Re: [libreoffice-users] That little yellow rectangle

2016-09-15 Thread anne-ology 
   I've never seen any triangle ... yellow or otherwise  ;-)

   But if you're seeing something as to date & time, then possibly
you've set that option to appear;
  suggestion: go to the menu line & check that each option is set
according to the way you prefer.



From: Séamas Ó Brógáin 
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] That little yellow rectangle
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


Could some kind person remind me how to get rid of the little yellow
rectangle with “Formatted . . . [date and time]” that hovers over every
paragraph in a document?

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Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Writer indexing facilities

2016-09-15 Thread anne-ology 
   Sounds as if you must have uncovered a bug in the system  ;-(

   This is one of the things I thought LO could do,
  but preferring to manually do so myself, I've never checked out
LO's method;
 maybe my method takes a few seconds longer, but i know it's done
according to my preferences.

   Here's hoping someone will respond to you anon, so you too may enjoy
LO,



From: Ian Fantom 
Date: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Writer indexing facilities
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


I'm moving over from my old Word for Windows 2003 to LibreOffice Writer
5.1.4.2 on Ubuntu Studio.

I want to be able to do everything I could do on Word in Writer, but I'm
having problems with the alphabetical indexing facilities. I once indexed a
book using a macro on Word from the American Society of Indexers, and it
worked well. I've followed the Documentation for Writer, but am not sure
whether I'm missing something, whether there's a bug, or whether I should
be looking for some other programme or add-on.

Is there some user's guide written from the point of view of an indexer?

For instance, in trying it out, I indexed the term 'Blair' and selected
'Apply to all similar texts'. Then I compiled the alphabetical index and
found 60 entries for 'Blair'. This tells me that I need ten or so
sub-headings in the index. So, using the editing window, I tried to edit
each entry. I need to step through them. This I can do if I just need to
view the entries, but as soon as I edit an entry the step-through doesn't
work any longer; it moves onto the next indexed term whether or not it's
'Blair'. So I have to step through all the other terms until I reach
'Blair'. I tried instead using the 'Find' option to get to the next
'Blair', but that is disabled as long as the edit window is showing. So I
have to close the edit window, search for the next 'Blair' using 'Find',
then call up the edit window. The whole procedure takes 15 secs, and so
going through 60 terms would take 15 mins. I can't find any means of
deleting the whole lot and starting again, other than deleting them
individually, in which case I run into the same problem.

Can anyone please advise?

Many thanks,
Ian

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Line spacing on Writer

2016-09-15 Thread Philip Jackson 
On 15/09/16 00:12, Girvin Herr wrote:
> This post gave me an idea to look at the find command (Edit > Find and
> Replace... or Ctrl-F) dialog to see if it would search for a particular
> style.  I discovered that it does, under More Options!  I ran some tests
> and it does highlight the text with the selected style.  This could be a
> way to find and change those pesky imported styles.  When all are
> changed to the wanted style, then one could delete the now unused
> style.  I discovered long ago that LO will not delete a style which is
> in use (duh).  Finding all of them had been my problem until now. 
> Possibly selecting a new style and "Replace All" may solve your problem,
> or at least make it less labor-intensive.

Yes indeed.  I have often used this method on paragraph styles and it
works well.

If I have been using text from different sources, it is not uncommon to
find strange unwanted fonts in an exported pdf file (from LO Writer).
After wasting lots of time trying to locate these in Writer, I
discovered that you can also use 'find and replace' for fonts.

Philip

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