[libreoffice-users] Uninstalling LO 4.3.0.4 from Ubuntu 14.04

I installed 4.3.0.4 from the deb packages. I now wish to uninstall and revert to the official Ubuntu-supplied version. Using either sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice or sudo dpkg -P libreoffice I get the dreaded dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove libreoffice which isn't installed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

At 21:54 25/08/2014 -0700, Vincent Rubiolo wrote: On 08/24/2014 04:28 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: To protect cells in a table, you can select them and either use the menu Table > Protect Cells, or right-click > Cell > Protect. You may have accidentally clicked one of those option at some point and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

Good evening Mark, Thank you very much for your insightful reply! I have tried what you advised but unfortunately this does not work: when I go to the protected part of the document and click on the protected text, the right-click 'Cell' menu contains only a 'No selection possible' greyed ent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering/Outline levels in Writer

How is this done? I have another document that needs this type of numbering, so I used F11, went to Heading 1, Modify, but could not find a way to go from "1." to "1.0". Same deal with Heading 2 - how do I chage the style so it goes from "1." to (for example) "1.1" or "2.1" etc. I looked at the h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Paul wrote: Quick question, Felmon, do you have to do this for all mails from this list, both Tom's and mine, or just for mails like the ones from Tom? I would have to look more deeply into the configuration of alpine to check settings but I'll note that a) replies to a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Send Document as Microsoft Word doesn't

Steve Edmonds wrote: > Must be a bug because it works in my LO 3.6 and 4.1. > > Steve > On 2014-08-26 01:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> LO 4.3.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 - Thunderbird as default email client. >> In LO Writer, if I click on File>Send>Email as Microsoft Word then it >> opens a new mes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Send Document as Microsoft Word doesn't

Hi :) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport or https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/ (both should work. One is prettier and easier, the other gives more control and has more flexibility but is less pretty and simple) Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 20:50, Steve Edmonds wr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Hi :) I think it's easier to just edit the bash script isn't it? Surely to get it's output into a file all that is needed is something like > filename.txt to be added to the end of the relevant lines? or better would be if it could keep adding to the end of a file after first creating the fi

[libreoffice-users] How to disable undesired error indicator

When adding a footnote reference to the end of a sentence, the typical style requirement is that the period comes first and then the footnote number, which is usually superscripted. When I do this, however, I've always been slightly annoyed that the fact that there is no space after the period is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Paul wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Paul wrote: The list is technically correct, in that it shouldn't enforce Reply-To header rewriting to *force* all mails to go back to the list, and instead provides the List-* headers as per the RFC. Though arguably it would be fine to overwrite the Reply-To header, That would still cause prob

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Nope. No templates used. Best, Joel On 08/25/2014 12:54 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: My first question would be whether you used a Template for either or both of these documents. Regards, On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Joel Madero > wrote: Makes sense - nex

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

My first question would be whether you used a Template for either or both of these documents. Regards, On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Joel Madero wrote: > Makes sense - next question is, how the hell did this happen? ;) I haven't > tinkered at all with settings, haven't reset my profile, etc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Send Document as Microsoft Word doesn't

Must be a bug because it works in my LO 3.6 and 4.1. Steve On 2014-08-26 01:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: LO 4.3.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 - Thunderbird as default email client. In LO Writer, if I click on File>Send>Email as Microsoft Word then it opens a new message window in TBird, but with no a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Hi :) The mailing list used to do a certain thing regardless of which mailing client was being used, and that was to make it easy for messages and replies to go straight to the mailing list. it was possible to p.m. people but it took a bit of faffing around. Answers were often built-up as happene

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Makes sense - next question is, how the hell did this happen? ;) I haven't tinkered at all with settings, haven't reset my profile, etc . . . all other documents work fine, just this one hit a snag. Best, Joel On 08/25/2014 12:09 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 07:16 25/08/2014 -0700, Joel Mader

Re: [libreoffice-users] disable "cntrl click to follow link"

very interesting; in each computer I've had, this has been the case in whatever program I used; so I assumed there was no option(s) available. Thank you; I really enjoy days where I learn something new. From: Dave Barton Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:50 PM Sub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Quick question, Felmon, do you have to do this for all mails from this list, both Tom's and mine, or just for mails like the ones from Tom? >From a *brief* google, it seems that the List-* headers may legally be other than email addresses, so some mail clients, I gather Alpine is one, don't use t

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

At 07:16 25/08/2014 -0700, Joel Madero wrote: I have the following two documents: ... I'm wondering why the TOC on my evidence briefs is so screwed up (no indentation at all) while the copyright one is just fine. The indentation and so on of entries in the table of contents are controlled by

Re: [libreoffice-users] disable "cntrl click to follow link"

Original Message From: 4130 <4...@charter.net> To: Dave Barton Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:37:34 -0700 (PDT) > Hi, > > New to Libre office, been using MS office, mostly Word. > > How can I enable Libre Writer to show a hand icon while hovering over link > like in Word. > > "cntrl

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Hi :) Ahh, wrt the indents it might be taht they are following the styles of the documents. The one with no indents has all it's headings flush up against the left-hand side. The doc that does have indented ToC also has indented titles. This might be something you could sort out by modifying the

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Hi :) Err, in the Copyrightbriefs one i right-click in the ToC and about halfway down is "Update index/table" and that suddenly added 4-6 entries. I had tried the same thing in the other document but it had no effect there. Regards from Tom :) On 25 August 2014 18:05, Joel Madero wrote: > H

[libreoffice-users] disable "cntrl click to follow link"

Hi, New to Libre office, been using MS office, mostly Word. How can I enable Libre Writer to show a hand icon while hovering over link like in Word. "cntrl click to follow link" wastes time cheers, 4130 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/disable-cntrl-cl

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Has nothing to do with tabbing - I use "heading" styles which should be incorporated into the TOC. Also the documents can be downloaded - buttons on top to download when you see the preview image. Best, Joel On 08/25/2014 10:03 AM, anne-ology wrote: Without being able to see 'behind t

Re: [libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Without being able to see 'behind the scenes' [these merely open as image documents] ;-) I'm not sure, yet maybe in the first one, you clicked on the tab-key and in the second one you didn't ;-) From: Joel Madero Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:16 AM Subject: [libreoffice-

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Paul wrote: Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

If the Python code were modified to also add filename with path and inject it at end of paragraph as URL. It might be possible to re-direct python command output to a .txt file that could be opened by Writer. I am not sure whether or not Writer could be set to recognize and "Open File URL" a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying MathType equations in Writer

Alex My thoughts entirely. It's one (perhaps the only) reason why I have a machine with windows (and Office) on it. Graham On 25 August 2014 10:37, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le 15/08/2014 18:02, Graham Luffrum a écrit : > > Hi Graham, > > Use Word, I have the same problem, in fact I've always h

[libreoffice-users] TOC Different Between Two Documents

Hi All - I have the following two documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdV2RHM1B0SzE2YTQ/edit?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kdRhc960qdZ3VkSnpnRzdfUTQ/edit?usp=sharing I'm wondering why the TOC on my evidence briefs is so screwed up (no indentation at all) whil

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Try this, even if it isn't exactly an 'out of the box' solution, it can be useful: in few words, the script parses the xml file inside the .odt - in fact an archive file, and search for a keyword after having extracted the text part. A short excerpt, from the page 3 of "Extract and Parse ODF Files

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Well, it does seem like all your mails do this, but not all mails from this list exhibit this behaviour. Most mails from the list, even replies, are addressed to the list. Yours are different in that they're not addressed to the list, only CCd to the list. Some other people's replies are the same,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Hi :) I suspect that Paul's post below has not yet arrived in Maurice's time-line. Email threads sometimes get a bit disjointed, especially if an over-enthusiastic junk/spam-filter tends to carefully reject anything with any hint of code in it! However it could easily be that someone starts from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Send Document as Microsoft Word doesn't

On 25/08/14 14:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: LO 4.3.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 - Thunderbird as default email client. In LO Writer, if I click on File>Send>Email as Microsoft Word then it opens a new message window in TBird, but with no attachment, which rather negates the function! I use this faci

[libreoffice-users] Send Document as Microsoft Word doesn't

LO 4.3.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 - Thunderbird as default email client. In LO Writer, if I click on File>Send>Email as Microsoft Word then it opens a new message window in TBird, but with no attachment, which rather negates the function! I use this facility to be able to keep one format of document on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Hi :) Nope, it;s the standard way these mailing lists have behaved for a long time now. It used to be that people could just click on "Reply to" and their message would go straight to the mailing list. Now most email-clients require people to click on "Reply to all ..." and the mailing list's add

Re: [libreoffice-users] Strange cursor focus behavior in Xubuntu 14.04 / LO 4.2.6

Hi :) Personally i would post in both and give each one a url link to the other to help the 2 teams see what is going on. It is less likely to happen in OpenSource but it's still possible to fall into a scenario where each project blames the other so it's possibly best to let them argue it out bet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

Well, Maurice quoted from my mail, so I'm pretty sure he did receive it. Btw: Tom, your mail was addressed to me directly, and CCd to the group, causing my default reply-to to go to just you (luckily I noticed in time). Not sure why this happens for some messages, did you do anything differently f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:46:53 + (UTC) Maurice wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:29:22 +0200, Paul wrote: > > > You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files > > and concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do > > find inside one big document, but that would

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:29:22 +0200, Paul wrote: > You could also make a script to pull the contents of all the files and > concatenate them in such a way that you can use Writer to do find inside > one big document, but that would be considerably harder. Try this first. That's what I shall perhap

[libreoffice-users] Strange cursor focus behavior in Xubuntu 14.04 / LO 4.2.6

I recently installed Xubuntu 14.04 on my home desktop since I have been using it at work for about 3 weeks and all has gone well there. However, when I open an encrypted .odt document using the command line or a shell script, the focus shifts to the password input box for a fraction on a section a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Displaying MathType equations in Writer

Le 15/08/2014 18:02, Graham Luffrum a écrit : Hi Graham, Use Word, I have the same problem, in fact I've always had this problem with equations written in Word. Alternatively, I ask for a PDF, and either retype the formulae (not exactly very profitable, when you're translating) or else copy/paste

[libreoffice-users] Cursor/window focus loss when opening encrypted files from the command line

I recently installed Xubuntu 14.04 on my home desktop since I have been using it at work for about 3 weeks and all has gone well there. However, when I open an encrypted .odt document using the command line or a shell script, the focus shifts to the password input box for a fraction on a section a