[libreoffice-users] Select text does not always work

2011-03-01 Thread James Wilde
The other oddity I noticed, which, again, is not something you would use every day, involves text which is apparently selected, but is actually not. And in this case it's probably worth mentioning that I'm using 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6. I was going through a long document correcting

[libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...

2011-03-01 Thread James Wilde
In another email I said that I had given up on using mailmerge, since the labels never print out as you want them to. My problem is this: I have a laser printer, Brother HL-5340D, excellent in all ways. I print from a Mac running OSX 10.6.6 and LibO 3.3.1. I use A4 sized sheets with three

[libreoffice-users] Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread Rainer Krienke
Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an existing document eg a spreadsheet (.ods) takes a very long time. For a

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO for Ubuntu

2011-03-01 Thread Tom Davies
From: MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 19:22:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO for Ubuntu On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:50 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at

[libreoffice-users] Re: 100% zoom is huge in Snow Leopard

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/03/11 05:58, mr9times a écrit : Hi, Are others experiencing this as well? I did some searching on the web and the mail list archive but didn't find anything. I too, have a Macbook Pro, but haven't noticed this problem. What I have noticed, however, is that the touchpad is extremely

[libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/02/11 19:34, Marc Grober a écrit : Hi Marc, There may in fact be a command line option for invoking a Tbird envelope from inside the package without invoking a new instance of Tbird - seems to me I had to address something like that on aix quite a few years ago. Unfortunately I tried

[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread David Griffiths
Rainer Krienke wrote: Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an existing document eg a spreadsheet (.ods) takes

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October

2011-03-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October First annual project meeting from October 12th to 15th The Document Foundation today announced the first annual LibreOffice Conference, which will be held in Paris from October 12th to 15th. Carrying on the tradition of previous OOoCon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu

2011-03-01 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: ... I'd be willing to bet that you have the Ubuntu libreoffice PPA. What do you show for: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep libreoffice Can you also show the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 03/01/2011 05:39 AM, David Griffiths wrote: Rainer Krienke wrote: Hello, recently I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on my openSuSE 11.3 linux box. Libreoffice itself starts fast on this system which has 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor . What I noticed is that opening an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu

2011-03-01 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 03/01/2011 05:50 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: snip Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last

Re: [libreoffice-users] Features request

2011-03-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hopefully someone can post your wishlist items to the developers list. As a workaround the clumsy If (Test1, (IF (Test2, (COUNT (??)), otherwise?), otherwise?) Obviously this is sub-optimal for what you need but it should work as long as you keep track of all the brackets and remember

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread Marc Grober
On 2/28/11 2:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response On

[libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/02/28 5:13 PM Tom Davies wrote: ___ From: Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response On 2011/02/28 12:47

[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape

2011-03-01 Thread ssanders
I am getting something like this too, but my specs are a little different: - LibreOffice Calc 3.3.1 - Windows XP Pro SP3 - Paper Size: Letter When I open an XLSX made with PHPExcel and orientation set to landscape, it appears OK in Excel 2003 and OpenOffice.org 3.3.1... but it is portrait in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Select text does not always work

2011-03-01 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: The other oddity I noticed, which, again, is not something you would use every day, involves text which is apparently selected, but is actually not.   And in this case it's probably worth mentioning that I'm using

[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread NoOp
On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You need to modify your hosts file as per the instructions here:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/28 5:13 PM  Tom Davies wrote: ___ From: Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 20:13:40 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and found a fix on the Internet. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. Apparently this affected some OpenOffice installs. It didn't affect me until I moved to LibreOffice. You

Re: [libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...

2011-03-01 Thread Don C. Myers
Most of the problems listed here with labels are not problems. The table style templates, available from worldlabel.com or in openoffice extensions, work great. The text is centered vertically in each label since they are table cells. It is very easy to change the top margin to adjust for your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread Don C. Myers
Now if there was just a simple fix like that for LibreOffice base working so sluggishly with Java 1.6.0_24 On 03/01/2011 02:50 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/01/2011 07:14 AM, Don C. Myers wrote: I had the same issue, and

[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape

2011-03-01 Thread ssanders
I am getting something like this too, but my specs are a little different: - LibreOffice Calc 3.3.1 - Windows XP Pro SP3 - Paper Size: Letter When I open an XLSX made with PHPExcel and orientation set to landscape, it appears OK in Excel 2003 and OpenOffice.org 3.3.1... but it is portrait in

[libreoffice-users] Re: A5 landscape

2011-03-01 Thread interele
I tracked this down to a problem using pcl5. If you can use a postscript driver the problem goes away M -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/A5-landscape-tp2038922p2605553.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Low-quality images when exporting Impress presentation to PDF

2011-03-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, I have an Impress presentation containing several screenshot images (1024x768 PNG images). I want to export it to a PDF, which will mostly be read on-screen (not printed). I've tried many combination of PDF export options and image resolutions, and no matter what I try, the image

[libreoffice-users] Default character formatting not behaving as it did in OOo?

2011-03-01 Thread missinglens
LibreOffice is behaving in an unexpected manner with respect to default character formatting. To replicate, first do the following in OpenOffice.org: 1. Start a new document. 2. Type a few words and highlight one of the middle words. 3. Apply a different Character style to that text. For example,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Very slow document opening in LibreOffice 3.3.1

2011-03-01 Thread NoOp
On 03/01/2011 12:58 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Now if there was just a simple fix like that for LibreOffice base working so sluggishly with Java 1.6.0_24 There is thread over on the OOo user list that mentions this. Unfortunately the author doesn't provide any details or test scenario

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu

2011-03-01 Thread NoOp
On 03/01/2011 02:50 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: ... Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/03/01 1:40 PM  MR Zen Wiz wrote: :   Yahoo email screwed up their quoting mechanism beyond all hope, and some people cling to using Yahoo email beyond all reason. And I posted how to set up Yahoo Mail so it

[libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?

2011-03-01 Thread Leslie D. Martin
Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem to find a single one of them when I run spell check after the fact (for example, an imported or cut and paste document). It does seem to work fine in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Default character formatting not behaving as it did in OOo?

2011-03-01 Thread dashr
I regret being unable to reply to your question sooner. Having followed your instructions to re-create the problem: = Now do the same thing in LibreOffice. Note that Default Formatting now appears to do nothing. The character style stays the

Re: [libreoffice-users] difficulty with spreadsheet links

2011-03-01 Thread Andy Brown
Carola y Pablo wrote: When I link a cell in one spreadsheet to another, then close both files, if the second spreadsheet is deleted or moved, then when I open the first spreasheet, I lose the linked data What to do? Paul I do not understand here. You link to something then delete it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?

2011-03-01 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Leslie D. Martin alaskahome1959.mailingli...@gmail.com on Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:03:57 -0800 Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem to find a single one of them

[libreoffice-users] Base Date issue

2011-03-01 Thread Leslie D. Martin
I tried to send this earlier but was having some internet problems and I'm not sure it got out. I apologize if it is a repost. As part of an assignment in school I have to create a basic database with two tables. In one of the tables I have a field set to the Date data type with the format mask

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to switch from apt-get to ppa install

2011-03-01 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: : No. Your current install was done with dpkg and has nothing to do with apt-get. Easiest way for you to purge (if that's what you'd like to do) is to use Synaptic: System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search for libreoffice,