Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0

2013-02-07 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 06/02/2013 00:46, Paolo Debortoli ha scritto: Il 05/02/2013 13:53, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) Will MSO ever catch up on security or cross-platform compatibility? security maybe (but it is not on the ms's vip list), but not cross-platform... can you imagine ms dealing with linux (as

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-07 Thread HdV
Hai Andrew, Most probably the linespacing is reduced to fit the text in the textbox. If you click somewhere on the text and then press escape you'll see a hatched border (or in some versions only 6 little blue squares) to indicate the textbox your text is a part of. Put the cursor over that

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-07 Thread HdV
Hi Andrew, Sorry. Forgot the second part of your question. More importantly, how do I stop this odd behaviour, and can I do it globally, or do I have to do it for each presentation that I edit, or worse, for each slide in each presentation? You can change this behavior globally for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think recent word from MS is that they are not even going to do a version of MSO 2013 for Mac let alone for GnuLinux.  I'm not sure why Ballmer would make such a claim and i'm not sure i would trust it either.  There is bound to be a Mac version in about a year.  Perhaps they are trying

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

2013-02-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stephen, On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/06/2013 04:56 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Adding the features you need to the core, so everyone can enjoy them out of the box is almost certainly the best way to achieve your goals - and (after all) C++ is not so

[libreoffice-users] Templates for Minutes

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I just looked through the Templates web-page http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center but i couldn't find anything there to help people wanting to write-up Minutes a bit more easily.   I found a few things on http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/Minutes but i

Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-07 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 02/07/2013 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: On 05/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Since 'liberation serif' is a font that most people outside of the LO/Linux world would not be using, I think you should look into a more common font used by publishing houses. I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Templates for Minutes

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 07/02/2013 13:39, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I just looked through the Templates web-page http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center but i couldn't find anything there to help people wanting to write-up Minutes a bit more easily. There's a wizard for this built-in. Try

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

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WoooHooo, C++ is much better and working with the devs in LO means the code can be tested more widely than if it was just written as a purely in-house Extension.  Hopefully resulting in better code and better support for that code for whatever the company needed.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-07 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/07/2013 01:55 AM, Andrew K wrote: Hi, New LO here and it seems I'm not so good with Impress presentations! I've been given an Impress file to edit and some slides need to have more text added. As I do that, it seems that the size of the text gets smaller, but the font size doesn't

RE: [libreoffice-users] editing an Impress file

2013-02-07 Thread Michel Dauchez
Hi Jay, This is a hint : you have to reduce your text length. Every presentation program does the same. Michel -Message d'origine- De : Jay Lozier [mailto:jsloz...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 7 février 2013 15:31 À : users@global.libreoffice.org Objet : Re: [libreoffice-users] editing

[libreoffice-users] Base Form Q: Default a field from a macro

2013-02-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Is it possible to assign a form control [field] a default value from a Macro? I need to have a field that defaults to a value generated by calling a macro [function]. ' -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Format code - How to omit an unneeded decimal point before a currency symbol, text or unit

2013-02-07 Thread Tobias Simon
Abstract: Calc Format Code How to omit an unneeded decimal point before a currency symbol, text or unit? Hi to all interested, when I use the format code 0.## PI() yields 3.14 and 23 yields 23 (note the omitted decimal point). With the format code 0.## [$$] 23 yields 23. and the unneeded

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
I have installed the new Libre Office 4.0 into Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit). It works very well so far. According to the New Features page https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes and today's announcement

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/07/2013 10:03 AM, Paddy Landau wrote: I have installed the new Libre Office 4.0 into Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit). It works very well so far. According to the New Features page https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes and today's announcement

[libreoffice-users] How do I change the case of a field in writer?

2013-02-07 Thread paulwhitehurst
I'm using writer to import data from a database. Can I set the format on the field so some entries will be all caps and some will only capitalize the first letter of a word? I want to insert names from the database. Most entries I want to have only the first letter of the name capitalized,

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
Jay Lozier wrote Paddy Landau wrote According to the New Features page ... Unity Integration is built in. Sadly, this is not working for me. Did you install LO manually? ... cd desktop-integration ... The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons for all the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Form Q: Default a field from a macro

2013-02-07 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Adam , do the macro run by a event from the field sub runfromevent(oevnt) ' the field ofield =oevnt.source etc. hope it helps fernand Is it possible to assign a form control [field] a default value from a Macro? I need to have a field that defaults to a value generated by calling a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Templates for Minutes

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brilliant :)  I didn't realise about those!  Can i edit them in my User Profile?  Perhaps add some or lose some?  The Agenda one wasn't quite right for what i wanted (because the wizard needs java which i have just uninstalled from everywhere) but i really like the fact that it's there. 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Page numbers in Calc start at 0

2013-02-07 Thread Karen DInse
Thanks Andrew. That is exactly what I was looking for. I found that I could just go to Format, Page, Sheet and make the change after adding the footer. Thanks again. Andrew K wrote Hi Karen, I think I've found the solution. In File / Page preview, go to the 'sheet' tab, and where the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/07/2013 10:59 AM, Paddy Landau wrote: Jay Lozier wrote Paddy Landau wrote According to the New Features page ... Unity Integration is built in. Sadly, this is not working for me. Did you install LO manually? ... cd desktop-integration ... The installation process is now completed,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
The authorized version of LibreOffice for Ubuntu does allow for Unity. It may be that you should look a the link below http://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand On 2/7/2013 10:59 AM, Paddy Landau wrote: It is not a pleasure, but it can be

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I change the case of a field in writer?

2013-02-07 Thread Fernand Vanrie
paul, add a style to the text in the field I'm using writer to import data from a database. Can I set the format on the field so some entries will be all caps and some will only capitalize the first letter of a word? I want to insert names from the database. Most entries I want to have

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
Jay Lozier wrote I have installed LO 4.0 on Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12.04) with no problems. I am using the Cinnamon desktop. Integration was fine for me. As I understand, Cinnamon does not have the Unity global menu. Am I mistaken? Paul D. Mirowsky wrote The authorized version of LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/07/2013 11:46 AM, Paddy Landau wrote: Jay Lozier wrote I have installed LO 4.0 on Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12.04) with no problems. I am using the Cinnamon desktop. Integration was fine for me. As I understand, Cinnamon does not have the Unity global menu. Am I mistaken? AFAIK you are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 02/07/2013 10:59 AM, Paddy Landau wrote: Jay Lozier wrote Paddy Landau wrote According to the New Features page ... Unity Integration is built in. Sadly, this is not working for me. Did you install LO manually? ... cd desktop-integration ... The installation process is now completed,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) All bug-fixes and stuff gets backported to 12.04 for the next 4 years.  If something isn't working well right now then it'll probably get fixed reasonably soon.  If a more recent version of Ubuntu already has a fix for something then 12.04 will get it really soon.  Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Joel Madero
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) All bug-fixes and stuff gets backported to 12.04 for the next 4 years. If something isn't working well right now then it'll probably get fixed reasonably soon. If a more recent version of Ubuntu already has a

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote … How much has been changed between 3.6.5 and 4.0.0 that affected the integration, other than the addition of persona to the UI? … I wonder why the integration will not work with 12.xx since that it the current version of Ubuntu? … why would they work on doing the work on

[libreoffice-users] [LibreOffice-QA] CANCELED - Conference Call - February 8th, 2013

2013-02-07 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, It seems like many of the QA team are unavailable for tomorrow's meeting which makes discussion much harder. If there is no objection (within the next few hours) the call tomorrow (February 8th) has been CANCELED in order to ensure that we have our full QA team handling the agenda. We

Re: [libreoffice-users] [LibreOffice-QA] CANCELED - Conference Call - February 8th, 2013

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you have all earned a break! Good work all! Regards from Tom :)  From: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org; libreoffice-dev libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org; Libreoffice-qa

[libreoffice-users] Macro to write a formula

2013-02-07 Thread T. R. Valentine
Is it possible? If so, coiuld I get a simple example, something like =TODAY() to go into the (currently) selected cell? I figure I can probably get it from there. TIA. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if

[libreoffice-users] IF w/ Regular Expression

2013-02-07 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I have enabled regular expressions in LibreOffice settings but still am unable to get this one to work. Here is my line: IF(N200=*regression*,1,0) Not sure what I'm missing. Thanks! -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-users] Press Clippings

2013-02-07 Thread Italo Vignoli
Apologies for spamming all mailing lists, but I wanted to share the success with everyone. I have collected clippings in English, but it looks there are as many in other languages. Although done in a hurry, for the usual reasons, I think that this announcement has been another big step for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0 Unity Integration in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-07 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Why not make sure that the version of LO work for the current Long-Term-Support version of Ubuntu Unity? I do not use Unity, since I do not like it. But There will be a lot of Unity users who will want LO to work with their 12.04LTS version till the next LTS comes out. I did not use

Re: [libreoffice-users] How-to video of using Firefox Personas

2013-02-07 Thread Scott Castaline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see I'm not the only one playing around with that in 4.0. I thought it was pretty neat, I now have StarTrekXI personas on FF, T'Bird and LO. The only drawback is the menu bar text is black so if the persona has black in that area the text

Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-07 Thread e-letter
On 07/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: On 05/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Since 'liberation serif' is a font that most people outside of the LO/Linux world would not be using, I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-07 Thread Jay Lozier
On 02/08/2013 01:06 AM, e-letter wrote: On 07/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: On 05/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Since 'liberation serif' is a font that most people outside of the

[libreoffice-users] fyi: Java dependance, and others

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Some interesting articles and comments on 4.0.0.  Not all completely precisely accurate and quite a lot of the comments are clearly either deliberate FUD or hopelessly confused people that need help.  There are some gems in there though and i liked this one in ArsTechnica DannyB |

[libreoffice-users] RE-NAMING database (Base) tables is broken in LO v.4?

2013-02-07 Thread frofa
I have just installed the newly-released LO Version 4.0.0.3 (Build ID: 53fd80e80f44edd735c18dbc5b6cde811e0a15c) and testing with some of my 'split' databases (using HSQLDB v.2.2.8 in 'file mode'). I notice when I right-click on a TABLE NAME (in the table listing) there now seems to be NO option to

Re: [libreoffice-users] character kerning

2013-02-07 Thread doug
On 02/08/2013 01:06 AM, e-letter wrote: On 07/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: On 05/02/2013, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Since 'liberation serif' is a font that most people outside of the