibly upload a sample file to look at? I have a possible idea of what to do, but I think the best way for me to check would be by using an example. Thank you very much for the offer (and the upload site tip).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Davide Dozza
Il 30/06/2011 16:26, Steven Shelton ha scritto: On 6/27/2011 10:24 AM, Twayne wrote: AFAIK, 3.4 is NOT recommended for production use yet? Use caution here. I'm confused as to why 3.4 is labeled as Final on the site, but it's not recommended for production use. What gives? Is this final

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/30/2011 11:12 AM, Davide Dozza wrote: I'm confused as to why 3.4 is labeled as Final on the site, but it's not recommended for production use. What gives? Is this final really an RC? Because it's the development branch. Oh, so we're

[libreoffice-users] Re: page break problem

2011-06-30 Thread David Johnson
I also have the problem of manual row breaks being ignored in calc 3.3.3 (windows) and calc 3.3.2 (ubuntu). In page break view I can drag the page breaks but they don't stay where I want them. Am I missing something? -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
From: Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 30 June, 2011 15:19:56 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/30/2011 11:12 AM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread jorge
Hi: I would suggest to do as this (If you have order the information as you explain and show in your e-mail): 1) Sheet 1: a) Put 1 (without ) in each search engine but in column B b) Put 2 (without ) in each information relative to search engine in column B too. Something like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi tpe, tpe schrieb: Hi, I have an extremely urgent support request! I need to create a presentation by Friday. I have selected the template, the elements etc. But, I have to add transition between each text Outlines and each page. It's very easy to add page transition effects. But, so far I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread jorge
Hi again: The e-mail made a change. The final Result is like this: Search Engine Information Google CNN Bin Hotmail Mamma Sports Regards, Jorge Rodríguez _ El jue, 30-06-2011 a las 10:09 -0600, jorge

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/30/2011 12:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: There is a yellow warning triangle and exclamation mark ! beside the 3.4.x series/branch. Also it firmly says For early adopters only. The 3.3.x series/branch has a big friendly green tick and words

[libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread NoOp
On 06/27/2011 11:15 AM, tracey002 wrote: I had discovered that Open Office Writer does NOT really support functional RTF features (the ones that I tried anyway). When I posted issues to an OpenOffice Users Group, I was re-directed to Libre Office. Can I help in some way? Please advise.

[libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread John Thaden
New user here, of LibreOffice, trying to recover a document open in Writer when a Microsoft update auto-rebooted my computer. Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on a recovery Wizard. An error message flashed on and then a document appeared, but a very old version of the document. Did

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread John B
Its easy The adopter with the triangle is in the vessel with the pestle and the stable which is able is the program that is true. Please Please forgive me! John B --- On 30/06/2011

[libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread tracey002
One problem with RTF is MS has different versions of the specification, generally released when a new version of MSO comes out. If your software does not read the newer versions, which I believe is the default for the latest MSO version you may get garbled importing on occasion. I truly

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello John, On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:48:24 -0700 (PDT) John Thaden jjtha...@flash.net wrote: New user here, of LibreOffice, trying to recover a document open in Writer when a Microsoft update auto-rebooted my computer. Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on a recovery Wizard. An

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi John John Thaden wrote (30-06-11 19:48) New user here, of LibreOffice, trying to recover a document open in Writer when a Microsoft update auto-rebooted my computer. Welcome here - though for a sad/mad situation. Reopening Writer, I followed instructions on a recovery Wizard. An error

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread John Thaden
Hello Sigrid, thank you for the speedy reply! Always create a backup file was not checked, but I see that Save Auto recovery information was. Yet the recovered document was extremely old. I've now checked the other option -- to back up -- and am trying to recreate my work. Autorecovery

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc - 3.4 Final version can not open (hyper)links anymore

2011-06-30 Thread beta990
Dear LibreOffice, I have downloaded the new 3.4 Final version of the new LibreOffice. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit), everything runs, have the PPA in the repositories. The only problem I have is that hyperlinks on a Calc sheet are not working anymore. I can click on them, but FireFox does not

[libreoffice-users] Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-06-30 Thread teknow
Hi, We have a generic system image with both MS Office and (at my insistence) LibreOffice. Previously we had the Go flavor of OpenOffice. I first noticed something was wrong when I uninstalled Go-OO and installed LO. I did not agree to making LO the default handler for MS Office documents

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Ouch! I just checked that box on 2 machines downstairs as i happened to be setting them both up at the time. I tend to find it much easier to re-write something than it was to write it first time although sometimes i miss some fluky elegance. Usually tho, 2nd time seems to be better for me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) [pointedly ignores the medieval Trekkie reference] The 3.4.1 will be much better. Honest. And it's due to be released quite soon. The 3.4.0 has been widely condemned as having been released t hastily. Oddly, most people have been enjoying using it without any problems but there

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 1/07/11 6:36 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi John John Thaden wrote (30-06-11 19:48) New user here, of LibreOffice, trying to recover a document open in Writer when a Microsoft update auto-rebooted my computer. Welcome here - though for a sad/mad situation. Reopening Writer, I followed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-30 Thread Ross Bernheim
On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 1/07/11 9:22 AM, Ross Bernheim wrote: On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from

Re: [libreoffice-users] file recovery

2011-06-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Steve, Steve Edmonds wrote (30-06-11 23:14) Hi. There is a bug for auto recovery if the document being edited is a .doc https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34805 I have turned auto recovery and backup off now and just regularly remember to save because I know I can't rely on it.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Rtfs do have several advantages. Smaller lighter-weight so it's nicer for emailing and stuff. A lot less irrelevant and possibly personal info tucked away in the hidden characters. But hopefully that's true of Odfs too. I think some companies have a vested interest in veering away

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-06-30 Thread NoOp
On 06/30/2011 02:13 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/30/2011 01:16 PM, teknow wrote: ... I first tried to fix the problem in the Windows File Types settings on machines that still had LO, but found for example that DOC files were identified as Microsoft Word Document to be opened with LO. Changing the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: SubForms and Photographs in LO Base

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good points. I hadn't thought of that but then i often rename installer files to help me keep track of which is the most recently downloaded and hopefully make the name a bit more meaningful to me. Perhaps some sort of pop-up or splash screen or something during install? Regards from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-30 Thread Ross Bernheim
On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Ross I couldn't find the Avery A5444 label spec. What size are these, are they singles or (I assume not) continuous. steve The Avery 5444 labels are 2 inches high by 4 inches wide, 2 to a sheet with a 5/8 inch space at top, a 3/4 inch

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc - 3.4 Final version can not open (hyper)links anymore

2011-06-30 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 03:09 -0700, beta990 wrote: Dear LibreOffice, I have downloaded the new 3.4 Final version of the new LibreOffice. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit), everything runs, have the PPA in the repositories. The only problem I have is that hyperlinks on a Calc sheet are not

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Jean :) Thanks :) I had already forwarded your previous post but got a bit swamped at work today and forgot to let anyone know i had done that. I'm not great at writing documentation but i think i am just about able to point people in roughly the right direction sometimes. It's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Match cell against any of range of regexes?

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Jendoubi
Hi Jorge, On 30/06/11 17:16, jorge wrote: El jue, 30-06-2011 a las 10:09 -0600, jorge escribió: I would suggest to do as this (If you have order the information as you explain and show in your e-mail): 1) Sheet 1: [...] Thanks for your explanation. I get what you were saying, but what I'm

RE: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc - 3.4 Final version can not open (hyper)links anymore

2011-06-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I tried this with LibreOffice Calc 3.4.0 (actually 3.4.0rc2) in Windows Vista (in a Virtual PC VM on Windows 7) and links, even e-mail addresses, worked fine. So this doesn't appear to be a general problem. My spreadsheet had e-mail addresses typed directly into cells and recognized as links.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Calc - 3.4 Final version can not open (hyper)links anymore

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it might be good to post a bug-report about it. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Then if you can cope without hyper-links working for a while the 3.4.1 is due to be released fairly soon http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#3.4_release Hmmm, actually i would

[libreoffice-users] Calculating Time in Base Queries

2011-06-30 Thread Don Parris
Hi all, I am using LibreOffice 3.3.2 on both Windows Linux (depending on whether I'm at work or home). I have a Base DB that tracks shift work, and want a query (or view) that calculates the total hours worked. I am experimenting with two variations of the shift table. Version #1 has:

[libreoffice-users] How to use a motion background in Impress

2011-06-30 Thread Earl Melton
I'm ashamed to have to admit it, but I've just never done this. I'm putting the lyrics presentation together for my church Sunday and have a MPEG-1 with moving stars and stripes that I'd like to use for two of the songs. I clicked on Insert Movie and Sound, then navigated to and selected the

[libreoffice-users] Is LibO_3.4.1_Win Out?

2011-06-30 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Just say on the filehippo site that LibO_3.4.1_Win_x86_install_multi.exe is new, but didn't see anything on the libreoffice.org web site? On Linux, I've tested each of the 3.4.1rc1 thru rc3, and they seemed fine in my minor test, but seems strange 3.4.1 would show up on filehippo before it