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2013-04-17 Thread Toki
All Are there any extensions for LibreOffice that retrieve Commodity Prices. Specifically, precious metals. (Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper) Are there any extensions for LibreOffice that retrieve currency exchange rates? I tried GetQuote, but it throws an error (#NAME? or Error #

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to grab web data into libre office calc ? Or Addons to grab specific web data into libre calc

2013-04-19 Thread Toki
On 04/19/2013 05:16 PM, Happylibre wrote: Now, my question is , is there a similar add in for libre office, when invoked , could help the user get specific cells ( not the whole web page ) Sort of. http://getquote-tedsoft.blogspot.com/ and http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/GetQuote

[libreoffice-users] Toolbar Names

2013-04-23 Thread Toki
All: Is there any way for users to edit/rename toolbars that were created by extensions they installed? By way of example: I have toolbar 13, toolbar 26, toolbar 17, and toolbar 12. I'd like to rename them to Readability Data, Hindu Transliteration, Navigator, and Pixelize. Perhaps more

Re: [libreoffice-users] calling all users - need missing terms for spelling dictionaries

2012-06-27 Thread toki
On 06/24/2012 05:01 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: BUT, I would like to make sure all of my .oxt dictionaries have the words/terms we use every day in articles and email support for LibreOffice and other open source related items. If you have the disk capacity, then: * Download the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document

2014-03-25 Thread Toki
On 3/24/2014 5:27 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way to define a field as the first word on the page and the last word on the page (like in a dictionary). In the last decade, there have been roughly a dozen requests to various mailing lists for a feature along those

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MSO for iPad, big deal or big yawn

2014-04-01 Thread Toki
On 4/1/2014 9:11 AM, Pedro wrote: It's a shame none of the Open Source office's has the manpower to build an Android version. Now it's too late ;) EuroOffice has a version for Android. Currently it only supports Write, but Calc, Draw, and Impress are planned future enhancements. AndroOffice

[libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-16 Thread Toki
All: In trying out various allegedly ODF compatible office suites, I discovered that one of them stripped template data from the file. Can somebody point me to an easy way to add the source template data back to the file? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-17 Thread Toki
On 4/17/2014 12:20 AM, Cley Faye wrote: Can somebody point me to an easy way to add the source template data back to the file? ​Look for the Template Changer extension; it should do what you want. It looks like it did. Looks like, because I have to read the entire 1,500 pages as a PDF file,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-17 Thread Toki
On 4/17/2014 12:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote: It's also a good idea to post a bug-report using that office suite's bug-reporting system. I'd rather deal with Microsoft's bug reporting system for non-paying customers. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Heartbleed

2014-04-18 Thread toki
On April 18, 2014 2:59:30 AM PDT, Tanstaafl wrote: But again... in what way does Libreoffice utilize TCP/UDP connectivity? What am I missing? Does it have a hidden built-in SSL client? Back in the days of StarOffice it did. Vestiges of it were in OOo 1.x. I don't know how much of it remains in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-19 Thread Toki
On 4/18/2014 3:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Perhaps zoom out so that you get multiple pages on-screen and just race through to see if anything stands out as being horribly wrong? That is what I was doing, and nothing looked wrong. Then I looked at the PDF, and discovered a plethora of minor

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-21 Thread toki
On April 21, 2014 1:55:21 PM PDT, Girvin Herr wrote: back then, it seemed that the wine devs were focused on getting proprietary games working, not apps such as ms Access. In defence of the Wine developers, the focus onproprietary games was due to two factors: * That is what people were

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailing List Config [Was: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?]

2014-04-21 Thread toki
On April 21, 2014 12:21:48 PM PDT, libreoffice-ml.mbourne wrote: The way this list is set up seems to be considered the correct way, e.g.: What you are ignoring is that the trend in email clients is to break both RFCs and Netiquette. jonathon -- Your documents, your language, your way. --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-23 Thread Toki
On 4/22/2014 11:06 AM, Urmas wrote: For the last 23 years Microsoft Office has changed its format TWICE. What you are missing is that there are file layout differences between the various editions of the same version of MSO. There are also file layout differences between the different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

2014-04-23 Thread Toki
On 4/23/2014 6:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote: So whenever you purchased it, you would have expected expiration either now or much sooner. That would be true if, and only if one of the following conditions is true: * The vendor of the OP's system was one of the 6-nines that provides EOL dates

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-26 Thread toki
On April 26, 2014 10:42:53 AM PDT, Tanstaafl wrote: 16 years? Yes, that is ANCIENT in computer/software terms, for both hardware AND software. It might be old, but that does not mean no longer used. Ideally, the extension to import those file formats would have been released prior to ripping

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-27 Thread toki
On April 27, 2014 4:18:55 AM PDT, Urmas wrote: What you are missing is that there are file layout differences between the various editions of the same version of MSO. All those differences are hierarchic. That does not negate the differences in the file format of the various editions of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO3.3.1-Older OO Feature still in LO - How to disable pop-up Menus?

2011-07-30 Thread toki
On 07/30/2011 03:54 PM, David B Teague sr wrote: Your solution works, but it eats up screen real estate. Does anyone have a way to stop the menus from popping up without losing screen space? Drag the offending menu to the middle of the page. Then select View Toolbars; Uncheck the offending

Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

2011-08-05 Thread toki
On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote: our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace all the MS stuff with open source software. If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom ruled today that effective 1 January 2012, only FLOSS may be used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-07 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2011 01:29 AM, Don Myers wrote: The reply is always at the top. When I top post, I am 100% guaranteed that the recipient will be utterly clueless about what I am referring to, and what action, if any, I will be taking. every system I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Demise of Open Office

2011-11-25 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/11 17:44, John Gregson wrote: Should I start using Libre Office immediately? Which extensions do you use? There are some extensions that can't be installed in LibO, but can be installed in OOo. There are some extensions that can't be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: When will be a Web-Version of OOo/LO available?

2011-12-14 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/11 16:19, David S. Crampton wrote: looking at web apps was PEOPLE; specifically problems with our in-house people. Migrating to the cloud hides the people problem. It does not remove it. For sensitive data, the cloud merely compounds

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: When will be a Web-Version of OOo/LO available?

2011-12-17 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/12/11 09:03, Michelle Konzack wrote: None of my customers (enterprises) will have more then 30 peoples using it parallel. Maybe 50 could be in worst case, but thats nothing for a well designed Server Software You are working in the

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Ken Springer wrote: I'm going to write my comments in blue. What does blue sound like? I don't know if the colour will be be retained as the message goes through the system, The only safe assumption that can be made, is

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-04 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 03:50 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote: But in a language with homophones, homographs, heteronyms, and heterographs, I can't even begin to imagine how one could code for all the possibilities ( First you check for word order. Then you

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO wishlist?

2011-02-07 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2011 12:13 AM, Len Philpot wrote: but in order to have a truly universal /palette/, every possible 24/32 bit combinations would have to be added. I would presume that is impractical, if not impossible in realistic terms. CF

Re: [libreoffice-users] request a feature

2011-03-23 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2011 00:56, Przemysław Kiliński wrote: How is it possible to request a feature? File an RFE. E.g. I think it would be useful to implement out of the box: I. simple i.e. MS Word-style page number insertion, What, specifically, do you

Re: [libreoffice-users] speech to text for LibrO - Ubuntu?

2011-03-30 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/03/2011 18:22, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Do anyone know of any free Speech to text packages that work with LibreOffice, and used Ubuntu? I'd suggest Vinux, rather than vanilla Ubuntu. There are a plethora of patents

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice VS MS Office

2011-04-21 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/2011 18:10, t...@iafrica.com wrote: Someone please show me LibO can communicate with all basic MS packages i.e Word, Excel and PP. LibO is as compatible with MSO file formats are as MSO is compatible with MSO. Furthermore,depending upon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice VS MS Office

2011-04-21 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/04/2011 11:51, e-letter wrote: A business that receives profits from customers that demand to use M$ software should simply pay the licences to meet their customers' demands and consider it a cost of doing business. I can't tell which of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice VS MS Office

2011-04-21 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/04/2011 12:35, e-letter wrote: The point is, the business user receives a document in m$ word, is not prepared to pay for m$ office You are assuming that microsoft offers a product for the platform used by the business. That is no longer a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/2011 20:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Softmaker is about to go public beta with its Softmaker Office for Android, a comparison sheet of functionality here : Is there anything that can create/edit ODF spreadsheets, and presentations on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing Japanese in Libre Office Writer (typing furigana)

2011-05-08 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2011 04:35, Troy Testing Desu wrote: except when I type Japanese in ruby text, it becomes squares. That is the usual result when the font does not contain the required glyphs. Do you know how to fix this? Change the font used for ruby

Re: [libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-08 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/05/2011 19:50, Tom Davies wrote: I am fairly sure that LibreOffice works on all platforms now I don't consider a program to be cross-platform, unless it is available for at least ten of the fifteen platforms on my short list. OpenSource

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing Japanese in Libre Office Writer (typing furigana)

2011-05-09 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2011 05:51, Troy Testing Desu wrote: Is there a way to make all these settings sticky, or at least have Change the settings for character style rubies, and save that to your default template. Alternatively, Use the Format Asian Phonetic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Typing Japanese in Libre Office Writer (typing furigana)

2011-05-09 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2011 10:09, Troy Testing Desu wrote: Hopefully some programmer decides to look at this area and make it better. Take a look at the Japanese localization extensions that the Japanese l10n team for OOo created. I don't know how much of their

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same-line headings? (feature discussion)

2011-05-11 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2011 16:19, Ryan Jendoubi wrote: I've seen in certain textbooks a style where a 'heading' will take the form of the first sentence of a paragraph. This seems impossible to do in LO, Tutorial can be found at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout

2011-05-13 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/05/2011 08:36, Tom Davies wrote: Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing programs such as Scribus? How much time have you spent looking at the manuscript requirements that publishers and printers have? For math, and related fields,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout

2011-05-14 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/05/2011 19:38, planas wrote: Do publishers really care what program was actually used to create it? Yes. I would assume they would not care as long as they get something in the appropriate format. Appropriate Format usually includes

Re: [libreoffice-users] tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-27 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/2011 15:14, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: The lady was saying that she had 4 or 5 Word documents open at the same time and the tab option. She said she would be lost without web browsers having tabs, so it just makes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

2011-05-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/2011 13:58, Roland Hughes wrote: Professional IT workers never remove any portion of the post because when you go through a SOX audit, and then through court, you get in a whole lot of trouble for doing it. For a SOX audit the important

Re: [libreoffice-users] OTRe: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

2011-05-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/2011 21:42, Sigrid Carrera wrote: If you're going to a football match, you do obey the rules for the game, you don't make up your own rules, Supposedly, both rugby and Australian rules football got started that way. jonathon - -- If

Re: [libreoffice-users] OT Top/Bottom posting

2011-05-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/05/2011 17:16, Lindsay Graham wrote: Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the current post if we both top-posted. Instead, I have to page down, and read the entire post, to try to figure out what you are responding to,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Currency?

2011-05-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/05/2011 09:09, me sub wrote: Am missing some currency format like Kuwaiti Dinar (KD), how can I add to the cell format or to the currency list ? Currency options are only available for locales that are included in LibO. As best as I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-05-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/05/2011 10:36, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: 1. Why is the default column width in Calc 2.27 cm? Where does that number come from? That is supposed to be one inch wide. (I know that one inch is 25.4mm, but the conversion was incorrectly done, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: new article - with quote from TDF steering committee member Italo Vignoli

2011-06-02 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2011 18:42, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Also, the info about the TDF developers were booted out of developing OOo seems weird to me. I would like to know where he got that info. When you quit the Several people were

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bullets with different outline levels

2011-06-14 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2011 04:13, rdb wrote: I am trying to make a nice style sheet with bullets at different outline levels, and with each outline level at a different indentation. The indentation just won't work out, whatever I try. Here's what I did: Make

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice | Grammar problem -reg

2011-06-14 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/06/2011 04:44, Ramkumar R wrote: We are users of libreoffice for a shorperiod. We have found some problem in the grammar check. There are five different grammar checkers for LibO. Between them, twenty different languages can be checked.

[libreoffice-users] OOo in a Multi-Lingual Environment

2014-07-08 Thread Toki
All: I stumbled across version 0.6 of _OOo in a Multi-Lingual Environment_ last night, in cleaning up files on my hard drive. (This is from December 2004, and is for OOo 1.1.3-ZA.) How fruitful would it be, to update it for LibO 4.x? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-15 Thread toki
On 16/05/2015 00:43, King Kong wrote: It's a challenge to craft a support question in 160 characters. There are several tools that take a statement, and tweet them as strings of between 100 and 150 characters. Using those, one doesn't have to worry about the cut off length. OTOH, reading

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-18 Thread toki
On 18/05/2015 14:19, anne-ology wrote: yet nary a response to my query as to just what this actually is, including how it's used, etc. Rephrasing what Charles wrote. «People ask support questions in 140 characters, and the support person gets to craft an answer in 140 characters.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-18 Thread toki
On 18/05/2015 19:24, anne-ology wrote: well, I thought I was confused before; I'll assume that the puns confused you. Rephrasing, sans puns. Twitter is another medium that people use, to request solutions for problems they encounter. People are currently using Twitter as their

[libreoffice-users] Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-19 Thread toki
All: In testing out various grammar and spell checkers, I've come across a couple of instances, where different languages/dialects share the same ISO 639 code. IOW: The _current_ ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3, ISO 639-4, ISO 639-5, and ISO 639-6 codes are the same. They do have different

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Base] Ready-to-use solutions to manage membership + inventory?

2015-05-17 Thread toki
On 17/05/2015 19:35, Gilles wrote: Which is why I asked about templates so that person can just download, install, and be on his way. Database templates will almost always have to be modified by the user, for their specific requirements. Consequently, there is very little impulse to create

Re: [libreoffice-users] Alignment in heading-styled numbered-paragraphs text

2015-06-05 Thread toki
On 06/05/2015 10:50 AM, Xiha wrote: I am trying to make use of heading-like paragraph styles in order to make a document of numbered paragraphs with nested levels. The simplest way to do what you want is: * Create paragraph style 1: This is the default paragraph style; * Set both the left

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

2015-06-24 Thread toki
On 06/24/2015 11:53 PM, Doug wrote: If I had to guess, my guess is that most people trying to use LO do not know about finding help under the F1 key. Microsoft program specifications have defined F1 as the help key for at least two decades. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

2015-06-24 Thread toki
On 06/25/2015 12:56 AM, Dave Barton wrote: To the best of my knowledge, only one of those USERS has professional writing skills and without her tireless input from day one neither the FWIW, several of the people on the Documentation Team, published books and other material, prior to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

2015-06-25 Thread toki
On 06/25/2015 03:18 AM, dallen wrote: Three groups? 1) pdf 2) Online help Who else? Built-in Help. This is the group that uses those two files I described as what should be a trivial task to find and install. And I think a case can also be made for the individual L10N Teams. jonathon --

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

2015-06-24 Thread toki
On 06/24/2015 07:01 PM, anne-ology wrote: I dislike the way these make it next to impossible to add responses, save in some usable form, ... ... ... ] FWIW, the documentation is available in ODF file formats. 2) Does anyone EVER click the F1 key for help? If not, why not?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc date formulae

2015-06-12 Thread toki
On 06/12/2015 07:29 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: could I use this future date to generate a reminder in Lightning calendar? Lightning uses SQLite. SQLite does no data validation. It has no objections to putting a 5 MB binary blob into a field that is supposed to be a single integer. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets

2015-06-15 Thread toki
On 06/15/2015 07:45 AM, Richard Brown wrote: have a form that will insert a payment every four weeks or monthly by date. Is this possible to do please? As a spreadsheet? If you are willing to write the appropriate macros, then yes. As a database, using the spreadsheet as an interface? Yes,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Randomly lost sheet

2015-06-15 Thread toki
On 06/15/2015 04:12 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Legacy formats are very well supported since many years. On topic: No sheets get lost. LibreOffice does a very good job reading all kinds of foreign file formats. However, writing out OOXML has too many flaws so it does not OOXML is an ISO file

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread toki
On 28/05/2015 16:38, James Knott wrote: That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. With OS/2, you could create a Work Area folder and whenever that folder was opened, whatever was in it would also open. Write a utility that creates a Work Area folder, regardless of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread toki
On 28/05/2015 07:18, James E Lang wrote: I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. FWIW, the OP said they used both Windows and Linux. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file The quoted Linux file is /opt/libreoffice4.4/program/soffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-27 Thread toki
On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote: This is still not what the OP wants. What he wants to know, is how to edit « #!/bin/sh # # This file is part of the LibreOffice project. # # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-27 Thread toki
On 27/05/2015 01:22, Thomas wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? What operating system? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-24 Thread toki
On 21/08/15 11:02, Pedro wrote: I disagree that the UI is the biggest problem... The acid test is whether or not the UI passes or fails Section 508 criteria. Currently, LibO fails Section 508 criteria. (Draw fails everything. Impress fails most of the time.) jonathon -- To unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-20 Thread toki
On 20/08/15 10:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I should get a job writing these kinds of reviews Why are you assuming that a human-being wrote the review? It has most of the hallmarks of a bot-written review. EASY MONEY! The days of the paid, professional reviewer are numbered. From one side,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-03 Thread toki
On 08/03/2015 11:47 AM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: Could Brad Rogers explain what the symbol embedded in his e-mail Are you talking about the ASCII art capital B? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu Linux]

2015-07-22 Thread toki
On 07/22/2015 07:26 PM, anne-ology wrote: and going back further to the 1940-'50s, IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines outside of financial scientific researchers ;-) IBM was looking at the market potential at that specific point in time,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 04:48 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Well, I think this certainly serves as a great example of a very complex document. :) Which document? * 10,000 images in one document; * 50,000 pages in the outline, with projected length of 5,000,000 pages; * 10 different writing systems in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 05:21 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Certainly, the 10 different writing systems in the same document is something *I* would consider complex, especially since that's not something I've ever seen, done, or even heard of. :) The 50,000 page outline document sounds complex as well,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-25 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO 2013 is completely, utterly, and absolutely incompatible with MSO 2013, when installed on a different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 01:31 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Question: in what ways does LO Writer fail at editing or creating complex documents? This where a definition for complex documents is mandatory. Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and complex documents? I've had as many as

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and save a PNG?

2015-07-13 Thread toki
On 07/13/2015 03:53 PM, anne-ology wrote: That is so *un*true. From their About page «Our primary function is to help you select the best freeware product for your particular needs.» If you were to actually go there, you would know they are so opposed to the freeware/adware software

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Base

2015-07-17 Thread toki
On 07/16/2015 09:03 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: There are many more reasons why the query designer is completely inefficient and inadequate in the context of a relational database. What you are forgetting is that all of those functions are supposed to provide the equivalent experience as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

2015-07-18 Thread toki
On 07/18/2015 05:29 PM, Tom Davies wrote: If programs plan to become cross-platform then initially writing for Linux seems to be the optimum route. If a programming team delivers a usable Linux product in one year, then for a second platform, it will take the same team six months to deliver

Re: [OT] [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

2015-07-18 Thread toki
On 07/18/2015 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote: Tell that to all the scientists who use supercomputers. The vast majority of them, including my cousin, run Linux. If you want state of the art software, that costs a fortune, you run *Nix. If you want almost state of the art, that costs a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I Edit Spell-check Word List

2015-07-20 Thread toki
On 07/20/2015 01:12 PM, Hyran wrote: I would like to customise my Spell-check Lexicon/Word List, i.e., I'd like to add a list of about 500 Afrikaans and Zulu words Are these words that are not in the current Afrikaans Zulu dictionaries? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

2015-10-26 Thread toki
On 26/10/15 19:08, Luuk wrote: >> MSO, EO, LibO, >> AnOO, etc. > > What do these abbreviations mean? > > MSO - Microsoft Office (this is a guess!) > EO - because i'm Dutch, the first thing i think about is 'Evangelische * EuroOffice: A European Fork of OOo; * AnOO: An Android fork of OOo; *

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

2015-10-26 Thread toki
On 26/10/15 16:04, p.a.2k9 wrote: > Before I decide to download your software I wanted to check on its > compatibility with other providers The only way to know how compatible software is with your existing systems and workflow, is to install it, and use it. For some people, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-13 Thread toki
On 13/11/2015 19:27, Joel Madero wrote: > I have never seen a 150 mb functional spreadsheet before. That size is not uncommon in environments where Excel is the only office tool that the employees know how to use. > I'd like to see the file because I'm relatively sure that a database is what is

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.4, 5.0 : firefox personas not work with path url...why?

2015-11-15 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 22:21, anne-ology wrote: >Are you comparing FireFox with LO?; The OP is reporting a bug in LibO 5.x. Whilst it doesn't affect program functionality, it does affect the "look and feel" of LibO. I'll grant that this is one of the less documented, and less used features of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-15 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 20:09, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > Sorry for my imprecision :-(. I meant references for the negative > impact of Excel on the Human Genom project. Just because Excel had been Neither DDG nor Google are providing appropriate URLs to me, of the research articles that showed where that

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.4, 5.0 : firefox personas not work with path url...why?

2015-11-15 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 16:29, manuel_songokuh wrote: > hello from Libreoffice 4.3 is best than 4.4 and 5.0 for PATH URL from a theme > firefox (personas), BECAUSE:4.4 and 5.0 is changed GUI and delete path of > url.. see screenshot of libreoffice 4.3: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LEBRE VERSION STILL

2015-11-04 Thread toki
On 05/11/2015 04:24, Ken Springer wrote: > While some bug may be deemed trivial by the devs or some system, that bug may > not be trivial to the user. That is why individuals and organization purchase Tier 3 support contracts. It does matter if the software is FLOSS, or non-FLOSS, the only way

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LEBRE VERSION STILL

2015-11-05 Thread toki
On 05/11/2015 10:24, Ken Springer wrote: > Or by going elsewhere, using someone else's product. :-) All software has bugs. The issue is whether one wants to use the software whose bugs one knows, (which is why I use something that the developers specifically proclaim is not suitable for use as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

2015-10-31 Thread toki
On 31/10/2015 10:03, Luuk wrote: > EuroOffice cannot be found on the internet EuroOffice 2015 for Windows and Linux can be found at http://www.multiracio.com/index.php . The page proclaims EuroOffice 2014, but if you click on it, it takes you to the download page for EuroOffice 2015. EuroOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread toki
On 11/10/15 21:24, Virgil Arrington wrote: > having learned the old Wordstar Ctrl-key combinations and PC-Write's function > key combinations. I'd love to be able to use the Wordstar Command Set, when editing documents with LibreOffice, as would most users that are blind. Ideally, every

Re: [libreoffice-users] CTL Bug Report Posted (for those using CTL of course)

2015-07-09 Thread toki
On 07/09/2015 04:24 PM, CVAlkan wrote: Those who have not yet given up on using LibreOffice Writer as a multi-lingual word processing application may be interested in the bug I'll write a more comprehensive response later, but the basic issue is that breaking the Western/CTL/Asian breakdown,

Re: [libreoffice-users] remove older version

2015-07-09 Thread toki
On 07/07/2015 06:26 PM, Tim---Kracked_P_P wrote: To be honest, I was told many years ago to stay away from Purge when Remove does the trick. Purge removes not only what is being requested, but also programs that depend on it, and, in some instances, things that the program depends upon.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 06:42, James E. Lang wrote: > I have no clue how to design and implement a database to replace the mess. One of the good things about Microsoft Access, was that it was easy for people who knew nothing about databases, to create their own database. I'll grant, that from a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Large spreadsheet does not open in LibreOffice.

2015-11-14 Thread toki
On 14/11/2015 17:43, Harvey Nimmo wrote: >> ^1: More than one researcher has argued that The Human Genome Project was a complete waste of money, time, and effort, > It would be interesting to have some references for this claim Which claim: * That researchers called the Human Genome Project a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libra Office on a Mac Mini (compared to Ms Office or default installed iWorks Apps)

2015-09-17 Thread toki
On 16/09/15 18:20, Robert Watt wrote: > Is it the case that Libre Office is as 'feature packed' as Ms Office, >or are there some important features that will be missing from Libre Office when compared to Ms Office? This really depends upon your specific use case, and what else you will be

Re: [libreoffice-users] font replacement rules

2015-12-02 Thread toki
On 01/12/2015 18:29, Milos Sramek wrote: > Don't you happen to know if LO uses any rules according to which the > replacement font is chosen? Or the choice is random (unless I set the > replacement manually)? There is a specific sequence of rules used for determining which glyph from which

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

2015-12-04 Thread toki
On 04/12/2015 11:45, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: > In Norwegian the double quotes are telling the reader that this is not a real > turtle but something turtle-like. The same grammatical construction also applies to English. (IOW, your original double quotes were correct.) jonathon -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot assign template to existing writer odt file

2015-12-16 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/12/2015 09:09, Ken Heard wrote: > I cannot assign a template to an existing writer odt file using the > menu item File->Templates->Assign template (current document). What version of _Template Changer_ did you install? Or maybe, that should

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where to request a new App (Mind mapping)for Libreoffice?

2015-12-16 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/2015 08:37, minhsien0330 wrote: > add a new application for mind mapping named "Mindmap"? There is _Export Freemind which can be obtained from http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/export-freemind. Freemind has either a built

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

2015-12-31 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/12/2015 07:45, Brian Barker wrote: > Surely you cannot believe this? No-one seriously can! I'm amazed > that you can publish this - without apparent embarrassment - to > such a large worldwide audience. The rules of English Grammar are

Re: [libreoffice-users] TRANLATION FOR LIBREOFFICE

2015-11-29 Thread toki
On 29/11/2015 22:38, giancarlo19...@alice.it wrote: > KNOWS IF THERE IS A GOOD TRANSLATOR THAT CAN BE INSTALLED INSIDE LIBREOFFICE > USING EXTENSIONS. If you need a translation tool simply to ensure consist usage of words, then _Translation Table_ will probably suffice. If CAT is more your

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