[libreoffice-users] Word won't open some .doc documents created in LO
I'm in a writers' critique group who distribute our monthly submissions in .doc format for the sake of a member who doesn't think his system can handle .docx. (But that's a different issue.) One of our members composes his submission in LO Writer and saves as .doc (which several of us do). But for some reason some of us are having trouble opening that person's submissions in M$ Word (although they open fine in LO Writer). Yet the member who just uses Word is not having trouble opening the .doc file. (I suspect he has an older version of Word, but it's hard to get that information from him.) When I create a .doc file in LO Writer, I don't have trouble opening it in Word. The member whose .doc files we can't open tells me he's using Libra Office 24.2 on Windows. (I assume he means LibreOffice.) It appears that's a later version than the 7.3 I'm using on Windows. So is this maybe a bug in 24.2? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com 2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] How to show the original without markup in LO Writer
In MS Word there are options to show all changes ("All Markup"), to show
what the result of all changes would be ("No Markup"), and to show the
original--i.e., document as it was before any changes ("Original").
"All Markup" corresponds in LO Writer to checking "Show" in the track
changes menu.
"No Markup" corresponds in LO Writer to leaving "Show" unchecked.
But I can't find how to view the original in LO Writer (what Word does
with the "Original" option). Is there something I'm not seeing? I find
it useful when tracking changes to look at the clean original on
occasion rather than trying to visualize the original through all the
markup.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer not showing in LO print dialog
This doesn't seem to be an answer (it's not an absence of scroll bars--the printer is just not listed). The scroll bars are there once I touch base with the Printer page in Settings and then go back to LO. I'm not happy with "it is what it is." It seems rather to be a bug in how the print dialogue works. Either something in Fedora 39 or in this version of LO. (7.6.6.7 (x86_64). It doesn't happen, e.g., with Document Viewer or Text Editor, which suggests it's something in LO. On 4/2/24 13:58, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: I have not noticed scroll bars on certain occasion that block other printers from being seen. I drive myself crazy, but it is what it is. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com 2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Printer not showing in LO print dialog
When I have a LO Writer document open and tell it to print, the dialog only shows the Brother MFC printer and not the Brother black laser printer. Then I open Setting->Printers. It shows the Brother b (which is set to be the default printer). I go back to LO Writer and now the Brother b shows. This has happened a number of times. Any ideas? I'm running Fedora 39 on Dell XPS 13 9315. Brother HL L2350DW Brother MFC 6890CDW Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com 2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO document contents not moved with rsync
Now they seem to be opening. In the end I had to force quit LO. When I restarted it, things started to work. > On Dec 9, 2023, at 13:06, Eric Beversluis > wrote: > > My Linux box is messed up but I was able to rsync in and move a bunch of > stuff to my MacBook. .pdf and .txt docs come through fine. But the LO > documents (and the Scrivener documents) are coming through with just the > titles and a handful of KBs. > > Why would that be? > > Moving from Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 13 9315 to MacBook Air running Monterey. > > Thanks. > > Eric > -- > 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/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] LO document contents not moved with rsync
My Linux box is messed up but I was able to rsync in and move a bunch of stuff to my MacBook. .pdf and .txt docs come through fine. But the LO documents (and the Scrivener documents) are coming through with just the titles and a handful of KBs. Why would that be? Moving from Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 13 9315 to MacBook Air running Monterey. Thanks. Eric -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
I'm sorry to keep coming back to this thread, but I continue to have the mysterious random change in the "minimumwidth" setting. It happened again tonight. When I searched the registrymodification.xcu, the entry that was indicated below was not there. oor:name="MinimumWidth" oor:op="fuse">false I went into Tools -Options-Advanced-Open Expert Configuration, reset the minimumwidth value to 'false.' Now the entry is present in registrymodification.xcu. As nearly as I can tell, this is what happened: I opened an old .odt document. It did not have some of the newer styles I've created, so I opened a new document that used my current default template and copied the content of the old document into the new document. The minimumwidth setting for some reason changed to 'true' at this point. I could no long squeeze the sidebar in the new document to the width I wanted. There was no entry for "MinimumWidth" in registrymodification.xcu. I changed the setting under Tools-Options... to false. Now the sidebar is working the way I want it to again and the entry appears in registrymodification.xcu. So is this a bug such that if I open an old document it somehow changes the configuration for my newer documents? Or copying the content of the old document into a new document changes the configuration? I'm using LO 7.4.6.2/ LibreOffice Community on Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks. Eric On 10/16/23 16:30, Eric Beversluis wrote: On 9/30/23 09:12, V Stuart Foote wrote: On 2023-09-30 08:47, Eric Beversluis wrote: Sorry. I thought I had included the whole thread. I had received these instructions for the styles sidebar in LO Writer: Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar My problem now is that the minimumwidth setting keeps (randomly, as far as I can tell) reverting to "true," and I have to go in again and reset it to false. So does anyone know why that would happen, how I can get it to stay at "false"? It's not like I re-installed or even updated LO when it happens. I've got LO 7.4.6.2, build https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=log;h=5b1f5509c2decdade7fda905e3e1429a67acd63d running on Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 9315 using the Dell image that came with the computer. == Sorry you're having issues. But can not confirm, the value [false | true (default)] set for 'minimumwidth' is retained in profile with 7.6.2 build and current builds of master against 24.2.0 release. When set the stanza in the registrymodifications.xcu registry setting will be-- oor:name="MinimumWidth" oor:op="fuse">false Only deleting that profile .xcu, or doing a profile reset (via UI) should cause loss of the the value. Otherwise with profile intact--it would require an intentional edit to toggle the setting back to 'false'. If you actually see the value changing in an unexplained fashion--pleasse file a ticket in the project Bugzilla. Stuart When I search /home/eric/.config/libreoffice/r/registrymodifications.xcu for "UI.Sidebar/General" it is not found. I do find, e.g., UI.Sidebar/Content. (I had to search in Firefox. For some reason gedit chokes when I try to do a search on this large file.) When I check "Open Expert Configuration" in LO the value there has changed to "true" again. It changed suddenly and, as far as I can tell, entirely arbitrarily after behaving for several weeks. Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com 20231016 update: Follow-up: Out of curiosity I tried opening the registrymodifications.xcu in Writer and there I did find the MinimumWidth entry. The next time the setting changes I'll look to see what happened in registrymodifications.xcu EB -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?
I was wondering about the same thing Philip mentions, but then I saw that when I opened a new document, all the custom styles where there. But then I realized that it's probably because there is already some dummy text in my template which appears in a new document--it helps me remember what's in the template. Without the dummy text, clicking on "All Styles" or "Custom Styles" is likely necessary. I hope that works for bunk3m. On 11/24/23 17:57, Philip Jackson wrote: I've made my own templates for various categories of documents and equipped each template with its own sets of customised styles. They work fine. I did the set up some years ago and don't recall exactly what steps were required but I don't recall any particular difficulty. I do remember that when I first used one of my templates, my customised styles didn't show up but that was a simple oversight on my part. In the sidebar panel (Ctrl-F5) which displays the styles, I had never noticed the selector at the bottom which by default shows 'Applied styles'. With a new blank document, there'll only be a default paragraph style displayed. When I clicked on the drop-down list and selected 'All styles', there were all my custom styles. I don't suppose you've made the same oversight? Philip On 24/11/2023 20:22, bunk3m wrote: Hello, I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac. I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates. I've used styles and templates in MS Word for 30 years before switching to LO in the past 5 years. I've read the help, Writer User Guide and Designing with LO 2nd Ed. and apparently have missed something conceptual as I can't get the styles to stick within the templates. I've created the styles in blank documents and then saved the document as a template.I expected that the paragraph, font, list formats & styles that I created would be saved in the template and reusable in subsequent documents created from the templates. But when I use the templates to create a new document, none of the previously created styles are there. I find I have to recreate all the styles again as they aren't anywhere within the template. So far it's been a colossal waste of time. I've found that all the "Youtube University" and User Guides are superficial when it comes to styles. My goal is to set up a set of corporate styles that can be used by numerous people in our organization to ensure consistency. Can someone direct me to some more detailed documentation on how the styles are supposed to work? Perhaps with some more detailed documentation I can figure out what or how these are supposed to work ... or file a bug reports. Thank you in advance. B. -- -- <https://le-theron.com> author of "The Circle of Fifths" for improvising musicians Get it here https://www.books2read.com/u/bWnRM4 auteur : "Le Cycle des Quintes" pour musiciens improvisateurs disponibilité : https://www.books2read.com/u/bw8rv9 -----
Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?
The only other thing I can think of is that there's some step in creating and saving the template that you're missing. If no one else can help, later I'll open Write in M$ Word and try to guess what step you might be missing. Eric On 11/24/23 15:08, bunk3m wrote: Thank you Eric. I have a number of templates. For example, templates for different types of reports, memoranda, letters etc. I did create a default template initially. I thought it would be something like the "normal" in MS Word. It contained all the styles. Then I created one a template for a report based on the default. Unfortunately neither the default or the report template kept the list styles or paragraph styles created in either. The only thing that stuck was the fonts but those are set as default in the User Preferences and not in the template. I'm not sure how making one of these templates the default will fix the missing styles within each of the templates as it hasn't worked so far. B. On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 14:39, Eric Beversluis < ebe...@researchintegration.org> wrote: Have you made your template your default template? On Linux: Files/Templates/Manage Templates. Probably similar on Windows. On 11/24/23 14:22, bunk3m wrote: Hello, I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac. I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates. I've used styles and templates in MS Word for 30 years before switching to LO in the past 5 years. I've read the help, Writer User Guide and Designing with LO 2nd Ed. and apparently have missed something conceptual as I can't get the styles to stick within the templates. I've created the styles in blank documents and then saved the document as a template.I expected that the paragraph, font, list formats & styles that I created would be saved in the template and reusable in subsequent documents created from the templates. But when I use the templates to create a new document, none of the previously created styles are there. I find I have to recreate all the styles again as they aren't anywhere within the template. So far it's been a colossal waste of time. I've found that all the "Youtube University" and User Guides are superficial when it comes to styles. My goal is to set up a set of corporate styles that can be used by numerous people in our organization to ensure consistency. Can someone direct me to some more detailed documentation on how the styles are supposed to work? Perhaps with some more detailed documentation I can figure out what or how these are supposed to work ... or file a bug reports. Thank you in advance. B. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Customizing styles and keeping them in templates in Writer?
Have you set your template as your default template? On Linux: Files/Templates/Manage Templates. Probably similar on Windows. On 11/24/23 14:22, bunk3m wrote: Hello, I'm using LO 7.6.2.1 on Win11 and Mac. I can't get the styles to work and stick in templates. I've used styles and templates in MS Word for 30 years before switching to LO in the past 5 years. I've read the help, Writer User Guide and Designing with LO 2nd Ed. and apparently have missed something conceptual as I can't get the styles to stick within the templates. I've created the styles in blank documents and then saved the document as a template.I expected that the paragraph, font, list formats & styles that I created would be saved in the template and reusable in subsequent documents created from the templates. But when I use the templates to create a new document, none of the previously created styles are there. I find I have to recreate all the styles again as they aren't anywhere within the template. So far it's been a colossal waste of time. I've found that all the "Youtube University" and User Guides are superficial when it comes to styles. My goal is to set up a set of corporate styles that can be used by numerous people in our organization to ensure consistency. Can someone direct me to some more detailed documentation on how the styles are supposed to work? Perhaps with some more detailed documentation I can figure out what or how these are supposed to work ... or file a bug reports. Thank you in advance. B. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
On 9/30/23 09:12, V Stuart Foote wrote: On 2023-09-30 08:47, Eric Beversluis wrote: Sorry. I thought I had included the whole thread. I had received these instructions for the styles sidebar in LO Writer: Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar My problem now is that the minimumwidth setting keeps (randomly, as far as I can tell) reverting to "true," and I have to go in again and reset it to false. So does anyone know why that would happen, how I can get it to stay at "false"? It's not like I re-installed or even updated LO when it happens. I've got LO 7.4.6.2, build https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=log;h=5b1f5509c2decdade7fda905e3e1429a67acd63d running on Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 9315 using the Dell image that came with the computer. == Sorry you're having issues. But can not confirm, the value [false | true (default)] set for 'minimumwidth' is retained in profile with 7.6.2 build and current builds of master against 24.2.0 release. When set the stanza in the registrymodifications.xcu registry setting will be-- oor:name="MinimumWidth" oor:op="fuse">false Only deleting that profile .xcu, or doing a profile reset (via UI) should cause loss of the the value. Otherwise with profile intact--it would require an intentional edit to toggle the setting back to 'false'. If you actually see the value changing in an unexplained fashion--pleasse file a ticket in the project Bugzilla. Stuart When I search /home/eric/.config/libreoffice/r/registrymodifications.xcu for "UI.Sidebar/General" it is not found. I do find, e.g., UI.Sidebar/Content. (I had to search in Firefox. For some reason gedit chokes when I try to do a search on this large file.) When I check "Open Expert Configuration" in LO the value there has changed to "true" again. It changed suddenly and, as far as I can tell, entirely arbitrarily after behaving for several weeks. Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com 20231016 update: Follow-up: Out of curiosity I tried opening the registrymodifications.xcu in Writer and there I did find the MinimumWidth entry. The next time the setting changes I'll look to see what happened in registrymodifications.xcu EB -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
On 9/30/23 09:12, V Stuart Foote wrote: On 2023-09-30 08:47, Eric Beversluis wrote: Sorry. I thought I had included the whole thread. I had received these instructions for the styles sidebar in LO Writer: Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar My problem now is that the minimumwidth setting keeps (randomly, as far as I can tell) reverting to "true," and I have to go in again and reset it to false. So does anyone know why that would happen, how I can get it to stay at "false"? It's not like I re-installed or even updated LO when it happens. I've got LO 7.4.6.2, build https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=log;h=5b1f5509c2decdade7fda905e3e1429a67acd63d running on Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 9315 using the Dell image that came with the computer. == Sorry you're having issues. But can not confirm, the value [false | true (default)] set for 'minimumwidth' is retained in profile with 7.6.2 build and current builds of master against 24.2.0 release. When set the stanza in the registrymodifications.xcu registry setting will be-- oor:name="MinimumWidth" oor:op="fuse">false Only deleting that profile .xcu, or doing a profile reset (via UI) should cause loss of the the value. Otherwise with profile intact--it would require an intentional edit to toggle the setting back to 'false'. If you actually see the value changing in an unexplained fashion--pleasse file a ticket in the project Bugzilla. Stuart When I search /home/eric/.config/libreoffice/r/registrymodifications.xcu for "UI.Sidebar/General" it is not found. I do find, e.g., UI.Sidebar/Content. (I had to search in Firefox. For some reason gedit chokes when I try to do a search on this large file.) When I check "Open Expert Configuration" in LO the value there has changed to "true" again. It changed suddenly and, as far as I can tell, entirely arbitrarily after behaving for several weeks. Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
Sorry. I thought I had included the whole thread. I had received these instructions for the styles sidebar in LO Writer: Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar My problem now is that the minimumwidth setting keeps (randomly, as far as I can tell) reverting to "true," and I have to go in again and reset it to false. So does anyone know why that would happen, how I can get it to stay at "false"? It's not like I re-installed or even updated LO when it happens. I've got LO 7.4.6.2, build https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=log;h=5b1f5509c2decdade7fda905e3e1429a67acd63d running on Ubuntu 20.04 on Dell XPS 9315 using the Dell image that came with the computer. == On 9/30/23 00:45, James wrote: I have no idea what this is Calc? Minimum width of a column? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
I'm re-sending this question, which didn't get answered. It's happened again that the minimumwidth setting somehow changed back to "true." It just seems to have happened today. I haven't re-installed LO or anything like that. What causes the value to change? How can I keep it from happening? On 4/27/23 09:46, Eric Beversluis wrote: OK. That works. But I keep having to reset it. What do I have to do to keep the setting at "false"? On 3/4/23 09:43, Philip Jackson wrote: Thanks to the OP and to V Stuart Foote - that was something I will find useful too. It worked beautifully but I had to close the document and reopen for it to take effect. Philip On 04/03/2023 02:30, V Stuart Foote wrote: Sorry for the top post... Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar =-=-= Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:26:09 -0500 How do I shrink the styles sidebar? Zoom works lovely on the main window--I used "optimal" most of the time, but that doesn't help if I can't shrink the styles sidebar. I can drag to make it bigger but not to make it smaller than a certain size. And I can't find anywhere to change the font size. So, for example, if I need to shrink the entire Writer window down to share screen space I end up with the styles sidebar taking up half the window with large type even when the main doc window type is so small it's hardly readable. There must be some way to do this. I just can't find it. Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] 'insert comment' on Calc not working
This morning on a long-existing spreadsheet, insert comment is not working. When I rt-click 'insert comment' the little red box shows up in the cell, but the balloon doesn't open. When I click on the little red box, it just disappears. There are quite a few comments on the spreadsheet already. So this is a new problem which seems to have come out of nowhere. Using Lo 7.4.6.2 on Ubuntu LTS 20.04.6 on DELL XPS. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
OK. That works. But I keep having to reset it. What do I have to do to keep the setting at "false"? On 3/4/23 09:43, Philip Jackson wrote: Thanks to the OP and to V Stuart Foote - that was something I will find useful too. It worked beautifully but I had to close the document and reopen for it to take effect. Philip On 04/03/2023 02:30, V Stuart Foote wrote: Sorry for the top post... Use Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Open Expert Configuration" Search for "minimumwidth" Click the "Edit" button to directly toggle 'MinimumWidth' boolean value from "true" to "false" OK out to apply. The Sidebar Deck can now be dragged as narrow as needed before it will collapse to show just the deck TAB Bar =-=-= Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:26:09 -0500 How do I shrink the styles sidebar? Zoom works lovely on the main window--I used "optimal" most of the time, but that doesn't help if I can't shrink the styles sidebar. I can drag to make it bigger but not to make it smaller than a certain size. And I can't find anywhere to change the font size. So, for example, if I need to shrink the entire Writer window down to share screen space I end up with the styles sidebar taking up half the window with large type even when the main doc window type is so small it's hardly readable. There must be some way to do this. I just can't find it. Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] updating formula results in LO Writer table
I think I figured it out. I had referenced an empty cell as part of the formula and then wanted the sum to update when I added value to that cell. It looks like if I start with zero in that cell the update happens. Thanks. On 4/17/23 09:02, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a table in an LO writer document with a formula that adds up about 5 other cells. When I enter the formula it does the calculation and gives me the sum. But I don't see how to get the formula to update the sum when I change a value in one of the reference cells. Is there a way to have Writer do that? Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] updating formula results in LO Writer table
I've got a table in an LO writer document with a formula that adds up about 5 other cells. When I enter the formula it does the calculation and gives me the sum. But I don't see how to get the formula to update the sum when I change a value in one of the reference cells. Is there a way to have Writer do that? Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] general input/output error when trying to open document
Why do I get a "general input/output error when trying to open a LO document (Calc, in this case)? Seems to happen frequently but randomly. Using Ubuntu 20.04 and LO Version: 6.4.7.2 Build ID: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.6. Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com Forthcoming: /For Love of a Father/ -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] shrink size and font size of styles sidebar
How do I shrink the styles sidebar? Zoom works lovely on the main window--I used "optimal" most of the time, but that doesn't help if I can't shrink the styles sidebar. I can drag to make it bigger but not to make it smaller than a certain size. And I can't find anywhere to change the font size. So, for example, if I need to shrink the entire Writer window down to share screen space I end up with the styles sidebar taking up half the window with large type even when the main doc window type is so small it's hardly readable. There must be some way to do this. I just can't find it. Thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com Forthcoming: /For Love of a Father/ -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline
Here's a theory that a bit of testing seems to support: What if, when one hits 'return,' the 'block outline' style has not been applied because there's nothing on the new line. If then, one hits 'return' again, Writer is not longer following up on any particular style so it reverts to the default style. Tending to confirm this: typing just a blank space before hitting the second 'return' retains the 'block outline' style. The behavior of the toolbar 'ordered list' icon shows what's happening. When in 'block outline,' the icon for 'ordered list' is darkened. If I hit two 'returns' in a row, the 'no list' icon is darkened. Fn-F12 restores the 'ordered list' setting--the 'ordered list' icon is darkened again. On 12/16/22 12:54, Eric Beversluis wrote: I do have 'block outline' specified as next style. So something else is happening. Probably you and Philip Jackson are right that the "correct" thing is to have two different styles. I've also experimented with including space beneath the paragraph in the style def and then using the soft return (shift-return) option when I didn't want the extra space. Still, it would be most convenient if 'two enters' didn't kick me out of the style. The other work-arounds all involve extra steps, especially when I want the flexibility within a given document. Thanks for the inputs. Eric On 12/16/22 11:57, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. wrote: When editing a paragraph style, in the 'Organizer' tab you can specify 'Next style'. Is that set to be your custom 'block outline' style? I don't really understand why two Enters would kick you out if one doesn't. A style purist would say that you should define a separate style with greater spacing, rather than using blank paragraphs. - Robert ____ From: Eric Beversluis Sent: December 16, 2022 11:20 To:users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline I have a custom outline style that I call 'block outline' because it doesn't use bullets or alphanumerics to head the different levels. It's set to single space. But there are times I want to double space--e.g., to make a greater break between "paragraphs" at a given outline level. But when I hit enter/return twice I get kicked out of my custom outline style. Is this a "feature" of LO Writer outlining or is there some setting that will keep me in the current outline style when I add an extra line spacing? (The only thing that works now is to single space, add some new text, and then go to the start of that "paragraph" and hit enter/return again.) Using Ubuntu 20.04 and LO 7.3.6.2 on Dell XPS. -- Eric Beversluis -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com Forthcoming: /For Love of a Father/ -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline
I do have 'block outline' specified as next style. So something else is happening. Probably you and Philip Jackson are right that the "correct" thing is to have two different styles. I've also experimented with including space beneath the paragraph in the style def and then using the soft return (shift-return) option when I didn't want the extra space. Still, it would be most convenient if 'two enters' didn't kick me out of the style. The other work-arounds all involve extra steps, especially when I want the flexibility within a given document. Thanks for the inputs. Eric On 12/16/22 11:57, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. wrote: When editing a paragraph style, in the 'Organizer' tab you can specify 'Next style'. Is that set to be your custom 'block outline' style? I don't really understand why two Enters would kick you out if one doesn't. A style purist would say that you should define a separate style with greater spacing, rather than using blank paragraphs. - Robert ____ From: Eric Beversluis Sent: December 16, 2022 11:20 To:users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline I have a custom outline style that I call 'block outline' because it doesn't use bullets or alphanumerics to head the different levels. It's set to single space. But there are times I want to double space--e.g., to make a greater break between "paragraphs" at a given outline level. But when I hit enter/return twice I get kicked out of my custom outline style. Is this a "feature" of LO Writer outlining or is there some setting that will keep me in the current outline style when I add an extra line spacing? (The only thing that works now is to single space, add some new text, and then go to the start of that "paragraph" and hit enter/return again.) Using Ubuntu 20.04 and LO 7.3.6.2 on Dell XPS. -- Eric Beversluis -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com Forthcoming: /For Love of a Father/ -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline
I have a custom outline style that I call 'block outline' because it doesn't use bullets or alphanumerics to head the different levels. It's set to single space. But there are times I want to double space--e.g., to make a greater break between "paragraphs" at a given outline level. But when I hit enter/return twice I get kicked out of my custom outline style. Is this a "feature" of LO Writer outlining or is there some setting that will keep me in the current outline style when I add an extra line spacing? (The only thing that works now is to single space, add some new text, and then go to the start of that "paragraph" and hit enter/return again.) Using Ubuntu 20.04 and LO 7.3.6.2 on Dell XPS. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com Forthcoming: /For Love of a Father/ -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep losing my default template for LO Writer--found workaround.
I tried the techniques indicated (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile) to create a new profile, but the templates problem was not corrected. When I open Manage Templates it shows my custom template but won't let me set it as the default template. When I click on my custom template it will open a document properly. So why can't I make it my default template? I checked the path for templates in Tools/Options and the path includes the folder that holds my template. (Which one would expect, since the template does show up in the Manage Templates dialogue.) I even replaced the profile with the profile from my backup from before I upgraded to 7.3* from 7.2*. That didn't solve the problem either. WORK-AROUND "SOLUTION": I had to open the template and then make believe I was creating a new template using "Save as Template." That gave me the option to set it as the default template (once I said it was OK to replace the existing template with that name). Obviously the upgrade did not save something but the problem wasn't with the profile. On 10/12/22 16:09, Harald Berger wrote: Maybe the user profile is defective. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile Am 12.10.2022 um 18:52 schrieb Eric Beversluis: I don't need that kind of basic stuff. I need to know why, when I go to Manage Templates, the option to Reset Default Text Document is grayed out even though the name of my template is right there in the dialog box. -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep losing my default template for LO Writer
I don't need that kind of basic stuff. I need to know why, when I go to Manage Templates, the option to Reset Default Text Document is grayed out even though the name of my template is right there in the dialog box. On 10/12/22 12:19, lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Eric, maybe this description will help you a little bit: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/Document_Templates_in_Writer https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/ > ...but it doesn't show up in the Styles ... Document templates and Styles are two very different things. Best Regards Harald Am 12.10.2022 um 16:55 schrieb Eric Beversluis: PS: My template shows up when I open "Manage Templates," but it doesn't show up in the Styles pane of a Writer document. And the "Manage Templates" window doesn't show any option to make my template the default template. The "Manage" dropdown show a "Reset Default Text Document," but it's greyed out. On 10/12/22 10:20, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a template I've built that I use for almost all of my writing. I have set it as my default template. But for some reason the default setting keeps getting getting removed so that when I open a new Writer document it opens with some generic template rather than the one I've built. What can be causing that? I recently updated to LO 7.3.6.2 from a 7.3.5.x version. Hopefully that shouldn't have unset my default template, should it? What else might be causing this to happen? I think also it happened previous to my update. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS on a Dell XPS. Thanks. -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep losing my default template for LO Writer
PS: My template shows up when I open "Manage Templates," but it doesn't show up in the Styles pane of a Writer document. And the "Manage Templates" window doesn't show any option to make my template the default template. The "Manage" dropdown show a "Reset Default Text Document," but it's greyed out. On 10/12/22 10:20, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a template I've built that I use for almost all of my writing. I have set it as my default template. But for some reason the default setting keeps getting getting removed so that when I open a new Writer document it opens with some generic template rather than the one I've built. What can be causing that? I recently updated to LO 7.3.6.2 from a 7.3.5.x version. Hopefully that shouldn't have unset my default template, should it? What else might be causing this to happen? I think also it happened previous to my update. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS on a Dell XPS. Thanks. -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Keep losing my default template for LO Writer
I've got a template I've built that I use for almost all of my writing. I have set it as my default template. But for some reason the default setting keeps getting getting removed so that when I open a new Writer document it opens with some generic template rather than the one I've built. What can be causing that? I recently updated to LO 7.3.6.2 from a 7.3.5.x version. Hopefully that shouldn't have unset my default template, should it? What else might be causing this to happen? I think also it happened previous to my update. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS on a Dell XPS. Thanks. -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart confusion in Calc
I think I stumbled on the answer so please disregard. On 10/2/22 21:13, Eric Beversluis wrote: I think I'm missing something basic but I'm not finding the answer in any of the Calc help topics. They all seem to assume that the Wizard will correctly use the ranges of values that's in the spreadsheet. I've created a spreadsheet with two columns, date and wealth. Date (col A) ranges from 2020-06-30 to 2022-09-30. Wealth ranges between $2,400,000 and $2,895,000. When I click Insert->Chart, the result shows $0 to $3,500,000 on the y-axis even those the actual range of values is only up to just under $2,900,000. More frustratingly, the chart insists on starting the dates on the x-axis from June 1, 1931 rather than June 30,2020, with the result that all the bar graph is bunched at the extreme right. I have no idea why the chart is not choosing the range of dates that's in the spreadsheet and I can't find any way of adjusting the range. In the Chart Wizard the Data Range is correctly shown as $A$2:$B$12. What am I missing here? -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Chart confusion in Calc
I think I'm missing something basic but I'm not finding the answer in any of the Calc help topics. They all seem to assume that the Wizard will correctly use the ranges of values that's in the spreadsheet. I've created a spreadsheet with two columns, date and wealth. Date (col A) ranges from 2020-06-30 to 2022-09-30. Wealth ranges between $2,400,000 and $2,895,000. When I click Insert->Chart, the result shows $0 to $3,500,000 on the y-axis even those the actual range of values is only up to just under $2,900,000. More frustratingly, the chart insists on starting the dates on the x-axis from June 1, 1931 rather than June 30,2020, with the result that all the bar graph is bunched at the extreme right. I have no idea why the chart is not choosing the range of dates that's in the spreadsheet and I can't find any way of adjusting the range. In the Chart Wizard the Data Range is correctly shown as $A$2:$B$12. What am I missing here? -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Template disappeared
I've got a custom template that I've been using regularly in LO Writer. In fact it's designated as my default template. Suddenly today it has disappeared from my list of templates. Nowhere to be found. I certainly would not have intentionally deleted it. How could this happen? Very disconcerting. Thanks. Running Version: 6.4.7.2 Build ID: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.4 on Ubuntu 20.04.4 -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Open two sheets from the same spreadsheet on Mac
Is there a way to keep two sheets from the same spreadsheet open at the same time, both live? Using LO 6.2.8.2 on Mac 10.12.6. Thanks. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] cells don’t auto-wrap
It seems I want to set “Optimal Row Height” as the default. I thought that’s what I had and for some reason certain rows or certain cells weren’t following that setting. If I have the trouble again, I’ll check if the affected cell has a different row height setting for some reason. If so, it sounds like Girvin’s trick is the easy solution. Thanks. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com On April 6, 2021 at 16:20:46, Girvin Herr (ghe...@fastmail.com) wrote: > > On 4/6/21 1:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 14:11 06/04/2021 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: > >> I've got a spreadsheet with all cells formatted to auto-wrap, yet > >> when I enter stuff into certain cells, it doesn't autowrap. And > >> sometimes the cell just shows the last bit of what I've entered. When > >> I right-click and check the cell, it does show it's set to auto-wrap. > > > > I think the answer may be simple: that you have set the row height for > > the relevant cells to be insufficient to allow wrapping to happen. In > > this case, the last line of wrapped text is indeed what will appear in > > the cell. You need to tinker with row height to enable Calc to expand > > the row sufficiently to accept all your text. > > > > I trust this helps. > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > Double-click on the bottom line of the far left column (the row number > column, not column "A") of the row needing enlargement. If you are on > the line, the mouse pointer will change to the up-down arrow icon. Doing > so should increase the row height to accommodate the text. (It will also > decrease the row height if the text will allow it.) > > Girvin > > -- It seems I want to set “Optimal Row Height” as the default. I thought that’s what I had and for some reason certain rows or certain cells weren’t following that setting. If I have the trouble again, I’ll check if the affected cell has a different row height setting for some reason. If so, it sounds like Girvin’s trick is the easy solution. Thanks. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] cells don’t auto-wrap
I’ve got a spreadsheet with all cells formatted to auto-wrap, yet when I enter stuff into certain cells, it doesn’t autowrap. And sometimes the cell just shows the last bit of what I’ve entered. When I right-click and check the cell, it does show it’s set to auto-wrap. Using LO 6.2.8.2 on Mac 10.12.6 THanks. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Problem with comments in Calc-deleting as I enter
Of course, as soon as I sent this, the problem went away, though I didn’t do anything different. ??? When I create a comment in my Calc spreadsheet and start entering text, either right away or after a few letter LO starts deleting each letter as I enter it. Have I got some setting wrong? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Problem with comments in Calc-deleting as I enter
When I create a comment in my Calc spreadsheet and start entering text, either right away or after a few letter LO starts deleting each letter as I enter it. Have I got some setting wrong? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] record durations, not time of day
I want to enter numbers in Calc like 3:05 that stands for 3 minutes and 5 seconds (duration), not for some time of day. How do I do this? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] LO Writer on Mac: view sidebar shortcut
The menu for Writer says command-f5 to view sidebar. But it give me voiceover. LO 6.1.6.3 on Mac Sierra 10.12.6 Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] insert non-breaking semi-space
On June 14, 2019 at 19:59:43, T. R. Valentine (trvalent...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 18:45, Eric Beversluis > wrote: > > > I want to insert a non-breaking semi-space when I have a single quotation > > mark next to > a double quotation mark: > > > > John reported, “‘I think you can’t,’ he said.” > > > > Is it possible to do this in libreoffice writer on Mac, so the two > > quotation marks are > slightly spaced? I’m not having any luck searching for this. > > > > Eric Beversluis > > Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com > > Look in the Unicode block of 'General Punctuation. There are a slew of > different-sized spaces available. You should be able to insert the one > of your choice. > > -- > T. R. Valentine > A rich heart may be under a poor coat. Thanks. Looks like I want to use “thin space” Hex 200A. Is there an easy way to do that from the keyboard? None of the ways I’ve used on Linux or Windows seem to work. Eric Beversluis -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] insert non-breaking semi-space
Using Libreoffice on Mac Sierra: I want to insert a non-breaking semi-space when I have a single quotation mark next to a double quotation mark: John reported, “‘I think you can’t,’ he said.” Is it possible to do this in libreoffice writer on Mac, so the two quotation marks are slightly spaced? I’m not having any luck searching for this. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] override automatic fraction
I want to enter the date 3/4 into a cell formatted for date. How do I keep it from changing my entry to three-quarters? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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] LO Calc-keep cell from imitating prior cell
Calc tends to copy what it thinks is the same entry from a prior cell in a column. My problem is how to keep it from doing that. Somewhere in a column I have ‘crème’. Now LO won’t let me enter ‘creme’ without the accent grave. How do I tell Calc to ignore the earlier value? I’ve tried a couple of times to delete the è, but each time it reappears. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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] Re: LO Writer insists on printing landscape.
On October 27, 2017 at 04:07:44, Alexander Thurgood (alex.thurg...@gmail.com) wrote: > > that the majority of > developers working ...do so (1) on Linux, So it’s a Mac-specific bug? That would fit with my never experiencing it in 12+ years of OpenOffice/LibreOffice. (I recently “inherited” the Macbook Pro I’m now using.) The problem occurs both with my Brother HL-1440 running through a print server that shows up as PS-742289-U1 and with my Brother MFC-6890CDW connected by Ethernet to my router. I updated my default template with the 8.51 page size. This works with new documents. But I’m not getting the “template has been modified” dialog when I open an old document. Is that absent in Mac LO? Update: Now I did get it on a doc I had created this morning. So maybe it’s just not working on old docs. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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] Re: LO Writer insists on printing landscape.
On October 27, 2017 at 04:07:44, Alexander Thurgood (alex.thurg...@gmail.com) wrote: > > that the majority of > developers working ...do so (1) on Linux, So it’s a Mac-specific bug? That would fit with my never experiencing it in 12+ years of OpenOffice/LibreOffice. (I recently “inherited” the Macbook Pro I’m now using.) The problem occurs both with my Brother HL-1440 running through a print server that shows up as PS-742289-U1 and with my Brother MFC-6890CDW connected by Ethernet to my router. I updated my default template with the 8.51 page size. This works with new documents. But I’m not getting the “template has been modified” dialog when I open an old document. Is that absent in Mac LO? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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] LO Writer insists on printing landscape.
I typed up a letter. LO printed it landscape. I checked Format-Page and it’s definitely set to print portrait. I restarted LO. Didn’t help. I copied the text to Text Wrangler. Printed fine from there. Copied it from TW back to LO. Still printed landscape. Copied it to M$ Word. Printed fine from there. Any idea what’s happening? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- 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] Leave full screen in Mac Sierra
I can’t get out of full screen in LO Writer. Supposedly, and for other apps, the green maximize button is supposed to reappear when you hover the mouse near the top of the screen. Doesn’t work in LO. Esc doesn’t exit full screen in LO. Cmd-Ctrl-F is supposed to exit full screen. It does, but to a totally black screen. So what’s the secret in LO and why doesn’t it work with the usual Mac moves? Running LO 5.3.6.1 on Mac Sierra. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] ID the template in use: Writer
Looks like the “Properties” window shows it for new documents. It wasn’t showing anything for older documents (that I brought into Mac from Linux). Sorry for the bother. Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com On September 20, 2017 at 08:35:41, Eric Beversluis (ebe...@researchintegration.org) wrote: > This may be a dumb question if I’m missing something obvious. But when I open > an existing > document in Writer, how do I tell what template it’s using? > > Eric Beversluis > Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] ID the template in use: Writer
This may be a dumb question if I’m missing something obvious. But when I open an existing document in Writer, how do I tell what template it’s using? Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Libre Writer - special characters
Ctrl-shift-u then four hex numbers. I've created a list I paste by my computer. Memorize the most common. You can also create your own desktop shortcuts for ones you use a lot. There's probably an easier way, but this works for me. It works in lots of places on my Linux install, not just in LO. U + 00A9 © U + 00B0 ° U + 2122 ™ U + 2018 ‘ U + 2019 ’ U + 201C “ U + 201D ” U + 00b1 ± U + 00a7 § U + 2014 — em dash U + 2938 ⤸ U + 2936 ⤶ U + 21a9 ↩ U + 20a4 ₤ U + 00e4 ä U + 00e7 ç U + 00e8 è U + 00e9 é U + 00eb ë U + 00f1 ñ U + 00fc ü U + 00dc Ü U + 00f6 ö U + 00a2 ¢ On 05/06/2017 11:38 AM, charles meyer wrote: In MS Word the prescription symbol is 211E. In special characters I typed in 211E in the Decimal box but did not get the prescription symbol. Aren’t hexicodes standard so Libre Writer should match MS Word? Is there a quick way when you’re in a document you can type something like hold down the Alt key and type in 211 on the numeric pad and get the prescription symbol? Not using a search engine (Google, Yahoo), is there a way in Libre Writer to type in the words “prescription symbol” and it will find the symbol? Or when you’re looking for an unusual symbol, you must Google it to ascertain it’s hexicode unicode, etc.? Otherwise, you’d had to scroll through every symbol chart to find it. Thanks. Charles. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Where to download Read-text extension.
I keep ending up on this page: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/read-text/0.8.30 but I can't find any link to actually download the extension. At one point I ended up on an open office page, but that extension didn't want to work with LO. What am I missing? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Fill Series
"Sheet" is not in my top menu. Is there some way I can add it? On 01/12/2017 04:34 PM, toki wrote: On 01/12/2017 09:09 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: Where is "Sheet"? I don't see it on any of the menu drop-downs. Top menu sequence: File, Edit, View, Insert, _Sheet_, Data, Tools, Window, Help. IOW, "Fill Cells" is the drop down menu item to look for. jonathon -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Fill Series
The Calc instructions for filling a series say "Choose sheet - Fill Cells - Series." (https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Fill_Series) Where is "Sheet"? I don't see it on any of the menu drop-downs. What am I missing? LO Version: 4.4.7.2 -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] LO 4.4.7.2-5.fc22: "Keep with next paragraph" automatically resets when saved as docx
This seems to be a problem that's been raised but I see no solution: when I open a file in LO saved as .docx, the "keep as next paragraph" is always checked, resulting in big gaps at bottom of page. I fix this setting, save it. All looks good until I reopen the document and the problem is there again. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Website security and encryption
I'm amazed and surprised none of your webpages -- including the downloads
-- are via secure/encrypted connections ("https://; or otherwise).
There's absolutely no reason ANY website should be doing this.
I refuse any site, not to mention download anything from them, if
connections aren't secure and encrypted.
BIG oversight on your behalf.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] em-dash sticking to its left term:follow up
On 06/26/2016 05:28 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: It seems in M$ Word that the default if for the em-dash always to stick with its left term when confronted with a line break. In LO Writer, this seems not the case. One seems to have to first insert U+FEFF and then the em-dash. Is there a way to change the default in LO Writer? I thought to try search and replace. But it's behaving strangely. When I use a hex code in the search field (\u2014) it finds them. But when I put the same kind of code in the replace field, it replaces with the code (\ufeff or \u00e8) rather than with the character the code stands for. Why would the regular expression work in the search field but not in the replace field? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] em-dash sticking to its left term
It seems in M$ Word that the default if for the em-dash always to stick with its left term when confronted with a line break. In LO Writer, this seems not the case. One seems to have to first insert U+FEFF and then the em-dash. Is there a way to change the default in LO Writer? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Select/copy content of a comment
I don't get an "edit cell" option. But double left click on the opened comment turns out to get me past the drag handles to edit mode. Don't know why I didn't try the double clicking earlier. That's what works in Draw. Somehow it didn't occur to me. A mind is a terrible thing to lose. THanks. On 04/01/2016 05:54 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Eric, right click in cell > Edit Comment. Then mark and copy the text as usual. Click somewhere else to leave edit mode. Kind regards Regina Eric Beversluis schrieb: Oops--I left out a key part of the query: The problem is selecting and copying the content of a popup comment in an LO Calc cell. Sorry. (Context is everything.) On 04/01/2016 05:15 PM, anne-ology wrote: strange, but maybe I can help, [see comments interspersed below] From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:29 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Select/copy content of a comment To: users@global.libreoffice.org How do I select and copy the content of a comment? [if you're referring to a website, then run the mouse along the copy which should highlight that portion, then right-click & choose copy which should place the highlighted text in the temporary storage so you can paste it elsewhere; if you're referring to an e-mail, then you can attempt to do the same - but sometimes, you'll have to first click as if you were planning to send the document elsewhere in order to make the copy accept the mouse - why, I haven't a clue ;-)] When I open the comment and try to select its content, all I get is a hand to move the content around on the page. [whether referring to a site or an e-mail, you could 'save as' this document to the machine, then try again when it's on your machine - why, this works I haven't a clue other than you've possibly broken whatever the site had holding it ;-)] (Eg, I've got a long URL in the comment that I want to copy and past into the browser.) The page on inserting and editing comments doesn't seem to address this function. [simplest method would be to copy a portion of this URL - paste into a notepad document; then copy remaining portion of URL - paste this onto the portion in notepad - then the whole URL is ready to copy & paste into your browser window.] thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Select/copy content of a comment
Oops--I left out a key part of the query: The problem is selecting and copying the content of a popup comment in an LO Calc cell. Sorry. (Context is everything.) On 04/01/2016 05:15 PM, anne-ology wrote: strange, but maybe I can help, [see comments interspersed below] From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:29 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Select/copy content of a comment To: users@global.libreoffice.org How do I select and copy the content of a comment? [if you're referring to a website, then run the mouse along the copy which should highlight that portion, then right-click & choose copy which should place the highlighted text in the temporary storage so you can paste it elsewhere; if you're referring to an e-mail, then you can attempt to do the same - but sometimes, you'll have to first click as if you were planning to send the document elsewhere in order to make the copy accept the mouse - why, I haven't a clue ;-)] When I open the comment and try to select its content, all I get is a hand to move the content around on the page. [whether referring to a site or an e-mail, you could 'save as' this document to the machine, then try again when it's on your machine - why, this works I haven't a clue other than you've possibly broken whatever the site had holding it ;-)] (Eg, I've got a long URL in the comment that I want to copy and past into the browser.) The page on inserting and editing comments doesn't seem to address this function. [simplest method would be to copy a portion of this URL - paste into a notepad document; then copy remaining portion of URL - paste this onto the portion in notepad - then the whole URL is ready to copy & paste into your browser window.] thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Select/copy content of a comment
How do I select and copy the content of a comment? When I open the comment and try to select its content, all I get is a hand to move the content around on the page. (Eg, I've got a long URL in the comment that I want to copy and past into the browser.) The page on inserting and editing comments doesn't seem to address this function. thanks. -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Corrupt file warning
I'm running Version: 4.4.7.2, Build ID: 4.4.7.2-1.fc22, Locale:
en_US.UTF-8 as provided by Fedora 22,
on an up-to-date Fedora 22 installation.
If I replace the Fedora version with the latest "still" version from the
LO site, would the automatic Fedora just ignore it and not try to change
it to a Fedora version?
I didn't know there was an "LO cache." Where is it and how do you clean
it out? /home/eric/.config/libreoffice/4/cache is empty.
What is a "conceptual" version? Is that the same as a development version?
On 02/19/2016 02:04 PM, anne-ology wrote:
Yes, there seems to be a problem somewhere, ... ... ...
but where leads to many questions which seem un-answerable in
your query, so -
Which version of LO do you have? - a conceptual or final edition?
if conceptual, then update to latest, at least within that group.
Where did you download your version of LO?
if not from the LO site, then un-install your version &
re-install a clean version.
[make sure you first back-up any files you've made with LO]
Have you cleaned out the cache recently?
if not, this may be the problem.
Hoping this helps,
From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:24 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt file warning
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Several times lately when I try to open a Calc file I get a warning; File
is corrupted and cannot be opened. Then Calc offers to try to recover the
file but warns that the data shouldn't be trusted.
At least once I let Calc recover it. All the data seemed fine.
Today I just closed out all the warnings and the file opened fine the next
time I tried it.
What's happening here?
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[libreoffice-users] Corrupt file warning
Several times lately when I try to open a Calc file I get a warning; File is corrupted and cannot be opened. Then Calc offers to try to recover the file but warns that the data shouldn't be trusted. At least once I let Calc recover it. All the data seemed fine. Today I just closed out all the warnings and the file opened fine the next time I tried it. What's happening here? -- Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] LO Writer - rtf
I've got a book-length document heavily formatted in LO writer, which I've exported to rtf. I'm trying to understand exactly what gets included in that new file. When I open it in WordPad on Windows it shows what I would expect an rtf document to look like--a continuous document, no page breaks, and minimal formatting. When I open it in LO on Linux, however, I get a strange output with some but not nearly all of the odt formatting that I assumed would be stripped out when saving as rtf. When I try to open it in WordPad in Wine, Wine freezes up. (Don't know if Wine is otherwise working properly, since I haven't really used it.) What I'm concerned about is what will happen when I try to import this rtf into Scrivener or use it to generate an epub version. So, again, my question is what all is included in that new rtf file and do I need to do anything to get a 'cleaner' rtf file. Thanks. EB -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] merging layers
I'm working on a graphic in LO Draw with several layers. Now I want to merge those layers, but I can't find how to do that. I tried grouping but I can only select one element at a time, even with 'Shift' held down. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] invoicing systems using Calc (or something else)
I'm looking for really simple invoicing system. I've seen a few out there that work on top of Calc but they are typically oriented towards product based invoices versus service invoices (what I need). I'm looking for a system that will do all the appropriate accounting for invoices, tracking what's paid and not paid. I'm not interested in a full-fledged bookkeeping system. I've been through three in the past two years and finally my accountant told me I was never to touch a bookkeeping system or even do my own bookkeeping because it's gonna cost me more for him to untangle my mistakes that it will be for him to do it for me (yes, I'm that bad at it). That said, I still need to build a produce invoices and track when they were paid. to be explicit, I'm hoping for something that lets me stay in the libreoffice ecosystem. Suggestions? Thanks --- eric -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] invoicing systems using Calc (or something else)
On 3/30/2015 10:03 PM, Tom Davies wrote: The only names i recognised were GnuCash and HomeBank; http://www.gnucash.org/ I spent approximately 40 hours trying to get basic books to balance. I'm talking only 100 entries and I could never make it work.I thought this list looked interesting; http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-free-accounting-software-8-programs-we-recommend-1136684 There is even one that says it only does invoicing and that looks fairly simple. It's also Windows only and it will probably do what I need but to have a whole separate machine for Windows is just making me crazy. Err, i used to work in an Accountancy Practice as a clerk so it was my job to do really basic bookkeeping for quite a lot of clients. That sort of approach might well turn out to be well worth the cost and would probably be a lot lower than than whatever your accountant charges per hour for your end-of-year accounts etc. It might be worth asking her/him to give you an estimate of how much they think they would charge, just to get an idea. he's built a package for me with corporate, personal, bookkeeping and phone support for something like $300 a month. It's been worth already because he's an enrolled agent and because of crap from my divorce, he kept the IRS off my back. I've done some shopping around and anyone who has any sort of a reputation for quality work is in that same range. As I've said elsewhere, a full-scale bookkeeping system is overcomplicated solution. It's some simple sums, filling in a form from other cells in a different tab on a spreadsheet but, this may be just one of those cases where paper and pencil is a better solution because all computers do is complicate things. it's sad when five minutes with paper and pencil and a fax machine performs better than current software and the Internet. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] invoicing systems using Calc (or something else)
On 3/30/2015 6:59 PM, jonathon wrote: On 30/03/15 21:27, Eric wrote: I'm looking for a system that will do all the appropriate accounting for invoices, tracking what's paid and not paid. That pretty much mandates that one have a bookkeeping system. Maybe. I can do it with Calc by hand. Each row contains the customer name, the line item, amount, and rate at the end of the row, I put in payment and date. If I have more than one payment because the invoice was split then I just record outward In subsequent tabs, I manually make a copy of the invoice template, fill it in, making sure it matches the data in the entry line, print to PDF and email it. It is a royal pain in the butt but I only do two maybe three invoices a month so it's tolerable. However, since the pattern is predictable and repeatable, it should be possible to generate an invoice from one of my entry lines. I think at this point, I'm about ready to give up using Calc in word for anything more than filling in a form and doing all the calculations by hand on paper and pencil. That said, I still need to build a produce invoices and track when they were paid. Since your accountant told you to never touch a book keeping system again, that gets a little tricky. I'm hoping for something that lets me stay in the libreoffice ecosystem. To track income, a possible solution is a write document, that is changed according to function. I've attached an example to this email. File Properties Custom Properties is where to go to change most of the information in the document. * Replace Invoice with Pro-Forma Invoice, Quote, Receipt, Estimate, Statement or other appropriate * The item, and the price are changed in properties. # Use your standard price, for the pricing. # Change description in the pricing block, when you change the item. # Change quantity in the pricing block, for the specific client; There are three lines for discounts: * Two are for deducting specific dollar amounts; * One is for deducting a specific percentage; Then, if the correct tax rate is in the description field, it automatically calculates the appropriate tax, if the correct amount is listed in the description field. (The accompanying template is wrong. Tax is not 97.5%, but 0.975%. ). Tracking number is for SH, if needed. Then you have a line for any deposit / down payment that was made/were made. Put this amount is the item column. The next line is how much was previously paid. This excludes any deposit/down payment that was made. This also excludes any payments made today. (There is no easy way to ensure that no errors are inadvertently made here. For some reason, that cell doesn't automatically add numbers together.) The next line is how much was paid today. Put this item in the item column. Under quantity put how it was made. cash, cheque, credit card, debit card, something else. The final line is how much is still owing. When everything is correct * Save the document with the client's name, form-type, and date of the original request, or invoice number; * Export the document as a PDF, then email the PDF to your client, and to your bookkeeping email account. (The bookkeeping email account is an email account whose sole function is to store PDFs until you, your bookkeeper, or your accountant can go through them, and do the correct accounting procedure with them. Some caveats about using this: * The forms have to be correctly labelled as to what they are; * You have to use the same document, for everything from initial estimate to final receipt; * Previous payments have to be double checked, to ensure that the numbers are correct; To track outgo, the simple solution is: * Cash is completely prohibited; * Use a debit card for all purchases --- this includes rent, utilities, taxes, and everything else under the sun that your business uses; * Request both a paper and digital receipt for all purchases; * In a spreadsheet, One @ One page is for outgo: # use one row per purchase: # Columns are for: record #, date, time, place, card present/not present, vendor, vendor address, item purchased, cost of purchase; * lease payments are included in this sheet; * Payments on outstanding debt is included on this sheet; * Either you or your accountant or your book keeper needs to reconcile that spreadsheet with your bank withdrawals at least once a week; @ One page is for income; # use one row per payment: # Columns are for: invoice #, date, time, client name, client address, initial amount of purchase, amount paid today, amount still owing, how payment was made; * Either you or your accountant or your book keeper needs to reconcile that spreadsheet with your bank deposits at least once a week; @ One page is for leases, and debt. # use one row per payment; # Columns are for: record #, date, time, place, card present/not present, vendor, vendor address, item purchased, initial balance, amount paid, current amount owed; * This sheet duplicates payments
[libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.
I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word highlighted, but there's no way I can get it to move the hyphen. If I put my cursor where I want it to hyphenate and click 'hyphenate', it just closes the dialog and leaves the hyphen in the original place. There also doesn't seem to be a way to tell LO not to hyphenate that word at all. As I read the manuals, I should be able to just use 'ctrl plus -' to manually place a hyphen. But this doesn't work either. Using LO Version: 4.2.8.2 Build ID: 4.2.8.2-6.fc20 What am I missing? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.
thanks. I tried what Tim suggested. It then will break after 'Bruin' until I enter more characters. Then it breaks after 'Bru'. So it wasn't that the manual break wasn't working--it was insisting on breaking automatically before it got to the manual break. So I need some way to stop it from breaking after 'Bru' when it wants to do that. Either only let it break after 'Bruin' or keep it from breaking altogether, as John suggested. But I don't want to turn off automatic hyphenating for the entire paragraph style. It looks like there's a method for preventing hyphenation in the name altogether--in 'writing aids' under options, by adding the word to a dictionary followed by '='.That seems to have done it. I think I've also finally found how to prevent auto hyphenating at undesired points (like 'Bru-')--certainly not intuitive: inserting 'No width no break'. Thanks for the suggestions. On 03/19/2015 09:21 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:26:26 -0400 Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org dijo: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word highlighted, but there's no way I can get it to move the hyphen. If I put my cursor where I want it to hyphenate and click 'hyphenate', it just closes the dialog and leaves the hyphen in the original place. There also doesn't seem to be a way to tell LO not to hyphenate that word at all. As I read the manuals, I should be able to just use 'ctrl plus -' to manually place a hyphen. But this doesn't work either. I don't know the answer to your question, but I'd like to point out that in traditional typesetting proper names are not hyphenated. I have LO 4.2.7.2 on Xubuntu and Ctrl - does add a hyphen in 'Bruinsma' as you wanted it to do. And the name does break on the optional hyphen when I add text to force it beyond the end of the line. Do I assume correctly that otherwise hyphenation is working as expected? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] exporting calc as csv but keeping ods form
I have an application that takes input formatted as csv. my source form is calc sheet with computed cells. if I save as csv, I need to re open the sheet's ods file when I make changes. is there any way to export as csv but keep the original ods in calc?? macro? bit o'python? --- thanks -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 12/02/2014 11:55 PM, Walther Koehler wrote: High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. ooh, that is old stuff. you should look for a sale on DNS 13 this month. nuance should have preferred on sale for 100$ instead of 200$. pick yourself up an logitech h800 headset form staples and off you go. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? via voice was the package of choice for court stenographers because it could be tuned but overall NaturallySpeaking was a better choice. look up natlink/vocola for a python based extension environment to nat-speak. -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? because VBox has really lousy audio handling. could not get a clear stream of audio to nat-speak so recognition was terrible. hoping I can get/find a solution for kvm and usb audio. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 12/03/2014 07:55 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I see on TV Dragon Natural Speaking. That is the NaturalSpeaking your have listed below, right? yes. Which package[s] is[are] good for Linux - i.e. Debian based ones like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. none so far. they are all windows based and will stay that way. this is why I'm trying to make encyst windows and DNS (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) inside of kvm. Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows? none. all useful speech reco is decidedly not libre. Nuance is really locked up that way. It would be real nice to get a Linux Box set up for a neighbor that is blind - since I do not have a spare Windows system and she cannot afford to buy the Windows OS like Win7. Be nice to have it set up for reading e-books - in their epub format or converted to text - instead of trying to find audio book copies. Of course you will need the voice commands to run the system to get the box to find the book, play, pause, stop, go back, etc.. That is what the speech recognition really us needed. look into making a simple Braille keypad with those controls using a rasberry pi. you probably could make the whole ebook reader out of one. feel free to contact me off list for design ideas. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive voice response, speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service representative). It is not and never will be a system for general-purpose speech recognition. The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding speech recognition to Linux Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes audio cleanly under most conditions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] mongodb and base
On 11/24/2014 3:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: RHEL-5.11 is just a couple months old and is stable branch. It makes sense that they wouldn't update it. Redhat 5.0, code named hurricane, is from 1997! Even if it's been patched and updated then it sounds a little worrying. ... I don't think it's quite from 1997 but definitely early to mid 2000's. if I remember correctly it was conversion from SCO. Two forces at work here. specifically lost functionality and expense to regain most of that lost functionality. then their techies It's a bad assumption to assume they have techies. They have a PC shop to take care of the desktop and they hired another consultant for years to maintain the database engine. According to this consultant, it's been very low maintenance considering the lack of investment the have put into the infrastructure. if there is a cloud-based version of Informix they can rent, I should probably move them there. I'm guessing they aren't complete morons No, they are not complete morons. They are lawyers. They treat software and systems the same way they would any appliance or machine. As long as it runs, it's good enough if my memory is correct, I think a couple partners have taken the Mercedes-Benz diesel's well over 200,000 miles they probably won't get rid of them until they are old. While we know computer systems i.e. software and hardware, are the tech equivalent of fast fashion (i.e. cheaply made and easily ruined), others look at the cost and figure it should last them many many years. I'm probably part of that camp since my laptop is a Dell e6400. I want to thank you for giving me a solution that wasn't what I expected but, infinitely more useful. Which is that if they don't understand and agree to the investment needed to move to the future, this is one job I should walk away from. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] mongodb and base
On 11/16/2014 5:16 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: On 16 November 2014 21:57, Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote: I've googled a bit and did not find anything. Has anyone coupled mongodb and base together yet? Just curious, how would you combine relational databases with the document-oriented ones (such as mongodb)? I'd limit mongo to a subset of relational db. think of mongo as the black knight from Holy Grail. Do you have use cases? I'm preping to talk to a real estate title authority. they have 60+years of title info in the area and it is all held in informix. they generate reports on the fly (hence base) and would like to be able to add information on properties incrementally without always rewriting the schema and go through the database conversion. Yes, there may some legal reasons why they can't do this but htat is why er are talking. personally, I am an order of magnitude more effective with mongo than any sql database. mongo maps better to my mind than sql. I'd like a base connection so I can be more effective in my ad-hoc db tools -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] mongodb and base
On 11/17/2014 3:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If you are just looking around for a hefty back-end then Postgresql is likely to be far heftier than you really need. Similarly MySql/MariaDb are also strong and well able to cope with fairly vast databases. Postgresql connects to Base more easily. good advice. I'll try it for one appl I may have to deal with If you already have an existing MongoDb database and are looking for a front-end then it's a different story. not yet, I just detest sql and am campaigning to relegate it to COBOL status. (something you never admit to knowing or using :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] mongodb and base
I've googled a bit and did not find anything. Has anyone coupled mongodb and base together yet? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Code line continuation arrow
I'm entering some code lines in a LO Writer document. The lines are long and wrap around and I'm looking for the special character 'curved arrow' that is used to indicate that it's a continuation line and not a new line of code. I don't see it in the Special Characters table. Does anyone know if there's a way to insert this character? Or even better, if there's some macro of something that will insert it wherever the line of code happens to break, depending on how the document is otherwise formatted? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Code line continuation arrow
That's close enough. Thanks. On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 09:15 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Eric Beversluis wrote: I'm entering some code lines in a LO Writer document. The lines are long and wrap around and I'm looking for the special character 'curved arrow' that is used to indicate that it's a continuation line and not a new line of code. I don't see it in the Special Characters table. Does anyone know if there's a way to insert this character? There's this Unicode character: http://unicode-table.com/en/2938/ There are other possibilities at http://unicode-table.com/en/sets/arrows-symbols/ I don't know offhand what fonts support this. Or even better, if there's some macro of something that will insert it wherever the line of code happens to break, depending on how the document is otherwise formatted? I don't know about this. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] the possibility of adding the feature to select different rows in a table made in Writer
Good Evening, I have a suggestion to add the new version of LibreOffice 4.3, the possibility of adding the feature to select different rows in a table made in Writer. Example: Creating a table with four columns and five rows, I only leave the line 2:05 with different colors, it is the suggestion of an Architect Municipal Transport and Trafficking in the Municipality of Porto Velho-RO. For this feature in Microsoft Word (all versions). please is only an suggestion for what continue best ever. ERIC ZANOVELLO Department of Resources and Information Technology Modernization - Drti Head of the Computer Support - HCSD Municipality of Porto Velho Phone: (69) 3901-3206 / 9225-1658 Rua Duque de Caxias, # 186 - Subdivision Arigolândia - Porto Velho - RO CEP 76801-006 Email: eric.zanovello @ portovelho.ro.gov.br -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/the-possibility-of-adding-the-feature-to-select-different-rows-in-a-table-made-in-Writer-tp4110784.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] The filter Calc does not seek different values
The filter Calc does not seek different valuesExample: I have 1 line with segiuintes informationcolumn name 1/2 Activities column / 3 column descriptionin row 1 column 2-2001in row 2 of column 2-2001we used the standard and advanced filterClicking on column 2 filter and select only 2001, but shows both values. Since the User only wants to filter the number. (dotted). We found that Excel has this functionality to identify differences in number. (Dot) and without. (Point) ERIC ZanovelloDepartment of Resources and Information Technology Modernization - DrtiHead of the Computer Support - HCSDMunicipality of Porto VelhoPhone: (69) 3901-3206 / 9225-1658Rua Duque de Caxias, # 186 - Subdivision Arigolândia - Porto Velho - RO CEP 76801-006Email: eric.zanovello @ portovelho.ro.gov.br -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-filter-Calc-does-not-seek-different-values-tp4110785.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] LO in dedicated accessibility task.
On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 10:19:02 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) My guess is that it depends on the OS and that you are probably talking about Windows, either Xp or Win7. People using other than Xp or Win7 usually tell us what they are using and that sometimes helps us a bit. sorry, I forget that the not-yet-disabled don't know that windows 7 +8 are the only platforms with good enough speech recognition (i.e. naturally speaking). in this case, Windows 7 Gnu Linux is usually highly configurable so it might be possible to set-up some script to do the auto-saving but that is more likely to need the skills of the devs. I think they have an i r c channel or something? Would that be useful or painful? There are probably other ways to contact them. I wish Stuart was around! He was brilliant with these issues! There are other people here that might well be able to help too. Regards from Tom :) heck, I'm willing to pay for help if I can get it working -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] LO in dedicated accessibility task.
This is a bit of a repost because someone forwarded part of my query from the accessibility list to this list. I'm using LO writer because it works with naturally speaking with full select and say capability Frequently I find myself needing to record notes or job task entries or something of that nature and given that my hands are not in wonderful shape, it is really painful to do all the mousing, switching context then positioning the cursor to start recording a note. I really need to just say something like log task entry and have it start up in the log file according to some internal logic defined in my speech command What I say to invoke the editor isn't really important. It usually calculate the filename based on the context such as time of day, and task . What's important is that I find a way to achieve the following behavior: 1. There is at most one instance of file open in the editor at a time 2. If there is no instances of the file open, open one 3. When switching window context to the open editor window for a given file, position the cursor at the end of the file 4. Autosave dictated data so that no need for recovery is necessary when we started the other after shutdown what I'm having the most trouble with is maintaining a single instance of the open file. I don't know how to tell if LO is open or if it can tell if it has already opened the the file and simply switch to it for focus. The second problem is the autosave without needing to do a recovery. What I would like is the ability to trigger a save command automatically whenever LO loses focus or a timeout happens. Any pointers? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] State of password support.
I don't know if this is relevant to Massimo's case but it might be: I had a problem a while back with Fedora 15 (and I don't remember which version of OO or LO): I would discover that I could open a password-protected spreadsheet without being prompted for the password. It turned out that it had something to do with Fed 15 shutting down w/o prompting to save an open and changed spreadsheet. When restarted, the spreadsheet would open without password protection. The workaround seemed to be to do a 'save as' at that point and check 'save with password'. More recently this hasn't seemed to be a problem, but I think it has happened once or twice, though I didn't bother to try to figure out why. On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/17/2013 10:12 AM, Massimo Del Zotto wrote: However, I recently had a problem with OOo password protection. Somehow it disabled password protection for a file I was working on and it took me a while to restore it. Asking for help on OOo forum, I have been informed password protection is somehow considered unnecessary by... I don't know who to be honest. You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem with passwords? The forum administrator strongly suggested me to not use it, and even pointed out a few previous cases in which password protection caused data loss (!!!). Which forum, do you have a link to the post? I think *this is unacceptable *so I started looking more seriously at LO. Digging the mailing list archives, I noticed there are quite a few messages regarding password protection. It seems most problem were between keyboard and chair, the only exception being perhaps an inter-operability problem after switching to AES-256. In your experience, how is LO with password protection? Massimo, you seem to be more informed of this than I, but, I am only aware of one (what I consider) real bug that existed with LO and passwords. At one point, I was no longer able to open a password protected file. Specifically, one version of LO was not able to open a password protected file. I am pretty sure it was LO and not AOO anyway. I believe that I have seen things such as: 1. I forgot my password, how I open my document 2. I am not able to open a password protected document created by MS Office 3. Problems signing a document I don't ever remember anyone saying that password protection should be dropped. Does not mean that it has not been said. I have seen people pushing to drop the ability to write non-ODF format, but I don't remember anyone advocating no support for passwords. I have also seen reports of another bug that sometimes causes total data loss of a file, but, since it is not reproducible in any sort of meaningful way, the bug has not been researched. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me
I've been using opml editor (on Windows, unfortunately) which seems to do all these things. Once stuff is in place it can be copied and pasted into a LO document, I believe. I've even been able to do a bit in Text Pad with indents and then copying it into the opml editor creates a good outline. I think Scrivener is based on opml and has all of the functionality you mention. There seems to be a beta version of Scrivener for Linux; it's well established for Windows and Mac; and I think once the outlining is done the finished document exports to LO or M$ Word. On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 15:09 -0700, CougarB wrote: When I was a full-time journalist in the 1980s, I became very successful using a dedicated outliner called PCOutline. When all the major Word Processers came along--MS Word, Word Perfect, etc, the lack of outliner functionality kept me with my archaic outliner until MS Word beat the functionality of PCOutline. I used outlining as my main method of work when a full-time technical writer in the 90s (e.g., Fujitsu Software in San Jose). While working for a java house, I was so influenced by the negative developer reactions to MS, that I've been wishing to move to OpenOffice or LibraOffice ever since they came along. But you don't have the functionality that I need, and furthermore, the discussions of outlining on this forum seem to miss the whole point, from my point of view. I'm a very motivated wannabe LibraOffice user who currently can't make the switch, because although I'm retired and writing fiction, the power of an outliner for writing in all genres is something I can't live without. So my reasons are complex--sorry about that--but tl:dr will not allow you to understand them. Please take the time. I really want to quit Microsoft Office forever and ever and ever. Thanx. The first functionality I need might seem mickey mouse, but it's the foundation for everything else. This is that in Word's outliner view, there's a button in front of every paragraph that I can drag and drop up and down. It's like cut and paste, but a lot faster. Combined with other features, it's extremely powerful. The second functionality I need is to be able to collapse things. In an article of 25 paragraphs, I can hide every line except the first line of the paragraph, thus allowing me to see the entire article of 25 paragraphs on the screen at the same time. This allows me to completely rearrange the entire article by drop and drag. For editing a single sentence or paragraph, I insert a return between sentences, phrases, and even words, drop and drag these elements into a new order, and delete the returns. Voila! A much better constructed paragraph or sentence in a snap. The third functionality is to collapse things within headers. For instance, if I've interviewed a dozen people for an article or if I've brainstormed 5 pages of random ideas for a blog or a chapter in a novel, I create headers for different topics and then drag and drop paragraphs, quotes, ideas, etc into the headers or buckets I've created. When one header becomes too full and fills too much of the screen, I collapse it, so that it hides all the paragraphs already there, which cleans up the screen. When I'm done with this step, I have half a dozen headers, under which are many different ideas, all of which are completely hidden. So I drag and drop my half a dozen headers into the correct order. Then I open the first main header and create a bunch of subheaders. Once this is done, I reorganize all of the points in this first section into subsections or sub-buckets, collapsing them all as needed until everything is organized into a number of different subheaders. At this point, I can rearrange all of these subheaders into the best order that they belong in. I can even drag a subheader into a different main heading if I choose, where it will remain as a separate section. I can repeat this process as many levels as I wish. This feature in MS Word is fractal to nine levels. From a chaotic mixture of confusion emerges order, insight, and wisdom--in one single step. As a technical writer, I used to sit in a brainstorming meetings, write down every developer idea as fast as I could (including those I didn't understand at all), type it all sequentially, and then very quickly organize all of the ideas into a coherent whole. The developers thought I actually knew how to program. (Mwah-hah-hah!) I could never have done that with LibreOffice as it's now configured or OpenOffice, either. Without my Word outliner, I would have been a shitty technical writer, and I would never have been able to write the developer guides I wrote. As a creative writer today, I currently have a dozen projects that are percolating, as well as one major project that I'm focusing on. I just brainstorm for anything that comes up, drag the ideas into the proper buckets, and I never lose anything of value.
Re: [libreoffice-users] FYI - Trend Micro is blocking your LO 4.1.1 download page
I believe it was previously known as PC-cillin for quite a few years. I used it under that name for a number of years and also after it changed to Trend Micro. Can't speak to how good it is/was. On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 23:56 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, i was able to find it by a google search but my point was that they are not particularly well known. I'm sure everyone could probably reel off maybe half-dozen to a dozen names or more without even pausing for breath. Probably 4 would appear on nearly everyone's list but people's last few choices might vary. I can't imagine more than 2 or 3 people would have Trend Micro on their list. it is well-known to pc magazine; here is a recent review: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410155,00.asp Rubenking does point out that Trend Micro doesn't participate in testing with all of the independent labs. Those that do test Trend Micro technology rate it good, not great. it also made their best of the current crop of antivirus ware. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372364,00.asp I don't do Windows and I've heard of it for yrs. I'd be wary of calling it 'obscure' but it is not among 'the best known'. F. Of course one disadvantage with using well-known security is that more people are more familiar with trying to break through it or disable it. Also fame is not necessarily a good indicator of quality and i can think of a few excellent programs that never got the recognition they deserved. However when famous security program fails there are usually stories about it and people find out fairly quickly. With something obscure, when it goes wrong there might never be any announcement anywhere, or they might have too few users and not even realise they have a problem Regards from Tom :) From: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk To: Libre Office ML users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 2 September 2013, 10:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] FYI - Trend Micro is blocking your LO 4.1.1 download page On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 09:23:06 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello Tom, I've never heard of Trend Micro and wonder if it's a Microsoft tool or some other 3rd party that has a vested interest in locking you in to only buying products from themselves. A quick internet search reveals that they're a UK firm selling security software for private business users. I suspect their software is giving a false positive. Trend Micro's url, should you be interested, is http://www.trendmicro.co.uk/ -- Felmon Davis Don't assume that every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost -- she may have got him. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] page down in word processors - find next
I was asking about the keyboard PgDn button. On-screen buttons are a different topic. On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 04:01 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) ???!?!!?!?? Ahh. You were talking about on-screen buttons? The ones under the vertical scroll bar? Middle one is called Navigation. I was talking about keyboard buttons. Now i'm not sure what anyone else was talking about. It's 4am though so i might still be dreaming or having a nightmare or something. I thought i understood but now i'm flummoxed. Regards form Tom :) From: Jean-Francois Nifenecker jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 22:24 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors - find next Le 15/02/2013 22:59, bill a écrit : I am keeping the same thread as it is closely related. The one thing that I really don't like is that as soon as you do a search the page down button becomes continue search forward and the page up becomes continue search backwards. That is fine while you are searching, but how does one return it to page up and page down ? You'll notice that then the page buttons are changing colours: by default, they turn blue in search mode while they are black in scroll mode. To get back from the search mode to the scroll mode, just click the center button (whatitsname?) and select the page icon. HTH, -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] page down in word processors - find next
You're right, of course. We started talking about keys, but then somewhere the word 'button' started getting used to refer to keys. However Tom's reference to the 'Edit File' button to toggle between 'read only' and 'edit' was correct usage--though it may have put 'button' rather than 'key' into our heads. On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 14:31 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Tom, Eric, Le 16/02/2013 13:18, Eric Beversluis a écrit : I was asking about the keyboard PgDn button. On-screen buttons are a different topic. to my French understanding, a button is some screen widget. On a keyboard there are only keys. Sorry if I misunderstood. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] page down in word processors
Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$ Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort. Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor. Thanks. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] page down in word processors
But the issue is now what it's called. The problem is that it doesn't screen down consistently, giving a full new screen save for a consistent one- or two-line overlap at the top. On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 15:25 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, the button probably should say Screen down instead of page down for most uses of the button and only say Page down for those rare cases where it really does mean a page. Regards from Tom :) PS blimey a short answer for once!! lol From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors At 09:35 15/02/2013 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$ Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort. Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor. I think you are missing the different functions of the two sorts of software. E-readers are what they say they are: readers. In other words, their users are using them to read documents. More than that, in general they will be reading the documents sequentially: when they get to the end of one page, they will next want to see the next page. And the only sense of page is as much as fills the screen of the display device. Word processors are quite different. In general, they are still fixated on printing the final document: the page size is the format of the eventual supposed printed version, not necessarily (and not usually) the size and format of the screen used for display. People usually choose settings that display less than a printed page of a document; if you were looking at such a screenful and then moved down a full page, you would unhelpfully have missed part of the text. But the bigger point is that a word processor is designed for editing, not reading. If you are editing at one point in a document and you now need to move down to a point currently off your screen image, it is not at all obvious - quite unlikely, in fact - that you would want to move to a following page. It is much more likely that you would want to be able to see some part of the document further down but whilst also still seeing the part on which you had just been working. The original model, then, is that no-one would read documents on screen but only from hard copy. It is interesting that software has been moving towards servicing screen reading, albeit rather slowly. Microsoft Powerpoint allows you to save a presentation as a slide show, in which case it opens for any recipient as for display, not for further editing. Microsoft Word has a reading mode, which displays screenfuls - not necessarily in the original layout - and in which your page down function works as you want. There is also a freeware Word Viewer available from Microsoft, intended for users without Microsoft Word installed. Again, since this is a reader and not an editor, it responds to page down requests by moving down a screenful. Oh, and try opening a read-only file with LibreOffice Writer: I think you'll find that it will now treat page down differently and move down (almost) a screenful. Should word processing and similar software provide an explicit reading mode for use in reading, not editing, documents? Possibly. Meanwhile, if you want something close to this behaviour in Writer, here's your workaround: just click the Edit File button in the Standard toolbar to toggle on this behaviour. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] page down in word processors
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 14:49 -0600, anne-ology wrote: but the computer's page is different from the printed page ;-) You're missing the point, which is that the scrolling is not consistent in presenting a new set of lines except for a one or two line overlap with the previous set of lines. Btw, the kind of behavior I like does seem to happen on gedit and Evolution. So I think it's something in the way the word processor is designed to interact with the PgDn button. BTW - Brian, I think your explanation was very good. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Yes, the button probably should say Screen down instead of page down for most uses of the button and only say Page down for those rare cases where it really does mean a page. Regards from Tom :) PS blimey a short answer for once!! lol From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors At 09:35 15/02/2013 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$ Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort. Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor. I think you are missing the different functions of the two sorts of software. E-readers are what they say they are: readers. In other words, their users are using them to read documents. More than that, in general they will be reading the documents sequentially: when they get to the end of one page, they will next want to see the next page. And the only sense of page is as much as fills the screen of the display device. Word processors are quite different. In general, they are still fixated on printing the final document: the page size is the format of the eventual supposed printed version, not necessarily (and not usually) the size and format of the screen used for display. People usually choose settings that display less than a printed page of a document; if you were looking at such a screenful and then moved down a full page, you would unhelpfully have missed part of the text. But the bigger point is that a word processor is designed for editing, not reading. If you are editing at one point in a document and you now need to move down to a point currently off your screen image, it is not at all obvious - quite unlikely, in fact - that you would want to move to a following page. It is much more likely that you would want to be able to see some part of the document further down but whilst also still seeing the part on which you had just been working. The original model, then, is that no-one would read documents on screen but only from hard copy. It is interesting that software has been moving towards servicing screen reading, albeit rather slowly. Microsoft Powerpoint allows you to save a presentation as a slide show, in which case it opens for any recipient as for display, not for further editing. Microsoft Word has a reading mode, which displays screenfuls - not necessarily in the original layout - and in which your page down function works as you want. There is also a freeware Word Viewer available from Microsoft, intended for users without Microsoft Word installed. Again, since this is a reader and not an editor, it responds to page down requests by moving down a screenful. Oh, and try opening a read-only file with LibreOffice Writer: I think you'll find that it will now treat page down differently and move down (almost) a screenful. Should word processing and similar software provide an explicit reading mode for use in reading, not editing, documents? Possibly. Meanwhile, if you want something close to this behaviour in Writer, here's your workaround: just click the Edit File button in the Standard toolbar to toggle on this behaviour. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
Update: happened again today. I shut down my Fedora 15 with LibreOffice running and the password-protected document open (which I do often). When I restarted the computer that document opened with a dialogue that it had been changed and did I want to save the changes? I took a look at 'save as' and the 'save with password' box was unchecked. Unfortunately I can't remember what state the document was in before I shut down but I know I wouldn't have unchecked the 'save with password' box. I put a check into the 'Save with password' and saved-as and now it's working right again. LibreOffice 3.5.7.2; Build ID: 350m1 (Build 2). On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:44 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: Oops. I was setting the protection for change recording state. Password protecting the document is on the save as dialogue. Seems to be working now. Must have gotten unset somehow, though that presumably would have required my using 'save as' to save the document and unchecking the password box. Whatever. Thanks. EB On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:29 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! I wasn't expecting that! Can you push the unprotect, then save and closereopen and then re-protect? Sorry, that is my best shot and i'm sure you have probably already tried it. My guess is that even renaming the User Profile wouldn't fix this one so i'm all at sea. Luckily there are a lot of people here that know far more than me. Apols and regards from Tom :) From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 17:05 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working It's an .ods file using it on Fedora with LO 3.5.7.2. On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:58 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) What format? If you are using MS formats then LO ignores the password protection but MSO users will be required to enter a password. I'm not sure what happens in MSO if you try to password protect an Odt file. Regards from Tom :) __ From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 16:48 Subject: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped working--the document opens without any prompting for password. I went into File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening without password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the unprotect button shows. What can have happened? Thanks. EB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users +h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
The first time this happened (sometime in Dec, as I recall), if I was prompted as I was today (that the document had been changed and did I want to save it), I would have just saved it--and only noticed later that it was no long password-protected. Today, sensitized by the previous experience, I looked before saving and saw that the save with password was no longer checked. If LibreOffice is somehow changing that setting accidentally (i.e., there's a bug somewhere), I'm not sure a notification system would solve the problem. I'm going to do some experimenting and see if I can pin down exactly when it happens--assuming it's not somehow random. (I don't use hibernate or suspend, since for some reason Fedora 15 doesn't recover my graphic display when I do so, so when it had occurred it has been with a shutdown.) Thanks. On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:38 -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Eric, I'm curious what behavior you would prefer in a variety of edge cases. 1. On a document recovery or hibernation recovery of an unsaved document, would it be all right to request that the password be provided again in order to reload and resume editing of a document that had previously been saved with password? 2. On a Save or Save As of a saved-with-password document that was opened and edited, would it be appropriate to request a password again (with cancellation of the password supported)? (This would remind someone that they are saving a document that was originally saved with password. 3. If a saved-with-password document that is opened and the setting to save with password is cleared, would you want a warning that document that was previously saved-with-password is not now being saved with any password? I'm sure there are other flavors of behavior. Do you have any preferences among those listed, or do you have another case you'd like to see? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Eric Beversluis [mailto:ebe...@researchintegration.org] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 14:17 To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working Update: happened again today. I shut down my Fedora 15 with LibreOffice running and the password-protected document open (which I do often). When I restarted the computer that document opened with a dialogue that it had been changed and did I want to save the changes? I took a look at 'save as' and the 'save with password' box was unchecked. Unfortunately I can't remember what state the document was in before I shut down but I know I wouldn't have unchecked the 'save with password' box. I put a check into the 'Save with password' and saved-as and now it's working right again. [ ... ] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
Test 1 -opened theDoc.ods with password. -made changes but didn't save them -shut down Fedora 15--no prompt to save the unsaved document -restarted Fedora 15--document opened w/o prompt for password; the change was there; the 'save with password' was unchecked. -started 'save as'--was prompted that theDoc.ods existed, did I want to write over it? -did regular save--now it opens w/o password. Test 2 -opened theDoc.ods with password. -made changes but didn't save them -shut down Fedora 15--no prompt to save the unsaved document -restarted Fedora 15--document opened w/o prompt for password; the change was there; the 'save with password' was unchecked. -Clicked to close the document--got prompt: document has been modified, do you want to save the changes? -Chose 'discard' -The original document was still password protected. Test 3 Same procedure. This time LibreOffice opened but prompted me for the password. My changes in theDoc.ods were not there. Test 4 Same procedure. Same result as Test 2. Test 5 Same procedure. Same result as Test 2. Test 6 Same procedure. Clicked to close and chose save when prompted. theDoc.ods is not not password protected. For some reason, it seems that LibreOffice is not prompting to save unsaved document when Fedora 15 shuts down, nor is it doing a recovery. It sometimes prompts for the password but it seems usually just to open the unsaved document w/o a password. (Calc--I don't know if this happens with Writer) (I have LibreOffice in my automatic startup list). On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:58 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: The first time this happened (sometime in Dec, as I recall), if I was prompted as I was today (that the document had been changed and did I want to save it), I would have just saved it--and only noticed later that it was no long password-protected. Today, sensitized by the previous experience, I looked before saving and saw that the save with password was no longer checked. If LibreOffice is somehow changing that setting accidentally (i.e., there's a bug somewhere), I'm not sure a notification system would solve the problem. I'm going to do some experimenting and see if I can pin down exactly when it happens--assuming it's not somehow random. (I don't use hibernate or suspend, since for some reason Fedora 15 doesn't recover my graphic display when I do so, so when it had occurred it has been with a shutdown.) Thanks. On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:38 -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Eric, I'm curious what behavior you would prefer in a variety of edge cases. 1. On a document recovery or hibernation recovery of an unsaved document, would it be all right to request that the password be provided again in order to reload and resume editing of a document that had previously been saved with password? 2. On a Save or Save As of a saved-with-password document that was opened and edited, would it be appropriate to request a password again (with cancellation of the password supported)? (This would remind someone that they are saving a document that was originally saved with password. 3. If a saved-with-password document that is opened and the setting to save with password is cleared, would you want a warning that document that was previously saved-with-password is not now being saved with any password? I'm sure there are other flavors of behavior. Do you have any preferences among those listed, or do you have another case you'd like to see? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Eric Beversluis [mailto:ebe...@researchintegration.org] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 14:17 To: Tom Davies Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working Update: happened again today. I shut down my Fedora 15 with LibreOffice running and the password-protected document open (which I do often). When I restarted the computer that document opened with a dialogue that it had been changed and did I want to save the changes? I took a look at 'save as' and the 'save with password' box was unchecked. Unfortunately I can't remember what state the document was in before I shut down but I know I wouldn't have unchecked the 'save with password' box. I put a check into the 'Save with password' and saved-as and now it's working right again. [ ... ] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] #NAME? error in valid formula in xlsx format spreadsheet
TIA! I have an xlsx format spreadsheet with several formulas: =PRODUCT(SUM(months(10/21/2012,NOW(),1),months(11/6/2012,NOW(),1)) ,50) When I close and re-open the spreadsheet, the cell with the formula gives me the #NAME? error. The first time I saw this and after quite a while trying to determine what was wrong, I figured out that nothing at all was wrong with the formula. All it takes for the spreadsheet to do the calculation is to modify the cell. For example, changing just one of the months() functions to MONTHS() and then pressing enter will allow the cell to calculate the value, even though only one of the months() functions has been capitalized. In fact, thinking that there might be some option making the function be case specific, when I first noticed the problem, I had tried to capitalize the months() function, but when I hit enter, the upper case was subsequently changed to lower case and the calculation was performed anyway. When the spreadsheet is saved in ods or xls format, the formula is calculated as would be expected after a close/re-open and the months() is upper cased to MONTHS(). Since I know how to fix the error after re-opening, it isn't a big deal, but it sure would be nice not having to edit all the formulas just to get my calculations performed. Any idea why closing and re-opening the xlsx spreadsheet causes the formula to error when there really is no error? Other than saving in ods or xls format, any idea how to fix the issue? Thanks! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped working--the document opens without any prompting for password. I went into File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening without password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the unprotect button shows. What can have happened? Thanks. EB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
It's an .ods file using it on Fedora with LO 3.5.7.2. On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:58 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) What format? If you are using MS formats then LO ignores the password protection but MSO users will be required to enter a password. I'm not sure what happens in MSO if you try to password protect an Odt file. Regards from Tom :) __ From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 16:48 Subject: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped working--the document opens without any prompting for password. I went into File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening without password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the unprotect button shows. What can have happened? Thanks. EB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users +h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] document protection not working
Oops. I was setting the protection for change recording state. Password protecting the document is on the save as dialogue. Seems to be working now. Must have gotten unset somehow, though that presumably would have required my using 'save as' to save the document and unchecking the password box. Whatever. Thanks. EB On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:29 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! I wasn't expecting that! Can you push the unprotect, then save and closereopen and then re-protect? Sorry, that is my best shot and i'm sure you have probably already tried it. My guess is that even renaming the User Profile wouldn't fix this one so i'm all at sea. Luckily there are a lot of people here that know far more than me. Apols and regards from Tom :) From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 17:05 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working It's an .ods file using it on Fedora with LO 3.5.7.2. On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:58 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) What format? If you are using MS formats then LO ignores the password protection but MSO users will be required to enter a password. I'm not sure what happens in MSO if you try to password protect an Odt file. Regards from Tom :) __ From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 16:48 Subject: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped working--the document opens without any prompting for password. I went into File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening without password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the unprotect button shows. What can have happened? Thanks. EB -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users +h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] animation in an impress documennt
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1In11apApKozw_UOPAhVz0ePqns72_6652Dra34xWp4E/edit
if you look at this document here (yes yes it's Google docs. It was easiest way
to share and get comments from others) you'll see I'm trying to describe a
different approach to speech driven programming. What I could use here from the
LO folks is how can I implement a simulation of the user interface in impress.
classfield = attribute get (extended class u'').strip()
IDfield = attrib.get('xid', u'').strip()
stylefield = attrib.get('style', u'').strip()
I want the animation to go through the following script:
type in classfield =
shows speech bubble containing attribute get and then slowly type in the same
words. Repeat the bubble and text several times for the rest of the line
Then show the cursor move back to the attribute get and speech bubbles says
toggle word. The phrase attribute get is replaced with new phrase after the
old one transition out and the new one transitions in.
I don't even know where I would start to look for the answers on this one. I
would appreciate some help.
Thanks
--- eric
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Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...
On 6/20/2012 1:14 PM, Chad Neeper wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:10 PM, JenS8 jennys8.ama...@dfgh.net wrote: We want to create a questionaire that people can fill out on their computer and email back to us when complete. One of my (rather non-technical) clients just created a very effective survey form via Google Apps. The form is available via the Internet, so it's cross-platform. The data is collected and dumped into a spreadsheet and is accessible via Google. Very clean, very simple, very effective, very free. I think it quite possibly would handily meet your requirements. (But I still love and use LibreOffice!) I would love to hear how they did this. Many thanks --- eric -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Draw: an odd room, place labelled furniture?
On 6/12/2012 4:24 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Not sure if Draw is the right tool to use. My workplace is moving soon and i have taken measurements of the oddly shaped big new room at the new place. My first thought had been to make a 2d paper-'model' and then use smaller bits of paper to represent furniture to test-out different layouts. Could Draw be used to do this instead, reasonably easily? Regards from Tom :) dia might be better https://live.gnome.org/Dia -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software [SOLVED!]
On 6 juin 12, at 20:46, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Correction: The required manifest:version=1.2 is required, for ODF 1.2 documents, on the manifest:manifest element (the root of META-INF/ manifest.xml and on the manifest:file-entry having manifest:full- path=/. OK, LO does open the document without it, but I'll put it in there anyway, wouldn't want it to break for other software. Also, double-check all places where MIME Type strings are expressed, including in the mimetype file of the package. There should be no ,, ; or whitespace characters in the content values. Just copied the exact values from an existing file, so these should be OK. Only need 3 actually: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text for the document itself, text/xml for all XML files and image/png for the images. As for your previous question: Finally, how are you producing the mimetype in the Zip package? It might be better to let LO do that. I'm not producing it, I'm copying it from an existing ODF document, so there shouldn't be any problem at all. I'll make sure the type written in it is actually the type written in the manifest.xml file for the root document though. Thanks a lot! - Eric - -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
