Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Tim Lloyd
More people know what ODF is. They realise they don't have to buy microsoft office at home to do school work and on it goes... On 23/07/14 15:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Even if it doesn't do anything else, at least it might force Microsoft into adding proper support for ODF into

[libreoffice-users] Chart data

2014-07-23 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi! I'm trying to create a chart where when I add data I don't have to edit the data range each time to include the new row. I can't see how to do that. (Probably something I've missed). Can anyone help? Ta! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Mark Stanton
Hmm, a huge public response and A rigorous process was undertaken which included considering over 500 public comments and talking directly to users. I'd hoped huge was much bigger than that. Oh well, at least the message got across. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chart data

2014-07-23 Thread Pedro
You are not missing anything, this has always been an OOo/LO/AOO limitation. As usual there is a workaround though :) See Comment 2 on this Enhancement request https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66250 -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Jim Seymour
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:21:36 +1000 Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :) Regards, Jim --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-23 Thread William Gathoye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2014 07:29 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote: You can also make use of Pictures of Kerala Legislature complex from this wikimedia commons category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Niyamasabha_Mandiram Thanks, but finally I've already

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-23 Thread Redon Skikuli
Great news! Congrats to everyone that worked to make this happen. I shared this with the minister of innovation of Albania as a case study worth checking out (at least). Best, *---* *Redon Skikuli* *e-mail: **re...@skikuli.com re...@skikuli.com* * web: **www.skikuli.com http://www.skikuli.com*

Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is lack of government support for ODF that is one of the biggest blockers to my company migrating to LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Anything-other-than-MSOffice. It is going to be interesting to see if anyone in government takes any notice of this proposal. I'd really kinda like to know what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart data

2014-07-23 Thread jorge
Hi: I could suggest you to select a greatter range than you are going to use at the begining. For example. Imagine you need make a chart with the information of all the months of the year but at this moment you have only seven mounth, like this: Row A B 1 J 10 2 F

[libreoffice-users] status of macro in ODF interoperability?

2014-07-23 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, When I wrote this, almost 10 years ago, things didn't looking too good for inter-suite macro compatibility: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/47935 today, I have the feeling thing's haven't really improved, when it comes to macros inserted in ODF files, even considering only the

Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have just forwarded this to the international translators co-ordination mailing list as they were discussing the Kerala case, i've copied some of the posting under this email Regards from Tom :) Anivar Araind said: The Kerala Legislative Assembly[1] (Kerala state , India) as of July 17,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Users Support mailing list had this post sometime yesterday from Tim Lloyd; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues Later in the thread Jim Seymour said Two governments in less than a

[libreoffice-users] Scan documents?

2014-07-23 Thread Thomas Taylor
Is it possible to scan an older printed document directly into LO? I have an old 2 page document that I want to reproduce and modify with LO but don't find any entries in the menus for scanning directly into LO. This is in a Linux system and would probably use xine for the scanning. I suppose

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Similarly DocX promises to be cross-platform and able to be used by any relevant program. So did Rtf. Whenever these things are in the hands of single profit-making companies they don't seem to live up to promises or expectations. Ownership through a committee of a large number of

Re: [libreoffice-users] status of macro in ODF interoperability?

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have a feeling that macros were OK between LO and AOO a couple of years ago but there have been huge developments in LO during that time so compatibility has probably suffered a bit. What happens to a macro written for LO that calls functionality which doesn't exist in other suites? Also

[libreoffice-users] news about LibreOffice

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!! Just found this excellent page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN/3 by William Gathoye It is not always 100% perfect English but it's a great read and has some quite compelling sections. For example;

Re: [libreoffice-users] news about LibreOffice

2014-07-23 Thread M Henri Day
2014-07-23 18:10 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Wow!! Just found this excellent page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN/3 by William Gathoye It is not always 100% perfect English but it's a great read and has some quite compelling sections. For example;

[libreoffice-users] Cannot change spacing in Math

2014-07-23 Thread v_2e
Hello! I have a problem: it is impossible to reduce the spacing in the LO Math settings. I go to Format -- Spacing... , then choose Borders in the Category drop-down list, and see that the settings are: Left: 125.93mm Right: 249.32mm Top: 249.37mm Bottom: 1.03mm and I cannot reduce them

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scan documents?

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. I have scanned to file with xine and then used OCR to convert the image to text I can then edit in LO. Steve On 2014-07-24 06:30, Thomas Taylor wrote: Is it possible to scan an older printed document directly into LO? I have an old 2 page document that I want to reproduce and modify with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scan documents?

2014-07-23 Thread Girvin Herr
I just tried this for the first time on my Slackware Linux system and it does seem to be broken. (LO 3.6.7.2) I used Insert - Picture - Scan - select source to verify it was using my Epson USB flatbed scanner. The problem with my version is that it defaults to the existing, but unconnected

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scan documents?

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
I used tesseract to OCR. Here are a couple references. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442456-how-to-scan-and-ocr-like-a-pro-with-open-source-tools http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-06/15-linux_ocr_software_comparison steve On 2014-07-24 06:30, Thomas Taylor wrote: Is it possible to scan

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot change spacing in Math

2014-07-23 Thread v_2e
I found a solution. Well, maybe not a solution, but a quick workaround. In order to set the sane values for the borders in the formula one should go to Tools -- Options... -- LibreOffice -- Advanced -- Expert Configuration And find the items

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scan documents?

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
Xsane sorry, not xine. Hi. I have scanned to file with xine and then used OCR to convert the image to text I can then edit in LO. Steve On 2014-07-24 06:30, Thomas Taylor wrote: Is it possible to scan an older printed document directly into LO? I have an old 2 page document that I want to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot change spacing in Math

2014-07-23 Thread Regina Henschel
v...@ukr.net schrieb: I found a solution. Well, maybe not a solution, but a quick workaround. In order to set the sane values for the borders in the formula one should go to Tools -- Options... -- LibreOffice -- Advanced -- Expert Configuration And find the items

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot change spacing in Math

2014-07-23 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:18:10 +0200 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: No, the setting is available in the UI, see chapter Changing the appearance of formulas in MathGuide 4.0. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ As I mentioned in my initial message,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with standard filter

2014-07-23 Thread Mark Bourne
Urmas wrote: Rob Jasper: If I unselect ALL, aaa gets unselected too (reasonable, since that the gebaviour for more the one slection values too) If I now select aaa, the ALL mark is also automatically selected!! This looks plain wrong to me since no filtering is different then filtering on 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with standard filter

2014-07-23 Thread Rob Jasper
The same inconsistency also makes that if one filter on the only one value available by filtering on 'Not empty', and subsequently deletes the value fro the visible rows, it is impossible to switch off the selection (since 'All' doesn't work as being really all). I opened [Bug 81577] for this.

[libreoffice-users] mailing list

2014-07-23 Thread Giorgio Valt
Desidero essere cancellato dalla mailing list. Cordialità. Giorgio -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot change spacing in Math

2014-07-23 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Vladimir, v...@ukr.net schrieb: Hello! On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:18:10 +0200 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: No, the setting is available in the UI, see chapter Changing the appearance of formulas in MathGuide 4.0. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ As

[libreoffice-users] scale a Writer document to print on one page

2014-07-23 Thread Truett Bobo
I have a Writer document 22” by 17” (landscape) that I would like to print on one page. How can I scale it to accomplish this? I am using the latest versions of Mac OS and LibreOffice. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] scale a Writer document to print on one page

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. May not be the most elegant way, but use the PDF button to create a PDF and print that to one page. Steve On 2014-07-24 12:55, Truett Bobo wrote: I have a Writer document 22” by 17” (landscape) that I would like to print on one page. How can I scale it to accomplish this? I am using