Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The documentation team ODFauthors are working very hard to get the various types of documentation completed. If anyone can spare time to help them it would be very much appreciated. Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: MR ZenWiz

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

2011-02-04 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 03 febbraio 2011 alle ore 16:11:18, jesawyers j...@sawyersnet.com ha scritto: 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

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Robert, Before I get to my responses, some comments. I'm going to write my comments in blue. I don't know if the color will be retained as the message goes through the system, but if it does, it will make it easier to know which of my comments are for this submission. As Strother Martin

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

2011-02-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Macros in LibreOffice/OpenOffice are written in a very much different format than the Excel ones. Excel macros have been know to spread malware and some offices disable them by default. Regards from Tom :) From: 4logon 4lo...@mailinator.com To:

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

2011-02-04 Thread Manel León
Grazie mille Gianluca ... auguri. Thanks for open the BUG. Warms regards. -- Manel León González */ Logistical Modules (MM-PM-PS) Manager for IS-U companies at IBM Support Center / Mobile phone: +34663736493 / skype ID: manelleon* El 04/02/2011 9:07, Gianluca Turconi escribió: In data 03

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Ken Springer snows...@dishmail.net wrote: Hi, Robert, way too long to include Do the words Edit your replies to leave out what isn't relevant mean anything in this discussion? You do know that this stuff is all archived and therefore need NOT be included in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-04 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, Cliff, you hijacked a thread (meaning replying to an email and only changing the subject). Please ask new questions in a new thread (by composing a new message and not replying). Your email appears in a different thread in my mail client. So you might get less responses to your

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

2011-02-04 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 04 febbraio 2011 alle ore 10:07:15, Manel León manell...@gmail.com ha scritto: Thanks for open the BUG. Warms regards. Here is the bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33894 I've seen other people have similar issues on this list. However I don't know whether it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-04 Thread Cley Faye
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 offline help to work. F1 or the Help menu always brings up the online help. I am not always connected to the Internet so getting the

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Ken Springer wrote: I'm going to write my comments in blue. What does blue sound like? I don't know if the colour will be be retained as the message goes through the system, The only safe assumption that can be made, is

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

2011-02-04 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 03:50 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote: But in a language with homophones, homographs, heteronyms, and heterographs, I can't even begin to imagine how one could code for all the possibilities ( First you check for word order. Then you

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 04/02/2011 12:01, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Please can we stop posting criticisms of Ken's opinions? But his reasoning as to why he doesn't advocate FOSS is flawed. His given reasons are spurious and don't hold up in real life. That's the point... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-04 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk on Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:08:48 + (GMT) Ahah, i think you have to download the 2nd file as advised in quite a few places in order to get help-files downloaded onto your machine. Many people would consider the help-files extra

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question

2011-02-04 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com on Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:23:24 +0100 Hi, Cliff, you hijacked a thread (meaning replying to an email and only changing the subject). Please ask new questions in a new thread (by composing a new message and not replying).

[libreoffice-users] the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread sivakumar
I have been using OOO 3.2, and now have installed libre office 3.3, yesterday. In both I have noticed the following : - whenever I tried making a table (mainly for tender specification-cum-compliance) wherein I create a table with say 3 to 4 coloums, and tried cutting pasting in each cell, the

[libreoffice-users] Re: WinXP LibO offline help

2011-02-04 Thread lnvas _at_data.bg
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:52:15 -0600 Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: ... 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: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Good morning, Jonathon, On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Ken Springer wrote: I'm going to write my comments in blue. What does blue sound like? Just to be a smarta** this morning, I'm going to say it sounds like New Orleans Jazz, where people often sing the blues. LOL I don't know if the

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: just because something CAN be done does not mean it SHOULD be done. This applies to so many places in our world today. -- Ken Springer All progress depends upon the unreasonable

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Good morning, Tom, On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Please can we stop posting criticisms of Ken's opinions? We don't all agree with each other, at least hopefully not! Hearing a different point of view is important and if people feel

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Good morning again, Gordon, On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: His given reasons are spurious and don't hold up in real life. That's the point... Doesn't this mean that your real life experiences are different than mine? --

Re: [libreoffice-users] the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) OpenOffice and LibreOffice often create problems for each other when both are installed. Try uninstalling one of them and then reinstall the one you are keeping. Since they are both free uninstalling and reinstalling is relatively trivial. Apparently there is some weird setting in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Tom, On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Do we have to criticise people or their ideas? This applies to venues other than Libre Office. :-( The world seems to be evolving to a point where different groups simply believe their way is the only way,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: WinXP LibO offline help

2011-02-04 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Cliff, On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:19:54 -0600 Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: ** Reply to message from lnvas _at_data.bg ln...@data.bg on Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:25:12 +0200 On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:52:15 -0600 Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: [...] Hi, WinXP SP2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: WinXP LibO offline help

2011-02-04 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from lnvas _at_data.bg ln...@data.bg on Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:25:12 +0200 On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:52:15 -0600 Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: ... 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

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base form editing/creation impossible, missing dialog boxes and Menu bars

2011-02-04 Thread Mobidoy
It is a known bug with the packages from Ubuntu PPA, I have removed it all, tried it again and still had the issue. I cleaned it once again and installed it from the deb packages on libreoffice site and all is working fine... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/709778

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Sigrid, On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] As part of this discussion, knowledge and education, more accurately a lack of knowledge and education, I have no idea what that represents! :-) If I were to hazard a guess, I would

[libreoffice-users] Re: WinXP LibO offline help

2011-02-04 Thread lnvas _at_data.bg
Hi, On 2/4/11, Sigrid wrote: ... So, please have a look at Tools Options language settings Which locale is set for the user interface under the language point? It has to be the same throughout. so en-US for the UI and en-US for the help file. If it doesn't match, then you'll have to

Re: [libreoffice-users] the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) OpenOffice and LibreOffice often create problems for each other when both are installed.  Try uninstalling one of them and then reinstall the one you are keeping.  Since they are both free uninstalling and

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
This discussion is so off-topic it doesn't even belong on this email list any more. Can you/we at least put it in a different topic thread with a big [OT] in front so we can skip it from the summary list? Ken, could you possibly stop using so much vertical space and shorten your 14-line

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Luuk luu...@gmail.com wrote: On 04-02-11 17:29, Ken Springer wrote: [...] :o :o :o        !8-) This thread should be about LibreOffice, and not about how to use an emailclient... Thank you, Luuk. It should also be noted that this thread is not for making a

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion is so off-topic it doesn't even belong on this email list any more. Can you/we at least put it in a different topic thread with a big [OT] in front so we can skip it from the summary list? Ken, could you

Re: [libreoffice-users] the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread Andy Brown
On Fri Feb 04 2011 07:52:57 GMT-0800 (PST) Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) OpenOffice and LibreOffice often create problems for each other when both are installed. Try uninstalling one of them and then reinstall the one you are keeping. Since they are both free uninstalling and reinstalling is

[libreoffice-users] Feature Requests, general procedure and an Idea

2011-02-04 Thread Jackson Murtha
Hello First off, I'm relatively confident that this is the wrong mailing list for this, but I'm not sure which would be a better place. I have a feature request, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I don't believe it is a mature enough idea to submit as a feature request yet, and I think its

Re: [libreoffice-users] the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote (04-02-11 16:52) OpenOffice and LibreOffice often create problems for each other when both are installed. Try uninstalling one of them and then reinstall the one you are keeping. Since they are both free uninstalling and reinstalling is relatively trivial. Apparently

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 4 February 2011 09:36, Ken Springer snows...@dishmail.net wrote: Good morning, Gordon, On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: But that applies to ALL applications, whether FOSS or proprietary. In my personal experience in large corporations, 75%

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Springer
Good afternoon, Mr ZenWiz On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. That was so helpful I just can't describe it. When I read your reply, I was perplexed, and took your comment as a bit less than civil, and did not understand why. But thanks to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:49:30AM -0700, Ken Springer wrote: .snip And only Bob Holtzman's reply tweaked my sensibilities, as the saying goes. But I didn't want to fall into the Tom and Dick story line I posted, so I sat back for a couple hours before writing my

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:29:47AM -0700, Ken Springer wrote: And I prefer HTML. It makes it easier when people send you an email that has inline photos of the grandkid or something else they find interesting. I've used email clients in the past that didn't support HTML. To me, we each

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: way too much material to quote Having a bad day? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Ken Springer snows...@dishmail.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you.  That was so helpful I just can't describe it. When I read your reply, I was perplexed, and took your comment as a bit less than civil,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-04 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Scott Jones srjone...@gmail.com wrote: Ok.  You people are so off topic. Grow up and move on! raspberry -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are

[libreoffice-users] Re: [BUG] LO crashes when .doc with Visio drawing is displayed

2011-02-04 Thread NoOp
On 01/31/2011 11:15 AM, NoOp wrote: On 01/31/2011 05:21 AM, Petki wrote: Hi all, I have following document (see attachment) with MS Visio drawing. When I try to open it via LO 3.3, crash occurs. Any advices how to fix it (document was not created by me...)? (FYI, Google Docs also cannot

[libreoffice-users] Re: the table starts everytime in a new page - after I type the heading for the table

2011-02-04 Thread sivakumar
Dear All, thanks for replying to my problem. never expected to have so many thanks for the community, once again. (Every one needs a pat to keep them going, particularly when it is non-commercial). I have even before posting the problem : - have first uninstalled OOO 3.2 (which came