Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about charts

2024-03-20 Thread Remy Gauthier
Hello, It is not possible to see images on this list. If you e-mail me the image directly, I will see if I can help you. Regards, Rémy. Le mardi 19 mars 2024 à 23:07 -0300, Enzo Hirosse a écrit : > Hello! I was using LibreOffice Writer and got stuck in a problem > while > using the charts, I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LibreOffice Calc 7.4.7 and hidden columns

2023-08-19 Thread Tom
On 8/18/23 6:47 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: Hiding and unhiding columns or rows anywhere on the spreadsheet works fine with my Calc 6.4.7.2 on Linux Mint, even with "Freeze rows and columns" in effect.  So I would say you found a bug. Thanks for checking! Peace... Tom On 8/14/23 13:08,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LibreOffice Calc 7.4.7 and hidden columns

2023-08-18 Thread Mike Flannigan
Hiding and unhiding columns or rows anywhere on the spreadsheet works fine with my Calc 6.4.7.2 on Linux Mint, even with "Freeze rows and columns" in effect.  So I would say you found a bug. Mike On 8/14/23 13:08, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hi!  My dad just contacted me about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about document paths

2023-08-03 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 3 aug. 2023 kl 00:33 skrev Brooks, Bruce : > I have recently purchased a new computer with the latest and greatest > Windows 11 operating system. My old computer ran windows 11 and the > LibreOffice path was C:\Users\Bruce's > Lenovo5\OneDrive\Documents\Joanne\Goals for reading the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Saving Doc

2022-11-10 Thread Richard England
On 11/10/22 09:30, James Knott wrote: On 2022-11-10 12:08, ddalem...@aol.com wrote: I recently installed LibreOffice on my laptop and find that I cannot Save to a USB flashdrive for possible future editing AND delete the document from my laptop. Deleting document on my laptop (in LibreOffice) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Saving Doc

2022-11-10 Thread James Knott
On 2022-11-10 12:08, ddalem...@aol.com wrote: I recently installed LibreOffice on my laptop and find that I cannot Save to a USB flashdrive for possible future editing AND delete the document from my laptop. Deleting document on my laptop (in LibreOffice) leaves anything I think I’ve Saved to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-19 Thread Philip Jackson
On 18/07/2022 22:56, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 18 Jul 2022 at 22:12, Philip Jackson wrote: Date sent: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:12:20 +0200 Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux.. From: Philip Jackson

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-18 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 18 Jul 2022 at 22:12, Philip Jackson wrote: Date sent: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:12:20 +0200 Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux.. From: Philip Jackson To: LibreOffice > On 18/07/2022 21

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-18 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 7/18/22 21:35, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: [...] Thanks for the reply. I have LibreOffice 7.2.7.2 version as loaded by default for my Fedora 35 and also have LibreOffice 7.3.4.2 downloaded from libreoffice. With both I have tried a simple saved file with the word test in it. File is saved.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-18 Thread Philip Jackson
On 18/07/2022 21:35, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the reply. I have LibreOffice 7.2.7.2 version as loaded by default for my Fedora 35 and also have LibreOffice 7.3.4.2 downloaded from libreoffice. With both I have tried a simple saved file with the word test in it. File is saved. Have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-18 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 18 Jul 2022 at 18:25, Philip Jackson wrote: Date sent: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:25:45 +0200 Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux.. To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Philip Jackson > Co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on send to email option in linux..

2022-07-18 Thread Philip Jackson
Could there be a problem with your installation of LO? I'm using LO Writer 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 and the Send to email works fine. Clicking the File > 'Send to email' opens a write window in my Thunderbird mail client with the document already attached. Philip On 18/07/2022 12:14,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on INDIRECT()

2021-10-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi Rob, did you ever get this answered. You could use something like the below for the cells with a '+' in them. Assuming below is row 4, vertical bars are cell borders. |25+15|=VALUE(LEFT(A4,FIND("+",A4)-1))+VALUE(RIGHT(A4,LEN(A4)-FIND("+",A4)))| If you need it to be generic for with/without

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on INDIRECT()

2021-10-23 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den lör 23 okt. 2021 kl 21:38 skrev Steve Edmonds < steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com>: > Hi Rob, did you ever get this answered. > I answered it, but unfortunately I failed (again) to send it to the group. Sorry for that. I'll see if I can find it and send it again, but to the group this time. I use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question [not!] on INDIRECT()

2021-10-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:13 18/10/2021 +0200, Rob Jasper wrote: I have the following question: If, as here, you prepare your question as a reply to a previous message when it is nothing of the sort, it will be lost in the previous thread and may not be seen by possible helpers. I have in column A value

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2021-10-06 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I believe the default is no... Check your settings... Cannot check now (away from computer) Also, excel macros are not 100 percent supported. ⁣Get BlueMail for Android ​ On Oct 6, 2021, 7:19 AM, at 7:19 AM, sleepy wrote: >Does LibreOffice Calc have macros turned on by default? I accidently

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2021-10-06 Thread Harvey Nimmo
I'm not quite sure how I understand this answer to sleepy's question. Is it "No, macros are off by default" or "Yes...but..."? "Excel VBA not likely to run..": I assume it is not designed to run Excel VBA? Cheers Harvey On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 09:05 -0400, Alan B wrote: > Default in LO 7.1.5.2 >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2021-10-06 Thread Alan B
Default in LO 7.1.5.2 Security level High - Only signed macros from trusted sources allowed to run. Plus not 100% compatible with Excel. Excel VBA not likely to run in Calc. (Formulas are a different story. Much better cross product support.) On Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 7:36 AM sleepy wrote: > Does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about testing changes made to MS Word documents

2021-09-14 Thread Tom
On 9/14/21 5:54 AM, James Knott wrote: On 2021-09-13 11:38 p.m., Tom Williams wrote: So, what's a good/reliable way to test changes saved in DOCX format in Writer?   Is using Word online, as I did, akin to loading it in MS Word 2016?  I believe the document was last edited in MS Word 2016

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about testing changes made to MS Word documents

2021-09-14 Thread James Knott
On 2021-09-13 11:38 p.m., Tom Williams wrote: So, what's a good/reliable way to test changes saved in DOCX format in Writer?   Is using Word online, as I did, akin to loading it in MS Word 2016?  I believe the document was last edited in MS Word 2016 before it was sent to me. What I did was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about tab order in form in Writer

2021-01-11 Thread Tom
On 1/10/21 10:13 PM, Tom wrote: Hi! I'm working on converting a 20 page document into a PDF form.  I'm using the form design mode of LibreOffice Writer 7.0.3 on Windows 10 to add the various form fields.   At the time I started this, I thought I had to manually set the tab order on each form

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on getting a list of all the macro commands

2020-11-29 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hello Mike, Le 29/11/2020 à 18:33, Michael D. Setzer II a écrit : Does a file with them exist in full or part. nope. Well, not that I know of. The LibO API (application programming interface) is a quite complex beast. Was recently looking thru menus and found something interesting that I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on value comand and Err:502

2020-11-24 Thread Alan B
Haven't found documentation to confirm but I believe your first example =value(1+1) is recognized as a formula, the formula is processed and the result converted to a value. It works for me if I enter =value(sum(1,1)) the cell displays 2 and =CELL("type",), pointed at that cell, displays v If I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on value command and Err:502

2020-11-24 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:48 24/11/2020 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Put a more complex question, and got no responses yet. You have to admit that your description and layout were pretty foggy! Did anyone understand it? So, here it is in simplest form =value(1+1) converts the 1+1 to 2 But =value( )

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on value command and Err:502

2020-11-24 Thread Dave Howorth
:04 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > =On 24 Nov 2020 at 13:05, Brian Barker wrote: > > > Date sent:60;Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:05:46 + > To:;=users@global.libreoffice.org > From:60;Brian Barker;b.m.bar...@btinternet.com > Subject:;Re: [libreoffice-users] Questi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on value command and Err:502

2020-11-24 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
=On 24 Nov 2020 at 13:05, Brian Barker wrote: Date sent:60;Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:05:46 + To:;=users@global.libreoffice.org From:60;Brian Barker;b.m.bar...@btinternet.com Subject:;Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on value command and Err:502 At 14:48 24/11/2020 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about saving Excel 365 (.xlsx) files in LibreOffice Calc 6.4.6

2020-10-08 Thread Tom Williams
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", in that it had about 90 >>> rows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about saving Excel 365 (.xlsx) files in LibreOffice Calc 6.4.6

2020-10-02 Thread sandralouve
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 only one column being a numeric value.  Everything else was plain text.  I added the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about saving Excel 365 (.xlsx) files in LibreOffice Calc 6.4.6

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Williams
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 only one column being a numeric

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about libreoffice

2020-09-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
You can find the procedure to install LibreOffice on your Chromebook in this article: https://linuxhint.com/install_linux_apps_chromebook/. As an alternative, you can install LibreOffice using Flatpack, which is described in this article: https://flatpak.org/setup/Chrome%20OS/. I hope this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread Joshua Kramer
QWhat's interesting about this is you can use a a smartcard to sign your documents. Libreoffice supports standard PIV smart cards (at least under Linux). If you have everything configured right, you can use an x509 that is resident on the smart card to sign the document. This can provide much

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread James Knott
On 01/31/2019 11:54 AM, Tom Williams wrote: > Now, this is interesting.  So, the digital signing you describe would > generate a digital version of my signature?  I have experience with > digitally signing a document, using a third party service, like > DocuSign.  In those cases, a "signature"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread James Knott
On 01/31/2019 11:50 AM, Tom Williams wrote: > The reason I asked is, I've never considered the need to digitally > sign a document I created or modified in LibreOffice. At least one bank I'm aware of allows digital signing of documents.  So, you might download a form to open an account, take out

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread James Knott
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 times you sign things.  This is just 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about signed documents

2019-01-31 Thread hymie
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. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about tables and page margins in Writer

2018-08-13 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about tables and page margins in Writer

2018-08-12 Thread Remy Gauthier
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 height: OFF - Height: 1 inch Note that I am using LO 6.0, so it might be slightly different for you but I think that those

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about document/template interaction

2018-03-31 Thread leleu
I think I read once about Something as * Save the file under another name (to be sure not to loose it). * Open again and delete any content. * Save as a (new) template. Je la 31/03/2018 21:29, anne-ology skribis : Here's hoping you'll receive a response soon; I wish I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about document/template interaction

2018-03-31 Thread anne-ology
Here's hoping you'll receive a response soon; I wish I could help, but I don't know any thing(s) which might solve your issue. Surely somebody on this list can help you, I've been awaiting a response to my query, & still waiting with hopefulness. From: John Herron

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about document/template interaction

2018-03-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:09 26/03/2018 +0200, John Herron wrote: I wrote a document based on a specific template. As I did so, I added four new styles to the document. Is there a way to automagically incorporate these new styles into the specific template, such that when I create a new document based on it, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about recieving proffessional support and helping you:

2017-07-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Zahra, you will find a lot of answers in our Wiki. zahra a schrieb: hello every one. i have some questions about proffessional support from developers. how we can contact them? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/ Besides the phone numbers given there, you can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on wildcards

2017-02-06 Thread Rob Jasper
OK- I created 1 tab with all years concatenated, and replaced the 'year-sheets' to select from the main concatenated list. Thanks to all for the reactions. Rob. On 6 feb. 2017, at 13:48, Bruce Hohl wrote: > For more compactness, maybe you could create a maxifs() pointed to each > sheet then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on wildcards

2017-02-06 Thread Bruce Hohl
For more compactness, maybe you could create a maxifs() pointed to each sheet then a maxifs() against those maxifs() results. I agree with Brian on the point of keeping all data in one sheet if practical. With that approach it's still possible to have separate tabs for each year for the analysis

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question on wildcards

2017-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:46 05/02/2017 +0100, Rob Jasper wrote: I am looking for a way to use MAXIFS over the equivalent ranges in multiple tabs. Something like: =COUNTIF('2*'.E$2:E$200;C2) Explanation: For all ranges in tabs with name 2.* (2002, 2003, 2004, etc.), range E2:E200 give me the number of occurrences

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about .docx password security in libre office.

2016-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Deutsch
A addendum: Does the answer change for documents saved in .doc format? Jeff Deutsch Speaker & Life Coach A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs http://www.asplint.com "Listen to the universe while it whispers before it has to shout." Marion Grobb Finkelstein, Communication Catalyst --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection

2016-06-10 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi. i read in one website if i am not make a mistake in libreofficeportable.org that avast anti virus for its poor detection of trogens recognizes libreoffice as trogen! On 6/3/16, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 6/3/2016 11:13 AM, Joel Madero wrote: >>

RE: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection

2016-06-03 Thread Jerry Greenberg
] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 11:14 To: Jerry Greenberg <jerry...@total.net>; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection It'd be great if you inform McAfee about this - they consistently seem to have issues with over aggressive detections that m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection

2016-06-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/3/2016 11:13 AM, Joel Madero wrote: > It'd be great if you inform McAfee about this - they consistently seem > to have issues with over aggressive detections that mislead users. Not to mention the fact that it misses lots of real threats. Anyone who uses Mcafee or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection

2016-06-03 Thread Joel Madero
It'd be great if you inform McAfee about this - they consistently seem to have issues with over aggressive detections that mislead users. Best, Joel On 6/3/2016 12:27 AM, Jerry Greenberg wrote: I downloaded Libre Office on two computers. McAfee Scan picked up "RDN/Generic Downloader.x"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question About Trojan Detection

2016-06-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's another false-positive. Regards from Tom :) On 3 June 2016 at 08:27, Jerry Greenberg wrote: > > I downloaded Libre Office on two computers. > > McAfee Scan picked up "RDN/Generic Downloader.x" > > Download Site: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about "Binary URP bridge disposed during call" error

2016-03-06 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 03/04/2016 08:00 PM, Shawn Cao wrote: I am wondering why "m_xDesktop->loadComponentFromURL()" sometimes get stuck and how to generate debugging information when it get stuck? Debugging a "got stuck" situation is relatively easy: attach a debugger to the stuck process, generate backtraces

RE: [libreoffice-users] question about "Binary URP bridge disposed during call" error

2016-03-04 Thread Shawn Cao
hawn -Original Message- From: Stephan Bergmann [mailto:sberg...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:40 AM To: Shawn Cao <s...@printeron.com>; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question about "Binary URP bridge disposed during call"

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about "Binary URP bridge disposed during call" error

2016-02-24 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/23/2016 03:18 PM, Shawn Cao wrote: Because each testing will open and close LibreOffice, I am not sure how to attach WinDbg with those evanescent processes. Fortunately, Windows will generate dump file for each LibreOffice crash. I open dump file with WinDbg and please refer to attachment

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about "Binary URP bridge disposed during call" error

2016-02-22 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/18/2016 04:07 PM, shawn wrote: We utilize LibreOffice SDK 5.0 64 C++ to print documents with LibreOffice 5.1.0.3 . During batch testing, I print a odt file over and over again. The problem is the program throw exception "Binary URP bridge disposed during call" from time to time. This

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-18 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi every one. thanks for your helpful answers and i wish devine mercy and blessings for you. i appreciate all of you for your help. On 2/19/16, nasrin khaksar wrote: > hi dave. > your answer is complete, and helpful too. > because of accessibility reasons, i should use

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-18 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi dave. your answer is complete, and helpful too. because of accessibility reasons, i should use libreoffice 4.3.0.2 and above. because the previous versions need java and java access briedge and i dont know how to use them. but 4.3 and later versions, fortunately, thanks god, by his grace and

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-18 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi brian. your answer was very complete, useful and efficient specially about automatic spell checking. but i did not find standard toolbar and i dont know where it is exactly. for read only mode, because the persian pdf documents are not accessible for me and also i want to my documents will be

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:05 17/02/2016 +0330, Nasrin Khaksar wrote: in libreoffice 4.4 and above, an option added for activate or deactivate automatic spell check in the tools menu that i can select whether i want automatic spell check to be checked or not. what's about version 4.3? how can deactivate automatic

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-17 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I found the spell check options in Tools>Options>Language Settings>Writing Aids>Options and check or uncheck the various options. I am using 5.0.4.2 on a Ubuntu 15.10 64bit system. On 02/17/2016 02:37 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: Pedro, I'm still using v4.0.0.3. In this version, at least, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-17 Thread Dave Liesse
Pedro, I'm still using v4.0.0.3. In this version, at least, I think you can get to the automatic spell check options you're looking for by going to Tools ... Autocorrect Options ... Options (tab). In that screen you have the opportunity to specifiy what corrections are active during typing

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

2016-02-17 Thread Bo Siltberg
For 2/, you can open Tools -> Customise -> Keyboard. However, it wont give you a nice readable overview of all shortcuts. 2016-02-17 8:35 GMT+01:00 nasrin khaksar : > hi every one. > i have three questions and hope that you help me in these cases like > previous times.

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about the best version of libreoffice:

2016-01-20 Thread Philip Rhoades
nasrin, On 2016-01-20 19:05, nasrin khaksar wrote: hi every one. i tested many versions of libreoffice since version 4.2.5 all versions have there advantages and in cases there bugs and limitations. whats the best version of libreoffice since version 4.3.0.4 according to your experience?

Re: [libreoffice-users] question about the best version of libreoffice:

2016-01-20 Thread James Knott
On 01/20/2016 03:15 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Please leave superstitious nonsense (like the stuff below) out of > posts to lists that are about real-world technology. +1 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread anne-ology
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gary Collins wrote: I think that register is an important consideration. Colloquial language tends to be in a state of flux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Felmon Davis
as snapshots of actual usage. thanks. f.   From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote:       grammar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
saved. From: Stephen Harding stephen.hard...@gmx.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-31 Thread Gary Collins
impression is important, dictionaries are very useful tools indeed. /Gary   From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-30 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: grammar skillfully employed procures meaningful communication, [see below for comments to your comments] yes, 'skillful' is not the same as 'proper'. or let's put it this way, 'proper' is ambiguous. it could mean 'according to some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-29 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: One of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's, Lewis Carroll, purpose in writing the Alice in Wonderland books was to show how the meaning can be misinterpreted when proper grammar is not used. My favorite example is Jabberwocky ;-) but the grammar of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-29 Thread anne-ology
grammar skillfully employed procures meaningful communication, [see below for comments to your comments] From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-28 Thread anne-ology
be a part of any community ??? From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, anne-ology wrote: Thank you; and for some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
@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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
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; * 10 different writing systems in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread toki
On 07/26/2015 05:21 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Certainly, the 10 different writing systems in the same document is something *I* would consider complex, especially since that's not something I've ever seen, done, or even heard of. :) The 50,000 page outline document sounds complex as well,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread anne-ology
with digital images - the detailing is impossible to obtain as it was when dealing with silver. From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/24/2015 08:40 AM, Pablo Dotro wrote: The main complaint I've observed regarding different capabilities in MS Office and LO comes from people that expect both products to work exactly the same. Commonality exist between them, but each one is it's own product, with different design, coding

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
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;

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Tom Davies
- to me, in composing a photograph I consider all the components yet with color photography - and now with digital images - the detailing is impossible to obtain as it was when dealing with silver. From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread Felmon Davis
: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-26 Thread jerryg860
: Stephen Harding stephen.hard...@gmx.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page documents with over

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-25 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 09:08 PM, Joel Madero wrote: This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. That literally depends upon how compatibility is defined. There are use-cases where MSO 2013 is completely, utterly, and absolutely incompatible with MSO 2013, when installed on a different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Pablo Dotro
Hi there! I've had experience working with LibreOffice and complex documents. Back in the days of Libre/OpenOffice 3.x and Office 2003, Writer was much better than Word in handling large documents with complex formatting and a large number of included objects (say, around 100 pages, with around

RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Harding
781557 Telephone mobile 07969 469543 www.shirste.org.uk Skype Shirley_and_Stephen_Harding -Original Message- From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 July 2015 16:06 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Dan Lewis
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 Office. Some say yes, others say no.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Maybe someone would be so kind as to explain the difference between .ODT .OTT; when is the latter used how does it differ? From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
As for me, I much prefer to use LO. Although it's not compatible with MSFT; this makes it difficult to send a document to someone. I will then - if a small document, copy/paste into an e-mail or save as MSFT to send to them - and while so doing, I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
I still don't understand that problem of opening at the beginning only; my documents always re-open at the spot where last saved. From: Stephen Harding stephen.hard...@gmx.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Joel Madero
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:59 PM, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: As for me, I much prefer to use LO. Although it's not compatible with MSFT; this makes it difficult to send a document to someone. This is simply a false statement. It's not compatible. Please don't give new

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Philip Ward
Sorry guys, not part of the current thread, how do i start a new thread? or question etc? been a while, and totally forgot!! cheers Phil On 24/07/2015 21:59, anne-ology wrote: As for me, I much prefer to use LO. Although it's not compatible with MSFT; this makes it difficult

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread toki
On 07/24/2015 01:31 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Question: in what ways does LO Writer fail at editing or creating complex documents? This where a definition for complex documents is mandatory. Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and complex documents? I've had as many as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread Brian Barker
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 documents. For basic word processing, it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
... the spacing may be off, the images may be skewed, any tables are out of alignment, ... ... ... and the MsFt document has increased in size due to all the excess gobbledygook ;-) From: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sorry guys, not part of the current thread, how do i start a new thread? or question etc? been a while, and totally forgot!! cheers Phil On 24/07/2015

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Thank you. From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Anne-ology Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:08:53 -0500 Maybe someone would be so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents

2015-07-24 Thread anne-ology
Isn't that what everyone does ;-) From: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and complex documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org anne-ology wrote: I still don't understand that problem

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