Re: [libreoffice-users] Email address of the admin/moderator please?

2012-02-17 Thread Nino Novak
On Friday 17 February 2012, sharon kimble wrote: Does anyone know the email address of the admin or moderator of this mailing list please, as I need to write to them re subscribing from my gmail account? should be users+owner @ global.libreoffice.org (without the blanks) else, try this:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: The place where to bring questions to the devs has to be a visible and accessible place. [...] I guess there's some work to be done to resolve those two points. Hi Jean-Francois, not necessarily - what would be equally workable is a group of change agents

Re: [libreoffice-users] Gmail

2012-02-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:22:40 + sharon kimble boudic...@talktalk.net wrote: Hello sharon, that I emailed a subscription request to the server half an hour ago from my gmail account, and I haven't heard back yet, although I've been checking it every ten minutes. Spam folder, perhaps? --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Email address of the admin/moderator please?

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It occurred to me that Sharon might not be able to receive replies to the list that she can't subscribe to so i thought i would use CC to include her.  Also a lot of time the users+ is treated differently from the rest of the address so i thought i would space the answer a little

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Hallo Thorsten , A agree, i also looked over the possible problems with no margins for a page, but there was no communication over the column margins. Like i sayed before there are workarounds for the page margins, but working with columns and pictures covering more than 1 column becomes

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I change page orientation for only ONE page in Writer?

2012-02-17 Thread Konstantinos Tzoannopoulos
Thanks everyone. Sorry for my delayed reply. 2012/2/4 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com Open the Styles and Formating window. (Use the F11 key to do this.) In the row of tools at the top of this window, click the Page Styles (fourth from the left.) Default should be highlighted. Insert

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Sorry Tom, but I installed the one I always use for initial Java install before I install LO. As I id say, I hope to get access to the laptop soon to connect it to the Net and work on the problem[s]. Then I can get all of the Win7 updates and get the utility software as well. On

[libreoffice-users] LibreO-Base is lying about my age -- The End!

2012-02-17 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Andreas, Dan, Drew - and others Thank you very much for your help and giving me your time. I really admire you for your enthusiasm to helping others. Even if I did not directly get all the answers, you forced me to investigate - I have learned a lot! The situation regarding the function

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with vertical scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think posting a bug-report would be great http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I have not heard of other people having the same problem but it is probably happening to others too and they are just being quiet about it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 17/2/12, Kal Sze (@k_sze)

RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I know LibreOffice 3.5.0 can use java 1.7 but i doubt that has been back-ported to all other releases that people are using out there.  Java is going to be a problem until we can get rid of any dependence on it completely.  It's not our devs fault that Oracle can't write something that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word import TOC link style

2012-02-17 Thread Barleyman
Hei, Yes, that's fine in theory how to adjust existing TOCs but it doesn't actually tell me how to make these links use index link automagically when I open a word document in writer. I don't also see any way to change the TOC defaults. I can insert a TOC in the template, yes, but that will only

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word import TOC link style

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure but when you have a ToC it picks-up new headings that have the appropriate style applied doesn't it?  So if you have it so that the ToC picks-up Heading1 and Heading2.  Then you 1.  write a couple of words 2.  apply the style Heading2 to those words 3.  right-click in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
What you see is what you get is the rule of thumb. It's an interface for human beings. Anything else is asking for trouble. On 2/14/2012 11:20 AM, noibs wrote: I just upgraded to 3.5 from 3.4.4. There are no page margins visible for my Writer documents last saved in 3.4.4. Am I missing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find folder for templates

2012-02-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:30:40 -0800 (PST) Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de dijo: FileTemplatesSave... will store the template in the right directory FileTemplatesand register it so it appears in FileNewTemplates and in FileTemplatesOrganize... ToolsOptionsPaths shows all the paths used by the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 17/02/2012 17:51, Paul D. Mirowsky a écrit : What you see is what you get is the rule of thumb. It's an interface for human beings. Anything else is asking for trouble. Do you mean you never display the unprintable chars? -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreO-Base is lying about my age -- The End!

2012-02-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:49 +0200, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Andreas, Dan, Drew - and others Thank you very much for your help and giving me your time. I really admire you for your enthusiasm to helping others. Even if I did not directly get all the answers, you forced me to investigate - I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Thorsten, Le 17/02/2012 10:24, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: The place where to bring questions to the devs has to be a visible and accessible place. [...] I guess there's some work to be done to resolve those two points. not necessarily - what would be

RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread V Stuart Foote
Tom, No. You've misunderstood the whole Java JRE and BASE HSQLDB performance issue. Problem is not and never was with the Sun/Oracle Java JRE. The past problem with LibO and OOo HSQLDB performance was with process thread creation in the LibO/OOo JDBC interface. The dev patch (by Stephen

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer

2012-02-17 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Absolutely not. Everything has a time and a place. The time for the entire page including its edge may be preview mode to some, just not me. No doubt, I would never try to make a database form document with out looking very carefully at every unprintable character I could find. On 2/17/2012

[libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Impress - No image.

2012-02-17 Thread Tinkerer
The Mac PPC version of LO 3.5 does not show images in Impress Slide Show. Adding images to a slide produces the error Graphics Filter Not Found. The Mac Intel version does not have this problem, neither does the PPC version if you use LO 3.4.5 Can someone confirm this? Tink. -- View this message

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with vertical scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X

2012-02-17 Thread Tinkerer
I am using an Intel Mac and LO 3.5 I was not aware of the fault, but I have since tried loading a 12MB document and yes, there is a problem with the vertical scroll bar. I am not sure that this is a LO fault though. Tink. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Web based LibreOffice Q+A site online.

2012-02-17 Thread drew
Hi, I would like to introduce you to the newest member of the LibreOffice website family. http://ask.libreoffice.org The AskLibO website provides a space where you can ask (and answer!) questions related to LibreOffice. AskLibo is a modern Q+A site, not a Bulletin Board style web forum. So

[libreoffice-users] Install LO 3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04.03 LTS - 64 bit

2012-02-17 Thread William Colls
Just installed 3.5. The process did not return any errors, but the menus were not updated to reflect the newly installed programs. When I installed 3.4.5 on a similar machine about a month ago, the menus did get updated. On examination I also noted that the libreoffice3.5 executable was not linked

Re: [libreoffice-users] Web based LibreOffice Q+A site online.

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow! That looks confusing at first glance.  It makes a lot more sense after just a couple of clicks and half-hearted poking around.  I'm in :) Thanks for all the hard work Drew and all :) Many regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 17/2/12, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: From: drew

Re: [libreoffice-users] Web based LibreOffice Q+A site online.

2012-02-17 Thread drew
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 22:05 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Wow! That looks confusing at first glance. It makes a lot more sense after just a couple of clicks and half-hearted poking around. I'm in :) Perhaps - but in reality it is just the next step in forum design, applying lessons learned

Re: [libreoffice-users] Install LO 3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04.03 LTS - 64 bit

2012-02-17 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi William, I've done many installs of LibreOffice on Ubuntu. I always download the proper version from the LibreOffice site directly, and then extract it to the desktop, and then run the following three commands in the terminal: (These are for the 64 bit version only of LibreOffice 3.4.5.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Web based LibreOffice Q+A site online.

2012-02-17 Thread Mario Moder
Am 17.02.2012 22:41, schrieb drew: Hi, I would like to introduce you to the newest member of the LibreOffice website family. http://ask.libreoffice.org Thanks for sharing this! Never heard of askbot before (me stackexchange fanboy ;-) These kind of Q+A sites can really bring community

[libreoffice-users] Re: Web based LibreOffice Q+A site online.

2012-02-17 Thread Pedro
drewjensen wrote Finally - a big thank you to Alexander Werner for all his hard work in getting the site up and running. Congratulations to Alexander. I had already tested and collaborated on the trial askbot site. I think this a fantastic tool AND it has OpenID sign in validation. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: LibreO-Base is lying about my age!

2012-02-17 Thread jorge
Hi: I suggest to do this: If A1: 2/11/1939 B1: =Now() Input in A3: =ROUNDDOWN ((B1-A1)/365) outcome: 72 Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ___ El jue, 16-02-2012 a las 13:40 +0200, p...@elisanet.fi escribió: ---

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with vertical scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X

2012-02-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-17 12:29 AM Kal Sze (@k_sze) wrote: There seems to be a problem with the vertical scroll bar when editing documents in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X. When the document is long enough and the vertical scroll bar shows up, I have to click the very top of the scroll bar handle in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with vertical scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X

2012-02-17 Thread Kal Sze (@k_sze)
I'm using LibreOffice 3.5 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. Larry Gusaas wrote On 2012-02-17 12:29 AM Kal Sze (@k_sze) wrote: There seems to be a problem with the vertical scroll bar when editing documents in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X. When the document is long enough and the vertical

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with vertical scroll bar in LibreOffice Writer 3.5 for Mac OS X

2012-02-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-17 9:32 PM Kal Sze (@k_sze) wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.5 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. Are you scrollbars hidden by default until you need them? If so try enabling the to always show. Go into System Preferences, then General and set Show Scroll Bars to Always. I'm not using Lion