[libreoffice-users] How to use a motion background in Impress
I'm ashamed to have to admit it, but I've just never done this. I'm putting the lyrics presentation together for my church Sunday and have a MPEG-1 with moving stars and stripes that I'd like to use for two of the songs. I clicked on Insert Movie and Sound, then navigated to and selected the file. When I pressed F5 to check the motion, LO 3.3.3 on Win-7 froze up and crashed. When I restarted it, I had to put picture backgrounds back on all of the prior slides...AGAIN! Would somebody please reply with a link or the 1-2-3 for dummies on just how to go about using a motion background and add text to it? A Google search didn't really turn up anything usable. Many TIA! -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- -- 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] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download
No, no. It's an excellent free replacement and far superior to MS' Add/Remove, IMO. You can download it at the link below and install just like any other app. After clicking the link, be careful to not choose the 30-day free trial of the Pro version -- you don't really need it..well, unless you're needing to put your wallet on a diet. :-) Instead, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the FREE download button. Works great on Win-XP and Vista. If your OS is otherwise, check requirements at the link before downloading. HTH! http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:40:28 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download On 06/21/2011 01:19 AM, planas wrote: Earl On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:16 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short -- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm ready to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it. Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove the help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- Thanks Thanks for the info though. If I have any problems with friends' computer with Win-7 and LO installs, I will remember your trick. I do not use Win-7, so this may be a stupid question. So is Revo Uninstaller the replacement for add/remove programs in the XP and Vista Control Panel? Or is it some other uninstall program that can be used? Since I never had any real install issues with OOo or LO, except one OOo version where the JRE bombed out every time, so I never had to use an uninstall program to remove OOo or LO on a Windows computer. Actually I had to do that with beta and RC# version, but that does not count. The error dialogs came up with 3.3.3 on Vista, but they were talking about .NET issues and by saying OK or YES, the install went though fine. Now on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I sometimes have to do a purge for versions, but that is issues on my system, not LibreOffice issues. -- 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] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download
In response to your first paragraph below: Remember the spaghetti meatball commercial, Tom? Try it, you'll like it. Actually, NTITOI, that may have been a commercial for Rolaids or some other OTC antacid. The first sentence in your second paragraph will tell you why you should try it. BTW, I do agree with you about most registry cleaners. Some are fair, but many more are junk. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:53:43 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download Hi :) The Revo Uninstaller is a 3rd party app. It has nothing to do with Microsoft, TDF, Oracle nor Apache. I don't know if it's OpenSource or what or who does own it or why they make it. If MS ere capable of making something this good then i suspect they would be making a lot of fuss about it. I haven't used it so i don't know if it's as good as people say. The official Microsoft nearest equivalent is their Add/Remove Programs (which doesn't add programs btw (a tangent)) and also doesn't seem to un-install programs particularly well either imo. There are lots of 3rd party apps that claim to be able to clean up the registry but they usually turn out to be malware. Unlike those Revo looks like an excellent product and apparently does more than just deal with registry clutter. Regards form Tom :) From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 21 June, 2011 14:40:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download On 06/21/2011 01:19 AM, planas wrote: Earl On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:16 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short -- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm ready to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it. Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove the help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- Thanks Thanks for the info though. If I have any problems with friends' computer with Win-7 and LO installs, I will remember your trick. I do not use Win-7, so this may be a stupid question. So is Revo Uninstaller the replacement for add/remove programs in the XP and Vista Control Panel? Or is it some other uninstall program that can be used? Since I never had any real install issues with OOo or LO, except one OOo version where the JRE bombed out every time, so I never had to use an uninstall program to remove OOo or LO on a Windows computer. Actually I had to do that with beta and RC# version, but that does not count. The error dialogs came up with 3.3.3 on Vista, but they were talking about .NET issues and by saying OK or YES, the install went though fine. Now on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I sometimes have to do a purge for versions, but that is issues on my system, not LibreOffice issues. -- 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 -- 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] Revo Uninstaller (was: LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download)
To the owners and/or moderators: Hope it's okay to change the subject line as above. I was rebuked for totally hijacking a thread early on (perhaps that was on the OOo list, not sure now), but on many other lists, leaving the original subject intact as above is acceptable. It just seemed like the time may be right to do so here. Will apologize again if I'm wrong. David, FOA, I'm trimming all below except your query. When I first installed LibO, it was under Ubu 10.04 and things were a total mess. I had wanted to use it and keep OOo for comparison. HU-U-UGE mistake, at least in my experience. I wound up completely removing both programs (which I knew that Linux/Ubuntu does a far better job of than Windoze), then reinstalled the same version of LibO, the same one I originally put on Win-7. Not wanting to experience the same problems on it, I used RU to make sure it cleaned all registry entries and other leftovers that Windows' Add/Remove doesn't remove so well. Perhaps unnecessary, but all's going well with 3.3.3 final now. And I'll [always] swear by RU. HTH! -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:59:22 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download Non W7 issues snipped I'll remember the help files issue, and thanks for that. Question: Why did you choose Revo rather than to use the W7 add/remove application in the control panel? I have used W7's add/remove only once, for another application (that didn't work as advertised) and that worked fine. Is there some LO quirk that requires a separate removal program beyond W7's native add/remove? I use W7 64 bit Home Premium with AMD quad core processor, 4 GB RAM, SATA disk. --David -- nil significat nisi oscillat -- 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
[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download
I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short -- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm ready to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it. Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove the help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- -- 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] Top/Bottom Posting Nonsense
+1 Hang in there, Rob. I don't think you'll be sorry. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) I recommend sticking with LibreOffice despite the petty bickering of this week. We recently got some very heavy news about our colleagues in a different project and couldn't talk about it. We needed to blow-off some steam. It does happen sometimes but it's not typical of OpenSource. LibreOffice and TDF is unique in being an ancient project with roots (people, ideas, habitual work-flow and such) going back over a decade yet being an ultra-new project. A great chance to spring-clean. Even though we have been bickering we have still been helping each other and new people, as Dotan pointed out. There is documentation out there but often problems that arrive here need cogitating before getting good answers and it's only by working together, nudging each other, that we can get a good answer out there (unless it's an easy question). So, please stick with it and you will find it well worth while as there are a lot of good times here too :) Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: Rob Smith r.a.smith3...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 2 June, 2011 8:18:21 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Top/Bottom Posting Nonsense I have never seen so many so-called adults whining like bullied kids over a subject that, in the greater scheme of the next Millenia doesn't mean squat! I used to use a KayPro 16 to compute on, and even accessed a BBS with it using a 9600 Baud modem. Would I do so today because that's how it used to be done? Not a chance! Most of the younger folks I know (I'm a dinosaur at almost 60) top post by default, because in a Microsoft world, that is what they learned. Right, wrong, or indifferent, it's the way things are today. If you want to go back to the way things were done in the good old days, I hate to break it to you, but time always moves forward, and the only constant is change. If you truly believe that limiting access to the Open Source community only to folks who do things in one particular way will grow that community, you might want to get a reality check. If you think that all this infighting will help the community grow, you are wrong. If you cannot adapt and change today, you will be left in the dust with the rest of computing's dinosaurs. After recently hearing a talk on LibreOffice at an Open Source software conference, I decided to give it a try, replacing the OpenOffice install that came standard on my Ubuntu Linux LTS desktops. I joined this list in case I would need some assistance with an issue. I have seen more petty bickering on this one non-issue over the past several days than I have seen people helped. I've always been led to believe that Open Source was all about freedom, but there are some folks here who just don't seem to give a damn about that, and their main focus is to make sure that all the automatons do as they are told. Unlike some, I DO know how to unsubscribe, and I also know how to uninstall, both of which I am going to do! There are other choices out there, and LibreOffice needs users more then users need LibreOffice. THAT is the fact Jack! GROW UP! -- Rob Smith -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@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/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering help.
Dotan, LOL! Thanks for a bit of humor amid all the vitriol expressed in the top/bottom posting thread.. -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 09:22, Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com wrote: 1 The Art of Slamming Head Against Wall 1.1 Place Palms Flat Against Wall 1.2 Bend Elbows 45 degrees 1.3 Rear Head Back as far as Possible 1.4 Throw Body Weight Behind Forward Head Movement This does not work. I tried three times and all three times my chest hit the wall before my head. I suggest snapping the head forward in a whip-like fashion, with the intent on getting the forehead as the leading edge as soon as possible (the forehead starts facing up, due to the head reared back). With this method I hit the wall with my forehead two tries out of three, with the third hitting my nose. Note that a nose hit results in more blood loss than a forehead hit, but consciousness is regained sooner. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@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/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken
I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of [my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about. Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary -- to read context, rather than scrolling for endless screens just to find the latest comment. Just my two one-hundredths oif a Federal Reserve Note's worth... -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- From: NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 11:15:53 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken On 05/30/2011 06:58 AM, Roland Hughes wrote: ... Bottom posting wastes vast quantities of developers time scrolling to the end. Full quoting is a policy mandated by most major corporations and IT organizations because it allows management (and the legal team) to jump into the conversation at any point. ... I suppose you can cite some case law, or some link to a corporation policy for this claim? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?
- Original Message On 05/27/2011 06:27 PM, plino wrote: Are you aware that, at least in Win. that you can move between documents using Alt+tab? I find that much faster than trying to use a mouse. If you have a bunch of tasks running it's not so handy, but normally you are only switching between a few windows and it is very quick. Are you aware that if you press Ctrl+Tab you can do the same between documents (or tabs) within the same program? :) Sorry, but I use Ubuntu as my main system. I use Vista on my dual boot laptop only when I have no other choice. I just opened two Writer docs, a Calc workbook, and Sunday's service presentation in Impress. Using Ubu 10.04 LTS, I can Alt+Tab to/from any of these LibO files and/or Firefox to my little ticker's content. But then, perhaps I don't understand the problem. :-( I also have a query about Impress and PowerPoint, but s'pect I'd better send it in another post. -- I'm so busy, I can't remember whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Why is a file 'locked for editing'?
Greetings, Help About LibreOffice says I'm using: LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~lucid1 I'll try to supply other information if it's needed. Problem is that a word processing file I'm trying to edit says it's 'locked for editing.' Two questions: 1.) How did I lock it? and 2.) How do I go about unlocking it? TIA for any suggestions. -- Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money. Earl -- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
