[libreoffice-users] docx table lines do not show

2011-02-15 Thread John King
Libreoffice 3.3 on both Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP . I have received several docx files containing tables which do not display correctly in Libreoffice. The outline of the table cells is visible on the page, but the lines themselves do not appear in print preview or when printed. The border

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug in New Labels wizard?

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Crider
An update on this bug. I am now running the final 3.3 release of LibreOffice from the Ubuntu PPA (so I don't know if what I am seeing applies to the packages from libreoffice.org). The database list in the Label wizard is now mostly alphabatized, except names starting with lowercase letters

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Matthew Young
Hello, I have a link for the image : http://www.matthewcom.info/OrangeFiles/NeedsToBeDoneinWriter.png Matthew On 02/15/2011 08:54 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, sadly attachments don't make it to the list so somewhere like imageshack might be good to post the document. Good luck and

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
On 15-02-11 16:07, Matthew Young wrote: Hello, I have a link for the image : http://www.matthewcom.info/OrangeFiles/NeedsToBeDoneinWriter.png Matthew On 02/15/2011 08:54 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Insert/Frame On the 5th tab you can set the border. To make the first letter large than

[libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
Hi, When replying to a message on this list, What is the best method when talking abot quoting? Bottom quoting is what i like because it preserves the reading order of the story. Luuk -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Matthew Young
I read them, and I *think* I can use another frame for the first letter. Thanks for the help! On 02/15/2011 09:10 AM, Luuk wrote: On 15-02-11 16:07, Matthew Young wrote: Hello, I have a link for the image : http://www.matthewcom.info/OrangeFiles/NeedsToBeDoneinWriter.png Matthew On

[libreoffice-users] Re: How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
http://q.xs4all.nl/Example.odt;) On 15-02-11 16:13, Matthew Young wrote: I read them, and I *think* I can use another frame for the first letter. Thanks for the help! On 02/15/2011 09:10 AM, Luuk wrote: On 15-02-11 16:07, Matthew Young wrote: Hello, I have a link for the image

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Luuk, Am 15.02.2011 16:13, schrieb Luuk: When replying to a message on this list, What is the best method when talking abot quoting? Bottom quoting is what i like because it preserves the reading order of the story. Please refer to this:

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 15/02/11 15:15, Matthew Young wrote: Hi, I prefer top quoting since email clients such as Thunderbird shows the text right on top. No it doesn't - I'm using TBird and it's set to bottom post. Do you read a book from the bottom up? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Andy Brown
Matthew Young wrote: Hello, I need to put a box around text and make the first letter larger than the rest. I have attached a screenshot of what needs to be done in Writer (the original was in Word). I have looked and looked but I cannot seem to find how to do that in Writer. Please help.

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Colin J. Williams
On 15-Feb-11 10:13 AM, Luuk wrote: Hi, When replying to a message on this list, What is the best method when talking abot quoting? Bottom quoting is what i like because it preserves the reading order of the story. Luuk +1 It would be better if this were set up as a USENET Group.

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
top-quoting fixed On 15-02-11 16:15, Matthew Young wrote: On 02/15/2011 09:13 AM, Luuk wrote: Hi, When replying to a message on this list, What is the best method when talking abot quoting? Bottom quoting is what i like because it preserves the reading order of the story. Luuk Hi,

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
On 15-02-11 17:00, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi, Matthew Young wrote (15-02-11 16:15) I prefer top quoting since email clients such as Thunderbird shows the text right on top. When you hit the space bar, Thunderbird scrolls down in the text of the message.. no, i get a message Advance to next

[libreoffice-users] activated quickstarter on ubuntu

2011-02-15 Thread jcg
Hi, When the quickstarter of libreOffice is activated it prevents the shutdown of ubuntu. this is also true for ooo and it's a well known reported bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/562027)!! I found a solution (I don't remember on which forum) for ooo by mean of

Re: [libreoffice-users] activated quickstarter on ubuntu

2011-02-15 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I find that using the quick starter part of OOo mad for difficulty with the Update Manager with updating OOo from their repository. So I never used it. So I decided that it was not something I was going to activate in LibreOffice. If it caused trouble updating some of the item that came from

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The lines written under my name were not written by me. Some geeky users might notice that my name is on a single while the sentences following my name are on a double so again we see people editing previous emails in the thread and unintentionally altering the message. This time it

[libreoffice-users] Installing downloaded LO and removing downloaded OO

2011-02-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Ubuntu 10.04 I downloaded and installed OO 3.3 direct from OO because I need the integration with Thunderbird addressbook (the Ubuntu-supplied OO doesn't have that). I now want to replace that version of OO with LO. I can do the install of LO but I can't find the syntax to uninstall OO

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Luuk, Luuk wrote (15-02-11 17:06) On 15-02-11 17:00, Cor Nouws wrote: Matthew Young wrote (15-02-11 16:15) I prefer top quoting since email clients such as Thunderbird shows the text right on top. When you hit the space bar, Thunderbird scrolls down in the text of the message.. no, i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing downloaded LO and removing downloaded OO

2011-02-15 Thread Luuk
On 15-02-11 19:13, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Ubuntu 10.04 I downloaded and installed OO 3.3 direct from OO because I need the integration with Thunderbird addressbook (the Ubuntu-supplied OO doesn't have that). I now want to replace that version of OO with LO. I can do the install of LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 15 February 2011 09:15, Matthew Young rs.matthewcom.i...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I prefer top quoting since email clients such as Thunderbird shows the text right on top. Clients which top-quote (thanks to M$'s Outlook which started the trend) are fundamentally broken. -- T. R. Valentine

[libreoffice-users] Re: How can I do this in Writer?

2011-02-15 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/02/15 12:05 PM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The lines written under my name were not written by me. Some geeky users might notice that my name is on a single while the sentences following my name are on a double so again we see people editing previous emails in the thread and

[libreoffice-users] Re: top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/02/15 11:38 AM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Almost every office user i know (at least the few that use email) posts at the top of mails and leaves the previous posts dangling downwards along with any signatures. clip / Please fix the quoting in your email client. The above was written by

Re: [libreoffice-users] activated quickstarter on ubuntu

2011-02-15 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I find that LibreOffice starts up very quickly and takes only a few seconds from the time I click on the icon to the time I can use it. So is it a real advantage of having the quick

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing downloaded LO and removing downloaded OO

2011-02-15 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Luuk luu...@gmail.com wrote: On 15-02-11 19:13, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Ubuntu 10.04 I downloaded and installed OO 3.3 direct from OO because I need the integration with Thunderbird addressbook (the Ubuntu-supplied OO doesn't have that). I now want to

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:38:16PM +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Almost every office user i know (at least the few that use email) posts at the top of mails and leaves the previous posts dangling downwards along with any signatures. Some corporate users get all the previous thread

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing downloaded LO and removing downloaded OO

2011-02-15 Thread NoOp
On 02/15/2011 10:13 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Ubuntu 10.04 I downloaded and installed OO 3.3 direct from OO because I need the integration with Thunderbird addressbook (the Ubuntu-supplied OO doesn't have that). I now want to replace that version of OO with LO. I can do the install

[libreoffice-users] Re: activated quickstarter on ubuntu

2011-02-15 Thread NoOp
On 02/15/2011 08:50 AM, jcg wrote: Hi, When the quickstarter of libreOffice is activated it prevents the shutdown of ubuntu. this is also true for ooo and it's a well known reported bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/562027)!! You must be using LO from the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug in New Labels wizard?

2011-02-15 Thread NoOp
On 02/15/2011 06:03 AM, Michael Crider wrote: An update on this bug. I am now running the final 3.3 release of LibreOffice from the Ubuntu PPA (so I don't know if what I am seeing applies to the packages from libreoffice.org). The database list in the Label wizard is now mostly

[libreoffice-users] Re: top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-15 19:36, MR ZenWiz a écrit : On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Robert Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: : Is there something wrong with educating new users? Only that it takes some effort, like bottom posting, being courteous, keeping logical threads, posting only what needs to be

[libreoffice-users] Installing LibreOffice under Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic

2011-02-15 Thread plino
I'm an advanced Windows user but absolute Linux newbie. I was trying to install Libreoffice under Ubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 (the only version that has drivers for my eeePC netbook) following these instructions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing LibreOffice under Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic

2011-02-15 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:07 PM, plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an advanced Windows user but absolute Linux newbie. Not uncommmon. : W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404  Not Found I'm guessing that you don't