[libreoffice-users] Decimal Point Move

2011-08-16 Thread John D
Can anyone help with Calc. Move Decimal Point from the following: The result in a the cell is 1.23 of which I would like to format the cell to 0.0123 >From 1.23 To 0.0123 I have tried numerous formats including 0.##"00" but to no avail. How do I move the decimal point in front of the figure 1?

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2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A lot of email clients that are in common usage by normal office workers have really appalling defaults. There is not much chance of getting the IT Dept to set it up right and they often block people from changing settings for 'security' reasons. Maybe IT Departments would be less concer

[libreoffice-users] copying and pasting text+images in LO writer

2011-08-16 Thread sharkx forever
Hi all, I am not sure if it is a problem due to the clipboard on my system or a feature not available in LO. I thought I will try asking on LO list first before trying on a linux list. The problem is that when I copy something from a webpage (text+images together) from firefox and paste it in LO

[libreoffice-users] Macro to select for example 10 cells down (and/or right) current cell

2011-08-16 Thread Silva Paulo
Since uno:GoDown select is broken, how can I select for example 10 cells down (or right) the current cell in a basic macro? Thanks -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Postin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-16 Thread soumalya ray
this reminded me my experience,not this much serious though. while creating a presentation,i found LO unresponsive.i was a bit scared.waited for few minutes and it was working again.later,i found that LO was making a back-up copy at that time and hence the effect.dont know if this is normal or not.

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2011-08-16 Thread soumalya ray
totally agree with you On 16 August 2011 11:28, Stan Goodman wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:42:48 Tom Davies wrote: > > We don't really get a LOT of problems. Perhaps 2 or 3 people in a > > month? We all notice and their posts are glaringly obvious but > > usually it's very easy to fix

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2011-08-16 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from planas on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:12:42 -0400 > Cliff > > > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 13:43 -0500, Cliff Scott wrote: > > > ** Reply to message from Tom Davies on Tue, 16 Aug > > 2011 10:58:06 +0100 (BST) > > > > > Hi :) > > > I don't feel contempt or superior or anything.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. On 2011-08-17 07:32, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2011/8/16 NoOp : > >> On 08/16/2011 12:17 PM, NoOp wrote: >> >>> On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2011/8/16 NoOp : > >> On 08/16/2011

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2011-08-16 Thread planas
Cliff On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 13:43 -0500, Cliff Scott wrote: > ** Reply to message from Tom Davies on Tue, 16 Aug > 2011 10:58:06 +0100 (BST) > > > Hi :) > > I don't feel contempt or superior or anything. If a person has a problem i > > just > > try to help if i can. A quick copy&paste is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Reported it here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40152 I was going to report it to OpenOffice.org too, but for some reason I failed to login there, even though I know I entered user name and password correctly. I don't use OpenOffice.org anyway, so I don't care, but if someone else w

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2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) On mine the "users+" looks like it's not part of the address. The "Problems" guide does lead to the right place tho but maybe the + causes problems for those emailers when they try to follow the instruction? Regards from Tom :) From: Cliff Scott To: u

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2011-08-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:20:47PM +0200, francis.lebou...@algo.be wrote: > > If you want to unsubscribe look a the "List-Unsubscribe:" header in any email > from the list. That is send an email to > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org to get instructions. > > Don't send an email to the list. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/16 NoOp : > On 08/16/2011 12:17 PM, NoOp wrote: >> On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/8/16 NoOp : > On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty >>>

[libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread NoOp
On 08/16/2011 12:17 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, NoOp wrote: >> On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>> 2011/8/16 NoOp : On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty > (meaning that I will

[libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread NoOp
On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> 2011/8/16 NoOp : >>> On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Gradwohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2011 12:44 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>> When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty >>> (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will not >>> take place. What you describe is also what I get in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread NoOp
On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2011/8/16 NoOp : >> On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>> When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty >>> (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will not >>> take place. The only way I coul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames & Sections questions

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 17/08/11 2:45 AM, Urmas D. wrote: Can you explain in more detail what you have done or want to do? I have a document which contains many sections with different formatting; also some text is in frames. I need to simplify this document layout. I have been doing this recently by cut/paste/de

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/16 NoOp : > On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty >> (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will not >> take place. The only way I could find to do it, was to copy the text >> to gEdit and

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2011-08-16 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Tom Davies on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:58:06 +0100 (BST) > Hi :) > I don't feel contempt or superior or anything. If a person has a problem i > just > try to help if i can. A quick copy&paste is no hassle. > > > At a coffee shop we kept making a certain warning sign la

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2011-08-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:56:39 +0300 Stan Goodman wrote: Hello Stan, > Given that there are lazy people, and also even many more people who > simply don't know the drill and don't know exactly what to scrutinize > to make sure that they're not missing any bets, the rational way for > the group

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-16 Thread Tom
Hi :) Nicely done. have you tried using Synaptic Package Manager to Edit - "Fix broken packages" Also out of curiosity which format do you use for the presentation? Could you try "Save As" and change to "the other one", eg if the presentation is currently a .Ppt try saving as a .Odp I don't kn

[libreoffice-users] Re: Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread NoOp
On 08/16/2011 07:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty > (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will not > take place. The only way I could find to do it, was to copy the text > to gEdit and quickly do the replace

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2011-08-16 Thread Caesar
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:56:39 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe: >Given that there are lazy people, and also even many more people who >simply don't know the drill and don't know exactly what to scrutinize >to make sure that they're not missing any bets, the ratio

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2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Your position is a good one and doesn't need defending. If we all agreed about everything all the time it would be very dull. Lets hope we never get there! Usually we work towards a win-win so that everyone is happy but in this case we have been forced into a compromise which no-one has

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-16 Thread stan
Hi Tom, Thanks for the quick reply. The bug report is now https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40141 Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the crash using strace. Ironic! I'll just start LO through strace every time and if it doesn't crash, that's fine, too. Cheers Stan -- View this message

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2011-08-16 Thread Stan Goodman
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:01:37 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:58:08 +0300 > Stan Goodman wrote: > > Hello Stan, > > > Why is it necessary for one of us to hand-massage individual cases? > > Because there's a percentage of people that expect everything to be > done for them. Th

[libreoffice-users] Search/Replace in Basic IDE

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
When I search for something and leave the Replace With field empty (meaning that I will replace something with nothing), replace will not take place. The only way I could find to do it, was to copy the text to gEdit and quickly do the replace there and then move it back to the Basic IDE again. Is t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames & Sections questions

2011-08-16 Thread Urmas D.
> Can you explain in more detail what you have done or want to do? I have a document which contains many sections with different formatting; also some text is in frames. I need to simplify this document layout. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Please could you post a bug-report about it? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport A copy&paste of your email would be perfect. It might be good to say which version of LibreOffice you are using, 3.3.3 or 3.4.2 or whatever but don't worry about it if you don't know right now. Als

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2011-08-16 Thread Onyeibo Oku
+1 Thank you so very much - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: francis.lebou...@algo.be Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:20:47 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] If you want to UNSUBSCRIBE plea

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2011-08-16 Thread francis . leboutte
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[libreoffice-users] LO Impress 3.3.3 crashes Windows and Ubuntu

2011-08-16 Thread stan
When I work with a presentation in Impress, it happens quite frequently that while moving an object the desktop stops responding to input, neither mouse clicks nor keyboard input. I can move around the mouse pointer (now hand) but I cannot do anything else. All that I am left with is a hard reboot.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol, superb. Great comedy timing! Now we might get a flame-war about which flame-war is more important! Lol!! Regards from Tom :) From: Steve Edmonds To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 16 August, 2011 10:57:05 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] R

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I think Twayne was showing his sense of humour again. In England good friends often do petty jibes at each other in that way. The better the friendship the more outrageous the jibes/jokes. The problem imo is how people outside that friendship view it. A non-native English speaker

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with combo box

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/16 Tom Davies : > HI :) > A classic OpenSource answer.  An initial statement saying something can't be > done.  Then giving 3 ways of doing it and alternatives to achieve the goal a > different way, followed by advice as to why it's not a good idea.  All done in > one neat post too :)  Ok, m

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2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't feel contempt or superior or anything. If a person has a problem i just try to help if i can. A quick copy&paste is no hassle. At a coffee shop we kept making a certain warning sign larger and larger. Changed the font to red. Tried exclamation marks, road-side no-entry sign

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 16/08/11 9:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Oh no, Not that old flame-war again! lol We have very adamant fan-boys (and ladies) on all 3 sides of this on-going argument all with legitimate and great reasons why their way is the only acceptable way and everyone else is a moron. Please, le

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with combo box

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) A classic OpenSource answer. An initial statement saying something can't be done. Then giving 3 ways of doing it and alternatives to achieve the goal a different way, followed by advice as to why it's not a good idea. All done in one neat post too :) Ok, maybe just 1 or 2 ways this tim

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc will not save file after sheet deleted [RETORT TO FLAMEBAIT; DNFTT]

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oh no, Not that old flame-war again! lol We have very adamant fan-boys (and ladies) on all 3 sides of this on-going argument all with legitimate and great reasons why their way is the only acceptable way and everyone else is a moron. Please, lets not go there again! Regards from Tom :

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2011-08-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:58:08 +0300 Stan Goodman wrote: Hello Stan, > Why is it necessary for one of us to hand-massage individual cases? Because there's a percentage of people that expect everything to be done for them. They're called lazy people. > Does it satisfy a hidden social need to do

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2011-08-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:07:41 +0300 Stan Goodman wrote: Hello Stan, > That is exactly why they should not be confronted with this > superfluous step, since there is not reason not to simplify the > procedure. You would still have errors, but they would be far fewer. > Why is that wrong? It isn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with combo box

2011-08-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/8/16 Andreas Säger : > There is more than one way and you are free to do whatever you want. It is > just me who suggests a better solution. Form controls used to be in there > since version 1. > As a matter of fact, most of their functionality is tailored for database > fields. Form controls u

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.2 Spellcheck Not Working....

2011-08-16 Thread Guy Voets
2011/8/12 : > Any progress on this issue?  I've installed it on 4 different systems, with > different operating systems >  and have the sme issue, spell-check does not work. > > Any chance of a patch? Hi, Spell checking works fina on Mac Lion, LibO 3.4.2 in Portuguese (BR) and Dutch. Did you in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extension Manager Runtime exception

2011-08-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't know if this is helpful but the Macro chapter in the Getting Started Guide got updated a few days ago http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation There is an additional chapter in the Calc Guide but that is still on it's first version. If you scroll down to the bottom of t