Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
Try renaming the file registrymodifications.xcu in your profile, to see if it gets better (it did for others). -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2012/4/9 Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com This feature has not been working for a while and version 3.5.2.2 brings no relief either...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I was clutching at straws with my previous post.  There is not much that you do need java for and if you do need it then some grumbling pop-up will appear to let you know.  If that happens just switch java on again and retry whatever it was that produced the grumble.  Databases and

[libreoffice-users] Formula Bar size

2012-04-09 Thread IGraham
Hello Calc My eyes aren't quite as good as they once were so in Toolsoptionsview I've increased 'scaling' to 130% - I can now see my formulas with out trouble However the Formula Bar itself hasn't increased heigh to accommodate the scaled content and the bottom of the content drops under the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-09 Thread ptoye
More developments - I copied the database to a Linux system and it opens correctly. So it seems to be a Windows-only issue. But the formatting on the Linux system was terrible! - Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formula Bar size

2012-04-09 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, IGraham schrieb: Hello Calc My eyes aren't quite as good as they once were so in Toolsoptionsview I've increased 'scaling' to 130% - I can now see my formulas with out trouble However the Formula Bar itself hasn't increased heigh to accommodate the scaled content and the bottom of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Which disto?  Ubuntu?  Hmm, more to the point which Desktop Environment?  Unity, Gnome, KDE, LxDE or something unusual?  Usually you can change the appearance through System/Utilities, Preferences or there might be a control-box Often a right-click on the desktop can get you into some of

[libreoffice-users] Base Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.6 now available

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Base users that are currently using MySql/MariaDb might be interested in the events that are after the announcement of the new release of MariaDb.  It would be great if someone on the Postgresql mailing lists could let us know of significant announcements from them.  For MariaDb i try

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

2012-04-09 Thread ptoye
Ubuntu. I think it's a fonts issue. But the formatting isn't exactly the problem. I'm far more worried about the problems in Windows, which is my normal desktop environment. - Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Rogier F. van Vlissingen
thanks. What is the definition of 'your profile' here? I am not aware of any such function in Libre Office? nor is any such listed in the help text? Please explain... On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Gabriel Risterucci cleyf...@gmail.comwrote: Try renaming the file registrymodifications.xcu in

[libreoffice-users] Sending mail merged document to email

2012-04-09 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
LO 3.5.2.2 I am trying to send a mail-merged document direct to email and some rather baffling occurrences present themselves. 1. It seems that LO uses it's own mail sending function rather than the default email client that is installed on my machine! What on earth is that all about? Why

[libreoffice-users] Justification

2012-04-09 Thread Renaud (Ron) Olgiati
I encounter from time to time the following problem with LOWriter 3.4.4 under Mageia 1 : -from time to time, when I open an existing .odt document to modify it; and enter new text at the end of a paragraph, as my line gets to the right-hand edge of my page, the word I'm typing is cut in mid

Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
If you're running LibreOffice in windows 7, the profile path should be something like C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\ You can access this place directly by typing in the Run dialog (opened by pressing the windows key and the R key, Win+R): %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\3\user once

[libreoffice-users] Re: Sending mail merged document to email

2012-04-09 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 09/04/2012 13:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: There is NO option to select TLS for the sept server in the built-in LO mailing function. Of course that should be SMTP, not sept.. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

2012-04-09 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I do not know about him but since my laptop has Ubuntu 11.xx on it and the dual boot loader shows Debian instead of Ubuntu, there is issues there. Most people use Ubuntu, instead of Debian, but since Ubuntu comes from Debian, but is made easier to use, I thing some people just group them

Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Rogier F. van Vlissingen
Well, I'm on Win7, I renamed the registrymodifications.xcu file to something else, and then I restarted the computer, opened LO writer, and started a document, made one change, saved the document, closed the document, and looked in 'recent documents' - but it still shows 'no documents' It seems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.6 now available

2012-04-09 Thread Sylvain Bromberber
I am somewhat confused by these messages about Maria DB. Is Libre office able to access Maria Db files? How does that work? I don't have Maria DB on my computer but it looks like a good thing. Sylvain -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 7:09 AM To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Justification

2012-04-09 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Sorry, but this list strips attachments off the emails. Do you have the hyphen controls enabled? It is listed at Format Paragraph Text Flow. It could be checked and that could be breaking the word in two. Since I do not see the screen clip I cannot see if there is a hyphen mark there or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

2012-04-09 Thread e-letter
On 08/04/2012, Jonathan Schultz jonat...@imatix.com wrote: Unfortunately I'm still not out of the woods. The TDF version of LibreOffice isn't detected by bibus. Which means no bibliography, which is pretty much a deal-breaker. To create documents with a bibliography, LyX/LaTeX and BibTeX is

[libreoffice-users] Re: how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Pedro
Rogier van Vlissingen wrote Well, I'm on Win7, I renamed the registrymodifications.xcu file to something else, and then I restarted the computer, opened LO writer, and started a document, made one change, saved the document, closed the document, and looked in 'recent documents' - but it

[libreoffice-users] Conditional Formatting columns

2012-04-09 Thread IGraham
Hi Conditional Formatting columns Sheet name DH April I have a area/grid of 8 columns E10 to L40, in cell W7 I have a number (1 to 8) I want to starting from the first column (E10) conditionally colour a number of the columns depending upon the number in W7 This is the Conditional Formatting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Formula Bar size

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If Win7 has a similar option then it does allow some fairly fine grain options.  Changing the dpi setting is the fastest route but as you point out it will change a lot more.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 9/4/12, IGraham gra...@lovatt.co.uk wrote: From: IGraham gra...@lovatt.co.uk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.6 now available

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Base is a great front-end.  One of the really awesome features is that it makes it easier to connect to a range of different 3rd party back-ends that would hold the data of the database.  So, it makes Base highly scalable.  MariaDb/MySql is probably a tad heftier than most people need if

Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This guide might help find your User Profile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 9/4/12, Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com wrote: From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen vlisc...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how about

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a number of files that I use in both LO and MS Word 2007 on a Windows 7 64 bit Home system. While before now - there hasn't been a problem. However, as soon as I upgraded LO 3.5.1 - 3.5.2 - in every single existing .doc file I open in 3.5.2 - the top part of each line is cut off, and if I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conditional Formatting columns

2012-04-09 Thread IGraham
Seems my initial post was to ambiguous, contained info that wasn't needed and was unclear as to what i wanted etc etc (so I've been told) so I've uploaded a demo file that might make things a little clearer http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3897740/column_test.ods column_test.ods

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Eduardo Mundim
I've faced a similar problem: text documents saved in LO 3.5 haven't been open in LO 3.3 - and a box informs the corruption of file on line ... colun ... Your doubts are mine, too eduardo mundim 2012/4/9 Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com I have a number of files that I use in both LO

[libreoffice-users] Re: Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

2012-04-09 Thread V Stuart Foote
e-letter wrote On 08/04/2012, Jonathan Schultz lt;jonathan@gt; wrote: Unfortunately I'm still not out of the woods. The TDF version of LibreOffice isn't detected by bibus. Which means no bibliography, which is pretty much a deal-breaker. To create documents with a bibliography,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might want to back-up your User Profile first or just rename so that LO generates a new one.  Then you could test it to see if it's some weird setting that is causing the problem.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile I think just uninstall 3.5.2 and then

[libreoffice-users] Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Page breaks never get really deleted, bug shows when saving as docx.

2012-04-09 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 05.04.2012 22:57, schrieb Joachim Otahal (privat): This is the one with the page breaks removed, or rather hidden: office:automatic-styles style:style style:name=P1 style:family=paragraph style:parent-style-name=Standard style:master-page-name= style:paragraph-properties

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Conditional Formatting columns

2012-04-09 Thread MiguelAngel
El 09/04/12 21:20, IGraham escribió: Seems my initial post was to ambiguous, contained info that wasn't needed and was unclear as to what i wanted etc etc (so I've been told) so I've uploaded a demo file that might make things a little clearer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Conditional Formatting columns

2012-04-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:20 09/04/2012 -0700, Graham Lovatt wrote: Seems my initial post was too ambiguous, contained info that wasn't needed and was unclear as to what i wanted etc etc (so I've been told) so I've uploaded a demo file that might make things a little clearer You've got the opposite of what you

[libreoffice-users] Re: Page breaks never get really deleted, bug shows when saving as docx.

2012-04-09 Thread Joachim Otahal (privat)
Johannes Sixt schrieb: Am 05.04.2012 22:57, schrieb Joachim Otahal (privat): This is the one with the page breaks removed, or rather hidden: office:automatic-styles style:style style:name=P1 style:family=paragraph style:parent-style-name=Standard style:master-page-name=

[libreoffice-users] Re: Make a form that allows user to drag and drop in an image

2012-04-09 Thread avamk
Yes, I just looked at sheepdogs explanation, it is so well written! Even though it uses relative paths, they need to be typed in manually. So the File Picker control still needs to be used. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.6 now available

2012-04-09 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/09/2012 09:10 AM, Sylvain Bromberber wrote: I am somewhat confused by these messages about Maria DB. Is Libre office able to access Maria Db files? How does that work? I don't have Maria DB on my computer but it looks like a good thing. Sylvain Base can access with correct connectors

[libreoffice-users] Re: Conditional Formatting columns

2012-04-09 Thread IGraham
Thanks, both methods work Miguel - now why didn't i see that Brian - had no idea it could be reduced so much thanks people - IGraham W764 LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Conditional-Formatting-columns-tp3896993p3898033.html Sent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathan Schultz
Regards OP's failures with  Bibus - IIRC, it has PyUno Python, wxpython and wxWidgets version dependencies for use with OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer, and it looks as if its development has stalled (last release v1.5 in Oct. 2009).  Resolving problems with current OO/LibO releases may

[libreoffice-users] PLEASE ban this spammer!

2012-04-09 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 09.04.2012 13:09, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Base users that are currently using MySql/MariaDb might be interested in the events that are after the announcement of the new release of MariaDb. It would be great if someone on the Postgresql mailing lists could let us know of significant

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Thanks for the suggestion,Tom. Changing user profiles did not help. Unfortunately when using the hyperlink you provided - I see where it gives me a choice of operating systems and languages - but after selecting U.S. english - the only version of LO it's offering is 3.5.2. J On Mon, Apr 9, 2012

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Correction - the only versions of LO the site is offering for U.S. English - Windows is 3.5.2 and 3.4.6. I have not found an option for 3.5.1 On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the suggestion,Tom. Changing user profiles did not help.

Re: [libreoffice-users] how about 'recent documents?'

2012-04-09 Thread Rogier F. van Vlissingen
Thanks! Those instructions seem to have worked. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) This guide might help find your User Profile http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :) -- Rogier F. van Vlissingen, NY

[libreoffice-users] Re: PLEASE ban this spammer! - NO

2012-04-09 Thread V Stuart Foote
Humm, Andreas That is UNFAIR! Why do you consider Tom's posts on MariaDB as Spam? There is nothing indiscriminate about his postings. He's very clear about what he is posting and why. While they could be trimmed down a bit they are applicable as an alternative to a great number of LibreOffice

[libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [final beta] includes LO 3.5.1.2

2012-04-09 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I just installed Ubuntu's 12.04 LTS, in the final beta version, on my laptop that had 11.10. I looked at what LO it installed and it stated 3.5.1.2 - 350m1 [build 102]. I will be removing this version and use 3.4.6, but I had not seen any info about what Ubuntu 12.04 was going to have.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [final beta] includes LO 3.5.1.2

2012-04-09 Thread Don Myers
On 04/09/2012 10:15 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I just installed Ubuntu's 12.04 LTS, in the final beta version, on my laptop that had 11.10. I looked at what LO it installed and it stated 3.5.1.2 - 350m1 [build 102]. I will be removing this version and use 3.4.6, but I had not seen

[libreoffice-users] Math and accessibility for the visually impaired

2012-04-09 Thread protonpusher
I am looking for some guidance with math equations in Impress presentations, taking into account accessibility requirements. I am using LibreOffice on Ubuntu. Also a consideration is that the presentations would be converted to pdf as well. My understanding is that description attached to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: PLEASE ban this spammer! - NO

2012-04-09 Thread Don Myers
On 04/09/2012 09:42 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: Humm, Andreas That is UNFAIR! Why do you consider Tom's posts on MariaDB as Spam? There is nothing indiscriminate about his postings. He's very clear about what he is posting and why. While they could be trimmed down a bit they are applicable as