Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread M Henri Day
2014-02-22 8:46 GMT+01:00 MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com: I should clarify - this is the Deb x86_64 download that is not working. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:46 PM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Still inaccessible. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com

[libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Tinkerer
I am using LO 4.2.1 on a Mac, system 10.9.1, using Default Style When I put the cursor back on the page after entering the font size 400, the font size reverts to 12. I have tried Clear Direct Formatting, but it still reverts to 12. I have also tried different fonts. I have tried typing in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps try a different web-browser? On this machine i have Midori set to block me from downloading but Firefox lets me. Regards from Tom :) On 22 February 2014 08:20, M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-22 8:46 GMT+01:00 MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com: I should clarify -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Tink when you try to solve the initial problem by doing clear direct formatting you are clearing the 400 and forcing it back to the style's size! So it might be better to set a style, or create a new style and set that to have font size 400 (or whatever). As for the initial problem i don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can do Reply to all to make sure Dennis and all do get it this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:57:18 + Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tom, It's interesting to hear that other people don't seem to be having a problem with a directly typed-in value for font size but i'm wondering if they clicked into the document again afterwards. I'm wondering if your

[libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread william drescher
LO 4.5.0.2 - Windows 7 I agree with Brad: clicking back into the document resets the font hitting return after typing in the big font size does not reset the font. -bill -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:39:36 + Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tom, Good point! So you can keep the 400-point font size as long as you don't click back in. That means you can probably print it and do I should point out that I didn't select any text when I set the 400 point size.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread M Henri Day
2014-02-22 11:07 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Perhaps try a different web-browser? On this machine i have Midori set to block me from downloading but Firefox lets me. Regards from Tom :) On 22 February 2014 08:20, M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-22

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread M Henri Day
2014-02-22 14:13 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Errr, this is going a bit off-topic but i actually deliberately use Midori 0.4.3 on this machine precisely because of the way this version blocks me from unexpected downloads and YouTube)ish) videos from suddenly blaring out

[libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 22/02/14 04:03 AM, Tinkerer a écrit : I am using LO 4.2.1 on a Mac, system 10.9.1, using Default Style When I put the cursor back on the page after entering the font size 400, the font size reverts to 12. I have tried Clear Direct Formatting, but it still reverts to 12. I have also tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread Don Myers
I've not had any issues downloading LO 4.2.1.1. I tried it this morning from my home. I downloaded it originally at the office. I've been downloading from here: http://www.libreoffice.org/download and haven't changed the mirrors. Don On 02/22/2014 02:46 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: Still

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahhh, got it at last!! Yes, you have to press enter while you are still in the tiny font-selector box to make it accept the new number that you just typed in. Otherwise the program just assumes you were speculating and had changed your mind. Sorry i thought the problem was something else

[libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Tinkerer
*Doh* All I had to do was hit ENTER. Tink. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Large-fonts-tp4098417p4098547.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] LibréOffice Base Forms, PostgreSQL (JDBC) and Table Joins

2014-02-22 Thread Jim Seymour
Hi There, I've researched and experimented with this, and I'm out of ideas. For starters: LibréOffice 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 350m1 (Build: 2) Before anybody suggests a newer version: I'm currently on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), so I'm stuck with it. (Even my much newer Linux Mint desktop

[libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376 Sample document exhibiting the problem is attached to the bug. Thanks, Charles -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Charles The attachment displayed fine for me in 4.2.1.1 from The Document Foundation running in Ubuntu 13.10. Don On 02/22/2014 01:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread M Henri Day
2014-02-22 19:23 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376 Sample document exhibiting the problem is attached to the bug. Thanks, Charles ​Charles, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-02-22 11:39 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-22 1:33 PM, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: Hi Charles The attachment displayed fine for me in 4.2.1.1 from The Document Foundation running in Ubuntu 13.10. Guess I should have been clear. I'm on Windows 7, 64 bit... Henri? What OS are you running? Thx guys... -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Paul
Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg Well, as to the shouting, I guess I kind of assumed the OP was new to this, and didn't want to criticize, but you're right, somebody should have

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-02-22 21:32 GMT+01:00 Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za: Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg Well, as to the shouting, I guess I kind of assumed the OP was new to this, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-22 4:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm subscribed to a few groups myself, maybe I confused this one with the Apache OpenOffice one, but most of them seems to prefer everything but top posting. Personally I prefer this way, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm

[libreoffice-users] Forms in Spreadsheets

2014-02-22 Thread Pikov Andropov
I have a spreadsheet which has two sheets -- Checkout and PaddleNumbers. Checkout has the following columns A: Code B: Item C: Opening Bid D: Paddle Num E: Buyer Name (contains =VLOOKUP(D2,$PaddleNumbers.A$2:B$110,2,0) suitable incremented) F: Amount while PaddleNumbers has A: Paddle NUM B: Name

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, this is going a bit off-topic but i actually deliberately use Midori 0.4.3 on this machine precisely because of the way this version blocks me from unexpected downloads and YouTube)ish) videos from suddenly blaring out while i'm emailing and watching movies but the YouTube issue seemed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Large fonts

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good point! So you can keep the 400-point font size as long as you don't click back in. That means you can probably print it and do various things but it is limiting. For example if you save it then open again doe the saved version retain the 400 point? My font size does not readjust

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread upscope
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 07:45:34 PM M Henri Day wrote: 2014-02-22 19:23 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75376 Sample document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/22/2014 06:25 PM, upscope wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 07:45:34 PM M Henri Day wrote: 2014-02-22 19:23 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: Hi everyone, Would someone please confirm this bug for 4.2.1.1 I just opened?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Forms in Spreadsheets

2014-02-22 Thread Pikov Andropov
Pikov Andropov has written on 2/22/2014 4:48 PM: I have a spreadsheet which has two sheets -- Checkout and PaddleNumbers. Checkout has the following columns A: Code B: Item C: Opening Bid D: Paddle Num E: Buyer Name (contains =VLOOKUP(D2,$PaddleNumbers.A$2:B$110,2,0) suitable

[libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-22 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi everyone, I already posted this on the LibreOffice Google+ and Facebook pages, but there are probably quite a few people subscibed to this list who are not following either one. The UK government plans to move to open standards like ODF and HTML and apparently Microsoft didn't know that

[libreoffice-users] calc re-scaling after update

2014-02-22 Thread Robert Peirce
Is it something I am doing or is each update slightly changing the scaling on existing spreadsheets? I have mine set up for roughly a half page and the bottom row should be the bottom row. However, after the last couple of updates scrolling down to the bottom row has caused the next row to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread MR ZenWiz
I've tried Chrome, Seamonkey and Firefox. In Chrome, after about two minutes of waiting for the download to start, I get a web page saying that the site is unavailable. In Seamonkey and Firefox, it says Waiting for download.documentfoundation.org... and nothing ever comes through. I always do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread MR ZenWiz
Something happened from the command line - maybe this will help? $ wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.2.1/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_4.2.1_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz . --2014-02-22 17:57:47--

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Peter West
Here we go again. There is top-posting, which is, in general, a good thing, and is preferred by most email users, including the technically inclined, like myself. Its primary advantage is that it is a great courtesy to the readers of email threads, who can quickly assess a contribution to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?

2014-02-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/22/2014 04:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more technically inclined. Bottom and Top posting seems to be a personal preference often pursued with religious zeal (as you mention below). While quickly browsing, top posting is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread Don Myers
This is the site I'm downloading from: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ No issues there for me. On 02/22/2014 09:14 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: Something happened from the command line - maybe this will help? $ wget

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.2.1 is already available to improve the experience of early adopters

2014-02-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:46 21/02/2014 -0800, Monly Ronly wrote: Still inaccessible. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Monly Ronly wrote: External Host: mirrors.syringanetworks.net At 23:46 21/02/2014 -0800, Monly Ronly wrote: I should clarify - this is the Deb x86_64 download that is not working. The HTTP

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-22 Thread M Henri Day
2014-02-22 20:52 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: On 2014-02-22 1:33 PM, Don C. Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: Hi Charles The attachment displayed fine for me in 4.2.1.1 from The Document Foundation running in Ubuntu 13.10. Guess I should have been clear. I'm on