Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Forums??

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the hectic flurry of emails just after release is settling down now so it is less of a worry and might calm down a bit more now. A lot of the typical issues a product has after release have been settled and/or being chased up in bug-reports Regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] Error:

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Fleischmann
Hello Folks,I am attempting to run the following JAVA code via the 3.3 SDK... The idea is to remove elements from the Picture area of the document storage... XStorageBasedDocument xStorageBasedDocument = (XStorageBasedDocument) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(

Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows bug? Opening OTT does not create new document

2011-02-03 Thread lnvas _at_data.bg
Hi, On 02-02-11 Tom wrote: ... Surely this can be done from the right-click menu? When you right-click on the document go down to Open with ... (NOT Open), it might be inside Properties. ... Holding down Shift and right-clicking on the file always brings Open with... Regards, Lyudmil

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu general bugs packaging bugs

2011-02-03 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
Hi everyone These last few days as more Ubuntu users try LibreOffice bug reports are coming in. If anyone here is using Ubuntu I invite you to check the current bugs and helping out with comments or even marking such bugs as affecting me too. Here's the list:

[libreoffice-users] Silent install one language (on Winodws)

2011-02-03 Thread Leif Lodahl
Hi, I'm trying to install LibreOffice on Windows XP with only one language using a batch script. I thought the following command should do it: msiexec /qn /i libreoffice33.msi TRANSFORMS=trans_da.mst But all languages gets installed. What do I do wrong? Cheers, Leif Lodahl The Danish Team

Re: [libreoffice-users] Silent install one language (on Winodws)

2011-02-03 Thread Luuk
On 03-02-11 13:57, Leif Lodahl wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install LibreOffice on Windows XP with only one language using a batch script. I thought the following command should do it: msiexec /qn /i libreoffice33.msi TRANSFORMS=trans_da.mst But all languages gets installed. What do I do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Silent install one language (on Winodws)

2011-02-03 Thread Leif Lodahl
Hi Luuk, When I install manually I only get English and Danish (unless I choose custom installation and select more languages). However - when I use a command line installation I always get ALL languages (and English is default selected for the GUI). What I want to do is to install the Danish

Re: [libreoffice-users] Silent install one language (on Winodws)

2011-02-03 Thread Luuk
On 03-02-11 15:07, Leif Lodahl wrote: Hi Luuk, When I install manually I only get English and Danish (unless I choose custom installation and select more languages). However - when I use a command line installation I always get ALL languages (and English is default selected for the GUI).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Silent install one language (on Winodws)

2011-02-03 Thread Leif Lodahl
I downloaded the multi language version /Leif 2011/2/3 Luuk luu...@gmail.com On 03-02-11 15:07, Leif Lodahl wrote: Hi Luuk, When I install manually I only get English and Danish (unless I choose custom installation and select more languages). However - when I use a command line

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Scroll (Up Down) crash LIBREOFFICE

2011-02-03 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 03 febbraio 2011 alle ore 15:33:58, Manel León manell...@gmail.com ha scritto: I want to send to you my first experience with: · LIBREOffice 3.3.0 (LibreOffice 3.3.0 - OOO330m19 (Build:6) - tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4) on Windows 7, and · LIBREOffice 3.3.0 (LibreOffice 3.3.0 - OOO330m19

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Scroll (Up Down) crash LIBREOFFICE

2011-02-03 Thread jesawyers
Update to my post above... LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:5) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.3 One thing I noticed on page 5 of the above attached document is that it looks like libreOffice is crashing when trying to display figure 2 of the document. I can scroll down and see the header and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Scroll (Up Down) crash LIBREOFFICE

2011-02-03 Thread Manel León
NO, GianLuca !! ... Only crash with several documents. I attach you an example. Regards, Manel. El 03/02/2011 15:55, Gianluca Turconi escribió: In data 03 febbraio 2011 alle ore 15:33:58, Manel León

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Windows bug? Opening OTT does not create new document.

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In theory the New option should now be at the top of the right-click menu, separated slightly from the rest of the options there. However, theory and things that 'should be' are often quite different from reality. The important thing is that a double-click opens a new document.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Scroll (Up Down) crash LIBREOFFICE

2011-02-03 Thread jesawyers
Hello All, Long time openOffice/libreOffce user here but noobie to the forum. I wanted to give more information on this problem (i.e. scroll crashing libreOffice) because I am having the same problem with a document. Here is the error I'm getting when scrolling through the attached document

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Ken Springer
I've been reading the different pages of the Document Foundation, and am wondering about the two programs in the subject line. Are there any differences between the two programs? -- Ken Springer All progress depends upon the unreasonable person. George Bernard

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Some differences not many at the moment but the gap is increasing. LibreOffice is developing faster and adds more features such as svg (scalable vector graphics) support and pdf editing in Draw. Many people do work in both projects but OpenOffice is much more reluctant to add developments.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Ken Springer
Thanks, Tom. I'll stick with Libre Office, then, for both my Mac and PC machine. I only signed up with this LO mailing list a week ago, and I need a suggestion. Where is the best place to join to express why I will NOT recommend Libre Office to my friends? My issues generally apply to all

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Marius Popa
What is the name of the LibreOffice cloud-based version? On 3 February 2011 20:07, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Some differences not many at the moment but the gap is increasing. LibreOffice is developing faster and adds more features such as svg (scalable vector graphics)

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Tom Davies wrote (03-02-11 19:07) LibreOffice has a portable and cloud based version, OpenOffice doesn't. Wrong. Oracle has a cloud office version, working with ODF. Good change that LibreOffice / The Document Foundation will find the cloud too, but at the moment? No. Regards, Cor -- -

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:14, Ken Springer snows...@dishmail.net wrote: ... Where is the best place to join to express why I will NOT recommend Libre Office to my friends?  My issues generally apply to all open source software, not just Libre Office. I do just the opposite. I would love to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Ken Springer
Hi , Tom, Likewise, I used to encourage the use of open source software also. And on a personal level, I always try to find an open source program for my use. And my issue is not with the software itself. Even though my impression is the software is sometimes slightly buggier, the problems

[libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
This was on the OOo list. I decided that it may be something that could be looked at from LibreOffice's point of view. My answer is something that I really would like to see as an add on for OOo, LibreOffice, and all of its forked lines of suites. As someone with Dyslexia, the solution is in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/03/2011 02:10 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: Tom Davies wrote (03-02-11 19:07) LibreOffice has a portable and cloud based version, OpenOffice doesn't. Wrong. Oracle has a cloud office version, working with ODF. Good change that LibreOffice / The Document Foundation will find the cloud too, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:22, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 02/03/2011 02:10 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: ... The problem with Cloud systems is that when you do not have reliable access to the Internet, it is no good or even very bad, ... I have to do my

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought this http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable worked on the Cloud? Regards from Tom :) From: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 3 February, 2011 19:10:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users]

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Oh, i thought this link was the portable LibreOffice? http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable I could easily have been misled tho. It is a Windows-only solution so i haven't been able to try it. Regards from Tom :) From: Marius Popa

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:17, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: This was on the OOo list. I decided that it may be something that could be looked at from LibreOffice's point of view.  My answer is something that I really would like to see as an add on

[libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread Cliff Scott
Greetings everyone, I've used OOo for a number of years. Today I installed LibreOffice to see how it did. So far so good, but one glitch that maybe someone can help me with. After the install on WinXP I ran the Help files installer supposedly successfully. My problem is that I cannot for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread Andy Brown
On Thu Feb 03 2011 17:52:15 GMT-0800 (PST) Cliff Scott wrote: Greetings everyone, I've used OOo for a number of years. Today I installed LibreOffice to see how it did. So far so good, but one glitch that maybe someone can help me with. After the install on WinXP I ran the Help files installer

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2011-02-03 17:31, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I thought this http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable worked on the Cloud? Regards from Tom :) Does it work on the cloud? If you talk about the weather, yes. Seriously, the PortableApps application, including LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 3 February 2011 20:16, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Thu Feb 03 2011 17:52:15 GMT-0800 (PST)  Cliff Scott wrote: After the install on WinXP I ran the Help files installer supposedly successfully. My problem is that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread Andy Brown
On Thu Feb 03 2011 18:29:15 GMT-0800 (PST) T. R. Valentine wrote: On 3 February 2011 20:16, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Thu Feb 03 2011 17:52:15 GMT-0800 (PST) Cliff Scott wrote: After the install on WinXP I ran the Help files installer supposedly successfully. My problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Carpenter
Hi, let me give my two cents: I believe the confusion comes from the fact that the PortableApps folks put in their description of the LibreOffice Portable product that it runs from a cloud drive which basically just means that it can run from a network share. This does indeed work (and fairly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Well, all I can say it that it works here.  Browser opens a local file that looks like the web version of the help.  Using Ubuntu. This is the first time I've tried to use help in LO, and YUCK! What is so wrong with

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/03/2011 07:01 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:17, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: This was on the OOo list. I decided that it may be something that could be looked at from LibreOffice's point of view. My answer is something that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2011-02-03 21:49, MR ZenWiz a écrit : On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Well, all I can say it that it works here. Browser opens a local file that looks like the web version of the help. Using Ubuntu. This is the first time I've tried to use help

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 3 February 2011 21:13, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: There is a need for someone to work on a good content/context checker for spelling and grammar. Add a mini-dictionary function to a spell checker would help with people, like me, who may not

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Basic: VBA ActiveSheet errors after saving xls to *.ods

2011-02-03 Thread 4logon
hi, i have a small Excel sheet with a simple VBA makro inside. If I execute it with Libre-Calc everything works fine... . When I save the Excel file as LibreOffice File *.ods the VBA script failed at the line: .. Set tmpTable = ActiveSheet or workSheetName = ActiveSheet.Name ... I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-03 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Michel Gagnon mic...@mgagnon.net wrote: Le 2011-02-03 21:49, MR ZenWiz a écrit : This is the first time I've tried to use help in LO, and YUCK! What is so wrong with having a genuine local help file for the LibreOffice Help button and a separate web help item,

[libreoffice-users] suggested feature Writer Autocorrect Word completion

2011-02-03 Thread John Notminsk
How about an option in Autocorrect Word completion to NOT add words which have numbers in them nor words which are all capitals. It would save much time and save space for Word completion words I really use. Thanks -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Ken Springer
The Cloud, Internet based help files, etc. do rely on having high speed internet. I believe too many developers labor under the belief that virtually everyone in the US has DSL or cable modem. And sadly, the US lags behind other areas of the world in this regard. Myself, I have two choices,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-03 Thread Ken Springer
I don't know what you think I was asking for, but there is nothing I wrote that I believe to be offensive nonsense. :-) I merely expressed my unhappiness and disappointment the help system. I don't know what slashdot.org is either, and truthfully, I'm not interested. :-) But an honest and