[libreoffice-users] Who copies from who the cloud legend?

2013-09-06 Thread theUser BL
Have a look at the cloud legend LibreOffice Draw: http://postimg.org/image/4bsfawlmd/ Looks nice, the vector-graphic. Now have a look at the clound legend in mspaint of the Windows 8 preview version: http://postimg.org/image/l0tv6ti7p/ I think, it looks very similar. Are other clouds

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Andrew On 05/09/13 23:09, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Is it possible that the form is in edit mode? As in, you are editing the control? It is a long shot guess... On 09/05/2013 04:47 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All I use here PClinuxOS 2013 (up-to-date), My SQL 5.1.55 and have just

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/09/13 10:47, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, Has anyone seen this effect or got any idea how to fix it please?? This has also been reported on the French users mailing list. Sounds like a bug to me. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 06/09/13 10:58, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 05/09/13 10:47, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, Has anyone seen this effect or got any idea how to fix it please?? This has also been reported on the French users mailing list. Sounds like a bug to me. So how do we, or can we, report it or

[libreoffice-users] MS-Cloud image and LibreOffice-Cloud image are identicaly‏

2013-09-06 Thread theUser BL
This users-mailinglist seems to be more active, then the discuss-mailinglist. The Cloud in LibreOffice-Draw http://postimg.org/image/4bsfawlmd/ looks exactly the same like in Microsof Office http://s23.postimg.org/tbfuv1iff/pic1.png and MSPaint in Windows 7 and above:

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 11:36, Ian Whitfield a écrit : So how do we, or can we, report it or has it been reported by the French Group. https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/ Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] copy-paste from non-LibO-text-source pastes previous clipboard contents not resolved with 4.1.1.2

2013-09-06 Thread Amgeek
The latest release of labor office (4.1.1.2) has still not addressed a long-standing bug that seriously diminishes the usefulness of the entire suite for anyone who actually uses it for any kind of active work requiring copying and pasting from within and without the program. Bug 62196 - EDITING:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Who copies from who the cloud legend?

2013-09-06 Thread anne-ology
and your point is ... ??? if you're stating one has plagiarized the other, I think you'd have a mighty hard case to prove. Anyone drawing/sketching a cloud would come up with a similar picture ... are all of us guilty of plagiarism ??? to sketch a cloud one

[libreoffice-users] Re: Broken links on api docs page

2013-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 17:02, Jim Byrnes a écrit : Hi Jim, All through out the list, some work and some do not. Yes, I have seen this reported on the French users list too. The API docs were supposed to have been regenerated and updated yesterday to reflect changes in the API that have occurred between

[libreoffice-users] Ctrl+F Dialog Quirk

2013-09-06 Thread CVAlkan
Hi: I'm using LibreOffice Version 4.0.5.2 (Build ID: 5464147a081647a250913f19c0715bca595af2f) on Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS). If the Find Toolbar is neither docked or displayed, and the Ctrl+F command is used to display it, the cursor is not placed in the search panel as I would expect (i.e. why would

[libreoffice-users] Re: Broken links on api docs page

2013-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 17:02, Jim Byrnes a écrit : Hi Jim, I've read on the dev-list that forcing a reload of the browser cache (perhaps clearing it first) should make the problem go away. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Title Bar Formatting in Various Dialogs (Bug??)

2013-09-06 Thread CVAlkan
Hi:I'm using LibreOffice Version 4.0.5.2 (Build ID: 5464147a081647a250913f19c0715bca595af2f) on Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS).When using Writer, I noticed that the title text placement in various dialogs seems a little bizarre. The best way to describe this is with a few examples:

[libreoffice-users] doesn't see selected sheet or page

2013-09-06 Thread Fred James
Mageia 3 KDE4 LibreOffice 4.0.4.2 (Build ID: 4.0.4.2-2.mga3) LibreOffice has been working just fine all along, and then this printing problem showed up just this morning (see details below). So far this is only happening in this one file ... other LibreOffice files I have tried print fine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Doug
On 09/06/2013 12:14 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) /snip/ Sadly, LibreOffice uses a different version of Basic that doesn't seem to have had security issues out in the wild (afaik). A couple of times people have been urged to upgrade to new branches to avoid known issues that were fixed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Dan!  So forms done in Writer are effectively read only and to make forms that allow data-entry really needs the forms to be made in Base?  That makes more sense than what i was thinking.  Thanks for clarifying that for me! :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Download fails

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i was wondering if it was some sort of manual or documentation.  Perhaps try downloading using some other web-browser other than IE? With MS products you find people keep talking about different sorts of malware and there are all sorts of names for the various types in the same way

[libreoffice-users] odt fodt conversion warning message

2013-09-06 Thread e-letter
Readers, An odt document was converted to the fodt format using the menu bar 'save as' option. Why is the option fodt listed nearest to the bottom, after m$ (?!), starwriter, text, html, aportisdoc ??? Native odf must be treated with greater respect and higher priority! LO is not an m$ clone!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread M Henri Day
2013/9/6 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Thought a few people here might be interested in this article. I tried asking for a bit of clarification from the marketing team but they are keen to keep it all a secret. Does this mean a new fork of LibreOffice or a 3rd party company

[libreoffice-users] Re: Broken links on api docs page

2013-09-06 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 09/06/2013 10:37 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 06/09/13 17:02, Jim Byrnes a écrit : Hi Jim, I've read on the dev-list that forcing a reload of the browser cache (perhaps clearing it first) should make the problem go away. Alex Yikes. Clearing the cache made it worse. Now I can't

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ctrl+F Dialog Quirk

2013-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 17:33, CVAlkan a écrit : Hi, It is a known bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49853 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47634 One of many known focussing issues on various platforms. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread Pedro
Hi Tom Tom wrote I tried asking for a bit of clarification from the marketing team but they are keen to keep it all a secret.  Does this mean a new fork of LibreOffice or a 3rd party company that provides up to tier 3 technical support for existing branch?  Does it mean the equivalent of an

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread Pedro
Hi Henri mhenriday wrote ​Sounds good, Pedro. But you might want to inform Mr Meeks that there are, indeed, lots of Swedish conspiracies. as those keeping up with the daily news know I also believe that TDF is not so transparent. But in this case the answers to most of Tom's questions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread M Henri Day
2013/9/6 Pedro pedl...@gmail.com Hi Tom Tom wrote I tried asking for a bit of clarification from the marketing team but they are keen to keep it all a secret. Does this mean a new fork of LibreOffice or a 3rd party company that provides up to tier 3 technical support for existing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread M Henri Day
2013/9/6 Pedro pedl...@gmail.com Hi Henri mhenriday wrote ​Sounds good, Pedro. But you might want to inform Mr Meeks that there are, indeed, lots of Swedish conspiracies. as those keeping up with the daily news know I also believe that TDF is not so transparent. But in this case

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse Collabora Story

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Thought a few people here might be interested in this article.  I tried asking for a bit of clarification from the marketing team but they are keen to keep it all a secret.  Does this mean a new fork of LibreOffice or a 3rd party company that provides up to tier 3 technical support

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Comment in-line On 09/06/2013 12:14 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's fine posting to the Users List to start with. We might be able to deal with issues directly and if not then we can signpost you to more appropriate places. I'm not sure why OfficeSecurity is involved so they might be

[libreoffice-users] Base: Automatically Open a Form?

2013-09-06 Thread Tod Hopkins
I am looking for a method to automatically opening default form when opening a Base file. Any ideas? Cheers, tod Tod Hopkins Hillmann Carr Inc. 2233 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington, DC 20007 202-342-0001 todhopk...@hillmanncarr.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Check boxes not working after upgrade??

2013-09-06 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 09/06/2013 02:16 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi Andrew On 05/09/13 23:09, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Is it possible that the form is in edit mode? As in, you are editing the control? It is a long shot guess... On 09/05/2013 04:47 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All I use here PClinuxOS

[libreoffice-users] Base: How to Duplicate a Record

2013-09-06 Thread Tod Hopkins
I cannot find a method for duplicating a single record or row in a Base table or form. I want to create new records that contain data from an existing record. Any suggestions? Cheers, tod Tod Hopkins Hillmann Carr Inc. 2233 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington, DC 20007

[libreoffice-users] Base: How to Duplicate a Record

2013-09-06 Thread T Hopkins
I cannot find a method for duplicating a single record or row in a Base table or form. I want to create new records that contain data from an existing record. Any suggestions? Cheers, tod Tod Hopkins Hillmann Carr Inc. todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: snap to grid lines

2013-09-06 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry, attachments don't reach people on the mailing list. Please try to use Nabble or some other Cloud to upload your screen-shot and then give a link in your email message. Nabble makes it easier because it inserts the html link to the files you upload to it and then you can move the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Download fails

2013-09-06 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:35 06/09/2013 +0100, Tom A Jones wrote: Does anyone know why, when requesting download of 4.1 one gets the file LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.man instead of LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.msi? I think a foible of Internet Explorer sometimes renames the downloaded file unhelpfully. And what to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Roger Nutbeam
On Linux try Gambas http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html You can write standalone BASIC programs, either GUI or console based. Open Source. Or you can go real old school and try somthing like Chipmunk BASIC. Mac, Linux and Windows. http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ Python is very easy

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cell border line style is not show dash dash option in OO

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Bourne
It appears my original reply went direct to Satish; copied here for the list... Satish Srivastava wrote: In calc cell border is not giving the option of line style dash dash like - - - - - - -this. If we want to make our cell border is - - - - -. Can this is possible to perform in OO. Please

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Bourne
It appears my original reply went direct to logos; copied here for the list... logos wrote: Hello. I think it would be a good idea to add a shortcut when you are Editing Text to make bigger the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and smaller with Ctrl+ Minus(-) like the internet browsers. In normal view

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Automatically Open a Form?

2013-09-06 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tod, I asked the same question about 5 or 6 years ago in an Open Office forum, and didn't receive an answer. I'll be very interested to see if anyone here has a suggestion. Don On 09/06/2013 05:49 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote: I am looking for a method to automatically opening default form

[libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Rodrigo Bigo
Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email Via Google Hello, I downloaded the package LibreOffice, because I am currently the a Visual Basic and MsAccess programmer. And I thought a very good tool, however I would like to send some suggestions. The suggestions are: 1 -

[libreoffice-users] Download fails

2013-09-06 Thread Tom A Jones
Does anyone know why, when requesting download of 4.1 one gets the file LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.man instead of LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.msi? And what to do about it? Makes it difficult to use the product. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We were really talking about macros that run inside the document rather than talking about writing programs.  I think one really good way to learn Python right now is to join in with the devs in LibreOffice.  There are a list of Easy hacks and you can pick 1 or 2 and then write your

SOLVED: Re: [libreoffice-users] doesn't see selected sheet or page

2013-09-06 Thread Fred James
Sorry ... just a bit more google and I found ... ...did you define a print range? (Check Format Print Ranges from the main menue) So problem solved! Don't know how that got undefined, but it works now! Thanks Regards Fred James Fred James wrote: Mageia 3 KDE4 LibreOffice 4.0.4.2 (Build ID:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Who copies from who the cloud legend?

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The point is that it is not just similar it's identical.  Look at the way the curves overlap and try to spot the difference.  There aren't any!  Oh, except one has blue fill and the other white fill or empty. Regards from Tom :)  From: anne-ology

[libreoffice-users] Broken links on api docs page

2013-09-06 Thread Jim Byrnes
Is anyone else seeing this. http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/index-files/index-2.html [B] Gives an Object not found - error 404 While http://api.libreoffice.org/docs/common/ref/index-files/index-1.html [A] does not. All through out the list, some work and some do not. Regards,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

2013-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's fine posting to the Users List to start with.  We might be able to deal with issues directly and if not then we can signpost you to more appropriate places.  I'm not sure why OfficeSecurity is involved so they might be dropped from subsequent replies.  Base forms and reports

[libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-06 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/6/13 6:56 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 09/06/2013 05:20 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 9/5/13 9:23 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote: As a follow-up to our earlier discussion of one versus two spaces following a full point/full stop/period, I offer the following passage from /About Face: Reviving

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-06 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday 06 September 2013 05:56:49 PM Virgil Arrington wrote: I don't think you're missing anything, but most of us aren't using LO to prepare the *final* version of a document for professional publication (i.e., books, magazines, etc.). I would truly hope that a publishing house would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base: Automatically Open a Form?

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Off hand, the only way I know to do that is to 1. write a macro that is able to open a form 2. Assign the macro to run on a document open event. There may be another way, but not of which I am aware. On 09/06/2013 05:49 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote: I am looking for a method to automatically

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net dijo: For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much as an intermediate desktop publishing program. You can actually substitute it very successfully for proprietary tools like FrameMaker. That is correct, but