Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Command line (convert) parameter(s)

2011-06-29 Thread Stephan Zietsman
leif wrote: *Hi, For some reason I coulnd't make the *.doc to work. Instead I managed to create a batch file: Hi leif, apparently, the * (star) character won't work properly in Windows, according to http://muthusuba.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-called-hidden-features-of.html: quote [PS: wildcards

[libreoffice-users] Inserting Info - Move in a 'Z' formation...

2011-06-29 Thread Llweyn
Need to know if this program has the capability to allow a user to have a full worksheet, insert another cell and have the previous information moves cells in a 'Z' formation. For instance: apple orange kiwi cola bread meat milk coffee Insert - PIE and have info move right and down.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice won't start

2011-06-29 Thread Stephan Zietsman
ian_mcquay wrote: So it was something in the user profile that caused the problems. There is a .tmp file in the old *3\user* directory. I moved it to the new directory but id did not affect the starting. If you feel like it, you could copy some of the files/folders in the old profile to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting Info - Move in a 'Z' formation...

2011-06-29 Thread Stephan Zietsman
Llweyn wrote: Need to know if this program has the capability to allow a user to have a full worksheet, insert another cell and have the previous information moves cells in a 'Z' formation. [...] Is this feature already available and if so where can I locate it - how do I utilize it? Off the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread Eric
Hi Jay, I unfortunately must keep this document as a docx file, because it's a working document that I need to check and modify, before sending it back to his owner (who obviously uses MS Word). -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread John B
Hi all I have discovered a really useful feature in calc (one for the future), but its annoying in my particular use this where, say, you enter text into a cell in column E say at E16 the text would be something8,000 btus (or 2.34kw) Machines now if you type in the same column above

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Stephan Zietsman
John B wrote: this where, say,  you enter text into a cell in column E  say at E16  the text would be something   8,000 btus (or 2.34kw) Machines now if you type in the same column above or below it, say at E7 the number 8, the whole of  8,000 btus (or 2.34kw) Machines appears. That is

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For most types of auto-complete you can just tap the Del key or any character (not enter) while the predicted part is still selected/bold/inverse. If you just press enter then the program happily thinks it guessed right. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From:

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread John B
Dear Tom / Stephan I have not seen this feature before in my Lotus 123 or in my old MS Excel either, it may be that the default settings in these are Off, where as the default in LO (and OOo) is clearly On. I use my calculator for anyone to download from my website and the people who

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahah, i think Stephen's answer is best. You will probably need to re-save the document and upload the newly saved document to the right place. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: John B jo...@email2.me To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 29 June, 2011

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Found this solution for Mozilla, but not sure why it would work for others, since this seems it would effect the others? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439938 It happens also on Linux and is particularly annoying with files opened in OpenOffice (you cannot even copy-paste when

[libreoffice-users] Question on Opening PDF files created by LibreOffice?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I've just had a strange issue with two PDF files created with Libre Office. If the file is created with the PDF/A-1a option the user with an Apple System gets an error and it will not option. If I create the file with the PDF/A-1a unchecked the file can be opened with the Apple. They can

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread John B
Dear Tom On my system it does not work, the autoinput seems to be part of the default settings of the program and unfortunately does not seem to attribute itself to the file. I, turned autoinput Off - my calculator sheet works as it should, I then saved it and closed LO as well. Open LO

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, can you turn it off and leave it off? Save the document, upload it, perhaps change the html to point at the new version (?). Hopefully then your website one should work the way you want it. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: John B jo...@email2.me To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice won't start

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats on fixing that! It can be great to start afresh :) I think someone has suggested copy a couple of folders at a time from the old profile back into the new one until it breaks again. Then just delete those folders to force new ones to be created. Eventually you pin-point where

[libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Gilles
(I first posted through Nabble withouth having subscribed to the mailing-list, so this might be sent twice) Hello , I need to select and cut a squared-section in a PDF file. After opening the file in Draw with the PDF format, I'm shown the whole document as a big image, but I couldn't find if

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread John B
Hi Tom Tried - as you suggested (ever hopeful) It works of course the way I want it, when I do download the new saved spreadsheet with the autoinput turned Off . However, if I now turn On the autoinput at any point (as would be everybody elses by default), it starts that autoinput. As I

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-29, Gilles wrote: I need to select and cut a squared-section in a PDF file. After opening the file in Draw with the PDF format, I'm shown the whole document as a big image, but I couldn't find if it's possible to select just one part of the page and cut a section. FWIW, the PDF

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Calc: Text numbers

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch. I just tried downloading you new one and opened it without messing around with the settings at all. Sadly it did suffer the problem you are trying to avoid. I don't know if there is a macro method or something that might be useful so i think perhaps post it as a bug-report and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread Eric
By the way, what's the command to open this document in command line, to see if I can catch some errors when it crashes? Le 28/06/2011 23:53, Eric wrote: Hi Nuno, No it's not the only file which causes a crash, and as I can't see my attached strace, i've posted it here:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Eric, On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:54:04 +0200 Eric xbo...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, what's the command to open this document in command line, to see if I can catch some errors when it crashes? You start writer from the commandline with swriter. If you want you can enter the filename after

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread Ernest Kurtz
Back again with an LO crash: Opened LO for first time in three days; Opened 3 .rtf files I had worked on in OO yesterday; When I hit Enter to open a line-space in one of the files, LO crashed; Even Force Quit could not close it, but it finally died after about 10 minutes jiggling. Does anyone

[libreoffice-users] Re: Inserting Info - Move in a 'Z' formation...

2011-06-29 Thread Llweyn
Off the top of my head, I can't think of an easy way to do it. But it's definitely possible with a macro. Would you be willing to use a macro? If a macro might work for you, let us know. I think someone might be willing to write one for you (maybe even me). That would prefect, you'll just

[libreoffice-users] Re: [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Gilles
Thanks guys for the tips. Turns out that after opening the TIFF file in Draw, I just had to click on the reduced picture and pull the little green boxes so that it would fill the entire page. No idea why Draw starts with a reduced picture, but it did the job. Thank you. -- View this message in

[libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-29 Thread Ross Bernheim
I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-29 Thread planas
Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Random crashes with Libre Office Writer (strace included)

2011-06-29 Thread planas
Eric On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:59 -0700, Eric wrote: Hi Jay, I unfortunately must keep this document as a docx file, because it's a working document that I need to check and modify, before sending it back to his owner (who obviously uses MS Word). -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will

[libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Gilles
Hello I need to select and cut a squared-section in a PDF file. After opening the file in Draw with the PDF format, I'm shown the whole document as a big image, but I couldn't find if it's possible to select just one part of the page and cut a section. FWIW, the PDF was built with Xerox

RE: [libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Bruce Carlson
Hi Gilles, One thing you could try is to open the pdf using adobe reader and user the snapshot tool to copy a selected area of the pdf and past that into your draw document. I've done this using adobe 9 and it works. But of cause it only works if you have adobe reader. cheers, Bruce.

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Other pdf readers are likely to have a snapshot tool. Jpg is lossy but png has lossless compression. I'm not sure how bad PaintShop Pro is. There are a few really awful ones starting with Paint. You might like to try Gimp which has similar tcs to LibreOffice