Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC: repeat first line to each page

2014-03-31 Thread Tim Deaton
On 3/28/2014 5:11 AM, Rafnews wrote: Hi, i would like to know if there is an option like under MS Excel, to repeat first line or 2 first lines of the document on each printing page (or PDF page) ? thx. A. If you're used to Excel (like I am), this does not seem very intuitive, but here's h

[libreoffice-users] Labels and Business Cards options that are out-dated now

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is there a good administrator/office-worker here who has time to contribute more to the community? The international translators have found something that would be great to get done but that probably doesn't need any coding skills. It just looks like it might be a tad painful to do. Regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple columns in Writer

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think frames are more flexible than "cells in a table". Tabs are easier in a frame. Frames can be moved around and/or resized independently of each other. It's easier to link multiple frames together to let contents flow better between frames on different pages )or even frames on the sam

Re: [libreoffice-users] What's the best way to convert a .pdf form to .odt

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Surely just copy&"paste special" as unformatted text. Then apply styles. Avoid trying to be too close to the original if that is possible. It's good if you can create an excuse so that people see your new form as an improvement over the old one. Easy ones for LIbreOffice is that the new f

Re: [libreoffice-users] What's the best way to convert a .pdf form to .odt

2014-03-31 Thread Marc Grober
export to docx format from Acrobat Pro and then convert from docx to odt On 3/31/14, 10:29 AM, paulwhitehurst wrote: > I have a .pdf form I would like to use as a mail merge form. I see there's > no way to do merge in Draw.I opened the .pdf in Draw and cut and pasted > from the .pdf to a new

[libreoffice-users] What's the best way to convert a .pdf form to .odt

2014-03-31 Thread paulwhitehurst
I have a .pdf form I would like to use as a mail merge form. I see there's no way to do merge in Draw.I opened the .pdf in Draw and cut and pasted from the .pdf to a new .odt document. This only put images in the new document that I couldn't edit. I opened the .pdf in Reader and did the sam

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple columns in Writer

2014-03-31 Thread Dave Liesse
And, for those of us who find using menus to be a major inconvenience compared to keyboard shortcuts, The Insert ... Manual Break ... Type ... Column Break can be accomplished with Ctrl-Shift-Enter. Nothing to add to the rest of the comments! Dave On 3/30/2014 22:10, Brian Barker wrote: At

Re: [libreoffice-users] Modifying Styles

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure if that is defective behaviour. There was no real change to the document itself so to my way of thinking i wouldn't want the changes to be fixed. The save button is greyed out quite legitimately imo. Also if i make changes to a document and realise i didn't want to fix those c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Modifying Styles

2014-03-31 Thread anne-ology
Dale, your copy of LO may be defective ;-) From: Dale Erwin Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Modifying Styles To: LibreOffice Users I was beginning to think I was going crazy. I tried to modify 2 page styles in three different documents so that I coul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - conditional cell formatting - recently modified?

2014-03-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/26/2014 9:07 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello all, I'd like to be able to apply a background color to some cells based on whether or not they were modified within the last x days... Anyone know if this is possible? I have a feeling not, but you never know... Guess not... probably not worth th