My LO does appear in the Start menu in Windows 10 and has survived
many Windows updates. I don't know offhand how to restore it to the
Start menu. I suppose you could reinstall LO.
- Robert
On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Philip Jackson wrote:
In the course of investigating another thread, I went to mak
Regina -
FWIW, I just tried it in LO 6.1.5.2 under Debian Linux 10 and it
worked as you said, without an error message, and with the very
misleading appearance of the absolute path in LO (but with the
relative path appearing in content.xml).
- Robert F.
On Sat, 19 Sep 2020, Regina Henschel
In the page style you can modify the left and right margins in the
same way as you modify the top and bottom margins. Does that not do
what you want?
- Robert
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, charles meyer wrote:
Hi,
I searched the Libre Writer User Manual but didn't find the equivalent to
Narrow Marg
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Manfred Nowak wrote:
On https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ is stated "LibreOffice makes your work
look great". But no measure for "Great Look" is defined. Therefore this claim may be
doubted.
From the rest of the text, it's clear that 'great look' means th
PowerPoint has the ability to make the mouse cursor appear during a
presentation as a coloured blob that looks a bit like a laser pointer.
Is there something like this in LO Impress?
If not, what tricks do people use for making the mouse cursor easier
to see during a presentation? My best effor
ely, that's something the document author ought to decide. But how would the
author know that a replacement was necessary at all? Or maybe it's different in
windows and ubuntu?
I haven't a clue.
Best,
/G.
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On Sat, 29/9/18, Robert Funnell
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Gary,
Gary Collins schrieb am 28-Sep-18 um 11:51:
Hi
I would like to be able to insert some unicode characters into writer doc
but cant find a way to do this directly.
Type U+0161 and then press Alt+X, for example. Alt+X is a toggle. You
can u
It looks to me as though U+A723 is actually not supported by
Liberation Sans or Serif and that a font replacement is happening,
although no font replacements are specified in my Options >
LibreOffice > Fonts. I don't know how to identify which font is
actually being used for the character. (LO 6
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Regina Henschel wrote:
Gary Collins schrieb am 28-Sep-18 um 10:41:
Hi
If i have a writer doc with a table inserted right at the start before any
text, but later i want to insert some lines of text before that table, ive
found i can do this by converting the table to tex
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
I was dismayed to discover recently (and surprised that I never noticed
before) that Libre Office disregards the difference between, say, á and
a in spelling checks, and in find and replace. (Dismayed also to
imagine that someone thinks this is a good
Yes, it worked beautifully :-)
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Peggy wrote:
Someone told me to use "reply all". I found an option under settings to set
it that way. Either has to be one of the other. I guess I'll have to
remember to uncheck it when I don't want to use it. Some groups don't want
to be both
Peggy -
Have you got this to work? I assume that you're setting the behaviour
by unchecking the 'Allow row to break across pages and columns' check
box in the Text Flow tab of the Table Properties dialogue? I tried it
and it worked. If it really doesn't work for you, it might help to
specify
Peggy -
I don't really understand Wade Smart's response, but have you tried
right-clicking in the affect cell and selecting 'Unprotect Cells'?
- Robert
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Wade Smart wrote:
From the help menu:
You can enable a selection cursor in a read-only text document or in the Help.
C
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
LO dropped support for TrueType fonts with version 5 and replaced that
with support for OpenTypeFormat fonts. The fontforge tool allows one to
create new fonts and convert existing one from one type or encoding to
another.
Where is this documented? All
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Dennis Heuer wrote:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:35:21 +0200
Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Dennis,
why do you need, that the entire block of text becomes a link? Do I
understand it correctly, that when clicking _somewhere_ in the block,
LO should switch to a different part of the
Gordon -
I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did
File > Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML
option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of
things aren't right but the images appear with their captions and no
filenames. Am I no
, gordon cooper wrote:
On 25/07/17 12:29, Robert Funnell wrote:
Gordon -
I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did
File > Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML
option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of things
aren
Interesting. I didn't know about the option of turning off the display
of some of the non-printing characters. Thanks. I found it under Tools
Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids > Display of.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017, Gabriele Ponzo wrote:
I guess the button you pressed is the mirrored
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Felipe T. Dorado wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:08:53 +0200, Felipe escribió:
FTD> I notice that you call your .csv file a "sheet" and I think it is not
FTD> a sheet, yet, but a text file.
I found the "Import" sheet option in the menus. I found it in "Insertar" >
"Hoja de
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 17/08/2016 à 18:35, Tom Morton a écrit :
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> > This is impossible tho. If I deleted these sections I would have had to have
> > deleted them separately as they were not together. And also if I had of
> > del
David -
Evince, mentioned by Bruce, also works under Windows.
- Robert
On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote:
Thank you Harvey, Stuart, and Bruce for useful information and suggestions.
I am a long time user of OO.org & LO, from the time of Star Office before
Sun. I am not a
On Mon, 30 May 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
nasrin khaksar wrote:
> hello every one.
> my sister wrote one document in microsoft word.
> i offered her libreoffice and encouraged her to use it.
> when she opened the document with libreoffice writer, she told that
> before of many words - is add
Steve, I've never heard of a non-breaking paragraph terminator. Could
you expand on how to insert it? I don't see it in the Insert > Manual
Break menu.
- Robert
On Fri, 6 May 2016, Steve Edmonds wrote:
Would a non-braking paragraph terminator resolve the issue. Inserted into the
Insert>Manua
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Robert Funnell wrote:
> Felipe -
>
> The hidden text being discussed here is described at
> https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Hiding_Text
> That doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?
>
> - Robert
>
That is
Marc -
Does this link help?
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=709
- Robert
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Marc Grober wrote:
I have worked through quite a few templates, and have found that address
this problem :-(
On 5/5/16 11:14 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 20
Felipe -
The hidden text being discussed here is described at
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Hiding_Text
That doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?
- Robert
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Felipe T. Dorado wrote:
Hello Luuk : )
On Thu, 5 May 2016 13:18:23 +0200, Luuk wrote:
L> On 05-05-
Walther -
Could you open your content.xml with Emacs and record a macro to
find and remove the hidden text? (I'm not sure that qualifies as
simple.)
- Robert
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote:
Hallo,
Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl:
> Do you have some advice how to rem
A simple Google search for 'libreoffice recent documents disable'
found the following, among others:
http://superuser.com/questions/726467/libreoffice-4-2-1-1-do-not-display-list-of-recent-documents
You should not 'hijack' another person's question to ask your own
different question.
On Tue,
In case it helps, I just tried it in LO 5.0.1.2 under MS Windows and
there was no crash.
Nasrin, what operating system were you using?
- Robert
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, nasrin khaksar wrote:
hi.
what stable version did you use before?
i did not test 5.0.4 but tested 4.3.7, 5.0.5 and worked great
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Annette wrote:
CVAlkan wrote (Thursday, March 3, 2016, 4:35:53 PM):
While inserting manual page breaks (Insert | Manual Break ... | Page Break)
to permit different header content for different sections (small "s"
sections - not Insert | Section ... sections) seems to work w
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, M Henri Day wrote:
2016-03-03 14:41 GMT+01:00 Regina Henschel :
Hi Mike,
Mike Scott schrieb:
[..]
Is there a way of reverting to an earlier 5.x? Synaptic doesn't offer
these, and makes switching versions something close to agonizingly hard.
Thanks.
I can easily make
On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Owen Genat wrote:
Pedro wrote
Robert Funnell wrote
What about unzipping the .odt/.odp/whatever file and searching for
font names in the resulting .xml files? (Again, I haven't tried this.)
That would make sense. Unfortunately the file styles.xml lists some 55
fonts
office.org/en/project/testfonts
which redirects to SourceForge.
Regards
Dave
Original Message ----
From: Robert Funnell
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 07:34:01 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't find the TestFonts
extension at http://e
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't find the TestFonts
extension at http://extensions.libreoffice.org/. Could someone please
provide a direct link or some other pointer?
Thanks.
- Robert
On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Pedro wrote:
Hi Jonathon
toki wrote
I _think_ that the TestFonts extensi
What about unzipping the .odt/.odp/whatever file and searching for
font names in the resulting .xml files? (Again, I haven't tried this.)
- Robert
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Pedro wrote:
Hi Robert and Brian
You had the same idea with a few minutes overlap :)
Thank you for the suggestion. I am awar
Perhaps export as PDF and let a PDF viewer tell you what fonts are
there? (I haven't tried this, I just discovered recently that a PDF
viewer could tell me that.)
- Robert
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Pedro wrote:
Hi all
Does anyone know a way to find out which fonts are used in a Open Document
(in
I'd like to comment on the 2 typographic rules mentioned for English.
(1) Many typographers believe that there should not be 2 spaces after
the period at the end of a sentence. See
http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/InforMed/Bacon/WP/space.html
(2) I don't think it's correct to say that dou
In Impress (and also, I gather, in PowerPoint) non-looping animated
GIF's return to and stop at the first frame after displaying the
animation. This seems odd, and is not the way that they're displayed
in Firefox, where they just stop at the last frame.
Is there something I'm missing? Is there
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Doug wrote:
On 03/19/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and
the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO
won't let me. I go to tools->language->hyphenation with the wor
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Bruce Byfield wrote:
On Tuesday 16 September 2014 11:42:53 PM James wrote:
On 14-09-15 12:57 AM, Daniel wrote:
Is there a reason why when I justify some texts, automatically there are
big spaces between words?
Thanks
Daniel
Full Justification justifies to both left and
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:49 10/08/2014 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:25 10/08/2014 +0200, Pat Brown wrote:
Is there any way to split a primary (one that has not been 'merged'
previously) cell? I can't seem
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:25 10/08/2014 +0200, Pat Brown wrote:
Is there any way to split a primary (one that has not been 'merged'
previously) cell? I can't seem to find such an option. If there is no
current option then is it technically possible to do so?
This wouldn'
A quick Google search indicates that your suggestion of PrintShop may
be close to the mark. It seems that the files are probably image files
and not word-processing files. Apparently there are image-conversion
programmes available out there that can handle these files.
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Kra
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Eric Beversluis wrote:
I'm entering some code lines in a LO Writer document. The lines are long
and wrap around and I'm looking for the special character 'curved arrow'
that is used to indicate that it's a continuation line and not a new
line of code. I don't see it in the Sp
[libreoffice-users] Bibliography entry system and
word/character counting
On 08/18/2013 02:30 PM, Robert Funnell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:
>
>> On 08/18/2013 02:09 PM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:
>>> On 08/18/2013 08:20 AM
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:
On 08/18/2013 02:09 PM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:
On 08/18/2013 08:20 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
> Le 17/08/2013 12:46, Krunoslav Šebetić a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > think that LO should have (a little bit) better bibliography entry
> > syste
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Élie Roux wrote:
Dear All,
I have LibreOffice 4.0.3 from Debian Wheezy backports. Sadly this doesn not
install the Linux Libertine G font. I wanted to download it from
http: //numbertext.org/linux/ (particularly
http: //www.numbertext.org/linux/e7a384790b13c29113e22e596a
On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:42:53 +0200
Axel Braun wrote:
Any idea how to extract the font color and make it available for all
text?
There might be an easier way, but if you use an unzip file to look at
the zip'd contents of a .odt file, you'll find content.xml. In there
will be style definition
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, TomW wrote:
What I found on my LibreOffice 3.5.5.2 (vista): lower case fn did not
work(error like OP), upper case FN does work. In calling up the autotext
dialog, then selecting 'formula numbering', the displayed shortcut was FN
(both uppercase).
For me, with both Libre
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, AG wrote:
I played around with this on my Debian box using LibO v.3.6.4.3.
I typed in e=mc2
new line and entered *fn* and then F3
It gave me E=mc2 (1)
So I did a second equation (made up for the purpose)
p =(q + 1)2
New line and *fn* and then F3
But got E=mc2
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Taang Zomi wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Robert Funnell wrote:
It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the
Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand
the one called Standard. If you scrol
It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to
the Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of
categories. Expand the one called Standard. If you scroll down the
resulting list, you should see the entry 'Formula Numbering'. Select
it and then click on the Ins
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Would an acceptable work-around be to send 2 versions of the document? The old and the new?
In 'most' (?) cases people would hopefully already have the old version, or an even older one. Then hopefully the
"Compare Documents" feature in the vari
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Bobby kneisel wrote:
Unfortunately, where I work, this feature is used heavily ( and yest it is
really, really annoying) but is considered a must have for our
environment.
Bobby Kneisel
I wouldn't call it 'must-have' in my en
I just confirmed what I think you're seeing, in LO 3.4.6.
I guess that a bug report is required, after searching to make sure it
hasn't already been reported.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
So far not a single response.
Does that mean, I am the "ONLY ONE" experiencing this?
Or
It was answered in this message:
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg22778.html
And also (unnecessarily snarkily) in this one:
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg22784.html
AOO = Apache Open Office
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, anne-ology wrote:
I too would li
On 24/06/2012 at 19:06, Gilles wrote:
Can you confirm that there is no way in LibreOffice to open a long document
and split the screen in two halves?
I think that you can get the functionality that you want by
doing Window > New Window.
There's a related discussion at
https://bugs.freedesk
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
On 01/29/2012 03:50 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:25:34 -0500
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
wrote:
Hello webmaster,
The ignore double spaces is an option that needs to be looked. To be
honest, I do not know what it does when
I run writer on multiple machines (Windows and Linux) and I like to
share settings between them. I know how to do this with macros and
menus by copying files. Now I would like to share the new entries that
I've created in the symbol catalogue of the formula editor. These seem
to be defined in r
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