Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-20 Thread Mike Scott
to the grid. Vertically however it seems to snap to positions between the grid points, taking two unequal steps to move between snap locations. Most odd. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-15 Thread Mike Scott
. The helplines do help to get rough alignment. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https

[libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-11 Thread Mike Scott
! Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-09 Thread Mike Scott
e by perl, ready to make a sql database. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Scott
On 08/02/2024 18:14, Fred James wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I've just been looking at making pdf forms with Writer. Easier than I'd thought. I've been able to create a sample form with text fields and open this with xreader, evince or firefox. Firefox is able to display, edit and save

[libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Scott
be helpful, thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive

Re: [libreoffice-users] font gone AWOL

2023-10-03 Thread Mike Scott
On 29/09/2023 09:43, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I'm sure I've missed something obvious here, but LO doesn't pick up a font that looks as though it's known to the system. This is on linux Mint 21, LO 7.3.7.2 from the repo. The font file is my own creation and of somewhat venerable antiquity (25

[libreoffice-users] font gone AWOL

2023-09-29 Thread Mike Scott
ied to use it for years, but I'm (almost!) sure it used to be available. Any thoughts please? Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: (unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-24 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/08/2023 12:11, Mike Scott wrote: On 12/08/2023 19:19, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi, you could file a bug and post the number here. 156765 . And there it has sat for 10 days, and remains unassigned and un-updated. Oh well. Nice idea though. What's the usual timescale for someone

Re: (unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Scott
On 12/08/2023 19:19, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi, you could file a bug and post the number here. 156765 (If I've steered through bugzilla correctly!) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscr

(unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-10 Thread Mike Scott
OK, I see this thread's died out, so I assume there's no-one with a magical cure. I guess I'll have to persuade my wife that LO's own dialogue's are the way to go, although I confess I dislike them myself intensely. It won't put me off LO :-} But thanks to all for commenting. -- Mike Scott

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-02 Thread Mike Scott
eem to pop up rather randomly, those comments may be mis-leading. (*) Pi4: surprisingly snappy in use! I've not tried it before. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsu

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Scott
look like an LO issue; but how come lots of others aren't seeing the same, and how come it's so seemingly random? (Not that I'm changing which I use: sorry, but the LO dialogue boxes I find confusingly different.) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Scott
on is nothing to do with the ubuntu packaging. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-31 Thread Mike Scott
ow) behave in the two different ways. Thanks all for more comments. I hesitate to raise a bug report over this; for one thing the LO web bug page I found last time pretty incomprehensible, but for another it's really not repeatable enough. I'm not really sure where to go from here. -- Mike Sc

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-29 Thread Mike Scott
On 25/07/2023 21:17, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 25/07/2023 22:17, Mike Scott wrote: On 24/07/2023 17:39, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Just out of curiosity, at any time did you receive a "Confirm File Format" window and unchecked the "Ask when not saving in ODF or default format"

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-25 Thread Mike Scott
ng today is that on this machine at least, I can't provoke the erroneous behaviour... I must have just clicked "Save As" 30 or more times, and all works perfectly. Would fail regularly when I last posted. The machine has just been rebooted though... surely that can't affect things! T

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-24 Thread Mike Scott
uot; is the style, she has to manually change the odt to docx, which should not be necessary. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-22 Thread Mike Scott
sing 'save as' but I've never had the problem you describe. Sorry. Philip On 18/07/2023 16:13, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all; a very weird issue has been found by my wife, which I can repeat on a separate machine. Both use LO 7.3.7.2 on Mint 21. What happens is this. Take an odt file, open it in Writ

[libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-18 Thread Mike Scott
/ kosher: 'ls -1 | od -cb' shows nothing untoward. And indeed, one or two of my own files show the same behaviour. (I rarely use 'Save As' anyway.) I'm at a bit of a loss about where to check next. Has anyone else experienced this please and can say what's happening? TIA. -- Mike Scott (unet2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image Anchor Selection

2023-06-12 Thread Mike Scott
to [a web page with] some hints on the matter? And leave that in place for several releases. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Probl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

2022-07-04 Thread Mike Scott
ch' line. The single line should say foreach ... p')) { -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/m

Re: [libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
On 02/05/2022 15:33, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 14:47:39 +0100 Mike Scott wrote: Hello Mike, Save as text file produces something left-aligned - presumably because the indents seem to be a result of left-margin settings I see. My indents were as a result of tabs, so that would

Re: [libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
On 02/05/2022 11:54, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 11:38:29 +0100 Mike Scott wrote: Hello Mike, Is there any way of converting to a plain text file while keeping some semblance of the layout please? odt2txt extracts the text, but of course loses the indentation. Simply using "

[libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + m

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-25 Thread Mike Scott
All's well that end's well, I guess. Mojolicious has a steep learning curve, but is much easier and cleaner to use than php for this job. LO works, albeit slowly -- ~20 seconds to do the .odt->.doc conversion on a pi4. Again, thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-22 Thread Mike Scott
and oosplash listening on the same port (a high-numbered, obscure one). I can't even see how this is possible The question is, why does it do this, and how do I stop it? TIA. Linux mint, btw, ooo 6.4.7.2 -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The onl

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-22 Thread Mike Scott
On 11/04/2022 17:17, Mike Scott wrote: On 11/04/2022 15:16, Philip Jackson wrote: Hi Mike, I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless command line instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the pdfinfo check with flying colours. I just rechecked to make

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
rl web script that modifies a template odt file, then converted using LO to either doc or pdf for the end user all running in the cgi context. IIRC simple pdf conversion loses brochure formatting when present in the document, hence use of --print-to-file. Philip On 11/04/2022 10:51, Mike Scott

[libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netique

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-26 Thread Mike Scott
On 20/05/2021 14:11, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/20/21 12:15 PM, Mike Scott wrote: On 20/05/2021 10:46, Italo Vignoli wrote: I will check. I can sed the video back, and have the text on top of it, maybe is just the configuration of the text animation (as the text to be on top of the video has

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-20 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/05/2021 21:58, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:14:26 +0200 Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/13/21 4:59 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry for following up my own post, but the laptop results were unexpected. Either drag-and-drop or using menu Insert gave the same results - both produced

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-20 Thread Mike Scott
[resent] On 13/05/2021 21:58, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:14:26 +0200 Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/13/21 4:59 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry for following up my own post, but the laptop results were unexpected. Either drag-and-drop or using menu Insert gave the same results - both

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/05/2021 12:11, Mike Scott wrote: Thank you again. Firstly, I was using drag-and-drop rather than using the menu & insert. It does seem the behaviour is unexpectedly different, and during design, d shows the icon, while 'insert' shows a frame from the video. As you say, the icon

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
ther object, and you can superimpose the text. Also, no icon shows at the start of the video. Done in over 200 presentations during the last 10 years. On 5/13/21 9:48 AM, Mike Scott wrote: (resent) Thank you for your reply. However, the issue is not that I cannot insert a video into a s

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
in the LibreOffice Impress Manual, with lot of details On 5/12/21 12:19 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I've steered clear for some years of trying to include a video in an impress presentation, as I've always had problems. The need has re-arisen however, and I'm stuck on two points: 1. T

[libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-12 Thread Mike Scott
LO 6.4.7.2 running on Mint 20. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsub

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-21 Thread Mike Scott
about this a bit. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-he

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-16 Thread Mike Scott
is clearly, for some, a long-standing show-stopper regression :-{ I have found that 6.0.x on my 32 bit laptop works fine. I'm wondering if it's a specific 64-bit issue. Does anyone have a fix that I've missed please? On 13/12/2019 09:08, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I'm having a bit of trouble

[libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-13 Thread Mike Scott
ions aren't really appropriate for the particular environment. Otherwise they'd be a workround.) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Resize object symmetrically?

2019-09-14 Thread Mike Scott
all the choice you have. It's been an annoying (mis-)feature as long as I remember. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? ht

[libreoffice-users] odt file contents - naming of files in Pictures/ directory

2019-07-26 Thread Mike Scott
names are generated please? (Or where it would be documented. I've seen the odf spec does not define this area.) Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: user

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 6.2.x save dialog on Linux

2019-06-14 Thread Mike Scott
LO-style dialogues. If I pick 'LO-style' I see what you appear to be describing; clearing that checkbox gives a more sensible (IMO) dialogue box. (LO 5.1.6.2 on Mint Sylvia) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit&quo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FODT Write Error. The file could not be written.

2019-04-26 Thread Mike Scott
ing if you can do the equivalent save operation from there (you don't say why you think it's an LO issue). -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw: page numbering [RESENT]

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Scott
e numbers. I can't offhand see any way of changing LO's own numbering. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guid

[libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Mike Scott
n an order of service for a funeral) decidedly frustrating. (Nor for that matter do styles work in a text box. I fail to understand the issues here.) (LO 5.1.6.2/Mint, BTW) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon.

[resent] Re: [libreoffice-users] report builder query - how to suppress output.

2018-09-03 Thread Mike Scott
seems easier to cut perl code than understand Report Builder. :-( :-( -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.l

[libreoffice-users] report builder query - how to suppress output.

2018-08-28 Thread Mike Scott
> Section in this context). I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious - I'd be grateful for any pointers please. Also, is there a good tutorial around with examples for report builder? Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice - patches

2018-04-10 Thread Mike Scott
be advantageous. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

(resent) Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-11 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 17:34, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 09/11/2017 à 15:36, Mike Scott a écrit : I think the code is badly structured - the grabFrame method has no way of specifying an offset. It should have, and whatever runs the slide displaying should pick the first or last as appropriate

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 10:12, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 09/11/2017 à 10:02, Mike Scott a écrit : Scott, You might have better luck posting your question to the developer mailing list, or directly on the dev IRC channel. Alex Maybe I'll go there, as I seem to have found a workable answer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: resolved (Re: getting LO source)

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 09:04, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 08/11/2017 à 10:52, Mike Scott a écrit : Hi Mike, Having established it would build and run (with the same video problem, incidentally), I finally looked at the sources. Now I begin to see why changes take so long not a comment in sight

[libreoffice-users] video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
/knowledge/insights into whereabouts to look, that would be great. Sorry that's so long, but I think the symptoms need documenting somewhere. Any thoughts at all would be most welcome - thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The onl

Re: resolved (Re: [libreoffice-users] getting LO source)

2017-11-08 Thread Mike Scott
On 07/11/17 05:51, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 06/11/2017 à 19:53, Mike Scott a écrit : [...] Problem fixed. But just how long should I expect for LO to build? I've seen estimates on the net of and hour or two on a less powerful processor than my own: but I've always had the impression

resolved (Re: [libreoffice-users] getting LO source)

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-u

[libreoffice-users] getting LO source

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
also tried git clone -n with the same result. I suspect the web page should show the -n ???) Help please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] missing checkboxes and radio-buttons in all dialogues

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
ed for now, but cause unknown and still presumably due to something breaking between 5.1.6.2 (or 5.3.1.2) and 5.4.1.2. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@gl

[libreoffice-users] missing checkboxes and radio-buttons in all dialogues

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
have any checkboxes in the options dialogues. Catch-22 maybe :-{ Help please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoff

Re: [libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
. Does no-one else on the list use video within Impress at all? Do people not generally have this problem? Or do they just put up with it? God bless you! He does. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To uns

[libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-18 Thread Mike Scott
windows XP) Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reading from a USB device.

2017-08-28 Thread Mike Scott
e on linux to sling something together -- I'd be looking at qsynth, jack and jack_mixer as a start point. Maybe they'll run on windows. I'd not know. I'd most certainly /not/ be looking to do any usb-level programming; that bit's already been done. Or maybe I've totally mis-understood. --

[libreoffice-users] writer table issues - lines that mis-behave

2017-08-22 Thread Mike Scott
issues? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Mike Scott
As others have pointed out, beware copyright of the data. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office saving spreadsheets as images when saving as Word docx!?

2017-04-17 Thread Mike Scott
s; I'd suggest this would export better to something MS might support. He doesn't say why he needs to export to docx - I thought these days MS had some support for ODF documents. Could the recipient not cope with the odt file? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] keeping styles up-to-date

2017-01-20 Thread Mike Scott
afraid I don't have the expertise to craft one though :-{ ) TIA for any advice! -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Prob

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Anniversary upgrade warning - not LO issue

2016-12-07 Thread Mike Scott
linux, dual-boot is a necessity. Such a licence probably wouldn't work in a virtual machine. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Prob

removal of attachments on mailing list (was Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with instalation)

2016-08-18 Thread Mike Scott
various lists. It gives enough information to know to subscribe to users@ to get help, but there's no warning about removal of attachments. Maybe this needs changing? ISTM a warning plus advice on how to submit attachments would do no harm. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date field in a spreadsheet

2016-07-27 Thread Mike Scott
the date format :-{ Is there any (good) reason Calc doesn't have the same "Insert|Field" menu as Writer? I do dislike inconsistencies like this. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Data Range in Calc

2016-07-08 Thread Mike Scott
list, rather than to any individual. At the very least, you get the benefit of the collected wisdom, while others may benefit from any discussion.) On 7 July 2016 at 16:15, Mike Scott <v...@scottsonline.org.uk <mailto:v...@scottsonline.org.uk>> wrote: On 07/07/16 14:37, P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Data Range in Calc

2016-07-07 Thread Mike Scott
. Am I missing something or is this just not possible? Is it really necessary to re-create each graph from scratch? No. Double-click on the chart background to select it. Right-click on any point (or a trend line) and select "Data Ranges" -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating a thick line in Libre Draw and Writer

2016-07-03 Thread Mike Scott
But it's by no means the only, nor the worst, craziness in LO's (inherited) design. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http:

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

2016-06-10 Thread Mike Scott
(linux) has two protection options under the Tools menu. IIRC it used to be in a different place though. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - Count a "similar sequence"

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Scott
ilable for windows). But the OP did actually specify "similar", not "identical", in which case one is entering very murky waters, and a precise definition of 'similar' is needed. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To u

[libreoffice-users] Re: justification issues

2016-04-30 Thread Mike Scott
ng if it's worth putting this in formally as an enhancement request -- or would it be so unlikely to get looked at that it'd not be worth the effort? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.or

justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Mike Scott
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Scott
On 30/03/16 14:37, Mike Scott wrote: Excel is documented as Calc's order, ie the opposite. And MS are inconsistent - VB puts exponentiation above unary - (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fw84t893.aspx) opposite to Excel. Oh well :-) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Scott
s using brackets to be sure and clear. In any case, it really needs documenting for Calc. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mai

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Scott
'print -3**2, "\n"' -9 Oh well. Caveat programmer, I suppose. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Scott
rosoft Office Excel (and other spreadsheet applications) and the programming language bc, unary operators have a higher priority than binary operators" Contrary to, eg, perl. Ouch! Quite contrary to expectation. Here lie monsters :-) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No indent in footnotes

2016-03-24 Thread Mike Scott
commenting on either PoV, does this not suggest that footnote formatting (and probably other similar issues) should have a default controlled by the locale? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO ver. 5.1.0.3 calc - missing menu functions

2016-03-09 Thread Mike Scott
Help' menu to the release notes, plus a popup on first running a new version to remind the user? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
On 03/03/16 13:41, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Mike, Mike Scott schrieb: [..] Is there a way of reverting to an earlier 5.x? Synaptic doesn't offer these, and makes switching versions something close to agonizingly hard. Thanks. I can easily make an administrative installation of any version

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
learned a bit more about dpkg and friends! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
see how to have two versions installed at once, so logging a bug against 5.1.1 would be a problem. FWIW 5.1.0 does behave correctly though. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
e that PPA, revert to ubuntu's own (4.x), completely deinstall LO, then reinstall to downgrade. Very messy, but not an LO issue! -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Prob

[libreoffice-users] (OT-ish) gmane web access oddity

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
TP/1.1" 404 310 lo.gmane.org(80.91.229.12) - - [03/Mar/2016:13:18:07 +] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 27 Can't be a coincidence, I think. Normal behaviour? New? Reasonable? I'm surprised, because it means gmane is guessing a url from an email address. At least it honours

[libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
, or can shed light please? Is there a way of reverting to an earlier 5.x? Synaptic doesn't offer these, and makes switching versions something close to agonizingly hard. Thanks. (Mint 17, btw, in case it's relevant) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

[libreoffice-users] unwanted 'document recovery' dialogue (was: Re: Cannot delete horizontal red line)

2016-01-19 Thread Mike Scott
precise). Using Mint 17. Never an issue with 4.whatever-it-was. I use Writer, save and exit, and am occasionally immediately greeted by the recovery dialogue followed (IIRC) by the generic LO startup window. Anyone else noticed this? It's not repeatable to order, and is quite unpredictable.

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
standing unfixed issue: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11=9688 (from 2008) If you work in mm, the 2 decimal places the GUI so unreasonably forces will give a precision of 10μm. Not altogether convenient for the "traditionally minded" among us though :-) -- Mike Scott (unet2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
to about 3mm because the entries are rounded by the GUI to 2 dp in feet. Rational behaviour? Not from a user's POV. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
or km, and "Lines" - whatever they are. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames v text boxes

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Scott
low this in the first place.) I'm sure this must be documented somewhere. All I've done is look at content.xml, and potter a bit for a few minutes, so may well be missing something important. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-15 Thread Mike Scott
ntly from each other. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- 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: http://wiki.documentfound

[libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
areas labelled "Load", "Save" and "Default File Format and ODF Settings" each with a number of checkboxes. Nothing anywhere to restore my preferred dialogue box style. Anyone any idea how to switch back please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 10/10/15 15:02, Mike Scott wrote: On 10/10/15 14:30, Graham Luffrum wrote: Under my version of LO 5.0.2.2 (under Linux Mint 17.2 32 bit) I still have the choice between LO's dialogues and the system dialogues. Curious. I've got "Version: 5.0.2.2 Build ID: 00m0(Build:2) Locale:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress and file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/10/15 20:24, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 12:43, Malcolm Moore wrote: ... This is outstandingly horrible ! Yes. My summary for anyone in the same boat suffering from brain failure at the end of the week: . It will then work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Scott
paper tray from printer preferences" and "Use only size form printer preferences" in the tab "Options". Kind regards Regina -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Scott
, and then a substantive change is made followed by a save, the print info is saved as well. But if you need to change it again, you have to go through the whole procedure again. At least it seems that way after a quick experiment. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

Re: [libreoffice-users] brochure printing RESOLVED

2015-10-08 Thread Mike Scott
nd orientation are saved. Curious design. Anyway, problem solved; apologies again, and thanks for your patience. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsu

[libreoffice-users] brochure printing

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Scott
have had to create an A5 document, specify A4 landscape paper, and brochure mode would then print my A5 pages unscaled, 2-up. Is my memory wrong? If things have changed, what was the rationale? - the latter way seem IMO much more convenient. Thanks!! -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis

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