[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread pbw
Here's an earlier post from Pablo Dotro: On 11/07/13 07:50, Virgil Arrington wrote: Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by selecting the text and hitting Ctrl-M. Everything should then snap to the style-controlled formatting.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For my company's newsletter i sometimes copypaste into a text-editor and then re-select and copypaste from there. Fairly recently i found i could use Shift Ctrl v and go to the bottom of the pop-up box that gives me to Paste as unformatted text and that usually strips away all strange

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 05:25 28/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: Here's an earlier post from Pablo Dotro: If you apply some direct formatting (i.e. bold something by hand), then apply some charactery style, then a paragraph style (with the format you really wanted in the first place)... what you get is a mix of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:34 28/11/2013 +, Tom Davies wrote: The only thing it doesn't get rid of is when people press Enter or Return at the end of each line. There is a workaround for that, too: select the text and go to Format | AutoCorrect | Apply. Amongst other reformatting, this combines single line

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread A
On 11/28/2013 10:44 AM, Brian Barker wrote: As far as I can see: o Format | Default Formatting removes both direct formatting (to characters or paragraphs) and formatting by character styles. o The Apply Style drop-down applies paragraph styles, so you'd expect Clear formatting there to

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Peter West
Oh yes and that hits the nail on the head. Now that the problem has been defined, the solution becomes easy. Provide a way to SEE exactly how the formatting has been applied - and a quick link shortcut to removing it! Formatting/styles are - in my mind - similar to field codes.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's amazing that people have to learn how to drive and pass a test. There are so few controls. Usually a wheel or handle-bar or joystick to make the vehicle turn. Something to make it faster or slower. Maybe something to make it go up or down. So at most it's about 3 controls right?

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread pbw
It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a paragraph style menu, any styles you define and apply as a style will be overridden by the direct formatting previously applied.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Would Select All (CTRL-A), Menu-Format-Clear Direct Formatting (CTRL-M) not work for you? On 11/27/2013 05:45 PM, pbw wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a

[libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread pbw
I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in earlier posts in this discussion. Peter West ...he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. On 28 Nov

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread A
Interesting... yours is the only post I've seen so far. On 11/27/2013 08:29 PM, pbw wrote: I don't know, because there were elements whose particular formatting I needed. But I know that that sequence on individual paragraphs does not work, for the reasons explained by others in earlier

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

2013-11-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:45 27/11/2013 -0800, Peter West wrote: It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature. It's a feature - and I don't think it's missing, in fact. The problem: If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been applied directly using a paragraph style menu,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Math feature request

2011-11-02 Thread daddo
eskroni wrote: I think, what you are asking for is way outside the scope of an office suite. You might want to look at computer algebra systems, like Maple or Maxima. You can get some more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software) Sigrid I did not ask for

[libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-27 Thread Twayne
In news:cado7t4fptxqvhz5bnkswhgdgapffcznrro43phwsb1bs52h...@mail.gmail.com, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com typed: 2011/8/25 Maria Rechnitzer rrrah...@gmail.com: Dear Support, This is the LibreOffice users' list. It's not a real support. We are just users who help each other out. You

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/27 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net: On 08/26/2011 04:03 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... You can do that yourself. Here is how: Tools → Customize… → Toolbars. LibreOffice Writer Toolbars – Toolbar: Select ”Formatting” In the ”Commands” list, scroll down to ”Underline” and highlight it.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/27 Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com: In news:cado7t4fptxqvhz5bnkswhgdgapffcznrro43phwsb1bs52h...@mail.gmail.com, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com typed: 2011/8/25 Maria Rechnitzer rrrah...@gmail.com: Dear Support, This is the LibreOffice users' list. It's not a real support. We

[libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-26 Thread Twayne
In news:caff6mpdc8kjigozyktqtbxhqwgv4x9fyxpk+xufkp6srh6w...@mail.gmail.com, Maria Rechnitzer rrrah...@gmail.com typed: Dear Support, when word processing in microsoft office (doc or xls) there is a strikethrough feature that allows you to mark words that you want to delete but stIll keep them

[libreoffice-users] Re: strikethrough feature

2011-08-26 Thread NoOp
On 08/26/2011 04:03 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: ... You can do that yourself. Here is how: Tools → Customize… → Toolbars. LibreOffice Writer Toolbars – Toolbar: Select ”Formatting” In the ”Commands” list, scroll down to ”Underline” and highlight it. Click the ”Add…” button. In the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Feature request: native BibTeX support

2011-07-12 Thread Zak McKracken
Am 12.07.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb planas jsloz...@gmail.com: An alternative is to use Base. I have been thinking on these lines so I will look into it more. I am using base for my literature database, but it has serious drawbacks. You can use the built-in LO literature database (which isn't

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread Vladimir Drobyshevsky
Have a nice day, Jay! planas jslozier at gmail.com writes: Hi Vladimir, ... Is it possible to change the way of LO making relation's query or to find an another way to solve my problem? Thank you in advance! P.S. I have no subscription to this mailing list so send your

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/06/11 11:36, Vladimir Drobyshevsky a écrit : Hi Vladimir, Is it possible to change the way of LO making relation's query or to find an another way to solve my problem? The only thing I can think of is by turning off ESCAPE PROCESSING. This may be possible in the advanced connection

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug\feature in LO Base master\slave form linking

2011-06-26 Thread planas
Vladimir, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 16:57 +, Vladimir Drobyshevsky wrote: Have a nice day, Jay! planas jslozier at gmail.com writes: Hi Vladimir, ... Is it possible to change the way of LO making relation's query or to find an another way to solve my problem?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Editing feature: Spike

2011-03-18 Thread Twayne
In news:1300455381.1472.60.camel@PGU-Home-Desktop, Peter G. Underwood pgunderw...@wol.co.za typed: :: A useful addition to LibreOffice would be a spike :: clipboard, that allows one to store a sequence of items to :: be pasted, from which one can select the particular item :: needed. MS-Word

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Editing feature: Spike

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Brown
Twayne wrote: In news:1300455381.1472.60.camel@PGU-Home-Desktop, Peter G. Underwoodpgunderw...@wol.co.za typed: :: A useful addition to LibreOffice would be a spike :: clipboard, that allows one to store a sequence of items to :: be pasted, from which one can select the particular item ::