[libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar

2011-02-18 Thread Avraham Hanadari
Le 18/02/2011 22:34, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I think that the View menu on the menu bar might help ... View - Toolbars - Table Then you might want to push the table toolbar to the side rather than have it vertical rather than horizontal. Regards from Tom :) Thanks for your remarks. I ca

[libreoffice-users] Re: keep open table tool bar

2011-02-18 Thread Avraham Hanadari
Le 18/02/2011 21:46, MR ZenWiz a écrit : On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Avraham Hanadari wrote: The fact that the table tool bar opens when I am in a table, but disappears whenever I move to surrounding parts of the page makes the entire page jump up and down in a most disturbing manner. I us

[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Base and recognised 'xbase' file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Base supports one single type of file which is *.odb. You never "open" any database in Base. A database may have gigabytes. You connect databases to a database document, some driver requests data snippets (row sets) from the external database and shows the requested data in the user interface.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Prins
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:05, plino wrote: > > It's only slightly more complicated :) > > =IF(VALUE(RIGHT(A9))=5;IF(ISEVEN(VALUE(LEFT(RIGHT(A9;2;A9-0.005;A9+0.005);ROUND(A9;2)) > > Check if the last digit is 5. If it is add 0.005 if the previous digit is > odd or subtract if it is even. Other

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.02.2011 02:25, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 19.02.2011 00:50, Robert Prins wrote: Why is there no standard function to do bankers rounding (aka round-to-even)? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_MROUND_function Indeed, MROUND is not a standard function. I

[libreoffice-users] [OP - Fix Tom] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/17/2011 04:01 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > Hi Tom, This has exactly what to do with the subject of this post? I'd place thread hijacking/OT drift right up there with top-posting et al. Please give some consideration to the OP and the thread subject. If you (and others) have something to con

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 18 February 2011 21:21, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58:41PM -0600, T. R. Valentine wrote: >> On 17 February 2011 18:58, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >> > You have something against trimming quotes? >> >> Too much work. One just hits reply, types where the cursor appears (o

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58:41PM -0600, T. R. Valentine wrote: > On 17 February 2011 18:58, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > You have something against trimming quotes? > > Too much work. One just hits reply, types where the cursor appears (on > top) and hits send. Are you *trying* to be irritati

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Glenn
Let's abandon this vindictiveness. PLEASE! This forum is one of our technological assets that should serve as an aid to users. Let's not squander it. Glenn On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:38:01PM -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:38:01PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Sorry, Tom, you have lost all credibility on this subject - you have > made it abundantly clear by your words and actions that you are simply > too damn lazy and arrogant to even consider that you should take a few > extra seconds

[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 18.02.2011 16:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 18/02/11 13:55, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I read somewhere an article that stated there were issues with Openjdk. Interestingly I'm using LO 3.3 (direct from LO not via ppa) and the OpenJDK 6 6b20-1.9.5 that comes with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 18 February 2011 18:24, plino wrote: > I had never heard of bankers rounding before. Interesting concept. I never heard it called that until recently, but was taught it many years ago. I prefer it because it is more accurate. But it requires more intelligence than most apps have. :-) > There

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Gordon Burgess-Parker on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:43:00 + > On 18/02/11 21:30, T. R. Valentine wrote: > > On 18 February 2011 10:25, wrote: > >> The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when > >> sending files to customers and vendors. I am not

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.02.2011 00:50, Robert Prins wrote: Why is there no standard function to do bankers rounding (aka round-to-even)? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_MROUND_function Indeed, MROUND is not a standard function. It is part of the (always installed) Analysi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread plino
It's only slightly more complicated :) =IF(VALUE(RIGHT(A9))=5;IF(ISEVEN(VALUE(LEFT(RIGHT(A9;2;A9-0.005;A9+0.005);ROUND(A9;2)) Check if the last digit is 5. If it is add 0.005 if the previous digit is odd or subtract if it is even. Otherwise use the standard round function with two cases. No

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > : > I find the ribbon bar much easier to use than the old menus and they look > prettier.  People mostly just don't like them because they are unfamiliar and > we > all like to stay in our comfort zones.  LibreOffice is better despite having >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Prins
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 00:24, plino wrote: > > I had never heard of bankers rounding before. Interesting concept. > > There is no such function in OOo/LO, Excel or Gnumeric... > > But you can easily create a function > > =IF(A1-INT(A1)=0.5;IF(ISEVEN(INT(A1));A1-0.5;A1+0.5);ROUND(A1)) > > (Adjust

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread plino
I had never heard of bankers rounding before. Interesting concept. There is no such function in OOo/LO, Excel or Gnumeric... But you can easily create a function =IF(A1-INT(A1)=0.5;IF(ISEVEN(INT(A1));A1-0.5;A1+0.5);ROUND(A1)) (Adjust if your separator is a comma instead of a semi-colon) What

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre 3.3.1 Second candidate - Fly Screen - Calc

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might be best off posting a bug-report about the problem http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Sorry no-one here was able to answer. Hopefully someone might appear later but i wouldn't rely on that happening. Regards from Tom :) From: Tinker

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is LibreOffice portable/runnbale form USB stick?

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Oh dear. I guess that it is not possible to just add a normal LibreOffice language pack to something like this as it has been repackaged or something? Apols and regards from Tom :) From: Glenn To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 18 February, 2011 12:49:16 S

[libreoffice-users] Missing function: Bankers Rounding

2011-02-18 Thread Robert Prins
Why is there no standard function to do bankers rounding (aka round-to-even)? -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archiv

[libreoffice-users] Re: Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/02/18 4:10 PM Tom Davies wrote: From: T. R. Valentine To:users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 18 February, 2011 21:30:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats On 18 February 2011 10:25, wrote: > The biggest reason is our users do not remem

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

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/17/2011 01:22 PM, Luuk wrote: > > OK, i'm no longer responding in this thread. > (too many people talking about too many other things than top- or bottom- > quooting ) > (( including meself )) I'd rather see the 'educate Tom' posts in this thread instead of the thread drifts/hijacks

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

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/17/2011 03:34 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-02-16 6:29 PM, NoOp wrote: >> Bottom posting (with appropriate snipping/intersperse etc) would be my >> choice. > > Aka 'in-line' posting... > Well... I'm trying to learn big words. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intersperse I suppose th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Extensions in error

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/18/2011 04:09 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Clean install of LO 3.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 using the download from LO and > NOT the Ubuntu repository. > Just added an extension and I've noticed that several of the > pre-installed extensions are exhibiting errors. > Report Builder, Solver for

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ubuntu user - have the LO PPA, but want to be "bleeding edge"...

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/18/2011 12:53 PM, emarkay wrote: > > What is the recommended approach to use any "nightlies" or other beta > releases. Both to ensure commonality, and to ensure any discovered bugs are > all "on the same page". Are you wishing to test PPA versions or LO standard? If the latter you can ins

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu user - have the LO PPA, but want to be "bleeding edge"...

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you have a spare 15Gb to put another partition on a hard-drive (or something) then why not install another copy of Ubuntu to use as a beta-testing area? Most distros are happy with a LOT less but Ubuntu is more comfortable with about that much space. Then you can beta test a lot o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
From: T. R. Valentine To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 18 February, 2011 21:30:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats On 18 February 2011 10:25, wrote: > The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when > sendi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu user - have the LO PPA, but want to be "bleeding edge"...

2011-02-18 Thread Matthew Young
Hi, I usually extract the latest rc or beta onto "Filesystem" as root. Then I cd to the folder and run sudo dpkg -iR DEBS/ This seems to have worked well for me. Since I am on Ubuntu 9.10, the PPA doesn't help much. Matthew On 02/18/2011 02:53 PM, emarkay wrote: What is the recommended

Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribing

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > HI :) > > The person is asking for help and is obviously desperate and having problems > with instructions. If this had been a single posting, I would agree with you. Multiple posts demanding action that most of us cannot perform will not pro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 21:30, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 18 February 2011 10:25, wrote: The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single customer of ours could open an .odt file, for example, so we have to use formats o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 18 February 2011 10:25, wrote: > The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when > sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single customer of > ours could open an .odt file, for example, so we have to use formats our > customers and vendors can open.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 18 February 2011 13:35, MR ZenWiz wrote: > (Note: The CentOS discussion list has similar conventions, and on both > of those lists, as well as many others I subscribe to, the regular > contributors are sticklers for following the list conventions like > proper quoting, bottom-posting, etc.) I

Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribing

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 20:17, Tom Davies wrote: HI :) The person is asking for help and is obviously desperate and having problems with instructions. This is an opt-in mailing list not an automatic one. The bit at the front "users+" does not get coloured in Does here.. -- Unsubscribe instructi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 18 February 2011 11:38, Charles Marcus wrote: > More asinine ridiculousness, Tom, and you're being disingenuous to boot.. > > I had suggested possibly using a *real* mail client when it became clear > that you were using Yahoo's WEBMAIL client, NOT OUTLOOK. > > Sorry, Tom, you have lost all cre

Re: [libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys

2011-02-18 Thread T. R. Valentine
2011/2/18 Thomas Blasejewicz : >    Question:Wordperfect has a handy little function, that allows the user to >    assign just about everything to individual keys, including which >    letter they represent.Since I am a German, but live in Japan where I use > Dell machines, >    which have basical

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu user - have the LO PPA, but want to be "bleeding edge"...

2011-02-18 Thread emarkay
What is the recommended approach to use any "nightlies" or other beta releases. Both to ensure commonality, and to ensure any discovered bugs are all "on the same page". Thanks! - LO version as updated via PPA - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (& Windows XP-SP3) - (1) 2.8 G/2G RAM/ATI HD2600,512VRAM/SIS A

[libreoffice-users] Re: Strange request - Can one make an image a font item?

2011-02-18 Thread emarkay
No, they were (as I recall) ".ai" files, and the program imported them as a character. I think it was a "CTRL-letter" assigned for each. No, All I have a are the old pages. (BTW, I did like WP - once you had your "cheat sheet" of commands, there was nothing I couldn't put on paper!) ---

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTF imports changes original formatation

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, please post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Until it gets fixed it might be easier to just edit the pics in individual files you need right now but leave the rest for after the bug-fix. If possible could you back-up the files so that you could check bug-fi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Strange request - Can one make an image a font item?

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you still have the ttf file? I am not sure it would work now but it might. There was a great answer to something similar about 2-3 days ago (might have been Monday). Regards from Tom :) From: emarkay To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 18 Februa

Re: [libreoffice-users] keep open table tool bar

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that the View menu on the menu bar might help ... View - Toolbars - Table Then you might want to push the table toolbar to the side rather than have it vertical rather than horizontal. Regards from Tom :) From: MR ZenWiz To: users@libreoffice.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Question - convert Multimate files - Reply 2

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Roy Day > wrote: >> >> The file extension is "*.dox" - Multimate is one of the first word >> processors in the 1980's. It was before your time. Eventually, >> Microsoft's WORD appeared, and then WORD PERFECT, etc. Ashton

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread ashleyt
>Ok, i am almost completely sure that the script will work but before running >it >you need to set-up a way of testing it. So, how about setting your own user >account to default to odt format, run the script and then see what format your >account defaults to? I ran the scripts, but they d

[libreoffice-users] unsubscribing

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) The person is asking for help and is obviously desperate and having problems with instructions. The trick is to try to help in a helpful way rather than copy the anger that other people are expressing and to find out why the person might be having trouble. The instructions appear to say

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ubuntu - "don't install LibreOffice manually from the ".deb" files"

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 19:14, emarkay wrote: MR. ZW, let's play nice now, OK? :) So regarding the thread of substance, what is DIFFERENT about the Ubuntu vs. Deb, vs "official" LO application? The major major difference is that the ppa version does NOT enable the user to use any address book source oth

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu - "don't install LibreOffice manually from the ".deb" files"

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 09/02/11 14:44, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: and you will be missing the integration to Ubuntu. But if you use TBird for email and not Evolution and you want to use the TBird addressbook as an address data source you HAVE to use the manual install from the LO website. Th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ubuntu - "don't install LibreOffice manually from the ".deb" files"

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM, emarkay wrote: > > MR. ZW, let's play nice now, OK?  :) > Depends on whom I'm playing with - with you, no problem. > So regarding the thread of substance, what is DIFFERENT about the Ubuntu vs. > Deb, vs "official" LO application? I didn't think that the Canonica

[libreoffice-users] Re: Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-18 Thread Mac
On 2/18/2011 1:17 PM, emarkay wrote: Please identify your OS and LO version. There appears to be a recent bug regarding this, but we need to know what you are using to assist. - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS& Windows XP-SP3 - (1) 2.8 G/2G RAM/ATI HD2600,512VRAM/SIS AC97 OB Audio (2) 2.9 G/3G RAM/NVI

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Jones
You put yourself on the list. YOU need to unsubscribe On 2/18/2011 12:41 PM, philan...@comcast.net wrote: Please take me off your list!! Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: ashl...@arcet.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, Februar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:40 AM, wrote: > > please take me off your list > You need to ask the person who put you on this list to take you off. (Hint: It wasn't us.) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/use

Re: [libreoffice-users] keep open table tool bar

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Avraham Hanadari wrote: > The fact that the table tool bar opens when I am in a table, but disappears > whenever I move to surrounding parts of the page makes the entire page jump > up and down in a most disturbing manner. I use tables a lot and would be > very hap

Re: [libreoffice-users] RTF imports changes original formatation

2011-02-18 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:31:17AM -0300, Contabilidade wrote: > I'm with a problem when I want to open RTF (Rich Text Format) > files in the brOffice Writer. When I open it, the images that are > embed in the file are shown so much more smaller then your > original size, I would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
webreg.libreoffice@panscend.com wrote on 2011-02-18 07:06: > LO is starting up with an attempt to recover 2 files that are no longer > in existence on my computer. In OO you could manipulate the file > Recovery.xcu, but that appears not to be the case with LO. > > So, how do I stop this mad

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: : > > As I've said before in other wording, if one is going to contribute by > helping others, one needs to give up one's ego about how to do it, > follow the conventions and make sure that they give the *bets* help > possible, not just what is co

Re: [libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Generally it is better to start your own thread but don't worry this time. I don't really know a good answer to the specifics of the question you asked but some side-issues spring to mind. I'm fairly sure you can have both word-processors (WP & LO) installed on a system at the same time

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Marc Paré wrote: : > > Hi Tom: > > I don't believe this is the issue. It is more of a mentorship and guiding > suggestion for people joining and making use of the list. I don't believe > for a second that we would jump on newcomers and demand they follow a > list-

[libreoffice-users] Strange request - Can one make an image a font item?

2011-02-18 Thread emarkay
I recently stumbled across some old newsletters I did in the late 1980's, using Wordperfect for DOS. I had bought a set of fonts (I think it was vefore TTF) that allowed a line drawing (I think it was in Adobe Illustrator format only) to become a text character. This was great in being able to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-18 Thread emarkay
Please identify your OS and LO version. There appears to be a recent bug regarding this, but we need to know what you are using to assist. - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & Windows XP-SP3 - (1) 2.8 G/2G RAM/ATI HD2600,512VRAM/SIS AC97 OB Audio (2) 2.9 G/3G RAM/NVIDIA 9500GT,1024VRAM/SB AudigySE Audio (

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > > If they use LibreOffice they are behaving differently. It is much more > difficult to transition to using LibreOffice than to learn to bottom post > with proper clipping. > But some people will claim that this one extra step is just too muc

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, wrote: > > Please take me off your lists!!! > If you take just a fraction of a second to read the footer below (which happens to get appended to every single message posted to this discussion list), you'll see how you can remove yourself from the list - almost no-

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ubuntu - "don't install LibreOffice manually from the ".deb" files"

2011-02-18 Thread emarkay
MR. ZW, let's play nice now, OK? :) So regarding the thread of substance, what is DIFFERENT about the Ubuntu vs. Deb, vs "official" LO application? I didn't think that the Canonical folks MODIFY anything, correct? I think that "keeping Ubuntu version separate from all others" seems to be str

[libreoffice-users] Re: top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/02/18 2:26 AM Tom Davies wrote: If we don't want our office suite to be used by office workers then it is fine to ask people to behave differently, just for us. If they use LibreOffice they are behaving differently. It is much more difficult to transition to using LibreOffice than to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: "ashl...@arcet.com" To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 18 February, 2011 16:41:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats >If you do a custom install the option to set that appears at that time. My apologies, I did not phrase my question cle

[libreoffice-users] keep open table tool bar

2011-02-18 Thread Avraham Hanadari
The fact that the table tool bar opens when I am in a table, but disappears whenever I move to surrounding parts of the page makes the entire page jump up and down in a most disturbing manner. I use tables a lot and would be very happy if I could keep the table tool bar open all the time. I hav

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread ashleyt
> We have LO installed on an application server, >Is this on Terminal Server? Yes, LO is installed on Windows Server 2008, and our users connect via RDP from their desktops(primarily Windows XP) or thin clients (Igels running Linux). -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 12:48 PM, philan...@comcast.net wrote: > > > Please take me off your lists. I have a better idea... why don't YOU stop SPAMMING THE LIST with your stupidity? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/u

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 17:41, philan...@comcast.net wrote: Please take me off your list!! You need to do the unsubscribe instructions on the bottom of each email... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/us

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
Please take me off your list!! Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: ashl...@arcet.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:25:23 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats >Can I ask what is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
Please take me off your lists. Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: "Charles Marcus" To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:46:47 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats On 2011-02-18 11:41 AM, ashl...@arcet.co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 11:41 AM, ashl...@arcet.com wrote: > We have LO installed on an application server, Is this on Terminal Server? -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
Please take me off your list!!! Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: ashl...@arcet.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:41:08 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats >If you do a custom install the option

Re: [libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
please take me off your list Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: "Colin J. Williams" To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:36:17 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys Tom,Apologies for hijac

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
please take me off your list Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: "Luuk" To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:37:27 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats On 18-02-11 17:25, ashl...@arcet.com wrote: >>

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread philandaw
Please take me off your lists!!! Phil Woodruff - philan...@comcast.net - Original Message - From: "Charles Marcus" To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:30:55 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 4:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Ahah, whereas i think this list should instead be the most welcoming and > familiar making people feel at home and comfortable. Whose whom? Comfortable by what definition? Here again your arrogance shows through - in your mind, *your* home and *your* c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 3:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Obviously this list feels it more important to make rules to make it > more difficult for first time users, to ask them to post in a way > that is completely opposite to what they use everywhere else with > everyone else they might communicate with in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > The presence of archives, or people coming in to a discussion that's > already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from > normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two > parties, or several people who have all been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 6:55 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: > I have essentially tuned out over the last few days as the debate raged > regarding top posting and bottom posting. I went back over the threads > today but did nor really discover what is "wanted" or "preferred". > > When joining this list I noted in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 16:25, ashl...@arcet.com wrote: The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when sending files to customers and vendors. That's the joy of OO/LO - you don't have to! Do File-Send-Document as Microsoft Word. Then you can standardise on ODF while still send

[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-18 Thread NoOp
On 02/17/2011 09:28 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: > On 17/02/11 18:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > [snip] > >> I see you're using JVM 1.6.0_20 (IcedTea), you might want to try >> updating to Java 1.6.0_22 to see if that resolves the difficulties. > > Alex, > > I have switched to Java 1.6.0_22 and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread ashleyt
>If you do a custom install the option to set that appears at that time. My apologies, I did not phrase my question clearly. I was able to do the installation so LO was the default application to open all MS Office files, but I need to set LO so, by default, all files are saved in MS Office f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Luuk
On 18-02-11 17:25, ashl...@arcet.com wrote: >> Can I ask what is the point of using OO/LO and then setting the default > document type to MS Office? > > The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when > sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single custo

Re: [libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys

2011-02-18 Thread Colin J. Williams
Tom,Apologies for hijacking your topic, which needs a serious response, but I feel that I have been captured by the libreoffice group.I have tries to respond a number of times without success.Can someone help me please?Can someone respond to Tom's question please?Colin W.On 18-Feb-11

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread ashleyt
>Can I ask what is the point of using OO/LO and then setting the default document type to MS Office? The biggest reason is our users do not remember to save in MS format when sending files to customers and vendors. I am not sure a single customer of ours could open an .odt file, for example,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Luuk
On 18-02-11 16:58, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 18/02/11 15:23, Ashley Thomas wrote: >> We have been using OpenOffice 3.2.1 on Windows 2008 application >> servers, and I am testing LibreOffice in a sandbox before replacing >> OpenOffice. I like what I see so far, but I have not been able to >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 15:23, Ashley Thomas wrote: We have been using OpenOffice 3.2.1 on Windows 2008 application servers, and I am testing LibreOffice in a sandbox before replacing OpenOffice. I like what I see so far, but I have not been able to find a way to set the default file format for all users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Scott Jones
If you do a custom install the option to set that appears at that time. On 2/18/2011 10:23 AM, Ashley Thomas wrote: We have been using OpenOffice 3.2.1 on Windows 2008 application servers, and I am testing LibreOffice in a sandbox before replacing OpenOffice. I like what I see so far, but I h

[libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Ashley Thomas
We have been using OpenOffice 3.2.1 on Windows 2008 application servers, and I am testing LibreOffice in a sandbox before replacing OpenOffice. I like what I see so far, but I have not been able to find a way to set the default file format for all users to Microsoft 97/2000/XP. I am able to ma

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/02/11 13:55, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I read somewhere an article that stated there were issues with Openjdk. Interestingly I'm using LO 3.3 (direct from LO not via ppa) and the OpenJDK 6 6b20-1.9.5 that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 and seem to have no problems with it.

[libreoffice-users] assign keyboard keys

2011-02-18 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening from JapanI have been loyal Wordperfect user for a long time, but the software gives me lately a lot of grief.Thus, I am considering to permanently switch to Libreoffice (have been using Openoffice on and off in the past).Question:Wordperfect has a handy little function, tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: missing postscript fonts on mac and libre/openoffice 3.3

2011-02-18 Thread Markus Rietzler
Am 18.02.11 15:21, schrieb Alexander Thurgood: > Le 18/02/11 14:58, Markus Rietzler a écrit : > > >> >> that didn't help. i have a "font family" with a "*.fam" file and several >> other files. its a ps font for mac. >> > > Hmm, I don't recall whether StarOffice/OpenOffice.org ever managed *.fam

[libreoffice-users] Re: missing postscript fonts on mac and libre/openoffice 3.3

2011-02-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/02/11 14:58, Markus Rietzler a écrit : > > that didn't help. i have a "font family" with a "*.fam" file and several > other files. its a ps font for mac. > Hmm, I don't recall whether StarOffice/OpenOffice.org ever managed *.fam font files, unless you had an older version and they worke

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing chinese language pack

2011-02-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/02/11 12:16, James Wilde a écrit : Hi James, > > I wonder if one of our Chinese subscribers can help me. I am trying to > install the zh-CN language pack and it doesn't seem to be working all the > way. When I install the en-GB and the sv-SE language packs I see these in > the extensi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: missing postscript fonts on mac and libre/openoffice 3.3

2011-02-18 Thread Markus Rietzler
Am 18.02.11 14:54, schrieb Alexander Thurgood: > Le 18/02/11 14:32, Markus Rietzler a écrit : > > Hi Markus, > >> i have just installed libreoffice 3.3 (also openoffice 3.3). my problem is, >> that certain postscript files don't appear >> in the font list in libreoffice. >> i have also deleted a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-02-18 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/18/2011 12:28 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: On 17/02/11 18:52, Alexander Thurgood wrote: [snip] I see you're using JVM 1.6.0_20 (IcedTea), you might want to try updating to Java 1.6.0_22 to see if that resolves the difficulties. Alex, I have switched to Java 1.6.0_22 and that seems to have

[libreoffice-users] Re: missing postscript fonts on mac and libre/openoffice 3.3

2011-02-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/02/11 14:32, Markus Rietzler a écrit : Hi Markus, > i have just installed libreoffice 3.3 (also openoffice 3.3). my problem is, > that certain postscript files don't appear > in the font list in libreoffice. > i have also deleted and reinstalled the font on my mac but no help. the font >

[libreoffice-users] Re: Hardly any movement on the "OOo version" of this list

2011-02-18 Thread webreg . libreoffice . org
On 2/17/2011 5:05 PM, wamiduku wrote: OOo has a forum too, and with 48333 posts in the OOWriter section in 39 months, that's>1230 posts/month. Your milage may vary, but I always choose a forum over a mailing list when there's a choice, and from the statistics it seems that most OOo users prefer

[libreoffice-users] missing postscript fonts on mac and libre/openoffice 3.3

2011-02-18 Thread Markus Rietzler
hi, i have just installed libreoffice 3.3 (also openoffice 3.3). my problem is, that certain postscript files don't appear in the font list in libreoffice. i have also deleted and reinstalled the font on my mac but no help. the font is ok, the font programm says everything ok. the fonts are insta

[libreoffice-users] RTF imports changes original formatation

2011-02-18 Thread Contabilidade
Hi, I'm with a problem when I want to open RTF (Rich Text Format) files in the brOffice Writer. When I open it, the images that are embed in the file are shown so much more smaller then your original size, I would like to know the reason why it happens, and if it's possible your solution.

[libreoffice-users] Invalid recovery of non-existent files

2011-02-18 Thread webreg . libreoffice . org
LO is starting up with an attempt to recover 2 files that are no longer in existence on my computer. In OO you could manipulate the file Recovery.xcu, but that appears not to be the case with LO. So, how do I stop this madness? Also, wouldn't it make sense to clean this up when it's unrecovera

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