[libreoffice-users] Re: hide white space

2011-06-10 Thread plino
A quick Google search provides the answer http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/show-or-hide-white-space-in-print-layout-view-HP003072013.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297564 Does anyone know if this feature exists in LO? If not a feature request could be added ;) -- View this

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread never punctual
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I guess hyphenation could be useful in some cases, but it seems to be more of a luxury for me to have that feature at the moment because I'm still not sure how the Tools -- Language -- Hyphenation option works. However, I did look into the Word Wrap option. All

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: hide white space

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
plino wrote (10-06-11 08:58) A quick Google search provides the answer http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/show-or-hide-white-space-in-print-layout-view-HP003072013.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297564 Does anyone know if this feature exists in LO? If not a feature request could

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Tools - language - Hyphenation seems to be like a spell-check or grammar-check that you run through after finishing editing a document, or after you already have a chunk of text to test it on to see how it behaves. It doesn't seem to be something that stays on during edits.

[libreoffice-users] bug in 333 rc1 with languages and options?

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, Are there people that can confirm this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38128 (With *another* language then English, Tools Options Calc Print shows the content of Key bindings...) Thanks, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: hide white space

2011-06-10 Thread Daniel Vio
Would be a surprise if there is not a feature request already. At least in the old OOo domain ;-) IIRC, people are advised to use Web layout for this - apparently - mission critical feature. Regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org It seems that, indeed, the issue has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bullets with different outline levels

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is the confusing documentation here http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ The documentation team need more people and are very friendly and helpful to new people. It's a great way to learn many advanced features of LibreOffice. Regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread John B
Hi In the past using different software (Ami Pro lotus smartsuite) I had created a text box to go past the margins or reduced the font size to keep it on the same line (or both); it works for me as I don't particularly like word wrapping or word splitting. But these 2 ideas might help in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Issues with downloading extensions

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's a shame the entire load of OOo extensions can't be mirrored on a TDF server so that when the OOo servers are down people can still access whichever obscure rare extension they rely on. Regards from Tom :) From: Ken Springer

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread Stephan Zietsman
never punctual wrote: So basically, I consider my problem completely resolved now, thanks to all the replies. I only have one final question about what Stephan wrote. I went to the wiki page and I understood every part of your summary except the last part on manually hyphenating single words.

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-09 12:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Not everyone wants the help installed bloating their system when they might have very limited space available. Part of the bonus of OpenSource software is being able to streamline your system for your needs. Give me a break. The help doesn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-09, Zak McKracken wrote: Am 09.06.2011, 15:15 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Have bug-reports been posted? I think the issues are quite important to get fixed. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport It's better to avoid the 3.4.0 at the moment unless you

[libreoffice-users] Feature request - area?

2011-06-10 Thread John B
Is there an area where Feature Requests are posted? John B -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] address change working

2011-06-10 Thread Luiz Carlos
Hi, Em 10-06-2011 05:52, Tom Davies escreveu: Florian! You did an awesome job of that! +1 Luiz Oliveira identi.ca/luiggi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO updates

2011-06-10 Thread David B Teague sr
On 6/9/2011 2:40 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi David, David B Teague sr wrote (09-06-11 18:13) OO.o 3.x checked periodically for updates but I cannot find any such feature in LO 3.3.0. Is there such a feature? If so, how do I turn it on? No, there isn't , so I can't explain how to turn it on ;-)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com To: us...@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 9 June, 2011 14:04:31 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - area?

2011-06-10 Thread randy janur
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:50 PM, John B jo...@email2.me wrote: Is there an area where Feature Requests are posted? John B -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - area?

2011-06-10 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 13:20, John B wrote: Is there an area where Feature Requests are posted? For example: (1) FreeDesktop Bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=enhancementproduct=LibreOfficequery_format=advancedorder=bug_id%20DESCquery_based_on= (2) Vote for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Issues with downloading extensions

2011-06-10 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/10/2011 04:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's a shame the entire load of OOo extensions can't be mirrored on a TDF server so that when the OOo servers are down people can still access whichever obscure rare extension they rely on. Regards from Tom :) Are you saying LO cannot, or they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: hide white space

2011-06-10 Thread David B Teague sr
On 6/10/2011 3:14 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: plino wrote (10-06-11 08:58) A quick Google search provides the answer http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/show-or-hide-white-space-in-print-layout-view-HP003072013.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297564 Does anyone know if this feature

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: hide white space

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
David B Teague sr wrote (10-06-11 14:29) plino wrote (10-06-11 08:58) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/show-or-hide-white-space-in-print-layout-view-HP003072013.aspx Doesn't the paragraph symbol in the tool bar do this? It shows No, it does not. Loot at the link provided.

[libreoffice-users] Text invisible in Writer and Calc

2011-06-10 Thread gdayton
Hi All, I searched through the archives hoping to find reference to this, but haven't. I have noticed that when importing .doc files and .xls files generated in MS Office X for mac, that the text is not visible. For the spreadsheets, I can simply convert all the text to a different font and it

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/10/2011 06:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-06-09 12:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Not everyone wants the help installed bloating their system when they might have very limited space available. Part of the bonus of OpenSource software is being able to streamline your system for your needs.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
From: todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com To: us...@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 13:05:26 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: todd

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - area?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This guide might help? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I think i would post as a normal bug but put [wish-list] at the start of the subject-line (unless the guide has better advice!) Regards from Tom :) From: John B jo...@email2.me To:

[libreoffice-users] Windows Open with

2011-06-10 Thread John B
To open a selected Document with LibreOffice does anyone know how to make LibraOffice appear in the Windows Open With (and stay there). Even when I use the browse within the open with , then locate LibreOffice manually, it still does not work, as when I click on LibreOffice or Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 9:04 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 06/10/2011 06:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm still waiting for LibO to provide what was promised - *individual* language downloads, like were available for OOo... I'd *much* prefer to have just my language and integrated

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 06/10/2011 09:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-06-10 9:04 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 06/10/2011 06:53 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm still waiting for LibO to provide what was promised - *individual* language downloads, like were available for OOo... I'd *much* prefer

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 10:37 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Each help pack is nearly 10 MB in size, but do you want to deal with having the download file be 10 MB multiplied by 110+ languages? No. I want what we used to have with OOo... downloads for each language, complete with the

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 10:37 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: You never did say what language you use Yes I did... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 10:37 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: To be honest, LibreOffice is an International Version of a office suite package. It was designed to have one download file for program install, then you install the language and help packs to make it have menus in your

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 16:52) No. I want what we used to have with OOo... downloads for each language, complete with the help file for that language ONLY... This is a known wish, with valid reasons. AFAIK, the devs are fully aware of it and work on it - within the range of what is

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 16:54) If you go back and read the archives, you will plainly see that the only reason given for the single download was because of limited disk space, Are you really sure? I though build time, so plain CPU power energy, were an issue too. But I might be wrong

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 11:17 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 16:54) If you go back and read the archives, you will plainly see that the only reason given for the single download was because of limited disk space, Are you really sure? I though build time, so plain CPU power energy,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread todd rme
Hi :) Have bug-reports been posted?  I think the issues are quite important to get fixed. Yes, a bunch: svg (LibreOffice Bugzilla): 36511, 36520, 37895, 37994, 34720, 36154, 36890, 37072, 31460, 33554, 32248 eps (OpenOffice.org Bugzilla): 12059, 117071, 93629, 84177, 24254 The discussion

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread Jon Colt
In most word processors and editors I've used back in the dark ages--say, more than five years ago (and some sane versions still do) you could simply type CTRL-ENTER (i.e., tap the 'ENTER' key while holding down the 'CTRL' key) at the point where you wanted to break the line and continue typing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, todd rme wrote (10-06-11 18:05) So what is the decision on the svg embedding? Sorry, I've not been able to keep up with this mail discussion. (Still owe people from last weeks Monday /Tuesday a reply :-\ ) I had a look some days ago and got the impression that there were

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread planas
Hi, On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 00:07 -0700, never punctual wrote: Thanks for the suggestions so far. I guess hyphenation could be useful in some cases, but it seems to be more of a luxury for me to have that feature at the moment because I'm still not sure how the Tools -- Language -- Hyphenation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-10, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, todd rme wrote (10-06-11 18:05) So what is the decision on the svg embedding? Sorry, I've not been able to keep up with this mail discussion. (Still owe people from last weeks Monday /Tuesday a reply :-\ ) I apologize for making it harder for you

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Transpose fail

2011-06-10 Thread Juan Carlos
Hello. Yes, the bug exists and is fixed, but will apply in the next version (3.4.1). Meanwhile I'll try with LO3.3.2. Thank you all for your help -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-Transpose-fail-tp3042432p3049855.html Sent from the Users mailing list

[libreoffice-users] Cannot remove pop up box appearring in Draw

2011-06-10 Thread Egolina222
When I installed Libre Office 3.4 and open Draw I see a small box appear to the left hand side of the main drawing window which says ' Slide 1 '.This box also appears when I use Text.Any suggestions what is going on as it is a bit off putting. -- View this message in context:

RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows Open with

2011-06-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I've had no trouble making that work. Typically, I can open any of my .odt/.ods/ ..., files in any of Microsoft Word, whatever version of OO.o/LO that is installed on the same machine, and WinZip using the context menu and Open With That is, the different ways I have opened an .odt in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows Open with

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Un-installing OpenOffice often cures weird and unlikely problems especially in Windows. There is still often a clash between OpenOffice and LibreOffice when both are installed on a system. There are some clever ways to install both but i don't have a note of any of the various

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-10 Thread never punctual
Thanks Stephan! I had to try out what you said, but I think understand what manual hyphenation does now. My testing revealed that I didn't need to check whether you need the dash every time you make the line longer or shorter because: 1. If you don't need the dash, the whole word will appear on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows Open with

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is smart to have an archive manager in the context/right-click menu for many different purposes such as compressing a collection of files ready to email or whatever. WinZip is probably still the best archive manager in Windows. I think the make this default option sets it so that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread JOE Conner
On 6/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns, so that I can easily sort the data in a spreadsheet on different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot remove pop up box appearring in Draw

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi there, Egolina222 wrote (10-06-11 20:19) When I installed Libre Office 3.4 and open Draw I see a small box appear to the left hand side of the main drawing window which says ' Slide 1 '.This box also appears when I use Text.Any suggestions what is going on you see the Navigator. Will have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In spreadsheets there is a danger with this. You can sort the single column without the rest of the rows getting sorted so that John Doe could end up being called John Dolittle while Eliza Dolittle ends up being Eliza Doe. The better way is to select an area or all the rows and then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Data - Sort method allows greater sophistication and flexibility and means that you can select columns without having to use the tab-key method. It still has the same vulnerability if the data area has not been set or selected. It might give you an opportunity to define the data

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Nuno J. Silva wrote (10-06-11 20:08) I apologize for making it harder for you to keep up, by adding another message to the thread! :-) LOL :-) But I'm curious about the windows-only bit. Well, that's something I happened to see, since I'm cc'ed on the OOo isue about this. The (prev.)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread NoOp
On 06/10/2011 02:06 PM, JOE Conner wrote: On 6/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns, so that I can easily

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: SVG embedding in LibreOffice

2011-06-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-10, Cor Nouws wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote (10-06-11 20:08) But I'm curious about the windows-only bit. Well, that's something I happened to see, since I'm cc'ed on the OOo isue about this. The (prev.) responsible dev. stated that indeed there is a library involved. I guess Gary

[libreoffice-users] Re: Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread NoOp
On 06/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns, so that I can easily sort the data in a spreadsheet on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 5:06 PM, JOE Conner wrote: On 6/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns, so that I can easily

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 6:04 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns, so that I can easily sort

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Database. What you are looking for is a fairly standard database function. People find a nicely done form in a database is much easier than fumbling with a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are for fairly advanced users with fairly good maths skills and/or logic. A database keeps the data safe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-10 6:40 PM, Tom Davies wrote: What you are looking for is a fairly standard database function. People find a nicely done form in a database is much easier than fumbling with a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are for fairly advanced users with fairly good maths skills and/or logic. A

[libreoffice-users] Re: Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread NoOp
On 06/10/2011 03:34 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-06-10 6:04 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/10/2011 12:48 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: There has got to be a reasonably easy way to do this (by 'reasonable', I mean a way that doesn't require me to become a programmer)... How do I add a 'Sort' button to the tops

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 17:26) On 2011-06-10 11:17 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 16:54) If you go back and read the archives, you will plainly see that the only reason given for the single download was because of limited disk space, Are you really sure? I though build

Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) And part-time (paid) and full-time (volunteers) or a combination of partly paid and partly volunteer work either (or both) of which might be full or part-time. There is often an assumption that paid people work at a particular task full-time but even a full-time worker might have many

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Excel and the xls or xlsX formats have a LOT of vulnerabilities in amazingly basic functions. Their macros have often carried malware and many organisations block macros as a result. I have a feeling the reason LibreOffice/OpenOffice have such different systems for macros is to make

[libreoffice-users] helping Users and LibreOffice - proposal

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Apparently we find ourselves in an interesting situation. With the 3.4.0 release, there are obviously more questions, people stumbling over bugs. - So to help the users, it is useful to point them to the fact that there is a stable 3.3.2 (3.3.3 soon) that they can use with more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a 'Sort' button to the tops of columns?

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If macros are the answer then this link might help

Re: [libreoffice-users] helping Users and LibreOffice - proposal

2011-06-10 Thread planas
Cor On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 03:18 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, Apparently we find ourselves in an interesting situation. With the 3.4.0 release, there are obviously more questions, people stumbling over bugs. - So to help the users, it is useful to point them to the fact that there

Re: [libreoffice-users] helping Users and LibreOffice - proposal

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 11/06/11 16:12, planas wrote: Cor On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 03:18 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, Apparently we find ourselves in an interesting situation. With the 3.4.0 release, there are obviously more questions, people stumbling over bugs. - So to help the users, it is useful

[libreoffice-users] Copy and paste in 3.4.0 Calc (fonts)

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Came accross a strange thing today, peculiar to 3.4.0 on OSX, this doesn't happen in 3.3.2 on linux. I opened a new calc, put a number on sheet 1 A3 On sheet 2 I referenced the cell on sheet 1 (=Sheet1.A3), say in cell A1. The font on the sheet 2 was Arial 10 pt. I wanted to copy the formula,

[libreoffice-users] copy down, copy and paste in calc.

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
This is a discussion on how this could work. Same in 3.3.2 and 3.4.0 Presently, if I put the number 9 in a cell. Click into and copy that cell, highlight say 5 cells and paste. 9 appears in all 5 cells. Now, click into the cell with 9, copy 9 from the formula bar, highlight say 5 cells and paste.