Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes

2011-07-22 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Yes. The printer tells what paper size it is able to handle. And LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread John B
Tony Just downloaded 3.4.2 from Filehippo, tested and at this moment cannot find any bug fixes from 3.4.1. However, the disappearing pics still happens in this version for saving in .docx format Now, I know some people are not keen on this work around, but if you paste your picture into

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/22/2011 08:47 AM, John B wrote: Now, I know some people are not keen on this work around, but if you paste your picture into a text box (Insertframe), it works. You have to remove the box borders so that the text box does not show *and* they will stop the pictures moving around.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread John B
Andrew /#//John, I take your comment to say that this should work (image in a frame) if the text frame is not visible. //#/ It works either way, with or without borders, I mentioned having to remove boarders because they come as a default with the frame (annoying) - I would get rid of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the DocX format throws images around to some very strange places and often stacked on top of each nearly off the page. I think the text frame blocks them from moving far and could be left visible to provide a nice frame. Personally i think sticking to Odt or Doc or even Pdf

RE: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread Tony Royston
Andrew, Thanks for your reply. The images are embedded and not in a frame. The anchoring used is whatever is default, I didn't select anything specific. I shall try altering the anchoring, and using a frame, and see what happens. Regards, Tony. -Original Message- From: Andrew

RE: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread Tony Royston
Thanks John, I will try that. So, no real difference from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 then? OK, so I wouldn't expect too many changes, but the odd bug fix would be nice!! Tony. -Original Message- From: John B [mailto:jo...@email2.me] Sent: Friday,22 July, 2011 12:47 To:

[libreoffice-users] Compute difference

2011-07-22 Thread Jérôme Fenal
Hi all, I need to do a difference in days between two dates, _without_ taking into account leap years (e.g. considering all years are 365 days long). The right way to do that would be to use function DAYS360(date1;date2;method) using method = 3 as in other financial functions, but it does seems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread John B
Tony Some in-bedded pictures are more in-bedded than others, when this happens I blow the picture up as big as I can, then use screen print, paste into my Picture editor (Paint Shop Pro), crop my desktop to just the picture and save as a .jpg or just copy paste into the word text box -

Re: [libreoffice-users] help recovering?

2011-07-22 Thread John B
I do not know if this will help, but viewers can be more forgiving than editors. Try http://www.officeviewers.com/ or http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/index_3.html if it does - you will have to copy paste back into LO again you might have to google a few more until you find one that

Re: [libreoffice-users] help recovering?

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If it's saved in odt or docX then you could try opening the file with an archive manager. I might be able to have a look in Ubuntu using LibreOffice 3.3.2 if you send me the attachment off-list. Regards from Tom :) From: John B jo...@email2.me To:

[libreoffice-users] Re: help recovering?

2011-07-22 Thread NoOp
On 07/22/2011 09:42 AM, JeepNut wrote: Hoping for some good news here. Am using the openSuSE branded version of LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19 (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1 on openSuSE 11.3 and KDE 4.4.4-1.5. Was editing a document that is pretty important (to me at least) and during the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compute difference

2011-07-22 Thread John B
Try this b4 is formatted to Date, 31/Dec c4 is text to d4 is formatted to Date, 31/dec E4 = ((-B4+D4)/7 +(1/7) f4= Trunc(e4) g4= (+e4-F4)*7 then type in your 2 dates into b4 and d4 as in 01/07/2011 and 22/07/2011 regards John B

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compute difference

2011-07-22 Thread Dave Douglas
Thanks, but I am not a programmer. I have troubles being understood in English. Is there a way of doing it through the menus? Feeling unworthy, Dave -Original Message- From: John B Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:00 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer images disappeared!

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The 3.4.1 is development branch for 'early adopters' and has some advanced features but also has oddities and maybe even regressions. It's a bit like seeing a play or a movie on the opening night or in the first week. I suspect that the 3.4.2 will be much the same. The 3.3.3 is the

[libreoffice-users] Given up spellchecking?

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Stanton
Writer seems to have stopped spellchecking, even though I have the standard dictionary set correctly (I think, to English -UK), and all the other language options I can find being set correctly, and in fact set the same way as before it (recently) stopped spell checking. A manual spell check

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compute difference

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think John's answer was mostly so you could copypaste into the right places! To do the formatting in the first part of his answer click on the cell and then look up at the menus at the top of the LibreOffice window. The menus should be something like File .. View ... Edit ...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Given up spellchecking?

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Grrr, this does seem to happen in LibreOffice occasionally. It's not just you and probably nothing to do with the updates in KDE either. I can't remember how to solve it but it's in one of the messy threads if you are able to search them? I think it's something to do with Tools -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Enter works as paste, even when Enter is reserved for edit mode.

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be better to use a different key. Enter can get messy and confusing Regards from Tom :) From: mrelwood mrelw...@yahoo.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 22 July, 2011 1:56:18 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Enter works as paste,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch. That is really inconvenient. Please could you post a bug-report about it? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) From: mrelwood mrelw...@yahoo.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 21 July, 2011 23:52:02

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread JOE Conner
On 7/22/2011 1:24 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch. That is really inconvenient. Please could you post a bug-report about it? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) From: mrelwoodmrelw...@yahoo.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes it's fixable but it shouldn't break in the first place. A double click on the line between any 2 rows adjusts all the rows to their optimal height once the entire sheet has been selected with Ctrl A or as described by Joe so it's very quick to fix but that needs to be done every time

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread El Cico
Da: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk A: users@global.libreoffice.org Inviato: Ven 22 luglio 2011, 23:45:30 Oggetto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file. Hi :) Yes it's fixable but it shouldn't break in the first place. A double click on the line between any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Given up spellchecking?

2011-07-22 Thread planas
Mark On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 20:36 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: Writer seems to have stopped spellchecking, even though I have the standard dictionary set correctly (I think, to English -UK), and all the other language options I can find being set correctly, and in fact set the same way as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weirdly i just re-opened that xls and this time it did get the heights correct, even before i tried setting the default font size. I do have a lot of the settings in Tools - Options + Load/Save set to maximise compatibility with MS Excel. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes

2011-07-22 Thread planas
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect row height when opening a Calc file.

2011-07-22 Thread soumalya ray
its an excellent tip.thanks for this.was not aware of this. On 23 July 2011 02:35, JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/22/2011 1:24 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch. That is really inconvenient. Please could you post a bug-report about it?

Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/22/2011 08:32 PM, planas wrote: Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It