[libreoffice-users] Re: Mail merge formatting
In news:4e1608f7.1010...@ptglobal.com, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com typed: Hi. I am trying to perform a mail merge with numbers but can't seem to control the number format. I am merging with a .ods sheet with data. I have formatted the numbers in the sheet but in writer the formatting changes. 3.0012 prints as 3, 0.497 prints as 0.50 and 423.56 prints as 423.56. How do I control the formatting on a merge, do I need to convert numbers to text. steve OS? LO? Versions? Something, anything, to try to help those trying to help you? Do those numbers come from your printer? Or LO? Etc. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Image problems
In news:op.vycjy4x2ov9kiw@monster-linux.zuhause, Zak McKracken zak_mckrac...@openoffice.org typed: Am 07.07.2011, 21:19 Uhr, schrieb Twayne t...@twaynesdomain.com: [...] In case I didn't make it clear, the runaway scrolling occurred when I was moving the pages via the scrollbar so I could watch the page numbers easier. But I could make the same thing happen by scrolling wtih the mouse wheel. Ah, OK. No, I don't have that problem either. My usual fix is just to break a large document into several smaller documents to get LO to handle it, although I haven't created a Master Document yet and don't know if that will bring back the problems. Splitting documents does help (I'm doing that, too), but it can indroduce new problems: If you have rferences across several part documents, that will give you an error message in the individual files, but the correct content in the global one. Which can change line and page breaks, and that can change the layout. Shouldn't be a problem but can become one. Also it took me a while to figure out how to have proper page breaks between single documents. But then, it makes editing a lot easier, especially with many images. They aren't large images either in real estate or file size; they're about 1/16 of a page, most of them, and there may be 6 to 10 smaller ones per page in a table which is apt to really screw up in LO. In my experience, the problem starts with more than one image per paragraph and with more than half the page covered in images. But if you organize them in a table, that'll keep them together. Interesting; tables can be the worst culprits, depending on whatever, I don't know. I've never been able to decide if it was the qty of images or qty of anchors and which cell/s they live in. Hmmm. Depending on whether the table also contains text, you could alternatively arrange them in LO draw and then copy/paste them into the writer document. Then it's really just one object, and that is easier to position than many small ones. I'll have to think about that one a bit; using Draw so it'll only be one object. Sounds plausible, but it might be more work than just splitting the files apart as I've done before. Since these are all pre-existing files I'd have to pull from Writer, Paste into Draw, fix, Paste back into Writer. Wonder if I could get a macro to do that? Probably not. Thanks for your thoughts though! Unless I get a brainstorm from your comments, I think I'll go the split-documents route and Master Document/s if/when the images will stabilize for me. Thanks again, Twayne` Cheers, Zak -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support
There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the market. Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend) Bibus. There are even more. A comparison can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software here . Most can handle BibTex. It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether LibO should join this market, offering a (full fledged?) bibliography/reference manager. This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files. My impression is that: (1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager programs; (2) developing a good one is not trivial; (3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style - implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in the first place... so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as their main business. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Feature-request-native-BibTeX-support-tp3157370p3158509.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Find in 3.4.0
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr wrote: Le 09/07/2011 04:09, MR ZenWiz a écrit : I recently upgraded to LO 3.4.0 and I noticed a few days ago that the Find command no longer works the way it used to, or even at all. Please have a look at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ Thanks, but that is the worst excuse for a change that breaks the interface I have ever seen - to be more compatible with web browsers??? An office suite? Come on, that's just lame. If that's the justification, why isn't find-and-replace ctlh, as in Word 97? At least that was an office product, not a web browser. This is just my opinion, but the change is just plain wrong. This is one of the reasons why major software modifications fail so miserably - you don't break an existing interface that is ubiquitous. Look at what happened with Office 2007/2010 (before MS put all that money into pushing the new ribbon interface that really sucks, or Vista (vs. XP), etc. Just plain wrong. What makes this worse is that, AFAICT, the new find bar doesn't work either, and it doesn't show up at the bottom of the window, it's a teeny little toolbar smushed into the right end of another one that is virtually invisible unless I search for it. Blecch. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics
My default letter template includes graphics in the header and footer. The graphics link to 2 WMF files. Header and footer appear correctly on screen and are rendered OK in exported PDFs. Printing was OK up to V3.3.3 but no more in 3.4.1, where the odd results appear on several printers, including PDF-Factory Pro, so I don't think that printer drivers matter. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3158736.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics
Edited: This behaviour is reproducible with LO 3.4.1 32bits on Win XP and Win7 with same results. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3158753.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics
Luzius Auer Route St-Germain 22 CH-1042 Assens Phone +41-21-886-2230 Mobile +41-79-502-5077 Le 11.07.2011 12:19, lar44 [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] a écrit : Edited: This behaviour is reproducible with LO 3.4.1 32bits on Win XP and Win7 with same results. --- --- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3158753.html To unsubscribe from Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics, click here http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=3158736code=bHV6aXVzQGdlb3N5c3RlbS5jaHwzMTU4NzM2fC05NjExNjg2MDk=. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3158758.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Find in 3.4.0
MR ZenWiz wrote: Find and Replace (which used to be the same window as Find, shortcut ctlF) is not ctlaltF, and ctlF does nothing except activate the toolbar for finding text, which doesn't actually do a find at all. You can change the keyboard short-cut. The following instructions are for Windows, they may differ slightly for Ubuntu. Click Tools Customise... Select the Keyboard tab. In the Shortcut keys pane, scroll down to Ctrl + F and select it. In the Category pane select Edit In the Function pane select Find Replace Then click Modify and then OK As far as I can tell, it should then work pretty much identically to the previous versions. Regards Stephan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: native BibTeX support
Zotero is OK, but styles customisation is poor; for structured documents, LaTeX is way ahead of word-processors, primarily because references and cross-references functionality is so poor in word-processors. You could try tex4ht to convert to odt format, but if the request for a word processor format is to allow recipients to edit, you could try sending the pdf to view and the tex file in the e-mail message to edit. Then use the diff utility to find changes made to your file. When recipients realise (!) the advantages of using LaTeX you could even suggest collaboration via subversion (e.g. see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Collaborative_Writing_of_LaTeX_Documents). -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Find in 3.4.0
Stephan Zietsman wrote: You can change the keyboard short-cut. The following instructions are for Windows, they may differ slightly for Ubuntu. Click Tools Customise... Select the Keyboard tab. In the Shortcut keys pane, scroll down to Ctrl + F and select it. In the Category pane select Edit In the Function pane select Find Replace Then click Modify and then OK Correction: After you've selected the Keyboard tab, make sure to select the LibreoOffice radio button (top-right of window) as the Find. I also notice that you should rather select the Category and Function *before* selecting the Shortcut keys. So it should actually go like this (in Windows): Click Tools Customise... Select the Keyboard tab Select the LibreOffice radio button (top-right of window) In the Category pane select Edit In the Function pane select Find Replace In the Shortcut keys pane, scroll to Ctrl + F and select it. Then click Modify In the Keys pane, select Ctrl + Alt + F Click Delete Close the window by clicking Ok Regards Stephan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support
Thanks for your answers. Zotero is a very good software but I work mainly in LaTeX and Zotero supports only a kind of syncronization with a .bib file. Some export problems exist and for me it is not acceptable because I need a very clean BibTeX file to produce papers and books. Moreover Zotero works only under Firefox, right? Not all people in our lab use Firefox. However I have just visited the Zotero website and seems that alpha versions for other browser support exist... I'll give it a try and I'll check again the BibTeX support :) I have used Bibus up to two years ago to work with OpenOffice but I do not think is a great software. In Wikipedia a lot of reference managers are listed but no one has a real support for BibTeX files. Just export. In my opinion, only Zotero has an advanced management of BibTeX files thanks to a real time syncronization. I don't want that LibO becomes a reference manager (no import, no sorting, no hyperlink, no pdf). My hope is that in the future LibO could use an external database (BibTeX or SQLite, etc...) without the need of an external program to cite a reference and to produce a bibliography. An internal bibliography system already exists in LibO and in OpenOffice but is very poor. In this way one can manage its bibliographic database with the program he/she prefers and then LibO is able to use this databases natively, without the help of external program and without the need of an API. Thanks for this nice discussion! Ciao ciao. Fra On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:10, drorlev dror.s...@gmail.com wrote: There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the market. Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend) Bibus. There are even more. A comparison can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software here . Most can handle BibTex. It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether LibO should join this market, offering a (full fledged?) bibliography/reference manager. This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files. My impression is that: (1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager programs; (2) developing a good one is not trivial; (3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style - implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in the first place... so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as their main business. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Feature-request-native-BibTeX-support-tp3157370p3158509.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics
lar44 schrieb: My default letter template includes graphics in the header and footer. The graphics link to 2 WMF files. Header and footer appear correctly on screen and are rendered OK in exported PDFs. Printing was OK up to V3.3.3 but no more in 3.4.1, where the odd results appear on several printers, including PDF-Factory Pro, so I don't think that printer drivers matter. It might be this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38619 Stick to 3.3.3 or convert the pictures to another format. Kind regards Regina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] TEsting
My apologies for the test message if this goes through. Gmane is no longer working for me for posting messages. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 5.0 Thunderbird 3.1.11 LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics
Dear Regina, Thank you, it is indeed the same bug. BTW, I broke the links before printing, but it didn't help enough. So I reverted to LO 3.3.3 Best regards Luzius Auer Route St-Germain 22 CH-1042 Assens Phone +41-21-886-2230 Mobile +41-79-502-5077 Le 11.07.2011 16:30, Regina Henschel [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] a écrit : lar44 schrieb: My default letter template includes graphics in the header and footer. The graphics link to 2 WMF files. Header and footer appear correctly on screen and are rendered OK in exported PDFs. Printing was OK up to V3.3.3 but no more in 3.4.1, where the odd results appear on several printers, including PDF-Factory Pro, so I don't think that printer drivers matter. It might be this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38619 Stick to 3.3.3 or convert the pictures to another format. Kind regards Regina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [hidden email] /user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=3159376i=0 In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [hidden email] /user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=3159376i=1 Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted --- --- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3159376.html To unsubscribe from Regress: writer 3.4.1 fails to correctly print linked graphics, click here http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=3158736code=bHV6aXVzQGdlb3N5c3RlbS5jaHwzMTU4NzM2fC05NjExNjg2MDk=. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Regress-writer-3-4-1-fails-to-correctly-print-linked-graphics-tp3158736p3159519.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Find in 3.4.0
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Stephan Zietsman szi...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: After you've selected the Keyboard tab, make sure to select the LibreoOffice radio button (top-right of window) as the Find. I also notice that you should rather select the Category and Function *before* selecting the Shortcut keys. So it should actually go like this (in Windows): Click Tools Customise... Select the Keyboard tab Select the LibreOffice radio button (top-right of window) In the Category pane select Edit In the Function pane select Find Replace In the Shortcut keys pane, scroll to Ctrl + F and select it. Then click Modify Excellent! Thanks! In the Keys pane, select Ctrl + Alt + F Click Delete Nah, that's ok Close the window by clicking Ok -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems with Find in 3.4.0
On 07/11/2011 08:56 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Stephan Zietsman szi...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: After you've selected the Keyboard tab, make sure to select the LibreoOffice radio button (top-right of window) as the Find. I also notice that you should rather select the Category and Function *before* selecting the Shortcut keys. So it should actually go like this (in Windows): Click Tools Customise... Select the Keyboard tab Select the LibreOffice radio button (top-right of window) In the Category pane select Edit In the Function pane select Find Replace In the Shortcut keys pane, scroll to Ctrl + F and select it. Then click Modify Excellent! Thanks! In the Keys pane, select Ctrl + Alt + F Click Delete Nah, that's ok Close the window by clicking Ok In 3.4.1, the Edit|Find Replace menu item shows Ctrl + Alt + F. However that doesn't work, _if_ you've already done Ctrl+F and have the 'Find' toolbar open, instead it only toggles the 'File' menu. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: TEsting
On 7/11/11 8:37 AM, Ken Springer wrote: My apologies for the test message if this goes through. Gmane is no longer working for me for posting messages. May have found the problem Let's hope. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 5.0 Thunderbird 3.1.11 LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support
Hi LibreOffice has a Menú: Insert-Index-Bibliographic entry that could be used. I have to advice that I never use it and I don't know How to use, but if some one know he would share with us and solve the problem. Regards, Jorge Rodríguez __ El lun, 11-07-2011 a las 01:10 -0700, drorlev escribió: There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the market. Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend) Bibus. There are even more. A comparison can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software here . Most can handle BibTex. It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether LibO should join this market, offering a (full fledged?) bibliography/reference manager. This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files. My impression is that: (1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager programs; (2) developing a good one is not trivial; (3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style - implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in the first place... so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as their main business. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Feature-request-native-BibTeX-support-tp3157370p3158509.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Mailing
I have a list of addresses that I would like to print onto envelopes. How do I do this?? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
