Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread TomW
On 2013-01-30 16:10, Taang Zomi wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:31 30/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: I typed a space after the "fn", and typed no space after the "fn". I got the same result: AutoText for Shortcut " not found. Then something strange is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) What!?  Oh no!  Has this been solved already?  ;) Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Brian Barker >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 21:24 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations > >At 16:10 30/01/2013 -0

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you checked your glasses for roses?  That is about the first time i have heard anyone saying they thought Impress is actually better in terms of functionality.  Especially going back a few years.  I thought a lot of progress had been made over the last year and this new remote-contr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Implementing LO in schools/business

2013-01-30 Thread timllloyd
Tom, yes that is something to get my teeth into. I have always been quite keen to promote LO (or any other free software - it is FREE for crying out loud) but I have never had anything with which to backup my thoughts. Normally when you mention LO/Linuxyou normally get blank expressions or downrig

Re: [libreoffice-users] Embedded video in Impress

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this is a bug that has already been reported.  If you find the bug-report than please add a helpful comment.  I think people have suggested using a link from the slide to a video that is not embedded in the document. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Apols and regards fr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Implementing LO in schools/business

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Something in this link? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Corporate_Users Regards from Tom :)  > > From: timllloyd >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013, 0:00 >Subject: [libr

[libreoffice-users] Implementing LO in schools/business

2013-01-30 Thread timllloyd
Hi I asked this question via nabble to a marketing group (?) but it must have got lost. Interested in any feedback. Is there a "how to" which explains to potential users "how to" procure and maintain LO? My example would be a small company - installation is simple (and free), how do you migrate ex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I think the important thing to remember is not that Impress is cheaper but that it is priceless.  It's part of an exciting world-wide movement towards greater intellectual freedom, creativity and the drive towards success.  It's a merging of the professionalism of corporate in-house s

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread anne-ology
IMPRESS does more, has more options; and has been my favorite for years; it also allows for saving to PP, etc. - for those who refuse to leave MSFT ;-) On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Gilles wrote: Hello > > Before possibly recommending LibreOffice to a friend who needs an

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  PowerPoint is slightly in the lead imo (and from posts on the lists) but only by about £10-£20 worth.  Impress is developing faster so that slight edge may not last for long.  There are shed loads of other programs for producing slideshows and many are free http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P

[libreoffice-users] Re: How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Gilles
Ok, so I'll tell here to play with it and see how it goes. Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/How-good-is-Impress-compared-to-PowerPoint-tp4033328p405.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instruction

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Joel Madero
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Gilles wrote: > Simos Xenitellis wrote > > Impress can do an excellent job. If you want to help your friend, it > > is good to teach on how to prepare a presentation, how to break down > > the information so that they are put on slides. This is something > > peopl

[libreoffice-users] Re: How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Gilles
Simos Xenitellis wrote > Impress can do an excellent job. If you want to help your friend, it > is good to teach on how to prepare a presentation, how to break down > the information so that they are put on slides. This is something > people are not being taught and end up with those boring Powerpo

Re: [libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Gilles wrote: > Hello > > Before possibly recommending LibreOffice to a friend who needs an office > suite for her personal use, I need to know how good its Impress component > is compared to PowerPoint. > > She won't need to create very sophisticated slides, and

[libreoffice-users] How good is Impress compared to PowerPoint?

2013-01-30 Thread Gilles
Hello Before possibly recommending LibreOffice to a friend who needs an office suite for her personal use, I need to know how good its Impress component is compared to PowerPoint. She won't need to create very sophisticated slides, and won't need to import PowerPoint files. It's just to create s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:10 30/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: I did all you said above, and I got all the results. Good-oh! The second suggestion is an effective workaround for you, then: typing F, o, r, Enter is hardly any longer than f, n, F3 would have been. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instruction

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Is the fn a single key on the keyboard like the Ctrl or Alt keys? > Regards from > Tom > Dear Tom. My keyboard does not have "fn"key as a single key. Sincerely, Taang Zomi -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@glob

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:31 30/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: > >> I typed a space after the "fn", and typed no space after the "fn". I >> got the same result: >> AutoText for Shortcut " not found. >> > > Then something strange is happening for you that does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:31 30/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: I typed a space after the "fn", and typed no space after the "fn". I got the same result: AutoText for Shortcut " not found. Then something strange is happening for you that doesn't generally. I'm running out of ideas. Here's another couple of t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Dries Feys wrote: > Think I found it : > > F3 gives an error; ctrl F3 doesn't. > > The error behind F3 should be taken care of. > > Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, > > DRIES FEYS > CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:38 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: > >> I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, and >> got the same message: >> > > Someone has made the intelligent suggestion to me (strangely off-list) > that you may hav

[libreoffice-users] Embedded video in Impress

2013-01-30 Thread Malcolm Moore
This has got to be really easy but I can't figure it out :-( How do I embed a video on a slide and then have it only play when you click on it. At the moment it starts playing as soon as I show the slide. Ta Mal -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Probl

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:38 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: > >> I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, and >> got the same message: >> > > I don't understand. Did you type a space (or anything else) after the > "fn"? You mustn

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Taang Zomi
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: > On 01/29/2013 03:38 PM, Taang Zomi wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brian Barker> com >wrote: >> >> At 11:51 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:04 27/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I have heard that corporates love to have their valuable data in java > based backends That's because corporations are intrinsicly dysfunctional organisations that promote opportunist egomaniacs who have no competence in any other field than careerism into those positions where they can cause th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre hey

2013-01-30 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 30/01/2013 16:45, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) DO NOT click on that link!! It is a "Reported attack site". I only clicked on it cos i felt fairly safe as i'm using Gnu&Linux but it might even cause problems for us so just don't click! Regards from Tom :) There's a spate of Yaho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre hey

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) DO NOT click on that link!!  It is a "Reported attack site".  I only clicked on it cos i felt fairly safe as i'm using Gnu&Linux but it might even cause problems for us so just don't click! Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Paul Schwartz >To: Libre >Sen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Dan is describing how to migrate tables out of the embedded back-end and then the next (hopefully last) stepping stone gets the tables into the latest version of HsqlDb.  Yes a pain but only a temporary one for most people making such a move.  I'm not sure about H2 beign such a g

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-30 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 27/01/2013 13:47, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, > available in the 1.8 version. This does require having a version of LibreOffice dedicated for this purpose (for example, using 3.6.5.2 for HSQLDB 2.8, and 4.0.0 for embedded databases). The draft of chapter 3 of the Base contains discussi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you would like to post a bug-report about that then this link might help https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport If it makes it clearer for people that haven't tried it before then it could help. Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Dries Feys >To: B

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Dries Feys
There is no real error, but imho, it could be clearer... I'd think of something like : Apparently no shortcut was given. AutoText aborted. Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, *DRIES FEYS* *CORPORATE SERVICES* • *Specialist Software Developer* On 30 January 2013 10:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:38 30/01/2013 +0100, Dries Feys wrote: Think I found it : F3 gives an error; ctrl F3 doesn't. That's because they do different things. o F3 is "Run AutoText Entry": it takes the characters you have just typed as a shortcut and expands them according to AutoText. o Ctrl+F3 is "AutoTex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:35 30/01/2013 +0100, Dries Feys wrote: I can confirm the message on Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff) / Win 7 64 bit Way to reproduce: open Writer Press F3 --> error arises : AutoText for Shortcut '' not found. I think we know this! I trust you don't think this is a bug. If you fa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Dries Feys
Think I found it : F3 gives an error; ctrl F3 doesn't. The error behind F3 should be taken care of. Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer On 30 January 2013 10:35, Dries Feys wrote: > I can confirm the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-30 Thread Dries Feys
I can confirm the message on Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff) / Win 7 64 bit Way to reproduce: open Writer Press F3 --> error arises : AutoText for Shortcut '' not found. Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Deve