Re: [libreoffice-users] User Profile Question

2014-03-02 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I use Ubuntu Linux 12.04LTS as my default OS, but I also use Win7 on dual-booting laptops. I never had Linux run hotter than Windows when it is installed onto the drive. I also do not use the thin laptops, but the thicker ones that have more fan space and size to remove the heat better. Tell

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - how to move (drag-n-drop using mouse) or cut/insert rows/columns

2014-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2/28/2014 9:37 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi:) I just tried out the various options (Ctrl, Alt, Shift combos) in Excel 2010 and there really doesn't seem to be a way of dragging a column into a new position. It seems you have to cut or copy first. Glad you were wrong - being

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart legends

2014-03-02 Thread Mark Bourne
Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, I inserted a chart from a Calc table in LO 4.2.1, running Linux-Mint-16. Now I find that I cannot change the text displayed within the legend. It simply displays Row 1, Row 2, Row 3...). As far as I can see, one can only change the position of the legend. How

Re: [libreoffice-users] Chart legends

2014-03-02 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Thanks, Mark, I did actually manage to find out how to do this in the meantime... In my opinion the procedure is not really self-evident. I tried doing it starting with Legend, but there one cannot change the text... Thanks again... Regards Heinrich On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:26:25 +0100, Mark

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-03-02 7:00 GMT+01:00 J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm new to the list, so if this is an inappropriate subject, please let me know. I am using Libreoffice on Manjaro Linux. Over the last several months the version has been regularly updated. The currently installed version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Button clic saves and sends email

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please use Reply to all when replying to mails from this mailing list. That way everyone gets to see what is going on so far and might be able to add the next bit to build up the complete answer or provide a different approach. Does anyone know how to make a button and give it the

Fwd: [libreoffice-users] User Profile Question

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that is better as a separate thread so i have use this post to break it off the thread that is now solved. I've had big problems with Sony Vaio in the past and wouldn't touch them with a barge pole now. It was just 1 product-line and subsequent ones don't seem to have the

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.2.1 printing problem (landscape)

2014-03-02 Thread julien2412
Hi, It seems to be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75540, so it should be fixed in 4.2.3 Julien -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-4-2-1-printing-problem-landscape-tp4099475p4099729.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation's response to Her Majesty's Government consultation on document formats

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) +1 I can't believe i hadn't said that earlier!! It was a great press release :)) Almost all the comments, around 80-90% were extremely pro-ODF and almost all of those were also anti-OOXML. The 10-20% pro-OOXML comments almost entirely conceded that ODF should be used but that OOXML should

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto-Monthly Donation?

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That option i not yet available. I'm fairly sure it's just because no-one has even thought about it before. I've certainly not seen anyone suggest it in all the discussions i saw about the donations page. Perhaps just suggest it to the marketing mailing list and see if they like the idea.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I found that some files went a bit weird if they had originally been created in Word as DocX (maybe as (Doc too but i haven't had enough cases to really notice) and then just used Save As to convert to Odt. Similarly with some files created in 3.3.x and used in more recent versions - and

[libreoffice-users] Re: User Profile Question

2014-03-02 Thread julien2412
About profile, here is an url which may help: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile About Linux, I've got a laptop on Debian and I've got the same problem. I think the culprit is ACPI implementation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface). Short

Re: [libreoffice-users] new release of a larger color list than the standard one - over 2300 colors

2014-03-02 Thread upscope
On Saturday, March 01, 2014 07:16:14 AM Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: /Quote So far, the current list has been edited to over 2,300 colors, instead of the basic ones that came with the default install of LibreOffice. https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/Common/QA/New-Colors/standard.

Reply-To? (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Button clic saves and sends email)

2014-03-02 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:34:59 + Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Please use Reply to all when replying to mails from this mailing list. That way everyone gets to see what is going on so far and might be able to add the next bit to build up the complete answer or provide a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - Button clic saves and sends email

2014-03-02 Thread Luuk
On 2-3-2014 16:34, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Please use Reply to all when replying to mails from this mailing list. That way everyone gets to see what is going on so far and might be able to add the next bit to build up the complete answer or provide a different approach. Does anyone know how to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connect Base to External HSQLDB

2014-03-02 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/06/14 00:59, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 06/02/2014 05:50, Mark LaPierre a écrit : Hey all, I have HSQLDB installed here: /home/database/back/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar I want the Base front end here: /home/database/recipe/recipe.odb On the LibreOffice Database Wizard: 1. Select

Re: Reply-To? (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Button clic saves and sends email)

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Not everyone has that level of technical skill nor that level of control over their emailing systems. For the rest of us we have to use Reply to all otherwise the mailing list doesn't see the responses at all. It does mean some people get 2 copies of the same email but when that happens to

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started, Chapters 1 through 5

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The documentation team have a specific task that almost anyone can help with. Their mailing list is very low traffic, especially compared against this one! If you think you have the patience and the skills for working in documentation, or if you just want to see if you can score on some of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - how to move (drag-n-drop using mouse) or cut/insert rows/columns

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm usually glad when i'm wrong because i learn something and usually find an easier way of doing whatever it was. I've not tried the Excel edges one yet. Even if it does work i think the LibreOffice one is easier and more forgiving but maybe i'm biased. Regards from Tom :) On 2 March

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be good to post this as a bug-report to see what comments the devs make, or use their mailing list or irc or whatever. I'm not having the same issue at all and can't replicate the problem at all. On my machines jpgs stay as jpgs and pngs as pngs. I just drag and drop my images

Re: [libreoffice-users] User Profile Question

2014-03-02 Thread Girvin Herr
Kracked, Have you looked at lm-sensors for Linux? http://lm-sensors.org/ Girvin Herr On 03/02/2014 07:09 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I use Ubuntu Linux 12.04LTS as my default OS, but I also use Win7 on dual-booting laptops. I never had Linux run hotter than Windows when it is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-03-02 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Ra, Ra schrieb: I never insert images as pictures. The JPEG images are only ever used as backgrounds for frames. I also never open the JPEGs in any picture editing application and copypaste from there, the images are only ever used as files from disk. What I'm doing is precisely this: File

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2014-03-02 7:00 GMT+01:00 J. Van Brimmer jerry...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm new to the list, so if this is an inappropriate subject, please let me know. I am using Libreoffice on Manjaro Linux. Over the last

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I found that some files went a bit weird if they had originally been created in Word as DocX (maybe as (Doc too but i haven't had enough cases to really notice) and then just used Save As to convert to Odt. Similarly

Re: Reply-To? (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Button clic saves and sends email)

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I'm sorry, if that was me. I'm new to the list, and using Gmail. I just now realized what I had done this morning. From now on I will hit Reply-All and then edit out individuals email addresses. [?] On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Jim Seymour jseym...@linxnet.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

2014-03-02 Thread Ra
Hello, True, I don't insert the images as pictures like you would expect, but I didn't think that would make a difference since all the images are still coming from a local disk, so therefore LO knows the format very well and should be able to preserve it. Why am I using frames with images as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-03-02 Thread Dale Rebgetz
On 28/02/2014 9:14 pm, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) How about as an add-on/Extension for Draw? Sounds clunky. Do we really need more bloat in Writer to make it into yet another image editor? Most of the functionality already exists in Writer, and we are not talking about image editing in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I have 14 sheets in the offending .ods file. I can't remember if it's always the same sheet. That would take some time fiddling and testing. For now, I think I'm just going to stay with LO 3.x.x on my Debian system. I like the stability of Debian much more than Arch based OSes. I might try

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation's response to Her Majesty's Government consultation on document formats

2014-03-02 Thread som
I can't believe i hadn't said that earlier!!  It was a great press release :)) totally agree A few comments pointed out that Google-docs doesn't use ODF.  However Google themselves posted there own statement saying that they support this proposal to use ODF. actually that is partial