Re: [libreoffice-users] Does LO normally appear in Windows 10 start menu?

My LO does appear in the Start menu in Windows 10 and has survived many Windows updates. I don't know offhand how to restore it to the Start menu. I suppose you could reinstall LO. - Robert On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, Philip Jackson wrote: In the course of investigating another thread, I went to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Create a relative hyperlink to file?

Regina - FWIW, I just tried it in LO 6.1.5.2 under Debian Linux 10 and it worked as you said, without an error message, and with the very misleading appearance of the absolute path in LO (but with the relative path appearing in content.xml). - Robert F. On Sat, 19 Sep 2020, Regina Henschel

Re: [libreoffice-users] Narrow equivalent in margins in Writer

In the page style you can modify the left and right margins in the same way as you modify the top and bottom margins. Does that not do what you want? - Robert On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, charles meyer wrote: Hi, I searched the Libre Writer User Manual but didn't find the equivalent to Narrow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Great Look

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Manfred Nowak wrote: On https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/ is stated "LibreOffice makes your work look great". But no measure for "Great Look" is defined. Therefore this claim may be doubted. From the rest of the text, it's clear that 'great look' means

[libreoffice-users] Laser-pointer-like mouse cursor in Impress?

PowerPoint has the ability to make the mouse cursor appear during a presentation as a coloured blob that looks a bit like a laser pointer. Is there something like this in LO Impress? If not, what tricks do people use for making the mouse cursor easier to see during a presentation? My best

Re: [libreoffice-users] insert unicode char in writer

the document author ought to decide. But how would the author know that a replacement was necessary at all? Or maybe it's different in windows and ubuntu? I haven't a clue. Best, /G. On Sat, 29/9/18, Robert Funnell wrote: Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] insert unicode char in writer

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Gary, Gary Collins schrieb am 28-Sep-18 um 11:51: Hi I would like to be able to insert some unicode characters into writer doc but cant find a way to do this directly. Type U+0161 and then press Alt+X, for example. Alt+X is a toggle. You can

Re: [libreoffice-users] insert unicode char in writer

It looks to me as though U+A723 is actually not supported by Liberation Sans or Serif and that a font replacement is happening, although no font replacements are specified in my Options > LibreOffice > Fonts. I don't know how to identify which font is actually being used for the character. (LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] insert before table at start of doc

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Regina Henschel wrote: Gary Collins schrieb am 28-Sep-18 um 10:41: Hi If i have a writer doc with a table inserted right at the start before any text, but later i want to insert some lines of text before that table, ive found i can do this by converting the table to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Accents in spelling check

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: I was dismayed to discover recently (and surprised that I never noticed before) that Libre Office disregards the difference between, say, á and a in spelling checks, and in find and replace. (Dismayed also to imagine that someone thinks this is a good

Re: [libreoffice-users] Did a message reply to all?

Yes, it worked beautifully :-) On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Peggy wrote: Someone told me to use "reply all". I found an option under settings to set it that way. Either has to be one of the other. I guess I'll have to remember to uncheck it when I don't want to use it. Some groups don't want to be

Re: [libreoffice-users] One more question before I give up for the night. I thought the table was set to not split cells when it went to the next page, but that's not happening. I've looked for a way

Peggy - Have you got this to work? I assume that you're setting the behaviour by unchecking the 'Allow row to break across pages and columns' check box in the Text Flow tab of the Table Properties dialogue? I tried it and it worked. If it really doesn't work for you, it might help to specify

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frustrated with stupid behavior while trying to do a project.

Peggy - I don't really understand Wade Smart's response, but have you tried right-clicking in the affect cell and selecting 'Unprotect Cells'? - Robert On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Wade Smart wrote: From the help menu: You can enable a selection cursor in a read-only text document or in the Help.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font issues with LO-5.4.x

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: LO dropped support for TrueType fonts with version 5 and replaced that with support for OpenTypeFormat fonts. The fontforge tool allows one to create new fonts and convert existing one from one type or encoding to another. Where is this documented?

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to turn a paragraph into a cross-reference/link

On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Dennis Heuer wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:35:21 +0200 Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Dennis, why do you need, that the entire block of text becomes a link? Do I understand it correctly, that when clicking _somewhere_ in the block, LO should switch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

Gordon - I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did File > Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of things aren't right but the images appear with their captions and no filenames. Am I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

, gordon cooper wrote: On 25/07/17 12:29, Robert Funnell wrote: Gordon - I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did File > Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of things aren't ri

Re: [libreoffice-users] no middle dots

Interesting. I didn't know about the option of turning off the display of some of the non-printing characters. Thanks. I found it under Tools Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids > Display of. On Sun, 19 Feb 2017, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: I guess the button you pressed is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Trying to make a macro

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Felipe T. Dorado wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:08:53 +0200, Felipe escribió: FTD> I notice that you call your .csv file a "sheet" and I think it is not FTD> a sheet, yet, but a text file. I found the "Import" sheet option in the menus. I found it in "Insertar" > "Hoja de

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: XML document

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 17/08/2016 à 18:35, Tom Morton a écrit : > > Hi Tom, > > > This is impossible tho. If I deleted these sections I would have had to have > > deleted them separately as they were not together. And also if I had of > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Draw

David - Evince, mentioned by Bruce, also works under Windows. - Robert On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote: Thank you Harvey, Stuart, and Bruce for useful information and suggestions. I am a long time user of OO.org & LO, from the time of Star Office before Sun. I am not

Re: [libreoffice-users] a question about libreoffice writer:

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote: nasrin khaksar wrote: > hello every one. > my sister wrote one document in microsoft word. > i offered her libreoffice and encouraged her to use it. > when she opened the document with libreoffice writer, she told that > before of many words - is

Re: [libreoffice-users] APA Heading 3 that does not use paragraph style

Steve, I've never heard of a non-breaking paragraph terminator. Could you expand on how to insert it? I don't see it in the Insert > Manual Break menu. - Robert On Fri, 6 May 2016, Steve Edmonds wrote: Would a non-braking paragraph terminator resolve the issue. Inserted into the

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

On Thu, 5 May 2016, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Robert Funnell wrote: > Felipe - > > The hidden text being discussed here is described at > https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Hiding_Text > That doesn't seem to be what you're talking about? > > - Robert > That is missing on

Re: [libreoffice-users] APA Heading 3 that does not use paragraph style

Marc - Does this link help? https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71=709 - Robert On Thu, 5 May 2016, Marc Grober wrote: I have worked through quite a few templates, and have found that address this problem :-( On 5/5/16 11:14 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 5 May

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

Felipe - The hidden text being discussed here is described at https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Hiding_Text That doesn't seem to be what you're talking about? - Robert On Thu, 5 May 2016, Felipe T. Dorado wrote: Hello Luuk : ) On Thu, 5 May 2016 13:18:23 +0200, Luuk wrote: L> On

Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

Walther - Could you open your content.xml with Emacs and record a macro to find and remove the hidden text? (I'm not sure that qualifies as simple.) - Robert On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote: Hallo, Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl: > Do you have some advice how to

Disabling recent-doc list [was Re: [libreoffice-users] Re-activating the Recent Documents Function in LibreOffice 5]

A simple Google search for 'libreoffice recent documents disable' found the following, among others: http://superuser.com/questions/726467/libreoffice-4-2-1-1-do-not-display-list-of-recent-documents You should not 'hijack' another person's question to ask your own different question. On Tue,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Highlighting Writer Text in 5.0.4 crashes Writer.

In case it helps, I just tried it in LO 5.0.1.2 under MS Windows and there was no crash. Nasrin, what operating system were you using? - Robert On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, nasrin khaksar wrote: hi. what stable version did you use before? i did not test 5.0.4 but tested 4.3.7, 5.0.5 and worked great

Re: [libreoffice-users] Viewing Manual Break Locations

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Annette wrote: CVAlkan wrote (Thursday, March 3, 2016, 4:35:53 PM): While inserting manual page breaks (Insert | Manual Break ... | Page Break) to permit different header content for different sections (small "s" sections - not Insert | Section ... sections) seems to work

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

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, M Henri Day wrote: 2016-03-03 14:41 GMT+01:00 Regina Henschel : 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.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to find out which fonts are used in an Open Document?

Perhaps export as PDF and let a PDF viewer tell you what fonts are there? (I haven't tried this, I just discovered recently that a PDF viewer could tell me that.) - Robert On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Pedro wrote: Hi all Does anyone know a way to find out which fonts are used in a Open Document (in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

I'd like to comment on the 2 typographic rules mentioned for English. (1) Many typographers believe that there should not be 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. See http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/InforMed/Bacon/WP/space.html (2) I don't think it's correct to say that

[libreoffice-users] Behaviour of non-looping animated GIF's in Impress

In Impress (and also, I gather, in PowerPoint) non-looping animated GIF's return to and stop at the first frame after displaying the animation. This seems odd, and is not the way that they're displayed in Firefox, where they just stop at the last frame. Is there something I'm missing? Is

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Doug wrote: On 03/19/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the word

Re: [libreoffice-users] Justifying some texts causes big spaces between words

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Bruce Byfield wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2014 11:42:53 PM James wrote: On 14-09-15 12:57 AM, Daniel wrote: Is there a reason why when I justify some texts, automatically there are big spaces between words? Thanks Daniel Full Justification justifies to both left

Re: [libreoffice-users] Split cells in Calc

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:49 10/08/2014 -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:25 10/08/2014 +0200, Pat Brown wrote: Is there any way to split a primary (one that has not been 'merged' previously) cell? I can't seem to find

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

A quick Google search indicates that your suggestion of PrintShop may be close to the mark. It seems that the files are probably image files and not word-processing files. Apparently there are image-conversion programmes available out there that can handle these files. On Sat, 12 Jul 2014,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Code line continuation arrow

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Eric Beversluis wrote: I'm entering some code lines in a LO Writer document. The lines are long and wrap around and I'm looking for the special character 'curved arrow' that is used to indicate that it's a continuation line and not a new line of code. I don't see it in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bibliography entry system and word/character counting

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: On 08/18/2013 02:09 PM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: On 08/18/2013 08:20 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 17/08/2013 12:46, Krunoslav Šebetić a écrit : Hi, think that LO should have (a little bit) better bibliography entry system. Every

Re: [Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Bibliography entry system and word/character counting

    *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Bibliography entry system and     word/character counting     On 08/18/2013 02:30 PM, Robert Funnell wrote:     On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:         On 08/18/2013 02:09 PM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote:       On 08/18/2013 08:20 AM, Jean-Baptiste

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux Libertine G

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Élie Roux wrote: Dear All, I have LibreOffice 4.0.3 from Debian Wheezy backports. Sadly this doesn not install the Linux Libertine G font. I wanted to download it from http: //numbertext.org/linux/ (particularly http:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to extract a color from a text?

On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:42:53 +0200 Axel Braun axel.br...@gmx.de wrote: Any idea how to extract the font color and make it available for all text? There might be an easier way, but if you use an unzip file to look at the zip'd contents of a .odt file, you'll find content.xml. In there will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Questions: (2) or (1)?

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, AG wrote: I played around with this on my Debian box using LibO v.3.6.4.3. I typed in e=mc2 new line and entered *fn* and then F3 It gave me E=mc2 (1) So I did a second equation (made up for the purpose) p =(q + 1)2 New line and *fn* and then F3 But got E=mc2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, TomW wrote: What I found on my LibreOffice 3.5.5.2 (vista): lower case fn did not work(error like OP), upper case FN does work. In calling up the autotext dialog, then selecting 'formula numbering', the displayed shortcut was FN (both uppercase). For me, with both

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Taang Zomi wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.cawrote: It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand the one called Standard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering Equations

It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand the one called Standard. If you scroll down the resulting list, you should see the entry 'Formula Numbering'. Select it and then click on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Would an acceptable work-around be to send 2 versions of the document?  The old and the new? In 'most' (?) cases people would hopefully already have the old version, or an even older one.  Then hopefully the Compare Documents feature in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Felmon Davis wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Bobby kneisel wrote: Unfortunately, where I work, this feature is used heavily ( and yest it is really, really annoying) but is considered a must have for our environment. Bobby Kneisel I wouldn't call it 'must-have' in my

Re: [libreoffice-users] font problem - anybody?

I just confirmed what I think you're seeing, in LO 3.4.6. I guess that a bug report is required, after searching to make sure it hasn't already been reported. On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: So far not a single response. Does that mean, I am the ONLY ONE experiencing this? Or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

It was answered in this message: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg22778.html And also (unnecessarily snarkily) in this one: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg22784.html AOO = Apache Open Office On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, anne-ology wrote: I too would

Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.5.3.2/Writer] Split screen in half horizontally?

On 24/06/2012 at 19:06, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: Can you confirm that there is no way in LibreOffice to open a long document and split the screen in two halves? I think that you can get the functionality that you want by doing Window New Window. There's a related discussion at

Re: [libreoffice-users] capitalization

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/29/2012 03:50 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:25:34 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Hello webmaster, The ignore double spaces is an option that needs to be looked. To be honest, I do

[libreoffice-users] Share stuff in registrymodifications.xcu

I run writer on multiple machines (Windows and Linux) and I like to share settings between them. I know how to do this with macros and menus by copying files. Now I would like to share the new entries that I've created in the symbol catalogue of the formula editor. These seem to be defined in