[libreoffice-users] Select text does not always work
The other oddity I noticed, which, again, is not something you would use every day, involves text which is apparently selected, but is actually not. And in this case it's probably worth mentioning that I'm using 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6. I was going through a long document correcting quotation marks. The document contained a mixed bag of single and double quotation marks, and some were of the typewriter form (same at opening and closing) and some were of the kind that I learned to call 66's and 99's, which have a distinctive comma form. Some of these were 6's and 9's of course, if they were single quotation marks. I was replacing typewriter double quotes around direct speech with single 6's and 9's, thus: What do you mean by good? asked John would become What do yo mean by 6good9? asked John. (I'm typing text only, so I can't actually type curved quotes without going to html) I had a search and replace window open with which I searched for opening double quotes by clicking on find until I came to the opening quotes of good in the sample above, when I clicked on replace to replace it with a single 6 quote. When one does this, the search automatically goes on to find the next example of a double quote, and in this case would hop to the end of good and select the second quotation marks. To handle this, I had a copy of the character table open, with the single 9 quote selected. When I pressed Insert, nothing happened. No replace, no insert. Not until I physically reselected the already selected double typewriter quote. Not world-shattering, but perhaps something that needs an explanation. Or a fix. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...
In another email I said that I had given up on using mailmerge, since the labels never print out as you want them to. My problem is this: I have a laser printer, Brother HL-5340D, excellent in all ways. I print from a Mac running OSX 10.6.6 and LibO 3.3.1. I use A4 sized sheets with three columns and eight rows of labels. Avery L7159 has the same number of labels but they are slightly different. On the Avery L7159 format, the labels have a small vertical margin between labels. On my sheets, there is no vertical margin. This should actually be better for my problem, but doesn't help. What I get when I print is the first column of labels begin to print at the extreme left margin so that a couple of letters are missing, notwithstanding that the Avery labels don't actually extend to the extreme left margin. The second column starts printing in the middle of the margin between labels 1 and 2, so that the first letter comes at the extreme left edge of the label. The same thing happens with label 3, which, additionally prints all the way to the extreme right edge, notwithstanding that the Avery label doesn't extend all the way to the extreme right edge, so that letters are missing from long names or addresses which don't wrap as they should. I have tried creating my own custom label template, but there are so many other problems with the mailmerge system that I've given up. For example, what I get when I manage to get labels with the wizard is this: Page 1 contains one row of the A's, three of them, of course, then 7 rows of labels with field names. Page 2 starts with the fourth name in the list and continues normally, as do subsequent pages. I place normally in quotation marks since the normal form of the labels is, as I said earlier, lacking letters on each label. If any kind soul has a custom template which they think works with labels of this type, Avery L7159 or ones which extend to the extreme left and right edges, and is willing to share it, I'll give them, perhaps not gold, but undying admiration and gratitude. But basically, I think the mailmerge system could do with a good working over. That, or the instructions on how to use it, either manually or with the wizard. Fortunately my labels are only around 200, for our local gardening club, so I can cope with doing it more or less manually, but it would be nice to be able to automatise it. TIA //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an existing document eg a spreadsheet (.ods) takes a very long time. For a spreadsheet that has only 20 lines (filesize, 18.5 Kbyte), with LibreOffice already running, take about 6 seconds until the document is visible. During the 6 seconds the new opened window is simply grey. If I close the docuement without leaving LibreOffice and the reopen it again its loaded really fast and then also other docuemnts load fast ( 1sec). So it seems that when the first docuement is loaded something else happens that take quite a long time. When I reastart Libreoffice and open the docuement once again, it again takes 6 sec to open it . This does not only happen with a single special document but with each and every docment I try to open. In Openoffice the load time for such a small spreadsheet was not even one second. Any ideas what might be the cause for this delay? Have a nice day Rainer -- Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse 1 56070 Koblenz, http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312 PGP: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO for Ubuntu
From: MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 19:22:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO for Ubuntu On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:50 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 20:29, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: Have I missed something, or is LibO really not to be found amongst the apps available via Synaptic or the new Ubuntu Software Centre? Search for libreoffice rather than LibO... It's there in 10.10... Only if a) you already have it installed or b) you have added the PPA to your apt-* configuration. It is not there by default. Also, I recommend using the official release *.debs from TDF. Read back entries in this list's archives for the pros and cons of why or why not. Hi :) In Ubuntu 10.04 i don't have a Ppa for LibreOffice but still found it in the repos. I do have the medibuntu repos added of course but i doubt libreoffice is in there. I need to test this with a LiveCd session sometime soon to see what the defaults are. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: 100% zoom is huge in Snow Leopard
Le 01/03/11 05:58, mr9times a écrit : Hi, Are others experiencing this as well? I did some searching on the web and the mail list archive but didn't find anything. I too, have a Macbook Pro, but haven't noticed this problem. What I have noticed, however, is that the touchpad is extremely sensitive to double finger screen zoom modification, and this can be rather annoying when moving objects around screen or just copy-pasting. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response
Le 28/02/11 19:34, Marc Grober a écrit : Hi Marc, There may in fact be a command line option for invoking a Tbird envelope from inside the package without invoking a new instance of Tbird - seems to me I had to address something like that on aix quite a few years ago. Unfortunately I tried /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -silent -compose and that did not work (resulted in the behavior you mention) and adding quotes results in LO not being able to find an e-mail app. Yes, I couldn't get it to work with any of the CLI parameters, so gave up. I now see from Larry's response that this is a longstanding issue with TB. Oh well. I personally, don't use send as e-mail much, but I can imagine one or two use cases where it would be really handy for me. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
Rainer Krienke wrote: Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an existing document eg a spreadsheet (.ods) takes a very long time. For a spreadsheet that has only 20 lines (filesize, 18.5 Kbyte), with LibreOffice already running, take about 6 seconds until the document is visible. During the 6 seconds the new opened window is simply grey. If I close the docuement without leaving LibreOffice and the reopen it again its loaded really fast and then also other docuemnts load fast ( 1sec). So it seems that when the first docuement is loaded something else happens that take quite a long time. When I reastart Libreoffice and open the docuement once again, it again takes 6 sec to open it . This does not only happen with a single special document but with each and every docment I try to open. In Openoffice the load time for such a small spreadsheet was not even one second. Any ideas what might be the cause for this delay? Have a nice day Rainer Hi Rainer I had a similar, if not the same issue, on my openSUSE 11.3 64Bit install. I use KDE and had not installed the libreofice-gnome extensions for this reason. Having been advised to remove my libreoffice profile, which did nothing, I decided to install the gnome extension anyway and for me this resolved the issue. Perhaps it will for you too. I install libreoffice from the stable repository at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_11.3/ HTH Regards Dave -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October
LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October First annual project meeting from October 12th to 15th The Document Foundation today announced the first annual LibreOffice Conference, which will be held in Paris from October 12th to 15th. Carrying on the tradition of previous OOoCon conferences, the LibreOffice Conference will be the event for those interested in the development of free office productivity software, open standards, and the OpenDocument format generally. We're proud of what we have achieved so far with LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. We are seeing a rapidly-growing ecosystem built on free software, and the LibreOffice Conference will be an exciting opportunity to meet our Community members, developers and hackers, says Charles Schulz, Steering Committee member of The Document Foundation and one of the organizers of this year's conference. Paris has long been a strong supporter of free software and, following a fantastic release party in 2008, plans for another event in Paris were already being made during the last OOoCon. So, we're happy to announce our first conference taking place in the heart of France. The LibreOffice Conference will host several tracks on various aspects of LibreOffice, including adoption, migration, development and interoperability. More information about the venue and a call for papers will be available soon. The location for the LibreOffice Conference in 2012 will be decided by the Community in an open Call for Locations process, details about which will be announced soon. The website for the LibreOffice Conference is at http://conference.libreoffice.org Information on LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization over the next few months. An independent foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community. Media Contacts Florian Effenberger (Germany) Landline phone: +49 8341 99660880 Cellphone: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Cellphone: +55 21 88228812 E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Cellphone: +33 6 98655424 E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Cellphone: +39 348 5653829 E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: ... I'd be willing to bet that you have the Ubuntu libreoffice PPA. What do you show for: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep libreoffice Can you also show the output of: $ apt-cache policy libreoffice Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. Hope that works for you. Personally, unless I were testing/contributing for Ubuntu, I'd take ZenWiz's advise and install from the libreoffice .debs. I have issues with a PPA/package that insists on uninstalling (or insisting that I uninstall) an existing OOo install simply because the packager can't figure out how to install (or is too lazy to do so) the LO package without affecting existing office packages. I wonder just how many would find it acceptable if the LO PPA also removed all other office packages (Abiword for instance) in the process? Or if the TDF .deb required that you uninstalled your distro OOo before installing. Amazing... Please remember to report issues in launchpad specify that you are running the PPA version. Also, if you report issues here, please do the same (specify that you are running a distro PPA version). My reply was not intended as a rejection of your suggestion, NoOp. It was simply that, in the intervening period, I had manually removed OOo, and managed to find out what I needed to do to get the LibO repository registered in Ubuntu. Amazing, as an aside, how quickly one's knowledge of unix commands disappears when one stops using them. Since I retired I guess about 90% of what was once automatic has evaporated. Since I now have LibO on the machine, albeit from the ppa, I'll see how I get on with that one. I'll test adding the UK, Swedish and Chinese language packs, and see if they find the original US version, and if, so, I'm happy. I'm not in linux all that often nowadays. If not, I'll unload and reload from the LibO site version as you and others have suggested. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
On 03/01/2011 05:39 AM, David Griffiths wrote: Rainer Krienke wrote: Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an existing document eg a spreadsheet (.ods) takes a very long time. For a spreadsheet that has only 20 lines (filesize, 18.5 Kbyte), with LibreOffice already running, take about 6 seconds until the document is visible. During the 6 seconds the new opened window is simply grey. If I close the docuement without leaving LibreOffice and the reopen it again its loaded really fast and then also other docuemnts load fast ( 1sec). So it seems that when the first docuement is loaded something else happens that take quite a long time. When I reastart Libreoffice and open the docuement once again, it again takes 6 sec to open it . This does not only happen with a single special document but with each and every docment I try to open. In Openoffice the load time for such a small spreadsheet was not even one second. Any ideas what might be the cause for this delay? Have a nice day Rainer Hi Rainer I had a similar, if not the same issue, on my openSUSE 11.3 64Bit install. I use KDE and had not installed the libreofice-gnome extensions for this reason. Having been advised to remove my libreoffice profile, which did nothing, I decided to install the gnome extension anyway and for me this resolved the issue. Perhaps it will for you too. I install libreoffice from the stable repository at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_11.3/ HTH Regards Dave I get a delay myself on Ubuntu 10.10 [GNOME desktop] for Writer as well. The delay is not as bad most times, but it can be a problem. I click on the file to open in LibreOffice. When it comes up and I see the courser marking, it still is frozen for a few seconds with the time depending on the size of the file. I usually keep LibreOffice's initial screen open and minimized to prevent more than 5 second delay. I do wonder what is the cause/issue, but I hope it will be fixed or reduced in the 3.3.2 version. So it is not just openSUSE that does it. Ubuntu does as well. I rarely use my Vista laptop so I will see if it does it there [later today since the boot time is long due to all the security packages I use to keep a Windows system safe online]. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On 03/01/2011 05:50 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: snip Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. Please do not take this the wrong way. Would you let me know what dictionaries are installed with the UK and Swedish versions of the language packs. There should be only one for the UK but Swedish has a version for Finland as well. I found that one while I added my list of all the known dictionaries on the last three-quarters for the extension page for the North American DVD project. http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/extensions.html I am wondering if the Swedish pack installs the thesaurus, spelling dictionary, and the Finland version. I found these as separate add ons and wonder if the spelling dictionary and thesaurus shows up separately in the Extension Manager. I just got a bug in me about the dictionaries for LibreOffice. When I tested it on my Vista laptop [which I rarely use for office suite work] I used the all language version and installed 5 or more extra languages. It seemed that I got a dictionary for the entire language list in the custom install. Not just the languages I installed, but the whole list. I am glad that we get to choose language packs with Linux, but my Ubuntu desktop keeps giving a dependency error for a .deb that I have installed but it wants en-GB instead of the file name en-gb. So I cannot check out what Linux installs. snip Since I now have LibO on the machine, albeit from the ppa, I'll see how I get on with that one. I'll test adding the UK, Swedish and Chinese language packs, and see if they find the original US version, and if, so, I'm happy. I'm not in linux all that often nowadays. If not, I'll unload and reload from the LibO site version as you and others have suggested. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Features request
Hi :) Hopefully someone can post your wishlist items to the developers list. As a workaround the clumsy If (Test1, (IF (Test2, (COUNT (??)), otherwise?), otherwise?) Obviously this is sub-optimal for what you need but it should work as long as you keep track of all the brackets and remember to close them appropriately. Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: pkapl...@comcast.net pkapl...@comcast.net To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 1 March, 2011 15:39:25 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Features request Don't know if this is the right place to make a feature request, but... Calc could use the following additional mathematical functions. AVERAGEIF - averages the argument which meet the set of conditions AVERAGEIFS - averages the argument which meet the multiple set of conditions COUNTIFS - counts the argument which meet the multiple set of conditions SUMIFS - sums the argument which meet the multiple set of conditions Are there plans to introduce these? Are there any workarounds for not having these? Thanks, Paul -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response
On 2/28/11 2:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response On 2011/02/28 12:47 PM Marc Grober wrote: Nope, tried all those variations - two real options; a) you invoke the package which results in TBird coming forward, but no envelope, or b) you invoke the binary, in which case you get an error message no matter the flags indicatin that there is already a copy running. OSX does not have a shell file I believe (at least not a thunderbird.sh like unix.) There is a long standing bug report on this for Thunderbird. It is now marked as Resolved Fixed but doesn't seem to be integrated into current version of Thunderbird. (or not actually fixed) See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287345 Larry Hi :) It looks as though there are still 2 more steps. 1. The fix/patch needs to be beta tested or QA have to Verify it. There might be a way for you to be one of the beta testers but i don't know how. 2. The fix/patch needs to be released. Regards from Tom :) The address listed for QA for that bug bounces the assignee is on vacation til next week. The patch that was developed is not targeted until TB 3.3 and it was a bit unclear from the discussion as to what version of the patch they finally decided upon and whether the patched fully resolved the issues (as there were a couple of folk who indicated that it did NOT resolve all their problems.) However, the target for this patch was 3.3a1 and cut off for 3.3.a2 is come and gone. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response
On 2011/02/28 5:13 PM Tom Davies wrote: ___ From: Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response On 2011/02/28 12:47 PM Marc Grober wrote: Nope, tried all those variations - two real options; a) you invoke the package which results in TBird coming forward, but no envelope, or b) you invoke the binary, in which case you get an error message no matter the flags indicatin that there is already a copy running. OSX does not have a shell file I believe (at least not a thunderbird.sh like unix.) There is a long standing bug report on this for Thunderbird. It is now marked as Resolved Fixed but doesn't seem to be integrated into current version of Thunderbird. (or not actually fixed) See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287345 Larry Hi :) It looks as though there are still 2 more steps. 1. The fix/patch needs to be beta tested or QA have to Verify it. There might be a way for you to be one of the beta testers but i don't know how. 2. The fix/patch needs to be released. Regards from Tom :) Please fix your quote attribution. Everything I previously wrote appears to be attributed to you. If I hadn't included my name in my previous post it would be easy to assume you wrote it. Larry -- _ Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape
I am getting something like this too, but my specs are a little different: - LibreOffice Calc 3.3.1 - Windows XP Pro SP3 - Paper Size: Letter When I open an XLSX made with PHPExcel and orientation set to landscape, it appears OK in Excel 2003 and OpenOffice.org 3.3.1... but it is portrait in LibreOffice. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A5-landscape-tp2038922p2605323.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Select text does not always work
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: The other oddity I noticed, which, again, is not something you would use every day, involves text which is apparently selected, but is actually not. And in this case it's probably worth mentioning that I'm using 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6. I was going through a long document correcting quotation marks. The document contained a mixed bag of single and double quotation marks, and some were of the typewriter form (same at opening and closing) and some were of the kind that I learned to call 66's and 99's, which have a distinctive comma form. Some of these were 6's and 9's of course, if they were single quotation marks. I was replacing typewriter double quotes around direct speech with single 6's and 9's, thus: What do you mean by good? asked John would become What do yo mean by 6good9? asked John. (I'm typing text only, so I can't actually type curved quotes without going to html) I had a search and replace window open with which I searched for opening double quotes by clicking on find until I came to the opening quotes of good in the sample above, when I clicked on replace to replace it with a single 6 quote. When one does this, the search automatically goes on to find the next example of a double quote, and in this case would hop to the end of good and select the second quotation marks. To handle this, I had a copy of the character table open, with the single 9 quote selected. When I pressed Insert, nothing happened. No replace, no insert. Not until I physically reselected the already selected double typewriter quote. Not world-shattering, but perhaps something that needs an explanation. Or a fix. I'm not sure you can do that in the context of a running find/replace command - it has different operational rules than just straight insertion, even over selected text. What you can do for situations like this (although I usually convert the quotes the other way around - from 66/99 back to straight quotes) is select and copy the replacement pattern you want to use outside the running f/r, then when you hit the opening quote, just replace it, but when you hit the closing quote, use paste (^V or insert) to drop the previously selected and copied (i.e., clipboard) closing quote. That should work. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You need to modify your hosts file as per the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/double-clicking-on-open-office-files-leads-to-very-slow-opening-808048/ It worked perfectly for me. ... Interesting! Thanks for that. Both OOo (standard) and LO show an intial attempt on startup: $ sudo tcpdump -nnl -i eth0 -s 1536 dst port 53 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 1536 bytes 08:55:19.185426 IP 192.168.1.100.60726 snipped.53: 25658+ A? gl.(none). (27) 08:55:19.198881 IP 192.168.1.100.50501 snipped.53: 8984+ A? gl.(none). (27) If you leave the dump on and check extensions updates it, of course, shows the connections. I suspect the initial startup attempt is code that is supposed to check for updates (even though I have it turned off in (S)OOo (OOo standard), and it is not available in LO). (U)OOo - Ubuntu distro version doesn't do this, as it doesn't check for updates on startups because it's updates are from the repository/update manager. So let's see what happens when I turn on the 'Check for updates automatically' in (S)OOo: $ sudo tcpdump -nnl -i eth0 -s 1536 dst port 53 [sudo] password for gg: tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 1536 bytes 09:13:58.989149 IP 192.168.1.100.44719 snipped.53: 35400+ A? gl.(none). (27) 09:13:59.004241 IP 192.168.1.100.60531 snipped.53: 39633+ A? gl.(none). (27) 09:14:36.374815 IP 192.168.1.100.34566 snipped.53: 43543+ ? update36.services.openoffice.org. (50) 09:14:36.386675 IP 192.168.1.100.52925 snipped.53: 36068+ A? update36.services.openoffice.org. (50) etc. Now modify the hosts file: $ sudo tcpdump -nnl -i eth0 -s 1536 dst port 53 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 1536 bytes 09:19:23.767805 IP 192.168.1.100.35025 snipped.53: 49818+ ? update36.services.openoffice.org. (50) 09:19:23.779613 IP 192.168.1.100.34164 snipped.53: 36403+ A? update36.services.openoffice.org. (50) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/28 5:13 PM Tom Davies wrote: ___ From: Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response On 2011/02/28 12:47 PM Marc Grober wrote: Nope, tried all those variations - two real options; a) you invoke the package which results in TBird coming forward, but no envelope, or b) you invoke the binary, in which case you get an error message no matter the flags indicatin that there is already a copy running. OSX does not have a shell file I believe (at least not a thunderbird.sh like unix.) There is a long standing bug report on this for Thunderbird. It is now marked as Resolved Fixed but doesn't seem to be integrated into current version of Thunderbird. (or not actually fixed) See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287345 Larry Hi :) It looks as though there are still 2 more steps. 1. The fix/patch needs to be beta tested or QA have to Verify it. There might be a way for you to be one of the beta testers but i don't know how. 2. The fix/patch needs to be released. Regards from Tom :) Please fix your quote attribution. Everything I previously wrote appears to be attributed to you. If I hadn't included my name in my previous post it would be easy to assume you wrote it. If you have been following this list for a few weeks, you might realize that this plea falls on deaf ears. Yahoo email screwed up their quoting mechanism beyond all hope, and some people cling to using Yahoo email beyond all reason. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You need to modify your hosts file as per the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/double-clicking-on-open-office-files-leads-to-very-slow-opening-808048/ It worked perfectly for me. ... Interesting! Thanks for that. Both OOo (standard) and LO show an intial attempt on startup: Seems like a bug that either should be querying $HOSTNAME.(none) - how standard is that? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...
Most of the problems listed here with labels are not problems. The table style templates, available from worldlabel.com or in openoffice extensions, work great. The text is centered vertically in each label since they are table cells. It is very easy to change the top margin to adjust for your top margin for your printer. Simply do it through the page format for the top margin. For the left margin of each column, you just drag the top one and all of the cells below it will be the same. I first had a problem when printing multiple pages of labels from openoffice base. It would miss one database entry when it went to each new page. After following instructions on setting up the page, that problem was easily overcome. The labels print perfectly from the top of the sheet to the bottom of the sheet without the alignment problems you have with the Microsoft style and default style labels in openoffice, even if you are printing small, 60 label sheets filled with small text. A person using Microsoft Word doing that had major alignment problems on a 60 label sheet once the page was two-thirds printed. I put the information into OpenOffice with the table style label forms, and they printer perfectly. The table style templates are also very easy to paste data into multiple cells, or even an entire page, at one time. On 03/01/2011 02:37 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:25 AM, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: In another email I said that I had given up on using mailmerge, since the labels never print out as you want them to. My problem is this: I gave up on mail merges a long time ago because the interface for creating just about anything was so arcane I couldn't use it, but that was with OOo before LibO came along. I have a laser printer, Brother HL-5340D, excellent in all ways. I print from a Mac running OSX 10.6.6 and LibO 3.3.1. I use A4 sized sheets with three columns and eight rows of labels. : If any kind soul has a custom template which they think works with labels of this type, Avery L7159 or ones which extend to the extreme left and right edges, and is willing to share it, I'll give them, perhaps not gold, but undying admiration and gratitude. Have you tried to use the pre-supplied labels in LibO? I don't use A4 paper, and there are a whole bunch of features of the labels, especially the 5160 (3x10) address label template, that just irritate the hell out of me, they might be what you need. Some of the mentioned features are: 1) Multi-page label sheets just don't work right - they tend to lose whole labels in what I think was a random pattern that drove me up the wall. (I wound up doing multiple single sheets for my holiday address labels.) 2) The label patterns are wider than the real labels on the sheet, so I have to indent each column in order to get them to print without losing a line or two of lettering off the left edge, sometimes in all three columns. 3) The vertical alignment is tricky at best and I have to use blank lines different font heights to get it right (a vertical alignment/centering feature would be REALLY nice here...). 4) The mechanics of copying labels on the sheet are awful. IIRC, you have to copy into each destination label individually, and there is no way to select a whole column, row or the whole sheet (or maybe just no way to do so with the keyboard - I think the mouse select may work here) and paste into them intelligently. (The Avery label maker macro set for MS Word used to do a lot of these things really well, but I left Windows, Word and Avery behind as a standard word processing environment a long time ago, and those labels, or pretty much any other similarly formatted document, do not translate well between Word and OOo/LO at all, in either direction.) 5) This also happens with the 4x20 format for small return-address labels, but I have that one set up and working and I don't need to mess with it as much. But basically, I think the mailmerge system could do with a good working over. That, or the instructions on how to use it, either manually or with the wizard. Fortunately my labels are only around 200, for our local gardening club, so I can cope with doing it more or less manually, but it would be nice to be able to automatise it. If it's anything like OOo's horrid mail-merge, I totally agree -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
Now if there was just a simple fix like that for LibreOffice base working so sluggishly with Java 1.6.0_24 On 03/01/2011 02:50 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You need to modify your hosts file as per the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/double-clicking-on-open-office-files-leads-to-very-slow-opening-808048/ It worked perfectly for me. ... Interesting! Thanks for that. Both OOo (standard) and LO show an intial attempt on startup: Seems like a bug that either should be querying $HOSTNAME.(none) - how standard is that? -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/ _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com http://www.myersfarm.com/ *~~* -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape
I am getting something like this too, but my specs are a little different: - LibreOffice Calc 3.3.1 - Windows XP Pro SP3 - Paper Size: Letter When I open an XLSX made with PHPExcel and orientation set to landscape, it appears OK in Excel 2003 and OpenOffice.org 3.3.1... but it is portrait in LibreOffice. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A5-landscape-tp2038922p2605315.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape
I tracked this down to a problem using pcl5. If you can use a postscript driver the problem goes away M -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A5-landscape-tp2038922p2605553.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Low-quality images when exporting Impress presentation to PDF
Hello, I have an Impress presentation containing several screenshot images (1024x768 PNG images). I want to export it to a PDF, which will mostly be read on-screen (not printed). I've tried many combination of PDF export options and image resolutions, and no matter what I try, the image quality in the PDF is noticeably low (looks like poor-quality rescaling, especially with text/letters). I've tried JPEG and Loseless, Reduction to 75,300,900,1200 DPI and no reduction at all - nothing helps. I've tried screenshots both with and without LCD-subpixel rendering. I've tried upsampling downsampling the image in GIMP before importing it to Impress, and still no go. I'm using LibreOffice 3.3 on Debian, but the same PDF results happen in OpenOffice 3.2.1 and OpenOffice 2. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -gordon -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Default character formatting not behaving as it did in OOo?
LibreOffice is behaving in an unexpected manner with respect to default character formatting. To replicate, first do the following in OpenOffice.org: 1. Start a new document. 2. Type a few words and highlight one of the middle words. 3. Apply a different Character style to that text. For example, apply Emphasis. 4. Now choose Default Formatting from the Format menu or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-M 5. Note the formatting reverts to the Default format. Now do the same thing in LibreOffice. Note that Default Formatting now appears to do nothing. The character style stays the same. It would appear that the only method for removing the style applied at step 3 above is to choose the character formatting from the Style dock. Is this by design? Thanks in advance, Max -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Default-character-formatting-not-behaving-as-it-did-in-OOo-tp2607020p2607020.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1
On 03/01/2011 12:58 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Now if there was just a simple fix like that for LibreOffice base working so sluggishly with Java 1.6.0_24 There is thread over on the OOo user list that mentions this. Unfortunately the author doesn't provide any details or test scenario (possibly due to the change of OOo website lists): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions/212275 Perhaps if you can test with older versions of Java and create a valid test scenario you can file a bug? On 03/01/2011 02:50 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You need to modify your hosts file as per the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/double-clicking-on-open-office-files-leads-to-very-slow-opening-808048/ It worked perfectly for me. ... Interesting! Thanks for that. Both OOo (standard) and LO show an intial attempt on startup: Seems like a bug that either should be querying $HOSTNAME.(none) - how standard is that? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On 03/01/2011 02:50 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: ... Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. Hope that works for you. Personally, unless I were testing/contributing for Ubuntu, I'd take ZenWiz's advise and install from the libreoffice .debs. I have issues with a PPA/package that insists on uninstalling (or insisting that I uninstall) an existing OOo install simply because the packager can't figure out how to install (or is too lazy to do so) the LO package without affecting existing office packages. I wonder just how many would find it acceptable if the LO PPA also removed all other office packages (Abiword for instance) in the process? Or if the TDF .deb required that you uninstalled your distro OOo before installing. Amazing... Please remember to report issues in launchpad specify that you are running the PPA version. Also, if you report issues here, please do the same (specify that you are running a distro PPA version). My reply was not intended as a rejection of your suggestion, NoOp. Not taken that way :-) It was simply that, in the intervening period, I had manually removed OOo, and managed to find out what I needed to do to get the LibO repository registered in Ubuntu. Amazing, as an aside, how quickly one's knowledge of unix commands disappears when one stops using them. Since I retired I guess about 90% of what was once automatic has evaporated. I simply don't like the fact that PPA LO removes, requires the removal of, OOo. I run multiple versions of OOo (OOo standard, (U)OOo, OOo-dev) and LO. Often it is *very* handy to bring up some, or all, at the same time so that I can compare issues between them. It also helps when a 'feature' on one fails, but works in the other. Example of the last is Impress presentations; doesn't work in OOo-standard/OOo-dev. I'm beyond messing about with Sun/Oracle's lame requirements of jmf - (U)OOo and LO use gstreamer instead. Since I now have LibO on the machine, albeit from the ppa, I'll see how I get on with that one. I'll test adding the UK, Swedish and Chinese language packs, and see if they find the original US version, and if, so, I'm happy. I'm not in linux all that often nowadays. If not, I'll unload and reload from the LibO site version as you and others have suggested. No worries. Just please don't forget to mention what you are using when posting here, and file bug reports at launchpad instead of bugzilla. If you need help with doing that let me know. Gary -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/03/01 1:40 PM MR Zen Wiz wrote: : Yahoo email screwed up their quoting mechanism beyond all hope, and some people cling to using Yahoo email beyond all reason. And I posted how to set up Yahoo Mail so it quotes properly. It is better to use a real email client though. Or switch to gmail. Or both. I tried playing with that in the new yahoo email with an id I rarely use, and it was a hopeless mess - the only kind of quoting I could get it to do is the same as what Tom uses - blecch! Real email client - yeah. Gmail - double yeah! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?
Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem to find a single one of them when I run spell check after the fact (for example, an imported or cut and paste document). It does seem to work fine in spell as you type mode, however. --- Leslie D. Martin [ Acts 2:38 ] http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%202:38version=51 Knowledge is not Wisdom. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand? Vote Constitution Party http://www.constitutionparty.com/ [ My Blog ] Wandering through my mind... http://my.opera.com/alaskahome1959/blog/ [ My PicasaWeb ] http://picasaweb.google.com/AlaskaHome1959 On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 02/28/2011 09:17 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I've looked around some, but I'm getting mixed messages. I currently have LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) installed on my computer, but I would like to go with PPA. Here's one advisor's advice: sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*.* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice My current install was done with apt-get: sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/*.deb sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb etc. No. Your current install was done with dpkg and has nothing to do with apt-get. Easiest way for you to purge (if that's what you'd like to do) is to use Synaptic: System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search for libreoffice, click the topmost left column header (S) and select all the libreoffice packages select 'Mark for complete removal'. Warning; that will remove all LO configuration files as well; if you'd prefer to keep the config files just select 'Mark for Removal'. What should I do to switch over to PPA install/updating. I'm on Ubuntu 10.04/Gnome, BTW. Be aware that using the PPA will remove/conflict with your current (U)OOo install/packages. If you really wish to do this (and given your initial post your understanding of package management I very much recommend that you don't), go to: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa and follow the instructions to add the PPA. Then update your repository (Synaptic|Reload will do it) and install LO. If you have questions on doing that, and I suspect you will, then I'd (again) recommend against installing the PPA. But if you still want to, post back and I'll be happy to walk you through each step. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Default character formatting not behaving as it did in OOo?
I regret being unable to reply to your question sooner. Having followed your instructions to re-create the problem: = Now do the same thing in LibreOffice. Note that Default Formatting now appears to do nothing. The character style stays the same. It would appear that the only method for removing the style applied at step 3 above is to choose the character formatting from the Style dock. Is this by design? Thanks in advance, Max === ...I was unable to re-create the problem. On Ubuntu 10,04, the selected text changed as desired in LO3.3 and OO3.3. Having used integrated office suites since before Frameworks First Choice as well as dedicated word processors like Wang Lanier, I was surprised at the example's goal as stated. For such changes, you might want to consider using undo to remove the undesired formatting codes which, while non-printing, may still inflate the size of the finished document if simply short-circuited by new (additional) formatting codes. Such wasted code is often apparent in finished/published HTML pages/documents and PDF documents where style/font changes were numerous. I hope your problem has been resolved satisfactorily. Apparently, it was not by design to have LO behave differently from OO. Best regards, dash -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Default-character-formatting-not-behaving-as-it-did-in-OOo-tp2607020p2608680.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] difficulty with spreadsheet links
Carola y Pablo wrote: When I link a cell in one spreadsheet to another, then close both files, if the second spreadsheet is deleted or moved, then when I open the first spreasheet, I lose the linked data What to do? Paul I do not understand here. You link to something then delete it and expect to still connect to it? It is a _link_ it is not a copy of the data. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?
** Reply to message from Leslie D. Martin alaskahome1959.mailingli...@gmail.com on Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:03:57 -0800 Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem to find a single one of them when I run spell check after the fact (for example, an imported or cut and paste document). It does seem to work fine in spell as you type mode, however. --- Leslie D. Martin I suspect the problem is that you need to specify a language. You can check if you have a default language set by looking at the status line at the bottom of the window. The third field from the left should have English (USA) or what ever language you have set. If nothing is there then go to menu item Tools/Options/Lanuage-settings/Languages and set the default language for your documents. You can also set language specifically for the current document in Menu item Tools/Language and set it for what ever part of the document you want. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Base Date issue
I tried to send this earlier but was having some internet problems and I'm not sure it got out. I apologize if it is a repost. As part of an assignment in school I have to create a basic database with two tables. In one of the tables I have a field set to the Date data type with the format mask set to . It is not set to require an entry in that field and there is no default value set. Anytime I try to enter a 4-digit year value, the value always gets changed to 1905. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere or does the date field require more than just a year in the mask? Thanks. -- Leslie D. Martin -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to switch from apt-get to ppa install
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: : No. Your current install was done with dpkg and has nothing to do with apt-get. Easiest way for you to purge (if that's what you'd like to do) is to use Synaptic: System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search for libreoffice, click the topmost left column header (S) and select all the libreoffice packages select 'Mark for complete removal'. Warning; that will remove all LO configuration files as well; if you'd prefer to keep the config files just select 'Mark for Removal'. I found that not to be entirely true - although I backed up my ~/.libreoffice directory before (re)installing LO 3.3.1, I found that the settings were all the same and survived Synaptic's complete removal. Still, I recommend backing it up just to be sure. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
