[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with numbered lists greater than 10

2017-08-10 Thread James Wilde
abble.com> > 09 August 2017 14:09 > At 03:10 09/08/2017 -0700, James Wilde wrote: > >Using 5.1.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Never had these problems before that I > >remember. I am using a numbered list. Main numbering is 1, 2, 3, > >level 2 is a), b), c), level 3 is i), ii), iii

[libreoffice-users] Problem with numbered lists greater than 10

2017-08-09 Thread James Wilde
Using 5.1.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Never had these problems before that I remember. I am using a numbered list. Main numbering is 1, 2, 3, level 2 is a), b), c), level 3 is i), ii), iii. Problem 1: when I get to 10. the title suddenly hops in a tab so that it is not aligned with earlier titles.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Strange line spacing

2016-11-17 Thread James Wilde
Absolutely right, Virgil, and that's the advice I gave when we discovered the problem. That's the way I work: a composition phase followed by a formatting phase. And, yes, I do, on bigger jobs, create paragraph breaks through, usually, paragraph formatting, sometimes with styles. Personally I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Strange line spacing

2016-11-17 Thread James Wilde
Thanks, Jomali. I must admit I was more interested in investigating the document in question than in trying to reproduce the problem. My mistake. It's good to know you couldn't reproduce it. I think I'm just going to say that this is a one-off, and I don't know how it happened. There were so

[libreoffice-users] Re: Strange line spacing

2016-11-17 Thread James Wilde
Thanks, Remi, for taking the time to answer. It is definitely a font problem, but not of the nature you hypothesized. We managed to get her document finished by the simple expedient of inserting one letter on the blank lines before making the second carriage return - or whatever it is called in

[libreoffice-users] Strange line spacing

2016-11-16 Thread James Wilde
I have installed the latest safe edition of LibreOffice on my wife's new Windows 10 machine and she is getting very strange behaviour in connection with line spacing. She is used to putting two carriage returns between paragraphs, as I am, but what happens is that, when she inserts one return,

[libreoffice-users] Re: zero page number

2016-07-13 Thread James Wilde
397...@n3.nabble.com> > 12 Jul 2016 14:20 > At 04:24 12/07/2016 -0700, James Wilde wrote: > >I have a book in which I want to insert page numbers. I've tried > >dividing the book up into front information and the actual book > >contents and I want to start numbering from page

[libreoffice-users] zero page number

2016-07-12 Thread James Wilde
I have a book in which I want to insert page numbers. I've tried dividing the book up into front information and the actual book contents and I want to start numbering from page 1 as the first page of the actual contents. There are four pages before the book starts, including a blank page on the

[libreoffice-users] Objects in Draw move position

2016-03-20 Thread James Wilde
I scanned in a map of our garden as I wanted to make detailed plans for the layout of different bits of the garden. I loaded this scanned picture into Draw. Next I added a number of circles of various sizes to represent trees. The next step will be to capture a portion of the big map and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Outlining

2015-10-19 Thread James Wilde
Andreas Säger <mailto:ville...@t-online.de> 19 Oct 2015 19:20via Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email_medium=sumlink_campaign=reach> Am 19.10.2015 um 19:06 schrieb James Wilde: Using v.5.0.0.5 on OSX 10.9 I think this functionality, which everyone says is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread James Wilde
+20 Alex Thurgood 11 Oct 2015 11:44via Postbox Le 10/10/2015 23:36, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Suffice it to say that Andreas is a vociferous participant in this discussion list, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
On 07 Oct 2015, at 19:10, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 18:38 07/10/2015 +0200, James Wilde wrote: >> Actually it is a compliment and thanks to LO and TDF for a good product >> which he is able to use, ... >> ... this man's message ...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Undeliverable: introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
On 07 Oct 2015, at 19:31, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 18:52 07/10/2015 +0200, James Wilde wrote: >>> *From:* Postmaster <postmas...@binero.se> >>> <mnasrinkhaks...@gmail.com> >>> The email account that you tried

[libreoffice-users] Re: introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
Just to round off this subject, I'm sorry I did not notice that Gabriele Ponzo acknowledged one of the messages from Nasrin just yesterday, and very gracefully it was done. James -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
Actually it is a compliment and thanks to LO and TDF for a good product which he is able to use, blind as he is. I would suspect that his english is next to non-existent and that he has simply written the message he would send to a fellow countryman, and run it through Google translate. And

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: Undeliverable: introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
How embarrassing! :*( *From:* Postmaster *Date:* 7 Oct 2015 18:48 *To:* james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com *Subject:* Undeliverable: introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you: This is the mail system at host bin-vsp-out-04.atm.binero.net. I'm sorry to have to

[libreoffice-users] introducing my self and a gift for appreciation to you:

2015-10-07 Thread James Wilde
Thank you, Nasrin, for your kind words about LibreOffice. We are all users of the program suite and all very appreciative of The Document Foundation, which makes it available to us for free. Welcome to the users forum. James Wilde -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing csv files from the bank

2015-07-24 Thread James Wilde
I see your name is Nielsen, which could indicate that you are Danish or Norwegian. Can it be that you have one of these two languages/regions as your default, which means, amongst other things that the decimal separator is a comma. If you are importing from an english or american bank, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-19 Thread James Wilde
Before I became a pensioner my work environment was Sun Solaris, but my workstation was Redhat later Ubuntu linux. I had Windows 7 in a Virtualbox for some administrative functions which required Windows. Others in my group (sysops) used other varieties of linux. The grunts used Windows. At

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

2015-07-19 Thread James Wilde
My son is a technical illiterate and one time, when I had got tired of rescuing his scsrewed-up (often virus-infected) Windows box, I gave him Ubuntu. He only uses his computer to surf to his webmail and to facebook. Nonetheless, he came to me after a week and asked me to re-install Windows as

[libreoffice-users] Your message to libreoffice: PROBLEMAS PARA INSTALAR LIBREOFFICE EN GALEGO

2015-05-15 Thread James Wilde
You might find it easier to direct your question to the Portugese list: http://pt.libreoffice.org/ or for brazilian portugese: http://pt-br http://pt.libreoffice.org/.libreoffice.org/ http://pt.libreoffice.org/ Regards James Wilde moderator Sent also to the users forum, in case the message

Re: [libreoffice-users] Notice to Appear in Court

2015-04-19 Thread James Wilde
Oh dear! One of us clicked the wrong button. :) James On 2015-04-18 09:37, County Court wrote: Notice to Appear, You have to appear in the Court on the April 23. You are kindly asked to prepare and bring the documents relating to the case to Court on the specified date. Note: If you do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Casual conversation

2015-04-17 Thread James Wilde
I emphasise that there is no implied or intendedcriticism of Andreas in my previous post. The problem is that Tom is a very social person, and invaluable in not frightening away insecure novices, but perhaps not the best poster when the going gets technical. James -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Casual conversation

2015-04-17 Thread James Wilde
On 2015-04-17 10:21, Nino Novak wrote: On 16.04.2015 at 22:20, Andreas Säger wrote: @tom SHUT UP!!! If you don't have anything to tell. :-( I understand both: ... Another idea could be to ask Andreas to try to ignore Tom's messages, and ask Tom to try to restrain himself. Does this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: [tdf-discuss] Printing problem in LibreOffice Development Build

2015-04-07 Thread James Wilde
On 2015-04-07 20:38, Brian Barker wrote: At 20:10 07/04/2015 +0200, James Wilde wrote: ... (s)he is not registered Looks decidedly a she to me: http://stackoverflow.com/users/4264377/glefani-misoles . Brian Barker I have to admit it looks like you are right, Brian. James

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: [tdf-discuss] Printing problem in LibreOffice Development Build

2015-04-07 Thread James Wilde
Forwarded from discuss, which was an inappropriate forum for the subject. Please include the OPs email address in any replies, as (s)he is not registered- James Forwarded Message Subject:[tdf-discuss] Printing problem in LibreOffice Development Build Date: Mon, 6

Re: [libreoffice-users] IT Assistant

2015-04-01 Thread James Wilde
PS. I advised him that his attachment has been detached and suggested he send a url to a sample. On 01 Apr 2015, at 11:28, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: The following message came in to the website forum, so I am reposting it here, where it is more appropriate. The sender

[libreoffice-users] IT Assistant

2015-04-01 Thread James Wilde
The following message came in to the website forum, so I am reposting it here, where it is more appropriate. The sender is not registered, so include him separately in any reply. //James Hi Sir/Ma'am This is to raise my concern about Libre Office. I encounter errors that others may

Re: [libreoffice-users] rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread James Wilde
Wow! Seems we have a new religion here, added to the conflicts in the Middle East, Northern Ireland (calm at the moment) and Kashmir, not to mention the South China Sea. Can we agree that a) rtf is not an ISO standard and has never been; that b) most programs with a proprietary text format

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

2014-08-30 Thread James Wilde
On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing (I now use Scrivener for books and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

2014-05-15 Thread James Wilde
Calc 50% Writer 50% On 2014-05-15 20:02, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I don't have a clue, but I guess something like this: Calc 998 ‰ Draw 1 ‰ Math ⅔ ‰ Writer ⅓ ‰ Base 0 ‰ Impress 0 ‰ But, as I said, I have no clue. Maybe it's even more Calc and less of the others. Johnny Rosenberg --

Re: [libreoffice-users] comment-807

2014-02-28 Thread James Wilde
On 2014-02-28 14:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I like Walther's and Jonathon's suggestions. You guys still have time to register and post them yourselves. If you are not Uk-resident and not English then i think you can still have your say. you still have an hour or so to do this! :) Not

Re: [libreoffice-users] comment-807

2014-02-28 Thread James Wilde
the praise for it ;) ) Regards from Tom :) On 28 February 2014 14:44, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: On 2014-02-28 14:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I like Walther's and Jonathon's suggestions. You guys still have time to register and post them yourselves. If you are not Uk-resident

Re: [libreoffice-users] two 2014 calendars on the Template Center - soon?

2014-01-19 Thread James Wilde
I've only looked at the A4 one. Good job, looks fine. Just for the record, what is your intended market going to do with this? It won't alert them to an impending event. Somehow you've made it so that if I press 'Return' I go to a new line without it's creating a new line, and destroying the

Re: [libreoffice-users] two 2014 calendars on the Template Center - soon?

2014-01-19 Thread James Wilde
you mean. Where are you doing this? I do not remember seeing this happen when I was doing my editing. On 01/19/2014 08:21 AM, James Wilde wrote: I've only looked at the A4 one. Good job, looks fine. Just for the record, what is your intended market going to do with this? It won't alert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with libre

2014-01-09 Thread James Wilde
Hello David: The two green buttons indicate to me that you - or someone for you - have installed LibreOffice in a language other than US English, which means that, when you click on the update button, you are taken to the update page for the language variant on your machine. In my case, for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re Libre writer

2014-01-09 Thread James Wilde
Well, David, it looks like you managed to download and install the two files in your other message. LibreOffice writer is just one part of the program suite, and you have the whole suite. Everybody gets the whole suite. Just writer is not supplied alone since so much of the functionality is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re Libre writer

2014-01-09 Thread James Wilde
David, you sent your message to me alone. When you reply, please click on 'Reply to All' or you may see 'Reply to List', in which case click on that. That way your replies will go to the list, and anyone can see what stage you have reached, and what your latest problem is, and can help. I'm not

[libreoffice-users] Strange toolbar in writer

2013-12-11 Thread James Wilde
Don't know what I did to get it there, but just under the normal toolbar (the one with text type, typeface and size etc) I have a very broad one with, on the left, a button for New theme and under that a choice of Backgrounds, Bullets, Homepage My Theme and Sounds, and to the right of this menu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Strange toolbar in writer

2013-12-11 Thread James Wilde
Thanks, Pedro, that did it. On 2013-12-11 16:05, Pedro wrote: Hi James That is the Gallery. It is under Tools Gallery Click on the menu item to show/hide Hope this helps ;) -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Strange toolbar in writer

2013-12-11 Thread James Wilde
Thanks again! On 2013-12-11 16:17, Pedro wrote: Hi again James Wilde wrote Thanks, Pedro, that did it. You are welcome ;) You can also hide/show by clicking on the Gallery button in the Standard Toolbar (usually the top one, with Open, Save, etc). It is the 4th button from the right

Re: Two copies of your messages Was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [OT]Re: Re: automatic creation of template files

2011-10-11 Thread James Wilde
On 11 Oct 2011, at 13:07, Cor Nouws wrote: Andreas Säger wrote (11-10-11 12:55) Am 10.10.2011 22:58, Joep L. Blom wrote: Andreas, Off topic but I get consequently 2 copies of your messages. Is there a problem with your mail client? But the http archives do not show any duplicates. How

Re: Two copies of your messages Was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [OT]Re: Re: automatic creation of template files

2011-10-11 Thread James Wilde
On 11 Oct 2011, at 13:44, James Wilde wrote: On 11 Oct 2011, at 13:07, Cor Nouws wrote: Andreas Säger wrote (11-10-11 12:55) Am 10.10.2011 22:58, Joep L. Blom wrote: Andreas, Off topic but I get consequently 2 copies of your messages. Is there a problem with your mail client

Re: [libreoffice-users] delete/trash

2011-10-07 Thread James Wilde
LibreOffice documents have landed there anyway, so you can open that folder instead. On , James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: Hi Alisha: An attempt to help you will be found inline. On Oct 5, 2011, at 22:19 , The Glenn's wrote: *Hi there, I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] delete/trash

2011-10-06 Thread James Wilde
Hi Alisha: An attempt to help you will be found inline. On Oct 5, 2011, at 22:19 , The Glenn's wrote: *Hi there, I'm new to ubuntu, REALLY liking it! One silly thing I need help with: HOW do I delete a doc? I made a new doc, but can't delete the old, no right click is availble I don't see

Re: [libreoffice-users] Real Usenet newsgroups

2011-09-26 Thread James Wilde
Well, there's a slight snag here, due to be solved real soon now. As I understand it, the mailing list program used by libreoffice in its present version can not accept unmoderated posts sent via gmane unless the sender is also registered with libreoffice. Also as I understand it, this is due

Re: [libreoffice-users] Excel file in LibreOffice Calc

2011-09-23 Thread James Wilde
On Sep 21, 2011, at 18:25 , Luciano R. Moreira - Desenvolvimento wrote: Hi, The problem is: - The date fields and values ??are being displayed in the program Open Office / BR Office / LibreOffice with the character (apostrophe) and cause error in the calculation of the value field

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with data conversion

2011-08-30 Thread James Wilde
On Aug 29, 2011, at 16:12 , webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Would you be willing to download/install 3.3.4 from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/? I do not use the repository version, and I use Ubuntu 64bit 10.04. You would need to install in via the terminal, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with data conversion

2011-08-30 Thread James Wilde
A little more information: On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:22 , James Wilde wrote: Can't think of a better subject line. This is about the Ubuntu repository version of LibO running under Ubuntu 11.04 linux. The repository version is described as follows: LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO 330m 19 (Build

[libreoffice-users] Problem with data conversion

2011-08-29 Thread James Wilde
Can't think of a better subject line. This is about the Ubuntu repository version of LibO running under Ubuntu 11.04 linux. The repository version is described as follows: LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO 330m 19 (Build:301) LibreOffice 3.3.3.1 Ubuntu package 1.3.3.3ubuntu2 I have been testing Gnucash

[libreoffice-users] Problems with Lion?

2011-08-26 Thread James Wilde
Running v3.3.2 on Mac OSX recently upgraded to Lion (10.7.1) Lion has had its teething troubles, and I seem to remember seeing a comment in here about a problem with running LibO on Lion. So far I've not had any troubles, but I was wondering. Does it make any difference which version one is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Lion?

2011-08-26 Thread James Wilde
On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:38 , Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think the 3.3.2 should be fine. Have you had any troubles so far? Regards from Tom :) No, no problems so far, but I was considering an upgrade. //J -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with Lion?

2011-08-26 Thread James Wilde
Thanks to Webmaster and Tom for their info. There's fortunately no panic to upgrade. //J On Aug 26, 2011, at 14:28 , webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: 3.4.3 out August 31st and 3.4.4 out October 5th, then 3.4.5 - November 23rd and 3.4.6 - February 22nd. The 3.3.x line stops

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice work-flow?

2011-08-25 Thread James Wilde
Hej Ulrik: Comments inline. On Aug 25, 2011, at 16:32 , Ulrik Långström wrote: How do people use LibreOffice effectively? In order for us to be able to answer that, it might be a good idea if you tell us how you work with LaTeX and HTML. For example, do you write the whole document and

Re: [libreoffice-users] strikethrough feature

2011-08-25 Thread James Wilde
Hi Maria and welcome. Answer inline. On Aug 25, 2011, at 22:47 , Maria Rechnitzer wrote: Dear Support, when word processing in microsoft office (doc or xls) there is a strikethrough feature that allows you to mark words that you want to delete but stIll keep them in the text, e.g.

Re: [libreoffice-users] strikethrough feature

2011-08-25 Thread James Wilde
Silly me. The OP is not subscribed, so won't get messages sent to the list unless she is cc'd. I should have known that. I authorised her message. Here's my reply again. Hi Maria and welcome. Answer inline. On Aug 25, 2011, at 22:47 , Maria Rechnitzer wrote: Dear Support, when word

[libreoffice-users] base/calc system for membership records

2011-07-26 Thread James Wilde
Hi: I have been trying to find a simple template/extension which will help us maintain a membership register comprising 2-300 names. It can be base or calc underneath the hood, but it would be nice if it provided forms for updating the register, and possibly a way to select names for address

Re: [libreoffice-users] base/calc system for membership records

2011-07-26 Thread James Wilde
On Jul 26, 2011, at 17:58 , Andy Brown wrote: James Wilde wrote: Hi: I have been trying to find a simple template/extension which will help us maintain a membership register comprising 2-300 names. It can be base or calc underneath the hood, but it would be nice if it provided forms

Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

2011-06-20 Thread James Wilde
On Jun 20, 2011, at 09:23 , Stephan Zietsman wrote: Roxy Robinson wrote: From what I know you have to use Paste Special for what you want to do. Paste Special has several options that you must choose from, so you cannot set it to do only one Just to elaborate: you can perform a Paste

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO MailList

2011-06-15 Thread James Wilde
Hi Ian: Send an email from your normal email address to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org. You will get an email in return, to which you must reply and then you are subscribed to the list. If I'd been a little more awake when I saw your message, I'd have responded to it directly instead

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is this list unmoderated?

2011-06-03 Thread James Wilde
On Jun 3, 2011, at 01:28 , plino wrote: It is benevolently moderated in the sense that real spam and commercial spammers are eliminated. Correct. But I haven't noticed any post from a real user being eliminated or any user banned. Well, by definition, you wouldn't! :) I guess some

Re: [libreoffice-users] new to list

2011-05-25 Thread James Wilde
Welcome to the list, Flos. Here you'll find all the help you'll need to use LibreOffice. The help is all provided by volunteers, users like yourself. //James On May 25, 2011, at 18:25 , Phil Headford wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list. My name is Phil Headford, but most people call me Flos.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Startup with Calc on OSX

2011-05-11 Thread James Wilde
Another way is to install an extension which gives you the same choice. The details are: It is an extension. DisableStartModule.oxt 0.0.1. (available at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90815 ) This information courtesy of Larry Gusaas of this list, with grateful thanks. Note

Re: all good, different languages are good to see :) Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorry, wrong mailing list

2011-05-11 Thread James Wilde
On May 11, 2011, at 18:11 , luiz wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:42 -0300, luiz wrote: Let's do a big celebration of Pentecost. All speaking in different languages ​​and everyone getting along. (Is that possible?) ;) From what I have seen, not understanding the language might go

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing Japanese in Libre Office Writer (typing furigana)

2011-05-09 Thread James Wilde
On May 9, 2011, at 07:51 , Troy Testing Desu wrote: It seems like I solved my own problem, with the help of others. I accomplished typing furigana over kanji by selecting the kanji, format asian phonetic guide and typing the characters. Just checked out furigana. So a question I maybe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format in template

2011-05-03 Thread James Wilde
On Apr 30, 2011, at 13:25 , xwolf wrote: Hi James The following solution might be of interest if you want to permanently change all LibreOffice's behaviour to use the ISO date format. So I did the following (LibreOffice 3.3.2, on Windows XP): ** In a hex-editor (HxD for example), I

Re: [libreoffice-users] HTML entities

2011-04-28 Thread James Wilde
On Apr 29, 2011, at 04:43 , rich...@hornick.us rich...@hornick.us wrote: How do I unsubscribe from this list? I have tried everything with no success. The note below: Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Makes no sense. What instructions??? E-mail WHAT to that

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to use japanese ore other language fonts

2011-04-20 Thread James Wilde
On Apr 20, 2011, at 09:14 , Rewarp wrote: こんにちは、あきこさん。 You do have a weird problem. I have had no problems inputting Japanese into OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice). I am also using Lucid Lynx. Does copy and paste work correctly for Japanese? Other than that, what input method are you

[libreoffice-users] The text:s/ tag

2011-04-04 Thread James Wilde
If this is a double post I apologise. I can't see that the original message has appeared, neither in my in-box (no, I don't use gmail) nor in nabble. I have had a problem arise in connection with converting an odt file to another format, mobi. The problem is apparently caused by a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer document appears differently on two differen PC's

2011-03-28 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 28, 2011, at 20:28 , Andy Brown wrote: Mark Stanton wrote: I have a document that spans two pages when viewed/edited on one computer but is only one page when viewed/edited from the other computer on my network. All the page settings appear the same when viewed from either

[libreoffice-users] Ruler settings hard coded on Mac

2011-03-27 Thread James Wilde
I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.6. and have now upgraded to 3.3.2 since I discovered I was using 3.3.0 and thought my problem might have been fixed. I suddenly noted that, when I was adjusting a style, the indents were in characters and the space before and after a paragraph were in lines and not in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ruler settings hard coded on Mac

2011-03-27 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 27, 2011, at 11:42 , Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:59, Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:50, James Wilde wrote: [...] I quit LibreOffice, removed my profile by renaming ~/Library/Application Support/Libreoffice to ~/Library/Application Support

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ruler settings hard coded on Mac

2011-03-27 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:59 , Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:50, James Wilde wrote: I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.6. and have now upgraded to 3.3.2 since I discovered I was using 3.3.0 and thought my problem might have been fixed. I suddenly noted that, when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ruler settings hard coded on Mac

2011-03-27 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 27, 2011, at 18:01 , Harold Fuchs wrote: On 27/03/2011 15:19, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:59 , Manfred J. Krause wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:50, James Wilde wrote: I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.6. and have now upgraded to 3.3.2 since I discovered I was using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Startup options

2011-03-26 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 26, 2011, at 00:07 , Len Philpot wrote: [ From users@libreoffice.org (NoOp) on Friday, March 25, 2011 ] I reckon that you can do the same on a Mac - why don't you give it a try and let us know? Unless Apple has done something very weird*, I'd guess it would work. OS/X is, after

Re: [libreoffice-users] Startup options

2011-03-24 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 24, 2011, at 02:19 , Michel Gagnon wrote: Le 2011-03-23 19:23, Andy Brown a écrit : Roger Stein wrote: Is there any way to start any of the individual Libre Office applications so that you don't automatically go back to the Application Menu when you close a document? For example, I

[libreoffice-users] Problem with java x.x.24

2011-03-23 Thread James Wilde
There was a post in here recently about the latest java update, version 1.6.0_24, causing problems with Base. I'm getting a lot of encouragement from both my Macs to upgrade to this version, which I'm resisting hard, but I just wanted to know whether anyone knows whether the problem is fixed,

[libreoffice-users] Convert formulae to actual

2011-03-21 Thread James Wilde
I have a calc sheet with full names in one column, thus: John Smith Jane Smollett I want to create a column with forenames and one with surnames. I've created an extra column with the position of the space between first name and last name (in the cases above, it's five in each case), and two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Convert formulae to actual

2011-03-21 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 21, 2011, at 18:10 , Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 21/03/2011 17:59, James Wilde a écrit : What I'd now like todo is to change the contents of the first name column from left(1;x-1) to John or Jane, and the last name column likewise, from being a formula which displays

Re: [libreoffice-users] Convert formulae to actual

2011-03-21 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 21, 2011, at 21:46 , Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 21/03/2011 21:14, James Wilde a écrit : Sorry, Jean-Francois. There is no Copy Special. Only Paste Special. And Paste Special does not have a Formula option. Ooops! Yes, it should read Paste special, sorry for the typo

Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

2011-03-12 Thread James Wilde
Hi Randy: Send an email from your gmail account to users+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org and reply to the ensuing email. //James Moderator On Mar 12, 2011, at 15:00 , Randy Millner wrote: On Mar 12, 2011 7:57 AM, Randy Millner randlemill...@gmail.com wrote: Unsubscribe me On Mar 12,

Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

2011-03-12 Thread James Wilde
, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. On 12/03/2011 17:03, James Wilde wrote: Hi Randy: Send an email from your gmail account to users+unsubscr...@libreoffice.org and reply to the ensuing email. //James Moderator On Mar 12, 2011, at 15:00

[libreoffice-users] Date format in template

2011-03-11 Thread James Wilde
It is appropriate to say that I am running LibO 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6. I have a letterhead template which includes a date field (creation date). However, despite several attempts, I am unable to maintain the format of the date, which I want to present in iso-format: -MM-DD.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date format in template

2011-03-11 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 11, 2011, at 13:35 , Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Dear James, James Wilde wrote: It is appropriate to say that I am running LibO 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6. I have a letterhead template which includes a date field (creation date). However, despite several attempts, I am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format in template

2011-03-11 Thread James Wilde
Well, to be sure it's not something in the original template, I just created a new one with nothing other than create date and saved it as you said using /File/Templates/Save. Same behavkiour. I'm at a loss. //James On Mar 11, 2011, at 22:19 , Tinkerer wrote: Hi James It works for me.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format in template

2011-03-11 Thread James Wilde
Thanks Larry. On Mar 11, 2011, at 22:41 , Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011/03/11 7:31 AM James Wilde wrote: Open a document, format it as I wanted, insert the date field, convert to iso-format, save as .ott in the templates folder. On opening it reverts always to US format. Please describe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format in template

2011-03-11 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 11, 2011, at 23:41 , Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011/03/11 3:55 PM James Wilde wrote: Just sent a copy to Andy Brown who contacted me offline. He opens a document with my template and sees the date in iso-format. so it's something local. I have a Macbook and a Mac Mini, both running

Re: [libreoffice-users] Latency issues

2011-03-09 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 9, 2011, at 18:45 , Stereotactic wrote: Hi All, I am facing a lot of latency issues with the subscription to this list. For example, it took over 30 minutes to get the confirmation email to subscribe. So do the replies to the threads. Is someone facing the same issues too? I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-09 Thread James Wilde
to run them both again. As Arnie said, I'll be back. //James On Mar 5, 2011, at 00:41 , James Wilde wrote: Thanks, Regina. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. //James On Mar 5, 2011, at 00:37 , Regina Henschel wrote: Hi James, James Wilde schrieb: On Mar 2, 2011, at 23:20 , Regina

Re: [libreoffice-users] Description is not retained

2011-03-08 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 8, 2011, at 03:56 , Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com on Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:01:28 +0100 LibO 3.3.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.6. I have a number of copies of one particular document, each copy of which differs in some respects from others

[libreoffice-users] Description is not retained

2011-03-07 Thread James Wilde
LibO 3.3.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.6. I have a number of copies of one particular document, each copy of which differs in some respects from others. There is, for example, the original file with certain formatting attributes. Then there is a copy of this which has more formatting attributes to make

Re: [libreoffice-users] HELP QUESTION

2011-03-04 Thread James Wilde
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-04 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 2, 2011, at 23:20 , Regina Henschel wrote: Hi James, James Wilde schrieb: I've checked both LibO and OOo for a how-to or a chapter on this, without luck, and I've checked the Nabble interface to the users maillist. Is there any easy way to get an address list in a spreadsheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-04 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 3, 2011, at 13:34 , Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 02/03/11 22:23, James Wilde a écrit : Hi James, 2. Activate the data source pane (F4) F4 doesn't have any effect on my Mac. Cmd+F4 closes the sheet. Shift+Cmd+F4 has no effect. I double clicked on the Base table and got

Re: [libreoffice-users] HELP QUESTION

2011-03-04 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 5, 2011, at 00:10 , MR ZenWiz wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:53 AM, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: 喜张玉军: 请将您的调查,以我们的中文列表: 我们不是在这里讲好普通话。 us...@bn.libreoffice.org:LibreOffice 用户支持 * 订阅:users+subscr...@bn.libreoffice.org * 汇总版订阅:users+subscribe-dig

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-04 Thread James Wilde
Thanks, Regina. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. //James On Mar 5, 2011, at 00:37 , Regina Henschel wrote: Hi James, James Wilde schrieb: On Mar 2, 2011, at 23:20 , Regina Henschel wrote: Version B You have already a database and want to import your speadsheet as new table: Open

Re: [libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...

2011-03-02 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 2, 2011, at 18:30 , Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 02/03/11 16:46, James Wilde wrote: Thanks, Don, but the Worldlabel site is only for US sizes, and doesn't appear to have A4. However, I'll take a look at the OOo site, and see if I can find the extension. try this: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] On the subject of mailmerge...

2011-03-02 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 2, 2011, at 20:02 , Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 02/03/11 18:34, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 18:30 , Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 02/03/11 16:46, James Wilde wrote: Thanks, Don, but the Worldlabel site is only for US sizes, and doesn't appear to have A4. However

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-02 Thread James Wilde
style templates. On 03/02/2011 02:38 PM, James Wilde wrote: I've checked both LibO and OOo for a how-to or a chapter on this, without luck, and I've checked the Nabble interface to the users maillist. Is there any easy way to get an address list in a spreadsheet into a base database? TIA

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-02 Thread James Wilde
On Mar 2, 2011, at 21:43 , Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 02/03/2011 21:07, James Wilde a écrit : I can see no way to save my calc as a database under Save as. I can find no import option in base. And copying the entire sheet and pasting to the first field on a form doesn't work

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