Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.0.3 has no printer in Win7 - SHOW STOPPER

2013-02-03 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 03/02/2013 at 01:34, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I had to make an account to get into the bug reporting system. How many people do you want to do that and then search for answers? You don't need an account to search for bugs and read reports. You only need it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.0.3 has no printer in Win7 - SHOW STOPPER

2013-02-03 Thread Declan Moriarty
How do you do this exactly?  The Bug heading on the home page goes to a page to submit a bug report.  You have to log in before you can do anything.  You can't search for bugs.  There is no way to search for bugs from the home page.   The Get Help page doesn't have an option to do this either.  

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc SUM Error 502 - How to add results of three IF formulae?

2013-02-03 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Brian, Thank you, and sorry for the double post of this message. The calculation you provided worked perfectly after correctly identifying the necessary cells to be used. funny though the same formula does not work just 2 columns to the left? See below and I am sure identify the cause as I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.0.3 has no printer in Win7 - SHOW STOPPER

2013-02-03 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 03/02/2013 at 12:32, Declan Moriarty declan_moria...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: How do you do this exactly? The Bug heading on the home page goes to a page to submit a bug report. You have to log in before you can do anything. You can't search for bugs. There is no way to search for bugs from

[libreoffice-users] Moving pop up help box position when using menus

2013-02-03 Thread AG
Hi Using LibO Version 3.6.5.2 with Debian, is there anyway to reposition the pop up help box when using the menu items at the top of the frame (e.g. File, Edit, View, Insert, etc.) because right now the pop up obscures the menu items? Thanks AG -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Roberta
Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

[libreoffice-users] On a Bugzilla bug page after a change is made it says Email sent to and then Excluding what does this mean?

2013-02-03 Thread Declan Moriarty
I have submitted 2 bugs today and have added my email address to the CC list.   Yet after the change at the top of the bug page it says Email Sent to and gives an email address and the next line has Excluding and then my email address. What is going on?  I thought that adding my email address

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? If I understand correctly, MS Office 2013 is a copyrighted work. Remember the recent court battle over the similar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? If LO gets too similar to MSO's user interface, then MS could take TDF to court for infringements to their look and feel

Re: [libreoffice-users] On a Bugzilla bug page after a change is made it says Email sent to and then Excluding what does this mean?

2013-02-03 Thread Kieran Peckett
The bugzilla system doesn't email the person who added the comment On 3 February 2013 13:29, Declan Moriarty declan_moria...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: I have submitted 2 bugs today and have added my email address to the CC list. Yet after the change at the top of the bug page it says Email Sent to

RE: [libreoffice-users] On a Bugzilla bug page after a change is made it says Email sent to and then Excluding what does this mean?

2013-02-03 Thread V Stuart Foote
Default behavior of the TDF hosted Bugzilla service to not send when the change was made by me, i.e. you don't get an email copy when you do the action. Can be adjusted per user account on the Preferences - Email Preferences tab of your Bugzilla account. Stuart -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Kieran Peckett
Well, on Windows Vista, 7 and 8, anyone can make their own ribbon apps, done through an API. Also, without a ribbon, at least on windows, we will lose people who would otherwise switch from MSO. Even if it is Optional, it makes sense, especially when you hear MS's reasons for letting the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Declan Moriarty
LibO to look like MS Office - No! I tried MSO 2010 Starter edition? on a netbook that was free with advertising.  No menus!  People who use macs must be fuddy duddys since macs use menus!  If MS want to abolish menus then I don't want to know.  I read a review of Office 2007 I think it was by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread John Meyer
Developing it on your own is one thing; distributing it is quite another, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff799534.aspx. Also, I don't like that interface; I think it was the worst idea MS came up with until somebody thought it would be a neat idea to turn a desktop into a mobile tablet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Joel Madero
I think this thread is missing the details of what a tremendous task this would be to begin with. Our developers are already stretched incredibly thin, doing something like this is unrealistic at any point in the near future. If it's even wanted, is a different discussion, but I think the

[libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I have Eclipse with the OpenOffice plugin to enable development of extensions for Libreoffice. Can someone tell where I can get documentation on the Libreoffice Calc internals and how to interface specifically to things like the Pivot Table dialogue so that it can be extended. I want

[libreoffice-users] Navigation in Documents

2013-02-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
When I saw Jean's comments, below, it brought to mind a serous pet peeve I have with the OpenOffice-legacy interfaces. Although one can follow links from tables of content and also follow cross-reference links within documents, there is no provision for retracing my way backwards through a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hopefully one of the links in this wiki-page might be useful https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Programmers Errr, i thought everyone was moving away from Java due to all the security issues it's been having in the last couple of years?  I

RE: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Via Simon Phipps on Twitter: We're rewriting the LibreOffice wizards in Python because we can no longer be sure Java will be there -- Michael Meeks, #FOSDEM -Original Message- From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 13:05 To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2013/2/3 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com: On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? Personally I keep wondering: Those people who think LibreOffice should look

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-02-03 Thread Felmon Davis
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, anne-ology wrote: remote controls ... ;-) well, to me remote controls are as silly as remote auto. windows ... ... ... ;-) I know you like joshing around, all in fun. still, being able to move around in a room where you are giving a presentation can add

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving pop up help box position when using menus

2013-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just drag the title-bar like you would for any window/console.  If that doesn't work try Alt and just click anywhere in the window/console to drag it.  I'm not sure if it works outside of the Debian/Ubuntu family. Regards from Tom :)  From: AG

Re: [libreoffice-users] On a Bugzilla bug page after a change is made it says Email sent to and then Excluding what does this mean?

2013-02-03 Thread anne-ology
One simple solution is to use an alternate e-address ;-) in this way, you receive a response, yet the computer(s) ... need not know ;-) On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Kieran Peckett crazyske...@gmail.comwrote: The bugzilla system doesn't email the person who added the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 03/02/2013 22:26, Johnny Rosenberg ha scritto: 2013/2/3 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com: On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? Personally I keep wondering:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving pop up help box position when using menus

2013-02-03 Thread AG
On 03/02/13 22:38, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Just drag the title-bar like you would for any window/console. If that doesn't work try Alt and just click anywhere in the window/console to drag it. I'm not sure if it works outside of the Debian/Ubuntu family. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request regarding LibreOffice Calc SUBSTITUTE() cell function

2013-02-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Johnny, Johnny Rosenberg schrieb: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60183 Thoughts? =SUBSTITUTE(123123123;3;abc;2) returns 12312abc123. is already implemented. You can use as forth parameter everything, which gives a positive integer. I think this would be a killer

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-02-03 Thread anne-ology
very cute responses, from a very cute responder ;-) [see my further responses [] below] On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, anne-ology wrote: remote controls ... ;-) well, to me remote controls are as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread anne-ology
First, I would not want LO to resemble MsFt ... [numerous reasons ;-) ] so going to your second question: Any images which you have on your computer, can be added to LO's IMPRESS and/or writer; merely click on add the image - locate the image on the machine -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread anne-ology
from a legal point, being the same, not merely similar, is grounds for copyright infringement. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's?

Re: [libreoffice-users] spelling + grammar checker in writer

2013-02-03 Thread Walther Koehler
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013 schrieb webmaster-Kracked_P_P: On 02/02/2013 07:30 AM, Walther Koehler wrote: Hello web-m, hello list, Thank you for your reply. I am using / have been using different Linux Debian Versions and OO from 2.* on up to LO 3.5.3 and I have seen no different behaviour in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Moving pop up help box position when using menus

2013-02-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:18 03/02/2013 +, Aonly Gonly wrote: I was wondering if there might be a way of positioning these pop ups in the preferences, or even turning them off as a last resort. Turning them off? Go to Tools | Options... | LibreOffice | General | Help. You can have Tips or Extended tips or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Kieran Peckett
It won't be copyright infringement on Windows if we use MS's API, then it won't be - or we can make an entirely new style, rather than replicate the ribbon. Maybe something like a combination of the ribbon and the bar that you get on MSO on OS X? On 3 Feb 2013 23:48, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Navigation in Documents

2013-02-03 Thread e-letter
On 03/02/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Buttons for forward/back are not on the default Acrobat Reader toolbar, at least not on Windows, but they are there and can be added to the toolbar using the available customization dialogs. Out of curiosity, I just found out

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread e-letter
On 03/02/2013, Roberta irobert...@gmail.com wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? No thank you. Can you stop complaining, open your wallet and buy m$??? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? Why doesn't LO draw documents open in