Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments and images in shared spreadsheets.

2013-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport One of the drop-downs should have Feature request or enhancement request or something like that. Good luck and regards from Tom :)  From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Il 06/02/2013 00:46, Paolo Debortoli ha scritto: Il 05/02/2013 13:53, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :)  Will MSO ever catch up on security or cross-platform compatibility? security maybe (but it is not on the ms's vip list), but not cross-platform...  can you imagine ms dealing with linux (as many

[libreoffice-users] Templates for Minutes

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I just looked through the Templates web-page http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center but i couldn't find anything there to help people wanting to write-up Minutes a bit more easily.   I found a few things on http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/Minutes but i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WoooHooo, C++ is much better and working with the devs in LO means the code can be tested more widely than if it was just written as a purely in-house Extension.  Hopefully resulting in better code and better support for that code for whatever the company needed.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Templates for Minutes

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
there.  Regards from Tom :) From: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013, 13:21 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Templates for Minutes Le 07/02/2013 13:39, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) All bug-fixes and stuff gets backported to 12.04 for the next 4 years.  If something isn't working well right now then it'll probably get fixed reasonably soon.  If a more recent version of Ubuntu already has a fix for something then 12.04 will get it really soon.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] [LibreOffice-QA] CANCELED - Conference Call - February 8th, 2013

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you have all earned a break! Good work all! Regards from Tom :)  From: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org; libreoffice-dev libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org; Libreoffice-qa

[libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Some interesting articles and comments on 4.0.0.  Not all completely precisely accurate and quite a lot of the comments are clearly either deliberate FUD or hopelessly confused people that need help.  There are some gems in there though and i liked this one in ArsTechnica DannyB |

[libreoffice-users] Lots of questions! Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-website] Press Clippings

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Italo!  A good list and some interesting reads.  There seems to be a lot of FUD or misunderstandings in quite a lot of the comments under those articles, sometimes minor misunderstandings in the articles but the most important ones seem to be in the comments.  It might be good

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 It's not a huge issue.  If i can't get it to work in the next couple of days then i can go back to 3.5.4 or even settle on 3.6.? as an upgrade that didn't go quite as far as i'd hoped.  Bear in mind that 4.0.0 still has a .0 at the end and i wouldn't normally upgrade to a new branch

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure what the French chap was saying.  Anyone know?  Can anyone help?   The problem for me is trying to guess which fonts other people have on their machines.  I carefully installed the font called Ubuntu and it's derivatives (bold, and so on) on all my colleagues machine's and

Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Dries Feys dries.f...@tvh.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com; LibreO - Users Global users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013, 14:42 Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 寄件人︰ Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk 收件人︰ C. H. D. webofht-libreoffice...@yahoo.com.hk 傳送日期︰ 2013年02月8日 (週五) 1:03 PM 主題︰ Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas Hi :) Nicely done :)  Have you sent it to the documentation mailing list?  They might

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  Doesn't the text change to white where the background is black or dark?  My menus are all white and i'm not keen to test this idea.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Scott Castaline skotch...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's well worth trying the 4.0.0 at this point.  It is waaay before i would normally try a new branch but it is well worth it.  Especially if you are having trouble with the older branch.  The whole point of the older branch is that it's supposed to be less hassle.  So, please try the

Re: [libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
is saving up the divisions for another chapter or a guide aimed at a different level of users.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Users@Global.LibreOffice.Org Users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013, 18:37 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot Install LO 3.6.5

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Me too.  I bet that link is useful to someone in the future too so thanks for that :) Regards from Tom :)  From: Caesar cae...@hiwaay.net To: Libre Office List Server users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013, 21:41 Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I downloaded the .Deb for Ubuntu (and others) twice yday and tried installing it as per instructions but when i tried running LibreOffice from the command-line by typing in libreoffice I got an error message saying that LibreOffice couldn't run because i was missing a package called

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2013, 21:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I downloaded the .Deb for Ubuntu (and others) twice yday and tried installing it as per

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2013, 22:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb On 02/09/2013 04:21 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Current page value?

2013-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) how do other people normally do this?  It's possible to have 1st page different isn't it?  Is there a way of having last page different too?  Does everyone do this by having at least 3 page-styles per book?  Regards from Tom :)  From: Jean-Francois

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Current page value?

2013-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Has anyone been able to fix this yet?  I tend to prefer to spell it out and say Page x of n. but i think i'm alone in doing that.  I have seen the / mark used quite frequently.  It's interesting to see how other countries or other professions or industries do things slightly differently. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
...@gmail.com Cc: LibreOffice, users users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2013, 18:02 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb 2013/2/9 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com On 02/09/2013 04:21 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Find out a name of inserted image in Impress

2013-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you create a copy of the file and then change the file-ending from .pptX or .odp to .zip then you can double-click to open the file as though it was a compressed file.  There should be a folder called Images or something similar.  The images might still be in there but somehow just not

[libreoffice-users] How-To bump a thread

2013-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Generally it's bad ettiquette to bump a thread, particularly your own, without good reason.  No response for a couple of days after the initial posting is a very good reason though.   To bump it simply reply to it and make sure your reply gets to the list.  Often an initial post might

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 documentation

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can get completed chapters in advance from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Errr, that page also has old archived versions.  Normally the guides wouldn't have come out until around the 4.0.4 so to see the Getting Started Guide is almost complete already

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
would lead to a royal mess!! I did not get a message saying there is a missing package like you did. Don On 02/10/2013 09:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Tom I ram the install on Linux Mint 14 and had no troubles with it. On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
/files via the GUI file manager and archive package, then rename the folder to Lib. I do the same thing for the help packs. I do as little typing as I can. On 02/11/2013 12:00 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) You don't need to do all that typing anyway.  Just press the tab key a few times

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) But that is kinda one of the points i was making earlier.  The package manager usually does all the installing and maintenance of programs for you.  Heck, mostly there are plenty enough programs to do anything you might want right from the get go.  It's only when we want to be awkward and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) With most GnuLinux's LibreOffice is installed by default so you don't need to install anything unless you really want to make life tricky and go for the cutting-edge.  Some have OpenOffice instead but that is still fairly similar and can edit pretty much all the same file formats.  (LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making local help copy?

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have forwarded your question to the global translators list in the hope that they can help you.  I really think you need to contact the dev's lists if you want to find out how to build LO from scratch.  It is quite far outside of the type of thing the Users List can help with but it was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Excel file macros cause infinite loop of errors

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That went really wrong for me when i tried with 4.0.0 but opened fine in 'OpenOffice.org 3.2'.  Hmmm the OOo 3.2 says it was made by RedHat based on OOo from Sun so that probably really means it was Go-oo rather than OOo and Go-oo merged into LibreOffice really early on.  I'm currently on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can someone verify this writer bug?

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just tried in Fedora 13 (ancient i know) using 'OpenOffice 3.2 but i think it's really LibreOffice.  It's really confusing.  The version number doesn't make any sense!  One time when i tried to open it i saw the word test written at both the top and the bottom of the box.  Pressing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4 documentation

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
...@marcpare.com wrote Re [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4 documentation: Hi Caesar Le 2013-02-11 06:54, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) You can get completed chapters in advance from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Errr, that page also has old archived versions.  Normally

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Excel file macros cause infinite loop of errors

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is it a file that everyone needs access to at their own desks?  Is it possible to just have 1 desktop with MSO on it and then people update the file from there?  If the other organisation is not Oracle then they might well be willing to re-write the code or have it re-written or allow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug 60390 - FILEOPEN: Cannot open particular document

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Doc is the older MS format and it is generally possible to open in pretty much any office program.  It's rare but possible to find the odd one or 2 rare cases that don't open fairly perfectly.  Those rare cases probably open slightly differently in different office programs so try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It would be nice if you could post a bug-report about the issue https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport as doing so increases the chances of people working on the issue.  In the process of filing the bug-report it hopefully shows a list of similat items so you might find someone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug 60390 - FILEOPEN: Cannot open particular document

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brilliant! :)  Nicely done!  It did bother me a little that the macros didn't even work in MS Office.  At my workplace we only have 1 set of documents that 'need' macros and they are all in the finance department.  They were written for MSO 2010 and don't work in MSO 2007 and i'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Excel file macros cause infinite loop of errors

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 to all of Jay's various points there.  I totally agree.  The another private company, the one that sent the offending spreadsheet, appears to be Oracle.  So, 1.  it's extremely unlikely that they will re-write the macros for LibreOffice or even for OpenOffice (same macro languages) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug 60390 - FILEOPEN: Cannot open particular document

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The situation is improving now that people are moving to ODF more and more.  Relying on a single companies whims has of course left a lingering problem but ODF is defined by a large group of companies most of which produce software that is designed to read the formats.  So, if you stick

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Tab complete is what i was trying to describe in this thread the other day, possibly yday although it's already nearly tomorrow here so possibly the day before yday.  Works on any unix-based platform so that includes Bsd although possibly not Mac.  I've not seen a command-line on a Mac. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, so how about running a Virtual Machine? Perhaps acquire an old hard-drive that you don't care about too much and physically unplug all your 5Tb and then plug in the experimental one.  Btw on a command-line if 2 pathnames or file-names are quite close to each other then when you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The QA team and bug-triagers are pretty smart so they can sort it out for you (or others).  There are a lot of drop-downs on the page and it's a little tricky to find the right one but when you know where it is then you could help the bug-triagers by just doing that for a whole load of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd:

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ooops.  A bit of accidental spam from Drew of all people.  I risked the link in GnuLinux and it's just a weight-loss thing from Foxx.  Probably best not to risk it in Windows jic but it seemed harmless Regards from Tom :) From: Drew Jensen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0: intrinsic database: relations only between primaries keys?

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Robert Großkopf on the Docs Team's amiling list gave me this link  http://de.libreoffice.org/hilfe-kontakt/handbuecher/ Hope it helps! Good luck and happy hunting ;) Regards from Tom :) From: Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es To:

[libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Has anyone managed to get MS Sharepoint working with 4.0.0?  Apparently it's one of the features that are supposed to be in the 4.0.0 although i have no idea what SharePoint is nor why anyone would use it.  According to the comments under this article

[libreoffice-users] Getting Started Guide complete(ish)

2013-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WH!!!  The documentation team have managed to get the Getting Started Guide's chapters all done and ready for use several months ahead of normal https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications The next step of collecting all the chapters into one book and then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Find out a name of inserted image in Impress

2013-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, when i tried to give images unique names it didn't work out quite as i had hoped.  All my images ended up still getting the weird references numbers in the file when opened as a zipped file.  I'm fairly sure i was doing something wrong but still haven't read-up about all this yet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc scale formula conundrum/ logic confusion

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Someone else asked a very similar question about a month ago and i think someone created a neat calculation or spreadsheet to help figure it out.  Now the trick is trying to find it in the archives! Good luck and regards from Tom :)  From: zr1hpc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save as doc crashes LO

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The odt is obviously fine.  It's only a problem when the op wants to share the file with other people.  Not all of those people have control over what gets installed on their machine and the rest might not yet have heard of LibeOffice or any of the others.  Once they get used to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save as doc crashes LO

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, i saw Chinese characters too and it looked like they were arranged properly.  So it looks like Gnome/Cinamon/Mate are covered by Mint and Unity covered by Ubuntu.  Is anyone using a KDE distro?  Alternatively perhaps it's a packaging issue?  Mint and Ubuntu both use the .Deb

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice V 3.6.5.2 (build ID: 5b93205)

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) With the emphasis being on Write rather than just recording.  Recording macros apparently tends to end up with mad spaghetti that is impossible to correct when it goes wonky.  However it is an imperfect world so recording might be unavoidable, given time constraints. If you do have time

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice V 3.6.5.2 (build ID: 5b93205)

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahah, yes, macros are not usually able to work on both MS Office and LibreOffice.  They have to be written (or recorded) on one or other and then seldom work on the other.  With MS macros you may well find they don't even work in other versions of MS Office.  So if your macros were

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
-point?       Just 'searched' and found this -           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE       Seems somewhat silly since we could all benefit if we were to use DropBox -           http://db.tt/v1nUSr8M On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-users] icons

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Approximately page 3 of most chapters of the official guides says something like this Icons The icons used to illustrate some of the many tools available in LibreOffice may differ from the ones used in this guide. The icons in this guide have been taken from a LibreOffice installation

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to convert tab-separated file to XLS from the command line

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the MS 95 format is still .xls and can be read and used by subsequent versions of both MSO and all versions of LO.  So i think just don't worry about your 2nd point.  LibreOffice can read/write tsv as well as csv but it's just not the default.  I'm not sure how to force it to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
it's MS.  Thanks and regards from Tom :) From: Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013, 17

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013, 17:38 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point? On 13-02-13 03:24 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Has anyone managed to get MS Sharepoint working with 4.0.0?  Apparently it's one of the features that are supposed to be in the 4.0.0

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
14, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Ahh, so is it a sort of Content Management System that can be used to hold documents centrally, like putting them on a shared folder on a Lan so that everyone can work on the same file instead of each generating

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps Moodle?  I haven't looked into Moodle but keep meaning to.  It's supposedly good for higher education but it might be more about just tutors and lecturers being able to place documents and text and stuff in an attractive layout that's easy for students to just read.  I'm not sure

Re: [libreoffice-users] Look for step-by-step guide

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you do figure this out then it might be great to have a How-To video about it.  At the moment it seems to have quite a steep learning curve so people tend to stick with what they already know and understand. Regards from Tom :)  From: C. H. D.

[libreoffice-users] Answering user-support questions Fw: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm sure you already know all this and probably do it far better than i do.  It's kinda what i wish i did rather than what i really do.  Generally i find that users are able to solve their own problems if they are just given the slightest nudge.  So, ime a good 1st response to any

[libreoffice-users] Forum for Ask community Fw: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The people answering questions at the AskBot site need more people to join in with answering questions.  If you just lurk on this list because something about it bugs you then it might well be because you prefer the way AskBot is set-up.  It's a much more modern approach with more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, what worries me is MS and Standards in the same sentence.  Haven't we already learned, many times over, that MS's idea of open = closed standards and interoperable = only works once on one system or at least that seems to be the way it has always worked out historically.  So while

Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point?

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
: [libreoffice-users] Share-point? On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 13:31 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmmm, what worries me is MS and Standards in the same sentence. Haven't we already learned, many times over, that MS's idea of open = closed This is true for corporations, nothing specific to Microsoft

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microfund your favourite Issue

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Has anyone found an early post in this thread and forwarded it off to the board-discuss list and /or devs list or other place we might get some good feedback about credibility?  I kinda trust Joel but can't remember where the original post came from.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, the button probably should say Screen down instead of page down for most uses of the button and only say Page down for those rare cases where it really does mean a page.  Regards from  Tom :)  PS blimey a short answer for once!!  lol From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oh wow yeah.  Those green screens where you could see the individual dots making up the screen.  The strange greeness a tunnel through to far away places.  Regards from Tom :) From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:50 Subject: Re

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, there was something about Ctrl Enter inside a cell makes an extra newline inside the cell itself.  It doesn't sub-divide the cell but does just give you a newline in there.  Regards from Tom :) From: bill will...@techservsys.com To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL-Connector

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is there a problem with running different versions on different OSes?  It should be fine t do that shouldn't it? Regards from Tom :)  From: Heinrich Stoellinger hc.stoellin...@aon.at To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors - find next

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) ???!?!!?!?? Ahh.  You were talking about on-screen buttons?  The ones under the vertical scroll bar?  Middle one is called Navigation.  I was talking about keyboard buttons.  Now i'm not sure what anyone else was talking about.  It's 4am though so i might still be dreaming or having a

[libreoffice-users] Final proof-reading/beta-testing of Getting Started Guide v4.0

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The new Getting Started Guide is nearly ready!  You can have a sneak preview at  http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/getting-started/published-lo-4.0/gs4.0-full-book-pdf/view Please let us know if anything appears to be wrong.  The guide will appear on the proper wiki in a

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: bill will...@techservsys.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 21:52 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells On 2/15/2013 1:47 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/15/2013 01:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ahh, there was something

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: page down in word processors - find next

2013-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not quite sure what the proposal is but here is the link https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I like the way OpenSource tends to have many different ways of doing the same thing.  To some extent it seems most programs do but OpenSource sometimes goes a bit further in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
shouldn't be a problem should it?    Regards from Tom :)  From: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013, 7:51 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector On 02/15/2013 10:24 PM, Tom

Re: Problems unsubscribing from list was: [libreoffice-users] MySQL-Connector

2013-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This link http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ The instructions say to send an email to  users+h...@global.libreoffice.org but often the users+ bit looks like it's not part of the address.  That users+ bit is crucial!  So it's the entire line there that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0

2013-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you had any luck with this?  Sorry you haven't had any answers so far but hopefully someone here might be able to figure it out. Apols and regards from Tom :) From: Karen DInse kdi...@rrwrd.dst.il.us To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu PPAs for 4.0.x Stable?

2013-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's an Ubuntu Team rather than a Libreoffice Team that provides the PPA.  There are links from that page to help you contact the team.  Apols and regards from Tom :)  From: M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com To: Sajan Parikh sa...@noppix.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] styles

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) How about using the Navigator, F5 in Calc.  Does that show all the headings of various types and then clicking on one takes you to the right place in the document.  It might be slightly more efficient than using searchreplace because you can keep the Navigator window open or even dock it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documentation question on the Ask site

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)   There is a page-numbering problem on the AskLO site.  Is it a bug or a problem with some documentation?  http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/12398/writer-restarting-page-numbering-as-described-in/ Is there anyone here that can help their op solve it? Regards from Tom :)  -- For

[libreoffice-users] Restarting page numbering as described in the manual not working with master document: Writer

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)   There is a page-numbering problem on the AskLO site.  Is it a bug or a problem with some documentation?  http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/12398/writer-restarting-page-numbering-as-described-in/ Is there anyone here that can help their op solve it?  Here is a copy of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] head format does not change

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please can you elaborate a bit on that?  I mean do you change the depends on property?  When fonts or other formatting don't behave after applying a style i usually try applying a completely different style and then re-apply the formatting i really want.  That generally seems to fix the

[libreoffice-users] auto-sized dialogue-boxes

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Something i had not even thought about at all, as an English speaker is the problem of translating dialogue-boxes or other pop-ups such as warnings and stuff.   I've seen movies and been to places where a couple of words in one language has been translated into a long babble in another

Re: [libreoffice-users] head format does not change

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Gabriel Risterucci cleyf...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 18 February 2013, 12:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] head format

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reptile Skin design for a 4.0.0 Persona / 33+ designs for LO 4.0.0Persona/Themes

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I guess it depends somewhat on how your monitor is set-up.  I have 2 that are both supposedly 'correct' but one is a lot darker than the other.  I put correct in single quotes because i think both those monitors are a bit wonky and wouldn't be good for editing images.  Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reptile Skin design for a 4.0.0 Persona / 33+ designs for LO 4.0.0Persona/Themes

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
/2013 07:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I guess it depends somewhat on how your monitor is set-up.  I have 2 that are both supposedly 'correct' but one is a lot darker than the other.  I put correct in single quotes because i think both those monitors are a bit wonky and wouldn't be good

[libreoffice-users] another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The article is very pro-LibreOffice but so many of the comments have a hilarious amount of FUD in them.  One wonders if they have ever even tried either MSO or LO. http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-affordably-own-your-office-software-711449/?s_cid=e539 Regards from Tom :)  -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Any plans to incorporate anything from the Lotus Symphony UI?

2013-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Any menus or ribbons or whatnot (thanks Amiko) at the top or bottom on a wide-screen display drives me nuts.  I really should just turn my wide-screen on it's side so i can see documents properly instead of through a letter-box.  How come mobile devices have a portrait mode by default!! 

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) DocX is really bad for sharing with people unless you be be fairly certain they are using the same version of MS Office on the same version of Windows.  The older MS format, Doc for 97/2000/Xp/2003 is still currently the best format for sharing files.  Odt is becoming more widely used

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 16:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:45:19 AM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) DocX is really bad for sharing with people unless you be be fairly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) So just editing the paths in Tools - Options - Paths doesn't work? Regards from Tom :)  From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 15:23 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Moving

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There was some sort of add-on or something that allowed 2003 to open DocX http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx Errr, that might be a bit old now.  It's for the MSO 2007 version of DocX.  This link doesn't seem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Encryption Failure

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, what format was the protected document in?  If it was an MS format then LibreOffice just opens them without needing the password anyway.  Regards from Tom :)  From: JOE CONNER joeconner2...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Encryption Failure

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
February 2013, 21:14 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Encryption Failure On 02/20/2013 10:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Err, what format was the protected document in?  If it was an MS format then LibreOffice just opens them without needing the password anyway. Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 18:57 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector Le 20/02/13 19:41, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) Could you copypaste that to a wiki-page?  Then maybe we could expand it a bit later to cover the main platforms

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frame in header of .doc crashes Writer

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The ideal way to store documents is with OpenDocument Formats such as Odt.  Only convert to MS formats if you have to share but leave the Odt in the same folder so that you can re-edit the document easily without having to push a document through so many conversions.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) From my experiences of office workers i would definitely avoid a line to guide folding.  They will miss it.  Whether on purpose or by accident they will find ways to avoid the line and probably in a different way for each leaflet.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Even NASA use feet and inches.  How many feet left to dock.  Even their plans to go to the moon go by feet.  I wonder if half the computers they use are purely to convert between feet and miles and another half to convert to the metric systems used by everyone else they co-ordinate with. 

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