Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents, again

2024-06-05 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Thomas - In the 'Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography' dialogue window, in the 'Type' tab, under 'Create From', is the 'Additional styles' box unchecked? - Robert From: Thomas Blasejewicz Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 04:56 To: libreoffice-users Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Strange style application behavior.

2024-05-17 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Hi Chris, without an example it is nearly impossible to reproduce and help here. You know there are character styles also? If you have set a character style, which defines the font to 12 pt, you could also set the paragraph style with a font of 18 pt. The font will appear with the

[libreoffice-users] Strange style application behavior.

2024-05-15 Thread Chris J.
Hi. This is just an observation at the moment. It was easily fix. I wouldn't bother mentioning it except that it happened twice in two different files. Ubuntu 23.10 LibreOffice 7.6.6.3 I've set up three styles for story writing; paragraph indented, chapter, and scene break. They've all

[libreoffice-users] Viewing odg documents

2024-05-14 Thread Harold J. McMann
I have updated Libreoffice installed, and on the sheet of documents, some of the odg items shown as icons give me a "does not exist" message when I click on them. How can I access these items? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Table Of Contents

2024-05-09 Thread Chris J.
Hi, I'm in the manual (Yes, I've read it) at "Creating a Table of Contents". Based on the first paragraph it looks like the default is to key off a heading. Makes sense. I did create my own heading style based on Heading 1. This is what I'm using for chapter numbering. I made a few changes,

Re: [libreoffice-users] AltSearch extension no longer listed

2024-04-15 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Thank you, Robert. The URL has changed (from show/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer to show/70066). Maybe the search tool took a while to pick it up, since I'm sure (pretty sure) that I tried doing a search again before sending my message. - Robert #2

[libreoffice-users] AltSearch extension no longer listed

2024-04-15 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
I can no longer find AltSearch (Alternative Find & Replace for Writer) at https://extensions.libreoffice.org/. Can anyone else find it? According to https://web.archive.org, it was still there as of 2024 Mar 10. It's very old and unmaintained, and apparently it's buggy (e.g.,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Annoying reformatting issue.

2024-04-13 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
/ but it is still at https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/AltSearch. - Robert From: Chris J. Sent: April 13, 2024 12:10 To: lo user help Cc: Chris Johnson Subject: [libreoffice-users] Annoying reformatting issue. Hi, Ubuntu linux 23.10 LibreOffice 7.6.5.2

[libreoffice-users] Annoying reformatting issue.

2024-04-13 Thread Chris J.
Hi, Ubuntu linux 23.10 LibreOffice 7.6.5.2 Before I had figured out what styles could do in Writer, I made the newbie mistake of hand formatting everything. You can see where this is going. I only needed a massively huge three styles to do everything I needed. Most story submissions are

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph style

2024-03-27 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Stuart: Thanks for pointing out this new Spotlight feature. I'd somehow missed seeing it in the release notes. (The release notes refer to Highlight rather than Spotlight.) It tells you that some direct formatting exists but it doesn't seem to say what it is or where it is. (I have an example

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string.

2024-03-26 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Honorato - I missed seeing your message. I think you can do what you want using the Alternative Find & Replace extension (https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer). As described at http://macrojtb.hys.cz/HelpAltSearch_en.html, specify \m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reference manager adding into LibreOffice writer

2024-03-25 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Şerife - I don't know about Mendeley, but Zotero works well with LO Writer. Just follow the instructions at https://www.zotero.org/support/installation. As explained at https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration, 'the word processor plugins are bundled with Zotero and should be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a single page

2024-03-19 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
, but whatever works for you ... :-) Good luck with getting your father's poems printed the way you want them. - Robert From: Keith Jackson Sent: March 19, 2024 12:55 To: W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a single page

2024-03-19 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Keith - Have you considered defining 2-column and 3-column page styles? Press F11 to see the Styles dialogue; click on the icon for Page Styles; right-click on 'Default Page Style'; and click on 'New'. There's a tab for Columns. When you want to switch page styles, you can do Insert > More

[libreoffice-users] Saving an odm as a docx in editable form.

2024-03-02 Thread Chris J.
Hi. LO 7.6.4.1 Ubuntu linux 23.04 with updates. I have an odm master compiled from chapter files. I want to save it as a docx in editable form. There was a way to do this. It was a little kludgy, You had had to go through an odt intermediary file. But it worked. In 7.6.4.1 this no longer

Re: [libreoffice-users] A curiosity.

2024-01-27 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
use the Text Body style for most of your paragraphs, not the Default Paragraph Style.) - Robert From: Chris J. Sent: January 27, 2024 12:59 To: lo user help Cc: Chris Johnson Subject: [libreoffice-users] A curiosity. Hi. This isn't so much a problem as a curio

[libreoffice-users] A curiosity.

2024-01-27 Thread Chris J.
Hi. This isn't so much a problem as a curiosity. Running Libre Office 7.6.4.1 on Ubuntu linux 23.10. In Writer, very simple format that matches most submission requirements, nothing fancy. New paragraphs get indented with a tab. Very often, not quite always, There's a little green

Re: [libreoffice-users] disappearing impress.

2024-01-12 Thread Chris J.
Hi. LO 7.3.7.2 Linux 6.1 environment Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy I am experiencing something I remember having before, but I forget how to deal with it. Somehow, when I try to open an impress file, it is nowhere to be found. The Icon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding hotkey

2023-12-28 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Jarek - I wasn't aware of that shortcut (I close LibreOffice by clicking on the X button or by using Ctrl+Q) but I looked it up in the Customize > Keyboard dialogue (in LO 7.6.4.1). For me, Alt+F4 is greyed out so it can't be modified or deleted. Ctrl-F4, which apparently does the same thing,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab Settings

2023-12-27 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Charles - I admit that those instructions are confusing. Can you use the menus to go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > General? There, under Settings, you should see 'Measurement unit' and then 'Tab stops'. In that field, my LibreOffice says 1.25 cm, meaning that I have tab stops set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Request for help About libreoffice

2023-12-27 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Damian - I can't see the images that you referred to, but what you described (Desktop icons look different than File Explorer icons do) sounds like behaviour that also applies to other programmes running under Windows. I don't know if there's a way to change the behaviour. - Robert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Indents

2023-12-27 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
. - Robert From: charles meyer Sent: December 27, 2023 17:58 To: W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Indents I type in text, the press the space bar and instead of the cursor going 2-5 spaces across the page it jumps almost

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Indents

2023-12-26 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Charles - I'm afraid that I don't understand what you mean. For one thing, 'indent' refers to having the beginnings and/or the ends of lines spaced in from the margins, which doesn't seem to be what you mean. If you're referring to wide white spaces between words in a line, the only time that

Re: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

2023-12-22 Thread Chris J.
Hi. It's not the paragraph style but the page style you need to look at. Typically a document has several page styles of which 'First page' could be one - and that wouldn't propagate through to the other page styles. The bulk of the document probably uses something like 'Default page style'

Re: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

2023-12-21 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Does your first page have a 'First Page' page style rather than the 'Default Page Style'? - Robert Both files say they're using the "Default Paragraph Style". There's only one and I've never knowingly messed with it. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin,

Re: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

2023-12-21 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Does your first page have a 'First Page' page style rather than the 'Default Page Style'? - Robert From: Chris J. Sent: December 21, 2023 13:42 To: lo user help Cc: Chris Johnson Subject: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header Hi, Next problem. I

[libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

2023-12-21 Thread Chris J.
Hi, Next problem. I can get a nice page number centered in a footer propagated for all pages no problem. I want to do the same kind of thing in the header, right justified with some words preceding a page number. Again, no problem for the first page only. For some reason it isn't

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer master document defaults.

2023-11-17 Thread Chris J.
Hi, Ubuntu linux 23.10 and earlier, LO 7.6.2.1and earlier. I've made a master document. The end result is a DOCX. I get this by creating an ODT and then saving that as a the DOCX. So far so good. However, the Master Document is read-only. This property propagates  to the ODT and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] can't open PDF on Mac

2023-10-31 Thread Chris J.
How come I can’t open a PDF on my Mac? I just purchased LibreOffice for the sole purpose of editing PDF. Uh, you purchased LibreOffice? It's free unless you give a donation. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /When I die, I want to go peacefully

[libreoffice-users] How did y DOCX become read only?

2023-10-31 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Running LO 7.5.7.1 on  Ubuntu 23.04. The goal here is to submit a DOCX to my editor who will do corrections etc to the document and put in margin comments. Said DOCX has to be read/write to do this. I've been assembling the DOCX by hand chapter by chapter, which is a pain in the butt.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

2023-10-29 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
If you already have a scanned image, you can convert it to text using OCR software like Tesseract-OCR, which has already been mentioned. It is free and open-source, and is available for Linux, MS Windows and Mac. gImageReader (https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader) is a nice GUI for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles

2023-10-22 Thread Chris J.
Hi. On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:18:28 -0400 "Chris J." dijo: Is there a list of common mistakes I can look at to try figuring out I'm dong wrong? Mistake 1) You didn't mention page styles. They would solve some of your problems. Mistake 2) Once you get a document created with the

[libreoffice-users] Styles

2023-10-22 Thread Chris J.
Hi. A few details might change, but stories submissions to publishers and editors have pretty much the same characteristics, in the States anyway; 1.00 inch margin top and bottom, 1.25 inch margins right and left, Times Roman or Times New Roman font, 12pt, double spaced. Page numbers are

[libreoffice-users] assembling an OTM into an EPUB.

2023-10-16 Thread Chris J.
Hi, all. Subject says it. OTM -> EPUB so I can get it on a Kindle. Kindles can handle PDF. However I'm told PDF is more graphics in nature and doesn't necessarily work well with every Kindle as far as easy readability. LO Writer Export claims to be able to do this. I get an error when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't insert citation (Zotero)

2023-09-28 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Have you considered asking about this at https://forums.zotero.org/discussions? They are generally very responsive. - Robert From: John Jason Jordan Sent: September 28, 2023 01:40 To: LibreOffice Subject: [libreoffice-users] Can't insert citation (Zotero) I

[libreoffice-users] Assembling a Master Document.

2023-09-26 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Thank you for your replies. Much appreciated. The fog my be beginning to lift. Have another one. I'm trying to create a Master Document. I did this once before. I'm beginning to think it only worked because I was having really a good day. I'm following the directions at

[libreoffice-users] after the fact page numbers

2023-09-25 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Whole book, each chapter is a file. No page numbers. My bad. Without going through each and every page, is there a way to propagate headers and footers on every page with the requisite page numbers and whatever else throughout a chapter. I realize I will likely need to do this one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cool! LibreOffice is free, open source and very good office suite!

2023-08-18 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Sent: August 18, 2023 10:52 >> It's not part of LibreOffice but the open source equivalent to Outlook >> is Evolution. There is even a plugin which allows it to work with an >> exchange server. >> ... > Dear Tony, > I am using Windows 10. So I think I

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Draw Newbie

2023-07-03 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Vince - You could probably do it with LO Draw (or with Inkscape), but I use more specialized software for that purpose: Sweet Home 3D. I have a brief note about it at http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/graphics/graphics3dmodel.html#intDesign. - Robert Am 02.07.2023 um 19:39 schrieb

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image Anchor Selection

2023-06-13 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Mike - That's not a bad idea, but it might be messy to implement. An easier alternative would be to just change 'To page' to 'To page (deprecated)' or 'To page (avoid using)'. - Robert From: Mike Scott Sent: June 12, 2023 12:05 To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image Anchor Selection

2023-06-08 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Joe - It may be worth reading the thread at https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/problem-with-anchor-picture-in-all-page/61556/6, perhaps especially the last message, by mikekaganski. As I understand it, the 'Anchor to page' feature is still available but has been made somewhat harder to get at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer- table of contents hyperlink problem

2023-05-20 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
I just checked using LO 7.3 under Windows 10 with a document created 2 or 3 months ago, and the TOC links work fine, taking me to the appropriate section. I checked with the same document using LO 6.1 under Debian Linux 10 and the links worked properly there also. - Robert

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Impress and Speaker's Notes With pptx Files

2023-05-19 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
James - I assume that you're asking whether Impress can save to .docx? I think the answer must be 'no'. In any case, .docx files are no more open-source than .pptx files are. Impress can save to either .ods format, which is really open-source, or to PDF. - Robert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Special Characters

2023-04-30 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Jonathan - When you double-click, the character is inserted immediately and you stay in the Special Characters dialogue, so you can then just double-click the next character(s). When you're done, you click on Cancel to exit from the dialogue. At least that's what's happening for me in LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Special Characters

2023-04-30 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Jonathan - You can get almost the same behaviour as you were used to by double-clicking on each character. - Robert From: Jonathan Allen Sent: April 30, 2023 12:32 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Insert Special Characters Hi, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cutting a block of multi page text

2023-04-23 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
. - Robert From: Chris J. Sent: April 23, 2023 14:08 To: lo user help Cc: Chris Johnson Subject: [libreoffice-users] Cutting a block of multi page text Hi. This would seem to be a common thing to do for a writer. I'm missing it. I'm in LO Write. I need to cut

[libreoffice-users] Cutting a block of multi page text

2023-04-23 Thread Chris J.
Hi. This would seem to be a common thing to do for a writer. I'm missing it. I'm in LO Write. I need to cut a multi-page block of text between two bookmarks, save it and insert the text in a different chapter. The insert is easy part. How do I cut a block of text between two bookmarks

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer word counts.

2023-03-25 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Chris - Were your asterisks separated by spaces? My impression is that any character(s) delimited by white space will be counted as a word. - Robert From: Chris J. Sent: March 25, 2023 11:00 To: lo user help Cc: Chris Johnson Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer word counts.

2023-03-25 Thread Chris J.
Hi, I've known for a while now that LO Writer's words counts and MS Word counts are close but not the same. I was entering an asterisked scene break just now and noticed the word count increased by three. A little experimenting revealed that Writer counted three asterisks as words. This

[libreoffice-users] Need help with LOBase

2023-02-19 Thread Pertti T . J . Rönnberg
Hi, LOBase experts I have been working on a LOBase database where the fields of interest are (a) the husband (=table ”t_man”) and his ”surname” and ”firstname” (b) the wife (= table ”t_wife”) and her ”firstname” (husband and wife have same surname). I want the Report Builder to produce a list

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice parent company

2023-02-18 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
'LibreOffice is community-driven and developed software, and is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation.' You can find more details at https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/who-are-we/ . Apache OpenOffice is under the umbrella of the all-volunteer Apache Software

[libreoffice-users] Questions about LOBase

2023-01-19 Thread Pertti T . J . Rönnberg
Good afternoon LOBase experts, and all the best for this new year! Since years back I now again need to create a database preferable one that can extract and print reports. I noticed that LO has skipped ’Firebird’ and offers ’HSQLDB’ as a main option. _Questions: _(a)     Is LOBase

Re: [libreoffice-users] double-spacing within an outline

2022-12-16 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
When editing a paragraph style, in the 'Organizer' tab you can specify 'Next style'. Is that set to be your custom 'block outline' style? I don't really understand why two Enters would kick you out if one doesn't. A style purist would say that you should define a separate style with greater

Re: [libreoffice-users] hyphenation

2022-12-15 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
faster for me, anyway, then having to move my hand to the mouse). Dave On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, at 10:20 AM, Chris J. wrote: > Hi. > > > I likely know the answer to this. I'm looking for verification or a > better answer. > > > The only hyphenation ability in LO Write I'm seeing

[libreoffice-users] hyphenation

2022-12-15 Thread Chris J.
Hi. I likely know the answer to this. I'm looking for verification or a better answer. The only hyphenation ability in LO Write I'm seeing is for word splitting and end of a line. What I'd really like is help with compound adjectives. Does anything like that exist in LO Writer? --

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc, limits(?)

2022-09-02 Thread Chris J.
Hi. As Johnny says, we probably need more information to help. #VALUE normally means that the number is too big to fit in the space it is allowed. You should be able to see the value by selecting the cell and looking at the contents in the display above the top of the sheet. Or make the cell

[libreoffice-users] LO Calc, limits(?)

2022-09-02 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Is there some practical limit to the number of rows specifically, but columns too, that an LO Calc spreadsheet can have? I've run into this before with my checkbook. The spreadsheet is arranged such that down is back in time, the current amount is at the top. There's a formula in one

[libreoffice-users] Bounced messages -- what's that?

2022-08-22 Thread Pertti T . J . Rönnberg
Best LibreOffice gurus, Approx twice a month since January I've got that mail (on this address only; never before): /from: users+ow...@global.libreoffice.org/ /"Hi, this is the Mlmmj program managing the mailing list. Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this

[libreoffice-users] output formats.

2022-06-27 Thread Chris J.
Hi, First thank you for answers to previous questions. Took some fiddling but it all worked. Phil, that trick with the page numbers was neat. New problem. The Master Document works great for assembling. But publishers and editors want DOCX files. The virtual document you get from the

[libreoffice-users] Styles etc.

2022-06-26 Thread Chris J.
HI. Thank you, I'm beginning to figure out Master Documents. Still a few issues but we'll get to them or solve them no doubt with the least convenient method. Book editors and publishers have submission formats they will accept. They want a certain type face, size, margins and top and

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: LOWrite page numbers

2022-06-24 Thread Chris J.
Hi. Running Ubuntu 22.04 with LO 7.3.4.2 Ubuntu package 1:7.3.4. Before you ask, yes I RTFMed. Still can't get this working. I write stories where the chapters are individual files. First chapter has pages 1-15. Second chapter in a whole other file has to start with page 16. Is there a

Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

2021-03-24 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Or you can do Insert > Formatting Mark > Non-breaking hyphen. Does that work for you? - Robert From: V Stuart Foote Sent: March 24, 2021 14:56 To: LibreOffice Users Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen You've missed the

Re: [libreoffice-users] reference manager

2020-03-15 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi all, > > A note: > > Recently I met a scientist using LibreOffice. Enthusiastic about the > program. She mentioned that for here work Mendely is perfect. > So since the question arises now and then, just mentioning here. >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Advice needed on reporting a bug

2019-10-22 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Tom Williams wrote: > 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to prevent Impress from changing font size?

2019-05-26 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Sun, 26 May 2019, Malcolm Jaros wrote: > Using Impress Version: 6.0.7.3 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, when I add to text in a > slide the font size automatically reduces to keep the text within the text > box. > Can I prevent this auto resizing of the font? > If so, how do I do this? Right-click

Re: [libreoffice-users] Transparency in Write

2019-04-13 Thread j
On 4/13/19 5:37 PM, Gregory Forster wrote: > I remember many years ago, with LO 3.3, you could import an image, and > adjust its transparency, so that it was like a watermark, showing behind FWIW, the Security Classification function of LibO can be configured to provide watermarks. Downside is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting a Trademark Symbol in Label

2019-04-03 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Budge wrote: > ... > My problem is that once I select Special Characters the Font is shown and > then a huge list of available Subsets and using for example Basic Latin, I > get a whole lot of characters, all too big and all overlapping so even if the > TM symbol is there I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Official United Colours of LibreOffice?

2019-02-13 Thread j
On 2/12/19 3:54 AM, Tim-L wrote: > > Has anyone heard of this title for a color selection and palette? > > Official United Colours of LibreOffice? > > I came across it in a large file of colors grouped by some type of names. > > There was over 40 colors in the list. Are you looking at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding keyboard shortcut

2018-12-09 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote >>> The *delete* you want is assigned in LibreOffice via the "Backspace" >>> function, aka a *rubout*. >> >>Not quite. The backspace key deletes the character to the left of the >> cursor's position while the Del key deletes the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO insertion point artefact

2018-10-22 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, cortical wrote: > > In Writer, wherever the cursor is clicked , cases carriage returns, and > spaces to be inserted down to that point. Look in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids. Is the 'Direct cursor' feature enabled? - Robert -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Remove redline markings and strikeout text

2018-01-06 Thread Eddie J
The title refers to a WordPerfect function that has existed since, I believe, the DOS days. I could apply the "redline" font attribute on text I added to an article, then apply the "strikeout" attribute on text I didn't want in the article. After that, I could save the article, save a copy under a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Page formatting in writer goes nuts

2016-09-09 Thread Denis J. Navas
ot; is a logical step, but that is not what you mean, right? -- Denis J Navas Consultor ☎ movistar +505 8899 – 8252 ☎ claro+505 8357 – 0296 --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[libreoffice-users] Looking for LibreOffice version 4.3 for the Mac

2015-06-28 Thread M J Clark
Hi! I have some old Appleworks documents running on a Mac OS 10.6.8 - I would like to convert these docs to a format that I will be able to use going forward and read that I could use LibreOffice 4.3. (for the Mac) When I go to the download LibreOffice website I cannot find this version - I

[libreoffice-users] Color coded calendar

2015-03-31 Thread J Smilie
page). I found what seems to be a nice calendar template, but I don't know how to connect the two. Suggestions and solutions are appreciated! Calendar template http://www.vertex42.com/calendars/fiscal-year-calendar.html Thank you! J. Smilie -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

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

2015-02-18 Thread J o
Good morning, Try to reach https://de.libreoffice.org but get always time out message??? Please let me know when site is on air again. Thanks a lot, J. Posch -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists

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

2015-02-11 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Kaj 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: Assuming your string is in cell A1, cell B1 could contain: ​​ =CONCATENATE(MID(A1,12,5), - ,MID(A1,34,5)) A wee more safe could be: =CONCATENATE(MID(A1,12,5), - ,LEFT(RIGHT(A1,8),5)) ​In all fairness to Kaj, his

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

2015-02-09 Thread J. Van Brimmer
​Sorry for the late reply, life got in the way.​ On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Try: =MID(A1;12;5) - MID(A1;34;5) ​This works, after I realized that I had to ​change A1 to the appropriate reference number. Thanks! To all that replied, it all helped. Cheers,

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

2015-02-07 Thread J. Van Brimmer
See below... On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Kaj 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: If this is a simple string, then the extract is quite simple. But if it contains date formulas in a way, it is a wee more complicated. But let us start with the simple assumption, that the string is exactly the

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

2015-02-07 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Sorry for my posts going all over the place. Just learning how to use gmail for a mailing list. See below... On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 15:22 07/02/2015 -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: Column A has the following data: 2015-01-06

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

2015-02-07 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Thanks for reading, but I just manually formatted one page, and then I can copy/paste to other pages. Sorry for any inconvenience. I'd still like to know how to do it though. I'm thinking a macro is really what I need. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:22 PM, jerryvb jerry...@gmail.com wrote: Column

[libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

2014-09-23 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux. I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be teaching. I have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS Office for printing. ​ The ​documents are formatted in landscape mode. In the document I enter a short text line, press

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

2014-09-23 Thread J. Van Brimmer
? (Sorry, just trying to give you arguments but they are unlikely to win you any fans!) Good luck and regards from Tom :) ​Thanks.​ On 24 September 2014 00:12, J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Cley, I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

2014-09-23 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote: Hi, I was able to recreate this with Fedora 20 and LO 4.3.1 - has this been reported as a bug? If not I have an account and I can log it. ​Has not been reported. I didn't consider that it might be a bug. ​ A few

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.3.1 print icon

2014-09-15 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Owen Genat owen.ge...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Prior releases used the Print File Directly button and in v4.3 this has been replaced with the Print... button. As Valter Mura indicated this can be changed by customising the toolbar i.e., it is the default display

[libreoffice-users] Impress auto bulleting

2014-08-20 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I'm currently using LibreOffice 4.3.1.1 Impress. When I'm adding text inside of a text box and press Enter, Impress automatically adds a round bullet at the begining of the new line. I've looked around in all of the Impress options, and can't find where to turn it off. How do I turn it off? --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress auto bulleting

2014-08-20 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Thanks Tom and Brian for your tips... I finally figured it out. Left click Inside the text box in a slide. Then right click in the text box and select Bullets and Numbering. Click on the Customise tab. For Number select None, and for Level select 1 - 10. Click on OK. Now auto-bulleting is off

Re: Thank You, Developers! (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?)

2014-08-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
+1 On Aug 10, 2014 7:19 AM, Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:50 +0200 Errol Goetsch er...@xe4.org wrote: [snip] Thank you to the developers who have given so much to so many for so little. [snip] Hear, hear! Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-05 Thread J. Van Brimmer
+1 On Aug 5, 2014 6:42 PM, arakish rmfrun...@gmail.com wrote: It is of my opinion that you should stick with the standards. What is wrong with calling the newest possible stable version Release Candidate, the proven stable version Stable, the unstable beta-tester version Beta? It makes

Re: [libreoffice-users] US Google + Page

2014-06-30 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Done. On Jun 30, 2014 7:14 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget to join to keep up to date with US based events! https://plus.google.com/communities/111758039218283143648 Best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Impress slide background

2014-06-25 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I am just beginning to learn Impress. I am in the process of creating my first slide presentation. For my first slide, I used one of the Available for use slide Master Pages After adding my text on the slide, I pressed F5 to view the slide full screen. (I still have an old 1280x1024 monitor.) At

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress slide background

2014-06-25 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Jun 25, 2014 10:22 AM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi, J. Van Brimmer schrieb: I am just beginning to learn Impress. I am in the process of creating my first slide presentation. For my first slide, I used one of the Available for use slide Master Pages After adding my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Chart border

2014-06-04 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I have noticed that somewhere along the update path, the borders around charts inserted into Calc have disappeared. I'm now using LO 4.2.3.3 on Linux. But I don't know exactly when it happened. When I create a new chart, and set up a border, the border doesn't show up. Sorry, Willian, I know this

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to Copy text and image at the same time from website

2014-05-22 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Weibin Wang wrote: I want to Copy text and image at the same time from website, but every time I just got the plain text. has this problem been solved? Please have a look at: (1) Bug 78801 - Copying Text + Image from Website - Image Skipped Status: NEW

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

2014-05-13 Thread J-M. Gibey
Hello, Writer: 80% Calc: 15% Impress: 5% Base: 0% Draw: 0% J-Marc -Message d'origine- From: Walther Koehler Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:55 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most? Hallo, what is percentage indicating

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

2014-05-13 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Here's mine: % TimeImportance Writer 95 95 Homework research projects Calc5 5 banking Impress 0 0

[libreoffice-users] Footnotes in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2

2014-03-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on Debian Linux. After I create a footnote on a page, say page 1, and create a footnote, let's say Footnote # 1, how can I create a second footnote to reference the same footnote #1? All I want for the second footnote is a superscript numeral 1 in the body of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Footnotes in LibreOffice 3.5.4.2

2014-03-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
...@btinternet.com wrote: At 13:25 10/03/2014 -0700, J. Van Brimmer wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on Debian Linux. After I create a footnote on a page, say page 1, and create a footnote, let's say Footnote # 1, how can I create a second footnote to reference the same footnote #1? All I want

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2014-03-02 7:00 GMT+01:00 J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm new to the list, so if this is an inappropriate subject, please let me know. I am using Libreoffice on Manjaro Linux. Over the last

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
it wouldn't come to that, but maybe I'll have to create a new, fresh spreadsheet. That would be a LOT of work though. On 2 March 2014 11:48, Cley Faye cleyf...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-02 7:00 GMT+01:00 J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm new to the list, so

Re: Reply-To? (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Button clic saves and sends email)

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I'm sorry, if that was me. I'm new to the list, and using Gmail. I just now realized what I had done this morning. From now on I will hit Reply-All and then edit out individuals email addresses. [?] On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2014

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