Re: [libreoffice-users] Word table freezing after paste and edit

2015-02-26 Thread Tom Davies
from Tom :) On 26 February 2015 at 15:31, Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org wrote: Four time in a row, I copy/paste the content of one cell into another. When I try to edit the latter cell, Writer freezes up on me (Not responding). Using LO 4.2 on Fedora 20. All updated

Re: [libreoffice-users] Use Java for macros in Base

2015-02-26 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 25 February 2015 at 10:42, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I am pretty sure it can be done. Somewhere there is a sub-menu showing the different languages that can be used and i vaguely remember another language it allowed was Python. I just have no idea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can the most up-to-date LO import and print pdfs?

2015-02-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I agree that dedicated programs that do 1 single task tend to be better for that task. I seldom have a problem with LO's rendering of Pdfs but that could easily just be luck. Regards from Tom :) On 25 February 2015 at 23:52, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Two ideas about LibreOffice tips

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
that then they might make a lot of good tips. Regards from Tom :) On 25 February 2015 at 10:10, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello Zeki, Sophie, Le 25.02.2015 10:44, Sophie a écrit : Hi Zeki, Le 23/02/2015 21:39, Zeki Bildirici a écrit : Hi, 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can the most up-to-date LO import and print pdfs?

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I haven't tried the most up-to-date one but older ones can. I would always try doing a test print at low quality and stuff just to get an idea of how it will look. Regards from Tom :) On 25 February 2015 at 18:02, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: In a sense. LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] End-of-line comma misbehaving in Writer 4.2.7.2 (Build 420m0) on Linux Mint 17

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile Might hopefully help by getting back to factory defaults Regards from Tom :) On 26 February 2015 at 05:06, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) It sounds like renaming the User Profile might be the best plan! I'm guessing

Re: [libreoffice-users] End-of-line comma misbehaving in Writer 4.2.7.2 (Build 420m0) on Linux Mint 17

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It sounds like renaming the User Profile might be the best plan! I'm guessing the problem just kinda suddenly started sometime and hadn't been happening before? It's a weird problem that shouldn't be happening. Both those things kinda point to it being the User Profile. Regards from Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Use Java for macros in Base

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
Tom :) On 24 February 2015 at 08:25, Stefan v. Wachter s...@mnet-online.de wrote: Hi, I have read that I can write extensions for LO in Java. How can I use these new java functions as event handlers for base forms? Do I have to write wrappers in Basic? I have some experience with Java

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] TDF Birthday video?

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It was our birthday and we missed it! Happy birthday all! :)) Regards from Tom :) On 23 February 2015 at 20:33, Marc Paré *hidden* wrote: Is it just me or did we just forget to advertise the TDF 3rd birthday video on our mailing lists? Thanks for the wonderful video Italo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Participate in GSOC 2015

2015-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
to be done. So that is why i put Android/iPad up at number 1. Regards from Tom :) On 24 February 2015 at 09:36, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nabiha, Le 23/02/2015 17:04, Nabiha Iqbal a écrit : Hi.I want to participate in GSOC 2015 and I am interested in your project ideas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and Formatting Not Working

2015-02-21 Thread Tom Davies
to get back to factory defaults https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile I'm not sure how to force an off-screen window or pop-up to come back onto the screen tbh. Those are just things that i would try. Regard from Tom :) On 21 February 2015 at 05:10, Brian Barker b.m.bar

[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles and Formatting Not Working

2015-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
current version of LibreOfrfice but personally i would probably go for a normal proper install. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2015 at 01:29, Taang Zomi libreofficez...@gmail.com wrote: Many, many years ago, I read somewhere that when a misfortune comes, it does not come alone

[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles and Formatting Not Working

2015-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :) It is worth keeping the installer for the newer branch for later on, after the deadline! Also because it is quite handy to have 2 different versions to choose from. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2015 at 01:35, Taang Zomi libreofficez...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Windows 64 bit builds born. Really and long last!

2015-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
time and we can see one issue that sounds like it was probably quite tricky to resolve already. Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2015 at 11:17, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carlo Thank you for the heads up on a x64 Win build. carlo.strata wrote I remember some our old others win64

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink Not Underscored

2015-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Superb :)) Nicely done! Congrats for fixing it! :) Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2015 at 15:15, Taang Zomi libreofficez...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Brian, Thank you for suggestions. If you want URLs to be automatically detected and converted to hyperlinks, you need to have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting a date

2015-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) So it's picking up the USA locale for it's input? I thought LibreOffice could have it's own locale as somethign different from the system's one? Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2015 at 17:26, Mark Howe markh...@cox.net wrote: Yeah, I tho't of that and tried changing it around to 14

Re: [libreoffice-users] https://www.libreoffice.org - is website down?

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!! That was fast! It's back already! :)) Congrats to the infra-team! Regards from Tom :) On 18 February 2015 at 09:20, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Le 18/02/2015 10:01, J o a écrit : Good morning, Try to reach https://de.libreoffice.org but get always time

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: https://www.libreoffice.org - is website down?

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Kudos to the Infra folks for getting the main websites up again so quickly! That was pretty impressive! Regards from Tom :) On 18 February 2015 at 18:01, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Le 18/02/2015 18:21, CVAlkan a écrit : Not sure about everything back to normal yet, Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Windows 64 bit builds born. Really and long last!

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fantastic! Another big thanks to our devs and in this case an especially huge thanks to David Ostrovsky - also to the Collabora team again for the Android re-write. Many thanks David Ostrovsky!! :))) Regards from Tom :) On 18 February 2015 at 19:03, Florian Reisinger flo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Move/Copy Sheet item in sheet tab menu

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
or Cloud like GDrive or anywhere then you might be able to get most of that old sheet back. You can Protect sheets and things sometimes but that might be more troublesome than it's worth Good luck hunting for an old copy of the lost sheet/tab! Regards from Tom :) On 18 February 2015 at 15:59

Re: [libreoffice-users] The Save Tool could not be dimmed

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
that your keyboard doesn't have a key jammed somehow or repeatedly hit so that it's repeating a key(s). A fav for that is to remove the cat from the keyboard (if that is possible). Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2015 at 00:36, Taang Zomi libreofficez...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, my problems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink Not Underscored

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
of spaces or after you press enter. It could easily be something else though Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2015 at 00:10, Taang Zomi libreofficez...@gmail.com wrote: Hyperlink Not Underscored I am a novice when it comes to computers. Earlier today, I was encountered with two strange

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Solver bug

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
here then maybe try using Gnumeric spreadsheet program instead. It's much smaller and lighter and faster because it's a dedicated spreadsheet program and doesn't have to worry about fitting in with other programs/modules such as word-processors or anything. Regards from Tom :) On 17 February

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Solver bug

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WOW!!! That is utterly incredible! Fantastic!! :))) Does anyone have a link to show how to apply patches or anyone here able to just see if it works on their system? Regards from Tom :) On 17 February 2015 at 12:19, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: @John LeMoyne Castle

Re: [libreoffice-users] installation problem LO4.4 - linux mint

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
that you can't easily access to help with any problems that might arise and any machines that don't have a decent internet connection might want to settle down on a Still from some other PPA or the regular repos or something. Regards from Tom :) On 16 February 2015 at 18:16, Tim---Kracked_P_P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about font replacement/substitution in Writer 4.3.3

2015-02-16 Thread Tom Williams
On 02/16/2015 04:56 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 16/02/2015 13:22, Maurice wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:09:59 -0800, Tom Williams wrote: I don't have Calibri installed, If you have Windows on the same PC you can get Linux to clone it to Linux. If not, try Googling on: calibri download

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats!! Nicely done! :) Yeh, that surprised me too. I had assumed it would work the same way as the Windows installer 'should' do. Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 16 February 2015 at 12:17, M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-02-16 12:48 GMT+01:00 M Henri Day mhenri

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where is Base?

2015-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i thought it wasn't possible to deselect any of the components in a Windows install. I still doubt that much space is saved so i don't see any particular advantage - except that it makes it more like MS Office bundles that each have different things missing. Regards from Tom :) On 16

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about font replacement/substitution in Writer 4.3.3

2015-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
' article might help non-Ubuntu people on older versions of Office (err, by Office i usually mean LibreOffice of course); http://lifehacker.com/272976/install-microsoft-fonts-in-linux Regards from Tom :) On 16 February 2015 at 12:22, Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:09:59 -0800

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is Base?

2015-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
bundle)? Then the Linux, Bsd and Mac version allowed a bit more finesse? I still don't know where to get Base from as i was fairly convinced it was included in the main Windows install automatically. Regards from Tom :) On 15 February 2015 at 12:03, M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2015

[libreoffice-users] Question about font replacement/substitution in Writer 4.3.3

2015-02-15 Thread Tom Williams
out which font Writer chose as the replacement font. Is there a way to find this out? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance! Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] installation problem LO4.4 - linux mint

2015-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
or something but almost no other commonly used emailer has such a ting so people have to use Reply to all instead. So we are very used to getting matched pairs of messages. Regards from Tom :) On 13 February 2015 at 09:27, Mike Scott v...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: [with apologies to Tom who'll

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc fails to warn when insert cell breaks sum(A1:A2)

2015-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
or that one?) So, yes it's a user-problem, a classic pebcak but it can often be a reasonable error. Regards from Tom :) On 13 February 2015 at 11:52, Kaj 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: First: I missed sending to the list, so here again is my posting. Ok, I admit. I am the moron. Still I do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to turn off auto-generated lists?

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
usually have to select 3-4 cells and then drag. So i am not sure what is going on. Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 10:49, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Sophie, Thanks for the link; yes, I looked at that menu as well, but couldn't see anything pertinent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc fails to warn when insert cell breaks sum(A1:A2)

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
it if there is one. It can be a pain when you know the pop-up and have to do more than just hit enter all the time. Regards form Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 20:14, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com wrote: I recently noticed that a complicated spreadsheet that had previously functioned

Re: [libreoffice-users] Romove all pictures

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
still feels good to see them. Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 22:05, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Emil Payne wrote: There are times when I copy paste from websites to Calc. Things like lists of TV stations or Twitter followers. When I do so it also captures all

Re: [libreoffice-users] installation problem LO4.4 - linux mint

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, i am not sure. Have you made sure you have administrator/SuperUser rights? Sudo perhaps? Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 17:00, sqroot sqr...@zoho.com wrote: hallo! I was curious to test LO4.4, so i tried to install it on Linux Mint 17 Qiana. I followed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc fails to warn when insert cell breaks sum(A1:A2)

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
a feature request to guard against user-error or pebkac problems. Regards from Tom :) On 13 February 2015 at 00:14, Kaj 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: I think have a wee difficult to understand what you are doing, as I do not see any error. You put constants 1 and 2 in the cells A1 and A2 and a sum

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibréOffice and PDFs (Again)

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
converted/exported to Doc or Odf, rather than one of the many versions of DocX, then most of those worries would vanish. So, LibreOffice CAN edit Pdfs but only in the way most Pdf Editors mean. NOT in the way most users expect such editors to work. Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 12:14

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to turn off auto-generated lists?

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
did so and ran into troubles then 'experts' would blame the user for obviously bad habits and ignoring security issues. One wonders why people are so surprised that Windows so frequently runs into problems and is so open to malware and attacks. Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 12:54

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fw: 14 February 2015 - I love Free Software Day

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
what it is today. Fantastic job! : Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 01:40, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, FYI - sounds ideal for spreading on social networks shortly before. :) - Forwarded message from Matthias Kirschner m...@fsfe.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to turn off auto-generated lists?

2015-02-12 Thread Tom Davies
but i think it does a lot less than Word. Fortunately Brian has given a good answer that hopefully might help. His answer just fleshes out the answers given by other people this time but you can always rely on his answers as being well worth trying. Regards from Tom :) On 12 February 2015 at 16:12

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
or LibreOffice macros being used as an attack vector so maybe MS Office should copy our way of handling macros! Regards from Tom :) On 10 February 2015 at 06:37, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/15 18:44, Thisis theone wrote

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to do this in Calc

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Glad it worked. !Shocking to see Brian was the one with the probably best correct answer. Ok, quite the opposite of shocking really. Nice one! Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 10 February 2015 at 00:07, J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the late reply, life got

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
, to find the official registered address. Regards from Tom :) 2015-02-06 12:40 GMT+00:00 Llorenç Julià l.juliar...@gmail.com: En el programa de Libre office de hojas de cálculo da varios errores. He perdido mis trabajos por vuestra culpa, además de que varios compañeros también han sufrido el error

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice on Win2008 with RDP terminal services

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm just forwarding this request for the script to the original person who solved this problem. Regards from Tom :) On 10 February 2015 at 11:25, Calmarz philippe.am...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this post is old but i've the same problem (windows 2008 RDP an LibreOffice 4 with one session), do

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
pretty much. It seems there are changes that may affect some macros but these only happen quite a bit less often than security issues occur in the whole program/suite. Regards from Tom :) On 10 February 2015 at 18:26, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
rather than being aimed at any of us. This link helps people get to the Spanish Mailing List; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Local_Mailing_Lists#Spanish and the main proper address for help in Spanish is; us...@es.libreoffice.org Regards from Tom :) 2015-02-06 12:40 GMT+00:00 Llorenç Julià

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibréOffice and PDFs (Again)

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
of LibreOffice available in their repos. They are usually a fairly friendly bunch (except in Slackware where it's allegedly just one very busy person (where bunch no longer applies but friendly does)) Regards from Tom :) On 10 February 2015 at 16:43, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is This Possible In Calc?

2015-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
or popular things that people try to do and help me if/when i need to do those things. Hopefully that helps me help my colleagues more easily. Many thanks for all these answers. I hope they are helping the o.p. too! ;) Regards from Tom :) On 7 February 2015 at 16:04, Kolbjørn Stuestøl kolbjo

Re: [libreoffice-users] LIBRE OFFICE DOWNLOAD.

2015-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can keep and use both LibreOffice and MS Works on the same machine as each other. It helps you handle a wider variety of different formats as each is better at certain types of formats. Regards from Tom :) On 9 February 2015 at 17:40, jaxmail2...@gmail.com jaxmail2...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Remove Strikethrough - Libre Writer

2015-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
. I'm sure you have tried all sorts of complicated things and i am struggling to think of something simple. All i can think of is that you have to select the text that you want to apply changes too. You might need to do chunks of text and the headings separately. Regards from Tom :) On 7

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think my favourite answer so far has been Alex's. I liked all those stats kinda suggesting that one reason for excluding MS Office from the poll is just that it's sooo unpopular in Linux. Regards from Tom :) On 8 February 2015 at 18:09, Jaroslaw Staniek stan...@kde.org wrote: On 7

Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
, just try it now i guess. Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 15:53, James C Smith james_smit...@lineone.net wrote: Hi everybody Sorry about the attachment problem. Here is what the message said: 'Error 1402. Could not open key:HOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\Software\Classes\ bmp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem2: On opening, LO is trying to fix a file that does not exist

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yup, you would probably be surprised how many of us did the same thing at first. It's kinda cute that it tries to help but at the same time it can sometimes be very annoying. Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 23:38, MySpam mys...@americansentry.net wrote: I thought

Re: [libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 A huge congrats to everyone involved in making LibreOffice what it is today Many regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 21:09, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Grabbing over 86% of the vote, LibreOffice was announced to be the winner of the 'Office Suite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with hierarchy document templates

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There was a recent post from someone else telling us of 2 hierarchical or tree-like file-management systems. When i say recent i mean within the last week Regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 17:42, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 17:52 05/02/2015 +0100, Sven

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey that is really difficult to read! Any chance of breaking it down into shorter paragraphs with a bigger gap between paragraph? Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 10:11, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi,I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
up layout and stuff sometimes but just not as often. Anyway, the important thing is that your email looks great now. Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 10:40, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'll try; it was not like that when I sent it, that's what yahoo did

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
identified Urmas as being a troll but often miss his valid and useful posts as a result. Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 09:09, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: While at first glance this seems like an obvious troll, after thinking a bit I feel that there may be something to what Urmas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 11:25, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not comparable to a native binary? The Wine people seem to want to change that perception, and although I share it, I can't quite say why, other than

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
to install something that isn't made by them or their accomplices. If the message is about your hard-drive being too full then empty your bin, open your emails and empty the bin in there too. Maybe try Disk cleanup. Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 13:27, James C Smith james_smit

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
. So although it makes me shudder i think it would be kinda funny to see people attempting to use MS Office despite all the alternatives being better and free and easier to install. Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 11:46, Italo Vignoli it...@libreoffice.org wrote: On 06/02/15 12:25

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repository with LibreOffice 4.4 for Fedora 21+?

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
of getting a much newer and more updated version. Windows users always have to install any programs this way so it's a bit like going back to Windows for a little moment. Regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 11:58, avamk avkapl...@gmail.com wrote: I see. If I install LibreOffice 4.4

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re-docking the formatting bar

2015-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No idea. Surely you can just drag it back to one side or other or to the top where it should be? I'm guessing you have already tried that so my next effort would be to rename the User Profile but that seems a bit extreme! Regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 07:11, MR ZenWiz mrzen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice.org

2015-02-04 Thread Tom Davies
compatibility with MS Formats. I think most of us on this mailing list tend to use Still for most of our clients machines and on ones we don't have easy access to or don't want to have to keep trying to fix but then try use Fresh on our own machine or on a test machine. Regards from Tom :) On 4 February

Re: [libreoffice-users] Thank you LibreOffice.

2015-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
and think. Also to the Documentation Team and all the translators! Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2015 at 15:28, john herron paradox.her...@bluewin.ch wrote: Agree as well! john On 03.02.2015 16:18, Mark Phillips wrote: +10 to all the developers and other contributors to this great

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
for? Does this Extension do the same thing? I couldn't figure it out what it is doing from the screen-shot. Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2015 at 06:00, X Roemer x-roe...@web.de wrote: My Extension Organon uses tabs, but maybe not in the manner you were looking for. Here you'll find

Re: [libreoffice-users] got libre

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
around the same length of time. Regards from Tom :) On 2 February 2015 at 10:10, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: What was the delay? Download time? Response time to start the download? There has been some unexpected downtime for the LibreOffice sites, so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
possibilities :) Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 2 February 2015 at 09:40, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-02-02 9:10 GMT+01:00 Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com: Symphony, IBM's OOo-like offering (now abandoned) also had a tabbed document management interface more akin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem2: On opening, LO is trying to fix a file that does not exist

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just say No! ;) (or cancel or whatever). LibreOffice and OpenOffice often try to make sure you don't lose anything. Sometimes you jhust have to tell it you don't want it's help! ;) Regards from Tom :) On 2 February 2015 at 20:29, American Sentry Systems, Inc. m...@americansentry.net

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem1: drop down menu blocks other windows

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 2 February 2015 at 20:24, American Sentry Systems, Inc. m...@americansentry.net wrote: I opened a drop down menu (File) and opened a sub-menu (Recent); found the name of a file, then went looking for it using a gui file browser (oh yeah LO v4.1.3.2, Ubuntu 13.10

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
and certainly makes it a LOT shorter! Regards from Tom :) On 2 February 2015 at 09:31, Jaroslaw Staniek stan...@kde.org wrote: On 29 January 2015 at 16:18, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Sorry to say that Access is not compatible with almost any other database program. Even down

Re: [libreoffice-users] Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
. Grab the other window and bang it against the other side of the screen to get them both side-by-side. You can now scroll one without affecting the other (except that text you type into one of them appears in the other (if you can scroll to where the new text should be)). Regards from Tom :) On 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
, ie so; Ctrl Alt and up or left Oddly Kubuntu doesn't react to either of those keyboard combos. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 20:02, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) This method is not as neat as it is in Calc but open your document and then; Windows (menu at the very

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
like those should be fine. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 20:40, Wiebe van der Worp w...@vanderworp.org wrote: On 01-02-15 18:33, Brian Barker wrote: As you say, 64 gigabytes is a lot of memory - but it's quite small for a disk drive. Limited memory will restrict the system's

Re: [libreoffice-users] extensions not shown completely

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I dunno! Does their functionality work even without them showing up in the menu? Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 14:51, Thomas Blasejewicz ny...@hb.tp1.jp wrote: Good evening I have LibreOffice installed on Windows and Linux machines. I noticed, that while on the Windows

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
with whatever i am working on. My works machine has 1Gb but then i don't watch movies or play games at work. Just a few YouTube things for research and sometimes Facebook to dip into at odd moments briefly. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 17:33, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Urmas' last few posts have been really useful so it's not really fair to say he/she is always a pain. That last post was the first outbreak of trollishness for many months. Regards from Tom :) On 31 January 2015 at 19:26, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-01-31 18:26 GMT+01:00

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 19:39, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Yeh, i had a feeling it wouldn't include Access!! I was just digging around on the microsoft.com website but it's extremely difficult to find out what is in each different bundle on there. I did find

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-02-01 Thread Tom Davies
to everyone. It wouldn't occur to them that the main reason you have had to buy a machine for £200-300 is purely to be able to use Access. If you mention it to them, or to other parents, they will probably say you would have had to buy such a machine anyway. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015

Re: [libreoffice-users] got libre

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good point. I usually get on with other things while the download is going on so it might take me even more time but i notice it less. Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2015 at 20:19, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: That depends what he meant by arrived, and on his

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
on it's own. Hmmm, maybe you could just get Access on it's own without the rest of MS Office and then get LibreOffice. Again i think the other kids might think that is too weird. Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2015 at 16:08, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes (in the uk

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
from anything to do with design elements. To me it's always been quite shocking that Base is marketed as being the equivalent of or a suitable replacement for Access. Base, even as it is at the moment, is sooo much more advanced than Access could ever hope to be. Regards from Tom :) On 29

[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] Alternative download for LibreOffice 4.4

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, if you want to download 4.4 then this link is probably better! http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/ Sorry about that! Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2015 at 17:12, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Err, if you want to download 4.4 then this link

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Explorer was used. I think that either way the script could be quite tiny and fast. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 21:15, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Microsoft do seem to make things difficult... First their web browser changes the .msi extension to .man, which

Re: [libreoffice-users] got libre

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
horribly wrong! So if you don't fancy it then don't do it! ;) Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 21:43, cliff barney cbar...@jeffnet.org wrote: guess i panicked too soon. the libre download arrived after 15 minutes or so. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-website] ask

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
to the previous case! Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 22:33, Cico elcico2...@yahoo.it wrote: Da: Gary Gach gary.g...@gmail.com A: hostmas...@documentfoundation.org; webs...@global.libreoffice.org Inviato: Giovedì 29 Gennaio 2015 21:30 Oggetto: [libreoffice-website] ask Dear Friends I

[libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.16 now available

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird! I thought they had announced this a f3ew days ago and that i had already forwarded the announcement to this mailing list jic anyone is interested. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 21:32, MariaDB Announce List annou...@mariadb.org wrote: The MariaDB project is pleased

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
or have a problem with being undermined in that way if front of 'lesser beings'. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 17:25, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tanstaafl Reckon you may be right ref Hardware but have no idea on what PEBKAC is?! ATB Philip On 29 January

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation of 4.4 on Ubuntu has a slight problem

2015-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
people find the same problem then it might be worth a big-report. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 17:07, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonb...@gmail.com wrote: On Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit, I purged the existing version of LO, downloaded the tar.gz for 4.4, and installed as per the /readme

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-website] New to Libre Office

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
learn a LOT from this mailing list. There are a LOT of really good people here. Thanks all! :) Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 05:59, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: Hi Mary, welcome to LO! try this: * right click on the cell(s) in question * Choose format cells * when

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
watched The Matrix (but only to get the rough idea of what it's about rather than needing to watch t closely - mostly the bit about the cat and the spoon). Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 13:45, lalitadatta lalitadatta1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My daughter's in need of Microsoft

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol +1 I think most other people might well agree with that too! ;) MS Office is only available for Windows and Mac. The Mac version doesn't have Access. LibreOffice is available on most things. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 15:13, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote

[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.4, the most beautiful LibreOffice ever

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
this announcement stand out for other people too or have they been this good for a long time now? Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 13:00, Italo Vignoli it...@documentfoundation.org wrote: - LibreOffice 4.4, the most beautiful LibreOffice ever - The user interface has been improved

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
try out Ubuntu another day maybe, if you are up for it. Right now it's probably better to just focus on the one issue. Regards from Tom :) On 28 January 2015 at 18:09, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gordon Tom I'm afraid that the 40 minutes suggested is rather more than

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
to suddenly push quite big changes in the way things appear to work. Regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2015 at 10:02, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom Can I say I think you have the picture! Meanwhile, I'll continue to look @ Ubantu etc as helpfully set out by Gordon I'll

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Davies
the problem. Regards from Tom :) On 28 January 2015 at 08:44, Philip Jordan jorphi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all for help so far PLEASE SEE REPLIES BELOW IN CAPS On 27 January 2015 at 20:31, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote On the assumption you are really attempting to seek help NOT SURE I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conditional inserted images in Calc

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think other people have had a lot of trouble with this sort of thing. I think trying to contain an image into a specific cell is difficult and i am not sure if it can even be done at all. It might be that you need to use Base or html pages to do something like this. Regards from Tom

[libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 10.0.16 now available

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Davies
. I only follow MariaDb and don't have time to follow all the rest. Regards from Tom :) On 27 January 2015 at 17:42, MariaDB Announce List annou...@mariadb.org wrote: The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.16 This is a Stable (GA) release. See

<    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >