Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No help in LO

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Docs Team rarely gets involved in any coding!  You are welcome to join their team and help out there!  It's not easy to figure-out how to start being active but once you do it's reasonably easy to get stuck into work without having to worry about that sort of thing.  I'm not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No help in LO

2012-07-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
By bundle I kind of envisaged all of the webpages collated together in a pdf or something like that, I will definitely join!. I am also a graphic designer music producer in my spare time going by the Alias Antisocky If you google my alias you will find some of my work. any way I really wish there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi AG :) It is a good idea to run the 3.6.0 beta in parallel with your existing version. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel There is no need to wipe one in order to run the other.  However stable something is on other people's machines (or unstable for that matter) is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving protected spreadsheets in different format

2012-07-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
It is ok as if you think about in a logical way as it is the logical event in the sequence of steps that LO takes when exporting the file. It does sound weird though and could lead to trouble if you somehow overwrite the old password when changing it during the export process. Interesting On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving protected spreadsheets in different format

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My colleagues were quite shocked that i could open supposedly 'password protected' Xls(X) files so easily.  I honestly didn't even realise they were protected at all.  The older versions weren't, so i don't know why they started blocking people from being able to get on with work. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No help in LO

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the closest we have is the Publications page but it is incomplete and needs tidying in the 3rd party documentation section.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Most of the Docs Team avoids wiki-mark-up because the term mark-up sounds vaguely similar to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
I am quite excited about this release and can't wait to run it on Ubuntu LTS 12.04! I must say its sad to see no major updates to the biblographing section. I am hanging in there for the stable release. On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, at 08:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi AG :) It is a good idea to run the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is there alreadya  bug-report / feature-request about the bibliography functionality?  If so then now might be a good time to add a comment and i not then now would probably be a good time to write one. Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sat, 14/7/12, Anthony Easthope antiso...@myopera.com

[libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Brager
Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office. I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically. A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy paste from elsewhere) is that two sentences/paragraphs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 14-07-12 10:56, Andrew Brager wrote: Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office. I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically. A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy paste from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Was there an extension for bibliography, somewhere? I seem to remember seeing one for OOo before LO came out. The one issue for a auto biblio system is I was taught 2 different preferred methods to do them at different degree programs. I was told that the correct way to do them had

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No help in LO

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Take a look at what they do have... http://www.odfauthors.org/ On 07/14/2012 03:09 AM, Anthony Easthope wrote: By bundle I kind of envisaged all of the webpages collated together in a pdf or something like that, I will definitely join!. I am also a graphic designer music producer in my spare

Re: [libreoffice-users] spreadsheets / timelines ... + queries

2012-07-14 Thread anne-ology
(1) Curiously wondering how timelines are done with this program - I've heard it's possible ... I've gone to the help-site ... Is it through these spreadsheets? ... or ??? (2) could someone explain if it's time to update to this .5 over .4 - and if so, how to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread anne-ology
One of the reasons I first download OO - now LO - was due to the ease of copying in the .txt documents; [well, the Impress program impressed me over MSFT's poor one] Has this changed? ... if I were to determine how to update from .4 to .5, would I too have the problems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 14/07/2012 at 09:52, Anthony Easthope antiso...@myopera.com wrote: I must say its sad to see no major updates to the biblographing section. Yeah, this is really important feature for scientific writing, yet no one seems to bother about it. I have used Zotero[1] for few of my papers. So

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quickstarter is missing from LO3.5.5. onDebian

2012-07-14 Thread Anthony Easthope
Great! this has been a great find and is exactly what i need! i was forced to use MO for awhile as a paper I was doing needed Referencing :) continuing my love for opensource! On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, at 01:08 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 14/07/2012 at 09:52, Anthony Easthope

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the Getting Started guide, Chapter 3 Using Stylers and Templates deals with the issue https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Also you can remove the formatting contained in copied text by using Ctrl Shift v instead of just Ctrl v or use paste-special to