Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Urgent Base problem

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I've known quite a few people using Xp that couldn't open zipped files and needed help installing an archive manager.  They often can't view gifs either until after right-click - Choose program. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 20/3/12, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Indexing a text by concordance file failes

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!!  Good work!  Thanks for pin-pointing it down to a regression in the latest branch :)  Also thanks for finding an existing bug-report about it :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 20/3/12, u-ri ur...@arcor.de wrote: From: u-ri ur...@arcor.de Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Urgent Base problem

2012-03-20 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:56 20/03/2012 +, Tom Davies wrote: I've known quite a few people using Xp that couldn't open zipped files and needed help installing an archive manager. Do you mean you know dim people and advise them wrongly? Er, maybe suggest they just double-click the .zip file? Brian Barker

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Urgent Base problem

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No.  Err i am not sure where to start as there is so much wrong with Brian's last post.  1.  People are not dim just because they are not as skilled with computers as you.  People may be exceptionally gifted, perhaps even a genius at many things but still not understand the one area of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot access all fonts

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fonts sometimes seem to go a bit wonky so the question has been solved on this list a few times.  The archives might be quite difficult to search but it might help.  I tried looking through documentation but didn't find anything relevant easily.

[libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread darwinev0lved
HI, I was having problem with a docx document that work sent me (actually, this isn't the first time, but it'd be nice to sort it if poss.). When I try to save it, it crashes LO, I can recover it, I can save it as an odt but at some point I'm going to have to send it back, so I need to be able to

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread RustyRiley
just tried this myself, with a blank document, and could save as .docx in LO 3.5.1 and open it in Word 2010 Starter (don't bother with paying for Word) and could open successfully, so are you sure you've installed it correctly -- I tried this on Win 7 32 bit. Rusty -- View this message in

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread darwinev0lved
Well, I can do everything else, so yes, it's installed OK. Sticking to testing LO on win7 for the mo. I think it may be something to do with tables, or headers, or tables in headers. If I open up a different template, one with no header, then I can save it as a docx, but my standard template has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Jay Lozier
On 03/20/2012 09:04 AM, darwinev0lved wrote: OK, so it also crashed LO 3.4.4 on ubuntu 11.10. New blank document, save as docx, boom, crash. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/saving-as-docx-crashes-libreoffice-3-5-1-on-windows-7-tp3842244p3842277.html Sent

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread RustyRiley
that's hardly the same thing as trying it out with a blank document that you originally said! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/saving-as-docx-crashes-libreoffice-3-5-1-on-windows-7-tp3842244p3842341.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread darwinev0lved
yeah, sorry - been using that template for so long, that it's 'blank' to me - as was my mind when posting, clearly. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/saving-as-docx-crashes-libreoffice-3-5-1-on-windows-7-tp3842244p3842350.html Sent from the Users mailing list

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Guy Voets
2012/3/20 darwinev0lved darwinev0l...@gmail.com If anybody wants to try the template to see if they can save it as a docx, it's here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8251533/New.Standard.Template.11.ott -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Russell Wilson
crashes when attempting to save as .docx saves as .doc From: darwinev0lved darwinev0l...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 2:39 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread man_without_clue
On 03/20/2012 10:39 PM, darwinev0lved wrote: If anybody wants to try the template to see if they can save it as a docx, it's here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8251533/New.Standard.Template.11.ott -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread darwinev0lved
Great minds ... so that's what I did, created a new template. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8251533/New.Standard.Template.12.ott this still crashed LO 3.5.1 on win7 when trying to save it as docx - but doesn't crash when trying to save it on LO 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 Not sure if that counts as

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread RustyRiley
so the better solution might be to save it as a .doc file? From: darwinev0lved [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] ml-node+s969070n384247...@n3.nabble.com To: RustyRiley russwilso...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 3:07 AM Subject: Re: saving

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conditions

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Stanton
Thanks Dan Jean-Francois, Got to use double quotes? Whose idea was that? :-S Mutter mutter mutter, yup that works :-( All working now! We'll find out how good it is next week when it gets used in the production run! :-) Thanks again Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Jay Lozier
On 03/20/2012 09:39 AM, darwinev0lved wrote: If anybody wants to try the template to see if they can save it as a docx, it's here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8251533/New.Standard.Template.11.ott -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  It crashed my LO 3.4.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 (or 10.10 i never remember which each machine is).  I was going to suggest renaming the UserProfile but the one on this machine is fairly new.  I tried creating a new template but that didn't suffer from the same problem.  So, i attached it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, doc is much better than docX for greater compatibility between the different Office Suites.  MS's implementation fo docX are not quite the standard they pushed through as an ISO standard. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 20/3/12, RustyRiley russwilso...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread MiguelAngel
El 20/03/12 15:52, Tom Davies escribió: Hi :) Yes, doc is much better than docX for greater compatibility between the different Office Suites. MS's implementation fo docX are not quite the standard they pushed through as an ISO standard. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 20/3/12,

Re: [libreoffice-users] OT Re: Urgent Base problem (7-zip)

2012-03-20 Thread Ing. Jiří Hladůvka
Use this file archiver with a high compression ratio - freeware http://www.7-zip.org/ Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM * Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Permissions issue with Libreoffice3.5 on Fedora 16?

2012-03-20 Thread James E. Lang
(Top posting because my response is general -- signature at end) I use Ubuntu rather than Fedora but your problem sounds to me like an issue with permissions to access some file since things work with sudo and not without sudo. I would search the computer for RANDR for starters. I don't know

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread e-letter
On 20/03/2012, darwinev0lved darwinev0l...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I was having problem with a docx document that work sent me (actually, this isn't the first time, but it'd be nice to sort it if poss.). When I try to save it, it crashes LO, I can recover it, I can save it as an odt but at some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Permissions issue with Libreoffice3.5 on Fedora 16?

2012-03-20 Thread Steve Edmonds
It is also possible that SU and user have different paths, something needed is in roots path but not the users. steve On 2012-03-21 08:40, James E. Lang wrote: (Top posting because my response is general -- signature at end) I use Ubuntu rather than Fedora but your problem sounds to me like

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Shari
@darwinev0lved Based on this email response maybe LibreOffice should remove this from their website: Compatible with all major competitors' file formats. You can easily import files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and many other formats, and can easily save to Microsoft Office and

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Shari
You can try saving it as a 2003 xml and office 2007/2010 should be able to open that. I know in a previous version of Libre this worked for me. Shari -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) MS Office 2007 2010 claims to be able to use OpenDocument Formats such as Odt and Ods but it only handles the ancient 1.1 version, not the 1.2 taht most other programs have been using for years (although it was only formally released in about last Aug or something).  Similarly LO

[libreoffice-users] Upgrade to LibreOffice 3.5.1 on Xubuntu?

2012-03-20 Thread Edwin Powell
So I've got this laptop running Xubuntu 11.10 and I loaded LibreOffice 3.4.5 onto it last fall from the Ubuntu Software Center, but now I want to upgrade to 3.5.1 but the Ubuntu Software Center says I've got the newest version (3.4.5). Is there a trick to installing the software from the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conditions

2012-03-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:33 +, Mark Stanton wrote: Thanks Dan Jean-Francois, Got to use double quotes? Whose idea was that? :-S Mutter mutter mutter, yup that works :-( All working now! We'll find out how good it is next week when it gets used in the production run! :-)

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Jon Rubin
bangs head against wall. I'm in academia, they aren't going to buy me a copy of MS to use at home. I don't want to buy one. Who benefits? Bangs head again. *I* benefit, if LO can open and save docx with no probllems so that it is transparent. I normally ignore this kind of trolling, but as you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conditions

2012-03-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:33 +, Mark Stanton wrote: Thanks Dan Jean-Francois, Got to use double quotes? Whose idea was that? :-S Mutter mutter mutter, yup that works :-( All working now! We'll find out how good it is next week when it gets used in the production run! :-)

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread Steve Edmonds
Have you tried any of the others. Softmaker (free trial version), office web. I think a newer version of ApacheOO is due out later this year but it may be no better depending upon work on the filters. Steve On 2012-03-21 13:09, Jon Rubin wrote: bangs head against wall. I'm in academia, they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

2012-03-20 Thread MiguelAngel
El 20/03/12 15:52, Tom Davies escribió: Hi :) Yes, doc is much better than docX for greater compatibility between the different Office Suites. MS's implementation fo docX are not quite the standard they pushed through as an ISO standard. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 20/3/12,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Upgrade to LibreOffice 3.5.1 on Xubuntu?

2012-03-20 Thread Don Myers
Hi Edwin, This method has worked very reliably for me over the last three years with both OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice. I prefer the versions directly from LibreOffice. When I do a system upgrade, like I will be doing for 12.04, I always replace the Ubuntu version with the version from

[libreoffice-users] [Calc] Bug in Search/replace with regexp

2012-03-20 Thread Ninj
Hi, I think i found a bug in the search/replace of Calc. When looking for a pattern to be replaced by a string containing references to the matches of the search, if a cell has this pattern more than once, only the first replacement is correct. Example below: Search: T[1-3](\.[A-Z]+[0-9]+)

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.1 for Windows is failed to play the slide show of the pps files normally.

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Wu
Dear all, After I upgrade LibreOffice for windows from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1, I have found that the Impress cannot play the slide show of the pps files normally. The windows platform is XP +SP3. However, if we use LibreOffice for Linux on Fedora 15, there is no problem to play the slide show of the pps

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.5.1 for Windows is failed to play the slide show of the pps files normally.

2012-03-20 Thread Pedro
This is a Windows specific bug. http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/1367/cant-see-pictures-in-impress-presentation -- View this message in context: