Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Of course you're right from a technological standpoint, but in our situation, the IT staff came in over the weekend and literally deleted WordPerfect from everyones' computers, along with all our macros, etc. and installed MSO. We all arrived on Monday to a big surprise. One secretary was so

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

To make a PDF from LO. File>Export>Export as PDF. And in the bad/good old days when I used an MS operating system and was proof reading scripts that came as PDF's, I used one of Nuance's programs to edit and annotate the proofs Incidentally, I have been using LInux and LO for years and

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Hi :) That sounds interesting! How do you create a "fillable field"? I know about hybrid Pdfs but fillable fields sounds like something that could be used outside of LO. Regards from a Tom :) On 30 April 2018 at 22:57, Remy Gauthier wrote: > Le lundi 30 avril 2018 à

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Hi :) Switching is painful. It's the MS way. It's difficult to have 2 versions of MSO running on one system - but it's easy to install LibreOffice alongside MS Office. So it's easier to migrate gradually, at your own pace, from MS Office to LibreOffice. You are not forced to lose access to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Le lundi 30 avril 2018 à 21:53 +, Virgil Arrington a écrit : > On 04/30/2018 05:49 PM, Ben Oliver wrote: > > On 18-04-30 21:43:00, Virgil Arrington wrote: > > > This is intriguing. I just looked over my options with LO 6.0.3 > > > in > > > saving as a PDF and I don't easily see any method of

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 03:02 PM, Tim-L wrote: > I started this thread with the notice of someone on a Facebook post > wondering how to default to saving to MS Word format. > > Yes, a "crusade" to get schools to make the switch to Open Document > Formats should be looked into.  But that is not what was

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 05:49 PM, Ben Oliver wrote: > On 18-04-30 21:43:00, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> This is intriguing. I just looked over my options with LO 6.0.3 in >> saving as a PDF and I don't easily see any method of saving as a >> "fillable PDF form." Can you give a quick explanation of how to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 18-04-30 21:43:00, Virgil Arrington wrote: This is intriguing. I just looked over my options with LO 6.0.3 in saving as a PDF and I don't easily see any method of saving as a "fillable PDF form." Can you give a quick explanation of how to do that? Like Tom, I've always thought of PDF as a

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 03:39 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 4/30/2018, 8:32:31 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO >> Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will >> type their answers right onto

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 04/30/2018 11:11 AM, James Knott wrote: Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open Document files. Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with ODF files? Thank you for the suggestion. My personal

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 11:11 AM, James Knott wrote: > > Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open > Document files. Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with > ODF files? > Thank you for the suggestion. My personal computer is Linux only, but I'll check it out

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Hi :) Pdf is not meant to be editable. It's purpose was to look the same everywhere on any machine and be easy to open on anything with a free, small, easily installed program. For editable documents the best format is still .Doc and the other older MS formats. Now that MS have stopped

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

Hi :) Microsoft have problems following any standard or any format, even their own. Usually it looks like their ineptitude looks a lot like a deliberate attempt to ensure that people have to keep buying newer and newer versions of MS Office to keep up with everyone else. MS Office 2007 and 2010

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 4/30/2018, 8:32:31 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to me.

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 18.04 changes a "upgrade" install of LibreOffice.

When I upgraded/updated a computer's OS - specifically Ubuntu Linux - the problem was the upgrading was that it removed the version of LibreOffice I had installed myself and install the repository's version. This has downgraded LibreOffice from a current version to one that was released 1 or

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: You are trying to find a solution to a problem. The problem is the wrong choice of the school ('only DOC or DOCX documents') Try to solve the problem, and try not to find a work-around as solution. I teach at a college. I use LO, LyX and LaTeX

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

> Enviar: lunes 30 de abril de 2018 a las 17:11 > De: "James Knott" > Para: users@global.libreoffice.org > Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users > Group [Facebook]? > > On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > > Today, I will

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 30-4-2018 17:11, James Knott wrote: > On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO >> Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will >> type their answers right onto the computer file and

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to me. > I need to get the file

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

If they have a recent version of ms-word they should be able to read odt files into word without problem.. So, using odt, doc or docx should be transparent (I hope) On 30 apr. 2018, at 14:32, Virgil Arrington wrote: > >> You are trying to find a solution to a problem. >> The problem is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

> You are trying to find a solution to a problem. > The problem is the wrong choice of the school ('only DOC or DOCX documents') > Try to solve the problem, and try not to find a work-around as solution. > > I teach at a college. I use LO, LyX and LaTeX for my work. All of my students use MSO.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 04/30/2018 07:20 AM, Luuk wrote: > The problem is the wrong choice of the school ('only DOC or DOCX documents') The real issue is why do LMS admins appear to routinely disable ODF file format compatibility? Is that something they do, or is it that they aren't aware of ODF file formats, or is

Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

On 30-4-2018 05:15, Tim-L wrote: > On 04/29/2018 01:17 PM, Luuk wrote: >> >> On 29-4-2018 17:23, James Knott wrote: >>> On 04/29/2018 10:23 AM, Tim-L wrote: There was a question in it about wondering how to get the users of Linux to save LibreOffice files to Microsoft Word formats. >>>