Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Find and replace graphics

2012-09-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I have to collect articles from varies different writers for a newsletter and at first it was much easier to paste unformatted text and then apply the newsletter's styles for headings and stuff.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sat, 1/9/12, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.6.1 dictionary installs (.deb) fail bork dpkg/apt-get

2012-09-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I generally stick with whatever is in the repos.  Most distros have LO in their repos and many have it as their default office suite when you first install their distro.  So, it's not completely surprising that maybe not many people have installed the deb and of course even less would

[libreoffice-users] Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

2012-09-01 Thread JAMES MAJESKI
How do I get rid of the single quote format character so I can work with the dates from imported cvs or xls files? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Date-will-not-format-or-sort-when-imported-into-calc-ods-tp4004907.html Sent from the Users mailing list

[libreoffice-users] Re: Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

2012-09-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.09.2012 14:04, JAMES MAJESKI wrote: How do I get rid of the single quote format character so I can work with the dates from imported cvs or xls files? -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

2012-09-01 Thread Brian Barker
At 05:04 01/09/2012 -0700, James Majeski wrote: How do I get rid of the single quote format character so I can work with the dates from imported cvs or xls files? What you have is not dates as such, but date values expressed as text. How to solve your problem is difficult to say exactly,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

2012-09-01 Thread Jay Lozier
On 09/01/2012 08:04 AM, JAMES MAJESKI wrote: How do I get rid of the single quote format character so I can work with the dates from imported cvs or xls files? -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.6.1 bug report

2012-09-01 Thread Dave Long
Mirosław, Thanks for your interest and advice. I have created an example file (on a Mac). With LO 3.5.6 no problem. The file has 4 columns of data: in the first is a date, in the second an item description, in the third a number (my example records amounts paid into or taken out of a bank

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.6.1 bug report

2012-09-01 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Hi Dave First: I have uploaded example file: http://minio.xt.pl/pliki/LO-3.6-crash-sample.ods Feel free to share link with anyone who might be interested. Second: I still could not crash LO this way. This means that either: 1. This is Mac-only bug (I could not reproduce because I am using

[libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I have a .docx file created with ms word, but when I try to open it with libreoffice writer 3.6.0  (on linux ubuntu)   it crashes and closes immediately without showing anything...  I don't know why -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] [3.5.3.2/Calc] Can it renumber lines from subtitle file?

2012-09-01 Thread Gilles
Hello Here's the problem: - an AVI video file with a few seconds removed when it was ripped from the original DVD - the subtitle .sub file that still contains the full data Here's what a .sub file looks like: - {65364}{65474}first line that I need to remove ...

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-01 Thread anne-ology
Is there some reason you're using .docx rather than .doc?; if not, then you might try 'saving as' .doc then opening with LO. On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Paolo Debortoli paolo_debort...@yahoo.comwrote: hi. I have a .docx file created with ms word, but when I try to open it

[libreoffice-users] Re: spadmin fails to run

2012-09-01 Thread rcdawson
I attempted to run spad min as follows: I found the directory containing spadmin. I changed into that directory ./spadmin. The result was to return four lines, each reading No protocol specified. On Friday, August 31, 2012 09:47:10 PM you wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, rcdawson wrote: It

[libreoffice-users] Converting files in headless mode and using a template

2012-09-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, I am trying to find the command line option to convert an ASCII text file (.txt) to ODF and apply a template to the ODF output. Doing this without a template is simple with: soffice.bin --headless --convert-to odt test.txt convert /tmp/test.txt - /tmp/test.odt using What I want

[libreoffice-users] Re: Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

2012-09-01 Thread JAMES MAJESKI
Thank you all for your assistance. You have pointed to features of which I was not aware, but found easily. The work-around solution will not be necessary. As for not deleting the single quote that is not there, that work-around works, but is very labor intensive. I will be doing some

[libreoffice-users] Re: spadmin fails to run

2012-09-01 Thread NoOp
On 09/01/2012 05:07 PM, rcdawson wrote: I attempted to run spad min as follows: I found the directory containing spadmin. I changed into that directory ./spadmin. The result was to return four lines, each reading No protocol specified. Then you have an installation issue: $ locate