Re: [libreoffice-users] how to create a grid in a text document
Hi. In Writer and database form (LO 5.3.5) the menu is Table>insert table or the little table icon in the toolbar. Steve On 04/02/18 12:05, John R. Sowden wrote: I am attempting to create a form that has a grid to be printed, where data will he hand written into the grid, not entered by a computer. My wife uses MS word, in which she says 'insert a table', but this does not seem to exist in LO. Help? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] how to create a grid in a text document
I am attempting to create a form that has a grid to be printed, where data will he hand written into the grid, not entered by a computer. My wife uses MS word, in which she says 'insert a table', but this does not seem to exist in LO. Help? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation of LO 6.0.0.3 (x64) on Win10Pro
On 02/02/18 21:39, DaveB wrote: > Mark: You have almost nailed the solution. It's not the interface > language that has to be set, it is setting the global Locale to English > (UK) that allows the en_GB Help to work as expected. Thank you. I had assumed, wrongly in part, that as libreoffice.org recognised my OS and environment and offered me the appropriate help-pack that it would take this into account when making the installation. But it fails to set the Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > User interface to the value required. The Locale setting was correct [UK] as was [mostly] the default document language. Mark was correct, in fact. It was sufficient to change the User interface to UK to agree with the help pack and all worked ok. I made a series of installs and removals (deleting the User AppData each time) to confirm this. I notice that the Office Suite contains English, French and Spanish spell checking extensions as default. LO may have supposed my requirement for English and French from my OS and environment but I don't know where it got the idea to provide Spanish checker extensions from. On one of my trial installations, it somehow got my default document language as Spanish-Venezuela and every time I started a new doc, the Default paragraph language was Spanish-Venezuelan. Philip -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Style updates in Writer
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 13:38:02 GMT DaveB wrote: > On 03.02.2018 12:00, Ianseeks wrote: > > Thanks for that advice, i'll definitely put my head down and learn more > > about styles especially now i know about Ctrl-M etc. > > > > all the best > > > > Ian > > Hi Ian, > > I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but if you want to get to > grips with styles and templates I recommend you download and read a copy > of Bruce Byfield's book "Designing with LibreOffice" > http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/. Don't be mislead by the title, IMO > it is one of the best sources of advice about using LibreOffice styles. > Another useful resource is the recently published LibreOffice 5.4 Writer > Guide > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide > which includes some very good chapters on styles and templates. > > Hope this helps. > > Dave Cheers Dave, i shall look it up. > -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20180201 Qt: 5.10.0 KDE Frameworks: 5.42.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.11.95 - kwin 5.11.95 kmail2 5.7.1 - akonadiserver 5.7.1 - Kernel: 4.14.15-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments buggy in Calc (tested 5.3.7 and 5.4.4)
Have you tried using Right-click -> Edit comment? When you do this, the cursor is placed inside the comment and you can easily navigate in it. At that point entering CTRL-A will select the entire comment text. I tend to agree with you that accessing the comment text by clicking in the comment when the comment is displayed is not really easy but the Edit Comment access has always worked for me. This works with 5.4.4 in Win10 and Fedora 26. I hope this helps. Rémy Gauthier. Le vendredi 02 février 2018 à 13:53 +0100, Kaigue7 a écrit : > I'm having trouble using comments in LO Calc. > > I can't copy text out of a comment. When I try to select everything in > it, it would only select parts of it and it's quite difficult to select > the entire comment. I need to try multiple times, sometimes copy parts > and put them together manually. Sometimes I have to delete the comment > and start all over. > > This has been the case in the Windows version and in my OpenSuse > installation. Both in 5.3.7 and 5.4.4. > > Thanks a lot. > > David > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Style updates in Writer
On 03.02.2018 12:00, Ianseeks wrote: > Thanks for that advice, i'll definitely put my head down and learn more about > styles especially now i know about Ctrl-M etc. > > all the best > > Ian Hi Ian, I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but if you want to get to grips with styles and templates I recommend you download and read a copy of Bruce Byfield's book "Designing with LibreOffice" http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/. Don't be mislead by the title, IMO it is one of the best sources of advice about using LibreOffice styles. Another useful resource is the recently published LibreOffice 5.4 Writer Guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide which includes some very good chapters on styles and templates. Hope this helps. Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Style updates in Writer
Thanks for that advice, i'll definitely put my head down and learn more about styles especially now i know about Ctrl-M etc. all the best Ian On Friday, 2 February 2018 18:05:55 GMT Virgil Arrington wrote: > On 02/02/2018 05:20 AM, Ianseeks wrote: > > I think this is where i went wrong. Is there an obvious indicator that > > shows its direct formatting as opposed to a style? It would be handy > > when picking up someone else's document (which is what happened here) > > I'm not sure that there is. In my career as a lawyer (I'm now retired), > I often had to share documents with other people. We had contracts going > back and forth with each side adding and subtracting edits. By the end, > it was a formatting nightmare with styles and direct formatting all > clashing with one another. Sometimes the document would get so corrupted > it would crash the word processor. > > Usually, once the substance was completed, as a last step in the > process, I would reformat the entire document (because I'm obsessive > about these things, and I really enjoy doing it). I would start by > stripping all the direct formatting (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-M), and then I would > go through and apply all of my own paragraph styles. Nobody ever > complained because the finished product usually looked pretty good and > was readable. > > It doesn't take as much time as you might think. After stripping the > formatting, I would then press Ctrl-A again to select the entire > document, and then apply the most predominant style (typically my > BodySingleIndent). I would then go through the document and apply > special styles to the appropriate paragraphs, such as a Heading1 or > Heading2 for headings and subheadings. > > After I retired, I briefly taught a Law Office Technology course at the > college level. For an exercise, I would give my students a plain text > file and then tell them to format it to make it look like a given > finished product, that I would give them in hard copy form. After they > would spend twenty minutes wrestling with direct formatting, I would > then demonstrate how do do it in about 45 seconds using styles. > > In my current teaching position, I have given my students a book report > for an old book that is now in the public domain. To keep them from > having to buy the book, I downloaded the pure text file of the book, > inserted it into LO and reformatted it using my styles. I pressed Ctrl-A > and applied BodySingleIndent to the whole text, and then went back and > applied a style called Heading1 for each chapter title. By using > Heading1 for the chapter titles, I was then able to automatically > generate a table of contents, and then I created a title page with some > other special paragraph styles. The whole process for a 188 page > (letter-sized) novel took me no more than 15 minutes, and that was only > because I had to examine each page to find my chapter titles or other > paragraphs that needed special styling (such as a block quote, etc.). > > Learning Styles is definitely worth the investment in time. > > Virgil > > -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20180130 Qt: 5.10.0 KDE Frameworks: 5.42.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.11.95 - kwin 5.11.95 kmail2 5.7.1 - akonadiserver 5.7.1 - Kernel: 4.14.15-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
