Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as read-only

2013-09-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-29 12:46 AM, Dave Liesse dslie...@liessefamily.net wrote: This is what I was going to suggest, as well. Any document I get via email is read-only, regardless of its source software (I use Thunderbird as my client). It wasn't always - less recent version of Thunderbird would open

[libreoffice-users] FAQ nearly complete

2013-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Faqs on the wiki are nearly complete.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq The Base one was completed so long ago that it might need some revisions to it now.  It's not always possible to avoid using version numbers even though using version numbers quickly dates a page.  Some

Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as read-only

2013-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Now the confusion is that MS Outlook does allow this behaviour so people assume that's the way it should be done.  Even though they lose files they still grumble about the idea of having to download to a known location.  Something that did catch their attention was the threading.  MS

[libreoffice-users] SWF export not working

2013-09-29 Thread T Lee Davidson
Hi, I am using LibreOffice Version 4.0.4.2 on Mageia 3 (Linux). The Export to Macromedia Flash (SWF) function does not appear to be functioning properly. I created a simple (text-only plus background) six-slide presentation with all but the first slide set to automatically advance after

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to remove the spell checker

2013-09-29 Thread Urmas
Kracked_P_P---webmaster: MSO has very few spell checkers other than US English, compared to LO. They are immensely more primitive than MSO ones, though. Just compare the English or Russian dictionaries with ORFO's ones. Also, you can have a spellchecker for any language in MSO, like Kazakh