Re: [libreoffice-users]

2023-10-02 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi Serena,         I  never saw a template, primarily because a spreadsheet for that is so easy to create. It depends how basic, or how elaborate you want to be. A basic spreadsheet would consist of 3 columns: Date, Systolic and Diastolic.  Mine includes more columns: Time, Pulse, Oxygen (for

[libreoffice-users] Help with Impress

2022-11-11 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi     Recently, I volunteered to teach computer classes at a senior center.  I'm teaching Excel, Word, Power Point, etc. I'm trying to promote LibreOffice.  I use LibreOffice at home.  However, I am having an extremely difficult time with LibreOffice Impress. After saving after every new sli

[libreoffice-users] Transparency in Write

2019-04-13 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi, I remember many years ago, with LO 3.3, you could import an image, and adjust its transparency, so that it was like a watermark, showing behind other text or graphics. Now I'm using 6.1.4.2 and I insert the image, go to Format, Select Image, Select Properties,then select Transparency - Not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Question

2017-03-29 Thread Gregory Forster
THANKS! I checked my wife's computer - sure enough. On 3/29/2017 12:46 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 09:29 29/03/2017 -0500, you wrote: In Calc, how do insert page breaks in version 5.? The documentation for LO 5 states what's in version 4.2.2, but it's missing from LO 5.? The facility is still

[libreoffice-users] Calc Question

2017-03-29 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi, I have a Windows 7 laptop and desktop with LO 4.2.2. Everything works great! In February, for my wife's birthday, I bought her a very nice laptop with Windows 10 on it. LO 4.2.2 would not install on it. Apparently, LO 4.2.2 was too old a version. So I downloaded the latest LO, ver

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-31 Thread Gregory Forster
gards from Tom :) On 5 August 2014 07:58, Brian Barker <mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>> wrote: At 22:25 04/08/2014 -0500, Gregory Forster wrote: I have an inconsistent and not often issue with Calc. [...] Calc does weird things now and then. [...] Sometimes, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-06 Thread Gregory Forster
ws (rather than the separate arrow keys) as those keys can enter other characters when Alt is held down - e.g. for me Alt+822 (up, down, down) gives "6" and Alt+826 (up, down, right) gives ":". Certainly Shift + Click or arrow keys selects an area rather than moving the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
It sounded like you had solved the issues .. Regards from Tom :) On 5 August 2014 18:22, Gregory Forster <mailto:fgre...@gmail.com>> wrote: Woops, I meant to click the spell-check and not the send. That all explains well for the unexplained highlighting, but what about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
g the keyboard clean. Thank you. Greg On 8/5/2014 1:58 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 22:25 04/08/2014 -0500, Gregory Forster wrote: I have an inconsistent and not often issue with Calc. [...] Calc does weird things now and then. [...] Sometimes, I complete a calculation in a cell, and press the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
luck and regards from Tom :) On 5 August 2014 07:58, Brian Barker <mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>> wrote: At 22:25 04/08/2014 -0500, Gregory Forster wrote: I have an inconsistent and not often issue with Calc. [...] Calc does weird things now and then. [..

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
I do use LO on my desktop. However, I do not use it as extensively. My son also has it on his laptop, but does not use it very extensively. Greg On 8/4/2014 11:46 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi, Le 05/08/2014 05:25, Gregory Forster a écrit : Sometimes, I complete a calculation in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
I played with that also. Thank you. On 8/5/2014 1:32 AM, jorge wrote: Hi: It would be about the amount memory assigned in Calc (Menu: Tools-> Options -> Memory) Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El lun, 04-08-2014 a las 22:25 -0500, Gregory Forster escribió: Hi, I haven

Re: [libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-05 Thread Gregory Forster
wrote: At 22:25 04/08/2014 -0500, Gregory Forster wrote: I have an inconsistent and not often issue with Calc. [...] Calc does weird things now and then. [...] Sometimes, I complete a calculation in a cell, and press the Enter or Down Arrow key. My calculation will disappear and a ;6 will appear

[libreoffice-users] Intermittent Calc Issues

2014-08-04 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi, I haven't been on this users group for over two years, primarily because everything worked great, until now. I have an inconsistent and not often issue with Calc. Well, it's more annoying than anything else, because I can easily correct it, but it shouldn't be. Calc does weird thin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing LibreOffice - problem

2012-02-21 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi Tom, However, I read where the developers of LibreOffice removed "garbage code" that was deemed unnecessary. I use both OpenOffice.org AND LibreOffice. When reading and modifying Microsoft Power Point files OpenOffice.org did a considerably better job than LibreOffice 3.4.5 (for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't Install LibreOffice 3.5 3.4 etc or OpenOffice on Windows 7

2012-02-21 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi Alex, Whenever I cannot properly install any program and now I made it a habit, because I was told to do this and it has ALWAYS worked! But first, let's do a little cleanup. Make sure you're in administrative mode. Check which programs are still installed (OpenOffice.org, and/or Libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Upgrading Livre 3.4 to 3.5 / windows 7

2012-02-18 Thread Gregory Forster
I installed 3.5 over 3.4.5 with no problems, even having OpenOffice.org installed. And I did quite extensive testing after. Greg On 2/17/2012 9:48 AM, Nagy Ákos wrote: The upgrade from LO 3.4 to 3.5 is work only when your have installed 3.4.5, if you have later version, you need to uninstall

Re: [libreoffice-users] editing pdf files

2012-02-15 Thread Gregory Forster
Hi John, Install LibreOffice. When you execute LibreOffice, click File/Open. Then select the pdf file you wish to open. LibreOffice will then open the pdf as a slide in LibreOffice-Impress. LibreOffice-Impress is very similar to Microsoft Office's Powerpoint. Modify what you need. G

Re: [libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-02-13 Thread Gregory Forster
viewable documents and reducing user error. I assumed that more editing was not required at that time. ?Are you using linux/unix? On 2/4/2012 8:53 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: I already have installed Key View for my client. However, he has trouble using it (user error) and has hundreds of files to vi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-12 Thread Gregory Forster
Sorry about the delay. Now that I've posted a bug report and included a file that doesn't (they already have the one that does), now what? Greg On 1/30/2012 5:29 PM, Tom wrote: Hi :) The lwp files should work. If they don't then it might be worth posting a bug-report about the ones that don'

Re: [libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-02-04 Thread Gregory Forster
, Gregory Forster wrote: How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In LibreOffice, I File/Open, change the file selection to Lotus WordPro document (*.lwp), select

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-04 Thread Gregory Forster
ood Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 1 February, 2012, 8:03 Le 27/01/2012 00:30, Gregory Forster a écrit : Hi Gregory, How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank scree

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Gregory Forster
On 2/1/2012 2:03 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 27/01/2012 00:30, Gregory Forster a écrit : Hi Gregory, How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

2012-02-01 Thread Gregory Forster
On 1/31/2012 6:10 PM, NoOp wrote: On 01/30/2012 02:11 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: On 1/28/2012 1:10 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: ... Can you post the file on nabble? A brief check indicates that *.lwp files should open in LO/OOo. I wasn't quite sure how to navigate nabble. I'm not talk

Re: [libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-01-31 Thread Gregory Forster
On 1/30/2012 5:16 PM, MiguelAngel wrote: El 30/01/12 23:11, Gregory Forster escribió: On 1/28/2012 1:10 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/26/2012 06:30 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I

Re: [libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-01-30 Thread Gregory Forster
On 1/28/2012 1:10 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/26/2012 06:30 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In LibreOffice, I File

[libreoffice-users] LWP documents

2012-01-27 Thread Gregory Forster
How do I open LotusWord Pro documents? When I click on the document in Windows Explorer, I get a blank screen. When I enter LibreOffice and open the document, I get a blank screen. In LibreOffice, I File/Open, change the file selection to Lotus WordPro document (*.lwp), select the file and st

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer

2012-01-26 Thread Gregory Forster
On 1/26/2012 5:20 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Greg, Gregory Forster wrote (27-01-12 00:13) [...] then proceed to highlight and move from the Database columns box on the left to the box on the right, all in the proper format for an address label. What kind of format do you mean? When I exit

[libreoffice-users] Writer

2012-01-26 Thread Gregory Forster
I've linked the address book of Thunderbird to LibreOffice, the same as how I linked it with OpenOffice: File/Wizards/Address Data Source/Thunderbird - NEXT. When writing a letter, or creating a label, I access the Data Source (F4), I access the Personal Address book. I then highlight the ad