Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread Cor Nouws
NoOp wrote (05-10-11 03:20) Each of us may 'plonk' him/her, but thousands of others will still see the posts. I'd suggest that it's time for an LO list moderator step in and block callmeshane...@gmail.com from the list altogether. Yes. And also wise is, if people at this list simply ignore

[libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-05 Thread Michael Guillet
Hi friends, I installed LibreOffice on my sister in laws Mac OSX Lion and after 1 day of using it I got a error message Restore Windows and I don't know how to get rid of it, I tried reinstalling it and deleting even the Preference files but it keeps coming back and the program is totally

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, thanks for your interest! jorge wrote on 2011-10-05 02:29: 1) How good have to be my english ? it should be a good English, since we want to publish the interview in printed form and you need some understanding of the responses. It is about the progress and achievements at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress PowerPoint

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful.  Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too.  Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with Marcello. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 3/10/11, Marcello Romani mrom...@ottotecnica.com wrote: From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sounds painful!  Please could we have a few more details? 1.  When does the error message appear?  Does it appear when the machine boots-up (switches on) or when you try to open a file/document using LibreOffice? 2.  Can you still use other programs on that machine, such as opening the

Re: [libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please feel free to update the wiki-page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press I added the Kim one yday but a couple of weeks ago i missed a few excellent articles.  I think i got the one about hospitals in Copenhagen all moving to LibreOffice, here's the translation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress PowerPoint

2011-10-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 05/10/2011 09:16, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) +1 Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful. Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too. Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with Marcello. Regards from Tom :) Thanks. I admit my comments in the

[libreoffice-users] data base program

2011-10-05 Thread Chaim Seymour
Hi all I set up Fedora 15 on my second computer and the Libre Office is included. As a fountain pen collector, I started building a database for my collection. I defined the fields and built a table. I started filling the table, but wanted to add an extra field. To my surprise, the structure of

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: From: Marc Paré [mailto:m...@marcpare.com] Thanks to all the people who answered this. It seems whether LibreOffice is partially or completely compliant to OASIS version 1.2 is more complicated to establish for non-dev people. LibO is, like OOo, an extended

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread e-letter
On 05/10/2011, Bruce Carlson br...@grahamgroup.com.au wrote: on Wednesday, 5th. of October 2011 at 12:21 PM, NoOp wrote: Each of us may 'plonk' him/her, but thousands of others will still see the posts. I'd suggest that it's time for an LO list moderator step in and block

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Thank you for the link, Thorsten (I can't CC you because Nabble doesn't allow that) Thorsten Behrens wrote: LibO is, like OOo, an extended conformance producer/consumer of ODF1.2, in its default setup. Choosing ODF format version 1.2 in Tools-Options-Load/Save-General makes it produce

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Tom
Hi :) As Thorsten said, almost any case of non-conformance is considered a bug. There are some bug-reports posted about specific examples of non-conformance which get posted when people find examples of non-conformance and feel up to the challenge of posting a bug-report about it. Many

Re: [libreoffice-users] data base program

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Chaim, On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 13:57 +0200, Chaim Seymour wrote: Hi all I set up Fedora 15 on my second computer and the Libre Office is included. As a fountain pen collector, I started building a database for my collection. I defined the fields and built a table. I started filling the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-discuss] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 03/10/2011 00:41, Jaime R. Garza ha scritto: Hello All, Why isn't ODF added as an extension of HTML5? This would define ODF as the defacto Web Standard for Files! An ideas who could try to pursue such an agreement? Cheers! Jaime Doesn't make sense to me: html5 and odf have two

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Tom wrote: Many programs don't fully comply with their own specs. The fact that many programs do that makes it correct? Tom wrote: OpenSource ones tend to try to fix that through bug-reports and such-like. We often grumble when we find an example of a proprietary program, such as

[libreoffice-users] toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread e-letter
Readers, When opening a document and a particular object becomes visible (e.g. a table) a floating toolbar appears (e.g. table toolbar). How to configure LO to stop this behaviour? Thanks. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think people try to add that annoying toolbar at the end of one of the existing ones or at the end of a custom toolbar so when it appears it's hidden off-screen a bit.  Not an elegant work-around! Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 5/10/11, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: From: e-letter

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-05 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Michael, Michael Guillet wrote (05-10-11 08:18) ... I got a error message Restore Windows and I don't know how to get rid of it, I tried reinstalling it and deleting even the Preference files but it keeps coming back and the program is totally blocked. If it is a window with the Cancel

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-05 Thread Mike
I will have to wait and check tomorrow. Sorry Sent from my iPhone On 5 oct. 2011, at 16:54, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Guillet wrote (05-10-11 08:18) ... I got a error message Restore Windows and I don't know how to get rid of it, I tried reinstalling it and

[libreoffice-users] unsubscribe

2011-10-05 Thread Ilja Gerhardt
unsubscribe -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
That is not a bug. As someone told me long ago: This is a natural consequence of doing calculations with finite precision. (And, in this case, using base 2.) If you try the same in Excel, Gnumeric or any other spreadsheet you will get the same (or similar) errors around 4.1 or 4.0 You can do a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hello, thanks for your interest! jorge wrote on 2011-10-05 02:29: 1) How good have to be my english ? it should be a good English, since we want to publish the interview in printed form and you need some understanding of the responses. It is about the progress and achievements at

Re: [libreoffice-users] toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:01:22 +0100 e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: Readers, When opening a document and a particular object becomes visible (e.g. a table) a floating toolbar appears (e.g. table toolbar). How to configure LO to stop this behaviour? next time the unwanted toolbar

[libreoffice-users] Re: toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 05.10.2011 18:01, e-letter wrote: Readers, When opening a document and a particular object becomes visible (e.g. a table) a floating toolbar appears (e.g. table toolbar). How to configure LO to stop this behaviour? Thanks. When you use the menu command ViewToolbarxxx, the toolbar will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread jorge
Florian: I think that I can do because I usually understand the e-mails of the users@global list. I suggest this way: 1) I will prepare some questions for the interviewed and I will send him o her. 2) I will receive his o her answer of the questions. 3)

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Hi Tom Tom wrote: We are making a big fuss about very trivial differences. How do you know they are trivial? In the document I referred previously in this topic, after conversion to ODF, which took me a few hours, opening in Abiword 2.9.1 or Textmaker 2012 (Beta) is useless. The only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread Bob Williams
On 05/10/11 07:01, Cor Nouws wrote: NoOp wrote (05-10-11 03:20) Each of us may 'plonk' him/her, but thousands of others will still see the posts. I'd suggest that it's time for an LO list moderator step in and block callmeshane...@gmail.com from the list altogether. Yes. And also wise is, if

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google just cheats :) It only allows 10 decimal cases. Since the first error in Excel at 4.0 requires 14 decimal cases to be shown it will never show up in Google Docs. Do this

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Here is a workaround: Type 5.5 in A1 and then type =ROUND(A1-0.1,1) in A2 (make sure the decimal and separator are the same for you) Then just select A2 and drag it down ;) -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread JOE Conner
On 10/5/2011 9:59 AM, Pedro wrote: That is not a bug. As someone told me long ago: This is a natural consequence of doing calculations with finite precision. (And, in this case, using base 2.) If you try the same in Excel, Gnumeric or any other spreadsheet you will get the same (or similar)

[libreoffice-users] Re: No anti-aliasing with Graphite fonts

2011-10-05 Thread NoOp
On 10/04/2011 08:02 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: It's easy to see the difference between the G and the O versions. I find that same when printing directly to the printer. I'm not sure if you are suggesting that they should be the same. My understanding is that they should not be the same,

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
JOE Conner wrote: Perhaps the attached XNumbers spreadsheet can help. This mailing list doesn't allow attached files. Please upload it somewhere or explain what you did ;) -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Tom
Hi :) @ Pedro, very nice work-around and good explanation. Thanks for that and thanks for clarifying that we are not alone there :) @ Joe, Nabble allows uploads for free and helps keep the upload with the thread for people reading this in the future. This thread

[libreoffice-users] Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread Op Ed
All, Anyone else having installation problems with LibO 3.4.3? I've been using OpenOffice for years, and jumped to LibreOffice when it was first released. No big problems on Windows XP at work, or OSX Lion at home (nor Linux anywhere...). Now my office computer has been upgraded to Windows 7 Pro

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread Op Ed
OK, here's me, replying to myself. Further little problem. Not yet solved. Because the program does not appear in the programs list, it is not an option when trying to open a .odt file (or any kind of file) from the file system. That is, I cannot simply right-click a .odt file or a .docx file

[libreoffice-users] Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread Onyeibo Oku
Set default applications. Usually on startup menu. - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: Op Ed op.ed.s...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:34:41 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread JOE Conner
On 10/5/2011 12:25 PM, Pedro wrote: JOE Conner wrote: Perhaps the attached XNumbers spreadsheet can help. This mailing list doesn't allow attached files. Please upload it somewhere or explain what you did ;) -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
On 10/05/2011 04:43 PM, ycor wrote: Is there any way to add a song to the 2nd or 3rd slide of a presentation and make it play through the rest of the presentation? Or when it gets through to start playing another song until it gets through? And so on. Roxy -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Kevin On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 16:34 -0400, Op Ed wrote: OK, here's me, replying to myself. Further little problem. Not yet solved. Because the program does not appear in the programs list, it is not an option when trying to open a .odt file (or any kind of file) from the file system.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread JOE Conner
On 10/5/2011 12:37 PM, Tom wrote: Hi :) @ Pedro, very nice work-around and good explanation. Thanks for that and thanks for clarifying that we are not alone there :) @ Joe, Nabble allows uploads for free and helps keep the upload with the thread for people reading this in the future. This

Re: [libreoffice-users] toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread e-letter
On 05/10/2011, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:01:22 +0100 e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: Readers, When opening a document and a particular object becomes visible (e.g. a table) a floating toolbar appears (e.g. table toolbar). How to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
Don, This slide presentation will probably be about 100 slides long when I finish it - though it will never really be finished. It is a listing, if you will, of the deceased alumni from the small high school where I graduated. It currently starts with the class of 1919 and runs to the present.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google just cheats :) It only allows 10 decimal cases. Since the first error in Excel at 4.0 requires 14 decimal cases to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interviewer, anyone?

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 18:55 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On 05/10/11 07:01, Cor Nouws wrote: NoOp wrote (05-10-11 03:20) Each of us may 'plonk' him/her, but thousands of others will still see the posts. I'd suggest that it's time for an LO list moderator step in and block

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-10-06 10:52, planas wrote: Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google just cheats :) It only allows 10 decimal cases. Since the first

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Roxy, I'm 95% Linux (Ubuntu), but part of the 5% left in windows is my video editing program, which is Ulead. Te current version is called Corel Video Studio I believe. Instead of capturing video to edit, I can just put in pictures from my hard drive. The reason I still do this in Windows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress PowerPoint

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:41 +0200, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 05/10/2011 09:16, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) +1 Insults are unnecessary and unhelpful. Personal arguments and criticisms would be better off-list too. Just my opinion, clearly a lot of people disagree, but i agree with

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Pedro
Steve Edmonds wrote: Thats interesting. In Calc I get 16.430001676 and in Kcalc I get 16.43 (to 20 decimal places) That is expected. Because calculators have a limited number of functions they use finite precision (instead of the base 2 calculations) This means that for this kind of

Re: [libreoffice-users] toolbars automatic appearance behaviour

2011-10-05 Thread MiguelAngel
El 05/10/11 23:45, e-letter escribió: On 05/10/2011, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:01:22 +0100 e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: Readers, When opening a document and a particular object becomes visible (e.g. a table) a floating toolbar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 11:30 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-10-06 10:52, planas wrote: Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it did it with no errors. Actually, Google

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:54 -0700, Pedro wrote: Steve Edmonds wrote: Thats interesting. In Calc I get 16.430001676 and in Kcalc I get 16.43 (to 20 decimal places) That is expected. Because calculators have a limited number of functions they use finite precision (instead of the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
Don, I guess if I had pictures of each slide that would probably be the way I go, but they are just simple slides I've done within Impress. They all use the same base slide with the names typed in one the slides. I did just find some help within Impress that, I think, is what I'm looking to do.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-10-06 12:21, planas wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 11:30 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-10-06 10:52, planas wrote: Hi On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:15 -0700, Pedro wrote: Juan Carlos wrote: I have done the same thing with google docs and it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Roxy, I've used Impress and Power Point very, very little. I'm sorry I couldn't be of better help here. Good Luck!!! Don On 10/05/2011 07:31 PM, ycor wrote: Don, I guess if I had pictures of each slide that would probably be the way I go, but they are just simple slides I've done

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
Hey, thanks anyway. I've used Power Point quite a bit in the past, and in actuality Impress has a ways to go to get up to par. Now if I can figure out how to make it transition from one song to another - which I would think should be easier than trying to figure out how to get the slides into a

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry Joe for wasting so much of your time. The correct link was http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LOcalc-shows-an-inaccurate-output-when-use-cells-autofill-function-td3397081.html#a3397671 The link i gave led you to the screen you get after pressing the Reply button so the More Options

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem installing on Windows 7, with workaround

2011-10-05 Thread Tom
Hi :) I don't have an answer but have suffered from half of this problem on Xp. All the icons appeared in the All Programs menu off the Start button but right-clicking on a document doesn't give LibreOffice apps in the Open with ... sub-menu. I think the OP is suffering from 2 different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure documentation will help but it might be good to skim through it http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation#LibreOffice_Impress_Guide Sorry i can't really help! Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 6/10/11, ycor rocma...@ranchwireless.com wrote: From: ycor

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
Hello, Tom. I downloaded the complete list of guides from there earlier today. I have at least got the song so that it will play through rather than restarting with each slide. It is much better than the included help with the program - by far. Now I just have to figure out how to insert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread Keith Bates
Probably the best idea would be to combine the songs into one mp3 file-- unless you want to change songs at a particular slide.There is plenty of software out there that will let you do that.KeithOn 06/10/11 14:35, ycor wrote:Hello, Tom. I downloaded the complete list of guides from there

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding a song to an Impress presentation

2011-10-05 Thread ycor
That's a good suggestion, Keith - Thanks. And I have Media Cope, which I believe will join several together. Where it changes won't make any difference because the length of the presentation will grow as new deceased people are added to the presentation. Roxy Probably the best idea would be

[libreoffice-users] Re: LOcalc shows an inaccurate output when use cells autofill function

2011-10-05 Thread JOE CONNER
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3398776/XNumbers_01.ods XNumbers_01.ods -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LOcalc-shows-an-inaccurate-output-when-use-cells-autofill-function-tp3397081p3398776.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No anti-aliasing with Graphite fonts

2011-10-05 Thread Jonathan Schultz
Not if it looks any different than this: http://postimage.org/image/2apqbvxac/ Otherwise, yes it might be a good idea. Note that I set the font size at 20 so that I could easily see the difference. OK I've uploaded an image here: http://postimage.org/image/2zq4umgkk/ I think we are talking