How-dee! I have a question about testing changes made to MS Word
documents. Someone sent me a Word DOCX file that needed to be updated
and I managed to update it in LibreOffice Writer 7.1.5.2 on Ubuntu 21.04
Linux. I wanted to test the saved file by loading it in MS Word. Since
I don't have
On 10/2/20 7:55 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> On 10/2/20 7:32 AM, sandralo...@vivaldi.net wrote:
>> Le 2020-10-01 01:13, Tom Williams a écrit :
>>> Hi! A friend of mine sent me an Excel 365 spreadsheet to get my help to
>>> add a formula. The spreadsheet is "simple&qu
On 10/2/20 7:32 AM, sandralo...@vivaldi.net wrote:
> Le 2020-10-01 01:13, Tom Williams a écrit :
>> Hi! A friend of mine sent me an Excel 365 spreadsheet to get my help to
>> add a formula. The spreadsheet is "simple", in that it had about 90
>> rows of data, with
Hi! A friend of mine sent me an Excel 365 spreadsheet to get my help to
add a formula. The spreadsheet is "simple", in that it had about 90
rows of data, with only one column being a numeric value. Everything
else was plain text. I added the formula (to sum the numbers in the one
numeric
Hi! I have a Word document that I downloaded from an online Sharepoint
site that appears mis-formatted in LibreOffice Writer 6.2.7.1 on Ubuntu
19.04 Linux. It appears as if the page breaks are off. In any event,
the document is a legal document so I'm not willing to post the document
"as is"
p, just yet, but I'm really surprised at how stubborn
Excel is, when it comes to the things I'm trying to do with it. :(
Peace...
"The Other" Tom
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 18:21 Luuk
>> On 6-3-2019 17:48, Tom Williams wrote:
>>> On 3/6/19 8:26 AM, Tom Williams wrote
On 3/6/19 10:18 AM, Luuk wrote:
>
> On 6-3-2019 17:48, Tom Williams wrote:
>> On 3/6/19 8:26 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
>>> I know it's odd to ask for Excel help in this mailing list but I need
>>> help locating a LibreOffice Calc function/feature in Excel. :)
>&
On 3/6/19 8:26 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> I know it's odd to ask for Excel help in this mailing list but I need
> help locating a LibreOffice Calc function/feature in Excel. :)
>
> I'm helping a friend create a billing invoice and since I'm a Linux
> user, I'm using Calc to build th
I know it's odd to ask for Excel help in this mailing list but I need
help locating a LibreOffice Calc function/feature in Excel. :)
I'm helping a friend create a billing invoice and since I'm a Linux
user, I'm using Calc to build the template. So far, it's working well
and given I'm not an
On 1/31/19 7:50 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 01/31/2019 10:33 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I recently learned LibreOffice 6 supports PGP signed documents.
My question: why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
When you take out a loan, etc., don't you sign the document? There are
many
On 1/31/19 7:38 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote:
Tom Williams writes:
why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
The two most obvious answers are:
(*) confirm authorship
(*) verify integrity of contents
I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons as well.
Thanks for the reply
Hi! I recently learned LibreOffice 6 supports PGP signed documents. My
question: why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
Peace...
"The Other" Tom
--
/When I leave, I don't know what I'm hoping to find,
And when I leave, I don't know what I'm leaving behind.../
--
To
On 09/25/2018 03:49 AM, DaveB wrote:
> On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote:
>> Today's daft question.
>>
>> Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer?
>>
>> If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful
>> selection of options.
>>
>> Try the
Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try.
Peace...
"The Other" Tom
On 08/12/2018 03:41 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You could insert a 1-inch header that is empty. You can alter the page
> style or directly format the page:
>
> Format -> Page -> Header, then:
>
> - Header ON
> - Autofit
On 04/29/2018 08:23 AM, James Knott wrote:
> On 04/29/2018 10:23 AM, Tim-L wrote:
>> There was a question in it about wondering how to get the users of
>> Linux to save LibreOffice files to Microsoft Word formats.
> Why would we want to, unless we had to?
>
To make it easier to more readily
On 07/15/2017 03:56 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>Curiously wondering if you're saying one can go to MsFt's heads with
> problems & these will be fixed pronto;
> if so, I'd like to hear an example of when you so did.
>
>And just what is NT4???
"NT4" = Windows NT version 4
sounds like a very
> inefficient and highly error-prone way of trying to fix it generally.
> Still, 'everyone' loves Windows.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
Wow. Craziness. :)
Peace...
"The Other" Tom
>
>
>
> On 9 July 2017 at 17:46, Tom Williams <tomd...@comcast.n
On 07/08/2017 02:56 AM, MICHAEL HELY wrote:
> I am having trouble with this suite. Normally I have been able to open,
> amend, and save a document without any problem.However, in the last week
> or so I can only open a document in read-only form. To change the contents
> I have to open
On 09/16/2015 01:39 PM, Ady Ady wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:53 PM,
> <libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>> Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>>> (obviously we are off-topic)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:46 PM, <libreoffice-ml.
On 09/15/2015 01:43 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Ady Ady wrote:
>> Hello Users of LibreOffice,
>>
>> Once in a while I visit the Release Plan wiki page,
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
>>
>> From that wiki page, I recently tried to visit the "5.0.2"
On 09/15/2015 05:48 AM, Ady Ady wrote:
> Hello Users of LibreOffice,
>
> Once in a while I visit the Release Plan wiki page,
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
>
> From that wiki page, I recently tried to visit the "5.0.2" -> "RC1"
> page (more than once), but my OS hangs when I
On 08/31/2015 05:47 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> jorge-2 wrote
>> ...
>>
>>How we can help with this ?
>>
>>We, the users can make one example to each topic of the menu of
>> LibreOffice can do. Then when coming new version before out we can probe
>> each example during one week and make a
@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex
documents
On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a
viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read
many
On 07/24/2015 09:56 AM, toki wrote:
On 07/24/2015 01:31 PM, Tom Williams wrote:
Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and complex documents?
I've had as many as 10,000 images in a single document. OOo 2.x didn't
balk when I created it. Libo 5.0 beta does have any problems when
On 07/24/2015 08:05 AM, Dan Lewis wrote:
On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable
alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many
comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS
On 07/24/2015 10:45 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 06:31 24/07/2015 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
... I've read many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a
good alternative to MS Office. Some say yes, others say no. One
common comment made by those who say no is Writer isn't good for
complex
, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable
alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many
comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good
On 07/26/2015 09:58 AM, toki wrote:
On 07/26/2015 04:48 PM, Tom Williams wrote:
Well, I think this certainly serves as a great example of a very complex
document. :)
Which document?
* 10,000 images in one document;
* 50,000 pages in the outline, with projected length of 5,000,000 pages
Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a viable
alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read many
comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS
Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those
who say no is
:59, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net
mailto:tomd...@comcast.net wrote:
On 07/18/2015 11:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Something i really appreciate most about Linux is that it's so
easy to
change the gui - or more importantly that if you don't like the
crazy new
On 07/18/2015 07:51 PM, toki wrote:
On 07/18/2015 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote:
Tell that to all the scientists who use supercomputers. The vast majority
of them, including my cousin, run Linux.
If you want state of the art software, that costs a fortune, you run *Nix.
If you want
On 07/18/2015 10:44 AM, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Thomas wrote:
Although I know, this does not belong here, just a word.
I have been trying (STRUGGLING) to move away from MS and get friendly
with Linux for 7-8 years now!
So far with little success. Yet, I still keep trying.
On 07/18/2015 11:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Something i really appreciate most about Linux is that it's so easy to
change the gui - or more importantly that if you don't like the crazy new
things that have been done to the gui then you can fairly easily go back to
the old one or on to
On 07/18/2015 06:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers:
• I am retired so
On 06/23/2015 07:06 AM, Malcolm Moore wrote:
Is there anyone who is interested in documents that LO
munges up. There are lots of nice words on the web site about
how there are loads of test that are run to ensure compatibility
but we still get a lot of documents that are unusable
I was
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
Hi! I'm running LibreOffice Writer 4.3.3.2 on Ubuntu 14.10 Linux
(64-bit). I'm helping someone convert a MS Word document info a PDF
form. I'm creating the form as a native ODT document, which I will save
as a PDF form.
The original MS Word document uses the Calibri font everywhere. I don't
Hi! I was looking at the fixed bugs section of the release notes for
LO 4.3.3 RC1
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.3.3/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs)
and noticed bug #66701
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66701) was listed as being
fixed in LO 4.3.3. However, when I look at
On 10/25/2014 09:50 AM, Sophie wrote:
Hi Tom, all,
Le 25/10/2014 18:28, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
Hello Tom,
Le Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:59:35 -0700,
Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net a écrit :
Hi! I was looking at the fixed bugs section of the release notes
for LO 4.3.3 RC1
(https
On 08/11/2014 08:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a
problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he
hides rows to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's
On 08/11/2014 08:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a
problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he
hides rows to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's
my dad does to hide the rows in question. :)
Peace...
The Other Tom :)
On 12 August 2014 04:33, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:
At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a
problem he's having with one
in calculations in the rest of the spreadsheet because they
wont be recognised as being in a cell.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 12 August 2014 04:33, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:
At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called
On 08/12/2014 08:44 AM, Pedro wrote:
If the document has been going back and forth between LibreOffice and Apache
OpenOffice (or old OpenOffice.org) it is quite possible that it was
corrupted at some stage (I have a document where this happened...)
If your father has been using OpenOffice
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a
problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he hides
rows to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's looking at
the spreadsheet.
Today, he needed to change a cell in one of the hidden rows. When
Hi! I'm using LibreOffice 4.2.4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux (64-bit) and I
created an OpenDocument with a table that has a few cells with
formulas. The formulas are simple in nature (basic math) but I would
like to see the formula of any given cell at any given time.
I've found if I hover the mouse
On 07/12/2014 01:15 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 21:20 12/07/2014 +0200, Rob Jasper wrote:
Op 12 jul. 2014, om 20:59 heeft Tom Williams het volgende geschreven:
I'm using LibreOffice 4.2.4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux (64-bit) and I
created an OpenDocument with a table that has a few cells
know if it covers setting properties for
the boxes
Regards from
Tom :)
On 11 May 2014 17:59, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net
mailto:tomd...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi! I'm converting a Word document into a form that will
eventually be
a PDF form that can be filled in using
On 05/16/2014 09:12 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2014 16:14:21 +0100
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Tom,
Isn't this a good one to ask Spotify? I dunno if simply trying to sing
it
Or simply cut/paste it into a search engine. First and, to my mind,
most likely match is
...
Tom
On 12 May 2014 01:53, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net wrote:
On 05/11/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Can you right-click on the boxes or select them all and set their
properties?
Yes, I can and that's how I set two of the text boxes to align the entered
text at the top
On 05/11/2014 02:53 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate
the different components. For myself, my
Hi! I'm converting a Word document into a form that will eventually be
a PDF form that can be filled in using Adobe Reader. I'm doing this in
LibreOffice Writer 4.2.3.3 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
My first pass worked splendidly well and everything worked fine except
for two issues:
1. I can't
17:59, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net
mailto:tomd...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi! I'm converting a Word document into a form that will
eventually be
a PDF form that can be filled in using Adobe Reader. I'm doing
this in
LibreOffice Writer 4.2.3.3 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04
On 04/24/2014 06:09 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
These bug-hunting sessions can be a great fun.
It's only for a short time-period so you can find yourself racing against
other people who are also new to it all. Even if you know nothing about
how to do it there are experienced people on-hand
On 04/25/2014 08:40 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Hello Tom,
Le 2014-04-25 15:35, Tom Williams a écrit :
On 04/24/2014 06:09 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
These bug-hunting sessions can be a great fun.
It's only for a short time-period so you can find yourself racing
against
other people
Hi! A friend of mine has LibreOffice 4.2.1 installed alongside MS
Office 2010 Starter Edition on his Windows 7 system. He received an
Excel spreadsheet via email which he can open just fine in both Excel
and Calc. The problem is when he opens the file in Calc, it opens with
the page zoom set
On 03/08/2014 06:15 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:18 08/03/2014 -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
A friend of mine has LibreOffice 4.2.1 installed alongside MS Office
2010 Starter Edition on his Windows 7 system. He received an Excel
spreadsheet via email which he can open just fine in both Excel
On 03/08/2014 06:47 PM, James E Lang wrote:
I think Calc defaults to zoom of 60% when the View mode is Page instead of
Normal.
Thanks! I'll look into this too!
Peace...
Tom
On March 8, 2014 6:38:23 PM PST, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net wrote:
On 03/08/2014 06:15 PM, Brian Barker
So, I installed LibreOffice 4.2.0 on a Windows 7 system today and was
showing the system owner how to use it. I created a new spreadsheet and
added two columns and four rows, the last row being a total row that
would show the sum of the previous rows.
The first row I added was column headings.
On 02/16/2014 02:36 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:27 16/02/2014 -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
I selected cells B2..B5 and used the Format/Cells function to
change the format to a currency format. I chose the -$1,234.00 in
red format. The numbers in column B were changed accordingly. Then,
my
...
Tom
On 1/20/14 9:29 PM, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! This is my first time posting to the mailing list. :)
A client of mine is in need of editing some Excel spreadsheets on her
shiny new Windows 8 system. I installed LibreOffice 4.1.3 and it mostly
works but she's not able to do some
On 01/21/2014 11:37 AM, Tinkerer wrote:
To adjust the line thickness of the grid:
Format Cell Borders Line Width
From there you can alter the color, the spacing and the Line Arrangement.
Tink.
Thanks for this info! :)
Peace...
The other Tom :)
--
/When we dance, you have a way
Hi! This is my first time posting to the mailing list. :)
A client of mine is in need of editing some Excel spreadsheets on her
shiny new Windows 8 system. I installed LibreOffice 4.1.3 and it mostly
works but she's not able to do some of the things she used to do with MS
Excel 2000.
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