Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Draw destroys odg files

2013-05-07 Thread Alaak
Hi, Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3. I already tried starting from the command line, but I don't get any output. Regards Am Montag, den 06.05.2013, 11:28 -0700 schrieb Girvin R. Herr: Alaak wrote: Hi, I drew two graphics using Draw today. I saved them and closed Libreoffice. Now I wanted

Re: [libreoffice-users] gettextfields

2013-05-07 Thread Vieri
--- On Mon, 5/6/13, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:21 AM, Vieri wrote: Hi, I have an odt writer document with 2 input text fields (added with the form designer toolbar). I manually type text into one of the fields. I copy/pasted a macro to see if I

[libreoffice-users] error messages when starting

2013-05-07 Thread Milind Vaze
Hello: I installed Libreoffice 4.0.2.2 yesterday on Windows 7. The installation happened properly. But everytime when starting the spreadsheet or the wordprocessor, I get the below mentioned error messages. After saying OK to to all the messages the software works properly. I haven't yet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Milos Sramek
Hi, thank you all for your answers. In fact I take part in a larger scale testing of interoperability of formats, since open source software is currently considered by Slovak administration as and alternative to the standard MS stuff. If everything goes really well, there will be a transition

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, several points;  (again just my own personal opinions which often put me at risk of being thrown off the mailing-lists for being too blunt) (err, and i'm English not US) 1.  To analyse you might find it better to add 2 programs into the mix.  1.a.  On the OpenSource side perhaps

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, one of the classic moves from MS is to get people to do an all or nothing approach.  They will try to tell you that you can't have MS Office and LibreOffice on the same machine.  Going that way is disastrous and requires huge amounts of training and leads to immense

Re: [libreoffice-users] error messages when starting

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Attachments don't reach the list :(  Can you give us a rough idea of what the message says?  Is it offering you the chance to recover a document that it claims was not properly closed?  If so you can generally cancel that without problems but it might be a good idea to make a copy of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Get Involved with LibreOffice - No Programming Skills Needed

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Even a little helps and even if it's irregular.  That is how most of us work too. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/qa-testers/ Of course some people, mostly devs, do get paid but then they are forced into more regular hours and forced to work on things they don't always want to. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hide rows in a table in Writer

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol!!  Yes, but is it an embedded Calc object or a straight table? [shrugs]  We both covered 1 option each so one of the answers works and the other doesn't.  My money would be on your answer but it's nice to show there is a choice imo. Regards from Tom :)  - Original Message

[libreoffice-users] Re: Hide rows in a table in Writer

2013-05-07 Thread Motoborg
Needs to be a simple table in writer not an embeded calc spreadsheet. Friend is complaining about it as he says he needs the function that he had in MS Word, but can not afford the price of Word. I can see how to hide the text but this leaves small empty rows. Would need to completely hide the

[libreoffice-users] How to turn off the global menu

2013-05-07 Thread William Drago
All, I am using LO 4.0.2.2 in Ubuntu with the Unity desktop. I want to turn off the very annoying global menu and put the menu back where it belongs. In Firefox there's a very convenient setting to enable or disable global menu integration. Is there anything like that in LO? BTW, I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to turn off the global menu

2013-05-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/07/2013 06:48 AM, William Drago wrote: All, I am using LO 4.0.2.2 in Ubuntu with the Unity desktop. I want to turn off the very annoying global menu and put the menu back where it belongs. In Firefox there's a very convenient setting to enable or disable global menu integration. Is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread James Knott
Milos Sramek wrote: MS support of ODF will probably never be perfect. Sun had an ODF plugin for MS Office. I'd bet it works better than what MS provides. It's also the only option for older Office versions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to turn off the global menu

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think if you get LibreOffice from the http://www.libreoffice.org website and then install it without the desktop integration packages then it forces LibreOffice to use it's own style.  I'm not sure if it's possible to remove desktop integration from the LibreOffice installed by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Most newer versions of MS Office have ODF support built-in.  Unfortunately it's only the 2013 and 365 that use the same version of ODF as everyone else.  2007 and 2010 use the old 1.1 which is not great for spreadsheets! Regards from Tom :)  - Original Message - From: James

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Hide rows in a table in Writer

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps shrink the height of the row until it looks more like a double-underline?  That would work in Word too.  If he insists on using it as a cheapskate version of MS Office he is going to be struggling.  LibreOffice has different ways of doing things and when you use them instead of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Hi:) Most newer versions of MS Office have ODF support built-in. Unfortunately it's only the 2013 and 365 that use the same version of ODF as everyone else. 2007 and 2010 use the old 1.1 which is not great for spreadsheets! Regards from Tom:) It's been a while since

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
Milos, I'm no expert, nor can I tell you why you're having those issues, but I can confirm that there are many differences in the way Word and LO Writer work. I use a lot of outline styles and they just don't translate well between the two programs. For me the differences seem to be in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Milos, Milos Sramek schrieb: Hi, thank you all for your answers. In fact I take part in a larger scale testing of interoperability of formats, since open source software is currently considered by Slovak administration as and alternative to the standard MS stuff. Then you might be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Hide rows in a table in Writer

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry!  I wasn't sure if that was meant to be off-list or not.  It looked fine for the list.  I think we all knew you already thought this way anyway so that part didn't really need to be said.  I wasn't really attacking you although i can see why it would be interpreted that way.  Sorry

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Milos, Milos Sramek schrieb: [..] ODF 1.1 and OOXML transitional were used, the used fonts were available on both computers. Line spacing does not seem to be a big issue, but one can see inconsistent line spacing nearly everywhere. So, from the point of view of interoperability it is

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2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility LO/MSO

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is an add-on for older versions of MS Office that do now allow it to open the newer ooxml formats such as DocX.  Somewhere in microsoft.com but i'm not sure where.  The problem is that it's a bit variable depending on which version of MSO created the document.  With Open Source,

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2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
Your translator program gave more information than mine did ;-) mine responded with nothing but gibberish; well, maybe that's what yours gave as well ;-) On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Errr, my Machine Translator seemed to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
sounds like something I could do for this list. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, at the moment, we are looking for volunteers who could help moderate this mailing list. If you are interested, the only requirement is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
Wow, thanks for the commendation; I would be delighted to be of service in this manner. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) That is a very generous offer but i suspect you would have more fun and be more useful in other areas of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
ouch ;-) which reminds me of Rudyard Kipling's words, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet BTW - my sincerest apologies to any of you to whom I must have offended; that has never been my intention, On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
Thank you for these very kind words; I feel quite honored. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Anne is; 1. familiar with the list so she knows the volume of traffic to expect 2. able to keep up with the traffic very well 3. seems to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
sounds good. Just one question: haven't you already made 2 others moderators for this list? - how many are needed or does each do some specific job? With all due thanks, yet also filled with curiosity, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Florian

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, anne-ology wrote on 2013-05-07 21:24: sounds like something I could do for this list. thank you very much for volunteering! I have just added you as moderator. :-) Florian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread Cor Nouws
anne-ology wrote (08-05-13 01:03) Just one question: haven't you already made 2 others moderators for this list? - Including you, there are 8 moderators now. how many are needed or does each do some specific job? No specific numbers for that. And in principle each does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread Joel Madero
Which mailing lists are we looking at. QA mailing list needs a couple moderators as well as our admin left the project recently. He passed on duties to me but to be quite honest I simply don't have the time and haven't even looked at the admin priv. since he passed them along last week. If QA is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread anne-ology
I'm curious re. this as well; my curiosity is growing ;-) On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: Which mailing lists are we looking at. QA mailing list needs a couple moderators as well as our admin left the project recently. He passed on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc sheet name

2013-05-07 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 05/06/2013 05:51 AM, IGraham wrote: LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 Calc This is just me playing, nothing important Is it possible to 'reference a cell in a sheet tab name'. I have a index sheet and I'd like to name other sheets (in the sheet tabs) depending upon a name in a cell within the index sheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Seeking for list moderators

2013-05-07 Thread James Knott
anne-ology wrote: Just one question: haven't you already made 2 others moderators for this list? - how many are needed or does each do some specific job? Everything in moderation, including moderation. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: