Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:23 21/02/2016 -0700, Mars Noname wrote: Can you give me any advice which WIN7/LO settings/parameters I have to change I'm surprised you didn't see I had already done this. o The Windows setting is in Control Panel. See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/turn-on-high-contrast .

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread 1124mars
THX Brian, can you give me any advice which WIN7/LO settings/parameters I have to change+see below Regards, mars On 21.02.2016 21:41, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: At 16:38 20/02/2016

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread 1124mars
THX for your reply; see my comments below Regards mars On 21.02.2016 09:53, Jean-Baptiste Faure-3 [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Le 21/02/2016 00:38, 1124mars a crit : Hi,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:38 20/02/2016 -0700, Mars Noname wrote: In Calc the background color feature of cells is not working. Er, in exactly what way? Who can give me any advice in which LO version the background formatting is working properly. It's probably worth realising that if the whole idea of cell

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread 1124mars
THX for your reply+see my comments below Regards, mars On 21.02.2016 09:53, Jean-Baptiste Faure-3 [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Hi, Le 21/02/2016 00:38, 1124mars a crit :

Re: [libreoffice-users] Replacing the first character, did I stumble onto the right answer

2016-02-21 Thread John Meyer
Not doubting that. I'll run a few other examples and see if I can post a screenshot. On Feb 20, 2016 7:22 PM, "Brian Barker" wrote: > At 15:23 20/02/2016 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > >> Nothing, which it did (aka deleted it). >> > > That's not what "&" does for other

[libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Pedro
Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote > None of which has ANY effect. > Just to make sure, I restarted LibreOffice (not Windows) after every > change. > > I seem to be the only person complaining about this behavior. Does > nobody encounter it? > I noticed it on SIX different computers. Yes, you only need

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening Microsoft Office 2013 files

2016-02-21 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi. does she make any change in her libreoffice options? which version of libreoffice does she use before 5.1? and also its useful to uncheck these two options as i know. go to tools, options, view, and uncheck Use hardware acceleration and Use OpenGL for all rendering (on restart). hope thats

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice Update = SOLVED

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2016/02/21 19:25, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: On 2016/02/21 18:59, Pedro wrote: Hi Thomas Thank you. I have tried to turn EACH of the items you mentioned ON/OFF before and just retried. None of which has ANY effect. Just to make sure, I restarted LibreOffice (not Windows) after every

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening Microsoft Office 2013 files

2016-02-21 Thread Pedro
Hi Amichai Amichai Rotman wrote > As I mentioned, none of these steps worked. It is *very* important for me > to make it work! > >- Any tips? >- Maybe tweaking some configuration options? >- Telling her Editor to save the fie in a different format? > > I wish I could switch her

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2016/02/21 18:59, Pedro wrote: Hi Thomas Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote A solution would be VERY highly appreciated. Have you tried disabling OpenGL? In my systems the recently added OpenGL does not bring any improvement even on a high spec machine (on the contrary) Go to Tools > Options, on

[libreoffice-users] Opening Microsoft Office 2013 files

2016-02-21 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi all, It's very important for me to fix this weird problem - so bear with me on the story so far: A year ago my mom asked me to advise about a 14" laptop. The only one available at the time, in her price range, had Windows 8.0 pre-installed on it. She hated it right on the get-go, so it wasn't

[libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Pedro
Hi Thomas Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote > A solution would be VERY highly appreciated. Have you tried disabling OpenGL? In my systems the recently added OpenGL does not bring any improvement even on a high spec machine (on the contrary) Go to Tools > Options, on the left panel LibreOffice > View

[libreoffice-users] Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening I have been asking about this several times. (Most recently on 2/15 under the title "display") There are appearantly a number of technical terms to describe the phenomenons related to text display, but I do not know which of those is the appropriate ONE. "screen tearing" seems to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-02-21 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, Le 21/02/2016 00:38, 1124mars a écrit : > Hi, > In Calc the background color feature of cells is not working. > Who can give me any advice in which LO version the background formating is > working properly. It works since LO 3.3 and before that, since StarOffice 5. ;-) That said, - what do