[libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestion.org Members Choice Awards -48hrs left to vote

2014-02-03 Thread Marc Paré
If you are using Linux and wish to participate, there are only 48hrs left to vote for the Members Choice Awards for 2013 ... especially the Office Suite Award. You need to register to vote! Feel free to join in on the vote and let your voice be heard! Links: == Office

Re: [libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestion.org Members Choice Awards -48hrs left to vote

2014-02-03 Thread Tim Lloyd
I should also point out that LQ gets the odd LO related question. So if anyone registers to vote they may also want to check out the forums for any libreoffice/openoffice related questions which need clarification. Cheers On 03/02/14 19:08, Marc Paré wrote: If you are using Linux and wish to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Erik, could you please upload your screenshots somewhere and give us the link? Attachments are automatically removed, so we don't see what you've sent. /Sigrid On 3 February 2014 06:21, Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB) erik.erlands...@nilhe.se wrote: Im seeing this odd behavior in a series.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Forms Help

2014-02-03 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello, please upload the files somewhere and give us the link to them. Attachments are automatically removed, so nobody can help you. /Sigrid On 3 February 2014 07:11, PC-Care Support supp...@pccare.asia wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I had created a field of 1. Date with

[libreoffice-users] Re: Forms Help

2014-02-03 Thread Tom
Hi :) Nabble is a good place to upload files to but please note that this is a publicly accessible mailing list so please avoid giving us any confidential data. Follow the links in this email or else go to the official LibreOffice website and navigate through Get help to the Nabble interface

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread IOmazic
Hi, is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to install it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all modification needed. Kind regards, Ivan Omazic - Ivan Omazic IT Assistant / Technical Lead ioma...@wmo.int +41 22 730 81 55 +41 79 918

Re: [libreoffice-users] Similar Problem?

2014-02-03 Thread Alex McMurchy
Vince Have you solved this problem? If not - have you tried starting a completely new configuration directory? Again if not this is what I would do - close down all Libreoffice applications Start a konsole session. Save the existing Libreoffice configuration settings * cd .config *

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi James, James E Lang wrote on 2014-01-31 21:12: I also think most mailing lists encourage replies to the list by inserting a Reply-To header designating the list as the preferred reply address. This lets all on the list to learn from most responses. It also guides people on the list

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 03/02/2014 13:21, IOmazic ha scritto: Hi, is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to install it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all modification needed. Kind regards, Ivan Omazic - Ivan Omazic IT Assistant / Technical Lead

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Ivan, From: IOmazic ioma...@wmo.int Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 6:21 AM is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to install it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all modification needed. Since LibreOffice is packaged for installation using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 02/03/2014 08:48 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 03/02/2014 13:21, IOmazic ha scritto: Hi, is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to install it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all modification needed. Kind regards, Ivan Omazic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
YES, F.O.S.S packages share things with other groups, but I really thing business users needs the documentation on LO pages and not OOo pages. These people do not understand about the sharing of information between friendly competition FOSS packages and the lack of info due to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You are not alone in that opinion but i can see it from other angles too. 1. The way i see it is that LO and AOO are produced by 1 large community. There are quite a few people who work in both or move from 1 to the other and sometimes back again. The mainstream press seems to think we

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) re: top vs bottom posting Many people using this mailing list are likely to be unfamiliar with various notions that are in common usage on other mailing lists. Hopefully this mailing list responds to people in ways they are familiar with but at the same time prepares them for other

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Pedro
Maybe these instructions are helpful https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Deployment_and_Migration and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Corporate_Users -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB)
Hi all, Thanks for the tip! I hope this works: http://shared.59551.x6.nabble.com/Error-or-td2.html /erik Sigrid Carrera skrev 2014-02-03 09:58: Hi Erik, could you please upload your screenshots somewhere and give us the link? Attachments are automatically removed, so we don't see what you've

[libreoffice-users] Writer printing problem

2014-02-03 Thread Joe Alders
Hello, After a very disappointing experience using the LibreOffice Forum at the 'ask' part of the LibreOffice site, I will try this forum for help. This is my problem using Writer: When printing a part of a Writer document and being somewhere in this document, it always jumps to the first page

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread iveand
No idea what specific system integration Ubuntu offers for LibreOffice, but the recommended way to install site-wide configuration settings for stock LibreOffice is via extensions that are installed as shared or

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread iveand
I am not looking to add interactive features to LibreOffice, but simply to adjust some of the default settings on a system wide level.If I could bundle these as an extension that would be just fine to deploy.I could even have the .xml file (I would guess an .xcu?) of

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread iveand
I am not looking to add interactive features to LibreOffice, but simply to adjust some of the default settings on a system wide level.If I could bundle these as an extension that would be just fine to deploy.I could even have the .xml file (I would guess an .xcu?) of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is LibreOffice's automatic updater obsolete?

2014-02-03 Thread anne-ology
Since about the 2nd year of LO, it's never worked for me ??? one of the reasons I've stuck with the 3.4 version ;-) Maybe I should have reported it, but ??? so I thank you for reporting it. From: null xmlhttprequest.o...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to unset reminders in LibreOffice Writer

2014-02-03 Thread anne-ology
First, using a different font, I see that's a b - but a b can be quickly seen as a D or a p; each of which ... well, my apologies to you all. Now, when I said 'edit' menu, yes, I should have said 'view' menu; here you should find differing views to use - 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 03/02/2014 21:03, iveand a écrit : I am not looking to add interactive features to LibreOffice, but simply to adjust some of the default settings on a system wide level.If I could bundle these as an extension that would be just fine to deploy.I could even have the

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 03/02/2014 21:03, iveand a écrit : I am not looking to add interactive features to LibreOffice, but simply to adjust some of the default settings on a system wide level.If I could bundle these as an extension that would be just fine to deploy.I could even have the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread marianne-x
Interesting, if unsavoury, behaviour. I can confirm the identical results from /Curtains 7/, and LO 4.1.4.2. Line 28 marks the spot. On a second /Curtains 7/ machine, LO deficiencies do not permit installation of main-line LO, but the portable version, 4.0.6.2, behaves in the same way. Since LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:21 03/02/2014 +0100, Erik Erlandsson wrote: I'm seeing this odd behavior in a series. Around line 30 additional decimals are showing up What am I doing wrong? At 20:29 03/02/2014 +0100, Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB) wrote: I hope this works:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB)
Hi, It behaves more or less the same in Excel 2003 in Win7. http://shared.59551.x6.nabble.com/Error-or-Same-thing-in-Excel-td3.html The formula is from a book on chaos, it describes a way to simulate a controlled chaotic sequence: take a number, a fraction between zero and one, and double it.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB)
Thanks Brian! I realize that it is a rounding error that adds the decimals. It actually behaves similarily with percision as shown But mystery 2 still stays, why does the function kill itself from line 50+ ? The spreadsheets are enclosed in the postings on nabble, link below image. Best /erik

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
YES this is the type of LO page link we should give users instead of sending them off to OOo or any other non-LO site first. I knew we had documentation somewhere. We just need to get the word out there better. Maybe have more indexed material resources list. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer printing problem

2014-02-03 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 02/03/2014 02:20 PM, Joe Alders wrote: Hello, After a very disappointing experience using the LibreOffice Forum at the 'ask' part of the LibreOffice site, I will try this forum for help. This is my problem using Writer: When printing a part of a Writer document and being somewhere in this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread Peter West
Every now and then ossers (open source people) get a bee in their bonnet about something. Top-posting is one of those somethings. The most popular email clients default to top-posting. There's a reason for that. On a list, if you are interested in a particular topic, you will have been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread anne-ology
exactly; logic seems to be missing in some folks ;-) From: Peter West li...@pbw.id.au Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Every now and then ossers (open source people) get a bee in their

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer printing problem

2014-02-03 Thread anne-ology
This must be another bug in these later editions ;-( I definitely will not be up-dating anytime soon ;-) From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer printing problem To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Copypaste is good wrt my item 3. Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2014 17:45, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: YES, F.O.S.S packages share things with other groups, but I really thing business users needs the documentation on LO pages and not OOo pages. These

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:56 03/02/2014 +0100, Erik Erlandsson wrote: On 2014-02-03 22:20, Brian Barker wrote: At 06:21 03/02/2014 +0100, Erik Erlandsson wrote: I'm seeing this odd behavior in a series. Around line 30 additional decimals are showing up What am I doing wrong? At 20:29 03/02/2014 +0100, Erik

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:58 04/02/2014 +1000, Peter West wrote: It mystifies me that some ossers become tossers on this particular topic, ... Whatever value your argument might have had, you destroy it by being abusive and using an ad hominem argument, of course. It is thus surprising that you should choose

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Removing Index Markers from Writer: a How-To

2014-02-03 Thread Peter West
Hi Frank, Finally got back to this. Can you check this for me against an .fodt file, please? perl -pi'orig_*' -e 's/text:alphabetical-index-mark text:string-value=[[:alpha:]]*//g' On 29/01/2014 11:23 pm, CVAlkan wrote: Peter: I mentioned sed and grep, but don't see any reason why perl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Removing Index Markers from Writer: a How-To

2014-02-03 Thread Peter West
The file name goes at the end of the command, of course. On 4/02/2014 3:44 pm, Peter West wrote: Hi Frank, Finally got back to this. Can you check this for me against an .fodt file, please? perl -pi'orig_*' -e 's/text:alphabetical-index-mark text:string-value=[[:alpha:]]*//g' -- Peter

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Erik Erlandsson (Nilhe AB)
Hi Brian, Initially I thought it was a bug, but now I understand more or less what is happening in both mysteries Still, ticking Precision as shown does no difference at all to the result even after closing and reopening. I rest my case, thank you for the education! /e On 2014-02-04

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-03 Thread pete nikolic
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:33:24 + Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 09:58 04/02/2014 +1000, Peter West wrote: It mystifies me that some ossers become tossers on this particular topic, ... Whatever value your argument might have had, you destroy it by being abusive and using

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-03 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/03/2014 08:39 PM, iveand wrote: No idea what specific system integration Ubuntu offers for LibreOffice, but the recommended way to install site-wide configuration settings for stock LibreOffice is via extensions that are installed as shared or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error or what?

2014-02-03 Thread Brian Barker
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 on precisely what